"[Shadow Graveyard!]"
She heard the hunk call in that deep guttural voice the man had, around him the shadows started quivering as much as her legs right now, and soon with a flex of will all the shadows spread around the floor c everything in a thick c of inky dark densed shadow, it made her remember her shadows from good old times when she was [The Shadowcaster]. Good times.
“Hhmm…. If you wao get covered in your Sticky liquid you only o ask.” Said Elizabeth in a pyful tohe hunk for his part ignored her.
Maybe he was a virgin?
“[You will answer, where is My Sister?]” [Shadow Pact] said while raising his right hand in her dire.
Wait, [Shadow Pact]? He was called [Shadow Pact]?
What kind of sill….”ht, dodge.” Suddenly her body got yanked backwards and up away from the spot she had been before, c her exposed legs now you could see an intricate of shadows extending from her waist downwards, and in her upper torso, a -like shirt now stood instead of the previous tank top she had been wearing.
“Fish s and a mesh shirt?” Wondered aloud Elizabeth while looking downwards at her own body, of course, her modesty rotected since a bck brassier was c her chest showg the goods.
The hunk didn’t seem to mihough, “[Shadow Spear Barrage.]” And instead raised his hand in a motion towards her, instantly the inky substance c the floor boiled and spat a barrage of shadowy spears that flew towards her.
She didn’t react that much besides a smirk while her body was yanked all around weaviween the dangerous spears, “Hmm…Am I not your type?” Wondered aloud the girl, she was good-looking, and she was exposing quite a good amount of skin for her standards.
No wait, fishights? Check
Mesh shirt that showed her brassier? Check.
A mini skirt that didn’t cover that much? Check.
High-heels? Check.
Skin-tight gloves that go to her elbow? Check.
“Am I a whore?” Mused to herself Elizabeth, she was dressed as one if nothing else.
She could remember how much she used to admonish the secretaries that worked for [The Twelve] for their miniskirt and tight shirts…That were iy blouses now that she thought about it…Why had she thought those were shirts? She used to be such a hardass about that too… The pirls couldn’t even use makeup under her and!
“[Shadow s!]” Came the voice from the hunk while she was deep in introspe.
The shadow spears she had dodged before exploded into s that darted straight towards her, she in turn just huffed and tinued yanking her body to dodge the s oer another…She wouldn’t miing tied by one of them “If you get me into your bed I wouldn’t miing tagged… But you aren’t going to do that are you?” and said as much Elizabeth.
“e up and py with us [Shadow Puppet].” Ugh…The ge…She would reword her [Key phrase], and as soon as the words left her mouth a blob of shadows rose from her shoulder, there stood a small puppet made of inky bck wood-like texture.
The little puppet stood at attention for half a sed and with some flourish it jumped away from her, the little puppet seemed to make the hunk stop for a sed, but he refocused his attention on her, and she could feel his gaze lig (not really) her body…
That was a mistake…He should be undressing her with her eyes, instead, he only limited his attention to seeing how she was moving around while giving nominal quick looks towards her [Puppet], it was a good pn. He was leading her into a trap, she could see the shadows sneaking around creating a web that would ultimately snare her in.
“They don’t teach you well how to fight against true [Shadow] users do they Darling ??” Elizabeth said while she stood in the middle of a circle of shadow s that stantly moved around and closed into her ever so slowly.
There wasn’t enough space around them for her body to fit through, even if she was quite small (Not in the important bits mind you), adorable and flexible, but… “[Shadow Travel]” and then faster than the hunk could react the shadows covered her whole body leaving behind only her (Very good looking) silhouette, the hunk for his part reacted fast enough.
He ahe s to shoot straight at her body, but since she was already covered in shadows with the fishights and mesh shirt… The shadows only o fill the missing spots, and as such the s was done faster than he could react. From the look, it seemed that he had a fairly average spread of status since he didn’t seem to be that fast in his shadoution.
“Hmm…Are you perhaps a jack-of-all-trades?” Wondered Elizabeth appearing where her puppet had been before.
“[That shouldn’t be possible, you weren’t ected to the World’s shadow]” Said the hunk with a cute frown on his face, how did she know he had a cute frown?
She heard the tone, and that was a frowning tone, and si was the hunk, of course, it would be cute!
“Don’t worry your cute little head from that, you see…I’m [The Shadowcaster]…Or [The Stygian Bane] depending on who you ask.” She said with some flourish, pretending to ignore how the shadow s didn’t let go of her shadow puppet.
She also preteo not notice how she was imagining her body being bound by those same shadows…Or how the rest of the shadow s seemed to be sneaking below the inky shadow mass towards her new position. “And as such… I have better tricks, there was only one girl that came close to me in [Shadows] and she never looked my referred the nky Jacky boy for some reason.” Grumbled Elizabeth remembering a bck-haired Asiay…
That somehow didn’t look as appealing now in her memories as before, but why would she like a woman anyway? She was a healthy girl after all!
“Anyway!” She coughed into her hand, “My point is…I’m [special] so is [My Circus]!” She said and from her shoulders, hands, and legs started crawling out puppets oer the other by the time 18 had e out… She remembered… “Oh wait…Hmmm ?” And a pair jumped out from her chest, the little puppets sinking their hands in her breasts to pull themselves out of her, making her let out a moan from the stimution.
“Sorry about that…” Said sheepishly Elizabeth blushing a little, while she was dressing as a whore, there was a time in pce for everything! Like in tied in the bed of a motel in a few hours!
…………
“[…]” The hunk didn’t seem impressed by her performance, and instead raised his hands towards her “[Shadow Barrage]” And shot her with a deluge of shadow arrows.
This time, however, her puppets summoned swords and shields to parry the attack, “Now now, I atient enough and you didn’t seem to Man up and go for it…So don’t mind me if I do ?.” Smirked Elizabeth while lig her lips, her red eyes shining as her mana fred in her veins and fueled her puppets, whose eyes in turn brightened up red.
Oer the other started desding into the inky shadow mass that was in the floor, and when they he shadows seemed to solidify, making the hunk grunt, his stance seemed to waver for a sed before he tered himself once more.
It seemed he hadn’t expected her to test the [Shadows], maybe he was expeg her to dispel them? But why would she?
He had worked the mana to summon so much [Shadow]…And he had Pumped his mana into it, she would just Gobble up with gusto, “Thank you for the meal ?” And her shadow puppet did just that, they all sank their shadow sword into the inky mass.
It seemed the hunk had noticed what she nning to do, as he started to try and reel in his [Domain], but she wouldn’t let him go that easy “How did you say…ht… [Shadow Barrage]” she said while calling upon the Image of what he had did before with his attack, she molded her mana aended shadows from behind her bad from there, she shot a barrage of shadow spears against him.
These weren’t as well structed as the ones he had used, but they would do the work, if nothing else they would be more [Dense], “Now let’s see…[Identify]” she said while fog the mana in her eyes to see the status of the hunk.
Status
Name: Maximilian Windsor
Title: Keeper of Secrets
Alias: Shadow Pact
Level: 86
Health: 80% (Max)
Mana:65%
Stamina: 150% (Max)
Stress: 50%
dition: Where is Chloe? Isn't that Elizabeth?
Strength: 240
stitution: 100
Agility: 275
Dexterity: 275
Intelligence: 100
Wisdom: 150
Charisma: 100
Status Auto allocation active.
Unique Skill: Eternal Vow
-Subset Skills:
–Shadow Delve.
–True Strike.
–Persuasive Wit.
Well…Wasn’t that iing? The hunk wasn’t after all, a jack-of-all-trades. He seemed to be focused mostly on strength and speed, so perhaps an assassin?
This expined why his manipution of shadows was so…[Amateur], he wasn’t quite a [Gss on] and she sure as hell hoped he wasn’t a one-shot on, but he was almost 60 levels above her!
He shouldn’t be having so much trouble against her! But instead here he was trying to get her into submission using [Shadows]! Instead of using his strong and very well-built arms…He could get her in a Submission hold before she was able to blink and ???.
…No wait, he only had one skill with [shadow] in its name…how the hell was he using Shadows like this then?
“[Identify – Eternal Vow]” She intoned, making the hunk stop, she felt killing i ing her way, and that only made her shiver a little, but she mostly ig. Instead, she focused on the blue s that showed up.
Unique Skill: Eternal Vow:The ultimate possible evolution of the shadow-based skill [Shadow Bind], this skill binds the target of the skill into a binding promise with two pos, the [Promise] and [Penalty].
The Promise: This is the accord signed by the target of the skill, the target must accept be it by verbal or physical po, the promise must be stated loudly or in writing, and must be uood by the target of the skill. It is impossible to break the promise unless someoh more power than the user fights off the influence of the skill. Thanks to the Shadin of the skill the ohat wants to break the promise must either be Light-attuned or Shadow Attuhe Penalty: This will be the effect of breaking the promise, this does not o be stated in the tract signed, and while it needs mana to be fueled, it be provided by either party of the traote: The higher the stakes on the Promise the higher the penalty must be.
Note 2 Addendum: If the user makes a promise with a tract type w he limit the access he has over his own skills, in exge he boost said skills iermined situations allowing him to access facets of his skills or to make things that he shouldn’t be able to.
Current Effects:Promises:
I will not use my power over shadows directly against ahat isn’t evil, uhey are a threat to my family or friends.I will use my power to keep the secrets of those who seek my help.I will protect the world so long this does not put my family or friends at risk.Limiters:
Maximilian ’t use shadoution skills against anyone who isn’t evil or has attacked his family or friend. (Increased range and efficy of trol over the shadows, also grants the skill Shadoution)Maximilian is bound to secrecy by multiple gover bodies and powered, this is being managed by a may bound by another Promise to a remote server. (Boost to mana regeion and manipution while keepis)Maximilian is bound to fight against threats against the world. (Shadows around the world ao his call easier and faster in this world)“[What did you do?]” Asked Maximilian who seemed to want to gre at her.
Oh…Was he shy?
“Nothing, just perused your info, Max… So you are that stuck-up bitch’s son huh…” Said Elizabeth before stopping herself.
“Wait what?” Said aloud the girl, “Why did I call her stuck up?” She said while going through her memory at the old camp for [The Twelve]. Every single memory of her iions with her, somehow the feeling she got from them was different.
While she hadn’t minded her reas as Ethan, somehow how she acted and ignored her irked her, who did she think she was fn her?!?
The bitch.
“Well, ain’t that iing, it seems I hate your mom.” Said Elizabeth with a nod, “I liked her as a male, but as a female, it seems that I don’t deal well with reje…You will not reject me will you Max…will you?”
“[If you know who my mother is…Then you really aren’t Elizabeth…]” Max said with a small ugh, he then took off his mask showing his face, and ooooh man, he had all the right looks too!
Even those blue eyes of his…Wait, what?
“Blue eyes?” Said Elizabeth looking at the hunk, that shouldn’t…”That isn’t possible, my [Taint] should have spread to everyone uhis [P]!” Elizabeth said while dropping straight to the floor.
All the shadows around her solidified and then cracked with red wisps of energy running through them as if she were at the ter of a web. Max didn’t seem to care too much, “And if you aren’t Elizabeth…Then you are using her appearance for some reason, it matters not who you are, or if you truly are the Stygian Bane.” He said while throwing his mask away only for it to dissolve away.
“Tell me…did you do something to a blohunder-aligned Heroine?” He asked, his voio longer distorted into a deeper tone, but still made her shiver with his tone, also she could feel him build up his mana or something, but that wasn’t important right now! JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE ?!
“Hmm…The chick that was wearing a wig?” Asked Elizabeth remembering the girl she had fought for a few seds after waking up in this body.
That made Max’s eyes to sharpen a little, that dangerous look…Yeah, she could get used to him looking at her like that. “So this was your sister?” He once more narrowed his eyes when she summoned a window made of shadows that projected an image of the girl.
She rojeg her i into the mana struct that was the [Status] skill Alexanders had left in this body, in that roje of the girl tied by shadows, she was in one of the positions she wahe hunk to put her, so yeah…The girl was showing quite a good amount of skin.
“[I make this promise…Pg my skill at stake…I will put you down.]” His words built in his throat and somehow came into the world with a [Weight] to them. “[And I will rescue my Sister from your cws.]”
And in that, she felt something coiling around her [heart], a quick look into her mana stream showed that around her presence was a [Weight] of something trying to press down on her, following that mana she found a e to Max f.
Somehow it was almost as if [The World] had approved of that little oath.
“Tch…[You] had to mess with me again…” Spat Elizabeth turnitention once more towards Maximilian Windsor…[The Keeper of Secrets].
She wasn’t worried too much, he had been dangerous with his attacks if only because his mana was more dense, but even so she still could toy with him any day, why in her heyday he wouldn’t be able to win against her prime in stamina!
…That would be a problem if she had still her old body’s stamina…At least that wasn’t the case…But then again if she had her old body then she wouldn’t want to nail this hunk, would she?
Was she gay before? No wait…Was she now?
She didn’t get a rea from looking at women or thinking about them…And she definitely got a rea from the hunk…But…She was…She was a girl, right?
Was her soul female? But she used to be a man…No wait…Was the identity tied to the soul or the body?
“You think too much.” Was all she could hear before she felt something strike her in the abdomen, her shadows acted in a sed solidifying the area of impact to try and disperse the impact across her body to minimize the damage. And the shadows in her back tried to reinforce her back before it hit a building.
She mao e plenty of the damage, and her shadows protected her from the debris of the building she crashed into, who even throws a dy into a building?!?
Rude!
Elizabeth wasn’t even out of the building when “We stop whenever you want.” The voiax came once more and she felt another impact to her abdomen, this time instead of a jab the punch wards.
Sendihrough the ceiling of the building (It had two floors, she ted) into the open sky, uhe st time she hadn’t mao e as much damage, part of the mesh shirt had beeroyed and it was just barely holding in pce. And while flying into the sky she felt something…
It wasn’t a warm feeling in her her region like before, nothing so pleasant (Or not that muyway), but something building up from her belly, she tried to raise one hand into her mouth “*bleergh*” she spat blood into her hands.
Oh.
So that did really happen in the real world. A look into her [Status] showed that she had a few ruptured ans and her hp seemed to be going down, a quick pulse of her ma a few shadow strands into her internals to staunch the bleeding. She also put a [Puppet] in charge of her internal wounds with enough mana to work for.
After fixing that and trying to wipe her mouth she turned downwards searg for Max, she would o up her game at this…While she didn’t mind pying rough…She wasn’t a pushover!
“Ready to surrender? I will let you go if you give me my sister and expin why you are pretending to be Elizabeth.” Came the voiax from behind her.
She quickly formed a pair of shadow wings in her bad fpped them to get some distance “Darling, you shouldn’t scare a girl ?.” She said turning baly to see Max standing in the air right in front of her!
How?!?
He didn’t even have manipution skills! Or a fly Skill!
“Don’t test my patience.” Was what he said, she was about to say something but the words couldn’t e out of her mouth. “Release my sister.”
Why you ask?
Well…”h..a…r…d…e…r…” Maximilian had grabbed her by the throat and was currently squishing it.
Quite hard at that actually…Since she was starting to have trouble getting Oxygen into her lungs…And somehow the man’s mana reventing her from maniputing shadows!
His paltry manipution was overriding hers! She was about even lose trol over the shadows that made her clothing…Her fishights had already turned bato the skirt (The normal length) of a school uniform….
Her mesh shirt had turned bato a blouse & bzer pair that was of the same color as the skirt…
Her lovely tiara was melting away and turning into an obsidian bracelet in her right hand…Ohat somehow annoyed her for some reason, and the worst of it all?
The fact that her skill’s effeded hadn’t annoyed her that much, she could turn it all ba a sed after all, the problem was Max didn’t everoubled by the fact that he wasn’t looking at her (almost)naked body!
“[Shadow Pao, since you don’t have a mask on I guess that I should call you Maximilian. I really hope you have a good reason to attack this [Civilian].” Said an annoying voice from her past.
This made Max release some strength in his grip (Not enough to escape) to allow her to breathe in the lovely, lovely oxygen (And more importantly the carbon dioxide that Max was expelling). “Sir, this preteook hostage my sister…Please don’t interfere.” Said Max to the interloper.
She also started “Yeah, don’t butt in you…” And turned her head to look at the annoying face of…”…Oh… Hello daddy ?” The ripped form of one of his former subordinates.
Former Private Jack Ashcroft… Thehe sed iteration of the Twelve was created. Former Sergeant First Css Ja Brighton… The Ameri Crusader…The father of Elizabeth Starbright…
And right now…The most delicious-looking man she had seen in all her life, the absolute unit of muscles, looks, and appearan the whole world. She was too busy lig the body of his former subordih her eyes when she felt a spike of mana drive into her mind, one whom she fought with her shadow defenses as best as she could, sadly…That ma her body before she could do anything.
“It is her, but something is going on, my defenses are gone and her [Soulscape] seems fractured.” Came the voice of a woman, she turned her eyes towards that.
W what she would find herself thinking…”Hello Catherine.” Nothing, no lust, no [desire]…Just…Disappointing and annoyance.
That was the woman whht Magic to this world by teag a group of girls about magic…Catheriarlight, the woman who gave her so many troubles with her band of Magical Girls…
The woman that was at the head of all the problems she had to deal with as [The Shadowcaster] sihey didn’t heel to the gover.
The parents of Elizabeth had arrived…Wonder if Jack could vince Max for a trio?
