Soo.. lets see how the mentors are doing while their protege's are dreaming. Or nightmaring O.O Whatev's :D
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Batman and the rest of the mentors arrived in the watch tower through the zeta tubes, where they met up with Zatara. Batman brought out a digital version of the globe and Zatara stepped towards it, holding out his hands and reciting the location spell.
"Etacol rednescipe fo erecross!" (1)
As soon as an area on the map lit up, Batman plotted down its coordinates onto his wrist computer. He gave Zatara a brief thanks, before heading towards his Batjet with the rest of the team of mentors following behind him. All ready, to figure out exactly what happened to their proteges.
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After a few minutes of flying they eventually reached their destination, a small forest in southern Aisa. Batman sent the jet to park somewhere nearby as he and the rest heroes dropped down onto the forest floor and made their way through the lush, green foliage.
Suddenly, J'onn floated to a stop mid air while placing his fingers to his temples.
"I sense a strong presence nearby." The martian stated. "About 200 metres Northeast of our location."
Superman looked to the direction and focused, using his x-ray vision.
"I see a small house." the man of steel confirmed. "There is a person inside, though he or she, isn't moving."
The team of mentors nodded and started to make their way there.
"I'll go on ahead and check it out!" the Flash shouted before disappearing from sight. Speedsters.. always impatient :)
When they rest of the heroes finally reached there, they found Flash leaning against a small hut in the middle of a clearing.
"Took you guys long enough." The speedster smirked as he regrouped with the others.
"Have you taken a look inside?" asked Green Arrow.
Flash shook his head. "Nope. Decided to wait for you guys since we don't know exactly what we're dealing with."
Batman pushed past him and threw open the door, stepping into a dark, empty room. Well, it would have been empty if not for the motionless suit of armor lying on the floor.
The group crowded around the knight, making a circle around the body. Aquaman, who was at his head, slowly and carefully pulled of the helmet. Revealing a small, scrawny middle aged man whose eyes glowed a green similar to that of the amulet.
"Errmm.. what happened to him?" Flash asked curiously, using his index finger to poke the man's head.
"Let me try to read his mind." suggested J'onn. "The magic surrounding it is much weaker compared to team's."
The rest of the heroes nodded in agreement as J'onn knelt above the man and placed his hands onto the man's head. The martian's eyes glowed as he dove into the man's mind, trying to recover as many clues and bit's of memory he could retrieve. When he was sure he had gotten everything he could, the martian let go of his grip to the man's mind and slowly stood upright.
"This man is merely a victim to the true villain behind this matter. I looked into his memories and discovered that before he was consumed by the magic and the enchantment, he was able to hear something very.. interesting." J'onn closed his eyes and sent the memory through of all their minds.
In it, they were looking through the eye's of the man as he ran through a dark, cold alley in the middle of the night. He was huffing rapidly as he hit a body in front of him and fell onto the ground. The man attempted to get up and run for it, but suddenly he could no longer move. His arms and legs bound to his body with invisible restraints. A hand reached over his face, covering his vision with darkness as his conciousness wavered in and out. Just before he finally drifted into a deep sleep, he was able to hear his captor speak. And though it was just one single sentence, the heroes knew immediately who it was the second it was said...
"Now Teekl. I wonder how we shall play with the kiddies this time?" The lord of chaos's laughter resounded in their minds. They all scowled and were brought back to reality, with one word clear in their mind…
Klarion.
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The mentors arrived back at the watchtower where they met up again with Zatara, and spoke with Black Canary through the large screen in the meeting room. She was still in the cave watching over the young heroes who were still asleep.
"It was Klarion." Batman began in his steely voice. Though if you listened closely, you could hear anger lined in his words. "He planned for all this to happen. For the team to encounter the new villain, and for them to take back the amulet. We have yet to confirm what was his motive."
"And there is no way to track Klarion to question him." Zatara said sadly. "He is presently in the other world, seeing as my spells cannot detect him."
"Then what else can we do?" Flash asked, his voice full of worry for his young nephew. What was he going to tell Iris?
"Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do." Black Canary spoke as she lay down beside the sleeping teens."There is nothing we can do but wait and pray that they will wake up soon.."
(1) I re-heard the line many many times over and i swear thats what he/Zatanna (in misplaced) says! :D
btw, i did not misspell asia, i did it on purpose!
Okay guys, we're going to play a little game! Seeing as how I'm not sure whom to write about first in the next chapter.. I'm gonna let you guys vote! :D
Just let me know whose memory you want to see next in your review, and the one with the most votes wins! :D Can't wait to see how this turns out! Till next time!~