The Birth of the Truth

Chapter 1: Tortured Enough


The bright moon lit up the dark skies of Gotham City. A teenage girl and her father were walking down the street to get to their car. As they were walking, her father was making her laugh with his cheesy jokes. Even though his jokes were horrible, she wanted to encourage him with his "amusing" entertainment.

A big sigh flew through her lips, "Dad, you're too much. By the way, thanks for making it a great birthday."

Her father gave her a small hug, "Anything for my daughter. Besides, you are my little swan." He released her, kissed her forehead, and gave her another light hug.

She tried to push him away, but wasn't able to, "Okay Dad, don't go all "baby name calling" on me." She smiled, and rolled her eyes as she was looking away.

"I know. I know. It's just that I miss the little 5- year old Denise."

Denise looked up at him, and smiled. "Dad, I'm still the same person, just taller and much more mature."

"Yeah well, happy birthday Denise."

"Thanks Dad."

They both reached up to a dark grey convertible and got in it. As Denise's dad started the engine, the time appeared on the small screen.

Denise looked at her father, "Eleven at night already?"

Her father took a glance at the screen, "We should call it a night."

Her dad was driving, but something felt wrong about that street. It was completely dark, and lonely. Nothing was seen around there, but them.

"Dad, I think you took the wrong turn."

"Probably."

All of a sudden, the headlights spotted four tall teenaged boys in the middle of the street. Those four boys also spotted the car and began walking towards them. Her father had no choice, but to slow down.

"What's going on?" Denise was looking out the window. As she saw those boys those boys walking up to them.

"I don't know honey, but try to stay as calm as you possibly can."

She nodded her head.

Three of the four guys walked towards Denise's father, and one of them towards her.

"Okay, now I'm freaking out." Her thoughts spoke.

The criminals opened both doors, and grabbed Denise and her father with anger.

She saw her dad being beaten up by three people, as for her, she had to deal with one of them.

"Give us all you had old man!" One of the tall muscular boys grabbed him from his collar, and yelled at him more. "Give me all of your fuckin' shit, you bastard!

Denise's father seemed to get angrier and wouldn't tolerate that. "I'm not giving you shit!"

The tall boy then pushed him, and made the black haired man fall down to the ground. As he fell off, all three boys began punching and kicking him as blood and blisters appeared on him.

Denise was for away from her father but could still see him, and she did not like what she was seeing. Her eyes widened with fear, "Dad!"

She took a few steps forward, but the tall boy that took her out the car blocked her view.

"Where do you think you're goin' beautiful?"

He pushed her to the nearest wall, and started caressing her cheek with his sweaty palms.

Denise tried to look away, but the guy in front of her wouldn't let her. His body then got closer to hers as he placed his hand beside her curvy waist. His lips leaned closer to hers. He kissed her lined jaw.

"You know, I'm pretty good on bed, but I'm sure I'd be better if you were on it with me." He whispered between his hard kisses.

"Oh God, what do I do now?! I need to think, but fast!" Denise's thoughts spoke again.

She placed her hand on the back of his neck, and the other one on his muscular chest, and a smirk formed her lips, "I bet you are."

The brown haired boy gave her a seductive smirk as well. Denise didn't feel proud on what she was about to do, but she wanted to see her father. "I'll kiss him, but there is no way that I'm gonna lose my virginity to this idiot!"

She pulled him towards her and felt his hot lips against hers. His strong hands tightened around Denise's waist. She deepened the forced kiss, and pulled him closer to her. They could both feel the hot sweat running through their skin. She was waiting for the right moment to react. Her hands started exploring his hard chest; to find his weak spot. As she was exploring through his body, so did he. His hand moved down from her thigh, and wanted to reach for the inner part of her thigh, until...

"There!" she thought.

Denise dug her fingers in her palm. She then threw a hard punch on his lower stomach. She threw another punch on his face; took a spin and brought her leg up in the air and kicked him on the jaw, as the tall guy fell on the ground with pain.

Denise walked in front of him, and looked down,

She laughed a little, "You really thought I was attracted to you. Ha! Don't make me laugh."

She turned around and began running, trying to find her father. She saw their car just like they left it, but no sign of her father.

"Dad, where are you?" she said desperately.

"No, please! Hurt me instead, but not my daughter!" a familiar voice was heard.

She ran and ran, until she reached the end of the street.

"Dad!" She finally found him.

There he was. All bruised, with blood streaming down his nostrils. One of the men that was hurting him had a knife on top of the innocent man's throat. "Take another step, and this will be the consequence."

She didn't move a muscle, until she saw two guys grabbing each side of her arms.

"Let go of me! Let go of me!"Denise started to fight back, but was no match with both of them. One of the boys knocked her out. She fell on the ground and started to groan.

Her body fell numb; she wasn't able to move at all, but her eyes were slowly closing.

Before her eyes would shut, she saw a shadow of a…big bat.

"Drop the man!" a dark gloomy voice was heard.

Denise's eyes were mid open, but her vision was blurry. Many punches were heard, but all she could think about was her father.

Her eyes were now completely closed. The bat- shaped shadow came closer to the unconscious Denise. He knelt down with one knee on the ground, and the other holding his weight. Denise's black hair was all over her face. He brushed her hair off, to see her identity.

The sound of the police cars were near. So, the bat- shadow took the teenage girl in his arms, and ran.

Policemen came out of their cars, and found Denise's dad on the ground.

"What happened?" asked an officer.

"I don't know, but whatever it was, it doesn't look pretty." Answered his partner.

Bat Mobile

The bat sat Denise on the passenger's seat, and walked to the driver's seat. While he was driving, he contacted his butler.

"Alfred, medical help is needed. It's an emergency."

"Very well, Sir."

He arrived to the bat cave, and took Denise to Alfred to the medical room.

"Dear God, what happened to this young lady?!"

"I'll explain later Alfred, but please get her in good conditions."

"Very well, Master Bruce."

Bruce placed her on top the bed, and let Alfred do his job.

"Master Bruce, if I may ask, why did you…bring her here."

"I don't know. I just couldn't leave her there. I had to take her with me."

The room was silent for a moment, until Bruce had something to say.

"There was one thing I found. It was her father." Bruce looked down at the floor. "I found him dead."


To Be Continued…