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Connie prodded Agni with his hammer.
"How long he been 'ere like dat?"
Richie shrugged "I saw him last night when he got back and I found him here a few hours ago."
"Did ye try getting him up?" asked Anna
It was 11:08 AM in the cave most the team was standing around Agni (in his room) who was still in his meditation stance.
Robin and Richie sniggered "Yes we did for a whole hour." Said Richie
"How?"
"Well we used uh… water balloons…" Robin said shamefacedly
Artemis rubbed her hand against him and pulled it back. "He's burning hot."
"The water boiled and turned into steam almost instantly after it came into contact with his skin." Said Robin
They stared at him
"I don't believe it! I want to see it with my own eye!" Connie said
Richie turned to get another water balloon but halted when he saw Anna glaring at him.
"Did you try scaring him?" asked Zatanna
"How would we do that?" Richie said
"Shouting in his ear." Connie said biting back laughter
"And get stabbed?" Richie retorted
"M'gann, can you acces his thoughts?" Kaldur asked
M'gann looked at Agni "Possibly it depends… if his mental guards are up there is no way I could and even if there not I'm not sure he would like me entering his head."
"We don't have any other choices do we?" said Robin
"Uh yer may not wantin to be standin in front of 'im right at dis moment." Conni said e pointing at Agni ruby around his neck which was emitting an extremely bright light.
"Whatever it is going on in his head it's really making him angry." Robin said backing away
"I'll try to see if his defenses are up." M'gann said. Her eyes glowed white for a second before returning to normal. "There down and he seems perfectly fine. I'm going to try to find where he is in there."
"How long is dis goin ta take?" asked Connie
"It really depends on where he is, and if I can find his conscious in there."
"What do you mean by 'conscious?" asked Robin
"I mean him, his spirit; he may not really be in there…"
Anna was looking through a book behind them. "Or he could be sleeping."
Everyone turned and looked at her.
"It says here in this book that 'Drow Elves do not sleep like humans and regular elves do, they go into a meditave state.' So it could be he's just sleeping."
"But he's burning like he's sitting in a fire and for how long has he been like this for?" asked Artemis
"He said he was going to meditate yesterday after you two got home from the mall." Said M'gann to Zatanna
"So it's been like 16 hours…" said Robin
"Has anyone ever even seen him sleep?" said Artemis
"It says here they only need to sleep for approximately 4 hours ever few days." Said Anna not looking up from her book
"Then M'g'nn should be goin in and finding out what in der abysses is wrong with da elf!" Connie said "And if 'es got a problem 'e can come and take it up me." He finished by banging his shield and hammer together.
"Should I start digging the grave?" Richie said with a laugh
Connie scowled at him from behind his bushy eyebrows and short beard "How about me come and take ye down a foot so yer my size, eh?"
Richie pointed a finger at him and a bolt came out hitting Connie in the chest. Connie froze in place.
"Richie!" scolded Anna
"What did he do?" Robin asked poking the dwarf
"Paralyzed him, I'm going to tell Master Bruce you have been miss using you magic powers." Said Anna
Richie shrugged "And I'll get yelled at then go for a drink with the person I just stunned, so?"
Anna rolled her eyes and turned away from him.
"Is it always like this for you?" Zatanna asked
"Just wait in till Arty and Wallace are here." Anna said with a sigh
"I'm going to try to enter his mind; I'm going to need to concentrate hard so everyone please settle down."
Everyone went silent and watched as her eyes went white and she stood very still. The only movement in the room for many seconds was Agni and M'gann breathing.
M'gann looked around. She was on a large balcony; she looked around, looking for a familiar site or face. She noticed a few people on the far side of it looking out she moved closer to them.
"I know you want to know how your parents died Agni but it is not safe to tell you." Said a person dressed in black. He was wearing all black a lot like Agni… and Batman. He had a leather helmet covering the top of his face and head. M'gann couldn't see his clothes because he had his cloak completely covering his body
"Why? Just tell me WHY Master Bruce!" Agni said, it was defiantly Agni, just a bit younger a little shorter and less muscular but the same Agni wearing a dozen obvious weapons and most likely another dozen concealed ones.
Suddenly the man disappeared and reappeared in a shadow behind her. She looked up and she saw Richie was leaning off the top of the roof looking down on them. Agni also disappeared but almost instantly reappeared holding Richie who was grinning wolfishly at the man who now reappeared in Agni's shadow.
"Richie didn't I tell you to stay inside?" Master Bruce said
"Oh you were talking to me? I didn't know." Richie said
Batman smacked him launching him across the balcony "May that let you remember in the future!"
Richie got up rubbing his arm but still smiling "IF you don't tell him I will, Master Bruce." Richie said
Master Bruce glared at him but Richie shrugged it off "It's time he knows."
Agni was staring at Bruce waiting for the truth.
Master Bruce sighed "I only told you part of what happened. Your parents were captured in the goblin and troll raid… They were taken to the Ogre Mage's hideout, tortured and killed." He said
Smoke began to pour off Agni's body
"And you never told me? All the time he was imprisoned and I could have had my revenge and you mislead me? All the time I had him at my mercy?"
"This is the reason I didn't tell you! Revenge is not everything." Master Bruce said taking a few steps back
"Uh Agni are you okay?" asked Richie
Fire began forming along Agni's body scorching the ground.
"You told me they were killed defending a town!" Agni said his eyes turning red. "YOU LIED TO ME!" Agni screamed fire erupting around him burning the ground and the walls.
M'gann duck before remembering that it was only a memory, she stood back up watching Bruce jump over the railings and Richie get caught by the blast.
The fire settled and Richie was laying on the ground with his armor burnt away and his skin black.
Everything began to fade away in till she was standing in total darkness then another memory began to form.
Richie was laying in a bed with the whole right side of his body bandaged. Agni was in a chair next to him in new armor with his face in his hands, sobbing.
"Richie beg you please don't die, if you don't I swear I will never use this power again I beg you don't die on my hands."
The memory faded with his Agni in the chair begging Richie.
M'gann suddenly found herself in a room that had punching bags and other training equipment hanging around it, Agni was in the middle of it punching a bag with all his might.
"Says I'm not good enough well I'll show them." He muttered under his breath not noticing his hands smoking
M'gann clanked out side there on a mounted right next to the castle she was in on the last memory.
"I'm stronger than all of them put together why couldn't I go? Why?" yelled Agni wings of fire exploded from his back swishing through the room. Agni stared into the mirror in fear. He slowly felt himself rise from the floor.
Again the memory faded.
She was now in a battle. The sky was dark rain was pouring down. There were screams and shouts coming from everywhere. She could see Agni with his bow was shooting arrows. Next to him there were Richie and female dark elf were plowing there way through. Behind them came the rest of the Rangers each using their preferred weapon, she saw herself shape-shifting into different animals. Agni had his ruby now around his neck. He was shooting regular arrows not his arcane one like she'd seen him do. Agni and the Rangers reached the castle wall. Agni and the other dark elf levitated up and ran down the wall towards the gate. Anna herself and Richie were running down the other way towards another gate. She saw Connie and many other dwarfs pound away at the wall with hammers and their bare hands. They broke through the wall and the gates were blown away. The attacking army surged through the walls into the castle. She focused on Agni who was fighting his way through with daggers running at the Ogre Mage but the Ogre teleported away before Agni could catch him.
Now she was standing in the middle of a bustling marketplace in the shade of a large building. She saw Agni run by he was in his usual cloak and he was running to catch up with the female dark elf she was looking at an alchemist shop.
"Hey Iivdril wait up! Iivdril!" he called
The elf turned around and smiled at him. "What is it Agni? Don't tell me we have another quest already."
"I it's just er… I was wondering if you want to do something like maybe go for a hike or hunting?" he said
Iivdril's smile faded "Oh I can't I was going to go with Abaddon to this dungeon he says he found with a map. You could come with us." She said "Oh look there he is over there. Abaddon! Come here!"
A handsome boy looking around 15 or 16 years old walked up. He had a large 2-handed sword on his back and was wearing orange brown clothes.
"Hey Iivdril! Hi Agni! How are you two today?" he said cheerfully
"I'm fine. I wanted to know if you mind Agni comes along with us to find that dungeon you were talking about."
Abaddon was taken back slightly. "Of course he can why would you even ask? It's like asking Connie if he wants a tankard of mead. Agni you're welcome to come with us whenever you want, we can use someone of your skills. I heard this dungeon is full of gold and weapons."
Agni smiled and followed Abaddon into a building chatting gallantly with him.
Everything faded into nothing. M'gann waited for something else to appear. She looked around behind her there was suddenly a light forest with Agni sitting under a tree.
"Hello M'gann.' Agni said. He wasn't wearing his normal armor. He was just wearing a vest with his bracers and leather pants.
"How are you talking to me?" M'gann asked
"You're in my mind, and you were watching the memories I was going over."
"You decided to uncover your memories?"
"Yes I have. There were several things I was trying to understand."
"Like what?"
"Where my powers came from."
"Did you find it out?"
"No I think you saw my first memory of me using my powers… when I almost killed Richie."
"You can't remember anything before that?"
"I can. It's the first one of me using my powers."
"What's your first memory?"
"I remember darkness then light then someone hit me." Agni said jokingly
M'gann laughed "You're joking right?"
"Of course I am. Come sit with me."
"How did you mental defenses go down?"
"When I tried to get into some of my covered memories I must have stopped concentrating on my defenses."
"What do you mean?"
Agni sighed. "My mental defenses only stay up as long as I'm concentrating on it. So I have to concentrate slightly on it all the time."
"So you have to mentally multitask?"
"Yeah pretty much."
"Do you know how long you have been meditating?"
Agni thought about it "A hour maybe 2?"
"Over 16 hours…" M'gann said.
"Then I guest we should go back then. I'll bring you back later if you want."
"Sure meet you back in the Cave."
Agni opened his eyes.
Connie, Richie, Robin and Wally were playing cards. Roy and Kaldur were talking about their fighting techniques. Anna and Zatanna were playing with their wands. And M'gann was looking at him.
"WHAT IS EVERYONE DOING IN MY ROOM?" Agni yelled
"'Ey Agni we borrowed a bottle o' wine from yer port'ble 'ole."
"How did you get?" Agni yelled
"We um took it…" said Richie slowly inching towards the door.
"I think we should run now." Robin said.
They ran for it with Agni behind them. "I'm going to kill you three!" shouted Agni behind them.
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