Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Ominous Bereavement

Distant thunder ripples through his skull: relentlessly supple pounding in his ear pressed against the haloing grass slows to a dribble. He gasps for precious oxygen as tepid blood congeals down his upper lip. His strength dissolves as atrophy embodies his deteriorating body and lightening prickles his vision from gasping asphyxiation. A dark silhouette glides creeping toward as he loses the battle over death.
Blackness surmounts.

“CHARGE!”
Hooves crushed earth to hasten beyond capacity. Snorts and resonating thunder from trampling enveloped the distant battle horn. Adrenaline shrouded his surroundings as his sight channeled. Glistening armor, swords, shields – all beamed sunlight into his eyes and temporarily blinded. His steed pounced ahead of the others entranced and coveting the desires of his master, as if part of his soul.
JAYDEN!” echoed behind but deafly falls.
The steed sprinted with increasing ferocity. Jayden’s gaze honed to his mark, the single black rupture in the shimmering sea ahead. The black hole lacked definition, the only characterization was silhouette and those eyes.
Arrows blanketed the sun.
Jayden’s eyes squinted to view what he was to extinguish: the belligerent ruby couplet mountaining far above their expected stature. The Eclipse began to pucker all surrounding light, engulfing reflection, seemingly all matter.
Jayden struck the preliminary line. Clank, pang and clash of metal resulted. Bounding farther, cutting deeper, the stallion took the burden. Swords and spears infiltrated its hide. Impervious to pain, the horse sustained its fervor.
Jolts of blue lightening belted from the Blackness. Instantaneously the horse fell as if it ran into a wall. Jayden was flung over its neck and flipped, losing consciousness.

He awakens to moonlight with blood trickling from his nose. Beating of his own heart is all Jayden hears. Trying to grasp on to the strings that hold his life, the rubies drift effortlessly closer until life departs. The Entity fells a sword into Jayden’s chest. Fluently, the demonic blade penetrates without resistance, assuring no opportunity to endure.

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