Knight of the Moon in a Haunting Ground.
Moon Knight, Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley: four different aspects of the same man who was resurrected by Khonshu, the Egyptian Lunar-God of Vengeance.
Born in Chicago, Illinois; Marc Spector was the rebellious son of a studious Jewish rabbi whose family had fled Europe in the 1930s to escape the Holocaust. Marc could not understand why his father refused to fight against his people's persecution and grew disgusted with his pacifistic ways, viewing him as a coward.
Rejecting his father's faith, Marc started out as a heavyweight boxer before eventually joining the U.S. Marines where he was trained as a commando. Shortly afterwards, his skills led to his recruitment into the Central Intelligence Agency where he worked with William Cross and his own brother, Randall Spector. However, Randall betrayed the CIA and was secretly smuggling and selling weapons and when Marc's lover discovered this and when she tried to turn him in, he brutally murdered her with a meat cleaver. In retaliation, Marc hunted Randall down but during the fight, Randall was seemingly killed by an exploding grenade.
Fed up with the CIA, Marc went independent and became a fierce soldier of fortune, renowned for his willingness to do anything providing the job paid well enough. In Africa, he met a French mercenary, Jean-Paul "Frenchie" DuChamp, who would become one of Marc's closest friends and Marc's pilot.
While working for the terrorist Raoul Bushman, Marc became increasingly disturbed by Bushman's savagery and ruthlessness. For the first time in his life, his conscience had awakened and it troubled him deeply. Then in Selima, Sudan, they stumbled across archaeologist Dr. Peter Alraune's excavation of an Egyptian Pharaoh's tomb. Believing there was gold and riches within, Bushman murdered Alraune to plunder the tomb.
Sickened by Bushman, Marc tried to do the decent thing and helped Alraune's daughter, Marlene escape from Raoul's attentions. Annoyed with Marc's betrayal, Bushman brutally beat Spector and abandoned him in the desert so that he would suffer before he died.
Barely conscious, Spector staggered to the ancient tomb for shelter. Marlene was there with her father's men and brought Marc to rest near a statue of the moon god, Khonshu.
Weakened from his fight with Bushman and the elements of the desert, Marc Spector died. As Marlene cried over his cooling body, Spector suddenly came back to life claiming that he had a vision that Khonshu had brought him back from the dead in order to be the Moon's Knight of Vengeance.
Spector removed the burial shroud from the statue of Khonshu and wrapped it around himself as a makeshift cloak before he confronted Bushman once again and this time, he was victorious and thus Moon Knight was born.
However, Marc has managed to break free from Khonshu and is now doing his own thing, while still protecting innocent and brings vengeance to those who deserve it.
Right now he was tracking a girl who had gone missing. He had been searching for a while until he managed to get a lead and even a photo of a castle, where his ominous source had claimed she had been taken too.
Standing on a cliff, Marc looked at the picture and then at the massive castle in front of him. It matched perfectly.
'So this is the castle. The girl must be in there somewhere. Better get her out before god knows what could happen to her in there' Marc thought to himself before heading for the castle.
Fiona Bell, had only recently moved away from her parents to attend college and was visiting with them when a car accident occurred. Her mother Ayla was killed instantly in the wreck, and while her father Ugo survived the initial crash, he was almost immediately murdered by a man with a knife before he could even get out of the driver's seat.
When Fiona awoke, she found herself imprisoned in Castle Belli, with no recollection of how she had gotten there. Her constant companion in Castle Belli is a dog named Hewie.
Fiona and Hewie had been through a lot already been through a lot and due to a moment of panic, they had been separated. Fiona was tired, she was feeling hopeless. At this rate she would never make it out of this place. She heard the sound of one of her many stalkers. She forced herself back on to her bare feet and ran.
She was silently begging for someone to save her, but knew that would not happen. Without Hewie, she was on her own. And no choice but to fend for herself.
Or so she thought.
Elsewhere, Marc had been searching the castle for any signs of the girl. He stopped when he heard a sound. He looked and saw... To be honest he is not sure what he was looking at. Some kind of large, deformed man who was flailing around like a child.
This was Debilitas, the castle's gardener and handyman.
Marc narrowed hid eyes behind his mask "Take you live here?" Debilitas only let out some stupid noises "I'll take that as a yes. Have you seen a young girl running around here?"
Debilitas looked at him like had spoken in another langue. Clearly not truly understanding what he just said.
Marc sighed and held up the picture of Fiona "This girl. Have you seen her?"
Debilitas began clapping his hands in excitement "My dolly!".
"Dolly? You think she's a doll?" Marc asked.
"My little poogly pie!" Debilitas said, flailing around like an idiot.
"OK, that is not creepy at all. Well since you lack the brain power to tell me what I want to know I'll just get going then. I need to get her out of this place" Marc said as he began to walk away.
However, it seems that Debilitas understood that and got very angry before rushing at Marc, planing to crush him. When he was close enough to grab, Marc suddenly back-flipped over him and landed behind him.
"Want to keep her huh? Well to bad for you then. When someone is kidnapped, they tend to not want to stick around" Marc said as he got ready to fight the brute.
Debilitas screams as he rushes at Marc, who simply side stepped the large man's charge, making him trip over himself. Marc punched him, but the blow had little effect on him. Debilitas swung his arms blindly, which was easily avoided as Marc bunched him in the face, making him stumble back.
Marc followed up with a left and right hook, followed up with a left jab and a upwards kick to Debilitas' face, making him stumble even more. Marc jumped back before running and deliver a flying knee to the large man's face, making him slump against a wall and his eyes closed.
Marc watched him for a moment before continuing on... then he heard footsteps and turned just in time to be tackled through a door. Debilitas then began strangling Marc with his large hands.
'Not good, not good!' Marc thought as he tried to break the brute's grip by punching him in the face.
But Debilitas lifted him and slammed him against a wall. Marc grunted before taking out some of his moon shaped boomerangs and stabbed them in to Debilitas' arm, making him cry out in pain and drop him. Marc saw a window and grabbed the large man child, dragging him to the widow and threw him out of it.
Marc looked out to see where Debilitas had landed... only to see he had been impaled by a fence. Marc sighed as he continued on. Until he was met with a dog. The dog growled at him.
"Easy there boy. I'm not going to hurt you" Marc said.
The dog walked up and smelled him. It then barked before running a small distance. It stopped and barked again. Marc understood. This dog wanted him to follow it... maybe it knew where Fiona was.
With nothing else to go on, Marc followed the dog.
Fiona was exhausted. She had been running non stop for a while now, and her stalker showed no signs of slowing down. Fiona ran and ran until her legs gave out and she fell down. She looked up in fear as the woman she had been running from finally caught up with her.
Daniella, the cook and does the household work around the castle. She is a homunculus, a man-made human. Daniella chases after Fiona out of jealousy that Fiona can bear children and possess the Azoth, which Daniella believes will make herself human and complete.
"No... get away..." Fiona pleaded as the insane woman walked towards her with her crazy smile.
"You should not be running like this. You are a honored guest, no need to be so rude" Daniella said as she raised her hot fire poker, intent to beat Fiona for being rude and for having everything she wants.
"NO!" Fiona screamed before Daniella was suddenly punched in the face by a white gloved fist.
Fiona watched the insane woman hit the ground, with no signs of getting back up. She looked up just in time for her trusty companion Hewie to lick her in the face. Fiona hugged him in relief, so happy to see he made it and found her. But then she looked up to see an oddly dressed man looking down on her.
"Who are you?" Fiona demanded.
"Are you Fiona Belli?" He asked and Fiona nodded "I am called Moon Knight. I am here to get you out".
"Really?" Fiona asked with a glimmer of hope.
Marc offered her a hand up "Can you walk?"
Fiona accepted the hand "I'm tired but I should make it. Thank you".
"Thank me when we are out of here. Let's go-" Marc stopped and put Fiona behind him just in time to use his arm protection to block a strike from Daniella who was back on her feet.
"Intruder! You will die!" She screamed before Marc forced her back.
"Stay behind me!" Marc ordered as he took out a small sword he had on him.
Daniella attacked him like a maniac, but Marc had plenty of experience dealing with those. He easily blocked her strikes and punched her in the gut. She powered through and tackled him, only to be flipped over and landed on her back.
Daniella sat up and then... saw her reflection... she screams at such a high pitch that the glass above her shatters, bringing a huge shard down upon her, slicing through her abdominal area. With the last of her energy, she smiles, suggesting either that she wanted to die and got her wish, or that she experienced pain for the first time, and felt that it was close enough to emotion to make her happy before she died.
Marc watched her for a moment before putting away his blade "Sad end to a sad life".
"Please... can we just get out of here" Fiona begged.
Later Marc was carrying Fiona bridal style as he was running at full speed, with Hewie not far behind. Marc moved Fiona to his back "Hold on tight!"
After making sure Fiona would not fall of, Marc used one arm to pick up Hewie as he jumped out a window with them... right on top of his moon plane. He put Fiona and her dog inside before flying away.
Fiona held Hewie in her arms as she watched the castle fade from view "Thank you... thank you so much".
"Just doing what I sent out to do. I will have someone take care of that castle. You will never have to worry about it again" Marc said.
Fiona could not help but to smile at the thought and... fell asleep.
Back at the castle a hooded man and a seemingly crippled man watched their girl leave... and they were not happy.
But there was nothing they could do now.
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There is no secret that Capcom loves horror games, having said that though, I had never even heard of Haunting Ground before I began working on the chapter.
I stumbled on to it by pure chance so I decided to check it out to see if there was story that could be told... and it really freaked me out and I figured Moon Knight would be perfect for it.
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Tell me what you think.
