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After acquiring a pack of cigarettes, she leaned herself back onto a wall to relax and smoke. Taking out her old lighter, she flicked at the switch in order to light the cigarette dangling from her mouth. This damn thing always took forever to bring up a flame, click, clickâĻclick. There was a pause after the second click of the switch as her eyes drifted up and focused on an individual across the street. Squinting her eyes, it was clear it was a child, a little girl and something was off about her. Edana swallowed as she watched the kid, taking in what she looked like. Dirty dress, stuffed animal, as creepy and off as the girl looked she had to wonder if she was lost. No one else seemed to pay her any mind though, just walking by as if she didnât exist. What was the world coming to, now people wonât even stop to help a lost little girl? Fine, she thought exasperatedly, guess Iâm just going to have to waste my precious energy to cross the street and help her out. Looking down she placed her lighter back into her pocket and when she looked up, it wasnât what she expected.
A car spun towards her in the air, the cigarette fell from her mouth as she leaped out of the way with a shout of, âAH SHIT!â The vehicle barely missed her as it smashed into the wall where she had been previously standing, her elbow now bloody from skidding across the rough asphalt to make an escape. She didnât even feel the injury, her adrenaline pumped through her veins, that damn tingling was getting strong and what THE HELL just happened?! Laying there on her side on the ground, she trembled with energy, her breaths coming in short, choppy bursts. âGod, what just happened?â Looking over across the street, the child, she moved her hand up and with a flick of the wrist a parked motorcycle came blazing towards her. Her eyes grew wide as she barely skittered on her belly and half jumped out of the way, the air from the passing cycle blew at her shirt. God, oh God she had to hide! That was all she thought as she scrambled up and made her way around a corner to hide behind it trembling. Her brother wasnât here to protect her, to calm her down; she had to figure this out on her own. She didnât know what happened though, cars were flying at her and that girl had something to do with it as crazy as that sounded she just knew it! Maybe she was some kind of a demon; oh shit she should have been nicer in her life! Now some horrifying, car flinging, demon girl had come to drag her to hell! Her thoughts were interrupted when a cab smashed into the corner she was behind, prompting a strangled scream from her and sending a shower of shattered glass over her. She had to get out of here!!
A deep inhalation of breath to calm herself and.. God this tingling under her skin she couldnât stand it! She moved now to run from her hiding spot but the moment she moved a bus was flung in her direction, it was so close, no where to run. Flinging her arms up in a feeble attempt to protect herself, the tingling under her skin grew until she swore she heard it crackle and burst from her. To anyone else who might have witnessed it, the moment she threw her arms up to protect herself, a burst of bright light shot forward. Wide like a barrier and it cracked like lightning when the bus struck it, sending the vehicle tumbling away from her.
Was she dead? That thought was at the forefront of her mind as her legs wobbled and she collapsed on the sidewalk. No, no not dead, not dead and the girl, she was just gone, was this a dream? No, no not a dream and the tingling was gone, it had left her in a burst, it had felt hot, like electricity almost. For some reason her mind focused on the feeling of that release as she laid there on the cold asphalt. Letting out one more shaky exhale of breath, everything went black.
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He wondered if Chip would get his hands in this one as the ambulance sped off. The cars were honking again.
*Continuing in NYPD 25th Precinct
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Daniella flipped the phone closed and tossed it onto the seat next to her before pushing some photos over it and pressing her hair into place. She couldn't believe she'd gone through that traffic light with a police car right at the corner but it was unmarked and she really didn't want to have to go back to Romania for four photos of a pretentious little cunt of a model. She would never just tell them no so she had to deal with it. She sighed as the officer tapped on her window. When she looked at him she was surprised to see that he was a plainly dressed officer and it seemed like he was a detective. Why the hell was he pulling her over? She didn't even know that detectives pulled people over. But she figured that breaking the law was breaking the law either way. She rolled the window down and she couldn't believe it. In less than fifteen seconds the officer was trying to get into her pants. She could use this to get out of the ticket though. She already had two that she kept forgetting to pay. "Here's all of my inform-" she began to say but she appeared not to need it because the detective was looking her over.
"I know that I ran the light and all... I was just in a hur-"
The detective made a pass at her, saying, "You must have seen me, right? So you blew through the light?"
"Yes, sir, that's what happened... I was taken aback..." Daniella said, hoping that she could just get out of the ticker but she thought she may have lain down a veil of sarcasm a little too thick. She smiled at the detective but before he could say anything else she was rammed from behind by a van.
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He just needed a sure fire gimmick. Perhaps he could pull the cat-burglar card. That would grant fame and fortune. He could steal only the most expensive items. He could nab the priceless items. Priceless didn't mean anything in the criminal underground. The best part was that his father was already digging his mitts into the blackmarket. Now, there was no way that jam could convince his father that he'd learned to become a number one cat-burglar overnight so he'd have to act as an impressed middleman. He'd been sent to New York in order to look over the drug trade and meet a few higher players and dealers so he could simply say that he'd mat a "guy". Meeting a "guy" was always expected when you were on a trip like that which Jam was on. It was perfect.
Jam was actually taking a detour at the moment. He wanted to drive through TriBeCa to see the damage dealt to the area by some broad with powers just like his. Well, not just like his. The bitch could shoot lightnin' from her hands. Jam could wield a sword that looked like obsidian and it could slice into the universe or existence or whatever you was gonna call it. All he knew was that he could move through...like...space and spit himself out wherever he'd been before. So if he took a trip to somewhere like Tokyo or Berlin and he remembered a landmark or something like that then he could slash his sword in the air and a tear would appear in the air. He could move into the fissure and come out where he wanted to. He was going to make it his business to see as much of the world as he could. The poor dame that he was banging in Rio was gutted by some crazy Brazilian guy. jam thought it may have been her pimp but the guy just gutted her, shoved his bare hand into the broad's chest, destroyed them beautiful pale breasts. It was a shame.
Jam bolted off of the bed in just his aeropostale underwear and pulled his pistol from the dresser. Five shots didn't dead the guy and that was unheard of from ten feet away. The dude shrugged off the rounds like they was sticks of warmed butter thrown at him by a pissed off L.A. house wife. Next thing you know, Jam was ready to run like a sad puppy with his tail between his ass cheeks but that damned to hell blade exploded in his hand. Jam ain't never use no Goddamned sword before. He had stuck a few guys over in Seattle and even plugged a guy with a Machete in New Orleans on a Big but he'd never used a sword. He was waving it at the man like a lunatic, like a kid waving a stick at wasps. It was all instinct from there when the guy crashed through the living room of the hotel room and that huge black fissure split open. All that Jam could see was a sky of stars and a gray desert in the fissure. All he wanted to do was be at home. he hurled himself into the fissure and the next thing you know, he was spit out of another black tear in space. He dropped right on his bed, the place he was wanting to go. It was that simple. But he was still trying to gain control of this ability.
He was about to round a corner when the Maserati he was driving jerked. "What the fuck!?" Jam yelled and a red blade slid into the top of the sports car like it was cutting into flesh. The blade began to glow red when Jam turned a corner and the damned thing was squealing-screaming-purring like it was charging up. This was it. There was one of those damned men with the black eyes on top of his fucking 135 thousand dollar car. He undid his seat belt, formed his blade, turned a corner sharply and saw the back of a police car. This was really happening. The blade barked as it burned through the ceiling of the Maserati, causing the roof to melt, metal dripping into the car. It was too hot for Jam. He saw the roof of the police cruiser, slashed his blade out the best that he could in such tight quarters and managed to move through the portal. The Maserati slammed into the back of the cruiser as Jam was ejected from the fissure which formed a few feet above the roof of the cop car. He shot out toward the Shade as its blade caused an explosion on the interior of the Maserati. It pulled the blade free faster than Jam wished he'd have been able to and their blades met, Jam still in midair. The blade released an explosion and Jam flew over the cop cap, over the car that the police cruiser had smashed into the back of and then, against the back of a flower delivery van. At least he dropped to his feet. Jam watched as a man pulled a woman from the car that was hit by the police cruiser.
"This is a shit deal..."
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Green energy exploding from Daniella forming a wolf? A Maserati slamming into a police cruiser parked behind her car? A crazed man in a trench coat with a burning red sword and some other guy in an expensive Italian-looking suit with a dark-as-night blade of his own? This was a terrible nightmare.
The trench coat man was pissed off now. He looked toward his nub-for-an-arm and back toward Daniella as she attempted to get to her feet. Then, she was yanked free of the concrete and lifted to where her feet dangled inches from the ground. The trench coat man had moved faster than she'd ever seen a human being moved. Hell, she'd blinked and he was in her face, grabbing her around the neck and lifting her into the air as if she were paper. She pressed her hands against the man's face and flailed madly. She was terrified and fearing for her life when the green energy slammed into her from her left side and then exploded from her hands, tearing the man away from her and burning through his chest.
The wolf slammed into the concrete between the man and her Mazda and then onto the hood of the Mazda where it turned around. It was fighting for her. She took a step back, holding her aching throat. This man should have been dead. He was bleeding profusely from his nub-for-arm and a huge hole in his chest but he got up from where he was kneeling. The wolf arched into the concrete and toward the man. Daniella couldn't believe what happened next. First, a wolf of electricity, green electricity at that, exploded from Daniella and slammed into this huge man. It had torn his sword-wielding arm free of his body. The sword should have gone along with it. But now, the man simply created the sword out of thin air. He turned, fast, and the blade fizzled into existence and he tore into the wolf. An explosion burst free of the blade and the wolf was no more, burned away into leaping tangles of electricity. Daniella screamed, grabbed the sides of her head, slammed to her knees and then her face slammed into the street. The wolf was a part of her. She felt its pain rocket throughout her body. Her vision fading, she pulled her aching face free of the concrete and looked toward the big man as he came toward her again. She could see straight through the hole in his chest. How did this man move with no heart to pump his blood?
Daniella was in bad shape. She needed help.
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It was settled. Jam was going to go along with this little charade. At anytime he felt threatened, a flick of the wrist would allow him to open a fissure and escape a sticky sitch-
"Alright, detective, you're just doing your job," Rollo said with a smile, released his blade back into himself and held his hands out to be cuffed. "I'm not going to do anything. Can you at least cuff me up front. Me, you and the gorgeous gal over there have plenty to talk about on the way to the station..."
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No, I'm indeed not dead, Daniella.
Daniella looked around. She was being talked to but no one had said a word to her. He was within her, talking in her head. Who are you? What the hell are you?
Don't be alarmed, Daniella...
Don't be alarmed? Are you really telling me not to be fucking alarmed. You just....I mean, whoosh, came right out of my hands! Daniella yelled at the being talking in her head.
I'm a part of you, now, Daniella. I am here to protect you. I am here because you are like the others but you can't defend yourself like they can. So I am what you cannot be.
Daniella turned her attention away from the wolf for a second, watching the two men. She looked around as if she actually needed something to look at in order to talk and she asked, W-well what should I do now?
Go with them. There is very little else that you can do. You are stronger in groups.
Stronger against what?
Against those that I hate-against the Shades. I am here because I need you to exist here. Daniella, if I die I can come back to you after time. But we are linked. It will hurt you. If I cannot protect you, and you die, I will die as well...
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It only rang twice before Chip picked up. Sleggar didn't even get a chance to say hello before Chip was talking. "Sleggar I need you to do me a favor."
"Look I didn't....."
"Be quiet. I need you to fly a helicopter for me."
"Wait now?"
"Yes now meet me at the airport in Jersey, you know the one." Chip had hung up before Sleggar could explain anything to him so he had no choice. He turned to the man in the back. "It's your lucky day friend, I have business to take care of in Jersey so your coming along. I'll have an officer there to pick you up." He said turning the car on. The girl had gotten in the car already. "Listen slight detour but don't worry you'll still get to sit through the delight of a good old fashioned questioning." He said as he drove off. Why couldn't he just catch a freaking break.
(Continues in Jersey)
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