Decrepit hands reach out of the dark. Old leathery fingers dragged their weary owner into the dim blue light. You could see the light, weak as it was, even at the start of the cavern. The place was that dark after all, and no less cold.
But A bearded face emerged from that darkness, an ancient face, a relentless face. The face of an entity dragged into bottomless depths in his search for a solution. For a weapon that would put it's pitiful species on an even field with those who sought to destroy them.
And it was found.
As the beast hauled itself off the ground and pulled its legs out of the small cavern opening, it's hunched body because visible in the light.
Gnarled fingernails and twisted bones pained the creature's movements, digging into its thick grey skin as it limped itself over to the cube floating in the Center of the clearing.
The grey, creased, hands reached out, blistered fingers wrapping around the hexagonally patterned cube floating in the air just ahead of it. It was small, so small it fit in the palm of it's hand, but the power it radiated was making the creature tremble. Some form of sweat rolled down its dry face as it looked in awe at the power of the tiny box, its beady eyes sparkling in the light. It was ever so intimidating, but ever so beautiful.
"What a.. fine.. thing.."
It said, a gravelly voice travelling from it's crooked mouth, as both of its palms wrapped around the object.
"With this… my people…"
It said, the dim glow glowing brighter. Blue light shot from the cube in thin lines, causing the thing to drop the cube. Though instead of hitting the floor, it began to float once more. One by one the strands of power escaped the cube, bouncing off the thick rock walls of the cavern and forming a web of blue light.
The creature was lost for words, its mouth trembling in fear and wonder at the thought of this light consuming it.
For a few seconds after the initial release, the light beams had been carefully avoiding touching the creature, arching around it until all space around it was full of the cube's energy. Though suddenly, it shot a ray of blue straight into the creature's chest. As it groaned in agony its wrinkled, beastly, old skin sloughed off its body. Fresh pale skin replaced it, soft sparkling eyes taking the place of its beady white ones as its hunched back and gnarled bones straightened themselves out.
"GRAHH!!"
The man screamed, his new pale body hunching over in pain as it hissed off thick waves of steam. He attempted to reach out to grab the cube but could barely move, by the time he came to his senses fully, the light had already begun cracking the walls and seeping out onto the surrounding island.
"No… no..!"
He called, dashing towards it with his fingers just millimetres away from the object… but he was too slow…
Crash!!
The cave opened up at the top, dust and rock flying everywhere, the cube's power spread across the world in millions of beautiful arching beams. A large majority of its beams were focused on travelling west from the island containing the cave, but a few thousand would fly in other directions.
"What… have I done…"
He said, as the falling debris clattered down on the opening above him, sealing off the large space with soot and rubble.