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Posedonis

The water outside the Conservatory pavilion was silent as a grave. A few fish swam by, but no Atlanteans could be seen. The Atlantean castle gleamed in the distance.

Kaldur surveyed the empty pavilion. He could have sworn he had seen shadows, flashing from behind the pillars that supported the top of the Conservatory roof. He reached behind him for his water-bearers but his fingers met empty air. Kaldur panicked; his water-bearers had been a part of his training ever since he could remember.

He craned his neck, the holsters for his water-bearers was missing. Thankfully, when he checked his bare arms, his eel tattoos were still etched into his brown skin.

What am I doing here? Kaldur thought. He swam to the edge of the pavilion but a shock of electricity arced to his body. Kaldur winced in pain , but was thankful he could still withstand most electric shocks.

"Kaldur'ahm," Aquaman said, swimming up from beneath the Conservatory pavilion. "Why are you here?"

"I do not know," Kaldur said slowly. "I remember wanting to come see Tula and Garth..."

"Don't you remember?" Aqualad interjected. "Garth has become the new Aqualad. There were multiple complications in the surface world. Batman recommended you to be relieved of command of the team. I offered up Garth to be Aqualad in your stead."

Kaldur ducked his head and his tears dissolved into the water.

Behind him, Aquaman smiled tightly and then Black Manta swam from behind him and waved his hand through the hologram. "Hello Aqualad. Oh, I forgot, you are not the Aqualad anymore."

Kaldur's mind was split: he tried to get into a strategic mindset to fight Manta but his mind was still in shambles from comprehending the fact that he wasn't Aqualad.

"What do you want Manta?" Kaldur growled.

"Oh, I don't want anything from you Kaldur," Manta said calmly. "But I did happen to find these two lurking outside my ship." He nodded to a trooper behind him, and raised his hand.

From beneath the Conservatory four Manta troopers swam up. Kaldur clenched his teeth when he saw an unconscious Raquel dangling between two troopers and when Tula looked up dazedly from between the other two.

"Release them," Kaldur ordered, while trying to figure out how to fight Manta without his water-bearers.

"Why?" Manta asked. "I captured them on a mission for your previous team. They are no longer your responsibility...unless I'm mistaken...do you actually care for these girls?"

Kaldur fought to try and keep the emotions off his face. Manta could not see how much Tula and Raquel meant to him, or else Manta would use them against him.

Manta smirked. He could see the conflict plainly in the boy's eyes. He nodded to the Manta troopers. The troopers restraining the girls activated the electric shocks in their gloves and the girls were shocked awake.

Kaldur's eyes widened, as Tula and Raquel were shocked awake. But his shock turned to anger as Raquel's eyes bugged out and her mouth opened in an attempt to counteract the fear of drowning.

"You're going to kill her!" Kaldur shouted.

Manta laughed coldly at the display of emotion, but jerked his head towards the gasping Raquel. The trooper swam over to Raquel and gave her a breath of oxygen from a hose connected to his tank.

Raquel drank up the air greedily, her eyes lighting up as her brain was re-oxygenated. Her dark brown eyes met Kaldur's pale ones.

Are you okay? Kaldur thought, but then realizing that she couldn't hear him. "Tula! Raquel! Are you..."

"Uh-uh," Black Manta said, flicking his hand to the manta troopers. The girls' captors shocked them again, and Manta himself shot Kaldur with a shock of electricity from his gun.

Kaldur was blasted back a few feet, landing face-down on the stone pavilion and gripping his side. When he glanced at the girls, Tula was hanging limp between the troopers but Raquel was struggling weakly against her captors and trying to hold her breath as long as she could.

"I'm a reasonable man, though," Black Manta said, conversationally.

Kaldur rolled his eyes internally, Yeah right. Whoa, I sound like Kid Flash.

"My troopers have set up an electrical fence surrounding the pavilion...now don't think of going over it...the electricity surrounds the entire Conservatory. There is no escape."

"Why are you telling me this?" Kaldur shouted, his eyes flicking once again to Tula and Raquel.

"Because, my boy, if you can fight through the barrier you might have a chance at saving your beloved."

My beloved? Kaldur thought. How does he know that I loved Tula...I did love Tula, but that doesn't mean that Raquel hasn't found a special place in my... Kaldur shook his head, trying to clear his thoughts. How am I going to fight Black Manta.

"Ah, I've struck a nerve," Manta said. "I will give you a chance to save them. You have five minutes."

Kaldur steeled his nerves and swam directly for the girls. When he hit the invisible barrier, electricity shocked him all over his body. He gritted his teeth and struggled against the pain shooting through him. Kaldur activated his tattoos and pushed through the electricity.

Manta turned and swam back to his ship. "Bring the girls, hold off the Aqualad."

Kaldur's vision blurred as he watched the manta troopers drag Tula limply back to the ship. His head whipped to the side as he heard commotion.

Raquel was fighting her captors, and finally freed one of her arms. She grabbed the oxygen tank from his back and re-oxygenated her lungs.

He sighed in relief, that was one less thing to worry about; Raquel could take care of herself from here. Kaldur swam over to where the troopers were forcing Tula into their ship.

He kicked the trooper on the right in the base of his spine and punched the other trooper in his helmet. Tula's captors crumpled and Kaldur drew the Atlantean girl into his arms.

"Kaldur," she said weakly. There was a large gash on the back of her head, and blood was trickling down the back of her neck. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to choose Garth. I loved you the entire time."

The words he had always wanted to hear: Tula loved him. She wanted to be with him not Garth. He took off his shirt and pressed it against the gash in her head, in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

"What are you saying?" Kaldur asked in disbelief. He looked up and Manta's ship was retreating into the depths of the ocean. Black Manta was staring him down, or he would be if he wasn't wearing his helmet.

"Kaldur!" A wavering voice called out. Kaldur whipped around, still cradling Tula; Raquel was lying at the bottom of one of her kinetic energy bubbles. The water inside of the bubble was slowly rising, decreasing the amount of air in the bubble.

The manta troopers Raquel had been fighting were drifting, unconscious in the water. But it was not without injury: Raquel was clutching her arm, it looked to be broken, and her clothes as well as the skin beneath it was cut.

"Kaldur," Tula whispered, bringing her hand up to cup his cheek.

Kaldur looked helplessly at the girl in his arms and to the girl he had come to care about, slowly sinking in her own kinetic bubble. It was an impossible choice. He couldn't save Raquel without abandoning Tula.

He gripped Tula against his chest and swam over to Raquel.

Raquel's eyes darted between the distraught look on Kaldur's face, to the way he held Tula so protectively. "You love her," she said simply.

His head snapped up at Raquel's declaration. "But I can't leave you."

"I know," Raquel said, struggling to keep her head above water. "But you can't save me. Unless you can teleport me to the surface."

He hung his head in defeat. For the second time, tears fell from his pale eyes and dissolved into the ocean. "I'm sorry Raquel."

Raquel nodded in understanding, "Go save Tula, you love her much more than you'll ever love...anyone else."

"I do..." Kaldur started, but couldn't force the words out. It wasn't in his nature to be dishonest, and he didn't want to lead Raquel on.

But she did deserve to know. "I cannot love you the same way I love Tula but you hold a special place. Not in the same way I care about the rest of the team. In these past months I have, honestly, come to care about you. And it is the worst feeling in the world for me to leave you here."

Raquel's kinetic bubble disappeared and she swam forward. Her cheeks were puffed out from holding her breath, but she managed to plant a kiss on Aqualad's lips.

"I'm sorry," he whispered against her lips.

She nodded solemnly and her eyes closed; a peaceful smile on her face.

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