In a time where magic ruled the land there used to live a female given the name Angel of Death for having killed thousands of people. On the day she was caught and burned at the stake, she promised that 50 years later a female will be born who will possess all her powers and will wreak chaos across the land. 50 years later, a child named Destiny was born.

STONE
By: Sifredo Quijada Jr

It is lightly raining; Alister (age 19. Sworn protector of Destiny, he won’t rest until a cure for her is found) and Destiny (age 21. Since the age of 19 she has been suffering from odd flashbacks where an old woman has been referring her as “Angel of Death”) are standing outside a cave, peering into the vast unwelcoming darkness that awaits them inside. Their search for the last sacred stone is almost over! For two years now they have been searching for the sacred stones that will relieve Destiny of her curse; the last stone-the stone of darkness-is deep within the depths of the cave.
“This is it’” Alister says with delight “once we get this last stone our journey will finally be over and we can live in peace once again.”
“Yeah…” Destiny says hesitantly “but it’s so dark and there might be monsters inside, maybe we aren’t ready for this…”
“Are you kidding?? Of course there’ll be monsters in there but you shouldn’t worry, I’ll protect you. Besides, all our years of hard work has brought us to this moment, there’s no going back.”
“But….”
“Will you stop acting so childish?” Alister says with annoyance in his voice “if you want to stay out here in the rain then stay, but I’m going in.” Alister enters the cave and Destiny soon follows and goes by his side “Took you long enough, here, you should hold this.” Alister hands Destiny the Stone of Light, the stone starts vibrating and then radiant white light shines and entire chamber is lit. Strange drawings fill all four walls and each corner of the chamber is adorned with a strange statue
“This place looks so strange…hey Alister, we should be careful in a place like this you never know where booby traps might be hidden.”
“Those type of things only exist in stories, we both know that those type of things never happen in real life” Alister moves forward to take a closer look at a picture, pressure of his foot towards the floor pushes a part of it lower and the exit becomes blocked
“What did you just do…?”
“Heh, that trap was probably just for show; besides, when we get the stone we’ll just make our own way out.” The eyes of all four shadows glow red and slowly come to life “Crap…” Alister stares in disbelief as all four statues surround them
“Idiot…” Destiny then brings out her sword and hands Alister some knifes/blades

“Finally some action, I was kinda getting bored” Alister then throws some of the knives at the living statues with all his might. When they hit the statue the harmlessly fall to the ground “It looks like our normal attacks won’t affect them…” Alister brings out a bomb from his bag “…but this will!” lights bomb and throws it towards one of the statues and bomb explodes covering the whole room in smoke “Did I get him?” Suddenly a stone hand reaches out of the smoke and seizes Alister’s neck and flings him towards the opposite wall.
Destiny stares at Alister and then at statues “Seems you’re stronger than we expected, no worries, I’ll be happy to be the one who sends you all to hell” she then runs towards one of the statues and then swings her sword aiming it at the statue’s side, the sword is caught by the statue and then the statue seizes her and flings her besides Alister.
“Damn…” Alister says with disbelief “I know I wanted some action, but I didn’t mean this much…oh well, at the very least I didn’t expect we had to resort to this.” Alister brings out the Stone of Fire and then looks at Destiny “You ready? Go!”
Destiny quickly materializes some sort of magic shield that surrounds the four statues “Your turn.”
Alister nods “Moon of fire, hear my call! Moon of fire, obliterate my enemies, once and for all! Pyro Explosion!!” Area inside of magic shield flashes red and then an enormous explosion takes place within them, quickly obliterating all that is/was inside
“That was fun while it lasted, but I was expecting more of a challenge from those things…”
Alister and Destiny get up and dust themselves off. Suddenly a section of the wall moves to the left revealing a new path
“I assume we’re supposed to go through there,” Alister then points to revealed path “let’s go.”
“Wait, take a look at this” points to strange writing near entrance “All...those who enter...shall die...”

“We’ll see about that, there’s nothing o this earth that can stop us, let’s go” Alister and Destiny follow new path which leads them to a single chamber with a giant statue in the middle
“Not another one…” Alister says with annoyance and walks toward statue to take a closer look “hey, what’s this?” reaches towards statue’s right eye and pulls out a glowing black stone
“Can it be? It is! We finally found the Stone of Darkness! Now all we need to do is to return to that old hag’s place so she can cure you, our search is finally over!”
Alister and Destiny begin to celebrate, but they celebrated too early because the statue begins to violently shake and slowly begins to change form. The statue suddenly explodes, sending Destiny and Alister to the opposite sides of the chamber and sue to the blast, and smoke quickly fills the room. The smoke from the explosion quickly clears and in the center there us a giant ghost-like apparition “I’m Free!! And I have the two of you to thank. So instead of killing you I will allow the both of you to become my personal slaves”
“We are slaves to no one” Alister and Destiny say simultaneously
“Oh well, I was going to kill the both of you either way” it hyperextend (stretches) its arms and seizes Alister and begins to slowly squeeze his life away
Tremendous pressure on his body causes Alister to bleed internally and he begins to cough up blood “What are you waiting for?? You can still save yourself! Forget about me and run!! I don’t want you to see me die this way…”
Images of Death flash before Destiny’s eyes and instantly she knows what she had to do “No,” she says in a voice that doesn’t belong to her “no more running away, today is the day that I must embrace my destiny and who I really am,” a dark aura surrounds Destiny “I am the Angel of Death”
Dark aura consumes Destiny and when aura fades away the features of Destiny have changed. Her once light blue hair has been turned to jet-black and her light blue eyes turned to black as well. Suddenly a surge of new found power race through Destiny’s veins and she focuses all that power into her right fist, dark light begins emanating from her right fist “Now do me a favor,” Destiny then rushes towards ghost like figure and lands a single blow straight to the things heart “and DIE!!”
“What have you done?!? NOOOOO!!” ghost-like apparition utters a blood curdling scream and then fades away into the darkness which it was released from. Destiny walks towards Alister.
“Destiny?” Alister coughs an alarming amount of blood due to internal bleeding “is that really you?"
“Yes, but please, don’t move so much, any more loss of blood and you’ll surely die” Destiny then kisses Alister’s lips and while doing so transfers nearly all her newfound power to him, healing his wounds and stopping his internal bleeding “Now sleep” Alister then passes out and then falls to a deep sleep
“Not a bad idea…” Destiny collapses to her knees “not a bad idea at all…” she then passes out next to Alister.
Next day and a few rays of sunshine pierce through the clouds. Destiny awakes up with a pulsing headache and she has also forgotten all that has happened on the previous night, she has also regained her old features. “What the hell happened to me last night…? And why does it feel like my head was run over by a bunch of horses…?
“Oh look; Sleeping Beauty has finally decided to wake up”
“Shut up…I’m not in the mood…”
“Sorry” Alister then smiles at her
“Why are you smiling at me like that?”
“No reason…no reason at all…”
“Tell me….or I’ll kill you….I’m seriously not in the mood to play around…”
“Oh really? Then I guess I won’t be giving you this then.” Alister shows her the Stone of Darkness
“Is that…?”
“Yup, with this you can be finally cured of your flashbacks and our lives can return to the ways they were, all we need is to go to that old hag’-“
“-my mother’s”
“Right, all we need to do is go to your mother’s house so she can cure you”
"hey...Alister..."
"Yeah...?"
"Now that we got all the stones...does that mean that you'll leave...?
"You can be so silly at times...of course not, because I lo..."
"You what...?"
"Um...nothing...nothing at all..."
"Tell me, you know I have my ways to make you talk"
"Um..." Alister takes a few steps back "...I'll tell you this, if you can catch me before we get to your mom's house, then I'll tell"
"What's that supposed to mean...?"
"THIS!!" Alister starts running away from Destiny
"What the...hey wait up!" She then starts chasing Alister
meanwhile atop the cave; two figures dressed in black appear.
"It seems Piastol has finally awakened" one figure says to another
"Yes...this should be interesting to say the least"

THE END…
OR IS IT MERELY
THE BEGGINING?