A/N Thanks everyone for your support on this fanfic! Sorry it took me so long to update but I sort of lost interest in continuing to write this. Well here it is! Oh and special thanks to pixiepuff101 for helping to write this! I thank her in many languages. Arigato, Salamat, Grazie, Merci, and not to forget English, Thank You!
Crimson Blade
Chapter: 2
Don't Call Me Kory
By: xStarfirex
Right there was someone she least expected to see. Standing there was Richard Grayson. He looked worriedly at Kory. Kory shrugged it off and starting walking away. What did he care anyway?
"Kory!" Richard called after her, but she didn't turn around or even stop. She completely ignored him. He started walking towards her until someone just had to ruin the moment.
"Ritchie-poo!" Summer's high pitched voice called from across the street. She came out of the store with about five big shopping bags.
"Aren't you going to help me, darling?" Summer said as she crossed the street. The drivers stopped to let her cross and some had wide-eyes. Richard rolled his eyes and put on his black shades before taking her bags.
"Hey why don't we go back to the nightclub since there's nothing else to do today," Summer suggested.
"Sorry, I got work." Richard said, "I'll drop you off at your place."
"Awww, fine then, Ritchie-poo!" Summer stormed off in the direction of the car with Richard trailing behind. Richard pulled out his keys to his silver Ferrari Enzo. He put the bags in the trunk and climbed into the driver seat. Summer sat in the passenger seat still looking kind of mad.
He turned on the engine and began driving to Summer's beach home a few miles away from Jump City near the beach called, South Bay. About ten minutes later, he put the car to a sudden stop. He got out and opened the trunk and took out the five shopping bags just as Summer got out of the passenger seat to open the door of her beach home. Richard put the bags down on the floor and walked back out on the porch.
"I'll see you at the game tomorrow," Summer said and kissed him on the lips. Richard made no comment and turned around to walk back to his car.
"Whatever," he mumbled under his breath. He got in the driver seat and sped off back to Jump City without looking back.
In merely five minutes, he was on the hill where the Wayne Mansion was located. It gave a magnificent view of the city. Richard walked into the mansion and went straight to his room. He closed the door and locked it. He did not want to be disturbed. And to prove that, he put a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on his door, the kinds you find in hotels and put on your doorknob so the pesky cleaners wouldn't barge into your room.
Kory
After walking from the boardwalk, Kory had decided to visit Raven. She worked part time in a café. She walked through the door and looked around for Raven. She was doing the cashier and taking a customer's order. She handed the cup to a co-worker and looked up. She was surprised to find Kory there.
"Hey Bee, I'm leaving work now, see ya tomorrow?" Raven turned to an African-American woman standing next to a percolator.
"Yeah, Raven," she turned to see Kory standing by the doorway, "Oh, hey Kory!"
"Hey Bee, how's it going?" Kory said.
"You haven't been back to the café since a month ago, come visit us more often."
"Ok, I'll try."
"Bee, you're coming with us the game tomorrow, right?" Raven asked as she put on her coat and stood next to Kory.
"Yeah, I'm coming. We'll go together to your school."
"Ok, see you tomorrow." Raven and Kory walked out of the café.
Bee's real name was Karen Beecher. Her friends gave her the nickname 'Bee' because she had a variety of purses and wallets and other things with yellow and black stripes, the color of bumble bees. Karen doesn't attend the same school as Raven and Kory, she goes to a different school. She's also the assistant manager for the café, that's how she met Raven. Then Raven introduced her to Kory, and there you have it, the trio.
"Did Gar come around the café by any chance?" Kory asked.
"No, not today," Raven answered.
"Why do you avoid him anyway? Do you hate him?"
"I don't hate him. And I don't like him either."
"You just dislike him?"
"Yeah."
"Why? What did he ever do to you?"
"It's a long story, Kory."
"We have time."
A long awkward pause.
"Alright. Gar and I met in our freshmen year at Murakami High. It was before I met you, Kory. He was in my homeroom. He sat right next to me. One day, during PE, he finally had the guts to talk to me. He was getting annoying most of the time. Then after that day, he started hanging out with me. He became my first friend. Then, a few months ago, he confessed his feelings to me. I didn't want him to like me so now I avoid him." Raven explained.
'Raven, I think this story isn't a one-sided love' Kory thought.
"Well, you know what they say, opposites attract," Kory said followed by a fit of laughter. Raven merely looked at her and smiled. She and Kory had different personalities, but together they make every moment worth it. That's what you call a true friend.
Hours later, Kory found herself walking the empty streets of Jump City alone. She and Raven had parted ways as they took separate paths home. Her townhouse was a couple of blocks away. The next block had a dark alley that Kory always feared. She quickly tried to walk past it. She let out a sigh of relief as she passed by the dark alley of doom. Suddenly, she was pulled back by a mysterious figure. She was dragged into the alley.
"Give me your money!" The man screamed at her. Was he really this desperate for money?
"Go to hell" Kory said in an emotionless voice. She looked up at him and gave him a sinister glare before kicking him right to the floor. Kory had picked up that line long ago from a classmate of hers who was very angry that day. (A/N OOC much, Kory?)
"I said give me your purse!" He got up and pulled out a gun and aimed right at Kory. Kory was a little frightened, but she showed no sign of it. She maintained her composure.
"And I said Go. To. HELL" She slowly said separating the words incase this nut head couldn't comprehend.
"Why you little-" But before he could finish a mysterious dark shadow appears right behind him.
"Leave the girl alone," his mysterious yet sexy voice said. (A/N lol)
That voice… Kory said in her mind… where have I heard it before?
"What's she to you?" Her mysterious attacker loaded and cocked his gun. He grabbed Kory by the shoulder and was now holding her right in front of him with a gun aimed exactly at the side of her head.
"One more move, bird boy, and she goes," The attacker said in a confident tone.
The mysterious figure, the attacker called 'bird boy', emerged from the shadows. He had jet black spiky hair and a black mask covering his eyes. He wore a black spandex suit with a blue bird in the middle of his chest. Nice outfit, Nightwing. Nightwing is a legend in Jump City and Gotham. He's known for saving people and his true identity remains a mystery.
"Nightwing…" Kory quietly said to her herself. It was barely audible.
"Let the girl go," Nightwing said once again.
"And if I don't?"
"If you don't, I'll kill you myself," Kory said in a threatening tone as she grabbed her attacker's arm and flipped him so he landed face flat on the cold wet pavement. She bent down and took out her mini knife and held it to his throat.
"Don't mess with me," Kory said. She kicked his gun across the street and got up to get some rope from a crate in the alley and tied both his wrists to a pole. She gave it one last tug before deciding it should hold him down for a while.
"Looks like you know how to handle yourself, Ms. Anders," Nightwing said. He was a little shocked a girl like her knew how to do those moves. Kory walked to him and gave him a glare
"I didn't need your help, Nightwing. And who told you my name?" Kory said in a threatening voice.
"I've got connections," Nightwing said.
"Who?" Kory took a step closer to Nightwing.
"…People…"
"Tell me," Kory said, it was barely above a whisper and it sounded very threatening.
"Why should I?"
"If you don't, you'll end up like him," Kory pointed to the man she just tied up to the pole. He seemed unconscious.
"Is that a threat?"
"Maybe it is," Kory started away seeing as there's no point in arguing with Nightwing, "And don't call Ms. Anders."
"Ok then… Kory"
Kory immediately turned around and gave him a punch on his face. Nightwing grabbed her fist flying hand blocking her blow. Kory then got on the floor and tried tripping him with her foot. Nightwing jumped, avoiding her black stiletto.
"Your good," Nightwing complimented.
"Thanks. Sadly so are you," Kory said as she got up from her position on the floor.
As she got up, Nightwing's utility belt began blinking red and annoying sounds of 'BEEP' can be heard.
"That's my queue, goodnight, Kory," Nightwing said as she stepped in the shadows and disappeared.
Kory began walking away from the alley and began heading to her townhouse. "He thinks he's the only one who's got moves. Anyone can be a superhero. Even I can be one, if I wanted to' Kory silently thought to herself. She reached her town home and disappeared behind one of the doors. A faint pounding can be heard. 'I don't need your help Nightwing. Actually, I don't need anyone's help.'
A/N OMG I'm SO sorry I haven't updated for months! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Must finish this fic! I promise more things will happen in further chapters. Please review to keep my spirits high! I heart you all!
