~*The Predator*~

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to the DC comics and the WB. I own nothing from them.

Note: The character Liz Barry aka Predator is my character as well Ben Almasy, Monix, Missy and Beth all belongs to me

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Many years ago, in a small temple, in Egypt, the time when Egyptian rulers ruled Egypt and their people, a group of monks are protecting four sacred elements; they are fire, water, earth, and wind. They are protecting them from the forces of evil, that includes a crazed cult, that calls themselves 'The Acolytes' and the leader Ben wants them all dead especially the fire element, because it holds the door of Armageddon and other bunch of stuff.

The reason also why these monks were protecting these guardian/elements, because these guardians/elements created the planet Earth about 4.1 billion years ago, the elements had to do their special job to create Earth that are: Fire=Earth, Water=Oceans & H20, Earth=animals, plants, cells ect, and Wind=Oxygen & Air.

If all of them got killed, Earth will be basically screwed, meaning evil takes over the planet and you can't stop it, it would be like a virus that keeps on spreading and spreading and all the humans or whatever will be food or as slaves. That is why these monks were protecting these elements.

A couple days later, 'The Acolytes' burst threw the temple, and killed all of the monks and the guardian/elements that looks like medium size orbs and colored coordinate like fire=red/yellow/orange, Water=blue, Earth=Green, and Wind=white. A group of young people, who soon become 'ancients' send the four elements into the 21st century as metahumans for cover-up, there was one problem, they need to find a way to exist and have a normal life to blend in so Ben and his cult won't find them. They had the solution, allow them to be born like normal humans & metahumans and have same parents as well, so they won't be separated, soon they have to be separated as they get older. When each when they are born they have a tattoo of their element posted on their lower backs, also their parents have to know about their daughters in what they are and why they are here, one of the 'ancients' spoke to them in person about their daughters and how they will be slightly different than most metahumans and they are really 4.1 billions years old.

On May 5th, 1981 fire & earth was born and their names are Liz and Beth. On June 23rd 1985, the water guardian/element was born and her name is Monix, and on January 12, 1986, the wind element was born with the name of Missy.

The 'Ancients' felt that each of them needs special ablities that their newly parents don't have and their powers/ablities are: Liz=Feline ablities, teleknisis, and sensory (later receives animal shift shaping (includes also dinosaurs/mythical animals) at the age of 22) Beth=Feline Ablities, Monix=Animal Shifter shaper and some powers are unknown, and Missy=telepathy, scanning, teleknisis, mind reader, and visions.

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-July 4, 1984-

"Liz!" cried her mother, in the kitchen, making food for a special family get together on the Fourth of July. Liz ignores her mother's orders and hears sounds outside of her home. Her mother sees her and walks up to her and picks her up, "Where do you think your going?"

"Outtie!"

"You're staying in, because no one is not going to watch you, your father & the guys are watching sports, like always and your sister Beth is playing in her room, why don't you go and play with her?"

"No!!!!" She tries to break free and she starts to cry, "Outtie!!" Liz is somewhat hard to handle, because what element she is and the fire element are most likely to be aggressive and hard to handle.

Someone knocks on the door and her mother puts her down and walks up to the door and it was Saline Kyle and her daughter Helena. "Hi, come on in" she lets the two in, "So how is New Gotham?"

"Good, full of criminals, what do you expect?" said Saline, "Helena, why don't you play with your cousin Beth and Liz."

"Ok" Helena leaves her mother and finds Liz trying to open the back door, "Where do you think your going?"

Liz turns around and sees Helena, "Outtie!" Beth walks out of a bedroom and there are toys all over the place and she looks at her sister.

"Why wanna to go out? There's nothing to do out there, just bugs like mosquito's that gets us the itches and it's boring," said Beth

"Hi, Beth," said Helena, "Can we play in your room? Because Liz is boring!"

"Ok!" Beth starts to walk to her room, "Let's play Barbies!" Beth takes out her Barbie and Ken doll out and the two sits down and start to play dolls. "I will be Barbie and you be Ken"

"No! I wanna be Barbie!"

"No!" Beth throws a doll at her, "You can be Stacy, because I think that's Barbie's little sister"

Liz hears the sound again and she manages to open the back door with some sort of telekinesis, at the moment she and her sister is developing their metahuman ablities and powers. She walks into the woods and sees a group of men in black clothing, "Who are you? Are you.a musician?" They smiled at her and grabbed her and open the van truck door and opens it and drives off, Liz tries to scream, but she can't, she tries to use her TK again, but doesn't remember how she did it.

The mother walks into the kitchen and sees the back door open and closes it, not knowing her daughter Liz, has been kidnapped. She hears her daughter Beth playing in there, thinking that Liz can be in there.

2hours later..

"Helena, time to go now," said her mother, Helena gets off the floor and she opens the bedroom door and walks out and went up to her mother, "We gotta go now, because its about your bedtime, so is Liz and Beth as well." The two left and drove back to New Gotham.

Beth walks out of her room and looks at her mother, and her mother looks at her, "Beth, tell your sister, time to go to bed"

"Mommy! Liz isn't here!" she screamed and somewhat whined, because she tired, when she tired, she is grouchy.

"What? Say that again?" She thought, her daughter said that Liz isn't here, she wasn't sure because today was a long night and it was so busy between family, entertainment, and fireworks.

"She not here!"

"Where did she go?" she starts to panic, "George!!" she cried to her husband, Beth's father runs to the room, "George, Liz is missing!" Her mother bends down the Beth, "Did you see where she went?"

She shakes her head, "I was playing Barbies with Helena, and she was in the kitchen asking to go out" She pauses, "Me and Helena was having an argument, in what dolls we should play, I wanna be Barbie and she wanna be her too" her mother made her stop speaking, before Beth rambles on.

"What are going to do? We failed protecting her..the 'ancients' or whoever won't be too happy"

"Don't worry, I will go out and look around town, watch Beth at all cost, just incase, you know the drill" he walks over the coat hanger and grabs his coat and puts it on, "I will call you if anything happens"

The mother nods, and she looks down at Beth, "Let's go into the living room and watch tv, ok?"

"Ok"

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Liz wakes up in a small cell, with no windows, the cell contains a small smelly old cot, no blankets or pillows, and in the corner of the dark cell, is usually where you go to the bathroom, the cell has no lights and it really smells.

Liz begin to hear cries and screams down the hall, she started to get scared and she went to the corner, not the bathroom spot and sits down, shaking with fear and tears is coming out of her eyes, "Mommy..." she begins to call for her mother, but she doesn't come. She sees two men in black suits opening her cell door and looking down at her, they pull out tasers, and she looks at the weapons. She begins to cry.

"Hello, Liz, I believe, to tell you something, your not going home, your not gonna go anywhere, your gonna live here for life in a pure nightmare along torture, beating, and learn how to fight and kill," said the first guy.

The second man walks closer to Liz and grabs her and heads to the brainwashing room and begin to hook her on some equipment, "This will be painless" he begins to chuckle and he takes out a needle out. "Except for this" she tries to break free, but she strapped to a chair and the inject the needle into her arm, and she yelps really loud. They smiled and turn the machine on and begin to brainwash her with the words on the screen being shown with voices repeating over and over for about 90 minutes each: "Know your Enemy," "Everyone is your Enemy," "You are design to kill," "No one loves you," "No one cares for you"

And it goes on and on...

Later that night, the guards unstrapped her and lead her down to the hall, leading her to her cell, they open the steel door and she walks in and then they slammed it shut, bolted and locked. She walks over to her cot and lies down, trying to fall asleep, but she can't because the words are inside her mind repeating itself over and over again. (please read and review)