|Mount Justice

|December 2, 07.06:EDT

It was a beautiful winter morning. The sun was still at its peak of rising above Mount Justice in Happy Harbour. Peaceful. And quiet. Most of the town wasn't awake at this hour as it was a Saturday.

However, inside Mount Justice things were very much alive. The team had sparring training at 07.00 sharp. Everyone was there, well except…

"Recognized. Kid Flash. B03,"

As the zeta tubes announced Kid Flash late arrival Superboy got distracted and Aqualad took this time to grab the clone by his leg and sweep him off his feet.

"Ugh!" Superboy groaned, closing his eyes for a moment as the platform to his embarrassment displayed Superboy. Fail. Growling the half kryptonian muttered something under his breath as he sat up, rubbing his head. Conner lared at the speedster as he ran over.

"H-hey. Sorry I'm late," Kid Flash apologized. "It was a little more slippery this morning than I anticipated." He admitted, smiling an innocent smile, more afraid of what Black Canary might do for him being late, rather than his muscular friend. Honestly, the real reason why he was late was because he was really tired after Dick's birthday party last night.

"Can't see you ran into something…what a shame," Superboy muttered, accepting Aqualads hand as he stood up. He brushed his clothes off.

Robin snickered but got quiet when Black Canary spoke up. "How nice of you to join us, Wally. You're up next," Canary decided not to lecture him, as he probably just overslept but was here now. She gestured with her hand to the white sparring platform before she looked at the teams archer. "Artemis?"

The blonde Archer smirked and gripped her fist before stepping onto the platform with determined steps. She would gladly knock the sleep out of the speedsters eyes. Superboy and Aqualad stepped off the platform, Conner still muttering some words until Miss Martian smiled at him.

Kid Flash looked up at Artemis before he also stepped onto the platform. "Uh-kay?" He cleared his throat before taking a fighting stance and grinning. He knew exactly what she was thinking, and he was not gonna let Artemis beat him. Especially this early in the morning. "Alright. Let's see if you can handle the Wall-man."

Artemis gripped her fist, taking a fighting stance. The smirk didn't leave her face. "Yeah. Lets."

When Canary gave the signal Artemis was the first one to attack. The best thing about sparring sessions was he couldn't use his speed, which gave her the advantage. Running at KF, Artemis saw him preparing to block an incoming attack. So, in the right moment, Artemis dropped her fist and slide onto the floor, between his legs before shooting her leg back out, pushing his heel. When he lost his balance, Artemis stood before simply giving a push to his back, causing the forces to create his own fall forward.

Kid Flash. Fail.

Artemis crossed her arms with a smug smile. "There. Handled you."

"Hey that's not-" Kid Flash turned, sitting on his butt before he sighed. "Alright. Nice move," He admitted, holding his hand out.

The blonde archer smiled before she uncrossed her arms and helped the red head back onto his feet.

"Artemis. Good work," Black Canary nodded at the heroine in green before she looked at Wally with a small smile, arching her eyebrow. Well. He was awake now. "Kid Flash? Better luck next round."

As the training forthwent Kid Flash went to stand on the side while Zatanna were up against Miss Martian. The boy wonder stood beside him snickered. "Overslept? Really?" Robin commented, smirking as he was watching the sparring session.

"That obvious?" Kid Flash groaned. Not his body hurt, and he was still newly wake.

"Eh… pretty much." Robin said. "Still, way to get turbed huh?" He glanced over at Artemis who were talking to Kaldur about the sparring session.

Kid Flash knew what he meant and got red. "W-what? No! Um.. eh. It's not like-"

"Suuure it's not," Robin said before he actually looked at his best friend. He playfully hit him. "Dude! Get a room." If anything was fun it was teasing his teammates.

Wally looked down, flustered but glanced over at Artemis. Yeah… it might as well be that obvious.

Most of the team had decided to stay at the cave that day. Well, except for Conner and M'gann who had a movie date. Conner had promised to take M'gann to see this new christmas movie.

So while they were out doing that, the rest of the team had decided to enjoy the snow outside. It was one of the warmer days, which caused them to end up building a snowman.

"There-" Wally, now in civilian clothes along with the rest of the team stuck the carrot into the snowman's head. "Now he's got a nose."

"I thought we were making Red Tornado?" Zatanna giggled, seeing how the carrot did not match with the arrow on his head or the cloak.

Wally looked contemplative as he rubbed his chin before he shrugged. "Eh. then it's Scarecrow." He smiled and put his hands on his hips.

"You know Scarecrow doesn't have a nose either," Dick remarked, the amusement showing in his eyes behind the dark shades he was wearing.

Wally slumped together. "You just love ruining it for me, don't you?"

The girls giggled before Artemis rolled a snowball. She saw their Atlantean friend looking absentminded. "Hey Kaldur. Catch!" She threw the snowball over, hitting him straight in the face when he turned.

Kaldur was blinking the snow away, still looking like a question mark and trying to understood what was going on. Zatanna and Artemis laughed before their youngest team member exclaimed;

"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" Dick declared, before taking cover behind the snowman, starting to roll some snowballs. "West, you're with me!" He stated.

Wally smirked and was fast to build a snow wall next to the snowman for protection. Superspeed had its perks.

"Hey! Cheating!" Artemis stated before running over with Zatanna to Kaldur's side. "Kaldur! You're with us!" She stated.

"Won trofwons a tliub!" Zatanna spoke and a snow fortress, more in style of Elsa's were created on the other side for their team.

Wally lost the triumph look on his face. "C'mon…"

The fighting forthwent and it ended up with neither team successfully outbeating the other. They all laughed. Basically everyone was covered in snow.

Kaldur stood up and brushed the worst snow off of him. "Alright, friends. As much fun as this have been I ought to get back to Atlantis. Tula and Garth are graduating today. It's a big celebration." He explained.

"Of course you should go Kaldur. Go, have fun!" Artemis smiled, standing up and adjusting her headband.

"Yeah, say hello from us," Zatanna agreed, giving the atlantean a smile.

Kaldur smiled, seeing Wally do a thumbs up and Dick nodding. "Alright. Then I shall go. I will see you for tomorrow's training." With that, he walked inside to get changed so he could departure.

"Well, that was fun," Wally said after their friend left before he looked over and saw "Snowy", the snowman they built, totally crushed. "But hey! Poor Snowy.I worked hard on him." The freckled speedster pouted, slumping.

"Don't worry. I'm sure he doesn't have any hard feelings," Dick said, a bit cheeky as he pulled his gloves up after having emptied them of snow.

Wally stood straight and grinned. "Nah. You're right. He's cool." He looked around his friends and smiled. "Get it? Cool?"

No one laughed. Wally groaned. "Ugh, whatever."

Artemis and Zatanna looked at eachother and giggled. Zatanna then spoke up. "So, I have an idea. If you're game?" She saw her friends look intrigued. "Well, how about a little traditional hide and seek in there?" The magician pointed over towards the woods.

"I'm in!" Wally raised his hand with superspeed before putting it down. He and Zatanna looked at Dick and Artemis. The two non powered heroes grinned.

"Sure," Dick said. "If you want to lose."

"I'll take that as a challenge," Zatanna grinned. "I'll start counting."

"Alright. Well, let's go," Artemis smiled, up for a game as the others were.

Zatanna smiled before she turned away from the woods and closed her eyes. "1, 2, 3-" she started counting.

Of course Wally speed of to hide between the trees and Artemis and Dick followed in their pace, they all going separate ways to make it as challenging as possible for Zatanna.

"Hello?" Zatanna walked around. She frowned. "Guys, where are you?" She called out. She had been looking the first 20 minutes efficiently, but without finding anyone of them. Refusing to give up she had given it another 10 minutes to try and find them.

After 30 minutes she still hadn't found them, and started calling out saying she gave up and that they won. However, it had now been 53 minutes and none of them had responded to her calls.

"It's not funny…" Zatanna muttered, at first thinking they were just messing with her by not coming out, but now she was not so sure. She pushed a twig away as she walked by the trees, eyes sharp at the foliage around her. It was beginning to get dark as well, so she couldn't really see that well.

Zatanna stopped walking. She sighed, her warm breath forming a cloud

when it made contact with the cold air. Zatanna digged her jacket pocket and got her cell phone out. She took her glove off of her to unlock the display and she went to her contacts before calling Artemis. This seriously wasn't funny anymore. She pressed the phone to her ear and waited as the signals went forward.

"Hello, you reached Artemis. I'm out, I'll call you back," Zatanna was surprised her phone went to voicemail. She knew she had her phone on her.

She started walking again, the snow was deep so it left deep footprints after her. 'Maybe they got lost… ' Zatanna thought, not actually believing that and she walked over a log before pressing Artemis number again. Maybe she just didn't hear her phone.

Again. Voicemail.

The forth call Zatanna made, made her stop in her tracks. She pulled the phone from her ear and listened. Vibrations. She peered her eyes and looked around, but it was too dark to make out where it came from. She closed her eyes and listened before slowly walking towards the buzzing sound. A few meters away the noise got clearer. She saw a light in the snow and her eyes went wide before she took a step and looked around the tree before bending down. She picked up the phone from the snow and brushed it off, feeling it vibrate in her hand with her own name on the caller id. The buzzing stopped and she saw that the display showed 4 missed calls from Zatanna.

Zatanna frowned. "Oh no."

Authors note: Hey guys. This is my very first ever fanfic and story. I'm no writer, but I'm gonna attempt to create some interesting plotlines inbetween season 1s episodes and after team year 0. Please review and let me know what you think. I am planning more chapters! In the meantime, what do you think happened to Artemis, Wally and Dick? o.o answers might come in the next chapter ;)

/Sofia