Flight of the Archangel
Disclaimer: "Sir, I will not hesitate to beat your ass with your own shoe!"
Chapter 5: Barfight
Outside the bar
A figure walked up to the bar, shadows obscuring the figure's appearance, except for a pair of glowing red eyes. The figure stopped when it heard the voice of Jay Guthrie crowing a challenge.
"I've defied Death herself! You think all of you scare me?" Jay's voice was heard crowing from the inside of the bar. The figure smirked. Whatever his mistress was up to, the crowing young man was certainly involved…things were about to get interesting.
Back inside
The biker regulars were all standing, unsure who was going to make the first move. They were all facing off against Jay Guthrie, who stretched out his wings in an intimidating manner, with a smirk on his face.
"What's the matter, boys?" Jay smirked. "Don't you want to get yourselves some of me? Come on! I'm a guy who's up for a fight! Let's see what you got!"
"Come on, morons!" One biker snapped. "He's just a mutie Kiss reject!"
"A mutie Kiss reject with metal wings, man!" A second retorted.
"I don't like that look in his eye, man." A third shuddered slightly.
"I ain't afraid of no makeup-wearing freak!" The denim-clad man who had insulted Jay earlier snarled. With a yell, he charged towards Jay, slashing him across the face with the broken beer bottle he was holding. "Ha!" The denim-clad man laughed. "Did ya see that? I told you! He's just a…" He trailed off as he turned around. He saw Jay's face. The slashmark that was left by the beer bottle was healing right before his eyes. In a matter of moments, it was closed up, not even leaving a scar. The redhead's face looked as if he was never slashed in the first place.
"Oh my God!" One of the bikers' jaws dropped.
"Now that wasn't very nice." Jay smirked at the denim-clad man. The attempted assailant shuddered and slowly backed away in fear, his face as white as a sheet, and his eyes were like saucers.
"W-w-what are you?" The denim-clad man stammered in fright. Jay burst out laughing.
"I told you, pal. I'm not exactly a mutant anymore." Jay laughed.
"Not a mutant?" One biker blinked to another. "What is he, from another planet?" Jay grabbed the denim-clad man around the throat.
"Just call me…Archangel." Jay laughed at the man. He gave the denim-clad bigot a punch in the face, and threw him to the ground. The man quickly tried to get to his feet. With a smirk, Jay pulled out a feather from his wing, which made the sound of a sword unsheathing. "I hope you made my point." He threw the feather, the feather making a whistling sound as it cut through the air.
"AIEEEEE!" The denim-clad man screamed as he felt the feather stab him right in his left glute.
"Aw, right in the buttcheek." One biker winced.
"Awwwww, not the good cheek!" The denim-clad man howled in pain.
"Let's take him down! He can't fight all of us at once!" One biker yelled.
"Wanna bet?" Jay smirked cockily. "I really don't want to give any of you any permanent injuries." With a battle cry and holding up various weapons, the bikers charged towards Jay. The bartender looked up.
"I think you'd better get out of here, man!" The bartender winced. "Those guys'll kill you."
"I think you should cover your ears, pal." Jay warned the bartender. He turned his head back towards the charging bikers. He smirked and took a breath.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Jay let rip with a sonic scream, causing the bikers to stop and cover their ears. Several of them were sent flying through the far wall of the bar. Most of them were disoriented, stumbling around, holding their ears, moaning.
"Oh, God! My ears!"
"Where is this ringing coming from?"
"I can't hear anything!"
"My ears!"
Wow. Jay mentally whistled. I was never this powerful as Icarus. Heh heh, this is kinda fun. Ol' Selene really knows how to make a new body. He turned towards the bar. "You can get up now, pal." The bartender looked up slowly.
"You ain't gonna hurt me, are you?" He gulped.
"Nah." Jay smirked. "Unlike these idiots, I actually like you." A biker who managed to recover picked up a chain. Jay's hearing picked it up. "Oh, now what?" The biker charged towards Jay, twirling the chain over his head. "Oh look. Another dolt." The biker tried to whip Jay with the chain, but the metal-winged mutant dodged it, then used one of his wings to knock it away, making a CLANG sound. Jay then lashed out with a jab to the biker's face, and then another blow to the gut, and finally, slamming the biker's head against the bar counter, knocking him out with a grunt.
"Uhhhh…" The biker moaned as he faded into unconsciousness. Jay then searched the biker, taking his wallet out. He then noted a pair of black sunglasses hanging from the biker's shirt. Jay took the glasses.
"Here." Jay took some money out of the wallet and handing it to the bartender. "Thanks for the drink. It was nice to be able to do that again."
"Huh?" The bartender blinked as Jay left. The mystically-resurrected mutant walked out to a line of motorcycles parked outside. Jay withdrew his wings into his body, his red hair darkening to black. Almost by instinct, Jay waved his hand over his face, causing his painted face to change colors to its normal pink hue.
Huh. Guess this new body has more surprises than I thought. Jay noticed as he just replayed what he just did in his head. He looked over the motorcycles.
"I saw what you did in there to those mortals. Excellent work. The mistress would be proud." A gravelly voice complimented. Jay turned around and saw a figure walked towards him. It walked into the light, revealing itself to be a black demon. It resembled a velociraptor with spines running down its back, and scraggly black hair, hiding yellow malicious eyes. Jay sneered at the demon. "Although if the mistress were here, she'd have wanted you to kill them."
"What the hell are you?" Jay scowled.
"I am Dracor." The demon introduced himself. "Selene sent me. Think of me as your spirit guide."
"Why did Selene send you?" Jay grunted. "I told her I'd find the wand."
"I'm sure you will, Mr. Guthrie." The dinosaur-like demon chuckled. "I'm sure you will. Selene sent me as a form of…insurance. To make sure the wand is found and brought to her."
"The old gal must be paranoid." Jay shook his head.
Next: Rescue Jay gets to know his new 'friend', and he meets a woman.
