Hi, this is one of my first stories so be nice and read and review.

Chapter 1—Burning Justice

It was midnight and normally the quiet night of Jump City would be punctuated by spates of robberies here and there. Tonight was no exception as an innocent woman was walking home from work. She was in her twenties and she was clad head to toe in luxury, which is not a good idea as she is about to find out….

As she passed an alley shrouded in darkness, two figures rushed out and grabbed her. One of them had a large and robust frame while the other was tall and skinny as though he hadn't eaten in weeks. Both of them wore ski-masks which obscured any facial features and they were attempting to rob her at gun point. The skinny one whispered into her ear, "Lady, just hand over whatever you have of value and I won't 'accidentally squeeze this here trigger…"

"Yeah, like he said."

"No one is handing over anything…" a boy had suddenly appeared from the shadows. He was wearing a blazing red T-shirt with black Bermudas along with a pair of goggles hanging around his neck. He was leaning against a shadowed wall and open-fingered gloved hands were folded.

"Eh Kid, didn't your mommy ever tell you not to hang out in a dark alley late at night?"

"Well, I should ask you whether your mother ever teach never to go rob a person…"

"Kid, watch that mouth of yours or you're gonna get! Bruno, sick him!"

Bruno, who was apparently the big one, charged with his meaty fists raised. Quickly, he stood straight up and unfolded his wings, which were folded and hidden by the wall and flew up. This action caused Bruno to miss his mark and slam his fist against the wall. As Bruno howled in pain, demonic wings went into a glide downwards and he delivered a good kick to the chin. Bruno went down, hard and was unconscious. As he landed beside the fallen form of Bruno, the guy holding the lady at gunpoint turned the gun towards the winged vigilante and fired but not before a wall of flame was raised around the robber causing the fired bullets to melt and disintegrated. The skinny criminal was frightened as the wall of flame was lowered and created a river of lava, trapping him in the fiery ring. In a panic, he saw the kid's eyes behind the goggles he had pulled on were blazing red and his fists were also flaming.

"Wh…wh…who are you! What are you?"

"Well if you really want to know my name…" the boy released a torrent of flames onto the opposite wall of the alley, "…it's Hellfire."

The endless torrent of flame subsided revealing a symbol burned onto the wall, it was a polygonal dragon, with its wings out stretched.