X-Men - Shadow Shifter
Chapter 4 - Turning stones in hell
Jack woke up to find himself with a blindfold across his face and tied to a chair. The last thing he remembered was the smart looking blond hair man whispering into his ear before being sedated. Then all of a sudden the blindfold was ripped from his eyes letting in a blinding light, and there right in front of him stood the same man that kidnapped him from the tavern. Then the blond haired man started to speak, only this time instead of a English accent it was German.
"You will obey and do as commanded by your superiors"
"What!?" exclaimed Jack before suddenly getting whacked by a man standing by his left hand side.
"I own you and you will obey your master."
"What have you done to Sean?! questioned Jack but once again he was hit with the back-hand of a thug standing on his left. Then replied.
"The stupid fool's life was ended by force, same as your own parents." All of a sudden this struck a nerve inside Jack. How on earth could anyone especially this stranger know of his parents? The man continued.
"Now you will obey my commands." Jack gave an icy glare at the man before giving his final verdict.
"NEVER!" The man glared back at Jack before looking and nodding at the muscular man standing on the left of Jack. Then all of a sudden the muscular thug grabbed Jack by the throat and lifting him up on the seat he was attached too. He too had a German accent though more brutish.
"I will break you, you verminous rat!" he snarled, then he retracted his right hand and delivered a knockout punch on Jack.
This was only the start to a very long time of hurt. For every day he was confined to a cell and having to endure beatings on a daily basis. The man who delivered such beatings was called Herman Wolfgang Kriegen, known among the guards as the 'Wolf' and the organization he worked for, The Dark Vengeance Reich. This was a group of extremists that was founded during the peak of darkness of WW2. When the war was turning not in favour of the Nazi's, instead of butchering and killing people who were declared 'sick' or not Aryan, were to be used for a project for super soldiers. What they used where people who could either bend the elements to their will or make explosive out of ordinary rocks, in other words Mutants. However when both the Allies and the Soviets had finally surrounded Berlin and the countdown to the end of the war begun, the Fuhrer issued one last mission.
Infiltrate America, destroy it from within and shape the future.
Back to recent times, Jack was the punching bag of the 'Wolf'. Whilst his imprisonment he had no idea as to how long he was kept within the facility. On several occasions he had tried to escape only to be thwarted, every time he felt closer to freedom, every time to be tackled on the ground and to hear Herman laughing at Jack's misfortune and shouting for him to obey. But While he was constantly being abused something inside of him felt more and more darkness, like a wild creature that wants it's chains to be broken and a vengeance in blood. He knew how his powers worked, they did not.
One moment came when Jack was locked within his dark cell. Two guards came to his cell to have some entertainment in way of taunting prisoners. They both spoke in German, Jack did not know what they said but knew what they were doing by they're physical actions. one of them took out their truncheon and started to whack the bars. Jack with his head down and now long hair covering his face' spoke.
"Will you kindly stop that." the two guards looked at each other then one spoke in English with a German accent.
"You will be quiet Untermensch (sub-human)." Then resumed whacking the bars.
"I ask you one more time, stop that before you will regret it." The guard whacking the bars laughed and looked away to see his friend who was also laughing but his facial expression of amusement turned to disbelief, then horror. The guard then looked back at the prisoner only to have his view blocked by a pitch black creature that stood on two legs, bearing its white teeth and staring down with blood red eyes. All of a sudden the creature grabbed the man's arm whacking bars before pulling him and slamming him into the bars. The creature kept biting and pulling the man's arm until it snapped of his torso sending him screaming and bleeding on the floor. Jack smiled at this and looked up with his blood red pupils in his eye's, as the injured man got carried away the creature turned to look at Jack before crouching down to rest in front of him.
"What are you? My Guardian angel or something that lives inside me?" the creature did not respond in voice but it bowed his head as if respecting him.
"What is your name? What do I call you? A were-wolf of darkness or the creature that feeds on Nazi's for breakfast?" Then a name hit Jack as if it was destined and entwined with him.
"Shadow-Fiend." the creature nodded as if in approval of this. Then from that day Jack became known as a vicious creature to all the guards, and intended to turn the tables of fear on them. Every time Jack would take the opportunity to injure any guard that strayed too close to his cell. This kept making Herman angry and under high security restraining Jack in order for him to establish his message of punching Jack to obey. but this taught Jack only two things, more reason and fuel for the fire of his anger and knowing that he was winning.
Time still passed and eventually Jack found himself in his new cell. Shackles attached to his wrist's, attached to chains nailed to the concrete walls. Jack was kneeling with his arms being held up to his shoulders. They believed it was his hands that summoned the Shadow Fiend, they were wrong. As Jack felt more of the darkness cover him like a cloak he developed certain animal senses were he could smell and tell the difference between people. Also he had taken his time listening in on the conversations some talked in English. He overheard this strange story not too long ago where the Soviets and Americans were about to go to war until a black jet flew over the two navy's dragging a submarine out of the sea and fighting it out on the beach.
Then two new guards came to his cell, just like previously they spoke in German then one of the men left the room leaving Jack alone with the one guard. Just then with Jack's new sense's detected something.
"You are not one of them." Only to be replied
"Why do you say that?
"You do not seem the same physically, a full grown man in his late 30s." Guard turned round to look at Jack and spoke in a female voice.
"Things never do appear as they seem, I am sorry that we were never here sooner."
"If you would can I see for what you truly are?" Asked Jack. With that The guard suddenly changed in shape completely from a white skinned man in his late 30's to a young woman in her late 20's with short red hair, blue skin and yellow eyes.
"What is your name?"
"My human name is Raven Darkholme, but my real name is Mystique."
"What of all places are you doing here?"
"I am here with the Brotherhood of Mutants and Magneto wants to liberate you from place."
To be continued