I looked around, hoping that someone heard it as well. To my dismay, no one did. Our homeroom teacher has already entered the room. Classes started, but I couldn't pay attention at all. Not a minute passed since I've heard the shout. I knew that I haven't had my proper training, but I couldn't just ignore a cry for help. The shadow manipulator gave me enhanced hearing and now that I heard something unexpected, I began doubting how I should react.
Once again, I looked around. I already have a rough idea of what I should do. I sighed in relief, no one's looking in my direction.
I quickly focused on my shadow. Come on, please just work! I need to become a shadow right now. Work just like you did in the room, come on. Work! Somebody needs help! Please! I said in my mind as I looked at my shadow.
Thinking that it wasn't working, I began closing my eyes to focus more. I told myself that I just needed to become a shadow.
Suddenly, I began feeling lighter, as if something was stuck in my back. Then I realized that I already became a shadow myself. I looked around, seeing all the heads of the people in the classroom. I now knew where I was.
On the ceiling.
I began gliding towards the window, then to the outer wall of the school. From a bystander's point of view, I would've looked like a shadow that reflects differently in relation to the sun, or I might say, a reflection of something that wasn't even there.
I began creeping across the school grounds. It was my first time traveling this fast and yet, not a gust of wind has brushed against me. It felt weird at first, but a shadow doesn't feel anything.
Do they?
I glided towards the source of the cry for help. It seems to be emanating from the love bridge. The cry sounded so faint, but I could clearly hear it even in my shadow form. Buildings whizzed past me as I made my way to the love bridge.
Then I saw it.
A group of thieves trying to steal from someone.
Without a second thought, I quickly went towards the thieves and trip them all up. All of them fell flat on their faces in a state of shock. They didn't know what hit them but I think they noticed me as a shadow. Not only them, but I think the woman who got her purse stolen, noticed me as well as I glided. The woman stopped screaming the moment she saw the thieves fell. I quickly changed my form and "knocked" the four thieves unconscious by using the technique I saw on the television a long time ago. I had doubts if it was going to work but to my great relief, I managed to pull it off. ( The technique I saw was the sleeper's hold. I've watched it in one of those mystery movies where the protagonist used to do it a lot to his opponents.)
I sighed in relief. This was the first time that I cut classes and I felt rather guilty. I quickly went towards the unconscious thieves and retrieved the purse that they had stolen. I went to the woman and handed it to her. She looks rather familiar as if I've seen her before. But who is she? I asked myself.
"Thanks." The woman said as she got her bag. " So, you're an irregular, right?" She asked.
Now that I think about it, I didn't realize that I changed my form just to knock the thieves down. Now that I am not a shadow, the woman had seen my face. Oh no, what do I do? This is not good. My secret might get found out by everyone! Aagghh! I said to myself.
"Could you please not tell anyone about what happened here? Please?" I asked the woman. "I haven't told anyone yet and I cannot blow up my cover right now."
"Sure, I cannot disagree, can I? After all, you were the one who saved me from those thieves." She cheerfully said. " Don't worry, you're not the only irregular I know. Keeping this a secret is the least I can do."
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The Shadow Manipulator
AksiShadow manipulators has been a great myth around the world. They are people that could freely control their shadow. They could also put half or their whole consciousness into the shadow, making them almost invincible. No one has ever seen a shadow m...