shadow eater

They say the world is unfair to everyone, but I say that the world is a bitch who loves some and hates some.

My name is Ahmad, and I live in Nashel City. It's world-renowned for its advances in technology and safety, but the truth is that it's a shitty place to live. Most of the people who visit don't come to my part of the city, so they don't know about the dangers that hide in the shadows of this city.

When I was growing up, I had a nice life. I lived in a pretty good place, my family had a good life, and a lot of friends. But now, after their death, I understood that life is not as good as it is. After their accident, some people came to our house and took everything from my inheritance to the whole house.

I thought that it was to check if there was something wrong with their death, but it turns out that some officials wanted the money to continue living their good life. After that, I understood that what my parents told me about if you do something good, good things will come your way was a lie.

Or they were just naive to not understand that the world is just having its own sick kind of fun in our life and some others.

Now I live in an abandoned old school bus. I had to make my body stronger to not get robbed or sick and die in this miserable place. I tried to do good things in the beginning of my life here, but I just turned into a chore boy for the homeless people like myself. After I found out about what they were doing to me, I got so angry.

I knew I can't do anything to them since they had powers and I still don't. So, I started to train my body and steal anything that I can get a use out of it was hard at first but after some time it got more comfortable to me like it's my nature.

Now I stand in front of the machine that awakens the power or as the people call it "alpha generator." It's a big machine with something like a bed with all kinds of tubes connecting to it with a light blue liquid inside them.

After I got inside, the liquid started pouring inside. At first, I didn't feel anything, but after what felt like a minute, it started to burn. I felt like my flesh was getting taken away and then replaced with another, but I knew I shouldn't scream because if I swallow that liquid, it is going to kill me.

After about five minutes, it stopped, and the door of the machine opened. As I was going to take a step forward, I saw my skin, which turned from brown to black, and not the normal black, no, it was like coal. As I tried to touch it, it started to crumple.

After that, the door opened for a man to walk in. He was watching from outside. He opened his mouth to say, "I don't know how to say this, but we don't know what was the power you got, but the machine did give it a name, which was shadow eater. So if you would come with me to test it, please."

As he said those words, I could feel the power within me try to go on a rampage. I don't know what it is, but that's what I wanted too. I knew that every power depended on the user's personality, but I didn't know that it had a will of its own.

After I followed the man in the doctor coat, he took me to an empty room with a man standing before me and said, "Try your power on him. He has the D rank power, Marcel artist, so he has a strong psyche, so he won't get hurt by you."

I know the basics of my power as everyone who gets his or her power gets the knowledge of how to use the basics like it was breathing. But if they thought that my power could amount to something, I will have to go through tests to find my weak points, so I have to make it look as worthless as I can.

My power comes with 4 basic uses, which are:

1. Shadow beat: You can use your body or your shadow to attack someone.

2. Life steal: You can either take away a little of someone's strength for half an hour by eating some of that person's shadow or take parts of their shadow out if your target is either a little stronger than you or weaker and make them feel the pain of losing that part.

Note: For the second part, if the light is redirected, the shadow will reform.

3. Shadow step: Move between shadows.

4. Shadow sub-space: You can either stay in it or make it a storage space.