Weeping Ray, Chapter 3

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-A full year passed, since the attack on New Louisville, since Ray's training began, since he vanished. But on March 27th, the same day the "terrorist" influenced attack had occurred, he resurfaced...




-In Nirstoll, the technological capital of the world and location of the association headquarters,


-On this day, a corrupt executive of the association was attending a parade in celebration of the #1 hero's anniversary,


-Thousands showed up, to attend such a valued celebration, except the star of the show himself like usual. A magnificent fanfare provided by the association itself, coupled with balloons and confetti flying all over the place made for a spectacular sight to see, drones hovered above broadcasting the event, and holograms of the executive and honored heroes alike floated in the sky, and were posted on buildings, not to mention the beautifully adorned gold stage in the middle of the crowded sleek city street,


-The time had come, the executive takes to the podium in the stage, and starts delivering a rousing speech, half about the #1 hero and half about the greatness of the association and how well its upholding justice and peace around the world.....


-In a building over a mile away, a finger layed still, stuck out a window, in a strangely convenient spot, northwest, perfectly behind the executive's blindspot as he was in the middle of his speech. The finger aiming directly at him, then, the finger's owner speaks up,


-"As bigoted as always I see...", from over a mile out the executives voice was easily heard since it was being broadcasted throughout the bustling city,


-"Stayed true till the end, I can give you that much at the very least.", the calmness to his voice was eery, what he was about to do clearly meant nothing to him,


-And so, he steadies his finger and closes his right eye, as he aligns his left eye with his finger he holds his left forearm to stabilise it, he takes aim, and-


-BAM!


-A small explosion centered in the very base of his index finger goes off, the small explosion, so concentrated and precise, that it rips the very skin off of his finger as it launches it beyond the speed of a bullet, leaving just a sharp bone,


-100 yards

-900 yards...

-1760 yards.....



-In just half a millisecond, the finger bone, connects with the side of the executives neck, in a loud "ZZIP", that whizzed past, ripping straight through his jugular, and easily piercing the stage and the concrete below,


-The executive's words get caught in his throat with a morbid gurgle, he stumbles back a step and places a hand on his neck, to no avail, as blood spurts violently out of his neck through his fingers, he kneels as his life starts to fade,


-An uproar immediately breaks out, with civilians running away and security, a pair of 2 B class heroes, and a hero in the top 100's, instantly rushing the stage and surrounding the executive as they calmly start scanning the area in search of the villains location,


-"FOCUS, FIND HIM, HE CANT BE FAR! AND LYRON! Take him to the nearest hospital, NOW!", the leading hero commands, and another obeys as he leaves with the executive in hand without a word, they're clearly used to situations like these, but the city itself was their downfall, exactly why they let their guard down in the first place, they were not expecting an attack INSIDE Nirstoll of all places, they got too complacent,


-Back in the building where the shot came from, a young man clad in black, wearing a sleek trenchcoat, a black tight long sleeve, along with a strange black vest, finishing with a full cover cowl. He quickly flees, as he bursts through the back door of the abandoned building, leading to the metal stairwell outside, he grabs the railing ahead with his left and swings his legs over, and jumps straight down, 3 stories, he falls like a stone and lands with a loud crash, bending his knees all the way when he lands, ending into a squatting position, the ground beneath cracking,


-He stands up straight and removes the cowl,


-"This damn vest really is making me work...",


-Revealing a handsome young man, his face scarred heavily with long gashes across most of it from his past, with a dashing diamond chin, and messy short hair. As he referred to the weighted vest he was wearing as part of his ongoing training, but curiously enough, tears were running down his face,


-This was something Ray developed in his time running missions for Sovereign, as a coping mechanism of sorts, even though his targets were always scum of the earth, Ray still was deeply bothered in some sense with taking these lives. It started with Steelfist and he has kept doing it till now,


-He cries, every time he takes a life, at first, it was intentional, but now? Its involuntary, he cant control it, he's learned to live with it this last year, its become a part of him, and it's what he's grown his renown from,


-Weeping Ray they call him, the few that spotted him, that is, then that culminated into a legend, and from a legend? To a rumor, until it was at last confirmed. Although Ray dislikes the name himself, there's nothing he can do about it,


-Ray looks to the right, then left, and makes sure the coast is clear, before he puts on his cowl, turns to the right and crouches into a starting position, with a foot back and a foot forward, as his back foot detonates and he flies close to a blur straight out of the alleyway,


-He exits, but in a split second a man flies directly in his path, Ray is able to stop his momentum in time with a quick step forward with his right, as his left just finished healing, he places it down and leaps to the right using both feet, landing bent over with his right hand on the floor,


-"FOUND YOU RAT!", the man floating in front had a full body skin tight suit, barefoot, with the sleeves stopping right at his elbows, and the same with his legs, the suit stopping right at his knees,


-Ray's eyes drift down to the hero's legs, his legs were barely visible, all Ray could see was a blur from his knees and below, shaking left and right extremely rapidly in small but calculated movements,


-"interesting talent you got the-", the hero gives Ray no time to assess and develop a counter, as he rushes him down and flies straight at him, teeth grit, right fist in the air ready to strike, Ray is able to side step it completely with remarkable finesse, and jump to the hero's previous position, as the hero strikes right past Ray missing,


-He slowly turns around and begins hovering towards Ray,


-This is a race against time, this man is no talker, a trickier opponent to face, as talkers are easily distracted in a fight, and he is clearly the stronger of the three no less, "A physical type as well it seems, this'll be no easy feat...", Ray thinks meticulously,


-The man suddenly, bolts forward, and reaches Ray in an instant, Ray reacts just in time, slightly bending his legs and weaving left, as the hero attempts to grab a hold of his neck, he manages to grab his cowl and rip it off of Ray, exposing him,


-The hero looks at the cowl on his hand still hovering, then at Ray, his eyes widening, then his face shifting to a scowl, "RAY!? You should've never come to Nirstoll, YOU'LL DIE HERE.",


-The hero slowly descends and lands, his big toe touching first, the ground starts lightly shaking in reaction, then followed by his foot, then the other, the reaction growing severely, the ground now trembling tremendously around them, or specifically, around the hero, and it doesnt take long to put Ray off balance, which gives the hero an immediate upper hand as he lunges at him once more, Ray tries to jump away but there isnt enough stability to leap off of in the first place,


-Ray hops away, but the hero's extended arm was too close already, he grasps Ray's left ankle tightly with his right,


-A menacing grin grows on the hero's face,


-Ray swallows hard, clearly worried.....


-Or not?


-Ray's face goes from worried, to a slick smile in a second, the hero realizes it was all a trap but too late, Ray lifts his right leg over his left midair, with his knee bent at a ninety degree angle, and delivers a swift but powerful kick with the top of his foot directly at his face, the hero's instincts were top notch, as he was able to put up his guard in time with his left arm and block the kick, but....


-There is no blocking the explosion that comes next,


-Ray detonates his leg from the knee down after he moves him slightly to the left with the momentum of the kick, and directs the explosion to the left, the explosion engulfs him as shrapnel pelts the hero as well, he is then sent flying, straight into a nearby building with an incredibly loud crash,


-Ray does a 360 midair with the force of the explosion then lands on his left leg, as his right has grown back halfway already. Once done, he puts his right leg down, and immediately detonates a leg to propel himself away in the opposite direction of the hero,


-As Ray rocketed forward slightly off of the ground, he was met face to face with a lazer from his right seemingly from thin air, there was no time to evade, the lazer promptly pierces his face, directly below his right eye, and burns through the back of his head,


-Ray's body goes stiff instantaneously, and right as his face is about to hit the pavement just below him, his eyes which were rolled in the back of his head already, come right back, as he places both hands on the concrete just in time and pushes off, going into a backflip and landing with a slide backwards,


-He scans his surroundings rapidly, trying to assess where that even came from, but in that short time, 2 new heroes arrive, one floats in with steel wings, and the other comes out from behind a building nearby,


-"You must be the lazer user?", Ray calmly points out to the man from the alley,


-"No, and even if I was, why the fuck would I tell you kid?......Oh......Ah who gives a fuck, DIE!", the man dashes at Ray as he sneakily pulls out a concealed sword from his back,


-Ray stands firm with his guard down and waits for the man to reach him instead. The unfortunate hero swings his sword at Ray diagonally above from the right, Ray just pivots and turns to the side, leaning slightly with the swords angle, the sword whizzing past Ray a mere few inches from his face and body,


-Ray then cocks back his right and connects a swift punch into the man's stomach, which pierces straight through him.....



-The man's steaming guts coming out of his back and plopping down on the floor,


-"Why are you so frail?...", Ray mercilessly asks the dying gasping man, as tears begin falling down Ray's face,


-Ray rips his bloodied arm straight out of his stomach shortly after, leaving behind a gaping hole, as blood sprays all over Ray's chest and face, his tears fusing with the very blood into a show of sanguine sorrow, as the man falls with a loud SPLAT, his blood spreading in every direction below him. Ray turns his murderous crimson gaze, to the flying hero overhead who was too shocked to even flee, shaking like a leaf,


-Ray crouches down, his legs detonating sending him upwards as he goes for the flying hero's throat. The flying hero saw before him a demon, death itself, looming, with his cold hand extended for him, not a feeling in that blood soaked face,


-But Ray only makes it halfway to him before he's snatched out of the sky himself,


-"HES MINEE!!!!", The vibration hero erratically screams out, in a rage fueled frenzy, rightfully so, as he may have blocked the kick and shrapnel from Ray earlier but the explosion left him badly burned, the left side of his head and top half of his body burnt badly, including his whole left arm,


-The hero held Ray by the top of his vest in the front with both hands as they fly without direction in the air, crashing and smashing him through countless buildings as they then struggled to get the upper hand from one another,


-Ray manages to grab ahold of one of his wrists, and just above the elbow on the other arm, and as soon as his legs finish healing, he places them in the hero's chest and pushes himself away, making quite some distance between them both as Ray plummets below, but the hero accelerates rapidly midair and reaches Ray in a matter of a second, giving Ray no time to react with a superman punch from above that connects square on Ray's jaw, dislocating it, as he flies past and leaves Ray spinning with the momentum of his strike as he falls,


-The hero waits in the air below and extends an arm to the sky, catching Ray by the throat with a single arm shortly after, the height combined with the force of being stopped all of a sudden caving in his throat in the process, as Ray let's out a raspy and guttural gasp, the assault continues, as he gives Ray no respite and in a rapid curve midair, he slams Ray by the neck into the side of a nearby brick building,


-"LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO ME YOU LITTLE FUCKER!!!! LOOK!", he crushes Ray deeper into the brick, as Ray gasps for air under the force of his grip, "THIS'LL TAKE SEVERAL AGONIZING MONTHS TO HEAL!?!? AND GOD KNOWS IF THE EXECUTIVE WILL EVEN SURVIVE!? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT'LL DO TO MY RANKING???", he gets real close to Ray as he screams this at the top of his lungs, Ray just giving him a cocky smile in response,


-The hero grows enraged at the sight of it, and starts dragging Ray by the throat through the brick wall as he begins to move to the side, Ray's helplessly holding onto his arm trying to free himself as his body crashes through every layed brick in his path leaving behind a trail of the building's structural wall underneath,


-After a few meters of this, Ray puts his left hand into a finger gun in the hero's face and detonates his index finger, the hero stops moving and slips it, the bone grazing his cheek, cutting it deeply, he maintains a tight grip on Ray's throat nonetheless with his right, and uses his free hand to grab onto Ray's exposed wrist, vibrating rapidly breaking it in an instant, Ray grunts loudly in pain but in that moment he places his open palmed right hand into the left side of the unsuspecting hero's stomach and detonates it,


-The hero screams out and throws Ray to the side straight down to the city street below as he clutches his left side, he takes a glance down, the adrenaline fueling him starts wearing off as he sees the damage that was done,


-The explosion was too close this time, and he had no time to vibrate to defend, this time, a huge chunk was missing from his lower left abdomen, blood pouring from between the crevice that remained,


-The hero's upper lip and nose start twitching, as he switches his attention to Ray who was waiting below, grasping his throat letting out a few coughs, his throat finishing up healing,


-Ray starts stretching his neck and shoulders, twisting his head left and right with a hand placed at the back of his head, then turns his gaze up at the disgruntled hero, and gives him a smirk,


-The hero's face twists into pure rage at the sight of this, as he darts at blinding speed straight at Ray from above, he places his right fist at his hip as it starts vibrating at an incredible speed, the very air around it distorting, and a loud ear piercing whooshing of wind coming from it, the sound is as loud as being next to an airplane as it takes off, as well as the pressure emanating from it,


-Ray steels himself and takes up stance, as he plants his feet in place and tenses all his muscles to resist the pressure,


-The hero reaches him as he releases his fist from his hip, and starts closing it in on Ray, the fist wasnt even near Ray yet but the force it was exuding was enough to send Ray flying if he wasnt prepared. Closer, and closer, and closer, in a matter of a second, the fist reaches Ray, but due to his successful goading, the hero had not calculated the possibility of Ray having a counter to his strongest attack,


-"No matter, even if he does, being near this should tear his body to pieces either way, killing-, well, incapacitating him at the very least before he even has a chance to attack.", the hero reassures himself, but what he was unaware of, was of Ray's incredibly durable bone structure, which was able to tolerate the immense pressure to an extent, but,


-His skin could not, as the hero's fist grew closer, Ray could feel his very skin stretching to it's limits, and the closer the fist got, the worse it felt, his skin was already showing signs of tearing, he could feel it ripping bit by bit, his trenchcoat cowl and long sleeve were already torn apart into shreds, exposing the fruit of Ray's labor, a toned muscular and well shaped body, but he couldn't stop, Ray steps forward with his right, and leans into his leg, putting all of his weight on it, as the hero's fist flies overhead and just over his left shoulder it rips apart the skin upon it, revealing his muscle as blood sprayed out, and now the skin on Ray's face starts tearing as well, blood starts seeping from the tears all over his face,


-Ray tries his hardest to ignore the pain and throws an overhead left cross with all his might straight at the hero's face, his whole arm audibly and visibly tearing already, exposing muscle, blood now spraying from most of the tears, showering them both, the pain was unexplainable, it'd leave anyone catatonic, but thankfully due to Ray's very talent, he was used to massive amounts of pain, but that didnt mean it still didnt hurt and stalled him nonetheless,


-Ray's fist reaches the hero's face as the hero's eyes go wide at the last second, finally realizing his folly, Ray's fist strikes him in the nose with a crunch, it is of course, followed by a resounding small but high powered explosion,


-BOOM!


-Ray detonated his fist as it made contact, the hero's limp body which was still in the air comes careening down through the residual blood cloud, past Ray and towards the concrete rapidly, it bounces twice before landing mangled a few feet away,


-Ray stands straight and slowly turns back, fists tightly clenched, besides the hero's still twitching body, his head was now completely obliterated, the stem of his neck cauterized to the point where barely any blood was coming out, as the body layed at an awkward position on the concrete, twisted, and lifeless, once Ray confirmed the kill, his fists unclench, and his body relaxes,


-Tears once more, begin dripping down Ray's cheeks, as he stares unto what he did, but without missing a beat, a multitude of drones interrupt his mourning, flying overhead, as they broadcasted everything,


-Today, the world would watch on, as another terroristic attack was committed by the same kid, and 2 heroes layed dead in the very capital of the world. The camera's on the drone capturing Ray's face and all its features in high definition, as his hair flowed in the resulting wind from the sheer amount of drones above. The kid, that turned the capital upside down in a single day.