Welcome to a new story, lately I have been having issues with trying to think up new ones and ideas. Seriously, I was thinking up this story and had no idea how to start it. Then i got the idea of having Drake Redgrave, my OC, begin as a novice and pave his way to be one of the best... okay, that sounds very much like Ultimate Spider-Man.
I'm also thinking of bringing back my old Justice League: Hell's Greatest Soldier story after watching the 1994 film the Crow, which is a GREAt film by the way and is a great film to cause inspiration for a dark origin and storyline.
I cannot go into to much, but I'll let you read and I'll get into the main juicy stuff at the end of the story. Enjoy and welcome to The Devil of the League.
"A Devil's Justice" -Speaking
"A Devil's Justice" -Thoughts/Telepathic Speaking
"A Devil's Justice" -Demonic/Godly/Angelic Speaking
"A Devil's Justice" -Demonic/Godly/Angelic Thoughts/Telepathic Speaking
Disclaimers: I do not own anything here. Justice League is owned by DC, DMC is owned by Capcom, but the only thing I own is my OC.
Walking down an empty street was a male teenager about seventeen years old. The teen had short white hair in a faux-hawk like style, fair, yet pale skin, and icy blue eyes.
His attire consisted of red pants with two black belts wrapped around his right thigh, a black, leather belt, black gloves, and high, black boots. Along with wearing a hooded long coat with Western and Italian features, that was a deep red, almost crimson color. The coat is short-sleeved, with numerous gold-colored studs decorating the shoulders, collar, and chest, with a single zipper on the front, yet it remains unzipped. he also wore a cloth-like mask over the lower part of his face with only his eyes being seen like some kind of ninja.
This was Drake Redgrave.
Turning down an alley, Drake went down a set of stairs, arriving at a door at the bottom and entered inside the now revealed bar. The bar was mostly empty, aside from the bartender and three of guys playing a game of poker.
Sitting at the bar, Drake clasped his hands in front of him after letting the cloth mask loose and hang.
"What'll it be?" Asked the bartender, cleaning a glass.
"A strawberry sundae." Drake answered, with the bartender chuckling as he turned to face him.
"This is a bar, kid, no place for someone like you." Stated the bartender.
"Really? Just trying to sweeten up the air in here, it smells like shit, or more like, blood. And that's fine with me." Said Drake, as the bartender stopped cleaning his glass. "Cause what I'm interested in, is this rumor I heard. They say that somewhere around here, there's a bar, more like a dive, a place where they'll take someone's life in place of money. Kinda scary."
One of the players playing poker grunted in annoyance as the other player won the game. "Sorry, forgive me pal." Said the player.
"Royal straight flush, is it? Playing a hand like that could kill a guy." Said Drake, before looking forward, while reaching underneath his coat to the back of his waist, while the player set down his cards and stood up.
"How about, I buy you a round!" He said, walking towards Drake, only to be met with the end of a black handgun pointed at him, before he was shot in the forehead.
The guys body flew back with blood flying out of the bullet hole, but rather than dying, a monster seemed to burst out of his body and charge at Drake.
Ducking under the attack, Drake slid back, just as the other two players also transformed into monsters, as well. Pulling out a second handgun, being white in color, and shot the two monsters three times in their heads, reducing them to bloody paste.
Going to aim at the first monster, Drake gave a small grunt, when it suddenly lunged and bit his arm.
"Not bad, Mr. Royal Flush." Drake stated, dropping the gun in his free hand and held his now free hand out.
Immediately, a large demonic sword fell out of the sky, crashing through a skylight. The sword was massive with a heavy double-edged blade, notched on both sides near the tip. The grip is plain, but the guard is skeletal, with a skull-design on each side leading to the rib cage from which the blade emerges; on one side of the blade, the skull is that of a human, while the other uses a horned demon skull. The crossguard is folded in against the ribs.(1)
This was Rebellion.
Grabbing the blade, Drake swung the sword and sliced the monsters ahead off.
With the monsters dead, Drake sheathed his sword on his back and holstered his guns. Walking up to the door, Drake paused for a moment, before drawing his sword again and stabbing it through the door, with the bartender's body falling through the window not a moment later.
Pulling his sword out, Drake opened the door, stepping aside, as the body of the bartender fell to the ground.
"Next time you open up shop, don't forget to add strawberry sundae's to the menu." Drake said, walking up the stairs. "And make sure I don't come out late again, I have school you know."
However, before he reached the top of the stairs, another monster emerged from the bartenders body and lunged at him. Though before it could reach him, Drake spun around with the black handgun in hand and aimed at the monster's head.
"Jackpot!" Drake said, smirking as he pulled the trigger.
BANG!
At the docks of Red Grave City, a truck was seen frantically driving past containers while the three men were looking in the side mirrors for something or someone.
"Go! Go! Go!" The man in the passenger seat urged the driver frantically.
"Where's Raymond and Danny?" the driver asked as he kept his eyes on the road.
"He got them!" The passenger seat. "Screw them! Just keep driving and get us out of here!"
The truck drove past multiple containers that made it look like a maze. A they drove, the driver looked in the side mirror for any signs of the one pursuing them but didn't see anyone or anything which caused him to sigh with relief.
"I think we lost him. I think we're good." He said.
Suddenly someone landed on the front of the truck, revealing that it was actually Drake with his mask covering half his face and only his icy blue eyes being shown. "No... you punks are anything but good." He growled before he smashed his fist through the window and grabbed the wheel before jerking it hard, causing the truck to go out of control and hit a container which caused the truck to flip through the air before it landed on it's back as Drake landed on his feet a few inches away from the truck.
He brushed dirt off his shoulder before walking over to the door and opened it to see the men inside were knocked out and groaning. Drake smirked underneath his mask before he pulled them out and tied them up for the cops to find, then he began to leave.
"Sparda..."
Drake sighed with annoyance. "Can't even get a break." The vigilante turned around and looked around, scanning the shadows and containers for anything out of the ordinary.
"Sparda." A deep monstrous voice spoke along with the sound of metal scraping against something. From the shadows something moved against the racks, sound of clanking echoed in the building with each step.
"Oh great, a Marionette." Drake said with a roll of his eyes as he grabbed Rebellion from behind him and pointed it at the demon. "Can't you guys see I'm on crime-fighting time, not demon hunting time just now?" He heard more clanking and looked around to see several more Marionettes to appear from the shadows.
Drake tensed before he ducked under a swing from behind, spin kicking the marionette into oblivion. The Marionette did not hesitate to lunge at the same time swinging their arms wildly. The Marionettes dashed across the containers towards the masked hero, intent on taking his heart.
Drake leaped into the air, slug Rebellion across his back then whipped out Ebony and Ivory before he unleashed a hailstorm of bullets on the demons, killing some who were trying to reach the knocked out thugs. Drake spun through the air as he descended towards the ground but flipped and landed on his feet, shooting a demon in the face as he did so.
Holstering his guns, Drake unsheathed Rebellion and stabbed one of the demons creeping up behind him then looked to see several Marionettes running at him. "Batter up!" With a mighty swing he sent the dead Marionette flying off his blade and towards the other Puppet demons. The mere force shook the entire dock and obliterated all of the demons into nothing but shattered wood.
"Spaaaa-"
BANG!
Drake blew the smoke away from Ebony's barrel then holstered the gun, sheathed Rebellion across his back before he heard the distant sound of police sirens drawing near and that was his cue to leave. His job was done for tonight and he really needed to sleep.
Drake arrived at his apartment and climbed up the fire escape and opened his slightly opened window to enter before closing it behind him. Drake sighed as he dropped rebellion on the floor, threw his coat off then hang up his guns and sword in the closet before he threw his mask off and fell on the bed, asleep instantly.
Another night for the hero of Red Grave City...
"So, this is the City of Tomorrow, huh?" Drake asked himself as he rode a black Harley-Davidson Fatboy into the city of Metropolis. He had rebellion contained within a guitar case big enough to hold the sword while Ebony and Ivory were in holsters underneath Drake's coat on the back of his waist.
Drake had decided to take the day and night off after last night's successful stopping of crime and demonic activity. so he decided to take a trip to Metropolis, see the sights, maybe end up meeting Superman or his cousin Supergirl.
As he drove down a street in the city, his nose caught the smell of fire and smoke before he heard the sound of sirens. Drake slowed his bike down and entered an alleyway, quickly putt his mask on, took Rebellion out it's case and tossed it aside before he drove out of his motorcycle and followed the fire trucks and the smell of smoke before he found a building on fire and the fire department were on the scene, attempting to put out the flames before going in to rescue the victims inside.
Drake parked his motorcycle and got off before looking the situation over before he ran to the building, leaped and smashed through a window. Thankfully his mask prevented him from inhaling the smoke for now. Drake searched everywhere until he kicked a door down and found a black haired woman and her daughter cowering in the corner.
The woman looked up to see Drake and called out to him "Please help us!"
"Don't worry, I'm gonna get you two out of here!" Drake was approaching them when he heard a hissing sound from his left and turned to see a gas cylinder leaking, and he knew he had to hurry before the building explodes. Drake picked the woman and her daughter up and over his shoulder before he ran for the window he used to enter and jumped out just as the room went out of control as the fire engulfed it.
A part of Drake's coat caught fire but he put it out after landing and putting the woman and her daughter down. The woman hugged her daughter close and looked at the masked hero gratefully. "Thank you, Red Shadow!"
Yeah, Red Shadow was the name the people of Red Grave City game him... better than being called the Batman ripoff. Drake wasn't really into the name, but he figured it would do until he could think up one for himself instead of letting the people name him.
Drake nodded and went to leave but saw his motorcycle burned and trapped under a burning piece of the building, rendering it useless much to his displeasure before he leaped onto the rooftop of another building then disappeared from sight as he walked across the rooftop before jumping to the next one and perched himself on the ledge, looking down at the street below.
Drake's hearing picked up a whoosh of air and he whirled around, Ebony in hand, but paused when he saw who it was. He was looking at a teenage girl with long blond hair, wearing a blue long sleeved shirt of some kind that exposed her midriff with a S embalm on the chest. She also wore short blue skirt, a red cape and red boots. He knew who she was, Superman's cousin, Supergirl.
"So, you're' Red Grave's hero, huh?" Supergirl asked, snapping Drake frim his brief stare at her legs which were toned. He looked at her in the eyes and nodded as she landed. "Saw you on TV since you popped up a year ago."
"A fan I take it?" Drake asked with an amused smirk as he saw the Girl of Steel blushing a little when she looked at him.
"Y-Yeah." She said shyly, almost hiding her face behind her hair. She cleared her throat and asked. "S-So what brings you to Metropolis?"
"Well, decided to take a break from my usual stuff but it seems I don't get days off according to the universe." Drake said with a grumble, making Supergirl giggle. "i must say, it's an honour to meet Superman's cousin. You look beautiful in person than on camera."
"R-Really?" Supergirl asked, blushing badly as the guy she had a crush on called her beautiful. yeah she's never met him before and only seen him on TV, but seeing him on the news, his heroic acts and how he tries to make a difference for his city despite some of the critics calling him a Batman ripoff... she just developed a crush on him that amused her cousin and his adoptive parents to no end. She was very much tempted to use her X-ray vision to see what he looks like under his mask but resisted, he wore it for a reason.
"Yep." Drake said with an amused grin at seeing her blush, though to be fair he had a bit of a blush because Supergirl was really attractive and he was a young teenage guy speaking to a girl about his age and she was really attractive.. his hormones are gonna act up of course.
"W-Well... t-thank you." Supergirl said with a smile while mentally she was whooping in joy that the man she was interested in thought she was beautiful, so she decided to see what he looked like behind the mask and used her x-ray vision to see, and her blush darkened and deepened when she saw his face and his hair. 'Mmm, he's hot~'
"You okay?" Drake asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Fine!" Supergirl yelled, causing Drake to blink as she sheepishly giggled and cleared her throat. "Yeah, I'm fine. I appreciate the compliment, better than the insults I got when I first started out. being called... inappropriate names for my outfit really didn't help matters at the time."
"Just ignore the insults, I sure as hell do when I get called a Batman ripoff." Drake said with a reassuring tone that said he knew what she was going through. "Seriously, just because I mostly operate at night means I'm ripping off batman? Does Batman wear a red coat or have a sword with him?"
"Why do you have a sword?" Supergirl asked curiously.
"When the night comes... monsters come out to play." Drake said darkly as he looked away. "Not humans... something worse that needs to be put down before it can harm the innocent and I make sure no innocents are harmed."
"What kind of monsters?" Supergirl asked, wondering if this was something else from beyond the stars.
"Demons."
Supergirl blinked several times but didn't see that much of a problem with the existence of demons since aliens exist so why can't demons? She was about to say something else when she heard something, something electrical from the sounds of it and she almost groaned.
"Oh great, Livewire's back at it." She said before an idea came to mind, one she's been dreaming about. "Wanna team up to fight her?"
Drake shrugged. "Sure."
She grabbed his right hand, blushing as she did so and unaware Drake was blushing at having a pretty girl holding his hand. Supergirl then took off into the air, Drake laughing in joy as they did. As the duo drew close, they saw arcs of electricity bursting outwardly and numerous vehicles exploded with the citizens and police officers taking cover from the currently unknown source of the chaos until they finally got a visual. Apparently it was a girl with ghostly white skin and blue hair which stood on end, she wears a black leotard with a lightning bolt down the front and black boots as electricity emitting from her body.
"Livewire." Supergirl glared.
"You know her well, I take it?" Drake asked as Supergirl placed him down.
"Yeah, she blames my cousin for her current state."
"Well then, let's put sparky out and back into a cell." Drake said, getting a grin from the Girl of Steel.
"Agreed."
The villainess turned around and saw the heroes, one of whom she was familiar with as she glared at Supergirl. "Well, well, well. Aren't you a sight for sore eyes Supergirl, and you brought along that Batman ripoff from Red Grave City,"
"I'd appreciate you not mouthing off about things you don't know about, you walking battery," said Drake with a frown with Supergirl snickering at the snarky reply.
Livewire frowned at the half-demon. "What did you call me?"
"Did I stutter?"
"That's it, I'm gonna light you up like a Christmas tree!"
"it's April, you moron!"
Electricity surged from Livewire's hands as she thrust them forward to fire off a dual blast towards them, Drake and Supergirl dodged the blast, and Drake ran at Livewire from the side, avoiding her electrical blasts. Supergirl flew straight at Livewire with her fist reared but the villainess transformed herself into a bolt of lightning and flowed into the electric pole to zip along the power lines for her to punch the ground and form a large crater.
"Not so fast sparkles!" Drake whipped out Ebony and shot the power line , forcing Livewire to emerge. Livewire glared at the two heroes before she fired more electrical blasts at them that they avoided.
Drake kicked up a manhole cover and threw it like a Frisbee at Livewire when she was distracted by Supergirl, causing the cover to smack the back of the villain's head and she whirled around to glare at Drake who waved at her
"I'm gonna fry you like a turkey being cooked on Thanksgiving!" Livewire growled.
"Girl, you gotta work on the flirting." Drake chuckled, causing Livewire to grit her teeth in anger. Drake avoided hr attacks as he drew closer, running along the wall before he jumped over her and delivered a spinning kick to her back. "Hey Supergirl! Catch!"
Drake ran and kicked Livewire into the air. Overhead, said heroine came diving in and lashed out with a powerful punch to send Livewire careening to the ground and slamming into a car.
"How do you like that, sparky?" said Supergirl with a grin.
Livewire got out from the busted car and glared at the heroic duo with anger. "I'm far from done, Blondie!" she ran over to an electric pole and grabbed onto it as electric currents surged and were absorbed into her body. Drake looked around for anything useful when he saw a fire hydrant and smirked as an idea came to mind.
Supergirl avoided Livewire's lightning blasts before one struck her in the side, sending her down. Supergirl groaned as she clutched her side and looked to see Livewire approaching.
"Prepare for the shock of a lifetime, blondie!" Livewire grinned as she prepared to unleash a more powerful blasts when suddenly a burst of water smacked into livewire's back, and water and electricity were a bad mix as Livewire screamed for several seconds before she groaned and fell down, unconscious. Supergirl looked over to see Drake at a nearby fire hydrant, having used his foot to send the water in Livewire's direction before he put the cover back on.
Drake walked over and offered a hand, which she took and he helped her up. "You okay?" Drake asked with concern as he glanced at her side where she was struck.
"Never better." Supergirl said with a smile before blushing. "Can i have my hand back?"
"What?" Drake looked to see he was still holding her hand and quickly released with a blush. "Sorry."
The duo approached the defeated villainess with Supergirl using her breath to create an ice cocoon from the neck down in order to restrain her with the citizens looking on and taking pictures with their phones.
"I gotta say, you're pretty god," said Supergirl.
"And you pack one hell of a punch. Remind me to never piss you off. Hell, I feel sorry for any guy that screws up on a date with you or the jocks at high school if they mess up." Drake said, making her giggle.
"Thanks. So what will you do now?" Supergirl asked.
"I'm gonna head back to Red Grave, make sure it's not been burned in my absence." Drake said.
Supergirl looked a bit disappointed at hearing that. "Oh, so I guess I'll see you later then huh?"
"Yeah, I'd like to team up with you again. Hell, maybe we should one day hang out outside of costumes." Drake offered.
Supergirl smiled. "I'd like that." She hesitated a little before she suddenly kissed him on the cheek. "That's for... helping me out."
She flew off before Drake could say anything, unaware of Supergirl blushing madly while mentally she whooped at getting to kiss her crush... though one day she hoped it would be on the lips.
Drake shook his head and walked away but was smiling underneath his mask.
That was just chapter one to show Drake in his life. Next one will be starting the justice League teamup which is the Invasion of the Imperium or whatever they are called. This follows the 2001 Justice League cartoon show but there will be storylines from other DC comics along with my own made up arcs that I need to work on.
And yeah, Drake's hero name for now is The Red Shadow and his outfit is very simple, a face mask covering his lower face. He'll get a better outfit after the Justice League forms.
And yeah, this will be a harem story and Supergirl is in it. As for her appearance, I'm using her appearance from Superman unbound since i like the red and blue instead of the white and red she has in the animated show.
Oh yeah, the first arc of this story is called Rise of the Devil because Drake hasn't awakened his Devil power and blood yet, but can still move faster than humans when in battle, but mostly drives to get to places due to not having Devil Trigger just now.
91). Rebellion in it's dormant form.
One last thing, I'm thinking of doing my old DC New 52 story with my son of Sparda OC, but another part of me wants to do it with Spawn. So i have to ask you readers... who should I do going from Pre-New 52 to Flashpoint to the New 52 universe events like Justice League origin, Justice League Dark, Wonder Woman Blood, guts and Iron, Darkseid War, all those arcs.
Who should be the OC to use Drake Redgrave or Spawn?