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324 Victor Damone
The man bent down and picked up the ring. Then he walked slowly into the alley, his footsteps echoing across the block.The Blackrats froze. The two thugs struggling with the granddaughter's blouse looked up in annoyance, and the one kicking the old woman stopped with his boot in the air.Volk squinted into the darkness. "Who the hell are you? Get lost, unless you want to die tonight!""Don't you know who we are? We're the Blackrats!"The stranger stepped under the flickering lamp, and the light fell on his face.It was Victor.He surveyed the scene. The old woman lay crumpled against the wall with blood in her grey hair. Her granddaughter was sobbing in the grip of two grinning thugs, her clothes torn at the shoulder.Victor's gaze finally settled on Volk, and it turned as cold as ice."Let them go," he said. "Be good little rats and scurry off."The Blackrats stared at him for a moment. Then they burst into raucous laughter."Look at this clown!" a lanky thug hooted, pointing at Vic
322 A Thousand Wakes Arc Begins
A year had passed since the night on Calloway Street.Victor Cromwell rode a black motorbike along the eastern border of Springfield. The wind tore at his jacket.On his left rose the Wall.It was a sheer slab of grey military concrete, so high that its top disappeared into the morning haze. Springfield and Sparta City had built it together, stretch by stretch, so that the two cities would never have to look at each other again.No trade crossed it. No business crossed it. On both sides of it, people spat when they said the other city's name.And nobody alive hated Victor Cromwell more than the Mayoress of Sparta City.The Mayor slowed at the border gate. Two Springfield soldiers stepped out of the guard post with their rifles raised. Then they saw his face and snapped to attention in surprise."Mr. Mayor!"The steel gate rolled aside, and Victor rode through.A mile past the checkpoint, he pulled into a gas station and went into the restroom. He came out in a faded denim jacket, an o
Note to Readers
The last chapter marks the end of the DARK CITY ARC.Thanks for staying with me so long, especially those who are reading it ongoing. I may have disappointed you with slow updates, but I will hopefully make up for that with an awesome arc ahead.The next will be A THOUSAND WAKES arc. I won't give away any spoilers, just go ahead and read.Also don't forget to read my other stories:THE GILDED MAN WITH A THOUSAND LIVESTHE NAMELESS MAN WITH A THOUSAND LEGACIESEVE OF A THOUSAND WAKESAnd others....Yours fictionally,KAISER KEN.
321 Two Graves
Kate Harper woke up in a bed at Springfield General with her hip bolted together under thick bandages.Victor Cromwell sat in a plastic chair beside the bed, reading a folder.The young woman stared at him. She was alive? She was home in Springfield? How?The last thing she remembered was lying on her back on a Sparta street, watching people die.Her face crumpled.Victor noticed her waking up and approached."The sleeping beauty wakes up."She pushed herself up, threw her arms around Victor's neck and burst into tears.The Mayor went stiff for a second. Then his hand came up and patted her back, twice, awkwardly."Your subordinates are outside that door," he said. "What will they think if their leader is crying?"Kate laughed through her tears and clung to him until the shaking stopped."I don't care. It's so nice to see you again."Then she let go, and remembered.Sparta City. Sophia Baker. Charles Wheeler. Morgana.She had put on the Raven supersuit in the middle of Calloway Street
320 Reunion With Ex-wife
Morgana staggered back a step on the frozen street.Nobody alive knew that name. Nobody had spoken it aloud to her in a long time.Not only that, Victor Cromwell referred to her as the ex-wife."What did you call me?" she hissed."Carol," Victor said. "Carol Atelier."Her heart hammered against her ribs. It couldn't be.Her tall frame shrank. The long arms pulled back into her shoulders, and her height dropped a foot and a half in front of him.The grey creature skin split and peeled off her in strips, and the strips turned to ash before they touched the tarmac.The bone mask fell off her face and cracked in two on the road.Carol Atelier stood in the middle of Calloway Street in a long coat that was now far too big for her. Her chocolate-colored hair hung over her shoulders. Her dark-brown eyes were wet.She stared at the Mayor of Springfield in terror.How did this man know her name? Why was he calling her his ex-wife?Victor let the Cromwell face go.His features broke apart and ca
320 Two Choices
Calloway Street stank of burning rubber and blood, and the airfield fence stood two hundred yards away under its floodlights.Nobody on that road was going to reach it.Morgana walked towards the crowd, and a crushing, invisible pressure rolled out ahead of her.The first people it touched folded over and vomited onto the tarmac.Kate lay on her back where the impact had thrown her. It came down on her chest and pinned her there. Her supersuit gave a thin electronic whine and went dead around her.The last charge was gone, and the Raven's powers along with it. She was lying inside a useless superhero suit on a Sparta street."Please!" Kate forced the word out through her teeth. "Ma'am, please! These people are innocent. They saw nothing. They don't understand any of what happened here tonight. Let them go!"Morgana stopped walking.The bone mask turned towards the woman on the ground."You are polite, but your people have all seen something the world was not meant to see yet," Morgana
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May drop a couple of chapters in the weekend.
hey, do stuff
so he's girlfriend was ripped open and this pos is following batgirl