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Hey! As usual, I wanted to get this up earlier but oh well. Thanks MizzIsTheFizz for giving me the idea of Robin and Artemis talking and he telling her he understands how she's feeling. Not sure if this is what you had in mind but hope you enjoy! Also, thanks all reviewers, followers, favoriters and readers! Now, reviews!
MizzIsTheFizz,
Thanks for the awesome idea! I hope you enjoy this chapter!
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Artemis awoke in a cold sweat, gasping slightly for air. Her hair was stuck to her face. The purple covers were twisted around her, half off the bed. She glanced around at the room, the cave walls, the Alice in Wonderland post she had put up, the steel doors. The blond sighed. She had been having more nightmares since her mom's death and it looked like tonight was no different. She tried to calm herself, closing her eyes. Artemis tossed and turned for awhile before sighing and looked at the alarm clock. It read 3:30. It was four days after going to the fair. The girl groaned, knowing any farther attempts at sleep were fruitless.
She unwound the covers and stood up. She changed into a training outfit before walking out of her doors. She headed down the hallway to the training room. Entering, she looked over the equipment, quickly, before settling on a plain punching bag. Walking over, she began beating the poor punching bag, trying to push the dream to the back of her mind.
Robin, who was there because the whole team had a small mission-a boring stake-out that amounted to nothing- late into the night the evening before, had heard Artemis walk past his room. He, being Robin, decided to follow to make sure she was okay. He slipped through the doors of the training room. Robin cleared his throat, a slight bit awkwardly, not wanting to startle Artemis.
Artemis turned around quickly, in fighting position before relaxing slightly, seeing it was just Robin.
"Nightmare?" Robin asked, walking so he was holding the punching bag.
"Yeah." The blond said, grateful that Robin would holding the bag, so it would quite flinging every where with a punch or kick.
"Wanna talk about it?" Rob asked, holding the bag fairly steady-not that he could hold it completely still- as Artemis kept pounding on it.
"No." The archer said shortly. Robin nodded, understanding from his own experiences.
After a while of punching and kicking, Artemis sighed, and stopped.
"Wanna get a snack?" Robin asked. Artemis nodded and they both headed towards the kitchen area.
Once there, Rob pulled out a pack of oreos and Artemis got gasses of milk. They sat at the table, Artemis finally beginning to shake the images of her nightmare.
"I had nightmares too. When my parents died." Robin said quietly, dipping an oreo into his milk.
Artemis glanced up at him, eating an oreo.
"I mean, if you ever need to talk about it, I'm all ears." Rob finished.
"Thanks, Robin." Artemis said, with a small smile.
Robin nodded, standing up, "Well I'm going back to bed, you should to."
Artemis nodded and said, "Night-er-Morning."
"Mornings." Robin agreed, walking back to bed. Artemis sighed, putting the stuff away before going over to the couch and turning on the TV.
~Next Morning-er-several hours later-~
Wally speed into the kitchen, were Megan was cooking pancakes. Artemis was eating pancakes, the same as Zatanna. Conner was assisting Megan with the pancakes.
"Hi Wally, would you like some pancakes?" Megan greeted.
"Why thank you beautiful." Wally said, grinning as he sat in the seat next to Artemis.
Artemis hit him on the side of the head. "Grow up." Wally mockingly rolled his eyes at her in an exaggerated way, only to be rewarded with another hit.
"Ow!" He exclaimed, not really hurt at all. She simply smirked and knocked him again. They were quickly locked into a quarrel.
A minute later, Robin arrived. "Gezz, get a room." He teased with a smirk. Both teens spun to face him disgusted looks on their face and an 'ewwwwe' noise. The boy wonder did take notice of the light blush on each of their cheeks.
"Pancakes are ready Wally! Would you like some, Robin?" Megan announced.
"Thanks!" Wally said zooming over, grabbing his pancakes, and zooming back.
"Sure, Megs." Robin replied. Megan excitedly continued to make pancakes, Conner helping were he could.
"Gross Wally, there are children and aliens here!" Artemis said, a look of disgust on her face at Wally's eating habits, as she motioned to Robin, Megan, and Conner.
"Hey!" Robin protested, but was cut off of anything else he was going to say by Wally.
"Well, um, they should get used to it!" Wally, lamely, retorted. They got absorbed in yet another argument, the rest of their present team mates sighing in annoyance.
Kaldur came in a few minutes later, shortly followed by Raquel.
"Do I even want to know?" Raquel asked, glance over at the arguing teens.
"Nope." Zatanna said, cheerfully.
"Okay." Raquel stated. Megan offered pancakes to Raquel and Kaldur, both of which accepted.
Once everyone was eating, Megan asked "What does everyone plan to do today?" Almost everyone shrugged, not really having plans.
"I plan on going to the beach. Your free to join me, though." Wally said, as he finished up eating. Although he was guessing the whole team, or at least part of the team, would want to come.
"Okay, we should all go." Megan replied with a smile.
"I would enjoy that, but will have to leave in the late afternoon." Kaldur said. At his teams questioning faces he continued, "My King requires my attendance at a banquet in Atlantis."
"Girl, I'd love to come. Although later today me and Icon are doing the hero thing, but till then." Raquel announced.
"I'm free." Robin.
"Sure." Conner said with a shrug.
Zatanna agreed with a nod.
"Sure, why not?" Artemis agreed.
"Okay! Everyone meet at the doors in about 30 minutes!" Megan explained. The team nodded, quickly going off to change.
Once everyone had meet up at the door, swim suited up, they headed out to their own empty of people, Happy Harbor Beach cove. Wally was carrying a large umbrella, a chair, sunscreen, and beach ball. Megan of grabbed a water proof camera. Robin had a volley ball, while Conner carried a cooler with food and drinks. Everyone was carrying a towel.
After the team picked a spot on the beach they set up towels, coolers, and big umbrellas. Conner and Kaldur set up a volley-ball net. Megan began building a sand castle with Zatanna, while Wally and Robin played with the beach ball in the knee height water. Artemis and Raquel got into a water fight at about waist deep in the ocean.
When Conner and Kaldur were done setting the net, they joining the two boys in the water with the ball. A bit later Megan and Zatanna finished their sand castle. They decided to join the rest of the team in the water. Raquel and Artemis' water fight ended up getting a little out of hand. Megan and Zatanna had just gotten to almost the depth of the other girls-which may not have been the best plan- when a large splash that had gone wild and swept Megan off her feet.
"Hey! Why'd you do that?" The now soaked girl questioned when she came back up a second later. Zatanna let out a muffled laugh, quickly fallowed by the other girls' laughter. Megan frowned slightly, before grinning and splashing Zatanna. The magician sputtered slightly, spiting salty water from her mouth, proceeded to attempt to splash her back. But her aim went off, hitting Artemis. Artemis smirked before proceeding to splash Zatanna back. Zatanna quickly moved Robin, who, along with the rest of the boys, wandered over to see what the girls were doing, in front of her, so he got splashed.
"Whats that for?" Robin asked, coughing up some sea water.
"I needed a human shield." Zatanna said, sweetly. Robin fake glared at her before splashing Wally. Wally then splashed Kalder, which proved to be a mistake. Kaldur, science they were at the empty cove, used his powers causing a large wave to soaked each of his team mates.
This continued on for quite a while, until all the teens got tiered and went to eat lunch on the sand. Turns out, Kaldur and Megan were the best at water fights. Megan using telekinesis and Kaldur using his powers.
"What kind of sandwich would you like?" Megan asked everyone. The team members requested their favorite sandwich, the martin had packed them all. Megan and Kaldur handed the correct sandwiches out. Raquel and Wally assisted by passing out water bottles.
After lunch-and a cookie dessert, courtesy of Megan, Robin suggested, "We could play volley ball." Everyone agreed that could be fun.
"I vote Kaldur and Robin team leaders." Megan commented. The rest of the group, minus the two voted boys, agreed.
The team gave everyone in the ragged line they had formed a number in order, one or two. Twos were with Kaldur and ones were with Robin. Zatanna, Raquel, and Wally were on Kaldur's team, while Conner, Megan, and Artemis were with Robin.
"Ready?" Artemis, who was serving first asked. Without waiting for a reply, she over hand served the volley ball right between Wally and Megan, who were playing left and right back. The two teams continued to serve, bump, spike, and set the ball to one another.
Suddenly, everyone's communicators went off. Kaldur called game, no one knowing who won, and checked his communicator.
"It appears about five miles away a super-villain is causing a disturbance. Batman requests we take care of it." Kaldur stats in his 'team leader voice'.
"So, we gonna go see what the dude is doing or just stand here all day?" Raquel questioned impatiently.
"We must change into our uniforms and get the bio-ship from the hanger to get there quickly." Kaldur said calmly.
"I may be able to help with the uniform thing." Zatanna cast her spell, "Egnahc sehtolc otni ruo smrofinu!" The team's clothing, with a puff of smoke swirling around each of them, turned into their uniform.
"Cool." Wally commented. The others looked at their uniforms, satisfied.
"Now we must go to the hanger for the Bio-ship." Kaldur said.
"Actually, i let her out earlier to fly. I can have her here in less than a minute." Miss. Martin input, calling the Bio-ship with her mind link. Aqualad nodded his thanks.
As said, in less than a minute the Bio-ship arrived. The teens boarded the ship, taking their normal seats.
"Miss. Martin, please establish a mental link."
"Done." Miss. Martin announced through the link. Everyone said something so they knew for sure they were all online.
Quickly, they reached the area the villain was located.
The Bio-ship landed and the team immediately noticed this area of the beach was almost vacant, except for a couple of people running. They quickly ran towards the glowing light in a laboratory.
As soon as they entered they heard Klarion's whinny voice.
"Dude, that's Klarion, the Witch Boy." Kid Flash said, as the memory of Kent Nelson passed through his thoughts. The others nodded, guardedly.
"Oh all right, Teekl i guess we do we have what we came for. I suppose we can leave now." The teenagers fallowed Klarion's voice, entering the main experiment part of the lab.
"Hey, witch boy. Miss us?" Kid Flash announced their entrance.
"Oh, not you brats again." Klarion complained, glaring at the team, Kid Flash and Zatanna in particular. Artemis notched an arrow, as Robin held some exploding disks. The rest stood, at the ready with their powers. They all took note of the case Klarion was holding.
"Yeah, us again. Hope you know how to stay whelmed, cause your gonna need to." Robin said. The team had formed a half circle around the witch boy.
"No, your going to need all the help you can get once I'm done with you." He threatened in his high voice. He sent a red blast and Kid flash, who easily doges. Artemis reacted by releasing a dulled arrow at Teekl, who barely jumped aside and into Klarion's waiting arms. "How dare you!"
Aqualad turned his water into whips. Robin threw his disks, which exploded. Once the smoke cleared, Klarion let his shield, that had formed a bubble over him drop.
The boy sent a blast of red at Zatanna who quickly said, "M'i rebbur. Er'uoy eulg!" Efectivly deflating the bast back at Klarion.
"Such simple magic." Klarion announced with a yawn. Rocket quickly moved away as a red beam hit were she had been moments ago. "But i guess you people are fun to play with sometimes"
"Smoke on him, please." Zatanna asked mentally. Robin and Artemis complied, the first throwing a few smoke pellets, while the latter shot a smoke arrow.
"Egnahc ekoms otni sgnidnib!" Zatanna cast. The smoke quickly bounded Klarion. She knew this would do little, but hopefully it would allow a team mate get a good hit in. Aqualad took the opening and expertly wiped the whips around the witch boy, proceeding to shock him and his cat. Teekl mewed loudly.
"Yes, I suppose it would be in our best interest to get out of here. I'll just leave a present for these annoying brats." Klarion agreed, as he busted out of the whips and bindings.
Klarion did something slightly different for this blast
Zatanna noticed, and quickly cast "Peek ym sdneirf dna em degnahcnu!"
Just seconds later the whole room was hit with the red light, Klarion said, "Not that this hasn't been fun but its time to go." He entered a portal as the red light hit every member of the team at once. Black began to cloud their vision, and as Artemis watched her friends fall from their knees' to the ground she hoped they'd be okay before back filled her vision and she fell from her knees as well.
Bwahahaha! I'm pretty sure that counts as a cliff hanger. I have a cool(i least, i think it's cool) for the next chapter! I hope to get it out faster, cause i cant wait to see how writing it goes. Wow, this is the longest chapter so far. Well, i really hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to review or something. If you have an idea and tell me I will most likly use it!
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