The Night

Tonight was the night. I could barely hold in my excitement the whole day at school. Nothing fairly interesting happened there since it was the first week back after summer, so we just got our seats and lab partners assigned for the next year. I got the seat on the second row and my lab partner turned out to be a girl named Ruby Diamond. She was 5'5, had a nose piercing, and I don't know if this was surprising or not, but she had red hair. Not natural red hair. Scarlet, blood like hair, you could tell it was dyed. Other than that nothing eye catching happened.

As soon as the final bell rang, I dashed home. I need to get my homework done and get ready, do the essentials like eat, shower and maybe stretch. An hour later I had finished the final touches on my math homework when my mom walked through the door. The main issue for me that night would be sneaking out, but I already made a plan to get away with that. My mom had a strict sleeping schedule. Every night she would go to her room at half past eleven so that she had about half an hour to fall asleep. She needed to be asleep by midnight, she was a teacher so she had to be up by six in the morning, which meant I had about until half past 5 to be back home and under my blanket. And seeing as the fact that she had a bathroom in her bedroom, there was no reason for her to come out, but just in case I would stuff my pillows under my blanket.

Twilight had arrived. I decided to go out the front door in my civilian clothes, seeing as if a neighbor happened to see a man in a black hooded poncho coming out the window it could certainly bring trouble. Once I was outside I took a bus all the way to the park where everything began, and ran to a corner store and hid in its alley. That's where I summoned my costume. Using a staff, I ejected myself all the way to the top of the store building by extending its length. It was like 3 stories so it wasn't that hard.

I was back in the park because I decided this is where I wanted to start everything. I needed to know what happened to the other kids and why they were kidnapped. It had been a week since they were taken and no reports had been filed, otherwise it would be all over the news. Which meant that the kids were either homeless or runaways. That night before I took a bus home, I called the police using a phone booth near the place, apparently phone booths still existed. I told the police that I saw two men carrying what looked like body bags and dumping them in a van at the park. I didn't mention what happened to me. I just wanted to give them the idea that a good Samaritan saw what was happening and reported it, but it looked like they didn't find anything otherwise I wouldn't be here.

My plan was simple. I needed information and there was one man who could give it to me. Our local drug dealer/informant, Troll.

See Troll was once a normal man, as normal as a drug dealer could be, but one night while walking over the Heften bridge, it collapsed underneath him and he fell straight into the river. The bad part was that the river had been contaminated by industrial radioactive waste by Haxon Inc, who had dumped their entire vat of waste that exact night. Troll survived but he ended up looking like, well a troll. He had green skin, bald hair and a gigantic potato shaped nose. The silver lining was that he also got powers like, fire breath and regeneration. No one knew why the bridge collapsed, some people suggested it was because of the corrosiveness from the polluted river, others said that it was sabotaged on purpose. The company didn't even get a setback, they just paid him a "pleasing" amount of money, which he ended up losing by gambling it away.

Anyways, it was time to pay Troll a visit.