the force of a thousand slashes

Pete walks to Sam's apartment and rings the door bell "coming!" James walks over to the door and opens it "hi there how can I help." Pete looks behind james "is Sam not home?" james looks back "yeah guess not, but please do come in." he stands aside to let Pete in and he then closes the door "so are you a friend of Sam's?" "it's a long story." James walks over to the couch and sits down "take a seat, do you want anything from the kitchen?" Pete shakes his head. Pete sits down "do you have any powers?" Pete looks over to James's "yeah I have a couple just lemme get my phone." James walks to the kitchen and picks his phone up, he then slides back into the room "here they are." he shows Pete his phone "its just a bunch of swords and guns..." James turns his phone off "yeah sadly I got no powers but I got swords, smaller swords, guns and can't forget the explosives." he shoves his phone in his pocket and sits down next to Pete "I'm assuming you have powers?" Pete nods "I'm gonna say it's a physical judging by your body." "yeah I guess its obvious." James lays down. "do you know when Sam will be back?" James looks at the clock "uhhh soon." a look of confusion is on Pete's face "how soon is soon?" the door creaks open.

"uhh God I'm glad were back." Frank, Sam and Mavis walk through "hey guys nice to see you. Sam you also have a visitor." sam falls over "too tired. need sleep." Frank grabs Sam's shirt and drags him to his room "hi Pete nice to see ya." Frank's waves as he walks past "oh this is my good friend mavis." Mavis walks to James and looks at Pete. "is this guy holding you hostage?" Pete's face is flustered "no- i-." "I'm asking you dumbass I know what it's like talking to this bitch." James looks back at Mavis "hey! I got some interesting stories." Mavis laughs "the most interesting story you got is when you talked to a mob boss." Pete looks at James "you talked to a mob boss?" James stands up "it's hard to explain but my grandmother and grandfather knows the mobs grandfather's." James thwacks Mavis on the back of her head. "you gotta lot of nerve doing that ya know." James smirks "Mavis Smith I do not care. ya know." Mavis clenches her hand and is about to hit James until "HEY! no fighting when there's a guest." Frank peered from the doorway and yelled "sorry frankie." James sits back down "shame you didn't get to talk to Sam he's real fun." Mavis snickers "okay maybe he's not that fun." there's a silence "well I'm off now." Mavis walks to the door "whatta gonna do." James asks "I dunno shoot shit or order a takeaway." Pete sits there silently. the door closes "sooo is she your.... girlfriend?" Pete asked awkwardly no sadly, I'm gonna ask her one day though." Pete and James both smile. Pete stands up "well I should get going now." he walks out but before he can close the door "wait wait!" James runs at him "what?" James pants "I need you to accompany me." Frank walks in on James talking to pete "hope I'm not interrupting anything." James hugs Frank "frankie you know how I love you right?" "what do you want?" Frank takes James off himself "I need you, this guy, Mavis and possible Sam." "Sam's sleeping." James's face turns from tiredness to gloom. "guess he's off the table, you buff man get Mavis she's probably at the second floor." "but this is the fourth one." Frank walks by inside to grab his lighter "she's not that fast just hurry." Pete runs down the stairs just as Frank walks back to James "and why does a man who controls fire need a lighter?" Frank looks at James dead in the eye "it was my dad's before he died Jackass." "geez sorry I brought it up." the floor was filled with awkward silence

"alright this is the place guys." James closes the door of the ride "why did you want us here its just a hotel?" Mavis asks "well you ya know how my family knows a mob boss." they all nod "well this is another mafia family and I need to talk to them, hence why i brought you guys anyways come along now." "wait you can't just drop this on us like that!" Frank shouts "shut up Frank just follow and don't ask any questions." they all continue to walk in "bonjour my good sir." James says to the mob boss standing right infront of him "ah James its nice to see you, these must be your guards." "sure as hell, best ones in the business." the mob boss shakes all of their hands "now shall we head up to my room and have a chat?" "that's what I came here to do." the boss and his guards lead them to his room and while they are walking up they see that there are tons of weapons in glass cases on the walls "nice collection." Mavis exclaimed. "why thank you, now James I want to speak with you in private." "gladly sir." the guards open the door and guard the outside letting no one in.

"James... I'm going to die soon." they sit down on the side of the bed "cancer?" James asks "no its blood poison and its getting really bad." James throws his arm over the boss's shoulder "I'm really sorry to hear that, why don't you go to the doctor though?" "James theres no point anymore but before I die I have something to give to you." he walks to a painting and takes it off revealing a safe "must be important if it's in a safe." he puts the password in opening it "this is what I want you to have." there is a ring with a heart shaped gem, a folded tuxedo and a magnum revolver with engravings of playing cards on the barrel and the chamber. "here James come and take it." James stands up and walk to the safe "damn old man it's not my birthday ya know?" "please take the ring and gun." James grabs the magnum and sticks the ring on his finger "wow nice looking ring but what's the tux for?" James places the gun in his pocket "my daughter's wedding is coming up but I can't go too her like this. so I'd like you to go in my place also make sure no one kills her." James takes the tux and hugs the boss "I'll keep that promise old man." he walks out the door.

"ight you three it was just a chat no violence at all-." he walks out to the guards fighting Mavis and Pete "I leave you alone for like what 10 minutes and this happens, wheres Frank?" James looks at to see Frank frantically apologising to the third guard "sir I am so sorry for the actions of my friends." Frank grabs his wallet and pays the man "I hope you have a great day." he runs back to the two and yanks them by their shirts . "good grief sorry you guys we'll get going now." James walks with Frank out the door "so James what was it about?" Frank drops Mavis and Pete "ow my ass." Pete says "oh it was nothing by the way do you guys wanna come to a wedding?" they all think about it for a minute "yeah I'll go." Mavis grabs the tuxedo that James is holding to see if it's her size. "I was planning on wearing that." Pete stands up and dusts himself off "can I bring my baseball bat?" "I know we just met but why the fuck would u need a baseball bat at a wedding?" James folds his arms "it's my favourite one and my teacher gave it to me before he retired." Pete points his head down whilst James sighs. "come on James let the kid have his bat." Mavis places her hand around Pete's shoulder "fine the kid can bring his stupid bat, now all that's left is Sam." "leave him he's tired." Frank pulls out his lighter and starts to do some tricks out of boredom while humming you spin me right round, "so do we have it sorted out?" they nod "great let's go to Sam's apartment and get ready."

they enter the apartment "I'll get ready first since I'm the quickest at getting ready." James walks into the bathroom and proceeds to get ready... a hour passes "James ya okay in there?" Mavis knocks on the door "yeah just having trouble with something." "do you need any help." James is struggling to zip up his fly "fucking zipper won't budge." Mavis opens the door to find James panting for breath "I need help." "thought so." Mavis kneels down and trys to help James with his zipper. Sam walks into the bathroom and then brush his teeth, then his silky blond hair "do you think he knows?" Sam then looks to Mavis then James "least it's not my room." he then walks out.

they all walk out of the limousine with their finest clothes and as the door opens James steps out with a white jacket, black pants, sunglasses, sneakers and a red tie "m'lad." he holds out his hand out helping Frank get out "thanks James." Frank is wearing a buttoned shirt, dark purple trousers, loafers and his red scarf covering his mouth. "feels good to be out of that car." Pete then falls out the limo and then quickly stands up "ouch! oh we're here." Pete is wearing nothing special just his ripped jeans, sport shoes and dark blue shirt with his bat on his shoulder and last but not least Mavis walking out with a tuxedo, dark blue pants, boots with spurs and a holster with a revolver in it. "well my friends allow us to enjoy this wedding." they all walk in and they all go off doing their own thing James talking to the bride and groom, Frank just talking to people and lighting their cigarettes if they don't have a lighter, Pete flexing his baseball skills and Mavis showing off her gun spinning skills. "so are you free tonight?" James asks the bride with the groom standing by her side "ay back off!" the bride then slaps James's face the two then walk off somewhere else "ah the sunglasses hide the tears, nice one past me." James then walks up to Pete sitting down and drinking water "hey Pete hows it going?" James slides on to the chair. "I'm fine just ya know, hydrating and did you know Mavis and Frank are doing tricks." James snickers "ha this is a wedding not a birthday party, if they needed clowns so bad they-." "could've hired you?" James looks at Pete with a deadpanned look. Pete sips his water "wait who's that guy there?" James points over to a pale man walking in "I don't know but I like his hat with the little emblem." James walks over to Frank and Mavis "hey guys can you help me for a quick sec?" Frank shakes his head "I'm fine here mav you go with him." Mavis sighs "fine take me along." James drags her behind a wall "take a look at that pale guy and tell me if he looks abit weird." Mavis eyes widen "oh shit, that's the guy Frank torched." "what do we do?" Mavis reaches her hand to her revolver. "woah, woah calm down cowboy not in public." James quickly thrusts the gun back into its holster "what do you mean he'll kill everyone here." " yeah but look." he tilts her head to Lucy walking to the bathroom.

"God I can't believe no one else wanted to come along besides Dan , and I have to kill this bride." Lucy unzips his flier "and there was that weird kid with the swords I guess its just not my day." the door opens and locks "H-HEY! occupied bud..." Mavis enters the stall and cocks the revolver and points it to Lucy's head. "a bullets bout to occupy your skull if you don't be quiet." *zzzziiipp* "I was kinda hoping for some privacy." he then holds his hands up "anyways if your gonna kill me do it now." and as Mavis blinks her hand becomes apart of the stall wall and her foot stuck in the floor "what the hell?" Lucy walks out the stall and runs his hands through the cold water "thanks Dan." Dan steps out of the stall next to Lucy "no problem boss oh remember to use soap too." "soo is she just gonna lay there asleep?" Lucy shakes his hands. "yeah she'll be asleep for a while but for her she's awake, it's kinda like a out of body experience." Dan sits on the bathroom sink "so boss why do you need just me?" Dan swings his legs back and forth "well dan I need you to knock everyone out with your quote on quote "mind fuckery." then I'll turn the people into mindless creatures and we'll get the money from the guy who wants her dead." Dan stands up and holds the door open for Lucy "but don't fuck it up." they walk out of the bathroom.

"ay James is that you?" James is waiting at the bathroom door and a old time friend spots him "huh? oh shit harold is that you?" harold is a tall man with long black hair, a blue polo, red shorts and dark velvet red "in the flesh James anyways how life been treating you?" James pauses and thinks (how has life been treating me? I guess okay.) "it's been great, you?" harold waves his fingers and a drink comes his way "oh it's been fine I've been saving people." harold's power is orchestra, with the wave of his finger he can control small objects he mostly uses daggers for his power, drawback he gets hand cramps if he uses it to much. "Dan. now please." Dan snaps his fingers and the people with powers fall including Frank and Pete to the ground leaving only James and a few random people standing. "James why are those people still standing?" Lucy gestures towards the crowd "well I thought I'd target the people with powers since, those people can't be that much trouble right?" Lucy thinks about it for a moment "hmmm I guess your right." Lucy strolls over to the bride "w-w-wait! what did I do to deserve this?" the bride frantically asks "be quiet now I'm not allowed to give that informed out." Lucy places his hand on her face and tears roll down her face.

"get away from her!" James right hooks Lucy's face and the bride swiftly crawls away "I will not let you lay a hand on that person." James quickly jumps into a fighting stance, Lucy rubs his face "who are you?" he asks "huh? do you not remember,I was the guy who dodge your every attack." Lucy looks at James "did you have that horror knuckle duster?" James face becomes frustrated "yes I was." Dan runs up behind James and trys to attack him but James launches his fist towards Dan's face knocking out and to the ground. "you had one job Dan. one fucking job!" Lucy sighs and shoots his arm out and transforms a guest into a disgusting creature with a long body, and four disgusting green legs and a long crocodile like mouth with it Extending out. "you bastard that was a innocent woman and you just killed her!" Lucy laughs and claps his hands but with each clap a person starts to convulse "you see kid when I entered this wedding I made a little spike at the tip of my fingers and shot it at some people, and my Transformation power just needs my skins touching someone for it to activate." Lucy extends his hand and grabs Dan's body "bye bye." Lucy waves and runs out "YOU COWARD!" James yells as the monsters rise up some with multiple limbs, some with bubbling faces and stomachs (are Pete and Frank okay?) James thinks to himself looking all around for his friends. he spots them laying on the floor (I guess this is it for me, but I don't want these guys to die here.) James looks over at the people and there were just monsters in there place.

"No! I refuse to die now, I have people to help and a pet to go home to!" James reaches into his pocket and puts on his knuckle duster and grabs a knife that was laying on a table "COME AT ME YOU FREAKS!" the monsters dash towards him roaring and screaming. James jumps on the four legged mess and slashes its legs and decks its jaw dislocating it "THE ONLY PERSON WHO KILLS ME IS NO ONE!" he then slams his fist into a creature's bubbling back and as the fist connor the bubbles pop one by one with each one spurting a green juice. James stabs the monster in its eyes and the monster falls to the ground with a loud thud "I'm sorry I couldn't save you." James starts to cry as he continues to fight on (why am I still fighting? just get your friends and run.) James stabs another monster in his path but the knife finally shatters. "fuck!" the money then slams its gigantic fist into James's body and sends him flying and a crack can be heard "N-No I can't die here." the monsters walks over to James and grabs his hand and crushes it in its giant hand "AH!" his arm falls to the ground and so does the rest of his body and he just lays there blood on his clothes and crushed hand and he slowly comes to the realisation that no one is coming to save him and also realising that he'll never get to see anyone he loves ever again. he starts to contemplate if there even is afterlife but he then thinks about some of his mom and dads words "son even if you have no gimmick of a power, even if you think you're useless just know that we will love you and we'll be by your side even in death." James thinks of his dads words. James stands up, looks at his shattered hand then looks at his knuckle duster and then looks at the creature's dead stare "ya know if I die now, I won't be able to forgive myself for the grief that will make my friends hate themselves." James tightens his hand and stumbles towards the monster and pathetically hits its stomach. and the creature bursts into giant chunks of sliced meat.