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Shadow’s Raid!

Well, there’s a boy who was born with the name Connor, but soon came with the name of “Shadow,” as he learned to use shadows of nature and people. He also gained the name by wearing dark clothing to cover up the tails he had. By 16, he had learned how to create weapons using some black tear-shaped object on the back of his head, which held this invisible glow called Aura. His aura was shaded a stormy-gray, which gave his weapons the element of lightning.
He was never described by anyone, because his tails’ and the bodies in his trail were the only evidence that he existed until he settled in. The area he lived around was out of stone. He lives in the mountains, because one of the weapons he can create can see from the hilltops to the bottom. One of the men at the bottom of the mountains was brave enough to travel to the den of which Shadow lays.
“Shadow, sir, we need your assistance” The man said.
“I suppose,” Shadow sighed, “What is it you need?”
“There has been an attack on our village and we are about to enter war.”
“First, identify yourself, and then we’ll see what kind of threat we have.”
“Sorry, sir, my name is Dylan, and we must hurry!”
Shadow had grabbed Dylan by the arm and jumped down to the hill. He turned to Dylan and tackled him midair, reassuring the drop would be safe. When they were close to the ground, they abruptly stopped, and dropped a few inches onto the ground. They stood up and brushed themselves off. Shadow immediately knew who the raiders were by the style of the raid.
“You’re dealing with Redcliff…” Shadow said.
“You know who raided us?” Dylan asked with a serious tone, and led Shadow into the village.
“Yes, I do, because I’ve raided them before.” Shadow replied with a mischievous smile on his face, like he was planning on raiding them again. He knew that this was his chance to perform another one-man army raid. While he finished his conversation with Dylan, a Redcliff soldier was still in the village, preparing to execute a man. The man shouted and Shadow’s aura-detectors went straight up. Running to the source of the shout, he ran into the shadow of a building, and was sent straight behind the Redcliff soldier and the soldier dropped dead from an X in his chest, dug about 4 inches in by a Scimitar. Shadow walked forward over the man and held his hand out to pick the man up. Once the man was back on his feet, he said, “Thank you, and that was the last Redcliff from the raid,” and Shadow nodded in understanding.
Shadow had left the village in search for the Redcliff kingdom, while he was on his way; he summoned his friends Sage, Shade, and Talon. Shadow greeted them all with a hearty cheer, and they all ran to the Nomad camp so that they could rest up and recuperate their strength. Soon, night set in and they set up tents. While they were just about to settle in to sleep, something had interrupted the restful feeling. Talon jumped up, and looked at Shadow, who was getting up now. “What’s going on, brother?”
“I don’t know, but something happened… I don’t know what it is…”
“Well, let’s go check it out…” Shadow said as he ran outside with Talon to see that Sage and Shade were still in their tents. Shadow walked over to a tower they set up, and climbed the wooden wall and jumped into the platform of the tower, pulling out a scope that was supposed to work for a rifle, and looked through it, seeing that there was a horde of Overseer coming, and Shadow called Talon up and told Talon to listen closely and that they could hear a battle cry of, “For the overseer!” Shadow immediately conjured up two bows for Talon and himself, and quickly loaded 5 arrows on his bow as Talon loaded 3. They let go of the arrows and the arrows quickly took a target each and turned explosive, as soon as the arrows found a mark, they exploded killing 5 others in the radius, quickly bringing down the army to just above 30, and Shadow pulled out his target finder and put it, bringing it over his eye, and Shadow counted 32 soldiers left. He nocked one arrow and it had a dim glow of orange, he let it fly and it split into 16 arrows, knowing that the arrows would hit one and get another one in the process.
After the arrow storm, Shadow and Talon woke up Sage and Shade, telling them about the army that was trying to attack the nomads, and that the Overseer had been stopped and that they needed to move immediately before they were attacked again. Shadow and his friends gathered up the campsite for the tents and gave them back to the nomads. His group set out, feeling a little bit rested, but still feeling up to the challenge.
After the battle, Shadow and Talon both got a bigger taste for war. While they were running, they had a conversation while trying to keep Sage and Shade close behind them.
“Well, do you think we handle that correctly?” Shadow asked.
“Yeah, I think we should be able to do that again, except get rid of them faster.”
“Yeah, but I was still getting back on my feet. I needed to keep steady.”
“Sure,” Talon said with a mischievous tone.
They kept running towards the camp of the Redcliff and Shadow called out if everyone was ready for a war. Although, as they got there, the Redcliff let them in and treated them nicely, as if they knew there was a purpose for Shadow and his companions to be there, but they wanted to be peaceful just in case. Shadow and his friends knew that the Redcliff were confused as to the arrival and then the group decided to be nice back, because they were being well-treated, and even offered a home and a space in the military since the Redcliff saw how the group dealt with the Overseer. Shadow and his friends denied the offer and went on their way. Talon back to his family, Sage followed Shadow, and Shade went back home.
Shadow got halfway back home when he checked behind him and noticed Sage following him, “What do you need, Sage?” he asked, and blushed, trying to not let Shadow notice.
“I just felt like coming with you,” Sage shyly replied.
“Okay, well, if you want to come along, you could’ve said something a while ago, and I would’ve gone faster while letting you follow. Maybe even picking you up to go faster”
“Oh, you didn’t have to say that.”
“Sure I did, it’s not like I have anything against you.”
“Awww,” she blushed and walked up next to Shadow and he offered to hold her hand. Sage gladly took it, walking next to Shadow as Shadow looked like he was enjoying Sage being here.


Characters:
Connor “Shadow” Nagasama (Me)
Sage (Mangle – Previously Kyubey)
Talon (~Kid~)
Shade (Queen_Kazma)
Dylan (Offside character. Friend in real life.)

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