Don't Own Rwby Or The Shadow Monarch Ability, Only The Oc

'thought'

"Speech"

"Tvs, Radios, and Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."

(Mid Chapter Authors Notes)

'owww... my head...' I grunt as I slowly sit up.

'where... am I?'

I look around a light clearing in the trees, the soft grass beneath by hands briefly tickling my fingers as a couple beams of sunlight pierce through the thick canopy of leaves and branches above my head.

'…'

I push myself up to a stand and instantly collapse forwards onto my hands and knees.

'my legs are asleep...'

I spot a single blue feather under the tips of my fingers.

'a... feather?'

I look up to see a small trail of feathers leading forwards.

I shakily stand and slowly walk after the feathers for about twenty or so feet.

'oh... it's a dead bird.'

Shadows below its corpse suddenly ascend upwards, giving the appearance of a couple thin wisps of shadowy fire.

'W-WHAT?! THAT'S NOT NORMAL!'

"A̵̵̷̶̸̷̴̶̦͓̔̔̆ͪ̚͟" I clutch my head as a mechanical, seemingly demonic distorted voice radiates throughout my head.

"A̵̸̶r̸̸̷i̷̵̵s̴̵̸e̵̸̴"

"A̸r̸i̵s̵e̸"

"ARISE!"

I fall back onto my ass, away from the bird and wisps of darkness.

"whatthefuckwhatthefuck" I whisper as I scoot away from the dead bird. "A-Arise? What the fuck does that mean?"

The wisps above the bird suddenly pulse and flow downwards.

"EEP-" I flinch and scurry back another five feet or so.

[You have extracted a creature's shadow]

I watch as a beak made of pure darkness pulls itself from the dead bird, followed shortly behind by a head, body, wings, feet, and tail feathers.

"W-What?" I stutter as a title pops up above the head of the bird, then it looks at me with white glowing eyes.

Shadow Avian (Blue Jay)
Level 0
Soul Level: Pettiest

It hops over to me and tilts its head.

It lets out a high-pitched warbling sound and hops in place, then it looks back up to me and spreads its wings causing me to flinch back.

It flaps its wings once and lands on my shoulder where it looks around the forest.

'A-Am I in control of it?'

I point to a tree. "Fly there."

It flaps its wings and lands in the tree.

"…"

"R-Return?"

It lands on my shoulder again.

'oh my gosh this is so cool... I have special powers! And it is kind of like an RPG as well considering it has levels!'

'wait... if it has levels, can it grow stronger?'

'knowing clichés... I must have been transported into another world... and granted the gamer power!'

"Status!"

Nothing happens.

"…"

'uhhh...'

"Menu?"

Nothing happens.

"Pause?"

Still nothing happens.

I pout slightly. 'but why can I see levels?'

I look to the bird. "Go out and get stronger... or something."

It spreads its wings and takes off into the sky.

"…"

'now... where the hell am I?'

I slowly walk forwards, scanning the tree line as I do. 'shouldn't I be moving faster than this?'

I look down to my tiny legs.

"…"

"WHAT THE FU-"

'I'm a child! Holy shit I am a child! WHY?! WHY AM I A CHILD?!'

A little sweat appears on my brow as I look down at my miniature body. 'is it so I will be the same age as the 'protaganist'? Or because it allows me to train my body from a young age?'

"now that I think about it, it is probably both of those things..." I sigh. 'Dear god I don't look older than nine...'

'why do I feel... so tired all of a sudden?'

I wipe a bit of sweat off my forehead and continue walking.

'where the hell even am I? Is this a jungle of some sort?'

I blink several times with a blank expression as a loud growl is heard behind me.

I slowly turn to look at the thing behind me-

I abruptly sprint forwards.

'HOLY SHIT, THAT IS A BIG ASS FUCKING TIGER!'

The sound of pounding feet echoes behind me.

I take a quick peak behind me as a warbling birdcall rapidly closes in, only to see my shadow bird friend air-tackle the tiger's head and bite its nose with its sharp little beak, most likely just annoying it, but it is trying it's best damnit!

'MUST GO FASTER!'

The tiger behind me lets out a growl of pain and it seemingly stops chasing me in order to murderize the bird.

I take another glance behind me to see it swat the bird out of the air, turning it to vapor, one of the tiger's eyes squinted shut, a small trail of blood trickling down its face from said eye.

The bird reforms and lunges at the tiger once more with a squawk of primal fury.

I continue sprinting forwards-

My foot catches a root and I am sent tumbling down a hill. "FUUUCCK- OW-"

I surprisingly land in a seated position so I quickly get back up and continue my quick sprint, albeit, now with a slight limp.

'holy fuck I am durable'

I reach the top of another hill, this time, the forest seemingly being left behind me.

At the bottom of the hill and in the distance are several large windmills leading up to a small village, and further beyond that, is an ocean, leading on farther than the eye can see.

A twig snaps behind me so I quickly fling myself forwards and down the hill, among my several flips during my tumble down the hill, I catch sight of an orange and black form that flew through the area where my torso was moments before.

I finish my last bit of tumbling as I land hard on my hands and knees.

The tiger doesn't fare much better as it lands on its side, seemingly dazed from the fall.

I push myself back up and sprint down this long pathway to the village.

'maybe they can help me with this.' I grit my teeth and frown, as my legs were a bit injured on the two tumbles, but push on as I hear my bird friend divebomb that tiger again as it slowly stands and starts ripping tufts of hair out of its back.

'I HAVE A THIRTY SECOND HEAD START!'

I continue my sprint for about ten or so seconds, only to realize the tiger is closing in rapidly.

"GO FOR THE FUCKING EYES BIRD." I shout as I increase my speed ever so slightly.

The tiger behind me growls and stops its running, presumably to swat the bird off its face, allowing me to gain even more distance.

'OHOHO IM GONNA FACKING DIE!'

The bird most likely gets demolished once more, because the tiger resumes its chase.

"WHY ARE YOU SO PISSED OFF?!" I shout behind me. "I DID NOTHING TO YOU!"

My only response is its loud roar.

"EEp-" I trip and fall on my face, just as I hear a gunshot from a couple hundred feet away.

The tiger hits the ground roughly and slides forwards a couple of feet, I turn my head to see the tiger's face about an inch away from my own.

"HOLYFUC-" I scoot away from it.

It has a bullet wound right in its forehead.

"Oh." I sigh in relief. "It's dead... Nice..."

Several wisps of shadows rise from the corpse.

"…"

'I can have this as a summon?'

My shadow bird lands on my shoulder.

I look over to the small village, roughly three hundred or so feet in the distance, a single man is walking down the dirt road towards where I am.

"…"

I look back at the dead tiger.

"Arise."

[You have failed to extract this shadow]

'wh-what?'

[You still have two chances remaining]

'why aren't I able to easily revive this?'

[A Shadow Soldier is created from a body without life by taking out its energy, the chances of failure increase the stronger the target is, (Compared to your current strength), and the more time passed since the target's death.]

"A-Arise."

[You have failed to extract this shadow]

[You still have one chance remaining]

'fuckfuckfuck'

"Listen here you little fuck." I growl at the body of the tiger. "I gave you multiple chances to run, and you should have, but you chose to chase me even after being blinded in one eye... it is time to own up to your choices, gain purpose and serve me."

"Arise."

The shadows pool below the tiger and seeps over to mine.

I look down at my shadow.

Shadow Beast (Tiger)
Level 1
Soul Level: Greater Petty

I bit of sweat drips down the side of my head, I wipe it off, revealing that it is actually red.

"Oh... I'm... Bleeding..."

I look down at all the scrapes and scratches covering my arms and legs.

"Oh... that's a lot of... blood."

A wave of pain hits me as the adrenaline wears off.

I faint on the spot.

"gn-" I wince and slowly open my eyes.

'where- oh... some sort of bedroom.'

I bring my hand up to my face, revealing that it is covered in bandages.

The sound of flapping wings reaches my ears as my bird summon frees itself from my shadow.

The bird lands beside me on the bed and bows its head.

[Shadow Avian is requesting your permission to advance its strength.]

Shadow Avian (Blue Jay)
Level: MAX
Soul Level: Pettiest

[It is now possible to advance the Soul Level once the level requirements have been met.]

[Will you permit the advancement?]

"Yes..." I hoarsely whisper.

Several wisps of darkness rise from below the bird and coat its entire form, it is raised up into the air as the shadows form a sphere about the size of soccer ball around the bird.

It suddenly bursts out to reveal the bird now about the size of a hawk, has sharp talons at the end of each toe, and also has a sharp looking beak.

It hops in place, and looks around.

Shadow Avian (Blue Jay)
Level: 1
Soul Level: Lesser Petty

It suddenly hops back into my shadow as the door opens.

"…"

A woman with green hair walks into the room, she has a yellow handkerchief tied around her hair and wears a blue striped shirt with a red dress that has flowers going down the side.

She grabs a quill from the top of the wardrobe beside the door and leaves without even noticing that I woke up.

"…"

"hey bird..." I whisper into my shadow. "Go out and get stronger, then come back when I need to upgrade you again, no killing people though..."

A shadow in the shape of a bird flies out of my own shadow and goes under the door.

I let out a long sigh as I slowly crawl out of bed.

I begin to slowly walk towards the door, but I pause in front of the dresser to look in the mirror.

I realize I have a couple bandages wrapped around my head, covering one of my eyes, but from what I can see, I have short black hair and dark blue eye(s) (I am assuming the second is also blue).

'should I use my old name here?' I blink slowly. 'no... but what should I call myself?'

'…'

'ill figure it out later... but I am thinking something like 'Lucas'… or maybe something after a color...'

I stare blankly into the mirror. 'maybe 'Lapis' that sounds good, right?'

[This is where I stopped writing]

I was originally going to make this a cool one piece x Solo Leveling thing, but I sort hit writers block mid- chapter and decided that was fucking cursed so I just dropped it.

Anyways, posting this because I was bored, sooo have fun reading it I guess...

The name would have also been better for a Rwby Fic, that might have been pretty cool, just a hunter who goes out, kills a creep, then upgrades it to the highest rarity possible and makes it that fucking dragon from the end of volume 3.