Art 4- Painting: The First Mourning

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As the mother box started to bip, in S.T.A.R. Labs they are getting ready and investigating any transmission or signal that the box is getting. "It's transmitting." Dr. Stone said.

"I'm not letting you walk away from me Dad! We are having this out." Said Victor but getting no reply as his father started to walk towards the other scientists. "Can we trace the power source?" "I'm trying locking on the signal now."

Victor as mad as he could be look at the mother box and said, "This thing is more important for you than your own son?" And grabbed it.

"Victor, stop!" Dr. Stone shouted but Victor continue to hold it, even as the box seemed like it is going to blow up.

A bright light covered the room, as the light dimmed; Victor was send up to the laboratory equipment with crystal like things on his body. A vortex or precisely a portal opened up in the mother box place.

At Metropolis, with our four heroes, the situation was a bit similar, but they did not hold the box, they throw it. The four of them waited for whatever that would come out of the portal. Ready to take down the danger.

In the portal figures could be seen approaching, what came out was a creature, like the one they confronted and was placing the box in the positions. Green Lantern started to materialize objects with his ring and hit the creatures, Superman use his red-laser eyes to attack them, Batman also started his attack but being a human with no enhanced abilities he was quickly overwhelmed, luckily for him he was save by a panther that collide with the creatures.

"How careless of you Batman, this is gonna cost you money~" Said Gin with a smile on his face. Batman only looked at him and the huge crow that was on his shoulder before turning towards the creatures and rushing to them.

Green Lantern continue attacking them before he was grabbed by his foot and dragged where others creatures are. Batman hold his hand and shoot him up as he materialize a green robot, shooting green projectiles at the creatures.

Batman arrived at the robot's shoulder and said, "Still think I am paranoid?" Green Lantern looked at him and replied. "Huh maybe a little less now."

"It's great to see you are friends now." Gin said while his crow carry him to the other shoulder. Green Lantern snorted and started firing the robot's weapons. "Is that panther some sort of summoned beast or magical beast?" Batman asked with curiosity while looking at the panther fighting and afterwards looking at the crow on Gin's shoulder.

"Well… they are my precious paintings." Gin said with a smile, not minding his curiosity or even that he may started thinking countermeasures plans. "But that portal is troublesome." Continue as he looked over the portal.

Going back to S.T.A.R. Labs, the creatures started to kidnap the scientists and flying to the crystal dome, passing through it. A scientist pressed a button as an alarm started to sound.

Dr. Stone rushed towards his son, as he was blast by the box. Horrified as his son exposed tissues and muscles, the crystal like thing in some parts of his body.

Some soldiers entered the room with weapons and started firing at the creatures, but the creatures have high physical resistance.

"We need to get out of here now." Said a scientist. "Which way?" Said the female scientist to them. "We have to get him into the red room." Said Dr. Stone as he and his male co-worker carry Victor to the exit while the soldiers were distracting the creatures.

They passed through several rooms that began to lock down but the creatures tear through the walls, Dr. Stone and his co-worker reached the red room but the female scientist tripped down. "Sara!" Dr. Stone shouted and dragged her into the red room as the metallic walls close down.

Now inside the red room, they carry Victor over a bed attached to a machine. Dr. Stone looked over his son and said, "I'm not leaving you Victor. Don't you dare to leave me".

The creatures punched the metallic walls but only leaving a dent on it, meanwhile, the scientists are doing a diagnosis to Victor. Checking his vital signals and surprising the male scientist while saying, "I don't believe it. His vitals are there, Silas. He is alive!"

Victor's finger started to move and slowly his only eye opened. "Dad!" He shouted. "Yes Victor, I'm here."

"It hurts so bad." Victor said in pain. "It's going to hurt. It's not going to be easy, but—" Dr. Stone said only interrupted by a scream from Victor.

"Whatever that energy is, it's eating him from inside out. He is going on cardiac arrest. It's racing to his spinal cord." Said the male scientist looking at the screens. "Then we can't wait." Dr. Stone then proceed to inject him an unknown syringe.

"But Silas, the risk—" "What choice do I have, Morrow? This room contains technology recovered across the globe." Said Dr. Stone to his now known male scientist, Morrow. "I studied and log everything in here. I have taken a part in rebuild most of it. It can save my son's life. It has to."

The bed then was covered and now looked cylindrical. The machine started its work as well putting Victor in pain. "The pain will subside, as soon as the Promethium finished replacing the damaged tissue." Morrow looked in shock at Dr. Stone for using Promethium, a metal capable of generating and absorbing near-limitless amounts of energy, and so can be used as a power source for many gadgets. "Promethium skin grafts? His body could reject it completely."

"It won't" Said Dr. Stone before saying to Morrow, "I've injected the nanites, activate them."

"They aren't tested. We recover them fr—" "DO IT!" Dr. Stone shouted at him. Morrow only looked at him for a second before do as he told.

Several syringe started to inject Victor the nanites bringing him an unimaginable pain. Dr. Stone watched the vital signal of him, but the cardiac signal stopped same as a dead person.

On an unknown location, a raven beauty is walking across the street, as a little girl picked her interest.

Painting: `The First Mourning´ by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

First Mourning was painted directly after the death of his second son. This piece is well titled as The First Mourning because it is the first time a human has had to suffer the loss of a loved one. The grief is only magnified by the fact that their son did not just die, but was murdered by their other son Cain, making this also the first act of murder. Cain then fled, leaving Adam and Eve once again alone. Bougureau also cleverly used a play on words in titling this work, because not only are Adam and Eve mourning, but also dawn approaches. It is the first 'morning' after the death of Abel.