Prologue

Roanoke Island (Nov 5th 19:46)

The young lord of chaos, Klarion, came to the edge of the clearing taking in the surroundings. It was an isolated area with no towns near by for any nosey people to stick their nose into his business, and covered with a thick forest of dark, leafless trees with their branches howling every time an Autumn wind blew.

"How about here," Klarion asked the cat in his arms, a hint of annoyance in his tone. Teekl observed their new location, before meowing his approval, hopping out of his masters arms as he did so. "Ah Finally," The Witch boy said in exasperation, with his arms free of the cat he quickly reached into his jacket, pulling out the shiney yellowish gem he had retrieved earlier. It glowed with an evil aura has he held it up in the moonlight, smirking to himself. Time to begin. He placed the gem in the center of the clearing, then standing to his full hight, his hands began to glow red with power as he cast a spell on the rock. It made an almost heavenly ring, as the magic created a pentagram around Klarion. Once completed, he stepped out of the center ring and moved to his position on the outer circle, "Time to get the old gang back together," The boy hissed as his eyes beginning to glow. "Wotan," He called out to the gods, and on cue the other magician appeared at his spot on the pentagram, He did the same with the other three magicians as each transported to their positions. "Now then..." the witch boy said laughing and rubbing his hands together in a sinister way. "Let's put on a show." The five sorcerers started chanting an old spell into the night, the pentagram glowing as more power was contributed to the circle.

Mount Justice (Nov 5th 19:47)

The young justice team was in the mountains hanger, Miss Martian and Superboy carrying the last few crates of supplies out of Megan's Bioship.

"Did you get everything," Batman asked, walking up to stand between Zatara and Martian Manhunter.

"Everything on your list Batman," Miss martian said with a smile. "Plus groceries." She started setting one of the boxes down, when Wally rushed up to it, eyes ogling the contents inside.

"Cookie fictions," he asked.

"Snicker doodles" Megan answered with a knowing smile.

"Babe, you rock my world," The speedster said returning the smile. Kaldur, Robin, and Conner had started to get the large crates unpacked, when Zatanna and Artemis came out of the elevator doors as they opened.

"Glad your back Zatanna," The female Archer said, continuing their previous conversation. "Does this mean you're officially joining the team?" The two girls stopped as Zatanna glanced over at her father, who was helping Red Tornado move crates with his magic.

"I don't know, " The younger magician said crossing her arms across her chest. "Zatara is so overprotective, I mean just getting him to let me visit tales a full days wheedling . I wished he would just give me a little space." Just then Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Zatara disappeared before the teen's very eyes, the crates the adults had been moving crashing onto the concrete floor where they once stood. "Dad!" Zatanna screamed, as Artemis's jaw fell. The rest of the team glanced up to see what had happened, when they too noticed the sudden absence of their mentors.

For the Adults, Batman and Zatara had just finished discussing about Zatanna joining the team, when all of a sudden the kids disappeared, the crates some off the stronger teens had been carrying crashing to the floor.

"Zatanna!" Zatara shouted running over to the spot his daughter had just been. Martian Manhunter had looked over to where his said niece used to be, seeing she too was gone.

"Megan!" The Martian said in slight shock, his red eyes widening in fear. Batman looked back over to Zatara seeing the man was close to hysterics.

"She... was just here a second ago, they all were."

"We should inform the watch tower of this." Martian Manhunter said, returning to his normal composer.

"I have just been informed by the Watchtower, that reports from everywhere around the world are saying children are going missing." Red Tornado stated in his usual monotone voice.

"Let's get to the watch tower and figure out what has happened before the world goes into a crisis." Batman said.

"Yes, I'll use my locater spell to track the source of this problem. Let's go!" With that the four adults made their way out of the hanger, Batman stopped at the doors turning back to look by the crate where his Protege had once been standing.

"I'm going to find you Dick, I promise." The dark knight whispered to himself, as he continued to follow the others to the Zeta-tubes.

Fawcett City (Nov 5th 18:47)

Billy watched as two children played with a ball. The boy threw the ball to the girl who was running closer to the edge of the sidewalk to catch it. They both were laughing, when the women sitting on the steps in front of the apartment, who Billy figured was the children's mother called out to watch out for the street. Billy turned around as he heard a news broadcast come on the television his uncle was watching. Billy made his way over to the back of the couch to listen.

"Today in Fawcett City, Captain Marvel defeated an attack by the creatures known as Ivacs in Sawback." Billy rested his head in his arms as he watched, just another good deed performed by Captain Marvel he thought to himself. His uncle turned slightly to ruffle his black locks a smile on the older man's face. it was his Uncle's special way of saying 'good job sport.' Just then, the man disappeared from his spot on the couch.

"Uncle Dougley!" The boy shouted jumping over the side of the couch where his uncle once had been, looking around the living room. "I don't know which one of my enemies is behind this," Billy said rubbing his chin in thought. "But I know a job for captain marvel when I see one." With that he was about to transform when he saw the women who had just made the news report had disappeared from her spot in front of the camera. "Whoa, looks like Uncle D. isn't the only one gone missing." He heard racket outside followed by what sounded like a car crash. Rushing to the window, he saw the two kids from earlier sitting on the side walk, a car now smashed into the wall closest to the girl. The boy stood up and ran to the girl's side, asking if she was okay. She seemed fine as far as Billy could tell, then she spoke

"Forget about me , where's Mommy." She pointed to the steps where the women had been sitting, where now her purse and book sat, pages blowing in the breeze.

"All the grown ups are gone, " BIlly said backing away from the window. "And Caps is a grown up, If I change, I could disappear too."

Wally was in his room in the mountain, staring at his souvenir shelf. It had been a long day, saving younger children in every city who were to young to do protect themselves from danger and taking care of them in ... Shelters. Aqualad, Robin and himself had just recently made an announcement to the world about the situations and to stay calm, asking older children to help to pitch in until they could come up with a better plan. He sighed to himself and stared at Nabu's helmet on his shelf. Would it come to that...

"I finally got through to Atlantis," Kaldur said entering the speedsters room. Wally turned to the older teen as he spoke. "No adults there either." The Atlantian sighed and the two stood in silence for a moment.

"So," Wally said breaking the ice. "Just how desperate are we." They both turned to stare at the golden helmet.

"We both know that who ever dawns the helmet and allows Nabu to possess him, may never be released from being Dr. Fate." Kaldur reminded him. The red head hung his head a moment before turning to look at Kaldur with sad eyes.

"So then, not that desperate," Wally clarified.

"Not yet." Aqualad agreed. The two continued to gaze at the treasure on the shelf, not aware that their youngest friend had been listening in on their every word. The Boy Wonder leaned further against the wall he was resting on and let out a long sigh. Wally was right, the situation was getting out of hand with every minute passing, and it seemed like only a miracle could help them at this point. Would it come to that... A light tap on the shoulder pulled Robin from his thoughts, he looked up to see Zatanna, dressed out in her magician's attire. She gave him a shy smile and a semi- confident nod, which he returned with a sharp nod of his own. Both finally walking into the Kidflash's room, Zatanna took a deep breath before speaking.

"Hey guys," She said getting their attention, both boys turned around to see the two raven's standing in the doorway. "I... I'm ready to try my Fathers Locator spell."