A vast modern city, complete with skyscrapers that pierced the low hanging clouds overhead, remained silent despite its impressive size. The traffic lights still shined below, though no cars populated the roads. Some windows were still lit up with the soft electric glow of a lightbulb, but no shadows danced about. The entire city was gray and lifeless, as if death had come for all its inhabitants.
Without warning, a deafening roar shook the entire city. Cracks spiderwebbed across buildings and skyscrapers creaked and swayed, their glass windows shattered from the sound and raining down on the streets below.
Above the clouds, on the tallest skyscraper in the city, a lone man clad in black stood solemnly looking over the trembling skyscrapers. Though standing tall and upright, his broad shoulders seemed to bear an invisible weight that pressed down.
Yet he remained upright.
He looked to be around 20 years of age, with fair skin and black hair long enough to curtain his eyes, but through the strands one can see the dull black pupils of someone who has experienced plenty of life.
He let out a sigh, breath visible in the cold.
"You seem lonely, Noah"
He turned around where a young woman now stood on the once deserted rooftop
She wore formal clothes. Crisp white collared shirt, a black suit, black tie and skirt, and a pair of black heels. If not for her ability to stand in midair, one would think of her as a simple office worker.
"Emerald"
Her emerald green eyes curled upwards behind her framed glasses as she smiled.
"The training of the Void Subjugation Corp is going well"
Noah raised an eyebrow, slightly, amused, "So are we going to skip over your unprofessional comment?"
Emerald paid him no heed and instead produced from inside her suit a black tablet, the light from the electronic device glinting off her glasses.
"So far Eclipse has successfully eliminated an Indigo grade Aberration, Nightfall cleared a Blue grade Devil with minimal issues..."
"Revenant and Void Reapers are on break, and Nightmare is moving towards what is predicted to be an Aberration"
She put down the tablet, looking innocently at Noah, whose cold expression showed no change.
Abruptly, he snapped around and looked down upon the silent city being shrouded by thick clouds.
"It has arrived"
His voice rang deep and clear, right as the dark clouds below were parted by a massive flesh colored tentacle, writhing with hundreds of eyes.
He frowned, eyes looking distastefully at the tentacle, before trailing down to what it was connected to.
A vast expanse of darkness stretched across the city, warping the space around it. The tentacle flailed around for a few moments, its disgustingly wrinkled flesh sagging from the weight. It stopped abruptly, before all of its pupils turned to look straight at the man.
Noah glanced back at Emerald, "Is the Night Weavers all in position?"
She nodded, "All in position, waiting for you to set up the environment"
A screech echoed from out of the darkness, interrupting their conversation as the tentacle retreated back into an unknown abyss.
The man snorted, taking off the leather glove covering his right hand to reveal what seemed like a pitch black tattoo of a crescent moon within a black circle. Holding his hand out in front of him, the man muttered to himself.
"Shadow Dominion: Veil Of Darkness"
The words carried his intent
A burst of black mist exploded forth from the black mark on the back of his hand, rising up into the sky like black raindrops that defied gravity. Akin to an artist adding too much water to their paint, the sky above was slowly splotched with darkness, blocking all light and forming a domelike barrier around the entire city.
Noah leaped into the air with leisure, his black robes fluttering around him as he stopped, high above the skyscrapers.
Holding up his right hand again, he snapped his fingers.
"Shadow Dominion: Hel's Throne"
The ground under where he floated cracked and split as a column of pitch black darkness rose. Within seconds, it reached him, and a black throne swirling with mist presented itself. He sat down, the swirling mist enveloping his body.
A moment of silence, before the he spoke again, "Slay the creature"
His voice echoed throughout his newly created domain, and in response, several dozen streaks of different colored light appeared to rise up into the blackened sky, before descending towards the warped space the monstrous creature had retreated.
As if sensing danger, the creature in the mysterious space let out an ear piercing screech. Dozens of tentacles emerged from the crack in space, lunging for the beings that approached it.
One of the lights slowed and dimmed, enough for any spectators to make out the figure inside.
A young man with blazing red hair and a wide smile slowly descended as several tentacles approached him with the intent to kill. His black robes fluttered in the wind as he extended his arms and legs.
"Transform!"
Instantly, his limbs turned reptilian, becoming much larger and sporting vicious claws gleaming with sharp light as massive red scales covered his muscles.
Twisting his body to the side, the man narrowly avoided a tentacle that had shot towards him as he drew closer. Extending out a clawed arm, he let gravity drag him down as his claws gouged long bloody lines down the tentacle.
There came a screech of pain from the void, but the man paid it no heed. Gripping down on the tentacle and using it to gain a foothold, the young man kicked off of it with such force that that section of the tentacle was blasted clean off.
The severed tentacle fell down, tearing through an entire building and sunk into the pavement as the young man lashed out at the other tentacles.
"Night Weavers!" he called out, "Sever the creature's tentacles and attack from a distance! We have to pull it out from the crack!"
Adhering to his command, the other light streaks slowed down, revealing other young men and women. Some lashed out with waves of fire and other elements, others struck down with pure physical might. Whatever the case, the exposed tentacles were quickly rendered unusable for combat.
Emerald smiled with satisfaction, "Not bad at all, they quickly understood the strengths and weaknesses of the Void Creature, quickly formulating a strategy to effectively neutralize the target"
Noah nodded, "With this, we have our sixth squad, making our overall strength comparable to the Holy Sanctuary in its prime"
Emerald snorted at the mention of the Holy Sanctuary, "Those religious freaks? You alone could raze their temples to the ground-"
"And yet their faith is strong," Noah interjected, "Many regular people share their faith. Actions such as that will only build animosity"
His eyes narrowed with annoyance, "The Sanctuary is much more than the obsessive freaks who control the Harbingers of Positivity…"
Noah's icy gaze returned to the battle below, his dark eyes watching unblinkingly.
The Night Weavers had successfully drawn out the Void Creature, revealing a mass of tentacles attached to a fleshy humanoid, tiny in comparison to the tentacles that were taller than the skyscrapers around them.
Abruptly, the monstrous creature let out an ear piercing screech.
SKREE!!