5 Absence of light or Food? (2/2)

Days changed into weeks!

Weeks turned into months!

And months, into Years!

Just like that, five whole years went by like clouds.

Ozul was five years old now.

All those years, but no one checked on him. It was like they were avoiding him now. Like they were afraid to even come near the warehouse that they sealed him in. They could deal with him when he was a newborn baby, but no one knew his capabilities now. They would rather not risk it.

Things were all the same, but Ozul had grown up!

. . .

In an abandoned warehouse surrounded by trees, you could only see black everywhere.

But with a bit of focus, you would see a strange kid around the age of five to six years. Odd because the kid only had one right leg. No left leg, no arms, and no clothes!

He was just lying there on his back, closed eyes, and facing up.

He was Ozul Ashfall. The 'Devils Spawn' not listed in any document of the Silverbird Kingdom.

Ozul suddenly opened his jade black eyes.

'The last amount of it is finally absorbed!' Ozul thought when the last wisp of the black smoke surrounding him got absorbed into his body.

Ozul, in all those years, only moved about when he felt tired. He would just sit up and stay like that until he felt tired again—he kept repeating the cycle over and over again.

Ozul had also noted that the dark energy slowly kept decreasing over time. And today, his body consumed the last bit of it.

It worried him a little. Ozul believes that he could only survive until this day by consuming that energy.

But only a minute had passed, and he felt something.

'URGHH!' Ozul felt a jolt of pain pass through his mind. Few seconds passed, and he received some kind of knowledge. It felt like some sort of trick.

Curious as he was, he immediately tried it.

It was simple, He just willed it, and suddenly some kind of dense black smoke seeped out of him and formed a ball. With only a thought, he could change it to any shape.

Ozul felt it; he could also change its properties. Like changing it to a solid-state.

Moreover, Ozul felt like this dense black smoke was just a part of him. Similar to his right leg.

With this thought, Ozul suddenly had an idea!

'Well, I can freely move about now.'-thought Ozul with a poker face as he changed its shape into one of his legs and attached it to himself.

After five years of his birth, it was the first time Ozul stood up on his own! He took his first steps after five years worth of the time!

People would think that it may be difficult to walk. But Ozul had no problem whatsoever as it felt just like moving a part of his body. Maybe he could move the black mass of energy even better than his body!

Anyways, he could walk now! The first thing he did after being able to walk? He laid back down on the table, removed the black mass into his body, and drifted into sleep!

He was used to it by now; for 1,825 days, he could only pass his time by sleeping! Sleeping had become as natural to him as breathing.

After some hours, he woke up again. This time he was a bit hungry. But he was not worried because controlling that black mass was not the only thing he learned. Somehow if Ozul was in complete darkness, he could just eat it!

You heard it right; he could just absorb the absence of light! Sadly, the absorbed 'darkness' would just replenish his body. It wouldn't even increase the size of the black mass he could produce.

As of now, he could use it only as one of the limbs. If he knew how to increase its size, it would be much more convenient!

Ozul didn't put much thought into it. He never pondered on what he could or what he could not! He was just waiting for an opportunity to get out of here and get his 'parts' back!