Chapter 9

The True Threat

The next morning, Chance decided that they should truly become a team, to go out and help people. Right before they left, he decided he should have a costume, so people wouldn't know who he was. He came out wearing a light blue suit made of a thin, flexible material, that also had a shooting star in multiple places. He reasoned, "Shooting stars happen by chance, and I am Chance, so my symbol should be a shooting star."

They left dramatically, with the Demon underneath them and the Guide above them, tunneling and flying. The rest were on foot, with ice trailing behind Thunder, shadows following Shade, and Chance surrounded by light. As they traveled, Shade remarked, "You know, I really think we should have someone back at the lab to tell us where trouble is. Right now, we probably look like dramatic traveling freaks."

At that moment, Chance's eyes shone brightly and he said, "I can see where trouble will most likely be, and we are traveling there now."

They continued in that direction until they heard sirens. They sped over and saw that a wall was about to fall on an injured person struggling to get to safety. An ambulance was there, but unable to help, so the Demon came out of the ground and put an extra layer of stone on the wall to stabilize it. As soon as the people in the ambulance saw this, they ran out to the person, lifted them into a wheelchair, put them in the ambulance and drove away.

"See? Isn't it nice to help people?" Chance asked.

"Yeah, it is. I- watch out! Some people look like they're gonna try to hurt us!" The Demon warned Chance.

Chance looked back to see three muscled men with guns come out from behind the building. "Hey, You! The weirdos with 'powers!' I'm talkin' to you! You just called the wrath of the MNM gang. You'll be sorry!"

The man pulled out his gun, but the Guide melted it and Thunder froze him in ice. Shade travelled through the shadows and knocked out the second man. He called his bats to distract the third as that man pulled out a rocket propelled grenade launcher, so the man missed. The rocket instead flew towards innocent bystanders. Not thinking, the Demon jumped in front of the missile, and though it didn't hurt him, it did make him mad.

"You try to hurt me, my friends, or anyone else, ever again, and I will find you, because I AM THE DEMON!" At this, his eyes flickered red and stayed the bright, blood red color. All of the stone around him broke and floated towards him, creating a suit of armor, a behemoth, around him that was unstoppable. With incredible speed, it crushed the three men and flew over the city by levitating the stones around it. It flew to the center of the city, where it started speaking in its booming, gravelly voice.