Chapter 3

I've been in the watchtower for almost a week now, the place was a massive structure and was a beautiful in a labyrinth like way because I got turned around every now and again.

Batman ever Mr. Paranoid, made me wear a homing device that doubled as a beautiful double chain white gold bracelet and made use my room was right next door to his, I knew that it was his way of watching me but for the moment I wasn't in the position to argue about Batman's stalkerish tendencies, so I just had to put up with it and just deal with it for now.

Despite how huge the place was, I was only allowed into at grand total of four room besides my room which consisted of the kitchen, the recreation lounge, the aquarium and the hydroponics room. None of the rooms that I was allowed into were boring on any level not by a long shot but the problem was I was never alone. It frustrated me that whenever I even suggested going somewhere else, everyone would either tell me no, follow after me or come up with some lame ass excuse about why I couldn't go in there, it made me feel like a five year old child who had to be watched every second of every day!

The only thing that kept me from losing my temper was my growing friendship with Arthur (AKA: Aquaman.)

When I had first met Arthur, he hadn't made me feel like I was a burden or some prisoner that need to be watched every second of every day but like I was a normal person, we hung out every day now and we would either hang out in one of the giant tanks in the aquarium or I would be teaching him different ways to shield his mind, so far he was learning faster than I expected but then again the guy wasn't fully human.

Making my way down to the aquarium I thought about the new sequence of shielding that could possibly be altered to suite his mind better and walked face first into a firm green muscled chest, letting out a yelp of surprise I quickly stepped back to see J'onn standing there looking amused.

"Um….J'onn….Hi." I stuttered out and mentally slapped myself for sounding like a dumb ass. I had been trying my damned hardest to avoid J'onn because for some reason just being in his presence got me damp and aching for him and I didn't want anyone to find out that I was hot for the Martian for many different reasons, the main one being that I didn't want to put J'onn in a possession where he would need to choose between his friends or me.

"Hello Bianca," He said and I felt his mental powers all around me like I was in the eye of a storm and J'onn power was swirling all around me, but not in a threating kind of way but more like an absent mind way, like he was so use to others no being able to feel it that he just didn't bother hiding it.

"Um….I…I have to go, Arthur is expecting me." I said and made to move around him. "So I'll see you later."

I all but ran down the hall, when I finally reached the door that lead to the aquarium and pressed the little button on the panel nearest the door, then waited. I knew that the door was unlocked but Arthur lived down here when he wasn't in his home of Atlantis so this was essentially his 'room' and I was way too polite to just walk into a man's room without at the very least knocking.

"Hello."

I smiled at his joyful tone.

"Hey Sea king, it's Bianca." I said as the door opened with a slight whooshing sound.

"Come on it."

Walking down into the part of the aquarium were Arthur lived was always interesting, there were tanks on either side of me that starched from the floor all away around the ceiling to the other side, each tank was filled with waters so darkly blue that it was almost black and you couldn't see anything unless it was right in front of the glass. As I walked I caught sight of schools of fish, large sharks and some kind of huge looking fish that looked like a cross between a whale and a manta ray, then the long hall opened up into a huge room filled with individual tanks filled with clearer water that you could actually see through with different verity's of fish.

Arthur was standing next to a huge tank that was filled with almost clear water, inside the tank I saw a huge dark shape moving and twisting inside it…..

"IS that the Lock Ness Monster?" I asked as Arthur looked up from a chart her was looking at to flashes me his famous grin.

"In a way yes." He said and threw me a diving suit. "Slip that on we have work to."

There was a loud banging against the tank then a loud underwater roaring sound that made me drop the suit to throw my hands over my ears to block out the sound, Arthur on the other hand looked unfazed by the sound.

"Oh don't be like that." He told the giant underwater monster. "We'll fix you right up."

I stared at him wide eyed, I knew that Arthur was king of the sea and all but I was pretty sure that the sea creature wasn't going to stay in one spot while fixed whatever was wrong with her…or was it a he?

Not bothering to argue with the sea king, I walked into the changing area and quickly slipped into the suite then walking out, I followed Arthur onto the top part of the tank which held the observation center and medical station, after gathering what we would need to treat the creatures injury's, Arthur pulled out what looked like a harpoon and filled it with a clear white liquid then handed it to me.

"Um…Arthur….what's this?" I asked as he made to walk over the the diving station.

"That is seventeen ccs of AquaCalm, it's a fish Sedative/Anesthetic, I'm going to get our friend in here to move closer to the diving platform and you're going to jab it." He explained.

I just stared at him…..and stared.

"Um I'm sorry I don't think I heard that right…you want me to shoot a pissed of underwater dinosaur full of Tranquilizer, while you distracted it?" I asked and at his nodded I let out a sigh. "Fine, but if you die I call dibs on your trident."

Grinning at me with that oh so confident smile, I watched as Arthur jumped into the tank in one graceful movement that made me a little bit envious at the ease to which Arthur moved throw the water, his muscles flexing and expanding with ease as he swam. Shaking my head to clear my thoughts I watched as he swam around and around getting the sea creatures attention, the sea creature began to follow Arthur closer and closer until Arthur to a turn to slow and the freaking thing snapped at Arthur's leg.

Crying out I watched as Arthur cursed and ducked under water to avoid being hit by its tail, breaking the surface of the water but the freaking bastard had caught on to Arthur's plan and had swam the other way while Arthur had been under the water, and somehow used a tail to slam Arthur against the side of the tanks wall. I was moving without a single though and running across the cement walkway trying hard not to slip on the pools of water that laid here and there, Arthur was trying his hardest to stop the bleeding on his thigh were the thing managed to nip him.

I ran faster as the fucking ungrateful thing circled around the tank looking for an opening, but Arthur had moved himself into a tight corner that the thing couldn't reach him without seriously hurting itself, glancing around I saw that from this angle I couldn't hit the damn thing so sucking in a deep breath I used what little telekinesis I had (Which in the grand scheme of things wasn't much) I picked un the harpoon and jumped into the tank.

I barely registered Arthur yelling as I used my telekinesis to slam the harpoon home into the monsters side, what I hadn't taken into account was the fact that one, sedatives of any kind do work but that need time to set in, and two what would happened when pissed off sea monster saw what had just stabbed it.

Something slammed into my side sending me skipping across the water and I pretty sure that my newly healed rib broke again, then something dragged me under the water by the material of my suites leg and I was thankful that the suite hadn't been skin tight, twisting hard enough to rip the material and swam up to the surface.

"SWIM." Arthur yelled and I started to do so when I was pulled down again by my other pant leg, mentally cursing I quickly in did the clap that held my pants of my two piece suit then swam up to the surface again, this time the fucking thing rammed me and I slammed painfully into the side of tank, I felt a rib on my other side break and tears falling down my face, I pulled myself out of the tank just as everything stilled inside of the tank.

"Oh wow so now you decided to go to sleep." I choked out as I pulled myself onto the walk way.

"Bianca! Are you all right? "Arthur said and knelt down next to me and I breathed in air painfully.

"No…no….go heal that mother fucking bastard…." I panted and got a confused look.

"Go fix whatever the hell needs fixing….I'm so not doing that a second time."

He nodded and jumped inside the tank again, I lay there painfully listening to Arthur slap and dive inside the tank for what felt like forever before he retune.

Arthur bent over me and began to check my ribs, I cried out as pain blackened my vision and knocked me out.