Disclaimer: I do not own Batman. (Much to my disappointment) or any other ideals from the movie.

Chapter 1

"Mom I'm home!" I said walking into the apartment I shared with my mom in Gotham. As I took off my coat and set my

keys on the table by the door. I noticed that my mom did not respond to me. "Mom, mom are you….. my hands flew up to my

mouth as I saw some madman holding a knife to my mother's jugular. My mom's clothing was torn and the skin around her

neck was bruised. He tried to rape her!

This realisation came all to quickly and I took a closer look at the man holding the knife. Recognition came flooding to me,

he was some Jack the ripper copycat my mother had put behind bars when I was 5. My mother was an investigator for the

Gotham police and good one too. We had just moved from Russia a year ago and the police were struggling to catch this man.

With the help of my mother they did. He was sentenced to life in jail. But that was before Gotham's justice system fell to the

corrupt. It appeared that he was released early no thanks to Falzone I'm sure, and he was back to show his gratitude to my

mother no doubt. "Stay where you are if you want her to live." He told me I reached into my pocket for my cell phone and

quickly dialled 911 without averting my gaze from him. The department would recognize the number and make their way over.

Now if only I could keep him busy until they arrived.

"Okay, just let her go you can have anything you want just let my mom go." He chuckled and looked down at my mother.

"Anything I want eh, wait I remember you, yes the little girl hiding behind her daddy as mommy over here put the handcuffs on

me. You stood there watching her taking my life from me and now, now you get to watch again as I take hers."

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed as he slit my mother's throat, her lifeless body falling to the floor. As her body fell I heard

sirens in the distance, he heard them too and decided to run. So I ran after him only to have him grab the nearest vase and wack

me over the head with it. The Police never caught him, Falzone probably kept him hidden from the police or the police just

simply did not want to find him. It had been a year and they had not found him that was when I decided to go back to Russia.

That was almost 10 years ago and yet I remember it as if it were yesterday. After my mother's death I decided to go back

to Russia to live with my grandmother, I had nothing left in Gotham my father had been dead since I was 10 , my best friend

disappeared and then my mother. I felt so weak after my mother's death. That day haunting my dreams leaving me with

sleepless nights. I was weak then and couldn't do anything to save her. I was convinced that if I was stronger I could have

somehow saved her. So I became what the people of St. Petersburg called the "Angel of Darkness." Giving a voice to the

voiceless, and hope to the hopeless of St. Petersburg. I however, refered to myself as the Black Angel. Then my grandmother

died 4 months ago and I hear from a friend in Gotham that one of my friends a Rachel Dawes had died and that my old friend

Bruce is alive. So here I am on a plane back to the city that took everything from me. But now I return a stronger person than

before, and once there I am going to find the man that killed my mother and show him what it truly feels like to have your life

taken away. I looked out the window of the plane to see the city, I was back, back in Gotham.

That's the first chapter hope you like it please read and review.