Guest: I don't like him either, but he is an interesting character to write about. Thanks for reviewing!
Ladyawesome45321: Well, the idea just came to me one day and I hope it will not disappoint - and I am glad that you like it! Consider this my Halloween story. Thanks for the review!
Harbinger of Death
Finding the death totem was not easy, but they did it. For everyone's safety, they locked it away. But Sara Lance could still feel its pull and hear its continuous calling – not to everyone, but to her specifically. Having died and come back to life; who would be a better candidate to wield this totem than miss Lance? She did not listen to it at first. Only when the draw of the totem became too strong, did she remove the totem from the box and placed it around her neck.
It transformed her immediately. The being she morphed into wasn't alive, but it wasn't dead either. There was a little gray area within which it existed. Undead, some might say. It gave her the ability to teleport short distances, to raise the spirits of the dead, to move objects without touching them, to levitate. Because she hadn't been cautious, Sara's soul was trapped in another realm while her body was under the complete control of Mallus.
The timeship went into lockdown. One by one, she killed off the Legends. She started with Ray, who succumbed to the injuries she dealt him. she incapacitated Amaya and Wally before finishing them off. If someone came too close, she summoned a figure from their past, to throw them off guard and finish their job. Constantine and Ava tried to free Sara's soul from the realm it was trapped in, but they failed. Mallus lured John with the false promise of releasing Astra's soul in exchange for Sara's, but when he resisted, he killed Ava and the warlock.
With no more living Legends on the timeship, Sara's demon-form directed it to specific vulnerable places in time, easily manipulated. Since nobody managed to save her soul from the realm, Sara could not free herself before it was too late. She traveled everywhere and caused big enough disruptions to free Mallus little by little.
By the time Sara's soul returned to the body, she threw away the totem. Mallus had plunged the world into chaos with the Legends' absence. Nora had become the demon's vessel, and Mallus had killed Damien before he could cause trouble. not only was time irrelevant and broken, but every hero she knew had died trying to save the world. Not even the Time Bureau made it out. Somehow, Gary did survive, but that's irrelevant.
Having lost all hope and with nobody to return to, Sara retreated to Nanda Parbat, which was generally left untouched. She resumed her training and referred to herself only as the Canary – Sara Lance had died on the Waverider. She impressed Ra's Al Guhl again and was allowed to rejoin the League of Assassins, of which Talia was a member, but her sister was not.
In her lifetime, the Canary would kill more people than the Al Guhls combined. That is how the rest of her life played out – she lived and she killed and she forgot her roots. There was nobody there but the Canary.
One day, Talia gave her the nickname, which roughly translates to 'goddess of death'. The Canary herself strongly disliked her title, but it was no more than fitting for the woman with the highest number of kills on her name in the world.