They believe we are evil. They say we are unforgivable. They see only hatred in us. We are creatures from the dark, creatures of evil, creatures of death. They believe we are demons, but we are not. We are not innocent, but we are not guilty. We are not good, bit we are not bad. There are only four of us, and we are all hiding. We know of each other, but we do not know each other. We are shadow spirits. We are just like them, only we are more powerful, and we prefer to live with humans. They are known as magics. There are many different types of them, such as vampires, fairies, and sylphs. There is also another class of magic, demons, but the magics do not consider the demons a part of their species. They believe we are demons, but we are not. They do not know our species exist. They have only seen one of us once, and they thought that we were demons that shifted into another form. I wonder if I could disguise myself as some form of a magic, maybe a sylph, and live with them in the underworld. The underworld is not hell, hell is a whole different world, a whole different planet. The demons on our world have traveled through space to get to Earth. The underworld is simply a society in the mantle of the Earth. A magical society. To humans, the mantle is impossible to live in, but it is actually magic that creates an illusion to the humans. The mantle is an amazing place, if you are magic and able to walk through the coating of magma seen by the humans. The coating of magma is not actually magma, it is a magic field which burns anyone non-magical to a crisp if they attempt to walk through. I wish I could live there, but I must stay in the human world for now, in hiding. Someday, all of the shadow spirits will meet and overthrow the magic society. They can't kill us, so we might as well try. We will never die. We can be hurt, but we heal in a matter of minutes.
"Hey, Marlene. Are you okay?" my best friend, Aaron, asks, interrupting my thoughts. He's a human, but he is so different from the others of his kind. I might turn him into a shadow spirit.Shadow spirits have the ability to turn one other creature into a shadow spirit. If we all turn one person, there will be eight of us. If you are turned into a shadow spirit, you can't turn someone else. I don't know who I will turn, but it will be someone I can't live without. I don't know if I can live without Aaron.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little stressed," I answer.
"Why?"
"Prom. It's in two weeks, you know."
"Why are you stressed about prom? Four guys have asked you already, and there is still two weeks!"
"It's just... never mind. It doesn't matter."
"It obviously does, Mar."
"Fine. The guy I want to ask me hasn't."
"There's still two weeks. And why don't you just ask him?" Aaron asks and then mutters something under his breath.
"What was that?" I ask.
"Nothing. And you didn't answer my question."
"I'll answer your question if you tell me what you said."
"You're being difficult," He teases.
"So are you," I tease back.
"Okay, fine. I'll tell you later if you answer my question."
"I won't ask him because I know he'll reject me."
"You know he wouldn't. Nearly every guy in school likes you."
"Whatever."
"I have to get to class."
"Bye."
"You're coming to the park after school, right?"
"Yeah."
"Okay. See you later."
"Bye." We start to walk in different directions towards our classes. I wonder what he said. He's been muttering stuff a lot lately, and then he won't tell me what he says. Oh well. I am really enjoying just living as a human. I'm only sixteen, so I have decided to live out my first lifetime as a human. A lifetime is approximatly 100 years. Most magics live ten lifetimes, and most demons live fourteen lifetimes. Shadow spirits live infinite lifetimes. I think I want Aaron to live infinitly with me.
