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| "One hundred and fifty years ago, Victor Frankenstein, a young, extremely talented genius, tried to imitate God by creating a living being out of bodies of dead people: a human that is not human. His exact method has been lost, but fragments of his notes have survived and have been assembled in forbidden books. Even to this day, people continue his research in the darkness of the night and the gloom of graveyards..." - Dr Peaberry
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Chapter 1: Dead Body and Revenger 1
First release: November 2 2007, in Jump SQ 12/07 (premiere issue) Length: 51 pages Colour pages: 4 Also on the magazine cover
It is deep winter in the Scottish Highlands, sometime in the 1890's. Two friends, Fury and Wraith, block the path of a mysterious being, whose shape can only be vaguely seen yet due to the raging snow storm.
The smaller of the two, Wraith, comments on how much they have shared over the past years, and Fury agrees, pointing out that this time, things will go differently than "back then", and that he will finally have his revenge.
Wraith finds Fury's behaviour scary, but agrees that Fury will take the lead in the battle, while he will offer him support. In exchange, he reminds Fury, he is supposed to capture this monster alive, so Wraith can study it and understand its true nature.
When the monster comes into view, Fury and Wraith realize that the monster is much bigger now than it had been five years ago. Nevertheless, they start fighting the monster now.
Fury's and Wraith's story really began five years ago, when a group of travellers was ambushed and murdered. The killer, the very same monster that the boys are fighting now, carried off the dead, and the only ones left behind were three children hiding in the overturned carriage: Wraith, Fury and a little girl who was suffering from a high fever.
Because of her condition, Fury did not want to lose time waiting for help that would not come. They had to risk walking throug the snowstorm, else they would eventually freeze to death anyway. Wraith wanted to stay behind, and Fury tried to motivate him by telling him that they had to survive so they could stop their parents' murderer one day. But Wraith had always had to suffer under his abusive father, and considered his whole life worthless anyway, so he didn't really feel any desire for revenge, or even to stay alive.
Fury still would not leave him behind to die, so he used the debris from the carriage to make a fire big enough that it could be seen from the distance, and then departed with the girl, letting Wraith wait until he could send him help. Fury eventually came to a mansion whose inhabitants helped him and went to find Wraith. Thanks to the fire, his location was easy to spot, even in the snowstorm.
Afterwards, Fury swore revenge, and Wraith decided that he wanted to learn more about the killer from that night, and this takes us back to the present, where the boys are battling their opponent.
They have been backed into a corner, a steep cliff behind them, but they have also managed to rip off the monster's two arms, and consider the battle close to its end, but then the stitches holding the monster's mouth sewn shut burst open, and reveal an insane number of teeth.
The two boys are shocked. Wraith is so engrossed in the scary sight that he is slow to react when the monster attacks, grabbing him with its mouth. Wraith only has time to tell Fury (who got injured at his throat) to run and survive before he is torn in half by the monster. Enraged, Fury attacks the monster, and finishes it off.
Fury loses unconsciousness, and only wakes up a month later, in the company of a stern, blonde woman who introduces herself as Dr. Peaberry. She warns him that his wound at the throat has not healed yet, and needs further medical attention, but apart from this, he is alright.
Fury asks her about Wraith, but Dr. Peaberry merely points out that Fury would know that much better than she herself, since he was right there when he died. Shaken up, he asks about the monster, and the doctor explains that is is called a Frankenstein, and that she came in the area to study exactly these creatures.
Dr. Peaberry explains that these monsters are created using a method devised by Victor Frankenstein. They come in different appearances, sometimes looking exactly like a human being, except for the electrodes in their bodies that are used to set them into motion.
Fury leaves her to go back to the mansion, where he and Wraith lived and worked as gamekeepers, after having been taken in by the mansion's Lord Weiss. He wants to inform them of Wraith's death, and then depart to find the creator of the Frankenstein, and kill him as part of his revenge.
At the mansion, Fury is greeted by the very same girl that he rescued five years ago, Edel, who has become the adoptive daughter of Lord Weiss. (Shade, her bodyguard and the man who first came out to help Fury five years earlier, is also there. Lord Weiss himself is not at home at the moment.) Edel tells him that they have been worried for him, and Fury just wants to inform her of Wraith's death when she says that Wraith was the one most worried for him.
And suddenly, Wraith is standing before him, smiling and happy to see him. Fury aproaches Wraith and wordlessly rips his shirt open to reveal stitches running around Wraith's torso where he was torn apart, with electrodes along those stitches. Wraith is a Frankenstein. Damn.
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