Shifting light

by Lucaridis

Huh, death is rewarding.

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Author's Note

I would like to inform those who read this that grammar won't be the best.
This story is an idea I made so input on if it should continue would be appreciated.
Some constructive criticism would also be nice.
There will not be any romance between anyone not already a couple like the Cake's for instance. If you do want shipping be a pal and ask for it and I'll consider.


Huh, death is rewarding.

Ugh, I'm just going to freely admit to everyone that dying sucks donkey dick, like seriously, Ow. Although, I suppose I shouldn't be complaining too much considering I'm not being endlessly totured for eternity.

"You're welcome for that." says a voice that came out of the void that I am currently stuck in and to make matters worse they seemed to be the basterdous type judging from the tone of their voice. But since I'm such a nice person I decided to respond to Mr mysterio in the only way possible

"Who the fuck are you." I say to the still nameless creature that is most likely God because there is no other reason I can ask think of for the voice to come out of nowhere.

"Mabye if you opened your fuckin' eyes you would be able to see me, ye twat." speaks the not-so-nice voice in the void that was supposedly just my eyes closed and for science I decided try and open my eyes only for them to light on fire because the amount of light is blinding and possibly corrosive, like Jesus Chris. What the actual hell.

There is one surprising thing that happened once I opened my eyes and that was the person standing in front of me looking ready to rip my dick off and wear it like a badge of honour. He was roughly 7ft tall with long white hair that cascaded down until just above his shoulders. He had two different coloured eyes the left of them being an ominous green while the right is a toxic purple. Them man himself was wearing a rather fancy looking brown overcoat with gold accents running across it. Underneath he had a yellow dress shirt with a red tie that had gold piercings it it for some reason, his left hand was wrapped in yellowish bandages and his entire right arm was covered in golden plate armour, for trousers he simply had grey dress pants and had black boots on. Across his waist was a belt that had multiple different clock like devices strapped onto it.

"Sooo~, you died." the guy says as if its completely normal, which it sort of is when you think about it. "Wanna not be dead? 'Cause I can do that." he states staring at me impassivly. As if my very existence wasn't worth his time but the mad glint in his eyes was like that of a child with a magnifying glass ready to cook some ant. Guess who's the ant.

"What do you mean and why am I not freaking out? I'm pretty sure I should be freaking out, saw the gun going off. Felt it aswell." I ask the guy because I'm honestly really fuckin' confused.

"I'll bring you back to life and your rather calm because I removed you ability to panic since dealing with that would be a waste of time." The strange guy says before moving on. "You'll be given superpowers of your choosing, cause I feel like it and a few other minor things. So make a wish kid."

I have no clue what is going on however I eventually realize he is waiting for me to make my requests. "Alright uhh, first one, light from Destiny." I say to him with a smile causing him to laugh a bit.

"Smart, you say light rather than a subclass so you get everything rather than a few. Aright, next."

"Well, if your giving away Op af stuff then how about Blacklight. Start it of with zero mutations of course, I want to work for my rewards." This was beginning to get interesting however seeing the look on the other guys face means some shits up

"Alright, fair enough. Considering the nature of Blacklight however you can only get one more ability." Well shit the jig is up

"I shall become the Avatar." I tell him with a smile, remembering back to the good ol' days of the last air bender

"Alright then, done. Anything else, other than an ability I can get you?" so that means as long as it not something I can do naturally I can have it

"Jackal and Casull." was my answer after sometime of thinking about it.

"Done and done. Now all you need to do is go to sleep and you'll wake up with all those neat little prizes. Oh yeah, remember when I said I'm stopping you from panicking?"

"Yeeaaahh?"

"I can't be bothered fixing that. Lets just pretend you have gamers mind from now on." Well thats definitely a useful ability. No getting stressed over anything. Cool.

"S'pose it's time for me to sleep for a new day of strangeness. G'night, man I do not know the name of." I say the guy before allowing darkness to consume me.


'Strange dream is strange.' I think to myself before standing up in the middle of a forest which, to be fair, isn't the weirdest thing to ever happen to me. Bible camp, ughck. As I get to my feet I find a strange weight on my sides and to my immense suprise, two pistols within a harness. Looking at them further I notice that they are more like hand cannons than pistols so I take both of them out and I find they are really damn heavy but i can lift them like they aren't shit. I also take notice to the writing on the sides of them that give away what they actually are.

"Aw piss." welp it looks like strange dream is reality as I'm currently holding in my hands both Jackal and Casull, as I realise the implications of holding these weapons I decide to check for the other things I asked for.

To test for the blacklight, I wasn't sure what to do to test it. So, after holstering my new weapons, I kneel down and jump, although rather than reaching a foot or two in the air I, at the minimum, reach about fifteen metres which, to me at least confirms I've got blacklight as normal people can't do that.

Know onto testing the light. Thinking of the least destructive super I begin, I don't really know what I did but I suppose you could say I searched myself to find a feeling and after about ten or so minutes I try to push it outwards and to some measure I was successful. In my hand was a small purple ball. It's definitely not the ward of dawn but it's something at least.

Now for the bending. Again I don't know what to do so I improvise by stomping on the ground with the intention of making a pillar of stone and it works to a certain degree. By that I mean all the ground surrounding me move upwards a few metres like a small wall.

"Ha, I hereby decree that this is the wall of Trump technique, capable of preventing people from immigrating into my personal space." after my little semi-serious joke, I begin to realise something about Blacklight

"Fuck, I'm immortal now, not fun. Ah well, thats future me's problem." So after that I take off into a random direction hoping to find something that could either provide a conversation or could provide a mutation for blacklight. This means that I'm actually looking for insects as while they are disgusting little bastards they have beautiful natural abilities like venom and an exoskeleton. Both of these I want as they can be incredibly useful.

Roughly an hour later I find my self within a cave and as far as I can tell it's empty aside from the bones and a still somewhat fresh corpse means that something lives here. Me, not being someone to miss an opportunity, walk over to the corpse only to realise that it is a rabbit and after thinking about it I decide to consume it because of a few reasons:

Now because it's only a corpse I'm aware that I might not even get everything or anything but as they say. Fuck it.

I ate it like a normal person because I'm not sure how to consume but that doesn't matter for something this small. After eating I don't get any memories but that's to be expected for something that has been dead for as long as it has although that also means no instinct improvement aswell. I do feel like I could jump a little higher though but that may or may not be because of actually eating something. But one thing is certain, my hearing has definitely gotten far better considering everthing is a little louder now.

When I'm done thinking about all that I decide to camp in here for a few hours, after all, something had to have killed the rabbit.


After roughly three hours of practicing all my new abilities and then rehearsing them over and over again I finally hear a noise at the entrance of the cave and it definitely sounds tired judging from the short, quick pants coming from it.

Deciding it would be easier to kill it when it's sleeping I sneak off to the back of the cave and hide behind a large rock. I hear it walking into the cave and it's paws coming closer to where I am before it stops and I hear something collapse onto the groung. After a minute of silence aside from short breaths from the creature I peer out from my hiding place to what it is and to my suprise I've no idea what the hell it is.

"What the fuck." I say to myself in a shocked whisper. Lying on the ground was a giant lion type thing with bat wings and a scorpion tail, my eyes rest on the tail for a bit before deciding it definitely has venom in it.

I slowly shuffle over to the thing before stopping just short if the back of its head. After a while of debating with myself I decide what to do. I rear my right fist back before throwing it forward as hard as I can and again to my suprise, my fist went through its skull like it was cardboard.

The real shocker came next as red and black tentacles came out of my arm and fully encompassed the creature until all of it draws back into me covering my entire body in a slimy yet dry sensation. Then came the pain, while it wasn't enough to really phase me it was really fuckin' annoying, but it did hold useful information as I realised the pain was accompanied by a flood of memories.

It started with its childhood were it grew up beside it's family, after a while of that it, and its siblings, moved away because they all learned how to hunt by themselves, after a few years of that, it shows him going on a rampage due to a pain in its paw which, after a confrontation with six people and a thorns eventual removal, he calms down a fair bit and after that it's all irrelevant memories of it living its life down to a sharp pain in the back of its head and darkness. signifying his death.

The creature, apparently a manticore, did give valuable information such as flying and magic humans. That's a little hard to believe but after reminding myself I just ate a manticore in a few seconds it stopped mattering. Now all I'm thinking is, is magic biological and can I get it.

But before going of on a mage murder spree I stop to think about my new mutations. Athough there is another thing on my mind like how I'm so casual about wanting to kill for magic. I'm assuming thats the blacklight talking as I'm certain that it stops the production of sympathy and empathy and it makes you view life like your watching a film rather than living.

Back to my new found skill, I've got:

Huh, didn't get wings, how sad. Makes sense though, manticores never flew they were used for pouncing farther.

Now then, time to tame this forest.


After a month or so of living in the Everfree forest, I learned the name through a rather dashing serpent with a bi-coloured moustache, apparently a woman lives here as well but I've never meet her, I finnaly decide to leave the forest to the village I seen a after a week if living in here.

I also gain new things in the month I've been here, the thing I've learned or achieved are:

So with all of that done I make my way through the Everfree.


As I walk through the forest I manage to hear faint screaming in the distance and because of my ever curious nature I set of to find the problem.

After a few minutes of running threw the forest I find myself staring at a pack of those wooden wolfs and unfortunately I can't consume them without getting termite DNA first. In the middle of the pack was a single child which confused me since I didn't expect a pack to hunt something so small. Unfortunately for the wolves I have a love/hate relationship with children. I aprove of communication, not so much physical contact.

Finishing my thoughts I lunge forward until I'm infront of the girl and low and behold the wolves back away slightly considering almost everything in this forest is aware that I don't take shit from anything, that was proven when I had to fight a star bear. The fight was fun so I didn't kill. The thing is, apparently those bears are the top of the food chain type stuff so me beating one in a one-on-one fight shows that I don't fuck around and I can and will beat the shit out of everything that pisses me off and these ol' dogs know that.

"Hey there, buds. Where's your alpha." and with almost no hesitation they all make a path to the biggest of the group and knowing it can't get away it walks forward, although it's brave enough to look me in the eyes the whole way.

When it stops in front of my we have a stare down for a bit before I flick it in the nose causing it to flinch back. Of course, I'm still working on strength control so it probably hurt more than it should.

"I can't stop you from hunting but if it can scream please kill it immediately, I'm not fond of loud noises." I'm aware I've likely signed a death warrent for hundreds if not thousands of people because as far as I've seen, these wolves are connected like some sort if ghastly hive mind and these wolves tend to do as I say but, that's not my concern.

"Since this girls screams were rather annoying, I won't let you kill her... Yes I'm aware that sounds weird but your the wolves who caused them, so you shall take the fall." the alpha look upset but resigns himself and walks away with the rest of their pack.

"Wow." I hear behind me and turn around to see the girl I just saved.

She looked about eleven of twelve with pale skin and long purple curly hair with a white stripe going along it. She was wearing a dirty jacket with and tattered dress that ended just above her knees, around her waist was a large, yellow bow with green polka dots around it. She also was wearing white and puple striped stalkings. On her feet were a pair of purple high top converse. The weirdest thing about her were her eyes as they were both swirly masses of purple with no pupils. A part of me wanted to consume her myself just to see what type of mutation can do that.

The girl must have noticed me staring at her eyes as she quicky look away with her face marred with sadness and fear.

"Why so glum, chum?" I tell her, trying to be somewhat friendly but I'm certain I failed.

"Y-you aren't upset about my eyes?" she ask me and I can only stare for a bit, thinking for an answer.

"Do they give you the ability to rend flesh with a stare?" I ask her, the question was ment as a joke but I don't think she got it.

"What! No, that would be horrible." she tells me, making me smile a bit, but it felt hollow.

"I suppose it would. Sooo~, what are you doin' in me forest?" I ask, curious as to why someone would come in here.

"The town I was in is getting attacked by diamond dogs, I managed to escape so I came here to find someone called Zecora to see if they can help... Are you Zecora?" I actually laugh at her last question.

"No, I'm not Zecora but I think I know who your talking about. By the way, what are diamond dogs?" that last question got a weird stare.

"They're a race of humans with a dog aspect. Like the dragon bloods." she explains before continuing "Wait, you know Zecora, you need to take me there."

"Okay, one: Don't tell me what to do. Two: I don't know where she lives and three: I'll help. I've got more combat ready skills then her... Probably." I tell her which makes her jump with joy and very large amounts of consecutive 'Thank you's' were given.

"This is great, but who are you." the girl say making me frown.

I channel a bit of stormcaller which coats my in electricity before staring at her with a with an attempt at kind smile.

"Licht. Chris Licht. Friends call me Light though. They also call me a Nazi, but we shouldn't worry about the small details." I say to her and she seems pleased with the answer.

"Hi, Light. I'm Screw Ball." Huh, strange name, but i've heard worse. Pretty sure someone in shrek was called fukwad or something...

...Wait a fucking minute. Screw Ball, I've heard that name before.

Motherfuckin' daughter of Daughter of Discord. Shit. Wasn't a big fan of My little pony, well at least they're human.

That wasn't Xenophobic at all. Maybe I am a Nazi. Well fuck, that would be good.

"Well then Screw Ball. Lets go slaugh- save a village."

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