The Fall

The screams filled with terror in the city filled the streets, these were accompanied by a horrible and unpleasant screech.

Meanwhile, inside a palace, lightened footsteps did not stop while the metal of their armor resonated.

"My lord..." said an agitated man getting on his knees. "...The strange creatures are invading the empire." he added.

In front of him, an imposing young man sat on a throne, he had black and wavy hair which held a golden crown and his red eyes coldly penetrated anyone.

The young emperor slowly stood up while holding a dark katana that lay beside him.

"Who dares to invade me?" he said with a cold voice full of hatred.

The man who was on his knees raised his head slightly.

"Are you going to enter the battle my lord?" he said with some emotion in his words.

The young emperor did not respond and passed by him. The man stood up and followed behind the emperor.

But the young man, not wanting to lengthen the path, after leaving the huge doors of the throne room, hit a window hard, breaking it and leaving through it.

While the young man fell to the ground, he could see how a large number of dark creatures were killing the citizens.

When he was close to touching the ground, he unsheathed his katana showing a dark edge and with it, he pierced a creature that was under him.

"My lord..." said a maid with a fearful voice, which was about to die at the hands of the creature.

The emperor shook the blood off his katana and with his back to the maid said:

"Everyone enter the palace, I'll take care of this."

After hearing the words, the maid nodded and quickly headed inside the palace.

The emperor clicked his tongue.

The cries of pleading and terror were getting louder and louder, the imperial army seemed unable to stop the attack of these strange creatures.

When the young man left the palace courtyard, he could see a large number of creatures devouring citizens.

The creatures had an emaciated appearance and their bodies were extremely thin with strange legs accompanied by long claws on their arms.

The young man gritted his teeth and headed towards the creatures.

With a quick cut, he ended the life of one of them, but the small screech it made when it died attracted the attention of the others.

Two creatures headed towards him at high speed, the young man moved to the side dodging the attack of one of them and with the sheath of the katana he blocked the attack of the other.

With force he hit the claws of the creature with the sheath leaving it unprotected, finally he used the katana to cut it in half.

But the danger was not over, the other creature directed its claws fiercely again, however the young man with a strong kick to the stomach pushed it back.

Without wasting time, he moved at high speed towards the creature that was on the ground and pierced its heart.

After finishing off these creatures, he turned his gaze towards the main street, a powerful presence was there.

The other creatures turned their attention to him.

After a long time in which he was constantly finishing off creatures without stopping, the young man was able to save many of the citizens' lives.

Curiously, the creatures began to slowly retreat from the place, making the citizens have a feeling of victory.

But the young emperor felt restless.

Soon the citizens' cheers began to echo through the streets:

"Long live Emperor Safwane!"

The citizens felt great joy that the threat had retreated despite the large number of deaths.

Still, Safwane walked down the main street on guard, he knew that the greatest danger was still present.

The street was full of blood and there were dozens of bodies of citizens that could not be saved. In addition, the feeling of danger and constant tension became more present.

The citizens' cries of encouragement disappeared little by little as the young emperor approached the exit of the empire.

As he approached, Safwane could notice the reason for his concern, the huge doors of the empire were open without receiving any kind of damage.

"There is a traitor in the empire, huh?" Safwane whispered with annoyance.

When he finally crossed the door, a blinding light hit his face, causing him to cover it slightly.

The light disappeared and Safwane had a sarcastic smile on his face.

The strange creatures had not retreated, they simply stood at the outskirts of the city, as if waiting for him to come out.

Now that the creatures were together, their great number and variety could be noticed, some of them looking terrifying.

"You have gathered to die together?" said Safwane as he walked towards them.

"...It is incredible how you can still maintain such trust" a voice was heard saying among the creatures.

"You are the traitor?" asked Safwane coldly.

"..."

Without hearing any kind of response, Safwane headed towards the creatures.

But before he could launch the first attack, a huge creature lunged at him.

This creature seemed to be over three meters tall and was very corpulent, resembling a bear, and was accompanied by powerful and long claws.

Safwane sighed, frowning as he pushed his hair back, causing his crown to fall to the ground.

"You think you can beat me, stupid slave," Safwane said with annoyance.

The creature let out a powerful roar in response.

It lunged towards the young emperor, launching its powerful claws. Safwane blocked it again with the sheath, but the creature attacked with its other claw.

The young man had to take a step back, slightly dodging the attack and with a strong elbow he hit the claws causing them to fall to the ground. The young man took advantage of this and stabbed his katana into the palm of his paw.

Using the creature's slight moment of pain, the young man grabbed its snout and hit it hard with his knee. To finish it off, he picked up his katana and cut its neck in a quick movement.

The creature slowly fell to the ground, while Safwane turned his attention to the remaining creatures.

There were hundreds of creatures, each one of them was enough to kill an imperial knight, but why hadn't they attacked him while he was fighting?

Suddenly, applause was heard in the background.

"Impressive, being a normal person you are able to do so much, now I understand why you are the most feared emperor..." said the same voice as before.

This time a human figure emerged among the creatures.

Safwane knew with certainty that he was the cause of everything and the one who controlled the creatures.

This person wore a hood that covered his face, so the only thing that could be heard about him was his voice, a voice that Safwane had never heard before.

"You think you're going to leave alive now that you've appeared? I'm going to kill you and all your creatures." said the young man in a threatening tone.

"You're wrong..."

Safwane frowned.

"You're all alive because I didn't want to do anything." he said, unable to hide a mocking laugh.

"Try it..." the young emperor couldn't finish his words after feeling a strange burning in his chest.

His chest had been pierced.

When Safwane looked back he saw that they were the citizens he had saved.

"Strange, isn't it? Although it's not really, you just haven't saved anyone, they were all already dead," he said while laughing maliciously.

Safwane turned and cut off the head of the citizen who had pierced him and without removing the sword from his chest he walked furiously towards the strange man.

"How are you able to kill your citizens?" said the man surprised.

The young emperor's consciousness was fading, his skin was turning pale and his strength was disappearing, but his desire to kill the man was strong.

With his last strength he quickly went towards the man and directed what was going to be his last attack, but he was stopped.

Ice appeared and froze his arm, making him unable to move.

'What is... this?' thought Safwane surprised.

"I told you..." said the man as he brought the palm of his hand towards the young man's face.

Safwane tried to resist, but it was impossible, his strength was gone and his life was also close to ending. His body began to slowly freeze.

"...Relax, you still have plenty of time to die... entertain me in the future." The man said with a wide smile.

Finally he placed his hand on Safwane's face and a strange darkness began to envelop the young emperor.

When it enveloped his entire body, the strange layer of darkness fell to the ground in liquid form, Safwane's body had disappeared.

"We will meet again, I hope you will amuse me more."