Dark light

Dark light

The followers of light, a light so darkened by a diluted cause. A cause that can only result in the death, torture and destruction of millions--- and has. They had once held true to this naming, a long time ago it seemed; but it was only recently that they turned. They never turned from the path of light they claimed, they simply bent it to their will. Bent it so much it could barely resemble its former self, so light it was now that even darkness was brighter.

They were the Global Unity and Law Enforcement. GULE for short. They had been the backbone of the Global United Defence Force G.U.D.F they had once provided a light for all. Not all had turned some had stayed true to the original cause. A cause of peace, prosperity and unity for the entire world and all that inhabited it. They were now fighting here. We, the 7th army were sent to assist in their battle of truth by our leader Warmaster Raymond.

Pausing, the hairs on my neck standing up. An eerie light danced across the ground in between the battlelines. Searching, getting ever closer. My heart raced, beating against my armoured jacket. It passed over me and paused. Its eerie light capturing me in all its darkness. A coppery taste, sight turning red, a burning sensation throughout my veins, my skin started to freeze turning blue with the bright red lines that were my burning veins. The pain was excruciating, I cried out but made no sound, I couldn’t make a noise. I would have been squirming in pain, if it weren’t for the paralysis, the only welcoming effect of this light. I assumed that the rest of my squad were in the same situation. I could barely make out my squad mates. Julian a good friend of mine lay 20 metres of to my left. We had been friends since we had joined, been together everywhere.

He exploded in a fountain of gore. His boiling blood thrown high, coming down around us burning holes in the ground and anything it landed on. It landed on another of my squad mates, I could see the pain in his eyes as the boiling blood ate through him. A blank stare as life left him. Forever. Two gone so quickly, one my best friend. Gone so quickly, their life extinguished like the light of a candle being blown out. I couldn’t feel anything, nothing. I should of but didn’t.

The physical pain subsided and the paralysing of my limbs started to wear off. The light turned away continuing its ghastly search for more prey to feed on. “Sound off” crackled a whisper in my ear, my tac com coming to life. “Three off” I whispered. “two off” , “six good”, “nine ok”, “one alive”, “five good to go”. There was an eerie reply from four and eight, one of silence. They would never speak again. “What the hell was that boss” the question that was on all of our minds. “No idea, but lets find out”. I knew we should, but their was something at the back of my mind something urged me sinisterly to go towards it.

Following the remains of my squad, we edged forward through the mud, quickly, quietly, stealthily. A horrible rancid stench of death and horror crept out of the enemies stations, creeping forward looking for a host to drive crazy with fear. Our rebreathers kept out most of the noxious stench but it still seeped through the seals. We got ever closer to them. The enemy.

A large tower of skeletons, that cast a sickly light off of the white of the bone. It towered over the landscape. How had I missed it before? I gasped as I saw what was on top of it. The source of the light. The light of pure evil, hatred, pain and darkness. I knew then what I must do. My team must of sensed it as well, in unison we rose out of the ground, we were shadows. But unlike our enemies who disguised themselves as light we were light. I was filled with a new wave of energy, a new fire. We charged forward screaming out battle cries.

Sprinting forward. Opening fire as I ran, spraying the tower with my gun trying to bring it down. Splinters chipping of the bone structure. The sentries startled at first now began to turn the giant light around. It shown down. The more concentrated beam vaporised those to my left, exploding in geysers of blood. Enemy troopers had moved forward and began firing.

Everything moved slower. My heart beat so loud it drowned all other sounds out. Looking to my right I saw the last few members of my squad get ripped apart. Bone like shrapnel fired by the enemy stuck out of them, they glowed an eerie green light. They got brighter and brighter as the life left the men. I reached the tower, strapping the demo charges to the base of the tower. I clicked the primer and the clock timed down.

I collapsed, life leaving me. I saw a light, but not a light I knew. Shining gently down on me welcoming me into a loving embrace. It was nothing I had heard or seen, but I knew now that I would be with it forever. It disappeared as I felt my life get dragged back. I was dead, but I was alive. Trapped in a small piece of bone, I saw the remains of the tower shattered into pieces.

A face appeared , smiling a sickly smile as it picked me up. It carried a staff which tapered into a skull at the top that glowed a sickish green, dressed in blue flowing robes with intricate patterns of evil .I knew now that this thing was the voice that called me forward before and I knew that I would be his slave forever. A slave to dark light.