It was a dark dreary night, the air was filled with fat bulbous drops
of rain that pelted everyone indiscriminately. It was nearly
impossible to see down the alley then lightning struck and the
alleyway was awash with color. There appeaed to be no one there in the
light and then as the flash of light faded another miniscule light
appeared, someone under an overhang struck a match and lit a
cigarette. The glow of the burning cherry was nearly a beacon in the
nigh impenetrable darkness that shrouded the alley. Lightning once
again struck and on the wall of the empty business building that the
man smoking was hiding in sat a figure all in black with a cowl
wrapped around his face and neck which flowed down into a cape. The
rest of him was covered in a black leather outfit that seemed very
form fitting. He was sitting on his haunches like a predator ready to
pounce his feet seemed attached to the wall behind him by a black inky
substance that wrapped around his black shoes and held him in place.
The same substance seemed to attach to his back leaving the cape free
to flow. He was staring down at the space in front of where the man
was standing sheltered from the rain smoking. The black figures hair
was clinging to his head dripping wetn he was so motionless he could
be a statue. The light faded again, and Dark plummeted to the earth
accellerated by the shadows that had held him secure now propelling
him downward. He completed a double flip and the only warning smoking
man had of the impending danger was the rustle of a cape. Dark land
lightly with further assist from his shadows and was exploding up and
into the suprised guard. One punch was all it took. Between his
martial prowess and the shadow that wrapped around his fist and became
harder than steel the massive man was lain low by the one punch from a
much smaller opponent. Dark had been watching this group for a month
waiting for them to make their move. He hadn't known it was a
kidnappong but now he had to act before something very uncool happened
to one very sexy Alexis Mars, great granddaughter of the candy bar
tycoon, one day inheritor of billions and on top of it all, and more
important to Dark, she was the head cheerleader for his brand new
highschool. Dark calmly opened the door and and walked in the building
and the lights were burning brightly. With a wave of his hand the
entire room was dark. The room was perfectly clear for Dark. He strode
in and down the stairs darkening areas as he went. He could hear the
rest of the crew in the next room, they were arguing about what to do
to the girl to prove that they were serious. The prevailing opinion
seemed to be a finger but an ear was thrown out a few times; Dark
couldn't let either of those things happen. He partially oppened the
door and waved his hand all went dark and people began to freak out.
"The power just went out get a flashlight one of the thugs said."
Dark smiled behind his mask, and made a grasping gesture, people
quickly realized they were in a less than natural darkness as the
shade began clinging to them slowing them down. Dark leapt in and
levelled the firt mook with a roundhouse that sent him flying into
another goon making bad for them crunching noises. The other two
realized quickly that they were under attack and grabbed out weapons
the farther goon had a gun and was inching toward Alexis. The shadows
again listenes to Dark's commands and proppeles him to the man. Dark
grabbed the arm and shifted his weight insuch a quick move that
sickening crunching noises exploded from the mans arm in multiple
places and he howled in a horrible way. The set Alexis to moaning but
Dark didn't have time to comfort her now. The last punk was aiming an
uzi in his general direction. Dark feinted a fist in the man's
direction and didn't even bother watching as the ball of shadow
hurtled forward before the man could act and slammed him back into the
wall. All of the criminals were either unconcious or incapacitated,
the howler was now laying on the ground in fetal position in between
sobs and cradling his mangled arm he seemed to have vomited. Dark went
over to Alexis and said gently to her. "Don't worry I am going to get
you out of here. He undid the ropes tying her to the chair with a
simple swipe of his shadow claws. He easily lifted her, "it will be
all right now you are safe." He grabbed her cell phone and purse on
the way out. He leapt through the air of the alleyway and within
moments they were at a starbucks that was getting ready to close. He
instructed her to call the cops and the address where the criminals
were. She clung to him for safety but with a few well thought out
words he had soothed her enough to leave her with the starbucks
employees. He returned to the alleyway and watched to make sure none
of the crooks escaped until the police arrived. As he waited he
wondered why when he was in costume he could easily talk to the
hottest girl in his new school, but out of costume he was almost
helpless. He was broken from his reverie by the police arriving. Well
none of them had found their way out yet the police would handle it
from here. He had his first day of high school tomorrow!
When he arrived home his grandfather chuckled, "Have fun?"
Dark laughed and nodded. "Another day, another life saved." He smiled
at his grandfather and put away his outfit "Dinner?"
It is the way of the djin to be capricious, is it not so? And we do
appreciate cleverness, and we do appreciate irony.
