siren beginnings chapter 3
One
night she was patrolling when the dark knight stopped her. Nobody knew who she
was and she kept to the shadows so not to be noticed when she did her good
deeds but batman had found her. He grabbed her shoulder spinning her around to
face him. the girl was more surprised than anything as she faced the dark
knight. he stared at her taking in the fact she was a small girl. He lifted up
her hood to see a mask over the girls face. The tiny vigilante stayed still and
quiet as the capes crusader looked her over inch by inch. She knew he was
skeptical even if he kept his poker face. Siren didn't find he bat glare as bad
as everyone said. The man stared at her for a moment before saying "you
shouldn't be doing this. I know your dad told you to but you shouldn't. It's
not safe." The girl replied "I know and it doesn't matter". The
man raised an eyebrow under his mask. The girl didn't know the pain of the job
yet. "Go home now before you get hurt". The nine year old stood her
ground against the giant man I front of her being stubborn. When she didn't
move the man actually picked her up carrying her back to her apartment building
as siren punched and kicked the man. Even as she kicked hard he held on
grunting was the only thing that showed she was kicking full force. And
screaming put me down didn't work. When they got to her house. He set her down
and sent her inside she shamefully walked into her apartment. He father was
pissed and she knew she had to keep going and prove the man wrong. Every night
she went out. She ran into the bat once in a while but he just did his job and
left her alone knowing she would just come out again. On a very rare occasion
they worked together but that was it. She knew he was looking after her in the
shadows and it made her smile. He also knew her identity but didn't care. Roy
and her over time didn't get to hang out as much but they still went to the circus though. That
night Charlotte was so excited. She had told her dad she was going to work out
with Roy and in her duffel bag instead if sports gear was a change of clothes.
She got to his house. Roy had inherited money when he died and lived with a
foster family until he could find a real home. So he was all set got tonight.
Charlotte came over and knocked on his door. He opened it and let her In.
Showing the child to his room. She took in all the maps and pictures realizing
he was trying to figure out who green arrow was. Smiling at him she went into
the bath room and changed into a short cute deep blue dress with short loose
flowy sleeves and skirt. A grey belt went around her waist and she pulled on
grey stockings then black cute boots. Putting a head band with a bow in her
hair she was ready to go. This was the first time she had ever worn a dress and
she felt pretty. One day when they went to the mall when they hung out more he
helped her pick out a dress for the first time. Once she was dressed she came
out to see Roy in a nice not too fancy collared green shirt and black pants
ready to go. Charlotte threw on her grey winter coat and was ready to go. The
two walked to the circus from Roy's house talking about what they were going to
see there. They got to where the circus was and Charlotte jumped up giving Roy
a hug saying thank you in his ear. She was so excited and giddy that when she
jump into his arms Roy smiled and held her close. When she let go of him she
held onto his hand as they entered the circus area. They had an hour and a half
till the show so Roy led her to where games were set up. He won her a teddy
bear and she won him a clown nose. They went on line to meet the acrobats the
flying Grayson's. they stood behind a family of a mother a father and a baby
who found out had the name Tim. Charlotte had been trying to peek ahead and
seen a raven haired boy with the prettiest blue eyes standing next to his
parents. She didn't know why but she was attracted to him. When it was their
turn the little boy smiled at her and she smiled back. He introduced himself
saying "hi my name is Dick what's yours". She replied saying
"Charlotte". He said how he liked that name and put his arm around her
shoulder as the camera man took the picture. Afterwards he said "if you
want maybe you can come back stage after the show" smiling the girl told
him how she'd love to and left with Roy rolling his eyes and dragging her along
with the two staring at each other smiling. the photo she held in her hand made
her smile as she looked at roy and her with the flying graysons. The two got
cotton candy and popcorn before heading into the tent for the show. It was a
horrible night for the acrobats. Charlotte watched the boys family fall to
their deaths and she wanted to go run and hug the boy but she couldn't the
crowd around the boy was too much. After it happened Roy had picked her up and
carried her away from the sad scene as tears ran down her face. With her arms
wrapped around Roy's neck and her head on his shoulder they headed back to his
house where she stayed for the night even if her dad would be mad. She felt bad
she could of as siren stopped it but didn't and she felt horrible. Roy didn't
know why and thought it was the shock of seeing them die. So he held her in his
arms as she curled up at his side and cried herself to sleep. The next day Roy
walked her home holding her hand. She was quiet and he didn't know how else to
comfort her. They got to her apartment building and Roy gave her a big hug
goodbye for the she wouldn't let go and he had to undo his arms smiling at her.
She gave him a little smile back as he told her what he had been hiding. How he
was being adopted by Oliver queen and
moving to star city. What he didn't tell her was how he figured out green arrow
was Oliver queen and he was going to work with green arrow. He would be gone by
next week. With the information out there both said goodbye a little sad and
lonely again. Even when she thought her father was warming up to her after
staying at Roy's house he was furious. He slapped her hard across her face
giving her a bruise and Charlotte had ran into her room changing into siren to
get away from everything. Roy was gone she was stuck with her father and only
had the costume left. She didn't cry but used it as anger to take down bad
guys. thats how it was for the months that followed she ran around gotham
getting bad guys down and taking every punch as if she deserved it for being
alone. Roy called her twice a week to talk to her but she hasn't seen him in a
while. He planned to have her visit but realized her dad wouldn't allow it. It
was now a year and a half since the accident at the circus and siren hadn't
been out much as siren in the past two months. She had been lagging sad over
everything again since Roy called canceling their plans to hangout. The
determination he had always had was there even more as well as a hard shell
around him now an she heard it in his voice when canceled. Something had
changed and she was alone again as always. There was no batman or black canary
to see and no friends at school. So Charlotte decided to go out and see about
catching a glimpse of batman and his so called new partner robin. She hadn't
run into the man in a while probably because he had a new little friend. Maybe
he wanted someone instead of her. She was even lonely as siren but the new hero
was something to see if she could catch a glimpse. She did need something to do
anyways. Running around the city that was Gotham she saw a bunch of small
children being kidnapped. She didn't know who the man that was directing the
thugs was but she couldn't see Gothams vigilante anywhere so she stepped in to
help. Flipping off the roof she hit the ground in front of the first thug. He
was surprised and swung a baseball bat at her. Charlotte ducked and kicked the
mans legs out from under him. Then when he hit the ground she swiftly broke his
ankle so he could not fight. Then she jumped over the next attackers back and
side kicked him to the ground. With a flick of her wrist siren sent two
throwing stars at one man pinning him to the wall. There was one more thug left
trying to lock the seven children he had into a shipping container. Charlotte
grabbed him around the throat and threw him over her shoulder breaking his
nose. The kids ran for all they were worth getting far away from there. She
turned on the man to see him dressed as a Roman soldier, a sword in hand. He
gave her an Erie grin. This wasn't one of the famous villains she knew she had
never heard or seen this guy before. He was creepy and she saw no mercy in his
eyes under the gold helmet. This man was all rage and blood thirsty. The man
said to her "you ruined my plans little one. How am I to sacrifice to the
gods if I have no children." Siren stared quizzically at him. Her face was
covered but the man could tell she didn't understand. He said to her " I
am known as the spartan. I was going to use those bad children as ransom and
sacrifices to the gods my patrons. You are the first to try and stop me, my
first foe to face me and it should be easy to take you down." The child
was confused but didn't say anything as the man attacked her with the sword.
Quickly she side stepped and used her bracelet to make her own sword appear. She
blocked his chop fighting back. They exchanged blows he was good, very good
definitely trained well and Charlotte was having a hard time keeping up. She
should have practiced more even with no Roy to practice with. He was
overpowering her and she didn't know how much longer she could hold. The
spartan got a lucky strike and stabbed her left arm hard. She knew it was bad
but didn't stop she had to stop this madman. She had her own villain now and
she didn't see batman coming to rescue her like other times. The wound made her
slow and dizzy as she lost blood. She fended the madman off a little longer.
But he stabbed her right where her ribs were on her left side he favored his
hits on that side. Her side burned but Charlotte bit her lip and smacked her
blade flat against his face making the mans head snap to the side. He turned
his head back and smiled at her. The bruise that was forming seemed bad but the
man smiled at her. He was going to kill her while she was alone. Siren was
close to losing too much blood and she was swaying lightly the sword had
definitely been Laced with something to sedate her. Seeing this the man stopped
fading into the shadows saying menacingly "I prefer not to kill my new
enemies on the first try. I like your name tag by the way siren. We will see
each other again." He was toying with her and it was not a good sign. With
that he was gone leaving Charlotte swaying in the alley. She tried to walk but
was tired. She didn't realize batman had come and watched her fearless fight
until he picked the small child up in his arms as she struggled with the little
strength she had left until she was unconscious. She had someone still looking
out for her that night and her heart was happy for that.