Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Importance Of An Alter-Ego (2): The Start Of Awesome Lady

Claire put both her feet firmly on the ground and looked The Prison Guard in the eyes. Inside, she was trembling and terrified, but she knew better than to show her fear. Her opponent, on the other hand, did not expect much of a struggle from the young woman in front of him and just wanted to make her suffer until The Gentleman of Justice would wake up, just in time to see her die.
Claire looked at her father, lying wounded and unconscious on the roadside, and felt an anger rising inside her which made her do something she would never otherwise have done. She looked up at The Prison Guard's face and yelled: 'You will never touch me or my family again!' The Prison Guard, laughing, shot a bolt of electricity at her and for a moment, Claire was powerless. Then, all of a sudden, she felt stronger than ever before and she hit her enemy with a much stronger bolt. The crowd that had gathered was slightly singed, but The Prison Guard, understandably impervious to electricity, was unhurt. He roared with laughter and sent another bolt Claire's way. And another, and again and again until nothing could be seen but a big ball of smoke.
The crowd, which had moved to a safer place to watch the fight, had no more hopes for the nations most beloved superhero's daughter. But inside the smoke, Claire felt something she had never felt before: with every bolt The Prison Guard sent her way, she became stronger and stronger, until finally, she knew she was stronger than both her father and his arch nemesis put together.
When the smoke had cleared, The Prison Guard's smugness disappeared with it. Before him stood not the 19-year-old student he was so eager to torture, but an amazingly beautiful yet frightening young woman. Her entire body glowed with energy, and from her eyes shone a terrifying light. The Prison Guard, realising his mistake but unwilling to admit it, tried to attack her but he was stopped by a kick in the stomach which sent him flying through the air. Claire, able to fly much faster than her enemy could fall, was waiting for him when he landed and launched into a clobbering the likes of which The Prison Guard had never been subjected to.
Completely exhausted, The Prison Guard tried a final time to gather up some energy to electrocute his adversary, but Claire simply waited for him to charge up and then threw him into the newly erected monumental fountain that was the pride of her hometown. The Prison Guard, unable to rid himself of the charge he had meant to kill Claire with, short-circuited and died.
Claire collapsed and was caught by her father, who had woken up just in time to see his arch nemesis die. As The Gentleman of Justice took his exhausted daughter in his arms and flew her to safety, the crowd let out a deafening cheer. 'Wow,' said one of the onlookers, 'the daughter of The Gentleman of Justice really is one Awesome Lady.'

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let me tell you again that i love how you write this. I really enjoyed seeing the genesis of Awsome Lady's name, and her sort of passage into adulthood. Good for her!

The line "The crowd that had gathered was slightly singed" made me laugh. brilliant image of aslightly dopey crowd looking all frazzled

More please!

Lizzy
-x-

Anonymous said...

Hoi Mees,

kan je misschien een doorklikding knutselen, ik moest zo zoeken naar deel 1 met de Rubbish Man in de Rubbish Van.

En wat moet de Gentleman nu zonder arch enemy?

Queen Mushroom said...

More is so still to come, actually this series is far from over - so you will all be getting sick of it when I'm done!