"Malefactor, Reprobate, Charlatan, Neerdowell, or Gentlemen
Thief, names associated with villainy. I pull from the universe tales of
Larceny and Legerdemain focusing on the evil that fills the world."
The Nameless.
Andreas Darkk
spoke quietly to the man who lay before him at the bottom of the abyss
surrounding Carcass, “I did not start life as the worst villain in the history
of the universe, wait that’s not exactly true, while I am a master villain; I
am not the worst or even the best. In
truth I am barely adequate. But let me
start at the beginning.”
Saturday Super Stories – Skulduggery
110 Part 3
“My life
is hell, if it can go wrong it will.”
Jason said over his shoulder to his friend as they ran through the
wooded area on the path cut in the soil by years of travel.
“Quit
being so dramatic, it’s not so bad, it could get worse,” then the two friends
fell into the multi-verse and landed in a world filled with great darkness, and
the two friends lost their ways.
Andreas
continued, “I fell in with the wrong sorts of people there and had to sacrifice
part of my immortal soul to escape that plane, and that piece went on to become
something terrible, but we’re not there yet,” he paused and took a breath remembering
as the universe flashed before him in those first moments, so many visions of
elseworlds, so little time. “So I was
exiled into the ether and visited many other planes I began to gather friends
and allies in each of places I landed, slowly building an army so that I could one
day find a way to return to my home plane,” he paused again and took a deep
breath, “But that part of my soul that was lost had stolen from me my empathy
and happiness, I became bitter and angry at my circumstances and I began to
forge a new path.”
“I soon
found a temporary home in the future where some of my newest and closest allies
found a map that we could use to navigate that universes time stream. So we moved back and forth plundering the
weapons and resources that we believed could be used to return me home but gradually
the group began to split apart and settle in different places. I was once again left alone this time a few
hundred years from my home time period and I finally decided to stay and let
the map move on without me.” Andreas
stopped and craned his neck to look upwards at the chained island in the sky,
barely a dot again the sunlight so far above him.
“It was several
years later I ran into a man named Darion Gray who knew me but I did not know
him and it was then that I knew my journey was far from over, so I handed over a
part of my stash and left him behind searching for the moment I would move on
and become the man he had met in his past.
I did not know the person he had met was the remains of my soul in a
host body and a true threat to the galaxy.”
“Why are
you telling me all of this?” Chang Woe
asked the man bound before him.
“Because I
am the Darkness in the souls of man, I am Andreas Darkk and as one of my
keepers you are a key to my release!”
Andreas seized the man’s head and squeezed, absorbing his soul into his
own. He sighed and began the long wait,
for he knew that he had to gather his energy slowly so that he might travel
backwards so that he might be imprisoned here.
“I really
hate time travel.”
Sometime later, Super University...
“The
villain Andreas Darkk suffers from a closed loop of time. The day he became Andreas set his path to the
loop. He will amass an army and find
three like minded individuals and together they will travel from 2199 to the
Event in the mid 20th century.
Once there he will be defeated and the woman Pandemonium will imprison
him in the distant past beneath the city of Carcass, where his energies will be
contained. He will eventually manipulate
one of his jailers to sacrifice himself to Andreas and then the slow build
until his release in 2199, and then it starts again. He cannot deviate from this path or the
paradox will kill him. The prison is ingenious.”
“Richie
you really are a nerd.”
“SWALLOW
YOUR SOUL!!”
TBC in
Skulduggery Part 4
