Shadows of a Life

Chapter 5: Shade Tries to Murder Me

     My sister hung over top of my bed. Her purple eye shining in the dim light. Her mouth split into an evil grin. "Nothing of too much trouble," Shade said. I knew exactly what she was going to do. Shade lunged at my face with a knife. I rolled of the bed and kicked her in the face. Typical of her to realize that I was weak in this state and attack. Ever since we were young, we've always hated each other. I forgot the original reason why, but I'm lead to believe it was my fault. Shade had always told me that every time she tortured me she was one step closer to getting her revenge. Shade stood on my bed smirking. She had long grey hair and side bangs that covered her left eye. The one eye that showed was purple, a rare eye color to our species. The other eye used to be red or so I was told. Shade had pulled out her left eye a long time ago for reasons that only she knew. She wore her usual long purple trench coat accompanied by grey pants and black heeled boots.

     Shade stood on my bed still, staring at me. One of the things I disliked most about my sister was the fact that she was able to read minds. All shadows had their own collections of abilities and powers along with a few basic ones. Mine were shadow manipulating or "puppeting" and using my words to change peoples minds or at the very most control them.. Shade was a master at possessing and mind reading which made her almost impossible to beat in battle. "So...my sister loves a sun god hmm?" Shade snickered. I glared at her and she just smiled back. Shade jumped off my bed and landed on the stone floor with a clicking sound. A silver knife glinted in her right hand. I tensed, ready to dodge if attacked. Shade chuckled, "You really think I would be stupid enough to pick a fight with you when there is a god outside the door." She glanced at the door distastefully. I knew that she was probably lying. But then again, lying wasn't Shade's strong suit, and it was usually easy to see through her lies. I turned around to face the door. Shade took this opportunity to attack. Luckily I knew that was what she was planning so I turned and jumped in the air, spinning and kicking her in the face. She stumbled back and dropped her knife. I ran through the door and out into the hallway.

     Ra was actually standing outside my door, and looked slightly surprised when twin shadows sprinted by him, one carrying a scythe. I guess it wasn't normal for gods to see such things in the Divine Realm. Shade wasn't impressed that I had outsmarted her, and was now out for my death, again. I had no idea where I was going to run to. There really was no place to run to since Shade was perfectly capable of opening a portal to me if I made it far enough away. I summoned my twin katanas from the shadows and sighed turning around. My sister had caught up to me fairly fast. She let go of her scythe and it floated in air, now black in color. The scythe split into two miniature scythes. She grasped one in each hand, growling slightly. Out of habit, I let shadows consume my sword making it look like it was engulfed in black flames.

      Shade swung one of her scythes at me. I held up my sword and blocked it. The shadows ran along the blade of my sword and travelled down her scythe. They shapeshifted to look like a long arm and grabbed the scythe and pulled it out of her reach. The scythe, not being able to hold its form outside of Shade's grasp shattered leaving black shards of glassy metal everywhere. The shards turned into a shadow and then reformed with the other scythe back into one scythe. In other words I just bought myself time. My sister was furious, as if she was holding back two centuries of pain and fear. I wasn't able to read minds but I knew that Shade was hiding something from me, something that had caused her great pain.

   I had zoned out entirely thinking about my sister that I didn't realize she had me pinned on the ground with a knife to my throat. Shade's eyes were narrows and her face showed no expression. The knife had dug its way slightly into my neck. Black blood from the wound dribbled down the side of my neck. I pressed my palms against the cold stone floor and willed myself to turn into silhouette form. I melted into the ground. When in silhouette form I was twice as fast and elusive as I was in my "humanized" form. I moved swiftly to the wall, pretending to be Shade's shadow. This was a risky method because if I didn't copy her movements exactly she would know that it was me. My sister had stood up and a moved so my body reflected hers. The only thing I disliked about being in full body shadow form was that I was a 2D figure instead of a regular 3D figure. It was really awkward to move, especially when you had to copy someone. I don't understand how other Shadow Demons could stay in this form and copy humans for up to a hundred years.

     My sister suspected that I had summoned a portal and travelled far away. She walked down the hallway and I copied her for a few minutes, just to make my disguise more deceptive. I let her walk away before peeling myself off the wall and back into my normal form. The wound on my neck had stopped bleeding but it still stung. I used the sleeve of my sweater to wipe off any access blood. I started walking back to my room again for what seemed like the hundredth time today. My body ached, my eyelids were heavy all I really wanted was to sleep. I looked out one of the dirty cracked windows careful not to look directly at the sun. Judging by the placement of the light, it was about noon. I continued walking back to room half asleep. My eyes were basically closed so I couldn't see.

     I had this part of the castle memorized by heart and I didn't need to see where I was going. I counted my paces and half sleepwalking until I ran into something. I fell over and opened my eyes. Ra was standing there. He held out his hand and offered to help me up. I just glared at him and stood up by myself. I know I admitted that I sort of liked him, but part of my still hates him for attacking me. Ra smiled at me, "I'm sorry about earlier," He said, his voice was soft as though he actually was sorry for what had happened. I just glared at him. I almost hissed at him but I decided against it. I didn't want to act like an absolute retard in front of him even if I was mad. "You're name is Dark right?" Ra kept trying to get me to engage in conversation. "Yes, that's my name," I spat, "How do you know that?" I honestly wasn't up for much of a conversation especially with a person who was trying to kill me earlier.

"You sister was screaming it earlier while you ran by. Plus I'm a god, how would you expect me not to know your name?"

I tried my best not to lose my temper at him, but even that seemed nearly impossible. "Well I would expect a god to at least have enough dignity not to go looking through random peoples heads." Ra looked at me with a slightly pained expression, as if my reaction wasn't the one he was expecting. He moved slightly closer to me and I tensed, ready to run. He poked my shoulder gently and I stepped back, hissing slightly. "Lighten up would you? Why are you so mad? I said I was sorry...That incident was an accident anyways." I didn't respond. Instead I just stood there and glared at him. He poked me again, this time on my cheek. "Would you stop that?!" I snapped.

"Why should I?" He smirked and poked me on the cheek again.

I clenched my fists. "Stop poking me!" I screamed.

Ra laughed, "Then how about this?" And with that he leaned foward and kissed me on the forehead.