C65 Shadow Dimension

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As they passed through the portal, they're met with a universe of different shades of grey. No floors or ceilings. Just an endless sea of grey in every direction.

"So... how do we tell if the dimension has a ruler or not? We're not just going to start floating in a random direction, are we?" Tom asks as he floats beside his teacher.

"No, I'm going to meditate and attune myself to this dimension. Once I've attuned myself to it, I'll spread my senses out and see if I sense anything." She says and Tom looks at her funny for a moment.

"Wait, you're telling me that you will sense everything in this entire dimension?" Tom asks unbelievably.

"Don't underestimate your teacher. I can do a great many things and in the future so will you. You just need to keep diligently practicing and you'll find that the mystic arts only become more grand and complicated as you advance forward." She says and Tom looks at her in awe for a moment.

"Sometimes I forget that you're the strongest human on planet earth. It's times like this that I'm reminded that my old bald teacher is actually very skilled." Tom says matter of factly and the Ancient One's eyebrow twitches.

She can only remain stoic for so long. Sooner or later, Tom is going to call her old and bald and she's going to trap him in a hell dimension as punishment. She would let him out after a while, of course. Though maybe she should let it sink in for a while before releasing him?

While pondering hellish punishments for her loose-lipped student, the Ancient One started meditating and attuning herself with the shadow dimension.

Tom had no idea what to do while waiting, so he meditates as well. The wait for his spirit animal to reveal itself has gone on long enough. He entered his inner world and found a nice spot in the forest to meditate in.

Tom gets lost in the trance of meditation as he closes his eyes and lets everything go. No thoughts enter his mind as he loses all track of time.

While meditating in a forest surrounded by nature, Tom sat unmoving with his eyes closed as he breaths in and out.

Suddenly, the bushes to his left start ruffling. Tom hears this but doesn't react as that could scare away his spirit animal. Soon the bushes stop making noise and he could hear something drawing closer.

After a moment of waiting with anticipation, he feels something slither its way into his lap. Tom couldn't take it anymore and opened his eyes.

In front of him is a pure white snake with a red underbelly and red eyes to match. Tom isn't an expert on snakes but he knows that this one is definitely albino.

(A/N: I was going to do a wolf but I thought that I should stick with the snake theme I've been going with.)

"~Hello?~" Tom says but the snake doesn't reply.

Suddenly, the snake coils itself back and launches at Tom. He was taken by complete surprise as the snake jumped, but it didn't bear its fangs at him. The snake simply aimed its head at Tom's chest and pounced.

As it collided with his chest, the white and red snake was absorbed into Tom completely. As it did this, Tom's mind became turbulent and he was thrown out of his inner world.

When he returned to the shadow dimension, Tom could feel his astral body morphing extremely slowly. He was shrinking and changing. If Tom guessed correctly, then he was shifting into his Animagus form.

A problem arose as Toms astral form has no wizard type magic in it. This is the reason for the incredibly slow pace the change is going at. He had nothing to support his first shift into his spirit animal and it was starting to feed on the energy of his astral form.

This is not good as using the energy of his astral form will shorten his lifespan. In this short amount of time, Tom has already lost four months of his life.

In a panic to not lose the precious time he has to live, Tom starts looking for another place to fuel the change. What better place than the dimension filled with shadows he's currently in?

Without thinking too much into it, Tom starts drawing on the shadow dimension. Due to him literally being surrounded by said dimension, the flood gates opened and shadows came pouring in. The surrounding shadows began to congregate around Tom and were absorbed to power his Animagus change.

Suddenly, the change quickened and Tom started morphing at a much faster pace. Except there is something wrong with his animal form.

The once albino snake is being tainted by the shadows of this dimension. Its white scales are dyed a dark grey as the red of its underbelly becomes completely black. The only thing left red on the entire snake is the bright red eyes matching Toms completely.

As Tom completed his shift into a snake, he could feel the shadows around him. They felt comfortable and relaxing as if they were a part of him. No, they felt like home. As if he wasn't in a dark shadow dimension, but laying in his bed at home.

"What do you think you're doing!?" The Ancient One exclaims, ruining Tom's moment.

She was in the middle of scanning her senses through the entire dimension. Then she started feeling a shift in the shadows and thought it could be some cosmic being. Color her surprised when she saw that the anomaly she felt originated very close to her.

When she opened her eyes, she saw a black snake and almost didn't recognized it as her student. Thankfully, it has red eyes just like Toms. That combined with the fact that she knew he has been working on becoming an animagus made everything click into place in her mind.

Tom tried to reply but as a snake, he cannot speak to her. She isn't a parselmouth, so how could she possibly understand him.

Suddenly, the shadows near them parted and a man with pale skin, long white hair, and glowing red eyes appeared. He's dressed in black gothic style leather armor with metal accents and carries a pitch-black sword in his hand.

"I am Knull. Lord of shadows. God of the Symbiotes. I know you are there. Stop hiding and come out, NOW!"