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I'm terrible at action scenes so please don't flame. Thanks!
This is a chapter for RobRae fans.
A dark figure appered on the rooftop, hidden in the shadows. The white eyes of the mask covering the man's face seemed to glow in the darkness. He growled under his breath, crouching near the edge of the 46-story high building, looking down at the city. Bludhaven. Home to well-known Nightwing.
He waited.
Just waited.
As soon as Alfred had told him that Commissioner Gordon was looking for him- as Nightwing of course- Richard had made an excuse and fled the party, ignoring the looks Rachel was giving him. Changing in the lair, he quickly arrived to the dark, damp ally seconds before Gordon and listened intently as Gordon replayed the infromation that Stallion and Leather(1) would be attemting to kidnap one of the resident millionares in Bludhaven.
Nightwing looked down at the paper crumpled in his black-gloved fist.
2538 Fairgale Blv.
Mason Skyler Kerlin.
He sighed. Without turning around he addressed the figure behind him. "Couldn't resist huh?"
Raven smirked and stood next to him, her dark cloak fluttering behind her in the slight breeze. "Never."
Nightwing stood and turned to her, holding the paper out as he briefed her. She looked looked at it before turning her big violet eyes to him. "It's not to far from here."
Raven held her hand out and Nightwing took it, holding tightly before they were engulfed in black magic; reappering on a large house. They looked around. Quiet stillness.
"I'll be right back." Raven whispered, before disappering in a flash of black light again. She came back, shaking her head. "The Kerlin's are all safely inside and I can't detect Leather or Stallion anywere here."
Nightwing just narrowed his eyes. "They will come. We just need to wait."
Raven sighed and pulled her hood down; a mess of black hair falling on her shoulders. "Whatever you say."
They stood guard for 15 minutes before Raven suddenly stiffened. "They're here."
Nightwing stood and pulled out his battle staff as Raven's hands filled with dark magic.
Two villians appered on the edge of the lawn. One was large and muscled, wearing a black martial arts costume paired with a black cowboy hat and boots. The other was floating slightly of the ground with bright orange-red hair and grey leathery skin with ripped yellow clothes.
"I've got Stallion. You go after Leather." Nightwing said under his breath and Raven nodded.
They watched as the pair approched the house until they were a few feet away. "Now!" Nightwing yelled, leaping off the roof.
Raven appered behind Leather and wrapped her arms around the monster's forearms, catching her by surprise. But she soon got over her shock and raked her clawed hand down Raven's arm, drawing blood. Bitting her lip to stand the pain, she shot Leather in the chest; dazing her and knocking her breath away.
Nioghtwing, though wasn't doing as well. Stallion was larger than him by far and had much more mucsle. Nightwing did however have more agility and he was using it to his advantage. Dodging the huge fists aimed at his head, Nightwing filped back; kicking Stallion under his chin as he went. Landing back, he was pleased to see the dazed look on the giant's face. His pleasure quickly disappered as Stallion fists came at him faster than he would have thought, sending him into a brick wall which cracked with the force as his head hit first.
Seeing stars, Nightwing looked up to see Stallion grab Raven and hold her tight, releasing Leather. Nightwing struggled to his feet and flinched as he heard Raven cry out in pain when Leather clawed at her stomach; leaving deep slashes. Nightwing reached into one his gauntles and pulled out a single Wing-Ding (2)and with carefull aim, which was hard as the world seemed to be spinning, and threw the weapon so it curved carefully around Raven and hit Stallion right in the face with force that seemed to break his nose.
Bellowing in pain, Stallion let go of Raven who feel to her hands and knees, gasping for breath. Nightwing filled with anger at the sight and pulled his Escrime Sticks out again to attack the two crimminals.
Stallion seemed to only take a second to defeat. Nightwing only had to hit him a few times over the head before he was rendered unconcious. Leather was a whole-nother story.
She had taken the time to pull out her barbed whips and now smiled, baring her fangs threateningly.
"Look who decided to show up and ruin everything." She snarled, her yellow-orange eyes following Raven as she took her place standing next to Nightwing; her hands filling with power.
"Who are you working for? We know you would never voluntarily team with Stallion." Nightwing pressed.
Leather let out a raspy laugh and snapped her whip at her side. "Wouldn't you love to know." She said before attacking.
The barbed tip of her whip was inches for Nightwing's face before he stopped it with his battle sticks. At the same time she tried to to plunge her long claws into Raven's chest before a black barrier stopped her.
Howling with frustration, Leather's eyes flicked between both the furious, hardened faces before she realized that she would never beat the two. Giving up, she tried to escape back into the shadows but a giant black hand caught her up and threw her back down to the ground with enough force to knock her out.
Breathing heavily, Raven glanced at Nightwing, who was staring down at the two forms of the villians. "We should call Gordon." He said quietly, walking away without another word.
The police soon arrived at took Stallion and Leather away as the two heros watched from the shadows. Raven teleported them back to their secert lair and they started to fix themselves up and change back to their regular clothes.
"Richard?" Rachel's soft voice was loud in the silence.
He turned to her without a word.
She sighed and walked next to where he was buttoning his shirt and put a pale hand on his shoulder.
Even without her speaking, Richard knew what she was asking.
"It's my fault. If I hadn't been to careless with Stallion you wouldn't have gotten hurt." He said, looking down at her.
Rachel's eyes hardened slightly and she removed her hand. "I'm not a child Richard." She said harshly. "You don't have to always look out for me."
He blinked at her, startled by her reaction. She sighed.
"I'm sorry. I'm a little stressed at the moment. Who could the employer be?" She shook her head slightly.
Richard shrugged. "I don't know. I was think about that too, but right now we should probably get home. We have a ton of guests that we left."
Rachel smiled and rolled her eyes. "You think I don't know?"
Richard took her hand and they appered in the hallway jsut outside the loud living room.
Taking a deep breath, they walked inside just to be met with silence when everyone saw them.
"What?"
Richard saw that everyone had you've-got-to-be-kidding-me written all over their faces.
Karen, ever so out-spoken, stood and placed her hands on her hips. "And when did you think of telling us you guys were still in the crime fighting business?"
ohhh, someone's in trouble. :)
(1)Leather and Stallion are two villians in the Nightwing Comics
(2) They are seriously called Wing-Dings. I did not make that up.
