Fourth chapter of this story
This chapter is long, and took me some time to write...
I do not own Young Justice or any of it's characters. That right goes to DC Comics and WB. I own only this story, the Danian race and myths, Caroline, Jaqueline and Carmen Ericson
She sat in her apartment and tried her hardest to locate her sister with the help of her mental powers. She didn't use any form of disguise and was soaring slightly in the air. She could almost feel her sister, but something was keeping them apart. She could oh so faintly hear her sister, but then again, she couldn't
"Come on Jackie! I'm really trying here!" she yelled and suddenly she could hear a small whisper.
"You're the one" she could hear her sister whisper. She was relieved that she'd finally created contact with her sister, but suddenly she screamed and threw Carmen out of her mental state. She lied on the floor and held her head. Her eyes were closed and she tried to clear her head, as she could barely make out anything. She opened her eyes and could make out her surroundings. She sighed and sat up, turning in to Louise. She flicked her hair back and stood up, supporting her weight on her knee. She looked out the window and sighed. She walked to the bedroom and took of the jacket and shoes, turning her clothes into a pajamas and lied down on her bed. She looked into the ceiling and put her hand into her pocket in the pajama's pants and pulled out the small ring. She looked at it and felt her heart ache a little. She missed Dick a lot, but she had to get a location on Jackie before even thinking about standing in front of him. He'd told her about her sister's disappearance when he visited her in Belle Reve. And she'd felt how guilty he'd been back then. She'd read his mind and found out that it was the only thing he'd felt guilty about. She clenched the ring and kissed it.
"I don't care about whatever slip-ups you might' have while I'm in Belle Reve" she whispered into it quietly. She had a slight suspicion that he could hear her when she spoke into it, like a small whisper. She had heard his voice himself as a whisper while she was on Dania, the voice sounding like it came from the ring. She smiled and kissed the ring again "as long as you'll be mine when I get out" she breathed into it and placed it and her night stand. She looked at the ring for a long time before falling asleep, lying on her side. Her sleep was dreamless, but she could still feel something stir in her. A slight uneasiness, warning her about something or maybe it was something calling out to her.
Dick woke up to the voice of Carmen and looked around. He was sure he'd heard her voice and breathed out loudly. He remembered her words and felt a lump in his throat. He'd been dreaming of her. She'd been mad because she'd found out about him and Zatanna. He held his head and the words played in his head again, and he felt his heart melt inside his chest. Whenever he'd been with Zatanna, he could never shake the feeling of a certain level of guilt. He looked into the ceiling and lied on his back. He stared into the ceiling and tried to regain normal breath. He succeeded in the end and closed his eyes.
"Sorry Carmen" he whispered to himself and turned to lie on his side. He closed his eyes and fell asleep again.
The next morning Carmen got up and looked at the time. It said 9:30 and she yawned. She'd been up late last night and she could feel the consequences following it. She got up and groaned loudly, spinning her back a little round while standing firm on her feet. She enjoyed the light cracking sounds that emitted from her entire body and changed her outfit into something more civilian. She smiled and walked out to the bathroom and brushed her teeth. She looked in the mirror and decided she would go out for breakfast. She walked into the living room and took on the shoes and her jacket. She stretched again and yawned loudly. She walked out the door and locked her door. She walked out the building and listened to the sounds of the city. She could make out a siren in the distance, and a couple having a big argument close by. She looked in the direction of the yelling and fisted her hand and looked into it. She could hear they were a couple, because the girl was shouting at the boy for things she could recognize from when she was little, and her parents had their rare fights. She looked back to her hand and closed her eyes.
"Lovers shouldn't fight, so let their love turn right" she whispered and opened her hand, a small pink ball swirling in it. She opened her eyes and looked at the ball and smiled. She turned towards the two people arguing and blew the ball towards them. The ball became invisible and turned into spores as soon as it was near them. They suddenly became quiet and everybody looked at them in surprise. Then the couple's eyes turned loveable and they kissed each other, apologizing when they broke apart. She smiled and turned away from the scene and started walking, putting some hair behind her ear. She hummed slightly and listened to the sound of the city again. This time she could hear that the siren had stopped and the sound of cars filled the air. She made a slight grimace at the thought of the pollution they made on earth, and her thoughts turned to Dania. She stopped up in the middle of the streets and an overweight man bumped into her.
"What do you think you're doing?! You should take notice of your surroundings you idiot!" he yelled and walked past her. She looked at him when he walked by and sighed in her head. She knew he'd seen her, and he'd been walking about five steps behind her for five minutes, giving him more than enough time to react at her stopping up. He just bumped into her so he could make a scene, turning all attention to himself. She looked into the sky and thought of the day sky on Dania, where at least one moon would always be visible. There were big grey clouds in the sky and she had a feeling that it would start raining soon. She remembered the rain on Dania, where she would always go and jump in the puddles, no matter what her advisors said and a memory from when she lived at Wayne manor popped into her mind and she smiled.
"Come on Dick!" she yelled and laughed, running into the morning rain. She kicked the water that had formed puddles up into the air. She was getting soaked and Dick looked at her like she was a lunatic. She looked at him and smirked.
"Don't do anything!" Dick yelled in a scared tone as she ran to him. She slipped in the mud and fell face first into the ground right in front of the main entrance, getting muddy all over her body. She could hear Dick hold in the biggest laugh in his life and she looked up at him.
"You can laugh if you want Boy Scout!" she got up and grabbed his arm and pulled him out and threw him into a big puddle of water and he splashed water all over the place. He yelled at her and laughed along with her. They started having a mud fight, one which Carmen won since Dick hesitated a little in getting to dirty, were Carmen didn't care at all.
She smiled at the fond memory, and could hear someone behind her walking closer. The weight of the steps sounded familiar and she turned around, pretending to have heard someone call her name. Her eyes caught the sight of Dick coming closer and he looked at her looked like was wondering where he'd seen her before. She smiled slightly at him and he waved at her.
"Hey, you're that girl from the bakery… Louise right?" he asked and stopped up beside her.
"Ah am. You're Dick right?" she said and started to walk a little and he followed.
"That's me" he smiled and she felt the strongest urge to tell him who she really was but held it in "had any breakfast yet?" he asked and just after that, her stomach growled and he laughed. She looked up at him and smiled while blushing.
"No… Ah woke up about twenty minutes ago, so Ah haven't had the chance yet"
"No problem, gives me a chance to ask to ask you out to breakfast, doesn't it?" he smiled and she thought it over for a second.
"Ya sure ya can ask me? It sounds kinda like a date" she teased and smiled.
"So why shouldn't I be allowed to ask someone on a date?" he asked and looked into the sky.
"Don't tell me that a guy like ya self doesn't have a girlfriend!?" she laughed and spotted her favorite café and looked at it "but if ya want to buy me breakfast, then tha' place'll do!" she said and pointed at the café.
"Sure thing" he smiled and walked her to the café. She looked at the menu and smiled brightly behind it. She could read his thoughts, and she knew the menu by heart. He was thinking about what to eat, but suddenly his thoughts stopped. She could hear something vibrate and put down her menu card.
"Ah think your phone's ringing bud" she smiled and pointed at his pocket. He looked at it and she read the menu card again, listening to what he talked about.
"Hey, what's up?" he asked and she smiled slightly, he sounded a little surprised by the call.
"no sorry, but I'm busy with something else right now… look, I'll be there as soon as I'm done here okay?" he said and sighed. She could hear someone bicker in the phone and he closed it and put it back in his pocket.
"Girlfriend?" she asked and he looked her in the eyes.
"No, work. I have to go as soon as we're done eating. I'm sorry we can't chat afterwards but…"
"No worries" she smiled "Ah'm sure we'll meet again. So, Ah'm thinking about ordering a chicken sandwich, okay with you?" she asked and took off her jacket. She felt the morning air tingling on her skin and shivered slightly.
"It's okay" he said and laughed "then I'll just have the cheese and ham sandwich" he put down the card and called for a waiter. She looked around in the city and smiled. She found the situation both fantastic and somewhat weird. She was on a date with Dick, but he didn't even know who she was. She held in a sigh and looked at him. He looked around and fiddled with his fingers.
"Somethin' wrong?" she asked and leaned in over the table. He stopped fiddling and looked at her. She smiled at him and he relaxed a little.
"No, but the one who called me just sounded really nervous, so it worries me a little" he said and put his arms on the table. She smiled and leaned back into the chair. She listened to the sounds of the city again and closed her eyes.
"What're you thinking about?" he asked and she smiled slightly.
"Ah'm just listening to the city. For some reason, Ah can't seem to get enough of the sounds. It calms me some'ow" she opened her eyes and sat properly in the chair when a waiter came with their food. She looked at the sandwich with hungry eyes and grabbed it, taking a huge bite out of it. Dick looked at her and took a more subtle bite out of his sandwich.
"This his sho ghood!" Louise said and swallowed the bite. She leaned back into her chair and sighed in content. Dick laughed slightly and she looked at him.
"What's so funny?" she asked and he looked at her.
"I thought girls didn't speak with their mouths full and that they took smaller bites" he laughed again and took a bite of his sandwich and she smiled.
"Well, Ah'm not like most girls. Besides, these babies are so good!" she took another bite, this time making it more reasonable.
"You know, I know a guy that can't control his eating either" Dick said and smiled.
"Really? Who might that be?" she asked and wiped some curry mayo away with a napkin.
"My best friend. His name's Wally. He eats just about all the time!" he laughed and she smiled.
"Sounds like a guy just after mah heart" she smiled and took another bite out of her sandwich.
"Really? So what was the comment about a guy like me not having a girlfriend?" he asked and raised an eyebrow.
"You're a sweet talker. Ya know just what to say to a girl. Ah can feel it on ya" she smiled at him and he looked at her in slight surprise.
"Well thanks I guess" he replied and she smiled. She took another huge bite of the sandwich and looked into the sky again. She was almost finished with her sandwich, and Dick had already finished his. She looked back down at the sandwich and smiled. She took one last bite of the sandwich and looked at him.
"Thanks for the meal Dick" she winked at him and got up, putting her jacket back on.
"You're going already?" he asked and got up, getting the recite from the waiter and paid.
"Ya had your job to attend to, didn't ya?" she asked and looked at him. He smiled at her and she got slightly confused.
"I do, but they don't know when we're done eating, now do they?" he joked and she giggled.
"Listen 'ere Dick. Ah'd love spen'ing some more time with ya, but ya should pay more attention to that job o' yours, or it might be gone" she said and walked away, waving at him "see ya later!" she yelled back at him.
"See you" he waved to her and smiled slightly "reminds me a lot of Carmen" he said and turned around and started walking towards a Zeta beam.
"What's up?" he asked.
"We have some information on that girl! Who were you with before anyway?" Superboy asked.
"Just a girl… so what have you got?" he thought he heard something on the line but ignored it.
"We received some kind of signal not long ago. Alien origin and very advanced. We think it was a signal for help. But we need you to make sure"
"I'll be over right away. Just need to change clothes first" he put the phone away and thought about the short conversation he just had with Superboy.
"What was that strange noise?" he asked himself quietly and bit his thumbnail.
She put her device in the pocket and walked back to her apartment. She walked in the door and changed costume. She smiled and took the device out from her pocket. The device had picked up the signal and pin pointed the coordinates. She looked at it and made it display the position. She smiled and put the device down in her pocket.
"My own spyware" she smiled and opened the window. She wondered how she would get there before the team, and thought it best to fly high in the air, above the clouds. She looked up and closed her window, locking every lock on her door and then she jumped on top of a roof. She looked around and could suddenly hear a low roar and then a flash of light. Then the rain started to pour down. She felt the rain slap her in the face and turn her cheeks into ice. Another flash of light and she smiled.
"No one's gonna pay attention to me now" she smiled and ran a little before jumping into the air and flying up. She flew up over the skies and felt the sun warming her skin. She smiled and shook her hair, water flying everywhere. She pulled out her spyware and looked at it. It pointed in the direction of the coordinates she'd obtained from the teams computer. She started to fly in the direction it pointed in and felt herself getting more and more ready for a battle.
Nightwing stepped into the cave and looked around.
"So what's up?" he asked and Superboy looked at him in anger.
"I already told you, didn't I?" he said "we got some coordinates on that girl you've been tracking the last three years. So what held you up?"
"Just a friend" Nightwing defended himself and walked to the computer "but here's multiple coordinates, and they aren't all that precise, are they?"
"no, we hoped you could narrow them down to see which one we should take" Superboy said and walked away.
"well guess I better get started" Nightwing sighed and started to cross refer the numbers to see if any of them came up more than one time.
"Nightwing?" he could hear someone say and turned around.
"What is it Tim?" he asked and Tim stepped closer.
"I need to talk. Do you know a girl named Carmen?" he asked and saw that Nightwing widened his eyes a little.
"Haven't heard that name in a while" he smiled slightly "I do, why?"
"Well, Bruce took me to this house last night, and something weird happened" he took a step closer to the screen "is this all the coordinates that the signal sent?"
"Yes. What do you mean something weird? And what does Carmen have to do with it?" Nightwing asked.
"Well, she was the daughter of the woman living in the house… Carol I think her name was" Tim looked back at Nightwing.
"Caroline, you were at the Ericson mansion?" he asked and Tim nodded.
"Yes, and I got this ring somehow" he held out the ring he'd gotten when looking at the wallpaper. Nightwing looked at the ring and read out the words in them.
"We feel like we can't be beat? Where did you get this?" he asked and handed the ring back to Tim.
"From a wall. It was really weird" he put the ring back into his belt and looked at Nightwing.
"Wall? That's going to need some explanation" Nightwing smiled slightly.
"Well it's really hard to explain. But I was looking at this picture of a bird; I think it was called a Taliana. I touched it and suddenly I felt like I was getting sucked into it. Then suddenly I could see all these different machines and there was kroloteans everywhere. Then there was a scream and I was back at the mansion. I don't know how it happened, but I had the ring in my hands when I got back to the mansion.
"You say the wall sucked you in, and you came out with a ring in your hand?" Nightwing asked and raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but…"
"It doesn't. If it was Carol's house anyway. But you probably shouldn't tell anyone that story, or they might send you to the Asylum" he laughed slightly and Tim smiled a little.
"Yeah, but what is that ring anyway?" he asked and pulled it out again "it looks so small, almost like an engagement ring, and what's up with the pattern on the outer side of it?"
"Well, it's of alien origin, I don't know why it's designed the way it is, but I can tell you one thing; hold on to it" Nightwing said and looked at the computer.
"Why?" Tim was slightly confused and looked at the ring, almost falling into a trance like state.
"Because, whoever gave you that ring might come to mean a lot to you" Nightwing smiled.
"How do you know?" Tim asked and could hear someone approaching.
"I just do, okay?" Nightwing replied and Beast boy stepped in. they both looked at him and he stopped up.
"What? Did I do something wrong?" he asked and Nightwing
"No, don't worry" Nightwing looked at the screen "okay; I have the coordinates that seem to be the most logical ones. Get Beetle. I'm sending the three of you, along with the bio-ship and M'Gann out to retrieve the girl"
"On it!" Beast Boy said happily and stormed off.
She stopped up and listened. She swore she could hear something and took out the spyware. She looked at it and stopped up, noticing that the coordinates had changed. She wondered about it for a second but brushed it off and put the spyware back into her belt. She started to fly again and thought about how she should help her sister. She flew a little down to try and see where she was. She flew under the clouds and looked down at the ocean. She sighed and smiled, flying right down to it and let her fingers lightly touch the water. She looked forward and saw that something was flying close to the ocean too. She couldn't see the ship but the ocean was moving. Her eyes widened and she could see multiple pictures flash before her eyes and she knew who was in there. She closed her eyes and reopened them, her eyes turned completely green and she flew faster. She had to get to the place where her sister was before the team. She flew down below the bio-ship and sped up even more. She quickly tried to read the minds of the ones inside the ship. She tried to learn their names and abilities, and smiled to herself.
"So they only send them, huh?" she smiled and sped up to her maximum speed, after making sure she was high enough in the air so she wouldn't splash the water.
"You guys ready for this? I won't be able to come and help you" M'Gann said and looked at the boys in front of her.
"Of course we are! This is going to be awesome!" Beast Boy yelled and jumped slightly in his seat.
"Calm down Beast Boy" M'Gann laughed "remember you have to be stealthy on this mission"
"Yeah I know! But we might get to meet an alien! I mean..." he looked back at M'Gann who just smiled.
"Don't worry, I know what you mean. And I guess that's pretty exciting. But be careful, the alien might not be of a kind species" she teased and Beast Boy looked ahead.
"What if she attacks?" he gulped and he could hear Robin snicker.
"We'll just hit her right back!" Blue Beetle said.
"Maybe we shouldn't attack her at all. Maybe she'll go with us quieter if we just leave her alone" Beast Boy said and looked at Robin "what did you laugh about?"
"Nothing… seriously nothing" he sounded astounded and looked out the window.
"Then why…" Beast Boy didn't believe him and kept staring at him.
"I don't know. Just felt like laughing for some reason I guess" he smiled and laughed again. He could suddenly feel something vibrate in his belt.
"You're weird" Beast Boy said and looked at Robin.
"Maybe not" he answered and took out the ring and looked at it "it's… vibrating?" he said in a questioning tone and put it back.
"What was that?" Blue Beetle asked.
#alien technology. Unknown species# the suit answered and Blue Beetle grunted.
"Well that was helpful!" he snapped at it and the others looked at him. Then they looked at each other and just brushed it off.
"Okay guys, we're here" M'Gann said and landed the ship "be careful okay?" she said and looked at Beast Boy "don't want you getting hurt, now do we?" she smiled at him as he walked out.
"I'll be just fine!" he replied with a smile.
End of the chapter.
yay long chapter XD So if anyone wonders about anything, please ask and I'll answer it, unless it'll ruin the story for you.