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The Phoenix Project Chapter 3
Green Lantern looked back and forth between the two women, thoroughly lost.
"I'm guessing you two have met before?" he said hesitantly. Shayera looked at him with blank eyes before nodding.
"Well, don't leave me in the dark here!" he said once again making his presence known.
"John, you remember Paran Dul? Right?" Shayera asked quietly.
He was silent before nodding, recalling the female solider that was in charge of supervising the building of the hyperspace bypass.
"This is Jaya Dul her little sister. I haven't seen her in years."
"Paran left her own sister?" John said disbelievingly.
"She didn't leave me the whole blasted army did." Jaya spoke; her voice had a disgusted tone to it.
"Why Jaya, when I saw you last you were only 10 years old? Now you're all grown up?" Shayera said amazed at how much the girl had changed.
"I'm 16 to be exact. And I'm nothing like you remember me Shayera Hol." Jaya hissed.
"What did you do to her?" Shayera snarled turning her anger on Amanda who had been watching pleasantly.
"Nothing much believe it or not. Mostly all we did was study her biological makeup and her muscle development. We tried a few injections but none of them kept." She explained.
"Jaya what happened?" Shayera asked her softly. This was not the happy spunky little girl she had known on Thanagar. The spark of hope and optimism had faded from her eyes and was replaced by something unreadable.
"What happened? I grew up. When I turned 12 my father shipped me off to military camp so I could become a solider and fight the Gordanians. I was continually looked down on because I could be nothing like my sister. I was to slow, to small, to weak. Everyday I fell prey to boys that considered themselves more superior then myself. And for awhile I was scared but flight soon turned to fight. Something inside me snapped I finally learned that the world isn't some happy place where all your dreams come true. That was the day I became what I am now pretty soon those boys were afraid of me. And I became one of the best soldiers in my class. When the invasion came to earth I came as well, I was used as a prison guard. My sister spent little time around me; I was invisible to her and most of the army. I was soon recognized when I disagreed with the plan for the bypass. My father wrote me saying that I had dishonored him and my family name. After the Justice League forced the Thanagarians to leave I was left behind. "You can stay with the traitor. You make a perfect pair." Kragger told me, I cried out to my sister asking her how she could let them leave me. Paran hung her head hugged me and told me to be safe. And with that they left me, I was soon found by a group of rather unhappy men. Who knows what they would have done to me if Miss Waller hadn't come to my aid. I went willingly for food and shelter. But unfortunately none of their little science projects worked on me. That's when they so graciously decided to give me to you." Jaya said finishing her tale.
"Jaya I'm sorry for all that happened to you." Shayera apologized.
"Not your fault now is it?"
"So do we have another Thanagarian on the team?" John asked hesitantly.
"I haven't ever been allowed the chance of forgiveness by any of my people. Maybe this is my chance." Shayera replied.
"You don't have to do this if you don't want to." John whispered to her concerned, he didn't want Jaya's grim out look on life to seep into Shayera's mind just when it had begun to heal.
"I want to take Jaya; maybe life in the League will help her as it helped me. She's never had a sense of true family. And the League is like a family to the members, and that's what she needs now." Shayera said. Green Lantern nodded understandingly.
"Miss Waller we'll take Jaya with us." Shayera announced.
"Glad to hear it Miss Hol." Waller replied with a smirk before unlocking Jaya's cell.
Wow I just totally turned Shayera's life upside down! More to come next chapter. What will the rest of the League members think of Jaya? Can she be a hero? And is there something Jaya is keeping from Shayera? Find out next chapter.