• It started a few months ago...

    I can still remember... I worked for a company that made potions that could alter ones body and help them either gain, or lose magical or deadly powers. My codename was Special Agent Bloodstone. I was an elite under Captain Moonlit Starr. She gave me a special mission to go inside this house... An abandoned house I thought, but was actually infested with Vampires. My partner and I, Agent Topaz, were quarantined inside the building... Stuck for life. They said that they didn’t want to take any chances on us if we managed to get out alive.
    I vowed revenge on the very people who put me there... Those Forsaken Traders... I'll never for get...

    I still see it when I close my eyes. The fangs… The blood… At first it was unbearable.
    I used to take bottles of potions to turn myself into a fairy so they wouldn’t be able to look at me. I sat by myself in a room with the light radiating from my skin. The potions were my best friend.
    But after a while, I learned to embrace the fear. The Vampires came to accept me. I was never bitten, but I became a vampire. A sorceress within the compound turned me into one. She could feel the resentment for humans within my heart.

    For years, we and the Vampires hid within the shadows, away from the moon that we cherished so dear. We loved the night… The luminescent moon, the velvet sash that wraps around our planet, the twinkling diamonds that cascade along our beloved sky.
    Then the war amongst Zombies, Humans, Elves, and Vampires broke out. From that day on, I chose the sides of the Vampires to lead my newly created Coalition to greatness. From then on, I converted from Agent Bloodstone, to Colonel Arcane.

    Two weeks ago,
    I made a plea to anyone that would hear me.

    “Join me, my friends, to put a stop to the light that has plagued this land of so many years. We've been waiting in the shadows for far too long...
    Now it our time to strike.
    Now it out time… Ta take back the night!

    Today is the day we show them... SHOW THEM ALL...
    Why WE were chosen to rile the night for All eternity.
    The cries of our bats and the wings on our backs with blot out the moon.
    The moon that WE OURSELVES shall take back.

    I turned towards the moon. “They don’t deserve to look at the moon... OUR moon.
    When they do, they will all shudder in fear, in remembrance for what will happen today.

    Question is... Are you willing to join me in "The Fight to Take Back the Night?”

    There were so many cheers, but I was concentrating on numbers… I needed excelling fighters to join my side to complete my task. I owed the Vampires that. They’ve done so much for me…
    The army was set… We went in to battle.

    We were leading the final battle with a vengeance. Suddenly, there was a massive ambush right along the edge of the Great Wall of Gambino…

    We approached the final battle. Agent Ruby, Agent Sapphire, Agent Diamond, and Agent Onyx. “Now is the time…” I said. “Now is our time… We shall take back the night and all that surround it.”

    I walked into the crowd of enemies with my lance and dagger in my hands.

    All the agents followed. Agent Sapphire was without a weapon. I couldn’t allow that.

    “Agent Sapphire!” I yelled as I threw my prized lance in her direction.

    She caught the lance and smiled as she summoned her Katana.

    We all fought to the best of our abilities. “The final stretch…” I muttered out of exhaustion “Just a little more... to go…”

    Agents Sapphire and Diamond become surrounded with enemies.

    A giant hoard of enemies surrounded me and Agent Onyx. I made every attempt to fight them off, but I collapsed. “Too… many... of them...!” I panted.

    “Colonel!!!” Agent Sapphire yelled. “Don’t give up! I won’t let you!” She fought through the enemies to get to me. She caught me before I fell. “Colonel, get back up… Don’t let them take back the night… we have to win!”

    I got to my feet with hesitation
    “...Run…” I muttered.

    Diamond threw a smokebomb to allow for a crafty escape. Sapphire attempted to lift me. “We will get them next time, Sir.”

    I pulled her away from me. “No.” I grunted. “All of you... Go…” More enemise arrived out of nowhere.


    “I am not going to let you fight this alone,” intruded Agent Sapphire. “I told you I was going to fight by your side and I meant it.” she looked behind her. “I told you I was going to help you bring back the night. I am going to do so, regardless of what you say.

    “You told us that we would fight togther…” said Agent Ruby with a tear in her eye. “Even until our last breath is drawn! We can’t just throw that away!”

    “As your commanding officer, I demand you to leave now!!!!!!!
    ...I can never thank you and the others enough for all you've done to help me achieve my goal, OUR goal... I only wish that there was another way. But there is not.
    ...The next time you look into the midnight sky...I want you to remember Colonel Arcane and all he did to protect it from harm...
    I need you to go. If you or any of the others are around when I do what I'm about to do... Who knows what could happen. So you have to go as far as you possibly can. I know this goes against everything I said before, but this is for The Arcane Coalition. As I said before... Only together can we be the bearers of our own destiny. My destiny is to save the night. The Coalition's destiny is to embrace it for what its worth. Agents--”

    More enemies appeared.
    “YOU HAVE TO GO NOW!!!!!!!!”

    Sapphire handed my lance back before she took her leave. “As you wish Colonel,” she sighed. “I wont forget you, all that you’ve done to change the world.” She turned around quickly as small tears ran down her face.

    “Good bye, Colonel Arcane.” said Ruby and Diamond.

    Agent Onyx just nodded and winked her eye.

    I nodded as they ran away.
    “So It's Arcane you want, eh?” So many enemies screeched and run towards me I took my knife and cut a summoning circle on my chest. “Then its Arcane you’ll get!!!”

    They approached my army... Screeching... The Humans, The Zombies, and the Elves... I had no choice but to do what I could to save my army from imminent destruction. I drew a summoning circle on my chest and stood under the blinding moonlight...

    “I shall pave the way... To Greatness… SCARLET MOON!!!!!!”

    I released all of my Vampiric power. The enemies around me exploded on contact. There was nothing left… My body lay surrounded by a shimmering moonbeam.

    My team ran towards me, Sapphire knelt down by my side. She could see an unusual change, though. My skin began to get darker, my fangs began to shrink, and my heart began to beat once again…


    She placed her lifeless hand against my cheek. “You turned yourself back to a human…” Sapphire whispered. “I don‘t understand…”

    “Sapphire, Onyx, all of you…” I said with a slight cough. “You came back…”

    I think she smiled at me. “Of course I-- we are, silly, we couldn’t leave our Colonel alone for long. I know you told us to run but I had to come back for you. I’m sorry for disobeying you.”

    “We didn’t want to lose you, Colonel.” said Ruby.

    I took her hand. Its alright... I would have done the exact same for you. And I thank you for that.” I turned away. “...Well, I suppose you're wondering why I sacrificed my Vampiric powers just to save the Coalition…”

    She smiled as she felt my pulse. I needed to prove to you that I could fight by your side not to be great. she looked into his eyes. Why did you? she asked softly.


    I staggered in speech. “The last thing I wanted on my soul is you, any of you, to get hurt because of my carelessness. I went into battle blind, underestimating the enemy. They overpowered me... Something that hasn't been done for a very long time. I didn't want them to do to you what they were out to do to me. I sacrificed myself for the coalition... I sacrificed myself to save all of you...

    Onyx looked at me with a brief smile. “You didn’t have to do that, sir.” Said Onyx.
    “They could have come at us and tried to turn me or even kill me.” said Sapphire. “They would have to take my soul away before I could ever leave your side. I told you from the beginning I wanted to help you bring back the night. That was our mission.”
    They all looked at me with glaring smiles. All they wanted to do was help me survive. I could have never asked for anything more. There has never been an army so loyal… So devoted for change… They carried me off the battlefield under the smiling stars and cheering moon. The moon that knew… We’ve taken back the night.

    Agent, Ruby, Agent Diamond, Agent Onyx, and Agent Sapphire. I thank you all… for letting a unique 24 year old human guide a Hell-bent army devoted for change, change the face of Gaia forever...