Dark Souls- 1

Story by Arcsol on SoFurry

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Second story of mine that I've been working on. This one is for all ages and takes on a slightly darker tone compaired to Fates Chosen. Hope you enjoy~


There was a boy sitting at the desk in the corner of his room, he had short brown hair and hazel eyes. His face can be descibed as handsome through others eyes and he had a thin build to him. He was wearing a dark grey t-shirt with a black zip up hoodie over it and blue jeans. He had a pair of white headphones wrapped around his head, it moving back and forth a little to the beat of the music while leaning over a notebook, all his focus poured into it as he wrote something in it. His room was lit up by the bright fall sun, casting a warm glow over the white room.

"All finished! It took four hours but I finally finished it!" The boy said as he lifted the notebook into the air proudly, glancing over at the clock to catch the time. He dropped his notebook as he saw that the clock read five. "Shoot! I'm very late, oh they are going to kill me!"

The boy ran out of the house as if his life depended on it , heading towards the hill at the end of the block. On top of the hill was a small playground, large field and a thick forest near the edge of it. There were two people up at the playground at the moment, one was a male sitting at its highest place . The male was the same age as the boy running towards them, nineteen years old. He had a bowlcut style blond hair and light blue eyes with small goatee, he is wearing a white t-shirt with a black hoodie over it that displayed a band name on it and wore baggy black pants.

The other person was a twenty three year old female with short choppy sandy brown hair, she had dark blue eyes and was slightly shorter than the other two boys, but had a slightly stronger build than them. Her attire was composed of a dark blue t-shirt and tan cargo pants, she had a silver dogtag hanging around her neck. She was sitting on one of the playgrounds many slides. They both looked annoyed as they watched the boy race up the hill to them. "You're late Cody." The male said, sounding slightly irritated.

That would be me, god I hate talking in a third person. My name is Cody, Theres not much to say about me other than I am one of the major misfits of this small town. I am a writer and artist and from what I just said I have recently completed a new story of mine. The two at the playground are the other two town misfits, and my best friends Beth and Cade. We dont really mind being the outcasts as no one really bugs us then, we dont really like to be the center of attention. This playground we're at is the place we meet at everyday at a certain time, the playground itself has been abandoned for years now after the school that owned it shut down, making a place few travel to.

"Sorry sorry I was finishing the story and kind of lost track of time as I became wrapped up in it." I said as I scratched the back of my head, grinning.

"You're always writing stories. Doesnt it ever get old?" Cade asked, smirking.

"Doesnt sitting in a basement doing nothing all day ever get old?" I retorted, sticking out my tongue as I climbed onto the playground bridge, laying down on it soon after to stare at the sky.

"So you never did tell us what that story is about." Cade said. "Care to tell us now that you have it finished?"

I laughed and grinned mischieviously. "Nope but I will say that you two are in it, and that both of you are some of the main characters."

Beth made a face at the comment. "Oh come on now I really want to read it! How do I know you didnt purposely make me look stupid? Mean!"

I laughed even louder and stuck out my tongue. "I could have, you'll just have to find out."

We all started to laugh but from then on things started to get very weird and I may have been the cause of it.

"Hey you three!" A voice suddenly called out to us. I sat up and glanced down the hill. The person who called out to us was a woman who looked to be a few years older than Beth. She had long black hair that hung down to her waist with red streaks running through her bangs. She had bright yellow eyes and wore a red studded collar around her neck, a red winged heart hung from its D-ring with the name Celesti written across it. She was wearing a dark purple jacket with a light green tank top underneath and black cargo pants. "Yes?" I called out. "Do you need something?"

The woman walked closer to the playground until she was standing right in front of the bridge. "You wouldn't happen to have seen someone who looks almost exactly like me have you?"

I shook my head in response. "No havent seen anyone really, been inside all day until now." I turned back to glance at my two friends. "Have you guys seen someone with her appearence today?" They shook their heads. "No, just the random passerby's." Beth said. "No one who looks like her in particular."

The lady turned away and began to walk down the hill without a word. "Ok thanks anyway." She called out as she walked down the street. "If do manage to run into her dont hesitate to call my name.

"What was that about?" I turned to look at Beth and Cade as the mysterious girl disappeared from sight. Cade shrugged. "Dunno, its been a weird day. Someone else asked the same thing except it was a different girl completely."

Beth rose from the slide and leaned against it, nodding as she did. "Yeah except she said this person was covered in fur."

My heart skipped a beat at the sound of those words. I slipped through the bridge's railings and ran for home as fast as I could.

"Hey where are you going?" Beth called out as I ran. "Home! I'm not feeling to well!" I called, not bothering to look back.

I felt so bad for lying to her but this was an urgent matter. I busted through the door and ran through the house. "Please be there! Please be there!!"

I opened the door to my room and found that my desk was bare, the notebook that held my story was missing. "Ugh this cant be happening." I ran my hands through my hair in dismay, laying down on my bed. "Who would want my notebook? Ugh maybe I just moved it or lost it."

I soon fell into a fitful sleep, the dreams not reassuring me that I lost it. Instead pointing out my worst fears. It started with me back up on the hill, with my two friends sprawled out in the field unconscious. Standing in front of them was an anthromorphic wolf demon with dark blue fur, blood red cheveron stripes and eyes and snow white hair with the tips of it blood red. He had large black bat wings and long pointed fangs protruding from his mouth. He was wearing nothing but an egyptian style loincloth and was weilding golden twin blade khopesh, with fire streaming off of one and water surging from the other. I went wide eyed at the figure as I knew exactly who he was, he was the villain from my story. He smiled a wicked grin, revealing his sharp pointed teeth. "You will soon lose everything close to you." The wolf said. "And then you'll know how it truely feels to be alone as you slip into darkness and despair."

I woke up screaming, covered in sweat and breathing heavily. "Ok that definately wasn't a coinsidence, something is screwed up majorly here." Right as I said that I heard a loud noise and the house shook violently. "Shit! How is this happening? It's a story it's not supposed to be real!"

I stormed through the house, running up to the hill as fast as my legs could take me, swearing under my breath as I saw smoke rising up from the hill. When I got to the top it was my nightmare come to life, both of my friends were sprawled out on the field. The only difference was that the field was completely empty.

Cade caught sight of me and yelled "It's a trap! Get outta here before he gets you too!" Before he could say anything else something shot out from the woods and stomped on his back, it was the wolf demon. He summoned his sword and rose it up in the air for the kill. "Thats enough out of you human!" He grawled.

I dont know what happened next, if it was reflexes or what but my legs shot out and ran streight for the wolf demon "No!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. The next thing I knew I was standing in front of him with my arms up to block the blow. I blacked out soon after.

What I saw in front of me was weird, I was watching myself grow red fur, and my body slowly transforming into a wolf with blue glowing cheveron stripes showing up on the fur, my eyes turning into a bright blue and my hair tips turning blue as well. A set of silver khopesh appeared in my hands to block the wolf demon's blade. One that had fire streaming off it and the other with water flowing around it. The wolf morph that was once me grinned confidently as the demon went wide eyed. "Dont you think its low to be attacking humans who cant defend themselves Apophis?" The wolf morph said as he pressed harder into the demon's blade, the demon's expression going from shock to complete hatred as he summoned up his other blade. "Says the one who is using a human's body for a host." The demon retorted. "How did you even manage to do it with out killing him Arc?"

Arc's grin widened as he knocked Apophis back to the edge of the forest. "Simple, he is me and I am him. Two worlds but the same person in mind and soul."

One moment the wolf was there, the next he was right in front of Apophis. He caught the demon completely off guard and kicked him across the field, causing him to destroy some of the playground. The demon was raging now, he flew out of the playground and straight into Arc, knocking them both into the forest. All I could hear was the whistle of the blades cutting through the air and a few trees toppling down, after a while the two came flying back out onto the field, panting heavily and circling each other.

"Lets finish this." Apophis said as he raised one of his blades.

"It already is." Arc said as he rose one of his blades as well, the two yelled then ran at each other to decide the winner of this battle.

The sight went too fast for me. All I saw as they neared closer was the flicker and the sound of the swords colliding, then they were standing back to back to see who inflicted the killing blow.

Apophis suddenly collapsed to his knees as a pool of dark liquid formed beneath him. The demon was smiling. "Dont think this is over hero." He said as he slowly sank into the pool. "You have defeated only a mere shadow of me, I will return." Arc was emotionless at the statement. "And I will be here to kill your ugly mug once again." He said as the last of the demons shadow sank into the pool, the pool itself fading from existance

The red and blue wolf's work was far from over though. "The fight isn't done yet pup, not by a long shot." A female voice called out. He turned to where the voice came from and saw a light brown puma demoness standing on the roof of the church, smiling maliciously.