The Shadow Knight Begins: Part Three: Endgame

Chapter 7: The Enemy Within

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Clarice after watching Finch tower fall remembered her father, her father who had been shot by Dorian's shadow bullet.

The knight was standing there, contemplating something, while holding Dorian's glowing purple vial in his hand.

Then he turned around and said, "I can save him. There is only enough her in this vial to heal one person. I can heal him...But there is a price. Are you willing to let me do what it takes to help save your father's life?"

"Yes...please" Clarice begged, "He's the only family I have"

"I know..." the knight said, then he kneeled down beside the dying D.A and opened up the healing mutagen vial, "I need your father to drink half of this mutagen, it won't give him powers or anything but it will heal his wounds...trust me!"

"I trust you" she said, "I wouldn't be letting you do this if I didn't"

I held back a sarcastic chuckle, because regardless she trusted me or not I would be doing this...as it was the only way to save her father.

But like I said...there was a price, a price I would have to pay.

I let Clarice take the healing mutagen, and watched as my cure emptied by half down the D.A's gullet.

Clarice after feeding her father half the healing mutagen passed it to me, where I drank the rest of it.

I felt the effects, but knew I hadn't cured myself of the poison of the dark mutagen that had infected my mutated blood.

I had just bought myself two more hours.

But it was worth it.

The D.A, his wounds healed just as fast as mine did, the healing mutagen doing its job.

Clarice was so overcome with happiness that while she was embracing her recovering father she didn't notice me vanishing into the shadows with my last percent of power.

"You're going to be okay dad" Clarice said as her father embraced her back.

"I know I know my daughter. I will be alright thanks to you and our friend....wait" District attorney Salvador hardy then sat up, "where is he? I want to thank him too for saving us and the city. Where is he Clarice, where did he go?"

Clarice looked around, to her surprise the knight had vanished.

There was no sign of the knight save a note on the ground.

Clarice picked it up, and read it.

"Thank you, for believing in me and the future I believe in....and goodbye, and good luck. Good luck with the future after this night of hell and brimstone, because I might not be here to fight another threat to the city, it's up to you and people like you now. I tried my best by breaking the law to uphold it...now it's time for the law to uphold the law by just being the law. The future is in your hands now, go get it Signed, S.K" she read aloud.

"What did he mean "he might not be here to fight another threat to the city?" wondered Salvador Hardy?

Clarice then remembered something, something from the shadow knight's battle with Dorian...then it hit her.

"Oh no....DAD!" she gasped.

"What? What's wrong?" he grabbed his daughter, afraid she was going to faint since she had been through so much, heck they both had been through much.

"I get what he means now dad. He's dying!" she said horrified, "Dorian said he "poisoned" him with something. And the knight when he gave me the vial of stuff, the stuff that healed you dad, he said that by giving you it there was a price to be paid...now I realize he wasn't talking about a price I would have to pay, he was talking about the one he was going to have to pay by letting me use the vial to save you...." She looked out at the city, and felt like crying.