Hero 3:Criminal

The End Of A Friendship

I started walking to where the address was to help Ryan. It lead to a old busted house. Obviously nobody had lived in it for years maybe even decades. It honestly looked like it was about to collapse to the ground in a matter of seconds. While standing outside of the house I wondered what the hell would Ryan be doing here out of all places. Why would this house be so dangerous or what is it inside that's dangerous. Only one way to find out. I jumped over the fence and walked up the steps to the front door. I silently opened the door hoping nobody was going to see me. I didn't know what to expect so I wanted to take as much caution as possible in this situation. My steps inside the house were very quiet and slow. I then heard voices at the other end of the house. I walked over to them and peeked around the corner. There was no door so I could see what was happening. A few guys were holding Ryan and there was one guy that grabbed a knife. The knife was held up to Ryan's neck. The worst thing about it was that Ryan was wearing a costume. It was mostly black with greens strips going up his arms and legs. This was worse than I thought. Ryan has already started with this shit.

"You ruined our deal. I was going to make a lot of money today if it wasn't for you fucking up everything." The guy with the knife said.

"Hey if you guys are going to drug deal why would you do it in a sketchy house like this. If I didn't find you guy's here the cops sure would have sooner or later. I knew you drug dealers weren't the smartest criminals but damn didn't think you were this dumb." Ryan obviously putting his loud mouth to good use. The guy with the knife hit him in the face with the handle part of the knife. Ryan was now bleeding and by how weak he was right now he probably had already got the shit beaten out of him.

"Is that really the best you can do come on my grandmother could do better." Ryan sarcastically said. Why wouldn't you just shut up and cause less trouble. At this point I decide I've seen enough. I walked into the room with nothing planned.

"You guys should just leave now I really can't be bothered fighting tonight." I told them.

"Look I don't know who you think we are but we ain't the type of people that just run away when shit gets tough." Knife guy said while walking towards me. He was ready to kill me I could tell by the look in his eye's. He went to stab me with the knife but I held my arm in front of his right before he could stab me in the face. Blocking his attack. I grabbed his head and pushed it down on the bench, knocking him out.

"Who wants to try next ha." I asked. Then the rest of the guys dropped Ryan, stood there and thought about something and then ran out the back door leaving their friend.

"What the hell were you thinking." I said under my breathe.

"What?" Ryan confusingly asked.

"I said WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING. YOU COULD HAVE SERIOUSLY GOT HURT OR WORSE DIED." I yelled at him.

"Thanks for the help but I'm going now." Ryan said trying to escape this conversation or more like argument about to happen. I wasn't letting him get away that easy though.

"No you aren't going anywhere and if you try I will drop you on your ass." I warned Ryan.

"What do you want me to say? Nothing you say can stop me from doing what I think is right so you might as well just give up." Ryan explained.

"I can't just let you get killed, you do know that some day I won't be able to help you in this kind of situation." I tried to reason with him and show him that this was a stupid thing to do.

"What makes you different than me? Why are you so special?" Ryan asked while walking closer to me. Then he started pushing me.

"Just stop you are already hurt and I don't want to do anything else to hurt you." I warned him. I was really concerned that if this got taken further we could end up badly hurt. Ryan was never really good at holding back his anger recently he has been better but that could change at any moment.

"No I'm not stopping because hopefully if I beat you in a fight you will understand that I can take care of myself. So fight me." Ryan forced me. It wasn't that I didn't think he could take care of himself it was that even someone like me can't handle all this. The amount of times I have almost died. On top of that the whole Bird costume is supposed to give me extra luck, strength, stamina and some other things according to the legend. Which I can never prove any of that so if he uses that against me I can't say anything. I can't have him on my team either because he'd be too much of a distraction. All my attention would be protecting him from getting hurt. Well maybe I should just fight him teach him that he can't handle all this. Hopefully knock some sense into him.

"Come on hit me make this a fair fight or are you scared to hurt me. You know what if my parents got murdered I'd have found the killer by now but you are obviously just useless. So maybe you should stop being so upset about them and actually do something." Ryan said trying to piss me off and it worked. I know he was only trying to say that stuff to get me to fight him but still it was too far. He wanted a fair fight well he is going to get one. I kick him in the chest pushing him back a few steps.

"Yes that's what I'm talking about. There's the fighter inside. That dark side you're trying to hide. That's what all this not killing is, isn't it. Just so you can feel better about yourself. Pathetic." Ryan was trying to get to me even more but some it was true.

"JUST STOP TALKING." I screamed at him. I started going towards him and threw a punch at his head. Either I was too slow or he saw it coming but he ducked. Then hit me with an uppercut. Surprisingly it hurt more than I thought it would. His been training but that's not going to make me let him be in this kind of danger.

"I wasn't going to bring her into this but what would Emma be thinking if she knew you did this superhero stuff. I could even tell her myself just for you." I asked Ryan with a smirk on my face. This made him think for a bit but then I saw his face change completely. He was furious. He was about too snap any minute.