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Connie looked around at the rest of the team. "I hate humans." He said glaring at the thugs on the floor. Then he looked at the Team "But your okay I'm guessin your dis dimensions Rangers. Am I right?"
"We're called Young Justice." Said Roy
"We should go if we're done here." Said Kaldur
Connie nodded his head, "How about a drink? On me."
"No, their to young to drink." said Agni
"Ahh you're just a spoil sport."
"Shut dwarf or I'll shut you." Said Agni
Connie imitated Agni as he followed them out into the street.
"I'll take the Rangers by horse; everyone else can go by Bio-ship, those things with wheels or join us."
"I would like to join you." Said Zatanna
Agni nodded his head and pulled out his whistle before he blew he asked "Anyone else?"
Everyone else shook their head
Agni gave the whistle a sharp blow and 5 horses appeared in front of them.
"NO! I am not getting onto those things!" said Connie
Agni smiled at him. "You scawed of big howses? Awww want me to bring you a baby pony?" said Agni
Connie glared at him "Am not scared of dem I just don't like the things. I'll in the Bio-ship thingy."
Agni sneezed "Wuss"
"Am not!"
"Yes you are,"
Richie started laughing "There they go."
"AM NOT!"
"Prove me wrong." Said Agni beginning to laugh as well.
"I don't wanna!"
"Do they always argue this much?" Conner asked Richie who was leaning on him to keep balance.
"This is nothing." Said Richie between gasps
Anna rolled her eyes. "Will you two stop acing like children."
"'e stared it!" proclaimed Connie
"Yeah I did watcha going to do about it?" said Agni stopping down onto one knee so they'll be face-to-face.
"I'll chop yer knees of!"
Agni smiled slyly "Touché. I'll stop… but do you still want the pony?"
"Agni!" scolded Anna glaring at Robin who was also now laughing.
The next morning.
Zatanna to Agni's room and opened the door. He was only wearing a simple scale vest and his boots with the jeans and gloves she gave him and only his bow and quiver was his shoulder.
"Ready to go?" she asked
"Sure I dressed as casually as I could." He said with a smile.
"We don't were clothes like that in this dimension."
"But what happens if suddenly we get raided by- oh…"
"Exactly, now put the clothes I gave you yesterday back on."
Agni tossed his bow onto his bed and took the armor off. "Now where did I put that shirt thing." Agni opened the closet and pulled it out. "Do I have to? Isn't they some kind of vest I could wear?"
"And the purple skin?"
"It only looks purple under light."
"White hair?"
"We can get dye for that today." Said Agni glumly putting the hoodie on.
"Sure we can dye your hair black."
"Dark blue. Many dark elves have dark blue hair."
Zatanna grabbed his hand and pulled him out the door.
She continued holding his hand in till they came across Conner and M'gann in the front room. She hastily let go and looked down nervously.
"Going shopping?" inquired M'gann cheerfully
"She wouldn't let me wear my Dragon scale vest! Do you want to know what I went through to get it?"
"What did you have to do?" asked Roy coming in with Connie and Richie
"WE killed the damn thing." Said Connie, he had his shield and hammer slung onto his back
"And it almost killed him." Said Richie
"Why would anyone need a dragon scale vest?" asked Zatanna
"I never understood that either" Anna said walking in as well with Robin and Artemis
"I told you its almost impenetrable and 100% fire proof." Said Agni
"And I remember have to cut you out of the armor you were wearing at the time and treat you burn wounds and gashed you had across your whole body." She looked at everyone from the Team who were staring at her in surprise "What? I'm the cleric."
"That explains a lot." Said Zatanna
"Why can't I bring my bow?" complained Agni
"People don't walk around with weapons like that in the street, particularly during the daytime." Said Robin
"How many weapons do you have on you right now?" asked Artemis
Agni frowned solemnly "Not enough."
"What's that? 5?" said Robin jokingly
Richie and Connie began to laugh but sobered up realizing he was serious
"He has that many on his bracers alone, that I bet he has on under that uncomfortable looking shirt
Agni rolled his eye "Do I look stupid? What if I get attacked by bandit?"
"There are no bandits here." Conner said "Well… not really."
"G-ds yer lives must be boring." Said Connie
"Not really…" said Artemis
"We better get going." Said Zatanna
"Taking him shopping?" asked Dick
"Yes, she says I need to start wearing 'normal' clothes, which I do!"
"Not normal to here." Said M'gann
Agni followed Zatanna out dropping a pistol from somewhere none could see. He went to pick it up but Robin kicked it away before he could. They waited for them to leave before they said anything.
"Their defiantly dating." Said M'gann
"Their not." Said Richie
"How'd yer know?" scoffed Connie
"He would have told me." Richie retorted.
"But he like her and a lot." Said Anna "and I know I've known him for almost a hundred years."
"Doesn't that make it a little weird?" said Robin
Anna shook her head. "He might have lived 205 years but I did the math he's only 15 in body and mentally… maybe 13 mentally she said."
Richie and Robin laughed to her joke. And Richie said "How old am I?"
"About thirteen I'd say."
Before they left Zatanna walked up to Agni and removed the dagger in his boot
"I haven't gone anywhere without out that in 200 years!" he protested trying to fight her off
"Well now you're going to break that."
"I sleep with that dagger! Please let me at least take that!"
"Fine but if you take it out on someone I'll turn you into a cow."
"Have you been hanging out with Anna lately?" Agni said suspiciously
They left the cave and walked into Happy Harbor.
They walked through the streets toward the mall. Agni stared in wonder at the technology; he had seen motorcars, in the dwarven cities, but not this kind of stuff. He stared at people cell phones in awe.
"I got to bring some of those back." He said to Zatanna (who was once again holding his hand."
"Won't work, you need satellites and electricity to charge them.
"Then I better start reading up."
Zatanna chuckled and entered the mall with him. Agni stared in marvel at all the electric signs.
"On second thought I'll just bring some books back with me as well."
They wandered around for a while Zatanna showing him different shops and stands. Agni wanted to trade coins n for human money so they entered gold smith.
"I'll do the talking." Said Zatanna
"No I will." He countered
The man at the counter welcomed them and Agni stepped up.
"Greetings, good sir. Would by any chance be willing to buy some of these of me?" Agni said holding out a handful of golden and silver coins.
The man eyed Agni suspiciously "Where'd you get those?"
"I earned them." Agni said truthfully
The man eyed Agni some more. "You're another one of those freaks aren't you?"
Agni's smiled faded. "Did you just call me a freak?" Agni said lowering his voice intimidatingly
The man gulped when he saw under Agni's hood and backed up "I didn't mean freak I meant elf. I one of your friends came through here a few weeks ago."
Agni slipped his hood off. "What was his name?"
"It was a girl called herself Arty. She took a boat to New York." The man said calming himself
Agni nodded his head in appreciation "Now how about giving me some… er… whatever it is you humans use as currency."
The man took the coins and weighed them. He handed a thick wad of cash "This is the price of the coins both gold and silver. They're called dollars. They have the amount their worth written on them."
Agni thanked the man "If you see anyone else who is not human come through here tell them that Blackranger is looking for them."
The man nodded
Agni looked over to Zatanna who was admiring a necklace in the display case.
"How much is that?" Agni whispered to him.
"I'd give it to you for 15 gold coins."
"10 gold coins."
"It's a diamond set in a golden hold on a silver chain." The man hissed
"12 and I promise to come back."
"Say 13 and you got yourself a deal." The man said with a smile
Agni looked at him then to Zatanna He handed over 13 golden coins and a silver one, 'for his troubles'
"Ready Zatanna?" said Agni walking towards the door.
Zatanna looked up and nodded; she gave the necklace on last look and walked out. Agni turned around quickly and mouthed that he'd be back later to pick it up, he slipped his hood back on and followed her out.
Zatanna made a beeline toward the shoes section and Agni just obediently followed her. She said she was going to go try them on real quick and to wait outside so Agni went up to a bench and sat down next to a bunch of other guys who seemed to be doing the same thing.
"Made you wait too?" one of them commented to Agni as he sat down.
"Yep. How long do they usually take?"
"They looked at Agni in surprise.
"A long while." Said one
"What is she your first girlfriend?"
"Not my girl friend." Agni said
"How could you miss out on something like that?" said a particularly big one "What are you gay?"
Agni cocked his head, "Did you just call me a homosexual?"
"No I asked if you were one, idiot."
Agni sighed and ignored him.
"Guess that means yes." The big guy said
"It sounds like your talking from experience." Agni said turning to him
The big guy stood up and went in front of Agni. Agni stood up and grinned. "Got something you wanna say tough guy?"
"Did you just call me gay?" he said puffing out his chest
"No I sad you seemed to be talking from experience, idiot." Agni said imitating his voice
The big guy grabbed Agni jacket and leaned forward "Think yourself tough enough to fight me?"
Agni was about to take out a dagger but he heard someone call him
"Agni? Who's this you're talking to?" Zatanna asked walking up with a shopping bag.
The guy let go of Agni and turned around "Oh my names Bob we were just talking, you know guy stuff."
"Ahh , well Agni let's go get some more stuff."
Bob stepped in front of her. "Hey I heard you don't have a boyfriend how about going to catch a movie with me sometime?"
Agni kneed him in the stomach gently pushed him out of the way (and by that he pushed the guy 3 feet away without trying)
No thank you I'm fine." Zatanna said.
Agni rolled his eyes and took her bag and walked with her to another clothing shop.
"I want to get you a few shirts and pants." Zatanna said walking over to a rack.
"Uh, okay. What did you buy?"
"A pair of really cute high heel shoes."
Agni looked around "If I asked where there is a weapon shop what are you going to do to me?"
"Probably kick you in the shin."
Agni went to the other side of the rack and asked "Where can I but some damn weapons?"
She kicked him through the rack
Agni bent over and rubbed his shin "I didn't anticipate that." He said to himself. He looked at the shirts in front of him and picked up an orange jump suit "How about this?" he asked holding it up
"Doesn't match your skin. And why would any one want to where kill-me-ranger? She said barely looking up
Agni held it up to his skin and shuddered and put it back. He picked up a dark blue shirt with a collar and held it up. "This looks good."
She eyed it and nodded and help up a pair of black pants, she threw them at him and moved to the next rack. Agni caught it and followed her.
A few minutes later after paying for his stuff (and without her noticing hers too) they went to get something to eat. They sat down with milkshakes and didn't say much.
"How come you didn't tell that guy you were my boyfriend?" she asked him
Agni looked up sensing the danger in his next answer.
"Answer me truthfully." She said
"Well… I'm not and I barely even know what the word means I had to make Robin explain it to me."
Zatanna smirk "When you think of me what do you think of me as?"
Agni thought about it for a minute "As a very close friend, the closest friend I have here.
"Is that the truth?" she said moving her milkshake aside and looking at him
"Am I a good liar? Even though we might have kissed… look I'm not very good when it comes to people can you give me a break?"
"Would you like to be more than friends?"
Agni looked into her eyes "Yes."
Zatanna leaned forward and kissed on the cheek him. "Maybe it will happen someday."
Agni smiled
A few hours later and many more bags later they were in front of a hunting store.
"You do know exactly what I'm going to say." Zatanna said.
"No I don't and even if I did it is very possible that I would become suddenly deaf."
"But, we have a lot of bags you don't want to go in there with all of them."
Agni smiled and pulled his Bag of holding; he put all the bags into it and replaced it on his belt. He turned and smiled widely at Zatanna, she sighed.
"Okay fine, but we're not staying for long." She said
Agni walked in and started to walk up and down aisles. He walked up to a large hunting knife with an 8-inch blade. He picked it up and ran his finger along it.
A worker came up to him. "Would you two need any help?"
Agni looked up at him. "Yeah where are you real knives?"
The man raised an eyebrow "That is one of the best?"
Agni stared at it surprised "This? It's unbalanced, it's made out of bad metal and its handle is poorly made."
"You a professional or something? Most people don't realize that."
Agni slipped his hand to his belt and pulled out one of his fighting knives. "This is a knife, what's there is a child's toy."
"He's been doing this his whole life." Zatanna put in from behind him.
He took them to the counter and brought out a box with a large knife in it. Agni pickled it up and swung it deftly and few times in front of him.
"How much?" Agni inquired
"It's 250 but I'll have to see your I.D."
Agni's face didn't move "Sure but 'm going to keep looking around, he said going to an aisle that said 'Hunting Bows on it.
"What is I.D.?" he asked Zatanna out of the corner of his mouth, staring intently at the bows.
"Identification." she said. She handed a small card that had his name on it with his picture that had his hair dyed black.
"Magic?" he asked pocketing it.
"Yes. I thought you may need it so I bought it last night and had Robin make sure you'll be in the database."
"How did you get my last name?"
"Richie."
"Thought so…"
Agni picked a box that had a bow that resembled Artemis's one. He slung it under his shoulder and grabbed a package of arrows. He walked up to the counter and handed him the I.D. card.
They walked out with the bow and knife in Agni's Bag of holding.
They left the mall and started walking home, it was already late afternoon. They passed a public bathroom so Zatanna excused herself and Agni stood out side and waited.
The guy named Bob turned around a corner with 4 other guys.
"Oh look who we have here? The tough guy, who had a girl keep him from getting an ass kicking."
Agni chuckled "You mean she kept you from getting an ass kicking?"
Bob and his friend laughed. "Hear him?" Bob said to his cronies "Thinks he's a tough guy."
Bob swung his fist at Agni.
Agni grabbed his arm and swung him around and kicked him in the ass.
"Oh looked I did it literally." Agni said
Bob turn back around swinging his fist at Agni driving him backwards. Agni ducked, blocked and parried. Agni felt himself bump into something. He turned around and was grabbed by on of Bob's friends. Agni smiled and lifted his lifted his knee and spud the bully around to meet Bob's punch. Agni almost took his blades out but decided not to. He punched Bob in the face and pushed him to the ground to deal with his other friends. When he did he returned to Bob and picked him up.
"Now was there something you wanted to tell me?" Agni said.
Bob glared at him and didn't say a word
Agni smiled and backhanded him across the face leaving a streak of blood on his cheek "I'm waiting. I can do this all night, I've beaten up things tat would eat you, literally eat you." Agni raised his hand again
Bob shrieked "I'm sorry!"
"For what?"
"For anything and everything I did! Just please stop hitting me."
Agni dropped him and kicked him in the gut knocking him over. "Coward. Can't even get ass kicked with dignity."
And Zatanna came out.
"Agni! What did you do?"
"I got jumped and I 'kicked his ass' as he out it quite literally." Agni picked up Bob "Now tell my friend what you did or else I'll beat you some more."
Bob looked up "I was waiting for him to mug him. Please that what I was here to do, just don't hurt me any more."
Agni pulled back his fist and knocked him out. "I learned that from Batman."
Zatanna shook her head in disbelief "You took down 5 guys triple your size without using and acrobatics, magic or weapons?"
Agni laughed "Now what made you think that? I told you I'm always armed."
"What did you use?"
Agni took off his glove and removed a pair of mythril knuckles.
"How did I not feel those when I was holding your hand?"
"Contingency spell, I set it at home so if I get into a fight there would conjure themselves under my glove." Agni said "Can I say I told you so?"
Zatanna walked up to kick him in the shins again but he was ready and lifter his foot so she kicked the bottom of it. "Nuh uh uh. You can't use the same attack on me twice."
Zatanna smiled and grabbed his hand. "Let's go I'm tired."
Agni smiled back and walked with her. "Did you get the hair dye?"
"Oh no I forgot." Zatanna said
"Then I'll go back and get it."
"Are you sure?" Zatanna said uncertainly
"Yeah it'll be no problem I assure you it'll only take me only a few minutes." Agni said
"Okay… but don't hurt anyone on the way."
Agni ran back into the mall and back to the gold smith. He entered the shop and found the man sitting at the counter.
"Ahh you're back I took the liberty of wrapping it as present for you."
Agni took it. "Thank you. Could you help me with one more thing?"
"Sure what is it?"
"Where can I get hair dye?"
The man showed him where and how to get it and Agni was back at Zatanna in 5 minutes.
"Got it." He said striding up.
"What color?"
"A really dark blue, it looks almost black."
They got back to the cave a few minutes later and found everyone waiting for them.
"How was it?" asked M'gann as soon as they got in.
"Dude are you okay? Do you need me a soda or something?" asked Wally pouncing on him.
"What did you get?" asked Connie "Bring me anything ter drink? They only got fruit juice in this darned place."
"How many people did he try to beat up?" asked Anna
"Did you buy any weapons?" demanded Richie
"Did anyone notice you?" inquired Robin
"What took you so long?" grumbled Conner
"Did you enjoy yourselves?" asked Kaldur
Agni and Zatanna just stared at them.
"ONE QUESTION AT A TIME!" yelled Agni
Everyone instantly silenced
"We had a good time." Said Zatanna
"By the gods my shin hurts and I don't know what a soda is." Agni continued "No we didn't buy you any alcohol."
"He only beat up 5 who were trying to mug him." Zatanna said
"Did he say I told you so?" asked Richie
"No, not really." Zatanna said
Anna gasped "He never passes up an opportunity to do that."
"I bought myself a bow and knife." Agni said yawning.
"Turned out the gold smith knew where Arty was and who he was." Zatanna said looking at the clock
"She bought a lot of stuff." Agni said.
"And you're still okay?" Wally said
"Yes."
"Where is all the stuff?" asked M'gann
Agni took off his Bag of holding and jingled it.
"We enjoyed ourselves a lot, at least I did."
"I did too." Agni put it before anyone could take in what she said.
When they finally got away from the Team they went into Agni's room and opened his bag.
"Let me see… this is yours, and this is to and this and this. This seems to be mine and this is yours and that's mine….." said Agni
That went on for several minutes.
"Would you like me to help you carry this up to your room?" he asked when it was all divided up
"Sure." Zatanna said with a smile.
He walked her to her room carrying her bags for her.
"I want you to know I really enjoyed the day with you." He commented
"I did too. We should to it again sometime."
"Do you really mean that?" Agni asked
Zatanna stopped and turned around looking him I the eye. "Of course I do why wouldn't I?"
"Because I'm you know… me."
They reached her door and she opened it. Agni handed her, her bags
"What is that supposed to mean?" she asked taking the bags from him
"Uh nothing, forget I said anything."
She smiled at him. "I'll see you later I got to put all this stuff away."
"Ya, okay. Bye." He stammered.
He walked back to his room and began putting his stuff away. She told him how it goes in a closet so he knew what he was doing. After he was finished he threw his new bow and knife on his table and collapsed on is bed, lowered his mental defenses and sunk into his thoughts
What I the abysses name is happening to me? I'm feeling something I've never felt before.
It's call love Agni said a voice in his head
I knew you would be waiting for me to lower my mental defenses.
You love her and that's your problem you've spent your whole life fighting a war and have never had a true friend.
I've had true friends argued Agni what are Richie and Connie?
You know what I mean. You never found someone you like and likes you back, you have never had time for it.
That's not true!
You're right I feel rejection in you… you have felt this way before but you have hidden away the memories with all the other bad ones you have.
Anyone could have figured that out M'gann.
You underestimate your worth Agni.
I know how much I'm worth.
You know what I mean.
Do you bother her as well?
Am I bothering you?
No it's just I'm very perplexed, confused, puzzle, and baffled!
Would you like to tell me why?
Why do you want to know?
You know Agni I want to help you. I can feel what you're felling right now.
Fine. A long while ago there was a girl I liked not as much as Zatanna but still liked her. And she went out with me a few time and we became close friends but one day she betrayed me to Abaddon and let me know that she was just using me.
Zatanna would never do that to you.
I know I just can't help but feel uncertain. I'm going to go meditate and clear my mind
You can't always run from your feelings Agni go talk to her.
Agni raised his mental defense and sat down on the floor he pinched his thumb and index finger on both hands and put them through each other, to represent the spiritual and material worlds and brought the rest of his fingers together making a triangle. He took a deep breath and calmed himself.
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