The 'Superhero' Emil

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Emil walks through a dark alley. A golden humanoid creature with a bird like head and four arms shrieks and attacks him. Emil takes a step back and draws out his dual swords. He mutters 'Another one of you huh, but you're probably the general right. It's a standoff.'

The creature runs towards Emil as it positions itself in such a way that it is holding a sword with two of its hands. The creature mutters something while running and conjures up a sword in those two hands. The swords clash. Emil is thrown back by the force. He jumps over the creature and swings aiming to cut off its head. The creature blocks the strike with its sword. Emil while mid air goes in for a couple more strikes aimed at its unarmed hand then back at its head.  The creature conjures more swords in his unarmed hands to block the strikes. All these swords disappear from the creature's hands after each clash as it moves back mutters something again to conjure up a single stronger sword. Emil stands still looking backwards where the creature stood. The creature comes in for another attack. Emil doesn't move and stands his ground. The creature swings the sword, Emil dodges at the last moment jumping to his left while striking his sword on the creature, slicing its head clean off.

The head rolled onwards and stopped hitting a box in the alley. A shriek came out of the box.

'Who's there?' asked Emil in a kind voice.

A child popped up. It was a little girl, no more than 7 years old. She looked terrified. Her clothes looked a little torn up. It looked like she was attacked by the creature but survived somehow by running away and hiding in that box.

'It's okay now, the monster is gone. You're safe.' smiled Emil.

The child got out of the box and was fidgeting. 'Ummmm'

'Your parents must be looking for you right? Do you know where you live?' asked Emil.

The kid nodded a yes, still fidgeting.

'The go home, they must be worried.' said Emil.

The kid nodded and started going in the opposite direction then stopped to look back and ask

'Are you the Superhero Emil?'

Emil smiled, nodded and winked at the girl. The girl left smiling. She just met the great superhero Emil. The defender of humans against the evil golden alien monsters.

She was around 2 years old when the aliens invaded, and hero Emil emerged saving humanity by driving them back after a war that went on for a year. There were still a lot of the golden creatures that couldn't make it back to their mothership, so they lived underground and occasionally came up to hunt humans, their only source of food. She couldn't wait until she told her parents and then her friends at school tomorrow about meeting the legendary superhero Emil. They wouldn't believe her.

The girl, tripped and fell. She felt her leg hurt. Something pierced her leg. It looked like a small knife. She looked at Emil. It looked like he threw the knife. Emil reached her in a flash and covered her mouth.

'You know. Tomorrow the newspapers will have the headlines on a tragedy of how the Golden Monsters claimed yet another life by eating a little girl. The hero Emil was unfortunately late to save her. But killed it before it claimed more lives. Your parents will thank me for avenging you. But as for you, hmmmm you're going to be my treat, my reward for today's arduous work. I shall do with you as I please.'

The girls muffled screams faded in background as he picked her up and flew up in the sky.

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