Chapter 4
Not a lot went on last chapter. So I won't bother with the summary meow. Oh but a special awesome Thank you to Da'Ink who made a pretty awesome Fanart of Lita Bleak, you rock!ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
Throughout the day Lita soon realized that she probably should have listened to the boys when it came to the consistency of the Varity Football co-captain. He had managed to corner at every class she went to; and whilst the boys were fairly worried, Lita was not. She managed to politely brush the guy off and continue on. This did not do well for Jackson's patience. At the end of the day Lita was helping everyone decorate for the Halloween dance, she was hanging a banner that said 'Happy Halloween!' in orange and black large block lettering. She was almost finished when she felt a slight nudge at the ladder she was standing on. She looked down to see Jackson Bullock.
"Oh hello Jackson Bullock." She said sweetly and saying his full name to be polite, Jackson smirked.
"So you going to this thing?" he asked, Lita shook her head.
"Oh no, my father simply die if asked him." She said as she finished tying off the banner.
"You're dad seems like a real lame-o." Jackson said leaning on the ladder, "I mean if my old man said I couldn't go I'd tell him to go suck a railroad spike."
"Oh I would never dare say that to my father." Lita said, making sure that the banner was secure. She sat on the Ladder for a while longer. Then something Jackson said really got her attention.
"Tch; if you wanna go I say go, your old man's probably senile anyway right? I mean he's old…" He said, Lita's smile was replaced with a frown. She jumped down from her spot on the ladder and landed with a thump in front of Bullock.
"You do not know my father; and I would thank you not to insult him as if you do." She said rather politely. Jackson Bullock frowned; Garfield and Impulse were on the other side of the gym and noticed the commotion. They kept an eye on the two and were ready in case Jackson tried anything.
"Does this pathetic excuse for courting work on the other girls in this school?" Lita asked, staring angrily up at Jackson who she realized was a good two feet taller than her. He looked down at her.
"Courting?" He repeated questioningly. Lita gave him a look, as she thought.
"You know…Peacocking?" She asked. No response, so she thought a while longer, "Flirting?"
"Well yeah." Jackson mumbled, Lita sighed.
"Then this school is full of moronic mindless girls." She said, "I will have no part, so please leave me alone."
With that she turned and walked away to go help a group of girls hang fake spider webs when Garfield walked up to her.
"Wow; I didn't know you had that in you." He said, Lita blushed.
"Ah, sorry, I guess that's the cat in me." She said, Garfield gave her a confused look, "I-it's nothing, don't worry about it. You don't think he's going to come back at me do you?"
"I doubt it; if he does I'll take care of him for ya." Garfield said jokingly flexing his muscles. Lita giggled.
"You're so sweet Garfield." She said. Garfield blushed.
"Uh..yeah so Lita if you do get to go to the dance or whatever…"He began, "Would you like t—"
"Oh no! is that the time already?" Lita squealed then stood from her spot of the ground where she was spreading out the fake spiders. "I'm sorry Garfield I've gotta go tell Roger I said bye."
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"I don't like Lita going out; she said she would be back after decorating. Why isn't she back yet?" Klarion grumbled to himself as he paced in the living room. Teekl Meowed.
"There's no excuse for her to be late; I never should have let her stay after school, what if the Light found her and Kidnapped her?!" Klarion shrieked. Hatter mewed, which was then translated by Teekl. Klarion frowned.
"I am not over reacting! Savage and the others are very resourceful if they wanted to find Lita they could" He said, then heard the door to the house open and close as Lita walked into the living room.
"Lita you're late." Klarion said narrowing his eyes at his young daughter.
"Yes I know; I'm sorry dad, I just lost track of time hanging out with the boys and…"
"Boys?" Klarion interrupted, Lita flinched; she had forgotten to tell her dad she made some friends.
"Yeah, I met these two boys on my first day they're real nice and stuff; Garfield and Roger." She explained, "They showed me around school and they even asked me to hang out with them at this Halloween party."
"Absolutely not." Klarion said strictly. Lita faltered.
"But I wasn't even going to ask to go." She said. Klarion paused.
"Oh; I see, well that's good because you and I are going to spend Halloween inside." He said, Lita went wide eyed.
"Oh dad why? Come on, yaknow I read that normal kids used to go trick-or-treating on Halloween why couldn't I do that as a kid?" she asked, Klarion frowned.
"Because it's…"
"…Because it's dangerous. What could so dangerous as trick-or-treating? Or going out with friends?" Lita asked in a sort of a whine, she then sighed. "Alright whatever; I didn't want to go anyway."
Klarion frowned as Lita floated back to her room. Perhaps he was being too hard on her; maybe he should let her go. After all there hadn't been a lot of activity involving The Light in a long time; and it wasn't as if anyone from the Justice League knew about Lita save Zatana, but it had been so long she probably didn't remember Lita anyhow. He looked to Teekl.
"What do you think?" He asked Teekl meowed.
"She's your child, I have no say." He purred jumping to his arms, Klarion narrowed his eyes as he scratched his cat behind the ears.
"You're a lot of help." He said, then went to see how dinner was coming along.
Meanwhile in Lita's room; Cherie and Hatter were suffering through another night of Lita being…well Lita.
"I know he's just trying to protect me; but I want to go out and have some fun." Lita said, walking back and forth in her room like a caged tiger.
"Lita dear; perhaps you should see this in a different light." Cherie mewed. Lita sighed and flopped down on her bed.
"Don't get me wrong Cherie Curie; I love my dad; I'm not cursing him or anything, and I'm happy he let me go to school for the first time," she said then rolled over, " But I want to experience the things I see on the internet. You know; finally go out on a date with someone?"
"Lita, dear—I understand where you're coming from, and I support you just like I did your mother in anything you chose to do." Cherie meowed curling up next to Lita on her bed.
"Let's sneak out…" Lita said, sitting up and surprising Cherie who meowed.
"L-Lita? Hold on a moment." He mewed than looked to Hatter, "Stop putting thoughts into her head Hatter.
Hatter mewed but other than that said nothing. Cherie then looked back to Lita.
"Think about this first; do you really want to make your father worry any more than he already does?" he asked, Lita sighed.
"No, *sigh* this sucks I really wanted to hang out with Garfield and Roger." She said, hugging one of her many stuffed animals.
"Lita! Dinner!" Abra Kadabra shouted from the kitchen. Lita looked to Hatter and Cherie who both meowed, and then she flew off to the Kitchen (yeah Lita doesn't walk much around her house.)
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"So you're saying this woman; Jinx, is just showing up out of the blue and kicking your butts?" Wonder-girl asked laughing her ass off at Impulse and Beat-boy's misfortune. Impulse frowned.
"Not our fault she just manages to always get away; one minute you think she's helping you the next she kicking your ass!" He shouted, then crossed his arms.
"You're just mad cause a woman beat you." Wonder-girl said.
"It has nothing to do with that..." Impulse shouted.
"Enough you two; we need to get to the bottom of this!" Nightwing said ending the arguement between the two.
"Sorry."
"Woman or not we need to find out who this person is; so far no one's heard of her, she has no record, nor has she ever pulled off any sort of major crimes." Nightwing said pulling up the computer screen so everyone could see, a blurred picture of the woman named Jinx standing and actually somewhat posing for a security camera.
"We don;t have much on this girl other than what Beast-boy and Impulse have given us. She hasn't been that much of a problem really." Nightwing said.
"But it still begs the question what should we do about her?" Zatana asked, "Do we leave her be and see what she does?"
"Or do we take her in and ask her to join the Team?" Nightwing asked.
"I say we just arrest the weirdo!" Robin said.
"For what exactly; she did stop those robbers from two weeks ago and she left the money she took with Impulse. All she did the last time we saw her she just kicked our butts and leave, there was no evidence of her doing anything besides 'have fun.'" Beast-boy said, "We cant arrest someone who hasn't done anything."
Robin huffed. "Then what are we supposed to do?"
"There's nothing we can do but sit and wait." Nightwing said. "In the meantime Beast-boy, Robin, and Impulse; there's rumor of Icicle Junior—or 'Ice' as he's now going by, is trying to knock over Gotham town square; get there before he does and bring him down."
"Yes sir!" Robin said, the other two simply nodded, and then they were off to their mission.
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Meanwhile in Gotham Town Square; Jinx was sitting on top of a building this time however she wasn't exactly sure what she was waiting for; all she knew was that some guy names Ice was coming to cause some trouble. She sighed; bored of waiting and just begging for some action, when she saw man with white hair and ice covered skin. Jinx made a face.
"Geeze and he goes by Ice? How clever." She said sarcastically, then jumped down from her perch as Ice began to freeze the area. He didn't notice she was there until she spoke.
"Wow; turning the place into your own little winter wonder-land 'uh?" she asked nonchalantly admiring his work, Ice nodded and grinned arrogantly.
"Yeah, just wait until—wait who the heck are you?" he shouted Jinx smirked.
"Hiya! I'm Jinx." She said, then hit him with a round house kick in the head. He landed on the frozen burg that used to be the fountain. Jinx then grabbed Ice by the shirt collar, and pulled him to her eye level.
"Alright dirt-bag I've got some question's for you and you better answer them truthfully or else, you got me freeze-O?" She hissed Ice gave her a strange look.
"You…look so familiar." He said, Jinx frowned, then jumped back as a baterang came flying towards them. Jinx let out a catlike hiss as Robin and the others ran to them.
"Why are we not surprised to see you here?" Impulse growled. Jinx stood up straight placing her hands on her hips.
"Aww you're so cute when you're angry speedy." She said. Impulse blushed a bit as Jinx ran at him only to be blind-sided by Robin. She twirled in the air and landed on her feet.
"Oh? And who might you be kid?" She growled, as cat-like fangs protruded from her lips.
"Name's Robin; I'm guessin' you're Jinx." Robin said standing in a fight-ready stance. Ice, seeing the perfect opportunity to take off, did so, only to be stopped by a rope appearing around his legs. The group looked back to see Jinx's eyes glowing electric blue.
"Robin eh? Like the bird that's always caught by the cat." She hissed, then lunged at Robin knocking him to the ground and heading for Ice. She stopped when she had him by the back of the neck.
"Usually I'd have some fun fighting you; but I've got some pressing matters to deal with." She said glaring down at the trio she then pointed her hand at Beast-boy, "In the meantime here's a little chaos to entertain you. facere saeva."
Jinx then disappeared with Ice in her custody. Robin and Impulse looked back at Beast-boy.
"So that was Jinx huh? Not too much trouble." Robin said.
"She wasn't acting like she usually did; she acted more like she was on a mission." Impulse said, "Beast-boy are you—"
Impulse was interrupted by Beast-boy in tiger form attacking him. Impulse luckily managed to get out from under him and run back to Robin. Beast-boy turned and growled at the two.
"What's his problem?" Robin asked, Impulse shrugged, then knocked Robin out of the way as Beast-boy attacked again.
"Robin; throw one of those capsules at him or something, slow him down!" Impulse shouted, Robin nodded and went for his belt. He grabbed a Baterang and threw it at Beast-boy, he let out a pained roar as he felt a wave of electricity. He fell to the ground unconscious as he reverted back to his human form.
"What the heck has gotten into him?" Robin asked.
"I don't know, but we should get him back to Zatana—she might know what's going on." Impulse said.
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Back at The Cave, Beast-boy was put in a cage; he was still acting like a tiger and would attack anyone who came near. Zatana was looking him over when she turned to Impulse and Robin.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Well we were going after Ice—but Jinx got there first. We fought for a while but she escaped with Ice." Robin said.
"Before she left she said something about Chaos—and then mumbled something in a foreign language. Nothing I've ever heard before." Impulse continued, "What's wrong with him."
"Beast-boy's been hit with a Make Savage spell. This an advanced spell that twists the person's personality and makes them act on pure instinct." Zatana explained, "And given Beast-boy's transformations he has so many things to act on—the amount of time and power needed to reverse this is huge."
"But can you do it?" Impulse asked.
"It's going to take some time—a lot of it." Zatana said, "First I need to make a call."
Ooh, Beast-boy's crazy now—will they be able to change him back? And what did Jinx want with Ice—I figured since Icicle Jr would be older in this he wouldn't go by Jr. anymore so his name—for the time being—is Ice. I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I enjoyed typing it. n_n review.