My name is Clare Flare and what I am about to tell you has never been heard by any other people before. I'm a Shadow Clan child. Not many know of us. We're very few and sometimes it's hard to be around others because we have gifts that are special only to us. Me? I can talk and understand slugs and I can see auras. I can see when they are about to fade away, when they are bright and strong, and when they are very different. Each aura for me has a different color to it. It's hard for me to be around others because almost all the others are bright and I get headaches from the brightness of the auras.
It begins when I was abandoned by my family a long time ago. I was just a baby then and I didn't understand. I know it had to do with why I could see a very faint outline of an aura. I barely remember it but it was nice to look at. After that, I changed, I think. That's what made them want to abandon me, I guess. But the slugs found me then and took care of me until a Shadow Clan member came and took me back to her cavern. I was raised by them and the slugs then. My father had became the Shadow Clan leader and my mother was his mate. Their names? Custos and Gloria.
I began understanding my family when I was about three or four. The slugs were easier while the Shadow Clan took longer. I began understanding the Shadow Clan when I was six or seven. It grew easier as time went by but just as that was happening, so was my aura sight. The colors began becoming brighter and more colorful. I saw so much then but it also brought the headaches. I hid a lot then and my mother helped me control it slowly. Soon, when I was thirteen, I was able to block some of the brightness and it helped a great deal. I was happy and then came another surprise.
My fate. It is to help Eli Shane and his gang to restore peace and balance back to Slugterra. Now I'm the same age as Eli and will start my journey with my two best friends and slugs,Hikari and Yami. My Negashade and a White Boon Doc. We'll start in the Slugslinging tournament. Hopefully, we'll find Eli Shane and gain a few new friends along the way. New slugs to add into this little family of mine and be able to one day bring about the peace and balance needed in Slugterra.
Who knows what's to come in this journey? Meeting new people. Gaining new friends. Helping people who need help. And just maybe stopping what's been making this ugly, dark, and black aura soon. Maybe I'll find that bright, happy, and smiling aura I see in my dreams soon. Maybe I'll meet the one that's just for me and I won't be alone anymore. Who knows? I just hope I will and this empty feeling inside me will be gone at long last.
What's to come from this journey and will I experience something new along the way? What new faces and people will I meet? What exciting adventures await me and my family? So many questions and no answers. One question plagues my mind though…. Will I be accepted by those I call friends and family after being around them for so long and having them find out that I'm not who I seem to be? Only one way to find out, I guess. This is the start of my story and hopefully, just maybe, it won't just be danger and running. Hopefully, it will have excitement, adventure, mystery, and maybe…. Romance in the future.
This is the end of an old life and the beginning to a new one with a bright and happy future for everyone around us. This is my story of how my adventures with Eli Shane and the Shane Gang were even in the darkest of times and the brightest of times.