The Life of a Shadow

Chapter 7

    I stare blankly at the picture, not believing it.

   "B-but he... I thought he told me everything..." I sigh and I wipe away a tear before it rolled down my cheek. I put the picture back into the drawer. I stand up and walk out of my room.

   I see Tiffany in the kitchen, "Hey I gotta go, well... I'm gonna go kill a few of the city watch. I don't wanna talk about it. I'll see you later..." Before she can respond I'm out of the door and disappearing in the shadows.

    Hello Dark One how may we assist you? I smile as I hear the shadows after I appear on a roof a few streets away. I lean my head over the edge, looking at the outpost the city has set up.

   This one is one of the older ones so if the city lost it they wouldn't care really. Well they shouldnt anyways, besides this place has nothing but plague victims... They only have the out post up so that no more victims will get in side.

    I grin, "May I use you as I wish for a while?" I ask the shadows and I hear them chuckle. God everything I talk to sounds like a demon... I think to myself with a smile.

   Of course Dark One. We are your's to command. I nod my head.

   "Thank you. How many are down there? And what is their weapons? Pistols or their rods?" I grin at the last part and I shake my head.

    They have pistols and there are fifteen of them. I nod my head again and I form a bow, with the quiver on my back full of black arrows, all of them have black mist coming off of them. I smile and notch an arrow, pulling it back and aiming at a bull wearing the same uniform as the bear a few days ago. I giggle and I let out a small whistle. The arrow tip turns crimson and starts to glow softly. I let the string go and the arrow flies though the air, hitting the bull in his chest but it goes through him as if he weren't there.

    I grin as I see him fall to his knees, his chest rising and falling fast. I let out a giggle as blackness starts to move over his body, starting from where the arrow went in. I giggle as my eyes turn crimson, glowing softly like the arrow. The bow and quicker disappear as I stand up. I hear the bull yell as others start to come out the door of the outpost.

   I run over and jump onto the roof of the next building with ease, forming black daggers, each being a foot long, in each of my paw. I rub over with light foot steps to the edge of the roof, looking over it and I grin as I see I'm above the outpost.

    I jump down onto the top of it,not making even the smallest of sounds as I land. I grin and jump down off of it, landing a bit to the side and using the shadows to make myself unseen.

   Most of them are standing over the bull trying to find out what is wrong with him as he pants hard, while the others look along the roads an above them to see if they can find who shot him. I grin and stand up, running at a zebra that is looking down the street. I slide one of my daggers across his throat, making blood spatter the ground as he falls. I throw one of my daggers at a donkey as he turns and looks at me after I take the shadows away from my body, the dagger hitting him in his chest where his heart is and coming out the other side. He falls down as the rest of the guards turn to look at me.

   "Hello, boys. Care ta have fun?" I say with a grin as the all pull put their pistols and point them at me. I just laugh at them, "Do you really think your fancy blow-pipes will do anything to me?" One of them fire at me and I jerk my body to the side, my body blurring as the bullet hits the stone wall behind me. I flick my wrist and the dagger pierces his chest, his body falling onto the ground.

   "Oh God... Its one of those freaks that started to show up after the plague hit!" A bulldog with a scar leading down his face and a white eyes says.

   I look over at him, "Oh I don't think so... I've been around longer then any of them... I've just been hiding in the dark, quite literally actually. And I've had enough of people trying to control others. Now shut up and do your best to shot me if you'd like. Either way... I'll be the one going home tonight..."

    I bring my foot up and I knock the gun from the nearest guard's paw before he can pull the trigger and I yank his body, pulling him in front of me as they all shot. I use his body as a shield, the bullets just getting stuck in him or in his armor. I kick his body forward, making him hit someone as I use my dagger to stab the guard that rushed at me in his heart.

   I jump up and kick one in his jaw, using shadow to make his body go flying back. I throw one of my daggers again, hitting someone in the stomach with the end of the blade sticking out the back of his body. The remaining guards step back, pointing their pistols at me once again.

    I form the daggers again, "Honestly... Just fall over will ya?" I say as I throw both daggers, hitting two in the chest as I jump back, flipping as they shot at me.

    The last six guards look at me with fear in their eyes, the bull dog at the back of them.

   I grin and look at them, my eyes glowing brighter as the shadows start to move behind the guards.

   "Seems I have you surrounded... Drop your weapons and I will make your deaths quick." I say to them.

    "I'll drop my weapon to no mutt!" A bear at the front says and I laugh.

    "Oh you'll regret calling me that..."I say after I stop laughing. I rush forward, my body blurring as I grab the pistols from the front two and I use their guns to shoot them, throwing them at a horse in front of me. He staggers back and I run up his body, using his head to throw my self forward. I plant my paws firmly on the ground as he falls back, I grab his head and I throw him forward, using the momentum I gained. He hits two other guards and they all slam against the out post 's metal walls. Leaving me and the bull dog alone.

   "Don't think you will be able to take care of me so easily. I'm not like them..." the bull dog says as he throws his gun to the side. He holds out his paw towards me and I feel the road under me cracking.

   "Oooh this is going to be fun!" I say before flipping back as large thorn covered vines burst from the ground.

   They start wiping towards me but I dodge everyone. I giggle as I use the shadows to make a double of myself, letting the vines grab the double,holding it up in the air and squeezing it. I turn my body into shadow and I run towards the bull dog as he grins at the double. I slow down as I get closer to him, stopping behind him. I turn my body to normal and form a dagger.

    The double disappears as I wrap one of my arms around his throat, pulling him back onto the dagger as his eyes get wide in shock. I let his body fall to the ground as the light leave a his eyes.

   "Oh that was fun." I giggle and look down at my watch. "Well... it seems like it is time ta go ta Kit's place..."I giggle and look at the bodies on the ground.

   "Sorry my brothers and sisters but I would prefer if you left their bodies here. And thank you for your help." I say to the shadows before they surround my body, making me disappear from sight as I hear the faint sounds of running foot steps and claws on the pavement.