I'm gonna be upfront here, there will be minimal sex scenes in my stories, which WILL have a decent plot, and there WILL be lots of violence since I have lots of anger management issues that I get rid of through bloody action scenes.
Please enjoy the story.
Chapter I
I don't know how you all expect the world to end but I can certainly tell you how mine ended, it burned, and we all burned with it. It had been sudden, a hacker's prank god awry, one minute we were all just going about our lives and the next was fire, white hot and instantaneous, as some fool managed to set off every weapon of mass destruction that mankind had ever managed to create and stockpile. When it was over, all I knew was flames and a stone room, with chains in my hand as I apparently was forced into spending my afterlife doing what I'd trying to do when I was alive: keep my wild side under control. Now as fun as it is to spent all of eternity fighting a shadowy werewolf-like monstrosity armed solely with chains of logic and rationale, it gets old after the first few thousand years.
"Get up, the fight is not over." My inner darkness orders, his arms bound in chains that I had snuck onto him so long ago I barely remember it.
'What's the point? We've been doing this for so long that I should have gone mad.' I reply mentally, glaring with annoyance and boredom at the trapped lupine form before me.
"The Fight is our lot, the Fight is our legacy," My other half begins to argue, before smirking mischievously, "Besides, you went mad the day you were born."
'I know.' Is my only rebuttal to the beast before me as I stand up and once again examine the cell we'd been bound in, the walls and floors of stone, the fire dancing two inches over the floor that seemed to part around me instead of burning, the door of white marble that was set inside a wall as though it had always been there.
Wait, a door?
Closing my eyes then reopening them I felt a strange and very foreign surge of eagerness as the door refused to vanish.
'I can finally get out of here!' I exclaim mentally, I had stopped speaking out loud in the first century, and rush for the double doors that looked like genuine gates to Heaven itself.
"No, stay away from that!" The beast begs as he strains for the first time in eons against the chains I had trapped him in.
'Hell no I'm getting out of here!' I reply as I jump through the opening door, ignoring the anguished howls I was leaving behind.
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It was bright, that was the first thing I noticed about wherever I was, covering my eyes with my hands as I hissed, having grown used to the dimness of firelight after so long that bright yellow sunlight was incredibly painful to bear. Almost as immediately as I thought this however the sunlight dimmed as the trees above me rustled to block it out, leaving me in much more comfortable dimness for the few minutes it took my eyes to adjust. When I could finally handle looking around I realized I was in a forest, surrounded by more trees than I could count and none of them were ones I could identify. Looking around at my surroundings I only half noticed the sense of belonging I felt as I walked, or the fact that all the roots and rock I should have been tripping or injuring my bare feet on weren't there, almost as though the forest was going out of its way to make me comfortable, hell even when I stepped on a thorn it just crumbled away instead of injuring me.
What I did notice was the air, and how clean it was, and the sensation of something watching me, studying me like a child looks at an elderly person and fails to comprehend the shear age of them.
"What are you?" A voice demands and as I spin around to face the source I find myself confronting a white haired woman in a thin white dress, her entire form slim and alluring, not that I cared too much, I'd always preferred stacked women.
'Wha?' I respond, momentarily confused.
"What are you?" The female... thing repeats, and I notice she's literally floating a good six inches off the ground.
'Hopelessly lost,' Is my initial reply before I realize that I haven't been talking out loud and the woman floating in front of me looks impatient.
"I... am. Very lost." I finally reply, my voice raspy and parched from the unfathomable amount of years it wasn't used.
"DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH ME!" The thing shrieks, suddenly furious, "This forest has stood longer than any race on this planet yet even the Monarch trees which have existed since the First Day bow to you as their elder, WHAT ARE YOU?!" The woman screams, clearly upset by the facts she just stated, her entire figure glowing with power as she suddenly grabs me despite having been almost ten feet from where I was less than a second ago.
