Chapter 1

~Venith~

𝕋𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕕𝕒𝕪, 𝔸𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕝 27

Walking down the street alone in New York, and the dark isn't such a good idea to most people. Could be a scary thing anything can happen in the dark of night. Yet some people love the night and the darkness that comes with it. Right now I'm on the way to meeting up with a friend of mine I haven't seen in a couple of years, yet I just keep getting this feeling something's gonna happen.

I shake off the feeling and continue to walk down the dim street, with my head down. After walking a few more feet I bump into someone causing my hood to fall off. I look up to see a man looks kinda burly maybe in his 30's or 40's "Sorry sir, excuse me." I try to move past him but he blocks me. "You look very familiar do I know you." He asks "No, but I get that a lot." and I try to move past him again, and he blocks again. "Sir can you please get out of my way I have somewhere to be." "You're that Vinith girl that was on the news." I push the man back causing him to stumble then I run.

I turn around to see him catching up to me so I do a quick turn into an alley,... but it's a dead-end, I look back to the entrance to see the man standing there. "You're cornered there is no where for you to go don't make this harder than it needs to be."

I take a deep breath and light a purple flame in my palm. The man seems surprised by this and runs away. After waiting a few moments to be sure that he was gone, I slowed down my breathing and concentrated in the shadows around me. I take a step back and let the shadows engulf me.

Feeling the darkness in case me for a few moments, then emerging from the shadows, only to feel myself being in a different place than I was before. I open my eyes and look around to see that I'm in a small dim corner in a coffee shop. After looking around a little more I see my friend on the other side of the cafe so I walk over to see Zeek.

~Zeek~

"Zeek, how have you been?" I heard a familiar voice call my name so I turned around to see Venith standing there with a small smile on her face.

I smile and pull her close to give her a big hug. She hugs back and we stay like that for a moment, "When did you get in here? I didn't see you walk through the door. " I whispered, "Well the two years we haven't seen each other I've picked up and learned a few things about my 'abilities.' " She said. I finish ordering my donuts and walk beside Venith walking towards a table to sit at.

"How have you been, have you had any luck uncovering more things about yourself yet?" I asked her looking her in her eyes. "Yeah, but not much, just enough to get me a lead of why someone decided to send the whole world after me. Anyway, how about you, how have you been Z? " I laugh, "Always fast to think about others still I see," I say in a teasing tone.

She chuckles while shaking her head.

"Come on man just tell me what you have been up to." "I've been in Colorado for the past 2 years it's a nice place to be they have skiing too. I've also made me some re-modified hand gloves for myself too."

I lifted my hands to show her my work. She grabbed my hand, examining my gloves while feeling the texture. "The design is great, what's the power source for them?" she said while putting my hand down and looking at me. "Hand movement and sometimes electronic charge. I also messed around with the calibrations to keep my pulses calm and in check. " I said a little more energy, "What's the lead you got anyway? " She paused for about 2 seconds, then suddenly shifted to a much more serious one. "Well, I got spotted, about two months ago..... And this man was tracking me and every time I thought I lost him, he just kept coming back, so I finally faced him and 'scared' him into telling me who he was working for after that I left him for dead and now his buddies are after me."

"Who is the man he's working for? " I asked, taking a bite out of my donut, and handing her one as well. "Some crime boss named Victor steel, what I need to know is why is he sending his goons after me? I don't have any ties to him. " I nod "...So when we go after this guy? " I say eating the last of my donut, "What I know is that he will be at some fancy hotel in Manhattan on Thursday, so basically in three days we go after him." She said casually, "So in the next three days you want us to make a plan to sneak into a mob boss's hotel to get the questions out of him is that what you are telling me? " She smirks and nods her head up and down with donuts still on the corners of her lips.

I smile widely "Well, ok then we have no time to waste, though we won't be planning anything here so let's get going." I said, grabbing her hand and practically jumping out of my seat heading for the cafe door dragging Venith with me. "Wait!", she said in a whisper, shout I turned around and watched her walk back to our table and pull out a couple of dollars and sat it on a table as a tip, I smiled as she walked back up to me, grabbed my hand then walked out of the cafe.

~Nyctophilia~

A preference for the night or darkness.