The interface glowed green as it was turned on, a tall elf-like creature with dark skin stood in front of the giant screen.
This man wore a violet lab coat, thick black leather boots covered his feet and the rest of his clothing was a shade of dark violet. His messy hair had two long strands and had a silvery like colour, his sharp-pointed ears twitched at the slightest sounds. The man’s brilliant glowing emerald eyes stared intensely at the interface.
The dark-skinned man seemed to be waiting for someone or something to answer his call, suddenly the Interface flickered from green to a clear image of a dark cloaked figure wearing a silver-mask, that glowed with eerie red runes, the mask covered the cloaked man’s eyes and half of his face leaving only the chin and mouth exposed, the cloak was black and the collar was lined with gold trimming.
The dark-skinned man bowed down in respect, it seemed whoever this man was, was someone of great importance to the dark-skinned man, the cloaked figure gave a nod of recognition for the dark-skinned figure to begin speaking .
The dark-skinned man lifted his right arm, and a panel seemed to open just above his wrist and hand. A holographic computer screen popped up from the open panel on the man’s wrist. The silver-masked man on the interface leaned in closer to the interface screen for a better view of the holographic computer screen, on the holographic computer screen an image of a floating planet with various bits of info, was slowly spinning.
The silver-masked figure leaned back on his chair, shifting his weight to get more comfortable. He seemed to be in deep thought, finally he spoke, in a demanding and commanding tone,
“Have you reached the planet yet?”
The dark-skinned man bowed his head in respect as he gave his answer to the silver-masked man on the interface, the dark-skinned man’s voice, brimmed with barely held excitement,
“Master Umbra, the mighty lord of shadows, we have finally reached the planet after a long journey, may I inquire, out of simple curiosity as to why you have chosen this planet?”
This talk between master and servant was being held in a small private room, that held the only communicator system, on the entire spaceship. The room walls were painted black, on the left wall of the tiny square room, a symbol that looked very similar to the mask Umbra wore was hanging. It was the symbol of a terrible group known as DARK, Umbra was the ruler of this group. But the story of DARK was not to be told this day, their history was a bloody and dark tale.
Lord Umbra seemed to be taken aback by the sudden question of his servant, though he was indeed pleased of the news. Umbra seemed to have been lost in thought, his ancient mind bringing up painful memories, that he thought were long forgotten.
His servant on the other side of the screen waited patiently for his master’s answer. Umbra slowly breathed in, his very being seemed to tremble, a black seething aura started to emit from the man’s very being.
Umbras eyes behind his mask, started to glow like embers from a freshly made fire. He finally spoke, his voice literally dripping with hatred, that surprised the dark-skinned man, his master rarely showed any kind of emotion, why was his master showing some now?
“Dr. Raith….My greatest and most loyal servant, you have indeed asked a good question and since you have given me good news I shall bestow upon your thirsting curiosity the answer you seek.”
Umbra took a deep breath and continued.
“You have heard of the famous tale known as the Legend of the Ancient Empire?”
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Dr. Raith gave a silent nod, who had not heard of this legend? it was famous all over the Universe.
Umbra looked up from the interface and out of the window of his office, his gaze falling on the bleak and broken landscape that made up his home. He quickly covered his face with the cloak, a single tear falling from underneath his mask. Umbra reluctantly took his gaze from the window and back at the screen, his loyal servant awaiting him to continue.
“Once long ago our home was beautiful, the darkness was warm and inviting like a mothers warm embrace. Cities made out of silver and Dark Crystal filled our planet. We had everything, long life, the most powerful technology known to any species…. we were a far superior race then what we are now. Our kingdom reached beyond our planet. We were at our peak, we could take down any force that tried to stop us.”
Suddenly Umbra’s mood darkened he seemed to withdraw into himself, hatred turned his sad smile into a snarl, he continued to speak.
“But then a certain race appeared, a race that evolved at a frightening pace…and with each generation that race soon caught up with our technological power, they declared war upon our fair kingdom…and destroyed it. They slaughtered our people across the Universe, they finally came to our planet seeking to end it there and now. But my people created a weapon….a weapon so powerful it could destroy planets. This made the fast evolving race to fear us. They then themselves created a weapon. A weapon…so terrifying it made our weapon look like a toy, both our races fought a bloody long conflict on this planet, both races were finally forced to fire both of the doomsday weapons….what happens next is not very clear. Our weapon and the fast evolving race fired each others weapons at the same time. Both of the weapons energy hit each other and….and…my race and planet were destroyed! The fast evolving race had disappeared from our planet after it had been destroyed, only a few of us survived the Doomsday’s weapons blasts. We swore vengeance and eternal suffering upon the fast evolving race. But to no avail, we could not find any trace of the fast evolving race…..that is until now.”
Umbra clenched his fist in anger,he took a deep breath calming his nerves. He glanced at the interfaces screen and saw Dr. Raith gaping at him. Umbra hid a small grin of amusement, Umbra once again began to speak, his tone barely hiding the malicious glee in it.
“This planet is the home of that race that my people warred with long ago, something must have happened to them and their weapon because now they are nothing but primitives and low tech scum now. This is a perfect time to avenge my people, the race my people fought with will die here. Their home shall become their grave, nothing shall remain of them but eternal darkness….and one of their own shall become the very conduit for the weapon that my people still have…”
Umbra suddenly stood up nearly knocking over his chair, he slammed his hands down on his desk and looked straight at Dr. Raith. Umbras voice was seething with hate as he gave the orders.
“You have permission to start ProjcetDarkMatter, oh and Dr. Raith make sure the…..human….that you capture has the most painful operation and treatment as you can muster…their lives…, those fucking pathetic, evolving race known as humankind, shall die by the hand of one of their kind!”
Dr. Raith gave a salute to his master and then turned off the Interface….a creepy and sadistic smile slowly crawled onto his face. “Oh how I am so going to enjoy this hahahahahahah!” he cackled as he left the room.