《Dark Blood [Progression &amp; Super hero]》


 Chapter 1. Drugs are for losers

    I was sitting on a ledge of a seven-story building looking out into the alley, I clicked open the can as I slowly drank some of the contents.

    I can only really think about the time I got my powers. I of course got it in the wrong place and at the wrong time. Buildings crumbling and people getting crushed with blood and gore spraying all over the place. It was a nightmare. Yet, the ways powers can awaken are incredible.

    I stopped thinking about that memory after I saw a car pull up to the premises, It was a casual Lambo, Two individuals got out of the car, I think one of them was wearing a black hoodie while the other one was wearing a jacket. Then another showed up from the building. The individual had a wife beater and some shorts with a gold chain. I couldn''t see that well. All I could see was their location as two were near the car and the other person was near the door of the building. I knew it was time.

    "Was it successful?" said one of them, "Yeah, we got 4,000$ Boss," My eyes were wide in excitement as I positioned myself. I let some blood cover the outside of my legs then hardened them.

    "Good come inside." I soon jumped down, it was about a seven-story drop. I wasn''t stupid, jumping from that height can lead to a broken leg or be lethal, however, I knew I wouldn''t get hurt. I crashed into the car. My legs still felt a large amount of pain but I could take it. I heard the vehicle set its alarm off as the glass scattered all over the place as well as the top of the car was crushed.

    "HERO," one of them screamed as they pulled out a gun. However, I quickly shot a blood arrow out of the top of my wrist and promptly impaled the black hooded thug in the throat as I could hear them trying to yell out in pain before dying. "Shit, it''s a dark hero,"

    The others quickly shot at me after one of them said that, but I quickly hid a the back of the Lambo to take cover. As the loud gunshot went off I quickly developed a plan, I coated my fist with blood and punched the back of the car. The car went sideways and crashed into the building. The gunshots stopped and I could barely hear the sound of muffled screams of the thugs before it stopped. Then I realized something.

    "FUCK" I yelled as my dumbass forgot how cars work. as it exploded sending me back to the ground. It took me a few seconds to get up, then it hit me, the money was inside the car. I''m a fucking idiot, their only saving grace is hoping that the money was in a fireproof case that didn''t pop open.

    I quickly ran to the car, I checked the truck of the car which was crushed. I infused some of my blood into my arms and tore it off with some difficulty. Inside were some mags, a bag, and some rope. I quickly grabbed the bag to see what was inside, and It was luckily the money. Then I deactivated my blood hardening for my legs and hands as they turned from dark red to my plain skin color.

    "My greed got the best of me, got to be careful next time," I said, putting the bag on my back. I look at the damage I caused, One Thug''s is in his pool of blood, and the other two are burned to a crisp I think. with the wall of the building destroyed.

    I quickly walked over to the thug who was killed by my blood arrow and pulled it out. Then I absorbed all of the thug''s blood. It may be unsanitary, but I absorbed people''s blood so I could gain more power and also have more blood to store for the future. Even if it has different blood types.

    I looked down both of the alleyways to see if anyone was watching, I mean I did have a hoodie on just in case anyone saw me. No one was around. I quickly ran off to reach my next location.

    ...

    It was nearly dawn when I arrived at my location with the money, meaning they were going to get up soon. I Lived in an apartment complex with my mother, father, and brother. We were poor all the time, but that didn''t mean our parents weren''t bad. My father and mother were strict on cleanliness, and morals. I was clean all the time however When I started my night raids two weeks ago, I needed to make sure debris or other substances didn''t get near my apartment.

    I went to the back of the building and checked the basement. No one was there. Often the basement was where the washers and dryers were, but there was a large hallway with locked doors to storage rooms. There were five rooms, four of them were occupied with stuff, while the last one was empty. Luckily No cameras were present. The only camera present was near the stairs.

    I quickly opened the window to the basement as it creaked. Then I slowly jumped down to the floor to not make any noise. I noticed it was silent meaning no one was coming down here. I closed the window and made myself to the door I was looking for.

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    I then made my finger into a sharp blood pick then I put it through the side gap of the door and moved the internal lock. I changed my finger into a blood-hardened lock pick and quickly entered the room, turned on the light, then closed the door, and locked it.

    I had two locks on the doors, One was the basic lock the door had, and the other one was a slide lock which only I could lock and open. This was just in case the landlord wanted to open this door.

    The room had only two things before I came here, a small table and an empty shelf. Now the table was filled with documents and pictures while the shelf was filled with some boxes; some were filled with money.

    The documents were about heroes and villains, Sadly Superheroes just don''t publicize all of their abilities willy-nilly. They often have several classes: Strength, speed, Intelligence, and their ability name. This scale often is vague and that''s on purpose. Frequently Heros publicly show their basic abilities, like Highrise with his ability to manipulate air. Villians are different, often they outright tell you if the heroes know about their abilities, and publicly tell us what they can do.

    I placed the bag of money on the ground and looked at the time. It was 6:03 am. I took out the money from the bag and put it in one of the boxes. then I took the bag and placed it on the shelf. I turn off the lights. went out of the room and locked it up. Then checked if anyone was in the basement, which no one was. I quickly climbed out of the back window and closed it. Then I used the fire escape to reach my room.

    I entered through the window and changed my clothes, I didn''t own a costume and didn''t want one for the time being. Many if not mostly superpowered humans use costumes, mainly to stand out and of course protect themselves, not from bullets but from their identity.

    Villains get the short end of the stick. They Take the biggest blow when It comes to identity, and this is why Villains choose to kill more people who see their faces or recognize them.

    I packed my school materials in my backpack and quickly got myself ready, as the slow tiredness crept in. "Louis, breakfast is ready," my mom said, as she often made a casual breast, eggs, and toast. "Ok, I be right out," I said back.

    I got out of the room with my school clothes, I was wearing a casual blue shirt with some shorts. I got to the table ready to eat then my mom said "Can you bring your brother''s food to his room,"

    "Alright," I replied, I grabbed the food and brought it to my brother''s room. My brother is in a medical bed with some tubes attached to him. My brother had muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease that forced him to stay bedridden for most of his life. He got this disease when he was only five years old. Now he is eleven years old in bed and could never experience life.

    Due to superhumans, advanced medical treatments exist due to the people who gain powers to increase intelligence and power involving healing. However, this is only used by heroes and the rich, often people in the middle class and lower class often don''t get said treatment, only cheaper options that don''t even help them.

    I place the breakfast on the side of the bed. "I hope you have a nice day," He said in a soft tone. "Thank you, enjoy your breakfast," I said, as I slowly heard him breathing in and out.

    There is a reason why I need that money, to get enough for that treatment, It costs around 10,000$, EACH FUCKING MONTH FOR 3 YEARS. on top of that the prescription is 200,000$ each year. Right now I can''t achieve this money goal as my parents struggle to pay for the cheap version and I help them out a lot.

    ...

    It was 7:55 am when I arrived at school, which was bad. My school was about only a mile away so I could walk it easily. It was a decent-sized school.

    I entered the school in a rush, as class was only in five minutes. I ran down to find my classroom, I had to navigate through the students who were rushing as well, while others stayed around like nothing was wrong in this world.

    I took my seat as I was now all sweaty, I wiped the sweat off my face and put my head down. "HEY, LOSER," I heard someone say from the side of me.

    I looked up and it was Julie Rosa. She was your typical, high school bitch. A Ten out of Ten. A Group of girls follows her around, and every boy wants her even though her friends bully other girls for her as she believes the queen ''doesn''t touch pathetic losers.''

    "What do you want," I say, as I am annoyed by her presence. "see, your perverted friend, Jordan, was trying to get pictures of one of my gals," she said as I could hear her sassy tone of words. "So. Better tell him to stop or my bf and his friends will fuck you up,"

    I saw people looking at us, "Why me, I wasn''t the one trying to so that, if you have an issue, you go beat him up, because he sure sounds like he deserves it."

    "My bf did. However, Jordan just keeps being a weirdo, so tell him to stop, I know you hang out with him," She said, I could see the face she was making, and it wasn''t a good look.

    I wasn''t friends with Jordan, Often I would ask for his help in chemistry, he was a weird guy but I needed help in that class. Usually, at lunchtime he tutored me, this helped me at least get a B in that class but I still need him.

    "He is a tutor for one of my classes, and he will likely stop tutoring me if I confront him about it," I said now more calm and collected. There were other tutors, however, he was the best one, and the other tutors I tried wouldn''t help me as much.

    "UGH, fine," Julie slammed her hand on my desk. "I hope you end up like your brother so I don''t have to see your pathetic face again,"

    I gave her a hard stare. She quickly turned away and walked to her desk near the back of the class. The teacher walked in, missing out on the conversation.

    I heard the Bell ring, as the teacher, Ms. Barn told us to calm down. Then I heard words that screamed fuck you.

    "Today we have a pop quiz, in section 3.4," she said which caused the class to justifiably yell.

    It''s 8:00 Am no one wants to do this fucking shit. I sigh, now getting ready for another exhausting day.

 Chapter 2. I was detected

    I was walking from my fourth-period class to my fifth-period Lunch, I would often run to the cafeteria as the line filled up and all the food went away, luckily, my fourth-period teacher let us out early to get there.

    My lunch was often good in my school if you had the money. Mashed potatoes and corn were just the cheapest stuff on the menu. It''s not my favorite dish but it''s good enough. I could spend some of my ''money'' but I would not dare to touch it unless I had no legal money.

    I got my lunch and sat down with some good friends, Jake and Diego.

    "don''t you have perverted lessons today," said Jake as I could hear some of his sarcasm.

    "That shit spread that fast," I said surprised, then Diego added "Yeah, Jordan is getting fucking cooked,"

    "Yeah bro, Juile was fucking pissed, so pissed in fact that her knight and shining armor Luc-ass, and his football goblins beat the living shit out of him so much that, Bro was in a near full body cast,"

    "Gezz, he was trying to get some game to one of Julie''s friends,"

    "Nah, bro he was being a full pervert on Sasha, Luckily Juile caught him," Jake clarified.

    "NGL tho, Sasha is dam hot, but yeah Jordan is weird as fuck," added Diego

    Lucas the varsity football team captain was a jock and a half. Blond hair, 6''4, All muscle. I have only met him a few times since he is a busy Junior. He started to date Julie about a few months ago from what I remember, he often confronted people who shit-talked her or when Julie told him to confront someone.

    The cafeteria was now filled with people as I was eating my food. Then, Jake was looking at his phone, then I saw his eyes widen.

    "Oh my fucking god, both of you go look on super-social. There is this crazy video posted by Brutal Super Fights,"

    "Why? the hell are you looking at, heroes and villains getting splattered into gore," I asked. "Just look at your phones, this shit has 200k likes,"

    Diego and I pulled out our phones and logged on to the site and found the post. I saw the post caption it was ''taken in Chicago'' and there was a video attached.

    "It''s a video? This better not be a prank, I don''t want to see gore," I said. "Yeah, Jake I don''t want to see someone''s spine get ripped off or their head exploding,"

    I looked at the video. The video seems to be recorded from a window looking into a dark alley with little lighting. Then I saw a car pull up with two people coming out of it and my eyes went wide, as I started to recognize where this was.

    Then the video continued as I expected, I landed on the car, used a blood arrow to kill one of the thugs, and punched the car into the building nearly setting it ablaze.

    At the end of the video, it Zoom in of me absorbing blood, and then I started to look around and that''s when the cameraman ducked down and ended the video.

    "Bro, we have a new villain to deal with," I said. "You kidding me, that motherfucker absorbed blood, you know how scary of an ability that is, and that villain is scary."

    "Jake''s right, if that villain could place a hand on you, he can likely suck you up dry,"

    "Pause," I and Jake said in unison then I added "It could be a she,"

    "Yeah sure, bro. if it was a she, her Ti..." However, Before Diego could finish his sentence, he was cut off. "So you are the one who sent me this cringe love confession,"

    I saw Sasha looking at Diego. She had dark skin and was wearing a sweater and jeans, with some gym shoes. She was holding a letter

    Jake started to laugh, But Sasha responded. "Shut up you fat pig,"

    "Oh, come on do I look like I''m an obese pig, of course not," He talked back. Soon Sasha started to argue and Sasha''s friends began to come over to likely support her.

    I looked at my phone not wanting to deal with the situation, and I decided to look at the comments on the post while my friends dealt with that shit.

    ***

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    <u>Luckyboyuu21: </u>Bro, why is it in 144p, Mf recorded on his mother''s laptop from the 80s.

    <u>SukunaKing92:</u> Yeah, this shit is worse than that Vivio fight.

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    <u>Ewegamer69:</u> Bud, I hope to god it''s a bad bitch

    <u>Slothnetheir323:</u> Bud go outside and get some real bitches

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    <u>Skitterfangirl3</u>: Go promote your trash somewhere else

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    <u>Villain_Connoisseur45:</u> I don''t know man, he either dies in the next few days or joins a notable supervillain team.

    <u>Nigteron38:</u> Bruh, I bet he will join the Kereos and the Helldrivers, Those two groups like slaughtering Mfs in Chicago.

    <u>Villain_Connoisseur45</u> Replied to <u>Nigteron38</u>: Yeah, but I want to see what he will do next. Unless his dumbass got caught already.

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    ***

    That guy is right, now I''m on the villain''s and hero''s radar. I haven''t explored my power far enough yet. I know I can regenerate, coat my skin in blood, absorb blood, and create small constructs, but if I want to get stronger I''m gonna need to be a little more creative.

    "Hey, Mr. Loser, what you looking at," I turned to see one of Sasha''s friends, Penelope. She was a gothic rock girl who called names to people she demises, probably. "What, none of your bis, gothy," I replied. She stepped away from where I was sitting.

    "Fine-e, Loser, have it your-r way" I heard her say while she turned away from me with her arms crossed. What was her Issue?

    "HEY, Don''t think you''re out of this situation," I heard another voice. I looked over and it was Candice. She was a blond bitch who is always yapping about something. often wearing a nice dress like a princess. "Bruh. What situation, this is none of my doing, now go back to watching My Little Pony on your phone," I said relating a little laugh.

    "OH SHUT UP,"

    "What? You''re annoying me," I said as I grabbed my back and finished lunch to throw it out. "Can you help us," I heard Jake and Diego say.

    "Nah, you asked for it, you deal with it," I said, however, I saw a much taller figure heading my way, and I immediately knew who it was.

    "Hello, Louis. Can you have a chat with me," I heard Lucas, The tone he was giving I couldn''t tell if he was mad or calm. "well looks who talking," I heard from Candice, I turned to see her smirk, I turn to my friend who gave me the middle finger out of spite.

    I groaned. I followed Lucas to his table. I saw a few of his teammates. The football team in Cliff High was no small joke, people say they might not look like much but there one of the best teams in the state. If I were not to use my powers they likely smash me through a wall, literally. I saw one of their practices and their coach pulled out a concrete wall and they were told to smash into it.

    Athletes were built differently.

    I sat down at the table with everyone looking at me like I was about to be executed or something. Then I saw Lucas sit down next to me.

    "Listen, Louis. I don''t want you to talk shit about my girlfriend, you likely heard rumors about me so let''s cut to the chase. Julie is hosting her 16th birthday party soon, and You will be her personal butler."

    "What the fuck," I said in shock, and even some of the boys at the table were giving weird looks, "NO, I rather get my arms broken,"

    "Oh, I know but I do want to tell you something," Lucas came closer to my ear and whispered. "Julie has pictures, of you in a magical girl costume, in and out of it, I would recommend you just listen to her," then got chills up my entire body with his smile plastered on his face.

    Do other people know embarrassment is worse than death? This was the only secret I was keeping to the grave, of course as well as my supervillain status. The magical girl costume secret was true, but I didn''t want to do it.

    The reason I did it was for money, one month my parents didn''t have enough money for rent so I needed to help them, looked everywhere for a place to make quick money. There was this anime convention back in the summer where I would get 200$ if I cosplayed as this popular magical girl group. The process was painful and tedious to get in. Luckily my parents could pay in time due to me.

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    However, if this got out I would get bullied for the rest of my years and to be honest, I don''t know if I would be able to be mentally stable by the end of it. I HATE WHEN PEOPLE HAVE POWER OVER ME, I just wish I could use my power without my identity being revealed. Not that easy killing someone who had money, I would be a priority target and I didn''t want to kill her.

    "Fine, when is this party at," I said now pissed off. "Not so fast you will be her servant not just for the party, but helping her with the party and cleaning the after-party,"

    I scowled. So it''s not just a one-day thing.

    "Also, What kind of party do you need a butler,"

    "A very important party to her, me, all of her friends, and other families will be attending,"

    Julie was also wealthy, very wealthy. Cliff High was one of the best schools in the State of Illinois. I got in because of my good grades. That didn''t mean that bullying went on and other shady shit. Luckily this school doesn''t have a strict dress code to go with it.

    But as nice and clean with a beautiful interior, it was hiding the evil and darkness in its walls.

    "So, why is she doing this?" I asked. "I don''t know, I think she just hates you. Anyway, the party is in a few weeks so you will be helping her tomorrow, and try funny shit. I will tell you, that she will know and WILL do it."

    I heard his friends start to giggle and say negative and positive remarks like. ''dam bro is lucky'' to ''Dam, Julie has a new slave''

    "Ok, thank you for telling me about the opportunity,"

    "Just trying to look out for my fellow climbers," he was lying, he didn''t care for me. Both were evil and both were enjoying this. I sure as hell I will get back at them.

    ...

    Right after school, I went straight to my next location. I would have gone home, but I usually bring my ''stuff'' to school. As stupid as it is, a black hoodie is not going to get you weird looks unless you are in an alley alone chasing someone, Maybe a mask would. They were both in my backpack so the metal detectors.

    It took about an hour''s walk to reach my new location, during one of my classes I looked up places often where no one would go. The area was filled with trees surrounding it as well as some run-down buildings. The perfect place to test some abilities.

    It was always risky going to these locations to train, as anyone could just show up with no warning. If lucky some thugs, worst case scenario villains or heroes.

    I''m going to need it anyway because now the public and the Superhuman community are aware of me I think, I don''t know I mean it''s just one video.

    I only went on two-night raids and two Power tests, and they had no real issue except for the immoral killing. Gaining 10,000$ with the third now with 14,000$. However, It would take 10 years to get a million as well, and need to use the money to help my parents.

    I went near some trees to stay out of sight as I changed my clothes, I changed into a black hoodie and got out my mask. Due to my ''debut,'' I only wore a hoodie. Now I need to make sure no one saw my face.

    The mask I brought with me was a generic one, with horns. It had a black and gray scheme.

    I quickly size up to the main area. It was a four-story tall abandoned building, with Some open parts of the building showcasing its age.

    "Dam this place is about to fall apart,"

    I quickly traveled inside to find a location to test. I looked around for a few minutes before I could spot a somewhat open area, with 4 concrete pillars two being nearly fallen apart with some light shining in. I lay my backpack on one of the more stable pillars on the bottom.

    In my other power tests, I mostly tried to control more of my blood, and something I could do with it. Also trying to learn some combat, I mean my uncle taught me how to throw a punch but you need more in a super battle, or to have a better chance of living.

    I got to testing with my powers. I tried to create a bigger construct, I held my hand out, and soon blood flowed out. It formed into what I wanted.

    What I held was a blood sword, which I looked at with curiosity. I took a stance, gripped my blood sword, and swung the blade at the concrete in front of me.

    When the blade connected with the concrete it was sliced in half as if it was made of butter. As then the concrete fell aside from being now broken into a bunch of pieces with some of the dust getting on me.

    I retracted my blood back into me. However, I felt something was off, I was being watched, like someone ready to jump me, and turned into a lunch for a predator.

    I looked around my surroundings, And my heart stopped for a moment. To the right of me, I could see Three heroes from the halls I came in from. The one in front was an adult while the other two seemed to be young adults or teenagers with one being a boy and a girl, then after getting a good look, I recognized two of them, Iron Fist and Vivio, the other I wasn''t so sure.

    Iron Fist is a popular hero and often a respectable one. Vivio is known for being quite Violent with criminals.

    "did you know it''s illegal to not register a power when you get one," said Iron Fist.

    "Yeah, I know. However, you would get all of my personal information and either have a tracker on me or force me to join the heroes," I said in a deeper tone trying to disguise my voice.

    "It''s not that bad, Heros get a lot of benefits unless you become..." I heard a kid that I didn''t know say however she was cut off by Iron Fist.

    "Shut it, kid. Listen, Now you have two opinions. You either go into custody, reveal your identity, and go to super prison or in the worst-case scenario The World Guard; or You can hand yourself over and become a hero on probation."

    I was thinking through my options, being a hero wasn''t bad but I didn''t like the system, I would hear stories online of other heroes using their power and their status to fulfill their desires, and children barely got money compared to Pros and Going to Jail was a negative for obvious reasons.

    "How about a third Option, I Leave and No one gets hurt,"

    "Not an option," said Iron Fist. I saw him getting into a fighting stance. At the corner of my eye, I could see octopus-like tentacles, from the other Hero I didn''t know. It slowly makes its way toward my backpack.

    I Shot out a blood arrow to grab my backpack which caused the weird Octo kid to pull back his tentacles, Then Iron Fist charged turning his full body into Iron. I reeled the backpack to me, and at the same time hardened my skin with blood to block a fully coated Iron Fist.

    I was sent flying back dropping my backpack, then I felt my body hit the concrete, and then I felt the concrete starting to crush me realizing it was formed like a hand.

    "Good job, Vivio," I could barely hear from the Octo boy.

    "Let''s get this over, with this, Iron Fist can I incapacitate him,"

    "He not cooperating so yes, just don''t kill him."

    I quickly hardened my skin from top to bottom as my body slowly was getting crushed, Then I got an idea in my absolute pain. I put some blood in my mouth and spit an arrow out toward Vivio''s body, hoping it could stop her but not kill her. This caused a part of my mask to break due to the blood shooting out of my mouth.

    "DODGE," I heard Iron Fist scream. I saw Vivio dodge the attack with a slight cut on the side of her waist and the arrow crashed into a pillar breaking a part of it. I felt relieved as the concrete dropped however, an Iron fist Charged toward me forcing me to dodge. Then I saw Iron Fist destroy a large concrete wall.

    "You think you can fight trained heroes, just surrender like all the others who tried,"

    I landed on the ground, spitting out blood due to the pain. Then I saw the Octo kid and Vivio pick up my backpack.

    "Octoplum and Vivio, take the backpack, get out here, and call for back up" I saw Vivio on the left and Octoplum on the right. "Yes Iron Fist," I heard them.

    I knew I couldn''t lose. If they get my backpack, they will get all of my information, and even If I get away they will know my identity.

    No choice, I have to go the lethal route. I had a limited amount of blood, the more blood I used I got weaker, and Increased the chance I could die. After all, regenerating an arm took a lot of my blood and nearly made me faint back when I got this power.

    So, I needed to be conservative with my blood, arrows were too much to rapid fire. I transformed some of my arm into a blood machine gun and started to fire small blood rounds with spikes at the two near my backpack. I didn''t know any info about a gun inside so I made it more like a launcher, It was near at the speed of a gun.

    They quickly jumped away. I saw Iron Fist charging at me then I shot at Iron Fist, however, the blood bullets didn''t pierce his skin only dented it but I knew he felt the pain. I saw him turn his back to protect his front. I saw some of the building''s walls getting pulled with bullet holes from me.

    I kept firing as I started to get up when I felt concrete covering my hand and leg. Then my gun hand was covered with concrete forcing me to stop firing. Iron Fist was now struggling to move, and I saw blood started to flow from him. "I''M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID," I heard Vivio. I saw her limp towards me as she was in my eyesight I saw her tears with blood coming from her arm and some of her torso.

    "I warned you, if you would let me go no one would have gotten hurt," I told her with my scruffy voice. I saw her sadness turn into anger as I felt my arms being crushed in pain like they were about to be ripped off. "FUCK YOU. EVERY DAY WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH SHIT LIKE YOU,"

    "Vivio, stop. If you kill him you will get put on the dark hero list, you already got a warning," I heard Iron Fist as I could hear his groaning voice, I saw him bleeding a large amount on the ground, he was out of commission but still alive from what I could tell. I saw Vivio turn around and yell at him.

    "NO, HE KILLED OCTOPLUM, I DON''T CARE IF I BECOME A DARK HERO, BETTER THAN KEEPING HIM ALIVE." I saw a large pointed spike being created on the ceiling. I tried my hardest to break out of the concrete however Vivio started to speak in a soft tone. "Any last words,"

    "you just like me, sadistic and evil. Often one power can warp beliefs, don''t you agree?" I said with a hint of malice. "SHUT UP, JUST DIE,"

    The Spike went down and impaled my chest breaking the ground below me.

    *

    "Am I dead?"

    I looked around and only saw darkness. Then something started to appear, it was a cristal.

    It was dark purple with some black energy coming out of it. What is it? Hell? Then soon the darkness disappeared back to reality.

    *

    A dream? What the hell was that? I focused back on what was important and then felt my heart. I realized I somehow made it move subconsciously.

    I held in a scream and my blood, as my head fell to the ground as blood poured out of my midsection, and then Vivio kicked my head likely to taunt me or to see if I was alive. "stay dead, you fucker," I heard her say in a scrappy tone while I could hear her breathing heavily.

    I slowly felt her power fading and then when my arm was free, I grabbed her leg as hard as I could, I used a tiny amount of blood to pierce her skin well throwing up blood. "HOW ARE YOU ALIVE, I PIERCED YOUR HEART," I heard her yell as she started to kick my head, which broke my mask, and my head started to bleed due to the force of her kicks.

    She fell as I was slowly absorbing her blood. I absorbed more and more. Then I saw her faint as I assumed I had absorbed most of her blood, hopefully not killing her. I formed a masquerade mask fused to my skin, using my blood, and got up realizing the significant wound I had.

    "How are you alive," said Iron Fist as he was still on the ground trying to get up. I quickly absorbed Iron Fist''s blood. He tried resisting but he couldn''t do anything. Then I could see Iron Fist stop trying to get up.

    I slowly regenerated some of the punctured organs. Then I attempted to put back the ribs however it was harder than I thought as I needed more blood to harden.

    I closed the wounds and saw Iron Fist, I couldn''t tell what he was thinking but I think he was horrified.

    I limped behind the pillar now covered in blood bullets, over to Octoplum to see if he was dead and He was. Octoplum was filled with bullet holes, and the likely cause of death was a bullet to the brain as I saw two shots on the side of his head. He might have saved Vivio.

    I closed his eyes with my hands and absorbed the blood and the blood bullets that were lodged in him. I used the blood to put back my ribs. However, I was still in a shit ton of pain my back, midsection, and my arms, and legs were still in extreme pain.

    "dam, how the fuck am I going to get out of here," I said as I grabbed my backpack as it was now filled with holes.

    However, I heard someone say, "IRON FIST", and I knew it wasn''t Vivio or Iron Fist. I quickly tried to Run but an energy dome formed around me. Three more heroes arrived. I didn''t recognize any of them as they were all teens, two boys, and one more girl.

    "OMG, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED HERE," I heard one of them. "keep calm, Rockheart. I see him too. Call upon the Pro''s were dealing with a hero murder and heavily injured heroes," I heard him say.

    Then I remember my backpack. The good thing is that all my work and books were on my computer that I left at school. However, there were physical books and my phone.

    I grabbed my phone and tried something new. I slowly merged my phone into my body trying to hide my phone. Then I started to destroy the books that I had. However one of the heroes noticed me. "Rockheart, I don''t know what he is doing, put him to sleep,"

    When I heard that, I quickly tried to destroy more without wasting too much blood. Then I start to hear a soft song that quickly makes me feel sleepy. I tried to resist, but in the end, I failed.

 Chapter 3: Escape, Escape, ESCAPE

    I woke up by a push. I open my eyes to see a bunch of flashes and loud noises. I was in handcuffs, and what I saw was the police, an ambulance, and a prison truck.

    Then I felt the wave of pain and exhaustion from that fight. I looked behind me to see an adult hero, I recognized them as Wavist, the water hero, he was wearing a blue and white suit with a water drop as a helmet. "You are in a lot of trouble," He said, pushing me.

    Soon, I saw more heroes. I saw a few more adult heroes, some staring at me while other heroes cried. Then I looked in the sky to see it was near sundown.

    Wavist opened the back of the prison truck and pushed me into it. The truck was silver all around with some sets on the side of it and a little peeping window with small little holes I assume.

    I saw another person, she was a girl with a dark green costume and some spikes on it, she had her identity covered. I felt my mask to make sure it was on.

    "Good, I got another fucktard with me, what did he do," I heard her say.

    "I don''t want to hear your vulgar language, and None of your business, Murder Jungle. You both have Tier 3 Hypercuffs, one use of your powers will lead to a heavy shock and we will be notified," Then I saw Wavist connect my cuffs to chains on the truck.

    Hypertech is made by ability users in the ''Brain'' category who can create advanced tech, some have a gimmick while others are just super-geniuses, it is fucking annoying.

    Murder Jungle is a crazy bitch in the villain team known as The Bitchgirls or the public name The Villaingirls.

    "Shut up, I don''t need your dumb refresher," after she said that Wavist closed the truck door behind them and heard an automatic lock. Then I turned my attention to Murder Jungle.

    "what you in here for, you animal," said Murder Jungle.

    "I don''t know, none of your business," I said, with hostility.

    "you fuckin think that you just talk anything to anyone like that, listen here you little bitch, respect your villans or else they won''t help you,"

    "Like you can help me, hell you can''t help yourself," I responded.

    "LISTEN YOU FUCKING SNOBBY LITTLE SHIT, IF I GET OUT OF THESE CUFFS, I WILL INJECT MY VINES IN YOU, WITH A POISON THAT WILL AMPLIFY YOUR PAIN RESPECPTERS BY 10x, THEN I WILL SLOWLY TORTURE YOU TO DEATH," yelled Murder Jungle. Then I heard the truck start to move.

    "HEY, KEEP IT DOWN BACK THERE, BEFORE I''VE TO SHOCK BOTH OF YOU." I heard the driver. Murder Jungle quieted down.

    "Do you have a way to get out of here," I asked which she replied with a laugh. "Yeah sure, Tier 3 hypercuffs are impossible to get out of, and like I would help you anyway."

    Then I remembered something, I remembered watching a YouTube documentary about an incident that occurred in California where a villain escaped because they had a power on the cellular level.

    "Wait, isn''t there a special Hypercuff for cellular power detection," I said.

    "Huh, you can manipulate on a cellular level?"

    "Yeah, let me try something," I attempted to move a small amount of blood and there was no shock.

    I couldn''t exactly break out of these cuffs with blood coating, especially in the state I was in, I could barely talk after that fight. Luckily that sleep helped me.

    So I detached from my arms by sawing the inside of my wrist. Was it painful? fuck yes but My wrist was sawed in half and my hands and my body were free from the cuffs. Then I stopped the flow of blood before it spilled out.

    I held in my scream as Murder Jungle looked at me in the face I could only describe ''what the fuck.'' "you have blood manipulation. You have a generative and manipulative power, what kind of awakening did you..."

    Then I realized my Hands worked, as I slowly got them out of the cuffs.

    "HUH," we both said. I quickly connected my hands. I can describe it as a billion Lego pieces coming together into a shape.

    I said grunting at the pain. "Now you need help."

    I saw Murder Jungle''s face frown. "I don''t need your stupid help from a guy like you, and I got people better than you,"

    "That''s fine unless you..." After I said that, I got smashed into the side of the truck. "Crap, why are they here," I heard the driver. Then I heard some loud noises outside, likely powers and gunshots.

    Then I heard someone or something on the roof. Then I looked at Murder Jungle now who was laughing.

    I guess they are here.

    I felt the vehicle moving side to side, and then I started to hear a helicopter. "STAN DOWN YOU ARE SURROUNDED," I heard a voice from the outside.

    Then I heard metal being ripped off of the roof which I quickly stepped away from. Then soon the roof came off and I saw I leopard-like creature come inside.

    Before I could react, It pinned me to the wall, holding me by the neck. "MJ, should I kill this villain, he was out of his cuffs?" I saw the villain quickly put up their other claw. Then I recognized this villain, it was Animalistic. " Yeah, he was being fucking annoying, so yes."

    She quickly tried to kill me however I moved my head as fast as I could which cut my ear, and then I quickly shot a blood arrow into her. She roared in pain. Then I saw her pull out the arrow and I could see her bleed.

    "Not, bad kid. However you messed with the wrong bitch," She said now slowly regenerating the wound. Then I regenerated my ear.

    "I don''t want to fuck with you right now. I want to get out of here," I said. Animalistic growled. "I don''t care. Villains need to be taken care of, so heroes and other teams don''t get more firepower. Plus you are a man, you can not join us as we are an all-girls villain team,"

    I quickly made a blood arrow and aimed it at Murder Jungle. "I know, so how about now,"

    "ANIMALISTIC KILL HIM ALREADY," I heard Murder Jungle scream. I saw Animalistic frown and I heard her say "Dare threaten my gals, I WILL SMASH YOUR HEAD UNTIL IT IS PLASTER," Then before the Truck swerved, I quickly put blood on my head around my head to protect myself, and then the truck crashed. Animalistic Flew out of the top of the truck while Murder Jungle swung violently.

    I hit my head feeling a large amount of pain, then I saw Murder Jungle hanging from her cuffs. "I wish that was your neck," I said now pissed.

    I got up to hear gunshots and also screams. "ANIMALISTIC IS BITING MY ARM, HEL-" said a voice, then the scream stopped and more gunshots. "Your friend sure has a short attention span," I said while softly laughing however that changed when I looked out to see a horrific sight of people getting ripped in half as well as Animalistic covered in blood.

    Then I quickly reacted to someone getting thrown at me and the person was splattered to the wall like a sticker, and I noticed it was a police officer.

    "help me," I heard the police officer. I started to absorb blood which took no longer than a few seconds. Then I looked at Murder Jungle now with a facial expression I could only describe in one word, fear.

    "What the fuck, you can absorb... other people''s blood... too," I heard her say with some studdering, then she almost yelled but I quickly covered her mouth with blood by fusing it with her skin.

    "Yeah, I could have killed you and your friend very quickly, luckily since I''m in a rush to get out of here. I will spare you," I said as she was muffling something.

    I quickly reduced the pain with some blood by repairing some of my body. I ran out. I saw Animalistic fighting a hero who was shooting out electric-type tendrils, which were stunning Animalistic but I couldn''t really see him.

    I was running from the fight. However, a flood came out of nowhere and swept me into the forest. I quickly got up but more water came to stop me. I quickly grabbed a tree to stop myself from being swept away by the flood.

    "How did you, escape scum?" I could barely hear due to the flood.

    "I escaped because of a failed measure," I replied back now realizing who it was.

    I attempted to shoot a blood arrow at Wavist however he shot a water beam at me which pushed me off the tree and even broke through it. Causing me to fly back further away from the road and out of the flood range.

    Another water beam shot from him, which I dodged. I landed on my back. Fully wet.

    When Attempting to get up I felt a sharp shock which caused me to fall to the ground on my stomach.

    I looked behind me to see the person with the electric tendrils. Dam she got done with Animalistic.

    "So you''re the one that killed Octplum," I heard a female voice, and then I recognized her as Stinglasher. Then I heard more trees crashing in the distance, then I saw her walk towards me in her purple costume.

    I quickly attempted to shoot my blood from my wrist but it didn''t work. I saw my hardened blood turn to liquid. "how about I make you pay the consequences, by dominating you." I saw her start to put the tendrils near my face I quickly absorbed blood in my mouth and shot it out.

    She dodged it.

    "You think something that slow can hurt me,"

    but then I grabbed her leg and started to absorb blood, even if the claws weren''t that dense they still did the job.

    However, I was met with resistance. I was stung with electricity but I wouldn''t let go. Then I saw her tendrils coat her fist.

    Then she hit my face which caused my head to smash into the ground. Which almost knocked me out, but I kept awake with all of my willpower. Then I saw more water coming. I rolled over to avoid another attack from Stinglasher.

    I got up and sprinted for my life. "HURRY STOP HIM," I heard from Wavist. Then I saw Stinglasher chasing me. I wondered why my blood hadn''t worked there, then I noticed the water on my exposed arm. Then I noticed my clothes nearly ripped apart.

    Then I learned that water can dissolve blood in a solid state, and also likely affect my manipulation.

    Then I got the idea to absorb the water as if I were able to have some control of my body, like opening up a part of me and putting my phone inside, I could do the same thing with water. I spilled my blood into the water and then attempted to absorb it.

    It worked.

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    I saw Wavist in the distance put his hand on the ground and then the ground started to crumble and then It ejected water from the ground a few feet away from me forcing myself to stop.

    I quickly jumped to the side to avoid Stinglasher however she used one of her tendrils to grab onto my leg causing me to almost fall.

    I was tired so tired in fact, I just felt like dying. Even though I could keep going, the pain and the stress were getting to me. I couldn''t just keep regenerating. I needed to counterattack.

    I quickly coated my left arm into a circular drill which started to rotate by my will, I didn''t know how to control it to the fullest extent but it was good enough.

    I attacked Stinglasher. She almost dodged but I drilled some of her midsection which caused her to scream. I absorbed the blood I drilled, then I mocked her.

    "No more freaky talk?" I said mockingly as she Yelled and cried in pain.

    "STINGLASHER," yelled Wavist. I saw him shoot a thin water slash which I barely ducked from. I saw the attack cut a few trees. With my right hand, to limit my blood wastage I used my finger to shoot out little blood bullets. I shot seven times and two hit him.

    I looked at Stinglasher who was on the ground still screaming in pain as I saw her slowly bleeding out. Her tentacles were covering her wound.

    Before I could suck her blood up, I felt something on the ground and dodged a waterspout coming from the ground, I dodged to the left of Stinglasher. My eyes went wide while in mid-air I saw Wavist with his arm up ready to shoot me.

    "goodnight fucker," I heard him say, the first time I heard a professional hero swear in my life. I made a blood shield to defend myself, However, I realized it was over. The water bypassed my blood shield and hit me point blank in the face launching me back.

    I stumbled from the impact and landed my back into a tree. I lay there in pain and with my eyes covered in water and blood. I looked up to see a blurred Wavist walking slowly towards me. I started to absorb the water in my eyes and regenerate but it took longer than usual and I could barely move. I wanted to move but I couldn''t my legs and arms were stiff and shaking.

    "Is my Spine broken? Oh no, NO NOOOOOOO," I thought as I started to panic internally.

    "So Water is your weakness. I didn''t do so well in chemistry so I didn''t know that either," I heard Wavist say which was bearly autoable.

    "How relatable, I hate Chemistry," I said in a scoffing tone.

    "Too bad you would have been a cool hero but you''re a villain,"

    I saw Wavist form a water fist in his right arm. "see you in custody," however before he could knock me out I heard a loud bang, and then I saw Wavist''s arm freeze in ice.

    "AHHH FUCK," I heard Wavist in pain. Then his legs and whole lower body froze. I looked around in fear and then with my blurry vision I could see the figure before my eyes closed.

    ...

    I slowly opened my eyes to red lighting . "hello," I said with some distortion. Then I start to hear some party music? I didn''t know. Then I felt my head hurt like something was drilled inside of my skull.

    I looked around, to find medical supplies, bloody surgery tools, some blood packs, some bloody bone fragments, and my phone. Then I saw the walls, It was mostly filled up with posters, and spray paint of mostly naked women. But then the million-dollar questions hit me.

    Where am I, who kept me alive, and why am I alive?

    I still felt my blood mask.

    I know the heroes didn''t get me. They either would have killed me or even if they captured me. Even if I was captured I would not be in a dirty and vulgar environment.

    I was hit with the realization, the Bitchgirls captured me. What would they do to me? What the hell did they want with me?

    My thoughts stopped when I saw the door open to see a person and I recognized them. Known notoriously in Chicago, hell the rest of the United States, The White Serpent. She is known famously across the US, and possibly across the world.

    She was married to one of the Shadow Thirteen, the worst terrorist group in the world, Then from what I heard she left her husband for an unknown reason. Then I remembered that she was in an incident that happened in Miami where half the city was in ruin and then Came to Chicago.

    She wore a black short-sleeved outfit with what looked to be armor plating, with one of her arms made of her hyper-tech. Then She had high heels with black glasses, with the most notable feature being her white hair.

    I Saw in fear as I backed deeper into my bed. Then I realized I could move but before I could think to attack. She talked. "Don''t worry kid, I''m not going to kill you. Even if you heard some of the stories." I released a sigh of relief as I was safe. Or just taking a break from another fight likely one I can''t win.

    "Why, did you not kill me," I said which caused her to giggle.

    "Yeah, not a bad question. Real simple, because you have potential,"

    "Huh?" Potential, I know I had a powerful ability, that was obvious. However, I never wanted to fight and murder, but I saw no realistic options to gain a million dollars besides luck. Hell, I never wanted to be a superhero after... he died.

    "You, have an extremely powerful ability. Blood manipulation, and from what I saw you were capable of fighting two Professional heroes," she started to walk towards me and sat in a chair next to my bed. "and best of all, you''re still alive, Though with modifications. Which will cost you."

    "Ok, then. So, you want me to join this villain team?" I asked worriedly.

    "Of course, I mean you need money for your brother," She said which started to get my heart racing.

    "How do you..." Then I was cut off mid-sentence.

    "I know you already. You''re Louis Lopez, age 15, and live with both Meranda Lopez and John Lopez as your guardians, Have a sickly brother, Jonathan Lopez who has Muscular Dystrophy. You Go to Cliff High School and have a crush on Zenaida Ortega. Killed eight individuals and had PTSD with..."

    "STOP," I said with anger.

    "Oh, sorry I didn''t know that memory was sensitive. I used a stolen mind hyper tech, but this is your price for saving you and implanting tech to make you move again," I heard her say in a soft tone.

    "Have you told anyone?" I said in fear.

    "I don''t share other people''s personal lives or information, only I get info on that."

    I sigh in relief. I retracted my blood mask, knowing it was useless.

    "Ok, what are my options." I couldn''t just join a supervillain team. I wasn''t thinking about doing that. Not only because some of them hurt innocent people.

    "Three options, I can wipe your memories and place a special power repressor in your brain so you can never use your powers ever again, this would be good if you don''t want to be a supervillain and we will take the credit for killing you.

    The option to play a minor role as an info gathering or a helper as your blood power can probably be used to help people. This will provide pay and a place in case you''re in trouble. However, you won''t be allowed to fight that often and only in rare situations.

    The final option is to join us as a core member, don''t worry we do have male workers and had male core members. Also, the rewards are much greater but much riskier. I will give you more details if you choose to join and how we operate.

    Also if you choose to work with us and betray us. All of my team will hunt you down and kill you. I thought to mention that," explained The White Serpent. Then I thought about it.

    I didn''t want to lose my powers so the first option was a no-go. The second option is not bad but also time-consuming, I mean I don''t know how much time I have to pay for my brother''s meds before he will die.

    "What happened to the male members of your core team? I remembered you are an only girl''s villain team when I first heard about your team," I said curiously and some worry.

    "We do have a male core member however he is mostly not In the fights. Currently, he is busy with some real-life stuff. Yeah, other men usually die or quit because of the ruthless training they were subjugated to and other members not being fond of them."

    I knew being a villain wasn''t easy, running alone from the heroes and other villains. I now have the opportunity, and I was going to take it. Even if it would be a stupid decision

    "Fine, I will become a core member," I said.

    "Ok, kid. Meet me tomorrow night at this location," I heard her say and soon I saw my eyes start to see a map.

    "I planted a device in you''re brain that allows you to see anything that comes up and the device is almost impossible to detect. Best of all no one can see,"

    I saw the location, it was somewhere a little away from Chicago. I saw the time and message, 11:00 PM SHARP.

    "Where did you get your shit from,"

    "It''s not shit, it quality hardware and you should respect its capabilities. Anyways here are some new clothes because your old ones are bloodied up," I heard her say as she got up. I saw the new clothes I got a similar hoodie and some sweatpants.

    I got out of my hospital bed, put on my clothes, grabbed my phone, and followed her. I went outside of the room and looked below to see a strip club, it was packed with men throwing money at women, people dancing like it was no tomorrow, and a gigantic bar.

    "What the," I said in shock, while I heard The White Serpent laugh.

    "Don''t worry, this is just one of my hideouts, The owner lets me have some rooms on the upper floors," Then I saw her take her phone and talk to someone.

    "Hey, I need you to pull up,"

    "Yes, Right now,"

    "Ok, I will pay you later,"

    I soon walked through another door leading to a VIP section however The White Serpent led me to a back door on the side of it. She opened the door and led me to a back alley where I saw a man lying on a dumpster with some alcohol in his hand.

    I checked the time on my phone and it was 10:17.

    "Huh, thought it would be four in the morning or something," I thought

    A few minutes later, a black car pulled up and rolled down the window. "I better get 200 for this, I have an Exam tomorrow," I heard a guy say. I could barely make him out.

    "Don''t worry Volital. Your job is important but I need you to take this kid home," I heard the White Serpent say.

    "Take a useless kid home, Like come on,"

    "He is a new core member, and he needs to know the basics,"

    "Fine, but I need that 200, Serpent,"

    I slowly walked to the car and opened the passenger seat. Then I clearly saw him. He was an older-looking teen with brown hair, he was wearing a black jacket with some jeans.

    "So kid. My boss is busy, so I give you a simple rundown of what we do here, but before that what''s your name," I heard Volital say.

    "Uh, IRL or villain," I said Then he laughed.

    "Dam rookies, Both of course,"

    I didn''t really think about a villain''s name, I knew it was important for several reasons, but I hardly thought about it.

    However, my train of thought stopped when Volital said. "Just real name for now, Will call you kid until you have one,"

    "Louis," I said, at this point.

    "Ok kid, This job is dangerous. Before I send you home crying like a baby for being an idiot. Your job as a core member is to go on all missions with us however due to being a Rookie. You would need some basic training.

    With this, Serpent expects you to be at all of them, and I don''t care how you do it or what you have to do. JUST BE THERE ON TIME," I heard him say with some aggressiveness in his tone.

    "Ok,"

    "Serpent, talked a lot about you earlier after we got Murder Jungle back so you better be worth it, Because I will tell you right now Young kids like you won''t last long on this team.

    If you get captured, we won''t help you like with Murder Jungle, But showcase your worth and Survive on the Superhuman streets, and we will start caring about you,"

    "I understand," So this is what it means to be on a team. Cruel and Evil.

    "Also, what you did to Murder Jungle wasn''t cool, However since you didn''t kill her. Be happy that you''re alive, because if you would have killed her. Oh boy, heroes would have been giving you backshots."

    "HUH? What the fuck is that supposed to mean," I said in confusion. to which Volital laughed.

    "I won''t lie though, you did make her scared for real. She often talks big but when she is put in a situation where things don''t go her way she gets nervous,"

    The rest of the ride was mostly silent when we arrived at my apartment Volital told me one last thing. "Betrayal is a sin, do it and you will be killed,"

    I got out of the car. Then I took off the hood of my head. Walked up to the door and realized I destroyed my keys with my backpack.

    "UGH, FUCK" I said in annoyance. I looked around to see if there were people, but there were cameras.

    I put my hand in my pocket and then on the doorknob and put blood inside to open the door.

    I went upstairs To my apartment and used the same blood technique to open my apartment door.

    When I opened the door I saw my father on the couch watching TV, with some food on the kitchen table. I closed the door and went to eat.

    While I was eating with my father to my back, he started to talk which caught me off guard.

    "Hey kid stop pushing yourself so hard," I heard him say.

    "I have to, you''re not making ends meet. I mean look what I had to do in the summer,"

    "I know, but listen, You''re working too hard. If you burn out like this It will affect your learning,"

    "I can''t my brother needs to live, he never got to learn or have fun as I did,"

    "I know but me and your mother agree we might have to pull the plug in a month. The pricing is starting to rise," Those words started to make me mad with tears coming out.

    "THINK? WHAT, YOU SUGGESTING TO KILL MY BROTHER..." I turned around and yelled in anger. However, I could see my father crying.

    "I''m sorry, after your uncle died we could barely afford the medication, We failed as parents." I heard him say.

    "Don''t bring him into this, you know how I feel when you talk about him," I said now more tears started to flow. "You can''t. Why can''t you bring more money home, THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT, I NEED TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME..." I stop myself from speaking.

    "I know, we don''t want to do it, but we tried everything,"

    "WHY, TRY SOMETHING. DO SOMETHING ILLEGAL. YOU ARE JUST GIVING UP," I said with more tears down my face. Right as those words left my mouth my dad slapped me hard.

    "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND, DO YOU THINK CRIME CAN PAY, KNOWING THAT YOU ARE HURTING OTHERS FOR YOUR BENEFIT?

    IF YOU TRY SOMETHING LIKE THAT I WILL DISOWN YOU. ME, YOUR MOTHER, YOUR BROTHER, AND YOUR UNCLE WOULD NOT WANT YOU TO BE A CRIMINAL FOR THEM," My father screamed however I stomped back to my room and slammed the door.

    I sat on the bed crying, remembering all the pain I went through, my power awakening, the people I killed, my brother being unable to live, and my uncle.

    He was the man who taught me everything even more than my parents. How to fight, taught me where powers came from, and how to deal with stuff like this...

    I remember that day, the day that reality was taught to me. How Heros and villains weren''t just white and black.

    They killed him because they were afraid. They were scared about the public knowing about something, I can''t remember but it had to do with those crystals.

    Then I remembered earlier today when I had the vision. What was that thing? It was like the pink or blue crystals, usually the size of your pinky or smaller, but that one was purple and looked bigger.

    Usually, crystals are one way to give superpowers, or nothing happens. How did I see a new crystal that doesn''t even exist? What did my uncle know?

    I snapped out of my questions as I remembered something from my Uncle.

    "crying is ok, just remember it is not a way forward, that is something you need to do yourself. Now get back up and start fighting the challenges, if you want to be a hero you will save what you can," as my uncle''s voice echoed through my head.

    I stopped crying and wiped my eyes.

    I got up from my bed and looked in the mirror.

    The world is against me, but I have power now. I have the power to change. The ability to save or kill. I shouldn''t think I''m weak, you''re alive after all.

    You couldn''t save Uncle Lu, but I can save my brother.

    No, I will save my brother, No more holding back.

 Chapter 4. Funny Robot

    "Hey, Louis is something wrong," Jake said.

    "Yeah, you hadn''t touched your lunch," Diego said.

    "Just not in the mood, shit happened again," I said taking a sip of coffee.

    I still couldn''t get over last night. Fighting for my life, escaping capture, brother going to be mercy-killed, Joining a villain team. I just want to rest.

    "Shut up Candice, Louis has to do that," I heard some say a table over. I saw Sasha, Candice, and Penelope. We all turn over to Eavesdrop on the conversation.

    "Yeah, apparently he has to be Julie''s Butler for two weeks."

    "I bet Julie will find out he is a pervert just like Jordan,"

    "I don''t think he is a pervert he is kind, and kind of,"

    "SHUT UP PENELOPE,"

    I forgot about that bullshit. Now, I''m some slave to Julie. I''m thinking should I just allow the picture to realize reputation would just be my consequences?

    I mean it already happening with this whole debacle, but then again I want to get something on Julie. Sure petty, but I believe this is what she fucking deserves.

    I saw the three turn towards us. "HEY, WHAT YOU LOOKING AT," I heard Sasha say.

    "Can you stop shit-talking me," I said in anger. "Aw, not my issue. You shit-talked Julie now she has dirt on you, womp womp," I heard Candice say.

    "At least I have balls to shit talk in front of her face," I talked back.

    "Real funny nigga, you think you can just walk around here acting all high and mighty with your lazy ass doing nothing. I hope Julie finds out that you''re a lazy bum with no job, no life, and don''t care about anyone." said, Sasha.

    "Ok, Stop. This is getting out of hand," said Penelope.

    Those words were painful to the point that I didn''t realize my hand was cracking the table. I got up and walked away.

    "did you see him crack the table," I heard Diego. "So, I wasn''t on drugs," Jake said. I took one look back and saw some of the girl''s faces. I put the middle finger up at them.

    I walked out of the cafeteria however I heard someone. "Hey, what''s going on?"

    I turned around to see my friend and crush Zenaida; She had Brown hair and was wearing a beautiful dress. "Nothing, just going through some things," I lied.

    "don''t hide it. What happened? What did Julie do?" She said. "No, my little bro. He will be..." I told her but I couldn''t finish. I started to walk down the hallway.

    "Wait, you mean he going to, die," I heard her say.

    I kept walking then She ran behind my back, and hugged me. "I''m sorry, please just don''t handle this alone,"

    "I don''t want to think about it. I''ve other things to worry about," I said however she wouldn''t let go.

    "Please just don''t, stress yourself. You''re working every night, and now you look like a mess. I''m worried about... you" she said.

    It dawned on me. Ever since two weeks ago, I started just to feel like shit. Less sleep. More coffee. Just in general. Most villains in high school drop out for the reason of too much shit to do.

    I could feel her hugging me tightly to the point where I started to see people in the hall staring at us.

    "Can you please let me go," I said. She stops hugging me.

    "Tell me, for these past few weeks you have been talking less and less to me," She said.

    When being a villain you get little to no sleep. I have only one option, to drop out. I don''t want to, but it''s to keep my brother goddam alive. I have to leave my friends and my educated future behind. I turn to look at Zenaida.

    "I am just..." I took a breath to calm myself down, "...need to focus on my family. I have decided to drop out,"

    "What. You can''t, what are you thinking? You can''t be serious." I heard her say with a laugh.

    I didn''t reply I stood there, a few seconds felt like a few thousand years. I saw her face from doubtful happiness to one of sorrow.

    "You''re serious," I heard her say.

    "I''m sorry, I''m out of options. My family needs me." I apologized and I walked away

    "You can''t Louis. They wouldn''t want this."

    I broke, I couldn''t take anymore. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT''S IT LIKE TO LIVE IN POVERTY? MY FAMILY NEVER RECEIVED HELP. ALL THE HEROES CARE ABOUT ARE THE RICH. MY PARENTS WORKED HARD AND TRIED TO CURE MY BROTHER AND YET WERE TURNED DOWN BY PEOPLE AND HEROS WHO COULD HAVE SAVED HIM.

    BUT NO YOU NEED MONEY. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IS IT FOR A PRESCRIPTION FOR CURE MY BROTHER? 200 FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!!

    THEY BARELY MAKE 4,000$ A MONTH FOR RENT BECAUSE OF MY BROTHER''S MEDICATION. I TRY AND TRY TO CONVINCE THEM. I WORKED FROM FIVE TO ELEVEN AT A BOOKSTORE BUT ''OH NO'', A VILLAIN ATTACKED AND KILLED MY BOSS AND ONE OF MY CO-WORKS. I NEARLY DIED WITHOUT ANY HELP, NO EXTRA MONEY, NO EXTRA BENEFITS.

    This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.

    ''THEY DON''T WANT THIS, THEY DON''T WANT THIS.'' I HAVE BEEN BUSTING MY ASS FOR TWO YEARS LYING ABOUT MY AGE. FOR THE NEED OF MY FAMILY, BECAUSE IF NOT MY FAMILY WOULD BE ON THE STREET, DEAD."

    I finished with my breathing being ragged and I noticed that there was a large number of people looking at us. I saw tears in her eyes.

    "I''m sorry. I will just leave you alone," she said. Then I saw her run off hearing her cries and I stood there.

    I regretted it, All of it. Zenaida didn''t deserve that, But she broke my limit. Then I regained my composure.

    "LOUIS, GO TO THE PRINCIPAL''S OFFICE, NOW." I heard the Dean yell as I saw him. Then he told the other teens to go away.

    I walked slowly dreading my actions. This would be the first and last time I would be going to the principal''s office. Who knows maybe I would get expelled lol.

    I walked into the main offices no one was there. I sat down in a nice comfortable chair and waited to be called.

    Life is hard. Some villain or hero throws the car the wrong way and I could die. I could get kidnapped off the street in broad daylight and never seen again. Hell, some villain can be strolling about and just kill me because they felt like it.

    Now, look at me. The irony, I harming other people around me for my own benefit, knowing it''s wrong.

    I sat my head down, but before I could sleep I was called. I entered the office and took a seat.

    "Louis Lopez. Do you know why you''re here?" I heard my principal say.

    "Yes, I made a disturbance in the hallway and yelled at another student," I said annoyed.

    "Are you ok, Lopez?"

    "Yes, I''m fine. Just need a break,"

    ...

    I went home early. Now I was on a three-day suspension leave. Even though it was a Friday. So basically nothing. I won''t be coming back anyway. Sure, it''s a bad idea to drop out of a prestigious school, but It needs to be done.

    I mostly hung out in my basement room and refreshed my knowledge about the Bitchgirls. I used to do a lot of research on heroes until the Hero Act was passed where all confidential info about heroes was kept classified. Villains however don''t get that privilege.

    It was 10:00 pm when I left my house and this time I came with nothing but my clothes.

    I was outside of some warehouse or something. I noticed there were no lights and no people.

    I entered the warehouse with caution, as I looked around to see if someone or something was going to jump me. I didn''t have night vision so I prepared my blood coating in advance.

    Then I was caught off guard when the lights turned on. The building had a large open space with some boxes and pillars. The most eye-catching thing was the robot in the middle of the space. it was black and blue with a white snake in the middle of it. The robot itself looked to have one wheel and a circular rotating orb in the middle which I assume is for 360-degree rotation. Then I saw it boot up and heard it say.

    "Mission... Terminate Louis Lopez."  The Robot shot something and I dodged. I looked back to see an ice pellet. "Serpent Work." The White Serpent''s Main power was able to create technology involving ice, but she could also create regular tech like the robotic spine fragments that I have right now.

    I shot a blood arrow at the Robot. I saw the Robot casually slapped away with blood being splattered on the ground and some on its arm. Then the blood freezes on the arm. How annoying.

    The robot shot more ice balls at me and I hid behind the pillar to avoid the onslaught. I heard the concrete get rallied like a minigun shooting in a warzone. It soon stopped and I needed to think of a plan.

    I think fast I would look like swiss cheese. Then I heard the robot shooting something, I knew it wasn''t the ice balls but rather something else. Then I heard robotic noises. I peeked out behind the pillar but another iceball was shot at me.

    Then I felt myself getting colder. No, I was almost freezing. Even In my hoodie and Sweat pants I still felt it. If I didn''t end this fast I would freeze to death.

    So this is what she meant by most men quitting or dying, But about the women do they do the same thing or do they get special treatment?

    I snapped out of my thoughts as I heard a wind blast coming from behind me.

    I looked at the floor to see it was turning into ice then I looked around me to see the entire floor was ice. "Shit, shit what do I do." I wouldn''t put myself in this situation. everything is on the line and if beat this challenge what about the next one and the next? Then on and on. I can''t fail.

    If I can make my blood into a gun, a drill, and armor. I used my blood to create some skates, this wasn''t for the ice.

    I skated out of my hiding spot as the Robot started to fire at me but I blocked it with my blood coating. I made a minigun and shot at the robot but to my surprise, it shot out an ice wall. which the Blood bullets just made small cracks.

    However, I did hear some metal clagging meaning that not all of the bullets were blocked, But when I skated around the ice wall I saw no metal piercing, just small dents. Then I saw the robot shoot another ice wall in front of me. I stopped my movement, almost falling, and then more ice balls came which I blocked.

    If this kept dragging on my blood would freeze on the outside and I would be dead. I looked around this time for the things he shot out earlier. I saw some things on the ceiling producing cold air, They looked like big air conditioners.

    I shot at them, but to my dismay mini ice balls shot from them to intercept my blood pellets. Who the fuck thinks of little things like that.

    Then The robot charged pulling out an ice blade and swung at me. I ducked under it and saw it destroyed the concrete. Then I remembered something. When I was training my powers I used a sword to cut concrete and It sliced with ease.

    I deformed the minigun and made myself a sword, but I had to dodge another sword strike which crashed into the building and I saw it stuck. while distracted I went to the side of the Robot and quickly slashed at the robot.

    I managed to cut some of the circular orb section but then Ice froze over it letting all my hard work go to waste.

    "Shit, I need something," I said, trying to think how to kill this stupid robot. my skin was now nearly frozen as my body got colder and colder. Then I got an idea.

    "HEY YOU METAL PIECE OF SHIT, WHY DON''T YOU START TO TRY AND KILL ME" After I said that it started to chase me. I led it towards the pillars. One by one each pillar was getting destroyed. Now I didn''t know if it was an AI or a person controlling it. However, the Robot was more reckless as I saw it swinging but I also had to block some ice balls and even punch through an ice wall.

    Then, I heard a sound that could make me smile with malice as I heard some rumbling noise. I saw the robot stop. Then I saw the closed door, I quickly punched through it. Then I fell into the grass. I deactivated my blood coating, as I felt my skin in freezing pain.

    I quickly ran away as fast as I physically could as I saw the building collapse in front of my eyes. it was loud as fuck and I felt the ground shaking like an earthquake. The only thing allowing me to see is the moonlight in the sky.

    I turned around as I saw the three-story warehouse was nothing but rubble then I covered my mouth and eyes as dust came towards me.

    I don''t know how long it was, but I decided to open my eyes to see a white fog. I walked near the site where the building once stood.

    I looked around and then heard the worst sound. I saw it as the blue light emulated from its eyes but it looked like it got shredded into oblivion. I slowly moved towards me but clunky.

    I was tired and in a large amount of pain, but not to the extent of yesterday. I managed to outsmart the robot, and now it was in a bad state.

    I knew I couldn''t beat it. It was far stronger and tougher than any opponent I had fought so far, But most people would throw a bunch of attacks in order to hurt it. Then I realized that was not possible, it could patch itself up with ice. So it needed to be down in one shot, which is what the building is for.

    I made a blood sword and finished it off by stabbing it in the eye, then I saw it shut off.  Then I saw a notification, To go to a location that was four miles away.

    Welp. I passed.

 Chapter 5: Meet the Bad Girls

    If I''m being honest, the city is weirdly beautiful at night. Even though I could hear some explosions in the distance, it still had a vibe to it.

    I pulled over my hood and put on some gloves.

    I was walking down in an area mostly described as Chicago''s Void. This place was the most dangerous and most vibrant in the city. Typically you would find prostitutes and a bunch of teens being high. Heros didn''t give a flying fuck about this part of the city only really sticking to the better areas of the cities, but that didn''t mean you wouldn''t find any around here.

    "Hey, kid. You want some," I turned over to see an older woman, probably in her 30s, with a nice dress, she was holding some pills. "No, I''m too young," I said in disbelief.

    "Oh, kiddos these days. Often being too stressed," I heard her say. Yeah, that drug would likely black me out. Then I would become a slave or something.

    "No thank you," I said trying to be polite as possible. I saw a frown on her face as she walked off. She gave me the Hibby Gibbies.

    I soon made it to my location as it was a run-down building. To describe it was mostly had bordered-up windows with garbage all over the place and no light to speak off. Then I try to enter the building. I tried to enter but the door was locked. The door looked run down but the lock looked like Serpent''s tech. Then I saw a fingerprint scanner.

    After I scanned my finger the door opened. I entered to see a run-down location with nothing notable, so I stood on guard.

    I walked around the whole building top to bottom to find nothing. Only just broken shit, and other disgusting smells of rotten flesh and food. On the third floor, I gazed my eyes on a completely intact bookshelf.

    I thought of the classic tropes of flicking a book to open a secret passageway. However, that didn''t do anything. So I tried pushing to the side and pulling it, but nothing happened. When I pushed it forward I heard something open.

    Something changed.

    I looked around to see a hidden door, which looked like a vault door, in a wall on the first floor. I closed the vault door and I heard the cogs being put back into place. I saw pink lights leading downstairs and didn''t hear any noise. I put on my blood mask.

    I prepared myself for an attack but when I reached the bottom there was only a hangout lounge devoid of people.

    The lounge was vibrating with pink neon lights. The decoration has some interesting choices. Like one part being a jungle and another part being punk rock-themed. Then I saw a smashed keyboard on the ground In front of six computers.

    I quickly turn to see Serpent clapping with my blood arrow up. "Congratulations, you are one of the two who survived this test or passed it in general." Said Serpent. I deactivated my blood arrow.

    "Two? What do girls..." I asked but the Serpent laughed. "Yeah, men get a harder test. My girls come from bad places so I train them to find their props, other girls who want to join are mostly loyal right away and see me as a mother figure. While Men... are reckless so I test them to see if they have balls of steel," She said.

    "So, you''re saying you''re sexist," I said. "Yeah, that''s because most of the time powered men only try to join this team to be with girls or be a prick towards them. I knew you weren''t like them but the other girls thought you were just a horny kid so they decided to test you."

    "Where are they now," I said. "Oh, they are gone because... let''s say they''re not happy," She said as I heard her awkwardly laugh. I didn''t know what to think, I mean I didn''t join this team to get a harem. I joined for money and because I was forced to, be kinda.

    Then I saw I heard the metal door open but it wasn''t from upstairs rather it was downstairs. Then I started to hear voices.

    "UGH, WHY DID SERPENT WANT THAT KID. WHEN I SEE HIM I WILL KILL HIM,"

    "YEAH, HE WAS GOING TO FUCKING KILL ME,"

    "Don''t worry. I WILL RIP HIM APART TO SHREDS,"

    "geez, having another boy ain''t that bad. I mean Luke isn''t that bad,"

    "Ugh shut up, Vanessa. Luke is different, he is cool,"

    "Cool. In what way..." As they entered the room they stopped talking as they saw me.

    I gazed at all of them. Cherry Bomb, Lighting Scabert, Animalistic, and Murder Jungle.

    Then before I could even react Cherry Bomb threw a Bomb at me. Which caused me to smash into a wall. My body was in agony as I felt the shock wave through my body. I felt my face burned and my chest destroyed.

    "good job, finally that cocky brat got what he deserved,"

    "IDIOT, YOU JUST KILLED HIM," someone said as I got back up regenerating my body and some of my face. "YOU ASSHOLE WHAT WAS THAT FOR," I screamed in pain as I almost attacked them but I stopped.

    "how the fuck are you alive," I just saw White Serpent laughing. I could vaguely see Cherry Bomb was about to throw another bomb however I saw Scabert stop her. "Stop destroying our hideout. So what if he''s just a guy? Give him a dam chance like with Voltial,"

    "UGHH, FINEEE. But why couldn''t he just join the subordinate division? Much better for someone like him,"

    Wow, what the hell did they go through to hate men... Well, to be fair we''re in the Void district. Aka, the district with the highest rate of Sexual Assault.

    "I didn''t join to fool around, I wanted to be a core member, not just to achieve my goals but to get stronger," I said in a stuffy voice, trying to flow my blood away from my lungs. I got up in pain as I regenerated most of my minor injuries. While it took longer for the cracked bones.

    "Cherry, it was your fault that you let him get the better of you," Said Serpent which to Cherry Bomb responded. "DON''T EVEN,"

    I finished regenerating. So it was Cherry controlling the robot and she got mad. "Man, I''m tired. I got to get home," I said. My parents were already mad about me not coming home so if I just left they would be mad. Even though it''s a Friday they are on my ass.

    "oh, so you''re the one with anger issues," I said which made Cherry try to attack me but Animalistic grabbed her. "What you doing, animalistic. You hate this guy too,"

    "He won fair and square. He is a worthy fighter to keep, even if he is a man that I hate," said Animalistic, I saw them get dragged to another room, with Cherry resisting.

    "Still, I don''t want this bum here. So please, get the fuck out when are done looking at us girls. I don''t want to fucking fight right now..." Murder Jungle said as I saw her walk off to a room and heard her yawn.

    It was just me, Serpent, and Scabert. I sat down on a pink couch to recover more.

    "HEY DON''T RUIN THE COUCHES WITH THE RUBBLE," said Scabert. "yeah sureeeee, I believe that your couch," I said sarcastically. I saw them both sit down beside me.

    Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

    "Alright, Kid. Me and Scabert will explain the second stage of your test," said Serpent.

    "Wait there are more tests, seriously," I said in distaste.

    "Yeah, you think you''re the only kid that got passed the robot. Other people and heroes beat the robot. Don''t be a fool kid others are as smart as you but at least you didn''t run, that was the main focus of the test." said Scabert.

    "So what are the trials?"

    "That, is a secret so be prepared for anything," said Serpent. "Come on, I don''t like playing games, I joined for a reason," I was annoyed why was it a secret?

    "Sorry, but I can''t tell you," said Serpent. I could tell she didn''t like my pushy tone as I saw her face turn into a frown.

    "Fine, is that all," I said. "Yes, Now we need a basic name since ''kid'' isn''t for people who beat the robot," said Scabert.

    "You will also need a better costume than that stupid hoodie if we want to recognize you, I only recognize you because of the implants if you didn''t have them I would have killed you, so do that too"

    Well, Then I saw where my first trial would be. It was somewhere closer than the robot''s location. Monday night. Now I just need a name and a costume.

    "Think of a name, and we will call that. It better hold weight as well," said Serpent.

    "See you soon. And don''t get into any trouble with other villain teams," said Serpent. "Alright see you later,"

    I walked out the same way I came in. Looked around the street to see more whores and some homeless people just being who they are. I took off my blood mask so people wouldn''t get ideas. I walked the same way I came from and after a few minutes. I saw the same woman earlier talking to a teen.

    I didn''t trust that woman so I got closer and recognised the teen. Jake.

    I pretended to lay on a metal pillar that held up a train track. "Yeah, I would like some pills,"

    "Ok, you also want to have some sugar with me," she said. Then I saw her put her ass in front of her with her hand on it, which made me disgusted instantly. "Uhh... sure-e," I heard Jake say.

    Horny idiot. The woman looked around and then dragged Jake away.

    I slowly followed her without her noticing and she entered a big club. I attempted to enter but the bouncer stopped me. "Hey kid what are you doing, you need to be 21+ or be taken in by a VIP member,"

    "yeah, dude I''m 23."

    "Ok, sure kid. GET OUT," He said, then Grabbed me with incredible strength and threw me on the street.

    "Dam," I said rubbing my head in some pain. I decided to go a few buildings down and climb the fire escape.

    Then I traverse the roofs to the club building. I was on the roof with the door leading into the club.

    I entered and walked down the stairs to see to my right the entire club from the second floor. Then I saw Jake and the lady going up the stairs to my left. I slowly went up the stairs I came back from to hide.

    Then Jake saw me but didn''t do anything as he entered one of the rooms on the second floor.

    I went down from the stairs. I entered through a vent. Now I was above the room hiding and the room was not a typical love room. It had Weed I think and a bunch of other weird kinky shit.

    "Ugh," I could see Jake in a ball. "don''t worry sweety, I give you a little sugar, but first swallow the pills to make the experience better," She said.

    "But-t that would make me high, and I won''t remember,"

    "Not those silly, these pills. They make you last more than two minutes," She said as I took some out from the drawer. "These,"

    She put them on the table with some alcohol and then I saw Jake slowly get up. He walked to the table and I saw the woman take off her clothes. Not going to lie tho, she was hot.

    Then I saw Jake look back and then look away. He took the pills and swallowed them with the alcohol.

    Then I saw Jake fall to the ground with the lady laughing sadistically. "Stupid kid. Thinking he was going to lose it, typical,"

    then I saw a fake door open from the opposite side of the room to see a villain, Noorman. Aka low-ranking Kereos members. Wearing a costume made of doors. His ability can create a door or opening anywhere, which means he can just turn a wall into a door.

    Then I assumed the girl was the Drugist, Alica. Another low-ranking member. The girl put on her villain costume, a black slick latex suit with her hand cannon intact. However, I don''t remember her ability, which sucks, got to look at it later. "What. What''s happening what did you DO FUCKER," I could see Jake crying.

    "You caught another thirsty kid, to bad your merchandise now," said Noorman. "Ugh shut up Dor. You''re just an ugly computer fuck," Alica said.

    "I hope a hero rapes you," Noorman said.

    "Oh fuck yourself, honestly DH''s do that shit. The real heroes prefer kiddos instead. I count that a hero would buy this gremlin over here, right little gremlin,"

    Dam harsh, but Jake you idiot why did you want to fuck a prostitute.

    "Don''t worry kid, it''s not you. It''s just money and power. Just hope you don''t become some trade item between those old politicians." said Noorman now walking close to Jake and putting his hand on his head. "stupid kids," said Alica

    "alright let''s go, bitch," said Noorman. "I wish I could just cut your balls off right now," said Alica

    Then I attempted to position myself but I made some noise. I quickly crawled out of sight. "Hey, I heard somein the vent," said Alica.

    "Probably a rat you sped fuck," said Noorman. "No, open it,"

    then In a split second, I put on my blood mask and fell out of the vent as the entire bottom of the vent opened like a box. I crashed into the desk. I felt some pain but not as bad as a cherry bomb.

    "I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP WITH YOU," said Alica. Then She fired her gun but I quickly dodged to the left and crashed into a small concrete wall made by Noorman. I felt immense pain however I persisted. I couldn''t give up or Jake would die or far worse, I could die.

    I didn''t care if I was quitting school but I wasn''t letting a friend get kidnap on my watch.

    I got up and tried to attack but the floor opened below me falling into another room I crashed into the floor and two people screamed. "SUPER HUMANS," I saw the naked man and girl. They got up and ran out. Then I could hear screams.

    Alica jumped on me stabbing me in the side but I put up my blood harding to stop it. Then she spat on my face. Then I saw Noorman come down with a distressed Jake shaking.

    "Don''t think about fighting back you curious brat, my spit paralyzed you," Alica said.

    I couldn''t move my body even with Serpent tech. I felt my muscles tighten. I felt like I was paralyzed from the neck down but I could still control my blood.

    She took my hood off to see my blood mask. "Oh, you''re that stupid new brat that can control blood,"

    Then I saw Alica put up a gun. However, I spit out a classic blood-spit arrow, which stabbed her in the eye. She dropped her gun. "AHHHHHHHHH, YOU FUCKER. HELP ME KILL THIS FUCKER,"

    Then I saw a concrete block come down. I coated my body in blood to protect me. But I still felt an incredible amount of pain. I still couldn''t move, My body made contact with the spit and I understood why it was affecting me. My nerves. I started to focus my blood on regenerating and replacing the nerves that were affected by it and I started to feel my body becoming responsive.

    Noorman moved the concrete that had fallen on me, but I awkwardly kicked him with a blood-infused kick, I saw him move back holding his face with some groning. I could now see Alica holding her face as I got up but I still felt my body being unresponsive mostly. But with all of my will, I got up and grabbed Jake with both of my hands like a baby with the little strength I had left due to the stab wound that I was healing and cherry bomb. Then I saw the crowd outside running away while crashing and tripping into each other.

    Before I could get out of the hallway. A gunshot went off and for a second I was confused then I felt the flare of pain. I fell and dropped Jake. My shoulder was in immense pain. I was a few feet from the nowhere near the main dance floor.

    "YOU LITTLE SHIT," I heard even in the loud ringing in my ear. I covered my back with blood coating as I felt more bullets being shot. Luckily none pierced my blood hardening.

    I laid down and stopped resisting and made some blood flow out of me. "Hey get up, please," I could hear Jake with his dropsy voice. "He''s dead kid, he has like five shots in him," I heard Noorman say as he kicked me hard.

    "Yeah, a dark hero trying to stop a sex abduction, at least he''s down for good, though honestly, he would have been better merchandise than you, life isn''t fair right," Alica said still holding onto her hand in her eye. I saw people looking in fear cowardly at the walls of the club.

    I looked around my position to see Noorman next to me, with Alica petting Jake with her gun head like an animal who looked like it was about to get slaughtered. I used my pool of blood on the ground to make a long spike cutting Noorman in half, with his top half falling on the floor his organs spilling out like a pinata, and his bottom colaps. However, this took so much blood I felt I was almost about to faint. Then I absorbed the blood I could from Noorman.

    I saw Alica turn her face from glee and smiling; to her eyes to her mouth wide open as she dropped the gun. I slowly got up absorbing Noorman''s corpse as I started to regenerate everything.

    I expected her to charge at me or to pick up the gun. However, she ran, like a coward. Scared. Feard. She left Jake there and ran outside with the last remaining people. I still saw people from a distance recording.

    With Zero hesitation I shot a blood arrow near them but did not try to hit them got the warning and ran away.

    I got up with my body feeling like it had gone through a marathon where you had to set yourself on fire while running on needles with poison making you slower.

    "Louis?" I looked towards to see Jake.

    "Who''s Louis, now get out of here kid," I said trying to make my voice deep. "You are, Louis," said Jake trying to get up and run, But he couldn''t.

    I grabbed him with resistance with him still being under the paralazation effect. "LET ME GO, I WON''T TELL ANYONE," he said. He knew, even a promise from a friend wouldn''t be enough. I picked up the gun and pointed at him which made him stop.

    "shut up, not that simple," I said. he stopped resisting as I carried him to the roof. What a pain in the ass this is gonna be.

 Chapter 6: No turning back

    100,000 things were going through my head. Now he knows. Now my school will know. My parents would know. The world knows. My brother knows. FUCK.

    I absorbed Noorman��s blood and forced Jake to the roof, even though he couldn��t move. The club was a dead zone, with some people crawling or hiding, with some bleeding out. I took some of the blood to use it for healing.

    When I reached the roof, I put down Jake. Jake crawled the ball. He tried to move away, which meant Alica��s power wore off. But he stopped and turned around.

    ��You just killed someone, Louis,�� yelled Jake. ��Who the fuck is Louis? And they were rival gangs I had to deal with. Now if you shut the fuck up, tell me what they were doing.�� I changed my voice pitch, so it sounded like a gangster.

    ��I don��t know, I just wanted drugs, man. Please, don��t kill me, Louis,�� He was persistent. What a fucking annoying idiot. Got to make him run away. I don��t care if he knows. The only person he would tell is Diego, but both are sheep who won��t tell shit. Like he gonna do shit.

    I made a blood blade and pointed at Jake, then he moved back. ��Listen, you fuckin retard. You don��t accuse any villain of their identity,�� I lightly cut him on the chest with a piece of clothing falling off and then he ran away back into the club.

    Geez, I didn��t want to do that, but he forced me to. I also need a voice change or the heroes can do a voice recognition test. What a pain in the ass now I��m tired as fuck. Still can feel the pain but luckily I��m ok for now.

    I got down through the fire escape and entered the alley, where I saw police cars and heroes, as well as heard talking but couldn��t make it out. Looked around the alley where I saw people slumping on the ground, bleeding. I walked around to take some of the blood for later, but people screamed. ��BLOOD VILLAIN!�� assholes

    I sprinted for my life. Dealing with the heroes would be the worst thing to deal with. I looked around for any escape route. ��HEY STOP.�� I kept running. I looked down at the end of the alley and saw the police at the end. Who was coming closer to me, then I saw a building have an open door.

    I dashed into the building. In the building was another empty club, but three heroes standing on the main floor. I recognized one of them from the first encounter: Vivio. Then I looked behind me to find Wavist. I fought some of them in my first encounter, which is not good as all of them likely know, and told the other two what my power and my weakness are.

    I recognized the new heroes who recently joined Energy Knight and Rockheart. Energy Knight wore metal-like armor all over his body while Rockheart looked like a rockstar out of a band but with special equipment like an electric guitar and mini microphones. The two new heroes captured me, but I never fought them, so I don��t know the fullest extent of their powers.

    Then I heard the emergency sprinkler go off. It was a trap. I had no way out of this. I was too weak to fight and couldn��t use my ability unless it was in liquid form. Absorbing the water wasn��t an option either, since the water was constantly hitting me. If I didn��t escape, they would capture me and who knows what they would do to me?

    ��Surrender, you have nowhere to go, Blood.�� I heard Wavist say. Only got one option, hand to hand. I wasn��t a master at hand-to-hand combat, but my uncle taught me the basics. Now I haven��t tried to coat my arms and legs with blood on the inside because that could cause clotting, which could kill me. It was my only choice. I shaped the blood into a hexagon structure to make sure every hit counts and maximize the damage. I wasn��t the smartest person alive, but I knew hexagon shapes had the most equal force output, and if this worked, I could escape.

    ��I know, but I can��t. Heroes are just frauds. Only paid for their job. Surrendering to them is a sign of weakness.�� I said.

    ��Prepare everyone,�� right after Wavist said that I Jumped at Rockheart as she is the most dangerous here because of her sleep ability, but Energy Knight tried to block it. ��Hurry, put him to sleep,�� he said.

    However, before she started, my punch broke through it and hit Rockheart. I heard some of her ribs crack. Even if the punch had less impact, it was over as she flew across the floor. Then Energy Knight attempted to punch me but I reacted to it and kicked him hard in the chest, breaking his armor which also made him slide across the floor into a wall where I heard a small crash, and then Vivio trapped my legs in dance floor tiles which I tried to get out of but before I could Wavist shot a water blast, which I blocked with my arms.

    The force of the water broke the concrete and pushed me back and I nearly collapsed, and though I blocked it, it wasn��t good enough. I still took damage and was out of breath. ��I don��t know how he is using his blood. So restrain him quickly,�� I heard Wavist.

    Then I felt my body was sinking. I looked down to see it going into the ground. ��You fucking bastard, I��m going to make you drown,�� I heard Vivio. It was her power. If this kept up, I might lose. I tried to get out, but Wavist shot another water, and I tilted my head to the side. Then I got an idea. If water can hurt people if shot at high speeds, then blood can do the same and it is much more dense.

    I put my arm up and shot a wave of liquid blood, however; they ducked down, and then I saw the effects it had as I saw some concrete falling apart. Distracted, as their power stopped temporarily, allowing me to break out of the concrete.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings.

    I heard Rockheart singing, which caused me to cover my ears quickly to avoid being put to sleep, but this made Rockheart pull out mini speakers and blast me away with vibrations. I felt excruciating pain throughout my entire body. Rockheart had broken through all my defenses and ruptured my eyes, ears, bones, and organs. I shot blood at high speeds which hit Rockheart causing her to fall to the ground bleeding.

    My surroundings were looking blurry. I closed my eyes to focus and tried to get to the blood, as my vision wasn��t reliable anymore. Regeneration wasn��t an option until I got that blood. Then I felt something similar. The presence of that weird crystal. Then I heard Vivio''s thoughts. ��change the mass to a fist and send it to the villain,��

    I dodged out of the way and then heard a crash. It felt weird. Like I could read her ideas. Then I try to look for a way out of this fight. Then I ran towards that exit that I could hear Wavist thoughts. ��Create a mini tsunami and direct it towards the villain.��

    I couldn��t dodge but I managed to absorb some of the blood before the water hit me. I crashed into something. Don��t know what though, but it fucked with my sense as the voice and thoughts went away. Then the pain came, and it was terrible. ��Capture him, he is down,�� I heard it, but that made me decide to regenerate my eyes, as it was the only thing I could do.

    I was on the ground. My hand touched the concrete. This made me realize I wasn''t on the dance floor. I changed and deactivated all my internal blood and put it towards healing. Then I got up and ran, knowing I was outside. At this point, I was running on the adrenaline. However, I felt a bullet hit me, but I kept going. I ran until I could run no more. I didn��t know how long it was. Time wasn��t a concern. I didn��t know if I was going to die or not. The closest thing that I could describe to this event was when I got them.

    ***

    It was like any normal day: wake up, go to school, work at the cafe, then go home. Then start hell all over. It was a simple life besides knowing that blue and purple crystals spawn out of thin air, giving people superpowers. Though rare, most abilities are not powerful unless you know how to use them. It made life 100 times harder as every day as anyone can be a victim of superhumans. How ironic. It happened at work around the end of the shift as I remembered it being dark outside.

    ��Hello, how may I take your order?�� I said. The hero in front of me was Dasher. He was a speedster, but cocky. Nothing noticeable, just a registered hero doing his job. ��Oh, I would have a cup of coffee with two cubes of sugar, and you make it dashy... get it��

    I cringed at his stupid pun. Like can heroes stop doing these dumb fucking puns. ��Hey, I need a cup of coffee with two sugar cubes and quickly because it��s a hero,�� I said to my coworker, Imani. She was just my coworker, but sometimes her stupid friends come in and annoy me.

    ��Uh, what��s with the heroes today?�� she said. Then I remember Dasher saying, ��Wow, your coworker sure is a handful,�� and then he sat down looking at his phone.

    The cafe was quiet today even at 6:00 PM. I was almost finished with my shift, but of course, it couldn��t be that easy.

    Then I saw four people enter. They looked like typical hood gangsters. I looked at the hero to see him pay attention to them. They walked up to me.

    ��Yo, is Imani here?�� one of them said. ��Why, she is working now,�� I said.

    Then I remembered Imani came out with Dasher��s drink and said. ��Nigga, why are you here right now?��

    ��come on, I came to see my baby girl,�� The other guys hyped him up like he won something. ��Hey!�� I looked behind me and saw my boss Clara come out.

    ��If you are not going to order something, then get out, and Imani don''t say the n-word in the establishment,�� she said. I don��t know about this shit, but I remember hearing rumbles. This should have been a warning sign of danger. However, I was oblivious.

    ��What are you yapping about, white bitch?�� I remembered hearing one of the other members say. ��Ok, time to settle down,�� I remembered Dasher saying.

    ��My bad, we will take our leave...�� then I remembered hearing a loud band, not like a gunshot more of a mini explosion, We all turned to see destruction, and that was when I knew, we were going to all die.

    ��GET DOWN, IT��S A VILLAIN,�� after those words, Dasher disappeared as he vanished in the blink of an eye as we felt the boom. However, not even a second later, we were hit with an explosion.

    I remember feeling the shock wave and seeing everyone get blasted back.

    I recall looking around with blurred vision and then seeing the gangsters dead. My blood was all over my face and clothes like a tomato. My mind was on horror, but I couldn��t let it get the best of me. Everyone heard about these stories of villain attacks all the time, but it was a different level of nightmare fuel to see it happen in person.

    ��AHHHH, COME ON. DON''T DIE ON ME FOR THIS,�� I remembered Imani leaning on the ground crying with blood all over her body, Clara on the ground bleeding out; She tried to say something but vomited blood.

    ��Come on Imani, let...�� I remembered it. My arm was gone. The pain was immense. I opened and yelled in agony as my body felt like shit. Imani looked at me with wide eyes and with one bleeding.

    I remember the thoughts of death. Then I remembered this wave of power rushed to my thoughts, ideas, and memories. It felt like all my trauma, pain, and suffering were put into one core thought and produced something new as I felt my mind having an earthquake.

    My body felt like it was going through a new form or a new transformation. Then I remember the feeling natural as the surrounding blood absorbed into me as I felt the pain going away. I recall my arm growing slowly in real-time with the muscle, bone, arteries, and skin regenerated, but then I recall losing the power and I felt my blood was disappearing.

    When I was done, my body felt it was reborn. My pain was gone, only fatigue remained. But I remembered hearing voices. Voices of pain, suffering, and death of all my memories.

    I looked to see that all the blood was gone, with Imani now looking at me with her mouth open.

    ��Y-you got powers,�� I remembered her words. ��come on, we need to get out... now,�� I said, trying to grab her, but she resisted.

    Now looking back on it, I now understand that people just give up.

    ��NO, I DON��T CARE ANYMORE. Just leave me here to die... I don��t care anymore.�� I saw her look back at the destroyed gangster, who blew up into pieces now with no blood.

    I ran out, not wanting to die, at the back of the building into the alleyway, then saw the building coming down with it leaning towards me.

    I ran, ran faster than I could. Never turned back, and after that day, I became who I am. A monster who wants nothing more than to help my family and friends.

 Viana Diary

    He escaped again. They couldn��t escape. The villain was trapped. In the nightclub, sprinkling water and four heroes surrounded him, and even an experienced hero was with us to help us. Yet he still got away, THAT DAMN FUCKER. I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HIM THE FIRST TIME.

    I kicked the seat in front of me out of frustration. ��Vivio, calm down. The police are searching the area and will find him,�� Wavist said. I didn��t like those words, ��Police are searching�� my ass. We have the resources, but currently, that is being put into a dumb war in South America over a superhuman gang. What some bullshit.

    Most of the United States has a shortage of heroes, with one hero for every three villains, and in Chicago, that��s the most prevalent. Yet the only things people nowadays care about are villain rights, Hero rights, and dumb politics. We nearly arrived at the P.W.H. district where all the heroes and their families live.

    ��How is Rockheart doing? I saw her bleed a lot,�� said Energy Knight. Ugh, Energy Knight, aka Tyler Brandon. He takes an interest in sixteen-year-old Rich Penelope for her charm of music, yet this loveable idiot doesn��t see the 10 out of 10 right in front of him trying to get him. I��ve seen him just hanging around Penelope, and she doesn��t like him.

    Like he ignores the signs, I swear. I ask him to go to lunch, hang out alone somewhere, and even come over to my living courters, and he makes an excuse not to go. ��She is. I got a call on my headpiece that she is stable. She should be fine tomorrow.�� said Wavist

    I looked outside to see the protesters who were protesting stuff like villain rights, Hero''s abolishment, killings of innocent civilians, Heros are for the rich and Human Genocide. Like god, it��s 12:30 at night. Can people go home, do these people have lives, or are they just brainwashed?

    Luckily, the district was in the sky, so heroes and their families could walk around safely without people harassing them, but sadly, not all cities have this luxury. We drove near the beam where there was a gate entrance. The gate opened, and we got under the beam. The district was about 3,000 ft up from the ground with multiple entrances. It also has defenses against any villains..

    ��Going up,�� said Wavist. The hero district was a mile-long area-wide stretch of land of buildings and some homes. Even a mall area. Wavist drove the Hypercar to the main building of the district, the Public Worldwide Heros, or P.W.H. for short. It was a large building with a typical corporate style. We all took off all our masks as it was safe here to reveal our identity as people all know each other in the P.W.H. district.

    We got out of the car and entered the building. ��Oh, nice seeing your back, Anthony, and young heroes. How was your patrol?�� I heard the clerk say in her stupid, cheery accent.

    ��Not well. Some problems started in the void district, and we encountered the blood villain. As well as arresting Alica, one of the Kereos members, and the other member of the Kereos, is dead. I think the blood villain engaged in a fight and killed one of them, don��t know why but�� I just hope Kereos isn��t up to anything,�� Anthony said. Kereos is one of the three powerful Chicago tri-crime rings, the other two being Helldivers and Bitchgirls.

    ��Oh, hey at least you caught one of the Kereos members, but ensure you file a report on the villain by tomorrow,�� she said, and then I saw the clerk give over some papers.

    Thank god I didn��t have to do paperwork. The last time I did that, it took over an hour to complete. ��Oh, good news. Some heroes are coming back to Chicago and a new hero applied. She will be here later tomorrow.�� She said.

    ��Oh, so he is coming back too,�� Tyler said. ��Yeah,�� she said.

    I could tell by his look he wasn��t pleased. His father was the strongest hero in Chicago, and he often made Tyler train every day to get stronger, to ��take his place�� once he retired. I mean, Tyler just wanted to be in college, but because of being a hero and had power, he just took special classes. I mean, sure, you can be a civilian, but from what I can tell, his father didn��t let him.

    ��So you said we got a recruit,�� Said Anthony. ��Yes, she is a high schooler. She got her powers recently, and she filed papers with her parents last night.��

    This looming dread came over me. I remember losing four recruits, all kids. I mean, I have only been a hero for six months and four recruits died. Octoplum was just a kid of a hero family and died for me. Now she will be another victim.

    I cried as the memory came back with hate also being in the mix. Both Anthony and Tyler looked at me. I ran off in embarrassment, not wanting to look weak.

    ��Hey wait,�� I heard Tyler, but I didn��t care. I ran out. I just wanted to go home.

    ...

    I was in my bedroom, alone. I didn��t have any parents, only my little brother who just lived with me, and looked up at me. My parents died in a villain attack on the damn Bitchgirls. With that, the fucking retard blew them up.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.

    I lying down in my pajamas ready to go to sleep. Then I heard a knock on the door. ��Ugh,�� I said in annoyance as I got up and went to the door. Each hero got a house or lived in an apartment. Since it was only me and my brother, we lived in a small apartment like a hotel.

    I open the door to see Tyler there in his normal clothes. ��Uh, hello. Viana, I just... wanted to make sure you were, ok,�� He said. I could tell he was looking away from me. Was he nervous or scared? Then I panicked. My crush was at my door. The only time I didn��t want him near me. I looked like a mess. I didn��t have my makeup, and worse, my hair looked so messed up.

    ��I��m ok Tyler. You can leave now,�� I said, shaking in worry. I didn��t want Tyler to see me like this. I slowly closed the door, but then he stopped it. ��No, Viana. please, can we just talk?�� He wanted to talk with me, I mean we talked usually on the job and in front of others, but alone.

    ��Ok,�� I let him in. He was in my apartment, just us and my brother sleeping. I thought of all the scenarios.

    We both sat on the couch in the living room. It was silent.

    ��Uh, Viana. Are you ok? You just ran away from everyone.�� He asked. He cares. Come on, he doesn''t like me. Why would he care about me? Does he just ignore me? I mean, we just hang out as friends, but whenever I want to be alone, he just chickens out. Now he was asking me if I was ok.

    ��Listen Tyler, I just want to... look strong in front of the other heroes,�� I said. What a bullshit answer, but it should work. I didn��t want to share my feelings. Then I felt his hand, which was warm and soft.

    ��Viana, I��m not stupid... I don��t want to lose you too. I know you have issues with villains... but I don��t want to see you suffer, I can��t even open up to my dad, he just says to ��walk it off�� or ��you will get used to it.'' Please just tell me the truth... do you need help? Tyler said. It was pointless. He was persisting. Should I tell him to leave? Should I confess? What should I do...

    I was silent. The air felt as if it was thickening every second. Then He said. ��Listen, you are not alone. I lost them too and others. Considering you as an outcast because of your actions, I care about you. I want you to grow stronger. You have the potential to be one of the best heroes,��

    I looked down and cried. I didn��t understand why; he was just saying lies. I was just a worthless power-holder compared to those heroes. What did he know about me?

    ��Stop lying to me. I��m worthless. I couldn''t beat some new villain twice.�� Then he got closer. I felt my heart beating so fast it felt like it was about to explode. ��Listen, Viana. I... I don��t want to see you like this.��

    He hugged me, then I felt all my worries washed away. It felt as if all my pain had vanished. I hugged him back, even though I wanted to kiss him, but I think that was asking too much.

    Then I stopped hugging him, and I backed away from him. I felt that time slowed down. It was like hours, years, hell eons. Then, after all the time built up, something came out.

    ��I��m sorry. I was just being stupid,�� I said, just embarrassed,

    "it''s okay, Viana, but first you need to be more confident,"

    "Ok. thank you," I said. I stopped crying, feeling better, then I yawned, as I felt too tired to even just stay awake. My work was getting to me. I need to use the water chamber tomorrow.

    ��Oh, you��re���� Tyler said before he yawned too. ��Can I crash here for tonight? My house is on the other side of the district,��

    "Sure," I said, but what if...no, I''m not ready for that.

    ��Good night Viana,��

    "Good night Tyler,"

    I saw Tyler lying on the bed, and I felt myself being touched, starved. No, I can��t cuddle with him. I mean, he will wake up and I don��t know how he would react. Would it be wrong?

    Then Tyler snored. Geez, he''s a fast sleeper. I faced temptation, snuggled with Tyler, and hoped I wake up first or sleep in my bed alone, dark and cold.

    I opened my door quietly, then walked over to the bed and snuggled in the sheets with Tyler. I knew this was wrong, but it just felt so good. The warm feeling came back as I slowly closed my eyes.

    ...

    I Woke up, but I felt cold again. I looked to the side, and I was alone. Then I looked down. My pajamas were still on. I got up in confusion and saw Tyler making breakfast. I could smell the eggs and even pancakes. Then I looked at the clock and it was 9:00 am.

    ��Oh, uh... good morning, Viana,�� then I remembered what happened. He knows. ��Uh, sorry. I was just cold.�� I said.

    ��Don��t lie to me. You know how I am with people touching me. So explain yourself,�� He said. Then It went quiet as if time stopped. I didn��t know how to respond. Should I confess? Should I stay quiet?

    My body didn��t want to get up off the couch. I violated Tyler''s space, which I shouldn��t have done. Now he is going to report to me about sexual harassment. If I��m lucky, they can be sexist and not care. The worst case is I��m kicked out on the street with my brother�� No, I can��t let that happen. Then I got the courage to walk over there. I knew one thing that could work in the hope of those problems not happening.

    ��I��m sorry! I didn��t mean to do that, I just�� love you," I quickly yelled, so I hoped I could get out of this mess.

    ��Love me!�� Tyler said. After I processed those words and realized what I said, I looked away. ��No. No. No. Not like that,�� I said, lying through my teeth now blushing. ��I�� kind of knew, but I wasn��t sure about it.�� I looked back at Tyler and I saw his face, red as a tomato.

    ��Are you nervous?�� I said, now awake more than ever and confused.

    ��N�� yes, I liked you for a while. I knew you were asking me out the first few times, and I''m scared to ask out girls." after he said that, I laughed slightly. "I''m sorry what?"

    "It''s just a personal fear," Tyler said. I could tell he was not joking. "oh sorry, I didn''t mean to laugh, it''s just..." I said.

    "Listen, Viana, don''t joke about that. It''s personal." Something was wrong, but didn''t push further. "Ok, I''m sorry for laughing and hugging you in your sleep," I said, now stopped laughing.

    "It''s fine, I forgive you. I get you going through some things too, but please don''t do that stuff," Tyler said. He was right. Looking back on myself, I''m almost an adult. I forget this because of my power or my stubbornness, but I''m acting like a child. Kicking the seat, not listening to orders from experienced heroes, and just emotionally stressed. Then there is Tyler, the same age, heroic, smart, and charming. He was stronger, faster, and more experienced than me. I wanted to be like him for my brother so I could connect with him more. I just couldn''t live without him. He saved me back at the abandoned site and helped me. That''s why I loved him.

    "Hey, are you doing anything on Monday?"

    "Yeah, I''m hanging out with Penelope and other heroes."

    "Hey, are you doing anything on Monday!!" I said louder.

    "Yeah, like... oh," Well, he is more of a lovable idiot.

 Update on story so far

    Merry Christmas, I do hope you are enjoying your holidays so far.

    As we approach the end of 2024, I will notify you that the next chapter will be in 2025. I know, but next year I will be trying to reach my goal and finishing Arc 2 and 3, maybe 4 but I don''t know.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

    I do have stuff planned out loosely. Meaning that I have ideas but mostly want to execute them naturally in the plot.

    Trust though the next arc will be longer and a lot crazier.

    I''m sorry I haven''t uploaded. I just needed free time and needed to think about what to write. I do have a rough ending but one requires a longer story while the other is only for one book, which is still long.

    Anyway, Merry Christmas, and have a happy New Year.