[IC] Fires of the Night. A Starfire X Nightwing rp.

[Angel Vicky]

Fires of the Night

A Starfire and Nightwing Roleplay.

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Chapter 1 - Starlight Starbright.

Modern Day. The Solar System . Local time.

Koriand'r, Princess of Tamaran, caged like an animal aboard her captor's spacecraft. Desperately she yelled and pummelled the titanium cell door.

“RAAAAAGHHHH!!!” Her Tamaranian fury roared across the ship. Her alien captor's turn to the door, they turn to each other and mumble in their native tongue. “She's more formidable than we thought....”

“Sir, she's going to break free at this rate.” His subordinate states and holds his spear pointed toward the cage.

“We'll make it to this blue water world with Rated 1 Humanoid life and get reinforced materials. We just need to hold on until we reach it.”

They never reached the Earth before Koriand'r broke free. And thus, with her supersonic flight and lack of oxygen requirement, “Starfire” blasts across space appearing as a green streak of light across the skyline of Bludhaven like a shooting star.

Landing with a thud in the snow. The flame haired tanned skinned beauty looked around her new surroundings. She had no idea where she was. She spotted a local native of the planet. They looked horrified at her Tamaranian armoured suit and ran away.


She knew then she scared the locals. In the back alley she wandered in, she came across a homeless man. He looks up at her and stares. She holds out her hand to demand his coat. “Agara!” She points at his coat. He was astonished she was so intimidating for a beautiful, super-model like thin tiny woman. He didnt understand her language and blinks. “Agara! Agara!!” She yells louder and her eyes glow green. He immediately gives her his hoody and she puts it over herself and covered her long red hair and kept her head down to avoid anyone's eye contact.

“Where am I?” She thought. “I have to get back to Tamaran before they find me.” She looks up at the full moon in the sky.

[Nyther]

It had been going smoothly. Almost too smoothly. His first week in Bludhaven he had stopped ten muggings and numerous petty store robberies. He wondered if all the big time criminals gravitated towards Gotham. He was almost bored with everything, but maybe he should enjoy it while he could. He stood on top of a rooftop and gazed out on the city with his binoculars. Nighwingulars? He shook his head at the thought. Bruce always had a cool name for his gadgets. He was sure he'd come up with plenty on his own, but he'd call Bruce tomorrow and ask his opinion on the subject.

Suddenly, something caught his eye. It was an unmarked white delivery van pulling up in front of the Bludhaven bank. He quickly folded up his, (bird eyes? No, still no good), and swung using his grappling hook, (bird claw? No, not the time right now) to the top of the Bludhaven bank. As he peered down he saw a small group of men get out of the van. They opened up the back doors and pulled several bank robbing tools and headed up the steps.

He shimmied down the building and landed on top of the truck. "Hey guys." He said standing up. "Do you have cool names for your bank tools? I'm stuck on some names for my stuff."

The men turned around and furrowed their brow at the sight of him and looked confusedly at each other. "The hell it that?" One said to the other. "I think it's that Batman wanna be that's trying to clean up this town." One replied. They laughed as their put down their tools and reached for their guns.

"I don't like being laughed at guys." Dick replied as he chucked a gas pellet in the center of the men. The smoke quickly released and the men doubled over coughing. Dick quickly went to work immobilizing the men. Before the smoke cleared, he had all the men tied back to back and arm to arm. He then grappled back up the building, took out his cell phone and quickly called the cops to his location.

[Angel Vicky]

“WHAT!? What do you mean you LOST her?” Empress Blackfire screams across the radio to the aliens who abducted Starfire. Or rather, Blackfire had sold to during her take over of Tamaran.

“She just broke free. She was too strong!” They remarked, all they heard was Blackfire growling as she slammed the intercom button down to turn off.

Meanwhile on the city streets, the noises were loud and obnoxious to the red head girl who wandered the night with her dark hoodie jacket. Police sirens and bright lights cause her to back away into an alley, covering her eyes in pain.

She turned around to be faced with 3 large men peering down at her. “Hey little girl, isn’t it past your bed time?” One sniggers at the others who grin menacingly.

Starfire crosses her eyes at them. She didn’t understand but their expression said it all. Trouble.

One goes to grab her but she puts her arm up and stops him. It hurt the man as she had super human strength. The other two pounce but she kicks one back into the wall making a dent and the other she grabbed with her other free hand and tossed him over her head.

They all scarper and run away in fear. Starfire huffs. ‘Weird Men.’ On her planet, no-one was allowed to touch the Princess by penalty of death.

[Nyther]

Dick lept from rooftop to rooftop. Doing aerial acrobatic along the way. He loved the feeling of the wind against his face. He kept his ear out for any signs of trouble. He smiled as he landed on a rooftop and tucked and rolled across to the other side. He stood up with a flourish and looked around. "No one?" He sighed as he peered out over the building. Suddenly he sees three guy comes running down an alleyway and stop midway. They all appeared to be catching their breath. He listened intently as the men spoke. He couldn't make out a lot of their conversation, but it was something about a woman and how they should go back and "show her who's boss.".

One of the men pulled out a pistol while the other two grabbed pieces of rebar from the ground and walked back in the direction they came. Dick quickly pulled out and tossed three birdarangs (birdarangs? yea, screw it) and tossed them at the men. Each one hit the men in the hands, causing them to drop their weapons in pain. He quickly lept down the building and landed a few feet away from the men. "It's late guys. Can we skip to the end of this?" He quipped as the men stared wide-eyed at him.

The first man quickly went to pick up his dropped gun. Before he could even get halfway, Dick lept forwards and gave him a hard right uppercut, sending him flying backwards, out cold. The other two men quickly bum rushed him. Dick caught the first man with a right sidekick to the face. He wasn't able to catch the other in time, however, and he wrapped his arms around Dick and kept running backwards. He rained down a few elbows on the top of the man's skull, until he loosened his grip. Dick then brought both his elbow down and his knee up to the man's head. They connected with a sickening crack as the man crumpled to the ground unconscious.

Before he could recover fully, the other man had shaken off the affects of the kick and was now charging towards Dick, throwing wild hay makers. Dick blocked the first few before ducking under one of them and coming up with an uppercut to the man's chin. It hit square on the man's jaw and sent him crumpled to the ground, out cold. Dick quickly checked himself for injuries. He winched as he stretched his arm up. "Cracked ribs, great. Guess no grappling up buildings if I can help it." He sighed as he decided to finish the rest of his patrol from the ground.

[Angel Vicky]

Starfire could have sworn she had seen a human darting across the rooftops very quickly. But she knew they didn't fly. Not like her. She had to remain on the ground to not cause suspicion. She felt her stomach grumble. She had 4 stomachs and a very fast metabolism. She had to find food and fast.

Then she heard a male's scream coming back from the alleyway, she presumed it was those men who ran from her. She shook her head as she wasn't going to help someone who was not going to help her. She walked the city streets until she came across someone robbing a late night convenience store. She saw food inside and decided to sneak past the door into the side alley. The store's alarm bells rang far and wide, cop sirens closing in. She hid behind a dumspter until the robber fled and the cops chased. She darts into the store using supersonic flight which was too fast for humans to see. Wide eyed at the amount of food, albeit strange food.

Grabbing some chocolate bars by the bucket load and gobbling them whole with wrappers on. She made her way to the bread and ripped chunks out of it with the plastic wrapper on. They didnt have plastic wrapping on Tamaran. She choked on it and held her tongue out at it. 'Yuck.' She was just hungry, she did not want to steal from anyone. She just had to eat before she passed out.

She hears a noise and ducked down. Cops close the store and lock the door and Starfire was stuck inside until morning. At least she had somewhere to sleep for tonight though. And then she could get back to finding out information tomorrow.

[Nyther]

Suddenly he heard a house alarm go off. "This night just keeps going." He thought as he took off towards the sound. Not being able to go rooftop to rooftop set him back a bit on time. He arrived just as the cops were chasing someone down the road. "That must be the guy." He thought as he raced down the road towards his motorcycle. Something in the store caught his eye, but when he took a second look there was nothing. He shrugged it off and kept running.

By the time he got to his motorcycle (Wingmobile? I'm going to stop thinking up names) and got to the road, he saw the cops returning to the scene with someone in the back seat. "They got the guy? Perfect time to call it a night." He though as he saw the soft light of dawn approaching. He headed back to his small loft apartment. He approached through a boarded up back alleyway and parked his bike. He painfully shimmied up the fire escape and entered through the window.

He took off his mask and slowly took of his shirt. He examined his ribs and poked them softly. He winched slightly in pain and walked into his bathroom to grab some bandage wraps. "Should heal up just fine." He thought as he bandaged himself. After he was done, he collapsed onto his bed. Suddenly his Titan communicator buzzed to life. He pressed it and a voice came on in his ear. "Robin?" Cyborg's voice said.

"Not my name anymore." Dick replied.

"Right, Nightwing. How's Bludhaven?" Cyborg asked.

"Are you really calling to make small talk?" Dick replied.

"No. There's a message for you at Titan Tower." Cyborg replied.

"Patch it through." Dick said. There was a long silence.

"You don't understand." Cyborg started. "We just got off patrol and B.B. went in your room for SOME REASON!" Dick heard Cyborg yell, probably directing it at Beast Boy. "And he found a red envelope on your bed. None of us placed it there and no alarms were triggered. Since you're the detective we left the scene alone for you to check out."

Dick sat up quickly and was already getting dressed and headed out the window when the last thing Cyborg said to him before he disconnected chilled him to the core. "The name Dick Grayson was written on the front."

[Angel Vicky]

A new day

"Get out of here you freakin' bum!" The shopkeeper yells across the street, throwing empty cartons at the hoodied girl who slept in his broken into shop. Starfire ran away down the street, keeping covered from everybody. It was a cold day and she felt the chill, more so than the humans who had big coats, scarves and hats on. She only had one jacket, which she kept clung to her body tightly.

She walked what seemed for hours on end. She didn't understand the humans talking around her and she did not much want to care what they said, it was not her priority. She passed a group of locals who were talking about Nightwing.

"He used to be Robin you know, The Batman's sidekick."

"I heard he took another young protege on in Gotham."

"I prefer Nightwing though. He's so much more manly than Robin."

Star was hunting, land marking the Bludhaven city for any sign of a port. She wasn't going to have any luck. And then a newspaper flew into her face and she looked at the front page, its weird symbols and the picture.

'Nightwing does it again!' And the picture was him in silhouette against the moonlight leaping through the air with people cheering for him below.

'He is the people's champion! Surely he must know how I can get back home!' Koriand'r thought to herself. Where would he go tonight though, she wondered and would have to keep her eyes peeled.

[Nyther]

The sun was just rising as Dick arrived at the Titan Tower. Cyborg was standing at the entrance waiting on him. Dick parked and got off his motorcycle and approached Cyborg. "So, what's the deal?" Dick asked.

"I don't know." Cyborg replied. "Like I told you a red envelope is on your bed. I sent Beast Boy away and the Tower is empty. Do your thing detective."

Dick slowly entered the Tower and began to scour the place for clues on how someone got in without triggering any of the security measure he and Cyborg had installed. He had based most of it off of the Bat-cave, which was near impenetrable unless you knew it's secrets. Dick buzzed Cyborg through the communicator. "The cameras catch anything?" Dick asked as he headed to him room. Having found nothing unusual so far.

"Nothing. Maybe if we had a camera in your bedroom." Cyborg replied.

Dick chuckled to himself as he slowly entered his room. It was just as he left hit. Other than the small red envelope on his bed. It was placed to nice and neatly, it was as if whoever had placed it wasn't in a hurry or worried about being caught. They had to know a thing or two about the Titan's security and routines. He slowly picked up the envelope and examined it. There was no trace of oils or anything that may indicate fingerprints.

Dick called Cyborg in to examine the envelope before he opened it. Cyborg gave it the all clear, saying he couldn't see any fingerprints or any traces of harmful chemicals. Dick slowly tore open the envelope and pulled out a folded up piece of paper fell out. Dick bent down and picked it up off the floor and unfolded it. Only to drop it to the floor again once he saw what it was. Cyborg picked it up and examined it. It was a poster for the flying Graysons with the two adult figures crossed out.

Dick grabbed the poster out of his hands and raced for the door. "Let me know immediately about any more unusual activity." Dick called back to Cyborg. Dick then hopped on his motorcycle and headed for the only person he knew could help him, Bruce Wayne. Dick would have to stop by his apartment and change into his civilian clothes first.

Poster

[Angel Vicky]

Starfire had been wandering around the city all day now and still no sign of this planet's Champion, their Herald of Justice. Always making sure her head down and eyes unable to be seen. Her green glowing eyes would surely attract attention. And she was sure this world was not ready for alien contact yet, they were not that attuned to the idea of their existence. Starfire would cause much chaos in religion and world media. And it was best she made a good example of herself as well or they would never help her leave for Tamaran so that she could confront her evil sister.

She walked past a tall apartment block when she heard glass shattering from above followed by a scream. She had to look up, but luckily everyone else was too busy looking to notice her flaming red hair and orange skin.

She wanted to help but she'd be seen flying. So she watched the events unfold. Eventually the fire started to spread as the fire brigade fought the fire and got people above it out with ladders. It seemed that most people were rescued and Starfire smiled as she turned to walk away when suddenly...

"AGH! SARAH! MY BABY!" She spins around on one foot to see a trapped child screaming at a top floor window. She gasps as the building began to lose integrity. She knew she would be seen but a child's life was in danger! For X'ahl's sake, it had to be risked! She thought.

Starfire bolted into the air with a green streak of light, her hood falls back and reveals bright flaming hair. The onlookers gasp as they watched her fly upto the window and grab the child.



She swoops back down just as quickly and puts the girl down in front of her mommy, who cried "Thank you!" Starfire nods and immediately puts her hood up and scarpers the area on foot really quickly. All people saw was an orange flaming angel in purple save the child before disappearing into the shadows.

[Nyther]

Dick arrived at the Bat-cave with the poster. After analyzing the poster and talking with Dick, Bruce comes to a chilling conclusion. The poster was taken from Bruce's personal collection that he kept in the mansion. Someone had to have known that Dick and Bruce were at least friends, if not ex partners. They then knew where Bruce kept this personal item and stole it from the mansion without being seen or recorded. This trouble both Bruce and Dick. They decided to investigate separately. Bruce would try and find out anything he could around Gotham and Dick would continue his search in Bludhaven.

Dick left the Bat-cave mid afternoon and was headed home for a much needed rest before his patrol tonight. Dick was headed on the road out of Gotham to Bludhaven, when something up ahead caught his eye. It looked like an apartment fire. Dick took off as fast as his motorcycle could take him towards the fire. He skidded to a halt just in time to see a woman take off away from the building. Dick looks at the gathered crowd. "Everyone out of the building?" He asks in a panic.

One of the woman nodded and started to speak. "Yes. Everyone is safe now thanks..." Dick quickly cut her off as he heard the firetrucks in the distance headed his way. "Stay here." He ordered them and he quickly took off towards the fleeing woman. He knew the general direction she had went, but couldn't seem to get a good bead on her. He drove around for several minutes before giving up and heading back to Bludhaven. The note and poster had unnerved him enough that he decided to let a possible arsonist go free.

[Angel Vicky]

Starfire hides behind a lipped wall over a rooftop as she heard Dick's motorcycle drive away. She knew someone was tailing her and maybe they thought she was to blame as she fleed so suddenly. But if she had stayed, they would have found out she was extra terrestrial! She had to find this champion and fast. She possibly risked his wrath but she could handle herself in combat sure enough. but if he turned out to be just and good, he might help her without letting the entire world know of her presence, which could shock the humans.

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Later that eve just as she thought she had the all clear, she felt her belly grumble again. She was soooo hungry. She had to find food. She gulped as the only thing she could see was a dumpster full of rotten food. She smelt it, to her it smelled like something back home and so she took a bite of the gone off mouldy food and swallowed. "Yack." It did not taste very nice as she threw it back in there.

She sighs sadly and could almost cry. That was when the building next to her suddenly rang loudly. It made her scream, the bell was next to her ear! It was a bank. She held her ears as she looked around to the front and saw 5 armed robbers running in from a black van. She was sure they were doing something...not nice...

And so she wonders if the champion may show up here, maybe she had a stroke of luck? She ventures inside quietly behind the armed robbers, making sure not to get noticed by them and she hid in the shadows. She didn't want to risk being seen in league with those kind. They had no honour or pride. They wore masks to conceal themselves. This was considered very cowardly amongst Tamaranians.

[Nyther]

His earpiece rang loudly in his ear. Already on the Titan computer, which he had been for several hours, Dick pulled up the alarm. "Bank alarm." He said silently to himself. He had been alone in Titan tower for about an hour now. He had told the other Titans to keep their regular routines to not raise suspicion to whomever had broken in. He had been there hoping to catch the intruder again, but he couldn't ignore this alarm. Cursing silently to himself he armed the security system and took off towards the bank.

He arrives a block from the bank and parks in an alleyway where he can get a good view of the bank. He takes out a pair of binoculars and surveys the area. He saw a plain black van parked in front of the bank. A quick look inside and he can make out three men milling around in the lobby. "Lookouts." He muttered as he focused his gaze towards the vault. He could see the vault door open, but couldn't see how many men were inside. He put the binoculars back inside the motorcycle's pouch and dismounted.

He quickly slid up behind the van and peered over the hood at the three men inside. They were all looking out the front, as if expecting him. He retrieved a metal boomerang from his waist and tossed it towards the window on the opposite side of the lobby. It crashed through the front window and circled around, crashed through a side window before returning to him. The three thugs looked towards the direction of the sound, unsure if they should investigate or stay put.

This was Dick's chance. He drew and extended his escrima sticks as he ran towards the open door and the men. Before they knew what was happening, Dick had knocked one man across the skull, knocking him out. The second man started to turn, but received a stick across the back of his skull. The third man had turned and was raising his gun towards Dick. Dick spun around and tossed one of his sticks towards the man. It hit him square on the nose and he fell before he even got a shot off. Dick dashed to the fallen man to retrieve his stick and make sure the man was out cold. He quickly tied all the men up and tossed their guns away before slinking off towards the vault.

[Angel Vicky]

As Starfire agilely glided from behind one wall to the next, slinking her way past the cameras. Then she heard the cries of the three lookouts behind her down the hallway. She followed the main robbers toward the vault. She wondered why they were screaming. Of course, it must have been this planet’s Champion! Her eyes light up with green energy in excitement. She was not one for containing her emotions. As they did so, the armed men in front of her see the green light from around the corner in which she had hidden.

“Hey! Who’s there! Show yourself!” Their leader yells and points his sawn off shotgun toward the green light. Starfire gasps and closes her eyes tight, the green light disappearing. She huddled around herself with her head hung low so her hood could cover her face. The man walks over to her hiding spot and sees the small girl huddled around her knees.

“Hey! What you doin’ down here kid!?” He shoves the shotgun in her face; it would be no good if this witness remained alive to tell the cops what they looked like. She slowly looks up at the man. He starts to slowly back away. Starfire could see he held some kind of strange weapon. Her features startled him as her hood falls back to reveal flaming red hair that looked almost on fire.

She did not take kindly to being threatened. And this man was up to no good. He was in a place that looked like it housed important artefacts or documents. Starfire had a very strong sense of justice. She grabbed his shotgun and picks it up, picking him up on the end of it as well.

The leader dangles and cries out in fear of this alien Amazoness who appeared from nowhere. She simply shook him off the gun and then bent it over her knee. Then simply hands it back to him with a confused expression on his face, rendering it useless. His two friends start firing their guns at her. She darts through the air behind some desks for cover. She was not bulletproof, unfortunately.

All Nightwing would have heard was some yelling about some kid being down there, then a cry of fear, followed by a barrage of gunfire. Something was definitely up. Maybe it was his ex-comrades in the Titans? Perhaps Raven had teleported herself in and came to stop them, since no-one had seen neither hide nor hair of her for some time. He would not have expected an extra-terrestrial who was kidnapped by other extra-terrestrials and forced to escape to Earth. That’s for sure.