Thanks for the reviews! Anyway, the main pairing will be Klarion/Artemis.
"So… Artemis. I have a serious question before I cartwheel out of the room shake my new body for Batman."
"Okay," Artemis was too tired to give a witty reply, but she rolled her eyes.
How am I even supposed to respond to that?
"Is my new body hot?"
"What?"
He did not just ask me that. He? She? What gender even is he now?
"You're so uptight Artemis." Klarion forced Megan's face to mock sadness.
"You did not just ask me that, pilgrim."
"I'm not a pilgrim! I'm just a hot White Martian pretending to be a Green Martian now. See?"
Klarion spun Megan's body around, making her skirt lift up and twirl.
"What are you doing?"
"Modeling my new body. You like?"
"No. Stop this and go deal with Batman."
The Witch-Boy ignored her, transforming Megan's body into his old form.
"Okay, Artemis. Now that I'm a man, do you like me?"
"No."
"No? What if I became your Wally? Or Roy? Or the Green Ar…"
Artemis raised her fist and punched Klarion in the side. Her glare intensified and locked with Klarion's eyes.
Klarion choked out, "Again, you're so uptight, Artemis. How will you survive working with me?"
"Leave me alone."
"Abra was way nicer than you," Klarion began pointing at her accusingly and pouting, "You meanie."
It's hard to take him seriously when his voice is too high-pitched. Has he even been through puberty? Do demons…wizards…whatever he is…go through that even?
"I can hear your thoughts! Remember that when I break your mother's neck." Klarion spat.
"Sorry…"
"Whatever," Klarion mocked Artemis by rolling his eyes, "I'm going off to Batman. I don't know what tests he'll want to run and how long you'll be here...Or if the Martian might come in and probe you. Batman's single right?"
"I don't want to know…What? I'm not going to ask... Anyway, what is so important that we have to do now besides lie to my mentors."
I'm breaking every rule I agreed to when I joined this team.
"Yes you are. And I'm so proud of you too." Klarion rose up towards the bed and pinched Artemis' cheek, before spinning again and flying out of the room.
How can I ever know when he's serious? Why does it matter if Batman is single? Oh no...
"Batman," Klarion pitched up Megan's voice to make it sound even more shrill and anxious. "You need to come to the medic bay."
Klarion forced Megan to wave her arms in the air and gasp dramatically.
"Calm down or else I will just leave and not listen to you. You need to be less erratic."
Klarion fought back the urge to shift his hands into claws and gut the caped crusader.
"Artemis can see again!"
"Is this a joke?" Batman's scowl deepened and seemed likely to embed itself permanently on his face.
"No! I was talking to her and she suddenly could see again. I tried asking her what happened, but she doesn't know. Besides, she just agreed to go shopping with me! So when can she leave?"
Batman ignored Klarion, pushing Megan aside to hover back to medical bay. Just as Batman left, the other members spoke up.
Wally cleared his voice before bellowing in a high-pitched and scratchy voice that rivaled Megan's, "Megan? What do you mean Artemis can see again?"
Kaldur added, "Megan, Artemis was our friend too, but you don't need to lie and give false hope for the team."
Superboy came to Kaldur's side, hovering just a little too closely to the Atlantean. "Is this another time like when you thought Twister was Red Tornado?"
Robin was the only team-member to support her. "Guys, maybe Megan is right? How could she lie about this?"
The other three boys just glared at the boy wonder, causing him to move back a few steps and lose confidence. Klarion was irritated: somehow a team of teenagers who couldn't trust each other and constantly doubted the telepath Martian had beaten him when he had tried to steal the helmet.
"What, do you blame me for what happened with Artemis?"
Robin stepped closer to Klarion, "No, what's done is…"
"Of course we blame you!" Superboy shouted in another tantrum.
Before he could compose a pathetic response that be seen as typical Megan behavior, Klarion felt his anger at the team soar. "Are you idiots? Honestly, I might be shouting a mantra of 'Hello Megan' every time I speak, but how could I lie about this? She is there resting on her bed, perfectly able to see. Humans…"
Klarion shouldn't have said that – no, he knew and regretted saying it – but maybe now that he was in control of Megan's body, he could force her to have some confidence and defend herself. His vessel could not be seen as weak-willed.
Before the boys could respond, Batman swooped back into the room in cape-waving dramatic flare.
"She can see." His face angled itself towards Klarion. He was studying the Martian's face and Klarion wondered if Batman knew that she was a White Martian and somehow he had miscalculated the Batman responses.
"So…can Artemis and I go shopping? A little girl time?"
Superboy glared at Klarion, fuming angrily and inching closer towards Kaldur.
Batman ignored Klarion, "Artemis will be staying for further testing for today. The team will see her tomorrow."
"Klarion," Artemis whispered, "What are you doing back here?"
"Relax. The doctors are warded against coming into the room right now."
"Why did you come here? We don't have to find Abra now, do we?
"No, I'm bored. B-O-R-E-D bored. Entertain me."
"I'm not your mother, witch boy."
"Why not?" Klarion sat down on the bed beside her and shifted into a flailing, screaming baby, "Mommy! Give me a toy."
"Whatever. This is getting ridiculous. So how did Batman and the team respond?"
Klarion changed back into Megan's form, "I kindasortajustmaybe lost my temper. It's not that big of a deal." Klarion pouted at Artemis.
"What happened?"
Will my team find out?
"No…but Batman might think I cured you using some weird White Martian powers or something like that. Just another conspiracy theory blah blah blah. He'll probably confront Megan's uncle for information...or a steamy make-out session."
"Yeah...," Artemis paused awkwardly, "So how did my team react?"
"Ooooh, that's the fun part. They blame Megan for you losing your sight. Guess you shouldn't have pushed her out of the way?"
"Just tell me what happened."
"Superboy was angry. Kaldur went along with Superboy, because they're probably lovers."
"No, they're not."
"Artemis, I practically caught them with their tongues down each other's throats. They couldn't care else what I was saying."
"What really happened?"
I'm growing impatient…
"I told you…"
Artemis latched her hand onto Megan's arm. "I will twist your arm and break it, just tell me."
"Okay. Superboy and Kaldur stood really close together and thought I was lying or 'misguided.' Even Wally doubted me and isn't he supposed to have a crush on one or the both of us?"
Artemis ignored the last comment, continuing, "What about Robin?"
"He somewhat believed us, before Batman swooped in and confirmed what I said. I don't think we'll have to worry about Robin finding out that you pretty much sold your soul to me."
Why does he have to remind me?
"So what do you mean you lost you temper?"
"Not really… I just said 'how could I lie about this' and insulted them by calling them 'humans'…"
"You really want us to get caught, don't you? They'll find out whatever you are and what I am…?"
What am I now?
"Artemis, where is your love of magic?" Klarion somewhat sung out the word magic condescendingly, "Don't question what you are now. Anyways, Robin will believe anything we say. Kaldur is probably in fish-heat and mating with Superboy underwater too much to notice anything we do. That just leaves Wally."
"Maybe? Wally doesn't believe in magic though."
"Whatever. He's into that science mumbo jumbo and is rational enough to look for any clues in our behavior. He might suspect something."
"Why are you telling me this? I'm not the one who went against Megan's typical behavior and yelled at the team."
"Because, you're going to have to distract him."
"I don't want to even hear this. This will lead to some half-thought plot that will fail."
"You're doing it because I said so," Klarion raised his arm, sending out waves of red energy to strike Artemis. Artemis wasn't physically harmed, but the pain shook throughout her body.
"Stop it… I'm sorry. What do you want me to do?"
"Flirt with Wally."
"That doesn't even make sense."
"Sure it does. I told you to do it, so there, " Klarion forced Megan's tongue to stick out and her mouth to widen, revealing jagged rotten teeth.
"That's sick. How would flirting with Wally work? It would make him notice me more."
"No, it would make him 'blinded by love.'"
"Please, tell me to do anything else."
"Why, Artemis? I thought you loved Wally? Even Megan thinks so."
"What? That traitor."
"Do you not like Wally anymore?"
"I never said that and neither did I say I liked him to begin with."
"Do you like someone else then?" Klarion inched closer towards Artemis' bed.
"Why, do you like someone, Klarion? What made you get all hot and testy around my male team members?"
Klarion slapped her before shouting, "Abra never asked that! At least he showed respect."
"Why do you always bring him up? What's so great about Abra?"
Is Klarion flirting with me? Or am I too blind to see the mentions of Abra?
"Okay…so let me ask this again. Artemis, am I hot?"
Klarion sat right next to Artemis on her bed, morphing back into his old form. He lifted his right hand and cupped the side of Artemis' face gently massaging it.
"What are you doing, witch-boy?"
"Answering the questions you were thinking."
Klarion swiftly planted his lips onto Artemis', but shifted into Wally's form as he deepened the kiss.
Why did he change into Wally? Is this what kissing Wally would be like?
By kissing her, Klarion sent dark, primal energy into Artemis' body. As Artemis felt Klarion make Wally's tongue slide into her mouth after tracing her lips, darkness surrounded her before she lost consciousness and fell asleep.
The mission should have been easy. Megan and Artemis had teamed up and were sent to explore the east side of the abandoned building. Kid Flash and Robin were trying to find the villain Copperhead or hack into whatever files they could find while Aqualad and Superboy hunted whatever goons guarded this place. Artemis only had a rudimentary skill at hacking - her father had trained her for more combative purposes. Artemis could easily snap a man's neck, but she couldn't compete with the boy wonder at technology.
"Artemis, Megan," Robin said over the telepathic mind link, "Copperhead is gone. Evacuate the building."
"This was dissapointing," Artemis said to Megan, trying to start a conversation to stop the awkward silence between the two.
"I guess so. I'm glad that this was an easy mission."
"Get out of the building now. The system is rigged to set off explosives."
Before the two girls could exit the hallway they were in and get outside of the building, the explosions went off. Artemis kicked open the nearest door, gesturing for Megan hurry in with her. The explosion encircled the hall and flames began to engulf the building.
"Robin, I don't think we're going to make it out," Megan thought.
Another blast could be heard, but Artemis couldn't determine where in the building it had came from. As she turned around in the dark room, she couldn't see a window to escape from. She turned around, noticing Megan shaking fearfully.
Before Artemis could ask why Megan was shaking, the explosion she had just heard ripped through the hallway they were in, taking down the door. Without a second thought, Artemis pushed a cowering Megan out of the way, watching as the blast bombarded her face. As she lost consciousness, Artemis hoped that somehow Megan would survive.
AN: I have a hard time writing Klarion, so any feedback (thanks Blaziken837) on his dialogue is great. Another thanks to Epic Mickeygirl, who I think might be the first person to write a Young Justice fic with Klarion as a main character that isn't a one-shot or drabble.