Nicole walked to an outdoor gym in the park.
'Eh. Might as well keep in shape' she thought before starting her vigorous, by both mortal AND demigod standards, workout. After a while she got bored and decided to run around the park.
Her deathy magicalism senses started tingling, like a person who had caused a lot of death was nearby. Sighing, she walked towards the aura.
Honestly!
We put so much effort into saving these mortals, die for them, and then they go about killing each other and..... Ugh! Dam you ADHD.
Her eyes were assaulted by the sight of a weirdo dressed in a purple suit. Seriously he looked worse that Charon.
And that hideous hair? Green? What, you doing the arrangements so you can get it done with a lawn mower next time?? "Well hello there, Doll Face." Said Mr. Lawn -Mower-Hair.
Oh crap. He's the insane joker guy Molly had warned Nicole about.
Nicole's hand drifted to her pocket, where a key chain/dagger made of mortal silver was kept.
"Don't call me that or I'll gut you like a fish."Nicole threatened. She had faced Titans, this mortal was a literal joke in comparison.
"Well Dolly, a bit feisty aren't we? " said the crime prince of Gotham
"You'll make a wonderful toy! Uncle J will have so much fun breaking you" The joker cackled. That reminded Nicole of the Gods,and it only served to piss her off.
I'm pretty sure he meant for his cliche bad guy speech to be longer but Nicole attacked, swiping her knife at he clown. He ducked out of the way but the blade had managed to cut his arm.
"Oh, Doll, now you've gone and made your Uncle J mad!" He roared, charging towards her. Nicole just let her instincts take over as she dogged the punch, and, using the Jokers weight against himself she flipped him. He hit his head on the tarmac but got up again, abet slightly groggily. She slammed the hilt of her knife on Joker's head, successfully knocking him out before moving onto Harley Quin. She ducked under Harley's mallet and swiped at her side, drawing blood.
(SEE! The mist works soooo well!)
"You shouldn't have done that, Pudin'." She giggled insanely.
Just before she was knocked out with a sick backflip (Aaaaaah I love references)
"I've been used for entertainment for too long," she started walking away before turning
"No more" she disappeared into the shadows and left.
Little did she know that a certain bat was watching and heard her little comment.
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As dusk arrived Nicole made her way back to the graveyard, she still got the nagging feeling of being watched. She made a few sharp turns and tried to lose her tail in the crowd, but whoever was following her was very determined, and good.
This worried Nicole, because that level of skill meant exceptional training, which generally meant an organisation. As Nicole tentatively stepped in the graveyard. She decided not to go to the mausoleum.
Why give away a perfectly good lair?
So, Nicole made her way to the more recent graves. She knelt before a grave, Nicole didn't read the name. She waited and when she heard footsteps to her left, she whipped around and pointed her dagger at the figure emerging from the undergrowth. He wore a black skin tight suit with a blue 'V' looking symbol.
"Who in the hades are you?" Nicole questioned.
"Hades?" the guy asked confused. (Oh lol I just realised that when she asked who he was, he said HADES! like he is hades!)
"Dude you wear your Halloween costume in February. I swear to the Greek pantheon. You don't judge I won't." sassed Nicole.
"Nightwing. Nice to meet ya!"
Oh, thought Nicole, so this is Nightwing.
Molly had told Nicole about him, but she decided to have some fun with him. After all he was the first superhero she met.
Weren't't all super heroes really pissy? They must have some serious hubris though.
Like, they sneeze and the entire city applauds them.
They wouldn't last two days as Half-Bloods... ADHD.
"Never heard of you Blue Boy." she said offhandedly.
"Not from around here, are you?" Nightwing said but it was like he wasn't focused on the conversation.
Alarm bells rang in Nicole's head. Years of experience, training and Half-Blood instincts made her spin to the right, and she narrowly missed a dark metal shape that would have hit her on her shoulder.
Nicole looked at it, now that it wasn't whizzing towards her, she saw that it was shaped like a bat, Batman.
Of course! She should have anticipated this.
The only reason the original Boy Wonder would leave his habitat in Bludhaven and come down to Gotham was if his former mentor called him.
"You know sometimes just standing in the shadows can get pretty boring, bats." teased Nicole.
Batman stepped out from his hiding place up in the branches.
"Oh, I see how it is. So, you know about him but not me, huh!" Nightwing said pouting.
Nicole rolled her eyes "Grow up, Birdbrain." She grumbled.
"Where are your family?" Growled Batman. Well, not growl the way a wolf would but pretty close.
"Dead." Nicole said in a monotone voice.
Well it was kind of the truth.I mean her mother and sister were dead and her father was the lord of death, so whatever. She was so immersed in her thoughts that she almost missed Nightwing's sympathetic wince.
Almost.
"I don't want your pity, Tweety." Nicole ground out.
"Ok, seriously the nicknames need to stop." groaned Nightwing, "I get enough from Deathstroke."
Nicole had just opened her mouth to retort when batman moved towards her and lay a hand on her shoulder saying, "I need you to go to the orphanage. I understand that you feel you are better off on your own but..." Batman's words faded out.
All Nicole could feel was a suffocating cloud of death. Like the one around Wayne.
'No way,' thought Nicole.
But there wasn't any other posibility.
Batman was not a half blood or Nicole would have sensed it.
So unless there were a bunch of people drowning in death, which considering the city was kinda likely, Gotham's most eligible billionaire playboy was roaming the streets at night in a kevlar bat onesie.
Nicole was shaken out of her thoughts, quite literally, by the Dark Knight.
"Are you alright?" He questioned gruffly.
"I'm fine!" she muttered yanking her shoulder out of his grip.
"You look like your about to have a panic attack."Observed Nightwing.
"Look Feathers, nobody touches me and we don't have a problem!" She scowled.
"Got yaaaa" said Nightwing.
Nicole nodded scowl easing. "So, will you go?" Batman asked.
"I'm sorry, go where?" questioned the confused teen.
Batman let out an exasperated breath. "You will need to go to an orphanage. One of my friends will adopt you."
"Are you sure you aren't making this up?" questioned Nicole.
"What, surprised that batman has friends in high places?" teased the ex-sidekick.
"Nah, I'm just taken aback he has friends" sassed the half-blood.
On hearing this Nightwing couldn't help the amused snort that escaped him.
Batman on the other hand didn't seem to appreciate any kind of humour.
He just grunted and threw a bag to her left. When she turned around to inspect its contents, she saw food, money, a bottle of water and some papers whith something written on them.
"How will you even know which orphanage to find me in?" said Nicole. The only answer she recived was a growl of...
"I'm Batman."
She turned around, mouth open to sass the man who dressed like a flying rat, he was gone.
If a passer-by would have heard what Nicole said next, they would have learned the pronunciation of several unflattering adjectives for embarrassing organs in Greek.
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