webnovel

Villain in Shepherd's cloth

AU. (Sorry for any cringe) A world of superpowers named Quinx or Quinxez (pl) has the casual hero, villain, and everything in between. With some crooked Heroes and misunderstood Villains someone has to "Have the moral high ground"

Mystice · Sci-fi
Not enough ratings
16 Chs

So. . . Who Were We? Who Are You?

A man wearing tattered black dress pants and a plain gray collared dress shirt arrives at a table in a beautifully ruined cafe and meets two men. The one to his left wore a black coat. Behind him were flames dancing on the service counter with still flames behind it. On the counter there were bodies: Burnt charcoal or frozen and pale or just dead by missing limbs or blood loss. There were also busted containers that had water dripping down from the collapsed roof that reveals flourishing wildlife, and even with all this behind him he smiles calmly.

The man to his right was half naked with scars all over his chest with purple pants being held up by a reddish gray belt. Behind him the cafe had a painful display of bodies both inside and outside of a hole that seemed to have been made by some sort of explosion, these bodies wore faces of sadness while looking very much alive despite the ruins of society being bleak and an aura of a calm nothingness, an aura that shows no pain, that shows a sense of direction a direction towards change. Once the late male got close to his chair the man's face changes from contempt pain and deep thought to a warm smile of deceit

"Please, sit with us." The shirtless man says

"I don't want to." The late male says

"We insist!" The two sitting men say hungrily

The man sighs then begrudgingly takes a seat

"It's funny that this is the only thing we can agree on Azar." The coat male says to the shirtless man "We agree on a lot of things, we just disagree on how to commit to this journey Pinearl. You believe that being what they see us as will help." Azar (Shirtless man) says to the man in a coat. "Well you acting like our enemies will be our friend and are worth standing on our ground is hilarious." Pinearl says with an all knowing grin

"Well let's be fair, my views of this changed very quickly. After all that speak of them being your enemy isn't all that tru-" Azar replies but gets interrupted by a slam on the desk. "If you aren't for a better future for humanity YOU ARE THE ENEMY!" Pinearl outbursts which gets met with the rise of a brow from Azar. "Then why are you willing to do whatever it takes to help them?" He replies

"Because if I don't who will?" Pinearl states before continuing "After all you were the one who started down this road we all now travel."

"Well then, let's go over everything this case file has to offer and you can make your choice. Aesop"