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| "She didn't cry at all..." "Yeah." "Even though we're leaving, she didn't cry." "But she will cry. Soon, she will cry. That's for certain."
- Wraith, Fury
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Chapter 3: Dead Body and Revenger 3
First release: February 4 2008, in Jump SQ 03/08 Length: 31 pages Colour pages: none
Edel spots Fury and Wraith talking outside, and goes to them. Wraith is commenting on Fury's grim determination to kill all the Frankensteins, pointing out that Fury seems to be forgetting that Wraith himself is also one. Edel arrives just to overhear the two talking about going to London. She seems upset, remembering Wraith's earlier comment to her about her not really being as close to Wraith and Fury as they are to each other.
She asks Fury whether it's true, but before he can reply, there is a thunder strike, and Fury covers Edel with his cloak just as she, startled by the lightning, stumbles towards him. He answers now that yes, it is true, but before they go, Fury wants to make sure that Edel will never have to be afraid again, no matter what the weather at night.
Edel perks up now, and encourages Fury and Wraith to go to London, after all there is nothing that should keep them here. She says that she would love to go to London as well, but this would mean leaving her father all alone, and she doesn't want this.
She goes back into the house, and Fury and Wraith wonder that she did not cry at all at hearing their news. Wraith smiles and ominously says that she definitely will be crying very soon, though. Fury is startled and demands an explanation.
Wraith gleefully explains to Fury that the creator that he is so determined to kill is none other than Lord Weiss himself. He goes on about how obvious this should be, considering that Weiss has both the money and the medical knowledge required for this type of research. Apparantly, his first experiments were about combining parts of several dead bodies into one, resulting in the monstrous creature that killed Fury's parents.
Fury cannot believe this, exclaiming that Lord Weiss is a good person who spends a lot of money on charity, building facilities to aid the poor, but Wraith counters that this is just a tactic to get more raw material (dead people that nobody is going to miss!) for his research. The reason why Fury and Wraith had been taken in by Weiss, receiving special treatment, was out of gratefulness, since they brought a very special person to him... Fury realizes that Wraith is talking about Edel.
Meanwhile, Edel has been thinking about the prospect of Fury and Wraith going to London, and is trying to come up with a way of accompanying them after all. Now she gets the idea: they could go to London to have her be formally introduced into society as a debutante.
While Edel comes up with this genius plan, Wraith takes Fury to the glasshouse next to the mansion. This is where he claims to have been brought to life as a Frankenstein, the place where Weiss conducts his experiments. Seeing this place will show Fury that he had been talking the truth.
Before they can enter, Shade appears, forbidding them from entering the house. Without hesitation, Wraith takes out his rifle and shoots Shade flat in the chest, coldly stating that Shade is in the way of Fury and him going to London. Fury is shocked and hurries over to the fallen Shade, calling that he wants to help him, but Shade suddenly jumps into the air and lands a good deal behind Fury and Wraith. He gets up, obviously uninjured from the gunshot: he is also a Frankenstein.
Shade asks Wraith whose side he is on, and that if he is going against their lord, Shade will stop him. Wraith replies that he feels no allegiance with Lord Weiss or anybody else except for one person (Fury, that is. Wraith has such a onetrack mind).
Wraith fires another load at Shade, but Shade merely catches the bullets in his hand, and gives Wraith a powerful punch in the face. Even though Wraith tries to protect himself with his gun, he is hit hard and falls to the ground, bleeding. Shade wants to attack him again, but Fuy steps in, blocking Shade's punch. Still shaken fron the revelation, Fury asks why and when Shade became a Frankenstein.
Fury has a flashback to five years ago, when he had just arrived at Lord Weiss' place, and had been warming up in Shade's home while Wraith lay in bed, exhausted and apparantly with a fever. Shade complimented Fury on his strength that allowed him to survive the snowstorm, and offers him to become his apprentice. Fury points out that Wraith also survived, so he must also have the same strength. Shade agreed, not really because he was impressed with Wraith's strength, but rather because he was impressed with Fury's stubborn nature.
Back in the present, Shade grabs Fury and hurls him through the windows into the glasshouse. He turns to look for Wraith, but finds him gone, and thinks that he must have run away to save himself.
Fury finds himself on the floor of the glasshouse, where his fall has knocked several bookcases to the ground. He finds a photo lying next to him, and looks at it. It is a family portrait, showing a husband, a wife and a girl. He is startled when he believes to recognize Edel, but then he notices that the girl in the photo has black eyes, while Edel's eyes are green. The girl's parents in the photo are Lord Weiss and a woman whose face has been scratched out.
Shade enters, and answers Fury's question from before: he became a Frankenstein one year ago, after passing on the position of gamekeeper to the boys. But he had been planning on becoming a Frankenstein years earlier, when the girl in the photo, the real Edel, disappeared.
Shade explains that the real Edel was Lord Weiss' biological daughter, but when his relationship with his wife worsened and they got divorced, the wife ran off with Edel, and even though he searched for her everywhere, Weiss could not find her. What he did find was one of Frankenstein's forbidden books, and he decided that he would create a new Edel using this method.
Weiss' experiments did not seem to be fruitful, though, until Fury arrived at the mansion with the little girl, the "fake" Edel, who was the spitting image of the real one.
At this point, Lord Robert Weiss himself arrives home, and is greeted by Edel at the mansion. Overjoyed, Edel tells him that Fury came back home alive and well, and then speaks with him about her idea of making her debut to society.
She asks him if he thinks it is too early, but Weiss agrees that it is about time. He says that it has been five years after all, and if she grows much older, it will be too late. Edel is a little embarassed, since she has no idea that her adoptive father is not talking about her debut or finding a husband while she is young, but something far more sinister. Weiss takes out a needle, announcing he has something for Edel...
Elsewhere, Dr. Peaberry leaves her home. With the temperatures below zero and the thunder at a strength of 1.21 GW, the requirements are met - a Frankenstein can be created.
While Fury and Shade face off, Weiss carries an unconscious Edel towards the glasshouse, and Wraith remains nowhere to be seen...
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