Damian Darhk had gone too far. Going after Felicity meant that I would have to do something. However, retaliation would not be easy. Due to his magic, I couldn't take him on directly. I would have to find some way to even the playing field.
I headed back to the lair. I had to talk to them about my plan. It was a shot in the dark, but it was something that I wanted to try. I didn't really have anything to lose by trying.
"So what are we doing here?" Diggle asked me. I hoped that they would be on board with my plan.
"I want to find a way to combat Darhk's magic." I explained.
"Okay, let me bring up the elephant in the room and ask…how." Thea replied.
"I want to find a way to access magic to combat his powers." I stated. "To do so, I'll see if I can find a magic totem. I want your help in locating one."
We began to search the internet. I knew it wouldn't be easy because we needed to verify that anything that we found was real. There was a lot of crap floating around when it came to magic. Eventually, we managed to find something that seemed like it was legitimate.
"So we have the ma'ema'e wahine idol." Thea declared. "I may have just butchered that pronunciation, but it is said to have mystical properties and it is supposedly located in a cave on Oahu."
"Then it looks like I'll have to see if we can find it." I declared.
"If you're going to Hawaii, you're not going without me." Thea said. "Just give me time to pack my bikini."
"Am I the only one that things that messing with magic is a bad idea?" Diggle asked.
"I know it's probably a bad idea but I don't have a lot of options." I remarked. "If you know a better way to challenge Darhk, I'd like to hear it."
"We could try to get more information out of Andy." He suggested.
"I don't think your brother knows how to actually defeat Damian Darhk." Laurel told him. "And even if he did, I doubt that he would give us that information. We'll stay here and let you know anything that we find out about Felicity. Just don't take too long. She'll probably wonder where you are when she wakes up."
"We'll be back as soon as we can." I promised.
It had been a while since I had been to Hawaii. It was before the accident. It was one of the last trips that my family had spent together and of course Tommy was there too. It was a little bit depressing thinking about it because Thea was the only one left.
"Were you thinking about the last time that we went to Hawaii too?" Thea asked me. We were sitting together on the plane. I was glad that she still had Malcolm's money. I probably did need to come up with a source of my own income. Being mayor would help with that, but I would have to wait for the election even though I was running unopposed.
"Yeah." I answered.
"It's too bad that we can't have trips like that anymore." She mused. "Maybe once we beat Darhk, you and Felicity can start a family and we can have some peace and I'll be your kids' cool aunt."
"You'd make a great aunt." I told her. "Although, you're not in the worst situation to have your own kids. Alex would probably make a good dad as well."
"We are not in that stage of our relationship yet." She declared. "I'd have to tell him a lot more things before we could ever get that far. So I have a question that's a bit weird for you, but it does have to do with combat."
"Okay." I remarked. "Ask away."
"I've been thinking of growing my hair out again, but I'm not sure if it will interfere with anything."
"Well I think that having shorter hair does benefit you because it's less likely to get in your eyes, but you could probably find a way to make it work if you wanted to grow it out." I suggested. "This question would probably still be better suited for Laurel, though."
"I'll make sure to ask her opinion when we get back." Thea remarked. "So do you think that this thing is actually going to work?"
"I don't know, but I don't want anyone to touch it until we get back to Star City." I explained. You know I never asked Ray how he felt about the city's name being changed for him.
"How are you going to move it without touching it?" She challenged. I already had my solution to that.
"Easy, I brought my gloves with me." I answered.
Once we landed, we headed to the hotel. It was right by the beach, but that wasn't hard to do in Hawaii, even though there were some cities.
We headed to the beach in our beach attire. I had a bag with me to put the idol in.
"Alright, so where do we find this thing?" Thea asked.
"It's in a cave that's probably about a mile from here." I answered.
"Well do you want to race?" She asked. I already knew there was no way that I would win.
"You know I can't outrun you, Speedy, even if I wasn't carrying this bag." I pointed out.
"Too late, already running!" She replied as I noticed that she had run off.
"You don't know where it is." I pointed out before I started to run behind her.
We reached the cave after not that long and I saw the totem. It looked like you would expect a Tiki idol to look like.
"Don't you think it's strange that this has been here for so long and no one has taken it?" Thea asked as she looked it over. I glared at her as to tell her not to touch it.
"I have a good idea." I stated before I threw a rock and watched as the ground in front of us started to cave. "That's why."
"And how does the regenerate after someone does that?" She responded.
"I don't know, but I'm betting magic has something to do with it." I replied before I opened the bag and took out a collapsible bow.
"You came prepared." She noted.
"It never hurts to be prepared for." I stated before I put on my gloves and fired at the idol and pulled it toward me. I then grabbed it with my hands and put it in my bag.
About half a day later, we returned home to Star City. The first thing that I noticed was that Felicity was out of the hospital. However, she was in pretty bad shape and by that I meant that she was in a wheelchair.
"You're back." I replied as I gave her a hug.
"So are you." She declared. "I heard that you were looking for a way to stop Damian Darhk."
"Yes." I confirmed. I had brought the idol into the lair with us. "We found it, but we don't know if it's going to do anything."
"Well I seriously hope that you didn't travel all the way to Hawaii for nothing." She remarked.
"I don't think you can go to Hawaii for nothing." Laurel quipped.
"Point taken." Felicity agreed. "Do you have it?"
"Yes." I replied as I took it out with the gloves and put it on the table. "Nobody touch it."
"You know it looks kind of like a naked woman." Felicity commented.
"Shouldn't we talk to someone who knows things about magic?" Diggle questioned. "What about that Constantine guy?"
"He's in hell now." I told them.
"What happened?" Laurel asked.
"No, I mean he's literally in hell." I explained before I took the gloves off and walked over to it. One reason that I was doing it was because I didn't want anyone else to risk whatever ill effects that the idol could have. "Here goes."
I put my hands to the idea and I could feel an energy surging through me. It was definitely doing something. The room began to fill with a bright light and I found it hard to retain consciousness. Eventually, I failed to do so and passed out.
I wasn't sure how much had passed when I came to. I definitely felt different. I was in a bed with covers over me, which I supposed was the right thing to do. I couldn't help but wonder how long it had been if they had time to move me. I then noticed that everyone was looking at me funny. It was all very strange. I felt different but I could probably chalk that up to the magic and the fainting.
"Ollie?" Thea asked. It was like she was asking as if I was someone else.
"Yes." I answered. I then grabbed my throat. My voice sounded weird and I didn't know why. It was kind of deep but also kind of feminine. "What the hell?"
"Ollie, you might not want to look in the mirror." Thea declared.
At that, I pulled the covers off of me and I didn't see what I was expecting. Instead of my body was a slim body with long legs and more relevantly female body. I looked in the mirror and saw long blonde hair although much more pale than I was expecting, but it was true. I had been turned into a woman by touching the idol.
"I knew this was a bad idea." Diggle commented.
So it's been awhile since I wrote anything for Arrow. It's been a while since I wrote anything. Anyway, Olivia is played by Taylor Momsen. How will being turned into a woman affect her ability to protect her city from Damian Darhk? Please don't forget to review.