The Mutates

Amara

Your walking along a roof top some way from home doing your first round of the day. its peaceful, off the ground, away from the crowds. That is until you see a familiar face walking through those crowds. you jump down from the roof into an ally just seconds before Amara joins you.

"Why are you following me?" the question took you by surprise.

"I'm.. not. I was just on my morning patrol."

"Oh." She turns from you once again and walks out of the ally, her hair swaying as she walked. you stare after her for a second before running out behind her.

"Wait!" she turns back to you, "are you alone?"

"... I live alone yes. and I prefer it that way."

"O-oh. well, if you need anything, call me ok?" you write your number on a slip of paper and hand it to her.

"I'll.... keep it in mind..." she says, staring at the paper seeming surprised, almost wistful, like this is the first time she's had someone do that.

"So where were you headed?" she looks up at your voice.

"Work."

"Oh, where do you work? and shouldn't you be in school?"

"I work at the cafe down the street... and I finished school."

"wa- finished?"

"yes. I graduated last year."

"how old are you?!?"

"Seventeen..." you stare at her, dumbfounded.

"and you graduated?"

"yes."

"wow. you must be ridiculously smart."

"I suppose but I traded my social life for it."

"oh. That's why you kept walking away."

"yes.. sorry."

"Its ok. I'm not in school either. my sister home schools me and I work."

"Oh."

"R-Right... Anyway, I shouldn't keep you any longer. remember, you can call or text me whenever you like."

"Right... thank you.."

"Any time."  you assured her, walking back into the alleyway you checked that no one was looking and jumped in a portal back to the roof. As you made your way to work you mentally kicked yourself for not asking about her Mutate. you figured you would have to remember to ask the next time you saw her or she when texted you. whenever that was, it was hard just to have a conversation with her because you had to pretty much keep it going yourself. with that in mind, would she even try to contact you at all? you arrived at your work and prepared to wait for her to contact you.

Work was pretty boring and it was nice to be finished. though, there was still work to be done you thought as you walked around the streets of you neighborhood. things had been pretty quit recently and you knew that was a sure sign something was going to happen soon.

you cursed yourself for jinksing it as you heard commotion down the street. your heart sunk as you turned the corner and saw probably fifteen guys armed with guns shoving people and threatening to shoot them. One man, who you assumed to be their leader shot into the sky and yelled at the civilians.

"this street is ours! everyone living on it will have to pay a twenty dollar weekly fee to live here! no exceptions!" This looks bad.. wheres Amara when you need her?? You decide to try to take them yourself and summon a portal to your Weapons Storage VoidSpace. Reaching inside, you grab to "Blades of Darkness" you smile at your cheesy name and spin them on your fingers.

"time to get to work." you mentally prepare yourself and portal behind the leader, stabbing him in the back of the leg and kicking his gun (AN: I accidentally said "hand out of his hand" before editing XD) out of his hand. the rest of his crew spin around at his cry of pain and see their leader laying, groaning in a growing pool of blood. oops, must have hit an artery...            fun.

You jump out of the void and land on another ones head, bashing him with the pommel of your dagger, you jump onto the next one and stab him in the back. you like to keep it interesting with new ways to sub do enemy's.

You hear shooting and quickly throw up a portal behind you, placing one behind the shooter causing her to shoot herself.

You handle the rest in a similar fashion and bend over, exhausted.

"Your not the only one with fancy tricks." you whip around to see the leader guy standing up and brushing off, "I can heal from any injury! I cant be defeated!"

"...." *-_-* you spawn a portal underneath him to the void and walk away, hearing hims yell being cut off as the portal closes behind him grants you great pleasure and satisfaction.

"if you cant escape or breath you cant harm anybody." you say  over your shoulder before walking into a portal to escape the scene before anyone can get a good look at you.

"People saw me do it this time but hopefully no one realized who i was..." you sigh and make your way home.

The rest of the week passed by without incident,  Amara still hadn't contacted you yet though. you sigh as you lay in bed watching YouTube. You snap back to reality when an alert pops up on your phone... "Hey."