Super Hero RPG

[C S]

"Well I guess Ill be over...there..." JoJo growled slowly, trying to find a reason to leave, before he brought up another bad topic. He got back onto all fours and trotted over to a book case, slinking off behind it. With a heavy sigh, an inky tendril shot out and yanked a book from the shelf, placing it down infront of him and opening it. "Well that was... awkward" He thought, looking down at the book. His emerald eyes narrowed. "Looks like I forgot that I cant read..." He snarled softly, pawing at the pages...

[Hopeflower]

Ira looked up at a series of cracks that showed Yoruichi had reverted back to a human shape, catching the crimson gaze and seeing pain in its depths. Without thinking, she set aside her book and tapped her foot on the carpet, signaling for Yoruichi to sit down in front of her. When the older teen did so, Ira said softly, "Turn around for a sec." Confused, Yoruichi turned so she was leaning against Ira's shins. She was surprised to feel gentle fingers begin combing through her hair. "What are you doing?" "Braiding your hair...looks like it annoys you whenever it gets in your face, so I figured...why not? You can always take it down if you don't like it." They sat in silence for a while, Ira's fingers skillfully working the length of the older demon's black hair into a tight French braid. "You want to tell me what happened to make you look so upset? You seemed fine when I left you with your friends." Ira spoke in a quiet hiss, pinching the end of the braid so it wouldn't start to unwind and starting to carefully pull a spare hair tie off of one wrist with her teeth. Yoruichi sighed quietly and said, "Just...memories. I'll be alright, really." She paused, turning her head enough to watch what Ira was doing. "You always have an extra hair tie with you?" Ira half-smiled, wrapping the band around the end of the braid enough times to be sure it would hold. "It's a habit I can't seem to break. I guess it comes from always having my hair up." "Speaking of...why do you keep your hair up?" Ira toyed with Yoruichi's newly braided hair for a moment, thinking over her answer. "It keeps it out of my way...and it's easier to control like this." Yoruichi smiled faintly. "I didn't ask for a textbook answer," she said, falling back into English. "I asked for your answer." The younger teen was quiet, her somewhat cold golden eyes meeting fiery red steadily. "You're smarter than you look." Without waiting for an answer, she went on, "It keeps me from...remembering, if I don't have my mother's hair falling into my face every minute of every day." Without thinking about it, Yoruichi turned around and laid a hand on Ira's, squeezing gently. "Remembering...what?" she asked softly, trying not to scare Ira into closing off. The younger demon's expression was almost vulnerable, not pulling away from Yoruichi's fingers but not giving any sign that encouraged the gesture either. She was silent, as if she wasn't going to answer. But then she spoke, quietly enough that the dark-haired teen almost missed the words. "Remembering...everything. I just want to...forget them. My parents. They barely deserve to be called parents for what they..." She trailed off, dropping her head into her free hand and taking in a shuddering breath. Yoruichi squeezed harder, silently letting Ira know she was there.

[C S]

There was suddenly a soft clatter as the dog, who couldnt help but listen let his chin fall onto the book. He couldnt understand it all, but he heard enough to feel for the mutant. "There you go again" His thoughts echoed in his head. "Thinking about matters that you cant even comprehend into your own paws" An eye turned to look at the ceiling. "I guess I should take my leave... so I dont have to think about it at all, like what my old masters did. Out of sight, of of mind, out of matter-" The dog let out a protesting growl. "I cant leave Yoruichi like that...oh dog damn it!" The tendril smacked across his muzzle, making him yelp and leap back onto his feet. "Ow..." He growled, rubbing his snout with his paw. "You cant live in the past, or you wont see whats coming at you in the present" He reminded himself. "Work for the future you want... Ive got to get that out there" He barked

[Hopeflower]

"What happened?" Yoruichi asked. Ira shook her head, not answering at first. When Yoruichi repeated her question in English, she hesitated, and lifted her head. "The way they treated me...you'd never think they were my parents. Long-lost relatives maybe...but never the people who brought me into the world. They put up with me...with trying to teach me it was wrong to run around burning things...for nine years." Ira's lip curled. "Then they abandoned me. Didn't even try to be subtle about it. They left me somewhere, and when I finally realized they were gone and found my way to a phone to call them, to find out where they were, my own mother told me not to come back. And my father...daddy dearest..." She let out a humorless laugh. "He told me if I did go home, he wouldn't hesitate to kill me." She fell silent, just staring at the older demon with eyes that seemed dull. "Do you know what it felt like to hear that from people I loved?" she asked quietly. "Do you know how it feels to have your heart ripped out of your chest, torn to pieces, stomped on, and tossed through a window? And at that age? I'm lucky I didn't turn out as f*cking insane as some of the demons I've seen who had the same thing happen to them." They were quiet for a while, Yoruichi taking this in, Ira just sitting, staring ahead as a fine trembling racked her body. "And they picked me up off the streets. The assassins...like Eleven and the ones he was with...found me, took me in. Pretty much raised me until they thought I was ready to start killing. Three guesses who my first targets were..." Her lips twisted wryly. "First two don't count." Yoruichi felt her eyes narrow as the answer came to her. "That's right..." Ira said, her words followed by a faint growl. "The first people I killed were none other than mom and dad. I remember every dying whisper...every desperate murmur...everything they said as they lay in pools of their own blood." She swallowed. "I was eleven years old," she added in a whisper. "Still just a kid. And they made me murder my parents. If I hadn't killed them...the assassins would've killed me." A single tear slipped out of her eye, slid down her jaw and clung to her chin, glittering there like a diamond. In the next second Yoruichi had pulled Ira into a hug, cradling the younger teen's head to her shoulder, making soothing, sympathetic noises and feeling Ira clutch at her desperately, as if the younger demon were a drowning swimmer, and Yoruichi her rescuer.

[C S]

JoJo bounded out from behind the book case, glancing at the two mutants. "Well...thats something you dont see everyday..." He growled to himself. He then looked straight and out the door, two tendrils shot from his back as he left, shutting it...

"Ill always fiind yooou...Andersooon" A raspy whispering voice snarled into the teen hero's ear. "I know everything about you...I once was you...you cant rest...you cant hide...one of these days...I will catch you...not even your speed will evade me" The snarl broke off into laughter with underlying hisses. The boy stood in complete darkness with a light shining down upon him in the seemingly infinite expanse. "I got rid of you a while ago...Im never turning back into that monster again!" He yelled into the shadows. "You still think I am Nightmare? No...your life is the Nightmare....atleast, thats how it will be for now on...now that Maelstrom knows everyone you care about..."

The boy's head shot up from the table and he was breathing hard. He held his head, his pupils shrunken in his eyes. "Whats wrong Kev'?" Carter said, raising an eyebrow at his friend. "...Nothing" He managed to reply, finding it a bit hard to speak. "You sure Kevin? Could be something serious" Carmen said. She had a book in her hand and she didnt have her lunch tray anymore, so she must've finished eating not too long ago. "Just a weird dream...no biggie" Kevin reassured. "Kevin Anderson and SpeedFreak may be worlds apart... but in the end they're the same person; and Im not going to let anyone else get caught up in this" He thought. His gaze was fixed in Carmen and his heart was set.
"...Seriously Kevin, your really weirding me out" Carmen said, reffering to the look on his face.
"Oh wha-" Kevin said, shaking his head. "Must be...drowsy from the nap...ya... Im gonna go get something from my locker..." He coughed, getting up from his seat and taking a brisk walk to the exit...

[Hopeflower]

When Ira made a small movement as if she was going to pull away, Yoruichi loosened her hold and leaned back a little. Her hands moved to gently grip the redhead's upper arms. "That's all in the past," she murmured, smoothing Ira's bangs out of her face and getting a glimpse of darkened golden eyes. "You need to remember that you're not an assassin now...whatever you did when you were one doesn't mean it's who you are." Ira lifted a hand and rubbed at her eyes furiously, wiping away the tracks of tears that had fallen onto Yoruichi's shirt. "Listen..." Yoruichi caught the younger demon's chin in one hand, cradling it gently as she forced Ira to keep looking at her. "You're many things. But you're not cruel. You regret killing those people...you regret everything the assassins made you do.... You're better than them. Don't let the memories break you when those creatures couldn't." Yoruichi lowered her voice and added, "I haven't. We're both stronger than our tormentors. I paid my father back in full - and I know you must want to do the same to those assassins. But...you won't get the chance," she went on even more quietly, "if you lose the fight before it's even started." She held Ira's gaze levelly, suddenly feeling like she'd just sounded like a mother soothing a fretful child. "...You give good advice," Ira said, "for someone who's not much older than I am." Yoruichi half-smiled. "Well...I try. I'm not perfect, but I'll always try my best to help when I'm needed. Give it my all. And in the end..I suppose that's all I can do."

[C S]

The locker dial turned, making soft ticking noises as the combination was dialed in. Click. The door swung open, revealing books, an opened pack of gum, a mirror stuck on the inside of the door and, the folded white and blue suit, the mask laying ontop of it. He picked it up and it hung in his grip, eyes staring at him. "Oh dont give me that look" Kevin mumbled. "I thought I could've afforded keeping you in here- but looks like its back in the bag for you Speedy" He said as he swung his book bag about and unzipped it, putting the mask in a flap on the inside. The rest of the suit, he placed in so that it lay at the very bottom of the bag. Suddenly, Kevin heard foot steps. His arms turned into blurs as they zipped the bag up and slid it onto his back. He turned around to face where he had come, looking down the white walled hallway. Carmen stepped into full view. "So...you found that thing...you said you were getting?" She asked, trying to make conversation. "...Yea..." Kevin said, sticking a hand back into the locker. He pulled out the stick of gum and asked feebly "Want some?"
"No thanks, Kevin" Carmen said.
"Your not really here for this, are you?" Kevin said, pulling out a strip of gum and unwrapping it.
"N-Wait you really came here for gum?" Carmen said, rasing an eyebrow.
"...Yes...yes I did" Kevin replied, putting the strip of gum in his mouth. "Its minty! Well glad we had this talk Carmen, your a good friend you know that-" He said, shutting his locker and trying to walk off
"You know, I cant shake the feeling that your hiding something, Kevin. Its weird" His friend said, bracing against the grey line of lockers.
"What do I have to hide? Im just a kid...who likes his gum. See? Its out in the open!" Kevin said cassually.
"Well...you were always the smart a*s, Ill give you that" She said. "Know what? Forget this ever happened. Your a good friend too, Kevin... we just worry about you"
"We...?" Kevin asked, stopping.
"Carter thought so too" Carmen said.
"Of course" The boy said as the bell rang. "Well, Ill see you later Carmen!" He finished saying, walking off. "Smart a*s, huh?" He thought as he walked. "Ive only been called that as SpeedFreak..."

[Doc 42]

More classes. Joy. Danny zombie walked through the school, eyes glazed over, not really seeing anything. He was lost in his own thoughts. He ran through the class numbers in his head, trying to remember which room English was in. It was the one with the windows over looking the car park, yeah. He remembered something about those windows that he and his friend's did. Probably chucked something out there, something belonging to someone else. He found the class and filed in, sliding into a chair by the back, out of routine. He found it hard to think of proper people any more. Instead he just saw somebody's.

[C S]

Kevin stepped into the class room, happy that he got out of the situation with Carmen. The suit in his book bag seemed to have its own pressence, one that only he could sense...for obvious reasons. The room was fairly large, with book cases at the very back of the room, five rows of desks and papers hanging from the ceiling or pasted to the walls. The windows were on the left side of the room from the door. They had red metal frames. A smart board computer was hanging at the very front of the class, the day's assignment already up on the screen, written in a bold font and in purple. Kevin looked about as the other kids in the room started talking to those next to them, some got their books and started writing...and then... there was Danny. Flashes of that day emerged in his mind. "Couldnt save them..." He thought sadly, reffering to the boy's friends. "What good is super speed if your always arriving a second too late?" With a sigh, the boy sat down at the second seat of the first row. He had to remember that he couldnt keep beating himself up for SpeedFreak's failures... only try harder next time...

[Doc 42]

Danny stared at the screen blankly. A creative writing assignment. The teacher called for silence, quietening the class before explaining what he wanted. Danny didn't really listen, instead clicking his pen repeatedly, in thought as always. Pretty much everyone in the class was writing away already. Danny spotted the teacher looking at him. He quickly looked down, at his blank page. He liked Ms Higgins, she was a good teacher, kind, though they had had their run ins in the past. He didn't want to draw any attention himself so he tried to force himself into concentrating on the task at hand. He usually liked writing things like this, but right now he could only think of one story, which he didn't want to tell. He started writing, anything really, but slowly it turned more and more into what haunted his mind, he couldn't help it.

[dinoman666]

Scaletail walked into Nebbelstrix's lab, the massive serpent slithering behind him. "Guess who had a growth spurt, Doctor?" Scaletail hissed with a grin.

[C S]

"What can I write about?" Kevin thought, tapping his pen against his head. "What I did last summer?" More memories flowed into his mind, mainly short flashes of small tidbits that happened after he got his powers, such as walking down the street, only to then turn into a blurry streak and shoot up the walls of an office complex. "Good times...good times...actually... that isnt so bad...'What It Would Be Like To Be A Super Hero'...title just rolls off the tongue..and since I have experiance..this should be cake"

[Doc 42]

Neeblestrix looked up, eyebrows shooting up in surprise. He growled, shocked "Good grief! What in gods name are you feeding that thing?"



After what seemed like only a few minutes, Danny had written a page and a half. Thats all they needed this time. It was only a short piece. The teacher took the paper off him, giving him a shock, he hadn't even realised she was collecting them. She smiled and moved on. Soon after collecting the papers, she left the room, the class immediately beginning to chat away. A voice hissed towards him from the row infront "Hey! Danny!" Danny glanced his way, it was Adam, a short kid he used to bully... He pretended not to hear him, looking away.

[C S]

Kevin leaned back in his chair, a smirk on his face. "What is it like to be a hero?" The first line of his paper read. "Well I'll tell you what it isnt like, and that would be like a walk in the park. Infact, it is more of a run...through hell." It went on. "Be it criminals, mutants, or criminal mutants, being a hero isnt easy. There are the psychopaths, sociopaths, lowly thugs, twisted killers and so on running around on the streets, and some guy with a gift decides to take them all on, not for himself, but for the good of the people"
"Wow that line was corny" Kevin mumbled to himself, thinking back on things.
"He wears that suit like a knight wears armor, and his wits is his blade. He's not perfect, not in the least, but atleast he's taking a stand to do something with his power. His mask is a sheild, protecting not only him, but those close to him. A veil that can never be lifted, a shroud that can never be removed... or there would be disaster..."

[dinoman666]

"Well, my own special formula mostly, but he's more than happy to accept meat as well," replied Scaletail matter-of-factly. "So, what do you think, eh?"

[Doc 42]

"Heh, hey Danny, not such a smart a** now are ya? oooooh how times change. Here you are so quiet looking like a lost puppy... Whose the fag now eh?" A few kids glanced in his way, one or two frowning, another smirking, but none of them said anything. Danny sat there and looked at the window, trying to control his expression. Adam continued, relishing his chance for revenge "Always told you douche bags that you'd get what you deserved, and don't think Karma's gonna over look you either. Just a matter of time Dan!" Danny clenched a fist, trying to find something else to distract himself. He concentrated on a boy across the room, playing with a YoYo and showing off infront of his friends...



Neeblestrix leaned to the side to get a better view and said "Impressive.. bring him in here so I can get a better look at him... I think I have you filling the wrong job..."

[dinoman666]

"Is that so?" Scaletail hissed curiously, stepping to the side. Seth slithered forward, raising enough of his body to be at eye level with Nebbelstrix, his hood flaring slightly as he flicked his tongue...

[C S]

Kevin's attention was taken from his essay to the voice coming from behind. He turned his head to get a look. He didnt really know what was going on. What was that Adam talking about? He could just sit there... after all, if only he was a bit faster that day, maybe he could have saved Danny's friends before that warehouse exploded. It was obvious nothing could make the hurt go away in the blink of an eye, and it would be understandable if Danny had a grudge against SpeedFreak, but Kevin was going to make up for it, some how. "Hey, you, a*s wipe." He called out to Adam. "The hell's your problem?"

[Doc 42]

Adam smirked and shouted back "Problem? what'ya mean? I'm great! What, with those pricks finally burning in hell." Danny was focusing on the YoYo as best he could. Watching it bounce up and down.

Adam turned back to him a smile on his face "Bet you started crying! Not so tough when your going up in smoke... I bet thats how you started it too. 'Oh look at me dude, I'm the **** with me fag's'...'WHOOSH!' 'oopsie! Duuurr'"
One of Danny's friends had been smoking. Tiernan. Tiernan always listened and had a way of making any situation, no matter how bad, just something to laugh off.

Danny closed his eyes, a burst of rage washing over him.


Across the room, at the apex of a particularly flashy trick, the YoYo suddenly blasted across the room and smashed through the window Danny had been staring at earlier, shattering the glass and spiralling out onto the carpark below.

The room fell into stunned silence for a moment, before one of the Yoyo kid's friends pushed him and shouted urgently "Jesus! What the f*** did you do that for you spastic!" About 6 other people joined in. One girl, who liked to think she'd been supervising the class, began hyperventilating.

[C S]

Kevin jumped at the noise of breaking glass. "What the hell!?" He muttered, looking at the smashed window. "That didnt seem....natrual..." He thought, finding it strange that the yoyo would suddenly fly off from its owner and soar across the room like that... but at the same time, he had no idea what could have caused it. Then it dawned on him. "I might not be the only mutant in this school..."
He shook his head and turned to Adam, trying to seem natrual and continue. "Way to cross the line, douche!" Kevin shot back. "Wouldnt you have cried if your friends died right infront of you- y'know, assuming you have friends" He said to Adam. He couldnt understand what he was going on about, from how he was acting, it sounded like Danny's friends used to shove his face into the school toilets, or shove him into his locker or something...