Fun and Games (Pat) April 1st Challenge

"Oh You can do that?" She watched as he channeled some kind of energy into the chain. However it had no effect. "You can summon great winds, command death, and heal wounds but you can't break a fucking chain. What kind of hack are you bub... I bet you just think I am cute and want to stay close to me. Well guess what pervert, I would not be caught dead with you..."

"FUCK I DID IT AGAIN ARGH." She screamed and punched the wall. As she did, her fist exploded with heat energy and the door burst open revealing a sign over head that had the words exit and a arrow pointing left. Of course it was that easy. Violence always solved problems. How if only it could tell her what happened to her employee. If he was dead, then she would have to run the shop and fix all the cars herself. That was going to be a pain. As she was in mid thought, The Sirens blasted through the air screaming about how the gas was being released through the air. Now was not the time to be worrying about home. They had to get out or else Riley would die.

Dying sucked too. She would loose so much time and her employees might skip work. It would be the absolute worst thing in the world. "Look Lets just get out of here before the gas starts to come down. She pointed her hand and her skin started to peel off. "OUCH OUCH OUCH, DAMN DAMN DAMN!" The gas started coming down from the room but the hallways were free of the stuff. If the man was not coming then she would drag him to safety. She was not going to suffer because he was dead or wanted to die.

"How long does it take to use your air attack," She yelled. She was running out of energy and had maybe one more attack in her before she became useless again. It was a crappy curse were she had to get hurt with either fire or electricity before she could even use her powers. Also, she could not resist the attacks or else she would not get much energy. That was why she even took the full force of that fire attack. Speaking of fire, she hoped that fire guy did not suffer too painful of a death. That gas burned a lot but it did not seem like it would quickly erode the body. The only reason she felt the pain so fast is because the lighting monster fried her hands and Sean did not heal her.

Maybe when they get out she should pretend to be friends so Sean could heal her. Naa, she would take care of it on her own. She would have plenty of time since she did not know where she was. At least Sean knew someone who could take care of the chain. It would be a bummer to be stuck to this man the entire time.

To think the man could control earth and wind. That was kind of not fair. Those were opposite elements in every cartoon Riley saw as a child. That is not to say it was not impressive. This man was full of surprises. She wonder what else he could do. Could he control fire? Could he move water? Could he make it rain by doing a silly dance? What was his limit? Well that did not matter now because they were free.


Following all of the signs and using Sean ability to move earth like a wizard, Riley, while still connected to Sean the killer of creatures, managed to fine the excite with minimal injuries. Besides being burned alive, shocked, nearly choked, almost murdered by a gorilla turtle monster like creature that had lightning powers and befriending a magic guy who could do anything but break a chain, she made it out okay. However, now that they were outside, they ran into another problem. Now they were in the middle of he forest with no sign of civilization. It was hot muggy and trees were everywhere. The only way they could find anything is if one of them flew to the top of the trees. Lucky for Riley she was a ghost. Wait, Riley pondered for a minute. If the man did not know about their abilities, he could not have planned a way to contain a ghost. Riley realized she could have just ghost out of the collar and ran away. She felt so stupid.

"Well Sean I just remember something. I am already dead... Like i am a ghost.... So bye, have a crappy life."

With that statement, Riley's body became transparent and then she slipped out of the collar effortless. It was so easy, how could she forget about it such a fact. It had to be due to the fact that she has been trying to blend in with the living that she forgot she could do dead stuff. With that done. She flew away while blowing a raspberry at the man, murder in the making. She did not feel sorry for him. It is not like he healed her a bunch of times. It is not like he fought beside her as a partner in crime. It is not like they did not make a great team of being a shield and sword.

Well maybe some of those things happened. Still, he deserved it. He deserved to suffer by killing people. Maybe, but she wanted to see the suffering and she did not have time today. So she scouted the area for a village and once she discovered a village she told them of a stranded man in the jungle. The people were glad to help out due to them thinking she was a spirit of the forest. And within an hour, they would easily track down and help the man. She did not pay attention to who they were as she had a long flight ahead of her

After several weeks of flying around and hitch hitching on planes in mid flight, Riley finally managed to make it back home. She was exhausted, and really wanted to just go to sleep at work. That trip to the jungle was a nice vacation and she learned a lot about her powers and what to and what not to do. She also met a interesting man who could do a lot of powerful things. Despite all of that she still managed to impress him which was surprising since she was kind of dead. From all of this, all she knew was that she wanted to learn more about her limits. She wanted to push her body even farther then ever. She also wanted to further challenge those stronger than her and not have to worry about backing down due to the situation. She felt weak having to rely on that guy but that that is what the situation called for. She was not strong enough to fight both of those creatures by herself. She would have died and then she would lose her employees. Well at least now everything would return to normal.

As she floated in front of her place she saw that the closure signs were posted everywhere. She fell to the ground. Tears ran down her face. All of her hard work, all of her efforts. They were completely gone, wasted. Her life, undead life, was over. She would have to raise money but how. She had nothing. THat damn man ruined her. He took away every she had. His greed allowed him to create monsters and all he had to do was take from others. Wait, that was it. Riley got an idea that would give her everything she wanted. She just had to steal money from others. If she stole enough money then she could open up a bigger and better shop. SHe could hire better workers who would not die or call in sick leaving her alone to work. She had her dream again. And now that she revealed she was a ghost, she had nothing to hide. In a world were you have superheros, magic men, and crazy scientist. What is one haunting spirit?

With that Riley then moved to live in a mall. She needed clothes, she needed food to make her happy. And she needed a place to sleep when everyone disappear. It was a full proof plan. Also she needed a new name, one that would strike fear in the hearts of all men, woman, and children. Her new name had would be Invisobill... No that was stupid. Riley pondered as she floated in the sky slowly and headed towards the closest building.

After aimless floating building to building she found it. The biggest mall in the city. It had everything including 3 stories of stores, movie theater, food courts, and clothes. It even had a gym and a suit shop she she could steal fancy clothes. Her new life was about to begin and all would fear Riley, until she found a new cooler name.