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Green Lantern
We were fighting Lex Luthor, and he was trying to get Percy to his side. Percy seemed to be resisting pretty well, and I began to trust her more.
Overtime, Percy had proven a valuable member of the team. She had quick thinking, fast reflexes, and powerful powers. We now trusted her a lot more, and, in a way, she was accepted as a sister in our family. Superman still loathed her, though, likely because of her powers.
Suddenly, Lex managed to wound Batman, and Percy exploded. Water, fire, and earth swirled around her, and her eyes began to glow. If not for my job, I would have flown away as fast as I could with a protective barrier around me. I forced myself to hold my ground.
Percy collected these materials in a ball and hurled it at Lex, destroying his blaster and knocking him over. A tree grew around him.
"Will it contain him?" asked Superman.
She snorted. "A tree smaller than this was able to contain a titan. Trust me, it'll work."
Suddenly, Bruce collapsed. She rushed over to him and checked his wound.
Diana ran to her. "Tern, you can't. It'll kill you."
I grew concerned. I didn't want her to die. She was one of us.
"If it kills me, it kills me. I'm not going to let him die." replied Percy. I began to suspect that she had a crush on Batman.
I watched as Percy's hand glowed red. Pain was evident in her eyes as yellow venom came out of the wound. At last, the wound closed, but Percy collapsed next to Batman.
Diana immediately rushed over to Percy muttering, "Percy, why do you have to be so dam loyal?"
We took her to the sick bay at the Watchtower, where she lay alongside Bruce. She was extremely pale, and her breathing was shallow.
Soon, Batman woke up, blinking. "What happened?"
"Lex stabbed you with Pit Scorpion venom. Percy healed you, but... she used a lot of her power," explained Aquaman.
Batman groaned. "Diana, do you have any nectar?"
She took out a vial of yellow liquid. "I don't leave Themysicra without it," she said before force feeding it to Percy. Sip by sip, her color returned. Soon, her eyes fluttered open. "You Ok?" asked the Flash.
"With great... power comes the... great need to ... take a nap," she said, managing a lopsided grin before falling asleep again. Diana face palmed.
We began to discuss Lex's attack.
"Pit Scorpion Venom comes from the depths of Tartarus," explained Batman. "Lex must have been allied with monsters or Titans to have the venom. If the villains are allied with Greek monsters... that's not good."
"If the monsters have united with the villains, then, we will have to unite with a... group," said Diana. "They are like Percy and I."
A group that was like Percy and Diana? I thought. Flash and Superman were equally puzzled.
Suddenly, Percy woke again with a gasp. She sat up, and I could see that her eyes now looked broken and weary. Something had happened in her head, and from J'onn's sympathetic look, it was traumatizing.
She walked out, calling, "Bats, you know where to find me if you need me."
Tern terned into a tern before flying out.
While the others zeta beamed out, Superman stopped me and Flash before we did. "Don't you want to see where she's going?"
We flew after Percy, who was going pretty fast for a tern. At last, we found her at the edge of a cliff. She was singing Welcome to my Life, and look weary and broken. She was staring up at a cluster of stars and the huntress constellation with grief.
Do you ever feel like breaking down?
Do you ever feel out of place?
Like somehow you just don't belong
And no one understands you
Do you ever want to run away?
Do you lock yourself in your room?
With the radio on turned up so loud
That no one hears you screaming
No you don't know what its like
When nothing feels alright
You don't know what its like to be like me
To be hurt, to feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one there to save you
No you don't know what its like
Welcome to my life
Do you want to be somebody else?
Are you sick of feeling so left out?
Are you desperate to find something more
Before your life is over
Are you stuck inside a world you hate?
Are you sick of everyone around?
With the big fake smiles and stupid lies
But deep inside you're bleeding
No you don't know what its like
When nothing feels alright
You don't know what its like to be like me
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one there to save you
No you don't know what its like
Welcome to my life
No one ever lied straight to your face
And no one ever stabbed you in the back
You might think I'm happy
But I'm not gonna be okay
Everybody always gave you what you wanted
You never had to work it was always there
You don't know what its like
What its like
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one there to save you
No you don't know what its like
What its like
To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you're down
To feel like you've been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what its like
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
She sang with much conviction that I started to think that she had gone through a lot. Maybe even more than the team. I saw a single tear come down her cheek.
She jumped, and transformed into a tern once more, soaring over the ocean and diving underwater. She did not come up again.
I shared a look with Flash. Percy Jackson was a mystery.