Chapter 33
The rest of the team was sitting in the main room of the cave when they suddenly heard shouting coming down the hall way.
"I DO NOT"
"YOU DO TO"
"DO NOT"
"DO TO"
Then a blur shot through the room followed by a rush of wind. Then they heard
"GET BACK HERE FLASH BOY." and Robin came running in to the room. "Were did that lousy speedster go" he said
"Looking for me" Wally said suddenly appearing in the room
"What in the world are you two arguing about now" Artemis sighed
"What oh nothing" Dick said shrugging
"Yup it's nothing" Wally said laughing
"Whatever" Artemis said rolling her eyes
"So what are you guys talking about" Wally said flopping down on the couch
"Zatana was telling us about her dad, Zatara." Aqualad said
"Is that your dads first or last name" Wally asked Zatana
"It's his last name" she said
"So your name is Zatana Zatara" Wally said
"Yeah I know" she said "it's a bit repetitive"
"Well I think it's a cool name" Dick said sitting down next to Wally
"Thanks Robin" Zatana said trying to hide a slight blush.
"So who wants to get some training in, before dinner time" Dick said
"Rob you are all work and no play" Wally said
"maybe we should" Artemis interjected, be haven't trained as a team in a while, and Zatana you could join us if you wanted."
"What me train with you guys" she said "I'm sure I'm no were on your level"
"Well you never know until you try, and I bet you would look pretty good in a spandex suit" Wally said winking at Zatana.
"Wally don't be such a creep," Artemis said getting up and punching Wally in the arm on her way out of the room "I'm going to go change ill see whoever decided to join me in the training room."
"Well I'm going to go change to" Wally said quickly and zipping off to his room to change
Dick followed after them in the direction of the team's quarters. He changes in to his spare Robin suit, and headed to the training room. The only one already there was Zatana. She was looking at all the training equipment in the room, and she was still in civvies.
"So do you have a costume Z." he asked
"Oh hey Robin, and yeah I do"
"Then where is it" he asked smiling
"Well" she said then pulled a wand out of seemingly nowhere. She said some sort of incantation, and was suddenly engulfed in smoke. When the smoke cleared, she was in a completely different outfit. She was wearing a leotard that looked like a suit with a tailed black jacket over it and she had a white bowtie. She was wearing black high heel boots, with matching fish net stockings
"Wow, that's some trick" Dick said stunned at her new appearance
"Hey guys" Wally said coming in to the training room "you ready to… wow" he paused when he saw Zatanas' new outfit "I have to say that is much better than the spandex, close your mouth Robin, your drooling"
"What" Dick said looking away from Zatana and blushing "no I'm not?"
"Looks like you guys beat me here" Artemis said walking in adjusting her bow
"yeah, hey Artemis want to do some target practice" Dick said grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the targets, and as far away from Zatana as he could"
"So there a reason that your all flustered" Artemis asked as she cocked an arrow and pulled it back
"What do you mean" Dick said "pulling a couple of baterangs out of his utility belt
"So does it have anything to do with Zatanas costume" she said letting the arrow fly and hitting the target dead center
"I still don't know what you mean" Dick said throwing a baterang with a flick of his wrist and splitting Artemis' arrow down the middle.
"So do you like her" she said letting off another arrow
"What, of course not" Dick said "I just met her, I mean I think she is nice"
"Oh I get it" Artemis said
"What do you get" he said lowering the baterang he was about to throw
"Your just like every other guy, you think she is hot and she is nice, and she may like you to but you're not going to act on it for reasons unknown" Artemis ranted starting to get worked up
"What in the world are you talking about" Dick said "I just met her about twenty five minutes ago, and what do you expect me to do when she wears that, think she was ugly"
"No, of course not," she said sitting down on a bench nearby with her bow in her lap "I'm sorry Rob, I was just taking things out on you. I didn't mean anything, I'm sure you're not like that"
"It's ok Artemis" Dick said sitting next to her "so do you know guys like that"
"Sadly yes" she said sighing
"So who is the guy" Dick asked "you must really like him to get so worked up"
"Yeah like I'm telling you that" she said laughing "but i do want to ask you a question, I mean you're a guy"
"Yes I am pretty sure that I am a guy" Dick said sarcastically
"Ha very funny" Artemis said "my real question is why would a guy not act on his feelings, and I mean his real feelings not just thinking a girl is hot.
Guessing who she was talking about Dick said "well maybe he is scared"
"What" Artemis said confused
"Maybe he is afraid that if he acts on it then his feelings won't be returned." Dick said
"So he might be afraid of being rejected" she said confused "but he is rejected constantly by other girls, and he doesn't seem to mind, and I mean all the time"
"He has no real feelings for those girls though" Dick explained "he doesn't want to be rejected the one time that it matters"
"You really think so" Artemis said
"Positive" Dick said
"You know for a 15 year old, you're pretty smart"
"I know Dick said" smiling, he threw a baterang and hit the bull's-eye without even looking at the target
"Ok how do you do that" Artemis said
"I could teach you" Dick said getting up
"Really"
"Yeah sure" he said, they spent the rest of the training session practicing their aim and teaching each other tips about getting better accuracy.
