Robin: The Written Series

Title: Wolf Boy Wonder

Part 2: The Call of The Bat

A/N: I won't even bother you too much with this hopefully, but, it is necessary to read Wolf Boy Wonder Part 1 to fully understand this story or you'll be VERY confused, sorry, but this DOES say part 2. PS, please oh please review, I want to know what you think of this story. Also, there's an Adventure Time reference in this, I'll let you try to find it on your own.

A brush of wind flew through the early December air of Gotham city, a fresh snow had fallen and at the highest hill of the cities border lines, it had yet to turn yellow and brown from pollution. It was gorgeous and soft, yet able to be packed into the ultimate snowball. So, a family laughed happily as they threw snowballs at each other on the snow ay, free of school or work. Bruce Wayne smiled as he chucked a snowball at his son Damian, who was currently busy trying to hit Tim with a bombardment of snow. Damian growled and threw a slush-ball at Bruce, missing by a foot.

"You'll have to aim better then that to hit me, Damian." Bruce corrected his second to eldest son.

During this, Terry had time to hit a bulls-eye on Bruce's back with a snowball, making the powdery flakes slide down the multimillionaires back. "Gotcha!" Terry cheered, but squeaked as Damian, Tim and Bruce ganged up on him with snow weapons.

Meanwhile, Cass and Jason were making snow angels while Stephine built a snowman. Jason stared at the sky, it was musty and grey but still, white droplets of pure snow fell from its dark beauty to leave the area covered in a blanket of snowy wonder. He suddenly looked around, obviously worried.

"Hey, has anyone seen Dickie?" He asked, the boy had moved in with them only two months ago, but had grown on them quickly.

Stephine shrugged as she put a hat on her snowman, which was quickly torn apart as a raven colored wolf pup came tearing out of the mansion and into the snow, having never seen it before. Alfred followed close behind, catching the boys clothes as they came off from his run. He stared at the destroyed snowman, then at Stephine with an apologetic smile.

"So sorry miss Stephine, he is after all new to this snowy season." Alfred explained.

Stephine smiled. "Next time I'll just use him as the head.

Before Alfred could tell her not to say such things, he saw Dick chasing after a squirrel and tried to stop him, but it was too late. With a proud look to9 the pups body, he practically pranced over to Bruce to present his kill. Switching into a naked human, he held out the squirrel to Bruce.

"Look daddy, a kill!" He said proudly.

Everyone just stared at the child as if he had lost his mind. "Um... Dickie, you DO know that we don't kill animals, right?" Bruce asked Dick.

Dick looked horrifyingly sad. "Oh..." He whimpered. "I just wanted to do something for you... since you saved my life and all."

"Dickie... your fine, but please, try not to kill anymore animals, okay?" Bruce asked his six year old son.

Dick nodded sadly. "What should I do with it?" he suddenly perked up. "Can I eat it!?"

"NO!" Alfred yelled at the same time as Bruce, they both sighed. "I'm sorry young master, but eating raw animals is rather undignified."

Dick frowned. "Humans are so weird." He said.

Everyone laughed. "Sorry Dick, we're still getting used to you and your 'Wolfy Ways'." Cass explained.

Dick sighed and nodded. "At least you all stopped calling me a dog."

"Well technically wolves ARE dogs." Tim told Dick.

"You... you think I'm just a dog... a mutt?" Dick asked, tears filling his baby blue eyes.

Bruce stepped forward, his arms outstretched, but Dick pushed him away, changed into a wolf and ran full blast into the mansion. Once inside, Dick ran into his room and sobbed into his pillow. He wasn't a dog... he was a wolf child, just like mama said... but these people... they didn't understand that part of him. Oh well, at least he was SOMEWHAT safe, but still, Dick wanted another wolf child to be around. The orphaned boy stared at the ceiling, his parents... we're they ashamed of him? He had after all decided to live among normal humans who probably would never understand him.

After all, Bruce was a millionaire, not exactly a scientist. Still, Dick felt that Bruce was holding something back, he sensed so much power behind that man, he just KNEW he was hiding something. He also sensed it from the other children, they knew about whatever was going on... and Dick was gonna find out what exactly IT was. He knew it was dangerous, he could be given up if he found out whatever it was they were hiding, but, he had to know. Who knows, maybe he's that Batman guy from the newspapers. Okay, that was just plain silly.

Bruce Wayne being Batman? Now THERE'S a good laugh.

So, that night as the snow fell far faster and more violently, a tiny black wolf pup stalked through the hallways with ease in search of anything out of the ordinary. If he was right about his theories, then whatever was going on took place at night time. More then once, Dick had seen Bruce and his siblings heading into Bruce;s office at night, then not returning until early morning. But that never stopped a Grayson, he'd catch them before they got back upstairs. As the pup followed Bruce's scent, he caught sight of Jason and hid in the shadows, Jason was too busy talking to Tim to notice the pup.

"Man, don't think we should tell Dickie about all of this?" Jason asked Tim.

Tim shook his head. "Its for his own good, that's what Bruce said. Besides, do you have ANY idea what criminals would DO if they saw dick transform? He can't know, he'll join and use those damn puppy eyes so that we'll HAVE to say yes." He explained.

Jason nodded. "Right... its to protect him."

With that, the pair disappeared in Bruce's office with Dick following close behind, not that they knew about that last part. All the while, dick wondered what they meant. Criminals? For his own good? This worried Dick beyond measure, half of him told him to get up and demand an answer while the rest of him said to shut up and stay low, he'd figure out eventually. With a sigh, Dick Grayson followed the boys into the study to see Tim typing in a code on the wall panel,m the same one Bruce had said was a heat control pad. Well, there's one lie found out, but now Dick wondered...

How many more would he find?

As if on cue, the grandfather clock opened up to reveal a staircase going into darkness. With the skills of a ninja, Dick ran full speed in pure silence into the staircase before the door could shut. Silently, dick creeped down the staircase, whimpering as a hoard of bats rushed by him. Okay, maybe this was a bad idea after all... no, he HAD to find out the truth. The wolf pup bit hid tongue as his blue eyes met icy blue eyes, Bruce was sitting in a chair facing a giant computer but had locked eyes with Dick's own pair. The siblings already in costume stared at the wolf pup, all shocked. Finally, Bruce sighed.

"Come here, Dickie." Bruce told Dick as he stood up in his batman costume with the hood not yet on, revealing his face and identity.

The wolf pup backed away, no, he was too scared to even look at Bruce, but his eyes didn't listen and decided to just stare at Bruce as they filled with tears. The wolf changed into a human boy once more, shivering in the cold of the cave.

"You... you all LIED to me. I thought we were a family, but you lied." Dick whispered as he got into a fighting stance.

Tim ran forward before anyone could react and wrapped his arms around the boy, who just froze. "We had to." he whispered. "You could die if you knew."

Dick nodded, only half understanding as Bruce took Tim's place in holding him, covering his thin body in a blanket. "I'm sorry Dickie... we should have told you sooner."

"No. I understand why you hid this from me. But... I can't remain in the dark now that I know, I need to protect people like you guys do, people come and go... I just want it to happen less. I don't want a wolf child to see there parents die, so I'm going to be a hero, whether you accept it or not." Dick explained, wrapping the blanket around himself a bit for comfort.

The group of heroes exchanged a worried look before Terry stepped forward, dressed as Renegade, and smiled down at the wolf pup. "We'd be honored if you joined are crusade to fight crime."

Bruce nodded in agreement. "One rule besides never killing a human, don't turn into a wolf, okay?"

"Why not?" Dick asked, wolf ears suddenly popping out of his raven colored locks and drooping at the sound of Bruce's second rule. "I want wolf children to know that wolves are good guys too."

Tim rubbed his hair back as he winced at that. "Well you see Dickie, Meta's aren't exactly welcome in Gotham for collective reasons. If people knew you were a wolf, well, lets just say it won't end pretty and full of flowers and rainbows."

"Oh." Dick said simply, Bruce smiled at the boy.

"Don't worry Dick, even as a human, your gonna do great things." He assured the child.

Suddenly, bats came swooping out of nowhere around the wolf boy, who laughed at the bats and jumped up onto a rock, transforming into a wolf pup once more, and howling a loud howl that swept through the entire cave and sent bats flying everywhere in all directions. It was amazing, the family stared in wonder at the event.

Yep, That kids gonna do great things.

A/N: Here's the end of part two, there may or may not be a part three, we'll see. Until later, please R&R!

~Supercasey.