On that day, my entire being changed. I shouldn't start here, I should start from the beginning. I was born in a world in which people were born with special abilities. No magic, no mana, just a phenomenon in which people were able to do amazing things. Some could make their body as hard as diamond, others could control fire, some could spew poison from their mouths. Although I say some, in reality everyone had a different ability. You may be wondering my ability. I had the total unimpressive ability to control my bones. It sounds great, but i was born with a physically weak body, so it was pointless for me. Even with my extremely high intelligence, if your body is weak their is not that many choices you can make.

I was 19 years old when "That Event" happened.Today was the day I was going to see the movie "Blowing Ice" by myself. I was maybe 15 feet in front of the movie theater when it blew up. Yeah, you heard me right. Ka-Boom!! Even from the distance I was at I was still knocked backwards. I was dazed and nearly unconscious. With my weak body, this was pure hell. I looked around to see two men fighting each other in the air. The weird thing was, one of them had fire on his fingertips and he had an ice spike in the air above him!!

"A-amazing!!" I thought. "He has two unique traits!" But then, the other man had about six balls of earth and what looked to be a ball of fire surrounding them! Two people with two unique traits! This is amazing. They then began to chuck them at each other. But then out of nowhere lighting came down and struck fire and water guy! I knew it was too coincidental to be true, so my head tried to wrap around one thought.

"That man has... three unique traits!? Impossible!" I told myself. But the evidence was right in front of me. Just as i was thinking fire and water guy was going to be severely out matched, a massive golem that looked to be at least 8 meters tall appeared behind him. It was made of dirt, mud, cars and the broken surrounding buildings.

It punched the fire and earth guy with speed that belied its size, and he went flying. But then the fire and earth guy came back to the same spot with incredible speed.! Even super speeders wouldn't come back that fast. I suddenly felt a massive presence ascend around me. I noticed that the two men were glowing brighter and with the looks of it more powerful.

"How are they doing this!! Where can I get power like this?" I thought to myself.  The two men charged at each other and smashed head on. Instantly cracks appeared around them.

"Oh my god" I thought. "What's happening?" The cracks shattered to reveal a completely black hole that seemed to suck even light itself into it. The men were fighting again, but I scarcely used the word men on them. They seemed to be more like gods. Just in case I made my bones as durable as possible. It would make me extremely slow but extremely tough. Actually, considering how weak my body was I wasn't even sure I could move. Not that I would want to. This fight was too amazing to miss.

The men where moving so fast that my eyes couldn't even follow and with the cracks appeared everywhere. Suddenly they appeared three feet in front of me. I was too shocked to even think about escape. It seemed like the second they appeared in front of me they disappeared, leaving only a crack that sucked everything inside of it. Instantly I felt myself being pulled into it. I tried to grab onto something but there was nothing around me. I tried to burn one last image of light into my eyes before I was sucked into the crack. I stared at the sun, attempting to imprint it into my mind before I felt myself get sucked into the crack.

The first thing I noticed was the pitch black solid ground beneath me. I looked around but I could see nothing. No matter how hard I peered nothing was revealed to me. The second thing I noticed is that I could breathe without breathing. More like I could hold my breath for 10 minuets without inhaling. Also, I noticed that I didn't need to sleep and that my body wasn't weak. I could make my bones hard as possible and still move at the same speed. I didn't how long I was going to be in the darkness, so I decided to train.

The reason I was weak in the past was due to the fact that when my adrenaline started pumping, my heart was so weak that it couldn't handle it. But here, no matter how hard I ran or jumped or did anything that felt like it would strain my body, nothing happened.

At first i was worried that I was dead but a quick check of my pulse bellied that thought. I had always been a martial arts fan and my mother was a fanatic about them so she had shown me all of her skills, then gave me books about the martial arts she wasn't strong enough to do. With my Edietic memory I could perfectly remember them. So i trained in all martial arts I could remember, perfecting them and sometimes completely changing them. No matter how hard I trained, I never felt any stress.

I don't know how long I was in that darkness before I began to see thing. Years, centuries, seconds and minuets it all felt the same to me. The things I saw, I can't tell if they were real or not. Sometimes I would see a glimpse of red amongst the darkness, sometimes I would hear voices that seemed like they were right behind me. I felt images that weren't mine appear in my brain. I finally recognized that I was going crazy.

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Once I finished mastering martial arts, I decided to train with a sword. Since It still seemed like I had no chance of getting out of here, I had nothing better to do. During the time I was training, I had gained freakish control over my bones. Originally I was different from other people in the first place. while other people have 270 bones at birth then decrease to around 200 after reaching adulthood, I had 389 at birth and it only continued to grow. At 19 years old I had 720 bones in my body. Most of them had fused together but with my freakish control over my body I was able to separate and control them. I forced a rib cage bone out of my body into the shape of a sword and  then began to train. I had no knowledge of sword training as my mother thought weapons were for weaklings, so I had to train from scratch.

Almost every day hundreds of images flowed into my brain showing a world that was completely different than mine. Images of a world with magical beast's such as dragons, unicorns, gods and goddesses. I learned of the power called "Mana" and the amazing things you could do with it. I assumed that the people who came into my world were originally from this world and had somehow transported themselves into my world.

The whole time I received images like this they were in the viewpoint of a girl named Clarissa Monique Von Alvenstead. She was a massively powerful mage who was aligned with the power of darkness, yet used it for good deeds. She healed people with darkness, using it to stick her wounds. Eventually she gained so much power and respect that even the gods began to fear her. They came down to earth themselves and attempted to kill her. But Clarissa was far more powerful than they thought. Out of the ten that went down to earth to kill her, seven of them had their power absorbed and the only reason that they managed to kill her is due to the fact that she had gained so much power she couldn't control it. This is as far as the memories had showed me, and after this they stopped coming completely, so after this I trained again.

If I was any judge of time, It was about a 100 years later when I first heard the voice.

"Can you hear me now?" I instantly turned around and on self reflex shot my fingertip bones out at the voice.

"Haha, I will take that as a yes." the voice said. It was obvious that I had missed my shot, or that it hadn't done any damage to it. I hadn't talked in a while so it took me a couple of minuets to remember how to speak.

"Who...are...you" I said in a voice that sounded alien to my ears. The voice laughed behind me again in a feminine voice.

"I am being that gained far too much power and became something horrendous in the process." Gears turned in my head and before I could stop myself I said

"Are you Clarissa Monique von Alvenstead?" The voice shuddered in an almost orgasmic like gasp.

"It.. has been so long since I have heard that name be uttered." Instantly the darkness in front of me transformed. In front of me stood a being with only rags covering it's body. A pair of glowing eyes appeared beneath the top of the rags.

"What are you?" I asked.

"I am an Embodiment and power of the girl named Clarissa Monique Von Alvenstead. I am what mortals call a.... Shade."

Before I most likely would have been scared out of my wits, but after knowing that a whole nother world was out there, nothing really surprised me anymore.

"Can you get me out of here?" I asked, hoping to finally leave this eternal void of darkness.

"That I can... But you must accept a dark price in order to do so."

"Well there isn't that much worse than going insane with nothing to do except stare at darkness. I accept"

"Oh mortal...there are things much worse than this. Are you sure you wish to accept without knowing the consequences?"

"Fine. Enlighten me then."

"If you so accept this price, you shall be reborn into the world the images have shown you. But it shall come at a price. You will become a wraith, a being of darkness. You shall be blind, as those who have seen the void shall never see again. I will send you in the body of whomever I choose. You will also gain my power, but will never be able to use the power of light.Most of your life, there is a high chance of being alone. Beings of light shall hate you and wish to kill you when they see you.If the truth of your nature is ever revealed, the gods themselves will send you into a place far, far worse than the void. Do you still wish to accept?"

I thought about it for a minuet. Truthfully, life inside here wasn't bad. Although it was extremely lonely, the fact that I could use my body without any problems was something that I had always desired. But still, I have always been the adventurous type.

"My answer remains the same. I accept." I felt as if the dark being in front of me smiled. It came closer to me until it was in front of my face. I saw shadowy hands go to take down its hood, and in front of me was the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. I then felt a sharp pain by my heart. I looked down to see a hole running through my heart, with my blood spilling onto something that seemed to be a blade.

"Good choice" it said. I then blacked out.

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