Seven years old
Conner giggled as he ran around Gotham zoo with Skye, Zack and Sharon all of them were slightly high on sugar and Dick, who had taken them to the zoo with Barbara, was exhausted! 'Come on Conner! I want to see the Tigers!' Sharon yelled pointing to the cage with two tigers inside watching the public walking by.
'OK,' Conner replied and walked over to the cage with his friends as Sharon cooed at the tiger cubs that were running around. Sharon was transfixed on the tigers and looked as if she would never move again but the boys soon got board watching the tiger's do very little so they ran back to Dick who was seated not so far away from where Barbara stood with Sharon at the tiger enclosure.
'Get bored did you?' Dick asked grinning.
'Yeah tiger's are boring!' Zack agreed nodding his head. 'I prefer Snakes! They are much cooler,' the seven-year old declared before he started running around and hissing like a snake.
'I think the Lions are the best,' Skye said in his quite voice looking at the floor like he always did and Conner placed a hand on his shoulder smiling at his best friend.
'Lions are cool. But Wolves are my favorite,' Conner said with a sad smile on his face and Dick grimaced knowing he missed Wolf, after Conner had been tuned into a child Wolf had been given to Miss Martian to look after but he had died about a year ago much to Conner's pain and anguish, the boy had not stopped crying for a month after that and had gone into a depression quite quickly. So Bruce, Diana and Clark all used their power, as civilians, to get a new wolf for Conner that lived in the Bat-Cave and sometimes went into Conner's room and loved running around at the Forest near Mount. Justice.
'Hay! Come on you four let's go and grab some lunch!' Barbara called and the four grinned before jogging over to get some lunch with their stomach's rumbling.
Barbara and Dick had chicken burgers with fries and a side salad with coffee (Dick) and ice water (Barbara), Sharon had a chicken salad with fries and a strawberry milk shake, Zack had a beef burger with fries (which he smothered in ketchup) and a chocolate milk shake, Skye and Conner both had chicken nuggets, fries a side salad and a glass of apple juice.
Skye new about the family being Super Hero's, as well as Sharon, Zack and the others. He thought it was very cool and that was how they found out about Skye being a meta human, he had suddenly turned into a half-human half-water Phoenix and was quite shocked about it but smiled none the less and changed himself back grinning the whole time.
They even found a hero similar to him called Water Dragon in England who was actually being exiled due to her powers and moved to Manhattan where Skye now lived, even though he still attended the same school as Conner.
'So where shall we go now?' Dick asked after he paid for the food and took Conner's hand while he took Skye's. Barbara took Zack's hand (much to his annoyance) and Sharon's hand and followed Dick.
'The Reptile House!' Zack immediately yelled out and Sharon shivered.
'But I don't like snakes and spiders,' she said pouting as she glared at Zack.
'Don't care I wanna see them!' Zack growled back glaring at Sharon.
'Why doesn't Babs take Sharon to where ever she wants to go and I will take the boys to the reptile house? Meet up again in ten at the Lion enclosure,' Dick said and everyone nodded before Dick took Zack's hand and led the three boys to the reptile house.
When they left ten minutes later Dick was holding Skye who had his face berried in his shoulder and Conner was glaring at Zack who looked a little sheepish. Of course Skye perked up when they arrived at the lion enclosure and wriggled down before getting as close as he could to the lions and just watched them. Conner was immediately by his friends side and Sharon followed dragging a complaining Zack behind her. 'What happened?' Barbara asked her fiancée as they watched the children.
'Skye got scared by the snake's and the crocodiles but Zack refused to leave and started calling Skye names under his breath. I told Zack off then allowed Skye to hide in my shoulder until we left,' Dick explained and Barbara sighed.
'We really need to talk to Zack's dad about the boys attitude, it just isn't right,' she said and Dick nodded in agreement.
'Dick! Can we go to the wolves now?' Conner asked jogging over holding Skye's hand once more causing Dick to smile to himself.
'Sure we can Con,' Dick replied and took his little brother's other hand and lead them to the last exhibit where Conner stared at the wolves longingly before he turned away and begged Dick to pick him up. Dick sighed and led the kids to the gift shop and brought Conner a large stuffed wolf which cheered him up. Skye brought a stuffed lion, Sharon brought a stuffed Tiger and Zack brought a stuffed snake.
All in all the day had been good and the children all fell asleep on the ride back to Wayne Manner where their parents were waiting to pick their children up. Including Jessie Sparrow who was Skye's guardian and Water Dragon.
Conner slept well that night having been exhausted, but he couldn't help but feel sad about missing Wolf even with his new wolf, called Moon, by his side. It was sad for the boy and he wished that wolf was still alive.
