Chapter 1
A/N Hello! I hope you like this story, sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes I may have missed, If you see any feel free to point them out, I am always hoping to improve my writing skills and would love some input. Anyways I hope you enjoy!
Evan let out a long exhausted sigh and closed the math book resting on the desk. He thought about slamming his head into it a few times before getting up and walking into the kitchen. He rested a cold glass of water against his throbbing head. He hated math, he wasn't very good at it and midterms were coming up soon.
On top of that, with all the school he had been missing recently he was practically teaching the material to himself. Evan took a sip from the glass and glanced across the room to a clock that sat on the wall. It read 5 pm, he dumped the last of the water into the sink and placed the cup upside down to dry before grabbing his phone, keys, and backpack that he kept underneath his bed. He left his dorm locking the door behind him.
Evan got into the elevator and rode it down to the lobby. When the elevator doors opened he saw a few students that he recognized from his class chatting. He gave a polite wave and smiled as he walked by a shorter man with messy brown hair and a blue zip up. He smiled brightly back and waved as Evan stepped out the door.
He got into his car and drove off heading towards his friend Nogla's house. It was a small little home from the outside, looking as if it could only allow three people to live there comfortably, and well that was technically right, three people did call it home. A man named David Nogla, another man named Lui Caliber, and finally there was Craig Thompson. What you would be wrong in is the fact that the house was small.
The majority of the building resided underground, add all the underground rooms together and it was at least three times the size of the facade on the surface. Making it the perfect place to host their operations. Evan knocked on the door and looked up to the microscopic camera in the corner of the doorframe and waved. You wouldn't be able to tell that there even was a camera there if you didn't already know, it was so small that it was impossible to see with the naked eye.
There was a small buzzing noise and the clank of a deadbolt opening from behind the door then there was a small chime. Once Evan heard the chime he knew it was safe to enter and let himself in. He skipped through most of the house and instead walked straight to one of the bedroom in the back of the house.
He walked up to one of the bookshelves against the walls and waited. The bookshelf pushed open from behind and Nogla stood there on the top of some concrete stairs. The tall lanky Irish man smiled brightly at Evan. "Hiya, Evan"
"Hi Nogla" Evan said walking down the stairs with him, "How are things going here"
"Oh things are going fine, Joe and Tony love those toys you got them, Lui is down in the lab with Craig making some new gadgets" Nogla responded
"Anything cool?" Evan asked. Nogla just shrugged his shoulders "No idea, we can check on them after your checkup." Evan wined "Do we have to…" Nogla laughed a bit "Yes Evan we have to, you took one hell of a beating last round, when you faced Delirious, we need to make sure everything has healed correctly." Evan rubbed at his cheek feeling the ghost of pain from where he got slugged hard by his rival and muttered himself.
They arrive at the bottom of the stairs to what Lui had coined the party room. There was a large flat screen TV. An Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and a Wii Switch sitting below the TV. On the other wall, there were 3 PCs each on their own desk with a fancy and expensive curved monitor. The room even had it's own bar counter.
Evan stared longingly at the computers wanting to hop on and play some video games with his friends. But Nogla pulled him along taking him to another room off to the right. They walked into a new room that was filled with medical equipment that would make any hospital look underfunded.
The room was split practically in half separated by a thick piece of bulletproof glass. On one side of the glass, the one that Evan and Nogla were currently standing in was all of the medical equipment, on the other side was a bunch of various targets and other strange training equipment. Nogla dragged a rolling chair and pushed it towards Evan who sat in it.
Nogla began looking and examining all over Evan's body. He checked Evan's lungs, his heart and looked over all the bruise that Evan had scattered over his body specifically one by his right rib.
"Well every seems okay and your rib seems to have healed perfectly beside the bruising in the surrounding area. Now, let me see your wings, Evan nodded his head and with a little concentration and a bright flash of fire two large owl-like wings appeared on Evan's back. Nogla studied them for a bit.
"Okay stretch them out" Evan did what he was told and let his wings spread out as far as they could. Nogla ruffled his hands through his feathers checking for any injuries that may not have healed properly. Evan twitched and squirmed a bit from Nogla's figures ruffling his sensitive wings.
Nogla wrote something down on a clipboard placed it on the counter. "Okay you can put them away now if you want" Evan nodded his head and his wings were gone as quickly as they appeared.
"One last thing before I let you go, let's test your fire" Nogla said grinning. A wide grin appeared on Evan's face "This is the fun part!" Evan stood up and walk over to a thick glass door in the wall of glass splitting the room in half and stepped through. Nogla stood on the other side his voice came through a speaker and echoed in the room.
"Okay Evan are you ready?" Evan gave him a thumbs up and ready his stance. Nogla pressed a button on the control panel in front of him and watched. The targets began to move in front of Evan and he focused on the palm of his hand and a bright fireball appeared. He threw at one of the targets, they collide and bursted into flames.
Evan created a few more fireballs and took out the rest of the targets. Nogla's voice appeared over the speakerphone. "Okay Evan fight the dummies now." Evan looked at Nogla through the glass and turned to a flame resistant mannequin. Fire consumed his hand and threw a punch at the dummy, scorching it.
Nogla watched Evan throw a few more punches and a few kicks beating the poor dummy to a burnt crisp. He took a few more notes and told Evan that he could stop. Evan left the room and stood in front of Nogla. He flipped through his clipboard and looked up at him.
"Everything seems to be in order, but I can see that you right rib is still bothering you, your were very stiff when using that side of your body." Evan brought his hand up to his side, "Yea it's still pretty sore, Is that bad?"
"Not necessarily," Nogla said messing up the pronunciation of necessarily. "If the pain doesn't subside within the week there could be a problem but I am sure it will be fine."
"That's good then," Evan said smiling "Thanks Nogla." Nogla smiled back and they both walked back into the party room. Evan walked through the room and walked to another door on the other side of the room. He tried to pull the door open but it was locked. Evan stared at it a bit confused but shrugged it off.
"Is it locked?" Nogla asked. Evan turned to him and saw him sitting on the couch in front of the TV with a beer in his hand. "Yep" Evan sighed "Oh well, they'll come up when they are done with whatever the hell they are doing down there," Nogla said. "Do you want to play a game while we wait."
Nogla saw Evan's eyes light up, literally. Whenever Evan got excited if you paid enough attention and looked very closely you could see small specks of fire dance in his brown iris. If you didn't know what you were looking at you would mistake it as a weird trick of the light, but Nogla knew better.
They both got up and ran over to the computers turning them on. They booted up steam and began debating on what game to play. When they had finally decided what to play, a loud screech echoed throughout the room accompanied by a bright blinking red light.
They both looked up at the alarm mounted on the wall above their heads. Evan frowned at it and turned to the locked door just as it swung open. Craig Thomson ran through the door panting from having to climb up a bunch of stairs. He was wearing a long white lab coat and he pushed up his glasses on his face. "We have some activity!" Craig panted.
Both Evan and Nogla followed Craig down the stairs and stopped at a door instead of continuing down. They stepped into a room that had a TV screen on every wall and a small table with a single laptop on it, there was also a larger round table with 4 chairs surrounding it and in the center of that table was a map of the city.
Craig turned to Evan quickly and pulled up a live video on one of the screens on the wall. The video showed the inside of a bank and there where men with masks over their faces wearing Kevlar vests and were well equipped with large assault rifles and were pointing them at the unarmed customers.
While the men in black were watching the civilians another man walked into the camera's view. Evan narrowed his eyes at the screen he was wearing a hockey mask, a blue hood and equipped with an assault rifle of his own. He walk by the terrified customers and towards the vault in the back. "Delirious" Evan growled.
"I am so sorry Evan, I caught this too late," Craig said "It's fine it's not your fault, Things get by us all. Where's the bank at" Evan said. Craig read out the address and pointed to it on the city map in the center of the table. "Don't worry I'll stop him!" Evan said his voice filled with determination. "Be careful, Evan and watch the rib." Nogla said.
Evan nodded turned and ran farther down the stairs and reached the very bottom. He now stood in front of a large tunnel digging deep into the side of the earth, Evan quickly changed into his superhero suit, which he had kept in his backpack. It was black with a yellow trim and had a yellow owl symbol on the center of his chest. He put in an earpiece and did a quick test,
"Testing testing" He said and Craig's voice filled his ear. "I read you, Evan, are you flying or driving there" Evan glanced back at the car behind him and shook his head "flying I'll get there much faster" Evan focused for a second and with a flash of flames his wings materialized behind him.
"Okay here I go" Evan said and he pulled down his owl mask so that it covered his face and pushed off the ground flying as fast as he could down the dark tunnel, his wings glowing it the darkness since they were partly made out of fire. Evan could see a pinprick of light towards the end of the tunnel and flew towards it. Within seconds he was at the tunnel's end that let out in the side of a cliff and over a small lake near the edge of the city. Evan flew over the lake and up into the clouds. His wings pushed him faster and faster towards the bank. Hopefully he would arrive in time to stop Delirious before things got to out of hand.