Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice, all rights go to their respective owners I only own Agni, the Rangers and the plot.
Mount Justice 1:05, Training Room.
Agni shook his hair and dropped his cloak to the floor revealing his armor.
He was wearing a tough black leather sleeveless shirt that had shoulder guards jutting out the sides and a collar sticking up protecting his neck, it also two straps cutting diagonally across it, holding his pouch and several knives in place. Shiny black buttons where holding it closed and a scaly black belt was holding up a small crossbow with 2 long fighting knives on each side, on his belt he kept numerous things that looked like grenades and a few small potions were being held there tightly by some straps. His sword's hilt was sticking out over his right shoulder; his bow and quiver were on his left.
"That's a lot of weapons you got there." Wally said with a small smile on his face.
Agni tilted his head to the side and looked at them. "You guys seem to be taking this well." He said slowly and suspiciously
"You're a dark elf... so what?" said Artemis
"Dark elves are mostly evil chaotic elves that are hated and despised." Agni said frankly, staring at the ground waiting for the hatred that never came. "Especially Drow." He said, more like an afterthought
Dick walked up to him and putting a comforting hand on his shoulder "What kind of dark elf are you? Night, Cave, Drow, Midnight, Starlight?" he asked "Not that it really make a difference to us." he added.
Agni smiled bitterly. "I'm a Drow elf... but I grew up among High elves and Wood elves were I was ignored and shunned for the color of my skin. That is why I keep it hidden all my life."
"I was shunned to all my life being a White Martian among the green ones." M'gann said
"We don't care about the color of your skin or the history of you people." Kaldur said.
Agni looked up and gazed at them in amazement. "Drow murder, torture and are just evil! And you don't care?"
"No not at all, we know you would never kill someone in cold blood." Robin said cheerfully
"Don't be too sure about that..." Agni muttered to low for anyone to hear
"Artemis is the daughter of the Sports Master and we don't care." Wally said pointing at Artemis.
Agni looked at them all intently for a few seconds as if trying to discern any hidden motives. "You guys are taking this too well... you're not even surprised at all." Agni thought for a moment as he stared at them "You all knew already knew." He said finally looking at M'gann who he thought might have told them
"Your hood fell of when you passed out after the fight with Abaddon." said Conner
Agni stared down at his dark hands. "I should have figured." He sighed and smiled at them. "It feels good to have that cloak off, though I do feel vulnerable without it."
"Why what's special about it aside from not being able to see inside the hood?" asked Roy who was quiet up to now.
Agni smiled and picked it off the ground. He threw it into the air. "Shoot at it!" he said
Roy quickly shot several arrows at it, they hit the cloak but they just exploded or bounced off.
"It can only be penetrated by an Arcane Arrow which is only shot by Arcane Archers." He said catching it as it came down.
"Do you have any 'abilities' from being a drow?" asked Wally
Agni smiled slyly. "Yes I do." Agni looked at Wally and concentrated for a second.
A huge globe of darkness surrounded him blocking all like following him wherever he went not allowing him to see where he was going. "Do you still say magic doesn't exist?" he asked amidst Wally terrified yelps.
"You must teach me how to do that!" said Zatanna staring at awe at the globe that surrounded Wally
WHERE THE HELL DID THE LIGHTS GO?" screamed Wally
Artemis almost collapsed with laughter. "Yeah me too." She said holding herself up with her bow
"Take it away from him!" said Roy who was pointing his bow at Agni in a threatening way.
"Ahh common Roy even Kaldur and Conner's laughing." said Dick pointing at the Atlantian and half-Kryptonian, they were leaning on each other choking with spasms of laughter.
Agni raised his hands. "Okay sorry, it's not hurting him." Agni said
Roy kept his bow pointed at Agni. "Wally, are you OK?"
"Yes I'm fine." said Wally with his voice now back to normal. "But I can't see anything, I mean nothing at all."
Agni waved his hand and the globe instantly disappeared showing an embarrassed Wally standing in the middle of the room with a sheepish smile on his face. "That wasn't magic you must have some sort of gadget that blocks out light from a certain area." Wally said. "I bet its right here!" Wally continued grabbing Agni's wrist
"NO! Don't do that." Yelled Agni trying to grab Wally before he reached him but he was to slow Wally grabbed Agni wrist, and a dagger popped out of his bracers
"Whoa wasn't expecting that." said Dick
"Another weapon?" asked Kaldur. "What kind of world does you live in that you need so many weapons?"
Agni jerked his wrist making the dagger go back in. "A very not nice world." He said grimly
"How many more do you have?" asked Dick looking at him with an eye like a hawk. "I see you have a dagger in your boot and another underneath your pant leg. Most likely another one under that black vest."
Agni smiled and conjured a short sword in his hand. "I am never unarmed let's leave it at that." He said tossing the bright blue sword on the ground and it faded away.
"Anything other fake magical abilities?" asked Wally backing away to a safe distance
Agni grinned with mock expression of evil. "Why yes I do." He looked at Wally
Wally was suddenly on fire.
The speedster looked at himself and started trashing around trying to pat the flames out
"That's enough Agni!" shouted Roy shooting an arrow at Agni.
Agni ducked, rolled forward and came up with his mini crossbow in his hand
"Both of you stop!" shouted Kaldur
"Look what he did to Kid F!" Roy protested
"Have you looked?" said Agni retorted
Wally was still in flames but he was standing still peering at himself. "It doesn't hurt? What kind of trick is that?"
Roy lowered his bow slowly
"It's farie fire Roy" said Zatanna
"Do you have a spell that would soak him to put it out?" inquired Artemis
"No need to." said Agni (who was still staring at Roy) as the flames died away. "You don't trust me. Not very surprising I suppose."
Roy opened his mouth to protest but Agni interrupted him
"It's okay the Roy from my dimension didn't trust me for a very long time too." Agni returned his crossbow to its holster on his belt "But if you ever shoot an arrow at me again I may not be able to stop me self from firing back and accidently turning you into a six-legged chicken."
Roy paled slightly and walked up to him and stuck out his hand. "I'm sorry, I should have trusted you."
Agni shook his hand then hugged him. "Don't worry about it I was joking about the chicken part." He said letting go and laughing.
"Could a… you teach me how to be er… an Arcane Archer?" Roy said looking own at his bow
"I would be honored to. How about we start now?" asked Agni with a large smile
Roy nodded his head excitedly
"Artemis care to join us?" Agni said
Artemis looked up surprised "You want me to come and train with you?" she said astonished
Agni looked at her confused "Why would I not?"
"Must we?" whispered Roy into Agni ear
"Yes we must, now both of you follow me. Anyone else who would like to watch feel free to stay." Agni walked into the center of the training room and looked back at them "Are there targets around here?"
Roy typed something into the computer and several dummies and targets appeared across the room.
"Good" said Agni "let's begin." Agni thought for a few seconds "Hmm where should I begin? Well, Arcane Archers are peerless archers able to interweave their magic and ranged attacks into a deadly barrage of arrows to strike down their enemies. Most people that become arcane archers are fighters or rangers and wizards. Half-elves and elves have slightly more flexibility when qualifying for this prestige class because they designate their highest-level class as favored, whereas an elf's favored class is wizard. All arcane archers must be able to cast simple arcane spells and thus must be a small time sorcerer or wizard. Arcane Archers, obviously, are excellent ranged combatants. As such, they should not allow themselves to get drawn into melee unless trained they are a very high trained fighter, paladin or even rouge. Instead, they should use their mobility and stealth to skirt the edges of a fight while firing at exposed opponents. Enemy spellcasters make excellent and easy targets for arcane archers, as they are often slightly removed from the battle. Got it?"
"Whats a 'class'?" Artemis asked, dazed under the load of information Agni had just dumped on them
"A class is the training a person takes at the academy or by a mentor."
"What's your class?" Roy asked
"I'm very mixed... just about everyone where I come from is taught several levels of fighter from a very early age and then proceed to what matches their strengths and protects their abilities. I personally decided to become a ranger which is a class and a type of lifestyle-"
"What do you mean by lifestyle?"
Agni sighed "A rangers are much like druids. They protect nature and the helpless. Kind of what I have found to be like many of you 'heroes'. Rangers fight with a variation of equipment that usually includes a bow or any other type of range equipment as well. To become an arcane archer I had to learn at least a basic level of magic. I spent several extra years learning to control magic before I manage to get Lord Oliver to accept me as an apprentice."
"So you're also Ollie's protégé?" Roy asked
Agni nodded "I have been taught by many people, but only one is my true mentor. Lord Oliver is the first to teach me how to use a bow, while I was taught stealth by Batman. I had no true mentor for a long while."
"Who is he?" Roy asked curiously
Agni's face remained passive "That is something I cannot tell you as of this moment."
"How many classes are there?" Artemis inquired, going back on track
"To many to count, but the ones I can think of off the top of my head are; fighter, wizard, sorcerer, ranger, druid, rouge, paladin, berserker, bard, cleric, monk, samurai, ninja, fencer, and many, many more."
"And what was that prestige class you mentioned?"
"I was getting to that..." Agni continued "A prestige class is a class that is VERY advanced, you have to have a very high level in at least two basic classes and for some prestige class you might have to master up to five."
"So arcane archery is a prestige class?"
Agni nodded "As I said before you have to have some kind of magic class under your belt, which is what I am going to teach you, and of course archery which is obvious you do. Of course it is better to have much training in hand-to-hand or some other type of melee fighting."
"What kind of other prestige classes are there?" Roy asked dazzled by all the information Agni is dumping on them
"There are quite a few of them to, off the top of my head I know; arcane archer, warlock, knight, crusader, harper scout, dwarven protector, dragon disciple, dragon knight, guardian, archmage, assassin, battlerager, beastmaster, murader, forest master, dark hunter, champions of all sorts of things, duelist and like... a ton more. So are you ready?"
"Yes!" they shouted
"Good now let's start training some arcane magic."
Dick, M'gann, Kaldur, Conner and Zatanna left the room so they could train without any interruptions.
"I'm going to go watch T.V. catch ya later." Wally said zooming off down the hall.
"I'm going with him." Conner grumbled stomping off after him.
"Want to go train somewhere else Kal?" asked Dick "You two can come too" he added looking at the girls.
"Sure, I have not yet trained today." said Kaldur
"Nah I'm going to go make some cookies and a snack for them for when they finish." said M'gann
"I'll come and help, sorry Robin."
"No problem."
As Robin and Kaldur walked down the hall, Robin paused for a moment
"What is it, Robin?" Aqualad asked
The Boy Wonder shrugged "He is hiding something… I can feel it."
"He has no reason to trust us yet. He will reveal his secrets when he is ready to."
Zatanna and M'gann walk into the kitchen and silently began collecting ingredients for baking. M'gann kept glancing at Zatanna and opening her mouth as if to ask a question but she didn't say a word for a long while in till he couldn't stand it anymore.
"Uh Zatanna could I ask you a question?" she asked in a low voice
Zatanna looked up at her in surprise. "Of course you can! You know you can ask me anything you want."
"Did uh... You and Agni kiss?"
Zatanna eyes widened and she looked slightly ashamed. "How'd you know?" she whispered.
"When you did Agni dropped his mental guards. You should know he really likes you."
Zatanna blushed. "You shouldn't have told me that." She said "He actually kissed me…"
"I'm sorry I was just wondering." said M'gann apologetically
"He's a nice guy and I didn't really mean to kiss him…"
"He's going to apologize to you later."
"How do you know?" asked Zatanna
"He told me, we conversed a few time telepathically and he said he used to do it with his team a lot."
Over on the couch Conner smiled slightly.
Review please
I may post another chapter today depending on time….maybe a short one.
Also big thanks to the Wizards of the Coast for the list of basic and prestige classes.
6/1/1013 A.N. : I redid a decent amount of this chapter. Making easier to read and explaining Classes much better. I remember it was quote hard balancing D&D fighting and classes into the YJ world. I got better at it as time went by.