It happened every year . the same date and time as always . It baffled police and high class detectives , so every year they had to take special precautions . Yet it always managed to get through to what it wanted . . . Always .They were beginning to think that this being wasn't at all human but something else . No mortal knew what it was except for the one who wasn't .
Robin woke up unwillingly , even though he didn't want to he knew he had to . He sat at the edge of his bed and turned his head to the calendar . He groaned . It was that day again . The day he would have to go against the law like every year . He plopped himself back on his bed and stared up at the ceiling . "Stupid old hag "he murmured to himself . He sighed . It all happened the day his parents died as they were being taken away covered in a white sheet . Little Richard Grayson ran . He was only 5 years old and all this was over whelming to him . He then ran into this woman . She was old but the smile she had seemed comforting to him . She took him to her house where she made him milk and cookies and helped him dry away his tears . After though everything changed . she led him into a dark room only lit to what seemed to be a pot glowing with a green aurora . The shelves were piled with jars of human body parts . He was afraid now . He ran to the door but the old woman quickly grabbed him by the wrist . She looked down on him with menacing eyes and threw him across the room against the opposite wall . She started saying some words in a weird language . The green light was suddenly replaced with whitish - yellowish light and shot up out of the cauldron and onto him . It seemed to enter inside his soul though the yellow light was glowing everywhere outside of him . The old woman walked up to him , an evil smile plastered on her face . She looked down on him and whispered "do not frit child for I , Analize , have just given you a gift . "
Robin sat bolt right up in bed "a gift . . . "he snorted . "more like a curse . "
He then he went on reminiscing on what happened after he was found in the old house with cuts and bruises and sent to a medical doctor . There the multi millionaire Bruce Wayne offered to adopt him . Since he had no other living relatives . Mr. . Wayne owned the circus where he and his parents used to perform . He trained him as Batman's new found sidekick , robin . Though robin never did tell Batman about his " blessing ".
Robin plopped himself on his bed once again head first into his pillow and sighed deeply . He now knew though after all these years what curse he was given . He was no longer was a mortal but a magical being like Analize . Though once a year she was in command of his every move against his wishes .
The Titan alarm system went off .
" Dammit " he muttered into the pillow "I'm not in the mood . "