Of Fire and Waves

Chapter 6: Ready Freddy

Days went by. Weeks went by. I lurked in the base, hunting for any sign of Holly's bane. I trained, I drank and I searched. I stopped sleeping. When I did, it was an exhaustion fueled collapse.
Finally, I found her. I began planning, training, preparing. It didn't occur to me how much like Night I had become until much later. Nessie, the octopus, the water manipulator, the Queen of the Sea. I uncovered lore about a half-squid, half-woman creature lurking by the coast of Norway. I found that she migrated to Southeastern Canada, and is doing business with the Rose Company down in New York. Nephele interrogated a few of their members, and found that she was paid off in a sizeable chunk of ocean and land to kill or capture me and Holly, to make way for a new Rose Company branch. She only succeeded in only one of the tasks. I called in some of my other hero contacts, like Regicide and Gargoyle. They discovered that Nessie was going to blow up another building by the docks, and kill me where Holly died. Pretty apt I think. They said that as soon as reports of the attack came in, they'd send either Griffin,Volt, who is Griffin's wife, or Gillian Argyris. Gill can manipulate electricity. She can manipulate electrical charges in the nerves and muscles of herself and others, giving her extreme flexibility, and others major problems. She has cyan streaked blonde hair cut in a long pixie cut. She has a metal mask that covers half her face and eye with silver, giving the allusion her skin fell away to reveal her metal skeleton underneath, not unlike the terminator. She wears a cyan and dark blue catsuit, with the same patterns as Night's, with the light cyan on the outside and dark blue on the inside. Her hands are protected and made more deadly by silver plated gloves that are an excellent conductor of electricity. She wears military grade blue boots with silver on the bottom for a deadly kick.
I was ready for Nessie this time. I made a new uniform, one that is slimmer and lighter than the armor. My new uniform is a dark grey and red turtleneck sleeveless crop-top with grey and red leggings. I blend into the night sky far better than I had before. My boots are military grade boots, spray painted red and grey. My mask is a pair of goggles, and a mask, not unlike one you'd use for paintballing. Except this mask doesn't just block paint orbs. No, this mask is specially made by Griffin, the tech master. The upgraded mask can act as a set of gills so I couldn't... drown. It also filters the air for pollutants. I had painted the goggles red, and the lower part a colorblocked grey and black.