Epilogue.

Katheryn walked down the street, an oversized hoodie emblazoned with scarecrows face hid both her wings and her face and her tail was tucked under a full-length skirt. It had been two weeks since she had been captured by Brainiac and Joker had been true to his word, letting her know where Brainiac drones were so she could join in the fight and by setting her up with a few appointments with Doctor Harleen Quinzal to try to keep her anger under control, a job made much harder by the influence of the red ring that refused to come off.

As she reached the coffee shop she stopped, most of the physical damage had already been repaired and the name had now been changed to 'Red Rage Coffee shop' and a chalk board sat on the pavement proclaiming, 'This is the site the Red Floof and Joker made their alliance'. Uncertain how she felt about the shop using her name to booster it's trade she looked around at the customers but couldn't see any of the people who had been rude to her. A small boy was looking at her from one of the tables and she moved her hood slightly, so he saw her face before she moved on, it wasn't the owners fault their customers were jerks. As she walked down the street she heard the boy try to tell his mother that he's just seen the Red Floof.

Wind blew through the open window and, as she closed it Katheryn notices some strange scratches on the frame, but she couldn't see any signs of any disturbance. Her eyes were drawn to her bed as soon as she entered the bedroom, propped up against her head board was an old-fashioned lamp that seemed to be made of a red metal, where the lenses should be seemed to be filled in and on the metal was a strange symbol. Next to the lantern lay a small grey/blue cat that was wearing a red jump suit that had the same symbol as the lantern, as red glow came from the ring on its tail. As she entered the cat unfurled.

"Hello." It purred "I am Dex-Starr. Master Atrocitus sent me to give you this." The cat rubbed its self on the lantern

"What, what is it and who is Atrocitus?" Katheryn asked only slightly surprised that she was talking to a cat.

"Master Atrocitus is the leader of the red lantern corps. And this is you power battery. This is used to charge your ring if it ever loses power."

"What's a red lantern?"

"You are a red lantern, I am a red lantern. That's one of our rings you wear. Master Atrocitus was going to recall you to Yasmault but, due to the new situation here on Earth he decided to let you stay. For Now."

"That's nice of him." Katheryn mumbled as she watched Dex-Starr float into the air towards the window. After letting the cat out Katheryn returned to her bed room, as she contemplated the strange lantern her radio crackled into life.

"Red Floof, Calculator here. Brainiac forces have been spotted not far from you. I'm sending the co-ordinates."

Smiling Katheryn picked up the red lantern and held her ring up to it, energy jumped from the lantern to her ring with an almost rhythmic beat and words seemed to flow from the ring to her mouth.

"With blood and rage of crimson red,

Ripped from corpse so freshly dead,

Together with our hellish hate,

We'll burn you all—that is your fate."

The End.