Calming the City

Disclaimer: Birds of Prey belong to DC Comics and the WB Network. Final Fantasy X-2 of "1000 Words" and the idea of the backround/objects turning into a giant IMAX theatre belong to Square Enix. I own nothing from them. I like to write fanfics for a living and for my entertainment. I own Liz Barry/DarkKnight, Jeff Armstrong, Jennifer, and Alexandros.

Liz summons the dark medieval horse and gets on it quickly. Automatically her clothing changes back into the knight outfit. It must be some sort of automatic shift. The heroine from the future and yet past looks at the others. "We must go back to the city and stop whatever madness what he has caused!" She shouted out to them and the horse neighs, along with her.

"Good plan," said Barbara. "We should go back to the clock tower and gear up." Barbara walks past Dinah, and the young teen Metahuman looks at the former Batgirl.

"Bad idea," said Dinah. "We don't have too much time..."

"So what is our plan?" replied Huntress. "Go to city and stop whatever is causing terror in the city?"

DarkKnight felt a strong emotion entering her and she closes her eyes. She flashes back to different time periods and while that is happening a song appears in her flash-backs. She slowly opens her eyes and she looks at everyone. She knows what to do, but what does music and past & future flash-backs have to do what is going on with the city?

"Hey does anyone have a plan?" said Huntress. The daughter of Catwoman looks at the knight and notice she haven't said a word. "Hey do you have a plan?"

"I think so." (Yeah, singing...but what is the point of doing that?)

{Go to the city and figure that out on your own}

(I hope your right.) DarkKnight looks at the others. "I have a plan; I can't tell you what it is, till we reach the city." Everyone looks at her and nods their heads in agreement.

Alexandros walks back into his chambers and he looks at Jennifer looking at him. "The city is in peril, my plan is working perfectly, all I need to do is....." (Is to alternative time...) He grins evilly and he walks over to her. "Then soon we shall rule the planet, my beautiful..." (Yet weakling) "Warrior..."

Jennifer grins at him. "Thank you my Lord."

"Just call me Alexandrosix, not Lord, that name is already taken..."

As the others raced back into the city, the all notices that everything is in a disaster! The Birds and Jeff faces drops as they notices the fire is burning all over the place and dying people and Metahumans drops dead to the ground. What has he done!?

The group looks up and hears cries from both sides. They all knew what this meant. Attack both species...humans and Metahumans, but why? It has to do that the other race has special abilities and can be a threat to Alexandros.

The knight gets off her horse and as that happened; she changes back to her everyday outfit. Liz looks at everything and this isn't what she saw in her dream. It's similar but it's not the dream she had, or it can be the future. The Metahuman teen walks past her friends and she notices lots of people are running around in flames and dropping to the ground.

(Alexandros you will pay!) She felt anger in her and she bit her lip. The heroine kneels down onto the ground and she places her palms onto the hard concrete street and part of the road is smothered with debris. The goddess, gently make her hands glow and she quickly begin to absorb any fire around. She doesn't want this city in chaos, this wasn't supposed to happen.

Dinah and the others watched as the fire begin to lower and realize that Liz is sucking up the fire. They watch what she is doing and then they lift their heads up and notices a group of people includes Metahumans as well are coming closer to them.

"Liz," said Jeff, in a nervous tone.

Liz lifts her head and looks at them. (Mr. Voice I hope you know what you are doing.) She goes back onto her feet and she backs up. She closes her eyes and she leaps into the air and bright light shoots out of her, then she lands on top of a truck.

The Birds and Jeff gets onto the truck as well. They don't wanna be clobbered by tons of people that they don't want them to get hurt, because they are under his spell.

Liz looks at the sky and then at everyone else. She gently waves her hands and she shields herself and her friends. Also she made some kind of barrier so they can't go any further. The warrior looks down and she sees a microphone lying on top of the surface of the truck, she bends down and she picks it up. (.......) She fully stands up and she looks at the crowd of people.

"Believe with me, even we are torn apart, our feelings will reunite with us. That is what the song is about." She begins to hum to herself and the atmosphere around her and everyone else begin to have a musical sound in the backround. She looks at the people and she began to sing. "I know that your hiding things using gentle words to shelter me, your words are like a dream, a dreams that could never fool me, not that easily. I acted so distant that didn't say good-bye before you left, but I was listening, you fight the battles far from me, for to easily."

Suddenly a bright light engulfs around her and everything else and it became her past when she was twelve years old. It was showing what she was doing at that time. Fire is everywhere and people dying. Then it showed the younger version of her, shrouded in a pink aura destroying the town and the people. Then at the end, it shows that she breaks out of the evil trance and realizes what she has done.

"Saves your tears 'cause I will come back, I can hear your whispered as you walk through that door, but still I saw to hide the pain when I turn back the pages...." She continues on singing and a bright image shoots out of her and made a different scene... "I beg you not to depart, but now I'm not afraid to say what is in my heart...." A bright glow also shoots out of her and its someone else singing, its a young teenage girl with short blonde hair and a tight leather outfit. "Because of 1000 words to call out the angels, because they will fly to you and know I can see, I know their reaching you, suspended on silver wings."

During the IMAX theatre, a group of men in a black and red armor is charging at the girl and the young man. The two ran towards to each other and they are standing in front of a portal. "Oh 1000 words, a thousand embraces..." A group of men stops walking and a dark figure creates a fireball in its hand and aims the fireball at the two. "They will hold you forever!" The two couple looks at each other and looks not scared, but sad at the same time. A tear rolls down the young girl's eyes. The figure throws a fireball at the two and they are on fire, then they dropped to the ground, dead. Different screens begin to shift, it shows Liz's face, The Bird's face, the clock tower, or anything that is related to this giant size IMAX theatre.

"Oh a 1000 words..." the young girl appears, as well as Liz, also begin to sing with her. After the two were singing a major part together they both said, "They will hold you forever!" The teenage blonde girl combines into Liz and white light shoots out of her, causing the IMAX screen across the globe to enter her. The light dimmed down and tears rolls down Liz's eyes.

Liz collapses to the ground and Huntress went over to aide her. Huntress lifts her head up and sees the two races that were fighting, were all looking around and dropping their weapons. The song worked! She looks at Dinah's friend and wonders why she is like upset and she also wonders why that whole song and her were magickal.

(Lena...Helios...) The goddess thought to herself, she wonders why that scene happen. She doesn't know if that was the real deal or a spell to help the city not to be in chaos. (...That was my dream. A dream about Lena & Helios...in the future...) she lifts her head up and notices people are heading back to their homes, what was left of it. Liz gets back onto her feet and she looks at the others. First she hesitates and then she said something. "Now we have to figure out how Alexandros came here and what he wants with the city."

Everyone nods their heads in agreement.

Huntress looks at her. "I have questions! What was the scene about? What is with that glowing light? And why it was sooo magickal?"

"That can wait, we have more important stuff to take care of." Huntress is quiet now. "Any questions?"

"Yeah!" said Dinah, "Should we go to the library to locate Alexandros. I know that is a dumb question, but they gotta have answers. He is definitely not Meta or Metahuman."

"Excellent, let's head to the library and locate information about him."

Alexandros looked at the window and he begins to break his metal goblet, by his fury of anger. He frowns deeply and he throws the goblet through the glass window. Jennifer stands behind him but he doesn't say a thing. "What the heck was that!?" He looks at his general and she shrugs. (God, your no use...) "I wonder who that girl was and what she is! She could corrupt my plans!"

"Who?" said Jennifer. She walks over to the window and looks out, she easily recognizes her. "That's Liz Barry...if you're wondering."

"Liz...that name seems familiar..."

Jennifer perks up a bit. "You know her?"

"I heard about her...a lot about her." (Now I'm tick off!) His face turns bright red and then his face cools down. "Let's work on my plan...the best plan of all." He makes an evil grin....

A/N: I don't know when I'm going to post the next chapter. What you read about the scene between Helios & Lena is going to be another Predator fic, as soon I'm done with this one.