Hidden Wonder

Walls start to break

Something in my brain switches feeling the tension in the air and I immediately jump out of my chair and pull one of my scimitars out of its holder. Ryder curses and Rowen stands a little in front of him with his weapon drawn. The intruders are in fact vampires.
They look feral, eyes bright red from blood lust. Sometimes when vampires drink the blood of multiple species, the blood mixes into their system and turns them feral. Hungry for more blood, the more they mix the more they want blood that's more potent, more powerful. The vampire King is supposed to have rules about this sort of thing but I guess it doesn't matter much to him huh .Their Eyes are blood shot, irises ruby red, their fangs elongated and salivating with drool running out of their mouths. They are hissing and looking between Ryder, and I.

Renae comes out from the front office checking to see what the noise was and immediately screams at the sight of two bloodied hunched over vampire men and they quickly turn their heads towards her. She runs back into the office and the vampire closest to her bolts after her.

Fuck. Immediately I know I can't use my sword and I slightly forget about the two men standing to my left. With it being dark the shadow element is at its strongest and I always fight to keep it at bay at night. I also don't want to risk using other elements and destroying Timmy's tavern or the Inn. Time seems to slow down as I see the vampire chasing after renae jump in slow motion.

I feel the energy around me start to hum the lights start to flicker I don't even have to use much control to summon shadows to me, it's as easy as blinking, same with light. It's hard not to use them when it's day or night, like they have a mind of their own and crave to be let loose. Black tendrils of smoke explode from my body quickly wrapping around the vampire in mid air which in real time must have been seconds to do.  I still hear the humming of my energy and the building starts to shake under my feat.

Hearing the other vampire hiss he lunges for me but not fast enough to evade my shadows. I hear a sword hit the ground and assume it's Rowens, I hear plates crash to the ground and shatter quickly after.

Wrapping around both vampires I slowly have the shadows bring them to me Until they are only 2 feet away from my face. They are snarling and hissing wrestling to break free and I tilt my head to the side watching.

When using shadows I loose the  capability to feel most emotion. I become a void, hungry to kill and my eyes turn fully black swallowed by darkness with black veins that spread like vines around my eyes and hands up to my forearm. The lights continue to flicker, the building still shaking and I know I need to end it quick but I also enjoy taking my time with the shadows. I crave it. So I comprise.

Using the shadows I have them enter through the vampires noses and mouths which makes them start to gag and wrestle against me harder. After a few seconds I have shadows go through their eyes and ears. causing blood to spurt out, I feel some splatter and drip down my face causing my fangs to ache, wanting to come out.

They try to scream but they only come out as pained gargles. Using the shadows to raise myself eye level to them I slowly cross my arm over my chest with my sword angled over my shoulder. As I Listen to them struggle a little longer, relishing in the sounds they make as the drown, clawing at nothing but shadows, I decide to swing and both heads fly clean from their bodies, thumping to the ground.

I slowly lower myself till my feet hit the floor and call the shadows back to me. The building stops it's shaking and the lights go back to normal. It's harder to switch to different elements after using the shadows, It likes the attention, it wants the control. Knowing my eyes are still black, I try to keep a firm grasp over my shadows as I try to conjure fire to burn the vampires.

Raising my hand above the heads and bodies I connect with fire energy through my soul but what comes out of my palms are a mix of fire and shadows. Bright orange and yellow flames with swirls of black latch onto the bodies and immediately burn them to ash.