She shook and the room was filling with strange looking people."If you don't come with me. All these people die.""You can't_""Yes I can, considering your history with drunk driving, being a nuisance to the public. I would say you couldn't handle the pain of losing your loved ones and you decided to take it out on the public.""Get up."She shook at the people unaware of the dangers. It was almost like they weren't even there. He grabbed her arm."Are you okay, miss?" The bartender asked"Yes, I'm fine.""Walk." She stepped outside and she looked around. The people noticed her stilted motion and a student snorted. "Another crack head pretending to have it all together.""It's a shame, I would have taught that man a lesson. But no, you're too busy playing hero." Miguel said.She worked her jaw stepping outside.When they were at an undisclosed location. He grabbed her by the throat."You thought you could get rid of me."He did it so fast she couldn't even think.Artemis choked. S
Sam exhaled. "I'm going alone."Sam was on his way to 10th avenue.Maks glanced at Artemis. "We can't let him go alone."Artemis scoffed begrudgingly. "Duh.""I think it's best we reach a compromise.""Done." They shook hands.Sam climbed into a car and started the engines. "Sam!" Maks called flying towards him. "You're done fighting?""We've reached a compromise." Artemis said. Natalie Irons and Helen Lightfoot arrived."So, you need us renegades to go after a politician we so desperately fight against?" Natalie asked drily."I love that plan. It's so in over it head that it works." Helen said laughing.She approached Artemis and Nat stopped her. "What's in it for us?"Artemis looked flustered. She had stabbed Helen by accident."Nat."Helen scratched her head. "The past is all behind us, right?""We're not risking our lives for any of you.""I'll pay you." Artemis said."You really think you can bribe me off with money?" Nat said. "I like it."Helen walked over to Maks. "You coul
Miguel sat up. "Get the hostage!" The Chupacabras ran after Artemis.Helen blasted an electrical barricade. Some ran into it and were fried.Artemis gasped at the beasts on her tail.Natalie bashed them all together like sardines.Sam screeched lunging at the monsters ripping their heads off."Finish him!" Miguel said and he blocked Maks's fist. Throwing him downHe groaned at his shoulder. Maks shrank and Miguel crushed him.Helen unleashed chaos on the chupacabras. Their flesh lit up in flaming orange and combusted from energy. Her eyes blazed in electric blue.Sam roared."Yes, embrace your dark side!"Sam punched Miguel, an uppercut, and kick to the solar plexus caused him to wheeze."It can't be!"Sam gave him and undercut. Miguel stopped his arm and squeezed throwing him. The impact so hard he spun."I see you've come into your own but it's not enough to bring your friend back from the dead."Sam scaled a nearby building then leaped onto Miguel from above catching him off guar
She had pushed her father away and he crashed in a car and died in the same institute her mother died. A hospital. A place where she aspired to work in."Meg..."She pushed out the door making her way through campus. She took a deep breath and exhaled.The cat she rescued, Nora paid her a visit. She lowered a plate of food."Maks, are you coming over for a study session?"Maks held up the phone. "Actually I'm not really in a good place to bury my head in the books.""Oh yes, your superhero cultivating, monster hunting shenanigans. We have tests and those professors are taking no prisoners."Maks clenched his teeth, finally he succumbed. "I'll be right over."She faced her laptop and Nora made herself comfortable on her laptop meowing."I know you're looking for TLC right now but I really have to study."Nora protested.Maks walked in to see that books had already been scattered around the study table."Dude." He knelt to lift Nora."Oh you couldn't ask your teleporting girlfriend to l
Maks fumed. "What? I wasn't proactive to call up a date?""Please, we both know Dr Brendan made you ask me out." Harley said looking for her sunscreen."I knew you had powers from the very first day we met."Harley's eyes rounded. "You what?""I have a power reader, remember?" He said."You knew who I was all along didn't you. That almost kiss we had." She pushed him away.He smirked. "Oh, you think I'd kiss a stranger behind a mask.""You knew who I was!?""I didn't think it was important." He said drily.She nodded. It made so much sense why he chose her. Who would want a fragile girlfriend without superpowers. But it still made no sense why he still had his protective instincts."So I'm just...an asset.""No, that's not what I meant.""Stop." He said.She stepped back into a portal. "Get your hand off me."He winced when the portal closed.Maks banged his head against the wall. He hung his backpack and glanced at the empty space on his bed.He forced a smile when Meg arrived in cas
Maks's eyes rounding. Although he tried to look as calm as possible. He took a deep breath, then nodded in agreement. “Yeah, Sam, I totally get where you’re coming from. Meg’s been difficult lately. I’ve tried to give her the benefit of the doubt, but it’s getting to be too much.”Sam looked flustered this time only with embarrassment. "I really used to have a crush on her but...I can't stand her anymore.""I just can't anymore. I'm sick of feeling bad about her problems, she just sucks me into her toxic world and the air is not breathable. In fact it's the opposite of oxygen."He went home for the weekend. His mom Doreen spotted him."Oh Maks.""Mom." He hugged her, eyes shut.Doreen was heady with relief and concern. He made himself at home.His eyes lowered. "How's life treating you?""It will get better." She said."It already is." He told her. "I think it's best if we hold on to this moment."Doreen's eyes crinkled. "What's wrong?""Nothing." His body turned to lead and it wasn't
"Mom? Can we talk?"Doreen squirmed. "Of course."He took her hand and sat her down. "I'm really in a bad place right now. I can't imagine losing Harley, you know? I'm more afraid of losing her than I am afraid of her.""She's... amazing and independent. She's full of surprises and I guess I'm afraid that she won't need me anymore." Doreen swallowed hard watching him. He looked distressed. "When she sent me those texts, I think there was a lot of desperation. She asked about you everyday I mean, every single day." She laughed with teary eyes."I did tell her how I felt but...I didn't want to tell her I was afraid. It's new territory for me. How do you fall for a person on the first day? I guess it's just dumb luck.""I've had a similar discussion with Harley? She said losing you was ripping off a bandaid and she knows it's going to hurt because you don't say 'I love you' much. But I think she's just as scared to leave you as you are."Maks hugging his arm. "I don't think so now. It's
(Volume 1 is on my profile, please read for context.) 2nd yr, Phoenix ArizonaMaks made a terrible mistake by trusting an "inner voice" who was actually Pandora, the mother of monsters.He unleashed monsters into the world until a war between the awakeners and the monsters started.Pandora wanted a world where the monsters could be included. But she realised that it was never meant to be.Maks with the help of his friends and allies. Banished the monsters back to the null void and peace was restored....But not entirely...Maks sat back brushing his black cat's ears. He was a 2nd year college student."Maks, to the kitchen." His stepmother Doreen Fletcher-Anderson said.She had come into her life when he was 8. She had trouble conceiving for 3 years before she had his half sister Jessica. He was so conflicted and it took him over a decade to come to love her but he couldn't blame his half sister. He took care of her even though he thought she was a burden.He went to the kitchen and h