Water Bender of DC

-{ New Location }-

-[ Bat Cave, Gotham City ]-{ Tonraq }-

Batman ended up leading me to the zeta tube after we left the room, which ended up taking us to his cave. Once we got to the center a boy appeared, maybe about 12, he quickly greeted Batman before slipped by him and walked right up to me. He seemed to be asking a lot of questions, but words still weren't quite registering all the way, and soon the boy looked back over his shoulder to Batman, so I looked up as well. The two them seemed to have started talking about something, but at this point I've just given up on trying to make sense of them for the moment. However, in the middle of their conversation I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye, so I took a step between the source and the boy, who I think is Robin– if Koda's memory is correct. When I took a closer look at the person, I saw that he was an older man in simple yet nice dress.

'Alfred' More memories from Koda supplied as I continued to keep an eye on him. After a couple minutes, a  bit of motion drew some of my attention back to Batman, the other two looked a bit shocked at the result, and I however look completely unfazed. Why? You might ask? Well, because Batman took off his cowl, no hesitation, then he walked right up to Alfred, they exchanged a few words, then motioned for me to follow him. And so with a whole lot of hesitation I followed Alfred.

While walking I observed my surroundings and stayed at the same distance from Alfred as I did Batman when I first started to trail him. And pretty soon Alfred stopped at one of the rooms up stairs in the manner, which he entered while leaving the door open, and I followed after a couple of seconds. When I stepped in I saw Alfred walk around the room fixing a few things in the room, and as he did I made sure to keep the distance while staying out of his way before he went back to the door, gave a slight bow then left while closing the door behind himself.

'I guess I'm supposed to stay inside the room this time.' I thought to myself as I looked around the room, being careful not to touch or move anything. When I finished looking around I felt the adrenaline from earlier wear off, as a wave of exhaustion ran through me. So I looked around, picked a spot on a soft looking rug, and took my coat off, but when I did that I felt an uncomfortable yet all to familiar tug at my arm. And sure enough when I looked at it I saw a developing bruise where Wonder Woman had grabbed me earlier, but seeing as I couldn't do anything about right now I laid my coat on the rug, laid down on it, got comfortable, and after a bit of time I let myself fall asleep.

-{ Batman }-

'So that was the reason he was so confused and surprised when I freely gave him the water, then just left him alone with it.' I thought to myself as I changed back into my regular clothes. When I finished changing I decided to walk down the halls to check on the kid while thinking about what happened before we left the tower.

'It's obvious he's had a lot of training. His first instinct was to incapacitate or create enough of a distraction to create distance between himself and his opponent. When that failed, he targeted weak points in the body he could confidently reach so he could get away, which in any normal situation would have worked and may have resulted in something being cracked or broken. But he also had that last resort of going for the nerves in the arm, which he knew would definitely work.' I let my thoughts go on a bit longer, but eventually I made it to the room Alfred put the kid in. When I looked in to check on him I didn't immediately see him, but as I looked further into the room I found that he had fallen asleep on the floor. And he seemed to be comfortable laying on the combination of the softer rug and his coat, so I let him be for the night, and I also didn't feel like dealing with a possible injury or having a dead arm for a few hours.

"Master Bruce, I do believe you have an explanation for our guest?" Alfred asked as I walked into my office seeing both him and Dick now waiting for an explanation.

"He showed up in the middle of the Atlantic where Aquaman found him. We took him up to the tower where he recovered some. When he woke up he showed signs of abuse, some neglect, and extreme training." I explained some as I took a seat at my desk.

"A usual recipe for a child soldier." Alfred summed up, as Dick took in the situation.

"Yes, so far he's shown to have issues with trusting adults, he's good at reading people, and he seemed to have the most trust in me by the time we had to leave." I continued the explanation and waited for their reaction.

"So, are we going to help him recover and adjust to his new surroundings?" Dick asked after he took in everything.

"Well, for the time being, you'll be helping him get used to the manner since you're the only one that can interact with him directly." I assessed and explained to the two, and that seemed to be the end of it as Alfred went to leave.

"It seems that I will need to make a few adjustments to accommodate our guest, but for now I will get him something to eat." He explained his leaving but I had to stop him.

"Not right now Alfred, he's asleep. Last time someone tried to wake him it resulted in a panic, and a dead arm that's gonna last a few hours." I explained and he left it alone deciding to take care of it in the morning. After he left I told Dick to go to bed, and I followed soon after.

-[ Water tribe, South Pole ]-

After a rough day of training a ten year old, Tonraq, laid down waiting for sleep to claim him, but movement made him open his eyes again. When he found the source of the movement he sat up and gave a gentle smile to his eight year old brother, Unalaq, who sat in front of him with a wide smile spread across his face.

"Tonraq, I made something for you!" He announced with excitement, but still remained really quiet as to not draw the attention of their father.

"Close your eyes and hold out your hands." He instructed and Tonraq followed while chuckling a little bit, and soon he felt something solid be placed in his hands.

"Now open!" Unalaq said excitedly. Tonraq then opened his eyes and looked down to see a necklace made of ivory with a blue stone in the center and two k9 like teeth framing it, from there it had two more stones that were more teal and framed the teeth and joined the center to the rest of the ivory that made up the necklace.

"Thank you, Unalaq, the best little brother anyone could ask for." Tonraq thanked his brother as he brought Unalaq into a hug.

"Wanna help me put it on?" Tonraq asked as his arms and shoulders were still sore.

"Yeah!" Unalaq answered happily and put the necklace on Tonraq.

"Thank you again, Unalaq. Now go to sleep, before we get in trouble." Tonraq said as he wrapped his brother into a hug and laid back down, and the two brothers went to sleep.