Sun rising.The sun was rising slowly.The sun,was rising slower than usual.Rising at speeds that made it seem tired."Poor Sun was tired itself" was heard by the guts of the city.Only the sun had energy.The sun was doing his best,the sun was giving it his all.But even our poor sun was going slow.Because even the Sun nowadays fears the bestial of the city.The Crawler.The knight crawler.

  And the sun shined soon at every corner of the city.The windows were flashing.They were shining by the sun.The shine being seen by all.Too bright to avoid by sight.But only the Incarnadine presence of the crawler was shining, but never seen.Therefore the crawler is unnoticed.Thousands of passengers going up and down the city.But he stands in front of them.Invisible to them without hiding.Hes a hunter,hes waiting.He is always waiting for the right moment.

  He knows how to do his job better than anybody else.

  Soon,a burglary was on progress.Miles away from where the crawler was sitted,in a religious elderly womans house,three burglars were there,filling their pockets with valuables,while losing their own values.And they went at day,since none sane in the Palace anymore crimes at night.At night is when the crawlers the scariest.At nights the time the crawler is like the wind.He moves but no one knows.He strikes and no one knows.He destroys the only thing man owns.Their sins.He does not forgive their sins,he destroys them himself.And the religious elderly woman shouted and screamed and begged for mercy,but got none."No god can save you now Ms.This is life,this is the Palace.Our city!" Said the burglar with pride.Only was his pride mistaken after his "Right hand" said beind him:"Gods won't,the Devil will!".He did not understand.He did not know what was going to happen.Until he turned his shaking body around,expecting to see the Devil himself.He turned and there was The Crawler,standing behind him,unfazed,staring.Staring in his eyes.And the crawler was standing in the light.Where the sun was shining directly on him.He was lit in light but he was still the most umbral in the room.

  The burglars were cleaned by their sins at once.Not in handcuffs.Not in a church.Lying unconscious on the ground.Not dead, but beat.Not dead,but never to live the same way again.The grandma did not thank him.Infact,she never said a word.Until she yelled at him in dispair,losing her faith that she'd hold for decades of years:"Are you the Devil himself?".Silence broke out as he stared at her.He simply turned his head and said calmly:"The Devi himself I have already killed".As he flew away,as he went back on watch of the city again.The city staying calm.The city being silent.Jokes going around but no joy anywhere.The sinners knew he was on watch and the forgiven knew the government were plotting something again.

  And in the governments hideouts.Built in the citys centre.Where everyone can go.A hideout thats in the open.Because they were not hiding from the city,they were hiding from the crawler.A man enters the building.Goes to the reception asking to see the senator.The recotionist asking the man his name,in order to check the appointnents list.But she fakes it.She knows no one shall interrupt the senator.Telling the man that he is not on the list,while she never even glanced at the list in fact.But the Man knew.Calmly he shouts his name, "Clay Mercer" it was.The Receptionist did not understand,she never did.Because that was her last words to hear.She was shot the second after the mans name was revealed.Not by the man,but by the security.Surrounders watching in fear.The man stays calm.As hes soon later guided to the senator.They sit on the big round table.Ready to have a chat.A chat that seems life threatning from outside.Thats what the body guards felt,seeing the senator scared and the man calm.But they knew who he was.He was the legend,he was Clay mercer.A mentor for them.An idol for them.He is the former greatest assasin in the city.Having over tens of thousand graves made because of him.The bodyguards knew,one wrong move and they would all be slaughtered.The senator was scared but the man would not hurt the senator.Why would the senator be scared then we wonder?Because he was scared for the lives of the bodyguards.Poor Chad the body guard in charge of Clay had a delivery coming.He was going to be a father soon.

  Clay sits down,ready to begin the conversation.The senator starts it all."We welcome you Mr Mercer,we are delighted that you are he-".He said with a shaking voice before he was interrupted by clay.-"Im not here to talk im here for answers."-"But Mr Mercer,i do not know why youre here what will i answer perhaps?"-"Perhaps,you will answer everything."He says in a daring voice.Getting ready to get up.The senator could not let him get up.He was too dangerous but he could not do anything.He was his greatest weapon.He was what was created to kill the anomic vigilante of the city.He was the governments card up their sleeves.They wanted the crawler gone.The crawler was ruining their plans.He would stop their ways of corrupting even more but rising economically.As many illegal substances they would ship,the crawler would always sink the ships or planes but always rescue the men on them.And he would tie them by the senators house.Where his kids and wife were.That messed with the senators head.Before that the crawler was a vigilante that had to be jailed.Since then to him the cralwer has been the modt wanted man alive.Wanted dead or alive.No posters were hanging anywhere with cost,like pirates used to have.But everyone knew the idea.Everyone knew it was his head that was wanted,not himself.The senator then asks Clay again what brought him there.Clay now had enough.He gets up,breaks the bodyguards hands within seconds.Simple hits but each time the bodyguards screamed in pain.And chad whined.And he cried out.He was thrown onto the wall,his head banged on the wall multiple times.Tears falling from his dead eyes.Clay grabs Chad by his skull bangs him onto the next victim as he kills him too.Strangling the other two bodyguards,each with each hand.Now he had enough.The senator finally broke out like a baby."Okay Okay!I will tell you what you want to know."Clay sits down,this time next to the senator.Now the senator woukd confess."Mr Mencer,We are doing what ever we can,but you need to understand.He is too strong.You cant and wont ever be able to beat him in the flesh.We have to destroy his spirit.We have to turn the whole city againts him.He is the labs most feared creation by the world.He was meant to be the best,that he became."-"the entire city is againts him.None in the city loves him.Everyone fears him.What else is more to come?"

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  -"We have to make him quit,theres no other way.That is the best chance weve got."-"Even if it is.Thats not what i cane here today for.Ive come for the new arrival."silence breaks out again.As theh stare at each other for long.The senator knowing he cannot say something he shouldnt.-"what?when?who?What are you gonna do with it?".Clay clears his throat and says "Spencer,I will use it againts him."-" But-But youve fought againts him before,did you not learn anything from that.His face you did not see.Not even his mask was seen.Only thing you saw was the blood red color on his suit.And thats the same with everyone,nobody knows exactly how his suit looks."-"I,I will use the thing to kill him."-"But Mr Mercer its pure Alien sorcery,we havent even learned what it is yet."-"Thats why im taking it with me,to the lab."There the senator,Spencer Moreway was defeated.Little Spencer had nothing more to put on the table.The senator in dispense agrees with Clay.They shake hands and he lives.As Spencer is left in his room sitting on the big chair,looking at the corpses of his dead bodyguards.Questioning his choices again.

  Clay arrives back to his place to stay.He lays down on his bed and tries to get some rest.Hearing the night birds singing.Theyre singing to the sun,for the sun to rise again.In order for the sinners to pay.The Birds are waiting to be freed.They want justice.Just like the masked bird everyone fears.Clay long enough later finally gets his chance to sleep.But only nightmares he sees.Of the night his daughter was taken from him,by a winged man.Only seeing the back of his wings.Ever since hed seen that,even at an unsuitable age he promised himself he would revenge his daughter.He was sure it was him.He was sure it was sure it was the crawler.Without ever seeing that face he knew who he had to chase after the new vigilante with the wings cane out.For 4 years Clay has been trying to catch him.The more he waits the more expirienced the crawler becomes.The stronger he gets.The wiser he gets.Its either sooner or never he thinks to himself.That,he said to his tormented self.With no more energy inside himself,his battery is running out,Or rather it has ran out.Because now more he is only powered by revenge.Revenge is the only thing he seeks.

  And the birds were still singing.They were calling out the sun.And it sounded as if they were calling the sun a coward,a fake.And the more the moon light outshined the sun,as the sun had left the louder the birds got.He went outside.Lying in his empty houses balcony.Watching the stars.At the same time the crawlee is also doing it.Both at mountains outside of the city,where the city is at full view.Looking at the stars together but apart.As one talks after the other.One claimimg the opposite of the other.One said:"I will be hungry until ive eaten" and the other says:"i will not be hungry until im eaten".Both knowing their futures will not be bright sigh at the same time,at diffrent places,with diffrent Intends.One with Revenge.The other with Justice.One hungry for revenge,starving for Revenge.The other full of justice,starving until the others eat with him.Clay had enough once again.Clay went at midnight onto Senator Spencers Office.Broke in.Slaughtering anyone in his way.Then he heard a voice.It wss Professor Cliff.Spencers right hand.As he tells him"Do not bother with them,its too dark they cant tell who you are,especially without your mask.Spencers at his home but, hes not what youre looking for.What youre looking for i have,what youre looking for i will share."-"Thank you,someone sane at last" he says as he sighs out of relief.-"My pleasure,I love working aside with the life-shifter!".