It had taken me a few unsuccessful conversations (not to mention a few unsuccessful bribes and threats) before I made my way to Fusion. It wasn't like I had a particular order of people - and other creatures - to talk to. Simply a list of names I had drawn up after my conversation with Angel. One by one, the names were getting crossed off and I was ( Read more... )

Losing him once was hard enough ( Read more... )

The simple things in life are by far the most enjoyable. The amber of a fine single malt. A cool breeze blowing across my balcony as I study the lights of the city below ( Read more... )

It never was about good or evil.

Unlike some of these so-called "heroes" and "villains," it was always a lot more simple for me. I didn't care about one or the other.

I cared about winning...and it just so happened that evil was more likely to win 95% of the time. If you don't have play by the rules, you have the advantage. That is not to say ( Read more... )

The city was burning ( Read more... )

Marie asks me to stay with her until she falls asleep, and so I do. It doesn't take too long; kid's exhausted. I sit on a chair and watch her, looking at the way her chest rises and falls, slowly sinking into the quiet breathing of sleep. The air is thick with the smell of fried chicken and cigarette smoke and Marie's shampoo, and I can feel the ( Read more... )

Having turned down my offer to go over to campus as a team, Dawn went to talk to that Angel guy while I settled myself in a corner of the NMU cafeteria to do my dirty work. It was turning out to be a very good first day in New Metropolis. A case to work on, mystery, intrigue, missing persons... and two people who could possibly turn out to be ( Read more... )

William the Bloody, alive and well in New Metropolis. Actually, not quite alive but all the same he seems to exist. Which I'm sure will give Angel quite the conniption. Not that it affects my state of being much these days. Angel seems to be doing quite well with his reformed Champion Investigations without me. Luckily for me, I have a ( Read more... )

The business trip had been a successful one. I acquired a new business that would earn me a fist full of money and was able to fuck and eat locals at my leisure. While I was away, the city was rampaged by a man who stole Superman's powers. Quite ingenious really. Doesn't every little boy dream of being Superman? I tipped my ad at this human, ( Read more... )

A portal appeared and I walked through, stepping over the decapitated head of a worthless demon. As the doorway closed, I turned and stared at the carnage left in my wake. My chest swelled as I stared down at the sleeping human child in my arms. I could have allowed the feeble being to be eaten, but something in me said no. Whether it was the ( Read more... )