UnSoft: Black

Unknown Software

Mercadeus Black was not a loner like the others of his kind. He was apart from them, but not a loner himself. He traveled the vast emptiness in search of a people he could relate with, a place he could call home. Many worlds welcomed him, many beckoned, but none held the warmth he was looking for, the sense of harmony he longed for. One reached out to him with open arms, only to use their hands for death on his behalf. Another tried to use their hands on him, but he fled before they were successful. And others, all so different, all lacking what he desired, so he continued.

From space to space, time to time, universe to universe, he traveled, never stopping for long, until he came upon vibrant world in a place he least expected. It was full of energy and thriving with life unlike that which he had ever seen before. This place he would call home. They welcomed him just as the others had, but with a feeling of brotherhood and familiarity, of family. From the first meeting, the first word, he knew he was home. It did not take long for him to make a name for himself among the upper ranks of their society. Endorasu, they called themselves; a people of vast energy and mystery. Superb creators, whose handiwork spanned the universe. And that was how they lived, by molding their energy into life, and when those creations died, they returned to the creator, thus their energy was recycled.

After a short time Mercadeus fell in love with an Endorasu named Asmora; a woman of great beauty and greater power, and she bore him a son, who he named Oblidarius. But his joy faltered when he found out his child was unlike other Endorasu; something in his own biological make up that was passed onto the child prevented it from being able to create. The babe should have died, but he didn’t. Somehow what hindered Oblidarius’ ability to create also allowed him to sustain himself, allowed him to naturally recycle his own energy. It was the first case of its kind according to the Endorasu. But that was soon to change.