(six months later)
Alora was laying on the couch….alone. she didn't feel at home here. Richard was mean to her. She suspected it was because she reminded him of his friend Elissa, who had run away about a month before she arrived at the mansion. Alora looked up at the living room ceiling bored Then she heard footsteps and rolled onto her stomach and saw Alfred walking in. She opened her mouth to say hi when the book shelve opened and he walked in. Alora starred at the wall. Did that really just happen? She stood up and walked over to the shelve and it opened she ducked to the side as Alfred walked back out not noticing her. She slipped in a moved down the steps.
"Woah." Escaped her mouth. She heard a driving noise and turned to see headlights shinning down from a tunnel she go dove behind a random box and looked around. This was just weird she was in THE BATCAVE, question is did her dad know about it if Alfred did. She held her breath as she saw the batmobile pull into the cave and both Batman and Robin got out. Her eyes widened in realization. It all made sense. The night's she ate alone. Dick getting bruises and cuts along with Bruce. Why Robin came back to the batcave and was heading up the stairs. She moved to the side of the box so he wouldn't see her. She stood up and backed up when she hit something she squeaked and closed her eyes then opened them slowly and looked up Batgirl stood there hands on her hips."
"Batman." She cried and Alora gulped. A shooting noise came and a bat like thing wrapped around the ceiling and she could hear Robin's footsteps quicken as he raced up the stairs. Suddenly Batman jumpt over the railing and landed next to Batgirl and looked down at her. Batman took his cowl off Bruce being revieled and having a wicked scowl on his face. Alora gulped and smiled nervously waving. Robin and Batgirl took their mask's off. Dick was furrious. Barbra (who she had met a few times) just smiled.
"Alora." Bruce growled and she looked at him.
"Hi Daddy." She said quietly.
"How did you get in here." he demaned it wasn't even a question.
"I saw Alfred walk threw the bookcase and I snuck in when her left…..I'm sorry Daddy." She said and hung her head.
"Come on Bruce, Dick did the same thing." Barbra said and Dick scoffed and rolled his eyes.
"Back to the house." Bruce barked at her and she opended her mouth in protest.
"Now." He growled and she went back up the stairs and back into the house where Alfred stood.
"Did you do this on purpose?" she asked.
"I did no such thing." He said and started to the kitchen but stopped.
"But if I did it was because you had the right to know." He said and Alora ran up to him and hugged him.
"Thanks." She said and then ran up to her room and went to sleep.
Three Day's Later
It had been three days since Alora found out about Bruce, Dick and Barbra. Three days of no one talking to her. Of dirty lookds from Dick. Three days of pending lonilyness. Then came a knock at her door. She got up from her bed and slowly walked to the door and opened it. There stood Barbra.
"Come on, Bruce wants to talk to you." She said and Alora followed her and her heartrate picked up as they headed to the batcave, she looked up at Barbra hesitently.
"It's okay." She said as the bookcase opened. Alora followed Barbra down the stairs. Bruce was sittin ghtere in his uniofmr his cowl off.
"Hi Daddy." She said and Bruce looked at her smiling.
"Alora….I know you want to do somthihng about helping people….your teacher gave me the what I want to do when I grom up essay, and it said you wanted to help people either as a cop or a doctor, and I was wondering if, like dick, you wanted to become a hero?" he asked and Alroa smiled.
"REALLY DADDY!"
"It's only if you do well in school, keep your grades up, still go to gymnastics like you have been all these years, go to practices…." He said and Alora hugged him inturupting him mid-sentence.
"I promise." She said
"Now what do you want as a hero name?" asked Barbra and Alora though hard and smiled.
"Nighting Gale, my mother's favorite bird was a Nightin Gale and I always said it wrong." She said and sighed.
"It's wonderful, Robin got his name from his mother as well." Said Barbra and Alora smiled as her father put his cowl on.
"Barbra will help you on your costume and show you the tech we use…." He said and Robin walked out and ran to the batmobile without saying a word.
"Got to go." Said Batman and he ran to the batmoblie and they drove off.
"So let's go to your room and fix you up a uniform." Said Barbra.
"Can it be a dress like your old uniform?" she asked and Barbra smiled.
"No problem." She said and thy went up to her room and went threw Alora's cloths, not finding anything that could be used as crime fighting material.
"That's it, nothing suitable for fighting we will just have to have Alfred make one." Said Barbra. Alora smiled and ran over to her desk and opened a draw and took a book out and she opened it and flipped it to a page of a very detailed and well done sketch of a hero.
"I drew this after my parent's were killed, she is my superhero, if she where real she would have defended my parents." Said Alora and handed the book to Barbra. The uniform was simple yet nice looking.
"Let's go bring this to Alfred." She said and the two girls ran down the stairs excitingly. They reached the bottom as Alfred was leaving.
"Alfred!" cried Alora and the girls ran up to him.
"Miss Barbra, Miss Alora." He greeted.
"Alfred, Bruce is letting Alora become a hero, and we were wondering if you could make her uniform look like this, with blue and black." Barbra asked suddenly determining the best suitable colors. Alora simply smiled.
"My pleasure." Said Alfred and took the book and left , Alora squeeled.
"I'm so excited!" she cried.
"Well you can't go out on patrol just yet, you don't know anything and Batman won't let you out on patrol until someone trains you." Barbra explained and Alora frowned.
"Don't frown now, a lot of it is easy expecially since I heared you can do gymnastics if you didn't know any then it would be a lot harder. I can start you on the basics, if you want to." She said and Alora hugged her and immedietly ran to her room to change. Barbra smiled and shook her head. Alora came back down sooner than she thought. Alora wore white sorts and a yellow t-shirt along with a pair of black and white sneakers.
"Okay show me some moves you have learned from gymnastics." Barbra said and Alora took a deep breath.
"Sure." Alora said and Barbra led her down to the batbace and the training area which had mats almost like the ones she tumbled on at the gymnastics studio.
"Go ahead and show me I don't judge." Barbra said encouagely, but Alora still looked at her nervously. Barbra smiled and Alora sighed and smiled back. Alora backed up a bit and ran into a back hand spring she did mutlitple tricks until Barbra requested to see just her round off. Alora nodded and did one and Barbra looked at her with a weird look Alora frowned she thought she had done a perfect one, at least that's what it felt like.
"It was very good, now when your fighting more then pety crime. Now when your pushing up try kicking up as well like you would be hitting a man as you did so then land." Barbra coached and Alora nodded and ran and did the round off but kicked up and landed.
"Nice, you're fast learner like Dick, now how good are you at figuring out how to work gadgets?"
Hours later….
Barbra and Alora had been training long and hard, Alora had studied memorized every gadget, how to work it , and what it did. Now it was had to hand combat. Alora was pouring in sweat her shirt off and she was just in her tanktop and sports bra with her shorts, her sneakers kicked off a while ago, she held a bo-staff I her hand.
"Now if I was the Joker I would have at least two knifes, If I came at you like this." She said and charged Alora from the right. Alora dodged it and hit Barbra in the shoulder making her drop the knife.
"You would hit a lot harder if I was really him, nice choice now if I spin and try to get you with my other knife and you…" Barbra trailed off moving to stab Alora like she just described and Alora did three back hand springs to a fighting position getting distance between them.
"Good, now…" but Barbra was interupted by the Batmobile pulling in. It parked and Batman and Robin got out. Alora dropped the bo-staff and stood up straight.
"Hi dadd…" she but Barbra hused her.
"The mission didn't go well, come on, go upstairs, change, he won't be up from a while and it's dinner, I'll see you tomorrow , okay." She said and Alora nodded and quietly walked up the stairs. Alora walked towards the kitchen and passed Dick with a plate of food wlaking back down to the cave. Alora sighed even though she knew their secret, thing never changed. She frowned and walked into the kitchen a warm plate fro her along with a big white box on the counter.
"Alfred, dad has a package." She said and Alfred walked in.
"No actually Miss Alora it's for you." He said and Alora was confused and walked to the table and opened the top and pulled away the tissue paper and smiled. She lifted out a deep blue dress with a black cape. A lighter blue utility belt was under it and had a dark black bird as a buckled. She pulled out a black spandexed leggings and blue shoes. She turned to Alfred and smiled putting it away and ran up to him giving him a hug.
"Thank you Alfred!" she said.
"You are very welcome Miss Alora." He anserwed . She smiled and ran back grabbing her food and took the white box under her arm (very carefully) and ran up to her room. She locked her door and put her food on her table and opened the box and changed into her uniform. She stood infront of her full length mirror and twirling around her dress and cape twirling. She smiled and grabbed her pj's and walked into the bathroom changing out of her uniform and turning the shower on. She walked back out about fifteen minutes later her hair and body washed and put her uniform back in the box and hid it under her bed and grabbed her warm dinner and put in a moved the title popped up Disney's Cinderella and she walked back to her bed and got in it proping herself up on the bed rest and took a bite of her dinner. When Alora finished her dinner Cinderella's step sisters were attempting to sing and it faded out to Cinderella washing the floor and singing.
"Sing sweet Nightin Gale, sing sweet Nightin Gale, sing sweet Nightin Gale…."
"Oh, Sing sweet Nighting Gale…." Sang a women.
"Mother?" questioned a young blonde girl as the women brushed her wet hair.
"Yes darling?" she questioned not missing a stroak and continued singing.
"How sweetly does and Nighting Gale sing?" the curious girl asked.
"First of all Alora sweetheart, it's pronounced Nightin Gale, and it's better than my singing which makes it my favorite bird." She said and began to hum again when crying was heard. Alora opened her eyes and Cinderella was in the Garden crying Alora frowned and turned the t.v off and cralwed under the covers and tucked herself in, tears running down her face.
"Sing sweet Nightin Gale, sing sweet Nightin Gale." She mumbled to herself and cried herself to sleep.