Chapter Twenty-One
End of Shadows...
"Gwendolyn, you need to wake up," a voice said urgently. "Gwen, is that you?" Gwendolyn replied. "Yes, it's me. And I got help, but you need to wake up," the dragon's voice replied. "Why do I have to wake up?" Gwendolyn asked. "Because your kids need you," the Dragon replied as images started to fill the woman's mind. "Gwen, what are showing me?" Gwendolyn underinsured of what she was seeing. "These are images from Lance and Emma's memories," Guinevere said calmly, "The League of Shadows kidnapped you almost six years ago because they thought you had Lance's sword."
"S-six years?" Gwendolyn asked stunned a picture of a ten year old Emma floated by, "Y-you can't be serious." "I wish I wasn't," Guinevere said as the memory from that fateful Christmas began to play, "The Shadows used a clone of you to fake your death so Lance wouldn't come after you." "Where are my kids now?" Gwendolyn asked. "Lance is here with others from the Justice League trying to free you," Guinevere said as an image of each of the children appeared, "Whereas Emma is at home asleep with a broken leg."
Gwendolyn's eyes snapped open to find a pair of violet colored eyes looking at her. "Get out of my way," she growled. "You better do as she says, Raven," Howler said as he held out a sword to his mother. Gwendolyn took the sword and slowly got to her feet. "Hope you know how to use that thing," Nightwing said seeing her stand.
She slowly looked around to find her son and others in an all-out battle with hordes of ninjas. "If you would please," she said glancing at her son. "On it," he said before each of his friends were suddenly incased in a blue sphere. A loud yelp came from the two speedsters as four jets of flame came cascading down from the upper floors of the hall they were fighting in. "Tigress, take out those flamethrower's," Nightwing yelled.
"Why? They're on our side," Artemis replied smiling. "Welcome to the party, Aiden!" Howler yelled as he saw his Dragon on the upper levels. The dark blue Dragon let out a loud roar before flying down to the lower levels with Michelle's Dragon Alexander, Emma's scarlet Dragon Taylor, and a white Dragon. "Thank you, Guinevere," Gwendolyn said drawing her sword. The white nodded slightly as the far doors opened.
"I must congratulate you young heroes for making it this far," a man said as he entered followed three men, "But this is where your feeble attempt at a rescue mission ends." "How are those guys?" Jessie whispered to Zatanna. "Ra's Al Ghul, Sportsmaster, and Deathstroke," the magician replied getting ready for another fight. "You might want to rethink those words, Ra's," Green Arrow said as him, Artemis, and Cissie each trained an arrow on the man, "Your forces are gone." "Not just that," Howler said holding his sword up, "You grabbed the person all those years ago."
The eyes of the League of Shadows leader widened as he glanced around the room before Michelle said, "And not all our reinforcements have arrived yet." "Even with the help of those over grown iguanas, none of you will walk out of here alive," Ra's said drawing his sword. "Looks like someone wants to go down in a blaze of glory," Cissie said. "Deathstroke is mine," Howler said as he glared at the one man with a two tone mask. "Sportsmaster's ours," Artemis said as her and Jade watched their father. "I have a better idea," Michelle said as a glyph glowed started glowing under the four men's feet.
"W-what are you doing?" Ra's second in command, Ubu, said as he and the others started to turn to crystal. "Making sure none of you ever hurt anyone ever again," Michelle said before the four men disappeared. "Um, what just happened?" Cissie asked lowering her bow. "She showed them mercy," Gwendolyn said as her sword disappeared.
"By turning them to crystal?" Green Arrow asked. "By removing them to a place they can never harm another living soul again," Michelle said looking at her cousin. "We can finish this talk later," Gwendolyn said sounding impatient, "I have a little girl with a broken at home that needs her mom." "Right then, as the old saying goes: allons-y," Howler said. A blue aura glowed around each person as they started to fly up towards the waiting Javelin. Once aboard, they quickly took their sits as Raven asked, "What about Taylor and the others?"
"They went back to their dimension when Michelle did," Howler said as his armor faded. "I didn't even know she left," Green Arrow said from his seat. "You get used to it," Gwendolyn said looking at Nightwing, "And you're not old enough to co-pilot this thing; so out of my seat." "I'd do as she says, Nightwing," Artemis said with a slight smile. "Uh, no offense ma'am, but I think it would be better for me to fly this right now," Nightwing started to say. "Based on what exactly?" Gwendolyn said crossing her arms.
"Based on the facts that one; you just woke up from being in cryo-stasis for almost six years," Howler said turning to watch the oncoming fireworks with a smile, "And two, he broken Emma's arm earlier this year." Her sword instantly formed in her hands as she said, "You have three seconds to get out of my seat and to the back of this ship or I will remove any reason why you call yourself a man." Wally used a quick burst of speed to move his best friend to the seat behind him and said, "I would definitely stay away from Howler's mother if I were you."