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Gotham Cementary..March 21, 08:12 PDT

As the casket descended down into the abyss, the entire team could not stop weeping. Artemis was dead, gone forever. Artemis' mother, Paula Crock, sat quietly in her wheelchair, eyes red from crying. Richard and Wally watched quietly from afar under an oak tree then looked up to see Artemis hiding within its leaves.

Artemis wanted to embrace her mother and disencumber her from this burden, but all she could do was console her from afar. After watching her mother weep for another two hours, Richard a.k.a Nightwing signaled her to leave with a quiet nod. Before she left though, she looked at Wally with teary eyes and said, "Nothing will go wrong, right?" Wally tried to smile and replied, "I'll take care of your mother for you.." And what in the speed of light, Artemis disappeared without a trace.

Washington D.C…March 22, 12:21 A.M.

Riiinnnggg! Riiinngg! Red Arrow woke up from the bed and headed towards the phone. The moment he answered though, his eyes widened and he turned around to face Chesire and their daughter. "Jade…." stuttered Red Arrow. Chesire, annoyed, demanded, "Who is it? What do they want?" Silence. Once again, Chesire demanded, "Who is it?" Red Arrow looked at his wife with pitiful eyes.

"Jade…It's Wally and…Artemis is dead," Red Arrow said. Chesire looked at their daughter and at Red Arrow. Unable to accept the truth she replied, "There's no way Arty..I have to go meet mother." Red Arrow nodded in approval.

Gotham City..March 22, 7:30 P.M.

Paula sat quietly in the living room and said nothing. She stared blankly at her daughter's photo and realized that they never had a family photo. Suddenly, she turned around and saw nothing. However, her motherly instincts could not be fooled.

"Jade?" she asked, "Jade, is it you?" Chesire emerged from hiding and encountered the woman who left her to go rot in a prison cell for her father. Her mother's bony pruned fingers reached out to her, but Chesire stepped back. "Where is Artemis?" demanded Chesire.

Paula couldn't look at her. She stared down and was about to speak, but was cut off by a sharp remark, "Dead." Chesire turned around to see Wally angrily coming out of the darkness. He continued, "Aqualad killed her. Your so-called Light killed your sister or should I say, you killed her." Chesire's eyes widened. "NO..no…no…" repeated Chesire in shock, "she would never leave us.." "Jade..It's all my fault..It's all my fault," Paula cried. Chesire stared at Paula and then met Wally's tearful glare. It was as if her world was tumbling down. Soon enough, she couldn't handle the guilt and broke into a desperate run.

Gotham Cementary…March 25, 7:31 P.M.

Icy Junior, Cameron, looked at Artemis' gravestone and sighed. "Why did it have to be you?" asked Cameron. He looked at Artemis' photo and directly asked, "All you had to do was join the Light but why this? I'm gonna miss you buddy." Right when Icy was leaving, Nightwing spotted him and followed him secretly.

Icy Junior led Nightwing right to the prisoners' secret cache beneath Bell Reve. Behind a pillar, Nightwing hid and tried to listen to the prisoners' conversation.

"Did Sportsmaster come to visit his dead bitch?" asked Icicle Sr. Icy Junior replied bitterly, "Artemis is not a bitch…" Mister Freeze interrupted the family talk and asked, "When will…."

Right when Mister Freeze was about to say the new partner's name, Icicle Senior shut him up and turned his head back.

Nightwing realized he had been discovered and was about to leave until, Icicle Jr was right in front of him with arms crossed. "Well, well, well..since you're here I have a message for Superboy and Martian girl," started Junior and ended the sentence with a violent swing, transforming his arm into an icicle hammer. But Nightwing dodged it and elbowed his back after kicking him in the stomach. Icicle Sr and Mister Freeze started to shoot light blue beams of ice but they missed as Nightwing did a backflip. Nightwing then started to dart towards the exit. When the others tried to follow him, they ran right into his bomb trap and the cave collapsed on them.

Barely escaping the collapsing cache, Nightwing took a breather and turned back. What if they have caught onto something? Artemis…be careful….