The Fox Fire Ring: Chapter 2: Amethyst Stones and Fox Fire Rings
Emily was about to walk down stairs into the familiar Batcave, when she realized she had no place to safely put her necklace while she roamed the streets of Gotham. She noticed a small night stand with a drawer. "That'll do perfectly," she thought, and took off the gold chain, placing it in it's box, and slid open the drawer. "What's this?" she said as she pulled out what seemed to be an ancient, dust covered book. She blew off the dust and sneezed a little. "Magic Emblems and Spells?" she read off the cover. She put the box inside the drawer but kept the book open. She looked on the inside cover. Gotham City Public Library. "Must have been one of the former Robin's," she thought. She didn't even want to think how much she would have to pay and how long it was over due. No one seemed to be missing it so she flipped through it. Five pages caught her eye, and her pupils widened as she began reading them.
"Emily!" called Terry. "Em?! You coming or what?"
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P.O.V
Emily
Gotham City
I was a bit startled when I heard Terry call my name. "Great," I thought. "Whenever I find something interesting, THEN I gotta put on that stupid mask." I sighed angrily, and tore out the five pages and stuffed them in my book bag.
"Coming!" I called down to Terry. The few words I caught swam in my head. "Power, Fire, Jewel, Stone....." What did it mean? I got a shiver down my spine thinking about it.
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Emily and Terry did patrol duty as usual, but things were pretty quite. They stopped the Jokerz, a few mugging's and attempted theft, but really, the evening was dull.
"I don't like it," said Terry.
"Yeah, I'm bored out of my skull too," complained Emily.
"That's not what I mean. What I meant was-"
"Look!" interrupted Emily and she pointed out toward the docks. Cars. Flocks of them forming around one part of it.
"Boat party?" asked Emily.
"I doubt it," replied Terry. "Let's go check it out." They raced off toward the docks, seeing at least one hundred people.
"What are they all doing?" asked Emily. Terry's eyes scanned 'round, until he saw Her. Nightshade herself. Thoughts flooded Terry's mind and his heart started racing. Memories mostly....
"One night won't make the difference!"
"One night always makes the difference"
"If that's the way feel, maybe we should just forget about it!"
"Terry, I have forgotten it."
Suddenly Terry felt as if a dagger had wedged it's self between his ribs. He shouted in pain, clutching his side, and collapsed.
"Terry?!" shouted Emily and she ran to his side.
"Nightshade....." he moaned. Emily looked for a wound or something, but seeing nothing, was at a loss at what to do. She grabbed a tranquilizer from her belt and gave Terry a shot of it. She laid him down and went to go take care of Nightshade.
Nightshade looked exactly the way she had when Terry saw her, only now she was wearing a necklace with and Amethyst stone and a copper ring.
She heard Batgirl coming from a mile away, and simply laughed at her. Emily was in a midair kick when she saw her disappear.
"What the?!" Instead of the normal feeling of her foot striking someone square is the chest, she felt her self fall to the ground, skidding and scrapping her leg. "She's gone?" she thought aloud. Suddenly she felt a punch hit her jaw, and something trip her from behind. She fell flat on her face, and could hear Nightshade laughing at her. She turned to see her handing out more purple rocks to people who gathered around her. Emily threw out her fist for a punch, but again hit nothingness. It was as if she melted away.
This continued for a while. Emily would make a move, Nightshade would disappear, and
Emily would get hit with the recoil. "How on earth is she doing that?" she silently thought. This time Emily decided to watch her, before punching, and did. As she threw out her arm for a numbing blow, she saw Nightshades necklace glow bright, and the copper ring glowed too. She smiled to herself. Now she at least knew when she would "melt".
Emily moved her leg to trip Nightshade, but before doing so, grabbed her necklace. This shocked Nightshade, so Batgirl successfully managed to trip her. She tugged at the chain while Nightshade put her whole concentration into slipping away. The copper ring was glowing stronger than ever, and was apparently being over used, because each time Nightshade tried to get away, she would weaken just a little bit more.
Then Emily grabbed her hand as well, grasping the ring. Nightshade couldn't stand this, and punched Batgirl in the jaw. She released the necklace, but held firmly to the ring, so it slipped off her finger. Nightshade melted away but Emily saw her clearly on top of the building Batman lay on, a dagger in her hands.
Emily sent a batarnag at her, which obviously missed, striking only air, but Nightshade was gone. The people wandered off, and Emily fingered the ring. Something seemed oddly familiar about it. It was a ring of copper, but on it was a tiny picture of a silver fox, and hanging off it was and emblem of a berry. A deadly Nightshade berry, guessed Emily.....
She leapt back onto the building, somehow managing to pick up Terry, and slide him into the Batplane, and take off.
"Ooohhh Terry," she said. "With all the questions Bruce and I are going to be asking you, you might not even want to wake up...."
To Be Continued.....