Author's Note: This story is something I've had kicking around in my mind for a while. I wanted to explore the darker, more villainous sides of the Hellfire Club/Brotherhood members, as centered around the one thing they all had in common: Sebastian Shaw. Each chapter will feature a different character from XMFC. No relation to my other stories, and written for your (and my) enjoyment only. Happy reading!
Sebastian Shaw (The Black King)
He was the glue that held them together. The spark, the leader, the life of the party. He was a collector, and he carefully collected them one by one. The diamond queen. The wind-maker. The vanishing man. The flying girl. He looked past their shattered lives and saw them for what they truly were: talented, beautiful, and powerfully deadly. He gave them a reason to work together, and for a time, they were a force with which to be reckoned. He was the self-appointed king of a terrifying army of misfits and monsters. He thought himself unstoppable, and for a time, he truly was.
But, even a king can lose his crown.
In the twisted metal of his submarine kingdom, Shaw met his match in a pair of mutant rebels. The metal-bender was his own creation, come back to haunt Shaw for the lifetime of nightmares he created. The mind reader was fresh, new and someone that even Shaw feared to battle. Together they extinguished the fire, the life, and the party. Together they worked as one to kill a dynasty, but even then, Shaw had his revenge. With his last breath, his own death succeeded in killing everything the two men had built together.
Sebastian Shaw was dead.
