Batman climbed down the abandoned warehouse rooftop in which Jason's tracker placed him in, the Dark Knight walked through the dusty floor and found a bloodied corpse laying there, and next to it was a kneeling person completely covered in dried blood.
"Jason" Batman said as he approached the scene, his voice was full of regret and sorrow as he said the name of his son.
"I had to do it" Jason said breaking the silence that surrounded the warehouse.
"Why?" Batman asked receiving the response of the young man almost immediately.
"Because I've lost too much to let someone like him to take it away from me, when I lived in the streets I was lost, kids my age didn't last long enough to make a friendship with them, pets were most of the same, and the vagabonds almost always wanted something from me in return for company or if they were actually nice enough they died due to some illness. Everything and everyone I had contact with I lost it, I couldn't bare it. Then I saw the batmobile and I thought I could sell parts of it, get at least a warm meal from it, but then you came and saw something in me and brought me into the Manor, from having nothing I was given a roof, a meal, a father, a brother, a family. Being in the hospital tonight was too much for me, The Joker was everything that took everyone from me, I had to stop him before he attacked someone else" Jason began sobbing as he said that, then he felt two strong arms grabbing him and hug him as tight as he had never been hug.
"I'm sorry you thought that you could lose everything, I should've work harder to stop him" Batman said as he hugged his son.
"It's not alright, when I killed him with my bare hands I had an epiphany, I realized that your morals don't mean anything if we can't protect the people close to us, you think you're better than him for your no killing rule but how many people has suffered because you didn't do the right choice and end the criminal, I don't want to continue being Robin, I don't want to do anything to do with this life if I can't protect people the only way that matter" Jason said looking at the Joker's corpse "I feel broken, I don't know who I am, and I won't know under your wing"
"What do you need?" Batman asked him, he knew how troubled Jason is, he tried his best to give him love and support so he will support him in his new path as a lone man.
"I don't know, time perhaps, I'll leave the Manor and will found myself" Jason said looking at his father in the eyes.
Batman nodded at his son, words couldn't change his mind so it was for the best to left things unsaid.
--
Jason left the Manor next day after saying goodbye to his siblings and family, he grabbed his motorcycle and his red helmet and left to discover his place in the world.
Damian was saddened by his brother leaving and Helena and Harry hugged Jason for twenty minutes not wanting for their older brother to leave.
The following months Barbara began to make her recovery, in the third month she was standing on her own and by the fifth she could be as flexible and agile as she was before the injury, she wanted to make her superhero life once again but decided to step down and gave her mantle to Stephanie who took it gladly.
--
Days later after Jason left. Dr. Fate was with Harry in the Tower of Fate for their regular classes. Fate was very interested in Harry's snake friend Copper.
"So you tell me she talks to you?" Dr. Fate asked
"Yes, no one else can speak with her, only I" Harry said with the honesty of a child
"Interesting, you speak parseltongue" Dr. Fate said
"Parsel what?" Harry asked completely confused at the use of the unknown word
"Parseltongue, the language of the snakes, it's a very rare gift but a gift nonetheless, one of the most known users was Hogwarts' founder Salazar Slytherin, but other than him not much is known, it was said that there was a community of Parseltongue speakers in India but I don't know if the rumors are true" Dr. Fate said
"Is this a bad thing? According to Sirius the Voldemort guy also spoke with snakes" Harry said worried that if he had something related to the dark wizard he could follow that dark path.
"Harry, as I said, it's a gift, what you do with your gift is something that its entirely up to you, don't let a bad reputation determine what you think" Dr. Fate said which made the boy smile brightly.
--
Damian was sad and angry about Rachel's disappearance a few weeks ago, deciding that he had waited enough he stole Dick's old Robin uniform and went to patrol the city hoping to find his friend, night and night again passed and there was not a clue about Rachel, not even her mother could tell where her daughter was.
Reaching nowhere he asked Dr. Fate to track his friend. The Golden armored doctor accepted his petition and proceed to make a tracking ritual, the Doctor chanted something into a glass sphere with his eyes shining in a pure white light. The ritual ended and Dr. Fate slumped his shoulders, he sighed and proceeded to take his helmet off returning to his form of the elderly Kent Nelson, he grabbed his cane and walked to Damian.
"I'm sorry young Damian but your friend is nowhere to be found" Kent said
"Is she dead?" The boy asked
"No, she's in a different realm" Kent explained
"But you can fetch her? You vanished Wotan a few years back to a different dimension, isn't that the same?" Damian said, his expression showed great fear and worry
"Although travel through dimensions is something I can do, I cannot enter different realms that have a god protecting it" Kent said
"Why? You're the Avatar of the God Nabu, can't you overrule another god's will?" Damian said with anger
"No, Trigon's realm is completely opposed to Nabu's, if I would to enter said realm I would be trapped in there alongside your friend" Kent said "I'm sorry" He added saddened
"Do you think she can leave that place?" Damian asked, he was often stoic and headstrong but for the first time he looked vulnerable.
"I believe that if her spirit is strong enough she'll find a way" Kent said placing a hand on the boy's shoulder.
"Thank you for trying Mr. Nelson" A very disappointed Damian said.
--
Damian spent two weeks alone in his room as he tried to found Rachel at all costs, he even contacted someone who should never be contacted. He escaped the manor once again in the stolen Robin costume and went to the selected rooftop for his meeting, he waited and waited and waited and finally after two hours the scent of cheap cigarettes flared up Damian's nostrils.
"Took you long enough" Damian said to the newly arrived.
"Chill out you spoiled brat" The man said with a thick British accent "I told you I'd be here didn't I?" The man said as he took a puff of his cigarette
"But not late, if it wasn't because I'm desperate I wouldn't have been here waiting in the cold" Damian spat in angry
"Calm your knickers kid, I'm here to save your gal" The man said. "Now do you want a cigarette?" The man asked pulling the package
"I'm ten years old Constantine I don't smoke" Damian said angry at the man's antics
"I started when I was your age mate" The blonde man responded
"Can you find her and bring her here? Dr. Fate said she was on Trigon's Realm, whatever that means" Damian said
"Ah that four eyed bastard, I can't enter there kiddo" Constantine said as he lighted up another cigarette using his silver lighter.
"WHAT?" Damian looked murderous "You made me wait for TWO HOURS ONLY TO SAY THAT YOU CAN'T SAVE HER?!?"
"I can't take her out, it's like trying to take someone out of the purgatory without Luci's permission, but I can deliver a message just so she knows that she's not alone, it sounds like a cliché but love is a powerful thing" The blonde man smugly smile at the boy wonder.
"Then send her this message" Damian said after letting out a sigh.
--
Alastor Moody wasn't an Auror for hire but given that his retirement was closing in he thought that accepting Dumbledore's task of searching for the missing Harry Potter was a good way of distracting himself, after all if he was honest with himself he was miserable on the Auror's office where he saw the youngest Aurors get all the interesting cases.
It had been years since Albus had tasked him with finding the boy-who-lived but no one in the Wizarding Britain had seen the boy, it was weird but perhaps he was looking at the wrong tree after all who would gain in keeping the most famous boy in complete silence, he decided to think outside the box and decided to go Muggle. It wasn't long until he found Lily Potter's sister living in Little Whinging, Surrey.
He decided to use a Notice-Me-Not charm on himself so to avoid any suspicion, inside the house was a slim and harpy looking woman doing house chores with a disgusted expression on her face. Watching the muggle television was a very obese kid eating different sorts of snacks and beverages, as Moody waited he thought that Harry could be in a room upstairs, clearly the house was big enough to house two kids, he climbed aboard his broom and floated to the upper level, he saw an empty room with a single bed, a guest room obviously, a room with two separate beds and pictures of the harpy woman and an obese man, and in the other two rooms were two heavily television inspired bedrooms with pictures of the fat kid, Moody didn't understand it, if Harry wasn't with his relatives magical or muggle then were the hell was he?.
--
The trio of potioners worked hard to discover the location of the Horrocrux, ever since they began working together they had finally manage to create a potion that could pin point Voldemort's Horrocrux, they had found a ring in an rundown house, it was the trio, Snape, Pandora and Andromeda as well as Dr. Fate and Etrigan the demon.
Dr. Fate step inside the rundown house and began to magically sense for traps, he deactivated and destroyed every trap and led the group to a room in which he magically levitated floorboards and took a lead box, he opened and saw a silver ring with a dark stone in it, on the center of the stone was a symbol made of a triangle, a circle and a straight line.
He felt a pulse of trying to put the ring on his finger but luckily Nabu interrupted the compulsion spell and avoided a tragedy, the God then destroyed every curse on the ring but still felt the dark magic of Voldemort's soul.
Dr. Fate was about to pass the ring to Etrigan when Pandora interrupted.
"Wait, the symbol" She said
"You know it?" Dr. Fate asked
"Yes, my husband and I are strong believers of the Deathly Hollows and I believe the stone in this ring is one of them" Pandora explained.
"If this is something that belongs to Death then I need to consult with her" Dr. Fate spoke but it wasn't his regular voice, no, it was Nabu's voice speaking through the Golden Helmet.
After a few seconds the group was transported into an abyss where they saw a strong beautiful 50ft blue skinned woman talking to a pale white man with a red stuntman outfit.
"Nabu told me about the ring you found" The woman said turning to the group, her voice was silky and sweet. "My name is Rama Kushna, goddess of karma, balance and death in this universe, if you be so kind" She said extending her enormous hands towards the group, Dr. Fate placed the ring into the palm of her hand and she directed the miniscule ring near her face.
"Yes, this is part of one of my Hollows, I gave it to Cadmus Peverell, the second of the Peverell brothers, although I can feel that dark magic has tainted my gift" She replied, even though she felt angry her voice was still sweet.
"Yes, a dark wizard made a forbidden ritual to place a part of his soul in the ring, we were going to destroy it when Nabu spoke to you" Dr. Fate said
"Well I can't let you destroy one of my gifts but I can simply separate the evil soul within and give it to you to destroy" Rama Kushna said
"We would truly appreciate it" Dr. Fate said
"Very well" She said and after making a small wave of hands they received a frozen wraith with a snake face. Etrigan didn't hesitated and destroyed the wraith with his hellfire.
"If your business here are over please retire" The goddess said
"Actually, the brother of a pupil of mine wants to bring to the Earth realm a friend of his who is trapped in Trigon's realm, can you help?" Dr. Fate asked
"I cannot do that, but I can send good karma towards her, she'll soon face a battle and she will win, then she'll be free." Rama Kushna said before making her eyes glow and the group found themselves once again in the rundown house.
"Well at least she was a beautiful and helpful goddess" Pandora said with a dreamy smile.
--
After their encounter with the Goddess, Andromeda arrived a few hours later to the Grimmauld Place House, she could hear children laughter, as she stepped through the door and saw Draco, Susan, Helena and Damian running from Harry, Reggie and Jimmy who carried water guns.
"Dora did you gave them those?" Andromeda asked her daughter who watched the whole ordeal
"Of course not mom, Mr. Wayne brought those as a gift as he left his kids." Dora said
"He didn't stayed?" She asked
"No, he said that he had business in Wayne Enterprises' subsidiary here in London" She explained "Besides uncle Sirius wanted to see his godson" She explained
"Also everything was water proof enchanted before they began to play" Sirius added as he walked downstairs
"Good evening Siri" She nodded at her cousin.
"Good evening to you too Andy, did you helped Snivelius on his task?" Sirius asked as Andromeda arrived at the Grimmauld Place house. She hated how immature her cousin could be, even when he married Amelia he still behaved like a child which made her mad.
"When are you going to stop giving him silly names? You're both adults so you should behave as your age" Andromeda said giving her cousin a glare, yes Severus is a little difficult to be around with but he was a smart potion master that knew what ingredients could help them on their mission.
"I know, I know, I need to be a "proper Lord" but it's so easy to fall back to old customs" Sirius replied.
Andromeda ignored him and proceed to go to her room where her husband Ted was waiting in a chair reading.
"Everything alright dear?" Ted asked looking up from his book.
"Yes, I just had an exhausting day" She replied before collapsing in the bed completely exhausted.
--
Hours later the entire Black family plus the Tonks and the Wayne guests sat on the table to eat the dinner the house elves did with a little help from Alfred Pennyworth. Narcissa felt an enormous joy watching her friends and family sit around eating and making small talk, she wished that everything could stay that way. She enjoyed watching her son play around with his cousins and friends and loved how he had developed a passion for Quidditch. She once thought of having another child but she discarded the idea when Draco was born and Lucius showed his true colors. She was taken out of her train of thought when Minerva stood up.
"Attention everyone, I really should be speaking about this in privately but I thought it was the right moment, as you know I'm in charge of giving the muggle born kids a tour around Diagon Alley and King's cross station, well in two weeks I'll be taking a small group with me, so I wanted for Susan, Draco and Harry to come with the group to show them the wonders of the wizarding Britain, can you do it for me?" She asked
"Of course Minerva" Amelia responded giving her consent
"Yes, but I wish to accompany Draco" Narcissa said
"Me too" Bruce said referring to Harry.
"Thank you" Minerva sat down once again next to her husband who kissed her knuckles.
--
The next morning Harry walked down the stairs and saw Susan sitting in a couch reading a book.
"What are you reading Susie Q?" Harry asked
"I'm reading Harry Potter against the harpies of evil" She said showing the cover of her book.
"And what's that about? I've heard about those but I've never read them" He said
"It's about a boy with green eyes and glasses who defeated a dark wizard when he was fifteen months old, it's based on The Boy-Who-Lived, according to the author Loy Hart the boy is the most powerful wizard who ever lived" Susan said with a smile
"Sounds impressive" Harry responded
"It totally is, you know Harry, you remind me of him, expect that your hair is not shaggy, you don't wear glasses and your eyes are not entirely green, but you're awesome nonetheless" Susan added.
"Maybe I should make that my Halloween costume" Harry joked making Susan laugh.
--
Rachel was lonely, she often looked at "her kingdom" and wishfully hoped for a way out, the only thing keeping her sane in this nightmare induced reality was that she constantly received Damian's messages, she felt happy whenever a dark butterfly and recited a sonnet or Damian's encouraging words, she wanted to see her friends again.
She was reading through an enchantments book that told her how she could imprison her father long enough for her to escape, but the problem was that she needed more magic than what she had at her disposal, but for some reason she thought that her luck was about to change.