Death, despair, fear, chaos. All things the fundamental of which remains unknown to people. After all, but what can simple beings do in the face of overwhelming power besides running. They think they are so smart and strong that nothing will be able to stop them but oh! How wrong they turn out to be when it’s shown that they are not on top of the food chain. You must be wondering; how do I know all of this? Why it’s simple. I was one of these people myself. It is only when you find out what true power is that you seek to avoid it. But how to avoid such power? Once again, the answer is simple. You take it for yourself. Though I might be content now it won't be like that for everyone because after all everyone is not born equal. However even among these creatures there are a few who just might turn out to be extraordinary, let us take a look at one of them but before we do that be warned. This story will not have a happy ending.

At first it was just another ordinary afternoon with the sun shining down brightly and the streets of the town as usual at this point of time being deserted. A boy could be seen walking down next one of these streets, his path would lead him to cross the road next to the town fountain, a big structure with a large statue of a fish on top. This fish statue would be spewing water from four openings on each side of it with the water falling into the mouths of four smaller fish’s statues on a pedestal below it. These fishes would then periodically one by one turn to the side and spew the water further below. Occasionally however two of the fishes who were adjacent to one another would turn to the side so that they were facing each other and spew water to the opposite side. One such scenario was happening right now as the boy would stop next to the town fountain and pant for a moment catching his breath. "Phew I guess school really does suck oh well at least now I have Christmas vacation for a bit." Saying so he would remove his bag to stretch his shoulders for a bit in order to remove the stiffness out of them, he would be in the middle of doing this when he would suddenly see something out of the corner of his eye. At first, he would blink once then twice to make sure that he wasn't seeing things. But then what other explanation could he give for what he was seeing. What appeared to be a floating black mass would be zipping down the nearby street heading into the empty alley lanes beyond it.  The boy would pause for a moment thinking "Am I really just seeing things or did something actually slip down that lane over there well whatever it is maybe I shouldn't bother after all it could be anything and I am worrying too much”. Saying so the boy would move to pick up his schoolbag to go on home but would pause momentarily. He didn't know why but something within him felt like going after that black mass, thus with a deep breath he would run in the direction he had seen the black figure go. He would emerge into the alley lanes and would look for the figure, however he needn’t have looked for long as he saw the figure in a lane almost adjacent to him with its back turned to him. The boy would quickly hide behind the wall and slowly peek out at the figure, now that he was able to take a better look at it, he realized it was more than a floating black mass. It was somewhat humanoid as it had two long, thin protruding arms one of which was clutching some strange looking device, and as it glanced a little way to the side, he managed to see that its eyes were completely white, a mouth could also be visible however that’s where the similarities ended. Below its waist where the lower body should have been was simply replaced by a thin extension of its blackness ending in something like a tail. As the boy was processing all this, he would barely stiffen a gasp as the figure spoke while looking at the device “The one I am chasing I can tell I am getting close” before slowly moving down another side lane with the boy slowly following still not being able to believe his eyes. He would once again hide himself behind the wall and peeking from the side as the black figure would stop shortly in front of the dead end of the lane.

The boy would be debating what to do when the figure would suddenly speak “Come on out now” making him freeze up for a moment and inwardly thought “Oh no! He must have sen-“before he would once again pause as he noticed something emerge from the shadows in front of the wall. What emerged would be a creature not much taller than the black figure with wings stretching to its side, on it’s face he could see a sneering look as it faced the black figure who would say “I have finally caught you you can’t run anymore now come quietly and don’t bother the human world any longer.” The winged creature would pause for a moment as if in thought before its sneer grew bigger “Nah I don’t think I will” before it formed a ball of energy in its mouth and fired it at the black figure who would put out a hand in front of it easily dissipating it. The winged creature would then form a bigger ball of energy and fired it again but the black figure would easily disperse it with his hand again before saying “My turn”. As he said a change in the winds could be noticed as they got heavier and would slam the winged creature against the wall buffeting it hard. “No, I won’t let you catch me” said the winged creature as it tried to ride the winds and go up however, it wouldn’t get far as the black figure would put out his hand again and a small blue aura would surround the winged creature as it would suddenly stop in its tracks and struggle to move. “You need to stop resisting you should be able to see you can’t win” said the black figure as the boy who was still watching from the side would whisper quietly to himself “I have no idea what is going on but it seems cool I better keep watching”. As he did, he would see the winged creature smirk at the black figure and say “You fell right into my trap” and saying so a strange symbol would appear beneath the black figure who would look down at it and got a small look of panic on his face as chains would appear from it and would wrap around him tightly binding him.

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Now free from the hold of the black figure the winged creature would fly towards the black figure saying “I was lucky to get my hands on this item even a supernatural of your class will not be able to break free from it easily now what were you saying about needing to stop resisting?” as the black figure would struggle against the chains while glaring at the winged creature. The boy would contemplate what to do, he had no idea what exactly was going on but it seemed that the figure was in trouble, he couldn’t sense any malice coming from the figure but could sense it from the winged creature. Moreover, there was no way he could ignore someone in need of help thus without thinking he would suddenly run forward and jump up tackling the winged creature hard “Leave him alone!”. The winged creature would be taken by surprise and knocked against the wall momentarily stunned as the boy would land. The black figure would look at him in shock and say “You can see me human?!” “I guess I can hehe” said the boy chuckling “Just hang on I will try and break these chains” saying so he would start tugging at one as hard as he could. “Look I am grateful for you trying to help but you need to run from here as fast as you can besides a simple human like you won’t be able to break these chains-“said the black figure but suddenly he would be cut off as the boy would managed to break one of the chains. “Phew that took the wind out of me don’t worry I will-” but he was cut off as the winged creature would come flying back and grabbing the boy would throw him hard against the wall. The boy would hit the wall hard and slowly slide down unable to move as the winged creature would land in front of him “Its interesting a mere human like you can see but I think you need to know your place you should not have interfered in our business”. The winged creature would lift him up by the collar of his shirt but before he could do anything else he would suddenly pause as he suddenly couldn’t move anymore causing him to drop the boy. Behind the winged creature the black figure would be standing with his hand outstretched completely free of the chains “You have talked enough now then” saying so he would pull the winged creature close to him despite its struggles “Time to go back!”. Saying so he would coat his hand in an aura and touching the creature who would scream loudly before disappearing. The boy would look up weakly only semi-conscious due to the blow on him as the black figure would face him saying “I must thank you for your help human you breaking that one chain was enough to weaken the rest enough for me to break free of them”. The boy would weakly smile saying “No problem” before attempting to get up but would stumble and fall down unconscious. The black figure would look at him saying “Oh dear normally I could just heal you and wipe your memories of this encounter but you might be an interesting one for starters I should get you home.