The Princess Diaries [Comprehensive British and American]

Adele just pretended to be asleep at first, but then she really fell asleep because of exhaustion.

In the haze, she felt that she was wrapped in a warm embrace lingering with a faint smell of gunpowder smoke. She turned her head and rubbed it to find a comfortable posture, and then her consciousness fell into a quiet abyss like lead.

This sleep was peaceful and solid, and when Adele woke up again, it was already the evening of the next day.

The night wind is mixed with crisp birdsong, blowing the leaves, and setting off a low rustling sound.The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the bed through the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and was divided into fragments by the panes.

Adele spread out her limbs, lying in the middle of the big bed like a rag doll, her head was dizzy, and it took her a while to realize how long she had slept.The flat stomach was singing, Adele struggled with hunger for a while, and finally got up slowly, almost supported by instinct, wandered to the bathroom to finish simple washing, and finally floated down with her long messy hair upstairs.

In the living room, a circle of wall lamps with a warm yellow halo is turned on, the fire in the fireplace is burning vigorously, the pine branches are crackling, and the strong scent of pine is floating.

Jason was wearing a dark red pullover, covered with a thick blanket, and was sitting on the sofa by the fireside reading a book. Hearing the sound, he buckled the book on his lap, raised his head and looked at Adele, "Finally woke up gone?"

Adele didn't go down, she leaned against the handrail of the stairs like a boneless one, holding her face in her hands, "I'm hungry."

Jason pointed to the living room, "Ah Fu left a meal for you."

"Where are the others?" Adele looked around and suddenly felt that the house had grown a little bit, but soon she realized that the reason for this thought was that the surroundings were so spacious and quiet, so it seemed bigger, " only you?"

"Who do you want to see?" Jason asked casually.

Bruce went to clean up the aftermath, Brudhaven had something to do, Dick was called back to work by his partner in the police station, Tim had a meeting with his subordinates in Wayn Tower until it was dark, Damian was still out of school...

"So you're the only one left." Adele stood up straight with the handrail, and swayed awkwardly down the stairs like a little penguin.

"No," Jason turned the pages of the book, lowered his head and continued to read, "it's because someone is holding me back."

Jason tactfully expressed that he didn't take the initiative to stay... But who cares about this, Adele didn't hear the meaning behind his words at all, she walked to the first floor, turned a corner and went to the kitchen, her innocent voice was heard far away Come on, "Can you take your clothes off?"

Jason: "..." How can I answer this!

Now that Adele is fine, able to sleep, eat, and piss people off, Jason thinks it's time to leave, and if he stays any longer, it's hard to guarantee that the little troublemaker won't say anything to make him angry.

"Don't!" Adele grabbed Jason's clothes, "I'm the only one left after you leave here!"

In the past, Adele didn't feel how uncomfortable being alone was. She could talk to small animals, chat about all kinds of experiences and legends, and she would be very happy to sit for a whole day.

But now...

"I still have something to do," Jason said helplessly, "I have work to do."

For example, black eats black, no, it's night patrol.

"Take me with you," Adele blinked obediently, "I can help—"

Jason refused sternly, "No, you can't go out now."

Adele frowned, "Why?"

Jason raised his finger and tapped Adele's chest in the air, "Because of the golden apple."

Ares has knocked on the door to grab the golden apple, and half of Wayne Manor has been destroyed. According to Batman's usual behavior, Adele can't even think about sneaking out to play until this big trouble is solved.

It was like typing a keyword in the search box of an old computer. When she heard the word "golden apple", Adele was stunned for a moment, and then felt a surging turbulence in the depths of her brain. The summary of the "Golden Apple" information was pushed to her in one go.

The moment of data overload was no less than a small explosion in the brain. Adele let out a cry of pain, put her head in her hands, and knocked her forehead on the table, making a muffled "boom".

Jason: "Why are you kowtow to me?"

"I... feel bad." Adele stammered, "Don't... speak so loudly!"

Jason: "..." Did I just say something?Not too loud?

Fortunately, the uncomfortable feeling came and went quickly. After enduring the fleeting pain, Adele let out a breath, supported the edge of the table with both hands, slowly straightened her upper body, and leaned back into the back of the chair.

A light layer of water vapor floated on her icy blue eyes, like a quiet lake suddenly shrouded in mist, and the expression on her face changed back and forth like a revolving lantern, making it impossible to understand what she was thinking, and even a little suspicious Is she out of touch.

The sealed memories still exist in the depths of my mind, but they need to be triggered after a certain time with specific keywords.

For example, mentioning the "golden apple" after fighting Ares.

Adele has already remembered the meaning of the golden apple, and after a little association, she can understand why Ares wanted to find her, and she also understands that her mother sent her away from Olympus, and that Bara tossed a bunch of "gifts" for her. her real purpose.

The little girl raised her hand, and her warm palm was slowly pressed against the curve of her chest through the soft silk nightdress.

Something was beating under the chest, full of force.

It is her heart, the hub of life in this human body, and one of the sources of her divine power.

Created her, but dragged her to the abyss of destruction all the time.

Adele suddenly had a strange feeling. She thought of the cute dolls that Tom took her shopping and saw lying on the shelves in the toy store not long ago.

The saleswoman approached Tim with a blushing face, and introduced the functions of the doll to him in a soft voice—the eyes are movable, they can blink when shaken, they can talk and sing after the battery is installed, and they can tell the time after setting the time .

Tim wasn't interested in the dolls at all, it was Adele who kept looking up, thinking she wanted it, stopped to listen, and ended up buying two to take home.

But Adele didn't want it, she just thought of Diana inexplicably.

Wonder Woman is a villain made of clay, who was born after infusing her soul.

Now Adele knows, and so does she herself.

If there were no golden apples, she would be no different from the dolls on the shelf.

Some messy thoughts rose from the bottom of her heart, circling back and forth in Adele's mind.

She had never thought deeply about these issues before, but now they were like huge black letters on white paper, which she had to see and pay attention to.

Although my mother was a goddess of love, I might not really understand those emotions, Adele thought blankly.

If she understood, she wouldn't be so contemptuous and wantonly asking others to recite love poems to her and praise her beauty...even if it was to save her life.

If he understood, he wouldn't have asked Bruce that stupid question - why did you save me.

【Hehehe...you don't have a soul in the first place, it's all thanks to me that you can walk and talk like a human being...don't thank me...】

The laughter came from far and near, from small to loud, echoing intermittently in Adele's mind, like the whisper of the devil.

【...Do you want Ares to eat you?If he gets me, you are finished... Don't resist, let me hug you, we will destroy him... I feel another golden apple is nearby...]

Adele pressed her temple with one hand, frowning slightly.

【Aphrodite can only seal me once, and now the seal is about to be undone, you will be completely mine...you are mine...】

[I am not yours,] Adele tried to communicate with the devil for the first time, her voice was cold, [I am myself. 】

【You can already hear my voice, very good...】 The devil laughed, 【I look forward to you growing up...】

Jason approached Adele vigilantly and cautiously. He took out the phone from his pocket with one hand, called up the communication interface, and was ready to contact Dick at any time. He stretched out his other hand in front of Adele and raised a Finger, "How many is this?"

The devil's bewitchment disappeared, and Adele's reaction was half a beat slow, but her eyes full of confusion finally regained clarity. She frowned slightly, and pushed Jason's hand away like a kitten jumping a ball, and said with some disgust :"one!"

Jason retracted his wrist nimbly to avoid Adele's attack, then he patiently stretched out two fingers and shook them, "How much is this?"

Adele: "..."

The little girl slapped fiercely this time, the sound was clear and clear, and the reverberation echoed, "Two!"

Jason saw that he teased the cat secretly a lot. He knew when to dodge and when to get hit on purpose, so as to appease the cat's restless and dissatisfied heart, and successfully obtained the right to continue teasing.

He glanced at the reddish mark on the back of his hand, raised three fingers, and planned to do it again, "This is—"

"What are you doing?" Damian walked into the living room covered in cold wind. He glanced at Adele, who was about to climb up the dining table, and Jason, who was leaning back with his hands raised, and sneered unceremoniously said, "Where are you teasing the cat?"

"Yeah," Jason said seriously, "he even bit me."

Adele: "...you are too much!"

This anger came for no reason, but Adele was very unhappy, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she became.

Hearing the sound of "biu", Adele turned into a snow-white, chubby long-tailed tit, she was angry again, so it became even rounder, and the little black bean eyes glared at Jason angrily, It spread its fan-like wings, dragged its fluffy spherical body, swayed up and down and flew to the ceiling, stopped on the crystal chandelier, and squatted motionless.

Jason: "..."

Damian: "..."

"Why are you bullying her?" Jason preempted, he "tsk" and stared at Damian reproachfully, "Look at what you did."

Damian was stunned at first, and then frowned like a hedgehog who was blown messy in the wind after driving a convertible sports car on the highway, "Todd, tell me clearly! Who is bullying her! I didn't tease her!"

"It's you anyway."

"How are you!"

"you!"

"..."

When Tim walked in the door in a trance, just wanting to lie down on the comfortable soft sofa and have a good sleep, what he saw was not the clean, tidy and comfortable home he imagined, but a living room that looked like it had been visited by robbers , as well as Damian and Jason, who occupy the two remaining intact sofas at the east and west ends of the living room, guarding each other.

Tim: "..." I entered the door in the wrong way, and I'll do it again when I go out.

Damian and Jason watched Tim wander out of the living room, and then slowly came in again.

The view of the living room remained the same, but the light in Tim's eyes went out, leaving only a dead silence.

"Drake, what are you doing?" Damian frowned, "Stupid?"

"I also want to ask what you guys did," Tim crossed his arms and leaned against the hanger with a lifeless look, "The living room didn't die in the hands of Ares, but was torn apart by you .”

Damian was inexplicably guilty. He held the Taidao tightly in his arms, trying to calm himself down, "It's just a casual exchange."

Jason lazily raised his hands and showed Tim the palms and backs of his hands, saying that he was harmless without a weapon, "I was just defending myself, defending and counterattacking, and protecting myself."

Damian casually grabbed the wreckage of something and threw it at Jason, "I have the ability to show those two guns under your ass!"

Jason tilted his head to avoid the hidden weapon attack, and he said confidently, "I don't have a gun."

Tim's head was getting bigger, his neck was thrown back, and he stared blankly at the roof for a while, then suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Did I get dazzled," Tim asked, "I saw a bird squatting on the chandelier, with its ass facing me, and it was chubby and cute."

Jason and Damian: "..."

Ah, bad, forget about Adele.

Also, Timothy Drake, if you dare to say that he is fat, you are finished.

"No dizziness," Jason said coolly, "That's Adele, your dear sister."

Tim rubbed his neck, and took two steps under the chandelier, "It's as if she's not your sister anymore...Wait a minute, who do you think is that?"

"You little troublemaker," Damian said.Perhaps because Adele is still in the bird ball state, Damian's tone is surprisingly gentle, "She was so angry by Todd that she turned into a bird and flew up, and she didn't move for a long time."

"You're obviously the one who made her angry," Jason's mouth twitched, "Don't try to blame her."

"I think it's up to you two to stop throwing blame," Tim said angrily, "smash up the living room, and make Adele mad like that..."

And then Tim didn't say anything, he just dragged out his voice meaningfully, and everything was kept silent.

Jason and Damian looked at each other across the living room, and decided to run away before Alfred and Bruce came back to avoid the limelight.

"Don't even think about leaving!" Tim nimbly did a backflip and accurately blocked the door. He pushed his hands on the door and smiled slightly, "You are already mature adults, you must learn to take responsibility."

Besides, if I let you go, I will be the one who is unlucky.

"Nonsense," Damian blinked and puffed up his cheeks, "I'm still a kid, it's written on my social security card."

The smart Robin can bend and stretch, and people must learn to bow to reality.

Tim felt aggrieved that he almost choked to death.

Are you a child now?He thought indifferently, there is no child with such a high lethality as you!

Jason threatened in a broken jar: "Either wait to be beaten up by me and the devil boy, or go together, anyway, don't want me to stay and meddle in your family's mess."

Tim: "...you're right!"

Just go, this is just a strategic retreat!but……

Tim's eyes slipped to Adele hanging from the chandelier, "What about her?"

As a surveillance freak, Tim also agrees with Bruce's decision. It's better for Adele to stay at home honestly.But all the brothers left, leaving her alone seemed very unkind.

Jason waved his hand, "Either leave it alone, or pack it up and take it away, but please decide as soon as possible."

Tim: "Why didn't you decide! I choose to go by myself."

Damian: "Let's go then."

The three looked at each other, and after a while, Jason dug out a barely usable chair from the ruins all over the floor, placed it under the chandelier, and stepped on it.

Tim took the initiative to support the chair, and he motioned Damian with his eyes to come and help him.

Damian's eyes drifted to the ceiling, and the meaning was obvious - he wanted to play with the bird, not help the chair.

Tim curled his lips and whispered, "You kick him down..."

Jason said menacingly, "I heard you."

Damian: "...cut."

Jason was tall and had long legs. After standing up straight on the chair, his eyes were just level with the edge of the chandelier, and he saw Adele Chiu at a glance.

The round white bird turned its back to the outside, its head buried under its wings, its chubby body sunken into a twisted position.

She could hear the movement below clearly, and she also sensed when Jason approached, but she just shook her fur and didn't even bark, pretending that she was an emotionless statue.

Jason stretched out his fingers and tentatively touched the fluff floating on the top of Adele Jiu's head. It was slippery and soft, and it felt quite good.

Adele frowned, she pulled her head out, puffed up her chest, turned around, flapped her wings and condemned Jason loudly: "Jiu Jiu!"

Jason shrugged regretfully: "Can you speak human language? I can't understand bird language."

"I can understand!" Damian messed up below, "She's scolding you."

"Shut up." Jason kicked based on feeling, but of course he failed to kick Damian. He took a deep breath and coaxed in the gentlest tone of his life, "Come on, take you out to play."

Adele Jiu tilted her head and shamelessly acted cute, "Chirp?"

"Stop chirping," Jason grabbed the jumping hairball and jumped off the chair, "Let's go, let's go."

If it is delayed any longer, someone will come back, whether it is Alfred or Bruce, the result will be very tragic... If it is Dick, kidnap him together.

Bird Qiuqiu felt very uncomfortable being held, she twisted restlessly, her small mouth kept pecking at Jason's tiger's mouth, it didn't hurt, but the itching was also very uncomfortable.

"Don't move around," Jason stuffed Adele into his pocket, "It doesn't matter to me if my hair falls off after a while."

Are you a devil?Damian cast a condemning look at Jason, "Can't you be nice to her?"

Tim yelled, "The sun is coming out of the west!"

The three rushed to the door noisily. Before Damian, who ran at the front, could touch the doorknob, the door was suddenly pushed open, and Bruce, who looked tired in a suit and leather shoes, walked in front of him.

Jason & Tim & Damian: "..." It's over!

Bruce: "..."

"Stop." Bruce's voice sank, "Where are you going?"

Tim was as obedient as a quail, and he didn't say a word. Anyway, everyone died together, no one could run away, and he didn't have to struggle.

Damian's eyes rolled around, thinking about how to escape. Escaping from Batman has always been one of his stage goals. Regardless of today's little trouble, he is keen to challenge his father's authority.

Jason is tempted to say out loud what it's about you, but considering he just teamed up with the devil bastards and smashed up the living room not long ago... just be honest.

Bruce seemed to have just returned from the Fortress of Solitude, and his whole body was covered with the breath of the blizzard blowing from the Arctic. His eyes seemed to have been soaked in ice springs, and everyone was shivering with cold.

"What's going on." Bruce looked around and saw the ruined living room, he didn't get angry, he didn't even show the slightest sign of anger, he just asked calmly.

No one dared to say anything.

Don't look at Red Hood & Red Robin & Robin's bullying outside, making the criminals in Gotham City frightened, once they meet Batman... Hehe.

"They got into a fight and it woke me up."

A soft, sleepy voice sounded, and Adele, who was wearing a silk nightgown and slippers, walked to the stairs on the second floor. She lay down on the railing and looked down at the old father and Brothers and brothers, said in a daze while rubbing his eyes.

Damian's eyes widened, Tim slowly opened his mouth wide, Jason's hand in his pocket tightened suddenly, and he felt the fluffy bird ball still twisting back and forth against the back of his hand.

Aren't you squatting on the chandelier and closing yourself off!Are you angry?When did you go back upstairs again!

What is that bird!

The birdball struggled to get out of Jason's pocket. She flapped her wings, first jumped onto Jason's arm, then jumped all the way up his shoulders, on top of his head, and finally "swiped" and flew towards Adele. It landed on her outstretched fingertips, and she chirped and chirped obediently.

Adele gently rubbed the bird's wings, she showed a dazed and innocent expression, "What's wrong? Look at me."

Damian swore he could see a hint of schadenfreude in Adele's face.

Tim swears that the corners of Adele's mouth curled up slightly to laugh at them.

Jason swears... what swears, Adele is a little liar!

"Clean up the living room," Bruce ordered in an uncompromising tone, "Ah Fu will be home in half an hour..."

If the living room still looks like this when Ah Fu comes back, you just wait for the end.

After finishing speaking, Bruce put the coat he took off on the hanger, and went directly upstairs, expressing that he wanted to talk to Adele about something.

Adele put the birdie ball on her head and obediently followed behind her old father.

Before entering the corridor, Adele cast a meaningful look at her brothers and sisters.

Tim said to Jason heartbroken: "Look, you taught me badly! She wasn't like this before!"

"Wake up, she's always been like this." Jason said blankly.

Damian contacted a housekeeping team to clean up the house, "Stop rambling, let's think of a remedy!"

It's not terrible that the living room is destroyed, what's terrible is the critical education after Batman...

The three brothers looked at each other, took out their mobile phones at the same time, and started texting and calling Dick frantically.

There is only one ultimate goal - come back soon!I can't bear it alone!

Bruce chose the study as the place for the conversation.

After pouring Adele a cup of hot coffee, Bruce sat down opposite her and asked, "The test results are all right, how do you feel?"

The bird ball above Adele's head flew down curiously and landed on the edge of the coffee cup. She bent down with difficulty, trying to peck the coffee for a taste.

"I..." Adele could feel Bruce looking at her, her eyes wandered around, and finally landed on the naughty bird ball, her tone was slightly hesitant.

Jason said that if she really had something to say, she would say it clearly so that she would not make fun of her own life, but at this moment, Adele suddenly didn't want to say it clearly, and an unknown emotion prevented her from speaking.

She didn't know what it was.

Bruce didn't urge him, he just looked at Adele patiently and calmly, giving her silent encouragement.

The wall clock was ticking, and when the second hand made a full circle, Adele let out a breath and said softly, "I can hear strange voices bewitching me."

Blessingly, Adele realized what the unknown emotion was holding her back—she didn't want her father to worry.

Bruce didn't seem to notice Adele's subtle psychology, he asked, "Strange voice?"

"Yes, it should be a golden apple." Adele propped her forehead with one hand and lowered her eyelashes, "It said that the seal is about to be released, so I don't want to resist it, accept it, and... go swallow another one." Golden apples."

Bruce's eyes flickered, "Aris's."

"The golden apple is the reward of the god's trial, and Ares should have one too," Adele couldn't remember this, but she could speculate, "He didn't eat it, but threw it into the world."

The golden apple will automatically find a host, and at the same time, like a devil, bewitches and tempts other human beings who are tempted to fight wantonly for it, provoking one tragic melee after another.

Ares is in charge of war and violence among the Twelve Gods of Olympus. The more turbulent he is, the more power he can draw, and the body will become stronger.

Wonder Woman has been chasing Ares since she fought with Ares many years ago, but with little success.Ares is too cunning, relying on the golden apple, he can reap the benefits of the fisherman without showing his face.

Bruce didn't express any opinion on Ares' matter. His focus was on Adele. Since Adele already knew about the Golden Apple, Aphrodite sent her to find him...

"It's basically clear," Adele smiled. "Mum has spent a lot of time, but unfortunately it has no effect so far, and I myself...can't be interested."

Aphrodite racked her brains to induce Adele to experience emotions, using all bad ideas and good ones, and Adele was like a stone who didn't understand.

Bruce thought that wasn't necessarily the case.

"Are you scared?" Bruce asked suddenly.

Aphrodite can only seal the golden apple once. After the seal is released, before Adele reaches adulthood, if she cannot grow a heart of her own, there will only be one result.

Adele shook her head. She has no fear of death, just like her view of love is only a half-knowledge from various stories.

but……

"Maybe it's a pity," Adele quickly helped the soaked birdball that almost fell into the coffee cup, and she said in a voice that only she could hear, "After all, you are so good. "

Before leaving Olympus, Adele thought that the sky would always be blue above her head, and the ocean would always be gentle and inclusive surrounding the mountains.

Athena told her the story of the Trojan War, Apollo told her his love for Daphne who turned into a laurel tree, Artemis occasionally complained about Aphrodite's unreliability, and when Hera quarreled with Zeus, she Hiding under a chair and yawning...

But the stories you hear are always what you hear. Only when you leave the unchanging scenery and really go out for a stroll, can you see the cloudy sky and the rough ocean with your own eyes.

And after seeing the colorful world, who would be willing to leave?

Shut down, please leave a message if you need anything.

——"Smart Dick"