Dick Grayson and The Court of Owls
Vol. 1 The Gray Son, part 1
It was a dark night in Gotham city. The flying Grayson's were performing their death-defying act, doing flip's and twisting their bodies around. When all of a sudden then the ropes snapped, Mary and John Grayson fell, their son, Richard, saw it all.
Standing there, he fell to his knees and cried. His parents were dead, gone forever, never to come back. The police had to pull him away from his parent's dead bodies, Pop Haley, the man he considered a grandfather, pulled him away from the crowd, telling him that he was special and that the only reason he was still alive is that the Court needed him, of course being a traumatized 8-year-old kid he did not understand a word Haley was telling him. Once they reached the far outskirts of the circus, Haley whistled. This attracted a mon dressed in a complete black bodysuit with a mask that looked like an owl, its eyes were big glasses. He carried a briefcase with him. Richard, or Dick like he preferred, did not understand what Haley was saying or why he was here, he heard words such as, Court of Owls, Gray Son, Talon, last one, gullible, trainable, genius, stealthy and acrobatic.
He only understood what was going on when Haley pushed him over to the man and, in return, the man gave Haley the briefcase. He understood that he was being sold off to the man, he started to cry but the man pushed on his pressure point hard and knocked him out cold.
Dick was now 10, it had been a full 2 years since the death of his parents and, finally, he was able to see the world once again but, not as a normal person, but a Talon of the Court. He was on his first mission find and kill Tony Zucho and plant some fake evidence in his safehouse, this was to keep the Court from being discovered by one of its greatest foes Batman.
As he crept up to the man he was stocking, one of Zuchos goons, he pulled out the Court's signature knife and slit his throat. He crept to men to men doing the same to every single one of them. Finally, Zucho is alone I can kill him in the way of the Court without interference. He thought to himself. As he crept towards Tony, he slashed out the man's legs and then quickly stabbed the man's stomach and leaned in toward his ear.
"The Court sends its apprentice, the last Gray Son, to kill you Zucho. You should be honoured but, you don't seam honoured," The Gray Son told Zucho.
"That's 'cause I ain't honoured to be killed by this Court," Zucho told Dick, weekly. "Well, you are getting framed for something the Court did so you are going to die, since if we leave you alive, well let's just say that you could … uh, tell everyone about the Court. And if that happens I get punished real bad" The apprentice Talon told his target, and before Tony could say another word, Dick slit his throat.
He planted the evidence, unknowing that that evidence ties Zucho to the murder of the flying Grayson's. 12 minute's after he left, the police arrived to find Zucho and his men dead and a jar of acid that was found on the ropes of the Graysons.
Dick was now 11, he had been doing small time Talon jobs for the past year, nothing too serious, some warnings of there death if they continued or some small time thug, gang or crook came too close to discovering the Court he would be sent in to finish them off before they could expose them or discover them even more.
The Talon was getting ready for his first big job, killing a cop that a member accidentally told him about the Court. The member was already dealt with probably dead. As he picked up his knives and grappling hook as well as his shuriken, he left the white maze that is the Talon's home.
He ran from roof top to roof top fully decked out in Talon gear, the cop was probably already waiting for him at the precinct, thinking that he would not dare to attack him in public. But boy was he wrong he would attack in public, by killing the public first which in turn would make his killing a private one with a bunch of recently deceased body's scattered around.
Slipping through the air vents, he landed right near a man working at his desk, the man did not notice him, he was saved. He slit the man's throat and gently deposed his head so it looked like he was sleeping. He repeated this process till only the cops who were standing in a circle talking to each other were left. The target finally noticed that everyone was "sleeping" at there desk and grew pale, he knew a Talon was nearby and that he would kill him. He then ran toward the group at high speed and jumped in the air, he threw 8 shurikens at the cops. 5 of them dropped dead. He turned and faced the other 4.
"Beware the court, as they are watching, you cannot kill them, as new ones are always hatching, you can not escape, to them, you are just a thing, beware the court, the ones who are always watching" he repeated over and over again as he cut up the cops one by one and finishing off his target by stabbing his knife through the man's head.
Once he returned to the maze he found a hot meal, his reward for doing a good job.
He was 12, he was stabbing a criminal over and over again and a hand stopped him from finishing the job and threw him away from the man. He stared at the figure and determined that it was the Batman of Gotham city. The one that the Court hated the most, so that meant he was dangerous and a threat, so he charged in and when the dark knight went to catch him he jumped over him and roundhouse kicked the man in the back of the head. Once he landed he threw a shuriken to his target and it hit, meaning he had succeeded his mission. When he tried to run, Batman ran after me and grabbed my cape and brought me close to him, bad move a stabbed him and try to run away again, being an idiot a tripped and started to fall down the building, his grappling hook jammed. And the goddam Batman came and saved him. He pushed the bat-themed hero away and ran back to base to do a full mission report.
He was 13, he was now doing full-fledged Talon work, he was a true Talon now but, deep inside of him he knew that he did not belong and that the Court is evil and are not doing the right thing to clean the streets of crime. This doubt inside of him started a while ago when he confronted Batman since then the Court has been regularly fighting Batman. He saw that even when he killed that man and stabbed him, he saved Dick. For that he was grateful. Today was also a very special day, the day his parents were murdered by the Court, he had found out sometime last year and kept to himself about it. 5 year's ago his parent's died, Haley sold him to the court and he became a Talon, 5 years, half a decade, and finally, Dick had just snapped.
He left, and while his story as a Talon is over, his story as Dick Grayson has just begun.
A/N: So hey I'm back with a new story, so if you read my other story The Renegade you may be wondering if that story got in anyway cancelled, the answer is no The Renegade is still going strong but I did have a strong urge to write Dick Grayson being adopted by the court of owls, same preminse of The Renegade but insteade of Deathstroke it is the Court of Owls. I hope you enjoyed that first chapter (or should I say issue 'cause of that comic book writing style thing that I got going on) of Dick Grayson and Court of Owls. MrJits out.
P.S: As usual I will be putting the time it took to make this chapter possible hear, this chapter took about 2 hours and a half since I started around 11 and finished at 1:42-ish.