Chapter Two: Cold as Ice

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Gotham City

July 1st 22:00PM

Ember and her dad was standing on top of an old abandon building in Gotham City, listening in on the police scanner for any signs of trouble l. According to her research of this city, this place was crawling with trouble so something could happen any minute. Hopefully anyways, Ember was starting to get bored.

She yawned and started to hum a soft tone as she swung her legs back and forth on the edge of the roof. She groaned and poked her dad on the shoulder with her pinky.

"Anything?"

Hayden shook his head with a sigh. "There was a jewelry robbery not too far from here, but it looks like the Dynamic Duo already took care of it."

Ember pulled at the edge of her black fire resistance gloves as she bit the inside of her cheek in annoyance. They are fire resistant because of her fire so it wouldn't burn her uniform. Matter of fact, her whole dark orange uniform is also fire resistant same as her dad's dark red uniform.

"Told ya this was a bad idea. Knew they wouldn't share the turf."

Hayden shook his head at his daughter as he looked around at the quiet city. Maybe she was right, maybe they wouldn't let them use Gotham to patrol as well. He was about to tell her about Plan B when he noticed something on top a roof on the next building over. He squinted his eyes and could see two dark shadows watching them. He smirked. "Well, maybe you can ask them if they are willing to share the turf."

Ember laughed at him with a roll of her eyes, her brown curls bouncing as she laughed. "And how am I supposed to do that?

Hayden didn't respond to her question but instead pointed a finger at the building where the two dark shadows were hiding.

Ember looked up to where he was pointing and saw two figures that was on a roof of a building above them. Her mouth hung up in shock when she watched them use a grappling gun to come down towards them. She backed up a little to give Batman, THE BATMAN and Robin room on the roof.

She couldn't believe it, Batman was in front of her! She pinched herself in case she was dreaming but winced when her pinched actually hurt. She then turned her attention towards the Boy Wonder who had his arms crossed with a smirk on his face.

"Batman." Hayden greeted with a slight nod.

Batman turn his head slightly to look at him. "Firebird," he looked over at Ember and she blushed at his stare. "Phoenix."

She did a little happy dance inside her head, a little amazed that Batman actually knew her name. Well, her hero name. She glanced over at Robin who waved at her.

"Hi!"

She waved back with a smile of her own. "Hello."

Ember bit her lower lip when she saw Batman crossed his arms, probably wondering why there are here in his city and not in Atlanta.

"Four is a crowd."

Hayden cleared his throat. "Just passing through. That is all."

Ember looked at Batman and then at her dad and then at Robin who was studying her. She raised a eyebrow as she placed a hand on her hip. "We're not stealing your turf."

Robin smirked at her. "Didn't day that you guys were."

Ember rolled her eyes at him and used her elbow to punch her dad on his side. "Can we please go now?" She pleaded, no longer in the mood for patrol anymore. Clearly they are not welcomed in Gotham City after all. She knew it.

Hayden sighed and furrowed his eyebrows, finally realized that his daughter was indeed correct about it being a bad idea to even try and patrol Gotham, because there was no way Batman would allow two strangers running around in his city. He placed two fingers at the bridge of his nose. "Everything is quiet now since you two took care of that robbery. Which means we are no longer needed here." He nodded towards Batman again. "See you around Batman."

"Likewise."

Batman and Robin took out their grappling guns and went back to the building where they were before and disappeared into the darkness.

Ember shivered at how quickly they disappeared that fast into the shadows. She huffed as she turned around to look at her dad with a glare. "I told you it was a bad idea and weird."

"Yea, yea" Hayden said with a wave of his hand. "Guess it's time for Plan B."

Ember cocked her head to the side in confusion. "Plan B?"

Hayden nodded at her. "We only patrol Atlanta and use zeta tubes to get back and forth as needed. There's a few here that we can use and there's also a couple in Atlanta as well. Atlanta would still be our turf but Gotham is our new home."

Ember shrugged her shoulders and grabbed a ponytail holder that was on her wrist to quickly braid her curly hair in a side ponytail. She smirked at her dad. "Told ya. You should've just listened to me. "

Hayden scoffed at her. "I'm going to let that slide." He said as he sighed. "Let's go home."

Atlanta, GA

July 4th 11:00AM

"Again."

"Seriously?"

Hayden crossed his arms as he stared at the tired and out of breath Ember, who was hunched over trying to catch her breath. Her curls sticking to her sweaty neck.

He smirked. "Again."

Ember rolled back her shoulders as she straighten up her form and moved a couple of steps back. She kept an eye on her dad trying to figure out what his next move would be. Or if he's going to make one any time soon. She huffed. "So, are you going to make a move or what?"

Ember widen her eyes when her dad lifted his leg in the air and a stream of fire came from under his foot, almost hitting her if she hadn't did a backflip just then. She smirked. "Missed."

She charged at him, taking a deep breath and used her balled up fist to have a stream of fire come out but her dad was quick and grabbed her fist, pushing her back a few feet.

"Too slow."

Ember sung her arm around a few times to have more stream of fire come out through her hands and all the while her dad dodged each and every one of her small fireballs that she created which was truly pissing her off. She could feel her fire getting stronger each passing second she's angry. She used her leg and more streams of fire shot out from her foot. Her dad used his own fire from his hand to block her attack. He ran over towards her, twisting her arm behind her back, causing her to wince slightly at the pain.

"If I was a real bad guy," Hayden said with a small sigh. "I could've killed you. You were angry there. You shouldn't—"

"Let your emotions get the best of you." Ember finished with a roll of her brown eyes. She smirked when she saw the opportunity to use her leg to knock him off balance, releasing her from her dad's grip.

She hummed in satisfaction as she looked down at her dad who was on the floor. "I know, I know." Ember told him, grabbing his hand to help him get on his feet.

Hayden rubbed his sweaty bald head as he studied his daughter. He has to admit, her form was getting better but her emotions… still needs work. He walked over to a chair that was in the corner and grabbed a couple of towels and threw one of them at Ember and used the one he still had to wipe off the sweat from his head and from his neck. "Fire is powerful, bright but it can also be dangerous. Without any sort of discipline fire can and will get out of control. You must—"

"Remember your breathing exercises and control your emotions." Ember finished again, tossing the towel that she was using to wipe off her sweaty neck and arms back on the chair that sat in the corner of the basement. She cocked her head to the side and yawned.

"If you can remember my lectures then it shouldn't be hard to follow what you need to do." Hayden told her sternly with a raised eyebrow. "Other than that, your form was great. Brunch?"

Ember perked up when her dad mentioned food. She patted her stomach that started to growl as she did so. "Food is my middle name." She said with a laugh. She walked over over to the stairs of the basement of their old house that was being used for training for the HQ of Firebird and Phoenix.

Hayden snorted at her as he followed her to the kitchen and walked over to turn on the stove and grabbed a few pots and a pan that was underneath the cabinet while Ember grabbed a carton of eggs that was in the fridge. "Technically," he muttered, cracking a egg into a bowl that was next to him. "It's Rose."

Ember stuck out her tongue out at him and walked over to the living room to turn on the TV, flipping through channels. She stopped on a news channel when a blonde woman was about to make her report.

"This is Kat Grant coming to you live from Atlanta, GA. This is just in that Coldstone, the daughter of a well known villain Icestorm, had escaped from prison and is causing havoc downtown."

Ember groaned and turned over to look at her dad. "Why can't villains take a day off? Don't they know what today is?"

"Villains don't give a damn. Let's go."

Atlanta, GA

July 4th 12:00PM

The cold had never bothered Ember. The fire that's burning through her every vein inside her body is keeping her warm. According to the weather report, it's supposed to be about 98 degrees however, it's snowing in July. Highly unusual unless you are a meta-human that can control ice. A group of terrified people started to run the opposite of her and her dad who are walking towards danger and not from it.

Coldstone is a well know villain to the peach state and to the Justice League. Her real name was Bianca Dreamer. She's also a couple of years older than Ember. Her father's name was Aiden Dreamer AKA Icestorm. He was the enemy of her dad Hayden way before Ember was born. He was finally put away in a special prison just for evil meta-humans like himself without any chance of escaping.

Since then, his daughter Bianca held a huge grudge against Firebird and Phoenix. Ember was the first one to call her Coldstone. Why? Because she's a cold stone bitch.

She felt something touch her nose. She looked up at the sky and realized it had started snowing slightly harder than before.

"Firebird." She muttered, when the two of them finally found Coldstone standing in the middle of the street. Her snow white hair blowing around her. She smiled at them.

"What's the plan?" She asked him, trying to block the wind and snow from her face by using her arm to block some of it to see Coldstone.

"Follow my lead. Understand?"

"Well, well, well," she said with a laugh and licked her lips with the tip of her tongue. "Hello there Firebreath and Birdpoop."

Ember scoffed at her. "Hey there, Coldbitch. How's it going?" She asked, waving at her with a smirk on her face.

Coldstone snarled at her comment and brought her hands in the air and clapped them together.

Ember and Hayden looked around and noticed that the snow had frozen in place.

"You just had to call her Coldbitch." Hayden muttered, trying to see what Coldstone's next move was and got into a fighting stance.

Ember huffed at her dad and followed suit as she tried to keep an eye on her. "Give me a break."

Ember watched as Coldstone moved her hands in a circular motion as if she's making a snowball. Correction, she is making a snowball and a huge one at that and it was coming towards them. Fast.

Ember took a deep breath and clutch her fist together and her fire came streaming out from her fingertips hot and ready for the snowball. She made a rope from her fire and once it made contact with the snowball it exploded into a million pieces of snow. She used the same rope of fire and whip it towards Coldstone who did a couple of backflips and flew into the air just in time. "Missed." Coldstone said, twirling her white hair with the tip of her finger, humming.

She raised a hand and then forward making the snow stop at her will and then suddenly, the snow she was focused on formed into deadly tiny icicles.

Ember quickly cartwheeled around, dodging the deadly icicles. She looked around quickly for her dad and found him using small fireballs to melt the icicles that was coming towards them. She watched as Coldstone made even more icicles aimed at her dad. Ember ran over to help him. "This is getting out of hand!" Ember yelled, using her rope of fire to melt the icicles.

Hayden grunted and sighed in relief when he used a fiery hand to melt a fast tiny icicle that was coming towards his eye. "I agree. This needs to end. We need to get closer to her at once."

Ember nodded in agreement. "I have an idea for that part." She took a step back to square her shoulders and closed her eyes. When she opened them, her fiery wings came out from her back and jumped high in the sky and flew towards Coldstone.

She got her fist ready when she came in closer to her with a smile on her face. "Incoming Coldbitch!" She yelled when she swung her fist, knocking out the shocked and surprised Coldstone right in the face.

Ember tried to catch the falling supervillain but she was falling fast and she started to panic. "Firebird!"

Hayden looked up to see Coldstone falling fast from the sky and quickly ran over to catch her in time in his arms.

Ember sighed in relief when she gracefully came back down from the air, groaning when her wings disappeared into her back. You would think she would be used to it by now, but she's not.

Ember smiled when she saw that the snow finally stopped and could see the grey skies turning back into the bright blue and the 100 degree weather had finally returned.

"Knocked that bitch out cold! Get it?" She asked with a chuckle.

Hayden rolled his eyes. "Language."

Ember waved him off with a shrug of her shoulder. "Yea, yea. Can we please go now? She's going to make us late!"

Hayden looked over at a clock that was on the billboard above them. "It's only 12:30."

Ember threw her hands up in annoyance. "You know how I like to be early for stuff!"

"Okay, okay. Only because today is the day." Hayden said with a shake of his head. His daughter sure is something else sometimes.

A/N: Hiya! Re-loaded this chapter because of my Author's Note. Sooo, I've been thinking long and hard and I honestly don't see Ember and Dick together. I feel as though they can have a brother/sister relationship and I don't see that a lot. So I'm thinking of pairing her with Wally instead. Which means my OC will be a bit older like 15 but Wally is a year old because he was born in 94 and Ember 95.

She will still be attending Gotham North. That was my original plan for sure but her home base as Phoenix will be in Atlanta! Hope you guys don't mind me changing pairings I can really see Ember and Wally together more easily than Ember and Dick.

I don't have a set schedule for updates but I will be posting every week or two weeks max! Please tell me on what you guys think of the new pairing! See you next time!