Leather Wings
Prologue
"Commissioner Gordon! We need backup!"
"Were are you? Over."
"We're at 6th Gotham Avenue! They're two people murdered here! Over."
"Murdered? What kind of cause?"
"Looks like they have been attacked by some sort of predator!"
"A predator? Here in Gotham?"
"Yeah, I know it sounds weird, but…What the? Ahhhhh!!"
"Hello? Constable McKay? Hello? Hello!"
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Freedom & Murder
He was free! Free! No more cages! No more plastic-bags with blood!
Blood? He was still hungry! He shrieked to the other bats.
"What do you eat?"
"Blood!" they shrieked. "Blood!"
"From where?"
"It will not satisfied you!" they shrieked.
"What? Why not?"
"It's too small! It's too small!"
"Too small? Oh, well! Let's play here in the city then…"
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Kathy sat in the cave. She just stared at the broken glass-cage.
He was gone…
He was really gone…
But why had he left? To much blood-thirst? No…he had just got a bag of blood. Maybe his bat-side had taken over completely, and he just wanted out?
"What do bats do in the night?" she thought. Then she realized it! "To hunt!"
She ran up to Bruces bedroom.
"Mr Wayne!" she shouted. "Aaron has escaped!!"
Bruce almost jumped out from the bed of surprise.
"Kathy! Are you trying to kill me!?"
"Eh, no sorry but…"
"We must call Terry!" Bruce said.
"Roger!"
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Later, after a quick cloth-change, Batman and Shadowcat sat on a roof-top.
"If I were a giant, hungry bat, where would I be?" Terry asked.
Kathy looked out over the city.
"Look there!" she said. "A lot of police-cars driving that way! Maybe we should follow?"
Terry looked where Kathy pointed.
"Hmm, it's a ambulance there too." Terry said anxious. "Let's follow!"
"Roger!"
Terry jumped from the roof and activated the racket-boots and the wings.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Kathy yelled and jumped after him. She landed on his back.
"Ouch! Kathy! I'm not Superman you know!"
"Shut up! I don't weight soo much!!"
"Your claws itching!"
"Shut up! Just follow the cars, okay!"
"Hey, when did you become the boss!?"
"Terry! Kathy! Stop fighting!" Bruce said in the communication-radio in their masks. "Stick to the mission!"
"We're not fighting! We're arguing!"
"Yeah, I've heard that before…"
"Hey, I got an idea!" Kathy suddenly said.
"What?" Terry asked.
"I can check with grandma what's going on!"
"Yeah, I guess so." Terry said. "I follow the police, while you check with Gordon!"
"Roger!"
Terry sighed.
"Can you please stop say "Roger?" he asked.
"Oh, okay…"
Kathy jumped down from Terrys back and landed on here feet on a rooftop.
"Let me guess?" Terry said. "You have trained extra for that move, haven't you?"
"Shut up!"
"Yeah, yeah. Contact me and Bruce as soon as you know anything!"
"Ro…Yes, I'll do that!"
Terry sighed, then he flew away.
Kathy ran on the rooftops until she finally was at the police-station. She went through the window to Gordons office.
"Eh, hallo?" she called out quiet. "Commissioner Gordon? Grandma?"
Just then the door opened and Gordon came in. She blinked surprised when she saw Kathy.
"Kathy?" she asked. "What are you doing here?"
"Ah, well…Aaron is gone! I thought I could ask you if you know anything? Terry is following a police-trail right know. It's an ambulance there too!"
Her grandma sighed.
"I got a call not so long ago, from Constable McKay!" she said. "He had found two people murdered there."
"What?!"
"Yeah…looks like they had been attacked by a predator."
Kathy stared at her.
"You…you think that was Aaron!?"
"I don't know Kathy…" she said. "I don't know Aaron as much as you do, but I don't think he would kill anyone…"
Kathy looked at her.
"Did something else happened?"
"Yeah, it seems that McKay also got attacked in the middle of our call. I have sent an ambulance and backup there now…"
"Okay, thanks Grandma!" Kathy said and smiled. Then she walked to the window and jumped.
"See you gran!" she yelled before she disappeared in the shadows.
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Terry followed the police-cars through the city. Finally they stopped at 6th Gotham Avenue.
"The Avenue?" Terry thought. "That's were the Zoo is…Can it really be Aaron that has done this?"
He fast sneaked in to the Zoo were the murdered had been found.
He saw the poor people who had been killed…cold-hearted.
The first one was a woman. Her throat had been tored apart. The second person was a man. He hadn't take as much damage as the woman had. But it was something wrong with this people! Where was the blood!? Both people had been drained on blood!
Was this Aarons doing? Could it really be him?
"Terry?" Kathy asked in the communication-radio. "I've got some information…"
Terry gave the murdered a last look then he walked away.
"Let's hear it!" he said quiet.
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What had he done!? He had killed…he had killed two innocent people! How could he!? How could he!?
The other bats flew around him. The shrieked.
"Aaron! Aaron! Tell us! Tell us!
"Shut up!" he screamed. "Just shut up!"
"Why?"
Aaron shrieked angry.
"Shut up! Just leave me alone! Leave me alone!"
The bats shrieked, then they flew away.
Finally…
What would he do now? Maybe he could just hang here and wait for Brown? But, what would happen when she found him? No, maybe he would attack her too!? He could still see the two peoples scared faces. The blood that splashed. The screams. The fear.
He closed his eyes. He didn't want to see this! He didn't!
Suddenly he felt a familiar smell.
It was that boy with the black hair.
Yeah, he could call him black…
But what were he doing here?
"Stupid!" he thought. "He's here because of the corpses! Duh!"
He looked out from his hiding-place and yeah, there he was. It looked as…he was talking to someone. He listened and then he could hear Browns voice from Blacks head! How did that work?
"Terry, grandma thinks it's Aarons doing…" she said. "I don't know what to think…"
"Kathy…I also think it's Aaron." Terry said quiet.
"What? Why do you think that!?" Kathy asked angry.
"Kathy…They had been drained on blood…"
It was quiet for a moment.
"You're sure…?" Kathy asked quiet.
"Yapp, no blood as far as I can see."
Kathy sighed.
"Oh, okay…I'm coming over to the zoo. Wait for me."
"Sure…"
Great! Now they knew it was him! But, actually it was quite easy to figure out that…
He sneaked out from his hiding-place. He must stop Black! If Brown came here they would bring him back to that terrible glass-box! He didn't want that!
Without thinking, Aaron started to shriek.
Terry turned around fast.
"Oh, shit!" he swore. "Kathy! Can you hurry up a little!"
"Huh? What's going on?"
"I have a meeting with our little friend!"
"What!? He was still at the zoo?"
Terry backed a few steps. Aaron growled and came closer.
"Can you stop asking so much! I'll soon be bat-food!!"
"I'm running as fast as I can!"
"Well, run faster!" Terry shouted and turned off the radio.
Then he turned to Aaron.
"Well, looks like it's just you and me, buddy!" he said and jumped towards him.
Aaron hit him with his wing. Terry flew away like he was made of paper.
Terry spitted out some blood.
"I didn't like that…" he muttered. "Bad, bad bat!"
Aaron roared and flew up in the sky.
"Ohh, so you're planning on escape?"
But Aaron didn't flew away. Instead he dived right at him.
"Oh, great…"
He parried and jumped away. Aaron crashed into the ground.
Terry did a grimace.
"Ouch! That must hurt!"
Aaron tried to stand up. He was shivering and his dark-brown fur had some sticky spots with blood. He growled, while he tried to stand steady.
"It hurts…" he growled. "It hurts!"
Aaron shrieked out in the night, then fell unconscious to the ground. Just then Kathy came running. Terry gave her a evil look.
"You're coming now!?" he asked angry.
"Sorry!" she yelled.
Terry sighed.
"Never mind…The big question is how we gonna get big-boy here home?"
Kathy blinked surprised.
"You didn't thought of that before we left!?" she yelled angry.
"Eh, no…But I think I have an idea!"
Kathy looked at him.
"You have?"
Terry nodded and pushed a button on his belt. Soon after that the batmobile arrived.
"We can bind him to the roof!" he said and sounded really proud.
Kathy just stared at him.
"Oh, that's a great idea!" she said and made a very fake smile. "We bind him to the roof, just like he was some kind of trash you buy on a supermarket!! No, I don't think so!"
"Well, what do you suggest we do then!?"
Kathy looked down to the ground.
"See! You don't know!"
Suddenly she shined up.
"I've got an idea!"
Terry blinked.
"What?"
"It's only his bat-DNA that is mutating, right?"
"Eh, yeah…I think so?"
"Then he could like transform himself into human, so he could fit in the batmobile!" she said proud.
Terry just stared at her.
"That's just stupid!" he yelled. "First of all: We don't know if he CAN transform! Second: How would he do that, if he's unconscious!? And third: You do realize he would be naked if he transformed? You don't want to see him naked do you? Huh? Huh?"
Kathy face became all red.
"Shut up!"
Terry grinned.
"Then we do as I said!" he smiled. "He's unconscious so he can't know that!"
Kathy sighed.
"Hm, okay! But I will not be the one that tells him how he got back home!"
Terry continued to grin. He, clearly liked to make fun of her. She snorted and started to walk away.
"Hey? Where are you going?" Terry yelled after her.
Kathy didn't answer. She held a tight grip around her right arm.
Terry looked after her with worried face.
"Kathy, wait!" he yelled after her. He ran to her and asked worried:
"Your arm is still hurting, right?"
Kathy looked up at him with an irritating look.
"It's not hurting! Where did you came up with that stupid idea!?"
Terry sighed and grabbed her arm. Kathy yelled a little and did a grimace.
"Okay, it's hurting! So what?"
"Come, we take Aaron and go home, okay?" Terry said and took a steady grip around Kathys healthy arm.
Kathy gave him a look but followed him.
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Aaron opened his eyes. He looked around with blurred eyes. He recognised this place. He was back in the cage!
He tried to stand up, but suddenly a terrible pain went trough his body. Then he saw that he was covered in bandages. Then he remembered. He had fought with Black! Then he had hit his head! But how…?
He couldn't remember.
Suddenly he saw Brown. She sat with a bunt of papers on her knee.
"Ohh, I'm so bad at math…." She said and sighed.
Aaron saw a bit of the letters on the paper. 198+23x5%=
Kathy sighed.
"Oh, I can't!" she yelled. "It's too hard!"
"2442.05" a voice said.
Kathy looked up and turned around.
Aaron had his eyes on her, and started to growl.
"No, it couldn't have been him." Kathy thought. "Right..?"
She walked to his cage and looked at him.
"What is 236x23/50?" she asked and gave him a look.
Aaron looked back.
"That is easy!" he thought. "It's 108.56. But, how do I know that?"
Aaron glared at her. Then he showed his big tongue and licked at the glass.
Kathy sighed.
"It's definitely not you…" she said and went back to her chair.
"It's 108.56."
Kathy turned around.
"Hmm, are you just teasing me Aaron!?"
Aaron looked at her.
He didn't understand why he could answer all those questions. But it was kind of fun to see Brown this irritated.
Then Kathy suddenly stared at him.
"But if you just said the answer, it means that…you talk again!"
She suddenly stood up. Then she run away.
"Terry! Mr Wayne!" she screamed. "I think Aaron can talk again!!"
Bruce and Terry came fast down to the cave.
"Is it true??" Terry asked exiting.
Kathy nodded fast. Then she ran to Aarons cage.
"Aaron! What is 785x50/2??"
Aaron looked at her with big eyes.
He didn't know what was going on, but he knew the answer.
"19 625…" Aaron said with a little growl in his voice.
Kathy smiled and turned to Bruce and Terry.
"See!" she said happy. "I think he's coming back!"
Bruce looked surprised.
"Hm, I think I must take another DNA-sample."
He took a little handkerchief and dried the spit from the spot that Aaron had licked on.
"Em, Kathy?" Bruce asked.
"Yes?"
"Why did Aaron lick at the glass?"
Kathy gave Bruce a look.
"Have am I supposed to know?"
Bruce sighed and placed the spit in the microscope.
"Hm, very interesting indeed." He mumbled to himself.
Kathy and Terry looked curious at Bruce.
"What??" both asked.
"His DNA-cells don't change anymore…" he said chocked. "And if we saw now was true, I think he's starting to change back!"
Kathys face shone up.
"That's great!" she said!
She turned to Aaron.
"Did you hear??" she asked excited. "You'll maybe change back!"
Aaron heard her alright. But did he really want to change back? All this strength! The strong wings. The long fangs. He had better hearing now and better smell as well. He looked down at the floor.
"Aaron?" Kathy asked. "What is it?"
Aaron looked up again.
"I'm fine…Kathy."
Hi everyone! Finally I'm done with this chapter! Puh…It was hard, that I tell you! Anyway, we have now come to the turn-around. Aaron maybe change back, who knows? Well, except…for me…hehe… I would like to thank you all for the reviews! Well, most of them are from my best friends but many people have add my story to their favourites! Thank you all! I'm very happy for that ^ ^ I promise to upload the next chapter as soon as possible!