A few weeks later
Kaleel had found a stack of old local newspapers in the abandoned building. Each paper had an article on the mysterious serial killer whom they had labeled The Black Mirage. To his surprise much of the descriptions of this character resembled himself. Especially the powers he exhibited during the night he found himself naked in a dark alley. Kaleel had been out of money for awhile and his hunger grew. He placed on his leather trench coat and dark shades. Before he exited the decaying building he studied his image in a dusty mirror. He thought to himself.
~The Black Mirage huh? I like it
.now its time to fall into character
.Im really going to enjoy this.~
As he walked out into the night, the wind blew the cover page of the mornings local newspaper onto his leg. It read When No News is Good News. He scanned down and saw the article linked to the title. It was talking about the lack of action from The Black Mirage and the feeling of ease and peace returning to the citizens who had to travel at night.
Pity
.tonight will change things. My pockets are calling for money and my desires are calling for murder
And both calls shall reach their contact
no voicemail necessary.
Black mist began emanating from his pours causing him to be partially hidden in the dark streets and totally hidden once he entered the shadows. He waited outside of a local casino hidden within the shadows. He heard a lot of people clapping from inside the casino as the doors opened. He saw 3 men emerge with wide smiles on their faces waving back towards the crowd. Each of the men had a briefcase in their hands. They all seemed to look around anxiously before they walked to their car. Two of the men entered the car while one stood outside looking out for any signs of trouble while waiting for them to be seated. Seeing nothing he entered the car. Kaleel made his move, quickly hurrying behind the car and crawling underneath it griping the bottom keeping himself off the ground, before the care began to move. As he hurried to the rear of the car the driver happened to check his rear view mirror catching a quick glimpse of a shadow.
What was that? asked the driver.
What was what? said the man in the passenger seat.
I saw a shadow in the rear of the car but its gone now
Chris, your just paranoid man I checked everything before I got in
its cool now lets just drive back to the hotel
.I dont want to be in this area with all this money we won
especially at night time.
Alright Roger
at least we agree on one thing. Lets blow this joint.
The car sped off towards their hotel.
Roger shouted to the backseat passenger, Hey Danny can you believe this?? Its like a dream I dont wanna wake up from!
Yea bro
the best part is that its not a dream.
10 minutes later they arrived at the hotel. Chris let Danny and Roger out at the entrance of the hotel. Ok guys Im just going to park the car and Ill meet you upstairs.
Ok man hurry it up and dont mess around down here. Danny said over his shoulder.
Chris turned the car around to the parking lot under the hotel. He put the car in park, opened the door, and attempted to remove the key from the ignition when he noticed black smoke coming from the bottom of the car.
What the hell?
He pulled the key out of the ignition and began to hear a weird pulsating sound. A glowing fist burst through the car floor grabbing his ankle. Kaleel maneuvered out from under the car while keeping graps of the guys ankle.
*Quick scene change*
The garage attendant sits inside of his booth laughing while watching his small travel size TV. The attendant jumps to his feet and grabs his flashlight as he hears a gut wrenching scream. He yells into his comm.
Alert alert
.going to check out a possible problem on sector 1 of the garage. I heard a scream.
((to be continued))
Kaleel Aswad found himself naked in a dark alley shivering. His body was soaking wet from an earlier rainfall. He was huddled in a corner. Full of panic he thought to himself.
*Where am I? Who am I? Why am I naked? How did I get here? *
He stood up trying to cover his private parts with some old newspapers. Something strange happened next. A black mist began to emanate from his body causing the paper to disintegrate. He stared in awe and amazement.
*What the hell is going on with me? What am I? *
All these questions began to spiral around in his head. His thoughts were interrupted when a gang of skulls with bad intentions in their eyes began walking down the alley.
Damn Sadists Blades who the [censored] do they think they are? .breaking up our party like that. Were going to make them pay for that. said Benny Buckshot.
Kaleel accidently kicked a can while trying to curl back out of the gangs sight. All eyes looked toward the shadowy corner.
Eh? Whos over there? Come out before *the sounds of a shot gun cocking * before I fill that corner with buckshot.
Please .d-dont sh-shoot me I need help pleaded Kaleel.
Well well well .looks like we got a naked bird here fellas *the other gang members chuckle* What better way to take out our frustrations help a citizen in need. *snickers* Guys I think this guy must be feeling a little cold .got some shrinkage going on *the whole gang bursts out laughing*
Kaleel sighs and backs up into the corner. Guys I dont want any trouble. Please. Just leave me be.
Benny smirked and said, What would be the fun in that? Now take your beating like a man
The gang formed a line behind Benny blocking anyway out for Kaleel. Benny flipped the shotgun over , and walked over to Kaleel while holding the barrel like a bat. He took a swing and Kaleel dodged with catlike reflexes. Kaleel was surprised at his quick movement it was almost as this was natural to him. Every movement came automatic as if he wasnt even controlling his body. Benny took a few more swings. Kaleel ducked , spun and sidestepped all of his attempts. The Benny was pissed.
You think your funny [censored]? Benny flipped the shotgun in the air. *imagine the bullet-time effect now* Kaleels eyes widen as he feared for his life. Suddenly his fists began to glow a white-reddish tint. He looked down at his fists in a state of confusion. Benny caught the shotgun. Kaleels eyes noticed the muscles in Bennys finger about to pull the trigger. At light speed he delivered a 1,2 punch. The shotgun dropped from Bennys hand *bullet-time effect off*.
Benny stood there in a daze. Shocked from the speed of Kaleel half of the gang fled. The dark mist began emanating from Kaleels pores again. Before he knew it he was pounding on Benny until blood began spewing from his mouth, nose, and ears. The last 3 gang members pulled out a crowbar and sledgehammer. They charged Kaleel as his back was turned. Kaleel was able to quickly turn around and dodge 2 of the attackers but the 3rd one landed a forceful blow to Kaleels abdomen with his sledgehammer. The black mist absorbed most of the blow but Kaleel still whenced from the strike. Leaping quickly into the air Kaleel brought his glowing fists down onto the Skull members skull causing a thunderous *CRACK!* The other 2 members fled in a hurry.
Kaleel looked down at his hands as the glowing slowly started to fade away. He turned his gaze towards the 2 bodies lying in a pool of their own blood. An immense sense of pleasure came over him. The killing actually put him in a state of euphoria. He searched corpses pockets and was amazed to find a large amount of money.
The dark mist continued to cover most of his body as he took the money into a designer store. He purchased a couple of high priced leather trench coats, some black dress shirts, leather pants with matching shoes. As he walked to the checkout line he noticed a pair of sunglasses and picked them up. He paid for the clothing and immediately headed to the dressing room and put one outfit on. He stepped out and checked himself out in the mirror.
Go head wit ya sexy self said one of the female customers.
He smirked liking what he saw in the mirror. He remembered the sunglasses and slowly put them on his face as if putting the last piece into a puzzle.
Perfection he said to himself.
He walked out with the clothes. He saw an abandoned apartment building. The windows were boarded up and the door was wrapped up with police tape.
Excellent .looks like this will be my new home.
Kaleel put all of his clothes in a closet. He spent the rest of his night cleaning all of the garbage and debris off the floors of the apartment he chose.
((to be continued...))