<div class="floatleft">(http://i2.wp.com/bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/ironfist-raining-dark.jpg)</div><hr/><strong>Name:</strong>Daniel Rand<br/><strong>Alias:</strong><em>Iron Fist</em>(https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=247454.msg12235577#msg12235577)<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>Evening<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Iron Fist Costume - Yellow and Green<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Hell's Kitchen<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<strong>Mentioned:</strong>Luke<br/><hr/><br/>He was on the move.  Flowing freely from rooftop to rooftop.<br/><br/>Silent.<br/><br/>Swift.<br/><br/>Yes there were plenty of heroes that could fly and he was sure it was convenient.  He was also sure they really had no idea what it was like to "fly" the way he did.  Some of the others in Hell's Kitchen knew.  To intimately know each rooftop in the area.  To propel yourself forward and upward by your own limbs; never slowing, never faltering.<br/><br/>It was exhilarating and intoxicating...right up until when it wasn't.<br/><br/>It seemed as though all of the power for Hell's Kitchen went out...except...it hadn't.  There were things still running but streetlights and emergency lights on rooftops and...<br/><br/>...everything just got very dark.<br/><br/>Then everything got very loud.  The clattering of manhole covers striking and then clattering about as the flattened on the road found his ears, followed shortly thereafter by an unpleasant and nearly inhuman yowling.<br/><br/>Looking over the edge of the four storey building he was on allowed him to see  the source of the noise...or sources rather.  A number of people dressed in a way that made homeless people look well-off were clambering up and out of manholes on the street.  Further observation revealed a number of them quite literally crawling up the walls of the building that he was atop of...<br/><br/>He was simply trying to process the moment when he heard the crunching of gravel atop the roof behind him.  He turned to find one of the "people"; twenty feet away and cresting the edge of the roof.  Much of it was obscured by the dark that seemed to hang over this area of the city but what wasn't obscured was it's obvious aggression and ill intent.<br/><br/>"Wait...you don't want do this..." , he warned as it charged him with reckless velocity.  As it drew closer he could see that there was something quite wrong with it's teeth and part of what allowed it to climb the building as it had was due to the talons on each finger.  Whatever it was; the point where it had drawn just close enough, it's hands outstretched to tear into him; Danny smoothly stepped to the side.  The creatures arms swept aside and in the same motion it's legs were cut out from under it.  Sending it tumbling past Danny atop the unforgiving gravel.<br/><br/>It was back on it's feet far faster than Danny had expected and was scrabbling across the gravel, charging him once more.  Danny was already rotating...spinning and a moment later his heel connected with the side of it's head, snapping it's head to the side and sending it tumbling to the ground once more.  That strike would slow it down and yet...the creature quickly scrambled to it's feet once more.<br/><br/>Danny was already on it.  It was fast...and strong like a meth-head but with more claws and fangs.<br/><br/><em>...and resilient.</em><br/><br/>A sharp strike to a nerve cluster beneath it's armpit to deaden the use of it's arms only served to irritate the creature further and for Danny to almost get eviscerated by it's claws.<br/><br/><em>...so the hard way.</em><br/><br/>He moved without thought in the middle of the rooftop. A shoulder was separated a knee dislocated and a shin snapped.  The creature still howled but frighteningly fast axe-kick crashing down onto the creatures head dazed it enough to shut it up for a moment.  Danny was about to unsling his pack and pull out his phone to update Luke when his hand paused as he reached for it.<br/><br/>He had company.<br/><br/>He slowly turned in a circle as over a dozen of the creatures; like the one he had just fought encircled him.  Their eyes...black.  Shoulders lifting with each laboured breath as they looked at him.  Danny settled smoothly upon the balls of his feet; hands at the ready as he spoke in a clear, calm tone.<br/><br/>"I should warn you...I know kung fu."<br/><br/>The creatures' jaws opened wide as they howled in unified rage before charging at the lone man.<br/><br/>"...I thought as much." , he muttered before showing them precisely what he knew.<br/>