My name is Louis Caruana. Um... let's see, I'm Fourteen. I don't want to brag or anything but I'd like to call myself Intelligent and resourceful. I live by my ABCs; Adventurous Brave Creative. I like art and movies. I also like to read, draw and write. This is a special book in which I guess you could say 'I broke the fourth wall'. So anyway, I'm vegetarian. So that's cool, in fact it's probably one of the best life decisions I've ever made! You see, I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. But then again, I probably wouldn't even still be here if it weren't for the many mistakes I've made. So back to the story, the first mistake I made was snooping my freakishly large nose around where it doesn't belong.

It all begun one day when I was at my local bookshop Page Turner reading a graphic novel of classic marvel comics. After I purchased the book, I leaved and headed down to buy a pizza because I was LITERALLY starving!!! Anyway, so I ordered a vegetarian pizza and the 'PIZZA GUY' told me that there was a half hour wait on food so I decided to look around town for something to do. I decided that destiny would decide what happens next so, Destiny decided that I would just wait outside the pizza shop on the wooden bench. The way I remember it is that about seven minutes through the wait, a guy in a black trench coat and massive hat runs past me followed by three people in mysterious red cloaks with skull shaped hoods. The three hooded figures chased the guy in the black trench coat at a tremendous speed! I guess you could say that that is how my 'new' life begun, because after they ran past me, I ran after them. The chase went past many people. The guy in the black trench coat pushed past people roughly trying desperately to get away from the hooded figures. I followed them until they disappeared behind a corner.

From behind the corner, there was a sudden flash of light and out flew a black bird and three red birds with white beaks. The three red birds flew after the black bird. Eventually one of the red birds took a swoop at the black bird and it fell as if being shot down like a plane. The black bird hurdled towards the surface. So, anyway, I quickly hurried to where the black bird fell. I saw it fall deep in a massive garden. I rummaged through the garden until I found it. Now you see, I expected to find the black bird dead but instead, I found the man from before in the black trench coat. Except he was all bloodied up and injured as if he had just fallen from an extraordinary height.
"Oh my god! Are you okay?! What happened?! You need a doctor!" I exclaimed, but before I could leave to get help; the man leaped forward and pulled me in close. He whispered in my ear the words,
"Ink... Shifter..." and then he loosened his grip on me and drifted away, the life completely drained from his eyes. He stoped breathing and lied there dead.

If I'm honest, I'm kind of used to seeing that sort of thing now, but at the time, I have to admit, I was a bit traumatised. That was my first time watching someone die, I mean seriously, how would you feel watching someone die in your arms (literally) for your first time? Anyway, just after that guy whispered in my ear, I felt as if I had some sort of energy was coursing through me. However, it wasn't long before I was completely surrounded by the red hooded figures. They pull back their hoods revealing faces which are like stained glass. You could see their skulls through their clear skin. I don't clearly remember what happened next but I think it went down something like this: One of the hooded guys said,
"So it seems that the last Master Reader has passed on his last words to... who are you kid? You gotta name?"
"Louis... Louis Caruana" I replied.
"Well... Louis, I'm afraid you've reached the end of your story!" He said before pulling out a mini journal and reading aloud, the word; 'COWBOY'.

Suddenly, the mini journal he read from turned black. The black substance ran up his arm submerging his whole body in dripping black ink. The ink figure moulded, transformed, shaped itself. When the ink washed away, the red hooded skull man was now a cowboy!

(This is the best image I could find)

I couldn't believe my eyes. The guy in the red hood had just transformed into a completely different person! However, that is the second mistake I made, staring TOO long! I stood there in awe at his transformation.
"How did you do that?!" I exclaimed. The cowboy looked at me with a smirk on his face and said,
"A magician never reveals his secrets!" And with that, he pulled a gun out of his cowboy pistol holster and aimed the gun at the centre of my body. I leaped down to the ground and the bullet fired ended up inside the chest of another one of the red hooded figures. He fell to the ground, dead! That's a kill count of two so far! Remember to keep count! The cowboy reloaded his gun and aimed at me on the ground and fired again. The bullet punctured my shoulder. I scream out in excruciating pain. But just then, when I thought that I was about to die, I remembered something. The guy in the black trench coat whispered something in my ear. If all these guys could turn into whatever they read, why can't I?

Blood trickled down my shoulder. I used my own blood as ink and my finger as a pen. I wrote the word, SUPERHERO in my own blood on the dirt ground and just before the cowboy could fire his last bullet, I read the word aloud. Suddenly black ink ran up my arm sending a chill across my whole body. The black ink submerged my entire body and when it came over my head I held my breath so I don't drown in it. I felt as if I was being turned into something else. Moulded, transformed. The black ink eventually dissipated from my body and I was a typical superhero like super man with the cape, super strength, ability to fly and laser eyes.

My bullet shot healed in seconds. I was bullet proof! Then I simply disintegrated both of them with my laser eyes. 3 4! The guys had all dropped their mini journals so I picked one up and read aloud, 'ME'. Again I was completely submerged in black ink and when the black ink dissipated, I was myself again. That night I got my pizza and went home feeling quite traumatised that I'd just seen four people die, two of them I killed in my self defence, AND I got shot!

At home I got a small note book out of my top draw and started trying out my new power. Then it hit me over the head; what the actual hell am I going to do with my power. I mean like, I know I'm NOT going to be SuperVillain but I'm not sure that I want to be a SuperHero either. Should I just keep living my life normally? At the time, I was quite convinced that I was just going to live in the shadows, and if any one ever needed my help, by all means, I'd help them. I was generally satisfied with the decision I made but then I got a text message on my IPad.

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Go to Penrith train station on Friday this week at exactly 11pm! I trust that you'll be there!
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