#ayna wayne

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Summary of previous: Ayna Wayne has turned into a vampire, since considered safe due preferring to bite cattle instead of people, is still living in Wayne Manor. Bruce does not like vampires, so doesn't know.

Alfred and Damian do know, so does half the Justice League.

Ayna Wayne is 18, Damian is 21.

Damian is Robin, Ayna is called Shadow by Damian when she runs around as a Vampire.

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Rescue of Red Hood

Group chat - hidden

Robin: Shadow, Hood has been captured,

Robin: The Bats are 20 mins out, you are 2 mins from the location (GPS xxxx. xxxx) can you go and scare them so they are too busy to attack Hood?

Shadow: Sure, sounds like fun, heading there now.

Robin: Fun? Shadow, have you taken something?

Shadow: No… well yes. Class mates wanted to celebrate an engagement, and went to a pub, and since alcohol doesn't do anything at all to me, I may have taken a power up pill version 5, a hour one.

Robin: I thought those were destroyed because they make you very intoxicated.

Shadow: May have rescued some from getting destroyed, and hidden them.

Shadow: Oh, I am high as a kite. I feel so good right now. Everything is so sloooow at the moment. Oh look, pretty lights.

Robin: Forget about the rescue, go home right now.

Shadow: I am finnnne... everything is finnnne... No worries. Am at the location now. I like Hood, will be just in and out quick.

Shadow: Right, let's bluff that I am a very scary vampire lady.

Shadow: Putting you on silent.

Robin: You will be receiving a lecture from me tomorrow. (Unread)

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Jason, still in his Red Hood mask, woke up with a headache, and found he had been chained to a chair in a warehouse. Felt annoyed he got captured so easily.

There were a number of strange gang members around. He did not recognise anyone nor the gang patches. There was one good thing, he could and did push his panic button.

Anyway chains? Man, that's a little overkill, did they think he had super strength or something?

“Good, you are awake,” a harsh male voice interrupted him checking his surroundings. Jason looked over at the speaker, obviously the gang leader. No one he knew. New gang or filling a capture contact?

“I thought capturing the Red Hood would be hard, but no …”

Oh great, a villain monologuing. The perfect thing to make headaches worse. When is the rescue happening? Jason wondered how long before he will asked to be shot, so he doesn't need to listen anymore.

Everything and everyone went silent.

Red Hood looked over, a pale skin female was standing in the middle of the warehouse. Her black long hair was flowing everywhere. She was dressed in a black tank top, and black jeans and was wearing a face domino mask.

She had fangs, oh shit, that is a Vampire.

“You kidnapped Red Hood? Protector of Crime Alley? Without permission! How dare you!” She snarled, focusing on the gang leader as her fangs grew larger and she looked like she was about to go feral.

Red Hood couldn't look away, although he could hear the rest of the gang leaving the warehouse as fast as possible.

“Ah?” said the gang leader backing up, “shoot her!”

A couple of guns went off as she jumped at the gang leader, Jason was sure he saw her dodge the bullets, and also push the leader out of the way. The leader hit his head on the wall and dropped to the ground unconscious.

She spun around to face the last two gang members who had their guns out and were shaking with fear.

“Run, run, little rabbits, I will enjoy chasing you down.” She purred.

The two men ran out of the building, screaming in fear.

The girl laughed, “he was correct, that was fun.” She turned to face Red Hood, who stiffened with fear, but tried to hide it. “Relax, a friend sent me here to help, was just closer than the bats. I am a friend. Not an enemy."

She moved around to the back of the chair. Red Hood heard a clink noise and the chains fell off. Then silence, he looked around, there was no one but him and one unconscious gang leader in the warehouse.

“Thank you.” He called out standing up.

Batman, Nightwing and Red Robin appeared moments later.

“Red Hood report.” rasped out Batman.

“Got taken out when returning from patrol, woke up here, chained to that chair, with that gang leader monologuing at me. A female vampire turned up, not feral, she knocked out the gang leader, didn't bite him. Everyone else ran away. She broke the chains and left.”

“That makes no sense, vampires are not safe.” muttered Batman shaking his head.

“Well I owe that one my life.” Red Hood looked around, “Is Robin around?”

“He is checking the perimeter, by his own suggestion.”

“Oh,” said Red Hood quietly, “I wonder if he knows something?”

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Bat AI (really one of Oracle hackers that she is teaching and watching)

Video recording found, Flagged as Vampire sighting meeting with Robin due to recording from inside the warehouse.

Protocol Justice League vampire protection: deleted from Bat computer, forward to Oracle supervisor to be checked and filed in correct place, probably to be filed in Justice League folder only.

Recording started:

Robin had just finished checking the outside warehouse for any guards. Stopped near a dark corner on the ground. A second person came out of the shadows in black pants and grey hoodie with the hood up. Robin and the person looked at each other, may have spoken to each other, but no audio file was found.

The person moved back into the shadows and vanished, Robin went to meet the rest of the bats who were exiting the building.

End recording 2 mins length.

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(Oracle is in charge of looking after a lot of heroes including the Justice League, has a number of hackers working for her, they all have a lot of computer programs and AI programs working, watching and reporting. Officially, Barbara Gordon is running an IT security company.)

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The next morning - reader/Ayna POV

Sleep, what is that?

You sighed and rolled over on your bed.

You got to bed four hours ago, after trying to run off extra energy by running around Gotham, then running home.

But sleep was not happening, you don't even feel tired.

Hmmm, what is a normal time to get up?

Looking over at the clock. 6:30am. Good enough.

You turned on the light, sat up and started updating information into your watch, your current symptoms, and what you took last night. Lecture or no lecture, you will not hide anything. It's safer for everyone including you.

Although last night was a little fuzzy, you remember drinking, having no effect on you and deciding to take a 1 hour power up pill that makes you intoxicated.

Was probably not the best idea, since Robin requested help for Red Hood after that, and your bright ideas while intoxicated, were very risky.

Not that you can remember much. Something about standing in a warehouse looking scary. Attack a person? Pulling apart Red Hood chains? Since when can you do any of that?

At least you heard the rest of the bats turn up, so you hid in the shadows outside the warehouse. Fear of Batman overrides everything else.

Maybe Robin can advise what happened last night?

You got up and pulled open the dark curtains. It is sunny outside! It is rarely sunny in Gotham. It must have been windy last night.

You got up, dressed quickly, put on 100% sunblock, then put on makeup. The joy of skin being so pale due to vampire virus, is that dark eyeshadow and lipstick comes up so well.

Myth - vampires sleep during the day and run around at night. Vampires go poof into ash in direct sunlight.

Truth - vampires go sleepy in the middle of the day, (bet you are going to crash today), but don't normally need to sleep. Haven't noticed any difference running around at night. Skin burns badly in direct sunlight, Do not go poof into ash.

You ran down to the kitchen, am starving. Your watch color is just going orange, so you need nutrients now.

Two brothers looked up from the table as you entered.

“Good morning you two, sleep well?” You said to them cheerfully.

Damian and Tim both smiled at you. Tim looks very sleepy. He had toast in front of him and a pot of coffee. Damian had tea and fruit.

“Why are you so awake at this hour? Didn't you come in late?” complained Tim, his head almost in his coffee cup.

“Not tired.” You answered shrugging, as you got a cup of tea. “Don't know why.”

“I wish I could bounce back like that.” sighed Tim, looking like he was going back to sleep at the table.

“Hmmm.” You said looking over at him, wondering for a second, if he would like to see if he could turn into a vampire.

“No.” cut in your older brother Damian, who was obviously mind reading you.

“Pity.”

“Hmm? Have I missed something?”

“No.” said Damian.

“Morning, Ayna” commented Alfred, handing you a plate of a cooked breakfast.

You stared with joy at the large plate of eggs, lamb sausages, bacon, blood pudding, mushrooms, hash browns and fried tomatoes.

“Alfred, have I mentioned you are wonderful? And that I love you?” You asked, sitting down, and starting to eat.

“Yes, regularly.” smiled Alfred at you.

Tim looked at your breakfast in horror, “How can you eat that this morning?”

You blink in surprise, “Easily, am hungry, was a busy night.”

“What were you doing? It's only Thursday.”

“A couple of classmates were celebrating an engagement last night at a pub, I joined them.” you answered, finishing eating your food.

“I want to speak to you about your timing of your drinking on a week day, also about the idea of learning more self defense.” Damian said, nodding at a bruise on your face.

“Ok, I will listen to you this afternoon, when I get back, Damian. Additional self defense is a good idea.” you advised as you put the empty dish into the dishwasher. “Have a class this morning. I have to go. Bye all.”

“Remember you have a meeting with your father at 4pm today.” Alfred called after you.

“Oh, that's right." you looked back into the room, “Damian, will you be around?”

“Of course, I will escort you to the meeting.”

“Thanks.” You called back as you left.

“She is still not comfortable being alone in Bruce's presence?” You could just hear Tim ask.

“No, she is not.” Damian answered.

Well? Would anyone blame you, if they all knew?

Bruce’s opinion on vampires, that they should be ‘removed’ for the good of the rest of humanity, was scary.

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4pm back at the manor.

Damian walked with you towards your father's study. You feel horrible, like heading towards a school principal office to be ticked off.

“Relax,” advised Damian, “father will not shut the office door for the meeting. He knows you are not comfortable with being alone with him.”

Your heart increased in speed. “What if he has found out? And has been hiding that he knows, until he can isolate me?”

“I personally will open the study door if he shuts it, I will defend you in any case.”

“If he locks it?”

“I will break the door down, you are under the Justice League protection. I will call Superman if it is necessary.” he hissed. “You were not this nervous at the last meeting a month ago. What has happened since?”

“A young male vampire went feral in Gotham over two weeks ago.”

“I remember that, he turned up in Crime Alley where a pub threw feral strength nutrients pills at him. He chased the pills down to eat, and a Green Lantern collected him.”

“Those pills smell so great, that pub has a habit of leaving an open jar with those pills, he would have smelt them miles away when he went feral. But that is not the point,” You took a deep breath, “do you know what father said, after he heard what had happened?”

“No.”

“He said if he got to that boy first, he would have ensured that he wouldn't have come back to hurt them in the future. Tim asked if he was planning to break his no-kill rule then. And he said removing permanently vampires out of their pain, when they go mad, is a mercy. It's not like they are still human.” You said painfully.

Damien stayed silent for a minute. “I am coming into the study with you.” He finally said, he knocked on the door.

“Come in.”

Damian opened the door. “Greetings father, Ayna has asked me to be in on this meeting too.”

Bruce looked surprised. “Of course, Damian, you are welcome too, if that makes Ayna more comfortable.”

The meeting only took 15 minutes, Bruce only wanted to check if you had any problems or needs. After assuring him that you are fine, you left quickly.

Damian remained in the study for his own meeting.

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