Before starting the story, meet Ruhi a 22 year old college student with a passion for history and mythology, always been fascinated by the darker corners of human knowledge often finds herself drawn to ancient tales of darkness and supernatural. Ruhi's life is quite and predictable, spent between classes, library research and part time job. But everything changed when she wakes up in a strange dark world..........
As Ruhi emerged from the darkness, she found herself in a world shrouded in an eternal twilight. The sky was a deep bloody red and the air was thick with the stench of decay. She stumbled through the desolate landscape, her feet carrying her towards a fortress that loomed in the distance.
The fortress was a twisted, nightmarish structure that seemed to be crafted from the very darkness itself. As she approached, she could feel a malevolent presence watching her, weighing her worthiness to enter.
She pushed open the creaking gates and stepped inside. The interior was just as foreboding, with cobweb-covered tapestries and candles that cast flickering shadows on the walls. She wandered through the halls, het footsteps echoing off the stone.
Suddenly, she heard a voice whispering in her ear. "Welcome, mortal, to the realm of Tenebrous. Finally you arrived - your highness."
She spun around, but there was no one in sight. The voice seemed to come from all around her, echoing off the walls. Suddenly, a figure appeared, she step back with fear.
"Wh-who are yo-u?" She asked in a trembling voice
"You didn't remember me? It's me Aarav, your trustworthy, your mistress." He replied as if he knows her very well
"A-arav?. Who is he and I don't know anything about you also. And why are you calling me highness, I am not your highness,Ruhi, my name is Ruhi call me with that." She answered.
"How can I take your name, you are our mistress?" He insisted
"I am not!" She groaned
"Oh, I get it, right now your past life memories haven't returned yet, that's why you are facing difficulty to recognise everything."
"Agrhhhh! What are you saying? I am not able to understand." She shouted in frustration
"You'll get it very soon" he said in a deep and husky voice.
He asked her to tour the fortress. She agreed. He started to tour her every corner of the place, but she was feeling as if a kind of crowd is following her but everytime she turned to look no one was there. She asked him, "why am I feeling like this? "The entities are following you" he replied. She gasped and just followed him but now she was not feeling scared, a kind of connection with all this she was feeling.
She saw a place where she could barely see but was looking like two animals are sitting there and staring at her, she asked him to took her close to them. They were a lion and a black panther.Don't know how but she didn't afraid and went near and sat down close to them and they just bowed and put their heads down and she started to stroke softly on their heads. After few minutes she stood up and began to explore again.
They had explored everywhere but only one room was left she asked in curiosity "are not we going in that room?"
"No" he denied
"But why?"
"It's none of your business" he denied again and asked her to have dinner and left.
After having dinner it was very dark and no one was there," I think Aarav has slept, now I can go in that room and see what's there"
She went quietly without making any sound. She opened the door, and got goosebumps in her body her back shivers, "what kind of feeling is this? Why do I feel like I have already visited here?" She felt a deep connection with that room.
She began to go through the entire room, there she saw a painting covered with a cloth, she removed it. Her eyes got widened, "no way, it's impossible! How can it be possible?" This painting was of hers but in a different sense, the Ruhi in the painting seemed to be very powerful empress.
There was one box also which was locked but when Ruhi touched it, it opened there was a crown placed in it which was sparkling, attracting her to wear it, "no you can't wear it Ruhi" she insisted. But a kind of energy was forcing her to wear it, she wears it and looked herself in mirror.
Suddenly she started to have a severe headache and tried to took off the crown but it didn't as if it was stucked, she screamed in pain and something was coming up in front of her eyes. It was her past life memories as an empress.
She saw that she was the queen of darkness and was so heartless. She saw that she fell in love with a boy and on wedding day, he killed her and turned out to be one of her enemy.
She died but her last words were, "I will return and will take my revenge, just wait and watch"
She took off the crown and started to think about what she saw, only the last words were running in her mind then she remember that Aarav also said the same earlier.
She rushed to find Aarav, she couldn't find him, while searching for him she entered in a hidden chamber there she saw him, "Aaravvvvv!" She screamed.
He came and Ruhi asked, "what is this happening with me"
"Oh, so you have unlocked the door to truth by yourself only, that's nice"
"Don't solve the riddles, just tell me clearly" but she noticed that there an ancient ritual was going on and Aarav was summoning something.
One of the figures turned towards her, its eyes glowing with an otherworldly energy. "You are the key," it hissed. "You have unlocked the gates of Tenebrous, and unleash the darkness upon the world."
She tried to flee, but it was too late. Because of their summons she fell down due to pain and the memories again revived, she screamed,the ritual was complete, and the portal burst open, releasing a wave of dark energy that consumed her. She felt her soul being torn apart, and her body began to twist and contort.
As the darkness took hold, she realized that she was no longer human. She was a vessel for the malevolent forces that lurked beyond the portal. And she was ready to unleash hell upon the world for those who betrayed her.
The darkness spread, consuming everything in its path. She was its instrument, a monster driven by a hunger for destruction. And as the world burned, she laughed, knowing that she was the one who had brought about its downfall.
In this twisted realm, she was the master of darkness, and the world trembled at her feet. The prophecy had been fulfilled, and she was the harbinger of doom.
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