Cloak and Dagger: Night and Day

By Amadeus Jo

Tandy awoke in a fright to a loud howl. No matter how many times she heard that howl it would never be something she would come to accept. She peered across the abandon warehouse to see Tyrone bent over in pain. It was the hunger. Tyrone's gift and curse, the source of his power, ached to feed. She worried that her partner one day would not be able to fight this ungodly addiction for people's inner light and that she would not always be there to save him from the beast that lay caged within. She placed her hand on Tyrone's back and unleashed a blinding light that filled the vacant setting. Tyrone's cloak quickly eclipsed the light into the void that lay in his abdomen as he gasped in ecstasy . He looked over at Tandy with a look of embarrassment

"Sorry Tandy I didn't mean to wake you. I will try to be quieter next time the pain comes again." He sulked of to the large window at the top of the complex and peered out the window. His cloak fluttered around him thrashing about consuming the rays of the moon. Tandy looked up at her friend and companion feeling a bit of regret. She was responsible in some small way for Tyrone's curse. This sickness that controlled his life and would make it impossible for them to ever lead anything close to a normal life. She climbed atop the building with Tyrone and laid her head on his shoulder. She gently caressed his faced and whispered to him. "Ty we've been together for so long and I know that the Dark form has your soul but it does not have your spirit and I will always be here to help you through that pain. You are the Ying to my Yang and the fates brought us together. You need not carry this burden alone my friend, for it is my burden too."

Cloak looked over at Dagger with relief and kissed her on the forehead. The two gazed at the city with a certain bit of hopelessness filling there minds with memories of days past before that fateful night they were taken and given those drugs that activated there mutant powers. The silence was broken by a loud scream. Dagger looked down on the street and seen a young girl running and desperately screaming for help. In new York City such cries usually fall on deaf ears but not this night. Dagger walked into Tyrone's Cloak and the two vanished into the dark dimension for a breif moment and were on the street just a few feet from the girl. Dagger walked towards the girl who ran into her arms. Before Tandy could ask the girl what was wrong she seen a colllection of shadowy figures walking out from the darkness. They loomed closer to the girl screaming out in a language that was unfamiliar to Dagger. She pushed the girl behind her and summoned blades of light to her finger tips. She brought them close to her face and took aim. She yelled to the men. "What business do you have with this little girl? Answer me or I'll be force to disable you!"

They laughed and began to pull out guns and knives. Dagger let the projectiles fly from her hands. Three men fell when the daggers pierced there bodies. The other thugs looked over in shock and began to fire at Tandy. She acted quickly and picked up the little girl and ran towards Cloak, but to her surprise he was not behind her! She panicked and turned around to see cloak standing where the men once stood. His head was tilted back and he had a sinister smile on his face. She put the little girl down and ran towards Tyrone screaming, "LET THEM GO TY! LET 'EM GO!" He snapped from his trance and released the three remaining men who laid shivering with looks of horror on there face. She placed her hands on them and a bright light shot from her hands. She healed them and left them unconscious. She grabbed Tyrone and asked him if he was okay he nodded yes and followed Tandy towards the little girl. She was crouched on the street shivering in fear of these two strangers who saved her life.

Tandy gave her a warm smile and asked the girl what had happen. She looked up at Dagger and then simply hugged her. Tandy smiled and embraced her and led her to the warehouse and laid her down on there blanket. Tyrone stood in the corner at Daggers request cause Tandy thought the girl feared him and that it was best for him to keep watch incase more trouble were to follow. She laid on the blanket with the little girl and rubbed her back and asked her what her name was? She looked up at Tandy and mumbled, "Suzie".

"That's a very nice name suzie. Where is your mommy at?" Tandy asked kindly.

The liitle girl looked up at tandy and began to cry. She sobbed and managed to get out the words. "they …(sob)..took her.." Tandy asked her where and she said with tears in her eyes.

"To Mr. Fisks house…" Tandy knew that name to well and feared what could be happening to poor Suzie's mother. What had they wanted with her mother? How did suzie escaped? And who could she turn to to find out?

Dagger turned to Cloak and looked at him with concern. They had dealt with Wilson Fisk before on many an occasion. The Kingpin of crime was one of their greater adversaries and was responsible for a lot of the drugs that streamed through the city. She laid Suzie down and went to Cloak who stood guard in the doorway of the warehouse.

"Tyrone we have to help this little girl. If the kingpin is involved this could not only be our chance to slow the drug trafficking in New York but I chance to help this little girl. I know what its like to grow up without a family and we our obligated to help her Ty." Cloak took a deep breath and sighed. This felt like it was way over there heads. Like it was definitely something Cap or Heroes for Hire would tackle but he couldn't resist Tandy's blue eyes he had always sworn to stand by her in any endeavor and he was looking to stick to his word.

"where do we need to go?" He asked. She walked into his embrace and said Fisk Industries. Darkness enveloped her as Ty transported them across time and space to the rooftop of Fisk industries. Cloak kept them intangible as to not set of the pressure censors. Tandy flipped from his cloak and unleashed a barrage of light daggers that accurately at the security cameras. Cloak stalked behind her as she made her way to the rooftop door. Dagger had no idea where she was going or what she was looking for but she had a feeling in her that she knew where she was going. She grabbed on to cloak and told him to go down 5 floors. They phased through the staircase and stood at the doorway of the 51st floor. Cloak phased them through the door way where they stood and they were greeted by a barrage of bullets cloak strained to keep them intangible as Dagger unleashed a furry projectiles as soldiers fell left and right

"I can't hold on much longer Tandy!" Tyrone screamed. "the hunger…" Cloaks eyes blacked over and he wildly attacked the remaining soldiers. They fell into his embrace and were consumed. Cloak roared and began to talk in demonic tones. His eyes turned red and he grinned as he rabidly attacked solider after solider. Dagger acted quickly and jumped into Tyrone's Cloak. She unleashed all the light in her body to calm Cloak. The room floods with light as Tandy passed out from exhaustion. Cloak's eyes returned to normal and he looked down at Tandy he went to pick her up but before he could lift her he felt a prick in his neck. He reached to his neck and felt a dart lodged in his neck. His vision went blurry and he fell to the floor.