CH:11-The Stormy Evening
The storm was raging and it would be for a while before it stopped and calm down having its revenge on the Gotham City. The figure stood appeared beside the burning lattern that kept glowing in the darkness and stared out in rainy night.
Her waist lenght dark brown hair was left loose and still had its natural shine even in the darkness matching the sky above. A small hand came up to brush the stands away from her face and for a moment a lightning casted a light on the two eyes that were color of the blue ice.
There was no warmth in them only saddness and grief that she could not not hide eventhough she tried so hard to so. She was awaiting for his return and yet knew that he might not come back at all. She gazed down at the small dragon pin in her hand and sighed saddly. He was not coming at all and she did not blame him for that.
It was almost foolish even for her to think that she actually had fallen in a love with him and now knew that that love was not meant to be at the first place and that they were nothing more than a friends. Nyssa turned around and returned to bed as the storm kept raging outside. The light was still glowing there in the complete darkness of her bedrooom.
Well good night Bruce, I hope you are well and sleeping in a peace now for I can not. She thought in the silence.
Mean time in the Gotham City...
There it was the Gotham city bank. Night had long since covered the city, and the by now the city was flooded with crime in every dark ally. From the outside of the bank it appeard as if nothing was wrong. It just stood there in silence as the wind gust by it. It was very peaceful.
BOOM! Suddenly the front window shattered into a million tiny pieces all over the side walk, as a mans body came sailing through the payne. He was dressed all in black, obviously a criminal. The bloody faced stranger rolled on the ground and stopped on the street. Most men would not be so quick to get up, but this mans pain was over come with fear. The alarm went off thanks to the window breaking.
Terrified the stranger looked back through the broken window into the darkness of the bank. When he saw a darker figure standing there, approaching slowley. The stranger scrambled to get to his feet and run.
As he headed away from the bank with a scream of distress, a black piece of metal flew out from the broken window and slammed into the back of the criminals neck. The frightened man fell to his knees with a yelp and started to crawl away.
Batman emerged from the bank, and was now out of the cover of darkness. Looking over his shoulder the criminal almost cried at the sight. Batman picked up the shruiken he had thrown at the man, and continued to advance on him. Bruce grabbed him by his shirt and tossed him to the other side of the street with ease.
The already bloody man landed with a crash. Before he could get up, Bruce was already grabbing him again. With one hand, the Dark Knight picked up the burglar by the neck hand and pinned him to a brick wall.
"Wh...wh..what do you want? Please... D.d.d dont kill me!" Begged the pitiful man. Bruce wanted to interogate, but the sirens were only a few blocks away. With a viscious thrust, Batman slammed the criminals head into the wall he was pinend against. The burglar fell the street motionless. With a quick glance to the sky, Batman shot his grapple into the air. As police cars pulled up to the scene with a screetch, they may have been able to catch a glimpse of the Bat, accending into Gothams night.
With a thud, Batman landed on the Gotham clock tower. he sat perched there as the wind blew from behind, causing his cape to dance around him rather than behind. He looked down on his city as his silouette could be seen in the large moon. There was still hope for Gotham,and it lived in Batman
The figure stood in the dark corner between the two buildings her dark clothing blending with the darkness of the night and shadows making her looking completely invisible.
She was wating for someone or something as the wind was playing with the edges of her long black coat. She stood there not moving like a statue waiting as the main door of a hotel opened and the man stepped into the night.
She followed him closely but kept her distance from being noticed her feet leaving no sound upon the stone pathay of the sidewalk as she kept distance keeping her eyes on a man walking few feet away from her.
Slowly she sped of her walk and just as a man turned around the corner she advantced her attack. She grabbed him from behind her arm closing around his neck like the chain not allowing him to breathe or giving a chance even to scream as well. The dagger was placed on his forehead as the seductive whisper came to man's ear:
"Nothing personal but I am afraid your time is up." And with that she cut his throat letting the blood to spill all over the street and wall of nearest building.
The body fell down into her embrace and she placed it slowly resting it by the wall like it looked like a man has just fallen asleep but actually he was dead. Putting her dagger away she stepped into the light and the light of the lampost fell upon the face hidden by black velevet domino mask and eyes that were eyes that were pure blue eyes..
One man dead few more to go. The hunt was indeed good tonight. With that a young woman smiled a cold smile and disappeared away into the darkness once more like she was a trick of a shadow itself. Nyssa knew that it was only a matter of a time Batman would see what she had done and then she would be wating standing at the rooftop waiting for him to appear.
As the Dark Knight stood on the roof top, his cape swaying like a flag, his peaceful silence was disturbed by the cry of a young woman."Ahhhh" Bruce looked down towards the scream. There was a woman standing over a body. At first he had assumed that the man had fallen ill or something. Batman made his way down to the street and pushed the woman aside as he knelt down to the bloody body.
With one touch of the pulse, Batman turned to the frightened young woman. "He's dead...Go call the police. Now." The woman was a little too intriged by him to leave, until he added "now" She scurried off and did as Batman had ordered.
Looking around, Batman tried to find a culperate. His eyes wandered up and down when he noticed a shapely woman standing alone on a roof top.He gave a growl as he started to walk towars the building she was on.
Silently, and gracefully, he made his way up to the roof top, sticking to the shadows. In the darkness so the masked woman could not see him, he spoke. "Who are you?" he asked. He let his question linger before emerging from cover and revealing himself to her.
A laughter broke from a shadows sharp and cold then ice as the figure turned around to face the Batman titling her head aside mask hiding her features but did not cover her eyes. She did not move from her stand at the edge of a roof the hight giving her no fear at all as she did so.
Crossing her arms slightly the wind picked up and cape few backwards revealing a figure in the black leather suit. She jumped down on a groud of a roof and smile died instantly for she knew to who that was. The Batman has arrived the killer of her father was here.
"My name is not important for I am here to take what is it mine" Her hand slid behind the cloak as she reached for a handfull of small daggers." You are going down Batman for good. I won't let you live."
Batman narrowed his eyes at the figure. Why had she made an enemy out of him. "And what makes you so sure?" he asked. He was ready for whatever.
"You had killed someone that is it dear to me or was it just a simple train accident, but I do not believe so. He died in my arms.Pitty you haven't happen to realize that he had a daughter and that she is looking for you to take you down for good. You're not forgiven or never shall be."
Nyssa blinked the tears as she recalled the death of her father but did not want them to show and reveal her weakness. Still holding her eyes with him she lanuched her attack. The silent blades flew through the night toward the target before her." Your death is only that would put my soul the peace."
As she spoke, Batman thought about who he could have killed that she was talking about. Maybe she was some criminals insane mother or sister. His eyes widened when she whipped the blades at him. Batman quickly rolled out of their path, one of them cutting his arm deeply.
Batman just looked at the woman, seemingly unphased by the wound. "You can end my life...but Batman will never die. He is immortal...Im sorry about your loss, but would you let it turn into a murderer? Who was close to you...who did I take from your life?"
" You do not remembered do you? I should have known that. You simply forget what have you done. He was my father." Nyssa attacked again more blades came out for she wanted him to bleed so badly."You knew him very well he was your one time mentor."
The blades stopped attacking as she tossed something on the ground at his feet a small blue poppy flower. She was preparing to leave but instead waited a moment for him to pick the floor.
"His name was Henri Ducard or should I refer him more as Ra's al Ghul." She waitied for him to make a move as she spoke quietly." He was my father and you are killed him. Now, I am here to take you down but now I will make you pay in a simple ways that you will know how is it like to loose ones that you love most."
"Ducard." he said in thought. Ducard had family, and immidiately he suspected her being Ducard's daughter, but he was not possitive. With her back turned, Batman walked up to her and grabbed her by the shoulder. He whissped her around so she was facing him.
Batman took her into his arms and pinned her to an AC unit beside him. Her body was trapped between his own and the metal unit behind her. He looked to the blue flower and then to the masked woman.
"Ducard was a maniac. He wanted to kill millions of innocent people to cleanse the city." an angered Batman spoke calmly, but fuled with emotion. "Ducard chose his own fate. I warned him, and it is a fate his followers will share. Go ahead, Let the League come...I'll be waiting for them."
An angry Batman let her go and stepped back, waiting for her reaction.There was pain or fear showed on her face at all. She stared at him her eyes were cold as ice. His eyes were so familar like she hadseen them before, but she could not place where she had seen them before.Then she tried to pull away from him but could not for he was not letting her that go easly.
"You do not believe that he had a daughter do you? She was there when you had trained, she was there when the temple was destroyed she was there watching him going down." She wanted to scream that she was Ducard's daughter but instead she did not she remained still having no fear of him at all.
Batman's voice started to rise. "I know Ducards daughter! We were close!...And she would never be so shallow as to kill someone who saved millions of lives...or would she." he said implying that he knew who she was.
She obviously knew who he was, since she knew that he traiend under her father, and since she knew she said she watched him. Bruce pulled off his mask and revealed his face. "Your father was like a brother to me Nyssa...and when I denied his plans for Gotham, he turned on me. Dont be like him, there is still hope for this city."
She back off from him not wanting to look at his face again. She wanted to disappear right now and not look back at him at all. This was the same one that she almost refer him as a friend. How could she be so blind? No no matter how much hatered she had for Batman she could not kill him. Grief and anger were in quarel with each other she had to run way but had no strenght to do so.
"He was my father and I feel so ashamed but I can not change what he has done. Some of part of me wants you still dead eventhough I have no strenght or will to do so. Batman or not I can not kill a man that I still do love." With that she wanted to disappear and not look into those eyes again.
Bruce was angry. Always the realist he walked right up to her and gently grabbed her chin, forcing her eyes into his. "Look at me Nyssa, look at me."
"Not you, not your father, and not the League of Shadows is going to stop me from reviving this city. No one will...it does not have to be this way between us. It can be like we were back at the temple...close. I dont want to make an enemy of you, and it is good to know you love me." He wanted her to take off her mask so he could look her face to face. "I was starting to fall for you, but as long as you want to see Batman dead...we can never be."
Instead she reached over to remove the mask. There was no need to hide any longer when he already knew who she was and she knew who he really was. She stared back at him for a moment and smiled almost saddly at a thought then when she spoke again her voice was barely a whisper and as the emotion came back through and this time she did not hide it at all.
"I do not believe you. There is it no way you actually had almost falling for me back in the temple." Then then she recalled the incident with the dragon pin and felt the blood rush her face as she blushed friously at him." God how could I be so blind?"
She slowly moved closer but still kept a distance for she knew that she had no right to touch his personal space without his premission.She was in a love with him back in the temple and yet she wanted not him to know that at all for a fear that it would cause a pain.
" I acted so childish around you back there." She wanted the ground to swallow her." League is still around and they are coming back but I am not sure when. They would try to get a hold of me to find a way to get you. This time I know they are want you dead."