Hey, this chapter was pretty rushed so sorry about all the mistakes. Hopefully you can still understand what's going on (if you don't you can PM me haha)
Anyways i hope you enjoy it
P.S. sorry about the lack of spitfire but it gets going again in the next chapter :)
It was now around 3AM in the morning and Wally was still sitting by the pool, almost in self-reproach.
Surrounding the back of the team's personal pool area was a tropical forest which separated them from the beach. It was from there where Wally could have sworn someone was enchantingly singing the name "kid flash". It was faint, but it was there and it had Wally intrigued. He wandered into the forest following the sound. As he got deeper into the forest the sound became clearer until it finally stopped. It was at this point that he heard the familiar sound of feet hitting the ground around him. The Shadows' dark attire made them almost impossible to see but Wally was immediately aware of their presence.
"Calm down boy, we're not going to hurt you", the enchanting voice teased. Wally could recognize it now, it was Cheshire and she stood directly in front of him. Her eyes began to glow red, shining over the ground and giving Wally some sense of the environment that he was in.
"What do you want Cheshire?" Wally asked.
"I'm just here to offer some friendly advice" she replied, "I see you've been spending a lot of time with the archer girl and I know a certain sorceress who may not appreciate it. I suggest that if you value the life of your blonde friend then you stop kissing her in plain sight."
This definitely struck a nerve in wally, "There is nothing going on between us! Besides what's in this for you?"
"Nothing, I'm simply warning you that next time you're confronted by Jinx your archer friend may not be so lucky."
The thought of Artemis dying infuriated Wally, he moved into a blur before unleashing streaks of electricity towards the shadows. They all hit the ground, even Cheshire was completely unconscious.
Wally just stood in front of them breathing heavily before imagining the worst, what if he'd killed them?
Conner was suddenly awoken from his sleep, he heard what sounded like a lightning strike outside of his hut. Now that he was awake, he could also make out the sound of someone gasping for air in the forest. He threw on his shirt before making his way out to the pool area. Just as he got out, he saw Wally coming out of the forest beside the pool.
Superboy immediately approached him, "Kid what happened?"
"I was ambushed" wally managed to get out.
"by who?" Connor replied.
"lets just wake up the others" Wally suggested.
Connor agreed and woke up the girls while Wally woke up Kaldur and Robin. The team met beside the pool.
"Oh, Wally are you alright?" asked M'gann.
"I am now babe" he replied.
"what happened Kid" asked Kaldur.
"Well I'd just got out of the pool when I heard someone saying my name in the forest, I went to check it out and before I knew it, I was being ambushed by shadows."
"This seems like an unprovoked attack but Robin and I will investigate tonight. The rest of you can go back to bed, we have an early start tomorrow" Kaldur said.
Wally took Robin and Kaldur to the area where he was confronted by the shadows but they were all gone. Wally was almost relieved, at least they were alive.
The three walked back to the huts "Alright kid you can go back to bed" said Kaldur.
It was just Kaldur and Robin left by the pool.
"I have a bad feeling about this Robin, it is impossible that the shadows knew we were coming to this island which means they were already here." Said Kaldur.
"Do you think they have something to do with the disappearances" asked Robin.
"possibly, I have noticed that there is no marine life in the waters surrounding this island which means they are being repelled by something or someone." Replied Kaldur.
"wait how could the shadows go unseen in daylight, get to wally so quickly and then just disappear?" asked Robin.
"exactly, I suspect that this island is not merely a tourist attraction." Said Kaldur.
"we have to get off this island" replied Robin.
Just as he said this Robin received a phone call from Batman, "Robin, cameras just spotted Sportsmaster robbing the largest silver mine in the country, I've attached all the information" Said Batman.
"Got it, we should be back at Happy Harbor by 5pm tomorrow, I'll speak to you about it then" Replied Robin and hung up.
"we should get some sleep" Kaldur said before walking back to his hut.
Robin started to walk back to his hut, noticing Wally's wet foot prints from that night. But then his eyes came to another set of foot prints which went in another direction. He decided to follow them, they went straight from the pool to Artemis's hut. 'huh maybe there's more to this story', Robin thought.
Everyone was up at 8:00AM the next morning for their 9:30 flight back to Ivy Town, after checking out of the resort and being driven to the airport they were eventually boarding the plane. They were assigned the same seats as the last flight but M'gann had agreed to swap seats with Artemis so she could finish her holiday homework without out being disturbed by wally.
Wally was partially relieved, at least he wouldn't have to sit through 4 hours of silence. Artemis on the other hand thought sitting away from wally would help her concentrate but it seemed to be doing the opposite, she couldn't take her mind off him.
After four hours of flying Artemis hadn't written one word and was in a state of panic, she was expected to have it finished for her first day of school which was just the next day.
After landing and collecting their bags at around 3:00PM, Dinah arrived to pick the team up. The interruption in the middle of the night meant that everyone was tired. After the hour drive, they finally arrived back at the mountain.
Immediately Robin met Batman in the meeting room.
"how was your trip?" Batman started.
"interesting but I'll get to that. I did some research on the mine that Sportsmaster robbed, turns out it produces the purest silver in the world which happens to be the most conductive material on earth." Replied Robin.
"I came to the same result; a substance of that nature is most likely going to be used in a weapon." Said Batman.
"if that's the case then it's likely to create large surges of energy, I can program the cave's system to identify and track them" Robin suggested.
"I've already done it and linked it to the mountain's system, its waiting for you in the computer room" replied Batman.
"alright I'll get straight to it, oh and I'll talk to you about Tivoli island later" said Robin as he walked to the computer room.
Once everyone else had finished unpacking they just lounged around watching TV, except Artemis who was frantically trying to meet the expectations of Gotham Academy.
After hours of programming Robin had finally finished editing the tracking program so that he would be notified when the largest surges of energy were produced around the world. He walked out of the computer room realizing it was almost 9:00pm and everyone was getting ready for bed. He walked down the hall and into the kitchen to find Wally just leaving.
"Hey Rob there's a Big Belly burger and fries here for you, none of us could be bothered to cook so we just got takeaway" said Wally before heading to his room.
"thanks man" said Robin.
He turned to go and sit down but to his surprise saw Artemis asleep on the couch with a pen and paper in front of her. He quietly grabbed the sheet of paper and walked back down the hall to Wally's room.
"Hey Wally can you finish this sheet of Chemistry questions for me? I'm seriously tired." Asked Robin.
"yeah sure man, I'll have it done in like 10 minutes" replied Wally.
"Thanks dude, you're a lifesaver" said Robin.
After Robin had finished his burger and fries, Wally came out and gave him the sheet of homework before going back to his room. Robin quietly slipped the chemistry questions back on top of another book in front of Artemis.
