“I’ve Failed…”

This was all Shade thought as he watched the place he had called home for so long, covered in green flames, smoke rising to the smog filled sky. His home was destroyed, and he lay, crippled, the last defender of the city.

Above him, the strange four legged insects flew, bombarding his city with green flame. Looking back, his own wings lay bent, broken, and unusable. He didn’t care about them, the pain in his leg was much more pronounced, looking back at his body, laying down on the ground, he saw parts of the bone, sticking out of the scale covered leg. His tail appeared to be cut, half of it laying a few yards away, bleeding from the stump.

He barely held onto consciousness, craning his head to look forward, he saw his swords, long black blades. His only hope was to get to them…

He began to crawl along the ground, his left arm appeared to be broken, as it refused to follow any of his commands, but his right hand, barely managing to pull him along with intense pain.

With every pull, his claws dug further into the dirt, now saturated with a mixture of blue and crimson blood.

His world began to blur, pain overtaking him. He just had to get to the swords…

Just before he could grab them, a large black hoof slammed onto his hand. A very distressing cracking sound came along with a very distant cry of pain. Shade raised his head, trying to look at the creature. It was tall, about his own height with long slender legs, each having various holes scattered through them, her wings were insect-like, holes rampant through them as well. Looking further up, he saw it’s face. Green slit eyes staring down at him, two large fangs coming off of her evil smile and a small crown atop her black head, leading to a strange dark green colored mane. There was a horn, which much like her legs and wings, had holes in it, but still managed to be coated in an eerie green glow as it levitated his weapons into the air.

Shade tried to remain conscious, intent to kill her. But his vision quickly became clouded, as he lost much of his blood. He heard a wicked laugh before his vision blurred out. And the world became black.