A/N: Soo I have a current obsession with the Justice League..._ I know, I'm sorry. I should really be working on Batman Beyond. But just bear with me! I'm having a Flash faze at the moment, and I wanted to give a shot at writing from an Amazon's point of view. Just so everyone knows, it's going to be slightly AU and a little out of order with things.

Please let me know if things are turning out to be too cliché. I really depend on my reviewers, seeing as I don't have a beta. So even if it's just a "It's good", I'll be very very happy.

You'll make my day...seriously.

Warning: This is in First Person POV. I may change it in later chapters, I may not. You have been warned.

General Disclaimer: I own nothing, even Nikita owns me.

Chapter One: It's Just the Beginning

The world outside of Themyscira was a violent and strange place, I personally had no wish to go there. I couldn't imagine ever leaving the paradise that had been created for the many Amazon women. The Goddesses had blessed us all in their own ways, and we were incredibly thankful for it.

I was one of the many warrior women who protected the island from outsiders. I was created in the image of Artemis, by her very hands and from the very earth of the land. The Goddesses Aphrodite, Athena and Artemis blessed me with gifts all my own. Although I was one of Artemis', Athena blessed me to make war and to stop it while Aphrodite graced me with the ability to love with all my being and great beauty as a favour to Artemis.

Since it was Artemis that favoured me, I pledged myself to her as a hunting companion. As a reward, she gave me the gifts of the cat and the wolf. I had the cat's eyes, reflexes and natural grace, and the wolf's stamina and cunning. My patron herself was quite beautiful; in my eyes she was just as beautiful as Aphrodite although I would never say that out loud.

Next to Philippus, I was one of the best Amazon warrior women.

I was one of Artemis' first that she created by her own hands, and so Aphrodite helped. My hair is a mixture of chocolate brown and red henna, more often called 'auburn', and it is long enough to reach below my waist. It is because of this that I often have to tie it back, especially when I am hunting. My eyes are a true violet colour with a hint of blue when you are near enough. I was fashioned with a tall and lithe figure, although I am shorter than some of the other women.

Artemis graced me with the name of Nikita, companion to the hunt.

I did have my pride, but I didn't brag. Instead I finely tuned myself and helped the other women to do the same. We had many spars in wrestling and other fighting. It was in one of these spars that I came up against the Princess of Amazons. Diana was by far the epitome of the Goddesses. She was blessed more so than any other, but my Goddess did not show the amount of careful work that she put into me.

I smiled at the decade younger woman and dropped slowly into a crouch. She nodded respectfully before doing the same, although her balance was a little more off. It had only been two thousand years since Themyscira had become safe guarded, and she did not have me as a teacher. At the time, she needed practice.

I ended up winning that match, as I did the rest that followed with her. Diana was persistent and determined to beat me. We matched off whenever we could, usually ending it playfully after a while. She began to beat me, and I was happy. I grew to enjoy having Diana in my company, and I looked forward to our spars.

It wasn't long before we were spending time together outside of our matches. When were not together, I ran with the hunt or observed drills with careful eyes. Time passed quickly on Themyscira compared to man's world. It had already been five hundred years since we first encountered one another. I was attracted to her charismatic attitude and wonderful personality.

There was a brief period of time that I extracted myself from Diana's company to seclude myself in the temple with my patron mother. I cautiously approached my mother-creator and sister about my vow of chastity. When I had made it, my only love was for Artemis and the island. However, I now felt a burning in my chest that longed for intimate companionship. I also knew the lengths Artemis went to punish when one of her hunt companions broke their chastity vow, even when it wasn't their fault.

She was silent for many days as she mulled the idea over, of allowing me to renounce my vow of chastity to learn to love and lust. I feared more than once that she would deny me and be angry. However, I was surprised when she agreed. Almost sheepishly Artemis confided that she wouldn't be so angry with her companions when they took a lover if they had just asked.

Once, long after I had made my request and returned to Diana, I took her running with me in the hunt. Artemis led us as we chased the white stag. Although deer were sacred to her, she wished for his antlers and had promised me his hide. It wasn't so bad, seeing as the stag was reborn every so often.

Diana was quite fast for normally not being with hunt, and I could tell that she enjoyed losing herself in the thrill. The hunt was the only time we left Themyscira, and even then we never went near man.

A few nymphs giggled nearby in the dark as we found a place to rest under Artemis' watch. We settled in a clearing together, watching the forest nymphs play among the trees. I shared my recent rabbits with her, and even provided her with nectar from Themyscira to drink. I enjoyed myself and I had hoped that she was having fun too.

A few days later we caught up to the stag. I, and three others, had the best aim next to Artemis but our mistress only allowed herself to shoot this one. The arrow punctured the throat of the stag and he dropped. Not wishing for him to suffer, I ran forward to finish the kill and begin the field dressing.

When I glanced up, I caught Diana's eyes and I smiled at her. My fiery red and brown hair was getting in the way and I kept having to swipe pieces out of the way with my bloody hands. It had escaped from its normal ponytail as I ran. Gentle hands began to braid it for me as I field dressed the stag.

Diana was gently and swift at creating a good braid. When she was done, I was able to start on the next part of the process. Soon enough, Artemis laid a hand on my shoulder and motioned for me to stand back. She removed the hide quicker and cleaner than anyone else and presented it to me to do what I wished with it.

A few weeks later, I presented Diana with a light blanket made out of the stag's hide and a wolf pelt. She had glowed with pleasure.

We became lovers soon after. Together we explored the intimacies of being such, and even learned more about one another. For example, she was extremely ticklish on the middle of her spine and she learned that I greatly enjoy being kissed just under the jaw-line.

Diana came more often to visit at the training grounds and she joined in when she didn't have to. I practiced my archery and she practiced alongside me. We had even created a game out of her deflecting my arrows with her Bracelets of Submission; she was the only one with such a gift. We were comfortable together and I truly had become content.

Soon however, we had a contest called by our Queen Hippolyta to find a champion for Themyscira. I dearly loved my Queen, but she had denied Diana from entering. I approached my patron and received a mask made out of dragonbone for my lover. Diana wore it in the contest arena and ended up winning.

Her mother was furious but was made to see reason by the Goddesses. It was not as if she was leaving, or so we thought.

More often than not we began to take long rides on the horses down the beach, racing one another and laughing. I enjoyed riding bareback even when she would not. We even managed to get Chiron the Centaur to come for a gallop with us and we all had a great time together. There was even one morning when Chiron introduced us to the lone Pegasus that shared Themyscira with us. However, our happiness only lasted so long.

Aliens had landed in cities all over man's world a few decades later. There was chaos in the land separate from Themyscira. Diana wished to help, but our Queen decided that it was not our problem.

I woke last night to the feeling of Diana getting out of bed. I shifted under the pelts that covered our sleeping space and blinked sleepily at her. She did not dress, but put a cloak on over herself. I frowned at her in the moonlight and wrapped one of the wolf pelts around my lithe form.

"Why do you worry about man?" I asked softly as I turned her beautiful face to my own. My strong woman was worried and cupped a hand to my cheek.

"I woke from a telepathic message, they need my help. Please don't try to stop me." She placed her lips on mine and we stayed together for a few moments.

"They'll send me after you." I whispered softly as I enveloped her in a hug. I was the slightly shorter one and so I rested my fiery auburn head on her shoulder.

"Then I'll just have to capture you and keep you with me." She was firm and determined. I did not wish to go to man's world without Artemis there to guide me, but I would also follow Diana to the ends of the Earth. I looked into her bright blue eyes with my own unique violets and nodded in agreement.

"Goddesses protect you, dear one."

"And you, Kita."

The morning after, which was today in fact, I was brought before our Queen Hippolyta with chains around the silver bands on my forearms. For once, I felt like my bands were true Bracelets of Submission rather than just symbolic. I ignored the terrible thought and lifted my amethyst gaze to Queen Hippolyta's. She was for more furious than when Diana had won the right to wear her armour.

"You were my daughter's lover and you let her run off to man's world." Her voice was tired and I could tell she was struggling with forgiving her headstrong daughter or being mad at her. I bowed my head to my Queen, I did not deny it. It was useless to argue with her at any time. The decree I knew was coming was spoken.

"Nikita, companion to Artemis and the hunt, you are hereby banned from Themyscira until you return with Diana, Princess of Amazons."

I was allowed one month to prepare myself for my journey, and so I went to my mother-creator. Artemis was furious with me, almost to the point of cursing me as she had done to so many of her other companions. I bore her fury in shame but did not leave the temple for the time I was allotted. She could not even look at me for the first two weeks and merely dropped food off for me so that I wouldn't starve myself.

Quietly I split my food in half everyday and placed half of it as an offering to my Goddesses. Artemis did not appear to me after the first day, as it was time for the hunt, which I was also excluded from for the first time. I pained me to hear the call of her horn and not be able to run through the trees just behind her.

I set myself about to creating a necklace for my patron mother, made out of the ivory bones of a dragon. Delicately I set the final carvings into the pendant on the last day and I placed it as an offering to her. She appeared to me soon after I had done this with a russet coloured fox at her heels.

"Forgive me, Goddess." I bowed my head to her and awaited the punishment that was about to come. Finally the beautiful deity spoke and delivered her decree.

"You are released from your vow to me. I curse you to always long for the hunt. You will see it and hear it but you may never join it." Artemis looked almost sorry for denying me the very thing I was created for, but she stood tall in her short tunic and flat sandals. I felt the tears rising to the surface, although I held them back.

"I curse you, Nikita, to know the hunt in your body by the change of animals. You will shapeshift at will, and occasionally not. When the moon is full and my power is strong, you will shapeshift at my will and not yours." She paused and graced me with a small but sad smile, "My daughter, I grant you the use of your hunter's speed. May you always be free to run like a cheetah and as graceful as a doe. As a mother's gift, you will not be stripped of your Amazon blessings. However, when you leave Themyscira you will age like a mortal until you return and your beauty will be restored."

I fell to my mother-creator's feet and allowed myself tears to fall. I was losing my mother and my Goddess, my life and my home, all because I hadn't stopped my lover. I did not sob, but I did whimper slightly. I hadn't been without Artemis since my creation. She placed a firm hand on my shoulder before picking me up and giving me armour to wear.

The top was the main armour piece and it hugged to my form perfectly. It was like the outfits we wore on Themyscira, but made out of metal. There was one thick strap to hold it on one shoulder and it wrapped around my bust to protect my chest, but not my shoulders. The torso cut off in a downward pointing V to protect my abdomen, just leaving the tops of my hips showing. It was black with a silver tone to it like the moon was reflecting off of it.

The bottom of it was made out of a material that looked and felt like metal, but moved as simply as cloth did. I was in awe of the gift and donned the bottom as well. It was a short, mid-thigh length skirt in the same two-tone colour. The skirt had another overtop with large slits in it like some of our outfits and a silver belt that was made out of the same material matched it off.

Almost as an afterthought, Artemis produced a silver metal mask with many swirls and a crescent moon engraved between the eyeholes. I looked up at her in puzzlement before sliding it on to cover from my eyebrows to my cheekbones. I did not question her; there must have been a reason. She gave me the reason in a soft voice that sounded regretful.

"Man's world is harsh, you must protect your identity."

I knelled before my Goddess, my dark rich auburn hair spilling over my shoulders. I felt like I was about to cry again from her generosity, the material and armour must have been made in Olympus. My almond-shaped violet eyes rose to her fading face as she smiled gently at me.

"We will protect you, my daughter and sister."

I was incredibly grateful for the low cut top when my wings burst from my back in tearing agony. A scream erupted from my throat and I realized why it was a curse. Artemis purposely made the wings come out so I could fly to Metropolis to follow where Diana had went and so that I would know how much it would hurt to shift just parts of me.

Tears ran down my face in silence as I walked out of the temple for perhaps the last time. I took a look at the statue of my Goddess that resided there before leaping into the air towards and heading off towards man's world.