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Eddie's Many Exploits

   "This kid is growing right in front of my very eyes!", I think to myself.

   In such a short amount of time this kid has managed to learn both his new found magic, and also his sword.  He even managed to be proficient enough to use both of these skills hand-in-hand.

   It brought me back to the time when I first learned about what my magic does.

   I remember it like it was yesterday. The fateful day that I received my magic, I was still unaware of what lay ahead of me. There was no one to mentor me when I first got it unlike how I am now with mentoring Noah.

   From what Noah has told me, it seems that you would experience the weird eerie feeling that plagues you on the day of, or the days leading to your manifestation of magic. It would seem that every new person chosen will receive these premonitions. The weird feeling though is quite interesting, since this power can only manifest once there is an agent of chaos. I think that the weird feeling in our bodies serves as a way to alert us of this fact.

   The day I first manifested my magic was the day I almost "died". 

   It was during the end of august when I first started feeling the weird feeling that would constantly follow me. On one particular day I spent the whole day feeling paranoid as every single thing would give me goosebumps. Oddly enough throughout the day I was going back and forth between spacing out and then becoming extremely alert. This made that day quite unbearable. 

   And when I thought my day couldn't get any worse, I just happen to cross the street at exactly the right time for a f*****g truck to come speeding at me. IN that split second, I had already come to terms with what was about to happen. I already new that I was about to die, although I did wish I could've gone out in a much more heroic sense.

   I closed my eyes as I braced for impact. 

   I felt nothing. Was the crash so bad that it destroyed all feeling in my body? Was this how it feels like to die?

   These thoughts swirled around in my head but I could still hear the screams of the bystanders who witnessed such a horrific scene.

   "That was weird", I think to myself

   I knew that I wasn't imagining things, these screams of concern and distress were definitely real and they were definitely loud enough to be close by.

   Since I had nothing to lose I decided to open my eyes. To my surprise, my body was completely unscathed although my body weirdly enough had a faint golden glow. I was still too disoriented to properly process what was going on as I look in front of me.

   In front of me was the truck that collided with me. Key word collided because there was a huge f*****g dent right in the middle of the truck where it hit me. I was unharmed and so was the driver. 

   Afterwards, I spent the rest of the day lying in bed as I thought about what the hell happened to me. And I would be left searching for clues for the rest of the year.

   In this year I began conducting experiments on myself and from what I have gathered it seems that body became able to withstand extreme force. No matter what I did, I never sustained any form of injury. I would get in to fights, get beaten with a metal bath, jump from heights that would normally break bones, and the like. My body would just simply glow gold from where the impact connected with my body.

   At the time I was still clueless that it was a form of magic and from where it came from and it seemed like such a waste to have such a power and to never even use it.  So I began studying basic hand-to-hand combat, simple things that would help in a street fight. I couldn't enroll myself to a proper class because of the current state of my body as it would raise suspicion. So I observed classes from afar and asked around.

   I spent a few months doing this up until the point that I was somewhat satisfied with how I moved. It was now time for me to execute the second step in my plan! 

   Since it is such a waste to do nothing with this power, I decided that I would moonlight as a vigilante! Beating down low level thugs and serving justice through my fists! 

And thus began my year of being a hero at night.