Revenge

The smell of burning filled Damian's mind, as he saw smoke starting to come through his slightly open door. He could hear the crackling of something on fire, and after opening his door, he was greeted by the horrors of his home being on fire.

He quickly retreated back to his room and jumped out of one of the windows to safety, watching his house set ablaze. He escaped quick enough to see a group of people walking away from his property, all with grins on their face despite seeing the fire. Damian listened in on them for a minute to see if they knew anything.

"We're getting paid good tonight boys."

"For such an easy job too, we should let the Boss know we finished the job."

Before the four gang members could walk off, Damian grabbed all of them with his tendrils, throwing them to the side of the path which was a wooded area where nobody would be able to see them.

"What the fuck!" Shouted one of the gang members before Damian shut him up by knocking him unconscious.

He knocked two others unconscious and kept one awake to speak to, "Who told you to set my house on fire?"

The gang member, being a low life scum had absolutely no loyalty and immediately snitched, "Alex told us to do it, he said he would pay us well and we might even get a bonus from the boss too."

"Where are they all, and who's the boss?"

"They're at 27 Bromsgrove Avenue, and the boss is Alex's older brother. Please don't hurt us, we were just doing what we were told."

"You set my house on fire. Fuck you." With that, Damian changed his shadow tendrils to be incredibly sharp and thin and pierced through each of the thug's skulls immediately killing them. He felt as though he should be feeling remorse or disgust with himself, but since waking up, nothing had really bothered him.

He knew exactly where the address he was told was, and made his way over there as fast as possible, which he found to be using his tendrils to launch himself forward while running so it only took about two and a half minutes to get there. When he arrived, he could immediately smell the strong scent of weed which he assumed was because they were growing it or smoking it in the house, and even more likely than either, that they were selling it.

He approached the door and knocked, when it opened a few seconds later he was greeted by one of the gang members who had previously attacked him. Before he could say anything, a long black tendril pierced his chest, with another covering his mouth to muffle his scream. He dropped to the floor and Damian stepped over his body. He felt nothing about killing these low lives who attacked him and probably many others.

He continued into the house, and when his footsteps were heard a familiar voice called out, "Who's at the door Darren?"

"It was me." Damian announced as he walked into the room. He saw Alex sat on a sofa with multiple of his friends who were also in the gang. Unlike in movies, gangs were really just a bunch of violent losers that hung around with one another and sold drugs and committed violent acts for the most part.

Before any of them could say anything, everyone in the room was instantly killed with ease by Damian, except from Alex who he wanted to keep alive a little longer.

"What the fuck are you?" Shouted a terrified Alex.

"The same person who you tried to get stabbed yesterday. You saw me earlier too, why are you so shocked?" Damian grabbed Alex with one of his tendrils and dragged him upstairs.

When he got upstairs, he found a man in his mid twenties who looked a lot like Alex who was surrounded by three women. One of these women or, more accurately, girls was Alex's girlfriend who accused Damian of sexual assault.

Alex looked shocked, as he watched his girlfriend who he thought had gone to do something upstairs fawning over his own brother, "Pete, what the fuck is going on?" Shouted Alex, somehow forgetting his predicament.

Before he could get a response, Pete (Alex's brother, and the gang's boss) was dead, along with the other two girls that were with him. This left only Alex and his girlfriend for Damian to kill.

"You guys proud of yourselves? Happy where this life has brought you? No choice but to grovel for your own lives at the mercy of the one who you once tortured like a beast."

Both Alex and Tiffany (his girlfriend) begged for their lives, with no regard for their previous dispositions and treatment of Damian.

This satisfied Damian, but he had no intention of allowing them to live, rather than using his shadow tendrils though, he plunged his own hands into each of their chests and ripped out their hearts. Using their hearts, he wrote on the wall "Fuck You" before he opened a portal and walked through it to a different universe. He realised while killing his former oppressors, he did not want to be weak. He did not want to be weaker than anyone, and the ease in which he could kill humans was much too high.

Therefore, he was going to try and get stronger in a different universes entirely.

"Eighteen sacrifices, I can already feel myself growing stronger. I can't wait for more." The same entity that had created the parasite which had bitten Damian was sat grinning to itself in front of a slightly filled basin with a few drops of blood in it.

In a lush forest filled with the noise of animals, Damian took a bite of a familiar blue berry, before leaning down to investigate something strange.