Fear and Faith
The Devil lurked in many places and his evil spread. The Devil does not kill; he tempts and causes all the world’s ills. Take a look at the Bible, at the Book of Job. He tempts and takes the opposite role to God. His full role is not known but he will drag your soul to Hell. He will find you and take you.
What deal with God he has enacted can only be guessed at. The Devil has taken human form this time and hunts criminals like dogs on the heels of a fox. He hunts sinners and leaves them for the police, hunts them down for a greater cause.
The stench of sins clings so heavily to Hell’s Kitchen it appears God himself has forsaken the souls of the lost. The Devil could bet that he could coax Hell’s Kitchen’s lost to salvation where God has failed. He bet that they cannot be saved.
That is the leading theory at least for the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen.
Most men would say he is a man but this is age of super heroes, aliens and gods. It is not absurd to realize that among these signs, of heralds of doom, demons have slipped by unforeseen. Demons including the Devil himself in the form or body of a man, the Man in the Mask, AKA Daredevil.
At first men assume he is another man. He is a man taking to the streets like the Avengers and heroes of comic books. He is a man turning to fight the corruption like Batman without the technology. How foolish they all were.
Wasn’t the Devil’s greatest trick convincing the world he wasn’t real?
Soon they remembered, slowly, but surely, the truth spread.
In the hiss of a voice in the dark -“I can smell him on you! Where is the boy!” in the darkness of an abandoned building with no power. In a room so dark not even the night vision goggles picked up any ambient light.
Underneath a car a body was pulled out screaming.
In the screams of men whose bones were broken in almost the whispers darkness.
In the deep laughter of deception being wiped away by its king.
“Lying cat lies.” A bone twisting. “Try again.”
“I don’t know!” A deep well of laughter.
“You do.”
You could not hide sins from the Devil.
That did not mean that they were weaponless against him.
As the tales and voices spread the news among the miscreants of Hell’s Kitchen, its villains began to arm themselves.
They began to arm themselves with the weapons of God.