It was a normal weekday morning at the Loud House. To everyone outside of their family, they would only see craziness, but to the Loud family this was normal. Everyone finally got ready and as each one left the house, they all noticed Frank walking out of his house. The Loud family all marveled at his pristine suit, his hair slicked back. Interestingly he wasn't taking the black BMW this time. He walked past the Loud house and kept going on going. No one could muster the courage to ask, so something else did. Vanzilla engines makes a loud noise, which captures Frank's attention.
"Morning." said Frank.
"Morning Frank!" said the Loud girls.
"Walking to school today?" asked Lincoln.
"We can give you a lift!" said Lynn as she pushed Lincoln out the van to make room for Frank.
"Appreciate it, but I have a few errands to run." Frank runs off to the distance. While the girls admired how athletic, Luna could not help but wonder why he had to run errands this early, and right before school.
-Royal Woods High School -
Luna was in one of her more favorite class, music theory. Here she felt that she was learning a lot about how to write awesome music. Everything was going normally, until Frank came running in.
"Excuse me, are you in the wrong class?" said the teacher Mr. Petty.
"This is Music Theory right? Sorry, I was very busy this morning, and I was just told that this was my new class." He hands a note to Mr. Petty.
"I see, well then have a seat right over there." He points to a seat right in front of Luna Loud. She was surprised to see Frank seat so close to her. As the class goes on Sam elbows Luna to get her attention.
"Hey Luna I just score tickets to see The Ramonas live tonight, you in?"
"Count me in, but isn't it a bit dangerous with everything happening downtown?"
"Relax, we're in and out like before anything happens." Luna was a bit reluctant about it, but to see The Ramonas live was too much for her to pass up. Class went on as usual for Luna, except for most of the girls looking over at Frank. She is usually more focused in this class, but with Frank in the class her mind was all over the place. There was so much she wanted to know about him, like his interest in music, where his family is, and what makes him him. Before she knew it class was over, and everyone was leaving for their next class. As she left Frank stops her.
"Hey Luna you got a second?" asked Frank.
"Yeah sure, what's up?"
"I'm having a bit trouble understanding what's going on in class, can you help me out?"
"Yeah sure no problem, so what time do you want me to be at your place?" asked Luna.
"I was thinking I come over to yours, my place is still a bit of a mess from the move in."
"Uhhh," her only concern was how her family was going to react with him over. She could already feel the scorn from the other girls around her, she could only imagine how her sisters would react, her trail of thought got broken up because the bell rang again and they were already late to their next class.
"We'll talk more later, carry on my wayward sons." said Frank as he heads to his next class.
"He says lyrics to rock songs, like I do." said Luna blushing, she couldn't stand in the hallway longer as the hall monitor chased after her.
-That Night-
The concert had ended and both Sam and Luna couldn't get over how awesome The Ramonas were. Despite having bad seats, they both still managed to find their way on stage rocking out with the band. They had to hurry home as it was pretty late at night.
"Dude, The Ramonas Rocked!" exclaimed Sam.
"Yeah brah, totally worth it." said Luna. They waited at the bus stop for a unusually long time. They waited, waited, and waited. From the corner of her eye, she saw a few big guys come out of the shadows, eyeing the two. She started to get nervous, she figured they were part of the gang that's been emerging. They walked up to the bus stop, as Luna's nervousness was starting to peak.
"You guys need something?" said Sam in annoyed tone.
"Yeah there's a toll fee if you want pass through our turf." said one of the gang members.
"Sorry we don't have any money, so you can all just beat it." said Sam.
"Dude, you want to chill it with the tough act?" whispered Luna.
"Relax they're not going to do anything." said Sam.
"Well then I guess there are other ways you could pay us." said another gang member, as he pulled out his knife. At this point Luna had enough, and she grabbed onto Sam and made a run for it. They passed through multiple alleyways to lose them, they stopped to get a breather.
"I think we lost them." said Luna as she was breathing heavily. "What were you thinking back there Sam!?"
"I was trying to bluff our way out. I didn't think they were that tough."
"That's the dumbest..." before she could finish she sees one of the gang members. The rest chase after the two. They run into a dead end and the two look for ways to get out, but there was nothing they could do.
"Thank you ladies, you saved us a trouble to find a location for us to finish our business transaction." said one of the gang members. The two girls started quake in fear for what was going to happen to them both.
"Luna I just want to say, I'm sorry for getting us into this mess, and that you are the coolest person I've ever met."
"Likewise Sam." Before anything happened to them, the heard gun shot going off. Everyone looks over to see one of the gang members lying there, and then they saw him.
Everyone thought it was just a myth. They thought he was something the police made up to keep gangs afraid of the night. But, there he was standing right before them.
"Scared? You should be. This is not going to be pretty." said the man in the mask in a low tone of voice.
"Sssssscared?" stammered one of the gang members. "I'll show you scared." He charges after him with his bat and takes a mighty swing. The man in the mask catches it with his bare hands, breaks his arm, and pulls out a knife and stabs him through his throat, and the gang member's body falls down with a giant thud.
"Who's next?" The rest of the gang's body expression showed that they were scared. And yet they were somewhat confident that if they all charged at once there would be no way he will make it out alive. Unfortunately for them he was not like anybody they had faced before. Both Sam and Luna were horrified at the carnage they were witnessing. They saw necks being snapped, faces being bashed in, and gun shots going off. Not only were gang members dead, but there wasn't single injury, not even a cut on his clothes. He looks over at the two and saw how scared they were.
"Call the police and get home immediately."
"Y...you killed them...every single one of them..." said Luna.
"You didn't have to do that!" Said Sam.
"They were going to do very bad things to you, things I can't even talk about. They got what was coming."
"But, that's not your decision to make! You have to let the law handle that." Said Luna.
"The law...I can tell you right now that this law you speak of, they would be in jail in about five to ten years and be out doing the same thing all over again. The law is doing nothing to stop crime, they are only delaying it."
"There's always another way. A better way." Said Luna. They then notice one gang member who is barely alive and tried to crawl his way out. The guy in the mask walks towards him and puts his foot on top of his face.
"Ppplease, I'll change...I promise to get out of this lifestyle..." he wasn't buying it, he pulls out his handgun, cocks it and was ready to pull the trigger. "PLEASE I'LL DO THE RIGHT THING FROM NOW ON. PLEASE DON'T SHOOT!" Hearing that, the man in the mask started to reminisce about his past."
"The right thing..."he then had a vision of his past, fire all over the place, few men holding guns in front of him and his parents lying in their blood. He snapped back to reality, and was about to pull the trigger, until Luna stepped in.
"You can't do this, he said he'll change for the better. Let him go, maybe he could help make the world a better place." He saw the look of determination Luna had on her face, unwavering and steady. He put his gun, and lifted the gang member against the wall.
"Consider yourself lucky. I want you to spread the word to every gang members, drug dealers, murderers, rapists, and every scum you run into in this city. They don't deserve jail time, and they don't deserve rehab. They only deserve to be punished. Got it."
"Yyyyyyyeeeeeessssss." Said the whimpering gang member. He gets dropped on to the ground. The man in the mask pulls out what seems to be a grappling hook, fires it in the sky and disappears to the night. Police finally show up, and they took care of everything.
-Next Morning-
Luna was in class, still trying to take in everything that happened last night. Her parents were so relieved that nothing happened to her. But they grounded her for being at a concert late last night without their permission. Sam and Luna haven't really talked much about what happened, things were pretty awkward between the two. They both blamed themselves for what happened last night and thought they were blaming each other. She kept thinking about that man from last night. She figured that this was who the news were talking about, but who exactly was he, and why did he come to Royal Woods? Her trail of thought was cut short by her teacher.
"Good morning class, normally I would be teaching you Trigonometry, but I was instructed by the principal that I have to show you this live news. While I protested, the principal insisted. This has nothing to do with math, but what do I know I'm just a math teacher." She turns on the screen in the front of the room and played a live press conference with the police chief.
"Commissioner, there have been more and more reports of this white skull demon appearing more and more frequently. Can you comment anything about this?"
"Yes we have been hearing this a lot, however I cannot comment on something that isn't real. I mean come on people demons? White skull? I mean yeah there was a Red Skull, and there are those who are faster than a speeding bullet, but still there is no conclusive evidence."
"What about the one sole surviving gang member who encountered this demon? He said there was a message."
"I will no longer entertain everyone here about this. Now does anyone have any questions about how our real human police officers are doing everything they can to combat the rising number of gangs."
"Well actually the number of gang related activity have decreased slightly since the appearance of this demon so to speak."
"Okay that's it the press conference is over." The police commissioner storms off leaving many reporters shouting out loud questions." The teacher turns the screen off, and stands in front of the classroom.
"Glad to see our time was well spent on a news conference that had nothing to do with math." The teacher started with the lesson, to Luna minutes felt like hours. Class finally ended and she couldn't have gotten out of that class any faster. Quickly there was a huge hush throughout the hallway. Luna went to see what was going on, and saw a bunch of huge upperclassmen getting in Frank's face.
"Did I do something wrong?" asked Frank.
"It's just we wanted to reacquaint you how this school works." said one big student.
"Yeah there's this structure that everyone follows, and if no one enforces there'll just be chaos." said another student. They all start to push him around, Luna didn't like what she was seeing and stepped in.
"Hey dude, not cool picking on the new kid."
"What are you going to about it?" she was getting to do something until Frank grabbed onto her arm.
"Luna it's fine. They're not bothering me at all. Let's just forget about what's going on here and..." Before he could finish one of the upperclassmen took Frank's glasses and broke them right in front of them.
"There, I fixed your glasses. You should thank me, I helped improve your look." The upperclassmen started laughing, as Luna looked over at Frank who was holding onto his glasses.
"You alright Frank?" He then shot up, and everyone saw something that they never seen Frank do before.
"These were a gift from my parents...how dare you...touch them..." Luna recognized that tone of voice, it was the same as the white skull demon thing from the night before...
"Uh Frank..." was Luna could say before Frank charged at the upperclassmen. He charges at one of them swings behind him and suplexes him to the ground. He gets up immediately as the rest of them charge at him. One goes for a tackle, but Frank wraps his arm around his neck, and rams his head against a locker. He ducks out the way from the punches from the remaining two. He slams their head against each other knocking them out. The first upperclassmen who he suplexed, slowly got up. Frank helped him up by grabbing hold of his neck and slams him against the wall.
"I'm only going to say this once, stay out of my way or things will get much more unpleasant for you." The upperclassmen shook in fear and silently agreed. Frank tossed him to the side, got his stuff and walks past Luna. "Oh that reminds me, we're still on for music theory tutoring after school right?" said Frank who is back to his normal tone of voice. Luna Just nods silently, and couldn't find the words that she wanted to say. "Good, see you later." He walks off with a smile leaving everyone who saw what happened very confused.
-New York-
Jigsaw was in his office waiting for the next hit orders from the Maggia family, but it didn't matter to him. None of it mattered. Things have been very quiet ever since he left. He missed having him around, New York isn't the same without fighting someone to death. He lost his motivation in killing random New Yorkers, if it didn't get his attention. Sure there were others like Daredevil, and Luke Cage, but it wasn't the same. Jigsaw started to watch the news, and learned about this white skull demon in Royal Woods. He gives a small, and creepy smile as he heard so many people on the news talk about this demon.
"Darling..."
