Broken Town.
"It's not fair!"
Lucifer winced as his sister broke another object by flinging it across the room using her shadows as she stormed angrily around the warehouse near the docks.
"Why did it have to be Jonny!" she screamed as she flung another crate across the room.
"I don't know Luna," he whispered before he looked around what remained of their new home. "But we aren't going to help him like this."
"What can we do?" Luna questioned him. "Our powers can only hurt people as well as hurt ourselves, they can't save him!"
Lucifer looked away before he wondered to the entrance, picking up his new backpack along the way. "I know… but it looks like we need to find a new place to live now… so… come on," he shrugged and wondered outside, pulling his hood up along the way as they he began to wonder out into the docks.
Luna quickly followed him, grabbing her own bag as she ran out into the ship yard and caught up with him.
"Don't run off like that, Lui, we gotta stick together if we want to survive out here, you know that."
"Then don't loose me."
Luna narrowed her eyes before she flicked a shadow at him and he yelped. "I'm the oldest, I'm in charge."
"Who put you in charge?"
"Well, well…"
They froze and turned to see three men staring down at them. "Look what we have here, a couple of stowaways. Now.. what are we going to do about you?"
"Run Lui!" shouted Luna as she grabbed his arm and pulled him in the other direction.
"Get them!"
They ran through the crates dodging any of the men and hiding when they could until they came to a dead end.
They span around and watched as one of the men came stalking towards them.
"Guys they're over here!" he turned back to them and smirked. "Why don't we give you a proper Gotham welcome."
"We.. we're from Gotham," Luna whispered as she held Lui close to her.
"Well… we'll just do it anyway."
He smirked and pulled out a knife but before he could use it, a figure jumped down and poked her fingers into his eyes, blinding him before she turned to Luna and Lucifer, her wild brown hair blowing in the wind as he wide cat like eyes took in their appearance.
"Well don't just stand there kids, climbe!" she shouted as she rushed over to the crate and began to clime it.
"We can't reach," Luna complained.
The girl rolled her eyes and jumped down before she helped Lui up first and only just managed to help Luna up before the men came running down the alley, jumping over their fallen comrade who was still screaming about his eyes.
The girl climbed up her self before she turned to Luna and Lucifer. "Follow me, this way!"
They ran following her across the crates before they jumped down and ran into the streets, hiding in a nearby alley.
"You're lucky I caught you," the girl muttered as she turned to the brother and sister. "kids your age don't last long on the streets."
"Thank you," Luna whispered as she still held Lui who was quivering in her arms.
The girl nodded her head before she frowned and tilted it slightly. "I haven't seen you two around before… you guys new out here?"
"Yeah…. yeah we are."
"That explains it then."
"Explains what?"
"Why you almost got yourself killed. No kids stay in the docks."
Luna frowned. "Then why were you there?"
"I was curious," the girl shrugged before she smiled at them and it seemed genuin. "Selina Kyle," she said extending her hand to them. "People call me Cat."
Luna cautiously took it and shook it lightly. "Luna Fright," she pulled Lui away from her bit. "This is my brother, Lucifer Fright."
Selina blinked before she nodded her head.
"Call me Lui," the little boy whispered as he stared up at her with wide eyes.
"No problem," Selina smiled before she pocketed her hands. "So… what you two doing out here?"
"Our mommy and daddy didn't want us so Jonnythan took us in but his dad hurt him and now he's in a fear induced coma."
Selina blinked and tilted her head to the side. "Jonathan? You talking about that Crane kid?"
"You know Jonny?"
"Not personally, seen him around though, he liked to hang out with the street kids, said he didn't belong at school or he didn't fit in, something like that. I heard what happened to him, I'm sorry."
"We just hope he gets better," Lui whispered as he stared up at Selina before he shivered.
"You guys got anywhere to live?" asked Selina and the two shook their heads in response. "Come on then," she beckoned them to follow her. "I know somewhere you can stay, you'll like it there trust me."
The two followed her through the streets, keeping their hoods close as they dodged people and traffic, running towards an unknown destination.
The various chemicals and files that littered the forensic lab who thrown around the room, the chemicals almost at their last drops and the files looked like they'd been read until the ink would come off them.
Edward stood pacing as he thought over everything he'd read and experimented on. "What's nowhere but everywhere, except where something is?" he muttered to himself.
"Nothing," Mist answered as she stepped into the room. "Though I might have something for you," she said smiling as she stood to the side to show a young girl with long tussled red hair and a green and black raggedy jumper, she stood staring at Edward, tilting her head to the side as if she was examining him through a microscope.
"Ed, this is Ivy. Ivy, Ed," Mist introduced. "She might have something on the case you've been rattling your brain about for a week now."
Edward turned to Ivy and raised an eyebrow. "Do you know something?"
Ivy bit her lip before she turned to Mist and held her hand out to her. "Twenty bucks."
"I'll give you your twenty when you give the information."
"But… that's not how this works, you know that."
"Mist just pay her, please," Edward interjected with a sigh.
Mist huffed and pulled out her twenty and handed it to her. "There goes my lunch money."
"Well, Ivy, what do you know?"
"There were two kids down the alley when those men were attacked," Ivy explained with a shrug. "One was that Crane kid," Mist and Edward exchanged glances. "The other I don't know who she was… but he called her Luna. The thugs came and attacked him she used the shadows and shattered them before impaling them in the thugs… then the shadows just melted back into the walls."
Edward frowned. "That's impossible."
"That's what I saw," Ivy grit as she glared at him. "Do you think I'm not telling the truth, do you think that I'm lying? Do you think I'm a liar?"
Edward blinked at the sudden burst of questions. "What? N- no, no I don't that's not what I'm saying-."
"Then what are you saying? That I made it all up?"
"What? No, no of course not!" Edward panicked, he actually felt slightly imitated by the young girl.
Ivy smiled brightly at him before she turned to Mist. "He's cute and adorable, I can see why you like him."
He blinked, once and then twice at the sudden switch in character.
"Yes Ivy he is, now thanks, I'll go and take you back to your place," Mist muttered as she guided the girl out, mouthing 'I hope that helped' to Edward before she left a very confused forensic scientist in his lab.
Luna and Lucifer had finally reached their destination along with Cat who guided them inside the old building.
Once they were inside they could hear music and there were hundreds of street kids all just hanging out, chatting and playing music while others, some of the older ones, lay on the sofas together.
Lucifer gripped his head and gritted his teeth and Luna was by his side and holding his arms as Cat turned and frowned.
"Everything okay?"
"Yeah… he just doesn't deal well with a lot of noise, don't worry, he'll get used to it in a minuet," Luna assured as she guided Lui through the crowds of kids as Selina guided them to the back of the building.
"What is this place?" asked Lui as he stared at the kids and the things.
"It's called the Flea," Selina shrugged and turned back to them. "It's like a mall for street kids but without all the really bad music, ya know what I mean?"
Luna nodded and smiled. "What do you do here?"
"You shop."
"But I don't have any money."
"Ha, listen kid, that doesn't matter. We need something we come here, that's how this place rolls ya know? So here…" she gestured to a young blond who stood smiling at them, showing a gap between her two front teeth and she had a pretty bow in her hair making her stand out from the rest of the kids. "This is were you can get some new clothes, I don't know if we have any your size but, I'm sure Alice can patch something up for you," Selina smiled before she wondered off leaving Luna and Lucifer with the smiling girl known simply as Alice.
Luna looked Alice over and saw she was wearing a short light blue skirt and had a apron on that once had been white but now it was a dirty grey with needles and pins sticking out of it, threads hung from the pockets and she had a tape measure with her. She was wearing a white shirt with red patches on the sleeves and a small necklace of a heart with a blue band as the chain around her neck. She also had a brown leather belt wrapped around her white shirt which held bottles and more needles and threads as well as a book attached to it too by a piece of blue ribbon.
Lucifer tilted his head to the side to try and read what the book was called. "Alice in… Wonderland?" he questioned as he read the words.
Alice grinned at them. "I simply love the book!" she cried catching the two off guard. "Oh sorry, didn't mean to scare you! Any way, what do you need?"
Luna blinked and quickly tried to regain her normal look. Alice was not like any of the kids here, that was probably why they'd pushed her to the back and put her in charge to the clothes. "Umm," she hesitated before swallowing. "We need some new clothes… ours are… raggedy and worn… some parts even have holes…."
"Oh!" Alice frowned and shook her head. "That will never do, come on, come on," she cried as she grabbed their hands and pulled them inside taking their bags and placing them on the floor before she quickly pulled off their coats and hung placed them in a pile of things that needed to be patched up.
Luna and Lucifer shrank back when Alice turned to them, they had nothing to hide what they looked like.
Alice didn't even seem to be bothered, instead she pulled out her tape measure, stuck a pencil behind her ear and began to take measurements of the two.
"You're not… scared of us?" Lucifer whispered as he frowned.
Alice span around and shook her head. "No, why would I be? I've seen a lot of strange things and a lot of strange people, also I am slightly strange myself, why would I find you strange? I mean just last week we had a boy come in with scaly skin."
"Really?"
"Uh huh! And even that didn't freak me out!" Alice cried before she took Luna's hand and guided her to the mirror.
Luna shrieked when she saw herself and backed away a little.
Alice laughed lightly and held her hand. "You're beautiful," she whispered as she pointed to the mirror. "You're stunning and beautiful and unique!"
Luna tilted her head to the sighed and frowned. "I… am?"
Alice nodded her head viggerlously ."Yes, yes you are!"
Luna titled her head to the side. "I… never thought that I was…"
Alice smiled. "Well you are," she reached her hand out and took Lucifer's hand and pulled him in front of the mirror. "You both are and when I'm done and done, you'll know it too."
Edward paced back and forth with a frown. "It makes perfect sense," he muttered before frowning. "But then it doesn't make sense and it's impossible."
He turned and looked over the images once again of the thugs.
They looked like someone really had put them through a blender and then the blades had simply…
"Melted away," he muttered before he scanned the files once again before he held up a picture and stared at it. "Maybe… maybe that really did happen…"
The music in the flea drifted through the curtains of the clothes and fabrics and it filled the small curtained area.
Luna and Lucifer stared into the mirror with a confused looks on their faces.
They didn't recognise themselves.
Alice had tidied them up and brushed Luna's hair and Lui's as well as cleaned them and gave them food to eat.
She'd also managed to find them new clothes and cleaned the old ones that they could still wear as well as pack them some spares in their back packs.
"There you go! All better! Oh frabjous day!" Alice cried before she gave Luna a hug and smiled. "You look brilliant!"
Luna looked down at her long black coat with red trimmings, a new red skirt and red boots as well as a black blouse with red trimming it too and she wore a black cross.
Luna smiled, showing some of her pointed teeth and that one had fallen out not too long ago. "I look…"
"Beautiful!" Lucifer cried as he hugged his sister before he stared up at her. "Luna you look beautiful!"
Luna looked down at her brother and pushed the hood from his face and she smiled. "You look beautiful too!"
Lucifer looked down at his clothes, another long black coat, but this one had purple trim on it as well as black trousers and black trainers with purple lace, as well as a purple t-shirt with a black cross.
"Do you think so?"
"Well, I'd more go with handsome but hey," Selina smiled and chewed an apple. "Don't listen to me, what do I know about looks right?"
"I told you, Cat," Alice said shaking her head. "The way I could dress you I'd have boys falling at your feet!"
Selina grimaced and took another bite of her apple. "Pass. I have enough trouble with cops chasing me, don't need boys too."
Luna and Lucifer giggled before she looked over at Selina and smiled.
Selina smiled back before she pulled out two paper bags and tossed it to Luna and Lucifer. "Here, I got you some food, you two can use that for a while, but if you ever need anything just come here, they've saved me a couple of times. Maybe they could save you."
"Save me," Luna whispered before grabbing Lucifer's hand. "Come on, Lui!"
"Where are we going?" Lui shouted as they ran through the flea to the outside world.
"To the hospital!"
"Why?"
"We can save him!"
Lucifer frowned and tilted his head to the side as they ran through the streets. "Who?"
"Jonathan, Lui!" Luna shouted as they ran. "We can save Jonathan!"
T.B.C:
Note: Next chapter! WAHOO! Hope you guys like this one and do not worry all shall be reviled! :D How will Luna do it we shall see! :D