P.O.V. [Name]

I shook my head as I began to slowly wake up. As I did I saw that I was in a room that I didn't recognize. Or at least not at first the more I looked around, the more things slowly came into sight I tensed up as I began to feel a bit sick. I did recognize this room, it was the room where it all started. The room where I and my friends accidentally awakened the shadow lord. I tried to move but as I did I felt a sharp pain in my wrists and shoulders.

I could tell I was cuffed by I wasn't sure to what. When I looked back I saw a giant metal rod with a slit in the middle. I began to panic seeing this and struggled more. "Ah so you're finally awake," I heard a voice beside me say. When I turned towards the sound I saw a male with a twisted and curved dagger looking at me. "That's good, that means we can finally begin," The male said as he walked up to me.

I could see something leaking off the dagger that he was holding and leaned away. The last thing I wanted at the moment was to be drugged by whatever was on that dagger of his. "Get away from me!" I said as I looked at the male. He of course ignored my plea and continued to move closer to me. "Getaway! Getaway! I said getaway!" I said as I looked at him. When I did I felt my blood run cold and my stomach turn.

I could feel him, the shadow lord. He was close, almost like he was right beside me, or maybe even inside me. I could feel him slowly taking hold of me. It was like the more I fought back the strong his grip on me became. "That's right, channel his energy," He said as he looked at me. When I looked up at him he leaned down to me. It seemed like while I was here channeling his energy was definitely off the table. Unless I wanted him to take hold of me even that is.

The male then cut my arm with the blade and the room around me began to slowly become distorted. "Fight it, or don't either way the result will be the same," The male said as his figure slowly faded away. I felt the chain snap and I fell to the ground. I wanted to move, but my body wasn't listening to me. I then felt myself start to sink into the ground, the solid floor turning into a thick liquid as it slowly wrapped around my fingers and arms.

As I slowly sunk into the ground I closed my eyes and held my breath, I could feel myself slowly becoming submerged. I held my breath for as long as I could before finally exhaling, only to find that I could breathe just fine. I then opened my eyes and looked around me, everything was so strange, it was red and viscous, with other colors thrown into the mix, like hardened amber. Then I felt it, a sudden surge of pain.

It felt like the liquid around me was boiling and sticking to my skin. I screamed and struggled to get it off, but nothing happened. Then as quickly as the pain came it stopped and it felt like the liquid was hardening around my skin. "Hurts doesn't it?" I heard a slightly familiar voice say. I once again opened my eyes hearing this and looked in the direction the sound had come from. When I did I saw someone who looked like me standing there. Or, he almost looked like me.

There was something above his skin that seemed to be crawling around. He also had two large wings on his back, wings that seemed to resemble that of a butterfly. "Who are you?" I asked as I looked at the male in front of me. When I asked this he chuckled slightly as he looked at me. Even his voice sounded like mine, but it was still off. Like I was speaking through a scroll or a radio. It was definitely mine, and yet at the same time different.

"Can you really not guess?" He asked as he looked at me. He was right, I didn't have to ask, because I already knew the answer. He chuckled once again hearing this as he looked at me. "Do you know how long I've been here? How long I've been waiting for a vessel to appear? How many people passed over where you were, without me being able to do a thing about it?" The shadow lord asked as he looked at me. I tensed up hearing this and he chuckled as he looked at me.

"Too many to count. And then you showed up and kicked everything into motion. The perfect vessel right for the picking. Almost as if your body was made for me," The shadow lord said as he looked at me. I shook my head hearing this as he looked at me.

"That's not true," I said I looked at the male. I wanted to follow that up with something but couldn't think of anything.

"It is, that's why I attached myself to you that day. It's just a shame those friends of yours had to get in the way and ruin everything," He said as he looked at me.

"Don't talk about them like that," I said as I looked at the male in front of me. If it hadn't been for him. They would still be alive, if we had never gone there that day we could have continued living our lives, and none of this would have happened. He didn't deserve to talk about them as if they were a minor nuisance.

"Or what? You'll kill me?" The shadow lord asked in a mocking tone before laughing. "Sorry pal, but it's already too late for that. You've been in the driver's seat long enough, and now it's my turn,"