The shadows speak.

The day had been long for Luna, she walked through the decrepit streets to the connivance store on the corner, it's sign was already coming off, one window was border up from someone throwing a rock at it just last week, Luna had watched them do it. She could of stopped them, but what was the point?

She walked inside, her hood was still up, but it always stayed up, she never brought it down, found no reason to. Why have it down and have people stare at her? She'd had enough of that when she was a little girl, she did not, nor did she need to be reminded of how she looked.

That's why she broke her mirrors.

As she walked around the shop, picking selective items of the shelves, mainly consisting of ready meals, things she could just stick in a microwave and be done with. She was not a great cook and heavens knew she hated cooking, so why bother?

Once she had all her items she walked over to the counter, which a had a ginger hared boy standing behind… scratch that, his hare was bright red, his face was doted with freckles, he couldn't be any older then Luna but she could tell she was considerably taller then him, not that he was short, Luna was just a very tall girl.

He looked up at her and smiled, obviously he didn't care who he served and he had probably seen worse around.

"Just these," Luna muttered as she chucked the things on the counter.

"Got it sweet heart!" the boy cried as he began to price them up.

Luna raised an eyebrow at him. Why was he being nice to her? She looked like a freak yet this boy was trying (and failing Luna might add) to flirt with her.

"10 dollars girl, but for you babe I'll let you pay half," the boy explained, as he smiled.

Luna gave him a dead beat look and placed ten dollars on the counter, while she picked the rest of her stuff up.

"But I said-"

"Oh I know what you said, that's why I'm paying full price, I am not a charity case!"

"I wasn't meaning-"

"Just shut the hell up, I can't be doing with this today!"

The boy bowed his head and muttered an apology. "Ma' name's Conner by the way, Conner Slater."

Luna glanced up at him and sighed. "Luna Fright," she replied as she walked out of the shop, bumping somebody as they tried to get out at the same time.

"Oh I'm terribly sorry," cried the blond haired, baby blue eyed girl, she smiled at Luna showing a big gap between her two front teeth.

"It's fine," Luna muttered as she carried on down the street.

"I'm Alice Carrol," the explained as she caught up with her and trotted next to her, a spring in her step which contrasted with Luna's fast walk that almost looked like marching if she wasn't holding her arms loose.

"That's nice," Luna muttered as she continued.

"You're Luna Fright aren't you?" the girl said, that same smile on her face. That was really starting to get on Luna's nerves.

"Yeah.. what about it?"

"I'm your neighbour, I live next door to you," Alice explained.

"Yeah I know what 'neighbour' means. Really? You do?" asked Luna, shock evident in her voice.

"Why is that hard to believe?" asked Alice, she was confused.

"Well, it's just, that place is a bit of a dump and you look like you could afford better."

"Oh I could, just chose not to," Alice laughed. "But really I could say the same thing about you."

Luna laughed, but it was cold and bitter, the complete opposite to Alice's light hearted laugh. "You don't know me very well do you?" Luna said once she'd finished laughing.

"Umm, no not yet, but hopefully I will," Alice said, smiling brightly up at her.

Luna shook her head and walked into the small apartments they both lived at.

"Well, you may not have me as a neighbour for very long, the land lord will be kicking me out by the end of this week, if I can't pay the rent."

Alice gasped in shock as they started to walk up the rickety stairs. "But that's horrible!"

"Tell me about it," Luna muttered as she walked over to her door.

"Wait, do you want to have dinner at my place? I'll cook!" Alice cried happily.

Luna glanced at her and frowned. Why was she even talking to her? She hated talking to people because they always used to stair at her odd appearance, but Alice didn't seem to care about how she looked. "You… really want me to have dinner with you?" Luna questioned.

Alice nodded. "Oh yes please! I'll cook, plus.. if it's not too much to ask, do you think you could… I don't know, get the spider out of my bath room?"

Luna couldn't help but smile before she was laughing. "You're scared of spiders?"

"No, I just they're not right!"

"I think they're right in other spider's eyes."

"They have eight legs!"

"Like all spiders."

"I don't like them, please just get it out of my bathroom, it scared me," Alice pleaded.

Luna looked at the big baby blue eyes that stared up at him with a pleading look, that even Luna found hard to resist.

With a annoyed sigh Luna gave in. "Fine, I'll get the spider out and I'll have dinner with you."

"YAY!" cried Alice as she jumped into the air, before running into her apartment, followed by Luna.

Once she was inside, she felt like she had just entered the victorian era.

That's when she noticed it, Alice's dress looked like it was from the victorian era and she had a basket instead of a bag, which she placed on the shiny counter, before she looked over at Luna and smiled.

"Just hang your coat on the hook to your left, then I will take you to the land of spiders," Alice shivered, which made Luna smirk, before she hung her coat up and followed the victorian girl through to the bathroom.

Conner Slater. A boy who constantly ran into bad look, weather it be by his looks, where he was at the time or the fact he wouldn't take 'no' for answer. Maybe that was why he was running through the streets of Gotham city, trying to get away from the group who were chasing him.

He was used to this, he did it every day of his life, running. Though usually he was used to running away from them because they wanted the drugs he was carrying for his father, not this time though. They were chasing him because of who he worked for.

It's times like this when he really starts to reconsider his new career choice, but hell he loved it too much to give it up now.

As he took a sharp bend, he didn't notice the shadow following him and the mob that was chasing him, it sprinted across the rooftops, taking out one of the thugs silently as he took another bend.

Conner kept on running, he wash't going to stop, not until he was safe and away from the group that were chasing him.

He quickly jumped and flipped, before grabbing onto a metal pole and summersaulting through the air to land perfectly on a brick wall.

He turned to gloat at his attackers and found them all dead on the floor, all of them had a deathstar in their hands, one tried to get up, but was instantly shot down.

Conner turned to his side and saw Deadshot standing next to him. He eyed the kid that was next to him, the red hair making his face look very pale.

"Nice shot," Conner muttered.

"I told you to keep out of trouble Conner," Floyd snapped at him.

Conner sighed and looked at the floor. "Yeah, I tried but everything went wrong."

"I saw."

"Since when did you use deathstars any way?" Conner asked, trying to change the subject of his most hated one of 'I told you so'.

"What are you talking about?" asked Floyd.

Conner pointed at the group that lay on the floor.

"They were all out when I got here, except for the one I shot."

"But that was only a few seconds."

"Well whoever did it was very good and fast, because I didn't see them. I assumed you had taken them out."

Conner stared at him for a long time. "Well, if you didn't do it and I didn't do it… then who did?"

"Let's worry about that at another time, right now, you need to train and lesson 4 starts tonight 'Target'," explained Floyd as he jumped off the side of the wall, quickly followed by the red headed boy who would be known as Target in a few precious weeks, but before he followed his mentor, the boy took one last look at the alley, failing to notice the shadow that watched them from the rooftops, the long coat he was wearing blowing in the wind, just like the bandages on his face. The young boy who had saved Target, turned at the sound of another, only to find his mentor, who looked exactly the same as him, except for the fact the protoge' was wearing a Japanese clothing underneath the coat.

"Time to go Whisper," Hush hissed as he walked away from the young boy, who shortly followed after him.

An odd sound could be heard in the hotel, a sound that was not usually heard. The sound was laughter.

The uncommon sound drifted up the stairs to place of it's origin in Alice's apartment, it contained two voices and two laughs. One was light and chipper, the other was dark and slightly heavy.

Luna hand't laughed this much… ever. Her life had been covered in darkness for so long, she forgot how good it felt to laugh.

She looked at her new found friend and smiled. Alice was nice and excepted her for who she was, that was strange in it's self, but Luna was not complaining.

"Well, I need to get some sleep now, it's getting late," Luna laughed as she got to her feet and walked to the kitchen, placing her plate in the sink. "Thank you for dinner Alice."

"Not a problem Luna, you can come round any time, you look like you haven't eaten in days," Alice commented as she walked over to the sink herself.

"It feels like I haven't," Luna whispered before walking out of the kitchen and into the living room.

"Well, like I said, come round anytime and I will happily cook for you," Alice said smiling at her new found friend, the gap tooth grin ruining the perfect complexion.

Luna smiled and pulled her coat back on. "And if you see any more spiders just call me."

Alice giggled in a childish manner before nodding. "I will."

Luna nodded, opened the door before stepping out and heading towards her own apartment.

"Luna?"

"Yes Alice?"

"If you do get kicked out of your apartment, you can stay in mine."

Luna turned to Alice and gave her a genuine smile. "Thank you."

Alice nodded and closed her door, leaving Luna in pitch blackness, her home, her comfort zone.

Then she saw it, the silhouette of a tall lean figure, one she knew because it had been following her around ever since she came here.

"Hey stop!" she shouted as she ran down the stairs, chasing after the silhouette as it shot down the stairs itself.

She chased after it, watching the person open the front door and run out, before Luna came hurtling through the door herself and into the middle of the street, but there was no one there, save for a few stray cats.

The rain began to pour as Luna stood in the middle of the street looking around like a paranoid, not knowing where the man had gone.

"Fright are Ya' coming in or are Ya' going to stand there like an idiotic freak?!" shouted the landlord.

Luna clenched her fist, the shadows flinched the curled at her anger they were part of her and they moved with her emotions.

Her eyes had gone completely black, she turned and glared at the landlord, who seemed slightly unnerved by the fact that some of the shadows where crawling out of her eyes.

"Oh my god…" he muttered as he stepped away from the door and ran into the shadows.

Luna took one last look around the alley before she walked into the hotel, unaware that her mysterious stalker was watching her and smiling at her little show.

He let one boney hand, rest on his chin as he smirked. "Now that's a good trick." he muttered before he himself, disappeared into the shadows.

T.B.C:

Oh my what have we here? Who is the mysterious Whisper and what's his story? Plus who is Target what has he got to do with this, what have either of them had to do with it? Guess you'll need to tune in and find out.

Yay! Luna and Alice are starting to become the best friends, but who is the mysterious watcher that follows Luna and watches her? Guess we will find out soon.