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Chapter Three

The hobby I picked up ended up being mystic, offensive magic. Pamela was against it but after talking with Harleen she agreed. That and the women was still in jail. Since I decided I wanted in on the super life, Selina upped my lessons. From just gymnastics and acrobats to actual combat.

She's gonna put you in a lock.

"Shut-Agh!" I groaned, my wrist easily caught and bent behind my back. Selina laughed, applying pressure to make it clear that she was in control but Dahlei took over. A hook around Selina's ankle and a push gave me enough leverage to free my hand. But I quickly found myself in a choke hold instead. "Thanks, Doll!"

That wasn't me.

"Oh…" I blinked. I felt Selina give an amused chuckle before releasing me. She helped me up but I was met with a confused and disapproving frown. "I thought I'm doing better?"

"You are," Selina nodded. "But you're a team."

"I don't approve," Dahlei huffed.

"Yeah well your stuck with each other."

"Hm… You do have a point," Doll mused, "But I already keep her body fit while she sleeps."

"Hey! I'm trying!"

"And now your gonna try together." Selina instructed.

Dahlei grinned, her horns appearing on my head as we shared the controls. Our left eye must have changed to because Selina glanced at it. Arrogant, that's the first thing that radiated off of her. Dahlei argued that it was confidence but I playfully scoffed.

"Alright grandma," Selina taunted. Dahlei gasped and I laughed. That's how Selina knocked us out in one punch. Or rather that's how she knocked me out.

When I came to I was trading punches with Selina. Her lip was cut open and my body was in pain. I gasped, my leg suddenly giving out since I wasn't consciously standing.

"Shit, your awake." Dahlei hissed, quickly assuming control again. But it was too late. Selina threw us over her shoulder and we were on our back again. We groaned, arching a little in pain.

"See, arrogant." I muttered. We groaned again while Seline only helped us up, wiping the blood from her chin. She ruffled our hair to which Doll happily rumbled to.

Normally I'd see Zatanna in passing, since it was a small school. But normally I don't break down in front of friends so I've been avoiding her. Still during our lunch break she tracked me to the library.

"Who beat you up?"

"Catwoman," I smiled at Zatanna. She only laughed and rolled her eyes, taking her seat next to me. I pulled out a mirror looking at my face. Green eyes, no bruises- Yes, thank you Doll Face. "Do I look bad?"

"No, you're just walking funny."

I rolled my eyes and sat back against the chair reading Dahlei's book. The pages were filled with notes in a mix of languages, mostly Latin, and magical pentagrams would usually take up the pairing page.

"About Greta…"

"Can we… not?" We interrupted softly looking around. We were in the library but a few other students still shifted about. Dahlei brushed out hair, checking to make sure her horns didn't grow.

"It's not your fault," Zatanna started softly. She reached across the table and grabbed my hands, giving them a gentle squeeze.

"It is…" I couldn't tell which one of us said that, which one of us was felt guilty and who was actually mourning but it was Dahlei who pulled our hands away. "Even if I didn't have her omniscience, I knew Billy was sick." Her? Who's Her? Dahlei ignored me.

"Did you?"

"No," I gasped taking control. I winced, pain spiking as Dahlei struggled to switch but switched none the less. "We thought… we should have acted…" My breath caught, my book slipped out of my hands and clattered loudly onto the table. A few students looked to us. I didn't need to look back at them, I could feel it.

"So, what's this?" Zatanna easily opened my book, sliding into a more natural and easy conversation. The pages didn't respond, instead remained blank. "Enchanted to hide its secrets, nice."

"My… sisters-"

"Really?" Zatanna frowned at me. "We don't have to talk about… that, but can you please be a little honest?"

"We do owe her that much…" Dahlei muttered softly. She glance around and flipped through the pages, the ink reappearing at her magic. looking for a- A sound proof pentagram? It glowed a soft red from the page.

"My magic is… from a possession."

"A demon?"

"Wow, rude," Dahlei huffed playfully. We laughed and shook our head at Zatanna's confused expression. "The horns, that outfit, blue eyes," Dahlei pointed to our left eye. "Signs I'm… active."

"And voice," Zatanna smiled. "Once you get over the demon vibe, it's kinda cool."

"I'm not a demon. I'm Dahlei, a Lord of Chaos," She gave a playful pout but Zatanna just choked on air. Something that loud broke through the spell but people just glanced at us and went back to their own books. We handed a bottle of water and Zatanna looked a bit skeptical before drinking it to calm her down. "Is… that a problem?"

"I'm sorry I'm just… surprised." My fellow caster admitted with a rough voice. Zatanna tried clearing her throat a few times. "It's not every day a Lord of Chaos… Isn't wreaking havoc all over town."

"… Destruction isn't my thing." Dahlei muttered softly. A flash of red hair, a tall man came to mind and was quickly cast away. Dahlei explained her magic flipping through pages and trying to change Zatanna's confused expression into an enlighten one.

The pentagrams Dahlei uses "convinces" and "bends" reality rather than using brute force to break it. Or most of the time it does anyway. It didn't work, maybe her magic was just to different but lunch ended with Zatanna asking to come over and talk about the mystic arts.

And apparently it was hang out day with the twins day. Zatanna was my guest and we studied each other's magic until Dahlei's… guest came over.

It felt like a rush, like I was in storm. My heart raced but it was the sense of dread from Dahlei that kept me grounded. And suddenly I was thrown from the pilot seat, magic flames changing my body into Dahlei's as her magic pentagrams redrawn itself. Not because we told it too but because someone else took control over it. And with the way Dahlei's emotions flared between anger and nervousness I had a feeling she knew the hijacker.

"Uh, what's going on!"

"Klarion's piggy backing on my shit again!" Dahlei pushed Zatanna back. Arm outstretched, she sent her mystic force back into her pentagram. I could feel a million thoughts filter in and out, hundreds of recalculations as Dahlei tried to negate it.

"Klarion? Lord of Chaos, Klarion?" Zatanna was 100% in panic mode now. Doll's memories flashed for a second. Lord of Chaos, takes a teenage form a similar suit to Dahlei's but their anchor was a cat. There were to many emotions that came with it and I couldn't catch a single one. Well I definitely caught the familiar vibe- in both the good and bad way.

"Aaand…" Dahlei's- Our heart hammered. I had to force us to breath before the stupid spirit suffocated us. She was to focused on her calculations to notice. "There!" With a wave of our free hand the circles within the pentagram spun to align correctly. It glowed pink- no magenta, for a minute before slowly evaporating into a red smoke.

"We… We should leave," I gasped, taking more control as Dahlei lost herself in thought. I took Zatanna's hand and my book before running out the door.

Instead we jerked back, the door turning a deep and dark red before flying open. Klarion stepped out with a deep surprising scowl. Surprising? Did he seriously expect that I couldn't negate it? I frowned for a second, was that Doll or me talking?

"Wow, no wonder you've been hiding for a few decades," He drawled with utter disapproval. It… hurt for a few seconds. When Klarion smirked that adrenaline quickly came back with rage.

"Nice to see you too," Dahlei drawled. She took a deep breath and exhaled a thick smoke. I turned to the window with the fire escape, opening it with a wave of my hand and ushering Zatanna out. Dahlei forced my body out the window and instead using the ladder she swung us over the rails and dropped down to the next level.

"Warn me next time!" I gasped, looking down at the ally below us. We were a few stories high and my head was spinning. Dahlei had a life before me, a life where things like this happened everyday but not me.

"We're gonna grab Zatanna and drop down-"

"What!" I felt my heart sink, hands almost slipping as I stared down.

"Before Klarion melts the fire escape."

"Oh no! No, no, no!" Instead I held onto the metal railing tighter.

"Dahlei!" Klarion screeched from above us. It took a second to gather some magic but I could already feel the heat. I grabbed Zatanna muttering a panic sorry and let go of the rail, kicking us away from the magical flame Klarion breathed down at us.

We passed through several pentagrams, slowing us down to safe-ish fall. I didn't break anything but we still tumbled and fell. Zatanna managed to pull me up before white hot metal and his mystic fire could come down on me. We ended up running through the ally way. Klarion throwing his unnatural red fireballs while I matched it or Zatanna threw a trash bin to cover us with spell.

"Can you teleport us anywhere!"

"Where?" Me and Dahlei huffed. "Argh!" Finally, Klarion's hit connected against my back, powering through my magic and knocking me to the ground. The Lord of Chaos laughed, finally landing. He muttered something about how being human made us- made Doll weak. About Death, Destruction, and the other Endless.

I couldn't hear them over Dahlei's thinking. If we made a pentagram Klarion will corrupt it. She couldn't make a new algorithm from scratch.

"Zatanna's magic..." I muttered. Dahlei quickly followed my thinking. A basic warp was drawn behind me and Zatanna.

"Haven't you learned? I know all your tricks, little lamb- Agh!" Klarion tumbled back and I stumbled to stop. I laughed trying to reach Dahlei but she was an angry ball of fluff in my mind right now. She took control just to charge him like ram. "Seriously!?"

"Well, duh," We laughed with a roll of our eyes. "Zatanna, cast a spell on it! Tell it where to go!"

"Oh! Um… Ekat su ot Yppah Robrah!"

A/N: I posted the first three chapters in the same day since I felt like it gives enough context to see if anyone is interested in it.

Zatanna's spells: Ekat su ot Yppah Robrah (Take us to Happy Harbor)

Update 1/10/2017: fixed typos and such.