Shadow of a Sinister Soul (Open)

With a yawn, Naomi walked along the streets of Atlanta with a goal. She aimed to find something--anything--to combat her boredom. She had been aimlessly wandering this city for an hour and she was dying to cut loose and weave a web of chaos and despair.

When turning a corner, Naomi suddenly heard a concerned tone. "Hey, little lady. Are you lost or something?" Before her was a man in police uniform who looked at her with a sincere smile. "You look like you're looking for something. Can I help?" Naomi saw him as an opportunity for the twisted villainy she called fun and smiled at him. "Actually, yes, I think you can help me a bunch, mister!" she replies. The police officer smiles, only to frown when he saw something large move beneath him. Naomi's circular void of a shadow widened and consumed the space under his feet. Before he could even contemplate on what it was, a pair of long appendages wrap around his body and suspends him in the air. A cry of terror escaped his throat as the arms of solidified darkness constrict him and twists his body, inducing incredible strain and agony upon him.
"You can help me by dying for me. You will be so kind as to do so, won't you?" Naomi tells him with a twisted smile as she draws a hunting knife and prepares to carve it into the police officer's skull, the appendages lowering the officer for her to do so. The officer's eyes widened in absolute terror and could only watch as Little Miss Malice raises her blade and grins ear to ear.

John Capore was located down in Atlanta, Georgia mainly because he was trying to get his mind off of the things that were causing him intense emotional pain and getting away from the place where it occured seemed like a good idea to him.Somehow his recent heroic exploits had relieved him of the tension to a degree.Over the last week alone he had managed to deplete a powerful criminal organization of some of its valuable resources.Probably a good thing for people in general since they'd be at least safer from those particular ones for the time being at least.

He was walking down the city sidewalks looking around at the various buildings.As he was doing so he passed by a police officer that was standing by a corner, watching the streets.That was the sixth one he had seen so far and he had only been out about 15 minutes."Gesh, that's alot of cops around here.What is going on?" he was thinking.There were quite a few cops in such a small area.He was wondering why that would be the case.Were they on the lookout for something?

A few minutes later he was in some shop checking out the merchandise when he could hear people talking about how something weird was going on down the street.He walked closer and stood amongst others to hear what people were saying.All he could get out of what was being said was something about a psychotic child and a cop down the road.Sirens started blaring as he was trying to listen more closely.John decided to go and see what was going on.He sneaked away from the crowd and started moving in the same direction that the cop car was heading.

As quickly as the event escalated, the officer was silenced and the malicious appendages returned from whence they came. As Naomi bent over to retrieve her blood-lubricated blade from the man's cranium, she heard blaring sirens from a distance, gradually growing louder. The cops were coming for her, and she was nothing less than thrilled. With a smile, she turns towards the direction the sirens were coming from and walks down the street, towards the police car that she could see speeding down the street in her direction. There was more fun to be had.

"Looks like I won't have to be so bored after all. I hope they'll be more fun to torture than the last."

John was rushing down the street trying to keep up with the sounds of the blaring sirens what it was that was actually going on to cause such a major fuss.He quickly noticed that he was hurrying along the very same path he had just travelled down mere minutes ago.What, had he somehow walked right by whatever it was that was causing all this distress without even realizing it?Was it something completely obvious that he had overlooked or something? The trip to the source of the troublesome situation wasn't a very long one at all.Within minutes he had arrived at the source of all the panic.A few police cars were parked around.A couple of the officers were attempting to get the citizens in the area out of here while the rest were trying to deal with what was causing all of this.

He looked past the police cars and saw them attempting to engage a young woman who was exhibiting some form of power that he was trying to identify."Oh dammit, they don't have a chance.I'll have to do something about this.urgh, dammit." he was thinking as he ducked away from all of this to go find a secure place to change into his hero costume in order to counter this metahuman threat.

Naomi found herself surrounded by police officers, who aimed their pistols at her. She couldn't help but let out a giggle. What made them thing that any sort of weapon was going to do them any good? Compared to them, she was little more than a demigod.

"Drop your weapon and put your hands behind your head!" Naomi heard a policeman order. She fails to stifle a laughter and erupts into one. His tone of voice implied fear, as if he was about to piss his pants.
"You don't sound very confident!" Naomi says back to him, smiling, "What are you afraid of? I'm just a little girl."
Suddenly, Malice's shadow widens and lengthy tendrils of solidified darkness protruded from it's blackness. "Fire!" a policeman shouted, and a hail of bullets came her way. Naomi creates a dome of darkness to shield herself from the bullets as she watches the tendrils rip through police cars and lash away at officers. Lowering the barrier, Naomi manipulates her shadowy tendrils to morph into hands before using them to pluck the mangled squad cars from off the ground and sling them into the officers. With every scream of agony she heard, her giggling progressed, and eventually grew into a paychotic cackle as she watched the carnage her supernatural shadow was producing. She was loving every minute of it.

John had snuck off to find cover amidst all that commotion and he had just barely managed to do so.He had snuck into an alleyway and jump over a fence to get to the other block just to find a safe hiding place to change into costume.The people in the streets were now starting to panic and running as fast as they could possibly run away from that one young woman that was causing all that trouble with those powers of hers.Those cops no matter how well they were armed had little chance against such a thing so that was why he was going to act.Forcewave was now changed into full costume and began heading back to the site of the conflict.

The shouts and screams caused by this dreadful situation echoed loudly through the skies.The whole area was just a mass of panic.Forcewave arrived back there in time to see the woman using her powers of the very shadows themselves to start lifting the police cars off the ground and tossing them back at the officers.He was forced to act fast.As quick as the blinking of an eye he let loose his own power to blast the cop cars out of the air and keep them from hitting anybody at all.That would surely gain the attention of this shadow manipulating woman.Not to mention all the cops and other people still around.Come to think of it this situation was more perilous than he originally thought.He had temporarily forgotten that all metahumans, no matter what course of actions they took were being considered major threats."Dammit.Now I got to avoid dealing with the cops too." he thought as he faced the shadow weilding woman who was causing so much darn trouble.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a blast of energy appears and blew the vehicles Naomi's shadow had tossed clear out of the sky, saving the many lives she planned to end. And just as mysteriously, a curious man in costume appeared before her very eyes and stole her attention from the now fleeing citizens and retreating officers of the law. Who was this mysterious hero? And more importantly, how dare he ruin her fun! It mattered not that her new adversary possessed powers possibly as lethal as her own. All that mattered was that this hero was in the way of Naomi's enjoyment, and she was nothing less than livid at him. But, instead of displaying her rage, she does the opposite. She smiled at the man and greets him.

"Wow, that was a pretty impressive trick, mister." Naomi commented, looking over the man's costume in false wonderment, placing her hands behind her back, "You have a pretty nice costume too! Did you make it yourself?" Containing her anger was difficult for her adrenaline was pumping rapidly, and her body trembled ever so slightly in tranquil fury. To keep from snapping was key: this was Little Miss Malice's first time being confronted by another metahuman, and acting without thinking would be a deadly mistake. How could she continue to murder if she was to be neutralized? It was crucial to maintain her childish demeanor to fool the man into thinking that her powers were her only threatening aspect. Which is why her knife was held behind her back, hidden from the heroic figure before her.

Forcewave was now being stared down at by the crazed woman with the shadow controlling abilities and by the police officers who had been trying and failing to apprehend this woman.Then again maybe woman was not the right term for her.Her behavioural manneurisms were far more like a young child than someone of the age she appeared to be.Maybe she was just so genuinely insane that it caused her to act like this.Whatever the case mattered very little though.First things first he had to put a stop to what she was doing.Knowing this he also knew that he would have to somehow get away from the cops as well since getting arrested was not something he could afford to do.He may just try running for it as soon as he managed to stop the crazy lady.That or lure her a bit away from where the cops were so he would have room to escape once finished.

She was now talking to him in an actually friendly fashion that just came out as downright creepy to him.Her voice felt like insects crawling over him.He glanced over towards all of the officers to see what course of action they seemed like they were about to take.He could see that the local population had gotten away from this spot."At least they are all safe." he thoughts as he held himself ready to take action.Energy flowed through him in preparation of whatever use he may need it for."My fashion choices are unimportant.I'm only here to stop this little game of yours." he told her in a very bold fashion, completely prepared for battle

The Little Miss was delighted to have so many targets in this confrontation. The remaining police officers and this bold superhero that stood before her seemed like the perfect outlet for her rage. To her, the police officers who seemed to be discussing a plan of action was the least of her concern. Whatever they had up their sleeves was no threat. It was the fellow metahuman that she was focused on. This bold young man that was brave enough to attempt to put a stop to her deranged sense of fun. Oh, how she couldn't wait to wrap the fingers of her shadow's deadly hands around his neck. Of course, she did not expect to kill this one so easily. After all, he was far stronger than her previous victims who only held loaded firearms.

When the young man replied to Naomi's attempt of showing kindness, she giggled, almost mockingly at the young hero. Not only did she find his words humorous, but she actually saw him cringe ever so slightly, which amused her. Perhaps he was terrified on the inside and refused to show it. Or perhaps he was caught off-guard by her childish demeanor. This was most likely the case. At any rate, she decided to maintain her behavior the way she had planned. "Aww, but mister, I'm having so much fun!" Little Miss Malice tells the young hero with a wide, joyful smile, "I don't want to stop now. Maybe you'd wanna play with me instead?"

Glancing around the surrounding area briefly to try and take it all in as much as he possibly could, Forcewave was pondering a couple of potential alternate plans of action to take in this situation besides the option of simply going straight into battle with this more than likely dangerous woman with all these police officers around armed and intent on taking down both of them."Well then, this is going to be annoying.I should probably finish this quickly." he was thinking even though he was yet to be aware of the full capabilities that this most likely psychotic woman possessed in terms of both her powers and other factors.He was going to have to be careful at first just to get a better idea of what he was up against.

Now the woman was just giggling hysterically in response to his statement of how he was going to put an abrupt end to her actions."This is fun for her.Yeah she's definitely crazy." he was thinking when informed by her that her actions were being performed due to her finding them amusing.There was really no denying it now, she was most definitely crazy.At the very least he knew what her motive was.She was now inviting him to play with her instead.He of course knew what she mean't by that but it gave him an idea.If she was now interested in harming him rather than anyone else this could work out in his favor."Sure." he told her then after a slight pause."Come get me if you can." he told her as he took a couple of steps back and prepared to get moving away from the cops

This hero was quite brave indeed. He had promptly took up on Naomi's offer to "play" and dared her to pursue him. Amused, Naomi laughs happily. This is what she was looking for. Excitement. Something thrilling to do to keep herself from being so bored all the time. The presence of the police were forgotten. She cared nothing for them now. Naomi's attention and aggression was now all pointed at the young man that arrived from nowhere.

"Okay!" Naomi replies to him as a surge of darkness rises from her shadow. The police were frightened from the display and clumsily prepare to fire their weapons. "I hope you can run fast, mister."Naomi says to him with a smile. Her joyful expression suddenly darkens and becomes a dreadful, sadistic glare. "I'd hate it for my new toy to break so soon." With that, hands of darkness erupt from her shadow and reach out for the hero as fast as lightning, attempting to catch him in their cold grips.

She had taken the bait.Just as he had planned and hoped for.Now he would be able to create some distance between himself and all those police officers.All that was left for him to do was take down this insane shadow wielder and then run for it."Easier said than done.Hopefully not by much though." he was thinking as he took a few more steps back, keeping his feet in position to take off at whatever point he may need to do so.Forcewave was managing to remain calm.He had been through situations like these several times before and even though he had never had to deal with the thought of getting arrested for his efforts it still was not troubling him too much.

Oh she had definitely taken the bait alright.That was for sure.The shadows around her grew rapidly and formed into a pair of massive hands as the insane woman smiled in a sadistic fashion.Forcewave could sense her malicious intentions.The hands flew out and were coming right towards.Forcewave unleashed his power in a ferocious wave that ripped the hands of shadow to pieces, utterly destroying them and therefore stopping her attack completely.Forcewave now stared directly at her wondering how she would react to seeing what had just occured.He had in total taken exactly a dozen steps from where he had been standing.

Naomi had only just now realized the capability of the hero's power. If that was enough to destroy her shadow constructs, then she would no doubt have to try a little harder to kill him. But she was prepared. Her direct attack was nothing more than a distraction, for she knew the hero would counter with his own power, just as he did against the flying, crushed police cars she had thrown earlier. All she needed to do was exploit an opening.

When the fists of darkness were ripped apart by the forceful blast, Naomi had already made a dash for the hero, removing her hands from her back and gripping the hunting knife in her right fist. She moved quickly, her legs seeming almost invisible as she sprinted towards her adversary, and her shadow widens, encroaching upon the space around her, creating a giant circle of blackness of which she was its center, even when moving as fast as she was. After only a couple of seconds after her shadowy assault on the young hero, Naomi reaches him and swiftly extends her knife towards his torso, grinning psychotically as she anxiously awaited to hear the one who dared stand in her way scream in agony.

The very first clash between the powers of the two opposing metahumans had resulted in Forcewave effectively outmatching the psychotic woman's shadow powers.That went just as he had hoped.Now he was sure that he could overpower her shadows and defeat her.All that was left to do now was do just that."Yeah, That just so sounds easy." went through his mind loudly as he pondered this.

The woman was now charging directly at him all full of evil intentions.He could see a rather large knife in her hand now as she drew closer.Well there was something else to keep an eye on.Like there weren't enough things to watch out for already.He only had two eyes available after all.She was dashing at him at quite the high speed as more shadows formed.Forcewave quickly charged a massive amount of energy in preparation for this incoming attack.As she drew within feet of him and sidestepped to his right, to her left side and away from the knife itself and unleashed some of his power aimed directly upon her torso as he continued forward and once again creating some space between himself and her.

Suddenly, Naomi found herself airborne with an agonizing pain in her torso. She knew this young man's powers were great, but she had no idea just how strong it was until she was struck. There was no way to overpower him with an ability like that. Her shadow manipulation stood no chance. At least in terms of power. If Naomi wanted to be victorious, she needed a strategy. Now, it was time to outsmart her adversary and utilize whatever she could against him. She summoned an appendage in the shape of a massive hand from her shadow to catch her before she were to fly into a building or something. As she was brought back to the concrete, she remembered the the existence of the police officers that had them partially surrounded. That gave her an idea. She didn't care whether they live or die from this confrontation, but maybe this hero did. After all, he did save their lives.

Ignoring the sharp pain in her side, Naomi generates more giant hands from her shadow, this time more than a pair. She had generated over a dozen shadowy appendages that loomed over her in an arc formation. Her smile that had vanished upon being struck by the young man's power returned as she unleashed them upon everyone: the police officers and her adversary. There was no way he could save everyone without harming them, she thought, assuming that perhaps this hero knew a few techniques that could prove her wrong. As she unleashed her fury, she prepared herself to move quickly as soon as anything came her way, plotting her next move against this fellow metahuman.