Thanks everyone.

Now that I'm finally back to a computer after a weekend of vacation, I present the Hernandez brothers. The mutant gene in humans works like a dimmer switch. In certain people, the dimmer is started and through time and use, the dimmer is turned more and more on, until the mutant reaches their maximum level of power.

In the case of Enrique and Domingo Hernandez, there activation was much quicker, due to the circumstances of their gene's activation. The two of them were in their living room and a fight amongst some heroes and Geiger, a nuclear villain, was raging outside. One of Geiger's stray blasts hit the boy's apartment and they were irradiated instantly. This could have killed them, but instead it activated their mutant gene. (In similar cases of an accident activating a power, it usually just activates this latent gene)

Instead of being slow, the boy's dimmer was sent hurtling towards full power in mere seconds. Enrique, who was only seventeen began to feel his body grow stronger and more feral, claws bursting out of his finger tips. His body pulsated as he became more fit, his bodies abnormalities being corrected. Domingo who was 21 did not get off so easy. His skin hardened in seconds, pain rushing through him as his skin became an exoskeleton. Wings erupted from his back and his eyes burned as they became compounded and he was on the floor, writhing, all through the process.

As quickly as it began it ended and the two boys were left mutated. Domingo screamed ran flying out of the window, the pain from the transformation making him half mad. His wings began to move and his now compound eyes locked onto who had done this to him, Geiger. He flew full force on him, tackling him to the ground. He then found out he had two retractable stingers which he used to attack the villain like a wild animal. It was so sudden and vicious that Geiger couldn't defend himself and he quickly lost conciousness. The heroes around him witness this event with terrified looks and now that it had ended they turned their attention to the insect like brother.

Enrique was not sitting idly as this happened. He also jumped out of the window after his brother and he landed safely on the street, almost catlike in his motions. He ran after his brother and could barely stomach what Domingo was doing to Geiger. When the heroes pointed their attacks on Domingo, Enrique tackled them down, trying to stop them from hurting his brother. The brevity and the confusion of the situation led the brothers to fight the heroes. It was during this that Enrique found he could heal himself. However the fight came to a close and Enrique saw the errors in his actions and tried desperately to talk the half-crazed Domingo down. Unfortunately, a mix of anger, pain, and madness led Domingo to ignore his brother's pleas and continue the fight, which eventually led in him fleeing.

Enrique went with the heroes, hoping to help his brother and as result became Jaguar.

Domingo became Wasp, his madness and new found viciousness turning him forever against his brother.

Thanks and here is Nergal, the Burner. He is Babylonian sun god and ruler of the underworld. He personifies the danger of the sun which he used to rule with an burning iron fist. His tyrannical rule eventually led to him being sealed into an amulet and thrown into a tomb.

Thanks and here is Dominic Gage.

Dominic was an explorer/archaeologist of the Indiana Jones variety, but then he stumbled into the wrong tomb. He was in an ancient Babylonian temple when he found an amulet, he was examining it closely to his face, when it began warm and then it leaped at his face. It proceeded to burn into his right eye, replacing it. While he was screaming from the pain, he almost didn't hear the voice. A deep, fiery voice began to speak to Dominic. It said that it was Nergal and that someone had trapped him in the amulet and that he needed someone to help release him. He said whomever did this would be rewarded great power and wealth. Dominic was a good person, but this deal seemed perfect and besides, it was either accept and profit or have an annoying god in his eye.

So Dominic began to work for Nergal and as a result, he has become Trevor Cartwright's, the Museum (Warehouse 13/the Librarian series) main foe. As long as Nergal is inside him, Dominic has made it his goal to amass even more power through artifacts, items which have magical properties due to the people or events they experience. This has put him at odds with his young friend and colleague as Trevor's job is to maintain these objects. Dominic gets stronger each and every day, for he has the powers of a god and more weapons than he knows what to do with.

Thanks and here is Queen Eagle, one of JR19579's character who I redesigned for his contest.

I really can't say enough good things about Effigy! That was a really creative use of the skeletons and fire! I'm really impressed. I do wish that there was a good heart item though (unless I haven't found it).