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Crimson Witch
Chapter 1: Carrie's Legacy
Date: Sunday 1st September 2014
Time: 07:35am
Location: Gotham, New York City
The rising light of the sun, began shining out the city that never slept: New York. The Sunlight spread all across Brooklyn, where the streets were filled with joy filled people. But in a dark back alley, shielded from the sun, was a girl, with messy Strawberry Blonde hair, wearing a blue hoodie, a filthy Yellow long sleeved T-shirt, worn blue jeans, with blue worn converse sneakers, was sleeping on an old bed mattress. Although no one recognized her, she was still frightened that someone would soon notice her for the disaster, which was caused her by her secret talent, back at her old long lost home, for she was: Carrie White.
It had been a year, & 3 months since the "Black Prom Massacre", where Carrie was humiliated by everyone within her school, when they poured a bucket of cold Pig's blood on her, as she was being crowned as queen of the prom. & after that, Carrie just lost it, after taking so much bulling from all her classmates, & the abuse of her unstable bible thumping mother, she took out her revenge upon everyone, & killed almost everyone that night, including her own mother when she returned home from the disaster. Realising what she had done, she used her powers one last time to take her own life, despite Sue Snell, the only classmate who tried to help Carrie in the end, & all the support she had gained her gym teacher: Rita Desjardin, She had to let her life go, as her house collapsed on top of her & her dead mother.
To everyone in Chamberlain, even Sue & Rita, Carrie White was Dead, even though her body was never found, sometime after she was buried, nobody cared, after all that had happened, except for Sue & Rita, who were heartbroken, not just for the fact, they had no just failed to save everyone from the tragedy, but never managed to help Carrie White.
As Carrie slept, she began shaking & muttering in her sleep, until she shot up in fight & sorrow, after suffering another nightmare, of all that her powers had caused, all the people that had hurt & killed, before forcing her right fist into the bed mattress. It may have been a year & 3 months, But Carrie was no better, even after surviving the house crashing down & running away from her home, her town, & along the way, Carrie wished she never had her powers, if it were never for them, no one would be dead, & everything would ok for everyone, except Carrie. But unfortunately, since Carrie came to New York, she had to use her powers, to defend herself from several thugs who had many at hurting her, & to make matters worse, some of them were very badly injured, if not killed. Carrie then noticed her small radio alarm clock, playing "Easier to run", that had been playing since she woke up, before slamming her fist on to it, to shut the radio up. Carrie then got up, before sighing & walking off into the sunlit street, preparing herself for another of isolation & loneliness.
(Background music: "Easier to run" by Linkin Park)
(Meanwhile…)
Location: Brooklyn, New York City
In an apartment building, a girl was lying on her bed, in her apartment room, while listening to the song. The girl had pale white skin, & her hair, her exposing clothes & even her make up were half red & half blue, making her look like a clown themed stripper, until a series of knocks came to her door, so the girl got up to see who was at the door.
"Hey Harley girl…" Said a girl with red hair, white tan skin, green lips, green & black plant like tattoos & green & black plant like clothing, as Harley opened her apartment room door.
"Hey Red, what's up?" Harley asked her friend Ivy, as she let her into her room.
"Nothing much has been going on recently over in Gotham, however, I've been hearing reports about many of the thugs & criminals here have been badly, if not fatality wounded, Have you heard anything concerning of that Harl?" Ivy asked curiously.
"Yeah, I heard about that, but the police never really found any leads to who or what could have done it, they say it was like they had all been attacked by a ghost, they never even DNA finger or footprints, or even any records to the attacker." Harley replied.
"Well, I found something…" Ivy replied back, as she started up her laptop, & opened to files regarding the situation.
"I actually got to one of the locations where an attack had happened before the police got there, & found this…" Ivy said before opening a video file from a security camera.
The video showed footage of a hooded figure, walking past the camera, before being surrounded by a group hooded thugs. As the group started attacking & wrestling with the figure, they started being pushed back & flying up into the air by an unknown force, before one of the thugs was thrown into the camera, making the video footage end with statics.
Harley was stunned by what she had just seen, Ivy on the hand wasn't, she had been looking into it ever since she first saw the footage, and she found it fascinating, that someone had some kind of power that strong.
"As much as that shows us what's going on Red, I'm not sure how that tells us who it is." Harley said, unsure about what she had just seen.
"You're right Harl, it doesn't, but I did however manage to save one frame of the footage, which had a partially clear view of the person's face, here, look at this…" Ivy replied logically, as she then opened a frame of the footage, showing the figure's face, seeing the hooded figure was a girl, through the darkness of her hoodie.
"Hey… I think I've seen that girl around Gotham before… I saw her going into a back alley, somewhere there, but I never thought she was capable of… whatever that was…" Harley said curiously.
"Same here, But I have also looked up anything regarding this girl, & I also found this…" Ivy replied, while opening another saved file, regarding the "Black Prom Massacre".
"The Black Prom Massacre, on June 22nd 2013, Ewen High School was destroyed in an inferno, supposedly caused by Carrie White, the school outcast, claimed to have been bullied by everyone, & abused by her mentally Religious & unstable mother, also believed to be two of the many who died that night." Harley read, while seeing a matching image of Carrie's face, to Ivy's footage frame. This made Harley curious to how, what & why Carrie was alive & in Brooklyn.
"Has no one here even found this out?" Harley asked curiously to Ivy.
"No, plus Carrie calls herself Cassandra Black to those who do try to talk to her, so less people would get the suspicion that she was still alive after the massacre, despite that being over a year ago." Ivy replied.
"So what do we do about her?" Harley asked in concern.
"For the moment, nothing, besides, we don't want to raise her suspicion of someone knowing of who she is, & what we would want with her…" Ivy replied again.
"& besides, tonight, I breaking into A.C.E. Chemical plant, to test out some of my newest plant experiments, along with the chemicals that made you & your ex what you are today, You can come & see if you like…" Ivy continued.
"Sure Red." Harley replied nervously & curiously.
(Later at night…)
Location: A.C.E. Chemical Plant
Carrie was walking with her head down, still mourning the loss of all those who had fallen by her powers, & those who kept getting hurt by them, until she heard strange noises coming from behind a giant open gate. Carrie first decided not to get involved, as started to walk past the gate, but then, as she noticed the A.C.E. Chemical building, was being covered in giant growing plants, a new thought then surged into & through Carrie's mind, seeing as she caused a disaster, Maybe, she could make up for it.
"I've caused one big problem for this world… I won't cause another…" Carrie whispered to herself, before running her way through the gates & towards the Chemical plant.
As Carrie approached the building, she saw that the plants had blocked off all the entrances & emergency exits, all the workers there had been either knocked out or killed. Carrie then checked one of the workers' condition, he was only on conscious.
"I'm sorry…" Carrie said quietly, before taking his gas mask for herself & putting it on, before looking round the building to find a way in.
At first, Carrie thought there was no way in, but then thought the best way to get in, was through the roof. Carrie then started to climb up some of the plant vines, while keeping herself & her powers on guard, for if the plants decided to turn their attention on to her.
Carrie reached the roof safely. As she walked over several more vines, she looked through a roof top window, but couldn't see through the vapour on the glass, from the boiling chemicals down below. Carrie then gently opened the window with her powers, trying to keep herself under control. Carrie then looked down, to see a pair of funny looking & dressed girls chucking things into the chemical vat below.
(Down Below…)
Harley & Ivy were laughing & chuckling as they chucked all sorts of chemicals & scientific materials into the vat, as the chemicals within the vat, began changing from the Toxic green colour they were, to a more crimson red colour.
(Back above…)
Carrie watched from above, knowing whatever those 2 girls were doing, was bad, until they started walking away from the platform above the vat. As Carrie got up & turned around, intent on going to the police, only for some of the giant plant vines to wrap themselves around her arms & legs, trapping her, before the roof in front of her started rumbling, bursting open as more vines, with Harley & Ivy within them.
"Well, well, well… has someone been a bit nosey?" Harley punned.
"Looks like it Harl…" Ivy said, agreeing with the pun.
As Ivy reached out to take off Carrie's gas mask, Carrie shut her eyes as tightly as she could, trying to use her powers. Just as Ivy managed to grab hold of Carrie's mask, the vines let Carrie go, but she hadn't realised, that she was still right over the open window, just as she fell through it. Carrie fell like a rock towards the vat, before hitting into the chemicals with a mighty splash. All Carrie saw from then on, was Harley & Ivy looking down from the window where she fell, before passing out, while thinking that this was it, this was her time, her time to die…
To be continued…