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Notes:
"Dialog parts will be like this."
"Bold dialogues are different languages spoken other than English."
YouTube videos are often embedded in my novel, which is best read on a computer.
"That's his son? There's no emotion on his face or in his voice. No wonder he's not the manager of his father's restaurant." An old male voice echoes with confusion.
"He looks miserable. Do you think because his sister is living the life, and he's not?" A female voice echoes with curiosity.
"Look, it's the failure of the Lim family." A male voice echoes mockingly in Hakka.
"If I were him, I would just kill myself!" A female voice echoes cynically, mocking.
"Are you fucking insane!? I'm not getting banned from my favorite Chinese restaurant, Nicole!" Another female voice echoes with frustration.[1]
"His only talent is delivering food with a Vespa; other than that, he's useless." A male voice echoes with harsh judgment.
"That's him? I can't believe his face is so different from his sister's!" A female voice echoes with disbelief in Korean.
"That can't be him. He's nothing like the rest of his family." An old male voice echoes louder than the other voices.
Alex is on his Vespa, wearing a helmet, riding it under the speed limit.
He blinks, looking at the billboard of Rosemary that transitions to Jovie.
He blinks again, and he looks to his front. He noticed a man wearing a Wind Breaker merch while driving a convertible car, talking and laughing with a woman in the passenger seat. He squints his eyes so as not to get teary-eyed. He blinked again, took a breath, and let a soft sigh. He sees the traffic light at the intersection turn green. But he sees big black smoldering smoke blocking the whole intersection, and a loud tire screeching. He didn't realize he was already in the middle of the intersection.
The crash happened. But it wasn't. It was just in his head. The truck stops just a few meters from his initial position, and Alex is far away from the T-intersection, looking in his left side-view mirror.
Alex had many wild imaginations since childhood, and sometimes over-imagined stuff like accidents and such.
"Well, well, well... if it isn't Rosemary andย Jovie themselves! How's it been?" A woman transitions from a sinister-sounding voice to normal.
The smoldering black smoke clears out, revealing the teen suspect beside a figure in an almost all-dark chocolate cosmos and red wine outfit, with the smoke disappearing around them.
Black Hearth has a very slim and short body, stands upright with a straight posture, and arms crossed. Their hair is asymmetrical, side-swept pixie bob style. Its hair color is black with a slight chocolate cosmos combination of highlights.
They wear a chocolate cosmos red half-face mask that covers their nose, mouth, and jawline. The mask has a skull-like upper ridge over the nose area and a grill shape over the mouth area that goes to the bottom of the mask. They wear small, stud black crystal earrings, and around their neck are multiple grey chain necklaces wrapped tightly.
They have a chocolate cosmos high collar that is ear-level with a dark maroon runic collar band, and it's connected to an actively smoldering cape that's also parted in the middle, resembling a pair of creepy, monstrous wings.
They wear a formal blazer with no buttons, rolled-up sleeves, and a button-up vest underneath it. The colors are the same as the cape. Chocolate cosmos and red wine. They wear dark maroon colored leather gloves with grey chains wrapped around the hands.
The pants have a hard, crystal texture that looked monstrous, with chocolate cosmos with a mixed blend of lightened crimson. They have chocolate cosmos flat leather boots that go up to the knee.
Name: Black Hearth (Federal Fugitive)
Ability: Smoldering Fire (Demonic)
Criminal Database: Keeper of many secret "Smoldering Hearth" brothels and a human trafficker in the USA. Multiple felonies across many states.
The truck driver gets out of the truck and runs away from it as soon as he sees who's on top of it.
"Oh, fuck!" he screams.
"Run!" a bystander screams, too. The surrounding people rushed away from Black Hearth.
Alex slows down and stops his Vespa, looks in his left view mirror, and stares directly at Black Hearth.
"I see that you have another person who has the power to do your bidding." Rosemary is trying not to grit her teeth and is tightly clenching her hands.
"Well, of course! They are pretty useful after all. Mmm... Not this time, as he is not that far enough from the ATM." Black Hearth looks over the teenage boy and the broken ankle.
"Your raging gaze doesn't threaten me in the slightest, Jovie." As they look at Jovie's raging face.
The smoldering smoke slowly appears again around the boy and the villain. That's when Black Hearth senses something on their right and turns their head.
They see Alex riding his Vespa in the distance, away from them. "What the fuck? What was that violent gaze just now?" They think in her head, then quickly turn around towards the 2 heroes again. They got attacked by a shockwave generated by Jovie's bracelet beside Black Hearth's left head, knocking them off the truck, separating them from the teenage boy.
"Rose, get him!" Jovie says in a stern, commanding voice.
Without hesitation, Rosemary instantly leaps on top of the truck, grabs the boy by the sleeve without grabbing his arm so as not to hurt him. As Rosemary was about to drop from the right side of the truck, Black Hearth from the left side of the truck raised their left hand, clenching it, and it started smoldering.
Choking Cinders
"Trying to steal my property, did you?" Black Hearth speaks angrily as they use their power to choke Rosemary with a black, red smoke. Rosemary still grabs the boy by the sleeve, coughs loudly, and struggles to breathe. Jovie bounces towards the villain and somersaults to Black Hearth's position, cracking the road below in about a half-meter radius. Upon contact, Black Hearth's body turns into a blood red mist and reappears close behind Jovie. Chains start wrapping around Jovie's body, unable to move.
Chain Domination
"Give me that, boy! Or else Jovie dies!" Getting annoyed by the situation, Black Hearth makes the chains bigger that cover Jovie's arms to his neck and waist. Rosemary and the boy are as far away as possible from the truck and the fight; she drops the boy off the side of a police car and lets the rest of them take care of him.
Jovie stands still for a second, then turns around towards Black Hearth. A powerful shockwave breaks the chains easily, and it dissipates to ashes. The side of the truck is bent inward, the road he's standing on is cracked a little, and Black Hearth got thrown backwards a few meters away. Black Hearth gets up quickly while Jovie turns around.
"WHAT!" Black Hearth was shocked and started throwing more chains in Jovie's direction to wrap him again while running towards Rosemary. His face is just pure anger and hatred, and he didn't even react to the chains. He breaks away from it by sprinting towards Black Hearth. Heavy bass hip-hop rap beat starts playing in the background.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Black Hearth, enraged, has had enough of it; their wing-shaped cape burns and transforms into an actual pair of small wings.
Jovie dashes towards Black Hearth's position, but the villain flies upwards and goes towards Rosemary. Black Hearth performs a sideways spin attack mid-air with two chains that start lighting up with dark fire, swinging them towards Rosemary.
She dodged the first, then a second came, but with another chain appears, but she jumps backwards, which ended up as a backflip on top of a police car. Before she could land, a fireball was right in front of her, and she didn't react quickly enough; it struck her chest.
Luckily, her suit was set to defense mode this whole time, but the damage was greater than what she expected. "JOVIE!" Rosemary screams. Black Hearth flies towards the car where the boy is hiding inside.
BAAM!ย Black Hearth got thrown to the right again by Jovie, and he started to fight them by himself as Rosemary stood up.
Jovie punches Black Hearth many times, each one felt like a baseball passing by, but they dodge every single attack. They wait for the right timing and dodge an attack by leaning backwards and at the same time did a front kick, right at Jovie's stomach, but with hisย active invisible barrier still protecting it, he received half of the impact, but it still hurt. He put his guard up for the incoming attacks by Black Hearth, and they wasted no time punching him with boxing techniques, but it ended with a kick to the hip. Jovie expected it. He raises his right knee at an angle to block the shin.
Black Hearth does not stop there and launches a right haymaker. Jovie blocked it, another left punch towards his stomach, he parried it and hit their face with a back fist. A strong left punch to their face and losing their balance, but Jovie did not stop.
He grabs their left wrist with his right, and back fists their stomach and face, punches their face again with a right, goes behind them, and does a Judo throw by grabbing their hip, lifting them, and falling backwards, slamming Black Hearth into the ground.
"AGH!" they scream as their back and small wings hit the surfaceย asphalt.
Rosemary suddenly stood on top of Black Hearth and grabbed both of their arms. But they turned into blood red mist again and reappeared behind Rosemary, exactly on top of her. Chains started wrapping around Rosemary, and the chains started bursting into flames immediately.
Black Hearth demands, "Give me the boy or I will burn him alive!" while Rosemary screams in agony. Every police officer in the area, including Jovie and Rosemary's driver, who just got out of his SUV, is at a standstill.
"Now..." Black Hearth says it as her pupils started to light up with dark red fire. Rosemary screams even louder, "AAAAGGHHH! NO! AAAAGGHHH!" As the chains started burning more, Jovie taps his bracelet, and the music stops.
"Get the boy!" Jovie said.
"Good choice." Black Hearth clears the fire out, and Rosemary's legs can barely stand on their own, still suffering. Black Hearth scoffs and says, "Guess she's only given super strength and not any healing abilities. Useless-"
Might of Hercules
Rosemary's eyes turn her normal eye color to bright hazel. She instantly jumps up, breaks out of the chains with the power of Hercules, grabs Black Hearth by the throat, and slams them into the ground, leaving a big web crater. "Let... Go..." Black Hearth struggled to move Rosemary's hand and could barely speak. "You are under arrest as a wanted fugitive on multiple counts of vandalism, arson, kidnapping, and possible human traffickingโ"
Chain Domination
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"Demonic Explosion"
Before Rosemary can even finish the rest of the Miranda warning, Black Hearth's body explodes with dark flames, and multiple flaming chains start coming out of it, flailing and swinging wildly in all directions.
"Shit!" Jovie shouts.
But, as miracles would have it. Wind Breaker showed up just in time for her to make every flame and many chains go upwards like a tornado. She then disperses it, and only smoke from the explosion is left. Smoldering Smoke.
Black Hearth escaped another arrest attempt.
After the intense fight that just happened, the boy is being taken into custody by Rosemary's driver in his SUV towards the ERNY Division building with Jovie and his driver tailing/escorting them to safety, while Wind Breaker is escorting Rosemary by Earth's Radiance's Rapid Response Trauma Team ambulance that is shaped like a normal vanbulance but with deep ocean colored with green stripes accent. After the rear doors closed, bright red and green strobes of light using the same siren as those patrol SUVs. All the officers and the same detective are on the scene. "I guess something big is about to happen again. This is the third time in the past 6 months," the detective says it while looking around with his notepad and pencil out.
"GOD DAMMIT!" Black Hearth unmasked themselves and screamed in frustration in their hideout. For a few seconds, they calmed themselves and sat on a chair by a desk with a sleek laptop design. "I told you... Do not underestimate those two heroes, and you almost got caught." Filtered voice from the laptop speaks very calmly, but to hide the gritting of their teeth.
"I was testing myself and them." Black Hearth reasons with the person on the laptop.
"And here you are in your office without one of your errand boys, and better yet! He's captured and probably questioned by the Earth's Radiance right about now. Bravo!" The person mocks Black Hearth's stupidity.
"He's not going to talk, I've got him on a leash." Black Hearth reassures.
"Let's hope he will." The person sighs at the end of the sentence.
"Now... Where were we? Ah, yes, we plan to kidnap someone again. Uhh. Who is it that we are going to kidnap?" The person is giddy.
Black Hearth sits upright to use their laptop and types on the keyboard: ALEX NAJWAN... ENTER.
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[1] Guess the reference!