The Superhero

The Superhero: Chapter One

Chapter One: Fatal Introductions

If there is anything that I would ask for, it would be to save you. I know for a fact that I have the choice to save you, but do I have enough power?

Falling for the enemy is never a pretty story. It’s never a story that someone would want for his or her self.

I never wanted to fall for you; all I know is that I just did. I’m not asking for a happily ever after with passionate kisses and rainbow cupcakes, but damn, it sure would be nice.

I stare at my hands, surging with static and electricity.

“Do it, Zap. Execute him.”

I stare at Dr. Flame and then I stare at him. I look into his baby blue eyes, once filled with a look of innocence but now flowing with hatred. I couldn’t blame him. I lied. I betrayed. And now I was about to kill.

Falling for the enemy is never a pretty story. But what do you do when you’re the enemy and the one you fall for is a hero?

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“The Raven just saved five families from a burning apartment complex! Look at him go! He’s up in the sky!” the anchorman announced on the morning news. Everyone on the television screen was ecstatic.

The screen abruptly went blank. I looked at my dad who still had the remote in his right hand.

“The Raven,” he mocked, “Saving families from a rundown apartment complex. They were going nowhere in life anyway. Just look at where they lived.”

“Dad—”

“Now, what did I say? After your mom left last week, I told you to never call me the D-word ever again.”

“Dr. Flame,” I corrected myself.

“Yes, Zap?”

I rolled my eyes. He insisted on calling each other by our villain names, even inside the house. The only time he would call me by my real name was in public, and vice versa, obviously.

But sometimes I think about what our real identities really are. We were born as the people that the public knows us as, but we are also known as the enemies that people despise. Which ones are our true selves?

“You’re responsible for the fire, aren’t you?” I guessed.

“You know me so well,” he replied, taking a sip of coffee.

“Okay, well, I have to go to school,” I said, sighing. “And you have to go to work.” I slid off the tall wooden counter chair.

“Ah, the irony of my job of saving lives but wanting to destroy them,” he said, chuckling.

“Wow, you must be so proud,” I said, flatly.

I couldn’t believe people trusted my father to treat them and keep them alive. He was a physician, yes, but what he did behind closed doors was the complete opposite.

Dr. Ray Jensen is one of the best physicians in the country, and he would do anything for his patients. Dr. Flame, on the other hand, does nothing but destroy the innocent lives of people whom he believes should suffer. The one person he believes should suffer is his enemy, the beloved hero of the city, The Raven.

No one knows what The Raven looks like. He wears a mask and a full body suit. He’s tall and muscular, but not too ripped. His face could be ugly, and his real personality might be pathetic. However, his disguise still makes the people of the city fall for him. He’s a superhero with the abilities of flying, super strength, super speed, and invisibility. Of course, he’s not immortal. He can die, and he has a weakness. My dad is set on finding that weakness. But in the eyes of the citizens of Wernland, The Raven is the most amazing creature ever.