Castle Paradox

[LeRoy_Leo]

Entry one for Dark Emblem Sound track...

I know this looks like it should be in story time, but there is a song, so I had trouble deciding where to post this. Read the background first.

Background: The young prince licked his fangs nervously. His tutor led him through the musty and shrouded halls, never once looking back to see if the prince was still there or still in one piece.

He stopped and swung his lantern around a corner.

"We are here, Daruke." An unseen, insane smirk coiled the tutor's lips.
The halls echoed with soft screams of agony from the long departed victims of some terrible fate. Blood slowly crept up the cold stone walls, cold and thick.

Daruke had been secretly preparing with his tutor, master Barshabal, for several years. Daruke, prince of the sanctum Venomhold, bowed to his grizzly master and stepped up to a massive organ which was situated at the back wall of the cavernous court. It's pipes seemed to inhale and exhale with the dreadful cries of many soul's last moments of life.

He cracked his knuckles and positioned his hands over the organ keys.

"Do not fear what is your slave, my pupil..." His master's voice came from inside Daruke's head. He set the lantern beside Daruke and sat next to him. "Together we shall bring in the new era. End all of these distractions and let the Dark Age be reborn."


Daruke nodded his head and longed so badly to slam the keys of the organ. Something propelled his hands away from them, though. Something pushed against his fingers with an unearthly force.
"Master... Erf! It won't let me!"

The blood from the walls slithered closer to them. They were abandoned... There. Deep in the tunnels of Earth... Miles from the sanctum's safety.
"Do it, my son! Do it before we are claimed as well!"

The master too fought with the keys. The same unearthly force repelling them like two opposite ends of a magnet. He grunted and they began to glow like hot irons.

Daruke gritted his teeth. He threw all of his determination into one hard thrust and his fingers fell on the keys. A shock resonated through the halls and the anguished screams became louder. But then the screams became a melody. Daruke began to calm the force of the enormous organ like it was some untamed animal being broken in. His master slyly grinned and soon joined him. The two played. They played to the end of civilization. They played to the beginning of their dark reign.

THIS IS WHAT THEY PLAYED:
http://www.geocities.com/taru_taurus/Music/DarkEmblem/BalladOfTheEnd.mid

Sorry. The song ends at a strange spot, but I hope you get the gist of it...
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---msw188 ---
"Seriously James, you keep rolling out the awesome like gingerbread men on a horror-movie assembly line. "

[St. Ajora]

I like it. The ending isn't even that abrupt, except that WMP tends to cut off the last .1 second of MIDIs anyway.

My only complaint is that "Ballad" has two Ls.

[LeRoy_Leo]

Woops...

[EDIT] Fixed some stuff.
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Planning Project Blood Summons, an MMORPG which will incinerate all of the others with it's sheer brilliance...

---msw188 ---
"Seriously James, you keep rolling out the awesome like gingerbread men on a horror-movie assembly line. "

[Setu_Firestorm]

/me smacks LeRoy upside the head with a spelling and grammar book

Boy, you should know better than that!

Nah, as far as the song goes, it's very full, which is saying a good thing. Not many composers can, unless they've gained quite a bit of experience, just grasp how to set up a piece of music to where every section, from the highs to lows are blanketed.

Good job.
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