Darkest Hours

"Huh? Nobody? Yes, that's me. What... damn, have you taken a look for yourself? Good God! You look like those creatures." I remained silent because I knew what he meant. As I lowered my head, he said, "Hey now, don't be sad. Look at me." He placed his hand on my face, and I looked up at him. "You were just expressing your true nature."

"Noo!! That was not me!"

"Not you? What do you mean by that?" he asked, looking at me with a confused look. "That was all you doing, right?"

"Ye... nooo, that was not me!!!"

"But the blood was on your hands, right? It was your body, right? Was it not?"

"I... don't... know."

"So, what do you know?" he erupted in anger, grabbed my hair, and bashed my head against the wall. "It was, wasn't it, that killed those kids? Wasn't it?" He bashed and bashed my head repeatedly until I was a puddle of my own blood. "Well, look at that, your blood is not even red."

As I looked, my blood was pitch black, straight out of a horror movie. "Embrace it, that you are far gone from human." I grabbed my head in utter despair as Nobody was right beside me and whispered. My hands dropped from listening to those words as he suddenly disappeared from my sight.

"Huh? Where are you?!" I screamed. "What do you mean by that? Answer me!!!"

As the door opened, those aliens came, but something was different. They were dragging something, a creature. That thing screamed. The door to the cage opened. They threw that thing in with me and locked me in with it. I backed away into a corner, fearing for my life.

"heyyyyy!!! What is that!!! Save me!" I begged those aliens for mercy, but they just looked at me and left.

The thing stood up on its hind legs. It was half my size, with nails like knives, teeth like spikes, and a tail like a club. It was a demon from hell, one could have imagined. As it looked at me, it spoke to me, "You there..."

"Huh?" His voice was heavy and harsh.

"Me?"

"Yes, you... You can speak human language?"

"Yes, I can speak human language. But how? You are an alien, right?"

"Alien? What's that?" he asked, looking at me with confusion.

"Aliens are those that are not from this planet," I replied slowly.

The thing growled. "You look like a solivava."

"A what?"

"A creature from the far reaches of space."

I knew he was telling me about my monstrous look, "But I have seen worse."

"Huh? Worse than me?"

"Yes. Why are you still hiding in the corner like that?" As I looked at myself, kneeling in the corner of the cage, I said nothing.

"I will not eat you... for now..." My eyes widened in terror as that alien laughed. "Hah!!!" His laugh sent shivers down anyone's spine.

"But who are you?" I asked him in a cracking voice.

"Me? I am Zyolax from the Varnak race."

"Zyolax? What kind of name is that?"

"What do you mean by that?!" he erupted in rage and looked at me with his claws out.

"I am sorry!!!" I closed my eyes in fear.

"Hah!!!" Zyolax laughed in entertainment. "Huh? You are so easy to fool." As I looked down in shame, he asked, "What is your name?"

"Me? Yes, you. I am Luv..." A moment of silence erupted in the cage.

"Luv... that's all?"

"Yes."

"What kind of name is that?"

"Luv... it means peace and love..."

"Peace and love in this universe where those damn Gorthak lives..."

"Gorthak?"

"Yes, those things that you called aliens." My eyes widened in fear. "They were from the B697 solar system. Those are nothing but creatures from the depths of the abyss. They are horror from the depths of the abyss in flesh. All they care about is blood and war. That's how they destroyed my planet. They came at night like cowards, launched their missiles from space. Their bombs were strong enough to wipe out our hive in seconds." My eyes widened in terror from hearing these things. "They kidnapped us, made us lab rats, and experimented on us. Our species, Varnak, were a species which were very intelligent. Our learning capacity was off the charts, being able to learn any language in an instant. That's how I know your language. Those Gorthak feed information directly through my brain of your language. They have conquered my planets in this universe and many more. Their empire is something that has been built on the death and blood of trillions of lives, and by looking at you, their ambition is the same as they had on my planet."

As the door opened, I saw those Gorthak coming towards us with guns in their hands. Zyolax said, "What do you want, you motherfuckers?" as he clawed his nails on the cage. The Gorthak replied with something that I couldn't understand, but Zyolax understood. He froze in fear.

"Yeahh! What did they say? Zyolax, answer me!" As they aimed their guns and fired darts that hit both of us, causing us to faint and drop down. As I slowly began to close my eyes, I saw them opening our gate.

"Heyyy! Kid, get up... get the fuck up!" Zyolax kicked me in my stomach.

"Ahhhh!!!" I held my stomach in pain. "What was that for?"

"Look outside," he said as he sat down. I walked towards the window, and I saw something that was beyond my imagination. "Wait... we are in space!!!!!! Why are we in space?" I looked as Zyolax answered me, "Because your planet is about to be wiped out, kid."

"Huh? Wiped out? What do you mean by that?" As I watched, a colossal weapon, a gun the size of a small mountain, aligned itself with Earth. A blue, malevolent light pulsed from its core, then unleashed its fury. A silent, blinding flash consumed Earth. The shockwave, a phantom punch, rippled through the ship, a tremor that echoed the hollowness in my chest. Black tears, thick and oily, streamed down my face, each one a tiny monument to a world lost. The explosion sent a visible ripple through the inky blackness of space. Zyolax watched the black liquid cascading down my cheeks and mumbled, "Wait... black liquid..." that means!!