Note 1: I am deeply sorry for putting this chapter off for so long. I have been incredibly busy with finishing school and beginning summer and all that… I will no longer be able to update ever single day but I will try 2-4 times a week.
Note 2: I read over the first few chapters and I notice a few things like my grammar, punctuation and lots of other things were VERY off, so in a few days I am going to go over everything and edit it maybe fix a few things so I advice everyone to reread everything when I do it.
SorifTheHunter
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice. I only own the Rangers and the plot.
She was in a dark place with nothing in it just emptiness…
He was that emptiness. It was Agni's mind.
Outside of his mind the Team was gathered around his bed worriedly. It was a few days after their fight with Abaddon and the death if the Ogre Mage. Agni was found unconscious on the floor next to Zatanna who was pretty badly beaten up but recovering.
Agni was in a coma. They couldn't wake him no matter what they tried. It was like he was trying to stay that way. Most of the Team had given up but the Rangers had just shrugged and let him sleep.
"He'll be okay, Zatanna" Richie had said over and over and over again. "He used something he had no control over and it probably drained him. Give him a week or so he'll be back, I'll be damned if he doesn't."
"Meh he has gone through worse." Wallace said sipping a coke "He'll come back and his first words will be 'Did I kill Abaddon'."
"Nope I think the first thing he's going to say is 'Is Zatanna alright?'" Richie said
"I betcha he's gonna say something like 'Why is everyone starin at me'." Connie said sipping some ale (lord only knows where he got it from…)
M'gann had tried several times to enter his mind but every time she did; she found the same thing, a tree with light glowing upon it. Just that nothing more, she was becoming extremely frustrated
Days flew by as Agni just stayed in the coma. Not moving jus barely breathing.
The days turned into two weeks; that's when the Rangers began to worry.
Zatanna was sitting up on the roof of the cave with Anna, Richie and Robin. They all had the same thing on their mind: What would happen if Agni dies?
Zatanna broke the silence "What will happen to you guys if he doesn't wake up? Who will lead you?"
Richie shrugged "I don't know but I do know he will wake up. I am not going to give up hope."
M'gann was sitting next to Agni's bed staring at him with Conner sitting next to her.
Agni stirred slightly….
M'gann's looked up and she nudged Connor.
Connie burst into the room with Roy talking loudly
"I'm telling ye, one hit over da 'ead with ma lucky hammer and 'ell wake right up." Connie yelled
"Shh!" M'gann hushed and pointed at Agni
Agni was visibly breathing now. He sighed and twitched a bit.
"Connie, go get the others tell that Agni is awakening." M'gann ordered
Connie nodded and waddled out the door muttered sadly about not being able to use his hammer
M'gann's eyes turned white and she focused on Agni.
She was suddenly standing in what seemed to be a little room. Agni was sitting at a desk looking through papers.
"Ye gods…" he muttered to himself "Who do all these people want to go to the war and die?" he flung a bundle of scroll into a drawer and slammed it shut.
"Not happy with the desk job you got?" said a voice behind M'gann; she turned around to see Anna walk in. She was wearing a pair dark leather shorts with silk stockings and knee high boots with a low-cut shirt and a dark blue jacket over it.
Agni sighed and walked around the desk and sat o it facing her.
"Was blowing up the market really all that bad?" Agni asked taking his hood of and shaking his mane of white hair
Anna laughed and walked up and sat down next to him. "How about you dump all of those scrolls into a fire and we go take a walk through the market." She paused for a second, "Not the one you destroyed half of." She added as an afterthought
"You do know Master Bruce said both of us will be suspended if we are caught not doing our work again, right?" Agni said while he absently played with her hair
"Then we better make sure we are not caught." Anna said. She stood up and said something making exact duplicates of them; she turned back around to him and smiled.
Agni looked at the duplicates and scanned them over "Put your hood on, dumbass" He said to his duplicate
"Make me!" the duplicate retorted
"He's good." Agni said.
Anna giggled and brushed her hair out of her face and leaned in towards him. Agni smiled in returned and kissed her.
M'gann turned away as the memory faded away. Another scene began to build itself around her. She was in a dark place, she couldn't see anything very clearly but she could tell they were in street, she listened carefully and she heared Agni whispering something.
"So, what is our excuse going to be?" he whispered
"We heard rumors of goblins attacking one of the outer villages." Anna said
"That is not going to work, Master Bruce is usually the one to tell us if one of the villages are under attack. Oh gods he is going to be so angry."
"Oh I'm a lot more than angry…" said a dark voice from behind them
"Do you have to be so damn cliché Master Bruce?" Agni complained
"Do you know how much trouble you two are in?" Master Bruce said
"Who is in trouble? We did nothing." Agni said
Master Bruce raised an eyebrow and looked at him "You were just caught disobeying very clear orders."
"Yes Master Bruce, why are you disobeying very clear orders? If you hurry back right I may be merciful and not report you to… well you , if you are back at the castle in ten minutes." Agni said swollen with mock pride
Anna sighed
"That is not going to work on me Agni…" Master Bruce said
The memory faded away into black murkiness…
"Enjoying the view of my memories?" said a loud voice, echoing through the emptiness
M'gann looked around but she saw nothing
"Agni?" she asked
There was a hollow laugh
"Who else did you expect in my mind?"
M'gann looked around. "Where are you?"
"Me? I'm everywhere, this is my mind remember?"
M'gann slapped herself in the forehead. "Hello Megan." She said
The dark murkiness suddenly turned into a bright forest with the sweet sound of music drifting through. M'gann walked towards it and saw Agni playing a lute with Anna sitting next to him leaning on a tree.
Another Agni appeared next to them leaning on the tree smiling.
"Good ol' days eh?" he said to himself
M'gann walked up to him and hugged him
"Nice to see you too, M'gann." Agni said hugging her back
"You have been going over old memories while everyone else is miserable at the thought you would die?" M'gann said letting him go and looking back at his memory
A thoughtful expression came over Agni's face. "I have not been going over old memories, I have been trying to find the source of my power so I can try and locked it away."
"Why? Did you see what you did? You took down almost all of his force and him without even hurting anyone else!"
Agni looked up and smiled "I didn't hurt anyone?"
"No, no one at all." M'gann said cheerfully
"Well that is good to hear." Agni said.
The gentle forest began to melt away and began turning into large battle field. There were shouts and clashes of metal… there were screams of death as elves, dwarves and even some men, fell to the ground from where they would never rise again.
Agni pointed across the battlefield to a castle where he was on top of its wall firing his at the intruding monsters.
"I remember this battle very clearly…" Agni said "It was a great victory for our side."
M'gann stared around her in shock "This is what a war is like?" she asked
Agni shook his head "This is only a battle amongst others. A war is this times… a thousand."
The memories began shifting; she could see the Rangers leading a large group of soldiers on horseback across large plains, then they were charging through a group of goblins… they memories continued on. Fight after fight, bloodshed after battle after slaughter. It didn't stop it kept on going and going.
M'gann watched it all with a mixture of shock and astonishment
"ENOUGH!" she shouted covering her eyes
The memories instantly faded away and were replaced with the murky darkness
"Is that was what your like was? Killing and more killing? Don't you have happy memories?" she demanded at Agni's conscious, who was standing next to her with a sad smile on his face.
"I have a few happy memories… years ago back when I was in training. Before I knew what my world was really like." Agni said
They fell silent for a few minutes as more memories passed through his mind, learning sword fighting, and archery… him blowing himself up with a magic ball of fire.
M'gann began to smile at these memories as they went by her eyes. She turned back to Agni who was grinning as he watched a younger version of himself running across roofs, in what seemed to be a village, chasing a thief who had stolen something.
"So…" M'gann said breaking the silence "When are you going to wake up and at least tell everyone you are okay?" she asked
Agni's conscious shrugged and disappeared and reappeared with a desk and scroll laying everywhere. "Once I figure out how to permanently shut down my powers, even if that means I have to kill myself."
"Why would you kill yourself?" M'gann asked becoming suddenly very worried
"Mind controllers, power suckers, chi takers… there are many things that could take my powers and they are to dangerous and unstable to fall into the hands of someone else." Agni said with a wave of his hand
"And you would kill yourself just in case someone else wouldn't get your powers?"
Agni nodded and looked up and nodded. "Abaddon saw what I can do and what I can become. He will waste no time trying to take those powers away from me now that I have something that could be a threat to him."
"You said he was the cause of this war correct?" M'gann asked sitting in a chair that suddenly appeared next to her
"Correct."
"Then how was he the cause of it all when he was born after it started?"
Agni sighed "Do you know what 'Abaddon' means?" he asked folding his arms and planting his feet on the desk
M'gann shook her head
"It has several meaning; everything from 'The Destroyer' to 'Demon King'. He was born to a demon and a human and demon prophecy says that he is supposed to be the 'Ruler' of my world. Well… we didn't know that when we took him in and trained him. We found all of this out later when someone with I name I cannot say, was trying as hard as he could to capture Abaddon, we decided to look into his past; who he was where he came from. What we found out was not what we had expected. We tried to keep it a secret from him and I'm sure you can figure out what happened from there." Agni finished with a small sigh
"So he went to seek out this person you do not want to name and became as enemy?" M'gann asked
"Yup" Agni said. The chair he was sitting on turned into a dirt floor and the table into a large stone. He was now sitting with his back on a tree holding a lute in his hands. "Hey stop with the changing of the scenery." He shouted at nothing. The scenery changed again and now they were sitting in a dungeon with a few torches giving a little light. A skeleton appeared out of nowhere and began tap dancing across the floor.
Agni sighed and put the lute down "Sorry. My conscious has a weird sense of humor…"
M'gann stood up and looked at Agni "How long were you and Anna dating?"
Agni looked up suddenly "You saw those memories?" he asked
M'gann nodded
Agni stood up and he place changed back into the forest where he was playing the lute
"M'gann I am going to tell you something and you have to listen carefully." Agni said urgently
M'gann looked at him curiously and nodded slowly
"You must never tell Anna about anything you saw here, nothing at all."
"Why?"
"We had been dating for several years… during which these memories took place. We had a fight about a year ago and during that fight we broke up and it killed her."
"What do you mean by 'it killed her'?" M'gann asked
"She stopped feeling any emotions, she became distant and secretive to everyone, even Arty. She became another person some one who was heart broken and just… different."
"So why is she normal now?"
Agni took a deep breath and turned away
"I hid the memories in her subconscious mind where hopefully without a lot of meditation, even more than I do, she will never be able to remember them."
M'gann gasped and stared at him "How could you do such a thing?"
Agni sighed and he turned around. They were suddenly in a large room with all the Rangers in it. They were training…
M'gann could see Richie and Agni running after each other with swords out beating each other into pieces and hen getting back up and doing it more. Roy and Arty were firing at some targets they were moving back and forth at high speeds. Everyone was doing something. M'gann's eyes began to look fo Anna amongst all the noise and commotion.
"She's over there." Agni said pointing to a corner of the room
Anna was sitting in a chair staring into space with a blank expression on her face; a tear slowly rolled down her face and hit the ground.
Agni turned away and everything returned to the murky blackness.
"Do you see what I was talking about? It was killing me so I hid the memories of us ever being together away from her and made everyone else swear never to mention it again."
M'gann was still standing in shock over what she had just seen.
"That was ANNA?" she demanded
Agni nodded…
Everyone piled into Agni's room and crowded around his bed.
"How long have they been like that?" Green Arrow said pushing by Red tornado and Superman to stand by his bed. He tried to move Zatanna aside but halted when he saw the look in her eye.
"For quite a while. She is communicating with him in his mind." Said the Martian Manhunter from the back of the room.
"Can you go in and hurry them up?" Superman asked
J'onn shook his head. "Agni told me that under no circumstances under the sun, moon, stars or 'these stupid modern electricity torch thingy' am I ever to enter his mind again"
"That sounds like something he would say…" Richie said
M'gann's eyes return to normal and she took a deep breath and stared at everyone around her.
"How is he?" someone yelled
"When is he going to wake up?"another shouted
"He can't die just yet he hasn't told me how cool I am in his dimension!" (Well it's kinda obvious who said that)
"Ollie! Grow up!"
"Do you guys know how angry he is going to be if he wakes up and we are all standing over him?"
Everyone suddenly went quite and stared at Agni's body which was jerking around. It looked like he was having a seizure.
"Hold him down!" Batman said rushing forward and holding his feet down. Robin surged forward and grabbed the other arm and struggled to hold it down.
"He said this might happen." M'gann said
Wally and Wallace were both trying holding down Agni right arm that was trashing around madly taking them along as well.
"When did he get this strong?" Richie said trying to hold Agni down with Robin
"I think it might be because he can no longer control his inner powers. Even when he didn't wear his ruby he always had some type of restraint over it but now it seems to all be gone." Anna said
Connie smirked and put a hand down on Agni's chest holding it in place.
Agni kept thrashing around to the point his right arm sent Wallace flying into the wall. Agni's body slowly sunk back into place and his breathing stopped.
Everyone's jaw dropped and they stared at him.
"He said that might happen to…" M'gann said with tear rolling down her face.
Robin and Richie slowly let go of him and backed away.
Conner's hand slowly retreated from Agni's chest.
"Hold on he is not dead yet I can hear a very faint heart beat!" Superman said
Agni's eyes open a crack and he smiled.
"Gotcha." He whispered, taking a deep breath.
Wally and Wallace began laughing so hard they had to lean on each other and M'gann smiled and giggled a bit
Everyone stared at her imploringly
"Sorry guys…" she said between giggles "I promised I wouldn't mess up his joke." She said
"That was NOT funny Agni! You scared the hell out of us!" Anna screamed
"Yeah, I thought for a second I wasn't going to be able to find out how awesome I am!" Oliver said "Just kidding, I swear." He said after seeing the looks he was getting from Roy and Canary
Agni sat up in his bed and looked around "Why is everyone in my room?" he asked quietly "What part of don't enter unless the world is being torn apart was not understood?"
Agni stood up from his bed and the sheet that was covering him drooped to the ground
Everyone's hands shot over their eyes and there was a shriek from someone
"Dude the sheet." Wally said
Agni eyebrow went up and he stared at everyone in an offhand manner "What in the hells name are up with you guys?" he said "I'm wearing breeches…"
Everyone began to peek through their fingers at him
"Talk about heart attacks." Zatanna said staring at his muscular body
"Who took my clothes off?" Agni demanded
"I did, the person who has been your one and only cleric for the past, what 10 years maybe." Anna said
"And who shrieked?" Robin asked with a grin as he handed Agni a black suit that was on the chair.
"Guys I believe all here of you owe me 5 gold coins each." Robin said smiling "The first thing he said was nothing about Abaddon, Zatanna or why we were staring at him."
Batman glared at Robin who smiled cheekily "Sorry Batman… I won the bet and it's such a pity to let these gold coins go to waste…"
Agni flew across and smashed into the wall.
"What is it with you people and smashing me into walls?" he groaned as he stood up and face Superman
"Did I hurt you?" Superman asked
Agni rolled his eyes and launched himself at him.
"Ten coins he'll last 5 minutes this time." Connie commented
"Gold?" asked Richie watching as Agni tried desperately to get Superman to even flinch
"Hells no, silver." Connie said
"Make it 7 then." Richie said watching Agni punch Superman several times in the chest
"Fine."
Richie smiled as Clark flicked Agni in the forehead sending him into another wall.
Connie muttered something under his breath and handed over the coins.
Batman walked in and watched Agni get his ass kicked for a few minutes.
"Agni," he said after a while "I have news for you."
Agni stood up wearily "One minute." He said charging at Superman again.
He ran at Clark with his fist up the try and hit him again but he collapsed before he reached him. Superman zoomed up and caught him before he fell and lifter him over to Batman.
"I see you have been training hard." Batman said helping him into a chair
"Must train harder to defeat Abaddon…" Agni muttered through a bleeding mouth and closed eyes.
"Are you sure I'm not hitting you a bit too hard Agni?" Superman asked worriedly "You look terrible…"
"He always trains like this." Richie called out from across the room where he was counting the coins he won
"Well Agni you are going to have a lot less time to train…" Batman began
"Why?" Agni asked opening his eyes a crack
"Because I'm sending you to school." Batman said
Agni was suddenly wide awake and perfectly fine because he shouted "WHAT? HELLS NO! I'd rather be dropped in a bit of lava!" with great passion
"I bet we could organize that too, if you so want." Said Richie laughing his head off.
More in a few days to a week XD