It pours down rain as Reaper leans towards the edge of the top of an apartment complex. Rain pelts him as he doesn’t move. He scans the streets from the rooftops looking for "trouble". He hears a woman scream for help. He looks in the direction of the scream and spots a low life with a purse in his hands. He then sees the woman. screaming for help. Reaper times his jump and glides to the low life with his cape. He tackles the low life in midair.

“Hey, man! Fuck off! I stole this fair and square go get your own-“

The low life stops talking when Reaper stands up and looks at him with his burning purple eyes. The low life is petrified with fear. Reaper picks the low life up with one hand by the neck and looks at him eye to eye. Reaper speaks in a deep, dark voice that would seem inhuman.

“You know what I like about people like you?”

The low life could hardly shake his head from how hard Reaper was gripping his neck. Reaper points the low life's chest.

“Their hearts...”

With Reaper's free hand, he forces his hand through the low life's chest and rips out his heart. When the heart was pulled out, the heart was surrounded by a black mist. The heart squirts blood out as the low life’s eyes grew wide as he could see the gaping hole in his chest. Reaper smells the heart.

“Their hearts are full of darkness It is this arua that I feed off of.”

Reaper takes a big bite out of the heart. The low life groans in pain before finally dying. The heart turns back to normal as Reaper drops the heart. He wipes the blood from his mouth from normal as Reaper drops the heart. The woman catches up to him. Reaper throws the purse at the woman showing no care for her possession. She barely catches it as she fumbles with it.

“Thank you so much, sir!”

The woman smiled big at her hero. Reaper just gave her a look that showed nothing but hatred.

“Don't thank me yet...”

“Wait a minute...Aren't you...? ...SHIT!”

The woman runs away from Reaper. Reaper sighed and sank into his shadow. The woman turned the corner in the alleyway. Reaper grabs her by the throat from a shadow and then steps out of the shadow. He smells her. He gave her a disgusting look.

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“I thought I smelt the darkness in you.”

The woman started to plea with Reaper.

“No! Please, let me go! I'm innocent, I tell you! I've done nothing wrong!”

Reaper breaks open the purse and drugs and needles fall out of it. Reaper looks at the used needles and the white powder in a small baggie that barely had anything left in it. The woman started to tear up as she struggles under the grip of Reaper.

“I was going to stop! I swear to God I was!”

“Silence, Black Rose.”

Reaper tells the woman in a stern voice. The woman changed her tone. She didn’t think that he would find out so soon. She smirks as she looks into his eyes as black roses cycle around her as she turns into Black Rose.

“Oh, what gave me away?”

Reaper scowls as he pulls out a black rose pin from her hair and shows her. He looks at her as his eyes glows a faint purple hue.

“I never forget people who are associated with a person who is responsible in my transformation.”

Black Rose furrowed her brow at Reaper before mocking him.

“Aw... That's so sad that I could just cry for you boo hoo. Give me a break! You got what you deserve from master! Why are you complaining!? You got his gift! You are the same as he is! You have his power!”

Reaper's eyes starts to flare up as he tightens his grip on her throat. His eyes start to burn a purple flame as his anger starts to boil over.

“I wanted none of this! I don't want this... This curse! I will kill all of you who have turned my life into a living hell! Starting with you!”

Reaper starts to squeeze the life out of Black Rose. His grip grows tighter and tighter on her throat. Black Rose starts to choke and gag. She struggles hard under his grip. She suddenly stops as she smiles at him. She turns into some black rose petals. The petals get blown with the wind and escape from Reaper. Black Rose's voice echoes as she speaks to Reaper.

“Maybe next time, cowboy! Next time just send me to Hell than monologue the whole time! See you later, Reaper!”

Reaper slams his fists into the sidewalk making craters below them. He can’t believe that she escaped him again. His eyes were still burning the purple flame.

“Goddamn you Black Rose!”

Reaper pulls his fist beside his body. Dark energy starts to form around his fist. After a short charge, he throws his fist in the air opening it. A powerful dark beam comes out of his hand splitting the clouds apart and the rain suddenly stops. Reaper looks up at the sky and exclaims his anger.

“I can't stand that bitch! She's always been a thorn in my side.”

Reaper uses his dark powers to place himself back on top of the rooftops to watch the city. He steps out of the shadows and leans over the rooftops. As he watches the city, he starts to think of what he had done wrong to deserve his curse. He looks at his hand but then turns away in disgust. He hates his powers. He hates the fact that he now has to live with something he never wanted.

“My life has never always been like this. I used to have a job, a mother and father, and someone that I cared deeply for. That all changed when Heart of Darkness came into my life and forced his "gift" on me. It's been two months since then. I remember it like it was yesterday...”

Reaper looks back up to the rainless sky as the night sky turns into the morning sun.