Starblaze

High above the city’s gleaming spires, Starblaze cut through the clouds like a comet, her fiery hair trailing a streak of gold against the indigo night. She was a beacon in a world that had forgotten how to hope — a warrior born of distant stars, her heart as fierce as the cosmic flames she wielded. Tonight, she had come to stop the Shadow Regent, an exiled warlord who had built an empire of fear in the underbelly of Earth’s last mega-city. She hovered at the mouth of his fortress tower, fists aglow with searing starlight, ready to end his reign once and for all. But the Shadow Regent had studied her brilliance for far too long. His hidden sentries struck like vipers, launching stasis snares that drained her energy mid-flight. The starfire that blazed within her sputtered under the weight of alien tech and betrayal, dragging her down into the cold grasp of the tower’s inner chambers.