[Tyr Zalo Hawk]: 712.Ideas.TheLostNightmare

Dripping crimson flesh and blood from its scythelike fingertips, a horror of unimaginable origins stood amidst an ocean of corpses, grinning maliciously. Spikes flung from its torso at uneven intervals, giving this evil a torn, yet deceptively sharp appearance. With 7 sets of eyes, each an impenetrable black, set deep into a long winged skull it stared over the victims of its most recent feeding. The sky overhead was bleak, covered in a seemingly unending mass of dark grey clouds that blotted out any hope of light not already beneath them from reaching the surface. Its siblings were littered across the world in similar situations, each one a terror incarnate, and each horrifying in every respect of the word.
As the 'beasts,' if such a word could be used to describe them, began to lumber away to whatever den of sin they had spawned from, a light burst through the clouded sky, illuminating each in a golden haze. The creatures froze and turned their sickeningly blue, skeletal bodies towards the source, shrieking out a chilling challenge to it. Instead of answering their call, the light vanished from the sky, the clouds reclaiming their lost ground, sealing the world in darkness once again. Free from the light, they lurched onwards towards a place only they could call home.
Hours later, they arrived together to return home, each screaming their need to be first towards the others. As they argued within their own ranks, the light that had shone down earlier returned, this time concentrated on the group in a blinding flash that revealed a pair of humanlike figures, each glowing faintly silver amongst the golden light they appeared in. The horrors stopped their fueds and turned towards the figures, eternally hungry for flesh. They had barely moved before each started to crack open with such cacophony that the earth itself shuddered.
Souls screamed from the open husks, tearing away in every direction while the clouds receded into nothingness, letting the sun touch the earth once more.
As the old light shone down, the figures that had appeared sealed the entrance to the shadowed hell of the demons and then stood, guarding it from the world.
But one of the beasts had not been there, a child of their kind was still lurking amongt the shadows of our world. This horrible entity has slowly been growing, gaining power, feeding on the souls of the planet for millenia, and now it wants to go back home... to find its family and bring them to our planet once more. This beast we call 'The Lost Nightmare' for while he is here, he is lost, and while he exists, humanity shall be lost as well...

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