The Hidden Reward and the Girl from Hell
Damian returned to his quarters in the Watchtower, closing the door behind him.
The moment he sat down—
DING.
A translucent blue hologram appeared.
SYSTEM REWARD UNLOCKED —
HIDDEN MISSION COMPLETE.
You have successfully delivered Ebony & Ivory to Jason Todd
after his identity reveal to Batman.
Hidden Reward Issued:
▶ Gura Gura no Mi (Tremor-Tremor Fruit)
▶ Modified: No seawater weakness. No drowning curse.
Warning:
User already possesses a Devil Fruit ability.
Consuming a second Devil Fruit will be fatal.
Directive:
This fruit must be given to another individual you trust completely.
Damian froze.
His breath caught in his throat.
The screen rippled, showing the iconic white, pear-shaped fruit
swirling with quake-patterns.
Damian (whispering):
"The… Gura Gura no Mi…"
Whitebeard's power.
The power that could crack the air.
Split oceans.
Destroy continents.
A fruit so feared it was said to be able to end the world.
And now it sat in his personal dimensional storage—
hovering silently, pulsing like a sleeping dragon.
Damian exhaled slowly.
Damian:
"I can't eat it.
But someone… someone could."
He thought of options.
Jonathan Kent?
No—Clark would never allow it.
A member of the Bat-Family?
Too dangerous.
A Titan?
Maybe.
Someday.
But right now?
He trusted no one enough to hand over the power to destroy the planet.
Damian closed the portal.
Damian:
"I'll hide it.
And later… I'll tell Father there might be a Devil Fruit somewhere on Earth.
Not what kind.
Not where.
Just a possibility."
A half-truth.
A shield.
A way to buy time.
He stood.
He needed air.
Gotham City — Midnight
Toothless glided silently over the rooftops as Damian rode atop him.
The city below glowed with dirty orange streetlights and neon haze.
Damian stroked Toothless' neck absent-mindedly.
Damian:
"The strongest Paramecia…
If the world finds out, it will go insane."
Toothless hummed in agreement.
Then—
A ripple.
Not in the air.
Not in matter.
In reality.
Toothless stopped mid-flight, wings stiffening.
Damian's senses sharpened instantly.
A dark circle, like a crack in space, opened on a rooftop below.
From it stepped a girl with violet hair, a dark cloak, and glowing amethyst eyes.
Raven.
Half-demon.
Daughter of Trigon.
Empath.
Mage.
Her gaze rose directly to Damian—
as though she had been waiting.
Damian landed silently before her.
Damian:
"Raven."
Raven:
"Damian."
Neither spoke for a moment.
Then she tilted her head, her eyes glowing brighter.
Raven:
"Someone in Hell is talking about you."
Damian blinked.
Damian:
"…What?"
Raven stepped forward, voice low and steady.
Raven:
"A demon lord.
Actually—multiple.
Doomsday's death… the fire pillar you created…
It caused a shockwave down there."
Her eyes narrowed.
Raven:
"And the name they whisper now is yours."
Damian's pulse slowed.
Not fear.
Calculation.
Damian:
"What did they say exactly?"
Raven's cloak fluttered in an unfelt wind.
Raven:
"That the 'Fire Child' has awakened."
"That a human boy disabled an evolution that came from Hell."
"That your flames burned through the dimensional veil."
She paused.
"And that some of them… want to claim you."
Toothless growled.
Damian's expression sharpened into something cold.
Damian:
"Let them try."
Raven didn't smile.
But her voice softened.
Raven:
"That's why I came.
You're attracting attention from places even the Justice League can't fight."
Her eyes glowed brighter.
Raven:
"And I felt something else around you. Something… dangerous.
A power inside your space.
Sleeping.
Massive."
She lowered her voice.
"Damian. What did you find?"
Damian's heart skipped.
She sensed the Gura Gura no Mi.
But she didn't know what it was.
He folded his arms.
Damian:
"Something I can't talk about.
Not yet."
Raven studied him, then nodded.
Raven:
"You're terrified of it.
And you should be."
A long silence.
Raven's cloak fluttered again.
Raven:
"Darkseid is moving.
Hell is whispering.
And the multiverse is… watching you."
Damian looked up at the sky.
Then at Gotham.
Then at Raven.
Damian:
"Good.
Let them watch."
Raven's eyes widened slightly—
not in fear,
but in respect.
Raven:
"…You're going to need allies."
Damian smirked.
Damian:
"I already have one."
Raven blinked.
Toothless purred smugly behind him.
Raven sighed.
Raven:
"…Fine. Two."
She stepped closer.
Her voice a whisper.
Raven:
"Be careful, Damian.
Because whatever you awakened…
It woke something in Hell, too."
And in a swirl of shadows—
Raven vanished.