March

This is the introduction of Vancouver in Trouble 3.

It has begun.

As scores of demons stampeded across the windswept mesa, Rowscar felt very proud of himself. He had begun what his master intended to finish, and with a great crushing blow...

But then the wretched celestials came and interrupted his plan.

As rays of light began to seep through the thick cloud cover, Rowscar knew immediatly what was coming. Suddenly, the clouds seemed to "dissapear" and instead a great mass of pure light was there in the sky, just hovering. It churned and shone constantly, even though the doom of this world was imminent, it seemed to shine with a holy purpose. The stars and the moon seemed to grow a little brighter with it's coming. Even the trees and the earth itself shone with a mystic light. There was a shudder, deep in the earth. Rowscar trembled when he felt it. His master sensed the great being in the sky, and he was angry. All of the demons then looked up, their puny brains unable to comprehend the scene expanding above them. They were made to destroy, to slash and bite with their sharp limbs. Some of the younger demons collapsed from the bright light, but most stood their ground. They screeched and growled at the massive being shining in the sky. It appeared not unlike a very small sun, round and never able to be still. But this thing, unlike a sun, shone a pure, white light. It seeped into every dark crevace and cave, illuminating the whole of the plain. Although it sent shock for a few seconds, Rowscar urged the demons on. Their plan must not fail due to these creatures. Rowscar roared with such fierceness then even the younger demons awoke from their stupor and continued onward. The master will deal with this thing, he thought. As if his thoughts were heard, the thing in then sky shone even brighter.

But not for long.

The light seemed to, very slowly, grow fainter. Then, a deafening crash of rock on rock as the earth split open, and a purple smoke arose from whithin it. The demons didn't seem to mind that the ground underneath their feet threatened to fall into the chasm, they went onward.

The smoke seemed to move onto the land, making a faint shape. Rowscar observed it. He knew what it was. From inside them smoke materialized a being of such horror, it was cloaked in a purple robe, a hood partially over it's head. It seemed humanoid, but it was far from human. It's skin seemed to be dark purple in color. Strange tentacles emerged from it's face. It did not have a mouth, in it's place were three huge tentacles. It did not have a nose either, but it's eyes were blue. A very light, piercing blue that seemed to see right through you. On the top of it's head was a large scale that, under the hood, looked like a cone. But, underneath the robe, it glowed faintly red. One of it's arms was definetley longer that the other. The longer one was an octopus' tentacle, wrapped around a large mallet. The shorter one was some deformed hand that seemed to be dripping ooze. It had two long legs, on the end of which were what seemed to be large cone-shaped plates. This thing was very tall, about 8 feet 4 inches. Rowscar was very happy to see it, yet frightened at how this thing will respond to the light in the sky. The thing grinned, if you call a displacement of it's mouth tentacles a grin. Then it seemed to cough up something, a large wad of mucus was now held in it's smaller hand. Then, he screeched. it was a horrible, deafening, garbled sound emenating from it's mouth. Rowscar winced. Master can be strange sometimes, he thought, then stopped himself. If master wasn't busy, he might've heard that. But, master did hear it, and he was not amused.

Rowscar felt an invisible tentacle wrap around his neck and lift him up. He was horrified at how this event would turn out. He heard a voice in his head." Once more..." and it was not his voice. Also, it knew that it did not have to complete the statement. Rowscar got the message just fine. The tentacle released him, and he fell back down. He got back up just in time to see Master raising his hand and a long bolt of pure darkness coming from it and speeding towards the center of the celestial in the sky. When it made contact, nothing happened at first, but them black splotches appeared on the surface of the being in the sky. it spread quickly, like a disease. Soon, the whole ball stopped shining. The demons looked up once again. The black matter hardened, and it became heavy as iron.

It was an amazing sight. A gigantic metal ball speeding towards earth . It was flawlessly round. When it impacted the ground, 10 miles away, it disintegrated into sand whithin seconds. If you had not seen it, it would seem as if someone just dumped some sand on the ground there. The rift in the earth slowly closed, and, once again, if you had not seen it, it would seem as if nothing had happened. The master rose from the ground and soon he was hovering at cloud level, then, he was gone. Poof. Into the clouds. The demons once again tried to figure out what had happened, but most of them decided better on it, and continued their march.

Rowscar felt very proud of himself. He had begun what his master intended to finish, and with a great crushing blow...

They would rule once again.