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Tome Three: Wonder, Pt. 2
~Gotham City, July 26th, 2010, 3:47 PM~
From the shadows emerged Robin, with a grin on the young sidekick's face he looked at the older were-fox and asked, "Well...Are you keeping her a secret from us, Vulp? Anything we should be worried about?"
"Why should you care, Bird Boy?" Vulp shot back in annoyance before waving at the Dark Knight, "Hey Batman, what's up?"
"What happened?" Batman asked, his eyes narrowing behind the cowl as he stared at the new girl.
Seeing that the Dark Knight wasn't in the mood for his antics, Vulp pointed at Donna and said, "Technically, it's her fault. So let's not tell my dad I basically had a fight so soon after stopping the Bitch Boy. I really don't need to be grounded for the rest of the summer."
Batman's attention shifted to the gob smacked Donna, who used a backhanded slap on Vulp's pointing arm with a growl, "I didn't do anything! Dark Angel attacked us!"
"Yeah, but you're the one that pushed me through the window," Vulp shot back as he rubbed his arm, "Damn girl, that actually hurt! What do you bench, three-fifty?"
"Who are you?" Batman insisted, getting the bickering teenagers' attention back on him, "And who is 'Dark Angel'?"
"I guess since you're here, I shouldn't try to lie," Donna replied with a frown before standing proudly, "I'm Donna Troy, proud warrior of Themyscira and youngest daughter of Queen Hippolyta."
That statement certainly got some raised eyebrows from the males around her. Batman thought over the possibility of such thing, but without Diana's input, he couldn't draw a solid conclusion. It didn't help that she did look a lot like Diana. Same facial build and eye color. She also had the same 'don't think I won't kick your ass' attitude that Diana has occasionally when they would disagree on something. It was those arguments he tended to walk away with a silent thought of Thank God I'm still alive and in one piece. Granted, they hadn't had an argument like that for a few years, but still.
"...Since when has Wonder Woman been an older sister?" Robin asked after a moment of staring at the girl. This time it was Donna who looked shocked before she sighed and held her head.
"Great, another one of those dimensions," she grumbled to herself, though it was heard by the Dark Knight and Vulp. She looked at Batman and said, "I'll tell you everything I can, but not here. And not to him."
With the pretty older girl pointing at him, Robin looked put out, "What's wrong with telling me? Am I gonna be concerted from the reveal?"
"Ah God dammit..." Vulp groaned as he slapped a hand over his eyes in exasperation. Seriously, Robin was an ok kid to hang with, but god damn his insistence on making words sound stupid. Not only was it confusing as hell, but for a mystic that focused on spoken words, it was really annoying. Not to mention that he just managed to understand what the Hell "whelmed" meant!
"I don't trust you," Donna replied before throwing a thumb over her shoulder at the vulpine teen, "Hell, I barely trust him anymore. The only reason I still somewhat do is because he saved my life."
Batman's arched brow was visible by the widening of his right eye, "You certainly don't talk like an Amazon."
"It's a long, long story," Donna replied with a frown as she looked at the Caped Crusader, "So can we go somewhere else or are we going to stand here all day?"
~Blood Manor, 4:03 PM~
After sending a protesting Robin back to Mt. Justice, Batman had decided to take them to Blood Manor, where Jason welcomed Donna with open arms after introducing himself and his profession, gave Vulp a swift and hard smack upside the head, and glared at the Dark Knight before escorting them to the study. He left the room to make tea and dragged his protesting, still transformed, son with him. Donna snickered at the sight before sobering up when realizing that she was alone with Batman of all people, who she respected. While waiting, the two remained silent, Batman too busy trying to get a read on Donna while the self-proclaimed Amazon would rather not explain herself twice.
After a few minutes, Naruto returned wearing a white T-shirt and a belt to hold his stretched out pants around his waist. He sat down on a chair between Donna and Batman. The three waited another moment before Jason returned with a cup of tea in hand and then sat down.
"Now then," Jason began after he took a sip of his drink, "Who are you, dear?"
"My name is Donna Troy, warrior of Themyscira and youngest daughter of Queen Hippolyta," Donna repeated with a sigh. Jason gave her an apologetic smile, but gestured for her to go on. The raven-haired girl did, "This is the four hundredth and seventy-second time I've woken up in a different dimension."
Naruto blinked before looking at his dad with a grin, "And here I thought you had an interesting origin story."
"Shush, Nicholas," Jason said, silencing the now scowling blonde, before looking at Donna, "Please continue Ms. Troy."
"I woke up a few blocks from the bookstore Naruto found me in, with these clothes set out and a letter from someone that used the letter L as a signature," Donna said as she continued her story, "All the letter said it was time for me to 'step out of the shadows and into the Light'. I don't know what it means, but I know you would've asked anyway."
"She has you pegged, Batman," Naruto said in a jovial tone to the Dark Knight, who merely glared at him. Naruto sighed in agreement to be quiet and listened intently. Just because he wanted to add his two cents he got glared at or called by his 'real' name. He thought he finally got his dad to quit it with the 'Nicholas' thing.
"Anyway, this not being my first time waking up in a body that wasn't completely my own, I searched for a place where I could get all the information I wanted without too much attention. So rather than using the Internet and risk being traced, I went to a small time occult bookstore," Donna explained after glaring at Naruto for his interruption. All this was doing was giving Dark Angel the time she needs to recover from her 'defeat', so she needed to hurry up, "I started to read and before I knew it, this lug found me and chatted me up. We went out for a drink and then Dark Angel attacked us. I pushed him through a window and almost died again, when he saved me. He can tell you what happened after that."
"What? Hey, wait a second, I never agreed to that!" Naruto argued, "Besides, I was out of it for a good five minutes before someone pushed through a window!"
"How was I supposed to know you were Homo Magi?" Donna countered with a frown, "You should be happy, you know, you're the first 'Vulp' I've ever met."
"That's not really surprising considering his origins," Jason said, deterring Donna from continuing a banter with his son, "But now I'm curious: Who is this Dark Angel? Describe her to me."
"Think Morgan La Fey, but pasty skinned with black hair and ruby red lips," Naruto cut in, "Sultry dressed and very talented in magic blasts."
"And she calls herself Dark Angel?" Jason asked. Naruto nodded, making his father hum and steeple his fingers. After a moment of silence, Jason looked at Batman, "You should contact Diana."
"She doesn't have to-" "This is more than just a clone, Batman," Jason interrupted the Dark Knight with a frown, "This is a cross-dimensional murder that continues to result in reincarnation. If we let this pattern continue, sooner or later the Amazon known as Donna Troy will cease to exist in all realities."
Naruto and Donna felt their eyes bug out while Batman remained collected. After a moment, Batman raised a hand to the side of his head, "J'onn, contact Diana. Have her Zeta to the Blood Estate asap."
"Will do, but we have pressing matters to attend to and need you here," J'onn's voice replied over the comlink. Batman nodded and looked at Jason.
The former Knight nodded and waved, "You do what you must, I'll do what I can."
"Goodbye Jason. Naruto." The Dark Knight said before he vanished via Zeta beam to the Watchtower. The two members of the Blood family turned to their new guest when they heard a soft rumble.
Donna blushed and looked at the ground before asking quietly, "C-Could I have something to eat?"
~Blood Manor, July 27th, 7:45 AM~
Donna stretched and slowly sat up, yawning as she did so. Jason had insisted she stay with them for the night and offered her one of the many spare rooms. Naruto had given her an old shirt of his to sleep in seeing as her clothes weren't made with that in mind. She looked down at the blue T-shirt that fell a few inches below her hips, covering her underwear clad nether regions, and blushed when she realized how well she slept with it on. She then heard an audible boom from somewhere downstairs and she felt the whole room shake.
Throwing her covers off and literally flying out of her room once the quake stopped, Donna soon tracked the sounds of fighting to a door in the main hall. A voice suspiciously familiar to Naruto's let out a cry and a deep roar was heard.
It was enough to make her sure of her choice to break the door down.
What she stumbled upon made her eyes widen in shock. Naruto, in the form of Vulp, was fighting against a short, yellowish humanoid wearing medieval armor. The two were currently trading blows and the shorter being was pushing his assault.
"Fight back! Put your all into it! Prove to me what a demon you truly are!" Etrigan snarled, unaware of their witness arching a brow. He ducked an overextended swing and wrapped his arms around the taller demon's limb before tossing his vulpine student over his shoulder. Vulp collided with a set of armor and knocked it down, making Etrigan grin, "Perhaps you should don some armor, Whelp."
"That one just flat out sucked, Etrigan!" Vulp growled as he pushed the fourteenth or fifteenth century armor off of his body and to the side. The vulpine teen stood and held his hand out at the demon, "Right now you are a pain, so here's some vengeance from the drain!"
A pipe behind the son of Belial glowed with mystical energy before ripping itself off the wall and spraying Etrigan with water. Vulp snickered as his mentor gurgled and fought off the liquid assault. Brushing himself off, Vulp chuckled out, "You're all washed up, Etrigan. I thought you'd have seen that one coming a mile away!"
"You little-!" Etrigan was cut off as the water continued to assault him. Eventually, the shorter demon raised his cape to shield himself and incanted, "Evil appliance quit your assault, turn your attention to the one at fault!"
Vulp's eyes widened and he cried out as the pipe turned from his mentor onto him. Etrigan shook himself a little before smirking at his ward and approached the teen, "Turnabout is fair play, Vulp."
"Call-(urk)-it-(gurgle)-off!" Vulp cried out as he was drenched by the never-ending hose. Etrigan's smirk turned into a flat out grin that looked evil enough for Donna to step in.
The inter-dimensional girl gave a war cry before flying right at a bewildered Etrigan, who turned to face the source of the sound. Two Amazonian punches sent The Demon through the wall of the impromptu sparring area. Donna immediately turned to help Vulp, flying to the pipe that was spraying him and crushing it shut by the base.
Vulp lowered his arms and coughed a good few cups of water out of his mouth before looking at his savior. His red eyes widened and he managed to get out, "D-Donna?"
"C'mon we won't have long before it-!" She was cut off as a large ball of flame exited the hole she had thrown Etrigan in. Vulp grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her with him out of the way.
Releasing the raven-haired girl's shoulders, he looked her in the eyes and pleaded, "You didn't attack him did you? Please say no!"
"He was attacking you, wasn't he?" Donna returned with confusion written on her face. That's what it looked like from her point of view, and in the back of her mind she wondered where Jason was.
Vulp groaned, "Great. And here I thought I'd finally get through a spar without pissing Etrigan off."
"Etrigan? That name...Oh!" Donna paled as she recalled exactly who Etrigan was and his connection to Jason Blood from one of her longer past lives.
Vulp gave her an odd look before he looked up and his ears went back. Etrigan was standing in the middle of the room growling and holding a hand above his head. After releasing a small whimper of fear, Vulp stood in front of Donna and extended both hands, "Hellish flame from the demonic warrior, you'll get no farther than my barrier!"
A giant fireball collided with the glowing red circle that had a diameter of seven feet. Tired from the immense drain the demonic shield had, Vulp panted and lowered his arms before calling out, "I concede! You win Etrigan!"
Etrigan lowered his prepared fists and snarled at Donna, "You! Stay out of rooms with locked doors!"
"Cut her some slack," Vulp defended with a frown as Donna's head lowered from the scolding, "She woke up in a different place and heard explosions. It's not her fault she stumbled on us training. I told you I shouldn't try to use the Bijudama without tails out."
"There will be times when the enemy won't allow you to bring them out," Etrigan growled back in response. He was ready to chew into both teenagers before the doorbell rang. Etrigan looked at the stairway, growling at the sight of the destroyed door, and growled once more when there was another ring.
Looking at his student, The Demon snarled, "You! Clean up the mess!"
"Fine..." Vulp groaned out before his ear twitched at another ring of the bell, "You gonna get that?"
"Smartass little...Yes! You, girl! Get dressed," Etrigan growled before storming towards the stairs and muttering under his breath. As he reached the top of them, he began his rhyme to turn back to Jason Blood.
Vulp looked at a slightly flushed Donna with a grin, "So...Black lace, eh?"
He made a matching hole in the opposite wall after Donna hit him. "Ow."
~Blood Estate, 7:55 AM~
Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman stood outside of the doors to the Blood Estate, waiting patiently for Batman's friend Jason Blood to open his door. She had met Jason once before while accompanying Bruce to the annual Gotham Police ball a year ago. He was a charming individual as was his son, Nicholas J. Blood. She was often reminded of Barry Allen when interacting with Nicholas Blood, who insisted she call him Naruto.
"Ah, Diana! Come in," Jason greeted with a smile as he opened the door, "Always a pleasure to see you."
"Jason," Diana greeted with a nod as she walked in, "Bruce said you had something interesting to show me."
Jason frowned and asked while shutting the door, "Did he say something or someone?"
"What do you mean?" Diana inquired with a frown on her face. Jason sighed and shook his head.
"Nothing, nothing, just...a small spat coming to mind," the former Knight replied as he began leading her to the study.
Diana took the time to look at the pictures along the wall as they walked. One had a blonde toddler smiling at the camera, absent of all clothes save for a diaper. His cheeks had three faint whisker like marks, something Diana noticed immediately.
"Is this Nicholas?" she asked, stopping and picking the picture up. Jason stopped in his stride and turned to look at what she held. The former Knight smiled paternally.
"Ah, I remember that day," he said in reminiscence, "I was testing a new camera and the little rascal ran down the stairs in his soggy diaper, smiling at me without a care in the world. Something he's retained for the past eighteen years."
"The soggy diapers or his attitude?" Diana asked with a smirk. Jason barked out a laugh and they continued their journey to the study, where Diana could hear a male voice talking about some sort of fire.
"Before we go in, Diana, I have to ask you something," his words made the Amazonian Princess look at him curiously, "Do you have a biological sister?"
"No, I'm my mother's only daughter," Diana replied with furrowed brows. Jason sighed in disappointment.
"I was afraid you would say that," the man replied before grabbing the door handle and smiling at her apologetically, "The reason I ask is because...you do now."
"What do you-Great Hera!" Diana became speechless as Jason opened the door and revealed what could easily be her twin had she been (physically) a few years younger, seated next to the laid back son of Jason Blood.
Naruto and Donna looked up at Diana's exclamation and the former grinned, "Hey Diana! How's it going?"
Diana didn't answer but went on the defensive and clenched her fists, "Who are you?"
Donna stood and smiled at the woman, "My name is Donna Troy...I-I'm your sister."
Diana stared at Donna for another moment longer before looking at Jason with narrowed eyes, "We need to talk in private. Now."
"Of course," Jason replied with a nod. He looked at the slightly hurt teen and his son with a small smile, "We'll be right back."
The door shut and Donna slowly sat down. Naruto saw her disappointment and put a hand on her shoulder in support, getting her to look at him. Grinning slightly, the blonde said, "Hey, don't worry about it. This is a big reveal and Diana just needs to hear your story from a reliable source."
"I'm unreliable?" Donna asked as her fist clenched, her heart aching at being brushed aside. There had been other dimensions where Donna wasn't a known Amazon, but in those Diana had always welcomed her with open arms. Why was this one so different?
Naruto's grip tightened and he spoke up again, "That's not what I meant. Think of how you would feel if you were in her shoes. She needs to talk to an 'adult' and find out the story, or what she can get from my dad. Just don't worry about it, she'll be ecstatic to see you soon enough."
"...How are you so nonchalant about this?" Donna asked as he released her shoulder and sat back.
Naruto grinned and pointed at his cheek, which shimmered away and revealed three whiskers on each side, "When you've got a demon in your gut and an immortal father, you don't really get shocked by much anymore. Hell, when I figured out my godfather was someone important to Gotham City, I simply asked if I could ride in his car."
"Who's your godfather?" inquired the dimension hopper. Naruto's grin didn't die.
"Batman."
Oh the look on Donna's face was priceless in Naruto's opinion. Speechless and amazed blended so well on her face. Inwardly he wondered how she would take the news that he too was from another dimension, but that wouldn't be revealed just yet.
Had to keep the girl on her toes, after all.
"Batman is your godfather?" she questioned. Naruto nodded.
"Batman?"
"Yep."
"You're serious?" Donna couldn't wrap her head around the cold caped crusader being anyone's godfather outside of the Batman Family. Heck, she had trouble wrapping her head around Batman having a son before she left that dimension behind.
"Why would I lie to you?" Naruto countered before looking at the door, "They're coming back."
The door opened once again and Diana entered with Jason close behind her. He went to his chair and gave Naruto a glance out of the corner of his eye. The blonde nodded and kept his whiskers out while crossing his middle and ring fingers. He had sensed it just as his father had taught him to, the feeling of an approaching magic.
Diana stood in front of the now standing Donna, being a good half of a head taller than the dimension hopping girl. She then wrapped her arms around the girl in a hug, making Donna freeze before she slowly returned the gesture. Diana felt tears form as she recalled the girl's story and whispered, "You're more than welcome to be my sister."
Donna closed her eyes and embraced the feeling of acceptance once again, a smile appearing on her face. The two, in their hug, missed the Bloods stepping out of the room and locking it behind them.
Naruto and Jason calmly walked to the front door, Naruto's hand still in the position he had forced it into before he asked, "Think she'll stop if we defeat her?"
"I can only hope," Jason replied to his son. He grabbed a cane from the umbrella holder next to the door, "I can't guarantee anything. But I will not let this monstrous event continue."
"Works for me," Naruto replied as his hand started to glow a bright red and he eyed the cane, "Taking the Ripper, isn't that a bit overkill?"
"If she's been doing this for nearly five hundred dimensions, then she'll have more tricks up her sleeve. She won't underestimate you again," Jason replied as he grabbed the handle of the door and slowly turned it, "So let me handle it. You stay here and keep the ward up."
"You got it, Dad," the blonde replied with a nod. Jason pulled the door open and rushed out of the estate.
"Gone, gone the form of man!" he cried as he started to burst into flame, "Arise 'The Demon' Etrigan!"
Fully combusted, the flaming figure shrank and the cane in his hand morphed. As Etrigan finished his transformation, the cane became a disturbingly gothic broadsword that The Demon easily wielded in one hand. Etrigan laughed as he finished his transformation, "Come out wench from where you're hide! Time for my Ripper to see your insides!"
Dark Angel revealed herself and wielded a sword with a dark handle. She glared at Etrigan, who sneered in response, before pointing at him, "You are not my quarry, Demon. Stay out of my way and I'll let you live."
"Big talk for a woman that hunts a child across the multiverse," Etrigan growled back as he raised his blade, "Blood wants me to tell you that Donna Troy is now under our protection."
"So be it, now die!" Dark Angel cried as she flew at The Demon with her blade ready to strike.
Etrigan parried her blade and their emissive eyes locked. Etrigan's red and her white narrowed as they struggled against each other. Slowly, Etrigan started to overpower Dark Angel and he allowed a sadistic grin to appear on his face.
"This battle is not in your favor, witch!" The Demon said to her, "You'd best retreat while you still can."
"Never!" Dark Angel cried out before slipping away from Etrigan, sacrificing her blade in the process. The snow-white skinned woman sneered and pointed at him, "DIE!"
A bright ball of magic shot from her finger. Etrigan sneered and used his Ripper to deflect the attack, "Weak!"
Dark Angel growled at the dismissal and put both of her hands out, palms facing The Demon, "Eradicate!"
A barrage of mystical blasts fired at Etrigan, who jumped over them with agility and acrobatics one wouldn't expect from his build. The Demon sneered and stabbed Ripper into the ground, both hands on the blade's handle. He grinned and spoke in a way that made her spine tingle in fear.
He rhymed.
"The Ripper my blade, time to prove your worth! Show the witch your power through the Earth!"
Etrigan pulled his blade out of the ground as though he were swinging upwards. A portion of the ground split in a cracked manner as it headed for Dark Angel, who watched with horror in her eyes as the ground beneath her shot up in a spear.
Dark Angel dodged out of the way only to be hit in the side by a fireball sent from Etrigan's mouth. Another earth spear shot up, nearly piercing her through the front of her stomach, only for Dark Angel to narrowly avoid it. Etrigan growled and threw Ripper at her, only for her to dodge once again.
"Let's see you dodge this!" Naruto muttered as he held his free hand out towards her and recited, "Ground the woman through her weight, let's multiply her mass by eight!"
Dark Angel felt her body become heavier and struggled to remain in the air and away from Etrigan's blade. She felt her eyes widen as she started to plummet towards the ground. There was an earthshaking impact strong enough to make Naruto stumble and drop his ward, alerting the Amazons inside Blood Estate that something was going on outside.
Donna and Diana busted through the door, the lock ignored by their superior strength, rushing to the front door only to be stopped by Naruto. He raised both hands and called out, "My home is in trouble, there's a threat about; to stop her I'll make a bubble and keep her out!"
A large red energy sphere covered the Blood's home, keeping both Amazonian women inside while Etrigan took the hint and grinned.
The Demon once again stabbed the Ripper into the ground, but cupped his hands at his chin. Dark Angel, who was struggling to get up, practically became clear when Etrigan began to rhyme.
"Threatening a child under my protection, I deem thee unable to accept correction. The fires of Hell will end it now, say goodbye to this world you worthless sow!"
Etrigan took a deep breath before spewing molten hot lava into his hands. Once his hands were full of the lava, his sadistic grin widened as Dark Angel's struggling increased. He balled the lava in his hands like it was dough before lifting it above his head. Etrigan began to glow and started to laugh.
"What's he doing?" Diana asked the whiskered youth. Naruto glanced at her and she saw sweat trickle down the side of his face, as well as slits where round pupils should be.
"He's sending her away." Was all Naruto said on the matter before returning his attention to the matter at hand.
Etrigan laughed as the small ball in his hand began to grow until it was large enough to rival a small truck in size. His eyes shone brightly before he threw it at where Dark Angel was stuck. The woman released a loud scream as the ball struck her before her form was hidden by the bright golden lava. The ball began to grow until it touched the shield Naruto had put up, getting a scream of pain from the teen, before it started to shrink. It shrank until it had become the size of a pearl.
Naruto dropped his shield at Etrigan's nod and fell to his knees. The curse he had used while trying to keep a specific warding spell up had drained him to half his usual magic/chakra reserves, and that shield drained the rest of it down to the bare minimum he needed to stay awake. Anymore and he could've gone into a coma like he had when he was ten.
Etrigan grinned as he exited the crater where the pearl rested, holding the sphere out to Donna once he got closer. In his deep voice, he told the girl, "I believe this needs to be under your watch, seeing as she's your problem."
"Gee, thanks..." murmured the raven-haired girl as she accepted the pearl. She looked at it and nearly dropped it when she saw a screaming Dark Angel inside. Looking at The Demon, she found him grinning sadistically.
"I would like to thank you for making Blood call me out," Etrigan said once more, "The only reason that I've been let out lately is to teach the Whelp, here."
"Fuck you, Etrigan." Naruto panted from his place on his knees. Once he had recovered enough to stand, he looked at Donna and Diana. Looking between the two he asked with a grin, "So...Can I come to Themyscira to see Queen Hippolyta's face when you tell her she has another daughter? I've got twenty bucks that say it's going to be priceless!"
AN: There's chapter three, Donna's been accepted as you can plainly see. As I've told you before, there is one more thing you must do. You have already finished reading it is now time to...
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