Me: Hey guys what's up? Chavonnie26 here to bring you my latest story and my first The Batman story at that. Please note that this story takes place after the final episode. Now enjoy!
Hi my name is Elaine Smith Pennyworth. I know pretty ordinary name right? But I'm not your ordinary girl. I guess it all started on that fateful day. The day my family died. It was an ordinary enough day. My parents, brother and I were working in our restaurant 'The Four Elements'.
"Elaine sweet and sour pork, Kung pow chicken and peeking duck to table three." My mom said as she handed me the plates.
"On it." I said as I walked to table three but nearly stopped dead in my tracks.
In front of me was Gotham's billionaire play-boy Bruce Wayne, Police Commissionaire Gordon and Detective Ellen Yin. I shook off my surprise and placed their food in front of them.
"Enjoy." I said with a smile as I tucked my black hair behind my ear.
I quickly headed back to the kitchen and took a deep breath to calm myself. Man was I glad for all my years of meditation training.
"Elaine are you okay?" My mom asked her blue eyes worried.
I had my mom's blue eyes, lightly tanned skin, small nose and calm demeanour and my dad's raven black hair, large smile and determination.
"Yeah I'm ok." I said with a smile as I smoothed out the wrinkles in my shirt.
"Well good. Because it's almost time for you to perform with Matt." My mom said handing me a red outfit (Me: Think of the outfit Katara wore when she was in the fire nation)
"On it." I said with a smile as I walked to Matt and my dressing room.
"Hey Matt Brat how's it going?" I asked my twin brother as I entered the room.
Matt was already in his costume (Me: Think Aang's outfit from when he was in the fire nation)
"Would you quit calling me that?" Matt asked angrily.
Matt had our dad's grey eyes, big smile and quick temper and our mom's light tan skin, brown hair, small button nose and flexibility.
"Nope." I said while getting changed.
As soon as I was done I quickly fixed my hair.
"Come on Elaine Pain." Matt said as I followed him to the stage.
"Now the Dragon of the East and the Dragon of the West shall dance for your viewing pleasure." Our dad announced as the curtains opened and Matt and I got into our positions.
We nodded to each other and the music started playing. The first dance we did was called the Dancing Dragon and the second we didn't have a proper name for but we called it the Chinese Tango (Me: Look it up on YouTube. The second dance is the one where Aang and Katara dance together.). We were about to do our encore when this happened…
"Well looky here a couple dancers who can actually dance!" Joker said as he entered the restaurant.
I gulped and slowly backed away as did Matt.
"Now don't stop the show just because of little old me." Joker said as he took a seat right in front of the stage while his Hench men guarded the door leaving everyone including me trapped like rats.
"What I wouldn't give for my daggers right now." I muttered under my breath.
"Dance!" Joker yelled at us and aimed a gun at both of us.
Matt and I hesitated and that seemed enough to set Joker off. He fired at me but Matt jumped in the way and took the bullet for me.
"MATT NO!" I screamed as I dropped to my knees.
"Now dance! Or else I kill dear momsie and popsie over there." Joker said aiming the gun at my parents who had come out the kitchen to see what was going on.
"I can't. You killed my partner." I said my voice devoid of any emotion as I held my brother's hand.
"Fine your choice." Joker said with a shrug as he fired at my mom and dad.
"No." I barely whispered as the bullets found their marks.
That's when something inside of me snapped.
"NO!" I screamed as I attacked Joker.
All I could see was red and by the time the red was gone, Joker was curled up in a ball, covered in small burns and begging me to stop and I was exhausted.
"Easy there." Detective Yin said as she supported me when I almost fell to the floor.
"What happened?" I asked her as she led me to the ambulance outside.
"You don't remember?" Detective Yin asked me as I sat down and she wrapped a blanket around me.
"All I remember is Joker shooting my parents then everything went red." I told her as I gripped my necklace/medallion.
It was part of a matching set and my brother had the other one. It had a symbol for each of the four elements and had a matching background for each symbol all on one medallion.
"You beat Joker to a pulp." Detective Yin told me as I stared at her in shock.
"I did what?" I asked her not believing my ears.
"You beat Joker to a senseless pulp." Detective Yin repeated as I stared at her as if she had grown a second head.
Even though I had been trained in martial arts like my brother I had never ever beaten someone who was bigger than me up.
"Man I need to invest in some anger management classes." I said chuckling a little.
It was my way of coping with the grief.
"Look I'm sorry about your parents. I should have done something." Detective Yin told me with her eyes down cast.
"Hey no worries you did all you could. Besides it's not as if you're Batgirl or something." I told her trying to make her feel better.
"True." Detective Yin said with a small smile as two men dressed in white suits came towards us.
"Can I help you?" Detective Yin asked the men when they were in front of us.
"We're here to take the girl into custody." The man on the right said sternly.
"Where to?" I asked confused as I slowly stood up.
"The orphanage." The man on the left said as I felt the urge to run.
The man on the right grabbed my wrist and pulled me along to a brown van.
"LET ME GO!" I yelled as I struggled to get away.
But it was no use. Soon I was in the van and headed for the orphanage.
"NO!" I screamed as I woke up having a nightmare about how Joker killed my parents.
At least I was hoping it was a nightmare. When I felt the rough sheets underneath me instead of my usual soft cotton ones I knew that my nightmare was real. I quickly got out of bed and sat on the floor in lotus position.
"Inner peace. Inner peace." I chanted as I slowly calmed down.
When I was completely calm I stood back up and picked out an outfit from the suitcase the Child Service men let me pack. I chose my favourite blue shirt, blue jeans and brown boots. I quickly did my hair in its usual complicated braid that took only three minutes to do (Me: Think Katara's usual hair style) and headed down for breakfast.
"Morning Elaine." A girl my age said as I sat down next to her.
I merely looked at her with a blank stare.
"Forget I said anything." The girl said as I ate my food with robotic movements.
Then the orderly came into the room holding a stack of papers.
"Good news Elaine! You were just adopted by a Mr Alfred Pennyworth!" the orderly announced as my jaw dropped with my food still in there.
"Huh?" I asked completely shocked.
"You were adopted." The girl next to me clarified as the orderly walked out the room.
I immediately fell over in a dead faint.
"Are you okay?" Detective Yin asked me as I regained consciousness.
"Define okay." I said as I rubbed my sore eyes.
Then I realised I was no longer at the orphanage but in a very lavish looking lounge. I raised an eyebrow at Yin.
"I picked you up from the orphanage as a favour to Alfred." Yin told me with a no nonsense attitude.
"Good to know." I told her while sitting up properly.
"Ah I see you're finally awake." An older gentleman said walking into the room nearly giving me a heart attack.
"Whoa someone's light on their feet." I said jokingly as I gripped my racing heart.
"I'm truly sorry about that. My name is Alfred your new foster father." He told me as I smiled.
Even though I had only known him for a few minutes I instantly liked him.
"Well Elaine Master Bruce is waiting for you in the sitting room with Master Dick. If you'll follow me." Alfred said as Detective Yin and I followed him to a large room with a crackling fire.
I kept my distance from the fire mainly because I wasn't comfortable showing off all my secrets to a bunch of people I just met plus I didn't want to burn the house down.
"Welcome to Wayne Manor Elaine." Bruce said with a smile as I sat down on the floor in lotus position.
"Thank you Mr Wayne." I said respectfully with a smile on my face.
"Please call me Bruce and this is Dick. He'll be showing you around the Manor today right Dick?" Bruce asked his companion who I failed to notice until now.
I swear my heart skipped a beat. In front of me was one of the cutest guys I had ever met. He had raven black hair and the most mesmerising blue-green eyes ever. And when he smiled at me I swear my face was redder than a tomato. And the best part he was my age.
"Sure thing Bruce." Dick said in a voice that made me feel a bit faint.
'Snap out of it' I told myself firmly.
It was no time for me to act like a love sick puppy.
"Come on Ellie." Dick said as he offered me his hand which I took.
It felt like a jolt of electricity went up and down my arm and in the fire if you would look close enough you could see flames in the shape of hearts. I blushed and quickly let go of his hand but ended up falling onto my rear end.
"Sorry." I barely whispered as I tried to get my emotions in check.
It was always a bad thing when my emotions were out of control. The wind in the room started to pick up and that's when I made a bolt for the door. I seemed to startle everyone as I finally made it out the front door and into the open. I took a deep breath and quickly raced up a tree. I gripped my head and tried to get my emotions under control because if I didn't well let's just say Gotham would be having one heck of an earth quake.
"Inner peace. Inner peace." I chanted over and over again as the rocks and stones around me started levitating, the wind picked up and turned into a mini-tornado that circled my tree and the water in a nearby pond started bubbling and boiling.
"Not working." I said longing for my glider.
"Elaine are you oh my heavens." Alfred said when he saw me.
"Hey Alfred." I said as the stones, rocks, wind and water went back to normal.
"Well I guess that's the reason for your unexpected retreat." Alfred said completely calm and that's what made me fall out of the tree.
"You're okay with what I can do?" I asked completely shocked as I got up from my fall.
"I have seen much stranger on a daily basis." Alfred said still completely calm.
"You have?" I asked getting even more shocked as the earth began to shake.
"Oops." I said as I calmed down and the ground stopped shaking.
"Yes I have now let's go back inside. Master Bruce and Miss Ellen are most worried about you." Alfred said as he went back inside with me following.
The entire walk back to the sitting room I kept my head down and didn't talk. When we arrived back in the sitting room Bruce, Dick and Ellen were there waiting for us.
"I'm sorry for running out like that. I guess I was a bit overwhelmed." I said barely a mumble hoping Alfred would keep my secret.
"It's okay. We all get that way sometimes." Bruce told me with a caring smile.
I sent him a small smile as I kept my emotions in check.
"Well I have to go. My watch starts in fifteen minutes. I'll see you all around." Ellen said as she left the room leaving me alone with three males one of whom nearly made me cause an earthquake.
"Well I believe I shall show Elaine to her room." Alfred said as I sighed in relief as he led me to my new room.
My new room was mostly green and blue but still pretty plain. It had the necessities but nothing more and nothing less.
"Thank you for not ratting me out Alfred." I said gratefully as I sat down on my bed.
"No problem Elaine. I'm very good at keeping secrets." Alfred said with a small smile as I noticed all my belongs were already there.
I smirked at Alfred as I found my glider and opened it. It had blue sails with red, green and yellow trims and the wood was a nice dark brown.
"Alfred have you ever gone hang gliding?" I asked him as I twirled my now closed glider like a bo staff.
"No why?" Alfred asked as I grinned.
"Elaine I don't believe this is safe." Alfred said as we were about to take off the roof.
"Please my I've been doing this since I was five and haven't fallen yet." I said as we took off with Alfred nervously clutching the top of my glider.
"Yaaa-hooo!" I yelled as we twirled, dived and loop de looped around Wayne Manor but above the cloud line.
"YAAHHH!" Alfred screamed as I sped up.
"No worries we'll land in a minute. The storm that's been brewing all day is coming to a head and only an idiot would fly in this weather." I said as I turned to go back to the manor.
In less than five minutes we were back on the roof again with Alfred looking more than a little pale and green.
"Never again." Alfred said as we went inside.
"That's what you think. Now come on it's almost dinner time and I want to help you make it." I told him with a laugh as we went to the kitchen.
"What have I done?" Alfred asked himself but I heard him anyway.
I laughed as I helped him prepare dinner.
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