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A Bloody Mess
The woman was a Siren. I just couldn't seem to comprehend that prospect. She stared me down, both the brown and neon green eyes full of hatred. She asked again this time knowingly switching to English.
"Are you ready to die?" Her voice came out like a slow hiss. It slimed across my arms leaving goose bumps in its wake. In an instant I couldn't move. I could hardly breath, and her neon eye began to glow acid green. It felt like everything was beginning to close in on me. The walls, the ceiling, and the floor. I felt myself begin to suffocate. My lungs contracted and stopped. I felt my eyes go wide. The woman smiled and spoke again, the slight hiss sliming its way through my body.
"You feel it don't you? The swell of power, and I may marked once am stronger by far than a child marked twice. I see it in you, have you yet learned your true name?" I gave her a blank stare still trying to fight for air. Wally had taken a step towards me, but the woman snapped at him.
"Move another step, and I'll crush her lungs!" She cried at him venomously. She turned back to me and cocked her head to the side.
"Beautiful child," she whispered, "Why do you insist on living with this rabble?I am doing nothing but merely testing you. Why not live with me. I will take care of you, we will even find you your true name." She released her hold slightly on me and smiled her eyes still full of hate. That's what gave her away. The hate in her eyes was the only sign that she was lying. It took me a matter of moments to think of a plan. I nodded to accepting her terms. She completely released me from her hold. I looked at her. She could teach me everything, but there was one thing that I was happy to know before going on this mission. Ever heard of the faerie folklore? In stories they say if you learn a faerie's true name you can control them for life. The same prospect goes for a Siren, only we can't find a loophole. Knowing our true name was eternal slavery or however long you lived. I never knew my true name, and hopefully never would. I rose from my crouched position and backed from the cage door. The woman rose to her feet and walked out the cage standing before us. Her threadbare clothes and lanky hair didn't look quite right with her proud demeanor.
"Come with me child," she whispered softly, "lavish in the knowledge I could give you." I heard Wally from what felt like a distance yelling for me. Wally the sweet Wally, the one with Artemis, and I could see it so clearly the two of them walking away holding hands. Leaving me behind, and at that moment I was blind. I saw myself leaving with her. Even with all the hate in her eyes, and the idea that she would just end up killing me anyway. I felt my heart almost rip in two.
" You're right," I said defeated, "there's so much that I don't know about. I learn a little day by day, but it's never enough. I want more, I need more." The woman smiled sickeningly, and reached out to me. I heard Wally yelling taking a step forward, and suddenly stopping. The noise flooded back when I heard him choke. The woman with her green eye shining had her gaze locked with Wally. I turned and found him on his knees face dead white underneath his mask. His green eyes vulnerable, afraid, and that's when I knew what was right. I knew that it didn't matter how much I didn't know yet, and that it didn't matter who Wally walked away from me with. I loved him, and that's all that mattered. I turned to the woman and took a step back slowly. She was so absorbed with Wally that she didn't notice my eye. My lovely lavender eye begin to glow. My shadow spread itself across the floor and took hold of her own. Instantly her head snapped back to meet my gaze. She was now completely under my control. At least until she figured out how to break it. When I grab someone like this they're so into what I'm doing that they can't focus on anything else. Superboy figured this one out. If he could get himself to focus on anything else but me, he could break the hold. Kind of sucks, but the persuasion of me yellow eye held no weakness thankfully, and I began to feel the heat as it too began to glow.
"Let me go you cursed little wretch!" she screamed at me, but her eyes grew wide with fear. She had never seen anything like this in a Siren probably. I turned my body to face Wally, and she turned as well. Every move I made she was forced to copy it. I walked to Wally's side and turned back to the woman, he watched the whole process in an almost trancelike state. I held her gaze and let my compulsion go to work.
"How old are you?" I asked experimentally. This was the first time I had questioned someone with compulsion. The woman's face went from angry to blank and her jaw slacked slightly.
"34." She answered automatically. Good she was out of the stage to come back again with a second Mark. I hated to do this, but for some reason she was certain that she had to kill me.
"What's your name, your true name?" She stood silently for a moment, and I thought for sure that she had somehow been able to break the hold, but then she whispered.
"Kurai (in Kanji 'Dark')." I took my hold from her both the shadow and the compulsion. She instantly lunged at me but I was pulled to the side by Wally. He held my shoulder reassuringly. I nodded.
"Kurai," I said blandly. Kurai stopped mid step and looked confused for a moment. She had no memory of my compulsion.
"How did you…" she asked awestruck.
"Quiet," I said calmly, "Kurai I want you to never again use your Siren Mark. If you disobey this command you are to jump into the ocean to your death." Kurai swallowed nervously, and held my stare with hatred. I turned and began walking Wally at my heels. I closed the steel door to the Siberian facility, and heard Kurai's angry scream before bolting the lock. Meghan was already there waiting. Not much of a mission, but it surprised me. Did Bruce or Barry know about Kurai? Why hadn't they warned us about her?
Hey girly how'd it go? Meghan's thoughts penetrated my mind.
Not too bad, but I wonder about something, can I get you to do some digging?
Of course, whatcha need? I relayed the whole scenario to her as Wally and I walked to her ship, she was silent for a moment, and then.
I'll see what I can do. As we got to the lift of the ship Wally stopped me.
"What happened?" He asked concern lining his face. "You were going to go with her, and then you stopped. Why?" Honestly this guy was thick. I sighed and tried my best not to giggle at how utterly dumb he was being. I wasn't going to lie that was for sure.
"What stopped me from going?" I asked, and he nodded. I smiled softly at him, "What do you think stopped me, you of course. I wasn't going to let her hurt my friend." I turned and walked up the lift ramp. I liked no loved Wally, but I wasn't ready for him to know it just yet. Even if that meant that he would end up with Artemis in the end, and that was ok. Wally really was the one that stopped me that day, but it wasn't the just my love for him. The vulnerability, and fear in his eyes, I needed to protect that. I wouldn't let him become hard and cold like Bruce or Clark, he had to always be Wally. I would protect that no matter the cost.
As we began to take off in Meghan's ship, Wally telling her everything about the mission I spotted a dark figure watching us from the cliff's edge. It watched us until we began to make our way home. Then when I almost lost sight of it, the dark scraggly image of Kurai, threw herself off the side of the cliff into the dark abyss below. I sighed a little disapointed, Siren's are supposed to be strong creatures. What a bloody mess that was.
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