sayshazam | (no subject)

Billy wasn't really a "terror that lurks in the night" sort of superhero. He was more a "friendly neighborhood" kind of guy. The fact that his costume was bright red, white, and gold with a glowing lightning bolt kind of made any lurking that much more difficult even if he wanted to. But he didn't really want to. Sure there was a time and place for that but he liked being a hope and symbol. Heroes didn't just have to scare bad people, they could inspire good people.

But sometimes they definitely needed to scare bad people. Like vampires. It wasn't like the city was overrun with them or anything and sometimes they were good people. But tonight he was after some that definitely didn't fit the "good vampire" category.

The vampire (or something that acted a lot like a vampire) in question was currently leading a handsome, blond young man with a dazed look on his face down an alley. The creature glanced nervously around- but never looking up- before whistling and two more of his friends came out for snack time. It was like toddlers all rushing to get a juice box.

"Hey guys!" Billy-as-Shazam called out as he floated down to the mouth of the alley closest to the group. "You definitely shouldn't do that! Technically I don't know exactly what you were going to do but it doesn't look good."

"Oh shit," the original vampire said, stepping away from the human.

"Who the fuck are you?" another asked, furrowing her brow at Billy. He kind of liked it when they didn't recognize him. Then they didn't run.

"He's 'get-the-fuck-out-of-here!'" the first vampire said, grabbing the other two and yanking them toward the other end of the alley.

"You don't want to go that way!" he called out after them. "Trust me! That's the scarier way! Like... way scary! I'm the friendly option!"

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If it had been up to Valkyrie, none of those vampires would have even been given the chance to run. Even now, when she heard the footsteps of one of them approaching, she was ever so tempted to just unleash a blast of her magic and take its torso off - but she also knew that Billy would really chew her out for taking the lethal option.

At least he'd given her the perfect opportunity to have a little fun.

"Stay where you are!" she yelled from around the side, and then stepped out, hands and eyes glowing and crackling with energy. "You have two choices here, neckbiters. You either go back the way you came, swear to do no harm to anyone else, and the friendly option will escort you home to make sure you don't have any accidents involving innocent bystanders."

She waited a moment, giving one of them time to ask, "What's the second option?"

At that, she grinned wider, shaped the energy around her left hand into a long lance, and pointed it straight at the one who'd spoken up.

"Choice number two is, you take your chances with me. And if you're lucky, my pal will make sure I leave enough of you left to identify."