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... ‘Hello darkness, we must stop meeting like this.’ I thought as my consciousness began to return to me. The only sound to reach my ears was someone breathing near by... ‘Wait a minute...’ my eyes flung open, ‘I can't breath! Can't breath!’
Panic tore at my mind for a few seconds as I tried to at least feel the muscles around my chest. That panic was kicked into overdrive when I couldn’t feel anything, ‘That old double crossing bastard!’
After that quick thought I tried to move anything and everything. Nothing responded until I tried to move my head with all of my strength. Everything around me turned to a blur of movement as I watched the same walls fly through my line of sight.
Then I stopped, like I was frozen. The panic in my mind was metaphorically thrown out the window by pure confusion with a little bit of help from his buddy ‘WTF’. Everything in my head stopped all at once as it tried to comprehend what just happened.
An apt description, my head spun around. Full circle... five times... and I still can’t feel my body... ‘Am I dead?...’
My eyes crossed as something began to happen right in front of my eyes. I watched as darkness from the cracks in the old floor and from the shadows all around began to converge on me. As I watched the shadows pour forth I noticed I was being elevated off the ground a good bit.
Slowly I began to feel... something. It was... was like the cold chill of a fan on you after a long day out in the sun only the area the air was hitting couldn’t be felt. Weird I know, but it’s what it was like.
Starting right in front of me, my muzzle began to appear again. It’s coloration was the same, but... I don’t know, it just seemed, darker somehow. I watched with rapt attention as the shadows that had formed my muzzle became clearer and clearer till I could spot the individual hairs.
Then it all rushed back to me. It was like my nervous system had just woken up for the first time. The amount of sensory information that was flooded into my brain stunned me. Everything from the tip of my tail to my nose had that pins and needles feeling to it. That feeling someone would get after their arm or leg had fallen asleep.
All of this made completely worse when I impacted the ground. A yowl of pain erupted from my mouth as a result. After that I tried my best to be completely still, hoping the pins and needles feeling would go away soon.
Since I didn’t want to move any part of my body I was able to think on what had just happened, ‘So, I met a ghost. He made Rarity pass out. Pulled me into some other plane of existence. Dude gave me an offer I accepted... that deal probably screwed me over. Least I'm still alive.’
A cricket chirped nearby making a smile grace my muzzle, despite the irritating feeling. The many sounds of nature could be heard through a crack in the wall, relaxing me. As I listened to the calming tones the feeling throughout my limbs began to return to normal.
Slowly as I began to stand everything felt... off. I felt lighter for some reason. After raising my paw I unsheathed my claws. Instead of the normal color they were pure white and... and looking close enough they had a dark outline on their fronts.
Cautiously I stuck my paw back to the floor and stuck my claws into the stone. They pierced like a hot knife through butter. I lifted my paw up to look at the damage, but saw none. Confused I stuck the claws back in and tried to make a gouge in the stone.
The sound of the stone crumbling was small but I was shocked that I had caused it. Yet the first time I stuck my claws in there had been no damage.
‘Star Swirl did do something to me.’ I thought to myself as my claws retracted and I glanced over to Rarity, ‘I’m sure she'll be fine while I go find some place secluded and figure this all out.’
I turned and started walking down the way we had been going. Not even a few feet away I stopped and looked back at the sleeping unicorn, ‘Should I stay? What are the odds of something happening to... ah crap.’
With a sigh I moved towards Rarity and took a seat by her head. She breathed quietly while I looked around for something to amuse myself with. I wanted to try waking her up, but I didn’t want to touch her until I knew what all had been done to my body.
For all I knew my saliva was now a corrosive acid, so I waited... and waited... and waited some more. All the while just looking around for any kind of danger or something to do.
Minutes passed before I had an idea. After a quick face-paw I moved my self right next to Rarity’s ear and sucked in as much air as I could. A loud, shrill cry came from my mouth. The kind of sound a cat like me would make when fighting another cat.
Rarity’s head shot up, “Opal!” seeing as she was awake I turned tail and booked it down the hallway.
My top speed had slightly improved from before, but it wasn’t mind blowing. I quickly took the first turn I could and pressed myself up against the wall, listening for Rarity. She was groaning a bit as I heard her get onto her hooves, but it appeared I had gotten away without her seeing me.
“Scruffy? Scruffy!?” I heard her hooves, “Scruffy, please come out from wherever you’re hiding.” I moved down the hallway as she called out, “That dreadful thing isn’t here anymore. Please come out.”
‘I’ll be back, just gotta figure out what the bearded guy has done to me.’ I thought before running down the corridor.
“I better go get the others to...” I didn’t hear the rest as I got out of hearing range. Finally Lady Luck seemed to smile on me as one of the doors in the hallway was open.
My eyes scanned the room for any kind of threat as I entered. This room was almost completely empty, except for a pile of old, mossy wood that probably held a bed of some kind. It was perfect for finding out exactly what powers I had.
First I recounted what I already knew, ‘Speed: slightly better. Strength: Unknown. Powers: Claws can go through anything... but there was that first time I stuck my claws into the stone and nothing happened. What was that all about?’ I shook my head and sighed, ‘I’m gonna be here for a while.’
Powers that aren't too OP? I suppose intangibility is out.
:0 awesome how about walk through walls and invisible FREZe time dream walking can sense other life forms
Just listing off some idea idk really what ones u choose except invisible is my fav
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One of the main reasons I couldn't do the smoke thing actually.
The ability to control mice.
what about super hearing? or cute kitten eyes increase by 20 points?
I got the impression of Vlad's ecto-claws, the things he used against Danny Phantom that hit ghosts but go through people... at least I think that's how they worked, it's been several years since I've seen the show.
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Wall crawling? You know, the one like Spiderman's?
MORE pls
wanna try nine lives? like he can make "clones" of himself do an action, kinda like how you thought you saw a cat pass by there, but then the cat passes again in the same direction. limit 9 illusions at a time, only of himself, start from his location, and do an action repeating
Give him the same powers that Raven from Teen Titans has.
The after image technique. That could be something for him.
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Rest in peace a good Teen Titan show.
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Foresight (can see the future) occasionally; but only about 15 minutes and it is not under his control it just kinda happens regaredless of consequences of becoming ramrod stiff for a couple of seconds
Cats are known to have especially good eye sight, give him the ability to see through illusions.
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Stare of cuteness, Stops your foes with one dawwwwwwwww
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That works.
For those who are still trying to think of powers, think of it like this. It's a black cat with black magic. I think he should be able to selectively give people bad luck.
He can climb to places that seem out of reach maybe? Like Spiderman, or perhaps teleportation of some kind? Maybe he can strike fear into greater animals with his glowing eyes,. Our maybe create an illusion of himself as a cougar or panther or something.
Shapeshifting seems like a good one...
Or how about stuff like unicorn like magic? That could be combined with shapeshifting...
Perhaps telepathy? So he could 'talk'.
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5826182 I like this one! Something like the Shadow Clone Technique from Naruto?
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique
He should be able to summon an emu that would do whatever he tells it. That would make for some funny scenes.
How about granting him the ability to implant suggestions into the mind of any pony? Not mind control really but giving them ideas that they normally wouldn't think of otherwise.
Wall Crawling depending on what you did with the claws, the ability to understand creatures he couldn't before (Like say, a Hydra or other such Everfree denizen) and/or potentially communicate with them, and blend in with shadows (Like camoflauge, harder to detect them before) but NOT meld into them comes to mind.
Healing tears! Like a Phoenix from harry potter!
Shadow teleportation, he can travel between the shadows in his view, ie. traveling between the shadows of two lamppost during mid day would be near impossible, but across a darkened ballroom, child's play. Wall climbing to an extent, if his claws can cut anything he WANTS them to then he can simply will them to cut Into the wall then will them to become physical while in said wall, the rest is just practice. Thought suggestion and self placed illusion (he would look like a panther to what ever was looking into his eyes) upon eye contact.
5826108 shadow mice constructs?
Super vision, maybe?
illusions whit shadows too
Two words: Ban-kai
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Mild shadow manipulation. Say maybe alter the shape of the shadows to instill fear.
It seems possible you're going on a 'black magic manifests differently for everyone'. So perhaps maybe since cold was a potential reaction earlier, relating to ice as well.
Hmm... Powers... not OP...
What about a cuttlefish power? He can mimic whatever animal he wants to, but he can't change texture or color.
Or maybe his saliva is corrosive, and can burn through solid steel in just a few hours.
Or maybe he can breathe fire! shadow fire!
Maybe he couple be able to somehow see a pony's magical potential, or what spell a pony will cast before they cast it?
5826553 I second telepathy and the ability to assume a panther form like:
intangible shadow constructs,
being able to manipulate probability to a small extend,
powers of suggestion that get strong enough to be considered minor mind control if direct eye contact is held during the suggestion,
truesight aka the ability to see things as they truly are and protection against any sort of illusion,
phase shifting himself into some kind of shadow realm where he can travel around but not interact with the real world and everything is some kind of blurry negative shadow and he appears as a faint blurry outline in the real world (think of frodo putting on the ring in the movies just without the complete invisibility,
telekinesis or some kind of shadow limb with which he can manipulate objects maybe as an extension of his body.
How about size manipulation? Kind of Like Kilala from Inuyasha. When he transforms have all the shadows in the area converge together over him and disperse when he is done transforming and when he changes back. You could also have it be that he could travel through shadows like portals. And of course you could also give him the ability to speak telepathically. I hope these help
The ability to pull energy from fauna? Sort of like a power boost, but all nearby grass and small plants would die and trees weaken as a result. And he could never sleep, as he would never be tired, but always have to be near a plant for it to work, and a lot of them, so it would be useless in the castle or dungeon.
Telepath, but only if he is close (emotionally) to a pony, or say, a dragon. Or perhaps blinking, it is like teleporting, but you can only go like, five feet at max. maybe ten if you get super duper good at it.
shadow walking: so long as he is touching a shadow he can faze into it and come out of any other nearby shadow. (more range than blinking but requires shadows or dark places)
I don't know if this is okay or not, but once a day, he can be like Panther lily and turn into a kaghit guy, but he wouldn't normally do this if there was people around.
Hmm, not too OP, I'd have to say hiding in shadows.
He can be noticed if someone saw him go into it, but otherwise can remain unnoticed. Nothing too special, but I could see him having the ability to go unnoticed if he had to spy on someone.
I so badly want to give him a lot, no, all of the thingss you guys have said, but I can't. So here are the topp ones I'm thinking of giiving him.
1: Cloak of Shaddows. If hee so desirres he can't be seen while in a shadow, but must remain absolutely still.
2: The Stare of Cuteness. Uses darkk magic to make the aniimal or person attacking stop and 'daww'. Much like Puss from Shrek 2. Only works on lower level opponentts.
3: Shadow Blink. Uses a lot of energy, but can move from shadow tto shadow within eye sight. Longer distance equals more energyy needed.
4: Telepathy. Must have close eye contact or be very close with the receiving individual.
I actually saw a the main two that I was going to give him in the comments. I'll let all of you try and figure out what they are.
So tell me what you guys think.
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You three because I recognize your pictures and see you comment a lot.
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And you because you guessed one of the things I'm going to do in that comment of yours and Gengar's pre-evolution inspired the idea.
Cool, now he's got powers, can't wait to see what they are in the end.
How about the ability to manipulate the age of an object, like the Amulet of Uroborus for God of War: Ascension?
By that I mean, like, he sinks his claws into something and, depending on what he wants, he can make that object deteriorate like it would if it aged to the point of dust, or he can make it like the day it was made.
Like if he goes up to a carriage, he can make it so the wood rapidly rots and crumbles and the the metal rusts and falls apart to the point it turns into a big pile of useless garbage, or he can make it as good as the day it was first put together.
Whether or not he can do this to somepony, that's up to you.
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Instead of shadow blink being a high energy shadow to line of sight shadow teleport I'd like to propose an alternative similar power. Shadow walking; the ability to use shadows/darkness as portals to a sort of parallel dimension. While within in this shadow world it is much easier to move allowing for fast travel however he is unable to interact with the regular world and the more well lit something is in the regular world the harder it is to perceive in the shadow world. Throw in the fact that in order to enter or exit particularly dark shadows are required and that being in the shadow world steadily saps energy and you have a very useful if risky power.
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Comments like yours are why I put up that list. I love your idea and I can picture in my head Scruffy's freak out when he first does it... You've defiantly given me some food for thought.
How about a lion roar that paralyses weak enemies?
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Well Raven powers use shadow and darkness, so it kinda makes sense since they are also evil or demonic in origin.
Lunar-Powered Invisibility
Control over Shadows
Communication with Shadows
See-Through Vision
Equincat Transformation
Shapeshifting
Temporary Growth
Acid Spittle
Diamond Claws
Twin Tails Equipped with Hands
Camouflage
Sleepy Sonic Meow
Shapeshifting into animals that smaller than cat (retaining black color, and he can't use other powers while shapeshifted).
For example, mouse for hiding and spying, sparrow for flying, small fish for swimming, etc.