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EDIT: 01/02/2023 Fixing up somethings

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One more day.

It was all they had left. Tomorrow they would see what they were made of.

It was around noon when they had started to go over everything once again. Robin had wanted to train in the morning and Sariel had wanted to go over a few things before their little meeting. However, that time came and went, and here they were.

Sariel had unraveled the blueprints that Gus had smuggled out. It was decided that Sariel and Robin would be entering the building and Asif would be back-up via a sniper rifle. Slade himself had told them he would be behind a computer screen to keep them all posted on events taking place in and around the area, which in turn would be keeping them all alive.

They were prepared, but they kept going over and over everything. Making sure there were no mistakes. This all had to go swiftly if it was going to be a success. Failure wasn't much of an option.

"The building structure is old, but not nearly as ancient as the others. I say 16th century. Of course, it was blown to bits during the war. But it was rebuilt back to its original design and also has since been slightly modernized, wiring for TVs and all that. But it's mostly kept it's old school charm. So generally 16th century foundation, late 1940s remodeling." Sariel sighed. "No wonder it's on her list of properties." Sariel had made it known that Aurora was also a bit of a historical collector. Which not only included an apparent treasure trove of historical artifacts but entire properties as well. The woman liked her history.

"How many exits?"

"Only two. The front door, and the back door in the kitchen. Unless you want to jump out a window."

Robin nodded to his companion.

"How many floors?" It was Slade this time and Sariel answered him without even skipping a beat.

"Only two. The second floor is where the office is, that is where we'll be making the drop. It's a small staircase on the far left that leads up to the second floor. It's small, but that's expected of a building so old."

"How many rooms upstairs?"

"Possibly three, the drop off room, which I assume they use for meetings and the like. And there is an office and a small room down the main hall, which is likely used as a washroom or something, since it seems to have a small window in it. The main office has one large long window, looks like it's stained glass or something. Typical bar thing."

Robin folded his arms. "Place looks a lot smaller than I thought." Slade looked across to his apprentice. "A lot of the older civilian places were back then, unless you were royalty you didn't get much space."

Robin shrugged. "If they modernized it, why not expand on it?" Sariel giggled. "They just don't do that in Europe. They kinda respect their history and leave it as it is. Hell, even the slavery statues are still around oddly enough, although I would of taken those down long ago. Anyways while the city itself grows, the old stays the old. They don't change much, they just seem to add."

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They had all spent about two and a half hours going through the blueprints and any and all possibilities. Sariel had also pulled out maps of the surrounding neighborhood. Berlin was massive, but she tried to find as many little things as she could to help them out. Once the bar scene was done, and Gus had shot them, the ben Elohim would go elsewhere with the fake legacy and they would follow them into the lion's den.

In the meantime, they were all taking a break. They would all gather again in about an hour or so. Robin thought it best to do a little food shopping at the local market. Perhaps grab some snacks for their meeting that evening. He went alone, knowing full well that if anything did happen, he could take care of himself. Not even Slade seemed to have any issues with him stretching his legs for a bit.

Berlin seemed to be an interesting city. He had been to London and Paris, but not Berlin. At least not for this long. The last time he was here was for an overnight stay and he and Bruce were gone the next day.

The city itself seemed quite more artistic than one would think. Graffiti was considered more of an art form here, and they had alleys and courtyards decorated with beautiful pieces of art. He would definitely put it on his bucket list to come back here when the situation wasn't so dire.

Soon enough, he found a interesting little grocery store. He found a lot of various snacks and items he had not seen before. Everything was obviously in German, so he went by the pictures on the box and just picked what looked appealing.

Once he was done, he found himself with a plastic bag walking back to the apartments. However, he noted he had a bit of time. "Wouldn't hurt to take a look around." he thought to himself. Spandau was one of the oldest parts of Berlin. In fact, it was just the village of Spandau, before Berlin merged with it. America had its large cities, it had it's Gothams, Metropolis' and it's New Yorks and Chicago's. But European cities always held a certain aura to them that separated them from the rest. Indeed, they were old and ancient. So too was the city in Yemen. So many cities on this side of the world that had been lived in for so long. Berlin itself had nearly seen the end, but they rebuilt. Hell, there was still parts of the city being rebuilt to this day.

Mentally noting his surroundings, Robin found a small alley that looked like something right out of the medieval times. It was tiny, the buildings built very close to one another and the roads were cobblestone. A smile came to his lips, he really did enjoy exploring, especially old cities.

Robin walked a bit further down the old street before he suddenly felt very cold, the excitement to explore being swept away. He even shivered, "What the...?"

"You shouldn't be here."

Robin heard the voice almost as if it was whispered into his ear. He jolted around quickly only to find it was only him in the old alleyway. He swore, however, he felt a brush of hair on his neck.

"Go home." Again, the voice came from behind him. Robin's eyes darted around, but found nothing.

"You'll all die... I would hate to see that happen."

The young man turned around to see a woman in a business suit. She had a pencil skirt on, a blouse and a blazer to match. Her clothes were black on black, but what really stood out was her flaming red hair and eyes to match.

"The red headed bitch." Robin mentally cringed. Was this Aurora? The leader of the ben Elohim. If so, then why was she here?

"I've come to make you a proposition. One I'm sure you'll refuse, however- "

"Aurora?"

"Yes." The woman didn't seem to flinch, she merely stood there, looking down on the young man with mild curiosity. "That would be me, I suppose you want to ask some questions?"

There was something off about this woman, her skin was pale, and she had red eyes... who the hell had red eyes? There was something unearthly about her and he suddenly realized why Sariel was always so worried about their encounter with this woman. The aura that surrounded her was dark, vile, and like the rest of her crew, surreal.

"Why would you, of all people, come down here to offer up a proposition?"

The woman shrugged. "I grow bored of playing all your games. I will still meet you all tomorrow if you wish to continue your schemes against me, but you will not make it out alive. But I don't think that's really what you want to do, now is it Richard?"

Robin flinched at the sound of his identity being rolled off the lips of this woman. She said it like she always knew, like she had been calling him that for years. Robin narrowed his eyes at the woman. She didn't have that right.

"You rather stay alive, correct?"

"Don't we all?"

She smirked at his comment. "We can end this now, bring me Sariel and the Legacy and you and the rest will be free to go. Although, I say this fully knowing that you will not accept."

"Then why fucking come here in the first place!?"

The woman nearly shrugged. "She's trying to figure it out, isn't she?"

"Huh?"

"The Legacy? Sariel, she's trying to figure it out. She's a smart one, I had such high hopes for her. She knows the Legacy is more than just money and information, but she doesn't quite know exactly what it is. She doesn't have the other pieces to the puzzle, which is why she wants to meet again. Am I correct?"

Robins eyes were still narrowed at his adversary. He wouldn't let this woman get any information out of him. Whatever conclusions she came to were on her own.

The woman chuckled. "I see."

"Well... it seems you all have a lot of preparing to do, I believe the snacks are just for that hrmm?" she eyed the plastic bag Robin had been carrying. "I assume I shall see you all tomorrow. 7pm sharp. Don't be late."

"Ms. Warchild." Robin's breath hitched as Geist rounded the corner. "Shall we go?" his German accent rolled off his tongue like silk, his eyes were only on the red headed woman before him and never even gave Robin so much as a glance.

Aurora looked to her companion and nodded. Geist then lead her off up the alley she had seemed to come out of. Robin moved up a bit and watched them all get into a nice luxury black car. He watched them for a moment and as he was about to turn back, she called out to him from the window.

"Remember you had your chance to run away."

"You already knew I wouldn't take it."

She smiled at him then. "Just like Sariel. Such a waste." the window rolled up then, he could no longer see the woman, but being that the windows were tinted, he was sure she could still see his scowl etched across his face.

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"Wait... you fucking saw her!?"

Sariel was up in arms about this recent development. "Shit... So she knows we're up to something, that's never been out of the question. I always knew she'd know something was up. She'd be dumb not to." The woman put a hand to her temple. "But how much does she know? We don't have time to revise everything. And we can't pull out, or she'll come looking."

"We have enough to go forward." It was Slade that spoke up. "She may know you are doing something, like you said she'd be a fool not to. But what exactly? I'm sure she doesn't have enough intel to decipher your plans. Although there are many possibilities, she has most likely played out this scenario before."

"Meaning?" Robin asked. His arms crossed, his entire frame was far from relaxed ever since he had his little run in.

"She's gone through every possible situation that we could throw at her. What we all have planned is something she may have thought of before. However,... if Gus can make it look good enough, and she doesn't know who he is..."

"Then there is still a chance we can pull this off." Sariel sighed. "The last thing we needed was her confronting anyone."

"I'll be in the tactical room going over everything again. I'll see you all in about an hour when we resume the meeting." Slade picked himself up off from the wall he was leaning on and walked out of the room.

Once he was gone, Robin had to ask. "Sar. What or who is Aurora?"

Sariel shrugged. "She's a freaky one, gives off a bad aura. Some say she's been alive since World War II, but that would make her like ninety years old."

"Geist was there."

"Yea... whenever he's not on mission, usually wherever Aurora goes, her faithful servant goes. Geist never leaves her side. Like some sort of spooky bodyguard."

"She has some sort of weird abilities, she was behind me, then gone."

"Yea she does that."

"Is there any historical information you guys have on the leaders of this group?"

"All we've ever read on them is bizarre and out of date. Lots of things about the devil and sorcery, blood baths, lots of dark shit. Like their background is more of an occult. The heads of the society however, we never found much on former leaders..."

"Her name is Aurora Warchild. She's head of an entire secret society, she's got money, there has to be something on her."

"Yea, we looked it up to. She comes from England. We knew that, but we never got to far. There is a bit of info on the current day head huncho of the society because like every good billionaire she donates to charities as a tax write off, but its very very vague. Not that we had much time to dig any further anyways. During the time I was working with them, I heard that she was older then she looked. Geist is a medium and deals with some weird occult stuff... he did something to make himself look a lot younger than what he is. Aurora... I don't know. When you're a part of the group you find out various tidbits of info on the core group... but on the leader herself. Nada."

Robin shook his head. "Whatever she is, it's like she's not human." During his time as a Titan Robin had dealt with Raven, and her being half demon gave off some small sense of dread. But nothing like this. Aurora's presence was overwhelming.

Sariel shrugged. "Maybe she's not."

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The car was spacious. But then again, all the luxury cars were. she sat there and simply watched the city go by. She was somewhat interested as to what tomorrow would bring. What exactly would Sariel and her band of misfits do to try and outwit her? She smiled at the thought. So many possibilities. Either way she supposed it would be fun while it lasted. Even if the end would be in poor taste.

Her eyes shifted to her singular companion that sat across from her looking out the window on the opposite side.

"I suppose Madeline's sacrifice was not all for nothing?"

Geist looked the woman and smirked. "HA! Sacrifice? More like utter disappointment."

"Oh, don't be so harsh. Some people don't take it so well, being brought back to life."

The man wanted to roll his eyes. "You sent her there for a reason."

"And she failed. However, that does prove something."

"You actually worried about what they have in store for tomorrow?"

"Not in the slightest. I know she will pass with flying colors."

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And there ya go. Hope you liked this one, it was kinda filler... kinda not...although I did say that this chapter would be filler. Anywho next chapter is when the fun is gonna start up all over again. Shit will go down! Will Batman find his son? What the fuck is Aurora anywho? Seriously let me know what you guys think she is? Science experiment? Demon from Hell? Or something else?

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