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Prolouge

I am Stella Davidson, AKA, the Shadow, and I am a small town superhero.

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I guess my story starts with a man named Dr John Collins. In 2017 he discovered a new element called Lonamium.
Around that time was when everybody was arguing over whether to build more nuclear power stations.
I won't bore you with the details but in short, he used Lonamium to create a new type of nuclear fuel that produced no nuclear waste.
However, it produced something else. Something the scientists call Lonamium Particula, but everyone else calls the Lona Effect. Basically it's particles of deformed Lonamium that spread all over the world when the nuclear energy was being produced, and reacts with everyone differently.
In very few cases people died.  Most people weren't affected, but some of us became super. And that changed the world forever.

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The Lona effect happened when I was fifteen.
A few months later weird things began happening to me. Sometimes I would be sat on a chair, then all of a sudden I was on the floor a meter to the right, without meaning to move or having remembered moving. I would hear things a normal human shouldn't be able to hear. Everything  around me would slow down. Often, people would completely ignore me, as if I weren't there.
At first it freaked the hell out of me. I had no idea what was going on, so I kept my mouth shut.
But then as reports came flooding in about people with abnormal abilities, I realised what was happening. And I began to attempt to control my 'superpowers' as the media had dubbed them.

When it all started, everybody felt like it was something out of a comic. It just didn't seem believable. In fact, some people claimed it was all some elaborate hoax involving CGI.
Even though I actually had the powers, for a while I thought it was some strange dream that I would wake up from any minute.
But as time went by, and I didn't wake up, I began exploring my new-found abilities.
I was surprised at how easy it was. It felt as if I had had powers all my life. It was as simple as lifting a finger, I barely had to think about it.
I mean, sure, there were a few mishaps. Like the time I spent a day in Iceland. Or the time I forgot I was invisible and went shopping. People were pretty freaked out when a basket full of food started floating through the air!
But in the end I got the hang of it, and that brings us to now.

You will probably be wondering if I became a flashy superhero in spandex, saving people left, right and centre from villains decked out in weird outfits.

Well, sorry to dash your hopes, but no. Almost two years later, and I'm still the same as I was. Admittedly, I do spend more time in foreign countries, and am in college now, but I am still ordinary Stella Davidson as far as everybody else knows.

It's quite hard to explain why I have a tan when I live in England, where it is cloudy practically 24/7, or when I know things I shouldn't.
But I do love having my superpowers. Especially teleportation and time freezing. It means that in the middle of a boring lesson, I can take a quick trip to a tropical island for a nap on the beach, or to explore Rome a bit more, and then get back with no one knowing anything happened!
However, the super senses thing gets a bit awkward when my neighbour brings her latest one night stand home.
Being able to disappear at will is also a great advantage when I play hide-and-seek with my little brother and young cousins.

I have always lived in a town, not a city. It's not exactly a small town, but it definitely is not a large one.
Because there is a lot less people in Cadshaw than in cities around the country, we have no supers. Well no public ones anyway. So there were no villains for me to fight against. There weren't even that many crimes!
I did do the odd thing when I was out, like pausing time to get a kid out of the road when he's about to get hit, but no one ever saw me. And it was never anything big.

I didn't really want to be some big superhero. I have watched loads of flims about supers, and nearly every single one has to sacrifice something, like someone they care about dying. And I didn't want to risk the chance of my family dying, however annoying they are, I still care about them.

But all this was going to change.

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A/n: ahhhhhhh this is so cringey please put up with it lmao

Also for some reason I have girls on film by Duran Duran stuck in my head
I haven't listened to it for ages. Why.
Anyway it's a great song give it a listen