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With all the evil permeating the land, it is no wonder that the darkness continues to reach its tendrils up onto the island as well. The air that had been warm and unseasonably mild suddenly grows cold and the sky grows dark. The sounds of the waterfalls have been soothing up until this moment, but now they take on an eerie how that chills everything living down to the very bone.
Something is wrong. Something is wrong.
What evil comes this time, through the grass and the brush, across rocks and dirt, weaving around trees and tents and bodies? An evil unseen, but felt in the heart and soul. It is a blackness that sucks the very life out of everything that it touches. Swirling shadows creeps across grass, turning it black. Ebony mist sneaks across water, thickening it to sludge that would kill anything that dares to drink it. Then this blackness, these shadows, find their target.
Bucephalus' body grows cold, unimaginably cold, as this evil seems to enter his skin and infiltrate every organ in his body. His heart slows, his lungs gasp for air, even his brain and vision grows dark. The darkness lets his body grow weak, until it is all that Bucephalus can do to remain standing, then it suddenly leaves his body, letting him deal with the aftermath. Next is Apollo, who will feel all of the same symptoms as the blackness travels through his body. Only the egg has remained untouched, but it will not be so.
As the evil leaves Apollo, it snakes its way down to the egg and enters the thing. It is only there for a second, perhaps two, but whatever damage it has done seems to spur the egg into action. The shell begins to crack as this shadow monster flits away. The evil that had permeated the land seems to follow, the winds whispering as it leaves, "Too soon, too soon." It is as if they know that this is not the right time for this egg to be hatching. But hatch it will, the darkness has demanded it.
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[O] An Unexpected Birth [Random Event, Egg Hatching]
