Roy's Day Off

[Roy (Defiance)]

Chapter 29
Day Off

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“Ice Cream! Ice Cream! I'm going to get some Ice Cream! Ice Cream! Ice Cream! I'm going to get some Ice Cream!”

The young girl was excited, she hop up and down the street swinging her arms side to side as she chanted her merry little tone. She lead the way towards the ice cream shop as her father trailed behind her in a depressive manner. Her father was rather young man with soft features. The man was quite tall with a lean body, his hair tattered white that ran down the back of his neck and ended just short a few inches from his earlobe. His attire for today was his steel combat boots, with loose fitted blue jeans and a red t-shirt. He wore a brown bomber jacket with dog tags hanging from his neck. This wasn't his normal attire of choice, he normally was seen wearing a mask that covered the upper portion of his face, but today he wanted to dress differently for his day off.

He trailed behind his daughter trying to keep his distance from the young girl as she hop about singing her little chant. He couldn't help feel a bit deceived about the situation he was in and how he got into it, but he remember the situation all to clearly. The two were wonder around the shopping district when he lost track of his little girl in the crowd of people. After a few minute of panicking as he searched for her, he eventually found her in a pet store gathering all the kittens she can hold and began pleading with her father to buy them when he walked into the store. Growing up the man never liked cat all that much and was a bit firm with her when he told 'no' and to put them back where she got them from. The young girl then became teary eyed as she gazed up to her father, her puppy dog look almost broke the man's resolve and almost cave in on the idea for a kitten. But with quick thinking the man quickly suggested to think of the matter as they go get Ice cream. This sent his daughter in a frenzy as she began to scream in delight on the idea of ice cream.

That was the event that brought them here to the Ice cream shop. The man sighed beneath his breath as he caught up to his daughter and watched her be star stuck as her blue eyes lit up at the hundred 's of different flavors of ice cream before.

“Daddy!” She cried out, “I want them all!”

The man chuckled to himself as he watched his daughter hop around again like a rabbit, “Claire.” He called out to her in a sweet voice, “You can only have one flavor. Too much sweets and you need to see the dentist and you don't want that right?” Claire seem to pout a bit as she kicked the floor beneath her feet. She didn't like the dentist or even hospitals. Her fear of doctors devloped when she was younger, when she would go visit her grandmother in the hospital. She loved her grandmother with all her heart, but hated that fact she was always sick and after so many years of watching her grandmother stay in the hospital and being experimented on. Her fear for them began to develop.

“Claire,” He spoke out, “What flavor do you want?” The girl stood there a minute in silence as she looked up and down the menu to find the perfect delight she wanted.

“I want strawberry ice cream, with lots and lots of strawberries!” He smile in agreement and order two strawberry sundae’s, one with extra strawberries. Patiently waiting he watched his daughter hop up and down yet again in anticipation for her treat. After a few minutes the two received there sundaes and headed towards a table outside the ice cream parlor.

“Daddy, why aren't you wearing your mask today?” The young girl asked bluntly before digging in to her sundae.

He smiled briefly before drifting off into his own little world, “Well you see princess I decided to take the day off and in order to move so freely about the streets I had to remove any indications of who I am or else me and you won't enjoy a beautiful day as this.”

Claire listen with a spoon full of ice cream in her mouth, she then began to ponder on what he said and spoke once again when she went to go dig for another scoop of ice cream. “But wouldn't people know who you are quicker when you took off your mask?”

“Not really princess. Only a handful of people actually know what my face actually looks like. I've been wearing that mask since I was your age.” She listen carefully as she ate more of her ice cream, making sure she didn't eat the biggest strawberry till last.

“So nobody knows who that your you when you take off your mask, like an super hero but backwards?” He smiled and nodded as he ate his own ice cream now. “So nobody knows daddy is a Roy Hyoushi Shinobi hunter?”

“No. As far as they know. I'm Roy Valentine Super Dad.”

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[Roy (Defiance)]

A sense of joy came over the man as he watched his daughter enjoy her ice cream. It was moment like these that were very special to him, and it was something he cherished dearly. As Claire finished off the remains of her delicious delight, her fathers eyes began to wonder over to the crowd of people passing by the ice cream stand. She couldn't help to notice her father was enjoying himself, she couldn't help but to laugh at the calm look upon his face. This brought his gaze back towards his daughter smiling warming at her charm. Before the man could speak to his daughter about parting the ice cream parlor, his attention was suddenly drawn to a group of girls who passed by there table. The man couldn't help but to look at the group of girls who wore exposing outfits as they did, his eyes drawn towards there lushes legs. Claire sighed to herself at her fathers perverted actions, she grew normal to such antics. As her father's attention was drawn to the young women she returned to her ice cream to finish off the strawberry she saved for last.

Roy eventually snapped back to reality as the group of girls turned around the corner and out of his sights. His attention then turned towards the seat in front of him that was now vacant. He gaze the empty chair a warm smile waiting for its reply to leave the ice cream stand. The streets of the city that once was filled with the laughter and talking of the crowd as they passed down the walkway, were now filled with screams of terror and astonishment. Being oblivious to his surrounds Roy lazily leaned back into his seat to stare into the sky, he watched a huge figure sweep through the streets ahead of him carrying something. It took him a second for his eyes to adjust and when they finally did he was able to make out the figure flying through the streets. It was a creature of legend a 'Gryphon', and the thing that was trapped in its mighty talons was Claire.

“Huh,” The man uttered as he watched the creature get further away, “That gryphon is flying away with my daughter.” In a clam collective tone. He then turned his attention back towards his ice cream where he gather a spoon full of ice cream. Once placing the spoonful of ice cream in his mouth, his eyes fall back onto the chair his daughter once occupied. It took him a few seconds to figure out what had happen, even when people were shouting at the man to tell him that creature took his daughter. When roy suddenly realized what had happen, he leaped from his chair looking back and forth between the gryphon who was flying away and his daughter empty chair.

“Ah! That gryphon is flying away with my daughter!” Wasting no time the man flipped the table over and took off down the street yelling at the top of his lungs, “Don't worry princess! Daddy's a coming!”

Claire was calm when the gryphon snatched her. The creature manage to grab his talons around his the girls arms causing no harm to her. She didn't scream when the gryphon took her away. She instead continued to eat her strawberry till it was gone, once the strawberry was gone she gazed up at the creature and frown at her misfortune, “Hey big bird!” Calling out to the creature with no fear, “You made a bad mistake, when my daddy catches you he is going to make into a big bucket of chicken wings”

The gryphon cocked his head to the side to gaze down at his prey. It seemed the creature understood what she was talking about since he turned his head to notice the man he had snatched her from was gaining on them with incredible speed. Trying to avoid a confrontation with the man the gryphon picked up its speed, in attempts to escape the city.

Roy sprinted with all of his might to catch up to the gryphon, but today was was feeling extremely weaken and he didn't know why. Normally, the man would have caught up to the creature and already pulled its wings out, but something was off today, “Damn you! You did this too me didn't you! I swear to god when I get my hands on you I will brake every single one of your fingers!” The man screamed as he gazed up into the sky. He seemed to be delirious now and unaware of his surroundings which would prove to be fatal.

“Don't make things up you psychopathy. I'm not delirious...Wait what do you mean fatal?” At that moment a fruit stand appeared in front of the man blocking his path. Roy screamed in horror as he yelled for the man pushing the cart to get out the way, but his screams were unheard. Instead, Roy tried to go around the man but ended up knocking him over. Both men laid on the ground a bit stunned, the fruit cart began to roll away from the two and into a china shop. The merchant screamed desperately trying to stop the cart, after roy recovered from his sudden daze he join the man trying to scramble to grab the cart. However, there attempts failed as the cart gained speed and was heading straight for the china shop. Everyone scrambled out the carts way and out of the building. Roy and the shop cart owner looked at each other in horror before scrambling to there feet.

Roy continued to pursue the gryphon but couldn't help but to look back. Once he looked back, he saw the fruit cart crash into the china shop which caused a great explosion. The shop was set to flames, while fruit and chinaware were sent raining down the street, “How is that possible!” Roy screamed at the top of his lungs as he tried to avoid being hit by the flying debris.

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[Roy (Defiance)]

Roy was covered in a assorted array of fruits, his hair was caked in watermelon which he delightfully enjoy eating while chasing the gryphon that took his beloved daughter. He was only a few yards behind the creature when he finally caught sight of it, the gryphon maneuvered through out the city streets making no attempts to leave the area. It was strange, the creature flew through the city as if it was heading somewhere. This made Roy a bit nervous on its intentions. Still such ideal thoughts had to be shaken aside for now, the gryphon still had his daughter in its clutches and he was hellbent to get her back before stopping to ask questions.

He followed the gryphon for a few more minutes before the gryphon lifted higher to the sky to take residents on a building not too far away from there location at the ice cream shop. It seemed the gryphon was maneuvering through out the streets in attempts to elude his precursor, but eventually gave up. When the gryphon finally landed on the building, Roy rushed towards the base of the building leaping upon the side like a spider. He began to crawl up the side of the building on all fours, running side to side in a evasive maneuver to dodge invisible obstacles.

Roy eventually made his away to the top of the building gasping for air as he seemed to be exhausted, such a feat would have never normally tired out roy, but something was defiantly wrong with the man today. Something he couldn't place his finger on. Roy finally climbed over the edge of the building to find his daughter standing there in the center of the roof alone. Climbing to his feet exhausted carefully made his way to his daughter.

“Princess are you alright!” Calling to her a bit winded, “Where is that damn oversize chicken with wings? Is he hiding? Is he making your cupcakes? What has he done to you!?” Roy yelled out frantically has he made his way to his daughter.

Claire watched her father panic as he made his way towards her, she could only simply shake her had to disclaim her fathers fears, “He didn't do anything to me, he just dropped me down on the roof and flew away and I think he told me he would be back.”

“Wait.... The gryphon talked to you?”He was a bit stunned at his daughters last comment about the gryphon, when she nodded her head to confirm his question. A dreadful sense came over the man, he knew of someone that posses a talking gryphon but wasn't sure if that creature was his, “Claire we need to leave right now!” His words harbored a sense of fear behind them. As Roy reached for his daughter's hand to usher her away from the rooftop, the access door for the roof open with someone standing in the frame of the door.

“Leaving so soon?” The man spoke emerging from the darkness of the doorway. Roy quickly stepped in front of Claire pushing her back behind him, “Don't you want to give your brother a hug?” The man had an accent of an Englishmen speaking with a refine manner. Roy shiver at the sight of the man and Claire was speechless at the sudden arrival of the man, despite the man having an accent he sound almost just like her father, but was really shocked the young girl was the fact the man did look like her father.

The man who seemed to be roy's counterpart was wearing a custom black suit made from fine materials with a white handkerchief displayed in his left breast pocket on his jacket. His accessory he wore were meant to compliment his suit, a black fodora with a strap back around the base of the hat and a black cane with a silver fist on the handle . Despite the mans sense of fashion, there was no doubt in young Claire's mind this man could have been her fathers double.

“It's been a long time Roy.” The man said, tipping his hat towards him.

“I thought you were dead....Fancy Roy.”Roy spat out with utter distaste for the man that stood before him. Claire glanced up to her father when she spoke, she was a bit confused on what was going on, especially the other man's name 'Fancy Roy'

“Yes, you are quite right old chap.” The one known as Fancy Roy said, “I should have died on that bridge in moon country. There was something that you and Tensai forgot to check before you tossed me over the side of the bridge.” The man smiled as he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a silver spoon, “You forgot to take my Fancy Spoon.”

“Of Course!” Roy shouted a bit surprised, “Always take the man's spoon before killing them, especial against someone like you.” Roy watched the other one return his Fancy Spoon back into his coat pocket. Roy inched his way closer to his daughter to make sure she was shielded from the man. The last time Roy encountered this man he almost lost his life. It it wasn't for Tensai, he would have died that day on the bridge, “Why are you here Fancy Roy. The doctor is dead there is no reason for you to continue on with his plans!'

“Quite, the doctor maybe dead. However I have plans of my own now.” Roy watched the man's movements carefully as he began to approach him, “In my defeat you manage to kill the doctor. Without his guidance in my life I felt a bit lost with no purpose, till I had a brilliant idea when making tea and crumpets. I was created to be better then you in every way, but still you defeated me. That when the idea hit me, in order to be better then you I have to be you. So I've decided to kill you this time and take your role as Roy Hyoushi Shinobi Hunter of Sound and Father.” The man pointed dramatically at Claire behind him.

Claire shrank back behind her father, Roy clinched his fist in anger and Fancy Roy drank his tea with pinky up.

“You think I would let you take my princess away from me?” Roy uttered with rage, “Not on the hair on my perfect chine chin chin!” Roy screamed with furry before lashing an assault on Fancy Roy. Roy launched himself forwards with a sudden kick to to the face, with his movements unknowingly sluggish at the moment. Fancy Roy was able to block his attack with his cane with ease, even when roy tried to come again with his opposite foot with a round house kick, Fancy Roy was already on the guard to counter his attack with a sudden withdrawal of his cane from the previous attack and lunch it forwards to the man's sternum

Roy was sent crashing to the ground gasping for air as Fancy Roy smiled with joy. Claire one the other hand was shocked, this was the first time someone other then 'Ma' (Roy's Mother) could beat her fathers speed. She watched in horror as her father rose to his feat to lash out at the man again, only to be countered every time. Something was defiantly wrong with him today.

“Claire!” Roy cried out as raised back to his feet once again, “Run! Get far away from here!” She hesitated at first, till he called out to her name again, ordering her to run. She tried to run towards the doors that Fancy Roy had came from, but was blocked by the man's sudden appearance infront of her. His speed was equal to that of her fathers.

“Ah! Fancy Daddy!” She leaped backwards to escape his grasp.

“Don't fret my darling buttercup. Soon we will leave this place and you'll be in boarder school learning how to be a proper lady.” Fancy Roy had an eery smile that spread from ear to ear.

“The hell she will you Englishman prick muffin!” Such a comment threw the man off as his attention was shot towards Roy charging at him, “Flying Dad Bomb!” Roy screamed as he tackled the man to the floor. After his successful hit, Roy quickly rolled off the other man standing in a battle stance waiting for him to come at him. An attempt to buy his daughter time to escape.

“Nice move. I'll make sure to take it for myself when your dead. Maybe call it Fancy Daddy Bomb.” The man stated as he rose back to his feet.

“Stop stealing my attacks you biscuit muncher! “ Roy shouted, but his comment was suddenly silence when the man shunshin behind him striking him down with his cane, “It's a shame Roy, I thought you would have put up more of a fight then this. I suppose the years have made you soft. What a shame.”

Claire watched in horror as the man started to beat her father with his cane. She didn't understand, her father was the best shinobi hunter in sound. He had no equal in the battlefield, She has seen her father take on drunken retarded ninja monkeys and come out of it un-harm. How could a cheap fancy imitation of him be more then a match for him. That when she suddenly remember what she asked her father at the ice cream parlor, ”“So nobody knows who you are when you take off your mask, like an super hero but backwards?” She felt ashamed and stupid for asking her father for a carefree day with nobody bugging them about village problems. If she didn't do that her father would have never taken off his mask. That when she remember her father had placed his mask in his purse.

“Where is daddy’s purse!” She cried out looking frantically for it.

“It's not a purse! It's a satchel! It's very manly!” Roy cried out before being stuck in the knee cap from the other mans cane, “Why! Why is it always my knee caps! Oh god!”

She couldn't find the purse anywhere on the roof, that's when she made her way to the edge of the roof to look for her fathers belongings. She scanned the city streets to look for it and finally found it by a china shop that was on fire. Why was her father's purse way over there, she didn't have the foggiest of clues. But she knew she needed to get her fathers mask before it was too late, “How am I suppose to get it from way up here?” She looked back at her father watching him for a moment as he struggled to block the mans vicious attacks. “What would daddy do?”

At that moment the young girl took a deep breath as she stared down at the city streets below, “I'm going for a marshmallow ride!” Both men stopped there attacks to watch the young girl leap off the side of the building. Both of them stared blankly at the side of the roof and then at each other.

“I think she jumped.”
“Likewise.”

“WHAT FLUX!” Both men shouted as they rushed to the edge of the roof, pushing each other out another way. They both arrived at the edge of the building to look down and see that young Claire was sliding down the building as if she was surfing. Since she was a four years old Roy started to train her in ninjutsu, he never knew how far she had progress since she never tested her. But today, he had a good idea how far she had gotten, “that's my girl.”

“Gryphon-ox! Get that girl!” At that moment his gryphon appeared from the skies, dive bombing towards the girl in attempts to capture her again.

“Wait! You named it Gryphon-ox. That is a stupid name, I would have named him Steve. Steve is a bad ass name, nobody messes with Steve, not even Steve.” Fancy Roy glared at him for a moment before punching him in the face for such a silly remark, “Ah! My face!”

Claire was half way down the building when she heard the creature cry out, she turned around in time to see the gryphon closing in on her, “Ah! Steve!” She cried out, just before leaping into the air to avoid his first attempts to capture her. She manage to leap across to another building. There she watched the gryphon fly back to the sky to try another fly by to capture her. She wasted no time moving again, she didn't want to stay in one place too long. She made her way quickly along the roofs of the buildings tot he china shop and every time the gryphon came close to her, she leaped into the alley ways between the buildings to escape his talons. It took her a few minutes to get to the china shop where she saw people trying to put out the flames of the building. In the mist of the crowd was a pink purse covered in bedazzle jewels. She never understood why her father covered his purse in those things, but it made him happy and she never wanted to question it.

Leaping down from the roof she quickly made her way to the purse, kneeling down before the purse she began to rummage through the contains of the bag. She pulled out a large array of items from the bag, sake bottles, a clown mask, unicycle, pogo stick, a half naked picture of the otokage and a rubber chicken. Claire began to get a bit frustrated with the items her father carried. As she continued to dig through the bad, she failed to notice the gryphons approach. When the gryphon was about the snatch the girl in his claws, her hands slipped when she was looking into her fathers bag which resulted in her falling into her daddy's purse disappearing from sight. The gryphon unaware he had snatched the purse that carried the girl began to fly back to his master with haste. When he was close enough to the tower his master was fighting on he noticed something was amiss with his prize. Looking down at his claws he only saw the pink purse, unaware of the girls presence inside it.

The gryphon grew a bit agitated and dropped the bag at the base of the building to fly back to the china shop to look for the girl. After dropping the bag the Claire emerged from the bag a bit dazed and unaware what had happen. It took her a moment to realize she was back at the building her dad was fighting at. She went back to her search to find her fathers mask, but before she reached her hand into the bag she felt her face was a bit heavy. She reached up to her face to discover she was wearing Roy's mask, “How did this get on my face?”

Meanwhile after Claire's Departure.

“You mustache is stupid!” Roy cried out as he headbutted the man to escape his grapple. The sudden blow from Roy's comment stun the man more then the headbutt.

“My mustache is not stupid! It's the sign of a true gentleman!” Fancy Roy Shunshin behind the man quickly striking him in the joints of his arms and legs. Roy screamed in pain as he dropped to his knees with his arms falling to his side dropping his defense. Roy was beaten and bruised. His chances to defeat his opponent where slowly fading away.

“Why,”Roy gasped out, “Why do you want to be me so bad? Why can't you live your own life?”

“Why you ask?” Fancy Roy muttered as he placed his cane underneath his armpit, “It's because I was made to be you, a perfect you. Beside, why should a twit like you have everything and a perfect gentleman like me have nothing. You have a family who loves you and a nation that adores you. How can someone like you be more special then me. Someone who was made to be perfect.”

“You know for someone who clams to be perfect you seemed pretty jacked up in the head. Did the doctor drop you on your head too? Cause I know mine did and I can't remember anything after my 25 seconds of being born.” Fancy Roy quickly withdrew his cane from his armpit and strike roy in the head with it, “AH! God yes that is how it felt before I lost my memories.....Who are you again?”

“Well old chap It's been fun, but it's time to say goodbye.” He said with a smile on his face.

“You said a ride? I love rides! Can we go on this marshmallow ride I heard about, I heard it was really fun and I woul....eh” His insane babbling was cut off when the other man picked him up by the throat and started to walk him towards the edge of the building. Roy's limbs were still in pain from the the man's previous assault to them which made it hard for him to raise them in defense. Fancy Roy placed the man over the edge of the building ready to drop him from the building.

“Any last words my brother?”

“Yes....Pull my finger.” Roy said with a meek smile upon his face.

“A gentleman never pulls another mans finger.” With his free hand he quickly trusted the tip of his cane into the mans chest lunching him from his grasp and towards the streets below. Roy gasped in pain as his body began to free fall, his arms still in pain to grasp out to the edge of the building to catch himself.

Claire removed the mask from her face to gaze upon it with a smile, with her attention on her fathers mask she completely forgot about the fight onto of the tower. Until, a woman screamed in horror when she saw a man being thrown from the building. Claire attention then shot towards the sky where she saw her father free falling, “Daddy No!” she cried out, without hesitation the young girl bolted up the side of the building, rushing towards her father in attempts to catch him. Claire ran as fast as her legs could take her up the building, when she was half way up the building she leaped to catch her father passing by. With arms fully extending and the mask in his left hand she grew closer to her father. Claire was about to wrap her arms around her father when she felt herself being yanked back by her right leg. The gryphon finally found her and caught hold of her finally.

“Daddy no!” She desperately reached out to her father trying to catching him and at that instant in frustration she through the mask at her fathers face to force him to open his eyes, “Wake up Daddy! WAKE UP~”

Claire could only watch in horror as she was taking away from her father who kept falling to the ground, his mask was close in hand by Roy didn't open his eyes. He simply kept falling with a smile on his face till he finally crashed into the ground. The ground shook, not from the impact of the man only, but also from the weights he wore from his training. This caused a cloud of dust to appear where the man dropped.

People screamed in horror, Fancy Roy laughed in victory and Claire cried for her father.

"Nobody makes princess cry"

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[Roy (Defiance)]

A child's voice cried out through the veil of darkness trying to grab the attention of the person lost in it's cold embrace. Still, no matter how loud the child cried out the person was still lost, his sense of direction gone. He could no longer distinguish what was up or down, he drifted through the sea of darkness alone, further away from the child crying out to him. His mind was an empty void, deluded of any rational thought. A sense of bliss came across the man as he drifted away in this sea of darkness that threaten to consume him. As he drifted further and further away from the child crying out to him, he began to submerge in the black sea, sinking to the depths of its cold embrace. As the man sank deeper into the pit of darkness. His mind began to revive itself, pondering on the word the child was crying out, “Daddy.”

That when a sense of warmth came over him, rushing over his body almost threatening to take over the man's body. He winced back at first, before finally accepting the sudden surge. As the man drifted further down into the darkness, a light emerged from it's depth slowly growing in strength, drawing the man into it. No longer was the man being pulled down into the darkness, but was being pulled up towards the light that called for him. In the light he was being pulled into was a stained glassed window, rather large for its size and was source of the light. The stained glass window was shattered though into three separate pieces. The story the stained window once told was unreadable, to damaged by the three cracks to tell what the images it once pretreated were.

The man finally reached the center of the stained glass, his eyes still tightly closed, unaware of his surroundings and his mind still racing to figure out who the child was calling out. The words raced through his mind, “Daddy, Daddy.” who was this child calling out for. The man was unaware of the extra voices calling out within his mind, four voice sound eerily similar to his own, were repeating the child's words “Daddy.”

“Daddy please don't die!” The man's eyes finally open to find himself shaking a dark haired man who was horribly injured. Tear's sting the man voice as he fanatically shook the man, pleading with him to open his eyes, to give him a sign that he was still alive. He quickly look around to find anyone who could help him, but all around him were faceless people statues. Finding no help from the lifeless statues he returned his attention back to the man, who he found to be staring up at him now.

“Daddy,” The words escaped his lips without his control, “Please don't die.” The man finally noticed his own hands, they were small and frail. Hand's of a child. That when it finally hit him, the child crying out to the darkness. It was him and the man that laid before him was his.....

“Please don't leave me!” Tear's rushed down the child's face now as he watched his father on the floor slowly gasp for air. He would have wiped them from his face, by he was scared, he felt if he took his eyes off his father he would vanish before his eyes, “Please don't die. I'll be a good boy from now on. I'll listen to you from now on, I won't run away again. Please, just please don't leave me.”

His father smiled at him as he placed a firm hand on his face wiping away the tears the ran down his check, “You are a good boy my son. No father could be as proud as I am.” The child stop cried as his father words cut his tears dry. The child clasped on to his fathers hand afraid that it would let go of his face.

“I have something for you. A present I wanted to give to you when you were a little older, but this seems like the right time.” The man reached into his bag with his other hand, drawing out a broken mask, “It was damaged in the fight, but I still want you to have it.” The child released his hands from his fathers and grasped onto the mask his father presented, the lower half of the mask was missing.

“Never forget I love you....Roy.” With his last breath he said his goodbyes and Roy was alone.

When the man opened his eyes again he found himself in the center of the stain glass floor, surrounded by three ghostly figures that were lying beside him. He didn't move for a minute, scared if he did he would see the death of his father once again. The man laid there with his ghostly companions for what felt like hours, none of them speak instead they stared up into the black abyss without saying a word.

As the man was about to close his eyes once again, the child's voice called out again, “Daddy.” The man quickly sat up along with his ghostly companions, they listen closely to the darkness to find the voice, minutes passed before the child spoke out once again, “Wake up Daddy.”

“Please....Stop it. Stop haunting me!” The man screamed out. When the man felt like he was about to lose himself to the darkness again, one of the ghostly apparitions moved close to his side and placed a warm hand on his shoulder.

“That is not you. It's another child who cries out for her father.” The man gazed at the apparition, nothing more then a fog to him. Who facial features could not be made, “That child is a little girl who is about to lose her father.”

“Her father? There is no one else here except.....us.” The man eyes widen and he rose to his feet, “I'm Daddy.” With the sudden whisper of those words the darkness around the stain glass floor vanished, washing away into the light. The man gazed down as the stain glass floor lit up shining bright and the figures that once were faded away from the window were renewed.

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