Chapter 8
Chapter 8 people! Haha it's been a week since I've started this and I think it's finally kicking off! Haha last chapter M'gaan brutally fought Jinx—that chick has issues! Seriously. And to Blackanomaly yeah I think so, the one where Teekl thinks 'I can haz your soul' was that a spoof made by comic geeks or is that the actual dialogue? Anyhow with that comic I think I'd settle on reading a digital copy. *gasp* did I really say that? Yes—I did…I FEEL SO ASHAMED! O.Q haha I truly dislike digital books. My cousin has this thing called the Kindle, she won't let me use it cause I constantly threaten to throw it out the window. And it's not that I dislike technology I just very much dislike the Kindle, and any E-book. It's not the same as curling up on your bed and reading the actual ink and paper book. Yaknow? Plus there's the smell of time on an old book *sigh* oh but I'm rambling. ONWARD TO THE BATTLE FIELD!
"Join?! Uh-uh, no way that's happening!" Beast-boy said; he had been released from his cell and was now with the rest of the group. Jinx smiled.
"Oh come on; you only say that because I made you go all crazy cat—come on, let me join!" she shouted. Nightwing looked to Zatana who shrugged.
"Should we really let someone who cast a spell on one of our own to join the team?" M'gaan asked. Jinx frowned, and crossed her arms over her chest.
"If I hadn't done that you never would have brought me here." She said, "Come on—I've proven a lot of times that I'm capable!"
"When?" Impulse asked.
"When I kicked your butts several times and took Icicle, and I would have shown you what I could do, but speedy here blind-sided me." Jinx explained, and pointed to M'gaan who glared back at her.
'I don't trust her.' M'gaan said through the telekinetic link between her, Nightwing, and Zatana.
'What should we do—she's a witch-girl,' Zatana thought, 'and we already know she's powerful.'
'I'll get in touch with Batman—and see what he thinks we should do.' Nightwing said, 'In the meantime keep Jinx here.'
"There's no way I'd trust a witch-girl on our team!" Wonder-girl shouted, Jinx glared.
"What's wrong with being a Witch-girl?" she hissed, Wonder-girl glared back.
"Oh nothing—just that the last time we came up against you people we ended up with our parents gone, we lost one of the original members of the League—and we had a witch couple tear up half of Gotham!" she shouted.
"That's enough Wonder-girl."M'gaan said, "We've already decided to get Batman's input on the situation."
"That mean I'm on the team?" Jinx asked, Nightwing shook his head.
"Not yet—you'll see Batman tomorrow, from there we'll decide what to do." He said, Jinx huffed.
"Yeah-yeah—real fun." She pouted.
"In the meantime you'll stay here until we get this settled." Zatana said, Jinx shook her head.
"Not happening." She said, "I'm not staying here all night; I've got other things that need tending too."
"Too bad, you'll stay here. Or be sent to Belle Reve for a night." M'gaan said, Jinx shrugged.
"I'm not staying in Belle Reve either—I'm going home." She said and went to leave but was blocked by Wonder-girl and Blue Beetle. Jinx smirked.
"You're not going let me leave are you?" She asked, she then began to float off the ground, "Fine then; I'll force my way out then."
Beetle and Wonder-girl readied themselves for an attack, Jinx shook her head, and brought her arms up to her chest, a black spark came from her palms as a portal opened up above her.
"I'll be back tomorrow—then you can give me whatever 'evaluation' you want." She said then flew up through the portal.
"I hate magic." Wonder-girl mumbled.
"Now what?" Beast-boy asked, looking to M'gaan who looked to Nightwing and Zatana.
"Nothing we can do but wait for her to come back on her own tomorrow." Nightwing said with a shrug. The group nodded and then went home, except Impulse who walked over to Beast-boy.
"Good to see you back to normal Beast-boy." He said. Beast-boy nodded.
"Yeah, glad to be back to normal…well normal as I can be. Did I miss anything?" He asked.
"Just me makin the moves on our friend Lita." Impulse said with a grin.
"You've got to be kidding me." Beast-boy mumbled. Impulse shrugged.
"Guess you'll see tomorrow when we see her." He said.
~0~
"Morning Uncle Abra!" Lita said cheerfully Abra looked up from his seat in the kitchen.
"Morning Lita." He said, "You're awfully cheery this morning."
"Dad said that my aunt Beulah was supposed to be coming today to teach me magic." Lita said, "I'm excited about that."
"Oh?"
"Yup! I'm glad dad finally trusts me enough to let me try again." Lita said floating to the fridge and grabbing a bottle of water, "Well I'm late. Tell dad I said bye."
With that she floated to the door and left. Once outside she tried opening a portal—she had been practicing the night before—however nothing happened.
"That was weird; it was working yesterday. Guess I', walking again." She sighed, then began walking down the street back to Gotham High.
Meanwhile on a building a woman with long dark hair was watching Lita through a pair of binoculars. She smirked as she watched Lita walked down the street; totally unaware that someone was watching her. The woman lifted her wrist and began to speaking into the communicator.
"I've located the target." She said, there was a bit of static before a familiar voice spoke
'Good; be sure to grab her before Klarion discovers you. Or there will be consequences. Do you understand?' The voice growled, the woman nodded.
"Yes, master Savage. I understand." She said then looked back to Lita who walked down the streets. "You may not know it yet Lita; but your life is about to change forever."
~0~
"She's not here yet." Garfield said, Impulse shrugged.
"That's weird." He said, Garfield sighed, then felt something grab him from behind.
"Garfield! You're all better!" Lita shouted happily, Garfield turned and blushed.
"H-hey Lita." He said, Lita gave him a concerned look.
"You're face is red." She said then felt his forehead, "Are you sure you're well enough to be at school today?"
"He's fine." Impulse laughed. Lita smiled.
"Well that's good. Oh and it took some work—but I finally got my dad to let me go to the dance this Friday." She said, the boys looked at each other then at Lita.
"That's awesome!" they said together. Lita looked over.
"I thought that only happened in movies." She said, "anyway I told my dad that I would be safe, and my uncle said that it would be good for a girl my age to go out and have some fun."
"Your uncle lives with you?" Garfield asked, Lita shrugged.
"Yeah, he's not really my uncle; he's just really good friends with my dad. So it's like their roommates I guess." She explained, "He also managed to let me stay after school and do some stuff."
"Woaw, really?"
"Well…sorta." Lita said, "It's complicated."
"Well let's not stand around; Teach aint gonna be happy if we're late." Impulse said then placed his shoulders around the two and they walked to first period.
~0~
Around lunch time Impulse said he had to get something from his third period class, leaving Garfield and Lita to walk to the cafeteria on their own.
"S-so, Lita; you're going to the dance?" He asked opening the door to the lunch room.
"Yeah—but I doubt I'll dress up." She said, Garfield smirked.
"Dressing up is half the fun, you should really try it." He said, then cleared his throat, "So anyway…I was wondering do you wanna go with me?"
"Huh?" Lita asked, tilting her head to the side as she got in line.
"You know…go with me to the dance, as…like a…date?" Garfield asked, flinching a bit as he waited for her response. Lita paused giving Garfield a sad look.
"Oh, heh. I don't know. My dad would totally freak out if I told him I was going with a boy." She said.
"Uh excuse you," Jordana said bumping Lita into Garfield to get in line. She then looked down to see who she had pushed. "Oh it's just the animal freak and the horned freak. Watch where you're going."
"Uhm, we werent the ones bumping into people." Lita said, "Y-you were."
Jordana glared and turnd her full attention to Lita.
"You're sure got a lot of attitude for a sheltered girl." She spat, Lita stood up straight, and Jordana got a good look at the dark red gemstone that held Lita's black ribbon around her shirt callor. She snatched it from around Lita's neck.
"Hey give that back Jordana." Lita said, Jordana held it up high.
"This is way too pretty for a plain girl like you." She said as Lita jumped to get the pendent back.
"That was my mother's give it back!" She shouted Jordana snorted, then pushed Lita down to the ground. Garfield glared.
"That's enoug Jordana give it back!" He said sternly. Jordana gave the duo a look.
"Aw how sweet, look girls isn't freak love so sweet." She said, the girls aside from her laughed. Lita bit her lip to keep it from quivering, the pendent had belonged to her mother; Klarion had said he gave it to her when they first met, and Lita had received it as a birthday present when she turned twelve. Needless to say the trinket was dear to her. Suddenly Lita felt someone tower over them, she and Garfield looked up to see Jackson grabbing Jordana by the wrist.
"Give it back Jordana," he said as he glared at her. Jordana stared back.
"Fine." She said, then let go of the bobble Jackson grabbed it before it could hit the ground. He then let go of Jordana as she growled, "I don't know what you see in that freak, but I hope you get over it soon!"
She then stepped out of line and walked to her table with her clones. (let's face it every school has those kind of girls) Garfield helped Lita stand, and looked at Jackson in shock. Since when did he help those being picked on by Jordana?
"You ok Lita?" he asked, Lita nodded then looked at Jackson, and held out her hand.
"M-my ribbon please…" She mumbled, looking up at the large jock. Jackson smirked and handed her back her mother's necklace. "Th-thank you."
"Yeah thanks, come on Lita we should go find uh…Roger." Garfield said.
"Hold on; I wanted to ask her something." Jackson said as Lita tied the ribbon back around her shirt collar.
"You go ahead Garfield; I'll just wait here." She said, Garfield looked at the two slack-jawed, then shook his head.
"Are you sure?" He asked, Lita nodded. Garfield then turned and went in search for Impulse. as he walked down the hallway he fumed.
"What's wrong?" Impulse asked, coming out from the English classroom. Garfield's face was slightly red from anger.
"Jackson happened." He muttered crossing his arm. Impulse cocked an eyebrow, "He asked her to the dance, and she said yes."
"How do you know." Impulse asked, Garfield leered toward the Lunchroom.
"I can hear them. I hate Jackson bullock." He mumbled, "She doesn't even like him! Why would she say yes?"
"You know how nice Lita is." Impulse sad. "Plus the guy gives her the creeps; she probably just wants him to leave her alone."
"Life sucks." Garfield said, then walked down the hallway.
"Where are you going?" Impulse shouted, as Garfield walked down the hallway.
"Home; I don't want to deal with this right now." He said, then left school grounds.
Ack! I feel just plain crummy for what I had Lita do just then. No flaming please in your reviews O.Q I feel bad for hurting poor Garfield; mostly because he could go all pouty puppy on a person. And I still think of Teen Titans' Beast-boy. Gotta say I like him better than the YJ version. REVIEW!
