Chapter 11

Feeling

Rou's POV

I sat in my new room that had been arranged after I had been moved out from the creepy room with two-way mirror. The room wasn't decorated much. It only had a basic furniture that was necessary like bed, closet, and T.V. Which I opened and found nothing but the static. I was waiting for the punishment and maybe some warning from Batman and his leagues.

I knew that I might get everyone in the crossfire of my new uncontrollable power. Now, I realize how coward I am for not accepting that I'm weak and I need someone to help me and be my moral support. But honestly, I don't give a damn about that. Everyone in the Team ignored me, pretending that I am invisible as they could do. So, why should I care about them, right?

But at least, Superboy and Nightwing didn't ignore you...

The little voice in my head said reasonably which made me recall the conversation of me and Superboy , including Nightwing when he found me...

I sighed deeply and dropped my head to the pillow on the bed tiredly. Maybe, I should sneak out from this place and find another one in some city. Yep, that's a great idea.

' But, we still don't know where is the exit.' The alien chimed in, shooting down the idea.

' Any advice?' I retorted back with a little harsh tone since I somehow felt headache from thinking too much.

' I don't know but we should plan everything in step-by-step. Step 1 :Find the exit. That's the first priority. '

' You're right...um...'

' Huh...what's wrong?' The alien asked me when she felt that I was about to say something.

' About the name. You told me that it's rude to call you ' alien' so I think I should name you or...maybe you tell me your name so that I can call you with that.' The alien seemed to be quiet which she always did that to think about something.

' My name is hard to for you to say in my language. To make it easy ,you can call me Mamora or Morana.'

' Hmm...how about Morana? I think it is easier than Mamora. And, both of them mean goddess of winter and death.'

' Um...yes... how did you know?' The alien said puzzledly.

' Let's say that book is your best friend..' I said proudly even I was surprised that the meaning of her name matched with her power.

Could it be that she used to lived at the earth before?...

Suddenly, I heard the door of my room opened automatically. I turned around and saw Nightwing stood at my door frame, smirking a little instead of making a cold face at me.

" Um...You should make a serious face, you know." I said, feeling awkward when I didn't see him angry about me turning the training room into arctic zone.

" He really read you like a book...no..cartoon book...Very clearly and predictably." I felt my brows cease, begging him to answer me directly. Nightwing chuckled softly and walked closer.

" He knew that you didn't want to embarrass yourself in front of people. Like Superboy, he knew that you are the woman with pride. You cared about your dignity." I was still confused until my head processed what he just said completely. So, Batman read my mind throughly. Nope..Rou don't let him know that it's true. Come on, make up some excuse...

" Um...why did you think that I would do for that? Maybe I did it because I want to impress your friend that the woman that you saved isn't just some damsel in distress." I said defensively.

" Ohh...so you want to save my face? How sweet you are.." Nightwing said teasingly, making my face flushed in red...even I'm not sure if I still had some blood left in my body like this when I realized that I had just dig my own grave.

Really, Rou. Did you do that for him, too? I almost wanted to glare at my little voice for scoffing at me. NO way! I did it for my myself! Not for that peacock jerk!

" Fine...fine...I admit...I did that for my own dignity..Happy now?" Nightwing smiled triumphantly. Yep...he IS very happy... I rolled my eyes at him and turned my head away from him but I sensed that he still smiled and it's getting bigger when I still tried to ignore him..

This man is real pain in my ass...

' I suggest that we should freeze him...' I raised my hand swiftly to comply that but, Nightwing grasped it and did the same to another one before held them above my head in a second. After that, he used his strength to pin me down on the bed and moved his face close to me until I could smell his breath.

" Too slow..." he whispered softly near my ears. I felt shivered a little before teleporting myself to make him let go off my wrists. Then, I appeared behind him and used the same trick that he had done to me by pinning him from the behind and held his hands above his head.

" Maybe...but, I got a lot of tricks under my sleeves..." I whispered into his ears, blowing the air at his nape.

Take that!... I thought as I felt myself smile wickedly.

Suddenly, Nightwing's leg wrapped around my torso as he flipped himself by using his weight, causing me to be beneath him again...

" Gotta admit that you had a nice survival skill even you didn't learn hand-to-hand combat before..." Nightwing moved himself around to face me directly. His cunning blue eyes under the black domino mask looked at me into my yellow catlike eyes as if finding something inside of them.

I wondered what he would see in them...

Monster?

Or a victim ?

I averted my eyes from him, feeling awkward about the position that I'm in. Suddenly, the door was opened automatically again by a new visitor.

" Umm...are you two finished it?" I turned my head swiftly and saw that it was beast boy who came in. Nightwing eyed at him discontentedly while I teleported myself from being under him to appeared again at the end of the bed.

" Nightwing just tripped by some electric wire so he fell on me. That's all" I explained beast boy very quickly in high tone. Nightwing looked at me confusingly before I secretly sent him some sign to tell him play along with me.

" Oh...um..yeah...I was getting dizzy a little on the way. You know what it like when you talk with Batman alone..." Nightwing raised his eyebrows, daring beast boy to ask for but it seemed that once he mentioned about Batman, Beast boy's eyes were widen and he rubbed his neck nervously.

" O...Okay.. By" Beast boy laughed sheepishly. " By the way, Batman require you to zeta at Gotham City with him."

" On my way..." Nightwing nodded at green boy for thanking before the boy went out.

" Gotham City?" Nightwing turned to me. His face looked uneasy for some reasons.

" Yeah, doing some dynamic duo thing. I used to work with him together before I moved to Bluheaven." I nodded understandingly even I felt sad that I couldn't spend my time with him.

" Don't worry, I'll be back soon." Nightwing smirked before he walked out. Now, I'm alone in my room. I sighed as I rubbed my arms. Room looked so lonely that my body trembled with the coldness of feeling sad.

Sad for being treating coldly...

Sad for being too different from the others...

Sad for not having any memory of anything but the name and the place I used to work for...

Also, this place made me feel so...

" Isolated?" I glared at the man with very short blond hair and red tank-top that clung to his body. I remembered that his name was Aqualad.

" Aqualad, right?" Aqualad nodded friendly when I called said his name, making sure that I called him correctly.

" Don't pity on me. I had got enough of it from you guys" I looked away from him, crossing my arms on my chest.

" I know that life had been so hard on you. But, I wanted to tell that everyone is on your side. The Team and leagues wanted to help you." Aqualad said calmly with a hint of concern.

" Then, why they gave me a cold shoulder?! I know that I'm no longer a human anymore! Does that mean you guys have to give me ' the look'?" Aqualad drew back a little at the outburst of my anger that I had kept for a whole three weeks. A whole three weeks without anyone talked to me directly beside telling what to do. Rou, it's time for training! Rou, it's time for medical check-up! Rou, it's time for food !

" All I got was the order from your people... And, you are expecting me to cooperate with you?!" At this moment, I felt my power ran through my body again as I felt every fiber of its screamed like it wanted to be released.

" I know, Rou. I know your feeling but that wouldn't help you if you are still acting like this." Aqualad retorted back calmly but I somehow felt that he started feeling angry at me.

" Don't act like you know. Your situation is very different from me a lot. You're what people believed that is a mermaid or mer man. Whatever..." I started feeling annoyed at him and turned my head away.

' This half fish half human boy could resist to our power. The percentage of wining this fight is zero' Morana told me after she felt that I was angry at Aqualad.

' I know I saw the gill at his neck.' I glared at Aqualad's neck sneakily and saw that there were cracks on his neck which was similar to fish's gill.

' Since he never gave you ' the look' like the others. I think we should befriend with him. Trying to be nice. Besides, he might be handy for us.' I sighed a little to cool my head down and agreed with Morana. Maybe I need to open my heart to people.

I looked back at Aqualad to talk and saw that he lowed his head a little as if he was pondering about what I said and he looked at me with a small smile.

" That's because it reminded me about my first day of being introduced to the surface world." I was taken aback at his words. I always think that Aqualad can get along with people easily unlike me. He could order his teammate and keep them in line while making them pay the respect to him...

" I thought that people accept you unhesitatingly. I mean they even created the cartoon movie called ' The Little Mermaid'." Aqualad chuckled a little and shook his head.

" Not really. At first, they accepted me until this..." He showed me his hands that had the web between each fingers that reminded me of a frog and a fish.

" Now, I can imagine that but, I think it's cool and normal. I mean you underwater people always had these to adapt with your environment, right?" I reasoned, hoping that I wouldn't sound rude to him.

" Well, you have to see my king, Aquaman. He don't have these things like me. In fact, he looked exactly like a human if you didn't know about him living underwater. By the way, thank you for trying to understand about my appearence" Aqualad explained with a gentle smile.

" And, believe me. Whenever people asked us if we ever used fork as a comb, it's hard not to laugh at them..."

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For the last one, I intended to make a joke that refer about Disney movie' The Little Mermaid'. Hope it amuse you at least. =w=b

For this chapter, I tried not to make it sound similar with other OC fic when it was about how to make your OC being accepted to the Team so I used Aqualad as bridge to draw my OC to open her mind about friend. The reason that I chose him because he is the only member that founded the Team who doesn't live on the surface world like Kid Flash and Nightwing. ( Following what Nightwing said at 'End Game' episode, Nightwing took a leave from the Team because he felt that it wasn't if there wasn't without Kid Flash or Wally West.) So, Aqualad is my choice.

By the way, hope you enjoy this chapter so far and please R&R for me!

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