This is my first Justice League fic. Also un-betaed.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Justice League, only Melanara and her powers.
Melanara held her hand up, holding a villain upside down. She cocked her head at Wonder Woman.
"Well, Princess? What do you think? Can I join?" she said grinning impudently at her, Diana scowled at Melanara.
"Fine, just put him down gently and don't drop him on his head." she warned, the Mage gently set the villain down and held him there. Diana turned to Flash.
"Don't say it, just don't say it." she said. Flash quit grinning at her, well tried anyway.
"I think you'll do, Melanara. Bring him along." he said, Melanara saluted and snagged the villain by the collar and dragged him along, following Flash and Wonder Woman to one of the many Javelin Fleet. She chained the prisoner to a seat in the plane and sat down behind Flash.
Wonder Woman was muttering under her breath. Flash was trying not to laugh about it all. The rest of the flight was uneventful unless you consider Wonder Woman hitting Flash upside the head for snickering a little too loudly. Melanara fell asleep as the plane broke atmosphere, then woke up as they entered the New Watchtower. Melanara sighed as she stepped off the ship, dragging Univ, the idiot they had chased to Japan, near Tokyo. Supergirl appeared to take Univ from Melanara. J'onn and Batman walked over.
"How did it go?" J'onn asked Diana, she growled and stalked off. Flash grinned at the two men. Melanara sat cross-legged on the floor in front of the wall, J'onn, leaving Batman to talk to Flash, walked over to talk to the young woman who was sitting with her eyes closed.
"Are you all right?"
She opened one eye and glanced at him, then closed her eye again. "Just taking inventory, J'onn." she said. The Martian frowned.
"Inventory?"
"I've been using quite a bit of magic lately, I had better stop and check my reserves, if I run low, I tend.....to lose focus. I took a nap, so I've regained part of my powers, but I'll need a full eight hours to recover it all."
"It sounds a little complicated." he confessed, Melanara opened her eyes and gazed at him with a serious look.
"It is, but I don't try to understand it anymore, I just do." she said with a small grin. He smiled, Melanara stood up and walked over to Batman.
"Well, am I in?" she asked, Batman looked down at the 14-year-old, red haired, blue eyed Mage and nodded. He half-expected a hug or something, but she just nodded happily.
"I suppose I'll be living up here as a permanent member, right?" she guessed, he nodded, Melanara sighed.
"That could be a problem, oh, well, it's not like I haven't dealt with problems before." she said cheerfully. Flash stepped forward.
"I'll show you your room." he said pleasantly, Melanara nodded, then frowned.
"What?" J'onn asked, Melanara shook her head absently, then she grinned just as cheerfully as before.
"I might need a little help with a couple boxes." she said, a couple boxes appeared, she looked at them a minute then motioned with her hand, the Boxes floated upwards and came up behind her,she looked at Flash.
"Never mind.Lead the way."
Flash shrugged and headed towards Melanara's room, Batman and J'onn followed.
"You'll be sharing the room with Huntress, she's a good roommate and you two should get along nicely, just don't kill her." he said, when they reached the room, Flash opened the door, Melanara stepped and breathed a 'Wow'.
"Cool. Come on." she said and the boxes floated over to her, she turned and motioned them to the bed, then turned back to the others.
"Thank you, gentlemen, I think I can handle it from here." she said, a definite dismissal, they left one by one, J'onn closed the door, when he left. Melanara grinned, this might interesting.
She turned back to the bed and opened one box, half filled with books, the other half clothes. The books were on top. Melanara picked up her two favorites 'War of the Twins' and 'Test of the Twins', a couple Dragonlance books that she adored. She went and put them on the bookcase................
Main room in the watchtower
Wonder Woman was arguing with Batman about Melanara and her sudden acceptance into the Justice League.
"She can't become a member! She's rude, impudent, aggravating, annoying..." she would have continued in that vein, but Batman interupted her.
"She's also powerful, competent, intelligent and compassionate. And you think of her as a rival, don't you?" he asked calmly, Wonder Woman blinked, then blushed.
"Maybe." she said quietly, Batman sighed.
"You don't have to, you know. She doesn't want to take your place, Diana. Just some place where she can use her powers and not be considered a freak. Of course, I think very few people consider her a freak, but to her it hurts all the same."
"Fine, but I don't have to like it." she said, Melanara walked in.
"Hey, where's the...............," she trailed off as she saw Wonder Woman. "Umm...... Did I interrupt something?" she asked tentatively. Wonder Woman glanced at her irritably, then stalked off. Melanara looked at Batman puzzled.
"What did I do?" she asked perplexed, he sighed and shook his head.
"What did you need?" he asked, rubbing his temples. She looked at him.
"Where are the showers? I'm a little smelly and it's been a long day." she said plaintively, Batman sighed and lead her to the women's showers. She nodded and went in. Bruce watched the door close and decided it was time to talk to Green Lantern and Superman about their newest addition............
"What's her name?" Green Lantern asked curiously, but it wasn't Batman that answered, it was Melanara.
"Melanara Raya. I'm 14 years old, my power and the knowledge that comes with it is 6, 000 years old. As you can tell I have shoulder length red hair, blue eyes, I use a sword and various powers. My temper matches the color of my hair, when it's dry." she added with a little grimace, picking up a couple wet strands ruefully. Superman smiled gently, then looked at Batman.
"A teenager? Isn't she a little young?" he said, Supergirl, Kara, walked in at that moment.
"I'm 16, isn't that a little young?" she said acidly, Melanara grinned at them. Superman sighed.
"You're ganging up on me."
They looked at each other in surprise. "Are we?"
Green Lantern laughed. "You two are a couple of schemers, do you know that?" he asked, grinning. Superman gave in.
"Fine, you can stay." he said, Melanara smiled.
"Thank you, now if you gentleman will excuse me, I have to get some sleep." she said, bowed and left. Batman looked at Superman.
"We're going to have to do something about that, a Justice League Member shouldn't be bowing to people." he said, Clark shrugged.
"It's her style, if she wants to bow, let her bow. But I don't think it's a submissive gesture, she's too independent for that." he mused, Batman shrugged, got up and excused himself from their little meeting. Green Lantern glanced at Superman, seeing a smile playing on his face.
"You always intended for her to say didn't you?" he asked with a suspicious glint in his eye, Superman grinned at him.
"Of course I did, I wouldn't undo Batman's decision like that. I just wanted him to sweat a little." he said with a sly smile. Green Lantern just shook his head.
"You really need a new nickname, the, uh, 'Man of Tricks' instead of 'Man of Steel'." John said, Clark shrugged again.
"Nah, 'Man of Steel' sounds better." he said smiling at his friend and teammate, John just laughed...........................................................
J'onn looked at the newest member of the Justice League with a little confusion. Melanara was sitting cross-legged, which wasn't all that remarkable. It was the fact that she was doing this, while floating, that was the disconcerting part of it all.
"Um, what are you doing?" he asked curiously. Melanara looked up, startled, landing with a soft 'thump' on the couch.
"Ow. Floating, what did it look like?" she snapped, J'onn raised an eyebrow.
"Sorry, you just startled me."
"It's all right. How were you doing that?" he asked curiously, sitting down next to Melanara, who went back to reading her book. Melanara looked up in surprise at him.
"Oh, uh, just doing I guess, I do it all the time, I guess I just never really think about it." she shrugged and turned back to her book while J'onn thought about this, he already liked this young woman, he was about to think more on it, when an alarm sounded. Melanara muttered something under her breath. J'onn shot her a faintly disapproving look. Melanara shrugged and flashed both of them to the communications center in the tower. Batman, who was already there, blinked as they appeared. He opened his mouth, but Melanara waved aside what he was about to say. J'onn went over to the console.
"Well, J'onn? What is it?" she asked, he went pale, well as pale as he could, and turned to them.
"The Joker has just escaped from Arkham Asylum and has teamed up Lex Luthor already."
Melanara sighed and looked at Batman. "I suppose you're not going to let me come, right?" she guessed, he shook his head.
"Actually, I rather hoping something would happen. Not this big mind you, just so can demonstrate your powers." he reassured Melanara's snort of disgust, she looked at him, then threw up her hands in disgust.
"I give up trying to figure out people, I just absolutely give up." she muttered so disgustedly that Batman had to laugh, even as J'onn teleported them down....................
Melanara yelled an incantation at the top of her lungs over the roar of the Jokers crane swinging a demolition ball.
"Pasty white and not too nice, let the Joker have whats coming to him!!!!" she howled, the Joker got a banana cream pie in the face. Melanara looked up at the stars, irritated.
"That's not what I wanted!!! Try it again." she added the last to herself as she scooped Batman out of the way of Luthor's blast.
"Let the Jokers worst fear come to light and take over his field of sight!!!!!!!!!!!" she tried again, there was a scream of fear from the cab of the crane as the Joker saw what he feared most. Now for Luthor, she thought to herself and quickly redid part of Green Lanterns power oath.
"Let those who fight evils might, take over this fight!!!!!" she yelled again, suddenly Luthor was weakened and that was all Batman needed to knock him out. Melanara lessened the spell that held the Joker, he was still trembling a little, but he was out cold. Melanara drug him along, muttering to her self.
Batman gave her a startled look when he heard what she was muttering. "That should have worked, he should have knocked out, not given him dessert." she growled, tossing the Joker down next to Luthor and removed the spell completely, he stopped trembling.
"What do you mean 'That should have worked'? It didn't?" he demanded, Melanara gave him a sour look.
"It did work, just not quite the way I hoped, a friend is always telling me 'Say what you mean.' I don't think I ever believed him, until now, that is." she said and went back to muttering to herself.
"I need a vacation. I've been doing to much lately." she grumbled and grabbed hold of the Jokers collar and Luthor's. Melanara was going to carry Joker to Arkham and Luthor to Metropolis City jail. Then meet Batman back at the watchtower. It only took her an hour to do it. She entered the port that J'onn opened for her. Melanara could do what Green Lantern did and place a force field over herself and others if need be and fly into space. Wonder Woman waited for her. Melanara approached the Amazonian hesitantly, she and the Amazon Princess had gotten off on a bad start, she didn't want to end up in a fist fight with the one person that could possibly beat her, however Wonder Woman was smiling at the young mage as she walked over.
"I rarely apologize, even when I know I was wrong. I'm sorry, I assumed you were a bad fighter and a show-off." she said with a smile, Melanara grinned at her.
"That's okay, I'm usually wrong myself and very rarely apologize too. I think, the only time I ever really admitted I was wrong and apologized was to my brother and I don't even remember what we were arguing about. You're lucky, Diana. You don't have any older or younger brothers. They are such a pain!" she grinned wolfishly at her, Diana laughed suddenly.
"I do believe we are going to get along great." she said, draping an arm around the teenagers shoulders.
Melanara grinned up at her again.
Diana looked speculatively at her new friend "Melanara, tell me, do you like to shop? Batman is paying, he's to have quite a bit of cash, just lying around, doing absolutely nothing."
Melanara's grin turned positively vicious.
Diana laughed again and hugged her friend. "Somehow I knew you were going to feel that way." she said................................
Bruce, watching from a monitor, sighed disconsolately. He was going to be broke by the end of the day. But oddly enough, he didn't mind a bit.................................
Please R&R!!!
