Chapter one: It's too quite
Gotham city surrounded in darkness, as the light crawled out and the dark prospered over the city, far below a cave the dark knight was preparing up for his duty. Behind the shadows, batman was moving and watching as the watchful protector over the city. As Batman leapt throughout the buildings, his muscles started to feel stiff and he was longing for a fight to stretch his muscles. The past few days, the city has been quite; too quite. Batman now is starting to get worried, maybe the time has finally come for him to hang up his mask. Suddenly, with that thought crossing his mind, a screaming alarm swiped pass, indicating the bat needed to go to work.
A few miles away from the Gotham city centre, Alfred was putting away the dinner, which was left unfinished by master Bruce, like always. Ever since Bruce put on the mask, he has been a distant but content and that was the only reason he was allowing Bruce to carry on with this ambitious task of cleaning up Gotham. If Bruce's parents very alive, Alfred would be fired for letting Bruce run around in a cape all night, but Alfred vowed to care of Bruce. So Alfred, picked up a white tray and put a cold fresh water bottle along with pain killers, a needle and a bandage, knowing that master Bruce will need it tonight; he took it down to the bat cave. The Bat cave seemed pitch black and still without master Bruce, as Alfred walked forward,light automatically illuminated the way , guiding him into the computer, where a glimpse of light was illuminating the computer keypad. With, every step he took the light became larger and as Alfred emerged into the lab, the source of the light was visible. To his surprise, it was the computer screen emitting the light and Alfred could not comprehend that Master Bruce would leave the bat cave without turning the computer off. He was the Gotham detective so it is improbable that he would leave like this.
Suddenly, Alfred had a realization that he was not alone in the cave. A though that send goosebumps like spikes throughout his body. The old man stumbled and rotated his body to meet a shadowy figure's fists curled up as a wrecking ball, instantly his body fell to the cold floor with a loud thud.
Minutes later, the outer entrance to the bat cave burst open flooding the cave with the icy Gotham night air. Along with the air, the Bat mobile plunged into the cave, the sound inaudible to the naked ear. The black lit door opened like a mouth that is yawning, form the door emerged batman with a pristine, spotless and pitch black bat suit. He seamlessly leaped out of the bat mobile as the door closed shut into landing pad, immediately he felt that all was not right. The bat cave seemed distant and unfamiliarly, he scanned the area like a bat scanning it's prey. Instantaneously, The batman leaped out with his might straight on to a pad with the computer screen. The screen that was left turned on. He did not leave the screen turned on and nor would Alfred, which leads to the inevitable fact that is was the work of someone else. The calculating, deliberating and ingenious mind of the Batman already made plans for this type of scenario. His hand was a car, moving before his mind could interpret to the computer to start the protocol.
A buzzing alarm filled the bat cave as Batman's fingers touched the keypad, and for a while in a long time Batman was taken by surprise. "No you don't Batman, not that" echoed a familiar voice through the cave. Batman's mind worked like clockwork to immediately decipher the voice. With in moments he knew the voice. It was the Riddler.
"where is Alfred" growled Batman with slight hesitation.
Batman waited until a response boomed into the cave, but the cave was silent with just the wisp of air. Then, with hesitation Batman put his fingers on the keypad trying to regain control, but the computer screen screeched into life. The image of a man in a green unitard filled the screen, he was thin as a leaf with white pale skin with matt black dark hair. At once, he was recognised by the Batman. He was the Riddler.
"O, bats straight to business, no time to catch up... how do you like my new costume, love yours" chuckled Riddler, "love yours, the black-"
" I am not going to ask you again" said Batman with hinted aggression.
"Okay gate crasher, there should be a document left for you in the table beside you, Pick it up... then carefully cut off the brown envelope cover and pull out the white paper... Next you open the sheet and read it, assuming that you can -" Carried on the Riddler.
Ignoring the Riddler, Batman strolled over to the table and identified the brown envelope, as he picked it up; the screen flickered off and the cave converted back to silence. Just the way Batman liked it. He scanned the document for any indication of anything unusual, but found nothing. Then he swung his hand across like a knife, cutting the envelope and pulling out a clear white sheet of paper. Batman stared at the paper and knew that it hid another riddle and when he turned the paper it was no surprise. A riddle written in uncharted lettering, " A man lived in isolation for a long time,he gets his food by food drops. One day he got so tired that he closed his lights and went to sleep on that night a thousand people died. How did this happen? The place where the man lived , reveals the location of your Butler. Tick tock, the bell goes to midnight."
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