{"sf1_id":910564,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Emerald Knight vs. Night Glare","author":"Volcan MacAingeal","words":3668,"posted_at":"2015-09-14T13:40:00.000Z","tags":["Great-Horned Owl","Heroine","SuperPowers","Vixen","anti-hero","battle","superhero","thief"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/910564-emerald-knight-vs-night-glare","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/910564","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=910564\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"A collaborative story I did with sarahdeschain on FA who was kind enough to assist me in introducing another of my newest characters.\nWhile out on patrol in El Torres, Emerald Knight encounters a theft taking place at a local jewelry store, and when she investigates, she encounters the wandering bandit, Night Glare, who treads on a fine line between good and evil, doing what she wants when she wants and owing allegiance to no one...\nNight Glare's biography soon to follow\nEmerald Knight belongs to sarahdeschain","content":"\n-El Torres, night time, unknown date-\n A burglar alarm could be heard from the\nstreet, echoing from the busted window of a closed jewelry store in the\ndowntown area of El Torres, glass scattered all about the street, and a sign\nreading of a special on diamonds that had once been on the windowsill was now\nlying on the sidewalk, with a hole in the middle left most likely by a knife.\nThe sound reached the ears of Emerald Knight, who was patrolling the streets\nfrom the rooftops when her keen ears caught the buzz of the burglar alarm. \nClaire\nhad been heading back to HQ planning to call it a night before she heard the\nalarm go off nearby, and rolled her eyes in exasperation. \"Really? Okay...wrap\nup the robbery and then head back so i can catch some sleep,\" she said with a\nsigh as she decided to put her old skills to work and quietly approach the\nscene until she could get a look at the situation.\nShe\nstood on a roof overlooking the store, seeing the broken window, down to which\nshe descended, noticing the sign that had been left on the sidewalk on account\nof the break-in. \"A diamond sale? Huh, that's surprising.\" as she\nlooked inside through the broken window.\nInside, she saw a winged figure dressed in leather clothes\nstanding by the jewellry display cases, sweeping a taloned hand through the\njewelry cases to collect a handful of diamond-imbedded rings and necklaces,\nchuckling confidently to themselves as they spoke to themselves. \"This\nshould keep me going for a while.\" Their voice was rather feminine; apparently\na female avian was the culprit of this robbery.\nShe rolled her eyes again and elegantly entered through the\nshattered window, being mindful of the glass. Once she was inside she\npositioned herself behind the Avian and then spoke. \"I don't think this jewelry\nstory is twenty four seven miss, so I'm afraid you'll have to leave those and\npay for them in the morning...along with this window.\" adding a slight\nchuckle towards the end.\nThe avian froze, and slowly turned to look over her shoulder,\nshifting her wing a little so she could see past it. When she was seen in full,\nEmerald Knight saw that the avian was in fact a great horned owl; she didn't\nhave any outstanding features except for a pair of dark goggles over her eyes,\nhiding them behind the material of the eyewear. \"Well, well, well; was\nstarting to wonder if there even were any heroes in this town that might show\nup,\" she remarked, spinning a ring around her finger as she looked over\nher would-be captor, arching an eyebrow. \"So what do they call you; the\nGreen Vixen?\"\nThe Vixen frowned. \"Actually, the name's Emerald Knight.\nAnd what do they call you; the Engineer?\" She retorted as she shifted her\npose in case the owl tried anything funny or if she tried to make a move.\n\"Either way, how 'bout showing some wisdom like most owls and put the\njewels back where they belong. I'm not really in the mood to go into a brawl,\"\nshe reasoned as Emerald kept her gaze focused on her potential opponent.\n\"Unfortunate; I came to town looking for\nexcitement,\" the owl said, mockingly, but didn't lower the jewelry.\n\"And to answer your other question,\" she said as she raised her other\nhand to her goggles, lifting them to reveal that she'd closed the lids of her\nlarge eyes. \"I'm called...\" Her eyes opened, and Emerald Knight was\ngiven quite a shock, as she saw the eyes of this owlette were solid red, like\nblood; no pupils, whites, or iris' -just red. \"Night Glare.\" And at\nthat, her eyes suddenly glowed brightly, becoming a red-white as illuminated\nher features. \"You might want to duck.\"\nEmerald Knights Expression shifted to one of shock as Night\nGlare revealed her eyes. \"Well that's...disturbing... Wait, why\nwould...\" she trailed off as they started to glow. \"Oooh...\" \nReacting quickly, she opted to make a roll behind one of the\ncounters to avoid what ever was about to happen. She was just in time to\nnarrowly evade a pair of bright red-white beams that exploded from the owlette's\neyes, racing across the store and blowing a hole into the wall where the door\nhad been seconds earlier; the beams emitted a rather frightening sound as they\nerupted, like a cross between a crackle of electricity, and a loud hum, like\nnothing Emerald had ever heard before. The blast resulted in a large explosion\nas pieces of the store front were sent all across the street; an impressive\ndisplay of power by someone who, at first, had appeared completely ordinary.\n\"You know you're really making this a rough night for\nme,\" Emerald Knight called as she positioned herself to not only see what\nthe attack could do but also to quickly move to a another position ether in\nclose or new cover depending on the Avian's next move.\nNight Glare glanced over at where she had heard Emerald\nKnight's voice, laughing heartily. \"Rough nights are what I do best,\nsister,\" she said. \"If they were always easy, they wouldn't be any\nfun!\" And with that, she ran for the door, charging outside before making\na sharp right and heading up the street, still carrying the stolen jewelry in\nher clenched hand.\nEmerald Knight poked her head out, seeing that the owlette\nhad vacated the premises with the stolen property. She sighed \"Why do they\nalways run?\" She asked as she easily vaulted over the counter and out the\ndoor after the Owlette. \nThe Vixen was quick to pick up her trailed and follow after\nher even though the Avian had a head start over her. Putting her own reflexes\nto the test to try and keep up with her. It wasn't hard for her to gain some\nground on her; everyone knew most avians were not sprinters, they were fliers.\nThe air was their territory but the ground advantage belonged to land-based\nfolks like herself. \n\"You're not the only one with glowing eyes, girl,\"\nEmerald called as her eyes started to glow a bright greenish white as a green hard\nlight wall appeared just a bit ahead of Night Glare, blocking her path.\n \"Whoa!\"\nNight Glare squawked before she skidded to a stop just short of running smack\ninto the wall. Reacting quickly, she made a left to head down another street\nbefore opening her wings. \nEmerald Knight knew that she only held her edge while Night\nGlare was on the ground; if that owl were allowed to take off and managed to\nget high enough, there'd be no catching her. \"Oooh no you don't!\" She\ndeclared, and began to focus. \nIt took Emerald Knight a moment to refocus dissipating the\nwall from before to form a chain link like cage around them, forcing Night\nGlare to stop and preventing her from taking flight to make her getaway.\n\"Sorry but like you said wouldn't be fun if it was that easy, right?\"\nEmerald smirked though now she had to make sure to keep up her concentration\nnot to loose the construct.\n            Night\nGlare examined the energy cage around her with a curious look, testing one of\nthe 'bars' with a touch of her finger. The cage held just as firm as the real\nthing, to which Emerald Knight smirked at if only to hide the fact she herself\nfelt the touch as Night Glare tested the cage, not wanting to make the owl\naware of that fact though.\n\"Hmm... impressive cage,\" she said, looking at\nEmerald Knight with a sly smirk. \"But how will it react to\nMicrowaves?\" Her eyes glowed again as her gaze shifted to a hard stare, flexing\nthe muscles around them.\n            \"Why\nthank you I -wait microwaves?\" Emerald Knight asked, concerned.\nAnd with that, Night Glare turned her gaze up, aiming right\nat the bars as once more, she discharged the powerful beams from her eyes. As\nthe beams hit the cage, though it didn't shatter it did quickly dissipate as\nEmerald Knight buckled over as if she was the one hit instead. Luckily for her\nshe only felt the kinetic force of the hit and not the radiation, if the owl\nwas speaking the truth and emitting Microwaves from those beams. Though it took\nher a moment to recover from the shock. \n\"Uh well that... That uh, was a thing...\" She said.\n Night Glare chuckled\nas she saw the vixen fall when the cage was gone. \"Well, isn't that\ninteresting?\" She asked, crossing her arms.\n\"Don't think that will give you an edge; I'm not that\neasy to deal with.\" Emerald Knight warned, her own eyes still glowing as\nshe stared down the owl.\n\"Neither am I,\" returned Night Glare, setting down\nthe bag of jewelry. \"But, clearly if I try to fly again, you'll just put\nanother cage over me, so this is about to get...\" she reached into her\njacket with both hands, drawing forth a pair of bowie knives.\n\"Messy.\" She twirled one of them in her hand to an inverted grip,\nadopting a sideways stance with both blades raised. \"Try to keep this\nentertaining; I'm starting to get some high hopes.\"\n            (Play 'Last Man Standing' by\nHammerfall)\n            (Yes I know they're both women; if\nyou think you can choose a better song, try me)\nEmerald Knight smirked as she got up to her feet again.\n\"Oh trust me.\" She retorted as she formed a pair of green bladed\nconstructs over her silver arm bands. \"I will keep things\ninteresting.\"\n\"Ha!\" Night Glare shouted, lunging forward and\nmaking a stab with her main-hand knife, going for her stomach first. Emerald\nKnight quickly blocked the lunge with her energy blades which did hold up\nagainst the steel of Night Glares knives, but Emerald Knight cringed as the\nblades met, still feeling the impact of the blade if not its sharp bite, but\nthis time she held both the constructs and her ground against the attack, not\nbacking down.\n\"My turn,\" she said as she willed the blade on her\nleft arm band to shift over her hand to form a punching glove long enough to\nswing a left hook at the left side of Night Glares abdomen.\nNight Glare jumped back to avoid the swing, feeling the draft\nof the giant energy glove as it passed before she arched an eyebrow. \"Well\nif that's not the strangest thing I've seen this week,\" she remarked\nbefore she widened her eyes, which once more glowed as she fired another pair\nof beams at Emerald Knight.\nThe vixen quickly rolled to the right to avoid the blast from\nNight Glares eyes, hearing them strike the ground behind her with an electronic\nfix and the sound of asphalt fragments hitting the street. \"Not as strange\nas your laser beam eyes...okay maybe just as strange.\" She commented as\nshe then had the glove shift to form what looked like a blaster from a video\ngame while she then combined the knife construct on her other armband to form a\nhandle. \"Sometimes this is just fun,\" she remarked with a smirk as\nshe fired green energy projectiles the size of tennis balls at Night Glare\nwhich weren't fatal but packed a strong kinetic force with each hit.\n The owl managed to\nevade the first two, but the third one struck her square in the chest, making\nher gasp as she stumbled back a few steps, followed by a forth that nearly sent\nher off of her feet as it hit her shoulder and rebounded into her wing.\n\"Ow...\" She said, rubbing her chest over a vest of body armour hidden\nunder her jacket. \"Gotta love kevlar,\" she said.\nEmerald Knight quickly strode up standing over her. \"So\ninteresting enough for you?\" she grinned as she had her current constructs\nshift apart again to form a pair of glowing gloves which she had ready to shift\nif needed. \"Ready to call it and turn yourself in?\" She added with a\nbit of a chuckle.\n Night Glare chuckled.\n\"Not even close,\" she said, resuming her previous stance.\n\"Canadians are a tenacious bunch; don't you know?\" She said before\nshe lunged forward again, attacking with a series of knife-swipes, first a stab\nof her main, followed by a left-hook slash with the inverted knife, which she\nflipped around after and unleashed six consecutive slashes, each one aimed at a\ndifferent spot on Emerald Knight's body.\nEmeralds eyes went wide as she reflexively brought her arms\nup and formed a shield construct to protect her from the several hits that\nNight Glare attempted. After the assault was over Emerald Knight quivered as\nthe back lash of her power kicked in. \"Well that... still... hurt...\"\nNight Glare narrowed her eyes as she saw Emerald Knight cringe,\ntilting her head curiously. \"What's up with you? If I didn't know better\nI...\" She paused, eyes widening slightly, followed by a grin. \"So...\nthat green energy isn't some 'shield' you can shape; you actually still feel\nevery hit.\" She chuckled, before her eyes glowed again and she fired her\nbeams once more, using a left-to-right sweeping motion this time.\n            \"Oh\ncrap.\" Emerald Knight muttered as she quickly tried to dodge the beams\nkeeping her shield up in case she needed the extra hit. Though she knew that if\nshe was was hit it would still suck ether way. At the same time she formed a\nsecond construct in the shape of a Nerf dart and threw it at Night Glare\ntowards her collar bone back a smaller punch than the spheres from earlier. But\nthey were enough.\nThe owl stumbled, sending her beams straight up into the sky\nas she was knocked onto her back, landing directly in the light of a lamp post\nas she stopped firing. She suddenly squawked and rolled out of the light before\ngetting up on her knees, shaking her head. \"Dammit,\" she cursed\nbefore returning fully to her feet, still carrying both of her knives.\n\"Pretty tricky.\"\n Although Emerald\nKnight was panting she gave a curious look as she witnessed Night Glares dismay\nfrom the light post. She then let her shield dissipate and reformed the knives\nfrom before. \"Thanks... hmm let me guess; not a fan of bright lights\nright? Heh that mean you explode or melt like the gremlins do in that film when\nexposed to sunlight?\" She chuckled as she got herself ready for the next\nround.\n\"You wish it\nwere that easy,\" retorted Night Glare before she hurled one of her knives\nat Emerald, followed by charging at her while she was focused on the knife, and\nusing her now bare fist to deliver a powerful right hook towards her face.\nEmerald Knight was quick to deflect the knife coming at her\nknocking it off towards her left and was ready to block the other knife.\nInstead Emerald Knight was caught by surprise with Night Glares swing and\nstumbled back a bit before regaining her composure. But in that instant, Night\nGlare took advantage of the opening left, and managed to slash her across the\nstomach with her other knife; a fairly shallow cut, however, drawing some\nblood, but doing little more.\nEmerald Knight yelped as she stepped back her left hand checking\nthe wound inflicted. \"Aww man you know how long it'll take to fix\nthat?\" as she formed another boxing glove and motioned to swing but\ninstead the glove shot off like a spring to hit her.\nNight Glare barely ducked under the extending glove, watching\nit fly over her head. \"Whoa! Hey, what are you, a clown?\" She asked\nbefore she fired her beams again.\nEmerald Knight quickly dodged the beams cringing at the added\nstress from the cut. \"Mo what are you a light show?\" She chuckled\nbefore suddenly having an idea. \"Besides if you want something funny or\ncartoony then...\" She held up her hands as the glow of her eyes grew\nbrighter, \"How's this?\" She asked as a green anvil construct formed\nabove Night Glares position... and fell.\n Night Glare dove\nforward, tucking in her wings and rolling to narrowly avoid the attack, but as\nshe uncurled, she found herself standing rather close to Emerald Knight... and\ncompletely wide-open.\n\"Hello.\" Emerald Knight grinned as she formed a\npair of gloves and swung at Night Glares head while she had the opening.\nNight Glare took a hit square across the face, yelping in\npain and reeling from the force of the strike, falling onto her side and\ndropping her remaining knife in the process. She glared at Emerald Knight with\none eye, firing another beam, but it was a feinted shot, lancing past her,\nbefore she sprang at her with a straight punch. Emerald Knight dodged the beam\nbut was surprised by the punch and yelped as she was knocked off her feet with\nNight Glare's sudden swing. \n\"Ow.\" She groaned as she started to sit up getting to a\nknee. \"Well this has been certainly fun,\" she admitted, looking at her\nopponent.\n \"Has been? Are\nyou giving up?\" Night Glare asked, keeping her fists raised and those\ndestructive eyes of hers fixed on the vixen, ready to fire if she tried\nanything.\n Emerald Knight\nchuckled. \"Oh no; it takes a lot for me to give up...\" She returned as her\neyes glowed brilliantly as she kept her position. \"But I gotta say you\nhave given me quite a run here. Might just be I went into this tired\nalready?\" She asked as she chuckled, mostly trying to keep the owls\nattention on her.\n Night Glare narrowed\nher eyes. \"Did I hit you too hard or something?\" She asked, confused.\n\"You're acting weird.\"\n Emerald Knight smiled,\nlaughing a bit. \"Aww did you just admit to caring if I was ok?\" as\nher eyes continued to glow.\n \"Okay, I've heard\nenough of this,\" returned Night Glare as her eyes started to glow again.\n\"At least I got my work out tonight, but it's done now; seeya on the other\nside, English.\" She prepared her beams again, fixing her gaze on Emerald\nas he prepared her most powerful blast yet...\n\"Yeah, yeah, just uh, one more thing.\" Emerald\nKnight said.\n\"What?\"\nAs Emerald Knight answered, her grin was diabolical. \"You're\nabout to miss your train.\" \n\"What train...\" A train whistle went off, coming from behind\nher; she looked over her shoulder as a construct in the form of a old\nlocomotive engine had been building up and formed just to the right of Night Glare,\neven having the sounds of an actual train as it charged towards her. \n            \"You\ngotta be kidding me...\" Night Glare said in a low whisper. She tried to\navoid the hit by flying upward, but she was too slow, and was launched skyward\nas it struck her, sending her flying up onto the roof of the nearest building.\nAs she flew, the owlette was hollering out in surprise until she vanished from\nsight, followed by a crash.\nEmerald Knight had only made the train fast enough to knock\nout, not kill, but when Night Glare's feet were off the ground, the results\nwere... unexpected. \"Huh,\" she said, arching an eyebrow. \"Well, wasn't\ntrying for the team rocket effect...\" she sighed as she pulled herself to\nher feet. \"Well least the jewels were left behind so I can at least return\nthose...although I should go check on her.\" \nEmerald Knight first walked over to secure the bag of\njewelry, before she used a fire access to proceed up to the building Night Glare\nflew over, wondering if she landed on it. A collapsed air conditioner served as\nher answer, indicating a body had fallen onto it and caved it in. However, in\nthe time she'd taken to get up there, Night Glare had vanished. Although it was\npossible she couldn't have gotten far after taking the hit she had, the owlette\nwas still nowhere in sight...\n Emerald Knight sighed\nas her old spy instincts kicked in as she looked down into the vent and\ncarefully examined the air duct beneath the conditioner system.But it was\nempty; Night Glare hadn't escaped through the duct; more than likely she'd\ntaken to the air while Emerald Knight had been climbing the fire escape and\ncouldn't see her.\n\"At least I got the stolen goods back...\" she said\nto herself with a light sigh as she decided to head back to the shop; trying to\ncatch an Avian in flight would be fruitless for her since she really couldn't\nfly. So instead she left to go return the stolen diamonds.\nUnknown to the vixen however as she descended to the street\nbelow, the owlette had actually not gone far; she had only jumped to the\nneighboring building and hidden herself behind the ledge where Emerald Knight\ncouldn't spot her. When she was gone, Night Glare turned over and sat up,\nshuffling about until she propped herself up against the wall and let out a\nsigh before pulling down her goggles. She reached into her pocket, producing a\nsingle gold ring with a diamond in the top; the only thing she'd managed to\nkeep with her after being caught, while the rest was on its way back to the\njewelry store, which would not probably be watched over the next several\nnights.\nIt'd be enough to last her if she sold this ring; fuel for\nher car and a few meals, but it wouldn't be for very long, and it was still a\nlittle disappointing that she'd lost. \"Well, that didn't go according to plan,\"\nshe said. \"'Grab some diamonds; they always sell easily'. Apparently that fence\nforgot that there are superheroes around here.\" She shrugged and stood up,\npocketing the ring again. \"Oh well; at least I can't say my first visit to El\nTorres was boring.\"\n"}