Chess club part 1

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Flying was awesome, in Taylor opinion. Okay, she wasn't exactly flying, not with these scythe-like black wings out of her back that could not possible provide enough lift even if they were beating dozens of times a second, let alone the once per ten it was doing right now. It was more floating, but she had wings, unlike most flyers, and a tail with a suit spade end.

Thankfully she could put them away, shirts made for winged humanoids would be hard to come back. That and the problem of convincing people that the girl with wings and the upcoming cape with the same wings are not the same person.

Taylor fixed her sight upon her target, a tug boat left to rot in the graveyard of ships. Around her hand, red flames appear, converging into the open palm. She pull back the loose ball of heat and pitched it toward the boat.

The ball expanded on contact with the boat and turn a good ten feet circle of it red with heat. Some leftover fishing nets on the other side burst into flames and the waters nearby started to steam.

It wouldn't be Taylor first choice for a non-lethal takedown. She would certainty need to dial it down for anyone not rocking a brute rating and beside, a hero who left crooks with burns would not be too well rescinded.

Thankfully, her powers set gave her a brute ability. Nowhere near the level of her flames, but gave her the power to lift her bed with both arms. She could take out a normal thug without a visit to the hospital.

Landing, Taylor now pondered the weird part of her powers. With a gesture, a chessboard appeared. It look like a normal chessboard made of mahogany with only one half of the chess set in scarlet red. Taylor could not figure out what the function for this was. The pieces move easily when by her hand, but remained fixed from gravity and throwing the board. Moving them about the board didn't seem to affect the world in any way. They were just a puzzling component of her powerset.

With a thought, the board and her extra limbs vanished. It was about time to return from her 'morning run' so she started to head home.

"Ah..." a faint moan of the edge of hearing made her pause. It was most likely just a hobo and she should just ignore it to get out of the docks sooner, but her bleeding heart made her change direction.

Tracking the sound to an alley, Taylor saw a body sprawled out.

"Oh dear." Taylor exclaimed rushing to the dark skinned person. Thankfully, the girl was still breathing, but even Taylor could see the amount of blood leaving her body could not be good for long term survival.

Taylor realized who the girl was. "Sophia?" the bully simply gave a weak moan in reply, clearly out of it. This snapped Taylor out her shock, who started looking for Sophia's phone.

Coming up empty, Taylor wondered if she should just fly her tormentor to the hospital when the chess pieces appeared in her mind eye. Since Taylor was doubtful of Sophia surviving the flight, she summoned the board.

"Come on, now the time to do something." Taylor pleaded. As if it was listening, Taylor felt the urge to pick up a knight. Following it, she place the horse piece on Sophia's chest.

A moment pass and the red chess piece sank into the body and Sophia issued a gasp. Taylor watched the wound in the bully side closes at a rapid pace.

With Sophia now breathing evenly, Taylor got to her feet and left. She didn't wish to risk her bully getting even a hint that she had powers.

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Sophia woke up with a start. She looked around the alley in a panic. Seeing she was alone, Sophia cast her thoughts to what she last remember.

She was on her morning runs and she went around that corner and- Pain. She pulled up her shirt and saw blood. However, her skin was unbroken.

Since Panacea didn't leave blood when she worked her magic, that means a new cape was around. This would mean Master and Stranger protocol once she reported this damn thing. Just lovey. Oh well, beat bleeding to death in a dirty alley.

Lord, she felt so tired. 'Must be the downside of the healing' Sophia thought to herself as she headed home in the morning sun.

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This was written because someone on a forum went 'For the next 48 hours whatever idea you are thinking about, just write it.' And this is what came out. Since I view it as good enough I'm going to put it here for the people who are following me. They probable weren't following me for Worm's fics since this is my 'first'(there two one-shots on for mentioned forum, space battles, I'll trust anyone who want to read them to find their way there) fanfic in that fandom, but I already had a fairly wide collections of fandoms for this site(I will never know how so many people write so many different fanfics about one fandom).

Anyway review, flame or lurk.