Stregoneria is Italian for sorcery, it's pronounced: streg-oon-air-ee-a.

L'energia Eolica is Italian for Wind Energy/Power, it's pronounced len-er-gee-a eh-oh-li-ca.

Circ is Romanian for Circus, it's pronounced ch-ee-r-c

Also, Zatanna says a foreign person sounds funny but that's because she's a little girl who doesn't understand that sounds hurtful.

Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice. A girl can dream though... :]


Zatanna: Princess of the Wind

Prologue:

First Meeting

The 9-year-old Princess Zatanna of Stregoneria walked through the gardens of her palace. She tugged the multiple layers of her dress along. She didn't mind dresses but the fancy kind could be tedious to wear. Princess Zatanna lifted up her skirt and sat down on the grass around the fountain. She looked into the water and saw the reflection of a boy walking on top of the palace wall. She looked up at him and he backflipped onto his hands.

"Nu am trait cu adevarat niciodata

Pina in ziua in care am fost binecuvintat sa te cunosc.

Cind noaptea tirziu te tin in brate,

Stiu care e scopul meu pe pamint.

Ma deconectez de la lume si te ascult suspinind,

Si voi cinta al meu cintec de leagan ingeresc," he sang with a foreign accent.

Princess Zatanna got up and walked over to the wall.

"Who are you?!" she called up to him.

The boy stopped and sat down on the wall. He had scruffy raven-black hair, tanned skin, a narrow build and blue eyes that sparkled like sapphires. He didn't dress like he was from Stregoneria either, he wore a black short-sleeved t-shirt with a small slit cut on the side of the sleeves and on either side of the torso and dark brown trousers that were tied around his ankles with braided leather. His feet were bare and he had a thin brown strip of fabric tied around his head like a bandanna.

"My nam' iz Dick Grayson," he said with an accent and with trouble that revealed he didn't natively speak Stregonerian "I am Lord Wayne's new ward,"

"I'm Princess Zatanna of Stregoneria," said the Princess, courtesying "How did you get up there?"

"Like dis," Dick said and he jumped off the wall and into a tree.

There was a rustling and he dropped from within the leaves with a few stuck in his hair. He smirked with childish joy on his face and bowed to her with his fingers hooked together in an odd fashion.

"It iz a honour to met you," Dick said, straightening up.

"You sound funny. Where are you from?" Princess Zatanna asked.

"I'm from... uh... where am I from?" he wondered, scratching his head "Oh, yeah! I'm from Circ!"

"Where's that?" the young Princess asked, having not heard of Circ before.

"It'z... it'z..." Dick climbed up a tree, clung to a tree branch like a monkey and pointed over the wall "Dat way! Everyone's fun and upbeat and friendly there! The Energy of the Land flows through everywhere!" he dropped down from the tree to stand in front of Princess Zatanna again "I don' feel theh Energy of the Land here,"

"That's because, in Stregoneria, it's held by a member of the royal family," said Princess Zatanna "It's called the L'energia Eolica and its current Keeper is my mother, Queen Sindella of Stregoneria... What was that song you were singing?"

"'Tis called Angel's Lullaby. My mama sung it to meh at night," Dick said.

"What is it in Stregonerian?" the Princess asked.

"I was never alive

'Til the day I was blessed with you

When I hold you late at night

I know what I was put here to do

I turn off the world and listen to you sigh

And I will sing my angel's lullaby," he translated for her.

"Can you teach me it?" Princess Zatanna asked "It's pretty,"

He spent the next half-hour teaching her the rest of the song. Afterwards, they played tag but the Princess's dress slowed her down. Dick taught her how to tumble and tried to teach her to walk on her hands. All in all, Dick and Princess Zatanna had fun together but Dick had to leave when Lord Wayne called for him.

And Princess Zatanna didn't see him again for 10 years...