Sometimes my stories take place over the course of months and I don't write what happened every single day. This chapter does skip ahead for quite a period of time--but what happened during that block of time gets told in flashbacks in the sequel for this story. So if you want to know what happens with Robin and the Gothic Angel-you will have to wait until it gets posted. That time frame isn't relevant to the story that I am telling here-which is why it didn't make it into this story.
Gothic Angel-part 4
Over the last several months the new heroes Robin and the Gothic Angel have been under constant watch. He almost had her the last time. There is a trick to getting rid of her-one that he thought he had mastered. He would have been the first in a long line of hunters to succeed--but it was her healing powers that kept her alive. He will not make the same mistake again. He stands up on top of a building looking down as she helps her would be saviour take down one of this cities many villains. He shakes his head at her elegant new look and hair color-she very much looks the part of a Gothic Angel...but he intends to see her die a death fit for the demon that she is. As police come to collect the villain the hunter takes aim at Raven with his weapon. He fires as the crowd below cheers on their heroes.
Raven never liked this part of the job. The crowds always stick too close to the action putting themselves in danger. She gasps as she feels a pain in her left shoulder. She touches it only to have the agony increase. As she pulls her hand away she finds it covered in blood. She hears the crowd cry out in shock as she collapses into Robin's arms. She knows what she's been hit with as her vision blurs. The bullet was packed with a power sedative...she fights its effects to stay conscious.
Robin looks up when someone leaps to the ground in front of them. This he realizes is the person who tried to kill Raven before she ended up here.
The hunter looks around at the gathered crowd. "You worship her as if she were an angel-but she is only a demon--"
"--demons are only fallen angels and she isn't a fallen one anymore." Robin meets the hunters gaze.
"She was born fallen. There is nothing she can do to change that."
"She is trying . That should count for something." Robin gets up blocking the man's path to Raven.
"Get out of my way and I will make this quick and painless for her."
"The only way you'll get to her is through me."
"So be it."
Raven can only watch as Robin tries to battle the hunter. She was lucky to escape him before. She tries to shrug off the effects of the drugs as she staggers up. If he nearly killed her a half blood demon-then Robin has no chance against him. Raven rushes forward as Robin is dealt an injuring blow. She gets between him and the hunter before he hit again. She manages to summon her powers to force the hunter away. She turns to Robin trying to focus her healing powers on him.
"Get out of here while you have the chance."
"I'm not leaving you Robin."
Robin sees the hunter advancing on Raven. "Look out!"
Raven looks back as the hunter grabs her left wing. She cries out as he wrenches the wing-breaking bones.
"Leave her alone!" Robin manages to get up and launch himself at the hunter.
The hunter fires his weapon at Robin. He's toyed with the boy long enough-its time that he finished what he started.
"Robin!" Too weak from the drugs coursing through her system to stand, Raven struggles to crawl to Robin. She whimpers from the pain as she is kicked in the side.
"I would have made it easy on you-but I don't think you deserve it now."
The crowd watches in shock as the hunter grabs Raven's other wing-nearly tearing it from her body. Many of them can't stand back any more. Large numbers of them rush forward using whatever they can find to distract the hulking figure from further injuring their beloved heroes. Many of them are injured but they do manage to keep him occupied long enough for a police sharp shooter to move in and take him down. The crowd watches nervously as ambulances take away their fallen heroes.
I didn't reveal Raven's Gothic Angel look in this story because I felt it was best told in the sequel. I'm trying to get my cousin aka editor #2 to do a sketch of Raven as the Gothic Angel-but he still hasn't gotten around to it yet. This chapter is short...I extended the fight scene some-but didn't go overboard with it. My ribs-twice injured now has been giving me problems again. I can't stand to sit at the computer for long periods of time and writing stuff like this only makes them hurt worse. This was a short story to begin with-I really like it and I didn't want to make any drastic changes to it. There is one more part to come in this story and the sequel takes place several years after this one ends.
Also this is an extremely powerful bad hunter guy. Just think of a Tyr Anazai (from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda) on space steriods. This guy could kick Superman's butt without the use of kryptonite.
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