Episode 3: Curare

It's been 5 days since my encounter with the weapons dealing cop. I have encountered more of Bricktop's idiots. Some were dealing drugs, splicing components, some assaulting people, and some even tried to rob stores and charities. Yeah you heard me correctly, charities. It's like he wants to destroy the life of the Glades. I have to figure out what his plan is before he finishes it. I hope I haven't started to late. "Give us your money." Well that's my que.

I shoot an arrow tangling the thug with the knife. I then jump down onto one of the thugs, and then I jumped off him and punched the last one in temple knocking him out. "Are you alright sir?"

"Yes thank you."

"Make sure to call the cops." I said as I used a grapple arrow and climbed up a building. When I looked down at the man I saved. He pulled out his phone very calmly like he wasn't in danger a moment ago. "Found her boss she came to the rescue just like you said." He said on the phone.

"Hope she has a happy hunt." He said as he hung up a left.

I decided to act launched a tracking device that landed on his pants. 'Now what do I do, they planned this to trap me, but what is there plan. I hear very soft footstep approach me as I quickly turn around. When I do I see a crazy blue woman with a sword that was about to take my head off. Luckily I dodged that and started running in hopes to put distance between me and the swordswoman, and when I felt there was enough distance I fired an impact arrow. What I didn't expect was that she sliced the arrow preventing it from doing any damage. 'Ah dreg.' "So, anyway that we could talk this over?" I questioned.

She then ran at me. "I take that as a no."

I shot a net arrow hoping to slow her down, so I could get to a better position. The net was easily sliced through not buying me anytime. She swung her sword low at my legs. I just managed to jump over the sword. I extended my leg to kick her head, but she just leans back to dodge it and tried to slash upwards, but luckily duck to the ground. I look up to see that she was about to stab me while I was on the ground, but rolled to the side. I got another arrow and fired right when she was in front of me. She easily dodged and swung her sword downwards. I did a front roll and started running away. 'This isn't my most heroic, or bravest moments but I need to put more distance between me and her.'

I jumped over a fence and got onto a vent system and pulled out an explosive arrow and fired. My opponent sliced the arrow not knowing that it was going to explode. The explosion gave me the ample time to escape before I could get sliced into tiny pieces. I ran as fast as I could, jumping fences, trash bins, cars, and almost anything in front of me. I finally got to my house and looked behind me, and I saw that I had lost her. I climbed up to my room's window. I took my costume off and put on my pjs and went to bed.

After about six hours of sleep my alarm clock woke me up, and so I got ready for the day. Took a shower, got dressed, brushed my teeth, and headed downstairs for breakfast. When I got downstairs to the dining room where my grandparents were waiting for me. Grandma was cooking breakfast, and grandpa was reading the news, I take a seat at the table. "Good morning Grandpa, good morning grandma."

"Good morning Arty." Grandpa responded. "Sleep well?"

OK that's odd because they never ask how well I sleep. Okay lame reason to get jumpy, but you try keeping a massive from the one's you love. "Yeah, why do you ask?"

OK not the best response to grandpa's question, he'll know I'm hiding something. "I was cleaning up in the attic last night, and after that I decided to check up on you and saw that you weren't there." Grandma explained.

They know, "Alright I'm the new Green Arrow."

Both of them looked at each other, and did something I didn't expect, they laughed. "Oh Arty we knew for a while now we were just trying to figure out when and how you were going to tell us, and we just got a little impatient and decided to back you up into a corner." Grandpa said.

I was still silent as they continued laughing and my breakfast being served to me. "Don't get us wrong, we are going to put limits on your 'extra-curricular' activities and the first thing we are going to do after you get back from school is to give you some tough training." Grandma told me.

I looked perplexed, wait they are letting me go out in dangerous neighborhoods to fight crime. I had to say the obvious, "Wait you're letting me do an occupation that could get me killed because I have Breaktops attention." I state.

They both look at me smiling. "We had always thought that you would eventually go out and fight the good fight." Grandpa said.

"We'll talk about it when you come home after school and start up a training program so you have more tactics to use when you fight villains." Grandma said. "Right now eat your breakfast and get to school before you're late."

I look at my phone and notice that school starts in half an hour. I finish my breakfast and run to the door, "Love you grandma love you grandpa."

I run to school and meet up with Jade and Jason at class. "Wow Art, you made it with just 5 minutes to spare, what happened?" Jade asked.

"My grandparents wanted to have a talk with me before I go to school." I replied.

Jade's eyes widened at hearing this. "Oh so you had the awkward talk with the gran-folks."

I look at her confused. "What?"

"You know the 'talk'" she said with emphasis on the word talk.

I was about to respond, when the bell rang and the teacher walked in. School went on as usual. Jason's competition is this weekend, so he is obviously wasn't paying attention to anything, and I mean anything. I had to nudge him just to tell him that class was done for every class, even during lunch. I told my friends I had to help my grandparents clean the attic and return home.

"Grandma, grandpa I'm home." I yelled.

"Down here." I hear grandma shouted from the basement.

I went down into the basement to find both grandma and grandpa in the basement with an elaborate set up. There was a practice mat, gear, a practice robot, and a work bench. "Wow, what's all this for?"

"Training." Grandma said. "As long as you're going out to fight the good fight Ollie and I are going to lay down some ground rules: One you will now have a midnight curfew, two before you go out to patrol the streets you will check in with me or Ollie, three you will train two hours a day, four you will keep your grades up, and finally maintain a social life with your friends."

After about a few moments of silence I finally respond. "When do we start?"

8:30 P.M. the Glades

After 2 hours of training doing my homework and listening to grandpa on how to construct arrows, so they weren't 'outdated.' I was scouring rooftop looking for trouble (criminals if it wasn't obvious). I also got a name on the blue skinned woman who wants to kill me; her names Curare the League of Assassins. Bricktop most really want me dead if he's willingly spends that much money for an Assassin. Yeah me. I eventually see her just five feet away from me about to strike me with sword till I decide to roll forwards. I take an arrow and my bow, and fired with an impact arrow that barely missed because of her quick reflexes. She was about to slice me in a diagonal slash, but I rolled to the side and used a grapple arrow too climbed up and when I got to the top I fired two arrows at the same time, which she sliced in half. I smirked as that resulted in foam surrounding her and trapping her. Her sword was no longer being held. I went back down took a picture, and sent it to the two trustworthy detectives, who later called back up and was eventually taken away. I returned home with 3 minutes to spare before my curfew. "So how did it go?" Grandma asked.

"It went really well, Curare has been captured, and I didn't break curfew."

Grandma smirked. "Get to bed."

I also decided to smirk. "All right, night grandma." I said as I went to bed.

3rd P.O.V.

Lt. Jensen was in her office was doing paperwork when she saw the assassin she pulled out her phone, and called Bricktop. "We have a problem."

"Yes, the one I hired failed I'm sorry, so to make it up to you I sending you a supply of high grade weapons hoping that you'll be able to use them to remove a certain archer that you insisted on taking down yourself."

She waited a few seconds before she signaled one of her officers to go to Curare. "Well Mr. Brickston happy hunting." She hung up.

After about 45 minutes the officer she sent came back to tell her that no one was in the interrogation room, or the observation room. She got up from her desk and signaled two other officers to follow them when they got to the door one officer went inside the observation booth one stayed in the hall the other followed Jensen into the interrogation room. She sits across from Curare with her officer standing behind her. "Well Curare I'm sorry to say but you only had a certain amount of chances, and you run out of chances once you're in police custody."

Curare just stared at the lieutenant angrily. "However, my organization is still going to need your special talents."

Curare looks at her with curiosity. The lieutenant passes Curare a note. "The camera's back on, let's hope you take the opportunities given to you."

She then leaves the interrogation room with her officer. After about 35 minutes of waiting Curare broke free of her cuffs grabs a chair that's used to break down the door. She runs out and takes down all of the cops until she gets to the evidence room and finds her sword. When the cops see that she has her sword they gets scared and just start shooting. This didn't work as deflected the blasts with her sword she jumped out of the window went to the shadows where she disappeared.

End