Twisting Shadows and Deadly Darkness

[Kanraku Tenma]

OoC: This is my first character fic, please keep all comments to a pm until I say otherwise. This fic will totally reform my only character, Keldar.

BiC:The sun reached down its golden hands and shook me awake. All I cared about at that moment was getting breakfast. Had I known what would soon happen to me, I would have slept in. I walked down the stairs and waved hello the kind innkeeper. The innkeeper appeared to be a woman of about forty, she had a smile on her face as she waved back and handed me a tray of eggs. Her thick, powerful hands and arms could carry over ten trays at one time.

I grinned as I ate my eggs, thinking how much better they taste when they’re free. That is what I did in every town I come to; I make friends with the innkeeper and as a result get free food. I rely on my friendliness to get out of paying because of my almost complete lack of money.

“How much will I have to pay for this lovely visit?” I asked, knowing the answer.

“For you, it’s free,” the innkeeper replied as she gathered my tray.

“Thank you,” I said as I walked outside of the inn and resumed my travels.

I walked from the village to the forest and began a leisurely stroll through its dense plant life. Light played games with the vibrant yellows and oranges of the forest thinning leaves. The forest floor was almost completely covered in the autumn foliage. I walked for hours, completely lost in the beauty and majesty of the forest.

A light rustling sound entered my ears; I turned around and felt a sharp pain in the back of my head. As my world went dark I heard muffled voices mocking me and saw large figures looming over me.

“You’re ours now,” I heard before I passed out.

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I woke up in a dark and dismal dungeon. My attackers stood outside of my cell, their evil eyes glinting in the dim candle light on that guard’s desk.

“Hello there,” said one of my attackers, the man wore a dark robe with the hood drawn up over his face.

“Where am I? What did you do to me?” I asked.

“You are in the dungeon of the Guild of Shadows. All we did was knock you out, but what you felt then will be nothing compared to what we are about to do to you,” the second attacker replied with a wicked grin as the door to my tiny cell opened up and the two stepped in, revealing a third man standing behind them. That man was holding a large syringe full of a sinister looking black liquid.

“Don’t worry, the sting will only last a few seconds, but the pain will last for hours,” the man with the syringe said to me as the other attackers held me against the wall.

The needle entered my skin and the mysterious liquid was injected into my body. I watched as the men left and the gate shut behind them, leaving me alone in the dark.

“The drug will cause you incredible pain for the next twenty-four hours, but it won’t begin to affect your body for another seventy-two,” the man’s voice echoed throughout the dungeon as I began to feel the first of many waves of mind numbing pain.

All night I screamed in agony as the feeling of knives being thrust into my head and body flooded my senses. I beat my fists against the wall and clawed at my face and body, trying to find the source of the horrible pain. My blood fell to the ground and mixed with my tears of pain in the center of the cell.

Finally it was over, the pain subsided into a dull throbbing and I immediately fell asleep in the cot provided for me in my cell. My dreams were filled dark creatures raiding villages and twisting the shadows into violent forms, using them to kill innocent civilians. I watched in horror as thousands died and the creatures danced in blood, laughing like small children.

OoC: So basically the drug will alter Keldar's genetic structure over the next few posts. If you have any comments or suggestions, please pm me.

[Kanraku Tenma]

IC:I woke up with a cold sweat covering my face. I looked to my right and found a letter on the wall of my cell. I got up and read the note.

You have survived the pain, but the madness is just beginning. The next twenty-four hours will be filled with wild illusions, good luck.

When I finished reading the note, it melted in my hands and turned into a squirrel. The squirrel jumped out of the cell and exploded, sending brown fur everywhere.

“What is happening to me?!” I screamed as the fur joined together, forming a giant eye.

The eye turned towards me and blinked using an unseen eyelid. The eye melted into itself and formed a cube; the cube had several tiny people living inside of it. I watched in an odd mixture of fear and confusion as the people got out and began attacking me.

“Eraweb eht drol fo swodahs! Eraweb eht drol fo swodahs! Eraweb eht drol fo swodahs!” the tiny humans chanted as they began stabbing me with tiny knives.

The knives turned into gold and melted into my skin. My arm became solid gold and fell off, a new one immediately growing back. The world around me melted into nothingness as I vomited and fell into the revolting puddle on the floor. Hot bile filled my nose and mouth, tasting like old eggs mixed with urine.

After many hours of drug induced hallucinations and vomiting I fell asleep on the floor. My dreams were filled with the whispers of the wind and the rustling of leaves. I could see a deserted village, skeletons littered the streets and wolves and bats roamed freely thorough the houses and streets. A lone man walked through the streets, absent-mindedly kicking a rock while whistling a sad tune. The man looked at me and waved hello.

“Enjoy tomorrow, it is your last day you will ever see as a miserable little half-demon,” the man said to me as my dream ended. I woke up and threw up on the floor; I looked up at the wall and found an open door in the darkness. I walked up to it and, not knowing if it was real or not, stepped inside.

OoC: The next post is the final day of the drug, a day that will change Keldar's life forever... dun dun dunnnn!

[Kanraku Tenma]

IC: The room was indeed real, the cold stone floor made me shudder when it made contact with my bare feet. The room was dark and dismal, resembling my cell in many ways. I looked to my left and right, but could see nothing but darkness. I wandered blindly in the darkness, hitting the walls and stubbing my toes on the random rocks on the floor. After what seemed like hours of stumbling in the darkness, my eyes adjusted and I was able to see a man standing a few feet away from me.

The man appeared to completely blend into the shadows, I could not tell where the darkness ended and he began.

“Hello Keldar. I trust you are enjoying your stay here at my humble home,” the man said in a dark, cruel tone.

“You bastard,” I said, unable to think of anything better, “why did you trap me here?”

“A simple reason, I am getting old. I should die within months, and I need an heir,” the man said as he pulled out a dart from his pocket.

“And what makes you think I would want to be your heir?” I asked as the man threw the dart into my arm.

A tranquilizer entered my bloodstream and I began to feel lightheaded.

“It is not what you want, my dear boy, it is what I want,” the man said as the world around me turned black.

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I woke up strapped to a large chair, a strange old man was brushing a stinging liquid on my back. I could feel the mysterious liquid meld with my skin, and I could hear the man begin chanting something.

My eyes snapped open when I realized what he was saying. The man was applying some sort of binding mark on me, most likely to get me to do the Lord of Shadows biding. I shot a blast of dark magic at the man, but I could tell that my power had significantly decreased. I quickly freed myself from my bindings and began running toward the door, I could see light on the other side.

[Kanraku Tenma]

IC: After many months of training and wandering, I have finally mastered the use of my new powers. My previous powers are gone, even my body seemed to have changed since that dreadful day. I seem to be a creature of shadows; even my blood is made of it. I found that I can use this new power… this Shadow Energy, as I call it, to manipulate my body and shadows to do amazing things.

I wandered into a town, a place where I could interact with other beings for the first time in months. I looked at a window, studying my reflection. I was taller than before, probably by a good six inches. I was significantly more muscular, but not bulging with muscles. I looked like I could hold my own in a fight. My skin was tanned a bit more, I was looking less like a creep every day.

I noticed my robes were tattered and worn, the rope belt now wet and slightly green. I walked into the nearest store and used what remained of my money to buy some new ones, along with a nice sash to hold it together. I pulled my hood up and began to walk towards the edge of the village.

I had not merely chosen this village at random; I had a stop to make. I looked up at the dilapidated shack that stood before me. I knocked on the door and opened it, waving hello to the short balding man that stood before me. To any human he would appear to be your average blacksmith, but to my trained eyes I could see he was a great and famous demon smith.

“Did you have what I asked you to make?” I asked, referring to a letter I had sent him a few weeks ago.

“Yes, it is ready. It was a challenge to find the same material used on your sword, and even harder to create the chainmail without touching it. But I have it, it is on the table,” the demon said as he walked back to his work, a simple pair of horseshoes.

I looked at the chainmail on the table; it shone like the silver color of my blade. As I watched it I felt bad that nobody would see it under my robes. I took my robes off and put the mail on, I felt it bond with my soul and mind, just like the katana. I put my robes back on over it and walked away.

“What about my payment?” the demon asked.

“Oh right, here,” I said as I threw my old and now useless cape at him.

“Thanks, I have been waiting for this for years,” he said as he caught it.

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Now that my training is done for now, there is nothing for me to do besides resume my quest for knowledge and wisdom. I stroked my newly grown beard as I pondered this, a habit that I had developed recently. I flew away from town using my new powers, the shadows from the clouds giving me incredible energy.

Maybe I will return to the Dome, meet some old friends, or I could adventure a bit, and make some new ones. To be honest, I didn’t really care. All I wanted was something to test my new abilities on, new abilities that don’t come from any other person than me. I am Keldar, the Shadow Weilder.

OoC: There, it is over now. I'm gonna post my new update for Keldar. I know it sucked, but still, it was my first fic ever.

[Orochimaru]

Woooooow read MY char and see how much he stinks!!!!!!!But yours Really rocks no sarcasm here seriously

[Kanraku Tenma]

Originally Posted by Ganon_The_Poe

Woooooow read MY char and see how much he stinks!!!!!!!But yours Really rocks no sarcasm here seriously

... seriously? I like your character, I don't see many gorons around this site.