The next chapter is up, and i plan for this episode to be the last cannon episode in the fanfiction, i may write more cannon episodes for the fanfic later on though
For this episode i'm gonna be trying to write the spells that Zatanna and Zatara use but i most likely will get it wrong since i don't speak backwards talk
Chapter 5: Misplaced
Dick chewed on the end of the pen he was holding as he read over the article on the computer he had brought up, over the last few days Dick had spent all the free time he had searching for his spell book over news articles in Detroit, it had taken a lot of digging when he couldn't exactly search for magic books recovered in Detroit, he had begun by searching for buildings that have been destroyed over the last 16 years. There had actually been a news article of the building that had been destroyed in the explosion of Steven's death. The official report that had been made was that a gas line had blew in the floor the explosion had begun and caused the entire building to crumble as a result because it was an old building. Every tenant that had been home at the time had died in the explosion
So after reading over that article he began researching the name of the apartment building that he had left the box in, he found that it had been demolished in 2006, the city paid for all the tenants to move to a new location so they could rebuild the area into nice town houses, there was nothing in any of the reports that said anything about finding a box filled with old artifacts, no he began looking into old news reports on the location he had seen videos of when the construction workers actually tore the building down. If he couldn't find what happened to the book in the last 16 years than it would likely be gone forever because there was no way of sensing the magic it put off after he placed that masking spell on it to protect it
He took off the sunglasses he was wearing, since he was in the Mountain's library and rubbed his sore eyes. He had begun running a search on any tenants that may have lived in the apartment before it was torn down and found two reports, he looked up if either one had began selling things after moving in or if they had made any sort of news reports but neither one of them had done anything of the sort, so he began trying to search from a different angle. He began looking into all the local museums to see if any of them had gotten any new display items over the last few years. He actually got a bit more luck by searching from this angle because he had read reports of a display item in the national history section of a World War 1 pocket watch with some letters engraved on the back. He read the full report on it and saw the letters on the back were an E, O, and D, he remembered now during the first World War they had become friends with a soldier that had died in the war so had kept the watch he had given to him as a present and engraved the first letter of each of their names on the back
Now he knew that box had been recovered somehow, because that watch had been in the box with the rest of their collection. Their things were probably scattered throughout different jewelry stores and museum's now, the box had clearly said private property on it to make sure people would respect it's privacy but someone didn't care and had gone through the things and had given everything away. They had all sorts of things it there that would be very valuable now, old diamonds they had found in caves, pocket watches, lockets, money from back in the day, coins, baseball cards, autographs from people that have been dead for centuries all of it was now gone, well they had made another safe house in the middle of the Louisiana forests, it was an abandoned cabin they had found so had refurbished it and made it into a small home for them, they kept more of their collection there so at least all of their memorable artifacts weren't gone. But he still had to find his Spell book, it couldn't be that valuable to a human, on the outside the book was white with gold swirls covering the hard cover of its back and front but since only he or his siblings could read the words inside because it was in the Escar ancient language no one here could possibly read it
He began looking for ancient looking books recovered in the last few years, there were plenty of books that were very valuable, but none of the pictures or descriptions matched what he was looking for, he was so lost in though skimming through each picture that he didn't notice someone walk up behind him and place a hand on his shoulder, he jumped and turned to see Selina behind him
"What are you looking at Dick?" She asked looking at the computer screen
"Oh nothing i was just looking up some old artifacts for a school project"
"Oh? what's the assignment?"
"We have to...um find an old mysterious object like a book or something and write a paper on how it was found and what we know about it and stuff" He shrugged
"Well i have a good idea for you" She gently pushed his away from the keyboard and began typing away on the computer pulling up multiple screens with data on it "It's actually something the league investigated a couple years ago, Bruce told me it was before he met me"
Dick nodded tiredly he doubted she could be any help with his situation but he didn't want to be rude so let her try to look like she was helping
"Ah here it is" Selina smiled and looked to him, He opened his eyes to look and his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets at what he saw, it was a rectangular image of the Spell book
"The league investigated this?" Dick asked her worriedly, thinking about Zatara and Dr. Fate
"Oh yes, Bruce told me it had been recovered from a demolition sight in Detroit, the construction workers had reported that they had found a box filled with old artifacts including this box underneath the floorboards of one of the basement apartments, they had handed all the things to the local archaeologists, they reported that some of the things in that box were over 500 years old so it must have been passed down in a family that had lived there once. Anyway the researchers couldn't figure out where this book came from, but they knew it was very old, so it was eventually handed over to the League"
"The league has this book then?"
"Not anymore, it had been handed over to the league because it possessed magical properties so we had Zatara look it over, but after years of trying to figure out where it came from he gave up, the writing inside isn't anything we have ever seen so the book was handed over to the American Museum of Magic in Marshall, Michigan"
He was baffled by all that he heard had happened, their book was now under lock and key behind a high secure security system in a locked down Museum, how on earth were they supposed to get it back now, they would have to steal it if they really had to have it back which was obviously the only option
"Are you ok Dick?" Selina frowned looking down at his troubled expression
"Oh i'm fine just trying to figure out how i'm gonna write this if there's so little we know right"
"Right? But you love a challenge"
"Yeah" He sighed
"Anyway the reason i came down here was because the team is on their way back from Happy Harbor with the things we requested so i figured you'd want to come up and see them"
"Sure" Dick nodded turning off the computer and getting up from the chair before following her out to the hanger where the Bio-ship was landing, Superboy came out with a large box on his back when the hatch opened up with M'gann right behind him levitating two cardboard boxes above her
When he got up to the hanger he was surprised to find Zatara and Martian Manhunter were there, he guessed J'onn was visiting M'gann and Zatara had brought Zatanna over
"Did you get everything?" Batman asked
"Everything on your list Batman, plus groceries" She sat down on of the boxes as Wally ran over to scan the items inside
"Cookie vixens?
"Snicker doodles" M'gann confirmed
"Babe you rock my world"
Dick watched as Kaldur helped Conner begin untying the rope that had been holding the boxes he was carrying together when he heard the elevator come to a stop at the hanger entrance, he turned to see Artemis and Zatanna step out, now that he had recovered his memories and recalled how his father Airon had once told him the magic he had learned over the last 4 billion years from the spell book was highly advanced to the magic Zatara or Zatanna used he wondered if either of them realized how weak they would be against an Esclion, thinking to Lucero. He also wondered if they would be able to learn the magic from their spell book if he would translate it for them but he knew that could never happen
He turned his attention to helping Kid Flash move the groceries to the kitchen
"Glad you're back Zatanna, does this mean your officially joining the team?" Artemis asked as they walked out of the elevator
Dick turned his attention back to getting some of the supplies out of the box in his hands when the things began levitating out of his hands and out of the box, he turned to see J'onn "Thanks J'onn" he nodded to him
"Your Welcome, Robin. Might i ask how you are feeling?"
He lifted an eyebrow at the martian "I'm fine, J'onn everyone else has already asked me this since i woke up. You don't have to worry about me"
Both Robin and Zatanna glanced over to Zatara when he chanted a spell to levitate some of the boxes of supplies, Zatanna looked back to Artemis "I don't know Zatara is so overprotective, i mean just getting him to let me visit takes a full days weedling. I wish he's just give me a little space"
And as if granted her wish suddenly all the adults in the room vanished in a white light causing the boxes they had been moving to fall to the ground
"Dad!" Zatanna cried
Dick's eyes widened at what he had just seen, Bruce and Selina both disappeared before his very eyes, Martian Manhunter had been trying to ask him a question while he was looking over to his adoptive parents seeing the two were talking with Zatara when they vanished, he had to cover his head because the things J'onn had been levitating began falling on him when the Martian disappeared too. He looked around to see the rest of the team was just as in shock as he was
"What happened?!" Kaldur yelled
As if any of them had a good explanation for what just happened, he didn't sense that they had been put into another training exercise this was their actual real reality
All of a sudden he began feeling his Esclion form hiding beneath his human form begin feeling extremely erratic, as if it needed to come out but he couldn't allow it, not now. This had never happened before with his Esclion form where it was demanding for him to let it out, until he began sensing a large group of magic chanting a spell and it was a familiar spell, he mentally skimmed through all the pages he had read in the spell book and remembered one that they had learned but had never used, there was never a need too and it would be far too dangerous to use if it was ever used
"Vencin de fifal van hamalin"
It would only take one of them to successfully perform the spell, it was a dimensional separation spell to cause one planet to turn into two different realities separating the life by their age, one reality for the children and the other for the adults.
"Come one Rob!" Wally dragged him out of the hanger shocking him out of his thoughts
Billy Batson watched from his apartment window that he shared with his Uncle as two children played in the sidewalk across the street while being supervised by one of the children's mother so he turned back to his apartment to see his Uncle was watching the local news
"Today is Fawcett City, Captain Marvel defeated an attack by the creatures known as ivack and savack"
Billy happily took a head rub congrats from his uncle before he disappeared "Uncle Duddly!" he yelled jumping onto the couch "Don't know which of my enemies is behind this but i know a job for Captain Marvel when i see one, Shaz-!" Billy was beginning to chant when he looked up at the tv to see Cat Grant had disappeared from her chair too "Whoa looks like Uncle D isn't the only one gone missing"
"LOOK OUT!"
Billy heard someone yell from outside before hearing a car crash so he ran over to the window to see the girl that had been playing on the side walk with her friend on the ground next to a car that had crashed beside her into a light pole
"Are you ok?" Her friend ran up to her
"Forget me where's mommy!" She asked pointing to where the woman had been sitting on the steps of a townhouse where her book and purse now lay
Billy stepped back into the apartment "All the grown ups are gone" he realized "And Cap's a grown up, if i change i could disappear too!"
Robin and Zatanna worked from the mission room of Mt Justice as the rest of the team had gone out to try and protect the children that had been left without their parents and gather them all at a single location in each city as that was their best plan of action for now. Dick tried thinking over the situation he knew that someone was using a spell from the Esclion Spell book to cause this to happen but he knew Eavon or Oshiana couldn't be doing this it would put them in too much danger. So someone had learned about the spell book read through each of the spells and put the book back once they were done with it at the museum it didn't make any sense, he knew he had the power to put things back to normal but he simply couldn't not without revealing what he really was to the entire team so they were going to have to figure this out the old fashioned way, he turned his attention back to the multiple holographic screens in front of him and Zatanna as they stood back to back
He got an incoming call from Wally
"We've set up a refugee center at the high school gym, any luck with-"
"No" Dick interrupted him giving his impression of clueless "Can't raise the Batcave, The Hall of Justice, or the Wat...or any adult hero, even Red Arrow"
"Guess were on our own, Kid Flash out"
"Tradition media is offline but kids worldwide are all posting the same thing, every adult 18 or older has disappeared. The sorcery needed to pull this off" Zatanna looked over to him with a grave expression "Scary big"
"And we're gonna need you to find it's source"
"How am i-!"
"I pulled this footage, it's your dad helping us locate wotan and the injustice league last month" Dick saw her watch Zatara perform the location spell, it would be easy for him to perform a baby spell like this but he couldn't raise questions in this situation, and if he did it in secret it would begin raising questions on how he found it which he didn't need so he had to turn this over to Zatanna
"But the words that only part of it, the rest takes training and...Robin I'm just not at Zatara's level"
He began thinking to the early days of his magic training back on Escar, he had been ready to throw in the towel plenty of times after spells blew up in his face but then he would think does he really want to be the only Esclion in existance that can't perform magic, did he always want to be weak "I know it's hard but try to stay whelmed" this was the first time he was actually using that word since before the simulation "We'll find your dad, Batman, all of them. It's what we do"
That got a smile from her
Superboy was wondering the streets searching for any children that needed to be taken the the refugee center when he heard the sound of a baby crying in a car, he ripped the door right off its hinges then reached inside and pulled the boy out of his car seat, he smiled when the small boy noticed they both wore the Superman symbol.
Back at the high school M'gann stopped two teenage boys from spray painting the side of the school by turning the spray back on them with her levitation causing them to run away, she dropped out of her camouflaged mode to reveal her Caucasian form as she landed on the ground, she turned to see Wally run up with a small boy in his arms with a bottle in his hands. The two of them walked inside hearing Artemis trying and failing to sing a lullaby to the small children in front of her
"Twinkle Twinkle little star...uhm yes sir yes sir three bags full" She sang causing the children to laugh at her
"That's not twinkle twinkle that's baba black sheep"
"Uhmmm...Q..R..S...T...U...V"
"That's ABC's!"
Wally and M'gann walked up behind her, the boy in Wally's arms was holding the bottle up to him "Oh for me? Thank you"
"Did you call home?" Artemis asked him
"No answer"
"You could Zeta there"
"I've been collecting kids all day i don't need to see another empty house"
They heard the doors open so turned to see Superboy with two kids in his arms and one on his shoulders "Got 3 more"
Back in Fawcett City Billy was heading to the location of one of the Zeta tubes, he ran across a street and put his back to a wooden fence "Ok Batson make sure the coast is clear...and...go!" He turned to pull up a loose board and ran behind it to an old photo booth, he went inside and sat in front of the zeta tube "Captain Marvel 15" he smiled waiting for himself to teleport but nothing happened so he looked back to the tube "Captain Marvel 15, override HOJ/Watchtower priority red Captain Marvel 15"
The zeta tube sent a scan over him
NOT RECOGNIZED: ACCESS DENIED
Billy growled in frustration, he had no idea what to do next but after an inspiring video from the team he got a new idea so made his way to one of the military bases of Fawcett city where he found his friend was still watching the team's video "That depends" he called out to her getting her attention "Do you have a pilot's license?"
Robin had taken a break from looking over the worldwide reports of adult's having gone missing, the rest of the team had returned to the cave after leaving the situation to the oldest of the children to take care of the youngest as best they could until this situation was resolved, he found Kid Flash and Aqualad standing in the souvenir's room so walked in to join them
"I finally got through to Atlantis no adult's there either" Kaldur looked to both of them
Wally gave them both a glance "So just how desperate are we?" He indicated to the Helmet of Fate "I mean this thing could defiantly come in handy"
"Yes but you and i know Kid that anyone who dawns the helmet and allows Nabu to possess him may never be released from being Dr. Fate"
Dick thought the situation over, it was true Nabu had the power to fix this situation but the price he gave for using his power wasn't worth the power he possessed, he had really begun thinking through if he should allow his Esclion form to take over, Lucero wouldn't be able to sense it because he wasn't in this dimension to be able to locate him, that was the only advantage and the situation did need to be fixed because he and Oshiana were currently separated from Eavon. There was also another big situation going on that no one was aware of besides him and if Oshiana and Eavon, wherever they were could probably sense it too but he still wasn't sure transforming into an Esclion was worth it, not yet at least
"So not that desperate" Wally asked
"Not even close" He muttered
"Guys" They turned to see Zatanna standing by the room entrance "I-I'm ready to try my father's locator spell"
Kaldur gathered the team back in the mission room as he brought up a holographic image of earth, they watched as Zatanna walked up and performed the spell
"Etacol rednecipefo rerecros!" Zatanna's spell brought up a single red dot on the small island on the east coast known as Roanoke Island
"Coordinates locked, Roanoke Island. You did it" He congratulated her but she simply looked to the ground with a sad expression on her face confusing him
"We should start preparing for the mission" Kaldur announced taking his attention off Zatanna
Billy had talked his friend into taking one of the planes off the base and flying him to Mt Justice so currently they were flying through the sky a small Cessna 206 plane
"I cannot believe i let you talk me into this"
"You did the right thing Amber i know i don't look like much but i have to get to Happy Harbor to help"
"We're almost there, we should arrive just after midnight" Amber told him looking down to her wristwatch "On my birthday"
His eyes widened "Wait! are you telling me you turn 18 at midnig-" Amber vanished before he could finish his sentence "I'll take that as a yes"
~ OoOoO ~
"Cookie vixens?" Wally asked
"Snicker doodles" M'gann confirmed
"Babe you rock my world"
The elevator to the hanger came to a halt and the doors opened revealing Artemis and Zatanna walking out while Zatara used a levitation spell to move some of the boxes of supplies
"Tovetes metenis te reportagas"
Red Tornado walked over to help creating a tornado under some of the boxes and moved them in the direction Zatara was levitating his own
"Does this mean you're officially joining the team?" Artemis asked
Selina walked over to Bruce when Dick left her side to help the team, she had been worried about him ever since he woke up from his coma he had been acting very distant to everyone, he barely looked anyone in the eye anymore, barely talked to any of his friends or them or even Alfred, he had been spending a lot of time in his room for the past few days, he would go to school then come back home and go straight up to his room and stay there until patrol. Bruce had tried talking to him about his behavior but the only answer he would ever get was that he was fine
She arrived at the mountain only a few minutes ago and had come to the hanger where some of the team and league were waiting for M'gann and Superboy to return with the supplies, Dick was nowhere to be seen though, Bruce told her he was doing some research in the cave library and had been in there for the past few hours. She was happy she had been able to help him with the school project he was working on and figured that was what had him so closed off, during the 5 days of his coma he had missed a lot of school work and had to catch all of it up fast, and because it was such a prestigious private school he had missed out on a lot of work that needed to be done. Dick cared very much of the reputation he upheld at that school and didn't want it to be damaged at all ever since he started at that school.
Both she and Bruce hoped that once all the work he was doing was finished he would go back to his regular behavior of joking around with his friends in Gotham and on the team
"I'm glad you brought Zatanna along old friend" Bruce spoke to Zatara seeing he was watching her talk to Artemis as they walked out of the elevator "Does this mean you'll allow her to join the team?"
"I do not know, Zatanna's so-" He couldn't seem to find the right word, he sighed "My only child, i wish i could get used to the idea that she's... ugh growing up"
"I know the feeling" Bruce muttered under his breath, he turned his attention to find Dick, he was standing by a large box of supplies talking with Martian Manhunter. Bruce narrowed his eyes at the Martian he had been acting a whole lot different since the simulation ended especially towards Dick, whenever he or Selina would come to the cave or watchtower to discuss league issue's J'onn would ask them about Dick, asking how he was feeling, had he been acting out of the ordinary, had he left the house unsupervised recently. Dick had been doing all those things but how would J'onn had known about that
Dick instead of going out with his friends on Halloween as he usually did, Alfred had told him Dick had gone out someplace else to do some personal things without telling him or Selina, he had checked the zeta logs and it reported that Dick had zeta tubed himself to a small neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan for a few minutes before heading to the Mountain when he had called for him. He had been acting distant to everyone he knew and he had gotten a call from the school a few hours earlier and they had told him that Dick was eligible to skip from 9th grade to 11th grade because of the sudden changes in his academic skills which was confusing to say the least the last time he had seen Dick working on his homework he was struggling with a few topics in some subjects now his teachers were saying he could skip two grades once again
He watched Dick turn to leave J'onn's side picking up some of the things in one of the crates when all of a sudden he vanished, causing the things he had been in the process of picking up fall back into the crate "Robin!" He and Selina both yelled the moment he vanished, they both turned when they heard one of the crates drop and saw the crate Superboy had been carrying dropped to the platform of the bio-ship hatch, Wally, M'gann, and Kaldur had also vanished
"Zatanna!" Zatara yelled getting them to look and see both Artemis and Zatanna were gone too
J'onn looked just as in shock as the rest of the league members in the room when the children in the room, but for a different reason he had been worried that Dick had all but disappeared on his own when he looked around to see the rest of the team had vanished along with him
"What happened to them?!" Selina cried getting all of their attention on her
"Selina stay calm!" Bruce laid his hands on her shoulders
"Zatanna! What happened to my daughter?!" Zatara was just as in panic as Selina was
"You two need to stay calm, we will no resolve anything this way!" J'onn spoke up silencing both of them
"We need to find the team" Bruce announced
"I do not detect the presence of any members of the team in this vicinity" Red Tornado added
"We need to try and locate them, We can start by locating Robin, he had a tracking device in his utility belt wherever he is the team should surely be with him"
A little 4 door blue car was driving calmly down a neighborhood road in Happy Harbor when it suddenly began swerving out of control until it crashed into one of the cars parked on the shoulder, causing the white van that had been driving behind it to hit the brakes but he ended up hitting the bumper of the small blue car
The van driver came out angry and walked to the drivers door of the blue car "Dude, who taught you how to-"
"MY SON! MY SON'S GONE!" The man inside cried facing the backseat where an empty toddler car seat lay
Bruce had immediately gone to the mountain's mission room and had the computer run a search for Robin's tracker but what was strange was that when they asked to search for his tracker, there was no data on it as if that specific tracker didn't exist. Zatara had tried locating Zatanna next but his magic didn't work on locating her either the same was for the rest of the members of the team, they had been trying different ways to find their children when an incoming call from Clark interrupted them
"We're a little busy right now Clark" Selina told him
"I'd imagine you are, with all that's been happening"
"What do you mean, Superman?" J'onn asked
"You don't know?!"
"Know what?!" Zatara yelled
"You need to turn on the news, it's playing on every station!"
Selina typed away on the computer bringing up an image of Cat Grant on one of the screens, she had a very worried look on her face and there was a background picture behind her showing silhouettes of a small boy and girl with a question mark on them
"Worldwide reports are all the same, every child under the age of 18 has disappeared! Parents are desperate for answers from secular and religious leaders from the heroes of the Justice League and from scientists at facilities like Star Labs!"
All of their eyes widened hearing the reports that every single child on the entire planet was gone, they had all disappeared, it was not only the children of the team it was every child
Back in Gotham City the local police were trying to hold off an angry mob of parents trying to get answers from the Star Labs facility, Commissioner Gordon was doing his best to talk them down
"Those egghead in there know what happened to our kids!" At the lead of the crowd a familiar face to the wanted list of the Justice League spoke to ride up the parents, Lawrence Crock aka Sportsmaster "For all we know they're responsible! Make them tell us the truth!" Lawrence stood back smirking as the parents began marching up to the doors of Star Labs that the police had barricaded
"Citizens of Gotham, please return to your homes!" Gordan yelled through his bullhorn "Rest assure that the best minds here and throughout the world are working on this and only this, everything possible is being done to recover your-" His mind shifted to his own daughter Barbara that had gone missing along with the rest "Our children, Violence will not get them back so all your creating is a dangerous distraction from what really matters here tonight"
Little did Gordon know that he was describing the very task that the criminals were doing by creating this situation, the police were so distracted by keeping the parents at bay they didn't see that another league criminal known at the Riddler walked out of Star Labs dressed as a scientist carrying a metal briefcase, he strolled right past where security would usually be posted and down the side steps where he met Lawrence Crock waiting for him in a car before driving off
Batman and Zatara stood in the Mountain's souvenir room staring at the Helmet of Fate that lay on one of the many shelves in front of them
"So how desperate are we?" Zatara asked as Batman walked up behind him
"I informed the watchtower you located the focal point at Roanoke but the rest of the league is deployed to avert the chaos, Tornado, Manhunter, Catwoman, You and I are on our own"
"I would do anything to get my daughter back" Zatara shifted his attention back on the Helmet of Fate, he knew he alone didn't have the power to put everything back to the way it was before
"Yes, but we both know there are many ways for you to lose her "
"So not that desperate, not yet. The entire league is unavailable" Zatara asked as he and Batman began walking out of the room
"Except for Captain Marvel, he's missing"
In the air above Happy Harbor, Billy struggled to keep the plan flying having no type of training under his belt "I can't if i say it i'll be an adult and maybe disappear forever!" Billy frowned at the thought "Captain Marvel may have the courage of Achilles...but Billy Batson...has the courage of Billy Batson" He had made up his mind "SHAZAM! and after a large bolt of lighting he became the adult form of Captain Marvel though the plane he had been in disappeared, he quickly had to fly before he let gravity over take him "Hey i didn't disappear!"
His attention was turned when he heard the sounds of a girl scream "Amber!" He flew down to where she was falling toward the ground and caught her in his arms "Gotcha!"
After safely dropping Amber off in Happy Harbor he made his way to Mt Justice
RECOGNIZED: CAPTAIN MARVEL 15
Zatara, J'onn, Bruce and Selina turned their attention to the zeta tubes from the holographic screens in front of them when they heard the announcement, they watched as the captain flew out of the tube and landed at the other end of the room
"Alright guys i'm here too-" Billy's eyes widened when he saw it wasn't the team that stood inside the cave, it was members of the Justice League, the adults, He flew up to them first pulling Zatara and J'onn into a bear hug before pulling in Bruce and Selina into another crushing hug "You're back! Is it over? Where's the team?"
"Haven't you heard?! Every child in the world has-" Zatara started before Bruce laid a hand on his shoulder
"Zatara hold on, Captain where have you been?"
"On a world without grown ups" Billy realized then put a hand to his head "Holly molly there are two worlds!"
"Two dimensions" J'onn realized
"One for adults" Selina's eyes widened
"And one for kids" The captain concluded
"And you can travel between them?" Zatara asked
"I think i can, i know i can! SHAZAM!" He yelled before a bolt of lightning hit turning him back into his child form "It worked" He happily turned to see the team in front of him with baffled looks on their faces, they all came up to him
"Who are you? Where did you come from?" Kaldur asked
"Quick read my mind!" Billy looked to Miss Martian which she quickly complied to do and after a few seconds she gasped at him
"He's Captain Marvel!"
Wally scoffed "Yeah and I'm Speedy Gonzales, look just cause he believes he's capta-"
"Jee Wally do i really need to get you nachos and pineapple juice to get on your good side?"
The team turned wide eye'd to M'gann getting a confirmation
This allowed Billy to pass messages from the League to the Team and from the Team to the League
"There will be threats in both dimensions and we may not be familiar with our opponents " Bruce spoke as leader of the League
"But the key to this mission is a coordinated simultaneous attack" Kaldur spoke as leader of the team
"Agreed, our best chance at sorcery is to strike fast, disrupt their efforts"
"And hope the two dimensions merge naturally back into one"
Dick looked away from the team at Kaldur's last sentence, this was a very complicated super advanced spell that was only supposed to be used by an Esclion, the only way to break this spell would be for a sorcerer on each side of the dimension to chant a spell merge spell on the source of magic to blend the two dimensions back into one, there was a big problem with that though, he knew the league had Zatara on their side but for the team, Zatanna was fully train enough to perform a spell as advanced as a merging spell. Maybe whoever was doing this would stop the spell on their own
He scoffed to himself for even thinking that, maybe Oshiana or Eavon would show up and disrupt the spell on their own and he wouldn't have to interfere but that was even more unlikely, he mentally skimmed through all the spells he had learned over the last 4 billion years and found one that could help this situation and help him at the same time with his secret but it would have to take really great timing to get it to work, Lucero was an adult, he had to keep reminding himself of that
A sudden shaking of the earth shook him out of his thoughts , his eyes widened looking at the ground and then at the rest of the room seeing some of the structure of the mountain fall from the ceiling because of the sudden earthquake "Everyone take cover!" Kaldur yelled
Robin quickly held his cape over himself to avoid some of the sparks falling off the computer equipment, while Wally grabbed Artemis and ran them to the steel corridors, Conner shielded Zatana, while M'gann levitated the falling debris away from her and Kaldur created a shield around himself with his water bearers
"SHAZAM!"
Dick looked over to see Billy had disappeared
In the adult dimension, the earthquake had hit as well, Batman covered himself and Selina with his large cape, Tornado used his abilities to blow the falling debris away from their direction, while Martian Manhunter did the same with his levitation, Zatara created a shield around himself to protect him
"SHAZAM!"
Bruce looked over to see Captain Marvel had returned and flew up to destroy a large falling piece of rock that would have likely crushed him and Selina. After a few more seconds the shaking finally stopped
"That was out of the blue" Selina muttered looked around at the damage
"It happened on the other side too" Marvel spoke landing beside them
"Go back and make sure they're all alright" Zatara told him
Marvel nodded "SHAZAM!"
Dick came over from the safety of his cape looking around at the damage, he grimaced to himself seeing the wires hanging out of the walls and the floor littered with debris. The earth couldn't take much more of this uncontrolled power, this was why only an Esclion could use their magic it would cause to much instability if a normal sorcerer tried without the proper 75 years of training it required
"Is everyone ok?" Kaldur asked once the quake was over looking around at all his teammates seeing they all were unscathed
"We're all fine" Artemis announced for them
"Where did that come from?" Zatanna asked baffled
"SHAZAM!" The team looked over to see Billy had returned "The quake it happened on the adult's side too"
"Kinda figured that" Conner crossed his arms
"Whoa you guys need to see this!" Wally called over to them and they saw he had brought up social media postings of what looked like large cracks on the surface of the earth, kids all over the world had taken pictures of it, there was one in Paris, another near the Taj Mahal, another on the San Andreas fault
"This could be a side effect of the amount of sorcery going on right now, it must be putting a strain on the earth" Zatanna spoke
"You're right we need to end this now!" Kaldur announced
The team had arrived had Roanoke Island, they had used their stealth skills to first get a look at what they were preparing themselves to fight, Dick narrowed his eyes looking ahead to see Klarion the witch boy stood alone in a large pentagram with his cat teekle, he also had an old worn out piece of paper floating in front of him, 'Idiot!' Dick clenched his teeth at the witch boy, he might think he's all powerful but he can't control all types of magic especially this kind. He had never had to fight against Klarion before so he could already tell this was gonna be a difficult battle.
Kaldur deployed for Artemis and himself to attack first so the two of them stepped out of the forest and launched the arrows and disks at Klarion
As they expected Klarion turned at the last seconds and made a shield around him causing their weapons to fall to the ground
"That's the best you can do?" Klarion grinned at them before holding up his hands toward them making a bolt of lightning shot down toward them, they quickly jumped out of the way before it could hit
Klarion turned to see Superboy running toward him, then heard a yell and looked behind him to see Aqualad was coming toward him with a water shaped mallet with Kid Flash so without even moving Klarion made a large red shield around the entire pentagram blocking their access
Zatanna stepped up after the three boys fell back "Etatival Nufoeatmarc Gretnam!" But all it did was make a little spark on the edge of the shield
Klarion scoffed at her "Baby magic" he held up his hand at her "Fiestina atitativel last estatel!" He waved his hand upward making Zatanna be launched into the sky, Superboy quickly ran to catch her before she could hit the ground
Klarion's attention was turned when large rocks began hitting his shield, He looked to see Miss Martian was throwing them trying to break the barrier, he opened his mouth to let a large wave of fire shoot out toward her, she moved out of the way before it could hit her
Kid Flash ran up to Artemis "Listen when Fate possessed my body, he defeated Klarion by attacking the cat"
Artemis looked ahead of her to see the cat was licking its paws outside the barrier then turned and hissed at her "Good not the big cat fan anyway" She launched an arrow towards it
Klarion turned and waved his hand turning the arrow into a ball of green yarn landing it at teekle's feet, He chuckled "Show'em what the due of Lord of Chaos can do Teekle!" He waved his hands at the cat and began turning him into a large sabortooth like tiger. Teekle smacked Superboy away with one of his large paws when he tried to attack then began running toward him ready to attack himself
In the adult dimension the 4 adult sorcerers stood around the pentagram calmly as the spell continued
Captain Marvel landed behind Wizard, Batman and Catwoman landed behind BlackBrair Thorn the two of them both shot batarangs at him but the sorcerer waved them off then had large weeds pop out of the ground below them wrapping them around the two leaguers to trap them
Red Tornado landed behind Felix Faust and sent two tornado's out of his hands toward the sorcerer, Felix sent a wave of fire back at the android knocking him backwards. Zatara stood on a magical platform and waved his cane to the sky "Nomos ed Grinirki!" 4 large bolts of lightning shot down from the sky hitting all 4 sorcerer's that stood around the pentagram. Martian Manhunter flew up and used his telekinesis to free Batman and Catwoman from their confinements when a wave of energy formed around the pentagram and the lighting from Zatara's attack began going toward a gem in the center, Zatara looked down to it seeing it absorb the rest of the lighting
Klarion felt the lighting on his side "So you teamed up with the grown ups, team work is so overrated" with a wave of his hand the lightning that had come from Zatara's magic shot out of the gem missing Kid Flash by a hairline, Dick's eyes widened seeing it come toward him, his subconscious was telling him to put up a shield to block the lightning but all of his past lives were telling him to let it hit, it wasn't going to kill him anyway, he saw out of the corner of his eye the lightning hit Artemis. He looked up to the lightning then used a small pinch of power to simple form a small layer of a shield around his torso when it hit causing him to fall back in the direction Artemis had gone and fall to the ground
Kaldur caught a hold of the lightning that had been shot toward him
Zatanna came up to where Robin and Artemis were laying on the ground, "Artemis..Robin!" She cried dropped to her knees between them, she heard a moan coming from Robin and turned to see him sit up on his knees and was breathing a little hard "Robin! Are you ok?!" She yelled moving over to him seeing he was holding his gloved hand to his chest
"Ugh..Fine" he nodded to her
"You can't possibly be fine, you were just struck by lightning!"
Robin was about to respond when they heard Kaldur's moans of pain, the two of them looked up to see the lightning was advancing harder of Aqualad, and Kid Flash was knocked away from the barrier when he was trying to ram it down, all of the team members were slowly weakening against Klarion, none of them were powerful enough to defeat the witch boy, Dick looked to the ground 'He couldn't though he would put himself and his siblings in danger if he stayed in Esclion form even for a second when the worlds merge, and it would raise questions with the team if they saw an Esclion, they would surely tell the league about what they had seen' he turned back up to see M'gann was it with the breath of fire and Superboy was tackled by Teekle, he looked down to Artemis seeing she was still unconcious, Kaldur was being pushed further down by the lightning and Kid Flash he had no hope of getting past that barrier
He looked over to Zatanna she was watching all of the members of the team being slowly defeated, she began looking around herself until she saw a rock behind her, Dick looked to the rock and frowned, he lightly used his telepathy on her and his eyes widened seeing what she was planning, His eyes glowed a second later making Zatanna fall down to the ground seemingly unconscious. His past lives were all yelling at him not to do it! he had to leave this situation be if it was meant this way it had to happen! but not when there was something he could do to stop it! It was what he became Robin to do, he had learned a spell that would help him look human but also use his Esclion form to help. Separate into two, one would appear human and unconscious the other would become an Esclion and fight "Sed Creverunt me in duo!" he chanted making his eyes glow blue glad that no one was paying attention to him
Back in the adult's dimension Wizard rose two large bolder's out of the ground and threw them at Captain Marvel, Marvel used his super strength to crush the bolder's before they could hit when two more rose from the ground at his sides and crushed him but he broke free shattering them into pieces, he glared down at the sorcerer's and got ready to attack again "Captain wait!" he turned to see Zatara float down next to him "That mystic gem!" he pointed toward the gem in the center of the pentagram "Ambreshum berdu is the conduit of this sorcery without it nothing can keep apart two worlds meant to be one"
"I'll tell the team, SHAZAM!"
Billy found himself in the middle of the field and looked ahead to see Kaldur on the ground being shot full of lightning "It's the ge-" his mouth was covered from behind, he turned to see Miss Martian by his side
"Don't shout Billy i've linked you telepathically to the others"
"That's so cool...I mean it's the gem at the center of the pentagram destroy it and we win!"
Dick turned narrowing his eyes at the yellow gem 'That's all i needed to know' "Reformabit!" He chanted before he fell to the ground and a bright blue light formed above him then moved up toward the sky, every conscious member of the team and Klarion turned their attention to the bright blue light in the sky,
"What's going on?" Wally looked up at it hoping they wouldn't be getting someone else to fight, Klarion was enough on his own
The light began getting smaller until it began taking the shape of a human, as the whirling sound began coming to a stop, the bright light vanished to reveal a glowing blue humanoid creature, it's eyes were closed at first as if it was absorbing the energy of the light that had just diminished. The creature had the humanoid shape of a boy it had glowing blue shades of skin, it's eyes were white hollow glowing sockets, no nose, but it did have a mouth. And it had flame like blue and white energy that seemed to act like hair behind his head. The creature took a a deep breath looking down at himself then seemed to look in the direction on the unconscious Artemis, Robin, and Zatanna
Wally and M'gann got protective of their three unconscious friends for a minute before the creature turned it's attention toward Klarion and glared at the Witch boy
The creature crossed his arms over his face before pulling them back down releasing an aura of blue energy around it "KLARION!" it yelled down at the witch boy as it continued to glare at him "THIS BATTLE IS OVER!"
The Witch boy glared up at him clenching his teeth at this sudden development
M'gann turned back to Billy who was staring wide eyed at the humanoid figure "Billy tell the League!"
"Right yeah, SHAZAM!" He disappeared when the lightning bolt struck
Klarion shot a beam of red energy up at the figure, the blue figure created a small blue orb of light in one hand before pointing it down at Klarion contracting his red beam
Batman shot a couple of his destructive pellets along with Catwoman destroying thorns that had erupted from the ground trying to capture them, Manhunter and Tornado dodged beams of magic that one of the sorcerers were shooting up at them as Zatara held back Wizard and Blackblair thorn with a shield to block their own beams of magic from hitting him
"SHAZAM!"
Zatara turned to see Captain Marvel had returned
"Did you tell them?"
"Yes but there's something the league has to know, this thing appeared in their dimension and it's started fighting with Klarion!"
"What? Who is it?"
"I don't know but it's not human whatever it is"
Zatara gritted his teeth, his daughter could be in potential danger "Captain go back and-"
"No the sooner this is over the sooner we can help the team; keep the bad guys distracted i have an idea" he flew up higher into the sky "Speed of Mercury...Power of Zues!" He chanted as he turned around and began spinning as he dived into the ground
Klarion grunted as the creature deflected his beam, so turned to another tactic by creating small orbs of energy and began throwing them up at it as it flew around the sky closer to his barrier each time it dodged his attacks
Daevi narrowed his eyes at the witch boy as he tried and failed to hit him with his little attacks, he palmed his hands together and shot a bolt of energy down at the barrier piercing through it hitting the pentagram below making Klarion stop his small attacks and repair the damage quickly so he continued firing his own attacks back down at Klarion
The team gathered by the unconscious Artemis, Zatanna, and Robin; Aqualad, Miss Martian, and Kid Flash watched as the figure continued to deflect Klarion's attacks and fire his own down at Klarion
"Kaldur, what should we do?" M'gann asked
"We don't know if this thing is on our side or just doesn't like Klarion" Wally said
"But for now we fight alongside it, it's weakening Klarion. It appears to be another sorcerer from the looks of it's attacks so we shall fight with it...for now. Kid go!" Kaldur said making Wally run off as M'gann took off back into the sky after putting Artemis, Robin, and Zatanna in a safe location, Kaldur reached behind him and grabbed his water bearers turning them again into mallets and run up to the barrier beginning to pound on it with the mallets while M'gann threw broken tree trucks down on it.
Daevi glanced at the members of the team as they continued to try and penetrate the barrier, he turned away from them focusing back on his objective the witch boy, he glanced next to him seeing the torn piece of paper floating by his side, he inspected it from his distance and his suspicion's were confirmed the writing on it was the ancient language of the Esclion race, he had ripped the pade out of the only spell book of the Esclions left in existence, his own! "You have no idea what you are doing witch boy!" He narrowed his eyes down at the boy flashing his eyes making a large bolt of lightning shot down through the barrier hitting the pentagram once again
"No, I am the Lord of Chaos, It's my fun to create destruction"
"Destruction that will end your existence as well!"
"What?!"
"You stole from something you do not understand boy! 'Vencin de fifal van hamalin'. It is a highly advanced spell not meant to be used by a regular sorcerer"
"Oh what do you know bluey!" Klarion growled up at him and prepared another attack when the earth began shaking once again
Daevi turned his attention back on Dick when the earth began shaking once more seeing it was causing some of the trees to begin to crumble around them, he rose his hand toward him "Fac ut Scutum Protegens Eum!" A blue dome formed over Dick as well as Zatanna and Artemis to protect them from the falling debris then waited until the quaking stopped with his arms crossed seeing a crack open up in the earth just a few inches next to the pentagram before the quaking finally stopped
"You see what you are doing Klarion, it takes a proper 75 years of training to master this magic! You are nowhere near ready to use it! especially with your immaturity!" Daevi glared down at the witch boy watching him get back to his feet "It's time to end this" He outstretched his hand having five orbs come from his finger tips then threw them down onto the barrier and once they hit they began spreading over the barrier slowly melting it like ice with electricity forming around it as it melted
M'gann levitated large bolder's onto the barrier as it continued to melt and Kaldur continued pounding on it
"NO!No!No!No!No!" Klarion cried as the barrier began coming down until it was all gone
Daevi then formed another hollow orb with his energy and threw it down at Klarion trapping him in a hollow sphere of blue energy, Klarion's eyes widened then got back to his feat and began trying to get out using his magic to penetrate it but nothing worked, Kaldur turned "Now Kid!"
Kid Flash ran to the center of the pentagram past the trapped Klarion to the other side of the pentagram then looked up into the sky seeing the blue figure was still floating up there, Kaldur did say to fight alongside it "Hey!" He yelled up to it getting it's attention "Catch!" throwing the yellow gem up to him
In the adult dimension they were still battling against the four sorcerers when the ground beneath the gem began cracking until Captain Marvel shot up out of the ground getting a hold of the gem along the way, he looked up to their own sorcerer "Zatara catch!"
Now in both dimensions they both had a powerful sorcerer to put the world back together both of them chanted the spell necessary at the same time "Yam Eth Owt Emoceb Eno Ecno Erom!"
In a bright flash of light the children and the adults all appeared in a single dimension once again, the adult sorcerers all collapsed onto the pentagram once the world was restored
Daevi saw the world had the adults back and he was still in his Esclion form, but he also had to make sure Klarion couldn't use the rest of the spells that were also on that torn paper, so he floated down to land on the ground of the pentagram and levitated the paper up to his hand
"Hey that's mine!" Klarion yelled at him from his confinements
"Silence boy!" Daevi spoke to him telepathically to not let anyone aware of what he was going to say "These spells are of the Esclion species and are not made to be used by anything other than that, you will only bring mass destruction to yourself and to the world if you and the other sorcerers had continued with this!"
"That's what the fun's all about right?!"
Daevi narrowed his eyes at the witch boy, this was all about the fun in destruction to him, well he wouldn't allow for him to use Esclion magic to cause any sort of destruction to earth again, he waved his hand to the right of him opening a blue swirling portal, then turned over to the sabortooth tiger that still had Superboy pinned down and grabbed the cat with his energy then threw it into the portal and closed it
"Teekle!" Klarion yelled as he began flickering out of this plane's existence but Daevi just stood above him watching as he teleported the paper in his hand to a safe location and once Klarion was gone he too dispersed the energy that had made up his form traveling back into Dick's body
While this had been going on, once the dimension had been restored Batman had tied the four adult sorcerer's together, then stood back up seeing the League and the team were all staring up at what was floating in the sky above them, it was what Captain Marvel had told them had appeared in the children's dimension, it was a blue shaded creature with fiery white and blue hair in the shape of a boy
"What is that thing?" Catwoman asked
Batman had no answer for her though, because he had never seen anything like this in his entire life
"It is emitting a powerful wave of magic, it seems to be even stronger than any sorcerer than i have ever encountered" Zatara added
Martian Manhunter only had a look of what looked like amazement with a small touch of sadness in his eyes as they watched the creature land on the pentagram and seemed to walk over to a piece of old tattered paper on the ground
"Ugh did we win?" Zatanna asked as she Artemis and Robin began getting up, Robin seemed a bit more sluggish than anyone else though
"I think so?" Artemis muttered
"Guys what happened?" Zatanna asked putting a hand to her head, she had a pounding headache
"The world has been restored but there i a new development in the wake of the restoration" Kaldur told them
"What?" Artemis asked then she and Zatanna both saw the humanoid figure standing in the pentagram with Klarion trapped in a bubble like sphere
"What is that?" Zatanna's eyes widened at the sight of it
"That's the million dollar question" Wally told her
Their eyes widened when the creature turned and opened a breach with his hand but nothing but energy could be seen through it, the creature turned again and grabbed a hold of teekle that had Superboy trapped underneath it then threw the large cat into the portal before closing it
"What did it just do!" M'gann yelled
"That cat! that was the only thing holding Klarion in this dimension!" Kaldur's eyes widened
They were surprised when the members of the League came over to them and took protective stances around them as if the creature was going to turn on them next,
"Klarion, he is beginning to fade away!" Zatara stood as he watched Klarion's form beginning to flicker
"But how can that be, Klarion is a Lord of Chaos, he shouldn't be able to be defeat right?" M'gann asked
"Well it looks like it's finally happening" Wally spoke as they continued to watch until Klarion all but disappeared, the blue creature stood there for a moment before it began fading out as well until it was gone
"What?!" Conner finally joined the ground and was stunned to see that the thing that had helped them defeat Klarion had just vanished
"Where is it?" Zatanna asked
"I do not know, i can no longer sense it" Zatara said looking around
"Maybe it just want's to be left alone guys" Robin spoke for the first time and was now less sluggish then he was a few seconds ago
"Either way Robin, we need to find out what it was" Bruce told him
"Why? It didn't do anything us"
"It's for everyone's well being once we know what this creature was then we'll be able to know weather it's a threat to anyone's safety or not"
"Are you ok, you weren't hurt during the fight were you?" Selina bent down to his level checking him over
"I'm fine"
"I'm starting to get sick of that word"
Dick looked around seeing the rest of the team happily greeted the adults, he watched as Zatara and Zatanna gave each other a good hug and M'gann with her Uncle but it looked like J'onn's mind had gone else where, he suddenly felt a chill run up his spine, he hastily looked around
"What's wrong?" Bruce asked him
"Oh nothing i just thought i heard something"
"Alright then, we need to get these 4 to Belle Reve then we can start looking into whatever that creature was" Bruce announced to the rest of the team and League
"Well at least now we can all go home and take a much needed sleep after all this" Selina told him
"Yeah" he muttered under his breath but look saddened down at the ground
That was the longest chapter i've written for this story yet! Hope you Guys like it. Also the spells Dick had been speaking in his Esclion form i've decided to make them in Latin since i not that creative to make spells of my own
Well next chapter should be exciting since Dick finally has to step into action to keep everyone he loves safe from Lucero now that he's used to much magic and energy
Suggestions to help me write are always welcome
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