Central City

12:00 Midnight

Shades POV

I'm angry and I've been taking a lot of it out on thugs and criminals at night, while also sending them to the ER in the process. I didn't care they deserved it the fools deserved that much pain, many people are still scared because of the Particle accelerator explosion, so I was busy during both night and day not only at the Hospital but also at night. I guess I was keeping busy because I was trying to keep my mind off of Barry, I knew that worrying about his wasn't going to help his condition but I would still worry. I would call STAR Labs at least 10 times a day checking in to see if Barry had woken up yet.

Catlin told me to stop calling because she would call me if anything changed or happened. Barry has been at STAR Labs for almost 9 months still in his coma and I was growing impatient. I was on the outside wall of my apartment building, I was just sitting there against it, my feet planted firmly on it, my arms crossed over my chest, my blue eyes shut tightly but my ears wide open, just listening to the noisy city bellow waiting for something to happen. I snapped up when I heard a scream below, I could instantly sense danger. I tightly grip my cloak and teleport down to the streets beneath me, two men both armed with either a gun or knife both harassing two young girls, I slowly move behind them and speak in my deep demonic voice.

"HEY!" I shouted down the alley way to the dumb asses they instantly turn to face me. "Don't even think about it!"

"Who the hell are you?" The one with the gun asked now pointing the weapon right at me, I slowly walked forward, not afraid of the small devise. "Back up man!" The thug shouts now shaking. "Don't make me do this." I only look him dead in the eyes and say.

"Do it!" the trigger is squeezed a loud bam goes off, both the girls scream but I don't feel a thing, the bullet doesn't even penetrate my skin, I lightly smile when I hear the bullet shatter then fall to the ground.

"Whoa, what the hell are you man?"

I coldly laugh that sends a shiver down the men's spins when I then remove my hood. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you." My eyes turn black, I grow jagged fangs in my mouth and head I scream a horrible, ear pinching scream and take the men down with one fast motion.

The next morning

My head hurts, I knew what had happened last night but I still felt tired, I can feel the sun creeping past the shades over my windows in my bedroom, the left side of my body was hanging off the side of my bed, I felt so weak. I had no energy to get up, my whole body felt sore, I slowly lift my arm to my bedside counter and reach for my TV remote and turn it on.

"Again continuing today from last night the mysterious do gooder known to Central City as Shade was spotted again, this time saving two teenage girls who were assaulted by two escaped prisoners. They were found at 5 o'clock this morning with broken bones and heavily bruised bodies and quickly escorted to Central City Hospital for treatment. This event also brings up a still UN answered question, is Shade really doing good for Central City? We go down town with Rob Reder at Central City Police Department, Rob how's it going?"

"Doing great Leyden, I'm here at CCPD with Captain David Singh to talk with us about the hero called Shade, Captain what can you tell us about this?"

"Oh great." I moan to myself as I sit up in my bed rubbing my bruised leg.

"Thanks Reder, I'm thinking what many people are thinking that this Shade is a menus and a danger to many of Central Cities citizens."

"But there has been a decrease in criminal activity since the practical accelerator accident thanks to him and now there have been twice as many Shade sightings since then as well, is it possible that he's trying to help."

"He isn't helping Reder, he's bodily injuring people like he has no sense of right and acting like he has no morals or ethics for humans."

"Because I'm not human you bastard!" I snarl flashing my fangs at the TV my eyes again going black, I quickly turn back to normal once I see an image of Barry's lab displayed on the TV.

"Do you think that Shade played a part in many of the deaths in Central City after the particle accelerator?"

"Not likely, the guy may be beating up his victim's pretty badly but he's no killer."

"Thank you." I say relieved as I get dressed. "First nice thing he's ever said about me in years!"

"Well thank you Captain for your time."

"Anytime."

I instantly shut the TV off and again collapsed on my bed my hands over my face with my hands exhaling deeply, I had the day off from the hospital today so I wouldn't have to pull in any shifts, which is perfect because I needed to rest up and heal myself from my bruises from last night. Next to those thugs I took out 7 more groups of criminals, one of them got the drop on me and beat the crap out of me and because of my mixed emotions they were actually able to hurt me badly! Which resulted in my upper back and legs along with part of my torso were covered in bruises.

I literally cannot remember the last time I was ever this sore all over my body. Guardians are very resilient beings but sometimes our emotions can either be our greatest strength or our greatest weakness but that entirely depends on us. My head wasn't spinning so badly now that I took something for it, I clasped my hands together they instantly began glowing with dark energy, I then gently place my hand on my bruised leg just below my knee and begin to heal myself…painfully healing myself.

"Ow ow ow damnit damnit damnit!" I shriek pulling away from my leg in pain, ok I'm not doing that anymore I'll let them heal the old fashion earth way, give them a few days and they'll be gone no big deal, owe pain such pain! Ok ok deep breaths, I should call STAR again see if Barry's up yet…wait no Catlin will yell at me for racking up their phone bill again. GOD! What do I do? I almost fall out of my bed when the phone rings, I don't even hesitate to pick it up.

"Hello yes what is it?"

"Hello Jason, it's Catlin you have to get over to STAR Labs Barry just woke up."

Oh my god oh my god oh my god! I waste no time getting dresses and teleporting to my destination so excited to see my friend.