From alt.pub.dragons-inn Wed Mar 15 09:02:01 1995 Xref: netcom.com alt.pub.dragons-inn:8198 Path: netcom.com!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!cc_sysk!ajf5 From: The Harvester of Souls Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Bloodstar! SCI_FI intro Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 11:55:27 +0000 Organization: Coventry University Lines: 33 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: ajf5@cc_sysk From Chapter One of BLOODSTAR! SCI-FI novel by Alan J Fisher,, In a darkness deeper than our dankest nightmares , something stirred. A conciousness fuelled by emotion in this , the dimension of emotion. This was the Void , dominion of Darkness , the power of pure evil. Until this day the Void had been ruled by four kings , the Dark Gods : Hungumek , Khronesh , Galtean , and Hrouraak ; the four most evil beings in existance. But now. Now a surge of emotion flared in a distant corner of the Void , shaping a new form , completing the eternal culmination of such feeling. The battling of close kin , the killing of a brother in anger , adding the final ingredients bringing a new conciousness to life in the Void. As the teeming energies of this dark realm began to focus at one single point , the other Gods and the dark things that served them retreated from it , other creatures , creatures of light , fell back in terror. Then , with a scream that rent the very fabric of the Void , it awoke. The new godesss , Keolmis , mistress of treachery and anger , Dark Queen of the Void was born! As waves of horror spread through the void , incidences of violent crime increased , suicides were commonplace , one psycher Dragon's world leapt from his tower , saying that his race was doomed. Warrior of secret cults reached for their weapons , ready for the war they had long awaited , beginning the decades of preparation necesssary to at last crush their foe , the Emperor of humanity. "You may have badges in many forms , Neshaa. But while paint flakes and fades , and metal rusts and tarnishes , flesh remembers for all it's life." -Kasha Garret , From Dragon Lords , a short story by Alan J Fisher. This is the first instalment of many , Dragon Lords may well be forthcoming! _ _ /-\|_/-\|\| THE HARVESTER OF SOULS.