When Darkness Ends Tonight Novels & Stories

“It’s not time.” The beam of the flashlight touched the tent wall where Jake pointed. Something was written there—something in large, streaky red letters. ONLY YOU LAUREN Lauren felt her blood rush to her head and her chest turn ice-cold. The last thing she heard was Jake saying, “Lauren? Lauren?” and then there was nothing else. 24 K aren wasn’t surprised that David wanted to go to bed early that night. It sounded like he and Lauren had done every single thing at the fair—“’cept the haunted house,” he’d said in his most serious voice. “Because Lauren doesn’t like

You won't mind right? 'Uhm--it's fine I'll clean it up right away'. 'Well-it's not like you have a choice'. She murmured and moved to go out of the room'. Then she turned. 'We won't be expecting you for dinner, after all you won't be done by then'. Then she shut the door. I had sighed and got to work. Back to the present. I looking at my watch again, I saw that the time was 10:05pm they should all be asleep or in their various room by now. I stood up from the roadside bench which I always sat on.

It could have been a trick of the light or something. "Say something, Luna!" Little tears dropped from his eyes, his beautiful eyes but I couldn't see past the hate. Something was wrong but I was too drowsy to think clearly or offer my mate a reply. At last, I was pulled into darkness and the sounds around me slowly waned. The last thing I heard was Asher calling me the pet name he gave to me. Deliciae.

Black as the darkest night hair against a crisp linen pillow, brown skin against a blindingly white sheet, and tiger’s eyes burning with deliberate cruelty and triumph into hers. In horrified rejection of the imagery that had sprung into her mind, Lara Anderson shuddered violently, dimly aware that she was still in the grip of severe shock. Abruptly, she was dredged from her turmoil by the insistent shrill of the telephone in the hall. Reluctantly she answered the summons, carefully shutting the lounge door behind her so that her father was not disturbed.

“Nope. No bright clothes either. This is the real me.” “Well, the real you is stunning. I can't imagine why you would want to conceal her in the first place.” She gave me a sad smile. “I really hope you still feel that way by the end of tonight.” Before I could begin to decode what that could possibly mean, she took hold of one of my hands. “Come. I want to show you something.” We started off down the dark street lit up only by a row of street lamps, the evening wind nipping at our ears and the moon a fuzzy halo in the dark sky.

“It's not like that. It's not something you can get rid of. It's part of me; it's my other half. It's who and what I am. Don’t you see, I am the darkness! To get rid of it would be to get rid of me. I'm no good for you. I will only cause you pain and suffering. I am the darkness! I'm the monster everyone's afraid of. I'm the beast in the dark that children have nightmares of. I am the evil from the depths of hell and will only snuff out your light, little angel. You and I can never be together!” He said with a deep and rough voice. Smoke seeped from his body again, and a dark aura rose from his body like a shadow looming over her.

“In their castle beyond night Gather the Gods in Darkness, With darkness to pattern man’s fate. The colors of darkness are no monotonous hue- For the blackness of Evil knows various shades, Full many as Evil has names.” Karl Edward Wagner

Then— for the first time— it smiled. A peaceful smile. Then it whispered: "SO..." Pause. Then: "...THIS IS HOW DARKNESS ENDS." A single crack spread across its body. Then another. Then thousands. Golden light poured from every fracture. The horror began breaking apart. Not into ash. Into stars. Millions of tiny lights rising into the heavens. Returning to creation. Returning home. The battlefield watched in absolute silence. Nobody moved. Nobody spoke. Because they all understood. They had just witnessed the end of the oldest enemy the world had ever known.

As the world around them crumbled, they reached out for each other, their hands barely touching. And then, darkness enveloped everything. The fate of our world hung in the balance, and as the echoes of our screams faded into the abyss, only silence remained—a silence pregnant with uncertainty and the promise of a devastating climax. In the suffocating darkness, Luna and Jaxon held onto each other, their grip tightening as if it were their last lifeline. The weight of impending doom pressed down upon them, filling the void with a tangible dread. As seconds stretched into eternity, a faint flicker of light pierced the darkness a glimmer of hope amidst the desolation. Luna and Jaxon's eyes wide

My vision was slowly turning dark until it was completely dark and I suddenly felt numb as if this was all just a dream. “I’m sorry it had to go down this way,” was the last thing I heard as darkness embraced me with welcoming arms.