A Bad Guy

So me and Mary sat at the table in silence and it was kinda getting awkward. I was eating some grilled chicken. A side effect of me using my powers a lot I guess makes me really hungry.

“Sooooooo you heal quickly huh?” Finally the awkward silence has been broken.

“Yeah”

“Cool, cool”

She's tapping foot against the ground rapidly, a nervous tick I’m guessing. I could see worry, confusion and a slight curiosity. She has been like this ever since I came home about an hour ago can’t blame her though because If I saw her walk in one morning covered in blood and injuries I’d be worried too. She gained the confusion when I just took a shower to wash away all blood and then the curiosity when they started healing. All my injuries healed fine but I am covered in scars, can’t wait to explain that to mom and dad when they get back. My right hand is not healing as quickly as everything is still bruised but not as badly as it was originally.

“Sigh Richard can you explain what exactly happened to you”

“Well I was relaxing on top of a building heard some girl being kidnap fought 3 guys who all had powers beat them up 2 of them got the girl and escaped I lick some of there blood and track them down got to there hideout fought there boss I won but got hurt badly found out that they were selling young girls to people freed the girls gave them to the police and went home” better to tell the truth instead of lying.

“I don’t like how you explained that so casually” she was more worried and confused now

“Well it’s what happen”

“But how? Like really no offense but you're not that strong dude so did you beat up 4 super powered criminals in how much time?”

“Like an hour” I take a bite of the delicious chicken.

“Exactly! you did all that in an hour with no help and you got home looking like you got slammed dunked into a meat grinder and just walked it off and are fine please explain” she sounded exacerbated after saying all that.

“Ok” As I lift up my left hand and flex it without any real strain my hand turns to steel. She just sat there dumbfounded staring at my hand as I returned it back to normal and went back to eating.

“So you got new powers?”

“Yep”

“What are they?”

“So far enhanced physique, controllable super senses and reaction time/perception, a minor healing factor, I can track people by consuming there blood, I can instinctively know how to fight and use martial arts moves, I can turn my hands into steel claws and my chaos breath that got a upgrade”

She slowly rubs her temples “when, where, why and how?”

“About 2-3 days ago, at the abandoned train track where I got caught up in that train crash, Probably because I touched the dead body of Steel Drake and the people that captured her did some experiments on her body that let whatever they did to her go to me”.

She just sat there staring at me with a questioning look on her face “what?”

“Yeah When I was walking away from the train and I found some high tech silver container it opened up and I saw Steel drake body in there attach to all theses machines she died I touch her then these guys in modified swat gear started shooting at me I used her power temporarily and ran home and that's how I busted up my”

“So you found Steel Drakes body and didn’t tell anyone?”

“Guess it just slipped my mind” The last couple days, I have been just on a joyride testing my new powers and never really took the chance to tell anyone.

“It just slipped your mind? they might have been able to find her body earlier and the people who did it!”

“Wait, what do you mean earlier?”

“Oh yeah forgot you don’t watch the news or spend any time on any social media apps”

“Because the news is filled with fake new that tries to grab your attention for ratings and those social media apps are just filled with too many neckbeards and toxic people” I take another bite of food

“Sigh anyways they found her body in the vanguards meeting room mangled and missing all her limbs had the calling card of jack all over the room”

Weird jack the ripper a powerful hero killer who just appeared out of nowhere a decade ago and just started killing heroes or villains with no rhyme or reason at least one we don’t know about anyways jack powers are unknown and strong and She doesn’t like working with anyone especially scientists.

“Anyways back onto the main topic, you have Steel drakes powers, any differences?"

“Yeah I can only use it with my hands for a short amount of time before using hurts me and it’s not the weird platinum silver like Steel Drakes more of a dark gray” She gives the classic your idiot she usually gives me this stare before calling me an idiot.

“You're an idiot that's not different, that's just how her power started out. It's just so much different because she spent 80 years training with her power and you just got”

“Makes sense” I take one last bite of the chicken.

“We need to get you somewhere where we can properly test out your current capabilities”

“And that would be?”

“Let me call up Rachal she’s got her own little training ground that she uses and lets me use”

“Ok when and where” I start stretching and popping every bone in my body

“Preferably soon and it's at some old scrap yard no one visits anymore”

“Are we running there?”

“No were driving”

“Aw” I feel sad that I don’t get to run

After ten minutes we were driving down the streets of the lower middle class district. This place feels like more of a town as a lot of people know each other over here and it doesn't really have that many high up buildings. We drive past an auto repair shop, a diner, a gun shop and a grocery store all of the places having more of a friendly vibe, yes even the gun shop. It's more sunny today as if the clouds were vaporized by the sunlight coating this part of the city in a light golden hue giving off a relaxing vibe.

Eventually we get to another auto repair shop in front of a massive scrap yard that at least goes for a mile or two.

“Here's the place, Rachal and her family owns it I’ve met them before there all really nice”

I give a thumbs up as we both get out of the car as we walk towards the place. It has in big letters Bestia auto repairs. I wonder if the rest of her family might be like her and be some sort of chimera?

I have to lower the dial that controls my smell as we get closer to the shop as I smell a lot of gas, melted metal and burnt pork?

“I’m guessing she owns the place?”

“Yep”

“So she knows how to repair cars?”

“Yeah that and pretty much anything she likes to modify stuff sometimes with varying levels of success, that poor poodle” she shudders at that last part

Guess she’s a tinker too. Hmm wonder if she could make me stuff? I quickly push away the thoughts of jetpacks and laser swords as Mary and I walk into the shop. We walk up to the counter as the area is covered in burn and claw marks. The counter has a bunch of knick-knacks made out of different pieces of scrap metal that were melted together. I wonder if I could do that?

“Hey Rachal, we're here!” silence

“She’s probably busy, we're gonna have to wait a bit, she might even be gone” Mary takes a seat in one of the plastic chairs in the room. I tune My hearing a bit as I hear far off in the Garage snoring.

“She's sleeping”

“Of course she is” she sighs as she stands up and starts walking to the garage “lets go wake her up”. I quickly started following her as with a light push we entered the garage. Messy wasn’t the best way to describe. The floor was coated in motor oil, more burns and claws marks, random pieces of scrape and car parts and finally there laid a car that had its engine missing in the middle of the room.

The garage had two entrances one that led to the front of the shop and the other led to the scrap yard. Near a little workshop riddled with different tools the sleeping dragon laid there. She wore a white muscle shirt stained in motor oil and extremely baggy cargo pants. She was ripped her arms being covered in compact muscle and I can even see the definition in her back where the muscle was most compact probably because of her wings. The wings were large and reptilian covered in more plate-like scarlet scales with two black talons and orange membrane; it would be a sight to see if she wasn't using it like a makeshift blanket.

They covered her head and the write side of her body as she gently snored.

“Ok this is gonna be tough she is a pretty deep sleeper like really I swear not even a bomb going off right now would wake her up” we both waited a couple seconds just to make sure she didn’t jinx us

“Let me guess not even a thunderclap near her ears will wake her?”

“I’ve tried that before and it just burnt her hair a bit she's part dragon I guess it's the type that sleep a lot”

I walked over and lifted her wing that was covering her face as she was wearing a full shield mask that covered her face. Her hair was a wild mess as her horns were slightly digging into the workbench. She softly snored the lower part of the shield mask glowed a bit as small bits of flame shot out beneath her mask. I noticed a necklace hanging off her neck. It was made up of shiny silver and had a little dragon holding a white diamond in the middle, was probably worth 5043 dollars, pretty pricey and was just hanging there for the taking.

“Hey can you stop checking out her tits and help me figure out a way to wake her up” My sister spoke with a disappointed tone.

“Hey I’m not checking her out just looking at this expensive necklace she’s wearing”

“Sure” I was trying to resist the urge to look at her chest. She was well endowed. A quick look wouldn’t hur, I quickly slap myself in the face to stop myself from finishing that thought as I walk over to Mary. I felt something cold in my hand as I turned to see I was grabbing the necklace as the flames under the mask stopped. “Fuck” As her tail shot out slamming into my side faster Then I could even process it as I flew into the garage door denting it as I crashed into it.

Mary walks near me as she kneels down “and that's why you don’t mess with a dragon's hoard”

“At least she's up” as I lift myself up

“True” as we both walk over to the yawning chimera

She stretches out her wings and even the snake head on her tail yawns as with a toss she removes the mask. Her face is covered in oil and grime as she looks at us. Her eyes are still odd to look at because instead of the sclera being white hers is black her pupils being thin sideways slits.

“Sorry about hitting you I get aggressive when someone touches what is mine didn’t help you woke me up” she gives a sheepish smile as she rubs the back of her head

“It’s cool my fault anyways we need your help”

“Oh with what?” she raises a eyebrow as she holds her hands on her hips

“Well we need to use your scrap yard Rachal” Mary quickly steps in front of me

“Oh this is gonna be good” Rachal clasped her hands together “So you and your brother gonna train back there or something?” she turns to her work bench as she start digging through it grabbing tools

“She let me use it to help me get a hand at my powers when I first got them” Mary states to me

“Anyways kinda were actually gonna be testing out this numbskull's new powers” Rachal stops as she starts to tie her hair into a messy ponytail.

“Explain” her snake friend drops a pair of goggles into her hand

“Yeah he recently became a Hybrid like me but a lot more unique” Unique more like absolutely badass.

Rachal pops the goggles on as she turns to me with a smile that only a shark could rival. She walks up to the both of us “So what do you wanna test first?”