chapter 1 Meet Ace Spades
Billy walks out of the Spades Street Casino happy, for once he walks out with more money then when he went in. He went in with $50 and came out with $10,000. "Luck was on my side tonight," he says to himself as he starts his long walk back to his hotel. Billy was just visiting Gotham to check out the new casino that had just opened there about two months prior. Billy loves to gamble. He has lost his fair share of his dad's money. But yet his dad kept giving him money to get him away from the house as long as possible.
Billy refused to move out of his dads place. He had grown to love the huge house and taking money off of his father. Billy's dad owns a huge casino in Las Vegas. Billy has always loved to gamble ever since he was 14, when he started playing poker with his friends. But ever since he turned 21 he had become addicted to it. Although he had never won a significant amount of money, he usually lost. But not this time the cards were in his favor, helping him win big time.
Feeling proud of himself he walked the streets of Gotham with such a swagger, it could make a pro wrestler puke. Block by block he walked flirting with every girl who walked by like he thought he owned the city. Only to get a strange look by the girls and a cold stare from their boyfriends after he winked at them, as he only seemed to flirt with the ones that had their boyfriends right next to them.
Billy is like one of those people that nobody could get along with. He was the boy in highschool who thought he was the best thing on the campus, but only got picked on and beat up for having such a big undeserved ego. Never realizing that he may just be the biggest douche on the face of the earth. With his fat stomach in the way he could barely see his feet as he continued to walk.
Two more blocks separated him from a nice warm bed to sleep on. He was getting exhausted, even though he had only walked six blocks. But this is Billy, the man who gets winded just by getting off the couch. He had sweat coming out of every pore in his body and he was panting like a dog who had been locked in a car with the windows rolled up on a hot day.
Billy goes into a Starbucks Coffee to take a break. It had gotten dark out since he left the casino. "Excuse me sir. Are you just gonna sit there or are you gonna get somethin'?" a blonde woman in a Starbucks employee uniform asked Billy after he had sat at his table for about 15 minutes. He gave her a quick look over from the table he sits and replies pointing at her chest "Unless those are on the menu, no. Just hang on toots, I'll be out of here before you know it. Try not to miss me too bad when I'm gone."
"Freakin' perve," the woman growled storming off behind the counter to go back to work. Billy sits there for a few more minutes just staring across the street at the massage parlor and the beautiful woman who worked there. Finally he got up and left the coffee shop. He crossed the street and entered the massage parlor.
"Hey baby, how much for a happy ending?' he asked, flashing out a couple $100 bills at the brunette behind the counter. "Jerry!" she hollers. A big muscular tan man comes out of the back with no shirt on. "Yeah?" the man asks. "How much you charge for a happy ending?' she asked. "100," he replies. Billy runs out of the parlor as fast as he can. "Works every time," the woman says with a smirk on her face.
Billy runs outside into the alley next to the parlor in a panic. Billy looks around, hoping no one saw him freak out. He looks down the long alley and thinks to himself "Just gotta go down this alley and one more street block and I'm home free." Billy walks down the alley casually, but about half way down the alley he trips over a trash can."Oh crap!" he screams falling down. "Are you alright sir?" a calm deep voice ask from above him.
Too embarrassed to look all the way up, he just looks at the feet of the man in front of him. Black boots with a big red A on the toe of it. Billy looks farther up and notices that the man must be wearing a black trench coat unbuttoned because he could see the bottom of it, starting at his knee. The man was also wearing tight black skinny jeans. As billy continued to slowly look up at the man while on the ground, the man's belt caught his eye.
A black belt with a pair of dice on the belt buckle and red diamonds going all the way around. He looked up more, saw the man's white shirt, and observed that on the front of his shirt was a large black spade with a red outline. "Are you gonna say something or not?" the man asked billy.
"I'm fine," Billy answered grabbing the outstretched hand of his rescuer. He notes that the man had white gloves on and wonders why. He gets ready to ask the man, but the man speaks before Billy can say anything. "Thats good billy," the man says.
'How does he know my name?' Billy wonders to himself. Billy looks up toward the man's face, confused. The man's face is hidden by a mask with a large scarlet A on the face and a black spade on the cheek. "Who are you?" Billy asked, backing up slowly in the process. The man nonchalantly stalks Billy as he cowards away. "I'm Ace Spades," the man answered.