DESTINY GAMES

The Shadow replied, "Normal objects can't speak out, but I am not normal. I am a divine object. Every divine object has a will. They can choose who gets to wield them, and if the conditions are right, they can communicate with their wielder."

Kelvin didn't believe a word that it said. He reached for his phone and began searching for divine spirits. The spirit floated over and saw what he was doing.

It sighed and said, "That won't help. Divine artifacts are rare. Have you heard of Mjonir? Well, I have, but if you search the web, you will not find anything about it."

He was spooked when the shadow passed through his body to look at the screen of his phone, but he didn't let that discourage him. He tried to create some distance between the two of them as he continued with the search for what he wanted.

Unfortunately, he couldn't find anything about divine spirits or divine artifacts. He couldn't find anything about Mjonir either, but that could be because he didn't get the spelling right.

Next, he searched for the various god kings he saw in the dream. Nothing came up about them. He had to give up in frustration.

The shadow said, "See?"

"This doesn't prove anything. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence."

"What now?" The spirit asked him.

He replied with wariness, "Prove that you are truly the spirit of the object."

"I can't do that. All I can say is that I saw your first destiny game, and what I saw of your performance matched the requirements I had for my wielder. So I came to you. You tried to lift me, but I refused to budge. Then I asked you to swear to kill Raijin. You did, then you had that dream, and now we are here with you questioning my authenticity."

"Hmmm," he said as he ruminated on what it said while eyeing it suspiciously. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

"See here. I like your cautious nature; I'm loving it even. But we have to get past this to do something constructive with our time. You are stuck with me until you die."

Kelvin narrowed his eyes and said, "Sounds like something an imposter would say."

The shadow groaned audibly. Then it said, "There's a way to prove if I am a spirit. You are the only one who can see me and speak with me. Let's go outside and test it."

Kelvin didn't fall for it. He shook his head and said, "The only thing that will prove is that I am going crazy or that you have the ability to hide yourself from others. It doesn't prove that you are the spirit of that ring."

"I give up. It is not that I expected instant trust anyway, so I am fine with this. You will just have to learn to trust me in time."

Kelvin asked, "Let's assume that you are truly who you are. How did you find me?"

"That's easy. I just jumped through space to you. I am a divine artifact, so I can do that. Look at your body right now and check your destiny report. You will find that I can do a lot of things that don't follow the rules of nature."

"Do you just want me to close my eyes so that you can possess me or something?"

"I'm not trying to do that." It moved over to a cup on the table. Then it said, "Look, I can't touch it. I can't touch anything, and I can't harm you."

"I wish I could believe you."

"I wish that too."

Kelvin did look at himself, and even without looking at his destiny report, he knew that he had awakened twice. He even knew what his second ability was. It made him feel disbelief.

His shapeshifting ability had been stretched to the limit and forced to awaken again. It gave him an ability that he had never heard anyone have before. This incredulous situation made him begin to believe that the shadow might be right.

He inhaled sharply and said, "Why me? You seem like a very powerful object. Why would you choose someone like me?"

"It is because of my requirements. I need someone with an ability that has room for growth. You are the best one that I have encountered. Your ability is literally flexibility and change. I decided that it would be able to accommodate a large portion of the potential I contained and evolve into something greater. That's why I came here."

"As for why I can speak with you, that's because you agreed to kill Raijin. If you had refused, I would have left."

"Is it because I am a shapeshifter? But there are other shapeshifters?"

"There are, but very few of them are as powerful as yours and very few of them actually have the grit needed to attempt to kill their teammates on their first destiny game. That showed me that you had the correct mentality and were willing to do everything you needed to do to survive."

That felt like a compliment to him which improved his mood. But then he frowned when he remembered how he had behaved when he saw the ring and how he had been willing to agree to do anything to acquire it.

It made him ask, "Did you affect my mind in anyway?"

The shadow replied, "I did not. That was all you. It was an impulse like the need to eat when you are hungry or the need to mate when you encounter a sexually attractive person. It was like all of those things combined and amplified because every part of your body wanted me, not just your stomach or your penis."

"Fine. I am willing to believe you for now, but you are on thin ice."

The shadow would have rolled its eyes if it had one. But it didn't, so it shrugged and said, "Can we do something productive now?"

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