Part 1: Killing the Hope

== Chapter 1: Unpowerful ==
In the shadows, screams could be heard, yet nobody knew where they were from. A black-haired man was running in those same shadows; he was in panic, full of terror, as if he had seen death itself. He leaned his back on a wall and pointed a torch in front of his eyes, but all he saw was nothing but blood. Suddenly the torch extinguished; his eyes widened in fear and he tried to run away, but he fell out of exhaustion. A small white light appeared in the darkness; it was tiny. However, the man didn't smile at the light; he began screaming, crying, begging for help and mercy. Suddenly, down the light appeared a huge, lightful smile. A spotlight illuminated the smile and the light: it was Simone.
“Last words?” Simone asked as he approached the man with a really sharp iron knife whose pine wood handle was black. The man kept screaming and crawling backwards.
“Don't kill me please! I have a wife! A daughter! They are waiting for me!” the man shouted desperately, but to Simone, it was completely irrelevant. He approached him and stabbed him multiple times while the man screamed, screamed in a way so loud and painful that it sounded almost scary. The man then finally released his last breath while his body was reduced into a mess of blood and organs. Simone then ripped off the man's heart and wrapped it around a special type of plant that teleported away. Instead of the plant, one thousand euros appeared. He stared at them emotionlessly before walking away.
It was midnight; no one was around the place, which was a huge theater. He then saw a cat on the floor of the street; it was dead, the stomach torn apart. He couldn't afford the image and looked away to avoid feeling dizzy as seeing blood always made him feel bad, as if he was about to pass out. He kept walking, ignoring the bums that asked for money and the street talents; he couldn't care less about them as his only goal was to kill, or at least when he was working. Simone wasn't a very social person, nor a friendly one; he simply wanted to join his life across all the pitfalls that kept showing through his path. He didn't enjoy killing, however, his family was hanging by a thread and if he didn't have this part-time job, he would lose them all because of his cruel and ruthless boss. 
I need to find Charmy before the situation becomes too dangerous, he thought as he began to run away. He ran for what it seemed like hours restlessly. He then reached a house that was burning, the flames eating the building hungrily.
Nevermind… he added while he watched the house burn. It wasn't a simple house to him, it was his house where also his parents were living. Inside those flames, there was his sister, his father and his mother. The flames were burning everything, but Simone wasn't sad; he was just staring at the flames carefully. He despised his family, he hated them; yet, he felt a slight of sadness in watching the flames. He just walked away; he was still working after all, and he only had a few minutes left before he had to go to murder another person before the end of the day. His phone rang; an unknown number was written on it. He didn't hesitate in answering the phone call.
“Good night. How can I help you?” Simone asked while walking in a blank and emotionless way.
“Mr. Vamber, you are assigned to kill someone that lost both of his own children because of your ruthless being,” a man with a deep voice explained before sending Simone the exact position of the man’s place; it was exactly one kilometer away from where he was right now. Simone ran towards the place and reached it in a matter of seconds; it was a very huge and gray building that looked like a nuclear power plant. He entered the structure and walked through a long corridor made of iron that floated above uncountable barrels of chemical substances. At the end of the corridor, there was a man that was wearing a white mask with red vertical scars on the nose as a symbol, a wide black smile and huge black eyes; he adorned short brown hair behind the mask; he wore a black cotton jacket, black cotton pant, black rubber snickers and white rubber gloves that had a hole on each of the back of their palms; finally, his body was robust, his arms and legs looked muscular, and his skin tone was unseen as his clothes covered all his body.
“A kid? What are you doing here?” the man asked, confused. Simone didn't answer and simply stared at him coldly.
“Go away, a dangerous murder is about to occur here,” the man added. Suddenly, Simone threw himself at him and, with a jump that fastened his action, tried to stab the man, who dodged, but Simone’s knife scratched his mask.
“Wait… is it you—” the man said before Simone landed on his hand and jumped again towards him before kicking his mask. Suddenly, a giant hand, which appeared out of thin air and resembled the man’s normal hands, grabbed Simone and slammed him on a wall, which cracked.
“Why… Why did you spill so much blood?!” the man shouted and with a lot of anger.
“You should calm down… Mr. Hang,” Simone said coldly as he exploded the hand, smoke covering the whole place. 
“How do you know my name?!” Mr. Hang replied as he used other giant hands to fade the smoke away, noticing that Simone had disappeared.
“I remember all my victims' full names…” Simone answered as he was sitting on one of the giant hands.
“Is that a reminder of my sons’ death?” Mr. Hang asked coldly. Simone jumped off the hand and landed on his own foot.
“Maybe,” he answered while removing some dust from his hoodie.
“Snotlout…” Mr. Hang said as miniguns came out of the walls, which started shooting nearly instantly.
“Predictable,” Simone replied as he threw a grenade that he had inside his hoodie at Mr. Hang and dodged all the bullets while grabbing some, letting them stay between his fingers.
“Wait, how—” Dr. Hang said before the grenade exploded right on his face, obliterating the whole upper part of his body, while some organs came out from the bottom part. The miniguns’ bullets stopped shooting and Simone stopped dodging and grabbing them, before using his left foot to get back to a straight position. He dropped all the bullets on the ground before looking at Dr. Hang’s body.
“Pathetic…” he coldly said while staring at the body, before looking away as his head was feeling dizzy. 
“Damn blood…” he added before walking away. He ended up walking past the house where his parents inhabited that was still on fire while firefighters were trying all they could to extinguish the fire. However, no one came out alive from that fire. Suddenly, Simone’s phone rang; it was his boss.
“I don't need you anymore,” the voice simply said. Simone remained silent for a while before crashing the phone with his hands.
“Finally…” he said before smirking. He then started laughing insanely, so insanely that his eyes opened wide and started to cry blood while turning white. He then stopped laughing all of a sudden as he fell on his knees and punched the street.
“I’m going to find you… 
Dr. Bob,” he said while his smirk turned into a sad face as tears began rolling down his cheeks.
Poor soul… having nobody at his side… It must be terrible, right? a feminine voice asked in his mind.
“Not now…” Simone replied aloud while looking annoyed.
Why do you never treat me like your girl?! the voice exclaimed angrily and sadly.
“Because you aren't,” Simone answered coldly.
Come on! I am offering you my soul and body! I just want to feel your lips on mine… the voice replied desperately.
“You are not even tangible,” Simone added, annoyed.
You are so evil… the voice replied as if she were crying.
“I wish I never managed to impress you that time…” Simone coldly said.
Just give me a chance! the voice shouted, desperate.
I am nothing more than a genie after all… she added while making Simone’s shoulders feel as if someone were touching them.
“Uriel, shut the fuck up!” Simone shouted as he began to walk away while the voice sniffed and made Simone feel cuddled.
I will win your heart one day… Uriel said with a soft voice.
“I remind you that I am currently only attracted to Dr. Bob’s daughter,” he replied while Uriel snorted.
Do you really feel nothing towards me? Uriel asked as an orb of light, which was Uriel’s little appearance, appeared in front of Simone’s face.
“You are cute and all, but you would be my second choice,” Simone said while caressing Uriel, who made a movement that looked like a nod. Simone then hugged Uriel, forcing her to stay between his arms while he kept walking.
“Where are we going?” Uriel asked, talking for the first time aloud.
“To Charmy. He said that he had to tell me something important,” Simone answered.
“You know… Your persona reminds me of my brother… so cold, but also so loveable…” Uriel said, teasing Simone.
“You always get on my nerves in some way…” Simone replied while sighing. Suddenly, Simone’s phone rang. He picked it up and read who was calling him: it was Tamara, Dr. Bob’s daughter. Simone blushed and started to shake.
“What is she calling me f-for?” he asked himself while holding Uriel.
“Answer and find out, silly,” Uriel answered while looking adorable in her form. However, a hint of jealousy was hitting her. Simone then answered the phone call.
“Yes?” Simone asked as he remained silent, waiting for Tamara to speak.
“H-hey Simone! I know that you must be mad at my dad but I hope this won't make our relationship colder… Also, Rayan and Vincent ran away so Lara and I are the only ones that are still in the lab… I hope dad doesn't do weird stuff on us! Well, I don't think he might do something worse than turn us all into hybrids of humans and demons, which he already did…” Tamara said while being in panic.
“Oh… S-Sure! And don't worry, if he only touches one of your hair… I will beat him up!” Simone shouted in anger at the only thought that the girl that he was attracted to might feel even a bit of pain. Tamara chuckled cutely before answering. “I can count on you then. Welp, I have to go… bye!” Tamara shouted happily as she closed the call.
“Lucky bitch…” Uriel said with a sad tone full of jealousy.
“If you act well, I will make you eat pizza for dinner,” Simone replied.
“But… I am not tangible! Don't torture me like that!” Uriel shouted angrily.
“Wait, I still have the three wishes, right?” Simone asked while staring at Uriel. 
“Yes, why?” Uriel replied with a curious face.
“Make yourself tangible,” Simone added, shocking Uriel by his request.
“I-I am going to sleep so I have enough energy to make your wish come true!” Uriel shouted as the orb of light disappeared.
“Argh… What am I doing with my life…” Simone said while walking towards Charmy’s house, which was getting closer and closer.
Now that I think about it… The diary got burned down too probably… I will never find out why every time I close it I forget everything that I read… I really wonder what I wrote when I was younger… Simone thought while holding his chin, lost in his thoughts. He groaned before he, while pointing his arms towards the sky and adorning an exhausted face, shouted. “Why can't I have a normal life?!”
== Chapter 2: Will in a Dream ==
“Y-YOU WHAT?!” Simone shouted in shock and amazement. He was inside Charmy’s house, a little apartment with yellow brick walls, a white bathroom, a red kitchen, and a bedroom that was filled with action figures and katanas, and also had a red cherry wood bed.
“You heard me right! I want to join Archi to become a hero!” Charmy replied with a smile on his face. Charmy was around one meter and seventy centimeters tall, had black wavy mullet hair, fair, soft and smooth skin, black round eyes, an oval face, a straight nose, a defined jawline, a small mouth, soft cheeks, small lips, and a robust and flat chest; he wore a white T-shirt made of cotton, large black cotton pants and black wool slippers as long black round iron glasses on his face.
“So you are going to transfer somewhere else, I guess,” Simone said while looking a bit worried about the situation.
“Yup! And I wanted to ask you if you were interested to join too,” Charmy proposed, causing Simone to widen his eyes in surprise.
“But… I have no powers…” Simone replied while staring away and holding his left arm.
“Simone, you have one of the greatest strength and speed that I have ever seen,” Charmy reassured Simone while grabbing his shoulders.
“And I wonder why…” Simone replied while holding his chin and staring at the ceiling.
“Well, after I did some research, I finally found an answer,” Charmy announced as he then took a book from the brown cherry wood desk of his bedroom: the book was brown, had a red bookmark on one of its middle pages, and had white pages that looked new and well-treated; its title, written in yellow, was “The Six Senses”.
“Six Senses?” Simone asked perplexed.
“Yup! It looks like scientists started to count powers as a new sense, the sixth one to be exact. And the best part comes now: it has even been discovered that having one of the six senses as ruined or completely absent enhances all the other senses!” Charmy explained with a smile on his face.
“So… Because I’m powerless and that I have myopia, I, according to those Six Senses, have an extremely powerful body because it enhances the four other senses?” Simone asked while staring at his hands before closing them into fists.
“Exactly!” Charmy exclaimed as he snapped his fingers in approvement.
“Well, I still can't come; I have to take care of my family,” Simone lied as he looked away.
“Idiot, do you really think I don't watch the TV news? I know that they are all dead,” Charmy replied while fapping his foot on the red floor. Simone remained silent and looked away.
“We are going to live in Tokyo,” Charmy said with a smirk. Simone suddenly dashed to him and grabbed his shoulders before inhaling and exhaling.
“Where can I sign to join?” Simone asked with a serious look; his biggest dream was to go living in Tokyo.
“Nowhere, you just need to meet the others tomorrow and talk,” Charmy answered as he gently pushed Simone away and then stared at an empty spot in the bedroom.
“Conception,” he said as he created a cherry wood bed out of thin air; it had black sheets and had a wool mattress on it.
“Since you have no place to sleep, I will let you sleep here,” he then added while patting Simone’s head.
“Hey! Don't treat me as a child! You are just two years older than me! But… thank you…” Simone replied as he stared at the bed.
“Oh and Simone… Condolences,” Charmy said as he hugged Simone before putting himself under the covers of his bed. Simone didn't go to sleep yet; he went to the balcony and stared at the sky.
“Why am I so weird?” he asked himself while holding his forehead with two fingers. Suddenly, an orb of light appeared in front of his eyes; it was Uriel.
“It's time to make your wish come true!” Uriel shouted with excitement and happiness. Uriel suddenly turned into a more humanoid figure. She was around one meter and seventy centimeters tall, had blonde air bangs hair, round, golden and beautiful eyes, an oval face, a straight nose, a defined jawline, small blood red lips, a small mouth, and soft and smooth skin; each of her elf-like ear adorned rings of gold, her arms were slim and her hands small while her legs were thick; she had very thick buttocks and huge breasts, a slim body and a curvy waist; she wore a long white one-legged cotton dress that reminded the ones of the Greek Gods, long white fingerless gloves and golden necklaces and bracelets; finally, she even had a golden halo over her head.
“How do I look?” Uriel asked with a mischievous smile and seductive tone while wrapping her arms around Simone’s neck. She tried kissing him but he blocked her mouth when she was some centimeters away from him.
“You look good,” Simone answered as he then went under the sheets of his bed with Uriel cuddling with him in the same sheets.
“Uriel…” Simone said, annoyed.
“Shut up… at least let me cuddle you…” Uriel replied while snuggling to him.
“Fine…” Simone said while closing his eyes. Uriel then did the same as the both of them fell asleep. 
The next day, Charmy poked Simone’s forehead to wake him up, succeeding in the process.
“Ngh… What is it?” Simone asked with a sleepy voice while he was drooling.
“Who is that girl?” Charmy questioned while pointing at Uriel who was sleeping with an innocent smile as she cuddled Simone.
“Uh… just a girl that I know…” Simone said as he hid his head under the pillow. Charmy simply stared at him with confusion before he sighed.
“Just… wake up. We have to meet Archi and the others,” Charmy said as he went to take a glass of white wine.
“Ugh…” Simone sat on the bed slowly, with his legs crossed. “Are you already drinking wine in the morning?” Simone asked as he got up and wore his shoes. Uriel grabbed his hand; she was awake.
“Thank you…” Uriel said, with a soft smile before getting up too.
“Is she your girl?” Charmy asked while sipping some wine. Uriel blushed while Simone had a simple, insensitive and emotionless look.
“Absolutely not,” Simone coldly said as he turned around, taking his phone.
“Sadly, he prefers Dr. Bob’s daughter over me…” Uriel groaned. “That Tamara!” She exclaimed with a sad look as she then stared at Simone with hurt in her face.
“Oh… I am not gonna comment on this,” Charmy replied as he kept sipping the wine. Simone called Archi on the phone, whom he had registered as “DJ Archi”.
“Hello there, Simone. How can I help you?” Archi asked. He sounded like he was eating something.
“Where do we have to meet up today?” Simone questioned with a sleepy voice.
“Uuh… Right. I will send you the location quickly,” Archi said as he then sent Simone the location: a weird store.
“Alright. Also, what are you eating?” Simone asked while Uriel tried to hug him but he held her forehead to keep her away.
“Cockroaches,” Archi answered, leaving Simone flabbergasted and slightly disgusted.
“... See you in the store,” Simone replied before putting an end to the call. Uriel then bit his arm softly in anger.
“... Fine, hug me,” Simone said as Uriel then threw herself at him for a tight and affectionate hug.
“My sweet murderer…” Uriel said while snuggling to the crook of Simone’s neck, which froze. Charmy stared at them with a confused look.
“Murderer?” Charmy asked, perplexed.
“I-I meant t-that he murdered my heart!” Uriel stammered in panic. Charmy simply chuckled and drank another glass of wine.
“Idiot…” Simone whispered to Uriel’s ear who giggled. She then kissed his cheek and laid down on the bed with a soft smile.
“Simone, I want to try a fight against you,” Charmy proposed. Simone stared at him with an emotionless look and remained silent for a few seconds.
“Ok,” Simone then coldly replied while Uriel actually got interested and stared at both.
“Let's go to the garden,” Charmy said as he exited the door, Simone and Uriel following him. They arrived in a garden full of flowers and fountains. Uriel sniffed some roses before hugging Simone from behind. 
“Let me go, Uriel,” Simone said, coldly. Uriel, with a pout, let Simone go and sat on a bench while crossing a leg on the other in a sensual way. Simone and Charmy went to the opposite boundlines of the garden and stared at each other deep in the eyes.
“Three… two… one… fight!” Uriel exclaimed while placing her hands, open, on the sides of her mouth as if it were helping her to talk more loudly. Charmy and Simone threw themselves towards each other and both started the fight with a punch, but Simone used his punch to block Charmy’s and utilized the situation at his advantage to use Charmy’s arm as a base to jump with his hand, which made him able to kick Charmy’s head who used his other arm to create a gun and shoot it at Simone’s foot who changed the rotation of his kick to dodge the bullet and kick Charmy successfully; Charmy was hit and began to bleed from his nose. He then stared at Simone, perceiving his murderous intent, even though it wasn't voluntarily from him; it was like that fighting made him automatically act as a true murderer.
“Since when are you so agile…?” Charmy asked, flabbergasted by Simone’s almost perfect movements. Simone just remained silent and stood still. Simone then threw himself at Charmy and went for an uppercut, hitting his chin forcefully and causing him to fall on the floor as the strength that Simone had applied was beyond the normality of normal humans and completely bestial.
“Heh… I think we can end it here,” Charmy said while breathing heavily. He understood that Simone could have actually killed him but was unsure if it were because of his adrenaline or something else. Uriel raised her hand and pointed at Simone.
“I declare Simone as the winner!” Uriel shouted happily.
“... I’m… going away for a bit. I want to stay alone,” Simone said before walking away after Charmy’s nod. He went into an alley between two houses. He covered his face with his hands.
Something is wrong with me… Simone thought before his eyes began to turn black. Right after that, in Simone’s sight, everything turned black and white, transforming the world into one that could’ve appeared in the beginning of the twentieth century, except that the graphics of such a movie were better than one with more than eight thousand pixels. 
Simone didn't know what to think; he had never felt so empty, broken and sad. Suddenly, in front of him, a white figure with a similar appearance than his appeared in front of his eyes, emanating a lightful, white energy; however, this figure’s skin then cracked, like glass under pressure, leaving what seemed like a scratch, which caused pain to Simone in that same spot of the figure’s body. 
Simone sat on the floor, one leg laid down while the other was bent with its lap pointing at the sky. The white figure was his soul, or at least its representation, and the black void-like color that had appeared after the crack was made on the figure showed how broken he was turning onto, so broken that it slowly started to melt the figure. 
The soul then grabbed Simone’s neck and pushed him outside the alley, but everything was still black and white. From the floor, black roses started to emerge, their amount equivalent to the amount of lives he had taken away.
It's your fault.
We did nothing to you.
Why did you even think about hurting us?
Maybe we can talk about this!?
I have a wife and a daughter that is waiting for me at home!
YOU KILLED MY CHILDREN, THE MOST PRECIOUS THINGS FOR ME!
The voices of those Simone had killed echoed in his head restlessly, repeating the worst things he had ever done to them. He held his heart which was beating so hard that it hurt, almost as if he were having a heart attack. He then held his own forehead as he began to feel all dizzy and his view was corrupted.
Stop it… he begged in his mind. Suddenly a rose, a distorted one, wrapped around Simone’s left leg and entered his pants before coming out from his shirt, behind his neck, and wrapping around it.
W-Myh p!p høn k!ll wə?! A distorted voice exclaimed, causing Simone to feel even worse because the voice was the one of Jack, a kid that he had killed during his first year under Dr. Bob’s orders. 
Suddenly, an incredible amount of faces started to cover every single wall around him, but also the sky, the floor or anything else. Simone’s soul was nothing but a mass of melted light energy that had a void-like black-colored liquid coming out from it. The faces kept screaming like damned souls as if he were entering Hell’s deepest part, right next to Satan. He then passed out.
Simone woke up in a black limousine. Inside, there was a red wool rug and black cotton seats everywhere. Charmy was sitting next to him while Uriel was letting Simone stay on her laps, petting him with a warm smile.
“Are you ok?” Charmy asked while looking a bit worried.
“Y-Yes… I am,” Simone answered as he then sat on Uriel’s laps to fall asleep with his head on the crook of her neck. Uriel then followed him in the sweet and beautiful world of dreams.
“Good idea… Let's rest before the limousine arrives at Archi's base!” Charmy exclaimed before falling asleep too.
They didn't know yet that this would be the last time the world was in an apparent state of peace.
== Chapter 3: The Falling World ==
Simone and Charmy were in a fight, their first mission; they were fighting against an army of purple zombies who were attacking them. The whole battlefield was filled with blood while Simone and Charmy kept punching to death every zombie they saw. Brains, organs, mouths… they were all lying on the ground next to them.
…
The world they once knew was torn apart because of people with incredible powers that wanted to have control over all the world.
…
Three years after that Charmy and Simone began their career as heroes, the world had fallen apart. There weren't the common countries which once existed in the past. The world was divided in five sections: Fear, Hope, Nightmare, Dream, and Hatred. 
It was hard living there, with a bunch of people speaking different languages and having different cultures, having different ways to think and believing in different Gods. The world ended up like this because of a simple reason: everyone wanted to save the world, but no one agreed on the way to do it. 
After all, in this world, peace was never an option. This mentality led even the most innocent humans to complete hate and contempt, leaving a smell of fear and discrimination in the air. The balance that peace and war once had was stoned, making this new world a complete minefield where just the slightest error could lead one to the end of their own journey.
In the Hatred Section, which once was Asia and Eastern Europe, Dr. Bob Omega was having big success thanks to his countless experiments which led him to discover ways to create invincible weapons and health remedies. Sadly for the other Sectors, there wasn't a genius like him at their side, leaving them behind a huge gap of powerfulness. The Hatred Section was a monarchy under the command of King Darian. In this Sector, Simone and Charmy lived with their comrades of the Shiny Fighters Squad. Together, they imprisoned an incredible amount of criminals, traitors and spies from other sectors, causing them to become really famous in the Hatred Sector. Thanks to this, they began to get paid as a way for the monarchy to thank them for their efficient job. 
In Kritsly, what once was Shibuya before the international conflict, was the Shiny Fighters Squad’s hotel, a huge red place with lots of windows and fifty rooms divided in five floors. The entrance was a really big garden that had statues of men made of flowers and fountains, and the door was red and transparent; inside, a red rug extended through the whole corridor, which was filled with brown cherry wood doors that led to the rooms of the heroes; at the entrance, there was a machine where the heroes that entered showed special cards to justify their identity and signaling that they had come back.
It was the twenty-second of July. Simone was in his room. It had purple walls and a window to look at the sky. The ceiling was white, the drawers were purple and white, some of them being either above or next the bed while others were next to the window or the entrance door; the floor was white as well and the bed was huge, purple and crafted from black fir wood. He was laying on the bed with a sad and worried face.
Why did Tamara stop messaging me? It wasn't even a secret anymore… Simone thought with a paranoid look, fearing that Tamara hated him or that she died because of her father’s experiments. He was wearing casual clothes: a white T-shirt and black shorts while his common black hoodie was huddled around his waist. He grabbed his phone from the right drawer next to his bed and checked Tamara’s chat, which had mostly vocal messages, except the last one which was a text message from Simone’s. 
Simone had written: “Tamara, I can't hold my feelings anymore… When I talk to you, I only wish to hug you and stay by your side… That's because I love you… love you more than anything I ever loved… I deeply hope you feel the same…” 
Simone just turned his phone off and placed the phone next to him on the bed before covering his face with his hands, holding tears.
“I knew it… Who could ever love a murderer? A monster? A coward? Like me…” Simone said in sadness, looking absolutely heart-broken. He tried to call her, but nobody answered. Uriel was staring from the entrance door, wanting to go there to comfort him and finally win his heart. However, she couldn't afford the thought of taking advantage of his sadness, so she simply stared at him silently with a sad look. After a while, Simone noticed Uriel, both of them remaining silent.
“I’m going out for a while…” Simone said as he got up and walked away, going out of the hotel and staring at the sky; it was sunny.
I need to find Tamara… he thought with determined eyes as he then picked his phone up, calling someone.
“I need your help,” Simone said with a serious look as he was talking with Rayan and Vincent.
“For what?” Rayan asked.
“Saving your sister” Simone answered with determination in his voice.
“... We will be at the hotel in a few minutes,” Rayan coldly said before hanging up. Simone went back to his room, preparing his common outfit that he wore even before turning into a hero.
“Where are you going?” Uriel asked while she was stretching her legs to do some exercise.
“Uh, I have to meet some friends,” Simone said before staring at the entrance door that was closed by one of the other heroes, Demo.
“Which friends?” Demo asked. He was a guy, around one meter and seventy centimeters tall, with brown hair, most of them covered by a formal black silk hat with a green line on its middle; his eyes were round, green and hidden behind green sunglasses with black plastic branches; his skin was fair, his cheeks were soft, his lips were full, his mouth was little, his jawline defined, his body slim and his posture almost perfect; he wore a black cotton smoking, a white cotton shirt underneath, a red wool necktie, black cotton pants and black rubber formal shoes.
“That's none of your business…” Simone replied with a cold look that pierced through Demo who simply remained still and smirked.
“As the Manager of the squad, those businesses are actually mine… I have to know everything about each of you, don't I?” Demo asked with a grin as he layed back to the door, making movements with his hands while talking. Simone tried to punch him in the face all of a sudden, something that Demo expected from him so he easily blocked the punch with his hand.
“Helicopter…” Demo said with a low voice before shooting an energy ray from his hand that caused Simone to fly away from the window, breaking it in many pieces while flying downwards from the fourth floor.
Fuck off… Simone thought as he grabbed a railing of the second floor. He kept his grip on it a bit before letting himself fall on one that was on the floor beneath—the first floor—and then on the ground. Uriel stared at the scene with shiny eyes before punching Demo on the face and flying towards Simone quickly. She threw herself at him for a hug as she snuggled her head to the crook of her neck.
“Luckily you are ok…” Uriel said before kissing his left cheek. Simone stroked her hair before beginning to walk away from the hotel while Uriel kept hugging him, which caused him to sigh and also smile at her affectionately. 
After a while, they entered the underground prison, which looked like a cave but with lots of cages that were filled with dangerous criminals the heroes had beaten during these three years.
“I thought you all had killed them,” Uriel said while floating next to Simone.
“They aren't monsters,” Simone replied while staring at Uriel.
“Why are you talking in third person?” Uriel asked with a worried look.
“Uh? I am not. I just said what they are,” Simone answered while raising his eyebrow. Uriel grabbed his arm lightly and stared deep in his eyes angrily.
“Do you really think I will say that I am like them? I am not,” Simone replied with sad eyes. Uriel hugged him tightly and kissed his cheek.
“You aren't a monster… Trust me…” Uriel said with a soft voice before releasing Simone. Suddenly, a being made of darkness appeared right in front of them.
“It's been a while…” the being said with a distorted voice. The being was Entity, his white eyes glowing. Entity then placed his hands on the ground, transporting Rayan and Vincent here. 
Rayan’s hair was longer than in the past and had a tuft that pointed towards the left and was so long it gave an effect of cutting in half his face diagonally; his right eye was black and had a really tiny red pupil, giving a demonic appearance; and he wore a black cotton hoodie, black cotton pants, a white cotton T-shirt, and black and red rubber sneakers. 
Vincent had disheveled hair and a long tuft that covered his left eye and went towards the right; his right eye had a teal cross at the place of the pupil; he wore the exact same clothes as Rayan but there was a teal line on his left sleeve.
“So? What's the plan?” Rayan asked with a cold look.
“I never said I already had one,” Simone answered, freezing Rayan for some seconds before he shook his head and took a cigarette from his pocket.
“Can't we just go there and kill dad?” Vincent asked while scratching his right ear’s inside with his pinkie. He then stood up and went towards a cage. Suddenly, a giant hand grabbed the bars and tried breaking them, having no success.
“They managed to capture quite a lot of them,” Vincent added before putting his tuft away from his left eye, revealing a totally black eye that bled endless black blood.
“First Soul: Dragon,” Vincent said before sending a dragon made of souls out of his left eye which went beyond the bars and started eating the giant hand, ripping it off the arm. However, even though it should have normally stopped moving after being ripped off, it kept living and moving, and continued moving while it was eaten; and even after the dragon finished eating it, it didn't die, still living in eternal pain inside that dragon’s stomach forever. The dragon then entered back Vincent’s eye. Uriel bounced on Simone’s arms out of fear while Rayan punched Vincent’s nape.
“There was no need, dumbass,” Rayan snapped while Vincent complained about the pain like a child. The other prisoners hid in the darkness of their cages in fear. Entity sighed and then walked towards Simone and Uriel before slowly petting Uriel’s head.
“Is she your pet or something?” Entity asked while staring at Uriel who blushed at the comment.
“W-what?! N-no! I am not!” Uriel exclaimed while Simone wasn't even listening, deep in his thoughts.
Why don't they use such a power against Dr. Bob? Simone asked perplexed.
“Something wrong, Vamber?” Rayan asked while raising his eyebrow. Simone then shook his head in negation.
“Let's just go to the meeting room…” he added before beginning to walk towards the exit.
“Won't you show us some of the criminals?” Rayan questioned.
“I will once we save Tamara,” Simone answered coldly. Rayan remained silent before following him with the others.
== Chapter 4: The Big Plan ==
As Simone, Rayan and the others entered the meeting room, they saw the most important members of the team, known as the “Founders”, who were Archi, Demo, Tankiro, Susy, Ang, Charmy, and Uriel and Simone themselves. All of them were sitting on their chairs in the meeting room, except Simone, who had just arrived, and Archi, Susy, and Ang, who weren't there because of a mission. The room had white walls made of large square tiles; the floor and ceiling were white too and there was a black table in its center, with multiple black chairs around it.
“Who are they?” Charmy asked as he stared at Rayan, Vincent and Entity curiously. He was wearing a white cotton T-shirt, black and large cotton pants, black and white rubber snickers and a black cotton jacket. 
“People that need our help,” Simone answered while sitting on his assigned chair in the meeting room.
“How high is the payment?” Demo asked while laying his chin on his left hand.
“Payment?” Rayan asked while raising an eyebrow.
“Did they really come here thinking we are free?” Tankiro asked with a smirk. Tankiro was a man that had long black hair with a curved tuft that pointed towards the left and had a purple line on its middle, green round eyes, a well-defined jawline, a small nose, fair lips, a small mouth, a straight nose and round cheeks; he wore a purple cotton mantle, a black cotton T-shirt, black denim jeans, and black and white rubber sneakers.
“We didn't know…” Rayan replied as he bowed in a sign of apology.
“They won't pay. I am the one that called them to offer my help,” Simone said as he was dragging a black board with brown wood edges in the room.
“And why should we work for free?” Charmy asked while creating, out of thin air, a cigarette that was already turned on and began smoking it.
“Y’all do not have to do anything if you do not want to, in which case I will take care of it all by myself,” Simone announced as he began to write a list of things they would do in order. The list said: 
“1. Enter Dr. Bob’s lab.
2. Find Tamara and Lara’s cage.
3. Free them.
4. Kill Dr. Bob.
5. Take everyone home safely.”
“Dr. Bob? What do you want to stop him for?” Charmy asked while raising an eyebrow.
“We want to take our sisters out of that Hell…” Rayan answered as he stared at the heroes who stared back at him.
“Ooooh, wait! You are Dr. Bob’s escaped children, aren't you?” Demo asked with a smirk while tilting his head to the right. Rayan stayed silent and stared at Simone who stared back at him with concern. Suddenly, Entity wrapped one of his dark tentacles around Demo’s neck, his eyes glowing intensely, showing his anger.
“Watch how you speak,” Entity threatened before releasing Demo on the floor, causing him to fall on his back. Tankiro suddenly stood up and pointed his right index finger at Entity. Simone widened his eyes and threw himself at Tankiro, blocking his arm and putting him on the floor
“There is no need to use your powers,” Simone said with piercing eyes. Charmy sighed and punched the table, causing the whole room to shake and everyone to fall on the floor.
“The next thing that will irritate me will be the last thing you all will do in your fucking lives,” Charmy coldly announced before standing up and walking towards the door.
“Simone, let's go beat up some scientists,” he added before going out of the room. Simone, without hesitation, followed him with Rayan, Vincent and Entity. Charmy and the others entered a black Ferrari; Entity, Rayan and Vincent were in the back seats, Simone in the front seat and Charmy in the driving seat. 
“Ready to go?” Charmy asked while feeling like something was missing.
“Wait, let me think…” Simone answered as he was holding his own chin.
“Guys!” Uriel screamed, reminding everyone about her existence. She ran from the Hotel to the car.
“Where were you?” Simone asked while Uriel opened the left front door and sat on his lap.
“Bathroom,” Uriel said as she closed the door. Simone sighed and petted her hair.
“Uh, I can turn into a shadow if there isn't enough spa—” Entity said before Uriel broke in.
“Let's go!” She screamed as Charmy began driving away from the Hotel and towards Dr. Bob’s lab.
“Is there any difficulty about entering Dr. Bob’s lab?” Charmy asked, still smoking his cigarette.
“He has traps… everywhere,” Rayan answered while looking away from the window.
“Do you guys think Tamara and Lara are fine?” Simone questioned with concern. Uriel grabbed his hand and caressed it.
“The worst scenario is that they turned into some breeding toy. Either that or they died,” Vincent said before laughing. Rayan stared at him intensely, causing him to stop laughing.
“Uh… I mean, they are probably fine! They are my sisters after all!” Vincent added before looking at the floor of the car. Simone and Charmy didn't even reply, Uriel blushed slightly and Entity placed his right hand on his forehead.
“While we wait… Do you want to play chess?” Entity asked before turning his left hand into a chessboard. Vincent nodded and they both started playing. After a few hours, they finally reached Dr. Bob’s laboratory. It was a big white building with no windows and a brown cherry wood door that could only be opened from the inside. Entity had lost, during their travel towards the laboratory, more than ten times.
“Oh, great… What do we do now?” Charmy questioned while staring at Rayan.
“Vincent, do your part of the plan,” Rayan said as Vincent got closer to the door and placed his fingers on it.
“Damned Fire” Vincent recited as the fingers were now covered with blue fire which turned the door into ashes within two seconds. They entered the laboratory. It was fully black, lightless.
“Vincent, turn on your fire,” Rayan said as he was about to stare at Vincent. However, Vincent wasn't there; he had disappeared all of a sudden.
“Vincent?” Rayan added, confused and worried. He then turned back, only to discover that Entity disappeared too.
“Ok, what the fucking fuck is going on?” Simone asked as he stared, only to see Uriel had disappeared, and was later followed by Rayan.
“Simone, behind me,” Charmy said as he asked Simone to stick on his back.
“Let's cover our backs,” Simone replied, but Charmy had already disappeared too.
“You must be kidding me…” Simone said before the floor under his feet opened and caused him to fall to a lower floor. He was now in a cage, a dark and dirty cage.
“Simone?” a feminine and familiar voice asked while grabbing Simone’s shoulder. Simone turned towards the voice before his eyes widened.
“T-Tamara?” Simone asked, his voice full of concern and worry.