Here are the villains. CJ doesn't confront any of them. She doesn't really join in the fight, mostly because everything is happening so fast and she has never fought before. Also, her fire could hurt people, so she is weak against them.
monkeymouse7906: I assure you, CJ will see her sister again, but it will be in the next book. I'm already half way done with it and Caroline is in it, I promise. I only ask you to wait a month, and I'm sorry for making you wait. I'll add more awesomeness for you, I promise.
Chapter 14
When she returned to the League, there were a few members down. Batman and a large man that wore a helmet and looked like he had wings were on the ground, with Wonder Woman and a man in all black with blue lightning bolts outlined in yellow on his arms and wrapped up to his chest.
Superman was suddenly thrown through the air and crashed into a nearby building, almost crumbling into the ground with the force of him. A large man with crackly white skin caught Superman as he fell from the building and threw him again, out of CJs sight.
Red Tornado was shooting red tornadoes at a large man that had wings. The man was sucked down one of the tornadoes, no longer able to evade the high winds.
A man in an all gold suit that looked like shiny scales with green gloves and boots and a weird gold hat on his head was tackling a young girl in red white and blue. What looked like a white robot then picked up the man in the gold and threw him away.
"Villains are taking advantage of our situation," someone said into the comms, but CJ didn't know who it was.
The woman in deer skins with the teeth necklace suddenly roared nearby and threw another woman. In air, the woman let out a burst of light, the explosion rumbling the sky.
This wasn't just a battle; this looked like war.
Suddenly, a man appeared in front of CJ, about twenty feet away. He hadn't teleported; CJ knew what that looked like. No, this man had appeared from thin air. He had stepped from nowhere. This man had not teleported, but had stepped through a portal.
CJ watched the man that could be around forty, with slicked back salt and pepper hair, a deep face cemented in permanent anger, his dark eyes glaring. He straightened his jacket, as if he had gotten it dirty. He looked around, and after seeing a few people fighting, he nodded, still looking. His gaze landed on CJ, and he nodded again. "Good," she heard him say, but he was speaking to himself.
CJ made no move, shocked that she had witnessed him coming through the portal. He wasn't combusting into flames, and there were no other visible powers coming from him. He looked normal. Was he from CJ's world, or another?
Behind him, another appeared from a portal. Black Canary. When her gaze landed on the man, she charged with a shout. She was angry. CJ didn't know what had happened, but Black Canary looked worn out.
The man turned to face her and blocked a kick. He didn't block the punch that came right after it. The man fell back, but he never hit the ground. He fell right through it, suddenly swallowed up by blackness.
He reappeared behind Black Canary, who was searching around for him. The man was looking down at himself in shock, but it quickly shifted to fascination. With a grin from him, the shadows that surrounded him swam to Black Canary.
She noticed them, and tried to evade, coming closer to CJ. CJ, finally snapping out of it, took a step towards her ally and threw fire at the shadows.
The man roared in anger. "What are you doing? Do I have to do everything myself?"
CJ had ignored him, because her fire was working. The shadows were no longer there, and she and Black Canary searched for more. Seeing none, Canary ran towards the man again. That was when CJ felt it.
She could no longer feel her physical body, because something was between her and it. The invader, whatever it was, was ripping all ties between CJ and her body. She screamed in pain as it crawled within her, shadows and darkness separating her and her body, but it was soon over.
She was surrounded by the darkness, and it held her, helpless. CJ could see and hear and feel, but she wasn't in control of her body anymore. Her body moved, looked down at its hands that were now on fire, but the fire was black now. Her body looked around with a grin, then began to shoot fire at Black Canary. CJ watched in horror, and as she struggled to gain control, as Black Canary managed to dodge most of the fire.
A small piercing white light suddenly blinded CJ and whatever was in control of her. When she could focus, she noticed Green Arrow at Black Canary's side. Both were staring at her in confusion, Arrow with a hint more of anger. But when CJ threw fire at them again, well, not CJ, but whoever controlled her, the Shadow, the two jumped out of the way, and Green Arrow shot another arrow at her, causing another bright light to appear.
CJ continued to struggle, but the Shadow ignored her efforts, like she wasn't even there anymore. With a burst of anger, they shot fire from her body, and CJ heard them think that another one of those explosions couldn't get through this much heat.
CJ watched in horror as the Shadow that had control of her destroyed Green Arrows bow when he dropped it flinching away from the fire. Neither of them could get close enough to stop the Shadow, and Superman wasn't there to freeze her in ice. Wonder Woman and the others were all occupied with their own villains or trying to protect each other. It was just Black Canary and Green Arrow to protect each other.
But the Shadow was no longer interested in them. She heard herself laugh, then turn to other League members. "Let's show your friends just how dangerous you really are," the thing controlling her mouth said, specifically speaking to CJ. Hearing herself say that, laced with so much evil and hatred, and how she said it as if she enjoyed it as a hobby.
CJ screamed, feeling the rage build up. She had tried so hard to keep herself from hurting others with her powers, and then this thing took over her and did it instead. She had come to think of the Leaguers her friends, even if she hadn't met or known all of them; they had helped her with her powers, and somewhat accepted that she wasn't a freak. They were her friends. They were family, no matter what anyone said. CJ believed it; they had done so much for her. She wasn't going to let this thing hurt them any longer.
The rage she felt burning within her, and the Shadow paused in his reign of burning down the city, feeling her scratching away at the walls. She heard her body gasp in surprise, which made CJ feel ever more confident. She let the fire explode, knowing that only all of her heat would give her control back. CJ let it all out with a scream, and the walls separating her from her body diminished in seconds, the Shadow no longer closing her in.
She heard someone nearby yell, "GL!" But CJ ignored it. This was the only way to save herself and her friends. The Shadow left her with a scream of pain, but it was a whisper to CJ. The heat seemed to take up every thought in her head. She was consumed by the fire, and the heat was so much more intense than before.
CJ felt strong in the heat, powerful. To be honest with herself, she was content to just stay in the heat forever. It felt like her Safe Haven, like a long lost part of her that had finally returned home. For the few seconds there, CJ forgot what she had been doing before it.
"Get everyone out of here! She'll blow up the whole city!"
CJ searched around, looking for whoever was near her. All she saw was red, yellow, orange; the colors of fire. It danced and flowed around her, like liquid. As she took a closer look, it was more like lava, but different. Hotter.
She blinked. She was in New York City. The portals. The Shadow.
What had she done? The heat around her looked as if it stretched on forever. Had she built up all this heat and burnt down the Big City? Had she killed everyone she knew?
In a burst of fear, she began to absorb the heat around her. It took seconds, but even they may have been too long. With this heat, she probably could have destroyed the whole planet, like a super nova.
As the fire returned into her, the key ready to lock it all away, she began to grow cold. The air temperature of 80 degrees Fahrenheit was 14 below compared to her discharge. She immediately thought of raising the temperature again, but pushed the temptation away. She would rather shiver than bring that harm to the city.
CJ, once she could see through the heat, didn't really know where she was. She was at the bottom of some large hole, like in a cave, directly above the sky. The rock walls around her had to be at least thirty feet high and wide, but uneven. Definitely not made by human tools and drills. There was some smoke radiating from the rock around her, and a green light in the sky that she could see. It was a shield to the sky, like tinted glasses.
She was so confused. Had she destroyed her planet and teleported to another? Had she teleported across the globe into some random mountain range? What part of the sky was green?
Then the green light disappeared, retreating around the rock, no longer in her sights.
She was about to fall to the ground shivering, but saw a face from the rock above. It was too far away for her to see, and she wondered who it could be. She caught fire, only enough to fly, which was only about 500 degrees Fahrenheit. She wouldn't allow herself to get up to the thousands degrees she had reached a minute ago.
As CJ floated higher, she began to see buildings, some clouds, and, eventually, the city. She had risen out of a large hole in the middle of the street, where an intersection had previously been. Luckily, no building had caved in under the loss of a foundation.
As she landed and returned to normal temperature to shiver, she realized that the green light she had seen was from Green Lantern. But next to him was another that was dressed in pretty much exact the same outfit. A second Green Lantern?
She took in the rest of her surrounding, finding the remains of a battlefield. Superheroes and villains alike lay on the cement, but only the heroes remained standing. They had all turned to look in CJs direction.
She almost cried in relief, and fell to her knees. "I'm so sorry," she whispered, knowing that she had caused the crater. She had almost killed them all.
She fell to the cement, pulling herself into a ball to keep warm. Her insides were warm with her fire, but she would not allow any of it to reach her skin. She was in control, and it had to stay within her to keep the others safe. She wanted to explain to them that she had done it to save them from the Shadow, that it was the only way. But in doing that, she could have melted the planet to crisps, and instantly felt guilty. She had almost blown up the planet to save the planet? It didn't make any sense, and she was glad that she was too cold to speak.
Dark flecks began to dot CJ's vision as she grew cold. She felt like she was in an ice cube. "I'm sorry," she whimpered again, wanting them to understand. This time, she got a response.
A warmth touched her on the arm, and she looked through her deep red hair to see a hand and a figure behind her. "We know."
If you didn't know: Black Lightning and Wonder Woman were guarding unconscious Batman and Hawkman.
Superman was fighting Solomon Grundy. Red Tornado was fighting one of the OC's from the portal. Stargirl and S.T.R.I.P.E. were fighting Copperhead.
The man that had come through the portal before Black Canary was the man who had opened them on the other side. He's evil, obviously, and his shadow powers took control of CJ's body. CJ grew as hot as a volcano, maybe even hotter. Hot enough to burn through solid rock and create a huge crater thing in the middle of the city.
The rest is pretty explanatory, and I hope everyone sort of understands.
The chapter was really hard for me to write, mostly because I wanted something really bad to happen to CJ, and not only to the other Leaguers, but I also didn't want to give this Shadow guy too much credit. Hope you liked it!