Sunlight bursts over the horizon as the Dark One stands strong, feeling the outline of the embedded stones beneath her feet....

…..behind her is the gazebo and before her eyes is the magical harbor……..she feels no weight upon her shoulders any longer………light builds within her heart……she is free, free of the pain that has haunted her for so long……no demons from the past shall come to her in this moment of bliss or ever again……..knowing who she is and what she desires most…..her future…….one filled with peace…….finally, she knows peace within her heart…..the demons that have existed are gone…….she vows to not ever allow them into her heart again……the warmth of the sun glows upon her face and shines upon her armor……..it is no longer hard as steel, but soft, beautiful leather studded with shining stars…....transformed with the magic of love………

Moonlight streams upon the brick pathways lighting the Dark One’s path as she walks in peace…….

…….as she breathes in the pure air of light, a scent not unfamiliar to her is again there on the edge of night….once again she frees her dagger from its silver hilt and holds her arm out waiting…..watching……as the last few vipers leer at her, she challenges them to fight…..they encircle her and she is unafraid…….with strength, the Dark One slashes their throats and they lay at her feet as they are meant to be…..lifeless turning into ashes as she watches their yellow blood seep into the ground of her place of peace. And, she knows that no matter that light has come to her she will forever be watching and waiting for those that try to take joy and life from her…..but they will not win…...they will not rule over the Dark One of Light……not ever……..

As the Dark One stands strong with her arms held toward the lightened sky above…..

…..the light strikes outward from her dagger and covers the entire town beyond, blasting the demons from their sleep and they feel the power behind her force as they disappear into the winds forever feeling the pain she has felt for so long…..their reward for reaping such anguish upon her heart and soul……and no longer shall they exist……except in a place of eternal darkness where they belong...feeling fear and sleepless nights......living as the eternally damned…..The Dark One feels a weight of a thousand tortured lifetimes lifted from her and breathes in the light and it fills her with peace.....the power is hers to do with as she has always wished and she will have all that she has dreamed of for so long when she lived through the darkest of all nights.....and now, light shines within her heart......

The Dark One stands tall upon the hill covered with stone ledge overlooking the lake and knows that it is time……

……she raises her silver dagger heavenward and it glows with light so bright that it blinds those with black hearts…..for love is her strongest weapon as it radiates from within her and fills the harbor round her with white light killing the darkness that has hovered for far too long….the serpents, spawn and demons are destroyed as they run from the light…..for there is no longer any darkness for them to escape into…...in this place that belongs to the Dark One…..

The crescent moon rises, casting a shadow over the Dark One’s beloved harbor………

… the creatures of the night begin to move in the darkness.….yet they are fathoms above the serpents whose only hope is to hide within the murky depths of the tall grass that edge the forest…..yet they try to prey upon the Dark One but she is fast with her silver dagger, striking the life from them and throwing them to the beasts that seek to feed…..for they deserve no better…..as they are the spawn of human kind who strike at innocent souls and use them for their own devices……she seeks the spawn so she may rid her peaceful place of them as she has done with the serpents….the Dark One seeks to rid her place of peace of all that do not respect those that have true hearts and seek peace above all else……the Dark One will destroy all that do not have true hearts from her moon-lit harbor and she will have the peace she has sought for so long…….

Clad in her dark armor, the Dark One sits upon the carved stone bench….

….she looks below at all that she has loved for so long….her place of peace….a place where her heart has flown among the clouds….waiting, hoping……then knowing how it feels to die inside fighting against the brutal winter winds that have struck at her heart and soul…..yet as she sits she notices new life around her and she feels her heart beat within her…..as if to say to her that there is another chance…..for love…..for life…..she feels the hard steel of her dagger against her in its silver hilt and knows that it will protect her from the evil ones who lurk just beyond her vision.....but knows she will bring them down as they come……but for now she looks upon the horizon for even a shadow of the ship that she will sail upon…..and knows that it will come from within the heart of darkness to bring her to new light………..

The Dark One sits upon the wooden steps so familiar to her…..her fur cloak enveloping her in its warmth……

…..yet she feels the cold dagger of betrayal within her heart borne by those of her own blood……her time is unknown……she feels the ice cold of regret and despair flood her veins…..and knows not how to find hope again….for so long she has believed without doubt……..being alone fighting the demons of destruction has tired her with endless nights of darkness….she knows where she belongs….yet knows not how to survive any longer………and wonders where the light has gone…..her dreams lost to her……….she must find the strength to find them and believe that they will come…....she is tired……so tired of slaying demons……and wishes that there were someone to save her from the demons that slash at her very soul……..that wish her to draw her last life’s breath so that they may reign over her magical land………just one time……….just one time if the ship she has waited for….for so long would appear upon the horizon……….she would be saved from the saddest fate of all………….