Well, this is my newest story. It is different from anything else I have written, this is short, but I hope good. It is an original idea, not based on any comic that I know if. I hope you enjoy it and let me know what you think.
There is also a casting at the end, so it is not as long as it looks.
A young blonde woman is talking on a pay phone in a diner, she is arguing with the man on the other end of it “Damn it Steve! When are you going to get here?... Don’t Nancy me, I have been here a month looking for a place for us and you are nice and comfortable back at Gotham…you can find a new job, one here. You know what, fine, I’m done, you hear me done.” She slammed the phone on its receiver and took a deep breath.
An attractive woman wearing fishnets, a jacket and a top hat walked across a stage with a wand.
An announcer spoke “Come see the Mistress of Magic herself, at the Hub City auditorium one night only!”
The woman waved the wand in the air and a hand floated from it and wrote her name on the wall as the announcer spoke “Zatanna!”
Nancy looked at a TV showing Zatanna and shook her head, magic, ridiculous. She sat there waiting for the server to wait on her for a few minutes before looking at the clock, she had to leave. She dropped two dollars on the table for the coffee she made herself and walked out into the night.
She walked down the street towards a rough neighborhood, it is a bad area, but it is only temporary, besides, she was a Gotham girl, she can take care of herself.
She walked past an alley when she heard footsteps, she turned and saw no one there. Nancy kept walking towards her destination, she began to hear footsteps again, and turned to see…nothing. She breathed a deep breath and turned back around only to have a large man put a hand over her mouth and hold a knife to her throat.
Nancy tried to scream, but was unable. She struggled and kneed the man in the groin, but he didn’t budge, Nancy was about to abandon hope when she heard a woman call out “Tsohg, esaeler reh!” the man released her and turned to see Zatanna. He snarled inhumanly and prepared to throw the knife when Zatanna cried “Raeppasid!” the man disappeared in a flash of light. Nancy looked up panting as Zatanna rushed over and pulled out a cell phone, she dialed a number and spoke into it “Hey Q, yeah he was here. I got the girl she is safe, we are on the corner of 5th and Vine.”
Zatanna helped Nancy up “Are you alright?”
Nancy nodded “What happened?”
Zatanna looked at her uneasily “Let me wait until my friend gets here.”
Zatanna led Nancy to the corner as she looked around anxiously, Nancy asked “What are you doing?”
Zatanna looked around the corner “Making sure that guy doesn’t surprise us.”
Nancy looked at her confused as she too began looking around at the decaying buildings “I thought you sent him away?”
Before the magician could respond they heard the roar of an engine as a GTO came speeding down the road and screeched to a halt in front of them Zatanna shook her head “Showoff.” She muttered as she adjusted her top hat.
The window of the car rolled down and Nancy cried out in surprise, the man had no face! He wore a dark blue trench coat and matching fedora.
Zatanna chuckled slightly “You make all the girls scream Q?” The man looked at her blankly, literally. Zatanna sighed “Nancy, this is the guy I was telling you about, this is the Question.”
Question nodded “Nancy.” He said flatly. Zatanna opened the back door so Nancy could get in, she herself sat in the front passenger seat.
Question peeled out and sped on down the road. They were silent for a moment before an ever increasingly angry Nancy broke the silence “So what happened back there? Is someone going to tell me? I just had a guy attack me and then disappear in a flash of light. Who was he?”
Zatanna looked at Question who sighed “A dead man. Literally. He is the ghost of a serial rapist and murderer. Exactly seven years ago he kidnapped a young girl who had just moved to the city looking for a home. He grabbed her while she was walking home, took her back to his hideout and raped her. The body was found three days later, still in the man’s apartment. She had been cut in several places, and slowly bled to death. But she still managed to slit her attackers throat.”
Nancy held a hand to her mouth “Oh my God… but what does this have to do with me?”
Question looked at Zatanna a moment before continuing “Every year he comes back and kills girls that look like his last victim. He continues killing every blonde he sees that looks like her, until dawn comes.”
“Makes me glad to be a brunette.” Zatanna mumbled under her breath as Question looked at her in what she imagined was a stern look, she flinched a little
“This is hardly the time for jokes. We have less than six hours until dawn and I lose this bastard again.”
Zatanna winced, “Sorry, you’re right Q.”
Question looked at Nancy continuing, “You look just like her, I should know, I’m the one that found her body.”
They were silent for a moment as they sped through the empty streets late at night. Nancy looked absentmindedly at her engagement ring “Say I believe you, and that really was a ghost. How is he coming back, I mean when you die you die, people just don’t become ghosts. How are you two going to stop it?”
Zatanna waved her hand and a strange symbol appeared “This is a holy symbol from a long forgotten culture, our killer had this tattooed over his heart. That is what is holding him here, allowing him to seek vengeance on that which destroyed him. He comes back every year on the anniversary of his death, today. The only way to stop him is for the object of his desire to kill him in the same matter he died originally, with the same weapon.” She turned to Question “Which reminds me, Q, we need to get the murderer’s knife.”
Question reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a long knife “Done. Now get rid of that projection, the glow is making it hard to drive.”
Zatanna waved her hand and the symbol disappeared. She turned to see a confused and suspicious Nancy, “But if he’s a ghost, how can he touch me, and I him?”
Zatanna shrugged “There are countless ways that spirits come to this plane. I know one poor fellow that has to take over the body of a living being, yet others like this ghost can become tangible when they want.”
Nancy looked at them, her skepticism growing “What do you mean the object of his desire has to do it?” They turn to look at Nancy “Whoa, me? I have to kill him?”
Question shrugged and replied in his typical flat monotone voice, “He is already dead.”
Zatanna nodded her head “You aren’t going to like this. But since he is after you, you are going to have to slit his throat with this knife.” Zatanna said as she made the blade lift from her palm and hover in the air.
Nancy shook her head “that’s it, stop the car! I am outta here. You two are nuts, I’m going to the police.” She tried to open the car door only to see that there were no handles in the back.
Question looked at her in the rear view mirror, “I’m sorry Nancy, but we have to see this through until the end, unless he kills more innocents.”
Zatanna turned around in her seat and looked Nancy in the eye “The ghost causing this pain and suffering needs closure. He will kill every blonde he can find until he finds what he is looking for. We have to stop him. Now tonight, before it is too late.”
Nancy sighs and rubs her eyes “Where do we begin?”
Question made a sharp turn and sped down a side street “We already have. He is a creature of habit. His first attack failed so he will head to the red light district. We are almost there.”
They pulled to the corner in a rough part of town and got out of the car and started walking.
They traced his routine path and were rewarded when they heard a scream. They rushed forward and turend a corner to see the killer standing over a screaming blonde hooker, who looked up in terror. Question shouted “HEY!”
The killer turned to look and gave a feral inhuman growl.
Then he saw Nancy. He leapt toward her with alarming and supernatural speed, abandoning all thought of the hooker, who passed out. Nancy screamed in terror as Question tried to give her the knife, she dropped it and ran in terror. Question tried to stop the ghost, but it simply swatted him away, Question flew through the air before crashing through a store window. Nancy screamed in terror as the ghost tackled her to the ground. He turns her over on her back and raises his knife over her, only for Zatanna to blast him into a building with a mystic wall. The Ghost looked at them and disappeared.
Nancy struggled to her feet, relieved to see that she was unharmed. She turned to Zatanna “I am starting to believe you.”
Question limps to them “We need to take a more direct approach. Trap him somewhere he is familiar. Somewhere he won’t be able to resist Nancy. His home.
The Question drives through a derelict part of town, many of the buildings they pass are condemned.
Suddenly they see the face of the killer in the windshield, Question shouts “Zatanna!”
Before she can do anything, the tires on the passenger side are slashed and the car goes spinning out of control, it flips on its side and slam upside down into a condemned building “We’re here.” Question mumbles as he unhooks his seatbelt and falls to the roof of the car.
Zatanna did likewise and fingered a cut on her head “This is why I hate ghosts.” She says looking at Nancy, who hangs upside down, frozen with fear, but otherwise unharmed.
Question pulls her out and they slowly enter the building. The Question tells them that his apartment is on the third floor. They move into the apartment seeing graffiti on the walls, suddenly blood starts pouring from the walls and the floorboards shake.
Zatanna speaks an incantation and says “It is only an illusion, I’ll make sure he can’t do anything, you two finish it!” she shouted as a section of the ceiling started to collapse, she used her powers to hold the debris.
Question rushes up the stairs and kicks in the apartment door only to be tackled to the ground by the killer as it slashes his face with its knife, tearing his mask. As he fell Question tossed the knife to Nancy who barely caught it. Question grabs the ghost and holds it tight.
Question shouts “DO IT!, End this now!”
Nancy- “I can’t!”
Question- “It’s you, it was always you! Face the truth Nancy, put you both out of your misery!”
Nancy looks in confusion as the ghosts throws Question into a wall and rushes towards her. She slashes the knife wildly, catching the killer in the throat. It’s throat sparked and began to glow, its skin took on the texture and look of charred embers as it screamed and unnatural scream and explodes in a flash. Zatanna rushes up the stairs as Nancy sinks to her knees “It’s over?”
Zatanna looks at Question, who shakes his head slightly “It depends on you, do you understand Nancy?”
Nancy starts to cry, “No, I don’t I just want to see my fiancé, I don’t want any of this. I just want to go home.”
Question pulls a death certificate from his jacket and hands it to her as he reads the lines he has memorized by heart “Nancy Ditko, Born April 20, 1983. Moved to Hub city seeking home for her and her new husband Steve. Raped and murdered March 23, 2003.”
Nancy looked at the sheet and screamed as she ripped it up “That’s today!”
Question shook his head “No today is March 23… 2010.”
Nancy looked at him shocked, “It’s not possible!”
Zatanna knelt down beside her “I’m sorry sweetie, but it’s true you saw for yourself, he was only interested in you. Q’s been through this before, he thinks you are what is holding the ghost here.”
Nancy looks up through tear streaked eyes “What?”
Question takes off his fedora and runs a hand through his hair “I’ve been through this twice before, first time thought you were another victim, until they couldn’t find a body. Last year realized you were the original girl, I tried to help you cross over, I’m not an expert in magic, so I failed. I talked to Zatanna, she agrees, you are what is holding him here. His vengeance for you.”
Nancy shakes her head in confusion and looks at Zatanna in terror “It’s not true?”
Zatanna puts her hand to her face and wipes her eyes, “I’m sorry Nancy, it’s true, I can feel it right now, you are a troubled spirit. And he has a hold over you, as long as you are here, he will keep coming back.”
Nancy shakes her head and stands up and walks to the graffiti covered window, “What if you are right, what does it hurt if I do keep coming back?”
Zatanna shook her head “Besides you getting killed every year and not knowing it?”
Question raised his voice in agitation “He kills other blondes. He has killed thirteen so far, not counting you. He kills every year, sometimes multiple times.”
Nancy looks at them “What about Steve, can I see him one last time?”
Zatanna looked at Question questioningly, “Q?”
Question sighed “He is living in the city, you won’t like what you see though.”
Nancy wiped away her tears, “I have to see him, if what you say is true, the last thing I said to him was terrible… I have to… make sure he is happy.”
The drive out to the suburbs, just before dawn. Question pulls what is left of the car to a curb by a peaceful small house. They get out of the car and Question points to a two story home a block down.. Nancy takes a breath and walks down the sidewalk and stops by the white picket fence surrounding the house. She looks in the open window to see Steve walk by adjusting his tie. A woman walks in and kisses him on the mouth affectionately. Nancy sees that they are both wearing wedding rings. Two little girls run in carrying small book bags behind them. Steve swoops down and picks both his girls up in his arms. Nancy smiled sadly “That should’ve been me.” She says as Question and Zatanna walked up behind her. She looks back at Steve one more time and walks towards the car followed by Question and Zatanna as the sun peaked over the tree line and the light hit her.
As she walked closer to the car the light shown through her and she started to fade away, she turned to her companions “He looked happy, didn’t he?”
Zatanna wiped away a tear and nodded “Yeah, he did.”
Nancy smiled and looked at them “Thank you, for everything. See you later…maybe?” she said as she faded away into the light.
Question and Zatanna walked back to the car, as they did Zatanna looked at him “You knew that this would make her let go, didn’t you. It wasn’t her fear or desire to live, it was her love for her husband that kept her here.”
Question did not reply as they got into the car. He started to pull out but stopped; he turned to Zatanna and asked slowly, “Will she have peace?”
Zatanna shrugged and looked out the window at the house again “That is the question that no one can answer Q, even I don’t know. I’d like to think so, she deserves it. After all this, she deserves rest.” Zatanna turned and looked at the Question with sympathy for a moment “And what about you Q? Are you going to be able to rest now that this is all behind you?
Question sat there silently, looking at Zatanna for a moment before pulling away, unsure to the answer to the question himself.
Well, what do you think? I know it is a bit different than what I usually churn out, but I hope you enjoyed it, let me know what you think below.
Now for my cast:
Zatanna- Serinda Swan
Question- Misha Collins
The Ghost killer- Robert Knepper
And for Nancy Ditko- Kristen Bell
Thanks for reading.
Here is a complete list of my Fan Fictions that I have done here on Comicbookmovie.com:
Here is my list of Stories I have written on CBM
DC
Justice League of America Vs the Legion of Doom parts 1-3 (Never finished)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Batman:
Batman3: End of Days
Batman 4 Darkside of the Mind
Batman 5: Shadow of the Bat
Shadow of the Bat: Part 1
Shadow of the Bat Part 2
Batman 6: Knightfall
Batman Knightfall Part 1
Batman Knightfall Part 2
Superman:
Superman: The Man of Steel
Superman: The Last Kryptonian
Other:
Lobo’s Blackest Night, or: Lobo’s Posthumous X-Mas Special
MARVEL:
Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD
Avengers
X Men 4
X-Men 5
Spiderman1
Castings:
I have done numerous casting on this site as well, they are very enjoyable and I put a lot of thought into them.
My Pride and Joys
330 X-Men Characters!
THEHAWK Casts the ENTIRE 108 Members of the Justice League
Casting the New Gods of Apokolips
Flash's Rouges
Batman's Rouges Gallery
Killer Instict
Wonder Woman's friends and foes
The Endless
The Marauders
Secret Six
Deadpool
X-Men 4 Cast
Superman
Thundercats
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