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Villain in Shepherd's cloth

AU. (Sorry for any cringe) A world of superpowers named Quinx or Quinxez (pl) has the casual hero, villain, and everything in between. With some crooked Heroes and misunderstood Villains someone has to "Have the moral high ground"

Mystice · SF
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16 Chs

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Was that a rifle going off? Did Blood just splatter onto me? Zylax's mind races and as the lights return his questions are answered.

"You'd seriously try to kill him on live television!" Libraire's voice is nothing but scornful.

As Zylax ,frozen in his chair, looks terrifyingly at the dead rabbit male in front of him His head is missing almost half his brain... IS SO CLOOOSE to my mouth While Zylax mouth salivates his, fist clenches as his breathing grows more ragged I bet it's the same bastard who killed Dauze thinking he was ME!!

Zylax dashes past Gesitcht, who stays silent but gives off an uncomfortable aura, meeting the spot behind his assailant's back within half a second in a back flip with his leg cranked back ready to hit them like a waterfall crashing a log, but right as he releases it the peachy haired male was seemingly glitched out of existence with a *Kere* sound following.

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The peachy haired male stands dumbfounded whispering "No matter what the mutt breathes. It's like he's-" he gets interrupted by Ms.Vertige (The coffee haired female) yelling at him "Dumb-ass! We DO NOT have time to let failure sink in! So either stop celebrating early or start putting more effort into your work!". she starts checking up on his body "OH MY FUCK! That sociopath was a Millisecond away from killing you!" she comments.

"What do you mean? I feel fine-! OI! what are you doing back there?" his scruffy voice asks in a embarrassed tone as his shirt and pants are torn off. 

"Thank fuck it's just your mid to lower back. If it weren't for the Ever Coat. You'd be screaming your ass off, he got you down to the flesh and bone." She shudders as she hovers her hand above of his wound releasing a goldish brown dust. 

"Did you turn down the heat ledger? it's colder than Uncle Tom's nog." He says swaying on his feet before his feet become planted to the ground. "Hey did it just get hot? Like "touching the stove because mom told me not to" Hot?" 

 "I swear the only attractive thing you got is your height." Ms.Vertige sighs. Zen hinted that if I try anything it may be my last attempt... I need to set up a loop hole before he visits; but first- Sigh- This

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Libraire drives a dark violet pick-up truck with Zylax having his arms crossed. "You could've killed him!" Libraire shouts with his head turned slightly towards the back. 

"If you looked at the beam that could've should be a would've-" Libraire cuts off an agitated Zylax with a voice filled with detest. 

"YOU CAN"T CHOOSE WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES! EVEN IF THEY'RE MURDERERS!" Libraire glances toward Zylax with hatred before looking back towards the road

*Why are you looking at me like That! I didn't kill some one you cared for I attacked a murder, I never thought I'd hate to see his eyes glow. The one time Cobalt actually looks dangerous and it pisses me off* Zylax starts rapidly tapping his index finger on his forearm "Even If There's Black and White Evidence OF THEIR SINS! I HAVE TO "WAIT FOR THE SYSTEM?" THE VERY SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS THE GUILTY TO JUST WALK AWAY!? THE VERY SAME SYSTEM THAT I CAN'T EVEN HAVE THE CHANCE TO TRY AND FIX!? THERE ARE SO MANY FLAWS IN THE SYSTEM DUE TO THE VERY THING IT WAS MADE TO HELP! Emotions that'll never fade." Zylax sighs and rest his head on the window 

It's the way of Justice, it's wrong by law but by the feeling of the soul it's right. but so would killing you for taking someone else's life. The reason of laws is to stop things from escalating to the point of "too far" but sometimes justice is perverted, twisted by those who execute it. We have way too many villains on the street who are labeled that because they went too far, and sometimes I have to think how many of them would be by your side if they had the same guidance as you or if they had met you, then I start thinking how many of them are just like you; "What if I had just left you there, would you be a villain or just another corpse?".. shakes his head before Libraire taping the back of his seat. "Luckily the camera stopped rolling when the lights went off, or did you forget that we were on live television?" Libraire states with a depressed smirk as he shows Zylax the broadcast stopped right when the lights went out.

Zylax claps his hands above his now bowing head "Oh my, fuck! I'm so sorry about just now. This week has been purely, nothing but me and death playing a game of cat and mouse, and I've just barely been making it." Now I'm just an asshole.

Libraire chuckles then sighs. "Nah I understand. But has it seriously been this whole week?" he asks Questioningly with small amusement I forget you're a kid at the end of the day, or young adult I guess. Man I'm getting old, 45 years... Damn .

"Hell yeah: Sunday morning there was car crash right next to me not too long after that I was a couple of minutes off schedule to my planned lunch thankfully, because the place we wanted to do it at was shot up followed up with my now Ex-apartment being exploded by the person below me's stove." Libraire starts making small chuckles as Zylax continues with a now tired expression "Monday, I had a lot of parks to visits- me thinking yesterday was just misfortune and said "Today will be better"." Zylax smacks his lips and adds "A lot of attempts, electrocution, drownings, and I'm pretty sure some people tried to lure me to possibly kill me, so yeah Monday was fun. Tuesday was poisonings so I guess I'm lucky that I took poison training as one of my "Unique" courses."

Libraire's chuckle turned into laughter all the while Zylax was talking "Wow, Mr.Hero is so desensitized to death that he can only laugh when someone he knows is closed to it." Zylax states slyly. Thank you for always lightening the mood.

Libraire quills his laughter into chuckles "I mean you're here aren't ya!" before bursting back into laugh.

The stars illuminate the sky alongside the city lights creating an atmosphere of dreamy Urban living only to be interrupted by the sound of cars honking and people talking or yelling advertisements. Zylax simply walks in silence as he looks into his phone's dim screen. Two, but if I want to be technical there's a lot more, but right now, let's just say two. Zylax sighs "How many more have to die?" in a whisper, right as his phone does a buzz followed by a major key of a piano.

Zylax takes out his phone from his chest pocket and looks down to see a text from an unknown phone number reading "Meet me at the docks, closer to the pier. Stop thinking who this is and hurry up before it closes. Before I... Just come." Zylax sighs again Why not. It'll either end tonight or it'll just continue. At the end of the day I'm thinkin' about goin' into retirement. he thinks after turning around and rushing in the direction of gold, brown ,and black lights

The night sky is filled with light from the city, as it reflects off of a wine glass.

Ms.Vertige sits at a table patting her mouth of a red sauce ,the table has four newly finished plates with traceable residue of meat, on the opposing side is a pale man that has brown and forest green split down the middle hair. "So, As I suspected, the fates today were switched by him because he just didn't like the bunny. So he-" the male reports the news rather calmly before getting cut off by Ms.Vertige.

 "SO he fucked us all over because he just didn't LIKE someone!? AM I GETTING THAT RIGHT, OSCAR?". 

Oscar (The male) puts his hands over the table and does a simple calm down gesture as he continues to say "We don't have to kill him as long as everyone does their role and nothing else, right?" his voice going from a tree in barren land with nothing but snow to, a tree surrounded with flourishing wildlife.

"I guess but it's just safer if he's dead. . . Did you just switch to your normal self?" Ms.Vertige gets out of her chair and puts on her vest.

Oscar scratches the back of his head with a wide but shy smile before responding "haha, yea. I hope that won't be a problem, it's just that seeing a beautiful woman agitated, and not doing anything to help.. well~ we can both agree it isn't very gentleman like." he finishes with a nervous laugh. 

Ms.Vertige smiles warmly "Flattery will get you everywhere. But you know, you're the only lampent that I met that can't properly control their personality switch." She comments readjusting her vest and tightening her Neapolitan pink tie.

"It's my brother's soul apparently.-" Oscar responds bringing up a tail with a street lantern (Not street light) on it's tip, looking into it's bronze gold like flame before continuing "-That's why my parents called me a monster earlier, I apologize that you had to sit through that." Oscar says in a low tone.

"Don't worry about it, everyone has something in their life that they want to hide.-" She inhales deeply"- That's the point of hiding them. I have a meeting to attend to, I hope you enjoyed the meal tonight as much as I did." Ms.Vertige takes her leave on those words with her hips shaking side to side Everyone has something to hide, but then there's people who want to remove something from their life. Some say that the only way to obtain happiness is by accepting the "negatives" in life; "being true to yourself". that works for people who have simple day-to-day issues, individuals with larger problems need something grander than themselves; a mask... But some times it may be better to make a deal with the devil.