A fifteen year-old boy walked down the streets of New York City, wearing black sunglasses. "Look at them…" He said as he pushed a lock of his black hair out of his face. "They just walk around, not even caring about what's happened to their precious statue." He chuckled at the thought. "Just wait until they all discover what that tower can really do." He continued to walk down the street, smiling. Suddenly, the ground shook violently and chunks of pavement flew everywhere as a large creature drilled through the ground. Everyone ran screaming as the creature used its fingertips to rill through buildings. The young teen, however, was seemed emotionless as the creature roared. "At last it has come…" As large chunk of a building fell towards him, the teen jumped over fifty feet in an opposite direction from the falling chunk. He chuckled before, seeming to become one with the shadows. He climbed up a wall onto the top of a building and watched as Jake flew in to take on the monster. "So the legendary dragon comes to take on the Chaos Driller… interesting. Lets see how Jake Long takes on this challenge."
"What in the world is that thing?" Jake asked. The large creature was like a mole, but with a drill on the nose and hands.
"Heh, heh, heh… not even he will be able to stop the Driller. Its fur is like an armor, it's impenetrable." The teen watched as Jake blasted the creature with fireballs, which had no effect. "Fool, that won't work." He said with a smirk. Jake started throwing objects at the Chaos Driller, but everything broke on impact. "It's over, the dragon has lost." As the teen turned to walk away, he was surprised when the Driller seemed hurt by his own element: earth. "What? This doesn't make any sense… well, Chaos, it seems I have underestimated your intelligence." He said, a slightly frustrated look on his face. "No matter." Through his dark sunglasses an orange glow was seen as a chunk of pavement was lifted and hurled at the Chaos Driller. Jake looked around and saw the teen on the building.
"Huh?" In a second, the teen was gone. Jake, no longer paying attention to the creature, was knocked into a building by the Driller.
"YYYYAAAAHHH!" It screamed. A reporter, filming the whole fight, was caught off guard as a figure jumped out of his shadow and onto the Driller.
"Let's see how you like this." It was the strange teen. He planted a bomb of some sort onto the creature's back. It screamed as the bomb detonated, freezing it in a stone prison. The teen then attacked Jake with a blade made of shadows, catching him off guard.
"Whose side are you on, kid?"
"Side? Things aren't so black and white, Jake Long. I am on nobody's side. In fact, that's all I am. A nobody, an empty shell, just looking for his place in a world of chaos and pain." The teen jumped into a reporter's shadow and walked off with the man.
"What is that kid…?"
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"He leaped into a shadow?" Hannah asked. "Are you sure all those collisions into buildings didn't scatter some brain cells?"
"I know what I saw. I don't know who… or what… he was. He just came and went."
"Strange…" Dan said. "But we have faced many strange things in our life times. Cyborgs, Psychotic men, inter-dimensional shape shifting demons…"
"I see your point." Hannah said.
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The strange teen leaped from shadow to shadow, looking for a place to hideaway. He continued to jump shadow from shadow before finally jumping into an abandoned warehouse. "How long must I run?" He asked before headed to a small room. "This'll have to do for now." He said.
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The next day, Jake walked through the damaged part of the city, looking for clues on what that monster was and why it was there. "I wonder what that thing was." He asked himself as he passed the police lines.
"The Chaos Driller." Jake turned to see our mysterious black-haired teen standing behind him. "Yet another creature born of the Chaos Blaze."
"Chaos Blaze? Who are you? How do…"
"I know all this? I was born of that evil world."
"Who are you?"
"Nobody. As I said before, I am just an empty shell. I have no soul, no will, no real feelings either. I am just an empty shell trying to figure out who I am and what my true purpose is. The only one who truly holds the key to this question is Chaos himself, creator of both the Chaos Blaze and the Chaos Driller."
"He still lives…"
"Of course. Who do you think created the Driller? Where do you think these towers are coming from? He isn't so easily destroyed, Long. I hope you're ready, because these towers and creatures are just the beginning. Soon the darkness shall spread, the heroes' hearts filled with dread. Evil spreads forevermore, and the heroes shall live nevermore."
"What? What do you mean?" The teen just grinned and jumped into a nearby shadow, disappearing as it faded into the sunlight.
END CHAPTERNext time, the three heroes learn more about the Chaos Blaze as they meet up with that strange teen once more. And what they discover, is not very pleasant…
