The boy ran yelling for help and I chased him like a wolf, I could almost smell his fear. The boy was screaming and calling for help like I killed someone. He was screaming "He's got no lips, he's got no lips!" People were running towards me but I just teleported behind them all was going well until a sword sprouted from my chest. I blacked out and I woke up in a hospital type room with my arms and legs strapped to different sides of a bed.
'Well, well Alek.' a tree lady says as she looks at a folder.
'How do you know who I am.' I responded
'I have your file here, aparrenty your a son of Erebus or the darkness.'
'Why did you attack Tia?' she said whilst I had and urge to blink but wanted to stare the dryad down.
'Because I could.' And whilst I said that i felt a weight on the back of my eyelids dissapear, I no longer had an urge to blink. She recoiled violently.
'Uh Chloe could you come in hear' the dryad said slowly.
'What is it?' I hear from outside the room and someone walks in. She had brown hair , blue eyes and was carrying a sword which looked alot like the one that stabbed me. When she looked over at me and recoiled in shock.
'Your the one that stabbed me.' I said. She looked suprised and dumbfounded.
'You have no eyes.' She says.
'Do I now.' I respond.
'Yes'
'If it wasn't for Chloe here we would have never have stopped you and got you contained. The dryad said.
'How can you be sure that I won't just hurt someone again?' I asked.
'Well we put a seal on you like we put on every "troubled" student.'
'What does it do?'
'It makes sure you can't harm any students unless you are in combat training.'
'What is this place?'
'This is a school, a school for people like you.'
'What do you mean like me?'
'People with special powers, thats what you have isin't it, powers?'
'Yeah'
''Powers of darkness isn't it?'
'Yeah.'
'You wouldn't be here if both of yout parents wanted you to.'
'But you can always leave, if you want.'
'You said these people were like me, right.'
'Thats right.'
'I'll stay.' I decied.
'Good. What do you think Chloe should we put him with Thanatos or Oceanus.'
'He seems more like a Thanatos guy.' The girl whose name I think is Chloe.
'Alright then we'll put him in with Thanatos.' The drayad responded. After that I had classes as normal with combat training, monster study and god recognition. Also Chloe was always following me around or watching me. Probably keeping an eye on me for the school. In combat training the teacher told me to name my weapon, but I don't know what to call it, the teacher says it will come to me. Funny thing was I couldn't use my scythe. My favourite class was combat training because it was the only time I wasn't in constant pain from the seal.
After a few weeks at the school I saw Patrick beating up Daniel in the canteen as usual yet something was different I just snapped. I walked up to Patrick and punched him in the face. Pain flared through me because of the seal. It felt like I was on fire but I didn't care. I wouldn't stand for his constant bullying. I kept punching him. The seal was so hot on me my clothes litteraly set on fire. I collapsed to the ground and everything went black around me. The flames turned black and I couldn't feel the pain, that's bad isn't it, yeah that's bad. I could sense everyone around me, they were sort of white shadows. I could tell which one was Patrick, just somehow. I swung at him experimentally. The white shadow went flying and smacked into a wall type thing. As I look around I notice that this looks like the Forge of Darkness. I will myself to go back to the normal world. The darkness melts away revealing colour and people features. Patrick was lying on the ground hunched on a wall with his eyes rolled up in his head. Everyone gasped as the world returned back to its normal state. They were all staring at me and the black flames on me. Everyone was backing away from me. I observe the flames fully and see that souls were in the fire like the souls in my hair.
Later that day I was in a 'cell' which was just a room made out of rock and dirt with no doors or windows. A door appeard then opened and I saw the prinicipal walking inside.
"So Alek is it.'
"Yeah."
"Do you know why you're in here."
"Because of the black fire."
"Yes the black fire. Do you know how you did it."
"No."
"Are you sure."
"Yes."
"I don't believe that."
"Well you should."
"Oh really."
"Yes you should."
"Well you see, I know you know that I know that you know how to do it."
"Gimme a target range and I'll try."
"Thats the spirit!"
A few minutes later I was in the archers target range. I tried to summon flames to no prevail then I rembered a legend about Erebus something about the underworld being called that before Hades become king. I called out to all unrecognised spirits forgotten by Hades, they responded, a ghostly wail of a thousand souls appeared as my hands set alight with black fire. I tried to send the flames out to a target and missed completley missed. I tried to control the fire like I do the shadows, the flames responded. The flames hit a target right in the bulls eye, and went right through. I guided it into the bulls eye of multiple targets. When I extunguished the flames I saw my hands had no skin, muscle or veins, just bone. I screamed. I could control my hands and fingers they were sort of just floating there. I heard nearby glass shattered and car alarms go off but I didn't care. I tried to remember that place where the flames turned black in the first place. Everything around me turned to black and I looked down to my hands , I could see everything growing back system by system. First my veins grew then the muscle and finally the skin. I'm not going to lie it was traumatic even after all I've been through. Becoming Death, destroying hell, killing gods, but thats for other people to explain.
When I finally came back to the normal world lots of people were crowding around the target range. The principal turned to me and said.
"You're never going to use any power you have in this school."
