Once I blazed across the sky,

Leaving trails of flame;

I fell to earth,

and here I lie-Who'll help me up again?

- A shooting Star

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Happy Harbor's friendly neighborhood bank!" The sign practically screamed as I read the text on the billboard. The billboard was located directly above the largest bank in the city, practically begging people to rob the place. I hated banks, but the bank's roof offered good places to hide and recover from injuries.

If I don't die from frostbite first. The temperature had ranged from 10-30 degrees fareinheit. It was better than the last city I had stayed at, it had actually snowed there. For the past three days I had been forced to hitchhike and walk in order to get to Gotham. Happy Harbor was merely a rest stop on my journey. I could always talk to the heroes that patrol Happy Harbor. No, with my luck they would be working for the enemy and would try to capture me. Or think I was an orphaned girl who ran way. I needed to find Batman.

The sound of soft footsteps below me distracted me from my paranoid thoughts. I slowly looked over the edge of the roof and saw a shadow enter the building I was on. What is going on? Two more shadows followed the first at a safe distance. Probably a robbery, I should move, but I'm so tired and it hurts whenever I do anything. I stumbled over to the billboard and leaned on it, exhausted from that small effort. It had been about 5 minutes since the shadows had entered the building, making me doubtful that the police would come.

The concrete below her began to rumble and shake. What in the world- I was thrown to the edge of the roof as a man burst through the patch of concrete I had been standing on. He wore a sumo wrestler mask, and had tubes attached to his body. Something followed him through the hole, a tan clay-like thing that seemed to change its shape to suit its needs. Okay, I should have moved. So that's clayface and some sumo wrestler guy. Wait, why are they running?

My question was answered when a green skinned girl flew through the hole. She was followed by teenaged boy wearing a superman themed shirt, an archer, a man with glowing tattoos, and a kid that moved faster than normal. No, not them! I scrambled for my pair of stolen sunglasses and shoved them on my face. There was nothing I could do to disguise my ill-fitting hoody and ragged shorts.

"Do you really think you can stop me?" Mr. Sumo wrestler laughed.

"Bane, this is pointless, surrender" The archer said.

Someone began to cackle, I nervously began to look around. It sounded so familiar, but I couldn't place it. A loud crack echoed around me as a small figure slammed his feet into the side of Bane's head. Clayface roared and rushed toward the group of teenagers, forming his hands into hammers. The archer girl calmly shot an electrified arrow towards the monster. He turned into dust as Bane slammed onto the ground beside the team, unconscious,

"Souvenir!" The kid in yellow shot forward and grabbed Bane's mask.

Time to go. I began to run towards the edge of the roof, but tripped over a small piece of concrete. Crap! A sharp piece of metal had stabbed me when the roof had exploded beneath, and I was paying for it through blood loss.

"Hey," The yellow guy ran over to her, seemingly trying to help me.

"You should get away from me," I snarled as I backed towards the edge of the roof.

"Please, we are not going to hurt you, but we need to know who you are," the man with the tattoos walked towards me.

"As if," I scoffed. I hope I have enough strength for this. I closed my eyes and began to focus. Soon, my hand and the space around it began to glow a golden color. The golden particles swirled and collapsed to form a golden sword with a long blade. "I'll say it again, get away from me."

Tattoos narrowed his eyes and pulled out to handle-like things. They formed 2 blue swords as he settled into a defensive stance. Everything seemed to stand still as she stared at the team. They were in both offensive and defensive stances, depending on the person. The smallest was hidden in the shadows as he let out a soft cackle. I slowly raised my sword, acting like I was going to attack.

"Geronimo!"

I did a neat back flip off the edge of the building (kicking the yellow teen in the face, which knocked him out) and onto the fire escape below. I quickly dropped to the ground below and began to run, hoping they wouldn't follow. A quick glance behind me showed that I wasn't that lucky. The teen in the superman shirt- isn't he called Superboy?- was leaping towards me. The green girl flew along side him, just ahead of the others.

I jumped the fence surrounding a demolition site. Oh god, it hurts so much. My broken ribs were on fire. Half of the building was already demolished, leaving mounds of concrete everywhere. I ran towards the largest mound, perhaps I could make my stand there. I flipped onto the large slabs that jutted out from the pile, using them as my personal staircase to the top of the mound. My feet slid out from under me as I jumped to the slab at the top of the pile.

"Ah! Holy unlucky day, Batman," I screeched when I caught the edge of the slab.

"Hold on, we'll help you!" The green girl called.

I let out a small sob and shakily pulled myself over the slab's edge. I had allowed my sword to disintegrate on the run to the construction site, but now I reformed it. Why can't this end? I backed up to the center of the mound. Superboy and the others had reached the edge of the pile and seemed to be forming a strategy. Where's the smallest one?

"What's with the glowing sword?" Soft footfalls announced the arrival of the missing team member.

"Who are you? Why can't you leave me be?" I ignored his questions in favor of my own. I know that voice.

"My name is Robin and you attacked us!" He stepped closer to her, but his face was shrouded in shadows.

How did I not realize that was Robin?

"I'm not going to harm anyone, I just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I- I'm just so tired of hiding everywhere I go. Why can't this- this Hell end? Screw finding the idiot in a bat suit, I might as well just jump," My voice trailed off and I shivered violently. I took up an offensive stance. "Please, just leave me alone!"

Robin took a step closer to me. "We can help you. I'm Batman's protege, I can talk to him," his voice had become soothing. "It's okay," he took the final step towards me, the glow from my sword illuminating his face.

The sword shattered into a million rays of light as it hit the ground. Robin took a step backwards. "Richard Grayson, my Richard Grayson,"my voice was a whisper.

"How do you know me!" He shouted in surprise.

"My featherless bird, how did I not recognize you? Oh my god, how? Why?" I rambled. "You should leave- it's not safe. I can't let you die," I lapsed into Romanian.

Without warning, Robin stepped forwards and slapped me. When he spoke it was in Romanian. "Sorry, you were in shock. I need to know who you are."

"You don't recognize me?" I cracked a bittersweet smile. "You helped me learn how to fly on a trapeze at Haley's. My mother used to perform with the ribbons. She was in the aerial silks act."

The whites of his mask widened. "Kyara Wayne, Ky, you're supposed to be dead. How are you alive? Where's your mom? Why are you looking for Batman?"

"My mom faked my death, she was murdered by the Shadows, I was held captive by the Shadows for 3 months, and now I am on the run," I paused and smirked. "Why am I looking for Batman? I'm looking for him because Bruce Wayne is Batman, and Batman is my father." He tried to say something, but I rushed on.

"I need help, but I don't know who to trust anymore..." I fell to my knees, too tired to care anymore.

"Come with us, we'll help you"

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Robin and I flipped from slab to slab as we descended towards the others. He went first and steadied me as I landed on each platform. The blood loss was catching up to me, among other things. We had decided to introduce me as Astra. I had realized that Robin had been in telepathic communication the whole time we were talking, so the team did not attack me as I landed before them. The tattooed teen stepped forward.

"I am Aqualad, this is Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis," He pointed to each member as he introduced them, "We will rendezvous with the League at our base. We will need to blindfold you."

I let out a shaky laugh," Don't bother, I may not have recognized you, but I do know where your base is located. Mount Justice, correct? I figured it out before all Hell broke loose in my life."

"We can't trust her! It's better to turn her into the authorities," Superboy stepped forward. Aqualad began to speak, but was interrupted.

"I agree with Superboy, she's dangerous." Artemis half-shouted. Kid Flash sighed.

"Enough, we will take her to the League. Miss Martian, have you called the Bioship?" Aqualad asked with a small hint of anger.

"The Bioship is standing by," the martian said. Something slowly appeared behind her- the ship. A door in the back of it opened. Aqualad gave the order to board.

I was forced to lean on Robin as they walked towards the Bioship. Inside, the Team was already seated. Miss Martian sat at the helm, with Super Boy and Aqualad beside her. Artemis and Kid Flash sat in seats that were close together, with Artemis resting her head on Kid Flash's shoulder. Two more seats appeared as we entered. Without warning, the Bioship began to take off.

"Sorry, the Bioship is a little temperamental tonight!" Miss Martian called.

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There was an awkward silence as the ship landed in Mount Justice. The team was probably have another telepathic conversation. To be honest, I didn't care. I was more nervous about what my father would think of me when we met. Would he like me? Would he care? Does he even remember my mother? The seat belts unfastened themselves as the doors in the ship opened. Robin moved to help me up, but I refused. *Let's get this over with.*

Black Canary, Batman, Green Arrow, Flash, Superman, and Red Tornado were waiting for us when we disembarked. My skin became even paler as I saw Batman. The team was dismissed (Kid Flash had scooped Artemis up and proclaimed that they had a movie to watch in the living room tonight), leaving her alone with the superheroes.

Batman was the first to speak. "Who are you?"

I smiled and removed my sunglasses. It exposed blue eyes that had a ring of purple around the center, completing my appearance: a girl a head shorter than Aqualad, with extremely pale skin, jet black hair, and weird eyes.

"My name is Kyara Wayne, daughter of the infamous bat," I gave them a sad smile and looked at Batman, "Hello Father."