Dark Rise Novels & Stories

Dim clouds accumulated over the crests, casting foreboding shadows that threatened to inundate the brilliant vitality. Cassie’s assurance was relentless. “The adjust of light is in danger.” Birch’s eyes filtered the obscured skies, looking for the source of the infringing haziness. “We must discover the cause and reestablish the glowing harmony.” We taken after the path of dull vitality to a cavern covered up profound inside the Glowing Crests. There, we stood up to a being known as the Umbral Obscure, a creature of obscurity that looked for to extinguish the brilliant light.

It was the heart of the darkness, the ultimate threat to the world. Liam and Xal'dar exchanged a determined glance. They had come so far. They would not give up now. With a final surge of energy, they leaped into the abyss. As they fell, they could feel the sphere's power growing stronger, threatening to pull them into its dark embrace. But just as they were about to be consumed, a blinding light erupted from within them. It was as if their very souls were ablaze with a divine energy. The darkness around them shattered, revealing a breathtaking sight. Above them, a celestial body, a star of unimaginable power, was slowly rising. Its light was so intense that it seemed to pierce the very fabr

I grew weak, drawing close to the darkness. I heard cries of my name and the wailing of sirens in a distance. Darkness finally consumed me, I had blacked out.

Drake’s POV – I stir awake to the faint echoes of battle still humming through the air. The scent of blood clings to the wind, but the fighting is ending—our men and Baylee’s wolves are finishing off the last of the rogues. It doesn’t take long. When it’s over, Ben taps me, and I open my eyes with a groan, blinking as the sunlight hits me full in the face. “Damn, that’s bright,” I mumble, shielding my eyes. Beside me, Dain groans too, clutching his head as the last traces of poison seep from my body. Caron’s potion is working—cleansing, pushing out the darkness.

"I will restore the scattered. I will light the heritage you tried to extinguish. And when I do, your reign is at an end." A gust of air swept down the hall as Emereah summoned the raw power coursing through her. The runes inscribed into the ancient stone began to throb, responding to her call. "You forget," Vladimir said, his voice a whisper of killing, "that I am the darkness that devours the light. You can rise—but I will be the darkness that devours you entirely." Emereah's eyes locked with his, unyielding. "Bring on the darkness, then. For I am the dawn that burns up the night."

I was surrounded by darkness. ** You're not a good person, there's no way you want to be a better person, the darkness of your past surrounds you, you can't escape yourself, the voice echoes louder and I was screaming. I woke up so fast and it was all a dream, all my body was covered with sweat. "It's just a dream you don't have to force yourself to sleep, it's been over seven hours since you slept,'' he mumbled as he put his hand on my forehead.

“Both of you are obsessed with the past! Obsessed with a piece of rusted metal while the lives around you are destroyed!” Suddenly, he pulled a lighter from his pocket—the same lighter from Puncak. “I soaked this place with leftover fuel from the ships outside before I came in,” Dewangga said, his voice calm yet deadly. “If you don’t let Sarah go right now, we all end like Davian. I’m not afraid to die—I’ve been dead since that night in Puncak.” Vivian froze. She saw the same madness in his eyes she had witnessed on the night of the fire. She realized she had pushed him too far.

The council remnants scrambled for weapons, for wards, for anything that might still mean hope. Kairis raised her staff. “Stand firm! The Vale remembers its masters— make it remember your names!” But the darkness didn’t slow. It climbed, it reached, and for a moment the stars themselves seemed to blink out. Vareth turned to her. “What is it doing?!” She met his eyes, voice shaking for the first time. “It’s claiming what’s left.” Then, from deep within the Vale, a new light broke — faint, blue-white, cutting through the dark like the edge of a blade.

Drake’s POV – I stir awake to the faint echoes of battle still humming through the air. The scent of blood clings to the wind, but the fighting is ending—our men and Baylee’s wolves are finishing off the last of the rogues. It doesn’t take long. When it’s over, Ben taps me, and I open my eyes with a groan, blinking as the sunlight hits me full in the face. “Damn, that’s bright,” I mumble, shielding my eyes. Beside me, Dain groans too, clutching his head as the last traces of poison seep from my body. Caron’s potion is working—cleansing, pushing out the darkness.

His armor was ancient, stolen from the tombs of old kings, and his face hidden behind a mask of jagged obsidian. He raised a hand. And the battlefield roared to life. The Day of War – Light and Flame Against the Darkness The skies over Xaerath roared. Black clouds gathered like beasts above the valley, pulsing with corrupted magic. Lightning crackled red through the heavens as if the stars themselves were holding their breath.