A/N: Hello again. It's a bit shorter than my other chapters, I know. But I've given you so many clues in this one about my master plan. Muhahaha...ha ha... yeah. If anyone can pick out which Canon DC character I've hijacked and merged to make Kyd Wykkyd you get amazing brownie points. And possibly a nod in a later chapter. Fair warning though... it is a rather obscure character. (He was in Teen Titans comics though if that helps)
The team exchanged a few looks. "How are we supposed to find a better memory anyway?" Kid Flash finally asked after a few moments of silence.
"We'll just have to keep asking questions," Robin muttered. "Maybe Batman can find something we can use. I'm sure J'onn is giving him updates on what's going on. We know his name and he's from Gotham. His approximate age and the age he went missing looks to be about nine or ten. If Batman can find out who he is then we should be able to find something pleasant in his past. Nobody has nothing good about their past."
Megan nodded. "I'll ask Uncle J'onn to relay the information to Batman," she said as she raised her hands to her temples and her eyes started to glow.
"And until we get answers?" Conner asked unhappily. "Do we just wait."
"Perhaps we can get more information from him and even if we can't, we can still attempt to get Kyd Wykkyd to focus on other things," Aqualad said as he went back to Christopher and knelt down beside him. Christopher looked up at him instantly though he still didn't uncurl. "Do you know where your parents are, Christopher?"
Christopher frowned and looked at the black ground. "No. I don't remember them. It's been too long…"
Robin went over to where they were sitting while Superboy and Kid Flash continued to try and find a way out through the darkness. But no matter how fast Kid Flash ran he just couldn't get anywhere in the dark. He always ended up back in the small beam of light that they were currently standing in.
"Can you remember your last name?" Robin asked him gently.
Christopher shook his head. "Why are you asking so many questions?"
"I'm… kind of a detective," Robin answered hesitantly. He wasn't really known as one, that was mostly Batman's gig, but on this team that was a little more true.
"You're nosy," Christopher shot back.
Kid Flash snorted a bit but looked away quickly when a masked glare was leveled his way. "Are you saying you do not want to be able to get out of this place?" Aqualad asked, ignoring his other teammates.
Kyd Wykkyd looked around at the darkness uneasily and when he glanced back at Aqualad the Atlantian was very disturbed to see that the boy suddenly had a black eye and a cut lip. "Why would I want to stay in hell?" he asked softly.
"Than you need to tell us what you can," Aqualad said.
"The more we know the faster we can get out of here," Robin added. "Even if it's just little things you don't think are important."
"Yeah, we're trying to help you out. Not hurt you," Kid Flash chimed in. "I mean, you can't be here forever."
Suddenly, the Miss Martian perked up. "Hello, Megan! Why don't we just ask him how he got out before?" she asked before flying over to land beside Christopher. "Do you remember how you got out of here?" she asked. "Or where you were after you did?"
Christopher frowned and looked down at the ground. "How I got out?" he echoed in clear confusion.
"Yeah, you weren't on a boat when we first met you. You had to have gotten away somehow," Conner reasoned. "Or at least you left the boat."
"The boat… There was no boat," Kyd Wykkyd said as he looked up at them. "One minute it was there… then it wasn't." The team suddenly realized a sound was coming from the darkness; a roar-like noise that was quickly growing in strength. Heat swept across all of them followed by a massive bloom of fire and the deafening sound of destruction.
"Oh shit!"
Robin grabbed the boy by the shoulders and gave him a shake. "After this, Christopher! What happened after?" he demanded.
The world suddenly went white and the rapidly expanding fire simply faded away. "Whoa… not cool," Kid Flash said putting a hand to his chest. "I think I skipped a few beats…"
Robin sighed and sat back though he was surprised to feel something soft beneath him. He turned his eyes down and saw that he was sitting in grass all of a sudden. The Team looked around slowly. "I guess we found a better memory," Conner mused as he studied the flowers sprinkled throughout the emerald green grass.
"Yeah, this definitely looks like a happy place to me," Wally agreed as he glanced up at the strangely golden sky. Why wasn't it blue? That would have made more sense.
They were all standing or sitting in the middle of a large field. Off in the distance there was a cliff with a waterfall crashing down into a Caribbean blue bay. Several trees, many of them bearing fruit, were sprinkled throughout the landscape. Especially by the water.
A warm breeze drifted off of the water and Christopher slowly stood up to look around. "Where are we?" Robin asked him.
"Home," Christopher replied as he looked around at the picturesque landscape. Suddenly, his eyes went wide. "Keeper!" He turned on his heel and bolted.
"After him," Aqualad said even though they were all already moving to follow. If they lost him now who knew when they'd be able to break out of where they were.
They chased after Kyd Wykkyd as he sprinted through the field. They ran for quite a while until they could make out a building in the distance. It practically sparkled in the distance. It was several floors with a blindingly white roof and pale grey siding broken up with golden woodwork. In front of the house was a well that had a grey roof over top and was made from what looked like quartz.
The team caught up to him just as Kyd was bursting through the golden front door. "Keeper!" he shouted even as he ran into the cheerfully lit house. Kyd looked around for a moment, panting slightly from the exertion of running so far and fast. Nobody seemed to be home. Kyd sat down heavily on the white sofa. "He's not here…"
"Who are you looking for?" Aqualad asked.
"Keeper. He looked after me," Kyd murmured.
"Why did he do that?" Megan asked. "Did you know him before?"
Kyd shook his head and glanced around the room. "He made this home for me. Because it wasn't supposed to happen that way," he murmured. "I wasn't supposed to be here."
"Why not?" Robin asked.
Kyd shook his head even as his black eye healed in a matter of seconds. "I don't know. He just said I wasn't supposed to be there. That there had been a mistake and he was going to do his best to make it up to me. He gave me this place to stay and started to teach me magic…"
"So why isn't he still teaching you?" Megan asked.
"They took me away from him. They said he wasn't teaching me properly," Kyd said softly. "But I miss him. He's been the only one that's cared about me at all. He may not be the best but he's all I had."