Nicola Pines is a seemingly ordinary girl who became the ward of her father's friend, Bruce Wayne, when she was six years old. Once she opens her mouth, you best be careful what comes out, because she is not fun when she's angry.
At dusk this black-haired, hazel-eyed girl becomes The Shadow Fox, the female protégée of Batman, and the only member of that team to have a power, though it's a power she loathes and rarely uses, due to it being the fact she became an orphan.
She was the apple of her guardian's eye for three years, until he took in a boy who had lost his parents to 'a very mean man.'
After that, he had no time for her, training the boy to one day take out that man who had killed his family.
In turn, Nicola began her own training, working harder than the Grayson boy in order to build up muscle and stamina, flexibility, speed, and strength. She chose a weapon and began to perfect it, hoping that when she did, she would gain his approval.
The tonfa proved a difficult weapon to master, but she worked extremely hard, refusing to give up even when she was advised to. The bruises she received from her training worried the other ward, and he followed her one night, watching as she began her intense training regime.
When he saw her pulled the tonfa from their box and saw how practiced she was with them, he could barely constrain his applause. Instead, he hurried back to bed and pretended as if he had never seen a thing.
The next night, he brought their guardian, and when he saw how skilled she had become in a few short months, he burst into the room, shocking the poor girl into nearly dropping her tonfa. He invited her to join their mission, which she gleefully accepted, on the condition her power would only be used when, and if, absolutely necessary.
Four years have passed, and the two young wards have become close friends, forming a strong, close bond. But when the bond is tested, will it it prove truly unbreakable?
The Second Giant War was gruesome. With only 3 of the 7 left alive, they demigods of prophecy left the camps. They were unable, or maybe just unwilling, to be in the places where their friends once walked. They chose to escape the world of demigods while they still could. They wanted to try for normal so that maybe, one day, they could forget any of it ever happened.
They wanted peace and safety.
Nico... well, Nico had other ways of coping.
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Nico had had a long life. 16 years old, plus however many had passed in that cured casino had left little joy in his life. He had lost his grandparents, his mother, Bianca, his friends, and then Hazel... he missed her more than he could bare. He only knew his sister for around a year before he had lost her, and not a single day had passed in the last two years that he hadn't thought of her.
He couldn't go to either camp or the underworld without feeling like his chest would explode from the pain. He knew she was in a better place. Her and Frank were in Elysium with Jason, Piper, and the rest of the heroes that died in the wars. She was at peace. Maybe she had even managed meet his mother and they were watching him now... though he honestly hoped they weren't.
They would be disgusted by what he had become.
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Nico x Batfam (unrelated to my Demigods in Gotham series)