Marvel: A Tale of Shadows

It was a Saturday like no other for most New Yorkers. But for a few it would be a turning point and a breaking point.

Felicia woke up in Ethan's arms at the hospital. She then kissed him goodbye and headed home to prepare for her day out with her father.

When she got back she could smell the testosterone in the air, they had another orgy. What were these girls? Sex crazed fiends? She even saw one of the girls lying on the floor in the living room sandwiched between two men from the football team.

Felicia walked up to her room, unlocking the door and entering. Thankfully they had solo rooms. She walked in and locked her door again. She then changed into a coat and jeans and put on some tennis shoes. She grabbed her purse and left through the door again, locking it as she went out.

As she went out the door she ran into Myranda, "hey Felicia. I know you are busy with your new boyfriend but why don't the two of you come to our party tonight?"

Felicia sighed as she stepped around Myranda, "we will pass. Besides, aren't all of your 'parties' just giant orgies? We really aren't into sharing." There was an underlying tone that indicated disgust. But she was more disgusted at the idea of sharing with someone like Myranda rather than sharing at all.

Myranda gritted her teeth, "well are you coming back tonight?"

"Yup I'll be back." Felicia responded automatically as she left through the front door.

A second later Myranda grinned and pulled out her phone, "hey yeah it's me. We are going to do it tonight, so bring the roofies and as many muscle heads that are into the non consensual and hardcore stuff. I don't want this bitch to walk away from this intact or even at all." She then hung up as she smiled then she looked over at the living room and shook her head. Then she walked up to her room to prepare for tonight, "after tonight Felicia Hardy you will be just a fraction of yourself."

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Ethan was able to get out of the hospital around 9 am. He first went to Turnover & Hilt for breakfast. Then he headed back to his apartment where he made notes on his newly discovered abilities from being shot. He then exercised for a while, he could feel his abilities growing in strength. For each rep he did the activity got easier. After a few hours of doing exercises he took a shower then laid down on his bed. As he laid down he remembered yesterday, he then remembered the guy that could supposedly stick to surfaces.

He got up off his bed and tried it. He put his hand on the wall and tried to lift himself up. He then became aware of something on his hand that felt like it was gripping the wall. But it wasn't just his hand but he could feel it over his entire body. He focused on it and realized he could control it at will. He did not even need to fully focus on it once he got used to it. It would be like breathing, moving, or typing.

Eventually he crawled onto the roof. He frowned as he looked at his bed. Where his phone was ringing. It was only 2 pm so he had no clue what this call was about. He jumped off the roof and expected to make a loud noise when he landed but instead it was rather quiet and felt like a lot of the force was reduced by this new 'phantom limb' that he could instinctively feel.

He answered his phone, "Hey Ethan! Sorry I forgot to mention it yesterday but me, you, and my dad will be eating out tomorrow. Can you find a place for the three of us?"

Ethan chuckled, "yeah sure. Dinner?"

"Yup, thanks babe. Yeah…. I really need to come up with a pet name for you." Felicia stated, he could hear the pouting in her voice.

"Whatever you say Kitten. What have you and your dad done so far?" Ethan asked.

Felicia smiled on the other end while she sat at a coffee shop waiting for her father to come back with their drinks. "We went out for breakfast at some old hole-in-the-wall diner. It was decent, then we looked around at some of the famous architecture. Did that for a few hours then we went to an early lunch where we had some really good food truck tacos. After that we went to a play and we just got out of that." At that moment her father came back with their drinks.

He nodded at her and mouthed, 'who is it?'

She mouthed, 'Ethan.' And she saw his frown but she just rolled his eyes.

"What will you be doing next?" Ethan asked.

"We will be watching a ball park game and having hotdogs and other yummies at the game." Felicia explained.

Ethan chuckled on the other end, "okay then call me tonight when you get back. I should have reservations for a place by then. Now then I can feel your father's glare from over the phone line so I am gonna go now. Bye Kitten."

"Bye Ethan." She then hung up. She then looked at her father who was frowning, "What's wrong?"

"Is he feeling insecure, is that why he called you?" Felicia was too stunned to even respond for a moment before she grabbed her coffee and walked out the coffee shop. Walter stayed seated for a moment before he stood and quickly followed her out. "What did I say?"

Ethan on the other hand added another ability to the list he already had. He would have to practice his acrobatics again so he can hone his techniques. Ethan then got up and went to get an early dinner and late lunch. Perhaps he should finally get a laptop as well. It seemed like he might start needing one. He would of course have to modify it.

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It was around 7 pm when Felicia was getting close to the sorority house. The day went mostly okay. Aside from her being a bit mad at her dad after what he said at the coffee shop there was not much else that went wrong. All-in-all it was a pretty good day. As she approached the house she heard the partying but didn't hear any moans so she figured it would be okay to go in through the front door.

She walked in and saw almost immediately that there were a lot more guys. Some of them eyed her up and she felt uncomfortable. She put her hand in her bag and started dialing up Ethan. She had to call him anyway so it would be fine if nothing happened.

She was at the stairs when someone grabbed her arm and slammed her into a wall. Then another person threw something in her mouth when she instinctively screamed in pain. She felt herself swallow it and also realized not even a moment later what was going on.

At the same time Ethan felt his phone start ringing when he was customizing his new laptop on the counter. He almost immediately answered and could hear shouting and muffled noises and knew that something was wrong. "Felicia is in danger."

He ran out of his apartment with his phone in hand and ran towards the sorority house as fast as he could.

While at the sorority house Felicia managed to kick away her attackers and make it to her room. But as she reached her room she started to feel a bit dizzy. She went in and locked the door and not a moment later she heard knocking and the mocking voice of Myranda.

"Come on Felicia. Open up. These boys just want to rape you until you are bloody and batteried." There was a chorus of cackles and laughter. Felicia pulled out her cell phone and dialed Ethan again because she must have hung up earlier when she was struggling with her would be assaulters as she moved her bedside table and chair in front of the door at the same time.

The call was almost immediately answered, "Felicia are you-"

"Ethan! Come quick they drugged me. Please…hurry…" At this point Felicia could feel herself start to wig out. She felt like the room started to spin and her legs were losing strength.

"Ah Screw it! Boys knock the door down! We will just have you fix it tomorrow." Myranda yelled which was followed by a cheer. Then the door started shaking as they tried to knock it down. Felicia in her altered mental state backed up into the corner holding her legs in fear as she felt and could see reality warping around her. Deep down she knew it wasn't real but she couldn't tell at this point. "Oh come on! It's just a door!"

A moment later they smashed through the door. One of the brutes looked around to see Felicia crouching in the corner. Felicia felt so scared she could almost hear waves crashing beneath her. The brute grabbed her arm and threw her onto the bed while several other men entered the room and started removing their clothes. They reached to grab her but suddenly there was a loud crash as a body flew through the doorway and slammed into the wall. 

He then fell to the ground unconscious. The brutes all looked to the doorway and so did Felicia as she was starting to lose consciousness she felt like she saw her knight in shining armor. She could even feel the bloodlust oozing off of him but to her it felt like a comfortable blanket. It was like she had a grim reaper at her beck and call. Hmmm…a reaper.

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As Felicia started to fall unconscious Ethan was fuming. He had just knocked out everyone else in this wretched event. But at the moment he had to hold himself back because he might really kill these bastards. This is neither the time nor the place. He would kill them tomorrow.

As for the naked men that surrounded Felicia. It was only a moment before the first one was flying out her window buck ass naked. The second one had his head slammed into a wall, not like the head bounced off the wall but rather it was embedded into the wall while his body slumped down.

The third one started begging, "wait man-" but Ethan just grabbed his extended arms and broke them, they were now pointing the opposite way they were supposed to bend. He didn't even scream but rather fell unconscious due to the pain. The last two were just as pathetic.

The fourth one went to run for the door. Ethan just slammed diagonally on his leg as he tried to run past. He didn't even notice the pain at first until he looked down and saw that the majority of his bone for his right leg was clearly outside of his body. He went to scream only for Ethan to kick him in the jaw knocking him unconscious.

The final one was much more cocky and clearly had done this and probably similar things in the past. "You bastard, back off don't you know who I am. I am Myranda's brother, the quarterback of the football team, and my father is a police chief and my mother is a lawyer worth a billion dollars. If you think you can get away with-" Before he could finish his threat Ethan got impatient and just snapped the guy's legs in two. He screamed in pain before a moment later his arms were broken in a similar fashion. The bastard dropped to the floor in pain. But before he could pass out Ethan brought his foot down hard on this guy's crotch. He also saw something splatter on the floor when he did so.

A shame. He kinda liked these shoes. He walked over to Felicia and caressed her face. She looked at him and smiled, "Hello my personal grim reaper." Ethan smiled when he heard her whisper, he leaned forward and kissed her on the head. Then she closed her eyes and went to sleep. Which was the end of the night for her. But the beginning for Ethan.

First he went around the house and gathered the driver's license of all the people that were there. He then picked up Felicia and went back to his apartment where he laid her down in his head and dropped the licenses off. He then went back, but this time he brought his car, which was usually sitting in the storage garage unit.

When he arrived there was someone that was surprisingly waking up. He didn't bother with her because she was only barely conscious. He ignored her for the most part as he grabbed all of Felicia's things and brought them into the car. It was relatively easy since she hadn't unpacked that much. Once he was done with that he ransacked the house for any valuable equipment he doubted at first but turns out the majority of the girls living there were porno casters and had some heavy duty setups. He ignored the monitors but took the more expensive components of the computers. Then as he was about to leave he saw Myranda had finally stood up. Although she was leaning against the wall.

She looked at him and her face turned to terror. "I-I-I am s-s-s-sorry I didn't-"

"You didn't know what you were doing? Hell, I am sure you had the same thing happen to you once or twice." Ethan stated emotionlessly. Myranda remembered the cold and disconnected feeling she got from back then when a man touched her like that. But her thoughts were interrupted, "but it doesn't matter I am not the forgiving type."

As he walked out, Myranda slumped on the ground and started crying out tears in despair at the reminder that she too was a victim and she only handed more victims to her brother and father so they wouldn't come after her again. This time she even sought them out because Felicia seemed so happy in her relationship.

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The next morning there were two incidents that caught attention. The first was a fight between Rhino and a newly named Spider-Man which resulted in the collapse of an abandoned building but this time Spider-Man was able to save the security guards that were inside. But Rhino got away. This story caught more heat because of the comic concept of a costumed criminal and a costumed vigilante duking it out. Except the vigilante in this case was dressed in blue and red sweats, his costume was very obviously a 'it works for now' kind of outfit.

The second event did not catch as much popularity because the police avoided investigating. But it would later be noticed in three days when more than two-thirds of the Empire State Universities football team ended up with physical damages that permanently disfigured them and stopped them from ever doing physical sports again. As well as ruining ESU's chances for a college football victory this year.

As for Myranda's parents, the father realized what was going on but upon learning that all of the driver's licenses were stolen and the identity of the attacker was unknown he decided to not pursue this further. The mother just buried it, especially the fact that her son's limbs were so damaged he couldn't move a toe as well as the fact that he became a eunuch after last night. She was always aware of her family's twisted desires. She even participated once but wasn't as proactive as the rest of them.

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Ethan was sitting in his kitchen typing on his newly made computer while Felicia slept in his bed. Eventually she got a call, but she was asleep and he answered, the caller was labeled 'Dad'.

"Hey this is Ethan." Ethan whispered.

"Where is my daughter?" Walter asked. He was walking towards her sorority house and was calling to make sure she was awake. He was going to take her out for breakfast.

Ethan got up and went to his bathroom, so he could talk without disturbing Felicia. "She is at my place. She is asleep right now."

"What happened and don't try to lie." Walter stated his voice was intense.

Ethan was about to lie and decided to lie anyway since he wanted to take care of it himself, "I only have a vague idea. But whatever it was ended before they could do any harm."

"Where are you? I want to see my daughter." Walter was getting more intense. Ethan guessed he figured out what Ethan was not saying.

"I will text you my address but why don't you pick up some breakfast, she is still asleep so it wouldn't do to wake her up without food. I will text you a location and have you pick it up from there." Ethan hoped this would give Walter enough time to cool off.

"Fine. Text me the location." Walter grumbled before he hung up.

Ethan nodded to himself satisfied. He quickly sent the address to Walter before he grabbed his own phone while checking on Felicia and called his aunt. He told her what was going on and asked if she could put together a few meals that she thought might help lift Felicia's spirits.

She agreed but then she responded with her own condition, "the three of you have to come to family dinner tonight. No arguments. It would be good for her to be around your nieces and nephew."

"Okay Aunty… see you tonight. By the way I am having a very grouchy old man pick it up. That is Felicia's dad, he looks like…" Ethan went on to describe him before he hung up and then went and sat at where his computer was set up again.

After a few minutes she stirred awake and looked around before she noticed she was in Ethan's bed and flipped around. She smiled at his nervous smile while he was looking at her from his kitchen counter.

"Are you okay?" Ethan asked. Felicia only nodded. Then pouted for a moment. "What's wrong kitten?" Felicia suddenly smiled and buried her head in the pillows.

"Nothing little reaper, at least none of it matters thanks to you." Felicia said.

Ethan grunted in response, "good. By the way your dad will be on his way with breakfast. Also the place were are eating at tonight-"

"Can we cancel that? I don't feel like going out today." Felicia asked.

Ethan chuckled, "unfortunately no, since the only place I could get a reservation to was eating a family dinner with my aunt and uncle, but they did say your dad can come. As for our reservation, there is no 'canceling' with them."

Felicia looked up at Ethan suspiciously. Ethan only shrugged, "I had no choice in the matter, it was that or no Turnover & Hilt for breakfast." Felicia's eyes lit up when he said that.

"Acceptable. Good food." Felicia climbed out of the bed and walked over to him and rubbed her head in his chest.

Ethan turned on the news on his new laptop and the report about Spider-Man was up. There were even some videos and photos.

"Huh?" Ethan stated. He saw the video of Spider-Man swinging and sticking to a wall. How was he swinging and shooting webbing? He would have to look into that 'webbing' later.

"It looks like the person from that wrestling match that was on tv a few days ago decided to become a hero." Felicia stated. "Hmm… I will need to go back and get my things at some point."

"I grabbed your stuff, most of it is sitting in my car. But I did bring a few boxes up to my apartment." Ethan explained. "We can go back if you think you are missing anything."

Felicia looked around and saw a few of the boxes. Then she saw the computer parts on the counter. "What's that?" She stood up and walked towards the counter.

Ethan followed her, "I was modifying my new laptop when you called."

Felicia looked over over the parts, "do you want to finish it? I kinda want to see you flex your skills." As she did she started moving the boxes with stuff to an empty corner of the kitchen counter.

Ethan smiled and nodded. "I already finished it but there is enough here to make another." He then started putting together another laptop. He was almost done when she came and wrapped her arms around him. "Hey kitten. What do you want to do today?"

"Mmm… I think I will look up apartments online once you get this second laptop together. Besides, in a short time here I should be munching on some tasty foods." Felicia started resting her head on Ethan as he worked on putting together a second laptop.