Rating: M (for brief language, violence, and mentioned adult themes)
Description: Batman Begins/The Crow (only the first movie) crossover-
Sarah has just returned to Gotham city after leaving a year before, leaving all of her 'friends' and contacts behind to cope with herself. On the night of Ra's Al Ghul attack on Gotham she runs into an old aquantence, and attempts to save him from himself. But what if she is to far gone herself, will they fall to the pit together?
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these people,or places. They are property of the wonderful souls who created them. Though I may have a few outside characters come in that are from my demented little mind.
Now, on with the show!
Chapter 1
Hell on earth; that was the best way to describe Gotham City, tonight that statement never held truer. The horrific images that raced through her mind could turn even the sanest person into a raving lunatic. The ever present screams were distorted into a symphony of screeching, a sound that could wake the dead from their eternal slumber.
Hellish creatures ran to and fro, some attempting to rip each other apart exposing gleaming white bone that just as quickly gushed with a vividly red blood. The streets were the definition of havoc, mayhem, pandemonium, and hysteria all rolled in one. She was at this point in awe that she still had her head, figuratively and literally.
Just as she thought this she saw movement ahead of her. Through the clouds of ash and fog she laid her eyes on a shape that made her blood run cold. A beast spawned in the deepest pits of hell serving as the mount to the lord of the underworld. Hades himself it seemed had risen from his domain to unleash his fury on the world of the living. The beast could be mistaken for a horse, an earth bound creature, but she had never seen a horse such as it. With its blazing red eyes, pitch black mane, and; by far the most unsettling, columns of flame erupting from is muzzle.
Her rational mind took control long enough to question what was the horse doing spurting fire from its nose. The simple, logical answer was they didn't, plain and simple. With a laugh she briefly considered shouting that fact to the beat, just in case it was unaware of the impossibility of its actions.
'Happy fing birthday Sarah. I always knew this would be the death of me, coming back to the god-forsaken city. We've all gone straight to hell in a hand basket, some deserve every minute of it.' This though brought forth another laugh, more malevolent then the last. Her eyes were still locked on the beast as it approached her at a steady gaunt; this in itself seemed to lessen the ferocity of its appearance.
'A man…is that a man in the saddle? Ok girl, time to see who your mysterious Hades really is.'
When the animal had come close enough for her to reach out and touch it is stopped. She decided to lean gently against it, just to prove it was flesh and bone, not fire and brimstone as it appeared. The soft flesh of the horse gave her comfort, the knowledge that this was all some freakish hallucination; her mind understood this as fact and not some vague hope in the back of her mind. She continued to reach forward, this time for the man slumped in the saddle, apparently unconscious. The rough scratchy feeling of burlap against her fingertips made her give pause. 'Why would someone be riding around the streets of a city on a horse wearing a burlap sack over their head? And why's he unconscious…it's a wonder he hasn't fallen off.'
With renewed determination Sarah began to pull the sack over the mans head, bracing her hand on his chest so as not to pull him from the horse. Even with the mind job the hallucinations had done on her, in her current state of mind she could recognize the all to familiar face, a face that had been in her thoughts for some time after leaving Gotham the first time.
The mysterious Hades was none other than her ex-psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Crane.
Ok...now that chapter One is over I would love any feedback you want to throw out to me, and please tell me if this is god enough to continue. I've started Chapter 2, but it may be a while so I can fine tune it for submitting. Thanks so much for reading my first attempt at a crossover!