(Claire)FEAR: Fear Earns All Respect

Location: Downtown City, Streets
Time: Noon, Sun is at its highest point

"Devastation…Chaos…Ruin… This is what is left of DownTown Manta Carlos after Hurricane Daniel swept through the island." The Wraith states as he slowly pans his shoulder mounted camera to get powerful views of the aftermath of the hurricane. "This deadly occurrence has taken 50 innocent lives and more are still missing in the aftermath. The authorities and rescue crew are still hard at work, trying to remove debris while truing to fight the flooding water." Böse's deep voice sounds into the mic while he zooms in on policemen, firemen, paramedics, and civilians digging through a fallen building. An arm then becomes visible under the rubble and the rescue team begins to panic as they try to pull out the body that the arm belongs to to see if they can save the soul. "Is their work able to save those that have fallen?" The camera then stops zooming in on the face of a woman in her early 30's, which bares multiple bruises, cuts, scratches, and a large amount of blood. He eyes stare back into the camera. An expression of terror, helplessness, and lifelessness is all that remain in the wide eyes of the young woman who has just been pulled out.The camera then blacks out. "Or are their attempts futile?"

Böse stands up from his kneeling position causing his pants to be completely trenched from the flooded streets, and pulls the camera off his shoulders. He turns and walks away from the flooded streets of ruin to the point of the city that still remains standing, barely damaged, and has few puddles of water in the streets. A dark silhouette rises from the ground next to Böse and grabs the camera. "Drohung, why do they even bother? Everything under that collapsed building is no longer able to be saved, but why do they still fight for them?" Th shadow clone shakes its head and then begins to shrink into the ground along with the camera until both are back into the Wraiths shadow. "Still, the news team needed a documentary on this hurricane, its the only way to begin my rise back to the top." Böse continues to walk back to the Academy grounds as a group of high school boys sprint past him with wood, polls, and anything that can be used as a weapon from the fallen buildings. The boy in the back holds out his phone as if he were to record what it is they are doing. The Wraith lowers its head. "How pathetic."

”Where did she go?” ”Don’t tell me you lost her? What are we going to post now?” ”Your sick ‘beat up the helpless’ channel may be saved! I see her! She went this way!” The group of Highschoolers began to catch up with the girl they have been stalking since she reached the city. The leader in the front saw the young girl turn the corner. ”Perfect! She trapped herself in a dead-end! Remember boys, I am the star!” ”Fine by me, I just wanna break something!” ”There is something seriously wrong with the both of you!” ”Oh shut the hell up and point the phone straight!”

The boys slowly turned the corner to see the young girl panic as she sses she is trapped in a dark eerie alley. ”Hey there you little brat! What are you doing out here all by yourself? ”You can get yourself into BIG.. The boy with the pipe smacked it into his own had to intimidate the Middleschooler.”…trouble. Maybe we should help you out off the city.” ”Or, we can teach you a lesson of what happens to little shits like you when they get lost in a town where they don’t belong!” The Highschoolers began to inch closer to the girl, smirks on their faces as they began to visualize the beating their prey was about to receive.

As time went on and the boys continued to ramble on about what kind of punishment the girl was about to receive, the sun began to peek through on the group as it begins to fall from its highest point. While the boy’s shadows began to form and cast a somewhat small shadow over their prey, the young girls shadow began to double in size and aim for the Highschoolers, the opposite direction it should be going. The shadow stopped at the leaders feat. ”I think its time to teach this girl a few things about crossing into our territory!” The wooden plank the boy was holding came down and a loud snapping sound of wood rang. ”What the…..what is this?!” The shadow that formed from the girl reached up from the ground and grabbed the wood, smashing it in its hand, the head of the shadow now had two ghastly eyes staring up at the boy. The shadow slowly merged out of the ground and was now leering down at the boy. ”What?! What’s going on?! the shadowy figure leaned down to be face to face with the boy. FEAR ME!

The Shadow quickly jerked to the ground causing another dark figure to lash out from the ground and Drohung upkneeed the leader in the face, sending him the other direction. The other boys looked on in fear. The one with the pipe charged the figure and took a swing, thinking that if he didn’t connect, all was done for. ”How in the fu-” The pipe the boy swung with now connected the bottom of his chin sending him 15 feet in the air, the shadow then followed by shooting a Black Hole below the boy. He fell through and the shadow began to laugh as the boy’s scream in pain, punching, and breaking of bones sounded in the alley. The boy is the tossed out from below the figure and kicked to his downed leader to join him unconscious. The figure then slowly turned towards the boy with the phone as another shadow began to rise from the ground, looking darker than the one already present and leading this chaos. ”NOW YOU WILL FEEL DEATH’S COLD EMBRACE! YOU PATHEDIC WEAKLING!” The shadow of the figure runs forward and Drohung Slides into the boy, sending him towards the dark figure. This is the followed by a Drohung’s chains which connects to the boys chest and is then yanked towards the figure. When the Highschooler reaches the figure, it reaches out and grabs the boy by the throat, choking him in the air, until he passes out.

The figure the tosses the body by the others and nods at its shadow, which then disintegrates into the ground with the boys phone in hand, destroying everything that was recorded. ”Flawless Vitcory.” It looks over its shoulder and stares down at the girl with its emotionless white eyes.

The dark being continued to look over its shoulder at the small girl that began to stare at it in shock. The girl began to ramble on about how amazing the beings power was and how she wished to have the ability to do so. The figure turned and walked towards the girl. as the girl continued to talk. The dark being clench its fist as it began to grow annoyed with the girl, but stopped a foot away as the girl showed respect. "Thanks." The beings hatred filled eyes went back to its emotionless state. The girl smiled up at the tall shadow. "I'm Claire, and you? I think I heard your name but I want to be sure."

The Wraith squatted and looked back at the girl now face to face. "Ich bin Böse. Böse tilted its head in curiosity. This small child is not running? Crying? Not even fazed by the fact that he used his shadow, or even by the way Böse looked? "Du…you are not afraid of me?" Curiosity crew. "Do you know fear?" Böse straighter out his head and continued to stare at the girl, never breaking eye contact. The dark being wanted to know why this girl is not afraid.

Böse continued to stare down at Claire. listening to what the girl had to say. sitting there in awkward silence as Claire thought what to say to the being based off fear and respect. Böse tilted his head in confusion as he was thrown off by what the girl said. ""No, I am not scared of you. Why would I be? I mean, you could have killed me, but you didn't." Böse broke eye contact as he began to think Vhy did I save her? She is a small weak child. I do not care for such zhings.

"I haven't been afraid of something in a long time. What I have been through, kinda, made me cold hearted and well, I don't really like people." Böse looked back at the small girl that was now closer to him. He raised an eyebrow at the girl trying to figure her out. Does not like people eh? Vell, Ve have somezhing in common. But, zhen vhy is she in zhe city? "I know fear. So what you did there, was cool, not scary." Böse lowered his head, looking at the girl just barely under his hood, still trying to intimidate the girl, to see if she is lying. "Impressed? I have killed millions with the technique I use. What makes you think that I won't change my mind, and have Drohung drag you into his relm?" Böse now stood up looking down at the girl, testing her, to see if she really was fearless, and if she was more than what she appeared.

This small child truly has no fear and it was clear for Böse to see. The tall figure stood there and observed water begin to swarm around the small child has she began to focus. Böse smirked, seeing that the small girl was willing to fight him to prove herself. This is exactly what he would have expected from a human, trying to prove themselves only for survival. "Go ahead, do what you want. Kill me, but I won't do it your way."

However, the dark being tilted his head and squinted his irisless white eyes in disappointment at the girl as she then dropped her arms in a sigh. the water cause a large puddle at her feat, making her shadow inaccessible to the umbrakinest. "What are you waiting for?Kill Me!" The being tossed his shadow for a Drohung Charge. "DO NOT BE SO WILLING TO DIE!" Before the shadow could reach her, the small girl looked right at his eyes. "You won't because you need fear, you need people to fear you. I don't fear you, and I never will, no matter what you do to me." The shadow disintegrated right when it reached the girl. "Why did you safe me? Why not just keep going on with your life?" Böse stepped forward and placed his hand on her shoulder and looked at her, still disappointed, but with pity. His past German voice came to life."Because, Ich sensed somezhing more zhan just a little girl. Ich saw you turn to face your fate, only beings vizh such power can do so. Only zhose who shall live and posses power from zhose zhat are weak. Ja?"