~Fighting Shadows in the Dark~ (5) [Shadows Take Form]

Chapter 5
Shadows Take Form
Confinement isn't fun. I'm officially not allowed to leave my room until further notice.
It's completely my fault, I know this but I can still blame other people.
The door's locked and my food is delivered like clockwork during each meal. Thank God that the room I'm in now has a bathroom. I was moved to some isolation area, I didn't even have a window so I couldn'y decipher day from night. My only clue that it was time to sleep was when the lights in my room shut off, leaving me in complete artificial darkness.
I sat on the bed staring grudgingly at the door, willing the thing to just open. I was so bored! I actually missed Saffy, and strangely enough Dilyn. It was amazing how people come to rely on human companionship. I began to let my mind wander.
The lights flickered. I looked around the room shocked. The only time that had ever happened before was when Damon had been around. But in this room there were no shadows for him to melt out of. It must have been a trick of the mind. He was gone and never coming back. I sunk back in to my unresponsive state and began to loose my self again.
The lights flickered again.
Alright something was definitely going on. I glared at the plain white lights accusingly, how dare they give me hope that I wasn't alone. I just stared at them fuming, my eyes hurting from the intensity, but I didn't look away. Suddenly it imploded. I jumped at the sudden noise. The room grew dimmer, now there were only two harsh lights watching me, mocking my confinement.
Saffy's voice entered my thoughts, 'you were summoning shadows.'
Was it possible, I hadn't taken the whole thing seriously when it had happened. I mean honestly, befriending a demon was one thing, suddenly having powers of darkness was another, it was impossible. At least that's how it had seemed. Was I really the one making the lights flicker? Could I actually be more then human because of a few drops of blood?
Hell, there was never a better time to test the theory. It's not like I had anything better to do.
I relaxed my body and tried to remember how Saffy had told me to summon them. They were like a cold black fire, some never ending portal of darkness that was solid and liquid at the same time. Fluid in movement, but weighed less then air, something with an existence, that didn't really exist. It was hard to describe, but I remembered them well, after all, I had seen the way Damon formed from their darkness before, the way he called them around himself giving shape to something so shapeless.
The lights flickered, this time I was ready for it, I wasn't surprised out of concentration. Encouraged I started to form the dark tendrils in my mind and was amazed to see the shadows extend from the crevices of the room twisting and turning into each other appearing almost alive.
I began to feel weak, controlling the darkness was draining me, I wasn't a demon so I didn't have the stamina to keep the trick up for long. I fell back to my bed with a happy smile on my face. Finally I could do something to help myself, maybe even help someone else rather then burden them with my lack of strength.
I could help Saffy, and Dilyn, maybe even Damon, if he wanted it. If I ever found him, if he was alive by the time I did. So many ifs and so little time.
So, confinement gave me plenty of time to practice my newly found 'skills,' the more I practiced the easier it became to call them forth, but the act still sucked me dry of energy.
Soon, (well I'm not sure how soon, it was easy to lose track of the days in the isolated room,) summoning the shadows was like a second nature, I barely needed to think about it before the fluid darkness would start to snake around me. I was nearly ready to try my escape, there was just one thing I needed to figure out. How to make a portal from the shadows. If there was one thing I was sure of, it was going to be difficult, especially with my lack of demon stamina.
I focused on summoning them around myself and then focusing them onto a certain spot on the wall. Soon I had a kind of swirling portal on the wall.
"Whoa." I breathed touching the portal, my hand sunk through it. The same kind of cold feeling like running my hand through water only it didn't come away wet. I pulled my hand back and the portal burned out.
I felt light headed and sat down on my bed waiting for the world to stop spinning. But it'd done it I'd created a pathway through shadows. My life was going from crappy to interesting. Tomorrow I was going to see if I could actually use my discovery to go some where. Maybe leave this place for once and for all. Right now all I needed was rest.
I took two days to relax before attempting the portal again. I made it the same way I had before only this time I planned to actually use it.
"So how's this thing work." I wondered out loud putting my hand into it again. A shiver ran down my spine. Shadows were so cold. "Where do I want to go?" I asked myself. "Anywhere but here, that's obvious, but exactly where?" I had to take Saffy and Dilyn with me, after all it was thanks to them that I'd discovered I could even do this.
I used my other hand to clutch at the chain. How about I try Saffy's room? That would work. I'd never actually been to Saffy's room, and I ran into a dilemma, how could I go to a place I'd never been? I didn't want to get myself stuck in some shadow world so I settled for the hallway, but there might be people there. No one could see me do this.
After thinking about it for a while I settled on my old room. From there I could sneak around and find Saffy, if I was lucky no one would even notice I was missing so no one would be looking for me...yet.

REST IN RESULTS
I thought about my old room, which wasnt much different then the one I was standing in. I took a deep breath and plunged into the black pool.
My portal was different then that of Damon's or Zak's. Mine was more fluid, like water when there's had been more like flames engulfing us from the floor. Mine seemed morepeaceful.

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