Cro : Darkend Shadows * Story in progress*

Cro : Darkend Shadows1

by : Robert Rumery2

Cro created by : Robert Rumery3

Dashi Bell Created by : Ashley Ballard4

Adapted from  The Roleplay ' Demon's World" by : Robert Rumery and Ashley Ballard and Jeff.5

Everything seemed to be going down hill for Cro and his clan of misfits.  His clan of freinds that opposed The Master and his ways.   He was the only one standing in the way of The Master.  The Master wanted to rule the underworld and possibely the rest of the world.  He had taken Dashi prisoner and know he planned to make Dashi his wife and impregnate her to spawn his child another generation of evilness to follow when The Master was dead.   Cro didn't really know what to make of it.   This world he was thrown into was a very evil one.   He was thrown into New York City of all places.  New York breaded hatred towards people that were different, people that would oppose the world.  They would get hated and discared like yesterdays trash.  But this leather coated, rebelous vampire had other things on his mind.  6

His lover was on his mind.  He held a cigratte between his two fingers on his left hand and on his right hand he held a silver zippo lighter that was jet black and a big bold red 'C' etched acrossed the center of it.  The C stood for Cro his name.   Cro flipped the lighter head down and striked it with his thumb the wheel turned and the flam appeared it was an 2' flame and he pressed the flame to the end of the cigaratte and the 'butt got lit.  He flipped the top of the lighter down and he than stuffed the lighter back into his left pocket.  Cro placed the opposite end in his mouth.   He puffed off the 'butt of the cigaratte.  grayish smoke came rolling out of his mouth after a matter of minutes.  Cro leaned up against the side of a building and sighed heavily.  He had too much shit on his mind.  He closed his eyes and than took another puff a long hard puff. 7

While he was smoking the cares he had in this world slowly began to slip away he forgot them momentarely while he was infected with the venmous tobacco, wrapping paper and fire.  It made for a very good time with Cro.  A very short good time with Cro.  He remembers what it was like to be young and dumb.  Thats where he had picked up this awful habit.  He had this habit in his human years and now in his Vampire year's  kind of ironic isn't it?  He can't die of cancer now because his a vampire and he is immune from such mortal things now.  Not all cares vanished with this evil addiction Dashi was still in his mind and in his heart.  He just wished their was something he could do to bring her back to him.  But it was his mission to bring her back to him whatever it takes to bring his love back to his side.  The Master had dwelled in their lives long enough.  It was time for them to take their lives back. 8

"Why did I let you get sucked in by the master?"  Cro askes himself as he closes his eyes once again.  Hes trying to avoid the memories of him and Dashi that flooded back at that perciouse moment.  He didn't want these memories because they brought him great pain.  In knowing that Dashi wasn't their by his side but dwelling with The Master she sacrified herself for him.   He blew smoke out of his mouth again still the grayish color that smoke is.   He wanted so much to be with Dashi but he didn't know if he could approach The Underworld by himself.  He was weak compared to the masters powers.  Weak compared to The Master's world and his ways.   9

It just seemd to good to be true when there love had started when they seemed to be in heaven and on cloud 9.  He knew how ironic it sounded being in heaven with a girl.  The girlherself  Dashi Bell.  Was a fallen angel she had died before so many times.  They had meet in the underworld by coincedence.   Dashi being abused by The Master and learning his ways and Cro was pulled under by evil forces that had aligned against him.10

It had been so long since he had lost a lover this sensation felt new to him and also old at the very same time.   Cro had lost Dashi 6 months ago and he hasn't don anything except felt the guilt that plagued him like  forbidden diesaes.11

The hussle and bussle of the city life didn't help that much either  the streets were noisy even at 3 a.m.  lovers fighting and kids that should be sleeping they were outside on their skateboards skatting around the town.  Cro thought it kind of funny and trivial it had been such a long time since he had been a child.  He rememberd the old days of England where he dwelled for most of his life.  An English heirtage, a scoller's heirtage.  He wasn't always this dark form of evil.  He was once a normal human being.  But thats neither here nor there.   He blew smoke out of his mouth once again and his cigarette died out.  He flipped the remains of the cigratte to the ground and stomped it out. 12

The insanity that was Cro's life.  Cro lived in an abandonded church no one had lived in it for years.   The unwritten law said vampires couldn't live in Churches because that was where the holy people dwelled.  Since no holy people lived in this one.  It was unholy and open for buisness.  Opened to ones that weren't actually good or holy as one would think.  Cro wasn't evil, just evil in the ways of The Relgion.    Cro walked acrossed the street to the church.  The church was black.  It was more of a cathedral one that would probably see in the olden 1800's or 1900's.  Looked like something out of the movie "Black Sabbath"   people saw Cro go and come from the place.  No one questioned it.  No one questions one another anymore.   They just accept it. 13

Cro walked up the steps to the church but first he had to open a fence that was rusty and creeked from time to time.   He gentley touched the door and he had pushed it open and walked inside slowly and shut the door quietly behind of him.  the carpting was white with a few red wine stains from partys years ago that happend in the house of worship it was nothing now.  Only a home for the loner, the vampire.  A Vampire with a heart and a lust for love.  He ran his hand along the wall until he found a switch and he switched the lights on to the main room.  It lit up briliantlly.   Rows of 6 pews on each side.  6 people being able to sit in each one.   It looked better from the inside than the outside.  It just looked evil and gothic from the outside but nice and beautiful from the inside.   It was better than the old days.  Cro had always said that.14

Cro walked over to the front pew it was facing the alter where the preacher would speak and talk to his auidence.  Everyone would listen so well when the preacher would talk and everyone would love him.  But secrets that lied behind of the doors that they never knew nor wanted to know.   Cro sat down on the pew and leaned back you could tell it in his face that he was a bit tired.  You could tell it in his mind he was tired of waiting and living without Dashi.  The friends he had said they'd strike against Master soon but they hadn't.  Would he have to go alone?  He would if he had to.  It was suicide on so many levels if he did.  But isn't love suicide?  On some level it is risking your life for the one that you love. 15

"Don't worry, my love... "  Cro said to himself.  "I'm coming for you, soon.  You will be in my arms soon enough.  You know without you I'd die.  I don't know how to act in this forbidden world.  Its all new to me, but you know how to act in it.  I need your guiding eyes, Dashi.   You're my guiding light, your my lover, My angel in the darkness.."  Cro said as you could see a brief tear in his left eye but he whiped it away  quickly and crossed his arms and rested his head up against the arm of the pew and fell asleep slowly but surely he did fall asleep.16

~*~17

"Dashi, my little love child.."  The Masters voice rang out as Dashi hang a brick wall.  Both her arms and legs shackled and a black ring around her neck to hold her in place.  The Master was dressed from head to toe in black.  It was a black cloak with a hood on it you couldn't see his face.  But you knew he was evil.  A sadistac man that wanted world domination and wanted to be able to control Cro for his own gain.  But he couldn't until he controlled Dashi.   She was key to controlling  the vampire.    "How are we feeling today?"  The Master asked as a sinisterly grin formed on his face. 18

"Good enough to kick your,ass... Get me out of these shackles and I'll SHOW YA!!"  Dashi growled from her shackled prison.  You could see the hate in her eyes the hate she had for The Master and the brick prison she was in.  It was a long line of inmates too many to count.  The Lost Souls   The Master had convinced to join his ranks.  They were stripped of their former lives and they were to become his Soliders Of Death.  Taking over the world one place at a time.    The place was damp and it smelled.  The cells where guarded by small demon imps.  But Dashi was in a special cell guarded by The Master himself.  Dashi nearly escaped but The Master caught her and threw her in another cell.  Where he'd have his way with her.  The vampire wasn't here to stop him but he knew he'd come for her.  He always comes for her...19

The Master walked acrossed the room and reached the door he pushed it open with ease and than the door slammed shut.   It was a large steel door with bars.  The light that had escaped into the room had now vanished.   The Master had other plans for today.  He knew the vampire would come it would just be a matter of time.  It was all just a matter of time.  He walked through the hallways of his castle he came to his room it was a large room where he could see everything that was happening.   In the middle of the room was his throne and on his right side on a small table was a crystal ball that could see all. 20

He could see into the future, into the past.  Acrossed plains into alternate dimensions it was The Oracle's Crystal Ball.  Well it was until The Master killed The Oracle  for telling Master his fate.  The Oracle fortelled  The Master's fate by the lone vampire  Cro.  The Chosen one.  The one that could bring down  The Master's Regime of Evilness.   The Master knew this in his heart.  That his time would come where he would die at the hand of The Vampire.  But he was gonna prolong the battle until he knew he  could beat the vampire.  Until he knew he could kill the vampire and rule the underworld for himself.  Everday was another waking nightmare.  The Master having to keep his alliances close.  He didn't know who wanted to  turn on him. 21

He ruled The Underworld with an iron fist for the most part.  Nothing or no one dared to oppose him.  Until The Vampire came into his possesion.  The vampire had great potential a raged lived inside of The vampire that could be tamed.  That could be tammed to good use for The Master.  But that same rage was also The vampire's downfall why he was let go by The Master.    Once opposed Cro he saw the rage inside of his eyes as he looked into Cro's eyes he saw a madman.    Insane but loving  and he knew that it was time.  Time to let him loose on the world.   But he also knew he would come back.  He'd come back to The Master.   The Master sat there and grinned as he waved his right hand over the crystal ball and it projected an image on the side of the wall he saw Cro useless and sleeping in a church.  The Master grinned the vampire was subdued for the time being.22

Dashi hung on the wall.  She hung their nice she could move barely, a little.  Not much she was tired of straining it was no use.  She couldn't move and her powers had been subdued somehow.  She was useless in the underbelly of The Underworld.  She went willingly trying to save Cro.  She knew what she was doing.  It was suicide but she didn't care she wanted to save Cro.  Cro was what was really on her mind.  She knew in her heart that he'd come for her.    She knew that he wouldn't forget her they had escaped once before and they shall again.  This itme The Master's evil regime shall fall for good.23

" I can feel you with me, Cro.  You know that? No matter where I am.. I know your watching over me.   Just in this hell hole literally  my hopes aren't that high and they aren't that low.  I know you'll come for me.  I know its just a matter of time.  I just wished something or someone could show me a sign when you'll be coming."  Dashi said to herself  as she slowly began to close her eyes she was straining herself just by talking.  She had taken an awful beating that morning there was blood around her throat her arms her legs.  Lasarations and whip marks.  The Master was an extremely sick and sadistac man.24

Dashi closed her eyes and slowly began to drift off to slip.  Her world had become so dark in the current months of being in the possesion of The Master.  That was all she was.  Bait to lure Cro back into The Underworld.  They both knew that Cro would come.   But when he did the shit would hit the fan.   That would be the  day The Master would meet his maker.  Kind of ironic that his maker would be Cro.  The only one that could truly defeat The Master.  Would be his former student.      The concrete was cold against Dashis back.  The room itself was cold, no light, no windows and a door that barely opened.  Only when Master came in to teach her. Her "Lesson's"  which meant she usually got hit or whipped.   After a while the pain stopped hurting she had become numb to the beatings.   Her body scared, but her heart was unhurt.   She had hope thats all she really needed.  She'd get out... Dead or alive, it was just a matter of time.  25

The Master sat on his throne.  His eyes wide with anticpation and amazement as he watched Dashi with his crystal ball.  Watching her sleep.  She looked like an angel, and angel of death that he would his own.   He placed hisi hand on his chin and began to rub it softly.  His eyes shifted around the room as it began to slowly get darker.  A smile came over his face as the sound of scampering feet came closer to his domain.  His lair where he dwelled.   It was on of his guards.  A Shadow Guard, they guarded  portals to and from  The Underworld and other worlds around The Underworld.   They had to report to The Master everyday when they closed portals or opened them.  They didn't want people that didn't belong in The Underworld coming down there.  Morely they didn't want Cro coming down to The Underworld.26

"Master, portals are closed.  No one should be able to get down here, now.  "  The Shadow Guard said as he bowed to The Master.  The Master than gestured and  The Shadow Guard stood up.  " The only person or being that could open these portals.  Are a very powerful mage, witch or warlock.   Only a being magic could open these.   You should be safe from your enemies now,sire."  The Shadow Guard said and Than The Master nodded. "Good.." The Master mutterd.    The Shadow Guard than scampered out of the room and vanished back to his post.   The Master felt that he could sleep now for the time being.  The Master slowly drifed off to sleep  The Crystal Ball still going.  He slipped off into his own darkend dream world. 27

~*~28

Cro awakend from his slumber it was coming near morning it was nearly dawn he could see the light peeking through his windows.  The clouds moved so slowly above in the sky and they parted as the sunbeams broke free.   And the yellowish orange glow enterd Cro's window and that in part is what woke him from his slumber.  He had an odd dream that night.  He got up and shook his head and he stretched.  It was a new day with new problems and hopes.  It had to be around 7:30 or so.  It was another day for endless wandering and more plans to bring Dashi back to him.  He knew that Master would have all the doors to the underworld block by his evil henchment. He needed to find another way in.  The daylight had always brought pain for Cro and other vampires but he had taken an elixur made by a shaman dude that made him immune to the sunlight.  A Daywalker....29

But Cro had felt a prescence nearby.  The prescence was female and it kinda felt like Dashi.  But that was insane.  She wasn't on earth she was in The Underworld had she escaped.  No, he knew she couldn't of escaped yet.   Knowing Master he had her locked up somewhere torturing her for information about Cro.   But that was insane or was it?  He didn't really know if all of Dashi's family died in that fire that Master set during Dashi's child hood.  A Brother or a sister might be living.  But no one more.  Their were alot of things in this world that Cro really couldn't explain.. Love,hate, madness.  Just to name a few things.30