I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to leave my home, my family. But I had always been quiet. Never really speaking my mind. When people thought they knew me, they only saw the girl I was pretending to be. When I think about it, my whole life has been putting up a front for the sake of those around me. Not that I had anyone to care about anymore. Not like I let anyone in.
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"Dear," my mother called from outside my door, "if you want, we're having chicken for dinner tonight, your favorite." I continued to lay on my bed, starting at the ceiling. My hair spayed out behind me, my hands resting on my stomach. I silently begin counting the cracks in the ceiling. My way of hiding my nerves. One...two...three.
"I'm not hungry." I say. My words sound shallow. Empty.
"Oh, and dear?"
"Yes?" Seven...eight...nine.
"You're father...Is back." I could feel my eyes widen. 'My father...' the man I'd never met, the one who had abandoned us. The one I got my powers from. Seventeen.
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And so I sat. Stiffly waiting for the man my father had sent to meet me. He had somehow tricked mother into sending me to be part of his 'team'. I frowned. Like I'd want anything to do with the man who had cursed my mother with my existence but it would be less stress on my mother of I simply did as told and disappeared. A figure jumped down into the shadows of the alleyway I'd been waiting in. I wasnt scared. There was nothing to be scared of, even when the figure made its way towards me, hand extended.
"Hi," the figure stepped into the dim light cast by the moon, feet crunching over snow. He was a boy, younger than me, but muscular and stealthy, wearing a ridiculous getup with a mask, "I'm Robin. I was sent to get you. And you are?" He kept walking until he stood in front of me, hand still extended. Did he expect my name?
"Daydream." I finally said. He looked at me some more.
"You don't look like I was expecting you to." He said, finally lowering his arm.
"What were you expecting?" I asked, slightly annoyed. Like I could help what I looked like. I was actually quite average, shoulder length curly brown hair, emerald eyes with gold mixed in. I was rather short for my age though, him and I almost standing the same height, despite me being fifteen.
"I don't know, I just thought your hair and eyes might be darker. I blinked, my eyes might have an odd color, but my hair? It was already dark, the darkest brown it could be without being full on black like his. I wrapped a curl around my finger, starting to count the bricks in the wall behind me. One...two...three.
"How did you get here." I asked, though I really couldn't care less if he simply left me out here in the cold to freeze to death, then maybe I would stop bringing pain to those I care about. He just smiled. Thirty-eight...Thirty-nine.
"May I?"He asked, grabbing me around the waist and shooting a gadget to seemingly nowhere until we began to move upwards. We entered a ship I hadn't even seen was there. I sucked in a deep breath, counting the number of things that had gone wrong in the past eleven months. Two...three...four.
I glanced where we were. A red ship with a green girl sitting at what seemed to be a control panel.
"Hello!" She said. I almost winced, she was so damn happy, it was painful. As if she seemed to sense this, the smile vanished from her face, "are you alright?" She asked. Her tone was overly concerned. She shouldn't. She shouldn't worry so much about someone like me. I took a good look at her. Sure enough, green skin and red hair. And she was wearing a ridiculous outfit too! What kind of group had I gotten mixed up with?!
"I'm fine." I returned, none to gently. She blinked, looking confused, as if she was unable to think of something, or something was wrong. She quickly masked it though. Smiling again. I'd say she's a girl with a lot of secrets.
"Well then. I'm . But you can call me Ms.M, Megan, or M'gann. Whichever you prefer." She tilted her head at me and closed her eyes.
"Me and Ms.M here were sent to pick you up. However the beta tubes were down so our only option was the bioship." Robin explained.
"Well then," she said again. Was this going to get annoying? "Buckle in, and let's head back."
"Head back where exactly." I asked, sitting down in a chair and not flinching when it fastened itself.
"Why, to the cave of course!" She said cheerfully. Ugh.
"Right of course." I said. I pretended I didn't see Robin staring at me as if there was something wrong.
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After about twenty minutes of an awkward silence later, we arrived at the so called 'cave'. Megan flies out the open hatch door and Robin followed after. I plopped down the stairs after them. Well, plopping for me. To anyone else it would seem like I'm walking on tiptoe. I was angsty to get this over with, hopefully this would all be over soon.
I looked around where several sleepy teenagers lounged. There were 6 in total including Megan and Robin. They spotted me and curiously made their way over to investigate. The first one there was a guy with red hair that moved pretty fast for a normal person. He wore a yellow and red suit with a mask with little lightning bolts on the sides.
"Well hi there lovely, names Kid Flash, but you can call me Wally." His energetic green eyes looked up into mine, or down since he stood a good three inches over me.
"Stop being an idiot." A blonde girl wearing a green outfit with a light green arrow on the chest and ,surprise surprise, a matching mask. "I'm Artemis." She told me as she smacked Wally upside the head.
"Ow..." He whined, clutching the back of his head. The others made their way to where we were standing soon after.
"I'm Aqualad, but my friends call me Kaldur." The one with the white hair said. He had stripes running down his arms and an odd getup of his own. " And that's Superboy, also known as Conner." He finished, pointing at a buff guy with dark hair wearing a superman shirt. At least he seemed kind of normal.
Megan landed next to him and Robin looked over to the hanger door where a dark ship was landing. A man in a bat suit got out of it, accompanied by a girl with dark hair and a magician costume and a man wearing a golden helmet with a dark blue and gold suit with a cape to match.
"Hello." The bat guy said. "May I introduce you to Zatanna and ." The girl looked surprised. The man stared hard at me before approaching me and pulling me into a tight hug. I gasped and everyone else looked equally as shocked.
"Hello, my child." He said, the warmth in his voice comforting me.
"Child?" I said, trying to wrap my head around what was happening, before I knew it I was tearing up, and I didn't even know why, "f-father?" I said quietly, tears started to flow down my cheeks. Why was crying? He release me and bent down to look into my eyes.
"It's alright now my daughter, your not alone anymore. I'm here now." I sucked in a shallow breath, trying to regain what little composer I had left, before I broke down and threw my arms around his neck, sobbing into his shoulder. Why am I crying? I kept asking myself. He simply stroked my hair as I cried my heart out.
"Shhh, it's ok. You're ok." He murmured to me. When my tears finally subsided and I just sat there sniffing and hiccuping, he released me and stood to address the others.
"What is the meaning of this?" Robin asked, his shock mirrored by the rest of them.
"Meet my daughter, Daydream." He told them. They seemed only more shocked by this.
"D-daughter," Zatanna said, "but, I'm...how is she your daughter?! Does that make me her half sister?! Not to mention the fact that you in my father's body!" She grew more and more angry, yelling and stomping her foot. I could feel my power building inside me.
"True enough, but when she was, um, made, I was in this form. Ergo, making me her father, although, yes, your father's body was the one that, uh, you know." He stumbled over his explanation.
"Bull! She can't be your daughter! It's impossible! How dare you! Look at her! She's nothing but a-" her sentence was cut short by Robin placing his hand on her mouth. She glanced at him, then back at me, her blue eyes filling with hatred and disgust. She raced forward, breaking from Robins grasp and clutching my jacket collar.
'No. If she keeps doing this then' I felt the power rising up, taking control of me. My eyes flashed, my clothing seemed to melt away, leaving a black and purple outfit similar to theirs, knee high boots with heels replaced my worn sneakers. My hoodie was replaced by a form fitting shirt with purple markings. A hood coupled by a cape running down my back to my ankles. My jeans turned into tight black pants with a purple stripe on the side. I felt a shocker around my neck. 'Oh no'
I clutched my head and screamed, dropping to my knees. Zatanna took a step back. I was losing control, no...
I stood up. Smiling I walked towards her, I was no longer in control.
"Hi there, bitch." I said, she looked shocked. I would have been too. I was no longer Daydream. I was Nightmare. And I had no idea what I was going to do next.