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was shot into the sky Tantrus’ comrade. All the other Adalbheorts had seen the flare – it meant something to them.
    “FIRE!” the soldiers stationed around the crumbling castle yelled.
    “FIRE!” the word was repeated resonantly from all around the perimeter. Suddenly, from all directions around the disintegrating monument, bright balls of white light were speedily shot into the sky, dwindling into tiny stars in the distant universe. All soldiers, all monsters, everyone involved in the war fell silent – the vicinity was a graveyard and the wind gently howled as they all stared at the sky.
    And then , as if it were a tiny emerging spot, a darkness began to grow. It spread throughout the sky and descended to the earth.
    “RETREAT !” a soldier yelled. The murderous war instantly resumed, but now it was about the Adalbheorts trying to escape and the Balamirs keeping them there.
    “They activated a void,” Trailian said to himself, horrified. He looked back at Duana, stuck on the ground and completely helpless in the war around her. The darkness was falling from the sky and its gravitational pull was increasing, vacuuming everything into its pit. It pulled soldiers into its depths with their screams lingering after them. The entire alien forest was uprooted and sent hurtling upwards into the falling darkness. Men were flying upwards to their deaths helplessly.
    The evil Trailian, still preying on the wounded woman, took a deep breath and the streak of fire left his hand, aimed directly at the weak Duana who had no idea it was on its way to end her life.
    Angwen was standing firmly on the rock with the wind rustling around him as the void attempted to take him in. His eyes were locked on the beam aimed at Duana.
    “NO! ELISEDD!” he yelled viciously through the screams of men. Suddenly, Duana gasped as she felt a cold hand enclose around her mouth. Angwen had no choice – he didn’t want her dead. He grunted and struggled, his hands gently letting go of the surface of the rock as the void attempted to swallow him. As he let go, he shot out his hand to the ground and it suddenly ripped open with a monstrous explosion. The eternal pit in the ground was reversing the effect of the falling darkness but took everyone down with it. The ground around Duana crumbled, taking her miles below as the Balamir castle collapsed feebly in the chasm. Angwen was pulled back down along with all the other soldiers. Everyone fell into the eternal mile-wide crater. But in Angwen’s last effort, he conjured the darkness to go down with them.
     

CHAPTER 1.
    The Unavoidable Genesis
     
     
    “ I don’t know how you do it.”
    I snigge red, adjusted the goggles and pushed them up my nose.
    “ I really don’t know how you do it,” Jaden continued.
    My name is Aden Blue.
    Aden Jordan Murdoch Blue to be extremely precise. I usually went by A.J., Jordan or my actual name – but not Murdoch. I loathed that excuse of a name.
    I rolled my eyes and exhaled, slamming the medical needle on the table.
    “No, seriously…how do you do it?”
    “ Do what, exist?” I resumed sewing up the cut I had created in the frog in front of me.
    Jade n scoffed and pulled his latex glove-covered hands from his white lab coat pockets.
    “ No. I mean, be one of the smartest in school and one of the most stupid,” Jaden concluded. I chuckled lightly and dramatically wiped a tear from underneath my eye.
    “ You know, I’m actually surprised you’re dissecting the frog as asked.” My chuckle faded and I stared at Jaden with my lips clenched together and blinked once at him.
    “ You’re going to pull a prank, aren’t you?” I sniggered and got back to dissecting the frog. Jaden sighed out of distress and rolled his head in circular motions around his neck.
    “ Aw come on, Aden! You’ve gotten sent to the headmaster’s office more than once – and we’re only in the first term –”
    “ What are you talking about? We’re in October; that’s