Reason Of Darkness

Chapter 1

Evening. The wind howled noisily around the guard’s ears. Feeling very bored and tired after standing guard at the north entrance of Axix the whole day without anyone passing in or out at all, Sam decided to close the gates early and return home to his beloved little bundle of joy. Joyce. Just thinking of his little daughter brought a smile to his face. Taking a moment to look at the plain long road outside of the city, he turns to his partner John and told him to close the gate. But when John didn’t move to close it, Sam asked again. “But there’s lady heading here. Shouldn’t we wait till she passes first before we close it for the day?” John replied. “What are you talking…” Sam said before choking on his own words. No doubt about it, there was a girl dressed in black on the road. Rubbing his eyes, he opens his eyes and this time instead of being hundred of meters away, she was just about ten meters away now. The girl was an adolescence about six feet tall, dressed up in Goth with her right leg binded up with chains to the black boot she’s wearing. The right side of her face was covered by sliver hair flowing down to her shoulder.

“What the hell? I was sure there isn’t anyone on the road and even if there was, I was sure she was at least a hundred meters away.” Sam exclaimed in surprise. Seeing that the girl didn’t stop before him, he reached out to hold her shoulder. The girl quickly whipped out her left hand from inside her coat revealing a black glove to brush him off. Instead of getting the hint, Sam held her wrist and was rewarded by a cold stare that sent frost climbing up his spine. “If you want to know what to do in this situation that would benefit you compared to the other option, it would be to ignore my existence and pretend that you didn’t see me. Weren’t you going to close the gate? Close it and go home to your family. I assure you there will not be any trouble that you would notice.” The girl said in an icy cold voice. Now Sam was never one to have instincts and so this primitive instinct telling him that the girl is danger came as a shock to him. Not trusting this instinct, he went forward and started the common routine of checking. He started asking the normal questions like where did you come from, why did you come here, what business do you have in Axix. Through out all the questioning, the only thing that told him the girl was listening was that she’s still staring at him.

Seeing that the girl will not answer his questions, he sighed and made a note to himself to let this girl pass as soon as he has any clue on her identity. Pulling her over to the stand that was set up for guards, he activated the X-Scanner and moved her wrist over it. Watching her eyes widen as she started to scream in objection, Sam allowed himself a smile. Did she think she could hide her identity by not answering any questions? Letting go her wrist, he moved over to the tiny screen on the right. Now lets see which rich family’s runaway is this. What he saw finally revealed to him the true mortality of his situation. Then things happened very fast. Sam looked up to see the girl whispering something so softly that he couldn’t quite catch it but what he saw made him forget about it. She clasped both hands together and half pulled half materialized a lance out between both hands. That particular gothic girl now looked far more dangerous then anyone he had ever seen in his life. With almost sorry look on her face, she whispered an I told you so and then the lance slit his throat. As he fell, he saw the lance went through his partner and he felled with him. Choking on his own blood, he thought as he stared at the gothic girl for what was left of his life. She looked so awfully like a reaper from a picture book he read when he was small. Yes a reaper…a death reaper…Then his eyes rolled back into his skull as he thought his last. Yakas…Just what kind of abominations are they …