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Did I ever in my life plan on being one of the Stars Countries most hated, feared and top ranked villain?
Nope.
Do I regret anything I’ve done?
Some things, sure.
Would I do them again?
Most definitely yes.
So here I am running across the roofs with injures that should’ve knocked me out hours ago, with a small child in my hands, running for the fear of losing both our lives.
But I suppose I should rewind a bit and tell you the full story of how the hell I’ve ended up here.
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I’m Tempest Eclispe, the #1 Villain; Thraxis!
And I’m the one that will be going to get rid of this false Starry Countries even if its the death of me.
I’m living your average illegal life, Stealing, Killing and Slowly taking down our secretive corrupt government around said country, so you know some pretty normal things.
However today with the clearest blue sky’s has been so far pretty peaceful!
Me and my loving wife; Luca Eclipse, were hanging out, walking down town with one of our good friends Ballistic.
We met up today to have lunch together before our work meeting this evening, I’ve been a nervous wreck this whole week because of it, why might you ask?
Well thats probably because my ever so loving wife had found something out about the Star’s Committee; the Stars Committee was founded by a past Monarch many, of many years ago when powers had started to randomly appear in our society, they would train anyone willing to be a hero, they’d teach them the do’s and don’ts of this job and always told to aim to incapacitate villains and lock them away for their respected crimes, nothing that could kill them or whatever.
However todays hero committee is filled with workers apparently made by the government; like physical made, it was really weird once the new monarch explained it, something no one truly trusted but with time they no longer care.
The only issue is that the ‘Heros’ no longer aim to incapacitate villains anymore, they kill with no remorse.
No one tells you this though, the News, the Government, no one.
Thats what started the corruption, once the Government knew they could get away with this shit, they started to do more.
But no more of that, right now I need to focus less on that stuff when I’m not working, but how the hell can I when Luca found something and won’t tell any of us, she doesn’t let whatever she found show on her face! When I bring it up her face is always neutral, so I cant tell if it’s anything bad!
Thankfully the rest of us will all know by tonight.
Like I said I shouldn’t be so focused on this while in public, or trying to have a relaxing time, but I couldn’t control when my thoughts decided to spiral, thankfully Luca has always known when to but in and help.
“Hun? You ok?” Luca said near my ear in a hushed voice.
I snapped out of my thoughts and look at Luca and Ballistic who were staring at me, I gave a small smile and nodded.
“Yes, don’t worry I’m ok.” I said, pressing my lips into a thin line, Luca and Ballistic in turn stared at each other giving the other a look and turned back to me.
“Yeah, sure” Ballistic drawled out, “We totally believe you” he added as he rolled his eyes, I let out an annoyed huffed sigh.
“Well it’s not exactly something we can discuss… here!”I whispered shouted towards him, elbowing him in his stomach, which in turn made him stumbling a bit.
His response was fake whining saying it was so mean, like he always does than speed walking to catch up to me and Luca as we continued walking, holding the area i elbowed him at, me and Luca snuckering along the way.
“Where exactly should we eat?” Luca asked looking between me and Ballistic, changing the topic fast and easy as ever.
“I say-“
“No.””No way.” Me and Luca both interrupted Ballistic before he could even say his idea on where to dine.
We’ve permanently banned him since last time he took us somewhere ended up literally poisoning our food.
Yet again you could hear Ballistic grumbling saying ‘it was one time…’ and something about how mean it was, the same old things, I liked this, this was our normal, it was nice, I couldn’t ask for anything else, I let a smile plastered on my face and turned looked down at the two.
“I heard Thunder got a new job at a… I dont remember, some mediterranean restaurant” I pointed out, hoping that was the correct way to pronounce the word.
“Oh, Thats right! We could stop by and say hi and get some lunch, maybe she’ll be able to go on break with us for a little bit, if she hasn’t gone on break yet!” Luca rambled on excitedly, about checking up on Thunder and what to possibly eat once we got there, which added onto me and Ballistics own excitement.
“Wait, does anybody know where exactly this restaurant is?” Ballistic asked looking at both me and Luca, to which we avoided his eyes turning our heads away.
Silence spoken so loudly…
Sighing, he pulled out his phone to seemingly message someone, a couple of minutes later, he signalled for us to follow him, to which me and Luca gave each other a weird look and then turned it onto Ballistic, who in turn told us to hurry up.
As we walked to wherever Ballistic was leading, we started chatting some more, making new plans to hang out and checking the time to see how long we have till we need to head home and get ready for tonight, and suddenly we stopped.
To abrupt, VERY abrupt I’ll add at that, me and Luca bumped into Ballistic sending him falling onto his face on the concrete, which was the funniest thing to have happened all day so far and very well deserved.
After me and Luca stopped laughing our asses off, Luca turned to Ballistic and asked him.
“Where exactly are we?”
Ballistic scoffed, slowly standing up and brushing any dirt off.
“Thunders work, duh” He said as it was so obvious.
“Sure… cause like you told us where we were going after randomly being on your phone for 10 minutes.” I pointed out to which he elbowed me to which I smacked him, and just as we were about to start fighting each other Luca stepped between us.
“Ok! Before you two kill each other can we please go eat? I’m starving!” Luca said dramatically while hiding her laughter.
Me and Ballistic pulled away from the fight that was starting to brew and sent glares at each other, continuing to glare as we walked into the restaurant.
The only thing that pulled our attention away was a familiar voice greeting us at the hosts stand,
“Welcome to Taverna’s Diner, how many-“ The voice sounding almost sounding if they were being strangled but forced to keep up the happy persona as they were dying stopped talking and started to gawk at our group in shock.
It was Thunder, Ballistic was right, they found Thunders work… New question, what person did Ballistic fucking contact that just had known where Thunder worked at?
“What the hell are you all doing here?!” Thunder almost yelled, staring at the three of us trying to figure out how and why we were here.
“We wanted food!” Luca said easily giving Thunder a shit eating grin, as Thunder’s hands came up to massage his eyes.
“So you didn’t know I was working at this certain place?” Thunder asked when it sounded like he already knew the answer.
“Ballistic apparently had someone in his contacts that knew you worked here or just found out within a few minutes, the answer was very unclear” I stated, giving Ballistics a evil grin as I exposed him, in turn he continued to glare me down.
Turning back to Thunder she was groaning and almost melting into the hosts stand.
“I’m never going to get any rest when it comes to you three…” She muttered, head sunk on the table within her arms, she slowly rose her head and gave us dirty looks… glares?
It’s kinda hard to tell with her, but when she was angry it was horrifying because frankly she never gets angry, so knowing this wasn’t anything filled with angry relief seeped through my bones.
“So just you three, correct?” Thunder asked, looking below the hostess stand supposedly grabbing menus for us.
“Well we were hoping to come on your break so the four of could have a quick lunch before heading home to prepare for ‘movie’ night.” I told as Luca and Ballistic snatched the menus and already started looking for what they were talking about getting from the way over, hoping they had what they wanted.
Ballistic cheered and Luca groaned.
“Oh! I think my break is in like 10-20 minutes? I could probably ask the kitchen to whip something up for me while putting your orders in.” Thunder thought aloud as she led us to a table near the back right next to a window.
This place looked so cozy, like a café type of cozy, but this wasn’t a café, the walls were a warm light brown colour, with framed photos from around the world, fake trees and plants scattered around the place adding to the decoration, once we got to our table I sat in the chair facing away from the wall, and Luca placed herself on the chair beside me, as Ballistic found a chair across from me.
“I could probably guess what you all want, but considering this is something we don’t always get let’s double check.” Thunder says pulling me out of my thoughts while wearing a genuine smile.
“For Ballistic a Pork Souvlaki with Rice, along with a side of Falafel fries and a Sprite as a drink” Thunder asked, smirking as Ballistic groaned out a ‘yeah’ confirming his order.
“For Luca, they don’t have what you usually get, and I don’t think anything else meat wise you’d like so you’ll probably play it safe and ordered a Greek Salad with a side of Pita Bread and hummus, and a Orange Soda” Thunder thought aloud again looking at Luca as she gave a confirmation nod.
“And for Temepest I’m guessing a Chicken Kofta, sharing Lucas side and an Orange Soda as well?” Thunder asked looking at me as I gave a confirmation nod as well, he looked towards his notepad and wrote it all down.
“That should all come out within 15-20 minutes depending on how many cooks are currently in the kitchen, I’ll put my order on the order as well and bring out your drinks, Be right back!! Dont kill each other in my work please!” She said and she started walking to the kitchen, me and Ballistic scoffed and Luca gave a thumbs up.
While we waited we got our drinks and started debating on which was better cooked or grilled chicken, personally grilled chicken is the best, even Luca agrees with me, but Ballistics doesn’t agree, this went on for 15 minutes, no other conversation just this one debate.
Just as things were started getting louder, Thunder came back with our food, including hers. She then sat down beside Ballistic with a sigh.
“I cant leave you alone for five minutes without someone shouting or breaking something…” She shook her head as we began to eat our food.
“What did you get Thunder?” Ballistic asked not paying any attention to what she said before, She lifted her head up from her hands and looked at her food.
“Oh I got a Beef Gyro, didn’t want any sides and got a Coke as a drink” She said grabbing her food and starting to eat.
And for the next 20 minutes we ate together and joked around talking about whatever, till we were finished with our food and just chatting, it only ended because Thunder had to get back to work.
“Alright I need to get back to work and you guys need to go prepare ‘movie’ night, would you like the pay check now or do you want desert to go?” Thunder asked and she started standing up gathering up all the empty dishes, desert sounded amazing however the meals were bigger than expected I think having dessert right now I would explode.
“Bring some to movie night, I’m sure you can guess what we’d like, and if you wanna double check just text us.” Luca said as she stood up as well, and reaching into her pocket for her wallet.
“Hey wait a minute I was paying this time!” Ballistic said, and everyone just gave him a knowing look.
“It has been your turn the last 15 times, you want to start now?” Luca deadpanned and Ballistic groaned, and stood up grabbing his wallet.
“Yeah yeah I know! But to be fair I got injured so I couldn’t work and didn’t really have the money need I remind you.” Ballistic grumbled and put two twenty bills on the table, and the pocketing his wallet.
The rest of us just snickered at him, and I stood up as well, Thunder grabbed the money and tray of dirty dishes and walked to the kitchen supposedly, and came back meeting us at the register, where we finalised everything, said our goodbyes and left the diner.
We started walking again heading to mine and Lucas house, it was always too risky buying a place to hold our meetings so with the help of Thunder, Ballistic and Luca we have a small secrete place in our house for meetings.
~ New update! Still working to finish this, enjoy the WIP!~