The continued part from the last chapter...

...Enjoy!


The class had ten minutes before it was over. Most of the teams had fought and declared a winner by the end of the first thirty minuets but Nivira and Nightwing's cube was still up. The people standing outside could hear the clash of every hit.

"What wrong Nightwing, getting tiered?" Nivira managed to say through her gasps for air. She wiped some blood off of lower lip and went back at him. Her purple energy Bo staff was fading quickly. She had been fighting for a while now and her physical strength was wearing low. He was coming at her with amazing speed and she stopped, pulling her Bo up to block her face but it disappeared. Nightwing hit her, hard, knocking her to the other side of the cubical.

Nightwing panted, swinging his Bo around. He was tiered but losing to Nivira just wasn't an option at the moment. I need to beat her! I can't lose to her! He told himself The dust from Nivira fall finally cleared and she lied motionless on the floor, glowing purple. "Trying to recharge, huh?" he taunted. There was no answer and Robin smirked. "Then I guess we have a winner." He said with a slight laugh. He began to raise his hand when the motionless mass began to move. NO! How is this possible? He asked himself. A purple beam hit his hand, knocking the bo staff from it. He pulled it close to his body.

"You won't win this match." Nivira stated, struggling to stand up. Her eyes were barely open yet she was recovering from Nightwing's last attack. Her breathing was hard and her eyes were scary. Nightwing couldn't believe she was getting up. He raised his Bo for another attack, but he gasped in pain, grabbing his shoulder and knee. Nivira raised her ring hand and shot him in the stomach with her last bit of energy she could muster up and fell back to the ground. The beam it the already gasping in pain Nightwing and he fell backward to the floor. The cubical walls lowered and Green Lantern flew down, Batman grappling behind him.

Green Lantern and Batman gave a sigh and looked at each other, "Okay, everyone class is over. You have 10 minutes to get to your next class." He shoed the students away. "How many times are we going to have to take these two to the infirmary, Bruce?"

"As you said earlier, John, until they get over their egos then this is what will happen." He gave another sigh, lifting up Nightwing, "It's going to get worse once team leaders are elected and that whole class president election." Batman said.

"Why is Superman so intent on making this like a real school?" Green Lantern asked with a bad tone.

"Probably because when he was in high school, he couldn't those things like play sports or run for president, he was to different." Batman said in a solemn tone. Green Lantern nodded and picked up his niece, "I don't think they need medical treatment, just rest." Batman said.

Green lantern nodded again and following him up to the Gold room dorms. They walked in a placed their trainees in their beds and quietly left the dorm. It's going to be looooong first semester. Green lantern thought to himself. He got in the elevator and stood, quietly, next to Batman. They got out once the elevator arrived at the communications bay.

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J'on, the Martian man hunter, worked diligently at his usual post, overseeing all communication transmitted to the watchtower. He waved Green Lantern over. "Kat has sent another message." He began typing and then Kat Tui's face popped up.

"Hello again John. You never returned my last call so I decided o take it upon myself to explain Nivira's special abilities to you." The recording began. "You may have noticed that her ring isn't green…"

"Thank you Ms. Obvious." John replied sarcastically.

"Her power, though derived from the lantern core on the Guardian planet, in also fueled by something extra. When the juice from her lantern runs out, unlike the rest of us, she doesn't need to recharge immediately. Her entire being is powered by something outside of the lantern core but we haven't pin pointed it yet." She said seriously.

Okay what does that have to do with anything? He thought to himself and then had a flash back to when Nivira had been knocked clear across the floor and into a steel wall. Although she was motionless and obviously hurt, her ring still managed to keep it's power and protect her.

"I took her on many of my own missions in an effort to advance her training. There was one incident with a Kurgan from sector 6749 where he had completely obliterated her… well that's what it looked like at least. I'd fought bravely to stop it but… it manage to get through me to." She bowed her head, "Nivira woke up and that's when we all saw it, the purple light spewing out of her like a river. Needless to say she defeated the Kurgan and rescued the quadrant. Unfortunately she needed advanced medical care afterwards. All that power over-powered her body."

"We took both her and her ring in for testing but all the results said that nothing was out of the ordinary. Although her ring and her uniform remained that lavender-purple color… she never exhibited that power again for a while." A giant metal block fell down in back of Kat, "Ugh! No again! John, we sent her to you so you can teach her how to control that power in small increments at a time. If she lets it all loose at one time again, we're told that it will overload her body… killing her in the process. Kat over and out!" the screen went blank.

Green Lantern had a most serious look on her face. Frown lines began to form deep crevices in his forehead. He bit his bottom lip, "Well that was the surprise of the century." He said to J'on. What if I can't teach her how to control her powers, what if she can't control them anyways? He began questioning himself.

"John, no one is more capable of teaching her, than you." J'on said, eyes glowing yellow, "You can do it." He finished in a reassuring tone.

Green Lantern flew off. He had no idea where he was going but he needed to go somewhere. He found himself cruising the league-housing bay. What am I doing here? He asked himself stopping in front of a door. He raised a hand to knock on the door but couldn't do it. She won't help. She's probably still angry with me. But I need the help and she's the only one with a bigger ego than Nivira's. He ranted. He raised his hand again but as he was about to bring it to the door, it slid open and Hawkgirl emerged.

"John?" she said, tilting her head in confusion. "Can I help you with something?" she asked.

Green Lantern looked at her for a second, not knowing what to say. "Shayera I need your help with something." He said in a serious tone. A sweat bead dropped down the side of his forehead, "It's my niece."

"Is she okay?" Shayera asked in a hurry.

"Yeah she's fine but…"

"You know, she's an amazing fighter. You sure she's not Thanagarian?" she asked with a laugh.

John laughed, "To my knowledge she has no wings but, I'll let you know if some pop up." He smiled. "I need your help training her."

"I don't have the shift for combat class until next week and…"

"No I mean. Work with her outside of class. Trust me she needs it." He said, trying not to dispel ant information.

"Are you sure you're not just pushing her because she's your niece? I mean she's already a great fighter."

"No, trust me. She needs anger management type of help." He said not realizing what it sounded like. He cleared his throat. "Shayera I didn't mean."

"Oh I know what you meant!" she reached for the panel on the side of the door to lose but John blocked it.

"She could die if you don't help her Shayera. I can't do this by myself!" he finally said. He wasn't angry he almost looked sad.

Shayera gave a sigh, "Why don't you come in and explain exactly what's going on." She said, moving aside so that John could go in. I don't know if this is a good idea. She thought to herself. She closed the door and took a seat next to John at her coffee table and they talked.

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Nightwing turned and fell off his bed, jerking awake at his face hitting the wooden floor. He pushed his hair back a stared at the alarm clock. I was 3:00 exactly. He slapped himself; you missed the rest of your classes you idiot… wait! He said to himself, this isn't my fault, IT'S NIVIRA'S FAULT! He ranted. He heard the front door open and he ran out of his room to see who it was.

Raven glided through the front door with her natural bored look. She took a seat on the couch and pulled out a new book. Nightwing tried to sneak passed her to Nivira's room but Raven knew he was there. "How do you know that she's even in there?" Raven asked, never taking her eyes off her book. "I advise that you wait until she wakes up before you start yelling at her again."

"And why is that?"

"Because she contacted me in Adv. Calculus, telepathically, asking me to bring her homework and books up. She said she was a bit under the weather. How she managed to use telepathy is beyond me however."

"Okay so?" Nightwing asked belligerently.

"Well she's really hurt." Raven responded in the same tone as Nightwing just to mock him.

"You said she was under the weather!"

"That's what SHE said but the truth is that…" she was interrupted by Cyborg, who just walked in the door.

"The truth is that she got worked!" he said, "Everybody was talking about it in my class and Green Lantern got pretty pissed when Kid Flash said she was hot. It was pretty funny!"

"It's not funny." Raven said, trying not to get angry. Although she and Nivira had never really talked about anything but books, she preferred her over Starfire any day.

Suddenly Speedy popped in the doorway. Nightwing frowned at his arrival. "Is Nivira here?" he asked. Everyone noticed that he had his hand behind his back and smiled, except for Nightwing, who thought he was a dork. "I thought I would pop in before the mob got here."

"Mob?" Raven asked.

"Yeah there were a bunch of guys in the shop downstairs, buying cards and stuff for Nivira. I didn't know so many knew her."

"They don't!" Nightwing interjected.

"There were also a lot of girls in there screaming something about your favorite color Nightwing."

Nightwing smiled, "Oh really?" he raised an eyebrow and rubbed his hands together. "I'm suddenly feeling under the weather. I'm going to bed." He jumped over the couch and ran back into his room.

Everyone stared at his door for a second with an awkward silence. Speedy walked over to Raven. "So is Nivira okay?"

Raven chuckled a bit, eyes still focused on her book, "Yeah, she's in her room but, she's still sleeping. I'll drop the flowers off if you want." She offered.

Speedy shook his head and smiled, pulling a rose out the bouquet he tried to hide, "I'll take them to her but, here take one for your kindness." He said handing her the rose.

Raven lifted her head and took the rose, "A white rose, the symbol of blank slate. You're a real ladies man aren't you?" she laughed.

"No, I couldn't get her red ones, as she may think I'm coming on to strong and some girl told me that pink ones are, and I quote, "So last year." so I got her the white ones." He laughed. "Well thanks Raven." He said, walking over to Nivira's door. He knocked and remembered that she was sleeping. He opened the door and walked in. There's a lot of purple in here, almost enough to make you want to go and take a shower. He laughed.

Nivira lay motionless on her bed, above the covers. Thing only thing that moved was her chest. Speedy placed the bouquet of flowers on her nightstand and looked at her peaceful face. "Get well soon." He whispered, kissing to fingers and placing them on her forehead. He headed back towards the door and left as silently as he came in. He saw two more guys walk in with bouquets of flowers and a group of girl with cards for Nightwing.

Cyborg stood in the kitchen yelling at everyone to wipe their feet when they came in but no one listen. Speedy waved goodbye to everyone and fought his way out of the dorm and back across the hall to his. Bumblebee sat on a couch watching T.V. Wild Card ran out of the kitchen to Speedy and smiled. "Hey, pumpkin. How'd you like to go to that hoedown of a shindig this Friday hm?" she said hitting him on the shoulder.

Speedy cringed and the thought of going with her and the pain she had just inflicted upon his shoulder. He didn't want to turn her down but he couldn't say yes to her without lying. He sighed and placed two hands on her shoulders, ignoring her squeal, "Wild card…" he began, "I-I," he saw her eyes widen and just couldn't turn her down, "I would love to go with you to the dance this Friday." He managed to say without fainting.

"WOO-WEE! We are gonna have a heck of a time at that dance. You just wait you burnin hunk of arrow flingin' man!" she yelled running into her room and slamming the door shut.

Bumblebee began laughing. "I can't believe you!" she yelled to him.

"What it's not like I could have said no." he said, grabbing a soda from the fridge.

"What you mean is that you couldn't pass up a quickie. Or you'll just ditch her when something better comes along, right?" she said, flying over to him. "I know how you work Speedy." She told him.

"Well then you should know that I've already said yes to four girls and from knowledge they all want a piece of me." He said in a very proud tone, taking a sip of his soda. "That whole nice guy thing works like a charm."

Bumblebee smirked, "You're gonna get your ass kicked one of these days if you don't cool it Speedy!" she yelled. "Mess with the wrong girl and you are toast!"

Speedy chuckled, "All these girls want it so they're gonna get it!"

"You're worst than Nightwing sometimes, you know that?" Bumblebee said in her usual tone of sassiness and sarcasm.

"Yeah," he got close to her face, "And once I get Nivira, I'll be better than Nightwing!"

"Excuse me?" she asked with a slight head bobble.

"That's right. All I have to do is play this nice guy bit a little longer and, BAM!" he yelled, clapping his hands together causing Bumblebee to jump, "She's mine."

Bumblebee flew back to the couch, "You're in over head with Nivira. You know she's Green Lantern's niece, right?"

"Well that's something we have in common. Green Lantern, Green Arrow. It's perfect!" he said.

Bumblebee frowned, "I don't see you point. They're two totally different Justice Leaguers with nothing in common."

"I'll think of something! Plus the flowers will do most of the work for me." He laughed, taking another sip of his soda. "You're not going to tell on me are you?"

"You know I try to stay out of your business in that department, Speedy!" she yelled.

"Good." He remarked.

He's going to so get his butt kicked. Bumblebee repeated to herself, flipping through channels.

Although no one had noticed, Aqualad was listening intently to the conversation that had just taken hold. He went back into his oceanic room and went for a swim. So now the cards are in my hand, he thought to himself.

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8:20pm-

Nivira sat up in her bed, rubbing her forehead. She opened her eyes and noticed a burst of color around her. What's with all the flowers? Did I die or something? She asked herself, getting out of bed. She changed into her normal clothes and tied her, now short, hair up into a ponytail. She picked up the flowers that were on her bed and smelled them. My favorite flowers are lilacs but daisies will do the trick to. She laughed, sniffing them again. A card fell out as she pulled them closer to her body. She picked it up and began reading off it. "To a totally bodacious babe and her mad fighting skills. Get well soon. The Flash." She smiled at it and bit her lip.

"Computer! Bring up the number at which to reach a Mr. Wally West." She said to the computer screen on the wall, scrolling through addresses.

"Number found!" the computer said, "Would you like to call."

"Duh!" she said, smelling the flowers again.

"Hello?" a voice said over the phone, "Wally West speaking."

"Hey Wally, it's Nivira!"

"Oh! Hey. How'd you get…"

"It's called a phone book." She laughed. "Just calling to say thank you for the flowers, they're beautiful."

"You can thank me properly by letting me take you out to dinner." He said suggestively.

Nivira smiled, "I'll think about but, until then," she made a kissing sound over the phone, "Bye, bye now." She hung up. Laughing as she checked the other flowers.

Kid Flash, Mundo Kahuna, The Avalanche, Beetle, Snowstorm. Do I even know half these people? She questioned. She came across a bouquet of white roses and smiled, Speedy so totally rocks for getting me these. She was about to read the card when a knocking came to her door.

"CRAZY LADY WAKE UP! DINNER!" came an unwelcome voice.

Nivira scoffed, put the card down and opened the door; "You got a problem Nightwing!" she stopped and saw him in regular clothes for once. He was wearing a tight, white under armor with blue jeans, exposing his muscles and their every bulge. Although he was in normal clothes he still had his mask on. She found herself breathing heavily.

Nightwing smiled, "Thought they might shut you up." He said slyly.

"What do you mean?" she was still staring at his abs.

"The bulging muscles that you're staring at." He said sarcastically, he enjoyed taunting her. "Yes, I know I'm sexy."

"Don't play that with me. I know you were checking me out during orientation. Don't lie!" she said in a tone that made Nightwing shiver a bit.

"That was before I knew you were such an ice cold…"

"YOU GUYS, CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A REGULAR, QUIET DINNER FOR ONCE?" Raven yelled. Her temper showed by the dark energy shaping itself around her in the form of flames.

Nivira and Nightwing jumped at her sudden outburst and slowly made their way to the table, hitting each other on the way. They took their normal seats across from each other and everyone began to eat Cyborg's special spaghetti. Like the first night, the only thing that could be heard was the clanking of forks to the bottom of their plates and pages of a book being turned by Raven.

Nivira couldn't glance up Nightwing every so often, I knew he was built but… why couldn't he just keep on his costume? She questioned herself, looking back down at her spaghetti. She played with a meatball when she remembered what Nightwing had said earlier about Speedy. "What did you mean earlier?" she asked Nightwing, still playing with a meatball.

"About you being an ice cold…"

"NO!" she slammed her fork into the table.

"I wish she would stop doing that." Cyborg whispered to Starfire.

"About Speedy being a dog, what's that supposed to mean?" she asked, in an increasingly angry tone.

Nightwing leaned over the table close to Nivira's face, "I meant that he has a black book about six inches thick filled with all the girls he's slept with… this year." He said with great pleasure.

Nivira frowned, "Sure you're not just jealous?" she said with an unbelieving tone, raising her eyebrow.

Nightwing smiled and moved back away from her face, "There's something you should see I guess." He said laughing.

Cyborg began laughing, "Your not seriously going to let her in on the joke, are you? He laughed.

Suddenly they all started laughing but Nivira still didn't know why. Nightwing went to his door and called her over. She stayed in the doorway, as she felt uncomfortable walking into his room.

"You can come in.," he said walking over to the nightstand and opening the drawer. He pulled out a large black book and put it on his bed. "Come here!" he yelled.

Nivira looked around. At least I know how he keeps in shape, she thought to herself, looking at his punching bag. She felt a hand grab hers and pull her over to the bed.

Nightwing sat down and opened the book, "See all these names, Speedy is trying to get more than me," he started laughing.

Nivira scoffed, "I don't see what's so funny. You both probably have more STD's than hooker in New York." She said angrily.

Nightwing could do nothing but laugh at her rising temper, "I haven't slept with these girls. Half of them are made up and the other half are names of people I meet in clubs." He closed the book and stood in front of Nivira, his chest touching hers, "Speedy is what we call a man whore. He sleeps with girls like it's clock work and them leaves them, crying, and then when they confront him he acts like nothing happened." He said to her.

Nivira had never noticed before but Nightwing was a good four inches taller than she was but him getting this close was not expected and she backed away a little bit. "So why are you telling me this. I highly doubt that you actually want to help me." She said trying to control her breathing.

Nightwing moved closer again, "You're right," he lowered his head so that he was whispering into her ear, "I just don't want to hear you crying every night!" he laughed.

Nivira was angry enough to slice something in half but quickly surpressed her anger to ask Nightwing a very personal question, "So… you're a virgin?"

Nightwing stood in the doorway, devlish gleam in his eye, "I didn't say all that, now did I?" he laughed as he exited the room.

Nivira stood in the middle of his Japanese styled room and cursed his every being while smirking at his words. That had to be the most horribly intense moment so far in this house! She screamed to herself. She slammed Nightwing's door on her way out and went back to her seat. Raven contacted her telepathically. The shock was a bit much at first but Nivira quickly ignored it.

You okay? Raven asked.

Yeah, but now Speedy is going to have to pay for even thinking about putting me down as another name in his nasty, little black book. Nivira replied with a devilish look in her eye.

Nivira finished her plate of spaghetti, took it to the sink and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going, Nivira?" Cyborg asked.

Nivira smiled, "I'm just going out to," she paused, "clear my head. I'll be back in a jiffy." She stepped out the door. She went across the hall to the other dorm and knocked. Bumblebee answered with a puzzled look on her face. "Hey, Nivira, wassup?"

"Where's Speedy?" Nivira asked angrily.

"He's in his room why?"

Nivira walked over to the door with Speedy's name on it and raised her ring hand to the door. With a flash of purple she blew it open. "

Speedy jump out of his bed and grabbed his bow. "Oh, it's you." He said in a relaxed tone, "Get my flowers?"

Nivira smiled, trying to hide what was coming, "Yes and I loved them." She replied sweetly. "But you know what?"

"What?" he asked slyly.

"I DON'T like you!" She made a laser gun with her ring and began firing it in Speedy's room. "You can forget about adding me to your little cluster of girls for this year!" she continued firing the laser.

"Wha-what are you talking about?" he asked, trying to sound innocent.

Nivira spotted his nightstand and shot at it. A black book flew towards her and she caught it. She opened it and began reading, "Gina Gotesky "The White Russian", Mia Tampos "Brazilian Flame", you're obviously well traveled." She said, turning the laser to the book, "You not calling them back though so I guess you won't miss this much!" she fired, burning the book to a crisp.

Speedy stood in the middle of his scorching room with his jaw dropped. "What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Nightwing told me all about you're little competition so consider this my answer about the dance this Friday!" she yelled. Nivira stormed out of the burning room and waved good-bye to Bumblebee. "We still on for shopping this weekend, B?"

Bumblebee laughed, "After you did that, I can only say yes!" she said happily.

They laughed for a little while until Nivira heard Speedy pull out his liquid nitrogen arrows and left. She leaned on their door for a moment and took a deep breath. That felt good and it went better than I thought it would. She smiled and went back into her own dorm.

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Everyone had finished eating and took their normal positions after dinner. Cyborg and Nightwing sat on the couch playing video games, Raven was in her room reading her books and Starfire was sitting next to Nightwing and Cyborg trying to understand the complexities, or lack there of, of the video game they were playing. Cyborg turned around and laughed. "You get your "fresh air"?" he asked. "I'm sure you had nothing to do with those blasts we heard next door, right?"

Nivira laughed, "Of course not. Me do something like that."

Nightwing gave Starfire the controller and went over to Nivira, "So your not worried about him ratting you out?"

She took a deep breath and sighed, "No. If he does, one he'll look like a snitch and two, that would mean admitting that he almost wet his pants when I busted the door down." She laughed, "And I really don't think he wants to admit that."

Nightwing laughed, "You've got guts, I'll give you that."

"Oh my gosh was that a complement from the great and mighty Nightwing?" she sarcasticly said, bowing.

"Yeah well don't get used to it, kid." He said, using his index finger to cup her chin.

Nivira looked straight up at him and could feel her heart rate increasing again, those muscles! She screamed to herself. She gave a sheepish smile and stepped back from again. "I should go get ready for bed, missed a lot of classes today." She chuckled.

"Yeah me to." Nightwing agreed, remembering that he missed the whole day also. He crossed Nivira as she walked to her room also. His hand was on the doorknob when Nivira called to him.

"Hey, Nightwing…" she began.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for telling me about Speedy." She said with a nod of the head.

Nightwing smiled and nodded back. He said nothing yet he wished he had, but what? He went into his room and fell on his bed. He didn't bother to shower or change he just fell asleep in his regular clothes.

Raven, Starfire and Cyborg sat on the couch, having just witnessed the whole ordeal and looked at each other. "You saw that right?" Cyborg asked.

"Yeah."

"Please friends, what are you talking about?" Starfire asked.

"The nod." Cyborg said.

"Nod?" Starfire tilted her head, "What does a simple gesture of the head have to do with anything?"

"No, Starfire it's what the nod meant." Raven said.

"I thought the nodding meant agreement on a subject and the shaking meant disagreement. Are there more meanings?" she asked.

Cyborg and Raven gave deep sighs. Cyborg turned off the video game and retired to his room. Raven did the same. Starfire still sat on the couch with a confused look on her face. "I do not get it." She said to herself.

"GO TO BED STARFIRE!" Cyborg and Raven yelled before going into their rooms and closing the door. Starfire frowned, turned off the lights and flew to her room.


OOOooooOOO the "nod"... interesting...

Next time... stuff will happen YAYYYYY! What stuff? Well wait to find out!