Sin Harvest

A crooked smile adorned my face as I walked towards my apartment. With my enhanced senses I was easily able to hear the conversation happening in an old van that was parked on the street in front of my apartment.

Instead of moving toward my place, once the van doors opened I turned left down the street that crosses mine, just before getting to my apartment.

The figures that jumped out of the van began chasing after me. They turned the corner and continued chasing but only a fleeting figure could be seen as I turned down another street.

"He's running! He must have spotted us. Troy use your ability to catch him!" Mark yelled to his goons as he ran. The figure of Troy blurred and he could barely be seen after he started moving.

I stood still in the middle of an old parking lot. This lot wasn't used much and was secluded with buildings surrounding it on 3 sides. There was only one entrance and there was not much visibility from the street. The perfect place for this.

Troy had caught up to me and followed me into the lot. "Where are you running off to trash? Wait there quietly while Mark and the others catch up.

"Of course, I wont start the party when all the guests of honor haven't arrived yet..." I mumbled to myself.

"Huff...Hufff... Got you... now." Mark and the rest didn't have the same stamina or speed as Troy and were a little out of of breath when they got there.

"You caused me this much trouble. You'll pay for it. Surround him!" He ordered his goons to circle around me. They fully intended to beat me to death.

"Idiot! You ran right into this place and got yourself cornered. You can only blame yourself for how dumb you are." Mark mocked me.

"I'm not the one that walked into a trap... Idiot!" At my words the thugs all looked at each other before laughing.

"Oh, we are so scared..."

"This trash..."

"We're shaking in our boots. hahaha!"

As they jeered at me, I didn't respond any further. Instead I took a look at the ground around us. Several puddles of black water were on the ground, and I knew talking anymore was pointless.

I had focused my sight and my vision changed. The guys around me all had dark halos. Mark's halo was light red and the others had colors between dark yellow and orange. I remembered Henry the serial killer had a very dark red halo and I couldnt imagine these colors represented as much sin as his but they certainly were not colors meaning goodness.

"Enough! Let's end this." Mark ordered and they all started cracking thier knuckles and getting closer to me. One of them summoned a little dog creature and it bared its fangs at me.

"You have this coming..." I muttered. As the guys were about to start thier assault on me, black spikes shot out from below on the ground around them, startling them all.

They had decent reflexes and I manage to pierce 3 of them, and one of those was struck through the chest killing him instantly.

"What... the fuck?!"

"Argh! It... hurts!"

The two that got impaled on thier legs and stomach were groaning on the ground then the spikes dissolved and the black water slithered back into me through my feet.

"You got a power?! H-how?" Mark was stunned, this was the furthest thing from what he thought was gonna happen. He looked at me with gritted teeth and anger in his eyes. "Fuck you! Troy, try to catch him while I shoot my ice!"

Troy who was fast had managed to easily dodge the black spike, but seeing his friend die had left him shocked and fearful. "Uh.. I... O-okay." He answered in a stupor and then slapped his own cheeks to get himself focused.

Troy ran toward my left, I could barely see his blur. In response I split myself like an amoeba and had my doppelganger take him on.

"Clone?! What kind of fucking power...?" Mark was shocked and his thoughts in turmoil. But he still summoned a row of icicles and shot them at my main body. But fear started taking over him as he saw the icicles pass through me leaving no wounds.

"Hahahaha, is that all you got?" I split two more doppelgangers from myself and had them go finish off the two injured guys. The guy that summoned the dog beast was the first to have died and his beast disappeared with his death. The two injured have super strength and fire abilities but neither of those could hurt my clones.

I walked slowly towards Mark as Troy fought my first clone and the other two guys were being slaughtered by the other clones.

"You!..." Mark glared furiously at me and started throwing ice needles without holding back. Each needle passed through my body, creating a ripple.

I decided to use my Dark Transformation(Aka Slime Boi) for the finale. Mark kept throwing ice needles and was starting to look exhausted. Meanwhile my clones had killed the two injured guys and had surrounded Troy in order to combat his speed, his death was imminent.

"Fuck!... Why wont you just dieeee!" Mark was beginning to feel very scared. His men were butchered and he was almost depleted of his energy.

"Sorry... Its time to end this..." He heard my voice and chills ran up his spine. I was already close to him and I pointed my finger at his leg.

*zzzpew*

A Dark Bullet compressed at my fingertip and then exploded at a high speeds. Mark didn't even get to see what happened as the moment I pointed my finger at him, his right leg exploded at his knee.

"Argh! ahhh... fuck! Ahh!" He shrieked in pain and I was worried his cries would attract a witness so I stood over him and said.

"You took my life, and even thought to try and take it again. Congratulations, you've won your prize for playing such stupid games..."

He whimpered and started to beg but before he could finish, my body changed into a black mass of dark water and engulfed him. His screams were quite literally drowned out as he thrashed about trying to escape the black water.

Troy had already been killed just before when one of my clones skewered him though the chest with a black tentacle.

After a useless struggle, Mark had suffocated and joined his friends. But that didn't mean the punishment was over...

A tiny black hound jumped from my shadow once the battle had concluded. I released Mark's body and I transformed back into my human form.

"Not bad, Kid. You were even holding back." Kreig was mildly impressed by my performance. Before I finished up here, I decided to ask. "The halos of these guys were all different colors than the first guy. What's the difference between them?"

He didn't waste time and told me. "The colors of the halos represent the level of corruption or sin that a person bears. White would be a clean soul, whereas Black would be a rotten one. The darker the shade of color, the heavier the sins they carry. The colors don't become lighter either just because someone repents or changes thier ways. The halo is like a permanent record of the amount of pain they have caused others. Any other questions noobie?"

"No, that answers them except one. So most of these guys were evil and one of them had a yellow halo so he must not be good but maybe he wasn't evil?"

"Absorb his soul and you can see his sins for yourself and then make the judgement."

I looked over at the bodies on the ground and then began claiming the souls. The shadows writhed as they were pulled from their bodies and tried to struggle before being sucked into my inner pond.

After pulling them in I realised I didn't have to manually absorb them in the water like before, it worked automatically like when food goes into a stomach.

A torrent of images flashed through my mind and reignited my anger towards these fellows. Rape, murder, arson, theft... It was mostly what I expected to find but even the guy with the yellow halo had assaulted multiple women and had even stabbed a guy to death. They definitely deserved this.

I stole the money out of thier wallets before leaving and also thought up with a new skill as I would be needing it very soon.

Dark Mimicry- Change face, body and sound to mimic any person or creature. Doesn't use up energy and lasts as long as User wishes it to.