Oliver gasps for air as he wakes up in what seems like a street in the middle of starling city, but there is no sky just a ceiling above the buildings with giant overhanging lights nearly sixty feet above the rooftops.
"Wonderful" Oliver says...
"Anybody here"?
No response, as he looks around, he realizes that he's in his green arrow suit complete with his quiver and bow. But he has only three arrows, all his own regular carbon fiber creations. All he remembers, going to sleep in his mansion, then waking up in this place.
"Alright I'm gonna ask this once, WHERE THE HELL AM I???"
A steely voice answers "Your tomb Oliver!"
Standing on one of the buildings is a figure who appears to be made of stone with hooked horns and a devilish face.
"Maybe yours but not mine" Oliver replies.
"Who are you?"
The figure answers "I am a watcher, an observer, and I've been watching you through all your escapades as the Green Arrow, like a gargoyle sitting a top the rooftops".
"Make no mistake, you will die here" as he jumps down from the building toward Green Arrow. He lands with a great thud and says "now come on Oliver try your best"
Oliver knocks an arrow and fires at his center mass
Gargoyle catches the arrow and snaps it in his hands
"Be careful now you only have two left"
Oliver charges at him dealing multiple blows to gargoyles head and body.
He doesn't even flinch and deals a punishing right cross to Oliver's jaw. He hits the ground and mutters "why are you doing this"?
Gargoyle replies "because Oliver I'm showing you that you can't even protect yourself how can you protect the city? I've watched you ever since you were on that island oh you were so pathetic."
"How do you know about the island? That's impossible!"
"Everything is possible Oliver remember that when I break you physically emotionally and mentally"
Then gargoyle picks him up and throws him a clear twenty feet into a storefront window
As Oliver hits the floor he realizes the room is empty
He stands up and lunges through the window but gargoyle is gone and he is alone on the street
"Now listen well" gargoyles ominous voice rings through the empty city
"Those arrows you have are the only ones you're getting one for each year you spent on the island one for each year I watched you strive while I ate your scraps"!
"I dont know what you're talking about you demented bastard!"
"Oh you will Oliver now sleep tight little arrow for tomorrow another fight and another chance for the truth to ring through your spoiled head!"
The overhanging lights start to flicker off until green arrow is standing in total darkness
Oliver says in a harsh tone to the darkness "we'll see about that"
Next: demons and arrows!
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