i had to re-watch Brave to make this work xDD but instead of bear poor Nightwing is a panther!

His look?... I admit it... killinganger. deviantart art/Daly-411506107 (without spaces)

And Damian can't really tame him xDDD

~Chapter 21: Claws of Night I~

Red Hood gulped as he dropped the ray gun he had accidentally fired at his older brother. The rest of the Batkids were in shock and prayed that the blast hadn't killed Nightwing. Robin carefully walked over to the still rising smoke and tried to see his brother.

Something shot out of the smoke and into the bushes scaring the small bird who bolted over to Red hood and zipped under the brown jacket, and then his face popped out.

"Find him or find dad?" Black Bat rose her clawed hand voting for Batman. Red Robin was standing beside her rising his hand as well but he was still looking at the bushes hoping to see his brother. Spoiler, Robin and Red Hood sighed and pointed at the bushes "Give us an hour before you tell him"

Black Bat smirk evilly.

"30 minuets"

Batman was going to kill them.

~Edge of the forest~

"I'm going to kill whoever harm my kids!" Batman was shacking as he walked away from the League and Superman was suddenly in front of him "Nightwing said they were going to separate the ray gun from that...Whatever he was and be back here! The forest is thick and it's been a while since they scared anyone right?"

Batman straighten to his full height "So you're saying that they take this long to have fun?"

"Who knows what your eldest comes up that involves fun and training at the same time?"

"Fine"

Superman sighed in relief as Batman turned away. Well he bought them time...He just hoped Batman wouldn't actually kill anyone...

...

Was Batman still carrying kryptonite?

~Inside the forest~

"What kind of flowers do you like Hood?"

"And you wanna know why?"

"Your funeral...Your second one"

"...White roses"

Robin giggled as they walked threw the forest trying to find Nightwing. It was safe to say that he had been the one in the smoke and had bolted away from them. Black Bat and Red Robin had stayed behind with the ray gun to either figure out how to reverse it or act as if they had just found it and that the rest of them had split up to find the culprit.

Bruce loved them all so much that even the slightest gun wound on them could give him a stroke. If they returned without Nightwing Batman was going to flip and dash in himself.

"Nightwing! Better get out here before DaddyBat's loses it!" Spoiler called out and felt her cape flap along with some leaves "Hello Supes" She didn't know which one it was but-

"Grrr.."

...They didn't growl did they?

Red Robin was pacing around while Black Bat used her holo computer and a stylus pen to train her read and writing, which to her was a great time waster when they had long stake outs for thugs to show up. Red finally plopped down beside her and eyes the ray gun in anger.

"It's that thing's fault we have to sit here and make dad worried" He grumbled. Black giggled "You're brooding like him right now"

"Can you blame me?" He looked at her.

"No"

Red sighed and leaned his head back, looking up at the sky through the trees. "It's almost dawn"

"Dick's right...We're more bats then humans" Black snickered as she put away her stylus pen and turned off her holo-screen.

"Again: Can you blame us?"

Both jumped in fright when a scream of pure terror scared all the birds from the trees and saw how several colored blurs bolted past them, one coming towards them was completely black.

"Dad!"

Batman slid to a stop and found them sitting against the large fallen tree. He held his arms out as they ran into him "Thank god..." He whispered as he held them tight. "Where are the others?!"

"Looking for Nightwing! Someone has to take the ray gun to some nearby lab! He was hit and bolted out of the smoke and deeper into the forest"

They could feel Batman freeze "Nightwing was shot?!"

Black frowned "We think he's fine but...He ran away from us"

"From you?"

"Ya and into the forest...Like something happened and he thought we'd...Oh no!" Red covered his face as Batman sighed "It's one of those guns, great... Alright you two take the ray gun and go with Jordan. We'll try the find the others" They nodded but refused to touch the ray gun.

Jordan used his ring to carry them both in a bubble but held the gun away from them as he headed for a nearby STAR Labs.

"Hello Supes"

Spoiler turned around and came nose to eyes with the biggest panther she had ever seen.

"Uh..guys...there aren't any panthers here right?"

"No?"

"...Dami...Tame..."

Robin turned around and froze as the beast lifted it's head and looked at them all. His jaw dropped.

"Nope!" He and Red Hood dived into the bushes and fired their grappling hooks to drag her with them. Spoiler wasn't ready for that and she screamed in terror as the panther launched and landed where she had been mere seconds ago.

"Oh sure! Just give dad a heart attack!" Hood shouted as he jumped over a log, making sure Robin was still with them.

"It's your fault we're here!" Spoiler shouted from her sudden place on Red Hood's shoulder. At least she could see if they were behind followed.

"...*Groan* And I'll find a way to make it up to you! Right now just shout if that thing is following!"

Robin dived into a large hole under a large tree where the roots were a twined mess and his siblings dived after, Red Hood had tore off a good sized bush that he held over his head as he jumped down feet first, the bush covered the hole and he looked as the panther shot out of the bushes.

Robin and Spoiler were pressed at the back and covered each others mouths and their eyes widen as Red Hood slowly and quietly opened his right gun holster and took out his gun. His finger was over the safety as he waited for something to make a sound loud enough to cover the safety unlocking.

The panther was 2x bigger then Titus and Ace! It kept looking up and circled the glade as if it waited for them to jump down. Red Hood hoped Spoiler had screamed loud enough for Superman to hear.

He carefully uncurled his hand around the branch and found that it stayed in it's place as he finger spelled 'Turn off anything that makes sounds'. Both ex and current Robin froze and quickly did as they were told...Sure it would scare Batman to kingdom come but they'd rather be found by their father then being found by the enormous beast out there.

Hurrah for sign language!

S: 'Do we contact Batman?'

RH: 'That thing is listening, it could here you taping'

R: 'Hope Nightwing didn't come across it'

Red Hood turned back to watch the panther circle around but this time it was looking around the glade into the forest. It's ears were moving slightly and it's form was ready to attack. They could hear it (growl/purr?) as it paced around.

There was a crack somewhere and Red Hood unlocked the safety without looking and then slowly brought the gun so that it wasn't aimed at the panther but to a large tree to fire a warning shot.

*And hopefully get Batman here*

He rose his left hand and held up three fingers, he waited a minute to make sure they had covered their ears before he brought down his ring finger, then long finger...And then when index fell...

He fired.

The bullet hit a tree but it was enough to make the panther roar in surprise and looked around when the whizzing of those beloved batarang flew past their hiding spot and lodged into the trunk it was standing on. Red Hood saw a heavy boot land slightly in front of him followed by a black cape so he knew that Batman was between them and the panther.

"Animals are afraid of fire! Try not to burn the forest! Spoiler and the boys are still here somewhere!" They heard Superman yell as the panther lounged at Flash who moved away from it's very sharp claws. But the panther just walked through the flames!

"Okay, what is that thing?" Arsenal readied his bow to fire.

Spoiler crawled over to Red Hood in their hiding spot and found something odd about the panther "Hood...Look at it's fur..." Doing as she asked he took a long long look at it and frowned under his helmet. Part of it's tail was red, as was it's hips...But from the chest and back, over the shoulders and down to the paws it was red too...

Like fingerstripes!

"Oh god...I fired at Dick!"

"You what?!"

The panther snarled showing his teeth and Red Hood threw their cover bush aside in panic "NIGHTWING DON'T YOU RECOGNIZE US?!" He screamed.

The panther's face suddenly changed and the previously black eyes changed to blue.

He slowly backed away shacking his head as if to clear it... And when he saw Batman...

He whined in fear and ran off.

idea came from 'SonYukiGoku'sSister' who wanted something that was related to Brave and i was like:

'Bear or panther?'

choice was panther in capital letters xDD but this is just part 1 as you can see