Creative Corner

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/hzvonpzcngbad5x/shadowtop2.png[/img] [center][font=monotype][size=6][color=purple]CHAPTER VIII [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=52948302] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/529484/52948302_350.png[/img] [/url] [/center] [font=century][size=5]Instead of gathering info on the duo about their gloomwillow guide companion, he ended up in a more complicated situation. The stranger was a Nocturne named Lilith, who could control and bend the shadows (he learned that the hard way) and the hatchling killer was actually a shaman, named Diablo who can bend the mists and create illusions. His job is to imitate the Shadowbinder and tell all of Tangled Wood's residents to stop the maniacal tradition of executing hatchlings, whose only wrongdoing is being different. This may be the greatest trick yet. "I wonder if I should tell them about their faerie companion.." Helbram thought to himself. Finally, on the night of the new moon, the hatching ceremony begun. "Let's change history together" Lilith said. As the night continued and ceremony neared its end, clouds of smoky shadow spread throughout the whole Forum. "I guess that's my cue" Helbram thought. He flew towards the stage and bellowed a horrifying scream. "Hmm, I don't look any different, the fear on their faces say otherwise though" Helbram thought. As he was about to speak he saw something strange in one of the hatchlings with disabilities. Following the script, Lilith gave him, "I have come with an announcement. The Shadow flight is known for being mischievous tricksters of the night. But one thing they don't know about us is our sense of community. Each dragon has a unique talent, skill, and personality that they could offer our flight despite our differences. Just like shadows, we find strength in being united. There's nothing wrong with deception and trickery here and there but let's use it to get the upper hand on evil and deranged dragons. How can we unite if the shadows within our flight are already shattered?" "Did Helbram add those parts" Nix asked Lilith. "Yep, totally him." she replied. "That is why all hatchlings whatever their differences deserve a chance in our flight." Helbram picked one of the hatchlings whose tail didn't grow correctly. "This hatchling deserves a chance" Upon inspection, Helbram noticed that the shadow of the hatchling's tail was... there. Despite Helbram clearly seeing that the tail of the hatchling doesn't exist, even touching the place where it's supposed to be just to be sure. "What is th..." Suddenly, cracks spread across the Forum and gigantic brown brambles erupted from the ground. The midnight sky was replaced by a dark purple ceiling. Liquid shadow emerged from the cracks and fused to form a familiar-looking dragon. "Amara.." said Lilith. "You've done well, Nix. You gathered me the three dragons in one single spot. It'll be much easier to kill them now." Amara said. "My lady, they're good dragons please just.." "SILENCE!" Hands of shadow emerged from the ground and slammed Nix to the ground, the creature's glowing eyes flickering into darkness. "Nix!" Lilith screamed as her world suddenly turned dark as her vision turned into darkness without Nix's guidance. Amara turned to Diablo. "So you're the one negating all my illusions" "So you mean..." Diablo said in hesitation. "There was never anything wrong with the hatchlings.." Helbram said. "Bravo! You found my little secret. I've stayed in this form deep in the Tangled Wood controlling the murk and shadows casting illusions on all the hatchlings. You're all under my spell. If I say I want something hidden from sight, everyone in the Tangled Wood won't be able to see, hear, or even feel it. I guess there's no use hiding anymore." Amara said. The Fae suddenly melts into shadow. Mists, murk, and the shadows from all directions gather to where Amara stood, slowly turning into a gigantic specter of a dragon. Brambles erupted from the ground, encasing the spherical shadow. Suddenly, a lightning strike hits the sphere and an enormous dragon made of shadow itself stood before the trio and the residents of Tangled Wood, its head barely seen shrouded by the clouds. "It's good to be back in my original form" Shadowbinder said. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ven9gmk4qi14dr5/shadowbottom2.png[/img]

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/hzvonpzcngbad5x/shadowtop2.png[/img] [center][font=monotype][size=6][color=purple]CHAPTER IX[/center] [center][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=52948302] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/529484/52948302_350.png[/img] [/url][/center] [font=century][size=5]Residents of the Tangled Wood panic and scatter as they grab their hatchlings and eggs. "USELESS! All of you! We might have the most number of dragons but we're not winning this war!" Shadowbinder stomped her claw on the ground and suddenly thorny brambles erupted from the ground. The vines entangling everyone in its path and pulling them down underneath the shadows below. Lilith, blind and unaware of the situation, motioned her arms to control the shadows. "Hah! You think I'd actually give you control over the shadows? I was watching you the whole time through your little flying friend and created those shadows remotely. I'm sorry dear, you were never special to begin with." Shadowbinder said. Lilith with tears on her eyes, continued to move her arms trying to bend the shadows, not seeing that her actions were in vain. "I was going to deal with the three of you quietly but I somehow ended up using my ancient form. It was about time to deal with these worthless excuses of dragons in my domain, anyway," the lady of shadow said. "Hide! Just stay here and don't go anywhere!" Diablo whispered to the hatchlings and their parents as he cast an illusion on them covered in brambles and seeping shadows. Diablo spots a tree about to collapse on an Imperial mother and her unhatched egg. "CLASH!" Diablo headbutts the tree away from the mother. "Thank yo.." the mother stopped mid-sentence as she recognized the face of the hatchling killer. "Thank you, our hero" she said. "Always" Diablo replied as he quickly conceals their presence with an illusion. Left and right Diablo alters reality to hide the dragons and trick the Shadowbinder in thinking they have perished. "I sense a lot of magic going on here.." The deep purple clouds thicken in the sky and a storm started to brew. Drops of rain made entirely of shadow engulf the entirety of the Forum and the Tangled Wood. The illusions of Diablo melt away as the shadow carries the illusions away with it. "You can't fool the mistress of tricks, hatchling killer" Shadowbinder said. With that, she stomps the ground again and engulfs more dragons and hatchlings beneath the earth with her shadow grasps. Diablo is completely horrified. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ven9gmk4qi14dr5/shadowbottom2.png[/img]

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/hzvonpzcngbad5x/shadowtop2.png[/img] [center][font=monotype][size=6][color=purple]CHAPTER X[/center] [center][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=52948302] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/529484/52948302_350.png[/img] [/url][/center] [font=century][size=5]"Be brave, Lilith.." she kept telling herself. A semi-conscious Nix send a telepathic message and says "You were raised by the deep forests of the Tangled Wood, Lilith. The shadow is IN you, you just have to find it." Nix said. "But I-I don't know where to..," Lilith struggling with her words. "You're not like the Shadowbinder! Use your own shadows!" Nix replied. "My own shadows?" Lilith remembered the hatchlings that came before her who didn't survive and the families torn apart. "The Tangled Wood is MY home. It's not just a forest filled with malice and void. It's a home filled with laughs, games, and surprises in every corner, where all dragons of shapes and sizes are welcomed." Lilith said. As if on cue, shadows started to manifest from Lilith's feet. But, these shadows had a lighter hue, the color of Wisteria. Glowing mushrooms grew from the ground at her feet and glowing flies started to appear. "The shadows reflect the dragon's heart Lilith" Nix said. Immediately, her vision is restored and multiplied as she sees the perspective of dozens of gloomwillow guides. "The Tangled Wood has my back. Be brave, Lilith" she told herself. Lilith bends her shadows into a compact ball and releases a beam straight to the Shadowbinder. "Argghhh" the Shadowbinder said as she stumbled back. There were pieces of shattered shadow scattered where she was hit. "I'm the supreme deity here!! Only I control the shadows!" The Shadowbinder opens her mouth and breaths a plume of shadow that engulfs Lilith and traps her in a sticky dark muck. "I have to use it..." Diablo thought to himself as he saw Lilith struggle to keep her head above the shadowy pool. Diablo conjures a gigantic and hazy mirror image of the Shadowbinder. "Hah, what can an illusion do to hurt me?" Shadowbinder said. "This!" Diablo bit his leg and drew blood. Flesh and bones began to materialize as the mirrored Shadowbinder took form. It spins and whips the Shadowbinder across the face with its tail. The copy pulls Lilith out of the pool and on its back. Suddenly, Lilith pours her shadows on to the dragon and it becomes engulfed in Lilith's shadows. "There has to be something I'm not seeing" Helbram told himself. "She's the mistress of trickery and illusions. She hides in the dark and fights dirty. This battle is too confrontational for her." As Helbram surveyed his surroundings, he detected a slight distortion of space somewhere behind the gigantic Shadowbinder. He immediately runs to the Lilith and Diablo "I think I have a plan, and I hope it works." The Shadowbinder copy slashes the Shadowbinder but she blocks it and whips her tail, sending the copy toppling over the trees. "It's now or never" Lilith said. While riding its back, she commands the Shadowbinder copy to fly to the sky through the clouds. After a few moments, Lilith and her Shadowbinder plumet from the skies like a comet, engulfed in Lilith's shadows. "Hah, it's useless" Shadowbinder opens her mouth, gathering all of her shadows and releases it like a beam towards Lilith. Suddenly Lilith vanishes, sending the beam straight to the sky. "Hi" Helbram said as he headlocks the Shadowbinder from behind her illusion. Instead of being gigantic, she was almost the same size as her captor. "All these tricks must drain a lot of energy from you. Plus your little shadow rain trick revealed waaay too much. you should probably work on that..." Helbram said. "Let go of me you freak!" she screamed. "If you say so" As Helbram said this he quickly disappears from the shadows like a flash. Before she could even react, "SLAAAM!" the much smaller Shadowbinder gets slammed by the jaws of its lighter copy. It pins her to a tree, unable to escape. "Let go of me! You wouldn't be here without ME! I am YOUR GOD! Shadowbinder howled at them. "Your thirst for winning brought ruin to our flight" Lilith said. "Even shedding blood of innocent hatchlings just to win this family squabble." Diablo added. "Guess who's laughing now?" Helbram remarked. How dare YO..," the Shadowbinder was interrupted as Lilith's Shadowbinder breaths an enormous ray of shadow energy that deteriorized the Shadowbinder and her dark shadows. The resulting explosion destroys almost half of the entire Tangled Wood. Where the Shadowbinder stood, a silver eyepiece with a dangling purple gem, the shape of a tear was laying. All of Sornieth rumbled from the intensity of the explosion. "Fool! I warned her" said the Lightweaver. "Hmph, one down I guess" the Flamecaller said. "My sister.. said the Earthshaker [center][font=century][size=6][color=purple][img]http://orig01.deviantart.net/f263/f/2016/192/5/8/bouncy_shadow_flight_by_dogi_crimson-da9o0uw.gif[/img]THE END[img]http://orig01.deviantart.net/f263/f/2016/192/5/8/bouncy_shadow_flight_by_dogi_crimson-da9o0uw.gif[/img][/center] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ven9gmk4qi14dr5/shadowbottom2.png[/img]

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/hzvonpzcngbad5x/shadowtop2.png[/img] [center][font=monotype][size=6][color=purple]EPILOGUE[/center] [center][img]http://flightrising.com/images/layout/dominanceduex/monument_shadow.png[/img][/center] [font=century][size=5]“It’s finally over… May you find peace,” said Lilith. Diablo collapses as he releases his gigantic illusion back into nothingness. “Woah there..” Helbram said as he catches him. “What is that?” Diablo asked as he looked at the silver eyepiece on the ground. “I’m not sure… it might be another one of her illusions again,” said Helbram. Lilith blankly stares at the piece of jewelry, as if it’s calling to her. “Guys… it’s calli..” “BOOM!” Brambles erupt from the ground, snaking into the trees of the Tangled Wood. Energies of shadow flying through and out the forest, as if lost and uncontained. Screams can be heard from the lairs. The trees, creatures, dragons, and shadows in the Tangled Wood producing an extremely harsh cacophony of sounds. “Lilith! We have to go.. Lilith?” Helbram screamed to the, as if hypnotized, Lilith. Lilith reaches out and grabs the eyepiece, placing it on her face. Suddenly, the brambles return to the ground, the noise replaced by an almost deafening silence. The night was calm and everything went back to normal, except… “Where’s Lilith?” asked Diablo. When Lilith put on the eyepiece, a blanket of darkness covered her entire vision. It’s as if she were back to being blind again. Suddenly, she sees herself standing with silhouettes of other dragons in a circle. Each one glowing with the color of the 10 elemental flights. “The elemental deities…” Lilith gasped. Except, these dragons were more of mountains than dragons. They were colossal, except… “Why are two of them much smaller?” she wondered. From process of elimination, Lilith deduced that the dragons of her size were the Tidelord and Plaguebringer. “Maybe others have…” Lilith stopped herself as she realized all of them were staring at her. Their eyes either filled with grief or delight. One by one the figures disappeared as she gets woken up by the voices of her friends. She wakes up in the middle of the Forum of the Obscured Crescent, back in the Tangled Wood. “I see… everything..” Lilith said. Anything in the Tangled Wood’s domain she could observe. Every creature and plant that resided in the Woods she could feel. The shadows calm and restrained, as if ready to be controlled at her command. “The other deities are going to target us!” she said to the two. “They’ll think that the Tangled Wood be out of control and easy to take due to the Shadowbinder’s death.” said Helbram. “I have a plan!” said Lilith. “Diablo, I need you to make your biggest illusion yet. Conceal the entirety of the Tangled Woods so they won’t be able to track us. “I’m spent, Lilith. I don’t even have that much power to begin with.” Diablo replied. “Don’t worry, I’ll help.” Lilith said as a beam of shadow floated her upwards. Her eyes suddenly glowing into a bright violet. Then, a bright flash of purple enveloped the sky and the whole of Tangled Wood, concealing their location and hiding amongst the shadows, once again. [b]One year later[/b] The full moon was at its peak and the Forum was decorated with bright blue and purple lanterns. Dragons enjoying each other’s company as their hatchlings play and run around the Woods, as they should. The crowd quiets down as a Guardian in cladded armor takes the stage. Welcome to the 40th hatching ceremony. First let’s all welcome our honored guests. My boss, and the Shadow general of the Tangled Wood, Diablo. Next, the Shadowbinder’s right hand and chief strategist, Helbram. Finally, our deity and protector, the Shadowbinder. Lilith lands from the sky. Her body as if encased in an aura of shadow, adorned with apparel that made her look like the Tangled Wood brought to life. Abandoned as a hatchling, Lilith has a much bigger family now. “In shadows, we unite” said Lilith. “IN SHADOWS, WE UNITE!” Everyone screamed in unison as they cheered and clamored for the three saviors of the Shadow flight. [img]https://i.ibb.co/JKxLNcD/Shadow-Legion.jpg[/img] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ven9gmk4qi14dr5/shadowbottom2.png[/img]