Fire and Ice

Chapter One

     When I was younger, one of my favorite movies was the Avengers.  I loved the action, and the team were remodels to me.  Especially Black Widow.  I admired the way she was able to get away from her dark past and do something good with it.  

     I never once thought that I would be do anything remotely close to what they did.  I thought that I would end up picking a normal career like nursing or a lawyer.  But for some reason, this wasn't in the cards for me.  

     I discovered my powers while fighting with my ex-boyfriend, Alex.  Alex wasn't exactly good boyfriend material.  Okay he was worse than that.  When he was drunk and got angry, it never ended well.  I still flinch when a man's hand comes close to me.  I never technically ended things with Alex, but after the last fight we had, I don't think there's much of a relationship to go back to.  I guess that's what happens when your boyfriend is strangling you and you accidentally throw a ball of fire at him...

     That was three years ago.  I still haven't discovered where they came from.  I think that I may have had them my whole life, but they were kind of dormant until I was in a life-threatening situation.  After I learned to control my powers, I decided to use them to do some good.  The first time I used them against another human being after Alex was a bank robbery.  After I stopped the gunman who were holding 10 hostages before I had gotten there, I think that the people of Flash City were kind of afraid of me.  But then, after I stopped a few more criminals and they figured out I was only trying to do good, they started being thankful for all I was doing.  It feels good to know that you're keeping people safe.  It's probably the only reason I've stayed sane after Alex.  A few weeks after I started helping people, Flash City Newspaper finally gave me a name other than "masked vigilante".  They started calling me the Ember.