To Marry a Vigilante

Part 21

To Marry a Vigilante: Part 21

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"Can we please focus?" Bruce asked in his tired voice that he used when one of his kids did something not-illegal but close.

"Okay. So... In the chamber, apart from the symbols, there was something else written on the arc. 'eques caliginosus'."

"The Dark Knight." Bruce translated.

"And part of the Wayne Family Crest." Tim finished. "Now, initially, I found it strange that someone would put it over something that looks rather old. Until..." he made a dramatic pause.

"What's going on here?" Chloé and Cass walked down the stairs, both seemed rather tired. The blonde glared at the detective Robin. "You playing Velma again?"

"I take offense in that." He muttered.

"And I don't care. Fine. Carry on then." She took her seat next to Marinette and Damian. Cass jumped on the table behind them and also sat down, without any words.

"As I was saying..." He grumbled. "Then I remembered what you told me about Brother Malleus. It rang a bell and I checked over the family records. Turns out Malleus was in fact a Wayne! In fact, it was an alias used by Nathaniel Wayne, the first member of the family that arrived in what would become Gotham. He was an accomplished witch-hunter. Most of the tales about him were dismissed as legends. That is until I compared the original records with the Chronicle you saved from the library."

"Let me guess... they were all akumas?"

"All but one. Amity Arkham. She was the only woman he burned even though she wasn't an Akuma. I couldn't find any journals of his, which is strange since all other Waynes kept some..."

"You think they were in the stolen box?" Bruce asked.

"It's one possibility, but maybe there is something else. I think whatever it was, it's directly connected with the symbols and the chamber under the Academy."

"But what could he be hiding there?"

"That's what I've been trying to figure out, but no luck so far. We do know that the symbols and the chamber are connected. It's a form of magic. There is one missing piece though. One that could tell us everything."

"Don't keep us waiting, Sally," Chloé muttered.

"Where did that one come from?" Marinette asked, curiously.

"I lowkey ran out of good books, so I'm going through TV shows now." The blonde explained with a bit of mischief in her eyes.

"You know you're irritating?"

"That's the point." Chloé dismissed him.

"Whatever. Alan Wayne, Nathaniel's son, wrote in his journal about 'Book of Old Gotham'. It was supposed to be the answer to the calamity that plagued Gotham."

"Hm... Is it possible he referred to Silverlock?" Bruce asked

"I don't think so. It's more likely he spoke about some curse placed over the town." Tim countered. "At least there was no mention of the calamity ever being a person. It was treated more like... like a curse or a disease..."

"Hm..." Bruce drifted off, thinking about something.

"Do we know where that Book of Old Gotham is?"

"No." The young detective shook his head. "That's the thing. It's been missing for at least a century. It's supposed to be a chronicle of times when Gotham was just a colonial settlement."