The Murkrow
Chapter 6
"This certainly is a twist" Ash thought to himself as he darted through the shadows of a rich neighborhood "Surge was a rocket, he was paid, there where others, they must be rockets as well and in that case…"
Ash kept to his thinking as he and his accomplice blended in with the night. The flaming wreckage that was once the dead hero's mode of transportation was left where it fell. The angel of vengeance found through his medium the powers that he had been granted after becoming justice's avatar. Speed, strength, as well as a wide variety of martial arts, Ash was fully prepared to take down any mortal that got in his way. Zipping from tree to tree, the dark hero landed gracefully onto the beginning of a very long driveway, one that connected to a huge mansion. Almost like he had stuck to the wall, Ash scaled the iron barrier and made his way towards the large residence, a wicked smile plastered on his face.
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A fire crackled inside the fireplace located in the library of the mansion, it being the only light in the large room, creating ghastly shadows that danced on the walls. A single figure paced to and fro in front of the fire, his head of blue hair bent over a small and grubby book of poetry.
"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" The man read, breaking from his reading to stare at the crackling flame.
"Nevermore" A dark voice spoke out.
A large boom of thunder roared as a bolt of lighting streaked across the large windows, filling the room entirely with blue-white light, all except for the large part of the wall behind the figure, which held the shadow shaped like a crow.
The blue haired man took a step back, his body shaking with fear.
"W-who is y-y-you?" He managed to whimper.
"A seeker of information" The voice like death itself said "Whether you live or not is dependant on how you co-operate"
Backing into a desk, the blue haired man grabbed wildly for what he sought. After a few unsuccessful attempts, his hand finally grabbed the sword shaped letter opener.
"Show yourself," The man said, holding the edged stationary out in no particular direction, except towards the shadows.
"Very well" The voice said, even without a body, you could tell it was smiling.
The frightened man gasped and dropped the psuedo weapon as he saw whom the voice belonged to.
"You" He gasped.
"Yes me" The smiling figure of Ash said as he emerged himself fully from the shadows "I hope you excuse for the matrix gag, but I promise I won't try to assimilate you James"
"This isn't possible" The man now known as James said, looking at the dark warrior head to toe.
"Possible doesn't count anymore," Ash said in a serious tone "I need your help"
"Revenge?" James asked simply.
"Bingo" Ash smiled "How'd you know?"
"I've wanted the same thing for the past year" James began, taking out a small picture "Team Rocket has crossed lines I won't tolerate, I've been researching ways on revenge, including occult alternatives"
"I never pegged you for the hocus pocus James" Ash said as his pokemon guide perched on his shoulder "So, you know what I am?"
"Indeed I do" James answered as he turned to the door "Follow me"
And so, the two, or should I say three, made their way down the well-decorated halls of James' mansion.
"Didn't you're parent's live here?" Ash asked as he looked around at the expensive portraits of James' family.
"They're dead" James stated.
"Oh, I'm sorry" Ash said on instinct.
"No matter" He responded, "We're here"
Walking into the cold room of James' main computer terminal, James sat down and started bringing up files on what Ash found very interesting.
"You're what they call the Murkrow" James began, turning the chair around to look at the undead child "An unresting spirit focused on bringing justice to those who wronged him"
"A very interesting piece of information" Ash said "Except I bloody well forgot who did this to me"
"Then it's a good thing I can tell you who" James smiled.
"That's why your head's not on a spike right now," Ash said, returning James' smile with his own twisted one.
"Right" James said, his smile fading.
The blue-haired man turned around and brought up a few more files on the massive screen.
"I managed to steal a few files before I quit team rocket" James said, "I think these will help you find who you're looking for"
"You're not a rocket anymore?" Ash asked innocently.
"I don't want to talk about it" James said bitterly.
"Whatever" Ash said, folding his arms behind his head.
As Ash let James do his techno-thing, he looked around the room and found on the man's steel desk a single framed photograph"
"Jessie and Meowth, weird place to put a picture" Ash said.
Without taking his gaze off the screen, James reached out to towards the picture and turned it around, making it that Ash couldn't see it anymore.
"You know I'm just going to touch if I don't get my answers in the normal way" Ash stated.
Stopping his typing, James turned around to face the avenging teen.
"You want to know" James began with fury in his words "Fine, I'll tell you"
---Flashback---
"You're not coming James?" The redheaded rocket known as Jessie said to her partner.
"My parents just died, I have to be there" James answered.
"Time's a bitch" The cat pokemon Meowth said, "This is very important"
"Meowth is right James" Jessie said, "The twerp's deaths were because of team rocket, we have to find out why and who did it"
"Can't you just go later Jimbo?" Meowth suggested, "I'm sure everyone will understand"
"I can't" The blue haired man said, "It's just too important, I'm sorry"
"If that's how you feel, we won't pressure you" Jessie said "Come on Meowth, we'll have to figure this one out by ourselves"
"Right, see you later, Jimmie-boy" Meowth replied, walking off.
"Take care James" Jessie said, pecking James on the cheek "I promise, after this we'll all quit team rocket and go have an adventure of our own"
James watched in silence as his friends walked off towards the main building of team rocket.
-------End of Flashback-------
"And that was the last I saw of them" James said sombrely.
"So that's why you're doing all of this" Ash realised "This is your revenge"
"Damn strait" James replied, turning around back to his computer "They took away my loved ones, they are going to pay"
"Easy James" Ash warned, "You can't go around waving that anger around, you're not immortal"
"But you are" James said, lifting his hand to dramatically press the enter button.
Ash watched as 5 separate files opened up on the monitor, the face and data of Lt. Surge appearing as the top one.
"These are the members of the special ops team that was hired to eliminate you, they are code named 'The Shadow Rockets'".
"I don't care what their names are, I just want to know where they are and how fast I can kill them" Ash grunted, his blood lust bubbling inside him.
"You've already killed Surge, that leaves four more" James said, closing the Surge file.
"The next member is the psychic Sabrina" James said "She's always at her gym, but Saffron city has changed a bit, be on your guard for that one.
"Hey, she gave me quite a bit of trouble as a gym leader, I'm going to enjoy ripping her head off" Ash smiled.
"Moving on" James' face remained emotionless "The next member was Koga, the ninja specialist"
"I actually liked that guy" Ash admitted, shrugging his shoulders "Ah well, a merc's a merc, he can claim me tearing his legs off as worker's comp"
"They also hired his apprentice Ayame" James continued, "She's the fourth"
"Man, they really like their ninja" Ash replied.
"Indeed" James said.
Moving the mouse over towards the close button, James was surprised to see his entire screen turn black.
"Shit, someone's cut the power," The blue haired man cursed.
"Wait, couldn't just be a power outage?" Ash asked, finding the new darkness very comforting.
"No, I've got backup generators for that sort of thing, they must have found out what I did" James answered "You better get ready, they're going to charge us"
"What?" Was all Ash got out as the door was kick open and a spray of bullets filled the room, tearing through the young boy.
"Got you, you freak," The owner of the machine gun responsible for the spray said as he kick the boy.
"I don't fucking think so" The holey figure said, before leaping up and palm striking the man in the face, dislocating his jaw and sending him to the ground.
"What the fuck?" An armed rocket said as the dark dressed boy entered the light filled corridor.
"Guess what?" Ash looked upon the heavily armed men with a twisted smile "You're all my bitches now"
The squad of men all tried to get in a position to fire at the boy, but as the bullets flied through the corridor, all they hit was air.
"Where the hell did he go?" The squad leader said, walking to where the boy once was.
The man didn't even get time to turn around before, out of the shadows that lay upon the ceiling, descended the undead avenger, grabbing the man's head and twisting it till a sicken crunch was heard, all of this done before he hit the ground.
"Welcome to hell bitches" The crouching spirit said as his pokemon tie to this world landed on his shoulder "Please keep all future severed limbs inside the vehicle at all times and please, don't whine when I tear your spleens out"
And with that, all the light flittered out. The flashes from the panicking men's machine guns lit the area, accentuating the eeriness of the room as a shadow dance from flash to flash of light.
The sounds of flesh hitting either more flesh, brick, glass, metal and everything else the room provided was all that could be heard. The lights finally came back on to reveal a clump of mutilated bodies.
Two figures were left standing, one with a shotgun, and the other with immortality.
"Oh, please" Ash smiled "You really think that will kill me? Come on, give it a try then"
The shaking man pulled down on the trigger, his eyes were closed so all he heard was the buckshot enter flesh. Opening his eyes slowly, the man's gaze was met with…nothing, absolutely nothing.
"Nice shot" A voice whispered behind him.
The man tried to turn around but found that a pair of hands had grabbed his own weapon. The hands pushed the metal cylinder into the owner's chest, sending him against the wall.
"Open up bitch" The dark boy said.
The man put an immense clamp on his teeth, one to stop the chattering, and two to disobey the boy's orders.
"Not opening up huh?" The deceased hero said, "Well, we can do it another way"
Pushing the barrel forcefully up, the man's teeth cracked under the sudden impact.
Forcing a scream between his remaining gritted teeth, blood and shards of broken teeth flowed from his mouth and allowed easy access for the shotgun.
"Oh, and before I blow your fucking brains out" Ash smiled, his left hand trailing down towards the trigger while the other kept the gun in place "When you next see your boss, tell him that sending a single group of guys against an immortal is one of the most fucking stupid ideas he's ever come up with"
"You weren't the target" The man gargled out "Not the prime one anyway"
"Whatever" Ash said as he pulled the trigger.
Ash watched in delight as the man's headfirst bulged slightly, before the top half blew off completely, leaving the bottom jaw the only piece of his head remaining.
"Ugh, what a mess" Ash laughed as he walked back to the room where James was, stepping on an eye-ball and reducing in to mush as he moved.
"James, you in here?" Ash asked as he peered into the dark room.
There, lying in one of the corners was James.
"Shit, you've been shot" Ash said as he rushed over to his new friend.
"Yeah" James smiled painfully "Two in the stomach and one in the left lung, I haven't got much time".
"Don't be like that man," Ash said, his humanly concern overtaking his unearthly psychopath "We'll get you to a doctor, patch you up and you can be as good as new".
"Thank you for your concern" James coughed "But I'm afraid I'm quite done for".
Ash remained silent; a few tears fell from his face.
"The final member, check the computer" James wheezed, blood spraying from his mouth.
"Fuck, it got shot" Ash said.
"I'm sorry Ash, I've never opened that file before, so I don't know who it was" James continued.
"It's okay" Ash smiled "I'll just tear the information out of the other's skulls.
"Hehe, that's good to hear" James smiled "Tell me Ash, do you think I'll go to same place Jessie and Meowth are?"
"Of course you will" Ash said, more and more tears rolling down his cheek "And hey, if you come back as a second Murkrow, we'll have something to talk about"
"Yeah, that would be-" James stopped halfway through, a look of content and happiness on his face.
"James? James answer me," Ash shouted, shaking the blue-haired man.
But it was too late; Ash saw by the blank look in James' eyes that his friend had left this mortal coil.
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A dark figure walked alone out of James' magnificent estate. A much smaller dark figure circled above, before descending and landing on its master's shoulder.
"Be well my friend" Ash said, looking up at the full moon "Your death shall not be in vein"
And lookie here, after 3 months, I finally update. I'm sorry it took so long, can't really find a good excuse for my absence, but if you see my other brilliant works of literature I produced I'm sure you'll understand (As always, be sure to review) – Wolvie.