StarBurn

Part 2

Cole let out a deep breath, he waited for a reply from the man in front of him. He couldn't get much from his expression as he couldn't see all of his face, but from the little he could it wasn't positive.

"Why the hell would I let an irresponsible kid, who almost killed himself by jumping off a building in the middle of a city try to do what I do".

"I- I can fly".

"And get a target placed on you by the city cause everyone sees you in the air".

"There wasn't that many people out".

The man ran his hand down his face, letting out a long sigh.

"Look kid, you're too much of a liability, especially right now".

The man disappeared in a flash of purple light. Cole felt tears starting to sting his eyes and arms were glowing once again, he turned around and punched the wall behind him. He watched as the brick crumble around his fist and his arm return back to normal, as it did the pain intensified and he gave into the tears as he fell to his knees.
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The alarm once again rang through out Cole's room, but instead of him pushing the off or snooze button, he picked it up smashed it on the floor. Cole sat up rubbed his eyes, he looked down at his right hand that he bandaged terribly the night prior.

He slowly unwrapped it, he winced when it came to his knuckles as the bandage clung to the puss and blood covered wound. He didn't clean the wound properly and was clearly infected. In the bathroom he rubbed some antibiotic cream on to his knuckles and wrapped it a new bandage.

Cole went down and got his phone off the charger to see two new texts from Monica and his mum. Monica's was to remind him of their hangout, but his mum's was a little weird.

"Hey honey, I had to go to the station early the guys found something interesting. I just wanted to tell you not to do anything dumb and keep safe".

'Shit' he thought 'she knows' he let out a deep sigh. He hit the palm of his hand with the phone trying to think of what to do. He went back to his room and grabbed a beanie to take a walk in the hope it would clear his head.
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It was quiet on Cole's walk, which felt weird to him as the streets would normally be packed. There was a slight wind that breezed passed him, the sun was burning the back of his neck.

Cole heard yelling coming from a small store across the street from him. He turned down into an alley and saw a van just like the one from the robbery the night before. Cole heated his left hand and burned eye holes and a mouth hole into his beanie. He put it on and wore it as a mask.

Cole waited for the men to round the corner, once he saw one of them he shot a white fireball from his left hand. It slammed against the man's chest and sent him flying back to the ground. The other man ran to his partner and picked up all the lose money that was laying ground around him and put all of it in the bag.

As he turned around, he was also hit with a fireball in the midsection. Cole ran to the men on the ground and grabbed the stolen money, before he went to give the bags money back to the store he looked down at the man he hit first and almost vomited the gory sight.

His melted skin and t-shirt had pretty much fused together, there was an exposed bone and you could see the man's still beating heart. That gave Cole a little bit of relief as he didn't want to kill anybody, no matter what the person did Cole believed that justice would be given to the victims without killing anyone a person with no conviction.

Cole held down his vomit and ran to the other side of the street to the store. When he entered the store he had a gun be pressed against the side of his head. A Japanese man was the one who was holding the gun, he was shouting in Japanese that Cole couldn't understand. Cole put his hands up in an attempt to calm the man.

"I promise you that I am not with those other guys, I'm just here to give you the money back". The man motioned for the bags and Cole did. He unzipped the bags and saw the money inside them, the man shooed Cole out of the store with the gun.

Cole walked to the alley and was about to take the mask off before he felt multiple knife like objects slice deep into his back. He staggered forward and dropped to his knees, he felt the blood seep into the fabric of his shirt and dry quickly due to the sun's heat.

Cole looked back over his shoulder and saw his attacker, from what he saw it was a feminine figure wearing a full white bodysuit and had four sharp claws attached to her knuckles. She wore a mask with two black tipped ears on top of it, the mask also exposed her bright green eyes and dark brunette hair in a ponytail.

Cole stood up and threw a sloppy punch at the attacker, she ducks it and sweeps his legs. He smacks head on the ground, causing him to lose consciousness for a second until he feels a sharp pain in his shoulder. The attacker was kneeling over him digging into his skin with her claws.

"I'm sorry kid, but you don't mess with the Cass' business" Cole closes his eyes as she pulled one of her hands out and was going for a slash to the throat, but as she lifted her hand a purple light engulfed them. Before anything else could happen, the attacker was able to scamper away, while Cole disappeared.