The Hellhound's Quest of Justice

Chapter 17: The Fight for Change

How in the fuck am I supposed to get out of this? I wondered, staring into the eyes of a mortal man. My heart pounded against my ears as the final pull of another power is being cast upon me, and I have no idea what it could be. A skill that can take a thousand lives that could save the lives of three fools who decided to challenge me. Princess Knight, the ender of the Huntsmen clan and savior to her Kingdom, general to the Crimson army so many titles but none hold my name dear than my name when called by Dick Grayson. He's a threat to what he is, what he has seen, and what can he do, but I am as well.

 "Bring the mages that brought the human!" Thomas ordered the soldiers station here.

"I'd hold me close while I'm thinking," I whispered to Dick.

At first, he stared at me in disbelief and the thought might have passed that I must be mad, but times of stress often call for my madness. Dick did as he was told only after seeing the many men and women surrounding us in different forms that aren't human. He pulled me in hard making my chest tighten and my face burn. 

"What's your plan?" Dick questions, jogging my mindset to the matter at hand.

"Hands off me ya fuckin' wanker!" John shouts out loud almost making me laugh. 

"Argh! You're hurting me!" Zatanna hissed slamming against her restraint hands bound in hefty chains designed to seal the magic of any born creature.

I let out a gasp as another power rippled from my chest to my body, it's the last summoning of greater power. Grayson noticed and loosen his hold on me. While others were busy looking at what was in front of them, I notice the sky above the market turning black with many colors of lightning. 

"Human!" Pamela announced walking across John and Zatanna. "You have our Princess and have broken our law that can only end your life. However, you hold her life in your hands and we have your friends' lives in ours, a deal can be made to exchange lives."

"It's funny they believe that you're the threat," I laughed knowing full well that they won't let them live. 

"Christ! What's your plan, Princess?"

"Take names and run like hell," I answered throwing my leg over his chest straddling him. 

The crowd who watched gasped at my actions and I erected towards the sky reaching out.

"Neither!" I yelled out throwing my hands. 

The sky lit up as thunderstruck my forefingers consuming my very being from my fingers to my toes, protecting Dick from its full effects. He struggled, trying to push my thighs apart from his shoulders. I coughed loudly as fumes of smoke evaporated from my hair, tail, and skin. Dick gasps in surprise and gently scoops me down into his arms. I snapped my fingers quickly, teleporting as fast as the lightning, and reappeared behind Zatanna and Constantine's back. Dick's hands tighten around me, but I pushed myself out of his arms and pulled the lovers behind me. Thomas and Pamela gasp, twirling in their stance and snapping their direction at me.

I exhaled my breath releasing black smoke surrounding us into a circle. Thomas cried out to strike at my companions. I blew out fire from my mouth, igniting the smoke in full flames. In a ball of fire, I bought us time to escape and wreak havoc as no one can stop a traveling ball of fire.

"Now's a good time as ever to hatch one of your infamous escapes, Princess!" John spat at me, holding up his restraints.

"Together for the lovely couple," I teased them as I pulled Zatanna's wrists placing them against John's, and held the opposite side of their handcuffs.

My hands shined against the handcuffs shattering them into tiny pieces almost like dust and flung them towards an incoming attack. Eyes widen as the handcuffs transform into a larger one, by cuffing the creature's wrists, ankles, and neck into a single harness behind its back.