Author's Note: This is my very first fanfiction I ever wrote. Sure, this is based on The New 52 but I edit it with my own way the way it should be.
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Chapter 2
The Valley of the Soul Part I
Crime Alley...
The place where real Bruce Wayne died and The Batman was born. I never thought I would come here to witness murders of my parents again. There are with me right now. I can't tell them to turn around and I must have forced to shut up and watch that terrible night. The mugger just came to the corner and held gun toward to my mom and dad. I was just kid back then, pretend to be the Zorro …
"Hey, Daddy. I want to be Zorro when I grow up." said Bruce in his young voice.
"Ha-ha, we will have to get you real sword and nice costume like Zorro." Said Thomas Wayne
Then, I was instantly frozen stand there when I saw mugger has gun point to my mother, I did want to attack the mugger who took away my childhood but couldn't…
"Martha, he just wants the pearls." said Thomas, noticed mugger looking at the pearls.
"And the wallet!" cried Mugger.
"And the wallet." calmed Thomas, as he pulled out his wallet and gave it to the mugger. The mugger got impatient and ripped the pearl out and Thomas got in the way and two shot echoed that night… The mugger instantly fled the scene. I kneeled down on floor near, my mother and my father. I will never get to see them again… My beautiful mother… My handsome father… There were parts of me died along with them and something beast inside just surfaced… Then it started to repeat few times… Again and again…
"Wake up! Get it out of your head!" said older voice. At first I didn't know who said but I realize it was my own voice trying to push this terrible night out of my head. The vision stared to blurring little bit as I try to push it out of my head.
"Bury it, Bruce!" cried my own voice.
The nightmare shattered as I woke up out and saw my own black gloves with three pointed accoutrements. I, then, saw my teammates lay on floor look like dead. Also Superman is still stuck in mid-air.
"Superman?" said Batman
No response. 'He must have stuck in that terrible day of his father get heart attack.' thought Batman, as he releases two batarangs toward Superman.
-Krrkksh!–
The strange cold ice cracked and Superman fell down toward the floor.
Then Batman ran toward to Diana. 'She looks so weak and helpless. That's not her. I know she is strong and proud of her life. That's what I deeply respect her. We are fighting for peace, even I fight for different reason than her. She is the beautiful woman I lay my eyes on… No, Must focus find Graves first. I don't want to her to love me.' thought Batman.
"Diana! Push it out of your head! Bury it, Diana!" cried Batman.
"Bruce?" said Diana weakly, as she wakes up from her nightmare. 'He must care deeply about me. As he just help me from my nightmare.' though Diana.
"I'm here. Go wake up other, Diana. I'm going help Superman." Diana nods and get up and went toward Flash and Aquaman and help them while Batman went toward Superman. Superman started wake up from words of Batman.
"When those spirits passed through me… I watched my father have heart attack again and again." said Superman. "I couldn't save him."
My dad's plane… It crashed." said Green Lantern, as he gets up.
"What did those things did to us?" asked Flash weakly.
"Graves' spirits seem feed off misery." answered Batman, as he walks toward to the teleporter with Cyborg.
"What did you see, Batman?" asked Flash, though he kind of suspected he know the answer, he wasn't sure yet.
"I think I saw Bruce's face changed from stoic face to saddened face then back to angry face again.' thought Diana 'It might have eating him again.'
"It's doesn't matter. It's over." said Batman angry. "Where did Graves jump to, Cyborg?"
"He used the teleporter to get to Washington, D.C. He's at a house belonging to Tracy Trevor."
'Tracy Trevor? Steve's sister?' though Flash, as he helping Aquaman get up.
"That's Steve's sister!" growled Diana
'Whoa. I never see her get angry. Maybe she does care about Steve thought I doubt as more of relationship. More like friendship.' though Flash. 'She seems interested in Batman, our gloomy, brooding leader.'
"Let's go to there." ordered Batman
-Outside at Tracy Trevor's house-
Justice League arrived in the house as just Graves disappeared. Tracy got mad at Wonder Woman because she blames her for kidnap of Steve. Wonder Woman look down as she step out of house with rest of Justice League behind her.
"She's just upset, Wonder Woman." said Flash.
"No. She's right, Flash. This is my fault." said Wonder Woman, as she looks at Flash. "I should never let us get as close as we did."
"We'll find who has Steve, Wonder Woman." assured Superman.
"We already know." said Batman, as he held the book. "His name's David Graves."
"Who's David Graves?" asked Green Lantern.
"The author." said Superman. "We saved him and his family during Darkseid's invasion. Then he wrote the book about us."
Green Lantern put his hand behind his head.
"I didn't finish it."
"But you know it catapulted us into public's favor."
"Us kicking Darkseid's rocky ass did that."
Superman's eyebrow lifted up at Green Lantern's comment. Green Lantern stared at him.
"C'mon, Superman, you sound like you admire this lunatic.
"As a writer, I did."
Cyborg typed David Graves's name and got files of him and his family as Batman and Aquaman get closer.
"David Graves disappeared a few years ago. After his wife and children died, everyone presumed he had, too. He was terminal." stated Batman.
"With what?" asked Aquaman.
"According to the files, the doctor never identified the cause. They thought it was some form of cancer." stated Cyborg, as Wonder Woman started to leave, Batman started to follow her, while everyone unnoticed they left the group. "I have his known address. A writing cabin in Maine."
"Where are you going, Wonder Woman?" said Batman as he continued followed Diana.
"To Graves' cabin." said Wonder Woman. "I'm going find him. I'm going cut off his head and I'm going to bring Steve home."
"This is a League mission, not a Wonder Woman one." said Batman, as they continue walk down the street. "And we don't cut anyone's head."
"I do."
As Batman final get firm grip on her, Wonder Woman stop in her track.
"And the more you hold me back, the more likely Steve's already dead."
"This wasn't just attack on you."
"I need to do this."
"Diana… Please, don't do this without us... Without me." pleaded Batman in whisper.
'Did he just call me Diana?' thought Wonder Woman. 'He never calls me Diana in public, only in secret or watchtower sparring room… He must deeply care about me more. I knew it. He does care about me more than he cares about Justice League.'
Wonder Woman turn and face up with Batman, who just show deep concerned face toward her.
"Bruce… I can't risk Steve's life." whispered Diana.
"I know, Diana. But I can't risk your life either. We have to go together."
Wonder Woman sighed and reluctantly nod at his request. Batman nod as thanks at her listening to him then turn around and walk toward to the gang.
"Cyborg, take us to cabin." ordered Batman, in his cold, usual voice as his concerned face disappeared and his stoic face returned.
"You got it, Batman." said Cyborg.
-At Graves' cabin—
"We are here, gang." said Flash, in his sarcasm tone. "Wonderful, nice place of the villain that wants us to be dead and blames us for his family dead even I don't know what to think right now."
"Flash." said Superman in serious tone.
"C'mon, you have to admit it. He just kicked our ass with that misery spirits that brought our nightmare out."
"I agree with him, Superman." added Green Lantern.
"Found it." said Batman as The League turns their heads at Batman and Wonder Woman who researched some journals. "I found more information about David Graves."
"According to his journal, David and his family were visiting Metropolis on the book tour when Darkseid attacked." said Wonder Woman, as she continued reading. "Months later, His wife started getting sick. Then his son, then his daughter."
The League (except Superman) stared at Wonder Woman like idiots.
"What?"
"You know you almost do sound like Batman." said Green Lantern shrugging from shock.
"He taught me some detective's work. He is the World's Great Detective after all."
Batman silently chucked and continued the convention, "He buried his family on this ground" as he reveled what behind the window and see three graves of David's family. "Then he fell ill shortly after."
"The doctors couldn't figure out what it was." stated Batman, as he lay out that blueprint of some sort. "But they theorized that David and his family were exposed to something during Darkseid's attack. Something we missed."
"So he blamed us for the death of his family?" said Flash.
"It's awful what happened, it is, but why do we end up the scapegoat for every super-powered psycho out there?" asked Green Lantern.
"What if Graves is right, Lantern?" said Aquaman. "What if he was exposed to something?"
"Then others would've been." said Superman.
Batman, then, walks toward between Green Lantern and Superman and sees the map of the mountain.
"So he is wrong." said Flash.
"I don't think he believe that." said Wonder Woman.
"How you know that-" said Green Lantern.
"Wonder Woman is right." said Batman as he point his finger at map. "But he does believe in other things. He's spent his life researching the mysteries of the world. That's why he disappeared when we arrived at Tracy Trevor's. He was going
back to Mount Sumeru. To going back to his family in the Valley of Souls."
"Cyborg, Take us to there, now." ordered Wonder Woman.
The team (except Superman, of course) stared at Wonder Woman and was going ask her but decide to not press the question it because Batman threw bat-glares at them.
"On it, Wonder Woman." said Cyborg.
-At Mount Sumeru—
After few walks later, The League is searching for the entrance.
"I don't see the entrance." said Superman as he searching the mountain with his x-ray vision.
"And my ring can't pick up any…" said Green Lantern
"I see it." said Cyborg.
Then, the entrance started to show up in front of them.
"There's a cavern up ahead." added Cyborg.
"Your Cybernetic eye detected it?" asked Flash, as the League walk into the wall, unaware the cavern was well hidden till they got in it.
"No, my human eye can see it." said Cyborg.
"So why can't we?" asked Green Lantern.
"According to the Graves' book, only those walking the line between life and death can see the entrance to the Valley of Souls." stated Batman.
"I'm not partly dead, am I?" asked Cyborg.
"Of course not." answered Batman with snort.
Then spirits started to move toward League, as they spurt in action.
"What is it?" asked Wonder Woman as she pulled out her sword.
"The Valley of Souls." reminded Batman.
"Bruce?" said female voice.
"Son?" said male voice.
'That voices... I haven't heard that voices in long time…' thought Batman, as his parents started to appear in front of him.
'Oh, my god… That's must be his parents.' thought Wonder Woman.
"Hello, Hal." said older voice.
"It can't be." said Green Lantern as his dad appeared in from of him.
"This isn't possible." said Superman, as his adoptive parents appear in front of him.
"Is this another vision?" said Flash, as his mother get closer to him, as he started to cry little bit. "Or is this real?"
"It look like him…" said Aquaman, as he walk toward his spirited father, but it disappeared. "…Dad?!"
"What's going on? What is that?" cried Cyborg as he stared at himself in disbelief. "Why am I looking at myself?"
"Diana? My baby?" said female voice.
"No! That can't be…" cried Wonder Woman, as she turn and see her mother stand in front of her.
"…Mother?" cried Wonder Woman.
-TO BE CONTIUNED-