Chapter 10

JL

London, United Kingdom

John Constantine walked out of the shop, a pretty useful medallion in his coat along with various other magical items. When are those sodding creatures going to show their ugly faces? The past ten days had been miserable for him; it was hard to keep your game face on when you knew that there was an unknown variable in the game that you couldn't account for. Constantine lit a fag and breathed in the chemicals, damn precognitives, they never have anything good to say. Constantine blew out smoke then looked up into the sky to see three turquoise portals opening up. "Bollocks."

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Beatriz Bonilla da Costa arched her back and her photographer snapped his photo of her. "Come on Beatriz, give us a smile," he told her. "Alright, alright," she told him. She assumed the pose again and this time smiled, focusing on happy things, like the orphans she visited last week as her alter-ego Fire, puppies, kicking her jerk of an ex-boyfriend Ramon out of her apartment yesterday. "That's better," the photographer said and snapped five more pictures. Suddenly three turquoise portals opened up in the sky. "What is that!?" the photographer said as Beatriz transformed into her pyroplasm form and flying up to fight the creatures coming out of the portals.

Gotham City, USA

Nightwing and Batman swung between the rooftops; they had already stopped five muggings and a robbery of mutagens from S.T.A.R. Labs tonight. "So, do you think they'll come today or tomorrow?" Nightwing asked. "Today if experience is anything to go by," Batman said as they stopped to survey the city below. "Then shouldn't you get out the Batwing and I don't know, the Bat-tank," Nightwing joked. "I don't have a tank," Batman said, "But I did invest in some lasers that look promising." Batman then took out a small tube from his utility belt. "You got more of those?" Nightwing asked as a turquoise glow appeared in the sky.

DP

Danny looked up and saw the portals open up over Amity Park. Sam was next to him on the roof and activated a Fenton Ghost Peeler she owned, this one was modified to fly and was painted in a black and purple color scheme. "Sam, if it gets too hard-" Sam put a finger on his lips and firmly said, "I'm not going to run away." Danny closed his mouth and went Ghost, and together they flew up as creatures came out of the portals. And the battle for Earth began.

I know this is short, really short. The next three chapters will make up for it.