Disclaimer: Sadly I still do not own Young Justice (though I am still trying) all rights go to their respective owners. I only own the Rangers and the plot.
"I still don't understand why do you hide your real name." Zatanna said to Agni.
They were back in the penthouse recovering from the mission; most of them had some kind of injury whether it was a bruise or a wound. Anna had put up a whole fuss about Agni getting shot. He had just waved her away and was sitting in a circle of fire meditating in the training room. Zatanna and Robin had walked in.
Agni cracked open an eye lid and looked and who was talking. The fire slowly fainted and he stood up. "I have already said in my dimension people hate drow so I had to hide my real name, anyways I like the name Agni and the name Belir'hacyrd is kind of awkward to say."
"What else have you not told us?" Robin said
Agni sighed "I've told you all that is your business. I keep secrets and those secrets keep me alive."
"You should tell us. We're your friends." Zatanna said
"Drop it there's no chance he'll tell you." Anna said coming in with Richie and Connie behind her "We've known him for a hundred years and he still keeps secrets from us. He lives in his secrets."
"What's he worst he could tell us seriously? I've probably heard it all before." Robin said
Richie shook his head "He hasn't lied to you, he just hasn't told you the whole story." He said "There are some things that it's smart to keep quiet about."
"We won't think any different of you no matter what we find out." Zatanna said
"It's not what you'll think of me that I'm worried about. It's my motives that you will be thinking differently about."
"I think that ye shud be telling them soon elf." Connie said "It may be for da best."
Agni shook his head "There are some things better remained buried." He said stubbornly.
"And there are some things you need to tell your friends… Belir'" Robin said
"Don't call me that! I purposely didn't tell you that name because I do not like it!" Agni heaved a sigh "You people can't just leave me alone can you?" he asked gloomily "Fine you want to know I'll tell you but after this if I get another question I'm hanging them by their fingers off the Bio-ship."
Robin smiled and spoke into his intercom "Mission accomplished we got him to agree to tell us."
Agni's eye narrowed "You have got to be kidding me. I have been bamboozled by a bunch of amateurs"
Robin smiled and pulled him out of the training room into the living room where the Team was sitting around with Arty.
Agni glared at the Ranger "You're part of this too?" he asked Richie "You imbecile." He said
Richie just smiled and sat down.
Agni glowered down a them "What do you want to know?" he growled
"What are you keeping from us?" Artemis said
"A lot and all of it is my personal business that I would rather not share."
"What did she mean when she said 'do you think he's trustworthy?'?"
"I am not sure what she meant by that myself. She might have been trying to sow seeds of doubt and turn you all against me." Agni said
"Why do you hide your real name? It sounds cool to me." Wally said
"People hate drow that is why I kept it a secret when we first met." Agni sighed "and, well I may have um… possible different blood in me."
"What do you mean 'different blood'?" Kaldur asked
"It may be possible I am part dragon because of my name and my immunes to fire."
Wally snorted "Sure and I'm turning into a dinosaur."
"Many dragons can shape-shift into elves or men and mate with them. It is possible that I got my powers from that."
"So what's wrong with that?" Conner asked "You're part dragon and I'm part human does it matter?"
Agni's eyes widened "You mean that doesn't matter here? Back in our dimension your shunned and ridiculed if you're a hybrid."
"Here everyone doesn't care." M'gann said
Richie looked up surprised "Wow that's surprising. In our dimension if you're human people hate you, if you're drow that hate you, if you half orc or elf they hate you, it's really hard where we are from."
"That must be horrible!" M'gann said
Agni nodded "Well that's all I'm possible a dangerous dragon lets go." He said turning to leave
Richie said something to his retreating back that the Team didn't understand. Agni turned around and whispered something back, Richie retorted and they went into a full fledge argument for several minutes
"What are they saying?" Robin asked Anna
"They are arguing in drow so it's hard for me to understand. I think Agni is not telling us something that he should."
The argument subsided and Agni turned back to them with annoyance written on his face.
"Richie thinks there is something I should tell you even though I think not."
"What is it?" Zatanna said
"My parents might have been… well… they were… mass murderers and evil assassins." Agni said quickly
"What?" Wally said
"So?" Roy said
"There were the most hated people in my world. They were one of the starters of the war."
"Then what's so bad about them?" Anna asked
"They were on the enemy's side. They were the leaders of the enemy's main force above the Ogre Mage."
"And we really don't care." Artemis said
Agni's jaw started sweeping the floor. "WHAT?"
"WE don't care who your family is. My family well… you know."
"You guys should come back to my dimension and teach everyone that." Richie said
"But why were your parents killed by the Ogre Mage if they were on his side?" Kaldur said
"They wanted out. They decided enough people hated them and they wanted to raise me as a nice indestructible assassin, the damn bastards." Agni said
The next day.
Agni spun a bright ball of what seemed to be flames on a finger and threw it at Richie who caught it and tossed it up and down a few time and spun it behind his back at Anna.
It was the early morning the Rangers were in the training room playing with a ball of bright red swirling magical energy by tossing it back and forth and spinning it around and making it do all sorts of weird movements.
Anna caught the ball and threw it in the opposite direction then making it halt and zoom in reverse at Connie.
Robin and Wally walked in with Roy, Zatanna and M'gann and watched them play.
Connie hit the ball with his fist into the air and head butted it when it came back down to Arty.
"Hey watcha up to guys?" Wally asked as the sphere whizzed by him.
Arty caught the ball and slid it down her arm and back into her other hand and throwing it to Anna.
"We're playing spiritball. It's kind of what you guys call 'basketball' here." Agni said kicking the ball across the room where it bounced off the wall and came back at him and he elbowed it at Robin.
Robin caught it and stared at it in wonder "Why is it called spiritball?" he said tossing it up and spinning it around a few times.
"Because when a team looses their souls are consumed and they are fed to lions." Arty said sinisterly
"What? Really? That's sick and monstrous." Wally exclaimed
Connie and Richie collapsed with laughter, Agni rolled his eye and chuckled even Anna laughed a bit and Arty smiled menacingly.
"She's joking." Agni said catching the ball and bouncing it against the ceiling. "It's because you use your chi to construct the ball."
"How does the game work?" Roy asked as Agni threw the ball at him.
"There are 6 players on each team and 6 hoops on each edge of a large field of water with 5 foot tall wooden or stone pegs sticking out of it. There is 1 person who is the keeper he guards the hoops from opponents balls. 3 attackers who launch spirit-balls at hoops and other players, they're the most important players of the team. Then there are 2 shielders who create force fields, shields and any type of magic pretty much to protect their hoops and players. The first team to knock all the opponents off their pegs and into the water with the most points wins. Very simple game overall." Richie said
"Teach us how to play." M'gann said
"We're going to need a large open space, I can do the rest of the things we need." Agni said.
"I think we can find a place easily." Anna said
"Does it hurt to get his by on of these things?" Zatanna said
Several of the spirit-balls flew from Agni's hands at Richie who jumped into several back flips that even impressed Robin, and dodge several of them in till several of them that he dodged swerved and slammed into his back sending him flying. He landed on the ground groaning.
Agni cocked his head and smiled "Yeah I think it does." He said helping Richie up
"You bastard… did you have to hit me that hard?"
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