Darkness

Chapter 6

Things had gone downhill quickly for ROB after Darkness and Robin

rejoined the fight. The appearance of a black-winged "angel" flying at the

controlled mob seemed to send them into a panic, and they broke ROB's mind

control. It was a work of minutes to disable ROB with the team's concentrated

efforts. Job completed, they headed back to HQ to, well, talk. About wings.

Darkness, being the gallant sort, or at least feeling guilty for

making Empress ride with Lobo when he could fly, offered to give her his seat

on the Cycle, he could fly in the pocket the Cycle created. He was a little

suprised when she smiled and declined. "No thanks. I like riding with him. I

think his hog likes me too." She smiled wider and walked over to her ride.

Darkness just blinked for a moment, then shrugged and climbed into the cycle.

Back at HQ, there was a moment of silence around the meeting table

before, with the wide eyes of a child, Impulse spoke. "Hey Darkness! Where's

your wings?" Darkness had used his mind-trick again, and his wings had melted

into his cape. Darkness smiled and concentrated on his wings for a moment. He

attempted to prolong it so they could grasp what was happening.

It was a strange sight, seeing black fabric transform into feathers,

from feathers to wings. For the full effect he stretched them out to their

full extention, his normal wingspan of 10 feet. When he had finished, all that

remained of his cape was the collar. He used the moment to stretch fully

before closing his wings.

Silence paraded around and did a little dance through the room before

it was chased out by Lobo's snickering. "Bird-boy. Heh-heh-heh..." Robin and

Darkness rolled their eyes together.

Wonder girl spoke up, "So, um, how did you get wings? Robin doesn't

have any, I think..." Wondergirl glanced over at Robin before looking back at

Darkness. "I think I should explain my world first. Then you'll understand why

I have wings. On my world there are two major races. The Seraphim and the

Nephilim. I am a Seraphim. We're all born with wings, as well as certain , uh,

powers. The powers vary from person to person though. Mine nullifies light in

my general area." To prove his point, the room suddenly went dark. There was

NO light, even though the lights in the room were on. Then, the light was

back, and everything was normal. Wide eyes abounded. "The Seraphim are

basically the aristocracy. They get the best of everything and consider

Nephilim to be lowly, as they cannot fly without machines. The Nephilim are

what in this universe you call humans. They have reached the same basic level

of technology as you have in this universe. I on the other hand almost look to

the Nephilim. They've achieved so much without powers or wings or anything.

That would be why I hide my wings."

Superboy had just opened his mouth to ask Darkness about Batman when

the Bat himself came over the comm channel. "This is Batman, come in." A pair

of tousled, raven-haired heads flew up to fix their eyes on the comm unit.

After a moment's hesitation, Robin replied. "We read you Batman." The voice

that terrifies continued. "We saw your fight today. We're coming by to talk

about his new member. Batman out."

Young Justice (minus Robin, Darkness, and Lobo) cowered. The JLA was

coming. Ooooooh god. "Well, yer dead. I'm getting' outta here 'fore the

'hig-n-mighties' come. 'Nita, you wanna come?" Lobo stood and headed toward

the door. Anita shook her head with a sigh. "I really should stick around.

Don't forget dinner." She smiled at him. "Yeah." Lobo looked over his shoulder

at Darkness. "Nice knowin' ya Birdie." He walked out the door.

"Right. So the JLA is coming, people, lets make this place

presentable!" Robin stood and clapped his hands together. What followed was

perhaps the most frantic, whirlwind of a house-cleaning the world has ever

seen. They had just collapsed onto the chairs, couches and floor of the living

room when the JLA arrived.

*~*~*~* End Chapter 6 *~*~*~*

Author's notes: RIGHT! So, lets see what happens now. JLA-ho! O.o I'm scared.

Oh well. I hope people are still enjoying the series, and appreciate the

explanation of Darkness's world I have in there. I figured it needed a little

elaborating. ^_^ So, I'll be watching/reading Hamlet and being disturbed by

original fairytales. LOTS of children-eating. And death. And torture at

weddings. O.o