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PART 14: "Devils"
After almost five minutes of queuing in front of the entrance, the trio finally managed to get in without raising any suspicions. Inside there were a lot of people moving back and forth, and three halls.
" I'll take the right corridor and see what I can find," Mystique informed her two colleagues.
"I think you should go with Shade. His abilities might come in handy," the captain spoke on a serious tone this time.
"We have already agreed that I go and investigate while you two look for Linus Dayo inside. Stop worrying so much. You know very well I am extremely careful."
"You're naked. You have no weapons to kill a vampire."
"Have I ever got you in trouble?"
"No, but ...... All right, go!" Smoke sighed and turned to Shade who had been standing there quietly, amusing himself watching Smoke and Mystique arguing through whispers so the people walking around them couldn't understand what they were saying. "My authority is going down the drain, isn't it?"
"Yeap!" Shade answered with a wide smile on his face.
"OK, let's go."
Mystique walked straight ahead along the corridor, then turned left, walked a few paces, then turned right. To her left there were the doors to the men and women's restrooms and to her right, just a few feet away, there was a staircase. She approached it slowly but then stopped when she saw in a mirror situated on the wall at the end of the staircase, the reflection of two men talking in front of an office's door.
When she saw the man who had come out of the office climbing down the stairs she quickly went back the way she came, but not too far just enough to see where the man was going. Luckily for her, he entered the men's restroom. Mystique waited a few seconds then approached the door. She looked around to see if there was anyone coming and then she slowly opened the door, stepping inside.
Again her eyes roamed over the room and when she realized that there was nobody else inside she slowly began to walk towards the man who had come in earlier. As she approached him, her flesh and clothes began to ripple and change color, turning blue. Pieces of her skin began to flip over, like the pieces of a puzzle, changing color and form once more.
No more than 3 seconds later, the black man who had entered the restroom had turned into a tall, beautiful white skinned woman with blue eyes and short, curly blonde hair, dressed in a long blue dress with no sleeves and two big cuts on each side. She also wore long white boots and gloves as well as a belt formed of small golden skull.
This was Raven Darkholme, Mystique's true identity. As Raven, Mystique keeps her original features, all except the scaled blue skin, the red hair and the yellow eyes. In this way she can walk among ordinary people without having to change her appearance entirely, which is not really comfortable for her.
Turning around, the man was stunned to see a woman standing there in front of him, especially when he hadn't heard any noise of her coming in.
"What are you doing here, lovely?" he smirked, but with a certain amount of preoccupation in his eyes.
"Just wanted to hear your voice."
The man didn't have time to react when Mystique quickly reached forward and squeezed his neck with her right hand. But the man didn't seem to be too easy to defeat. With his right hand he grabbed her neck as well, lifting her off the ground while removing her hand from around his neck.
Gathering all her forces, she managed to free herself form his grasp by kicking him hard in the face and then flipping herself backwards. The man was indeed quite big, but he was not such a good fighter, hence it was easy for Mystique to defeat him and finally twist his neck. After dragging him in one of the booths, she started walking towards the door, changing her appearance to look like the man she had just defeated.
Having taken this new form, Mystique climbed up the stairs, heading towards the office form where the man had come out.
"Did anyone come in my absence?" she asked with the man's voice.
"No sir," answered the man who was guarding the door, a bit puzzled by his boss's sudden change of attitude, now speaking in a more formal manner than usual.
Mystique said nothing more and entered the office, closing the door behind her. Without loosing any time, she began walking towards the desk when suddenly, a woman's voice interrupted her.
"Are you coming, baby?"
Mystique gave an irritated look to the blonde-haired woman who was most likely the one night entertainment of the man whose form she had taken.
"Wait for me in the other room. I have some business to attend to."
"But ...... "
"I said go," Mystique yelled furiously, almost scarring the woman, who immediately turned and disappeared through a doorway covered with some dark- red velvet curtains.
Seeing the woman finally gone, Mystique proceeded to investigate the man's desk. But it was not long before she heard yet another person approaching the door through which she had come in this time it was none other than the men who she had killed in the bathroom. Apparently he was a vampire and it hadn't been much for him to put his head back in place after regaining consciousness. She recognized his voice as he was talking to the man guarding the door, who was puzzled to see his boss there, when a while back he had seen him entering the office.
Before the man burst furiously into the room, Mystique sprang from her place to the left and climbed up a bookcase, propping herself with herself with her legs and arms against the walls of the dark corner. In addition to this, she took her original form, the only difference being that she changed her skin and hair color to a dark one so that she wouldn't be noticed from the shadows.
She watched the man rushing through the room, calling the woman's name, and then disappearing behind the dark-red velvet curtains. She thought about sneaking quietly out of the room, but then she noticed the guard still standing in front of the door, looking curiously inside, so she decided to wait for a more appropriate moment to leave unnoticed.
Both Mystique and the guard were now looking curiously towards the doorway covered with the velvet curtains, as if waiting for something. They heard the man talking with the woman; at first he was angry but then his tone changed radically when, apparently, he noticed that the woman was not feeling too good.
What followed was a period of complete silence and shortly after the man gave out a horrified cry of fear, right before a loud animal roar was heard. The terrified guard pointed, with trembling hands, his gun at the velvet curtains. Mystique, on the other hand, appeared completely unmoved; she was more than accustomed with such occurrences. The man slowly approached the place from where strange groans could be heard, resembling those of a wild beast devouring its pray. He stopped the same time the noise seized, looking towards the doorway. From her hiding place, Mystique did the same.
The frightened man slowly extended one leg forward intending to get closer, when a large animal jumped through the doorway, tearing apart the curtains and landing on top of the man. Mystique seemed indifferent at the sight of this half-man-half-wolf-look- alike creature tearing off and eating hulks of flesh from the man's body. She glanced through the now exposed doorway into the room from which the creature had jumped out and saw a pile of ash lying on the floor. It seemed the creature was aware of the man's true nature and knew how to kill him.
Mystique waited until the creature finished doing its business and sprang out of the room on all fours. Then, she finally climbed down and took the same form she had taken when she first entered the building with Smoke and Shade, and went in pursuit of the beast.
In this time, Shade and Smoke had occupied their seats and enjoyed the show, noticing nothing unusual until the beast that Mystique had seen burst into the room. Following their basic instincts, all the people present there began to scream and run in every direction, in hopes of saving their lives, creating a total chaos and a state of confusion, not only for them, but for the creature as well.
Smoke immediately stood up, taking out a gun from under his coat and pointing it at the creature. The sound produced by the gun when he loaded it drew the attention of a man sitting in the first row, a man whom both Smoke and Shade hadn't noticed so far.
"Dayo," Shade pronounced the man's name after he had turned and the two men recognized him.
Smoke, still keeping the gun pointed at the creature, quickly slipped his left hand inside his coat and extracted a second gun with which he fired several shots towards Dayo. A couple of them pierced Dayo's body but unfortunately not in any parts that would kill him. As a reaction he didn't show any signs of pain from the wounds caused by the bullets but he did take covet, disappearing into the crowd.
Smoke looked behind him and saw that Shade was no longer there, after which he turned his attention to the creature, which had been startled by the fire shots, likewise the other people there. Now the hall was almost empty and Smoke was looking curiously at the creature, which seemed to be searching for something in particular. He watched it sniffing the air around it and slowly heading for the rink, and although it didn't attack or even pay attention to him, Smoke fired a shot at it.
This only enraged the creature, which began running furiously towards him. Making a few quick jumps backwards and handling the two guns he was holding with great skill, Smoke easily threw it down with several silver bullets. Then he approached it, watching how its body was beginning to take a human form. A few moments later, Smoke was looking down at the body of the blonde woman Mystique had seen in the office upstairs. But her face was not familiar to him, thus he passed by her showing no signs of pity whatsoever. She was a werewolf and his job was to rid the world of such creatures.
Having successfully eluded from his "hunters", the vampire Linus Dayo was now running down a corridor, heading towards the back exit, when all of a sudden he stopped sharply, sensing something behind him. He turned and stood still, carefully examining the empty hall before him, as if he was looking for someone, hidden somewhere, who was watching his every move.
The sound of a door being opened to his right quickly drew his attention. A young woman in a blue cleaning lady's uniform stood in the doorway with a mop in one hand. She was a bit surprised to see Dayo there but she quickly adopted a humble attitude, bowing her head and proceeding to do what she had intended to do.
At the sight of the woman, Dayo's face lighted up with a devilish joy, like a man who has just had a brilliant idea to put in practice his evil plot. No sooner had the woman passed by Dayo when a loud cry escaped her mouth as his right hand pulled her towards him, grubbing her tight next to him. His left hand wrapped itself around her neck and his small nails began to grow, becoming long and sharp.
"Show yourself or I slit her throat. Think you can sneak up on me? I can hear you breathing. I van sense your every move," Dayo spoke while his eyes surveyed from left to right the corridor in front of him as if he was positive someone was there but couldn't quite establish his position. "Show yourself!" he shouted once more furiously, sinking his nails into the girl's throat until blood began to trickle down her neck.
As Dayo did this, the shape of a human body began to take form a few feet away, in front of him. In no more than two seconds Shade became visible once more.
"Interesting. But you're no match for me."
And with that, the vampire slit the girl's throat, throwing her lifeless body, with great strength, flying across the air, towards Shade. Not having the heart to simply step aside and let the girl'' body smash against the hard cement floor, Shade caught her in his arms and then laid her down gently, thus giving the vampire sufficient time to escape.
Daredevil was sitting a top the "Olympic" boxing arena that night, thinking at all the misfortune that had come about him the last few weeks. It was not a coincidence for him to be in this exact place, for he had been coming here for many years, ever since his father was killed. He was staring at the back door -even though he was blind he could sense in which direction to look-, the door through which his father had come out to meet him before he was killed for having refused to through the fight that night.
As he was mindlessly starring into the dark, lost in his memories, the back door was suddenly smashed against the wall by a man who ran with the speed of a bullet down the stairs and round a corner, where he got into a car that drove away immediately. Daredevil was puzzled; he didn't know whether the man was a law-breaker and he should chase after him. Before he had the time to decide anything, the door burst open once more and two other men came running out.
"Dayo's escaping. We must go after him," said Shade while climbing down the stairs.
"Wait!" Smoke stopped him, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Where's Mystique?"
Just as he said that, a loud noise of a window being broken was heard somewhere above them, at a higher floor, followed by the roar of an animal and the cry of a woman. The two of them quickly looked up and saw mystique -in the male form she had taken that night- falling to the ground next to a werewolf
"Mystique!" Smoke cried out while his body became like that of a ghost. It had a grayish color and one could easily see through it. The outline of his human body and of his clothes, as well as his eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows and other features had a more pronounced and clear color in order to show that his physical form was still there and had not vanished. In this state he could easily pass through solid matter and he also had no weight.
Therefore, he easily lifted himself in the air and started flying towards Mystique. But the devil was more agile in doing his job and before Smoke could reach Mystique he had swung through the air, grabbed her and set her safely on the ground. At the same time, the werewolf's body smashed against the ground. Smoke, who landed as well, taking his original form took out a gun and shot the werewolf, who was still moving a little bit, to make sure it was dead.
"You're Daredevil, aren't you?" Smoke asked on his usual cheerful tone, as if he was glad to meet the famous defender of the week from Hell's Kitchen. "We finally have the pleasure of meeting you."
"Pleasure?" Mystique asked irritated while taking the form of Raven Darkholme. "I say we dispose of him once and for all. We don't need a meddler like him spoiling our business."
"We were never given such an order. Plus, the man has done only good deeds," Smoke contradicted her. "He just saved your life, didn't he?"
Daredevil was stunned. Despite the fact that he could not see, he had his radar sense and his perfect hearing that allowed him to realize all the bizarre things that had taken place before him. Such as the weird creature turning into a man after being killed, Smoke's ability to transform his body and fly, not to mention the man whom he had saved and who at first spoke with a clear female voice and afterwards changed his body into that of a woman.
"Who are you people, or better yet ...... what are you?" the vigilante asked amazed.
"No comment, I'm afraid. Sorry friend."
Daredevil wanted to go after Smoke and Mystique when they started to walk away but Shade, who in the meantime had joined his two colleagues, stepped in front of him, preventing him from following them.
"Shade?" Smoke called him as if wanting to tell him not to give any information to that man.
But Shade didn't listen to him. He thought daredevil deserved an explanation.
"Please don't consider us your enemies. We are just like you, trying to protect those who no one would against dangers many refuse to accept."
"But what they did it's ...... impossible. You're not normal ...... and that creature, who's now ...... a man. What is that?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know. Listen, the best thing you could do now is to forget all of this ever happened and go back to keeping the criminals out of the streets. Because the world you live in, a world you consider to be dangerous and degenerated, is paradise compared to the world we have to live in, the real world and I don't wish you to ever get to know it. As for what we are, yes, we're not exactly regular human beings, but then again, neither are you. You're one of us."
Daredevil wanted to speak but Shade interrupted him.
"I understand you're confused but think about it, how many people have you heard to gain super human abilities after loosing their sight, just like you did?"
The vigilante had so many questions to ask but Shade made himself invisible and disappeared from sight, following his friends who had been long gone.
PART 14: "Devils"
After almost five minutes of queuing in front of the entrance, the trio finally managed to get in without raising any suspicions. Inside there were a lot of people moving back and forth, and three halls.
" I'll take the right corridor and see what I can find," Mystique informed her two colleagues.
"I think you should go with Shade. His abilities might come in handy," the captain spoke on a serious tone this time.
"We have already agreed that I go and investigate while you two look for Linus Dayo inside. Stop worrying so much. You know very well I am extremely careful."
"You're naked. You have no weapons to kill a vampire."
"Have I ever got you in trouble?"
"No, but ...... All right, go!" Smoke sighed and turned to Shade who had been standing there quietly, amusing himself watching Smoke and Mystique arguing through whispers so the people walking around them couldn't understand what they were saying. "My authority is going down the drain, isn't it?"
"Yeap!" Shade answered with a wide smile on his face.
"OK, let's go."
Mystique walked straight ahead along the corridor, then turned left, walked a few paces, then turned right. To her left there were the doors to the men and women's restrooms and to her right, just a few feet away, there was a staircase. She approached it slowly but then stopped when she saw in a mirror situated on the wall at the end of the staircase, the reflection of two men talking in front of an office's door.
When she saw the man who had come out of the office climbing down the stairs she quickly went back the way she came, but not too far just enough to see where the man was going. Luckily for her, he entered the men's restroom. Mystique waited a few seconds then approached the door. She looked around to see if there was anyone coming and then she slowly opened the door, stepping inside.
Again her eyes roamed over the room and when she realized that there was nobody else inside she slowly began to walk towards the man who had come in earlier. As she approached him, her flesh and clothes began to ripple and change color, turning blue. Pieces of her skin began to flip over, like the pieces of a puzzle, changing color and form once more.
No more than 3 seconds later, the black man who had entered the restroom had turned into a tall, beautiful white skinned woman with blue eyes and short, curly blonde hair, dressed in a long blue dress with no sleeves and two big cuts on each side. She also wore long white boots and gloves as well as a belt formed of small golden skull.
This was Raven Darkholme, Mystique's true identity. As Raven, Mystique keeps her original features, all except the scaled blue skin, the red hair and the yellow eyes. In this way she can walk among ordinary people without having to change her appearance entirely, which is not really comfortable for her.
Turning around, the man was stunned to see a woman standing there in front of him, especially when he hadn't heard any noise of her coming in.
"What are you doing here, lovely?" he smirked, but with a certain amount of preoccupation in his eyes.
"Just wanted to hear your voice."
The man didn't have time to react when Mystique quickly reached forward and squeezed his neck with her right hand. But the man didn't seem to be too easy to defeat. With his right hand he grabbed her neck as well, lifting her off the ground while removing her hand from around his neck.
Gathering all her forces, she managed to free herself form his grasp by kicking him hard in the face and then flipping herself backwards. The man was indeed quite big, but he was not such a good fighter, hence it was easy for Mystique to defeat him and finally twist his neck. After dragging him in one of the booths, she started walking towards the door, changing her appearance to look like the man she had just defeated.
Having taken this new form, Mystique climbed up the stairs, heading towards the office form where the man had come out.
"Did anyone come in my absence?" she asked with the man's voice.
"No sir," answered the man who was guarding the door, a bit puzzled by his boss's sudden change of attitude, now speaking in a more formal manner than usual.
Mystique said nothing more and entered the office, closing the door behind her. Without loosing any time, she began walking towards the desk when suddenly, a woman's voice interrupted her.
"Are you coming, baby?"
Mystique gave an irritated look to the blonde-haired woman who was most likely the one night entertainment of the man whose form she had taken.
"Wait for me in the other room. I have some business to attend to."
"But ...... "
"I said go," Mystique yelled furiously, almost scarring the woman, who immediately turned and disappeared through a doorway covered with some dark- red velvet curtains.
Seeing the woman finally gone, Mystique proceeded to investigate the man's desk. But it was not long before she heard yet another person approaching the door through which she had come in this time it was none other than the men who she had killed in the bathroom. Apparently he was a vampire and it hadn't been much for him to put his head back in place after regaining consciousness. She recognized his voice as he was talking to the man guarding the door, who was puzzled to see his boss there, when a while back he had seen him entering the office.
Before the man burst furiously into the room, Mystique sprang from her place to the left and climbed up a bookcase, propping herself with herself with her legs and arms against the walls of the dark corner. In addition to this, she took her original form, the only difference being that she changed her skin and hair color to a dark one so that she wouldn't be noticed from the shadows.
She watched the man rushing through the room, calling the woman's name, and then disappearing behind the dark-red velvet curtains. She thought about sneaking quietly out of the room, but then she noticed the guard still standing in front of the door, looking curiously inside, so she decided to wait for a more appropriate moment to leave unnoticed.
Both Mystique and the guard were now looking curiously towards the doorway covered with the velvet curtains, as if waiting for something. They heard the man talking with the woman; at first he was angry but then his tone changed radically when, apparently, he noticed that the woman was not feeling too good.
What followed was a period of complete silence and shortly after the man gave out a horrified cry of fear, right before a loud animal roar was heard. The terrified guard pointed, with trembling hands, his gun at the velvet curtains. Mystique, on the other hand, appeared completely unmoved; she was more than accustomed with such occurrences. The man slowly approached the place from where strange groans could be heard, resembling those of a wild beast devouring its pray. He stopped the same time the noise seized, looking towards the doorway. From her hiding place, Mystique did the same.
The frightened man slowly extended one leg forward intending to get closer, when a large animal jumped through the doorway, tearing apart the curtains and landing on top of the man. Mystique seemed indifferent at the sight of this half-man-half-wolf-look- alike creature tearing off and eating hulks of flesh from the man's body. She glanced through the now exposed doorway into the room from which the creature had jumped out and saw a pile of ash lying on the floor. It seemed the creature was aware of the man's true nature and knew how to kill him.
Mystique waited until the creature finished doing its business and sprang out of the room on all fours. Then, she finally climbed down and took the same form she had taken when she first entered the building with Smoke and Shade, and went in pursuit of the beast.
In this time, Shade and Smoke had occupied their seats and enjoyed the show, noticing nothing unusual until the beast that Mystique had seen burst into the room. Following their basic instincts, all the people present there began to scream and run in every direction, in hopes of saving their lives, creating a total chaos and a state of confusion, not only for them, but for the creature as well.
Smoke immediately stood up, taking out a gun from under his coat and pointing it at the creature. The sound produced by the gun when he loaded it drew the attention of a man sitting in the first row, a man whom both Smoke and Shade hadn't noticed so far.
"Dayo," Shade pronounced the man's name after he had turned and the two men recognized him.
Smoke, still keeping the gun pointed at the creature, quickly slipped his left hand inside his coat and extracted a second gun with which he fired several shots towards Dayo. A couple of them pierced Dayo's body but unfortunately not in any parts that would kill him. As a reaction he didn't show any signs of pain from the wounds caused by the bullets but he did take covet, disappearing into the crowd.
Smoke looked behind him and saw that Shade was no longer there, after which he turned his attention to the creature, which had been startled by the fire shots, likewise the other people there. Now the hall was almost empty and Smoke was looking curiously at the creature, which seemed to be searching for something in particular. He watched it sniffing the air around it and slowly heading for the rink, and although it didn't attack or even pay attention to him, Smoke fired a shot at it.
This only enraged the creature, which began running furiously towards him. Making a few quick jumps backwards and handling the two guns he was holding with great skill, Smoke easily threw it down with several silver bullets. Then he approached it, watching how its body was beginning to take a human form. A few moments later, Smoke was looking down at the body of the blonde woman Mystique had seen in the office upstairs. But her face was not familiar to him, thus he passed by her showing no signs of pity whatsoever. She was a werewolf and his job was to rid the world of such creatures.
Having successfully eluded from his "hunters", the vampire Linus Dayo was now running down a corridor, heading towards the back exit, when all of a sudden he stopped sharply, sensing something behind him. He turned and stood still, carefully examining the empty hall before him, as if he was looking for someone, hidden somewhere, who was watching his every move.
The sound of a door being opened to his right quickly drew his attention. A young woman in a blue cleaning lady's uniform stood in the doorway with a mop in one hand. She was a bit surprised to see Dayo there but she quickly adopted a humble attitude, bowing her head and proceeding to do what she had intended to do.
At the sight of the woman, Dayo's face lighted up with a devilish joy, like a man who has just had a brilliant idea to put in practice his evil plot. No sooner had the woman passed by Dayo when a loud cry escaped her mouth as his right hand pulled her towards him, grubbing her tight next to him. His left hand wrapped itself around her neck and his small nails began to grow, becoming long and sharp.
"Show yourself or I slit her throat. Think you can sneak up on me? I can hear you breathing. I van sense your every move," Dayo spoke while his eyes surveyed from left to right the corridor in front of him as if he was positive someone was there but couldn't quite establish his position. "Show yourself!" he shouted once more furiously, sinking his nails into the girl's throat until blood began to trickle down her neck.
As Dayo did this, the shape of a human body began to take form a few feet away, in front of him. In no more than two seconds Shade became visible once more.
"Interesting. But you're no match for me."
And with that, the vampire slit the girl's throat, throwing her lifeless body, with great strength, flying across the air, towards Shade. Not having the heart to simply step aside and let the girl'' body smash against the hard cement floor, Shade caught her in his arms and then laid her down gently, thus giving the vampire sufficient time to escape.
Daredevil was sitting a top the "Olympic" boxing arena that night, thinking at all the misfortune that had come about him the last few weeks. It was not a coincidence for him to be in this exact place, for he had been coming here for many years, ever since his father was killed. He was staring at the back door -even though he was blind he could sense in which direction to look-, the door through which his father had come out to meet him before he was killed for having refused to through the fight that night.
As he was mindlessly starring into the dark, lost in his memories, the back door was suddenly smashed against the wall by a man who ran with the speed of a bullet down the stairs and round a corner, where he got into a car that drove away immediately. Daredevil was puzzled; he didn't know whether the man was a law-breaker and he should chase after him. Before he had the time to decide anything, the door burst open once more and two other men came running out.
"Dayo's escaping. We must go after him," said Shade while climbing down the stairs.
"Wait!" Smoke stopped him, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Where's Mystique?"
Just as he said that, a loud noise of a window being broken was heard somewhere above them, at a higher floor, followed by the roar of an animal and the cry of a woman. The two of them quickly looked up and saw mystique -in the male form she had taken that night- falling to the ground next to a werewolf
"Mystique!" Smoke cried out while his body became like that of a ghost. It had a grayish color and one could easily see through it. The outline of his human body and of his clothes, as well as his eyes, nose, mouth, eyebrows and other features had a more pronounced and clear color in order to show that his physical form was still there and had not vanished. In this state he could easily pass through solid matter and he also had no weight.
Therefore, he easily lifted himself in the air and started flying towards Mystique. But the devil was more agile in doing his job and before Smoke could reach Mystique he had swung through the air, grabbed her and set her safely on the ground. At the same time, the werewolf's body smashed against the ground. Smoke, who landed as well, taking his original form took out a gun and shot the werewolf, who was still moving a little bit, to make sure it was dead.
"You're Daredevil, aren't you?" Smoke asked on his usual cheerful tone, as if he was glad to meet the famous defender of the week from Hell's Kitchen. "We finally have the pleasure of meeting you."
"Pleasure?" Mystique asked irritated while taking the form of Raven Darkholme. "I say we dispose of him once and for all. We don't need a meddler like him spoiling our business."
"We were never given such an order. Plus, the man has done only good deeds," Smoke contradicted her. "He just saved your life, didn't he?"
Daredevil was stunned. Despite the fact that he could not see, he had his radar sense and his perfect hearing that allowed him to realize all the bizarre things that had taken place before him. Such as the weird creature turning into a man after being killed, Smoke's ability to transform his body and fly, not to mention the man whom he had saved and who at first spoke with a clear female voice and afterwards changed his body into that of a woman.
"Who are you people, or better yet ...... what are you?" the vigilante asked amazed.
"No comment, I'm afraid. Sorry friend."
Daredevil wanted to go after Smoke and Mystique when they started to walk away but Shade, who in the meantime had joined his two colleagues, stepped in front of him, preventing him from following them.
"Shade?" Smoke called him as if wanting to tell him not to give any information to that man.
But Shade didn't listen to him. He thought daredevil deserved an explanation.
"Please don't consider us your enemies. We are just like you, trying to protect those who no one would against dangers many refuse to accept."
"But what they did it's ...... impossible. You're not normal ...... and that creature, who's now ...... a man. What is that?"
"Trust me, you don't want to know. Listen, the best thing you could do now is to forget all of this ever happened and go back to keeping the criminals out of the streets. Because the world you live in, a world you consider to be dangerous and degenerated, is paradise compared to the world we have to live in, the real world and I don't wish you to ever get to know it. As for what we are, yes, we're not exactly regular human beings, but then again, neither are you. You're one of us."
Daredevil wanted to speak but Shade interrupted him.
"I understand you're confused but think about it, how many people have you heard to gain super human abilities after loosing their sight, just like you did?"
The vigilante had so many questions to ask but Shade made himself invisible and disappeared from sight, following his friends who had been long gone.