Chapter 1
I stared at my father as fury reined over my face. "YOU CAN'T SEND ME TO A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR… FOR!" I stuttered on my words I was so angry.
"It's a school for troubled teenagers who are stepping into their early adult years."
"Dad I'm sixteen. Get over yourself. I am what I am! Just because I'm not the pride and joy you wanted! Because I'm not a mirror version of you, because I'm not the heart stealing dark knight who charms every woman he lays eyes on! Because I'm NOT OR EVER WILL WANT TO BE LIKE YOU!"
"Go to your room." My father's eyes glinted darkly mixed with a matter of subdued pride and raging fury.
"Make me!"
"GO TO YOUR ROOM NOW!"
"Tie a rope around your neck you bastard." I snarled at him before stalking up the mansions steps.
That stupid moron, thinking he can control every aspect of my life. I guess I better explain. That man, my father. His name is Bruce Wayne. Married billionaire who runs a massive company while everyone bows down to the very ground he walks on.
Well everyone but me.
But this? This was just the usual crappy morning I had to go through.
My name is Daniel Wayne although my friends know me better as Daniel Kyle. I don't use my father's last name for the very fact as you have just seen; I and my father do not get on well with each other.
I smashed the double doors open which lead into my room and saw my mother was sat waiting for me but I didn't even look at her as I slammed the doors behind me and began walking into the connecting room which was a training room which my father did not approve off. The same opinion he shared with the rest of everything in my life; what I wore, what my favourite hobbies were… who I dated. Emphasis on it being past tense after my dad found out.
Mother just came through and lent on the doorway as she saw me rip off the suit I was wearing and toss it to the side, not caring if I tore it or not. I began pulling on my work out clothes and it was only when had set up some practice targets for training did she speak. "I heard you arguing with your father again." She laid a hand on my shoulder comfortingly before stepping away.
"The whole mansion probably did." I muttered and pulled out a long black whip my mother had given me when I had started training. Since then it had been used two times in self defence but I mostly just practiced with it.
"To his defence he just cares about you." she said half heartedly.
"No mother. You care about me. You were perfectly fine with me. He was the one who tried to get you to abort me. He was the one who was forced into marrying you because you were pregnant. He was the one who decided to send me to this place." I flashed out the whip and watched as my reactions took over. The end of the whip sailed out rapping around the dummies head, pulling it clean of with a perfect slice. I raised my arm and span it in a perfect form around me before lashing it out again making sure it hit every dummy around me.
Mothers warm brown eyes glinted as she clapped and tied her blonde hair in a pony tail before taking a stand next to the gymnast equipment and helping me take my form as I began moving in the flexible ways she had taught me. She wore a black tank top and work out shorts like me. "Remember don't think." She noted watching my thoughts cloud my abilities as I struggled to do even the easiest moves.
"He just… RRGGGHHH!" I snarled and lashed out the whip again slicing a target straight down the middle and curling it around my belt as my mother let a grin slide across her face.
"At heart he is a good man Danny." I took a seat on the balancing board felt her hands ruffle my hair affectionately. "He just doesn't understand people like you and me. We think differently."
"You have no idea." I folded my arms around my knees and rested my head down so only my dark eyes could be seen.
"I know it must be hard." Her hand moved a rogue golden lock out my eyes. "You have his eyes you know?"
"I look more like you." I muttered.
It was true. To prove it to myself I even looked over at one of the mirrors. I wasn't exactly tall but I wasn't short either. I was thin and a bit curvy which surprised most people but I was still strong although my body refused to show those muscles. My mother often said I had the perfect body and she hadn't exactly been proven wrong at my old school. Girls seemed to fawn over me but mostly because of the money behind my name which disgusted me… Even the shy guy would now and then approach me.
I leant back onto my palm and raised a leg out as I flipped back landing in a crouch before jumping up to the rings which hung above me. "There you go." Mother smiled and nodded encouragingly. "You know… Arkham Academy does have a great theatre programme; it has one of the best teachers around, plus you enjoy acting! You always know when to slip into a good role and give people a show that they want." Her words lingered in the air before she continued: "They even have a gymnast and fighters club for people with the talents to be in it."
"Who are you trying to self assure mother? Me or you?" I frowned and let go of the hoops as I walked back into my room.
"You got my attitude as well." She laughed.
"Rather your attitude than that jerks personality." I stopped dead still as I noticed my closet and draws open and completely empty while a black suitcase rested next to them. "What aren't you telling me?"
"That you leave for school now."
I turned and saw my father in the doorway with a dark emotionless face though I knew he was trying to suppress a grin. "We are doing this for you Danny." He mocked.
"Don't take the high road with me." my hand began to twitch towards my back and my belt where my whip still hung ready for use. "You act all so high and mighty but you're no better than either of us. You live in a mask. You show the world the rich handsome playboy who no one can tame but behind that mask-"
"Don't." He warned.
"You're a scared little boy who still lost his parents." his hand slapped across my face and I slowly turned my head back to look at him. "And I am the bastard child of a coward. Show the press what you want. But if they come near me?" my face stung where he had hit me and soon my mind began to realise; what have I got to loose anymore? "If the press come near me." I lent in and whispered watching his eyes widen, "The truth you murderer."
"Really? They already think you're insane. I have the doctor's prognosis to prove it." I watched as a woman came in holding chains in her hands to lock me up. She wore a full police uniform but her eyes were hidden behind her dark shades. "This boy?" she asked and father nodded. "Take it easy son." She said in a thick western accent, "Just come with us easily and no one will get hurt." She slapped the chains on my wrist but she raised the back of my shirt and used it to hide my whip… who was this woman?
"It is very… thoughtful of your husband to offer him a place at the school."
"As long as we keep to our deal."
"Don't worry; the Wayne corporation will withhold its advance technology for another year." I looked over to my mother who looked at me expectantly.
"You should remember. It's quite a simple request after all" she said. I noticed that she had lingered on the word remember longer than someone in normal conversation would. Remember?! Remember what?! I frowned and then I began to think back to earlier and grinned. Oh... Oh mother dear. you are brilliant. I'll give Bruce an act he won't forget. I easily hid my grin.
"So this is all about money?!" I snarled and felt the woman grip my shoulder with encouragement as I made my voice sound hysterical like I did earlier when I was arguing with him. Bruce was a fool. One who had lived the drama life so long that he forgot to tell the difference between the mask of an act and reality.
"I think you better take him away, he's already delusional as it is." Father almost laughed. The woman though ignored him and exchanged a long look with mother. "Shall I take the boy now ma'am?" Okay… I like this woman. Her hair was blonde just like mothers, but I swear I could see a streak of red hidden behind the police cap she wore.
"It's okay Danny. You will be home for Christmas in a couple months." She looked at the woman holding back a glare. These two knew each other and put up a good act though I could read theme easily. They trusted each other this was just a show for Bruce to watch.
The woman dragged me out the room and I hissed and spat calling Bruce every name under the sun while I fought… well until we were halfway down the stairs and I let my face return to an impassive look. "So. You're the wife to the owner of Joker industries?"
"Expecting someone else?" she was good remaining in her act.
"Not really. I just." I cut myself short as we came out into the outside view again and I fought against her though she was more or less leading it until she shoved me into a rusty school bus.
The windows darkened in the mansion as the curtains were drawn. "All clear."
"About time." She sighed and pulled away the police hat letting her hair fall down free. She had long strand of reds highlighted through it. She tied it back into pony tails either side of her head before she pulled away the police shirt revealing a red and black blouse while slipping off her smart black trousers to reveal skinny jeans. "Not what you was expecting huh?" she raised an eyebrow at me while I rubbed my elbow from falling after she shoved me. "Sorry. He was starting to look suspicious." Her voice fell out of the accent and returned to her natural one.
"That's his natural look." I growled as I noticed a couple of other kids on the bus.
There wasn't that many of them, about four in total. Three of them were girls and the other one was a boy. The three girls sat far apart and barely even looked up. One kept her eyes trained on the garden and she smiled to herself. "Beautiful place." She smiled but then frowned as she watched the gardener come and begin to cut some of the plants. "I stand corrected." She muttered.
She had long flowing blood red hair and her skin was light though it looked strangely tinted. She wore a tight green shirt which exposed her back and had diamonds around the neck like collar. "Take a picture it will last longer." She muttered and I raised an eyebrow.
I took my seat towards the back after that but it didn't go unnoticed when a boy on the left side of the bus scooted slightly over as though to make space for me. He had what looked like mousey brown hair which has in vein effort trying to be blonde though near the front and edges he had it highlighted green. His eyes were like emeralds too. Cute. I thought as a blush crept to my face. I just strode past him and took a seat at the very back though he just turned in his chair and grinned at me with a flash of pearly white teeth. "Welcome to villain high."
"What are you talking about." I leant back in my seat and crossed my legs as I listened to his glistening voice.
"You're here because you either come from stock like us or you have potential to be like us."
"And what would that entail?" I turned my attention out the one-sided window as I watched my home vanishing from sight.
"Our parents once ruled being the worst of the worst." He kept that grin on his face, "Now. It's time for a new reign."
"About time, I've been looking for some fun." I yawned.
"Oh, the fun is only about to begin. I'm Jack by the way. Worst of the worst."
"I'm Daniel. Stay out of my way… because If you get in my way. This kitty has claws and I have definitely used them." A blood soaked smile appeared on my lips and I watched the sparkling glint in his eyes burn brighter.
Jack… a third rate card. I gave him a warning. He'd better heed it.
~Jack's POV~
Okay. So who ever this new kid was. Jack knew one thing from the second that he laid eyes on him.
That kitty boy was going to be his.
He leaned into his hand as he watched the hypnotising beauty as he tried to not look at Jack. "So which category do you fall into? Second generation or new blood?"
"Both sweetie." Came a new voice.
He turned to the front as he watched his mother driving the bus. Yepp; his mother Harley Quinn. "Sweetie?" Daniel snickered flashing a fanged grin.
"He's the son of Selina Kyle."
"That explains some of the cat qualities." Jack nodded as he looked over Daniel.
"Eyes up here rich boy." The kitty boy snapped his fingers and Jack grinned.
"A lot of us here are the same as you. Though our parents try to hide it they all have a past which they can't ignore. My father heard about you and wanted you at the academy as soon as possible."
"Is that why we are starting a week before any other stupid normal school starts." Daniel narrowed his eyes and ran his sharp nails over the glass making a horrible scratching sound which made the others wince.
"You definitely take after Selina." Jack's mother nodded with a smile.
"Would you rather of me taken after-"
"The big bad bat?" All eyes locked on Jack as he said the one thing that all of them hated.
"That bat had its wings clipped long ago." Daniel muttered.
"So Selina's kid." The red hair girl turned around and locked her amber eyes on him. "Our mother's used to know each other when they were in prison."
"How nice for them… and you are?"
"That's Rose. Daughter of Poison Ivy." Jack watched the girl carefully. She had been given the most appropriate name. The girl was beautiful but if you handled her without care then you would get stung by a thorn. "She got sent to the academy for the obvious reasons plus the fact that she killed half the workers in the botanical gardens at the age of seven."
"They were miss-treating plants." She said as though this was the most justifying explanation she could think of.
"So you killed them?" Daniel asked and Rose smiled warmly as she looked out the window.
"Yeah. Mother said she has never been so proud of me."
"Nice." Daniel grinned.
"Just bare in mind unlike my mother. I can choose who my lips poison." She winked at him and Jack felt his face go red with anger at someone else acknowledging his future kitty.
"What about the others." The kitty boy looked over to the other two who had turned to listen to the other's tale.
The girl with shoulder length brown hair in a clip lent on the metal bar of the seat as she locked her eyes on Jack. "My name is Rachel."
"Nice name." he nodded with a smile at the shy girl though as he watched her eyes became darker as she continued and he soon realised that she needed no comfort. "My father was Two-face."
"He was bitching behind peoples back?" Daniel wondered out loud and Jack felt the emotions, suspicion, fear and amusement run through him.
"He was Two-face not two-faced. Don't you know anything about who these people are?"
"My mother never told me anything."
"Probably because of your father." Jack's mother thought aloud.
"What about you?" Jack turned to face the last girl who still didn't look up. She was strong looking as she had built muscles and a lean thin body which was tanned and alluring.
"My father was Bane." She said in a Spanish accent. As soon as she said that Jack made a mental note to remind him never to get on this girl's wrong side.
Everyone pretty much stopped talking after that though Jack still turned and watched his soon to be prize kitty. "So what lessons and clubs will are you taking?"
"His mother signed him up for English, extra P.E, Computer tech, advanced fighting, gymnastics and theatre."
"Theatre?!" Jack looked at his prize with mouth dropped open.
"Does it surprise you that much? Now roll your tongue back in your mouth before I bring new meaning to the words 'Cat got your tongue.'" He growled.
"Ha! I like this one." His mother laughed with a dark smile.
"Me too." Rose grinned, "It will be fun since you're in all my classes."
"I can't wait." Daniel placed a smile on his face to the unsuspecting girl though Jack could see just how bored the boy was behind the mask in his eyes.
But even if Daniel wasn't going to admit it. Jack saw two other things in his eyes. the same thing that he saw every time he looked in the mirror; Fear and solitude.
He rose from his seat and sat next to the boy with an arm around him. "It's okay. This year is going to be fun!"
"glad you all like each other, because you're sharing one of the dorms." His mother said with a sweet smile.
"Heh?" Daniel looked at her as though she had dropped from the sky. "Oh, how… fun."
"You definitely take after your mother."
"You have no idea. Now take your arm off me before I snap it off." Daniel muttered and everyone fell into silence after that as they watched the approaching large building.
"Welcome to your final destination; freak high." Jack said quietly as he took a place back in his seat.
So this kitty needed a bit of charm to be won over?
Rose looked at him with a similar dark glint as they both glared knowing each other's intention. Daniel was going to be his prize. No green finger plant girl was going to take that away from him. If she tried to… then Jack would just have to sort that annoying weed out the way his father had done with competition.
This is my first time writing a story like this. I really hope you enjoy this first chapter. I will try to update within 48 hours with each chapter. But please review and let me know what you think of the couples. Can't wait to hopefully hear off you.
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GreenFlameTitan