A long night

"Now entering Rocky Road station" The intercom exclaimed, Lily was still asleep so I decided to princess-carry her to her house without waking her.

The three of us walked through the neighborhood looking for Lily's home, "...I'll be your sword..." Lily said in her sleep, we continued walking to her home, I also wanted to hurry because at the moment I looked pretty suspicious carrying a girl in my arms in the middle of the night.

A long walk later, we finally made it, "Atom, go open the door." I whispered at him, "you got it." He whispered back, the three of us entered the house, suddenly Lily's brother came to investigate why the front door was opened, "Oh its-" He loudly said, "shhhhh, your sister is sleeping." Atom whispered at him, I went to go set Lily down on her bed and quietly returned back to Atom.

"Although we didn't catch Grin Scurvy atleast we know where he is now." I said to Atom as I began to set up the pull-out couch, "Yep all we have to do is go to the river district and he's done for." Atom replied back, "Yep, this time we'll make him pay." I said, my eyes began to get heavy, I knew it was time for bed, "Alright, we'll talk more about this tomorrow." I said to Atom, "Okie Dokie, good night boss!" Atom said before vanishing in thin air.

December 22nd, 2020 (2:36AM)

I was in a deep sleep, as I was sleeping I could hear a voice intruding on my dream, "Oliver... You must awaken me..." The dark voice began saying, "Who are you?" I subconsciously asked, "I am the anger within you..." The dark voice continued to say, "You must awaken the anger within you..." it continued on, "who are you?" I asked, the dark voice replied back, "I... am... Requiem...", suddenly I woke up in a cold sweat, "Oliver what wrong?!" Atom suddenly popped up, I was gasping for air, "It's nothing." I lied, "I'm guessing it was a bad dream?" Atom asked, I didn't know how to reply back, "well I'm going back to deep thinking." Atom said as he vanished, I had no idea what just happened, all that was in my mind at the time was the name Requiem... whatever that meant.

I couldn't fall back asleep after whatever dream that was, I ended up just laying down, reminiscing on everything that's happened now, who would've known that I would go from a lone wanderer trying to find a killer to a group of friends trying to find a killer, I could never imagine that happening to me after the Great Disappearance, honestly I would've thought I would be dead at this point... maybe that's too dark to think about.

December 22nd 2020, 8:40AM

The next morning, I was the first to wake up and I could feel a strong headache on me today, probably from that nightmare I had last night. I got out of bed and decided to look for some medicine, I enter a bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet, as I walked away after taking some pills I came across Lily's brother, "You're not a deadbeat are you, are you actually one of those heroes like Killerpatty?" he asked me, I didn't say anything but gave him a nod as I was surprised he was talking to me at all. "I always looked up to you heroes even after I heard that most heroes either quit or went rogue after the great disappearance." Jackson informed me, "I would've loved to meet Killerpatty too." he told me with a sad voice, I cheered him up by giving him and headpat "I'll make sure that's possible one day."'I reassured him, that reminded of my main goal after I take down Grin Scurvy. Years ago I told Atom that I'll find a way to bring everyone who died during the Great Disappearance back, especially my friends Speedster and Colossus, and I would be known as the heroes who brought everyone back from the dead but until then I wanted to find Grin Scurvy and make him pay for everything he's done, he is too dangerous for everyone's safety.

December 22nd, 2020 9:28AM

We were all finally up after our long night yesterday, Lily and Atom were having breakfast while I was on the couch still trying to come up with an idea, my head continued to hurt even after taking some medicine so it was kind of hard to think.

"I just called in sick for school" Lily informed me, we all agreed that she should, I think I just came up with our plan, "Alright!" I said aloud, "firstly we should expect to see dozens of guards at his lair, we split up and take each and everyone of them out, I'll go alone while you two will team up so we can take them out quickly, after that we'll look for Grin's main office, there we'll confront him and finally stop the madness he's caused." I inform everyone, "Alrighty." Atom confidently said, "Okie dokie" Lily cheerfully said, "alright then, lets find us..." I was interrupted by a phone ringing, I see Lily take out her phone and give a shocked look.

"Everyone shut up for a minute, my dad is calling me!" She yells at us, the room grows silent, so silent that I can make out every word her dad was saying, "Hey Lily, just wanted to make sure everything was good at home." He said, "yeah dad, everything is alright in the home-front." Lily said, "Alright, I'll be sending you some money to buy groceries for you and your brother." He said, "Ok dad, I got it, bye..." Lily said trying to end the conversation but failed, "Oh Lily, I'm just making sure but there's no one else at the house besides you and your brother right?" He said, Lily stares at me and Atom quietly, "No." she told her dad, the room grows silent, "well, alright sweetie, I'll be going now, bye!" He said as he hung up the phone, we all stayed silent for a bit thinking about how we could've been caught there.

We all walked out of the front door and began our walk to the monorail station, "Alright so we're gonna have to transfer lines from here to Hamburg Junction Station, from there we get on the yellow line and ride that to the River District" I informed everyone as we approached the station, "Lets take Grin down once and for all" I encouraged everyone as the train began to arrive.