A Peek Into The Past PT. 3
Apex Protector was the strongest superhero in the United States but did this home true to other countries? The short answer was no but no registered superhero or superhuman could travel to another country without approval limiting where they could go as the majority were rejected except they had an insane amount of money.
Damon was going to school here, alongside his brother and things were a lot different from what he thought it would be. They were a lot friendlier and didn't make fun of his reclusive nature.
He felt accepted and began to think that whatever was going on was for the best.
Peter was in a different school, and this choice was heavily influenced by his girlfriend.
Life was perfect but things were about to go south.
Their father's name was Axel and their mother's name was Grace.
Axel had gained a steady footing in Greece and the news about this person that people referred to as God had reached him.
Axel thought it to be rubbish but it kept the people in check so there was no downside to it.
Axel had an encrypted USB drive containing information that could potentially compromise the route the underworld used for their businesses as well as the identities of the Kings but he didn't know the password.
That was the only problem and Axel knew that if they found out, he wouldn't be alive.
Part of the reason he was alive was that he threatened to release this to everyone if anything should happen to him, this guaranteed his safety or so he thought.
There was a secret that he knew as well about the superheroes.
"I know things aren't looking good, Grace but I can fix this if you just give me time!" Axel pleaded.
"I can't do this anymore!" Grace screamed at him.
She was packing her things and moving out, Axel put their family in danger and Grace wanted no part of it anymore.
"W-What about the boys!?" Axel tried to play the family card, this was a card that had a 100% success rate so far but not anymore, Grace had it up to here this time.
"I will be taking the boys with me! And if you care about them then you will let them go with me!" Grace said.
"And if I say no?" Axel responded but his tone was completely different from a second ago.
"I will tell them just who their father truly is!" Grace threatened him and that ticked something in Axel.
"You ungrateful bitch! I did everything for you and my family and now you want to take my kids and run!" Axel barked but Grace didn't look scared despite her husband's rage.
"Goodbye Axel…" Grace said as she walked away from her husband.
Axel was a violent man but he never directed his violent tendencies towards his wife or kids.
And he wasn't about to start today because he understood Grace's point.
He was putting his family in unnecessary danger but he couldn't let go, not yet.
He tried to call out Grace's name but before he could, a young boy with a spiked necklace and earrings popped up right in front of his wife.
"I'm sorry but you can't leave, neither of you can…" The boy said with a broad smile and before Grace could move to attack him, Thanatos did something to her that made her freeze in place.
Thanatos had the power to alter anybody's memory and replace certain people with himself or give people false experiences.
If someone had an overwhelming need to protect a friend, Thanatos could replace the image of that friend with himself making that person have an overwhelming need to protect him.
He was advised by his members that his life would be ruined if he took a life. But what would happen if it was Grace that took that life? What if Grace recognized Axel as the threat?
Axel moved to attack Thanatos but Grace stood in the way.
"What the hell do you think you are doing Axel!?" Grace screamed at him and this took Axel by surprise.
"What do you mean?" Axel asked, clearly confused as he assumed that Grace knew this person but there was no mistaking it, that the killing intent was directed at his wife.
"Why the fuck are you attacking our son?" Grace shouted with Thanatos grinning.
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Damon had yet another eventful day at school, he was singing and humming the song blasting through his headphones. The school was close to his home so he didn't take the bus and rather, walked to and fro.
Damon couldn't wait to tell his parents all about what happened in school today, a lot of things happened and this included scoring an A in his test.
Damon arrived at the doorsteps of his home but he noticed certain things out of place and this included his mother's bag at the front pouch.
The place they stayed barely had any neighbours as Axel bought the houses surrounding theirs with the help of his political friend as he didn't have the financial prowess to pull it off on his own.
Damon carefully opened the door as he didn't know what awaited him but he suspected that Peter might be playing a prank on him.
Peter got home a little later than him as he always escorted his girlfriend back home before returning so it was highly unlikely.
"Huh?" He thought; he stepped in a puddle of blood but he didn't know who they belonged to.
Damon froze in place, the house was dead silent.
This was something that never happened, his mother was always at the door to welcome him.
"Mom! Dad!" Damon shouted, hoping for a response as he managed to move his legs.
Dragging it on the floor, smearing the blood in his path.
Damon kept calling out to them but he heard nothing in return but what he saw when he got to the sitting made his heart drop.
"You must be Damon…" Thanatos asked, seated on a couch with a cold beverage in and as his mother was mounted on his father, stabbing his lifeless body continuously like she was trying to reach a target.
"I'm Thanatos."