Anti-Hero

He burst through the doors, guns in the air.
A shot or two just to scare
The defensless children in the room.
A sense of foreboding in the air doth loom.

He puts a gun to her pretty head,
Threatens to make her as good as dead.

Infuriated, I arise. I'm done listening to his lies.
"Be calm, all will live."
"We just want your money, to pay our bills."
He will not hurt my friend.
He will die by avenging hand.

The weapon is trained on me.
He yells, "Sit down you little freak."
I stand taller, black flames licking my feet.
I feel power swirling on the inside.
Dark clouds swirling on the outside of my body

As it turns black
In the mist that has covered me front to back.
I've scared Him.
He fires a bullet.
I deflect it easily with the slightest movement.

When the smoke clears, my eyes are red.
My body is cloaked in a cape.
I'm sheathed in a hood as black as the dead.
I feel a knife on my nape.

Looks like my boy didn't come alone.
I can feel it deep in my bone.
This is the end, but not for me.
It's over for these detestable creeps.

SHUCK!

In an instant I've whirled around.
Planted my feet firmly in the ground.
Driven my hand into the asshole's chest
And ripped his heart from where it rests.

Needless to say, Sub One know's he's screwed.
So he unloads a clip or two
At my body in a blind haste.
The bullets smash into my face.

I'm not hurt, it kinda tickles.
I'm given to fits of giggles
At his futile attempt to save his life.
But he shouldn't have threatened my one friend, right?

FLASH!

His mask is gone, along with all the flesh and bone.
He's a smoldering pile of human debris.
All the helpless children are free.

My work is done, my eyes turn brown.
My cape, disappears. As does the hood on my crown.
I look around- What have I done?
Well, at least I had fun.