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Title: The Shadow Horrors

Author: Ng

Darkness flitted through the skies. To any stargazer, it was a normal night. If they were VERY observant, they might notice a splotch of darkness blot out some stars for a few moments. One such startgazer did notice this, and it was the last thing he ever noticed. He steped back from his telescope, and it was blotted out of view. He held up his torch to this new darkness, and his torch was engulfed by it. The creature reached out with an un-earthly claw and plunged it into the man's chest. The man screamed and fell to the ground, as cold as the void between the stars. Then he started to change. The darkness in his heart was changing and twisting the man's shape. In a matter of moments, the man was a darkness creature himself. He had become one of the shadow horrors.

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The paladins were all in the Empathy Abbey in Yew. There was a convention and all attended. Everyone was surprised when 2 creatures came through the doors without opening them. They were not black, but they were voids. The room was filled with an eerie cold. These 2 creatures took on the shape of whatever the person looking at them feared most. One of the creatures touched a peasant, and the peasant was transformed into another of these shadow horrors.The new one started a rampage, trying to slay as many paladins as it could. When a paladin fell to it, he simply dropped to the ground, a pale white color and frigid cold. They did not create another horror as long as there was no evil in their hearts. Another paladin ran for the door and grabbed the handle, only to have the doors shatter where the horrors entered, then he was striken down by a horror, and became one himself. A few brave paladins stood to fight these monsters. One raised his sword and swung it at the horror. The sword shattered into a millions shards and the paladin dropped down, his arm was white and cold, and he could not move it. He did the only thing he could, he grabbed a silver candlestick with his good arm and lobbed it at the horror. The shadowy demon screamed when the silver candlestick hit it, and both the horror and the candlestick shattered into a million shards. Finally the paladins knew what must be done to defeat these monsters. They lobbed anything they had that was silver at the creatures, and shattered them one by one. Finally there was only one left, but they were out of silver. It opened its mouth and spoke in terrible words, as cold as the creature itself. "I shall return. We shall never be defeated, only pushed back. We will never relent, never retreat. You cannot win, only prolong your defeat." "What do you want from us?" Asked a paladin. "I want you to die," said the creature, and it disappeared in a blinding flash of darkness. Its voice was still heard. "Wherever there is darkness, I shall be there..."