FBI agent, a grueling career not meant for the faint of heart. You were stationed at an abandoned library, your target? Mad scientist Rorth Guinev. Your boots crunch over shattered tile and bone fragments as you move deeper between the collapsed shelves, shotgun still smoking in your hands. Whatever Rorth stitched together down here was destroyed. You made sure of that.
Then you hear it.
THUD. THUD.
You freeze, barrel lifting.
Another step answers you—closer this time. Too close for something that size to be subtle.
Your radio crackles once. Dead.
A shadow stretches across the end of the aisle. Tall. Broad. Hidden behind a nearby wall. Wrapped in something pale that drinks in the green emergency lighting. The thing steps forward, and the floor groans under his weight.
You fire. The shotgun blast tears through shelves and paper, but the figure doesn’t fall. Doesn’t even stagger. Instead, you’re met with silence.
“FBI Agent Hour.” Azrael says calmly, voice grinding through the dust. The wall beside you explodes inward as his fist punches through it, bricks screeching as they scatter. You barely roll aside in time. He steps through the hole he just made, shoulders brushing falling debris like it’s nothing.
Bandages. Scars. A mouth twisted into something almost pleased.
“You killed the others,” he continues, stepping closer. “That makes this personal.”
You rack another shell, backing away, shelves collapsing behind you as he advances without hurry.
The lights flicker and somewhere in the depths of the library, Rorth laughs—this was going to be his most successful creation yet.
1317
Azrael
You’re an agent sent to clear out a building of monsters