Once Upon a Dark Power

chapter 1

>>>what ember looks like<<<

[Ember's POV]

                  

When I was 15 I waited patiently with my age group to see who got what. The way you were examined was by laying your palms onto a touch screen sensor where it would show you what supernatural ability you were given. Or if you weren't given one at all. I was so nervous, I just wanted to be normal you know? Or maybe get the healing ability like my neighbor, I always liked the thought of helping people. I would even be happy with a witch brewer creating potions a doing weird hoodoo!

There was about a half dozen other teenagers waiting for their responses and one by one I watched them all walk away with smiles on their faces happy with their results. One girl got the gift of healing, a different girl would be witch brewer, and countless others and a few normal kids. It was only me and other boy who restlessly held our hands on the screen, our parents watching from a distance. Then the boy next to me finally got his results and stood proudly, he had the spirit of a true hunter, a rare but excellent ability of the skill of the past's greatest warriors. He smiled at me with his dirty blonde hair and bright eyes as he walked past me.

"Good luck," he whispered to me.

I felt my cheeks blush as I smiled at him and soon he left. My parents where the only ones left off to the side and we waited to see my results. I hope I get something rare and powerful like the boy did. Something to make my parents proud of, they always told me I was special and I would grow up to be successful.

After what felt like ages the screen finally started doing something and my results where finally starting to come in. I smiled and got excited as I started to feel something arise inside me. The machine then stopped working and the word "unknown" came up. I removed my hands and frowned at the screen. What does it mean? A technician then stepped inside, a young women with brown hair, and headed towards me.

"Don't be worried," she smiled at me, "these things break down all the time,".

She rested her hand on my shoulder and suddenly I got a strange yet powerful feeling inside me. Something clicked and I grabbed the women by her neck held her face close to me and I was rushed with power as I started to suck the energy from the poor women. My eyes glowed a bright white, a bright white force slowly escaped her mouth and flooded into mine and the more I stole from her the stronger I was feeling. I didn't want to hurt her but it was almost like an instinct to me, like I needed it...

Then surprisingly I was torn away from the poor women who collapsed onto the floor weak and I was pulled away. I started to call out to my parents and caught a glimpse of them watching me being taken away and they just hugged each other upset. I had a dark ability... even I could feel it deep down. I was pulled out into the street where we passed a group of people. I passed the boy who I had a small word with and he watched with sad eyes as I was thrown into a transportation van that would take me to where I belong. The other side... I cried for my family and the soldier inside the van yelled at me to shut up and called me a monster. I just curled up into a ball on the floor for the long road to Texas, never to see my family again...

>>>4 years later<<<

I pulled my hair into a tight pony tail and then stepped inside the fenced in cage. Across from me was a man who called himself "the crusher" which I thought was cheesy and pathetic. He was massively built, meaning he was slow making that my plan of attack. me on the other hand, I was properly trained, thin, and pretty short, maybe 5 and a half feet.

"Before the match begins I must state the rules of this fight. There's to be no supernatural abilities allowed or weapons of any kind. If you are killed or injured in a fight it is only on you not your opponent. You fight until death or by getting the other to tap out. Simple?" a man stated.

The crusher smirked at me examining my size and chuckling. Following that was the start bell and we slowly circled around the ring with our fists raised. He made a large step towards me throwing his fist and I quickly moved to the side and kicked his out stretched knee hearing a rather disturbing pop noise. He groaned in pain but quickly recovered and stood uneven on his feet. He tried a different approach and ran at me but I grabbed his arm and swung him using his own weight sending him into the barbed wired fence that enclosed us inside the ring. To my surprise he got a hold of my arm and took me with him colliding into the fence feeling the sharp blades scrape my arm but I quickly ducked when the Crusher swung his arm across his chest but landed into the barbed wire getting himself more stuck. Why he tried to detach himself from the fence I used what little weight I had and held him against it sinking his face into the wire and within seconds he tapped out and I backed up.

I smiled as he was dragged away all cut up and embarrassed by one of his friends who gave me an evil look. I left the ring, my arm bleeding, threw the small gate and gathered my bet money that I got a 60% of and took off. It was kind of late and the sun was mostly gone but a warm air remained. I could feel somebody's eyes on me and felt I was being followed so I took a couple random turns and found that the body was still following so I took a turn down a narrow alley way.

I followed the alley all the down until it came to a turn where I waited impatiently for my stalker to appear. When he crept around the corner I grabbed him and slammed him against the bricks of the alley wall and held his arm behind his back putting force on it.

"Who are you?" I asked him.

"Little lady if you knew what was good for you, you'd release my arm," he groaned.

"Not a chance," I muttered to him.

A strange electric feeling started tingling my hands where I held onto the man. Then it felt like I was being electrocuted forcing me to let go and pull back in pain. The man spun around and grabbed me turning the tides and holding me against the wall and looking at me with evil eyes, they seemed so familiar? Then it clicked and I recognized the man who had carried the crusher away after our fight. The man realized this and tilted his head at me.

"Scared?" he chuckled at me, "cause you should be..."

The tingling feeling was coming back in my arms where he held me and I didn't want to know what being shocked with a couple hundred or more bolts of electricity felt like. He was an electric fate.

"No... It's you who should fear me," I mocked him.

He laughed at my "joke" and I could feel something strong gathering in my gut and then my eyes lit up a bright white and the man looked into them in terror letting me go.

"The hell are you!" he said terrified.

I kept walking closer to him and he backed up tripping over something and landing on the ground and I stepped over grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and my eyes glowed brighter as I started sucking the life out of him.

This was my power... I needed the life force of others to survive. But I can live off of other living things such as plants and animals but humans... especially when their FATE I just can't stop myself. The white life force poured out of his mouth and flowed into mine until it was all gone and his dead corpse lay on the ground. This wasn't something I was proud of but it was how I survived. I fed off a human maybe once a month tops but I mostly stick to other animals or large oak trees in the fields. I looked down at my arm that had been injured and cut up during the fight on the barbed wire and watched it slowly begin to heal. Pros of my power is I can heal myself when I feed.

"I'm a monster..." I whispered stepping over his body.

I took a deep breath and headed straight for home with a deep feeling of guilt weighing me down as I walked.

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