I've always admired heros when I was a kid. I would smile everytime I saw a hero on TV and laugh when the villain got his butt kicked. Even though Heros are so powerful—they never terrified me. Why is that? You would think seeing a person catching a bus would be scary no? Especially when you imagine what that hero could do to a person. But no, no matter what power a hero has It never scared me. So When I was blessed with powers, I wanted to be a hero. But out of all the powers I could have gotten why did I have to get this one? For the first time, a power actually scares me and it just so happens to be my own. This isn't a power a hero should have, so why do I have it? Well...who cares? As they all say it's all on how the power is used. If it is used for good then no matter how scary it is, people will come around and understand eventually right? Wrong. I was dead wrong.

First time I used my powers to stop some random thugs, a few people saw, and you know what happened? Those citizens thought I was a villain! Yeah, They called the superhero hotline and sent heros on my ass. No matter how much I tried to plead my case to the hero chasing me, she didn't believe me. I barely escaped and was forced to use my powers on a hero! I'm officially in the hero data base described as extremely dangerous. How messed up is that? I could complain All day but this doesn't change the fact that I still want to be a hero. Real Heros don't care about this kind of stuff. They just do what needs to be done. So that's what I will do.

I looked out at the skyline, my legs dangled dangerous off the ledge of a tall building. This city is beautiful at sunset. The way the sun shines on the glass is something to marvel at. The red clouds in the sky today seems to compliment it as well.

Ring ring.

I checked my phone. I had a friend hack into the hero network to pick up news of villains that are on the loose. "A villain named Slitherhead is on the loose down town, heros are advice to seize and capture on site. Slitherhead is mid tier on power rankings. Caution is advised." Time to get to work. Hopefully I get there and handle it before a hero arrives.

I looked out at the city one last time before walking back towards the stairs. What? You think every hero can fly or jump down without getting hurt? I guess I could, but I'm lazy.

(Random persons perspective)

It felt hard to breathe but I kept running anyways. How did it come to this? I was just walking my dog! Now my dog is gone. I turned a corner and ran down an alley. Everyone else seemed to have already disappeared. I'm on my own.

Rumble

I didn't dare look back. Where are the heros? Why aren't they here yet?! Is this it? Is this the end?

"Someone, anyone...please help!" I yelled as hard as I could in-between my laboured breathing.

"Kehehe, Boy just give up. You realize I'm just toying with you right? Just like I do with all my prey." A low grumbling monstrous voice spoke from close behind.

'NO! I refuse to die like this. If I'm going to die then I might as well go out my way!'

I stopped and turned around, I had no choice since I hit a dead end. I shook my head then looked at this monstrosity in it's glowing blue eyes defiantly as it's slithered towards me. From the slick scaled black green tail, all the way to it's half human-like face with that predatory smile. It looked like a snake and human mixed together in some kind of inhuman like harmony. If I'm going to die then I at least want to haunt this guy's dreams by starring into his soul. 'I'm done running.'

The snake human-thing tilted it's head inquisitively. "Oh? What's this? Your done running? Well that's boring. That look...I've seen that look before." It licked it's face with it's forked snake tongue as if finding something delicious.
"Well, now that playtime is over I worked quite the appetite, I hope you don't mind?" It laughed at it's sick joke as it's tail grabbed hold of my foot. Next thing I knew I was upside down. That didn't stop me from staring at him as I was lifted above it's head. I kept silent and glared as I watched the monstrosity open it's mouth wide enough to fit a whole person. I started sweating. No matter how brave I tried to be, I'm still scared of death.

'I don't want to go this way.'

"Hey ugly." A distorted voice called out from a distance.

The snake-human froze and looked back towards the alley exit. It's eyes glowed ominously. "who dares interrupt my meal?!" The ground shook as it spoke. I was facing the wall so I couldn't see who it was. I looked back up or down depending how you look at it. I caught a glimpse of the snakes eyes. They looked...Nervous??

"Tap, tap, tap." I heard slow steps creeping closer. " Put the guy down." The distorted voice replied casually. The snakes tail wrapped around my foot harder. The monster spoke. "You, I know you. You're that new guy. You made quite the impression the other day. Even got away from the hero Athena." The snake-human frowned. " Why does a new villain care about what I eat?" Slitherhead paused as if he just thought of something.

"Actually you should join me later. I'm sure we can have a lot of fun together." It laughed.

Silence

"Nah, I'd rather kick your face in. You might look a bit better that way."

It took a moment for the snake to catch what he meant before snarling. He flung me with his tail. I thought I was going to splatter against the wall only to slam into something soft but incredibly dark. 'I'm..fine? What was that?' I looked ahead and finally got a look at my savior. My first thought was...terrifying. A human like being wrapped in shadow... or is that black fire? The more I looked the more terrified I felt. The more I observed the more I realized that that isn't just a shadow. The shadow had demonic eyes. And a gleaming smile full of rows of teeth. My instincts screamed at me to look away but I ignored it. First it was just one pair of red eyes. Then two. Then three. Each pair of eyes were a different color. Each eye a stuff of nightmare's. Soon the shadow was full of eyes and teeth that seemed to move around the shadow.

The snake-like human also seemed startled. But it quickly got ahold of itself before swinging it's tail. "Die!" The tail tried to flatten the shadow. The shadow stuck it's hand out towards the tail. when the tail touched the shadow It was as if the tail was getting sucked into an endless black hole. Space itself seemed to collapse.

The snake-human screamed in agony as the black shadow consumed it from the tail up.

" Ahhhhhh! No stop! Please! Mercy! Mercy!"

I watched in horror as the snake slowly disappeared.

In the end, nothing was left. Then the eyes gazed at me. I closed my eyes. I felt like I would go insane if I continued to look. " No, please!" I cried out. I heard a distorted sigh. " I just saved your life man...whatever." A few seconds past by before I dared to open my eyes. Gone. I let out a huge sigh of relief I didn't know I was holding.

This was my first shot at a [WP]