Eclipse Warrior: Darkness Over Metropolis

In the heart of Metropolis, a gleaming city of fifteen million souls, darkness descended for seventeen minutes that changed everything. The Eclipse Event shattered reality itself, granting select individuals extraordinary abilities while opening doorways to horrors that existed between dimensions. Among the transformed was Jake Sullivan, a decorated special forces operator who watched his brilliant physicist sister consumed by an entity of infinite hunger. Emerging from those seventeen minutes with the power to manipulate shadows, Jake became Marcus Shadows—the Eclipse Warrior, a vigilante operating in the gray spaces between justice and vengeance. For five years, Marcus has waged a solitary war against Metropolis's darkness, using his shadow abilities to protect Eclipse survivors from criminals, corrupt corporations, and government agencies that view transformed individuals as threats requiring containment. But when Eclipse survivors begin disappearing in a pattern too precise to be coincidental, Marcus discovers a conspiracy that makes his previous battles seem insignificant. Dr. Evelyn Cross, presumed dead in the original Eclipse Event, has been orchestrating a ritual to summon Erebus—the Void Walker, an ancient entity imprisoned since before human civilization, whose manifestation would consume every conscious mind in the city. As Marcus races to stop the ritual, he must forge unlikely alliances with people he cannot fully trust: Detective Sarah Chen, whose investigation threatens to expose his identity; Oracle, a hacker whose digital omniscience provides crucial intelligence; Sentinel and the Network, Eclipse survivors with their own agendas; and Alexander Vex, a billionaire whose probability-perceiving abilities make him simultaneously invaluable ally and dangerous manipulator. But the greatest complication comes from within—Marcus's shadow powers are slowly consuming his humanity, transforming him into something that exists between dimensions, claimed by the very entity he's fighting. When Marcus discovers his sister Sarah survived the Eclipse as imprisoned consciousness within Erebus's dimensional prison, the stakes become devastatingly personal. To permanently seal the breach between realities and prevent the Void Walker's manifestation, Marcus must make the ultimate choice: sacrifice his abilities, his sister, and everything that defined him as the Eclipse Warrior, or watch Metropolis fall to darkness that will spread across the entire world. Eclipse Warrior: Darkness Over Metropolis is an epic urban fantasy that explores the price of heroism, the resilience of communities facing cosmic horror, and the transformation from violent justice to lasting change. It's a story about choosing light even when darkness offers power, about building systems rather than fighting endless battles, and about ordinary people achieving extraordinary things when they refuse to surrender to the impossible. In a city where shadows have become both weapon and threat, one warrior must learn that true heroism lies not in supernatural abilities but in the willingness to sacrifice everything for principles larger than oneself.