Rise From Shadows

The Nobody

It was the weekend, a time that I liked best, a time with no bullies or angry teachers and that's not even the best part, my parents were out, I know what your thinking why is that the best part? Well for me my parents are the one thing that I truly hate, why? Because they are always fighting with each other or taking it out on me, there hasn't been a day in years I haven't been bruised but enough of that, let's just say that I was happy I felt bliss in being alone but I also felt sadness, because I realized that I was worthless, completely worthless.

Hours later I woke up to the sound of my father slamming my door open.

"YOU WORTHLESS PEICE OF TRASH IF YOU HAD TIME TO SLEEP YOU COULD HAVE CLEANED THIS HOUSE!"
My father was screaming at me he grabbed my shirt and slammed me against my bed post.

"ARE YOU GOING TO SAY SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF!?"
He then proceeded to punch my stomach and kick me repeatedly once he had enough he spit on me and left.

I got up and went back to my bed silently I hoped that I would be taken from this hell hole, to a place where I can be famous, where I could demand respect and have the strength to back up my words.

As soon as my head hit the pillow blackness filled my vision.

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I woke up feeling a soft sensation below me and smiled as opened my eyes, I was truly happy because this was a place I came to often in my dreams, it is a whole new world a place without bullies or parents or teachers, here I am slide, here I am strong. As I look around my surroundings I see I'm beside a shallow river in what appears to be a forest, as I'm looking around I notice a girl who looks to be around my age which is 17.

"Who are you?" She asks this while looking at my clothes very curiously.

"My name is Slade." I decide to use my standard name in this world "what's yours." I tried to sound like I didn't care because this usually made people think I was strong.

"Lily." This was the only words she said until a few moments later, "your clothes are strange where are you from?"

Without thinking I replied in a cold tone "that hardly matters."

She kept staring at me as she curiously asks "what kind of name is Slade?" This surprised me because no ones ever asks before, I honestly thought of this name the first time I came here when I was surrounded by guards and spotted a bunch of rocks nearby which made me think of slate and not wanting them to be suspicious changed it to Slade.. I know original right?

I cannot tell her the real reason behind it so I just shrug and say " It's just the name I was given."

She just stared at me for a little longer before her next words hit my weak spot "Do you want to get stronger Slade?"

I turn to her with hopeful eyes and reply loudly "Yes!"

She smiles and points towards the top of a mountain in the distance "there is an academy at the top of that mountain it will teach you to increase your cultivation.

I am very confused by what she means but do not show It and keep a look of indifference on my face.

"I will make my way there thank you for your time." As I begin to walk away I hear footsteps and realize she is following me.

Still looking uncaring I allow her to continue following while I continue down a path towards a town I plan to find a place to sleep. Once we arrive I begin to ask around for odd jobs and find out that there is a problem with pests in their fields so I head there first hoping to earn enough money for a room in an inn.

As I arrive I see several small black crows but I thought it was strange because the had no wings but nonetheless I grab I nearby hoe and try to scare them away, my first attempt didn't go so well as the crows worked together and stole the hoe I was using this process continued until I ran out of farming equipment and had to find a different approach.

After several failed attempts to scare them away I get an idea, I've noticed that this world has fantasy like qualitys I wonder if there could be different ability's like magic. I focus all energy into my hand as I do this fire appears in it almost making me fall backwards, I shake my hand until I realize there is no pain, in my excitement I began to attempt to hurl the fire at the strange crows when the first one hits I am shocked to see that the crow had actually disintegrated leaving behind a small pile of dust.

As I do this to the next one and the next one I begin to feel drained by the end there is several piles of dust and none of those crows I walk to the man who had asked me to do this and asked for my money once he gave me the few copper coins I went to look for an inn with Lily.

As I find an inn I walk to the counter and ring the bell placed upon the counter, a short muscular man walk out from a back room "What do you want?" He says in an unfriendly tone.

"How much for a room?" I asked this expecting a low price but he just replied with almost double what I had.

"What if I worked for a couple days?" I ask setting what little money I had on the bar.

When he saw what I meant he silently took the money and motioned to the stairs.

As I went up and grabbed a pillow and gave Lily the bed she silently nodded and and climbed into it, once I had settled on the floor I think of what will happen once I wake up and hope that I will still be I'm this amazing world, my vision turns black as sleep takes me.

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Hey guys this is my first story so if you have any advice or criticism it is definitely helpful just so you know I will try to update every other day so I hope you enjoyed the first
-Z