Sequel of The Lone Hero.
AU differences:
Wally's alive!
Dick and Zatanna got together at age 16.
Chalant lives!
Conner ages like normal.
Raquel and Kaldur are together.
Read if you have not read The Lone Hero:
Magic Mistress is an alternate version of Zatanna from a timeline where the Light won New-Year's.
Zanna is an alternate version of Zatanna where Magic Mistress failed to change the timeline.
Renegade is the Dick Grayson from Magic Mistress and Zanna's timelines.
Renegade died age 17 in the Magic Mistress timeline.
Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice. If I did... CHALANT WOULD LIVE!
The Lone Hero: Dreams of the Magician
Prologue:
She ran between the buildings in fear. She could hear them coming after her. She looked behind her and ran right into one of them. The 'S' shield was visible in the dark as his eyes glowed red with heat vision. She stepped back from him as the rain began to pour. She backed right into another one and she turned around. The golden helmet gleamed as fear rose within her. She looked around and saw all of them around her with looks that said: we're about to kill you.
Zatanna tossed and turned in her bed.
She fell to the floor and backed away against the wall. She panted in fear as tears began to fall. The thought of death entered her mind as they neared her. Her fear burned through her. A small disk came flying down and stuck in the ground between her and them... then exploded.
Zatanna sat up in bed, screaming. She whimpered and grabbed her charging cellphone. With her hands shaking, she pressed number #1 and the speed dial called the man she loved.
When her true love answered, his voice wasn't horse like he had been asleep (guy was practically nocturnle). He answered after the second beep.
"What's up, Zee?"
"D-Dick?" Zatanna sobbed "C-Can you come over? Right now?"
"What's wrong? Zatanna?" Dick asked.
Zatanna just sobbed and sniffed.
"I'll be there as soon as I get to the zeta-tube," he said "Hey, Zatanna? I love you,"
"I-I love y-you too," Zatanna hiccuped, snapping her cellphone close.
When Dick got to his girlfriend's New York apartment, she didn't answer so he used the key she had given him. Zatanna was curled up on her bed with her duvet wrapped around her. Her lamp was the only light in her bedroom.
"Oh my gosh," he said "Zee..."
Dick sat on the edge of her bed and pulled Zatanna into his arms. Zatanna pulled her arms from within her duvet and wrapped them around his neck. She sobbed into her boyfriend's shoulder as he comfortingly rubbed her back and stroked her silky raven-hair.
Zatanna leaned back and wiped her eyes, sniffing.
"Sorry," she said, looking at the floor "It's just that- I-"
"It's okay, sweetie," Dick said, turning her head to look at him "What happened?"
Zatanna covered her eyes as new tears formed.
"It was a nightmare..." she said "I was 14-years-old again and I was running through buildings... I was being chased and... I was so terrified..."
"Who was chasing you?" Dick asked.
"I... I think it was the Justice League," Zatanna sobbed "But... it was so real..."
"Dreams usually are,"
"No!" the Magician cried "I mean it was less like a dream and more like a memory!"
Pairings: Dick and Zatanna, Wally and Artemis, Conner and M'gann, Kalder and Raquel.
Please review and please don't swear.
