Updated on December 4th, 2007-Okay! I promise this is the last time I edit the first one! I'm sorry, but after looking at it, maybe having the prolouge having a single page seemed a little ridiculous. So, this chapter is even longer than before! Read and review and NO FLAMES!!!! That includes chain letters! NO CHAIN LETTERS!!!!! Enjoy!

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Life. The word that is the very reason the universe was created. Before humans appeared, other creatures walked among the Earth, making them somewhat rulers of their world. However, no one knows when life would soon end, for during their time, a meteor crashed into their surface causing their world to become grim. Their water dried out, the food burnt up, the devourers starved to death, and soon, all that inhabited life was dead in a matter of seconds. Life had been taken away from under their noses.

As the years past, humans were then created as the first man walked on the surface of the Earth. Pretty soon, human beings, changing the world with ideas, dreams, accomplishments, and power, inhabited the world. No one would have suspected that his or her lives might end any moment, at any time. It just didn’t seem to be the main idea to be worried about…so they thought. Life would, yet again, be put to an end…with no warning and no reason, what so ever.

It is these sayings that have driven some people to think that a great disaster was coming. No one knew what it would be exactly, but they somehow knew it would be devastating. People would think of ways to get others to listen, like saying that the apocalypse was coming if anything seemed to be out of place or order. Some say it is a myth while others fear it constantly. They wouldn’t say why, but it is something that we all feel deep in the pit of our stomachs.

That is what will happen soon in this story, for one boy who had never seen it coming, and in his world, he is known to be very clever. It just never had come to him that he would be the one who would have to somehow, prevent it from happening. The only problem was; he was only a child, and where he lived, no one took him seriously. In fact, it that very reason why they fear him along with his family. It was not the matter that they were dangerous and deadly towards others, oh no, it’s a matter that they…were only playing.

Yes indeed. Running around the streets looking for something or someone to play with. To you, it may seem normal; a child wanting to play with someone, but with these children…well, lets just say that ‘normal’ doesn’t really describe of who, or what, they really are. This word doesn’t fit anywhere on any subject with these three, for nothing seemed to frightened them, except for kiddy cartoons, horrid songs, and giant orange stuff lizards saying ridiculous things like ‘Yum, yum, doodle dum’. No, nothing is more frightening than fear itself…which is how our story, begins.

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The day seemed to start like any other day, and that wasn't just the sun shinning down on us as if there were no tomorrow. It wasn't the sky with puffy white clouds. Nor the colorful flowers that were in bloom. Nope. This day seemed to start out by having some fat tubby guy chasing three little rambunctious kids.

However, these weren't like any other children, for they were the infamous Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister). Yakko, the eldest and leader of the Warner siblings, had black fur all over his body, along with a white shape skin on his face and a long black tail. He wore long brown slacks with a black belt buckled around his waste and a pair of white gloves on his hands. Wakko, the middle child and wackiest of the Warner siblings, wore a red baseball cap, along with a sky blue turtle neck sweat shirt and a pair of white gloves on his hands. Finally, Dot, the youngest and cutest of the Warner siblings wore a small flower pendent that held her black floppy ears together, a pair of white gloves, and a short pink skirt.

Together, they were unstoppable, causing panic and chaos all over the studio: howling at hot girls (or guys), and tormenting anyone who seemed to deserve it. That was their motto in their family. It may seem strange, but that's how it's always been for the last 63 years.

The three yield to a stop as Yakko notices a place to hide around the corner. On his signal, the three zoomed to their left; speeding towards the edge of the building, just in time to see the guard pass by. Once the coast was clear, Yakko urged his siblings to come out as he stepped out into the sunlight. Although: he didn't hear his siblings following behind him. He swiftly turned his head towards the back, telling his siblings it was okay, but finds out that they were nowhere in sight!

This seemed somewhat unusual to Yakko, for Wakko and Dot never had a reason to run off unexpectedly like that; unless it was telemarketers, then that would be a good reason. Still, it wasn't safe for them to run around unprotected, so Yakko had no choice but to go and look for them. He looked high, low, left, right, up, down, all around, but there were no signs of his siblings anywhere. He even checked the candy shop, toy store, video rentals, and even the girls' bathroom (which caused all the girls to scream their head off and chuck toilet papers at him). Finally, after a long and tiring search, Yakko grew weary and decided to rest on a wooden bench.

He didn't know where to look for his siblings next, and thought it over if he should take this to the authorities. No, that wouldn't really help things. Over the years, the Warners have learned the one and most important thing about authority; it was that they were arrogant, big, and horrid people that wouldn't care less to help a doggy-like-freak find his band of weirdoes. Yakko somewhat hated that: to be judged by someone before they even get to know him or his siblings. It was that reason why he and his family tormented those who were cruel to others.

However, no one would have suspected to what would happen next. While he sat, the white and fluffy clouds unexpectedly turned grey, giving the area a dark and gloomy aroma. The winds broke through the sky, bringing nothing but cold air and a chilling howl. The birds scattered and flew off into the air, seemingly frightened from whatever they were sensing. Yakko finally got out of his thoughts and saw that it was getting dark, meaning it was time to go home.

He didn't like the fact leaving without his siblings, but what else could he do? They were pretty dependent to get home on their own, so why worry? Ether way, Yakko had to get home before it got too dark. Wither he wanted to deny it or not, he was still young and couldn't stay out to late. Even without parents, the company would have a fit if they found out that one of their stars were out loitering in the middle of the night.

Yakko ran down the path he normally took to get back home. He stopped at the edge of the sidewalk when he got to the street. Looking both ways, Yakko crossed the rocky black road, ignoring the tiny pain he was getting from the bottom of his white feet. He couldn't help but scan the area; no one seemed to be around. The lot was totally empty.

A scratchy caw echoed through the dark night, snapping the suspicious Warner out of his thoughts. He went back to walking down the road, nervously watching things that were happening around him. Crows seemed to be watching and following every step he took. Yakko tried hard not to stare, but something about them made him feel very anxious. He held his breath when a crow landed in front of him, glaring at him with piercing red eyes.

Feeling sweat pour down on the back of his head, Yakko quickly walked pass the passerine bird and continued his way. The bird seemed to make a dark glance towards him as it flapped its black feathered wings, carrying itself into the sky. Seeing its shadow from the ground, Yakko knew he was being somewhat followed. He told himself not to make a big deal out of it, since it was only a bird; it could only be following him for something he had. After all, crows were known to be scavengers for food.

Yakko decided to stop for a brief moment to check one of his pockets. He dug deep in the soft yet furry material just to search for something. That’s when he found what he was looking for; a small piece of crumb he took from the time he and his siblings worked at a bakery. He tossed it out into the open, watching it land on to the floor then slide to a stop. He waited to see the bird swoop down and grab it with its beak, but nothing had happened.

Seeing how long it was taking, Yakko tossed his head towards the sky; realizing the bird was now gone. Confused in a way, Yakko shrugged his shoulders and continued on, until he noticed the bread was gone. Cocking an eyebrow, Yakko walked over to the stop where the bread once stood. The spot was still warm, meaning it was taken just recently. However, Yakko didn’t see the bird fly over and take it, so how could it be gone if it never came?

His question was answered when he saw the crow re-appear in the exact same spot. Shocked, Yakko jumped back, tripping over a rock, and landed on his back. Groaning a bit, Yakko shifted his upper body and stared at the vicious looking bird; its eyes were glowering at the sight of this Warner. Nothing seemed to happen for the next couple of minutes; only what seemed to be a staring contest between Yakko and this bird. It just stared at him: seemingly wanting something.

Tension grew thick after a while. Feeling the wind blowing against his body, Yakko was starting to feel a sense of hate coming from the bird. Making a gulp, Yakko’s blood turned cold, holding his breath, and hands frozen. Time felt as though it had stop as the staring event continued. He could feel his heart beating at a fast pace; every minute that had passed by only made Yakko feel worse until the 'crow' broke the silence when it spoke, saying: "Are you afraid of the dark...?"

Stunned to hear such words escaping from the crow’s beak, Yakko was left baffled. He wanted to say something back, but seemed to lost his tongue for speech. The crow’s beady eyes narrowed: sending another chill down the boy’s spine. Yakko had never felt this way before, feeling his arms tremble. His body was getting tired from holding him up, but he didn’t know what to do!

He only had two options; 1: see what happens, or 2: run home screaming like a little girl. Thinking very quickly, Yakko scampered to his feet and span around towards the road. The crow seemed to lay a smirk on its beak: flapping its feathered wings and flying into the sky. Passing on every building, a giant and mischievous shadow cast over nearly the entire town. The shadow covered every street, every corner, and every item. The most horrid thing of all was when it reached a frightening looking statue: its striking feature, its razor sharp claws, its horrid fangs, and shrieking wings.

The soulless black eyes unexpectedly turned gleaming red, glowing in a raging manner. Its cold stone arms twitched as the cement started to crackle and break apart. The small chunks fell off and fell to the floor, revealing the beast that had just been awakened. With a chilling snarl, the beast tossed its head into the air and gave a howling roar. Its cry went on for miles, far enough for a certain Warner to hear.

White pawed feet skidded to a sudden stop. Turning his head towards his back, Yakko looked over his shoulder to see if anything was coming after him. The streets were empty; not one single life form was walking in the open daylight. Refusing to believe something was happening, Yakko told himself nothing was going on and continued his way towards home. However, he had no idea how wrong he was.

This seems to be what happens most of the time when your head is up in the clouds. You keep having this feeling that something weird is going on but at the same time, you keep telling yourself that everything is fine. Sometimes, that feeling is true, and unfortunately, most of the time; it’s wrong… Feelings like these are something that shouldn’t be ignored. No matter how hard you try…it will always keep coming back…

Stomping on wet puddles that were left from the rain, Yakko kept running, daring himself not to look back. His pants were getting soaked to the bone every time he took one step on the seemingly deep drenches of water, but he didn’t care. He didn’t know what was going on, but there was one thing he knew for sure; He didn’t want to find out. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t have much a choice.

You won’t be able to escape the darkness…

He stopped dead in his tracks; hearing these words echo in his head. He swift his head back and forth, trying to see anyone who had said that. He still saw no one. Now, Yakko was getting nervous; beginning to think that he wasn’t alone. The area had gotten so cold; he could practically see his own breath.

He couldn’t take it anymore; running down the empty streets of Burbank. From above, a dark shadow cast over him. Without warning, something grabbed hold of him and plunged him to the floor of the concrete. Unable to move, Yakko could feel the tip of his fur sticking up as he heard the creature, holding him down, snarling in a monstrous manner.

Yakko stood still, while his body shook like a rattle. He could feel it breathing on him; its hot air coming out of his mouth made Yakko more intense. The creature’s wings expanded up to about 20 feet wide, while its claws grew incredibly sharp. Its beady eyes stared into the frightened Warner’s black pupils. Before it made its attack, Yakko was able to notice the symbol imprinted on the monster’s chest; a black heart with three spades spreading out like petals from a flower.

The beast charged for Yakko, but in the last second, Yakko dodged by rolling off to the right. The monster couldn’t fly away in time before intercepting into the ground, causing his beak to get stuck in the concrete. It growled in annoyance while watching Yakko run off in the other direction and chased after him! Panting on his way towards home, Yakko darted across the streets like a speeding bullet. He was unaware, however, to see a shadow immerged under his feet.

The shadow seemed to resemble to somewhat of a black ant, but it was a size of a teddy bear. Its small, wrinkly antennas hung low over its bright yellow eyes. Gazing at Yakko, who was running in the other direction, the shadow ant sank back into the ground, as if it was quicksand, and seemed to crawl after him like an antsy spider. The ant crawled past Yakko then jumped right off the ground, landing only two inches away from him. Yakko skidded to a stop as he stared wide-eyed at the creature; it sat in a frog-like position as it stared right back into his eyes.

It was only matter of seconds before the ant unexpectedly jumped for him and tried to attack. Luckily, Yakko dodged in time and moved to his left before it reached an impact. With that out of the way, Yakko turned to run; only to find himself bumping into another one, but slightly bigger. Rubbing his head from the unexpected bump, Yakko gasped in horror witnessing the size of this monster; it was about human size, had somewhat of a human feature, with longer antennas, arms and legs. It lowered it’s head, facing Yakko, revealing its emotionless face along with blue markings on its forehead.

Using both arms and legs, Yakko crawled backward, watching his every movement so that he wouldn’t trip. The shadow monster started to spark blue rays of electricity at the very tip of its antennas, aiming the rays at the defenseless Warner. It thrashed its head towards him, releasing the rapid energy from its antennas, but Yakko got up and ran quickly in time to see the monster clash into the ground. The monster stood up, storing more energy before releasing the blue sparks. It fired its electric rays, but missed by a hair when Yakko sharply turned at a corner.

Yakko got out just in time to see the blue spark hit the brick wall at the corner of his eye. He ran back out into the middle of the street, only to be shocked by the sudden change of scenery. The entire area was filled with nothing but gloomy grey buildings, covered by what looked like dark tentacles, trees that have lost all of their leaves, flowers drooping to the surface of the earth with their welted petals, and the once blue sky was now dark with storm clouds hovering over the town. Most of all, dark creatures of all shapes and sizes were ether scampering all over the streets or swooping down from the sky, destroying any item with a powerful beam forming from their jaws. Yakko stood, horrified at what he was witnessing as he gazed at a group of shadow ants thrashing the windows of a building that was once the CEO office.

Lost in a state of shock, Yakko was unaware of what was going on behind him. He slowly began to realize that something cold and misty was starting to wrap itself around his wrist! He sharply turned to his left to discover the slightly bigger ants wrapping their arms around his own! They started to sink back into the ground, trying to bring him down with them, but Yakko fought back by struggling with their tentacles. He used all of his strength until one of the arms ripped right off the monster’s body.

Disgusted, Yakko pulled the disembodied arm off of his and bolted out of the area he was in. The creatures stood and watched the terrified Warner run off in the distance, until he was invisible to see. The creatures then sank back into their liquid of black goo: leaving a pool of darkness behind. Lighting sparked angrily from the viscous thunderclouds while Yakko tried to find his way home. It was so hard to see through all the creatures that were in the way, but no matter what was going on, he just had to get home.

Now that he was thinking about it, Yakko wasn’t even sure if his home was still there! From seeing all this happening to his hometown, how does he know that his beloved water tower could be destroyed as well? No! He was going to think like that! He shook his head, shaking the thought off, as he was turned to another corner…leading him right to his home.

Yakko’s face lit up at the sight of his tower unharmed and untouched. Without a moment to lose, he immediately skidded down the hill and was only few spaces away from the ladder. He could already imagine himself being safe and sound inside his house, away from those hideous shadow things, and just prayed that this would end. He couldn’t remember when the last time he felt this upset to stay in his home; most of the times, it felt like a prison. Now it was a sanctuary, but his mind was cut off when he felt a sudden vibration rumbling underneath his feet.

The ground shook wildly, as cracks formed and crumbled towards Yakko: breaking the surface of the road. The chunks from the floor broke off and tumbled down while another dark tentacle appeared and reached for the edge of the surface. Yakko was frozen with fear as he witnessed the snake-like tentacle reaching the surface. To Yakko, this creature was most frightening than any other. Its dark face was being hidden by its wild tentacle-like hair that were dancing like snakes, madly.

It stared down at the terrified Warner, showing him no emotion. It’s giant scaly hands crawled on to the hard concrete as it started to climb out of its hole. Once it came out, it was clear that the monster was at least over thirty feet, taller than the water tower itself! Its piercing yellow eyes were glowing brightly, you could possibly see them through the darkest storm. Yakko trembled as he feel to his feet, afraid of what the creature was about to do.

No matter where you run…no matter where you hide…

The creature raised its giant snake-like hand and positioned it into a fist. A dark purplish energy ball formed around it.

The darkness will always be able to find you…

Yakko finally snapped out of his thoughts, and got up in time to see the energy ball fired behind him. He ran past the creatures until he reached the end of the cliff. Seeing that the ditch was a never-ending hole, Yakko began to panic as he frantically stared at the horrid monsters, cornering him off at the edge. He stared at his water tower, which was on the other side of the ditch, then stared back at the dark monsters. Bobbing his head back and forth, Yakko made a slight gulp as he took a step back.

Closing his eyes shut, Yakko made a run for it until he felt the edge. He put all his strength on his left foot as he leaped into the air, soaring over the bottomless ditch, closer to the other side. Reaching out his hand, Yakko barely caught the edge before falling to his doom. Whipping away the sweat from his forehead, Yakko climbed up to the surface and stared back at the monsters, who now seemed to be the ones that were trapped. Feeling a new gain of confidence, Yakko laid a sly smirk as he moved both his hands to the sides of his head; he wiggled his fingers at them while sticking his tongue out, making a raspberry.

Yakko turned to face his water tower, seeing the ladder that led to the door. He pressed his bottom foot at the first step, taking his time climbing up, step by step. He was at the middle of the ladle until he felt a violent jerk, vibrating from the bottom! Looking down, Yakko’s eyes widened in shock to see it wither away into tiny pieces. Knowing what would happen if it disappeared, Yakko wasted no time and scurried to the top. His fingers shakily grabbed each step as he was getting closer and closer to the top.

He reached out his right hand to feel the rim of the tower. Climbing onto it, Yakko scampered to his feet and ran to the door. Touching the door knob, Yakko made it turn to the right, only to find his hand completely cut off by a sharp ‘click’. Yakko couldn’t believe this; the door was locked?! He didn’t know how things could possibly get worse until he felt a dark shadow hover over him.

Slowly turning his head, Yakko saw the giant shadow casting over him. It’s tentacles from his head stretched out into the sky towards the fragile boy. Panicking, Yakko yanked the door knob to open, but it wouldn’t budge. His breath was becoming tense as he frantically tried to open the door. He could feel the tentacles getting close to him, without turning around.

Yakko banged his fist on the door, frustrated that it wouldn’t open. He couldn’t believe how desperate he was feeling for this stupid door to open. However, it didn’t seem to matter when he felt cold and snake-like fingers wrap around his waist. Before he could react, his body was lifted right off the ground! The Darkside held him firm in his hand as Yakko struggled to break free, but was useless; the creature was just to strong to struggle with.

It’s useless to fight back…

Surrender to the darkness…

You know there is no escape…

Yakko’s entire body shook like a rattle. Never in his life had he felt this helpless, nor this scared. His heart was pounding so hard: it could practically jump out of his chest. However, Yakko started to feel a little tired all of a sudden. His eyelids got so heavy, he wasn’t sure he could keep them open for long.

He tried to see what was going on but realized he was losing his vision for his eyesight was starting to blur. He felt so light headed; he wasn’t so sure if he could hold is head up much longer. Yakko shook his head, trying to shake the feeling off, but it was just too strong. The feeling was soon taking over his entire body for Yakko could no longer move his legs and muscles. He couldn’t hold on much longer; he was about to pass out.

Before he did, however, something bright caught his eye. Even if he couldn’t make such of it, he did know that it was a size of a baseball and seemed to be heart-shaped like. Its shine brightly before the creatures as they all stared in awe. The darkside seemed to be satisfied as he lost interest for Yakko. Slowly releasing its fingers, the creature let Yakko’s fragile body go.

Yakko lost consciousness as he was released from the monstrous hand. Falling towards his eternal doom, Yakko Warner seemed to fade into pitch black of the cliff. No sadness or anger showed on the poor boy’s face; only despair. He fell endlessly to the deep depths of darkness…Never again will Yakko see the light of day…

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Alright, as you all have noticed, the rest of the chapters have now been deleted. I know I should've deleted the whole story if I was going to do that, but I didn't want to get rid of a the reviews and fans who had saved them to favorites. Don't worry, the rest will come soon after I finish editing ;)