' =sarcastic

Italics with '= Thinking to self

italics= telepathic

I own nothing but Piper and the *****. Once you read the chapter you will understand what that is if you pay attention.

Piper was 'grounded' by the league and apparently forced to stay locked up in her room. A breeze filled the room even though their were no windows or fans. The lights flickered and went off.

Piper walked up to a wall and stared straight at it. "I know. I know. Kylo is no problem. I can take care of him. The league." She didn't finish.

The automatic door opened and all the caves electric things and lights shuttered off. It was of course the only way her 'imaginary' friend could communicate. The dark.

Piper followed a whispering sound down the hall. She stopped and turned at steel door. It opened and Piper stepped through. The computer was still on. She sat down in the chair and quietly typed sending data into a software chip. She took it out and put it her pocket.

She walked down the halls but was stopped by Superman. "What are you doing out your room?"

"None of your business." She growled starting to walk past.

He picked her up and slung her across his shoulder. She kicked him as hard as she could but he didn't even flinch. He dropped her off at her room and locked the door yet again.

That night while she slept a black mist crept into Piper's room. She heard a small creaking noise and sat up quickly. "Who is there?"

When no one answered she turned on her music player to the song "stay my baby" by Miranda Cosgrove. That's when the black mist rammed into her in a quick movement.

It morphed into a creature with two tails and black scales. Its body was more furry and slimy. Its head was skin. It had a snout and red eyes. Five rows of teeth and a forked tongue was tinted red. She could only guess what it was from. It had four legs with large claws and paws.

"The Critan..." she whispered horrified. She had heard legends of it but had never seen one. It pounced at her but she moved. She ran to grab something under her bed but it grabbed her by the legs. She was dangled upside down with the Critan squeezing hard. 'Please. Help me Oscuridad. Where are you? She thought to her imaginary friend. She sighed seeing he wasn't coming anytime soon. She broke from its grip with her pocket knife.

It howled it agony but wasn't giving up anytime soon. It turned into mist once again and entered her body. She sat up, her eyes now blood red.

In the main room Garfield ,Zatanna and Kaldur were standing talking about who was better; John Cena or Sin Cara, when Piper walked in. Or rather stumbled in. The three turned to look at her as she gripped the wall. Her eyes were going from a slight red color to brown ,her normal eye color, again. Garfield gave her a confused look. "Hey Piper. You OK?"

She gave a weak "Help me." in response then fell to the floor unconscious. Garfield ran over and tried shaking her awake. "Zatanna go find help!" he yelled to Zatanna.

Garfield's POV

Med Ward

Piper lay on a bed in the Med Ward of the Cave after collapsing earlier. Me Question and Batman were the only ones other than her in the room. "No illness? No injuries? No things in the immune system? What caused this?" Question questioned.

"I don't know but I think we might find something in her bedroom. Come on." Batman left the room with Question behind him.

Feeling alone I grabbed Piper's hand with both of mine. During these days she has been here whenever I talked to her she would say things like:" go away toad", or "Leave me alone freak". But I still didn't give up on being her friend.

"Piper. You have to come back to us. You cant give up." I sighed. The video camera's was strictly for viewing. It had no sound. So I was in the clear. "Look. I don't know if you can hear me but if you can. You put up this bag girl act. But I know its just a front. You don't mean any of that. I know it. You don't have to be hide your fears."

Suddenly the lights went out. I stood up ,just about to morph into a anima with night vision like a owl or a bat. Before I could something grabbed my legs and pulled me under the bed.

Batman's POV

Piper's Room

Question and I were in Pipers room looking for any sign that caused Piper's sudden coma. I think we had enough. There were scratches along the floor wall and furniture. A pocket knife was in the middle of the room. Hidden in the corner I saw a red ruby. I went to pick it up and put it in one of my belt compartments.

"Now do you have enough information?" I asked Question as he lifted a piece of what seemed to be a wad of black skin and fur.

He put it in a plastic bag and looked at me. "No. Whatever caused a mess like this is pure dangerous. And the only person who knows a bit about what it is, is in a trance of oblivion."

I rolled my eyes behind my domino mask. "Have you called Dr. Fate? Martian Manhunter? Wildcat?" I asked. Some hero had to know some way around this.

He shook his head and headed towards the bed. "None are around. I was going to call... What could Wildcat do?" He finally took what I said into thought. Wildcat. Me, Canary and many other hero's mentors. He was one of the first heroes. He was very old but still had a few punches left in him.

"Maybe one of his infamous smoothie shakes can snap some sense into her." I chuckled. And so did Question. His smoothies may have tasted good for him it was like poison for others. It made Superman puke a few hours after having one.

I glanced under her bed. There was a small box. It was locked.

Normal POV

Med Ward

Pipers blood red eyes flew open as Garfield disappeared under the bed. She rose of the bed and stood where her friend stood recently. Her outfit morphed into a deep red tank with a black choker trailing from the shirt to her neck. Her shoes changed from flats to red knee high boots. Lastly black denim shorts finished off the outfit.

Sneaking through the halls ,she went to each room caking any one she past fall into a deep sleep.