Shrouded in Darkness

by Dovah Merith

Desert Encounter

“Dear Kayrun your light is blinding me.” Merith muttered under his breath.

He had been traveling in the desert for days now

“Where is the forest? I was told there would be a forest at the end of the desert but all I see is more desert!” he yelled in frustration, thinking the old story teller had lied to him just to get him out of the pack.

Merith immediately went into aggression mode, as he called it. He whirled about and as he did, he noticed the sun had darkened just enough so it didn't blind him. When he finished he saw a dark gray creature that resembled a dragon but without the wings. Seeing this, he calmed down a little but, something was not right about this creature. He had heard legends about creatures like this one but he thought that they were something fake, just to keep little wyrmling’s from staying up too long.

“And who and what are you?”

“I am a pow-”

“Name first then species.”

“I’m Sombra and I’m a Anthro."

Crap was the first thing to go through his mind when he heard the word ‘Anthro’

“What can you do to help?” Merith practically snarled at him

“You are a weak puny Anthro that can't even fly you ABOMINATION!”

"Let's not get too carried away there. My kind thinks that you are enough of an abomination as you think us.” Sombra said so calmly that it scared Merith, Enough that his ears dropped and his wings and scales flattened

“Why are here with me in the middle of the desert offering me, a dragon, help? I could just tear you apart with my claws and feast on you!”

“Because, I am the lord of Shadows."

Oh crap Kayrun help me now

“Um... Are you here to take to the End?” Merith asks nervously

“No! I am here to train you in the dark arts of magic."

"WHA!?"

Merith was to, put it simply, shocked because, THE Lord Of Shadows is offering him help and a chance to train by his side

That sounds good but its Dark Magic, there has to be a catch.

“Sounds tempting, but what's the catch?” Merith asked suspiciously

“Ah, right to the point... Well I guess you deserve to know the catch. The catch is that you might never get to see your kind again.”

"Meh they don't like me that much anyways" Merith said, realizing that he had not drunk anything for 5 days.

his voice hurt as he said “By chance that Dark Magic can summon up water on a whim?”

he barely managed to get the words out.

“Hmm... I honestly don't know, I've never had a need to do... that... before...” his words faded out as Merith fainted out of dehydration

Author's Note:

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