With the rain pouring down on the ground and a young Bruce Wayne who tries to fight a mysterious unknown man who appeared like a ghost out of nowhere. The man had a death grip over Bruce´s neck.
"Don´t try to get lose boy" the man says with a voice as cold as ice.
"W-who are you?" Bruce can´t even turn around his neck to see the face one the man. But he can hear the sound of the man´s breath, even his breath sounds different, so calm but still so heavy.
The man then bends over to Bruce´s neck and a small whisper comes out of his mouth:
"I can break your neck at this moment, without even having to push myself. If you just make only one noise, I will kill you understood?" he whispered.
Stunned by the man's words, Bruce nodded without saying a single word.
"Good. Now you will be coming with me, I got big plans for you." The man smiled and for the first time put Bruce down who immediately turned around to see the man. Even if it was so dark he could see the shape of a tall man, covered from toe to top. The man of course was wearing a mask, which covered every bit of his face. But
This was not like any mask Bruce had seen before, in the old movies of the Gray ghost that he had always watched with his father while he was alive. No this mask was something much very different, it didn´t look like anything he had seen.
"If it is the money you are out after just take them... they don´t matter anything to me." Bruce said
Then he could hear a fast sound and then the pain came through his head. Everything spinning around in his head as the man had punched him right in the face, so quick that even Bruce had not seen it.
As he falls down on his knees, he sees how his own blood drops down at his hands from his nose. Even after that punch who felt like a one hundred punched, he said not one word, afraid to be hit again.
"Didn´t I say to you to shut up? One more word and you won´t be able to stand up" he said while lifting up Bruce in his collar.
Bruce did not dare look into the man´s eyes in case the man would do as he had said and break his neck.
"I am not out after your money, I´m out after something else boy. Something you can´t buy with all the money in the world and I´m going to take it from..."
The man stops talking suddenly and quickly throws himself backwards without letting go of Bruce.
And just few seconds after that, a sound of a gun shoot breaks the sound. And just after that a bullet comes though the night just in the place the man stood.
"Let go of him" Alfred said pointing a shotgun against the man.
Alfred had returned back to the car to wait for Bruce, but after a while he had started to worry about the boy and started walk up to the graves when he had seen the man lift up Bruce.
Then he hurried back to the car and taken his shotgun that had kept in the truck, as he now stood pointing towards the man.
"Let the boy go" he said once more still calmed in his voice "or else I will shoot"
The man first just stared at Alfred but then a big laugh came out of his mouth, a laugh that is horrible to describe.
"You think that will scare me old man? I´ll give you one warning so you listen on it, okay? Don´t play hero" he laughed
"Alfred.." Bruce whispered
The man stopped laughing and took then his eyes from Alfred so he could see down on Bruce. He raised his hand and punched Bruce so hard in the neck that he even became unconscious.
"MASTER BRUCE!" Alfred yelled and again raises the shotgun "PUT HIM DOWN!" Alfred knew it would be hard to get a good shot at the man from this distance, still it was so dark and rainy and he could also miss and hit Bruce Instead.
"I will be taking the kid. But don´t worry you loyal dog, in time I will return him. And if you don´t want me to kill him you will do as I say" He said. And even if he wore a mask you could feel that he smiled all the time.
"Of course we don´t want the society to know the boy has been kidnapped on the same day as his parents funeral right? So you are going to tell that this brat is out on a trip to recover from everything that has happened."
Alfred didn´t for the first time know what to do. Although he was trained for this situation in his earlier days, when he had worked for the government. But now he didn´t know what he could to.
"I take your quiet speech as a yes." He sounded confident and started to walk with Bruce hanging on his shoulder.
At that moment Alfred saw his chance. He could see the man better now he lifted the shotgun and fires one shoot.
He misses….and the night once again goes back to silence except for the rain and thunder. The man is nowhere to see.
"Master Bruce…" Alfred just stares out in the night. "What have I done…How could I let him get away with him, HOW COULD I!"