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It was many years ago when I saw it happen. It has been thousonds and i'm the last one who remembers.

It all started when a man dressed all in black robes had come to see the king, the kind was an evil man by all standards who had built his welth on other suffering.
When he came he brought with him a feeling that never again would things be the same as they were.
The king let him in but referred to him as lowly scum while laughing and stuffing his own face.
This man seemed uneffected as he looked into the kings eyes, this made him stop eating and glare at the man.
I was there as a guard but even I could feel the chill in the air as the man spoke, he didn't utter much but I will never forget what he said.
He said "I am the messenger that has come to spread a warning, those who have been cast into the pit of darkness shall return.
The die is cast and fate shall intertwine.
The kingdom falls lest the ruler gives his life, all will be taken from those who do not kneel.
The death riders will come to claim your vary soul."
The king didn't like what he was told and orderd the guards to kill him.
We grabbed this man and held a knife to his neck and yet he did not flinch at all.
He looked at the king and said one last thing to him.
"What you do to me shall have no effect on what shall happen to you.
There are five signs of thier coming and you shall not escape alive."
With that the king gave the signal and we slit his throat.
He held his neck and spoke his last words as he bled.
"My death in the first sign.
The sky shall grow dark and the sun never seen again.
Death shall sweep your kingdom on swift wings.
A sound never heard before shall be utterd by a beast unseen to take the souls.
The death riders shall sweep the land black over the horizon as they come, the smell of death before them."
As he finished speaking his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he clapsed on the ground, dead.
The day after the sky became dark almost as if the sun itself had set, casting us into darkness.
Many people fled for they saw this as the sign of the end of days.
After that on the following day as the sky as still virus had spread from the rats and birds, killing off many or leaving them weak.
The army had become vary crippled by this, leaving only me and a handfull of men to fight.
The following night we heard a sound we had never heard before though we knew it not to be human.
As we looked apon the ground we could see what looked like spirits of many we had know who had passed moving away into the darkness.
On the following day a smell most foul had hit the kingdom, we had prepaird for it though.
We had sealed the doors and archors had taken up arms on the walls.
That was when we saw it, an army of men dressed in black armor and that had the smell of death on them.
Our men fired arrows at them and we knew they had struck but these men did not stop their charge.
They came to the walls and stopped, they circled up like an endless sea of the damned.
It was only two days before these men had enterd the kingdom, they shatterd the door and came in.
Many of us ran but only a handfull got away from these.
The ones that did bowed before these men in black and they were passed over.
My men took up arms and tryed to fight but we were taken down in only a few minutes.
I and two others bowed down to them and we were spared our fate.
The king was not so lucky, they grabbed him from his throne and dragged him to the courtyard.
He was taked to the hangmans blaock where a man of epic proportions stood.
He had to have been over eight feet tall.
Two men in black held the king off the ground and brought him before this giant.
The king got on his knees and begged for his life, offering women, gold, or other lifes in exchange of his own.
It was then that a black carrage came in, spikes on all sides wih skulls or heads stuck on them.
This man came out of the carrage, dressed in black robes just like the man before.
He stepped in front of the king and simply said to him "You had not listend to my messengers words and insted killed him.
You have no place in this world, you use and discard people as if they were your toys.
For this I sentace you to death."
He stepped out of the way of the giant man as the king began to cry.
In a single swipe the giant sliced the king in half from the waist up.
Once done he stuck his sword into the ground and the sky became light again.
Just as soon as it had all the men in black armor had vanished, exept for the man in the black robes.
He stood before us and utterd his final words.
"The future shall forget what the past has said before."
As he had finished saying that he too vanished.
The few of us left wrote down what had happend inside a long forgotten book.
With that many years have passed and I am the last to remember.
May you take a lesson from this and never repete what our dead king had done.