‘What the hell, dude’ I say as the school bully shoves me into a wall.
‘Shut up Alek, you little sissy’ he says as he punches me in the face. And right before he punches me again I summon up the shadows around my foot and kick him in his crutch. Yeah I said summon up shadows, so yes I can control them and yes I am a child of Erebus, the Primordial of Darkness and Shadow. I only found that out a couple of months ago. Anyway back to the story. But in summoning up the shadows I felt like Frankenstein’s Monster, again, the school bully rears back in pain and falls over holding his crutch
‘Aaaha’ he moans on the ground.
‘Great another detention’ I mutter under my breath. But that wasn’t all that waited at home, Mum would give me another scolding about using my powers, again, my powers were why I had no friends as everyone thought me a freak.
‘Aleksander Drakos, you go to the principal’s office at once’ scolds the Vice Principal whose real name was Mrs Fatia, who every one either calls her VP or Mrs Mean. I knew what would happen if I didn’t oblige so I went trudging away to the principal’s office. When I finally got there Principal Parks was on the phone, as usual, I’m already halfway through the office and about to sit on a chair opposite Principal Parks’ desk when he finally notices me.
‘Ah Alek’ he says like I’m an old friend.
‘Glad to see you’ve…‘and that’s when I sense something inside, something that he has never told anyone, I sense he says “finally come to your doom”. But instead he says,
‘…finally made it.’ I shrug that feeling off like it was nothing
“Besides it’s not something you’ve felt often, if at all” I hear a voice in my head say, but it wasn’t my voice, more like a shadow of mine. Then Principal Parks reaches under his desk to find something.
And then he pulls out a sword made out of silver and ice with a blade as long as my leg. He swings it at me and I narrowly dodge it as it freezes the desk on impact.
“So it isn’t very sharp” I think to myself as I instinctively shadow-step behind him. (Shadow-stepping is a form of travel that only children of Erebus have. It involves summoning up the shadows around the user then teleporting to a different location. In this case Alek is very experienced at shadow traveling as he does not need to summon up shadows around him) Principal Parks then swings his sword in a manner that would take of my head, but again I shadow-step and this time to the other side of the desk, I then send shadows, coming from all directions, to hit the crazed principal in the chest and send him crashing through a window and onto asphalt outside. I then instinctively raise my hand out in front of me as a scythe made out of bones and a blade of a bird’s boney beak complete with the skull where the blade and handle meet comes crashing out of the darkest place in the room which was right in front of me. I then grab it and shadow-step over to the terrifying teacher and swing down with all my might right into his back as he tries to stand up. The blade tears right through him and ends up scraping the asphalt as he slowly turns into an ice sculpture of himself with liquid silver instead of blood.
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After I pull the blade out of him I really take a good look at the scythe, in the eyes of the bird’s skull I see that it is emitting smog to an infinite scale and when I look to my feet the smog remains around me for a couple of metres. I then realise that I would get in heaps of trouble if the teachers found me so I started running then shadow-stepped over to my house, specifically my room, even more specifically my bed. After a couple of minutes just lying on my bed I realise that I’m still clutching the scythe and then suddenly I fall through the shadows into an exact replica of my room except everything is black and white except for me and the scythe. I then try to shadow-step outside but instead I get sent to a forge made of different shades of black, no white pure black and purple. That’s when I see a man with long black hair that goes down to his elbows, pale skin and black leather clothes, he then turns to me and then I see those pale blue eyes, so very pale. And then I realise it he’s.
