Magee, Volume 1: Knight From Hell Read online

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  The area that surrounded Rush Street on Chicago’s north side had been known for its back room gambling joints and pretty dice girls. One of those dice girls, Janet Givens, was just getting off while most of the city still slept. The sun had just crested on the horizon as she decided to head over to Jimmy’s Diner for coffee and breakfast. She decided to cut through an alleyway to shorten the walk. She was halfway through when the sound of a deep throated laugh, distinctly female, seemed to pour from every corner at once. She hastened her pace, eying the exit that was in view.

  The sharp pain of what felt like talons digging in to her shoulder made her scream out as she was spun around and whipped to the ground like some child’s rag doll. She stared up to see a woman of sorts, but with glowing eyes and bat like wings. The creature licked its lips and a devilish smile formed. Janet attempted to scream but a hand quickly gripped her throat, nearly crushing her windpipe and squelching any sounds that might have escaped. Janet felt the cold steel thrust up and into her heart. She watched with her dimming sight as a strange glowing mist seemed to seep from her mouth and be sucked in by the dark creature that held her. It would be the last sight she would see as her life flowed out of her body.

  The creature stood over the now lifeless body with a smile, but then the smile fell away as the creature turned quickly and looked to a ledge on a nearby building where a stone gargoyle sat perched watching over the city. The creature hissed and the bat like wings spread open as she took to the air and rushed toward the statue. She smiled as she realized it was an hour till midnight and the gargoyle would be helpless. She hung in mid air and stared at the gargoyle with lips parted in to a smile before sending the statue hurdling toward the street below, where it smashed in to several pieces. The creature took to the air then, a loud and hideous laugh echoing through the night air.