Storyline

Original source has been modified to fix grammar errors, original source WILL NOT be typed out.

## **Page 1**

*"Well everything started, with me unsuspiciously robbing a bank."* Cas ran out of the bank with a panicked look on her face; *"Oh shit, oh shit, should have I done this?"* thought whilst running from the police. **"Hey it's fine, you need the money."**, but she wasn't convincing herself as much. As she ran, she heard the police vans behind her, "Well crap, this isn't going to be fun." said cas as she tried to run through a back alley, but was met with some resistance. A police officer shot a bullet at her, but it never connected as it was slapped out of the way by a long black tendril. Cas had the strange ability to produce shadows from her body and use them as barries or solid tendrils, she was born with this ability and it was seamingly connected to, well recent events had shown her how her powers came to be.
Cas tried to get away with her tendrils, but got shot in the legs by a stray bullet. She screamed in pain and due to this, a shadow tendril laushed out and impaled the officer that shot her. The other officers scattered in fear as Cas gasped in shock. **"No, no, no, no!"** said cas as she ran towards the body. She put her hands on him as she tried using something she hadn't used in a while, she had somewhat control over life and death magic or necromancy where with enough effort, she can use death and life magic to bring people back to life.
Cas used her energy to bring the officer back to life, as there was a large glow of light with it calming down, the body of the officer now rejuvenated and back to life. The officer screamed and ran away as Cas ran back to her apartment.

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As Cas was running to her apartment, she scolded herself for letting her powers get out of control like that. She slapped herself in the head but quickly winced. Doing that wasn't the best idea after the head trauma she'd gone through in her life. **"Alright I've got the money and that's all that matters, right? I mean I did revive him, right?"** said Cas, soon realizing how weird she sounded talking to herself. She was glad she'd gotten the money but was it right to steal it? It was too late to question her actions now. She'd been mentally lost since the incident. She'd been kidnapped by the cult that had killed her parents years prior. But by some miracle she managed to escape being sacrificed with only a weird ghostly eye and good ol' bit of head trauma.
As she ran, she saw something behind her, it was as if she was being followed.She chopped this off thinking it's just one of her shadows but as she continued to run towards her small apartment complex the shape began to get closer with her, getting more and more concerned. She then stopped and turned around realizing it was in fact a person running across the rooftops... DIRECTLY AT HER! She ran even faster until finally reaching her apartment complex, running up the stairs to her apartment and putting the cash on her bed as she looked out the small window to see if she could see the figure. But she couldn't see the person that was chasing her.
She sighed of relief but suddenly there was a crash as the figure burst through her window. Cas bolted out of her room with the figure chasing behind her. She ran in a flash, jumping down flights of stairs to get distance from her pursuer, but she couldn't seem to get away from him. Eventually she made it to the bottom with the chaser in hot pursuit. She tried to hide in a bac alley but the figure was standing there, menacingly. **"Okay, can you please stop chasing me!"** pleaded Cas while out of breath. **"You're nothing but a criminal. And you're going to be treated like one."** said the vigilante with a cold expression on his face. The vigilante was about to go in for a stike but then Cas yelled; **"Hey what's that!"** whilst pointing, surprisingly getting his attention, casuing him to take his eyes off of her for a second allowing her to make a getaway with the vigilante growling curses as he chased her down and tackled her, pinning her on the ground.

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The vigilante pulled out a knife and was prepared to end her right on the spot, but then a shadow tendril slapped him off. **"What just- What just happened?!"** exclaimed the vigilante with a confused look on his face. Cas shot out another tendril that him and launching him back. He quickly regained his footing and started running at her with an m16 while firing at her with her shadows trying to block it but quickly getting overwhelmed. But before any bullets could hit her, she threw a nearby brick at the vigilante, knocking his firearm out of his hand.
He growled in frustration quickly realizing this would be harder than he originally thought. He pulled out his army knife and ran at Cas. Cas tried to slash him with another shadow tendril in return, but the vigilante slid right under it. Cutting her leg causing her to stumble and fall, but she quicjly got back up and shot out another tendril that wrapped itself around the vigilante which spun him around and slammed him onto the ground which caused him to grunt in pain. But quickly he tried to cut through the tendril, at first it seemed to have no effect, but after a few cuts it began to break until it cut off the end of the tendril.
Cas was tired and knew she would get tired before him, so she used her tendrils to climb up the nearest building with the vigilante using his grappling hook to climb up the building and chase after her. He caught up to her and tackled her off the building. Cas created a barrier to cushion the fall but is still searing pain throughout her body. She got up and wheezed in exhaustion. **"You can't run theif."** said the vigilante with a cold expression on his face. **"Please stop chasing me! I didn't even do anything that bad!"** said Cas. **"I'm sorry. I can't do that."** said the vigilante.
Cas needed to do something, something to distract him to let her get away. She has an idea, she sticks tendrils into the ground causing the ground around them to be engulfed in a shadow. The shadows began to creep up on the vigilante. Grabbing his legs with him struggling to stand but he used his grappling hook to grab a rooftop and slowly he began to pull himself out from the sludgy shadows. As he stood on the rooftops, he said; **"You know, you can't stop me! You're going to pay for your crimes."**

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**"Look buddy, I need that money, cause right now I can barely even pay rent. So can you back off!"** The vigilante stopped. **"I've met people like you before. Not being able to pay rent, get food or even get a good footing."** He sighed. **"Alright kid, I'll help you out, but you have to return that money you stole."** **"Okay then!"** said Cas without hesitation, running towards her apartment and up the stairs and grabbing the money and started running to the bank. A few minutes later she came back without the money but instead with the police hot on her tail. **"Yep... Didn't really think this through, did I?"** said Cas in an exhausted tone. The vigilante sighed as he ran after her. They ran through the streets until they- **"So, what's your name?"** said Cas with a smile on her face. **"Ayden. Ayden Pike."** said Ayden. **"Well nice to meet you Ayden."** said Cas while holding out her hand. Ayden sighed as he shook it. Ayden had unruly dark brown hair, with a dark outfit on, he looked tired with light bags around his eyes, he had a sad and distant expression on his face. **"So uhmm... Why were you trying to kill me?"** questioned Cas. **"Well I'm a vigilante who recently moved here after some bad things that caused me to leave Cooper City."** said Ayden. **"Woah! Cooper City, and you were a vigilante there to? That's cool!"** said Cas.

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