DISCLAIMER- This is a work of fiction, and has Graphic violence and profanity in it. Character names and places are mere concidences. have a good read 

While she was eating, there was a knock from the front door. “Is it time?” Skyler’s mother thought whilst watching her daughter happily eating. “But it’s for the best so that they can’t find her” she sighed. 

Skyler looked at her mother with confusion. “Mum, are you okay? You look troubled.” Skyler’s tiny mouth was filled with food. Her mother regained her senses and shook her head “no, I’m okay.” She stepped back to the drawers and slipped a knife into her sleeve. 

Her mother went to the door., A few moments later, she returned with a smile. “Who was that?” Skyler asked. Skyler’s mum patted her head and said “just a package from the museum that needs dating,” Skyler smiled sweetly at the explanation “ awesome, mum!”

“Skyler, I will be busy for a couple of days” Skyler looked at her with sadness. “why?” Skyler asked. Her mother bit her lip and trembled slightly “dating objects is difficult” she walked closer to Skyler and patted her head gently “so, I might miss your seventh birthday” 

Skyler was very disappointed. She pouted. “You’re always busy! Please don’t work on my birthday…” She felt like her mother didn’t want anything to do with her. “Actually I do need you to do something for me, Skyler,” her mother said with a smile. 

“But we need to go inside my office” Skyler looked confused but went along whatever her mother had planned. So both of them went to the office; Skyler saw many textbooks and scrolls on different cabinets. Finally her eyes set on the desk, which was falling apart since it was quite old. “What is this?” Skyler asked curiously. 

“Oh, nothing important for you to know about” She rolled up the scroll with haste but skyler got a glimpse of the word eclipse.  “I just need you to activate your umbra power” her mother said. Skyler nodded and closed her eyes then opened them. They changed colour. 

“What's next, mum?” Skyler asked while the shadows circled her like moths to a flame. “Continue gathering more shadows, to your max!” Skyler widened her eyes. Her arms turned misty and her hair started to float. “Mum, I don’t think I can” her mother shook her head “no you can, i believe that you can.” Her mother said while Skyler took a deep breath and her eyes glowed brighter and were engulfed into a purple flame. 

The scroll which was in her mothers hand started glowing, “skyler, you’re doing it!” But skyler didn’t respond. She just started to lift her right hand towards the scroll. Skyler’s voice turned more masculine “give me that scroll” the shadows shot towards her mother trying to grab the scroll “Skyler?” 

“No. I'm not your daughter.” Her eyes widened and she started dodged the endless bullets of shadows, trying not to get captured. “This was expected,” her mother grinned proudly. She grabbed the knife in her sleeve and stood on the desk “but her body isn’t ready yet for you right?!” she shouted. 

“So right now, get out of my daughter until she can handle you!” her mother  noticed Skyler’s nose was bleeding and her arms were becoming bloody. “The only way” she looked at the knife and tightened her grip “is to stab her” she thought nervously “sorry for this Skyler,” her mothers eyes changed to purple and she dashed towards Skyler “ but it will make sense in the future”

 The shadows furiously threw themselves towards her. Her mother huffed, with exhaustion from dodging them. She tried not to get sucked into the darkness. 

Her mother's eyes turned from blue to purple and started to control them, turning them back at Skyler. “It’s easy to use the shadows that are coming at ya” she said while staring at Skyler who was losing focus. and started to dodge, trying to keep her body safe from the onslaught of shadows. “Black void!” her mother shouted. The shadows engulfed the room, condensing it until there was nothing but blackness. 

Then a sharp pain got Skyler screaming. The moonlight broke through the void, shattering it into glass. To reveal her mother holding Skyler by the waist, the blade through her stomach “mum why?” Skyler weakly reached up and put her palm on her mother’s cheek while her eyes started to lose their colour. Skyler felt so betrayed, like her world was broken into many pieces. Her mother felt so bad for doing this but knew it was the only way to contain Skyler's explosive power since she was the next user of the eclipse blade.

***

A few days later, it was a briskly cold Thursday. Skyler was sitting on a bench near the statue of Mr Richardson, looking at it solemnly and thinking with great anguish about everything that happened. She couldn’t believe how her life has changed so drastically in a week.

“What the hell!” She exclaimed in exasperation, clenching her fists on the armrest. “This is cruel” she murmured while covering her head in her hands. She looked through the gaps of her fingers and saw the paper of the aqua lawyers. “That’s gonna be a long journey” 

She chuckled, realizing how much gas she would need to travel. “I don’t think that my bike would ” she chuckled and stood up. She felt so helpless seeing her father like that, but knew that he was in a better place rather than suffering in that stone prison. 

She grabbed the papers and roughly shoved them in her handbag. She clearly hated that she had wills to collect. “I’m starting to hate that I’m so unlucky” 

Skyler walked up to the statue, and pressed her soft lips on the rough marble texture. The sickly texture made her want to pull back, but she didn’t. Even though he couldn’t tell since he was stone, she wanted to tell him she would be fine. Skyler stepped back, satisfied with her action, while turning away from the statue and towards the car park. 

Skyler stook out her hand in front of her unconsciously like it was reaching for something. But she couldn’t move it back to her side, the scene was fighting to her. She didn’t know how to bring it down, but when she blinked to her dismay she saw a massive field of black roses. A midnight sky with an eclipse shining down through a crack of an unfamiliar ceiling, which landed on a long blade with symbols edged into it. It was spilling over the rock that it was stabbed into.  In a sort of tomb, next to a skeleton on a slab of marble. 

She felt an affinity towards it; so she reluctantly stepped forward slowly, her breaths trembling and visible to her since it was unbelievably cold. “What’s this blade?” she felt that she was in a trance. “Why can’t i stop moving?” It felt like she was just an observer of her own body.  Her eyes rested on the blade while her body continued to move, then a gravelly man’s voice bellowed around the walls.

“Welcome!” It made her shiver.here wasn’t anyone there except that blade she was seeing. Then the blade started to spill out more. “My new master.” The mist finally engulfed the entire floor, Skyler’s feet submerged in it. 

“I suppose it’s unusual to hear a voice with no body, right?” The voice asked with a sinister laugh.  Skyler was completely taken aback at the blade talking. It was so unusual, it made her thoughts mix together. She felt a bit lightheaded. 

“I probably should, Give you a face to look at” the blade groaned. Skyler felt like the blade was frowning at her,  but it was stationary upside down.  Embedded in stone.

“since you're a stupid Dame, a human. You wouldn’t comprehend that, you’re talking to a god or a spirit.” it said while the shadows created ripples, then retracted, until the movements created a shadowy figure of a man.

“So you're the one who kept giving me bloody headaches!” Skyler grew more and more tense while venting at the spirit “you 200,000 year old prick!” The spirit just looked at her “yes I am” he slowly slid towards her through the black mog. His white eyes were locked to hers “It’s  the price to speak to a primordial spirit” he tapped her head with his misty hands which poured down her face “ the price is your lifespan”   He darkened his smirk, snickered and coughed. 

“Skyler, did you give anyone your blood?” Skyler nodded and looked confused, “what’s so important anyway?” He sighed and groaned at Skyler’s reaction. “You fucking Dame you might have gotten yourself killed stupid human!” He shouted furiously whilst  the blade behind glowed purple. 

“Why?” Skyler asked, curious about his  answer. “Your blood, Dame!” Skyler huffed and “don’t call me dame!” She said, interrupting him. The spirit slapped on her cheeks while her body was still stationary from the black mist “don’t interrupt me I have the power here not you” he yelled as he grew taller looking down at her. 

He took a deep breath and felt so frustrated while shrinking and walked back towards the sword. “ Your blood has a peculiar aspect to it.” He leaned against the blade slowly starting to disappear into the blade “ it can  guide anyone or the user to the eclipse blade to it” Skyler’s eyes widened “Wait, what?”