Hero
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Chapter 2: No good deed goes unpunished…
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‘Control well its slippin’ right through my hand, these days turned out nothin’ like I had planned…’
–PowderFinger, These Days.
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‘You look lost boy.’
My feet shifted in their spot. I didn’t look up at the old voice speaking to me.
‘You have to have a destination, or somewhere to be, to be lost. I haven’t got either.’
‘Fair point son. But you don’t look good. I’ve seen dogs diggin’ in the trash that looked better’n you my boy.’
I looked up slowly at the man, my eyes heavy, the sleep of the peaceful had eluded me for six months now, my eyes had shown the signs of it after two days, now, they looked as blackish purple as a plums skin.
I raised one corner of my mouth in a half smile, something I hadn’t done in a long time either. Something about being compared to a trash foraging dog just did it for me. ‘I haven’t been good in a long time, I really don’t want to be either. When I’m good, it means I’ve stopped caring.’
The man appraised me, taking in my sight, I was dishevelled, dirty, I hadn’t washed in three days, why bother, I mean I was on the road right? My cargo pants had dirt up to the thighs, my jacket smelled to high heaven. I’d clean up when I’d stopped travelling. Plus, smelling like this at times meant people didn’t sit next to me on busses and trains. God knows that lady on the Greyhound the other week irritated me, questions, showing me pictures of her body, coming onto me… I hadn’t meant to be rude to her, but I just couldn’t do it.
I couldn’t handle it any more. When I saw the ring on her finger, the words from her lips surreptitiously inviting me to get off at the next stop with her, the look in her eye that said ‘Sure Im taken, but I’m willing to forget that for one night…’, I just couldn’t handle it. I wonder what they’ll do when they see I crushed the armrest in my hand… benefits and drawbacks of being me I suppose.
‘Son, you know, whatevers up, whatevers wrong, I’m always open to help people. You got somewhere to go?’ The main looked deep into my eyes, his brilliant blue eyes meeting mine. My brow furrowed. My lip trembled a little, a quiver. Probably the first time I responded to someone without a sneer, a snide remark. ‘No, no sir.’ My eyes watered a little.
‘I run a boarding house near here son, I got three bedrooms spare at the moment, its not busy season. You come and stay there a little bit. Not free. I’ve got stuff that needs doin. Shingles on the house, pipes need replacing, cement slab out the back needs laying. Hope you’re good with your hands. Oh and around forty pine trees that need cutting down so we can rip out the stumps.’
Hard work never bothered me. I had no destination as per se, some time in the country doing some work, in the fresh air, might help clear my head I thought. Why not. ‘Sure. Thank you.’ I said, nodding in his direction. ‘Son, I aint offerin you a bed for the night so you can walk off in the mornin’. I live five kilometres from here along that road. Number 24 Dewbridge Road to be precise. You walk that distance, you come to my place, you cut some wood for the fireplace before bedtime, and you’ve got a place to stay.’
A little bizarre I figured, but I’d covered a few hundred kilometres walking in the last week, well, running I suppose, sometimes I’d meander, wander slowly, other times Id burst into a stride. Well, stride is probably the wrong word to use. Shade, me, we don’t ‘run’, we sort of glide. Our foot hits the ground every twenty or so meters, feels like Im taking a normal stride, the distance goes by so fast though… around a kilometre every thirty seconds I can cover.
As you can understand, I was at his house before he was. I sat near a grouping of trees in the black night, watching his house. I sat there a good hour. Just waiting, relaxing. I saw the old man wandering around, making something in the kitchen. Pottering around, cooking. I saw him look out the window, not at me, he went back to his cooking.
Over near the back door to the house, a rather grand Victorian era two story house, kinda like that one in Forrest Gump actually, around four giant logs were laying down next to a stump with an axe. This would be interesting…
Standing over one of the logs, legs on each side, I turned my hand on its side, like a karate chop, and brought it down on the top of the log, holding it in place with my calfs. The log vibrated, a lot. I looked, a split had formed in the top. I let go. The log opened up, not neatly, it’d split roughly down the middle with one hit.
A voice came from behind me.
‘You know son. I asked you to cut the wood. Had I asked you to beat the wood, that’d sound just odd… you can pick up that axe now and do the job properly.
I spun around, shocked I had been so stupid as to let someone see me. ‘Relax son. Im seventy years old. Stuff stopped surprising me years ago. Plus, I saw you over near the trees when I first pulled in. It’s my ears that are goin after all, not my eyes…’
I laughed a little, first time in a long time. It felt relaxing. Being able to be myself.
‘Bad news and good news though boy. Good news is, pullin’ out those stumps is obviously gonna be easier now. Bad news? You’re still cutting those logs with an axe. Get to it, then come in. Cut around ten mid size blocks and ten small ones.’
‘Yessir.’ I nodded towards the man, ‘I’ll be done soon. You mind if I have a shower first before dinner?’
‘You know son, if you’re gonna stay here, you better start calling me by my name. Sir makes me sound like an old man. I’m only seventy, got a lot of time left yet. And yeah, have a shower, Im sure if you turned up to dinner smellin’ like you do, Diana would have a fit!’
‘Your wifes here???’ I panicked a little, had she seen too?
‘Dianas dead, but Im damn certain if you come to the table smellin’ and not sayin’ grace, we say grace here, thank our good lord for everything we have regularly, I’m sure she’d come back just to bug the ever livin’ shit out of me.’
Looking into his smile, it warmed me, being able to be with someone with no evil in him, being around someone with nothing but good intentions, not having to worry about him finding out who I was, well, I’d blown that myself.
‘Son, I’m figurin’ you’re Shade. And, I’m figurin’ you disappeared from Castor for a reason. You’re fast, you’re stronger than anythin’ I’ve ever seen. And as far as I know there’s no other Superheroes out there? I figure you’ll tell me when you want to, if you want to, why you’re here and not there. I won’t push. But just know, I’m not tellin’ anyone who you are. Hell, I don’t want no paparassholes around here!’ he laughed to himself, clearly finding it funnier than I did, as he guffawed to himself, whilst slowly walking back inside.
I had to hand it to him. I liked this man. Some sort of weight lifted off of me, just a tiny bit, but I felt it lifting all the same, it felt good. I’d tell him soon, god knows I had to tell him about…
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I looked out my window at the cityscape, the lights glared in the dark, people going about their nightly business, thinking I was out there looking over them. Twelve years I’d been doing it, twelve years and now this… I’d just arrived home from the Morgue, the answering machine blinked, the memory full with messages from everyone who knew Veronica, from the limited amount of people who knew me.
‘I just heard…’
‘I’m so sorry!’
‘Do you need anything?’
‘….always here if you need us!’
‘What are you going to do???’
Then his voice came on. The deep, over melodramatic tones of Kavork.
‘Hellooooooooooooo ‘Shade’… Guess what! I was at your house recently, decided to drop in for a coffee, but you weren’t there! Your gir
l was though, and your son. You sinful sinful man, living in sin like that, god would not be pleased! Not married and having a bastard child, things like that can lead you to hell you know hahaha… so I fixed the situation. I gutted them. I cut your son, slit him from ear to fucking ear. Well no, I didn’t do that, but I probably should have! Oh, and he squealed, it was hilarious, squealed like a pig as they say. I love clichés, don’t you? They’re so… cliché! I took my time too by the way, no slow death that’s for sure. And your wife? Great tits on her. Great tits! They looked better on me though. You fucked with me one too many times ‘Shade’. Aaaaand now that I think about it, you’re wife fucked with me a few times too… not that she wanted to. But hey, I guess she’d do anything for her little boy! And she did! Oh boy did she… although she wasn’t keen on the old back door, so I worked her up a little… but, I guess a hunting knifes not a very appreciated sex toy… Each to their own, whatever floats your boat as they say. Now down to business… I guess we’ve both got nothing to lose… you destroyed my business, you took it all from me ‘Shade’, so I took your family, everything you had. You know how fucking HARD it was to find out who you were? Check your helmet sometime, there’s a little receiver in there, just under the back, its like a pin, its dug into the material lining, surprised you honestly didn’t find it. Only transmits for like two hundred meters though, so I had to be in range before it’d start transmitting. Took me WEEKS to scour the city, and then what do you know, you’re out one day dropping off a fucking DVD at the store and I hear it go off, I chased the signal, and voila!!! It leads to your car!!! You can guess the rest from there! I suppose you could call that my big moment of plot explanation, that I should’ve done that when we finally met up again, but hey, I’m a sucker for the dramatic. Besides, with all the condolences you’re likely to get it’d be nice to hear a message that wasn’t sappy eh?…
You know, we’re both without anything now ‘Shade’. Find me ‘Shade’. Find me I fucking dare you. It won’t be hard, it’s not like you should say, start at Calebs house? But, I’ll be ready ‘Shade’, or should I say John Rollins. I’ll be ready for you. Two men enter! One man leaves! By god Thunderdome was terrible wasn’t it John? I noticed it in your video collection… you really have terrible taste, thank god your boy won’t inherit it… wait, he’ll never inherit anything! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! *click*’
I swiped the answering machine off the table, it flew across the room, embedding itself in the wall, plastic exploded everywhere, I screamed, my lungs burning, my breath running out as I sobbed, gasping for air. My vision blurred, my fists buried themselves in the walls, dozens upon dozens of holes lining the walls now, I brought them down on the kitchen counter, splintering it into oblivion.
I’m going to find him… I knew I would. I’m going to kill him. There’s no doubt in those words.
‘I’m coming Kavork. Im going to kill you you son of a bitch…’
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While relaxing on her balcony Justiciar Dana Hershim, still awake from worry, saw the bright amber light shine brightly until the heavens and abruptly cut off as abruptly as it began. No one ever listens anymore. “Karen get my official outfit ready please. I will go myself.” “Yes, Ma’am.” was heard from within the manse. Meanwhile, the rest of the city awakened, the residents all afraid but one. That one, returned to bed knowing he wouldn’t attack the civilians, or merchants like...
Those weeks, I took care of the cooking and food gathering for my new students. Though, I did take a different apprentice with me each day when I gathered or hunted food giving lessons on the local plants, which were edible, which to avoid and which had medicinal attributes. The six of us also constructed a small wooden dwelling with the material that I acquired from the forest. I did most of the work, preferring the girls to get in the habit of practicing my unorthodox training. That and...
“They failed. Why am I not surprised? How many dead?” Queried the kind faced woman in white, with the gold starburst centered on her chest. “None, Lady Sophie. Two serious but non-life threatening injuries on Paladin Krim and Paladin Jannas, along with numerous minor wounds scattered on almost all of the knights. That doesn’t include fifteen dead warhorses; seven with major wounds, five of those will have to be put down or to stud.” the older priestess looked at the report and continued. “He...
The youngest Justiciar in Griffin Empire, knelt next to the overlarge four posted bed draped with purple sheets embroidered with golden griffins. “Pardon the intrusion, Empress.” The middle aged blonde woman viewed her servant through the apex of her magical bracelet which granted Truesight. “What brings you to my chambers at this hour, Justiciar Dana Hershim?” Empress Lara Nori wasn’t worried about betrayal, Justiciars didn’t become who they were for any reason other than to serve the...
"I want a weekend with Bev as my sex slave." Both Carl and Bev were stunned into silence for a moment; Carl started to grin, "I know you're joking, Barry, but that's not really very funny." "I'm not joking, Carl; you wanted to know how you can repay me; well ... Bev is a beautiful woman, I've been watching her all night; I can't think of anything better than having her to myself doing whatever I tell her to do for a weekend. You wouldn't have to worry about her, I wouldn't let...
Since the beginning, there have always been comic books. And in those comic books, there were always heroes and villains. An eternal battle between good and evil. Fantastic stories of cosmic scales about the great heroes we admired throughout our childhood and the villains we loved to hate. These are the stories who shaped us into the nerds we are today. This is not one of those stories. This is a world were every hero and villain is a 6-foot tall amazonesses will try and get their hands on...
You think I'm not serious about the "Premier" of our tryst, don't you? Sorry, mate, it's all too true. Mother has surveillance everywhere and the juicies are run as "Specials" nearly every night. (Mother has Day and Night, it helps the crew keep their shifts straight) The usual fare in the auditorium is pretty mundane; assaults, temper tantrums, some irritating quirks, things like that. They keep a list of requests for repeats. The funny stuff gets played over and over until it's not...
Copyright February/2011 Constructive comments, critiques, and emails are welcome and appreciated. Please enjoy the story. ********** The visiting team was ahead 2 to 1. It was the bottom of the ninth, with two outs and runners on second and third. The count of 0-2 put the batter in the hole. He was one strike away from ending the home teams run in the playoffs. Their catcher called time and went out to talk to his pitcher. ‘C’mon Sammy focus,’ I yelled encouragement to the batter from my...
The visiting team was ahead 2 to 1. It was the bottom of the ninth, with two outs and runners on second and third. The count of 0-2 put the batter in the hole. He was one strike away from ending the home teams run in the playoffs. Their catcher called time and went out to talk to his pitcher. "C'mon Sammy focus," I yelled encouragement to the batter from my coach's position on the third base line. The youngster stepped out of the batter's box, turned and smiled at me. He nodded his head...
It all started in 1938, when the first superhero, the Gladiator, appeared. He claimed to be from the distant future where Earth had exploded. Due to experiments his father had performed on him, Gladiator possessed superhuman strength and bulletproof skin. He used his powers to fight crime in Cleveland. Then another vigilante, the Shadow emerged in 1939, operating in New York. He could not have been more different from the Gladiator, sticking to the shadows. Not much was known about him, many...
FantasyAnna muttered something. I took little peeks over. My school locker was close to hers. I could tell she was frustrated. I always took peeks at her without regards to whether she was frustrated or not. Anna was beautiful and all the boys thought so. "Dang it!" she said under her breath. It looked like she couldn't get into her locker. That sucked. I would be frustrated too if I was in her situation. I closed my locker and locked it. I put my book bag over my shoulder. "William?" I turned...
© 2003 I wont let them get me. Not now, not ever. I had to run, you see, I had to get away from what they were doing to me, to all of us there, at the Corporation. The Kayden people are evil people, a corporation under the wing of some underground government sect. They took me, along with a few select others; we were to be their research "participants". I think they chose people like us, because no one would miss us, no one would care if we went missing. We were a group of the wayward,...
Rita heard the front door swing open, and Mitch thudded in wearing his heavy boots. He stopped in the kitchen doorway and leaned against the jamb. His hair and uniform were a crumpled mess. “Hi,” he said. “Something smells good.” “How does lasagna sound?” Rita said. “Sounds real good. We saved a couple kids today.” Rita wiped her hands on a thin dishtowel and turned directly towards him. The circles under his eyes were very dark after the long shift, but his eyes still danced. “Yeah?” He...
Get out of the way! Damn, why don’t people just get out of my way! I frigging hate these people who just stand there when I’m trying to get somewhere and I’m in a hurry. Fuck them! In case you’re wondering who this is, the name is Jamella Hendricks. I’m a six-foot-tall, good-looking, big-booty and very voluptuous young black woman living in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. By day, I attend UMass-Boston on an academic scholarship. I major in business management. By night, I’m a member of the...