AN: I'm proud of how quickly I wrote this, despite its shorter than usual length. Enjoy. Thanks to the anonymous reviews, which shaped the direction this chapter took. Robin will only have a possessive friendship with Wally and not a one-sided romance (but Robin doesn't even appear in this chapter). Anyways, the Kaldur/Conner subplot will be important, but will NEVER turn into mpreg (and will never be as important as hot Klarion/Artemis). I just wanted to write Kaldur's fears/drives.
Klarion teleported into the room in a blaze of red smoke, quickly heaving Madame Xanadu's body to the floor. Before he could rush to Artemis' side, pain shot throughout his body.
Megan's dormant mind, which he thought had been unconscious when he possessed her, roared back to life, competing with him for control of her body. Klarion forced Megan's legs to stomp forward, but his control over them was waning. Each step became more exhausting, before he suddenly collapsed onto the floor.
Conner sat back with his arms on the beach, observing a seemingly happier than usual Kaldur swim by its shore and find comfort in his element. Everything was serene; he no longer cared about Artemis and her temporary blindness. He and Kaldur were able to spend even more time than usual together since their squad didn't hang out as a team anymore.
Despite Conner's view of him, the Atlantean was an expert about fooling Conner and presenting a positive personality, hiding his personal problems from the clone. Conner also never noticed Kaldur's attempts to isolate him from the rest of the Young Justice team. Kaldur had been all too glad that Artemis had stopped hanging around the team as much as she usually did. Kaldur silently thanked his king that Artemis no longer flirted with his Conner.
Worries plagued Kaldur that Superboy would one day become less naïve and eventually leave him, because, unlike Artemis, he could not give the clone children. Artemis was cunning and tough as nails despite her lack of meta-human powers. She was a more than suitable mate for the clone.
The Atlantean was overtly eager that Megan and Artemis were spending time together. If they stopped, he would pressure them into continuing. Artemis and Megan's newfound friendship must be preserved if Conner was to remain his.
It worried Kaldur that the clone had never specifically stated his attraction to either gender. Kaldur could be nothing but a fling for a sexually inexperienced Conner. The clone had stopped encouraging Megan, but he either didn't care or didn't notice Artemis' former aggressive flirting with him.
As the Atlantean rose from the water towards his mate, he stared at the clone's chiseled muscles. Conner was perfection personified and completely unaware of his beauty. The clone was unscarred, but also untainted by a past like Kaldur's. The Atlantean would always be the son of Black Manta, but Artemis had credibility with the Justice League as Green Arrow's niece. Maybe it was in Kaldur's nature to be like his father, for he sometimes felt greedy and territorial of Conner. Although he thought himself selfish, he continued reveling in the clone's ignorance and wanting to slightly control and nurture the him. Conner could find kinder and female lovers if Kaldur was unable to ensnare him.
Kaldur focused on a mantra of becoming equal competition with Artemis: he must transcend the limits of being a man and find some way to give Conner a child. Even though Conner was young, carefree, and wouldn't want a child now, Kaldur feared that the clone would think differently in several years. As everyone around them grew older, married, and had children, Conner would crave what the Atlantean couldn't give.
Although he only had rudminentary knowledge of magic, Kaldur believed that if an answer to his childbearing problem existed, it had to be conceived with magic. The Atlantean clung to the hope of its possibility if he ever wanted to keep Conner. Kaldur felt slightly secure about the Artemis situation after pressuring Wally into dating her right before the clone and the Atlantean had come to the beach. With Megan as a friend and Wally as a boyfriend, Artemis couldn't steal the clone from him.
Kaldur must produce children, but Wally must also succeed in courting the blonde archer. Even if Artemis was eliminated as a temporary threat, Kaldur needed time to find a solution before other women came along in the future.
Abra awoke, not knowing what body he had been pulled into. After Klarion had abandoned him, the Justice League had arrested the mage, but because they had only believed him to be shoddy at best with magic in comparison to Klarion, the League had placed him in a standard, non-supervillain prison.
He had been regarded as a common criminal and betrayed by his only friend and teacher, but Abra still had the will to escape that prison. Transfiguring into a fly to escape had been simple; Klarion had taught him basic animal transformations early in his training. Although Abra could not shift into the form of other humans, for that required a stronger magical reserve and extensive blood magic, he still felt proud to be able to become animals. Magic made him feel superior to other humans: a superiority that had only worsened his ego and refusal to ever call another boy-wizard master.
Abra Kadabra lived a wanderer's life since his escape, never staying in any town long enough for people to be able to get to know him. He continued to practice magic, but mainly to hide the petty theft he committed to keep on moving. When a female medium's astral projection had violently found him and pulled Abra into her body, he knew that only one wizard was capable of that level of magic.
Klarion the Witch Boy had summoned his former apprentice, probably to finish or use him, but Abra would never die without at least wounding the boy.
He opened the eyes of the body he was in, not expecting the scene before him. Klarion lay unconscious on the floor, his aura battling for dominance with another's as the body he was possessing shifted back and forth from the Green Martian's to Klarion's slimmer, boyish form. The infamous Witch Boy who had betrayed Abra lay weak before him. All that bound the body Abra was possessing was a simple paralysis spell, easily removed as he rose up from the floor towards his former master.
Klarion could never truly be killed, but murdering his vessel would suffice for Abra. The disgruntled former apprentice was too obsessed with revenge to notice the blonde archer sneak behind him, raising her hands to cast a spell.
Wally looked into the mirror, adjusting his hair into a messy behead look. Maybe Artemis would appreciate a late-night visit to her house instead of him calling her. It seemed romantic and spontaneous.
Kaldur had reassured Wally that he should pursue her, so it couldn't be just his uncle that believed Artemis liked him. Wally finished fixing his hair, confident that Artemis would date and perhaps even kiss him by the end of the night. Everything must go according to plan...
Artemis saw Klarion arrive, tossing some woman's body to the floor before collapsing to the ground. Seeing Klarion had made Artemis stop from trying to end her mother's pain. When the unknown woman had stood up and inched towards Klarion with a devious grin, Artemis acted instinctively and snuck up behind her.
She remembered the feeling of the red lightning surging from her hand and the anger that had sparked it. Focusing on that emotion and praying silently in desperation for her magic to act the way she wanted, Artemis unleashed the blast.
Red lightning shot from her right hand, striking the woman against the wall. The woman hit her head, passing out as she fell to the ground. Artemis rushed to Klarion's side, grasping his unstable body like she had done with her mother's. Klarion and her mother both seemed to be dying as the doorbell rang. Adrenaline pumped through Artemis as she braced herself for whoever was at the door.
AN 2: Sorry, I keep postponing what will happen and if Artemis' mom will survive. My next chapter WILL answer it - that's all that the chapter will be about (it won't focus on any characters expect Klarion, Artemis, her mom, Xanadu/Abra, and Wally). Give me feedback on how you expect everything to go down - who will live etc (I love replying to reviews).
I'd love to see more Klarion stories out there - even if he isn't that in character (I totally ground up canon Klarion into paint and flung it across this story like a Jackson Pollock painting. Lol). If someone would write smutty one-shots with Klarion/Artemis or Klarion/and character that is not Wally, I might just cry and do some cheerleader moves. For those that like reading a more in character Klarion, read both stories by Epic Mickeygirl.