Heck No

As you stood up at the alter with a preacher you watched and waited for Harmony to enter. The ceremony as the two of you had asked was small with only the local townies and your family attending the ceremony. You looked to the pews to see your son with in your grandmother’s lap with her and the rest of your relatives dressed in their Sunday best while you had as stated the night before settled along with Harmony on just wearing your black school sweaters with your respective metal pins proudly on your chest.

As you waited you soon saw the doors open to see Harmony walking down the aisle with a bouquet in her hands. You smiled as you saw that while she was just wearing black school sweater she had styled her blond hair to hang loose and free with little flowers braided into her hair.

As you watched Harmony walk slowly up the altar you swore you felt your heart skip a beat with butterflies filling your stomach. You resisted the urge to kiss her right then and there before she eventually joined you up there on the altar. “Dearly beloved.” You heard the preacher drone on.

You possibly zoned out as he droned on and on before he told you to exchange rings. To which you took out a simple silver ring with a sapphire on it placing it on Harmony’s ring finger before Harmony took a silver ring and then did the same for you. “You may now-“

You didn’t hear the last part as a loud explosion rang out before you were blown away and the sounds of screams could be heard in the small church.

You could feel blood in your mouth and some spilling from your head as you fought to stay awake. “Find him we need him alive as for everyone else ignore them for now!” You heard someone scream out in an angry voice.

As you tried to sit up you soon saw two hooded men in black by the looks of them approach Harmony who you saw laid on the opposite side of the church altar her back against the wall slumped over with blood on her head barely awake as the two men looked her over you listened in horror as one of them spoke. “The isn’t him just some stupid girl damn it where the hell is he?”

“Who cares I say we kill her besides she’s already seen us.” Nodding the other one muttered some incantations and before you could even move you saw a green flash.

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You watched Harmony as she slowly slumped to the ground you couldn’t scream as you watched in seemingly slow motion as she smiled at you mouthing to you before she hit the ground dead.

“Take care of him please.” You read from her lips. Time seemed to slow down as you felt something from the pit of your stomach something cold spread throughout your body. As you relentlessly tried to stand your body refused as the cold continued to spread through your body.

“There he is grab him so we can get out of this dump.” One of the hooded men said. The two hooded men said as they walked over to you. However as soon as one of the hooded men laid a hand on your shoulder he soon screamed as you saw him grasp his hand which was now frozen solid before crashing to the ground and shattering to a million pieces.

As he did this you finally commanded your body to stand up ignoring the pain as your body screamed for you to stop moving. You took a deep breath before releasing it as a bit of frost covered the floor before you drew your wand and looked up at the two men and spoke.

“Run.”

Before they could move the room and surrounding area soon began to drop rapidly in temperature with frost beginning to spread from your feet slowly spreading along the floor. You raised your wand at one of the men soon who was launched and pinned to a walk by three giant icicles impaling him immediately he slumped over dead. You turned to the other man who promptly ran only for frost to quickly trail after him on the ground before it caught him freezing him up into solid ice before he crashed into a million small pieces of ice.

As you stepped forward out of the church you soon saw three more hooded men peer in the church with a flick of your wand blood seemed to spew from the men as three discs of ice shattered behind them before they slumped forward dead. You trudged out of the church to see ten more hooded men standing out in the parking lot with your crying son in one their arms.

“Don’t move or-“

As you raised your wand soon the temperature began to drop severely as the blue sky soon began to become engulfed in dark clouds and soon it began to snow and then in a matter of seconds the snow turned to a blizzard as the men lost sight of each other the smell of death reeked through the air before they heard your voice.

“You can run but you’ll only die tired.” Soon the men fell one by one from the unbearable cold the blizzard soon stopping but the snow kept falling revealing all of the men were frozen solid into ice with your son still crying.

As you trudged over to him you gently grabbed your son who you immediately began to comfort patting his back as tears began to stream down your face much as he continued to cry. The snow kept falling covering everything but you and your son in snow with a cold wind howling yet you felt nothing at all just coldness you had never experienced before.

As your body began to scream once again in pain you sat down against a Model-T still patting little Anthony as he continued to cry before darkness overtook you.

The sound of chains could be heard as the darkness gave way to the spirit locked within your body. He took his normal form a dark reflection of you once more. “Well well well if-“

You didn’t give him a chance to speak as you socked him in the face again and again pinning him to the ground punching him senselessly for a bit before standing up to see him on the ground beaten and bloody.

You turned around spying two stone doors with a giant three headed Cerberus standing guard in front of it with two green torches next to the doors. The dog began to bark at you viciously bearing its teeth as it charged to attacked you. However as soon as it came within a few of you it soon stopped backing up and whimpering putting its head down on the ground as it began whimpering in fear.

As you walked towards the door a gigantic green rune began to light up on the door with a matching rune beginning to light up on your left hand. As you walked through the door you could hear the past void elementalists begin to appear yelling for you to turn around and stop only for the doors to slam shut leaving you in complete darkness with your breathing being the only sound to be heard before you heard a voice.

“So you have come to seek my favor? What is it you desire? Is it your father’s freedom or perhaps its your mother’s freedom or perhaps something else?” The voice boomed loudly before silence filled the room once more.

“I want my wife back that’s all I ask.” You said. The loud voice spoke once more. “Do you know who I am boy? Do you know that I can give power and favors but like everything in life it has a price so tell me boy are you willing to pay?”

You stared into the darkness before replying. “What’s your price?” You asked without hesitation. The loud voice only boomed in reply. “The price is that when you die whether it be by natural causes or by any unnatural means you will take my place and take the title of the Dark One.” The loud voice boomed in response.

You stared into the darkness as you spoke. “Deal” as you said those words you could hear footsteps before a black hooded man with a scythe and burning green eyes appeared before you extending a hand out to you. “Are you sure you wish to condemn yourself to a future of endless suffering after you pass Nathan BlackThorn? Are you really sure because there is no backing away from this.” He said as he still held out his hand.

In response you only took his hand before shaking it firmly. “So be it” he said before darkness engulfed you once more.