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Agni flopped into his bed and sighed. It had been a long day... It all started that morning.
Many hours before
Agni's eyes flew open as Wally sneezed
"Sorry..." Wally had said before resuming meditation
The dark elf sighed and looked around, someone he had been convinced to teach the Team their magic.
But sadly for Agni that meant he had to watch as Robin practiced with Richie, Anna with Zatanna, Roy with Roy...and everyone else with their counter-dimensional self.
And what did Agni get?
He had to teach them meditation
Yeah... of all the things he had to teach it was meditation.
Agni glared at Wally who was vibrating in place.
"Cut that out Wally." Agni barked
"Do you know how hard it is for a speedster to hold still like this for so long?" Wally yelled
Agni sighed and decided to ignore him and look at everyone else.
Well of course Robin was doing perfectly fine with his meditation, he was making excellent progress with his magic studies a well. He succeeded in almost blowing up the batcave two days before.
How did he get stuck teaching them meditation?
Oh right...
Even Earlier that morning.
Batman's face appeared on the cave's computer screen.
"Batman to cave" he said
Robin looked up from the computer screen which he was using to hack into the White House.
"Yes Batman?"
"Please tell me that is NOT Agni riding a horse through Gotham after the Joker."
Robin paled, he was under strict orders to make sure Agni stayed out of Gotham other than of Major Missions.
Robin opened his wrist computer "Oh damn..." he said silently
Batman glared at him from the screen "Please tell me how he got out."
"I might have... taught him and Richie how to hack..."
Batman swore and sighed "Well go and get Richie and both of you can go help Agni."
Robin's eyebrow arched "You do know Agni will most likely kill him right?"
Batman shrugged "I won't kill him but I don't have to save him either. Now get going and make sure there is minimal damage to the city. Batman out."
Robin sighed and called for Richie over their communicators
"Yeah Rob?" Richie said as he came in
"We got to go get Agni..."
"He's in Gotham again?"
Robin nodded
In Gotham
Agni's horse leaped over a car and dashed down the street after a fleeing car.
"What are we going to do Mista J.?" Harley screamed as she flew down the street in the car
"Don't worry, I'll deal with the elf boy" the Joker said pulling a rocket launcher up from the floor of the car and taking aim.
Agni's horse's legs were just a blur and he thudded down the street. Magical horses were very fast but Agni could tell they were lowly getting away.
A rocket came flying at him, but with a small wave of his hand he sent it flying upwards.
Agni smiled and reached into his enchanted pocket
and pulled out and RPG
The Joker's grin faded "Uh Harley dear?"
"Did you get him Mista J.?"
"No I didn't..."
"Than whats the problem?"
"He's holding a rocket launcher..."
"I take that as a I should speed up?"
Agni took aim and fire the rocket down the street missing Joker.
"Damn things..." Agni muttered sliding another rocket in
He fired again this time hitting the back of their car, sending it flying and rolling down the street into a fire hydrant.
"Where the hell is bats when you need him?" The Joker sputtered as he slid out from the upside down car and wringing water out if his hair. "This guy is going to kill us."
"I thought heroes don't kill." Harley complained, kicking the door open.
Agni slid another rocket into the launcher
"Agni stand down!" someone yelled behind him
The rocket launcher was slowly lowered
"Uh hey Robin..." Agni said
Robin and Richie dashed over to him
"Didn't Batman tell you to stay out of Gotham unless you were with us?" Robin shouted
Agni looked surprised "He did? When?"
"Two weeks ago when you blew up three building and sent Ivy, Livewire and Two-Face to the hospital in body casts."
"Oh yeah..." Agni said with his usual smile as he recalled the incident
"We should go get the Joker first..." Richie said
Agni lifted his hand to stop them "Let them get away." he said
"Why?" Robin asked watching the fleeing backs of Joker and Harley
Agni smiled and held out his bracer, a small holograph screen popped out similar to Robin's "I placed one of those thingies on him. He'll lead us right to his hide out."
Robin flashed his customary grin "You are getting better at this." he complimented as Agni walked them back over to the motorcycles they rode there in.
Agni shrugged "I personally really would prefer just killing them... I could have done so several times in the chase."
"Yeah we noticed the burning buildings, small craters, assorted weaponry every few feet."
"Where the hell did you get a Barrett .50?" Robin asked
"That does not concern you." Agni replied as they mounted back onto their motorcycles
"Well, Batman wants you back at the cave." Robin said "He said immediately." Robin said as he started his bike
Agni nodded and galloped off after them
Well long story short he was punished by having to teach them meditation...
Agni sighed and opened his eyes, he could clearly see everyone's aura beginning to materialize behind them. Robin and Richie had lighting and wind around them, the lighting was dominate. Agni sighed and noted to himself that they had two strong elements instead of one. Anna had an ice storm going on behind her, but unlike Richie and Robin, Zatanna and Anna's auras and elements were not the same. Zatanna had fire blazing around her, much like Agni's own aura, small fire balls were popping into the air every few minutes. Agni looked closer and read her aura... there was another element there he just couldn't put his finger on it. Wallace and Wally's auras were beginning to show. Tornadoes were spinning around them, causing their hair to wave in the strong wind encircling them, bright flashes of light that hurt Agni's eyes kept on appearing here and there in their tornadoes. Agni smiled at their success and turned his attention to M'gann and Megg'n. M'gann had already known all the secrets to meditation, she had mastered summoning her aura in less amount of time that it had taken any of the Rangers to. Wind surrounded the two psychics as well, but unlike the speedsters, what surrounded them was a soft gentle wind, more controlled and precise then the chaotic unruliness around Wally and Wallace. Agni looked over to Superdwarfboy and Superboy. Since most dwarves do not mix with magic and Connie was REALLY bad at it, he was going to exclude them from this part of training but Batman over-ruled him saying EVERYONE had to do it.
Agni was surprised to see that both of them were raised several feet off the ground. The floor under them had risen making them a few feet higher than them. A small smile was spread across their faces.
Kal and Kaldur were doing fine. Both of them were well trained in magic and it was no surprise that water was flowing around them with electrical currents dashing through it. Their tattoos were glowing brightly on their arms and they both had a look of pure concentration on their faces. Agni looked over to Artemis and Arty, their auras were very clear as well. He could see small suns hovering behind their heads. Agni gasped and stared at it for a moment. Light and Fire are rare and extremely powers to have.
Agni looked over to elven Roy for a few moments, he also had wind around him. It wasn't quite like Wally's nor like M'gann. I kept raging from calm to violent every few seconds. Agni noted that many of them had wind element, but that could be just because it was the most regular element for most to have.
As Agni looked over to the other Roy he looked surprised. Red Arrow's aura was not like Red-Rangers, as he expected. Roy's aura was very faint, and would keep shifting around and dissolving before reappearing and fading again. It had no distinctive element to it which confused the dark elf as well.
"Okay everyone, open your eyes." Agni said out loud
Everyone's eyes opened and they slowly looked around at everyone else aura's.
"I found this quite easy." Kaldur said "Much like the exercises they made us do at Conservatory of Sorcery."
"Hey Agni." Robin asked from across the circle they were sitting in "What element are you? Your aura seems... odd."
"I'm fire." Agni said quickly "You can see that."
"No..." Robin replied "You have a second one."
"I'm a fire elementalist." Agni said again
"He was originally dark." Richie said cheerfully
Agni glared daggers at him for a moment, before he concentrated a bit and his aura began to show itself more.
Zatanna gasped and stared at the darkness that mingled in with Agni's aura's flames.
"Yeah... exactly..." Agni said glumly
"Uh... Zee, whats so bad about that?" Robin asked hesitantly
"A dark aura is the mark of an evil person..." Anna said "when a persons aura is dark, even a bit, it usually means he will grow up to be a murdering homicidal psychopath."
"Well that shouldn't be a problem. We all know Agni is an insane life-saving-" Wally began before stopping when Agni 's aura flared a few times.
"Uhh... guys?" (human) Roy asked, taking the attention away from Agni "Where is my aura?"
Everyone looked at Roy, like before he aura wasn't like the others and was shifting around oddly.
"What's wrong with his aura, Agni?" Robin asked
Agni shrugged "Its odd... I don't think I've ever seen someone's aura do this before."
Wally groaned "That's never good to hear... bad things always happen when someone is told that."
"Thanks for being so cheerful, Kid Pessimist." Artemis said
"Want me to take a quick look at it?" Agni asked Red Arrow
Roy shrugged "Sure I guess..."
Agni went over to him and placed his hand over Roy's forehead.
Before Agni did anything a large golden ankh symbol appeared behind him.
"Oh hey Doctor Fate, anything-" Robin was interrupted by a golden beam that hit Agni in the back
Agni and Roy were launched across the room and in the the far wall. Both of them jumped back up. Roy with his arrow already notched and Agni with his hidden blades crossed defensively in front of his face.
"What the FUCK was that for Nabu?" Agni yelled
"I felt a strong aura of Chaos coming from you." Doctor Fate said "You are to powerful with Chaos to be allowed to live."
"Wait hold on..." Robin said "Did you say to powerful to live?"
"Do you guys see why I hide myself? Do you see why I keep myself a secret?" Agni yelled
"Stand down Doctor Fate." Kaldur said "Agni is one of us."
"You cannot trust one with that much Chaos." Doctor Fate said "He must be disposed of"
Agni gave a 'I told you so' glare to everyone.
The dark elf leaped into a roll to dodge another beam
"Look Nabu, we should talk first! I'm telling you there is nothing I can do." Agni yelled as he leaped over another beam.
"You are almost as powerful as a Chaos Lord." Doctor Fate said "I do not care what you or Zatara has to say."
"Is it me or is Doctor Fate acting odd?" Robin said to Richie as they dashed at Doctor Fate
"Father, stop this!" Zatanna yelled "You cant blame him for what he was born with."
"Nabu... Don't make me fight back." Agni shouted
"What is going on in here?" Superman asked suddenly walking into the cave.
Agni was scaling have way up the cave wall, dodging a beam every now and then.
"You will be banished Klarion!" Doctor Fate shouted
Agni halted and spun around holding on with his left hand.
"What did he just call me?" Agni said
"Did he just call you Klarion?" Robin asked after getting up wearily from the floor were he was blasted into
Agni nodded. "Illusion magic!" he shouted
Everyone groaned. Last time they had a run in with illusion magic they almost all died.
"Supes, can you hold him still?" Richie yelled after being flung through the air.
"I'll try!" Clark said, tackling Doctor Fate and being blown off a few moment later. "But I think I need some help!"
Robin and Richie ran forward drawing hieroglyphs in the air.
"This should stop him." Robin shouted as a large red beam shot out of the hieroglyph at Doctor Fate
The beam shot into Doctor Fate's chest and smashed him into the wall. Part of the wall collapsed on him leaving him buried under a pile of rocks
Everyone took a deep breath and rushed over to him. Right before they got there golden light erupted and the rocks flew at the Team and Superman.
Agni, who was still clinging to that wall, waved his hand and a invisible barrier appeared in front of them, deflecting the rocks away.
"Everybody move!" Agni shouted dropping down.
Doctor Fate slowly stood up and looked at Agni.
Agni waved his hand in front of him and an invisible force smashed into Doctor Fate.
Doctor Fate raised his hand and a large ankh symbol appeared in front of him and blocked the magical blow. "Your petty magic will not work Klarion." He said
Agni cursed under his breath and prepared another strike
"Watchtower to cave, What the hell is happening down there?" Batman said on the large screen.
"We are getting readings of insane amount of Chaos and Order magic coming from down there."
"We thin Doctor Fate is under a spell." Superman said "He's attacking Agni."
"And that is were I assume the Chaos magic is coming from." Batman said
Agni nodded and jerked his head at his aura. "Its coming from tha-" Agni stopped mid sentence and flew into a wall from a large golden beam. Agni groaned and stood up. "-at..."
"Can't you break the spell on him?" Superman asked
"We tried different Dispels but it didn't work..." Robin said
"Kaerb noisulli!" Zatanna shouted
There was a small flash of bright light.
Agni swore again and looked at Batman "Any ideas? He asked."
"You're the sorcerer..." Batman said "Think of something."
Agni nodded and ran at Doctor Fate, his aura began to cover his arms. "Team distraction maneuver B16, Rangers defensive maneuver A22." Agni shouted
Superboy leaped into the air, Robin ran behind him and leaped onto his back and gave himself an extra boost into the air. Robin flipped over Doctor Fate, dropping a few smoke pellets on to him.
Smoke filled the room as Superboy came close to bashed into Doctor Fate. Aqualad ran up from behind Doctor Fate with his water-bearers in the shape of large mallets, He jumps up to bash him in the head. Doctor Fate duck under the attack and Kaldur rammed straight into Conner.
The Lord of Order saw through their ploy and blasted a beam through in Agni's direction. The dark elf smiled as a large hieroglyph appeared in front of it and deflecting it off the side. He hands were aflame and cackling with fire mixed with dark energy.
Kal was running up beside Agni, shielding him with his water-bearers from Doctor Fates beams and other attacks. A stray beam blasted the ground in front of them, tripping them and sending them sprawling face first into the ground. Agni raised his hands over him, causing his aura to spread over him and Kal like a shield. Richie appeared out from the darkness, a hieroglyph appeared in front of them and absorbed the blast, but sent Richie flying across the room.
M'gann mind blasted Doctor Fate across the room, while several arrows shit through the dark smokiness and hit him in the back.
Several of the arrows transformed into ropes and bound him tightly as he fell to the ground.
"Ezeerf!" Zatanna shouted.
Ice slowly formed over Doctor Fate's legs and arm locking them in place.
"Agni now!" Wallace shouted
Agni jumped into the air and slammed his fist into the Helmet of Nabu.
Everyone winced as a large blast of light energy flashed through out the room. The smoke began to clear. Doctor Fate was slowly standing up in the rubble, Agni was no where to be seen.
The Team and the Rangers looked around. There were piles of ruble everywhere one of their computers had exploded from a stray arrow, blast marks where all over the floor and walls.
"Ouch..." Agni said from three feet inside a wall "This is so going to hurt or the rest of the day." he complained
Robin looked around at the mess and frowned "This is going to take forever to clean" he groaned.
Robin blinked his eyes, he was back in his meditation stance next to Richie. He looked around to see everyone was blinking confusedly around the room.
"Ugh what happened?" Superboy groaned "My head is killing me."
Robin gave the room another look as his vision began to clear. Everyone's aura was jut as it was in... whatever it was they just went through. Agni was passed out on the ground, his aura still flaring around him.
Robin slowly stood up and saw Batman was standing behind them with Superman, Doctor Fate and Martian Manhunter.
"Ugh...Batman, what the hell was all of that?" Robin asked
Superman smiled "That was a test." he said grandly
"Say wha?" Connie said grumpily
"That was a test for your teamwork." Batman said "And you all did well."
Agni moaned from the floor and blinked his eyes open. "Ugh. Why do I feel like my head was just bashed in?"
"Because you were just put through a telepathic training/test simulation." Batman said "And you all did excellently well."
Robin helped Agni to his feet, careful not to burn himself on Agni's aura.
"You all should get going to school now." Superman said
"Dude, like what time is it now?" Kal asked
"It is exactly half-past six." Doctor Fate said "And Zatara would like me to remind Zatanna not to be late for school."
Anna and Zatanna smiled and chuckled a bit
"Tell him if I am its all Agni's fault." Zatanna said
Doctor Fate turned and looked at Agni. "You two go to school together?" he asked
Agni gulped "uh... yeeaaahhhh, we do."
"Zatara says he will speak with you later." Doctor Fate said matter-of-factly
"Tell him I am not looking forward to it." Agni muttered under his breath
"What kind of mission are you talking about?" Robin asked his mentor
"Very important one." Superman said "Now go on finish your morning training and get going to school."
As they walked out Agni plopped back down onto the floor.
"I don't know what we did but whatever it was my head is killing me." he said
"You punched the Helmet of Nabu..." Robin said "With all you power."
Agni sighed "What the hell was I thinking?"
"Agni that is your problem." Kaldur said
"Dude, unless it has to do with large explosives and fire-" Kal continued
"You do not think... at all." Kaldur finished
"There is no problem in the world that cannot be fixed with the proper amount of heavy explosives." Agni said
"Yes there is." Robin
"Team, I do not see you training." Batman said over their communicators.
Agni sighed. "So you guys all summoned your auras right?"
Everyone but Red Arrow nodded "I uh... had some trouble with mine." he said "Its not 'working' you could say."
Robin nodded "I noticed that."
"Let me take a look." Agni said walking over to him
"What do you mean by take a look?" Robin asked
"I'm going to read his aura... his spirit, his magical energy." Agni said
"And how do you do that?" Robin asked
"It's kinda like mind reading." Zatanna said "Its just another branch of magic."
Agni smiled "I love it that you know everything about magic."
"Is that all you love?" Zatanna asked slyly
"Well-"
"GUYS, THIS IS NOT THE TIME." Red-Ranger said loudly
Agni and Zatanna blushed and Agni walked over to Roy. The dark elf poked the human archer in the middle of the forehead and stood still for a moment.
"How long should this take?" Robin asked
"Hopefully not long." Wally said snacking on a protein bar "I'm already getting hungry."
"Didn't you eat like an hour ago?" Arty asked
Richie groaned "Here they go..."
"HOUR ago, babe." Wallace said
"Kid Glutton." Artemis muttered under her breath
"Oi I can hear that!" Wallace yelled "Its not our fault we have very high metabolisms."
"Actually I'm pretty sure it is..." Arty said
"Oh shut up Arty." Wallace said
"Why don't you make me, elf?" Arty retorted
"I would but you're to short to hit." Wallace said with a grin
"How would you like me to stick an exploding rock down your pants?" Arty threatened
"Like that's what you'd do in his pants." Wally said
"Shut up Baywatch."
"Dudette chill out," Kal said trying to calm them down "I'm sure the dude was like, just joking and stuff."
Arty glared at him
"Guys, Agni needs to be able to concentrate so why don't we all just shut up?" Anna suggested
Everyone fell silent for a few minutes, the speedsters glaring at the female archers and vise-versa.
"Hey whats in Agni's pocket?" Robin asked, looking at the end of a silver chain that was sticking out of the corner of Agni's pocket.
"It's a necklace he bought for me..." Zatanna said slowly, beginning to blush again
"And he's to worried to give it to her." Richie said with a small grin
Red-Ranger snorted "That is so Agni."
After another moment of silence Agni slowly withdrew from the human Roy
"So what is it?" Richie asked
Agni shrugged "I have no idea, I couldn't find anything amiss."
"Common, Agni what did you find out?" Wally asked
"I said I found nothing." Agni said curtly
"Agni you do realize you are a REALLY bad liar right?" Richie said
"Hey Richie," Agni asked calmly
"What?"
"Do you want to become a permanent soprano? Because if you push this matter any further I will kick you so hard in your vitals you'll become one." Agni said with such a calm demeanor that it was creepy
"Ohmigod." Wally said with a shudder "Who else had the image of Batman suddenly pop into their mind?"
Robin turned and glared at him
"My gods!" Wallace shrieked "You both need to stop hanging with Batman."
"Do you know what would be hilarious?" Arty said slowly with a small smile
"What?" Robin asked with a grin
"If Batman was behind him..." Artemis said with a smirk
"He would probably faint." Richie said with an identical grin to Robin's
Everybody laughed and dispersed to finish their morning training
Robin went over to Richie who was reading a book on Agni's back as he did his push ups. "What do you think the mission is today?" he asked
"Why are you asking us?" Richie asked hesitantly, looking up from his book.
"Comon, me and Batman might be ninjas, but you two are, quite literally, living shadows." Robin said
"We know nothing of anything." Agni huffed, stopping for a moment to talk.
"Agni, You. Are. A. Bad. Liar." Robin said slowly
"And his heart skipped a beat." Conner said as he walked by to go train with Connie
The dark elf sighed "Richie you explain."
"Well," Richie said taking a deep breath "A few days ago when Batman called for me and you to go to the watchtower, I didn't want to spend hours memorizing the place myself so I made several shadow clones to go and look over the whole place, effectively allowing me to memorize every singly passage, turn, room and door in the whole place within 5 minutes, instead of the 5 hours it would take me alone. And it just happened one of my clones picked up what the mission was."
"You mean you sent one of them to follow Batman into the League meeting." Robin clarified
"Uh... yeah you could say that." Richie said squirming on Agni's back
Agni stopped and Richie slid off "We found out there is some really large worldwide meeting or party, that has been threatened and stuff. We're going to go in under cover as body guards and guests." Agni said "Sounds like fun to me."
Robin nodded "Sounds easy. Roy already did a similar mission on his own."
Across the room Robin saw Roy was practicing arcane archery with Artemis.
Artemis was coming along quite nicely, having already mastered several arcane archer spells. She could enchant her arrows almost perfectly. She could with a simple spell redirect her arrows, make them explode, set them aflame... it was surprising to the elves what the humans could do when they set their minds to it.
Roy on the other hand was just barely able to make a successful basic arcane arrow. He had trouble with simple spells, he blew holes into the training ground floor every other day. It greatly confused the Rangers that this Roy wasn't like their own Roy, who was one of the best arcane archers in their world.
Now that Robin thought of it Roy wasnt able to do the simplest light spell and now even summoning his aura was something he couldn't do.
And Agni was defiantly hiding something he didn't want to tell anyone. He could tell the Rangers already knew. There was someway they were communicating with each other, not telepathy, he had asked M'gann if they were doing that. The only thing he could think of were they Ranger rings, which he was told works similar to the coms in their ears. Richie showed him his and if you say certain words, a small magical hologram like thing would appear showing the owner of the ring, his strengths and weaknesses. Every ring owner had their own word for their rings and they could change it. Richie said you would have had to know the bearer incredibly well to be able to access his ring (so of course Richie knew the word for everyone's ring but refused to say it.)
Robin pondered this as they finished training and took a Zeta Tube back to Gotham with Richie and Anna. It was a bit surprising to him that Anna was to go to school with him instead of Zee. Everyone else went with their other selves. It didn't surprise him that Agni went with Zatanna, she was the only one who could keep him in check. The guy refused to listen to anyone, even Richie and Kal.
"Why so quiet Dick?" Anna asked
Dick shrugged "Just thinking..."
Agni walked into the briefing room before setting out for school. He walked over to the terminal and plugged in his wrist computer. A small breeze blew his cloak and he turned around to see Batman standing over him.
"Must you always do that?" Agni complained
"You know an alternate me for over a hundred years and your still asking me that?" Batman asked
"Don't answer my question with other questions." Agni said
Batman walked over to the computer and stared at the screen "What are you trying to do?"
"I placed a tracer on the Joker." Agni said pressing random buttons
"Do you have any idea what your doing?" Batman asked
Agni shook his head "Nope..."
Batman sighed and pushed him away. With only a few of presses a map showed up with blinking red lights. "He's here." he said pointing to a dot in Gotham
Agni nodded "I assume you're going to go get him now?"
Batman nodded.
The dark elf smiled "Don't I get a thank you?"
"I caught you in Gotham today without permission, don't push your luck."
Agni smiled again "Fine. I'll just get going to school now."
Batman held up a hand. "One moment Agni, I want to ask you something."
"Sure ask away."
"What did you see in Roy?"
Agni looked up and seemed to ponder his answer for a moment. "I felt something... wrong."
"What do you mean by wrong?"
"His mystical force, his magic flow, there is something... odd about it."
"Explain."
"There is something odd about his aura. Not just materializing it, his whole energy is off."
"Why do you think it is?" Batman asked
"It's almost like a golem's."
"A golem?"
Agni nodded "When you make a golem, or when you bring someone back from the dead-"
"You can bring people back from the dead?"
Agni shook his head quickly "I can't but some necromancers can. It's rare though because necromancy is illegal."
"So of course I taught it to you?" Batman said with a snort
"No..." Agni replied slowly
"I did, didn't I?"
"Okay maybe you did..."
"We are going off topic."
"Right, so when you make a golem or bring someone back from the dead or if someone or if someone uses to much magic it ruins their magical flow. Roy's is a lot like that. It's not natural."
Batman took in the information and nodded. "Well after today's mission, I know a mystical man in Tibet, take Roy to him and have him check it out."
1:30- NYC Highschool
Front Yard
Agni yawned and leaned stretched "I hate school." he said
"We know..."' his friend Jarred said, he followed Agni and Zatanna everywhere. "You have already said that 12 times today and its not even two yet. Though it is nice we got out early today"
Agni sighed and sat down at a table "Well if this school wasn't so damn boring maybe I wouldn't."
Zatanna smiled and sat down in front of him "Look on the bright side, school is almost over for the year."
"Just a few more weeks." Jarred said "Then your free to continue being a hero elsewhere."
Agni and Zatanna visibly tensed
"What do you mean by that?" Agni asked quickly
Jarred shrugged "I'm sure you beat up bullies everywhere you go." he said
They both visibly relaxed as well.
Agni sighed and took a quick sip from his water bottle, school was boring since there were no more bullies. Miss M was suppose to pick them up today on the bio-ship and they were going to hit the mall before seeing what their mission that day was.
"I really miss my home." Agni said at length "Its been quite a long time since I saw it."
Zatanna smiled. "If not I'm sure there will be plenty of fun for you to have during the summer."
Agni shook his head "I don't do fun. I'm a-" Agni stopped himself before he said something he would regret
"A what?" Jarred asked
"A worker." Zatanna said quickly "He already has a job for the summer."
"I don't know why you would need a job." Jarred said "I've seen those golden coins you have on you all the time."
Agni looked down at his bottle and was careful not to look up at Zatanna who he was sure was glaring at him
"So you guys have any other plans for the summer?" Jarred asked
Agni shrugged "I am hoping to return home, but I really don't know."
Jarred "I heard its nice in Glundorion."
Agni suddenly looked up from his drink "Wha?" he said
Jarred's eyes opened when he realized what he said
Before either of them could say anything there was a loud explosion across the yard.
People were screaming and running into the school.
Agni stood up and scanned for the area of the explosion. "We'll talk later Jarred." he said "You should get inside."
Jarred nodded and stood up "If I tell you its better for you to get out of here as soon as you can what are you going to say?"
"I would say don't worry about me and save yourself." Agni said grimly spotting the trouble "Actually I would say get out of here quickly."
Jarred nodded and took off towards the school.
"I can't have a normal day can I, Zatanna?" Agni asked
Zatanna smiled, she was already out of her school clothes and in her hero outfit "We're heroes, this is a normal day."
Agni sighed and muttered a spell. His khakis and shirt disappear and were replaced instantly by his scale armor and leather trousers, and of course his hood that was over his head. His swords where on hilt belt and bow over his shoulder. A look of pure rage was on his face
Zatanna and him jumped over the table and dashed over to where the explosion came from.
"Who is it?" Zatanna asked having a bit of trouble keeping of with the agile drow
"Iivdril..." Agni growled "Why can't that dumb bitch just die already? How many times do I have to kill her?"
Agni pulled ho bow off his shoulder and ducked behind a table that was turned on it side pulling Zatanna down with him.
"She had soldiers with her." Agni hissed
Zatanna peeked over the side of the table "How did she know we where here?"
"Most likely from Arty when she was forced to tell Abaddon our secrets." Agni said slowly pulling and arrow from his quiver.
"Come out Belirhacyrd." Iivdril taunted "We know your here, come out now and receive a easy death."
Agni sighed "Does she realize I killed Abaddon a few weeks ago?" he said
"Villains don't always make sense..." Zatanna said
An arrow shout from somewhere behind the and went through the table hitting Agni's shoulder.
"Ouch..." Agni said "Thank the gods for my armor."
"I said come out, Belir!" Iivdril shouted "You will pay for what you did to Lord Abaddon."
The arrow that was notched into Agni's bow shot into the air.
"No mercy!" Agni hissed as the arrow began to come down.
As soon a the arrow hit the ground there was a large bang. Smoke poured out of nowhere causing the yard and street to be covered by a dark thick fog.
"Eci rewohs!" Zatanna shouted, causing ice to rain down on the upcoming enemies.
Agni rolled away from the table they were hiding behind and forced his eyes into infravision. There were five on his right and six coming in front of him. Zatanna was on his left shouting "Eci tsalb! Dnuorg nepo!" effectively removing any threat from the left.
Agni's bow sang as several arrows flew from it taking down the enemies in front of him. He pulled put his swords and crouched like a hunter about to attack his prey.
Blade's flashing, Agni dashed forward towards a group of enemies on his right. His sword lashed out cutting a deep line across the throat of the closest. He swung his left handed sword in a wide arc hitting the next across the ribs.
By now they were aware of Agni's presence and lifted their weapons and shields to defend themselves.
Agni lifted his hand and knocked a sword aimed at his left shoulder in an arc. He skipped left to dodged and lunge and pivoted 360 degrees on his left foot. His blades lunged in; his left blade shot down cutting the mercenary's knee, Agni did another spin bringing his right hand down and decapitated the mercenary. Agni felt something heavy connect to his shoulder. His head spun around and a pommel of a sword connected with his jaw knocking him onto his back.
"Zatanna!" he shouted
Agni smiled and a large fireball blew over him and hit his attacking in the chest.
"Ekoms emoceb tekcajthgairts!" She shouted
Several of the attackers fell down and started squirming on the ground. A small smile spread on her face. "Erif nrub, nordlauc elbbub!"
There was a temporary flash of fire and several screams. Zatanna ducked under a swipe rfom an attacker. "Dloc dniw wolb! Dloc dniw wolb! Dloc dniw wolb!" she yelled freezing him in his spot. "Tsalb fo erif!" she shouted sending him flying away
Zatanna continued slinging spell in all directions for several minutes. She ducked behind a table to rest for a moment. Agni came dashing, he leaped clear over the table he was crouched behind. There was a loud yell and Agni removed his sword from someones... delicate spots.
"Thank you." Zatanna said breathlessly "How many more are there?"
Agni shrugged "Many... and Iivdril."
"Have you seen her yet?"
Agni shook his head "No she's trying to tire me out."
"What are these things that are attacking us?"
Agni fell silent for a moment "Humans..."
Zatanna's eyes widened "We're killing humans?"
Agni nodded "They are humans, but" He said before she could say anything else "They are not humans like you and the Team. Humans in my world are just as bad as drow are."
"And you know not all drow are bad."
Agni looked at her quizzically "Yes there are..."
"You aren't." she retorted
"I'm an exception."
"Aren't there exceptions with humans too?"
Agni nodded "And his name is General Br- Batman."
Zatanna sighed and peeked over the table, the smoke was beginning to lighten up.
Wind began to blow through the yard, Zatanna shivered slightly from the cold. It became stronger and blew the smoke away after a few seconds.
"Damn." cursed Agni "That takes away our biggest advantage."
"Don't worry, I'll help you guys." someone said behind them.
Agni's hidden dagger shot out of his bracer and he spun around careful not to show himself though.
Jarred was behind them, he was wearing simple padded leather and was holding a spear, shield and had a sword sticking out of his belt
"Jarred?!"
The boy nodded
"Who the- what the- how the-" Agni said not able to ask a coherent question.
"That's a lot of 'thes'." Jarred said with a smile "My name is Jarred, I'm here to help you, I got here seconds ago when you two were arguing."
Agni's jaw was open and he stared at him "But twenty minutes ago you were a cool little geek I used to hang out with..."
Jarred nodded "Yes I know. You weren't suppose to find out about me but I accidentally slipped out the word 'Glundorion'... I knew you would find out so... I might as well help you."
"You didn't answer my first question. What are you?" Agni asked
Jarred shrugged "Does it matter?"
Agni thought for a split moment "No, it doesn't."
"Come out Agni, I know those fools couldn't have killed you." Iivdril called now that the smoke was gone.
"Iivdril eh?" Jarred said "I really hate her."
"How do you? Know what? I don't care." Agni said
"When are Miss M and Superboy suppose to be here with Connie and Megg'n?" Zatanna asked
Agni fell silent for a moment. "About 10 minutes." he said "We'll just have to fight in till then."
Jarred nodded "I can fight almost as good as you so don't worry about me."
Agni nodded and slowly stood up "Let's go slit some throats then."
Zatanna gave him a disgusted look and stood up with him
Jarred's spear gave a small cackle of energy and he stood up with them, he heaved his shield over his left shoulder and smirked.
Iivdril smiled when she saw them walking across the yard "Ahh there you two are... and who's that" Hey isn't that-"
"Greetings Iivdril." Jarred said "I won't say its nice to see you again but, you should know, this time you aren't leaving alive."
Iivdril smiled "You never cease to surprise me, Agni dear. Neither in bed or in the battlefield." she teased
Agni glared at her... and so did Zatanna
"You have a strong sorceress with you and a blood angel."
Agni's eyes grew to be the size of saucers and almost popped out of his head "Blood...angel?"
Jarred rolled his eyes "Why do you have to be such a bitch, Iivdril?"
"What is a blood angel?" Zatanna asked slowly "I've never heard of such a thing."
"There are... well angels to begin with. The strongest of angels." Agni said on awe looking at Jarred with respect
The small angel smiled "Yup. Now stop staring at me or I'll blush." he said
There was a rasping of steal as Iivdril drew her swords. "So Agni, are you ready to meet your maker?"
"Uh just so you Agni, the maker isn't exactly happy with you." Jarred said "He said something about you cursing him every other day."
Agni sighed and ignored Jarred's comment "Iivdril... how many times are you going to loose before you give up and surrender or just die?"
"This time I've come prepared my dear dark friend." Iivdril said shaking her long bark blue hair out of her face "I've brought more friends."
There were many clicked of guns and suddenly on all sides they were surrounded.
"That's Lexcorp technology." Jarred said "Pretty tough stuff."
"Agni, your cloak might be able to stop arrows and bullets but how many laser beams can it hold off?" Iivdril asked "Not many I bet." she said confidently
Agni shrugged "We'll have to see won't we."
Jarred shook his head and crouched down. The floor was wet with blood. "No we won't..." he said
Iivdril looked confused for a moment but shrugged "No matter. Blood angel or not you will still die."
The next few moments were a blur for Zatanna. First she her the first sounds of them opening fire, then she felt Agni tackle her. Lasers were hitting the floor all around them. Ripping into Agni's cloak. Then she Agni slowly let go and help her up.
They were in a swirling vortex of red. It flowed around them like they were in the eye of a red tornado.
"Ugh, please tell me this is what I think it is..." she said desperately trying not to throw-up
Agni wiped his bloodied swords on a body on the floor. "It most likely is." he said sheathing his scimitars in their sheaths on his belt.
"Od ton worht pu" she muttered to keep her self from puking
Jarred had discarded his shield and was holding his left hand out in front of him. "Yeah, sorry about this..." he said "Agni's cloak wouldn't have lasted much longer." he said
Agni nodded and held up his discarded cloak, it had hole and burn marks all over it. "Good thing I always keep extras." he said pulling another out of his bag-of-holding and putting it on. He pulled put another that was similar to his (except for more feminine) and offered it to Zatanna
Zatanna took it with a smile and slip it on.
"Two minutes before I have to drop it!" Jarred said
Agni nodded and quickly pulled something out of his pocket, it was the necklace he bought and enchanted.
Zatanna smiled "About time you actually manned up enough to give it to me." she said.
Agni looked confused "You knew about it?"
She just nodded
The dark elf sighed "Well here you go... it was suppose to be a surprise."
Zatanna took and looked at it admiringly, she had wanted the very same necklace months ago when they first met. "What does it do? I can feel immense power in it"
Agni smiled "It took me several weeks to enchant it so heavily. I didn't want you to notice that I was tired or low on energy or you would have gotten suspicious."
Zatanna smiled and put it on. Immediately she felt a strong flow of magic rejuvenate her. She suddenly knew magic she didn't before. Agni had given her some of his own secret spells. Knowledge of magic that was forgotten in her world flowed into her. She felt a distinctive link into Agni's mind. If she wanted to she could think right into Agni's mind like a telepathic link. She focused on it for a moment but what she felt was different. She felt his mixed emotions, the vastness of his consciousness.
Agni's usual smile spread across his face
"Wow..." she whispered, her mind was going into overrun to calculate all of this knew knowledge
Agni's smile grew bigger as he felt her aura become more powerful, more knowing, more magical...
Before he could say anything Zatanna flung her arms around his neck and kissed him.
Jarred turned around and faced the other way to give them a moment.
Zatanna slowly release her mouth from his and stopped kissing him but didn't let him go.
"Not that I'm complaining or anything, but can't we do this once we get home?" Agni asked "Because I have a psycho dark elf on the other side of this who wants to kill us."
"Oh just shut up and kiss me." Zatanna said kissing him again.
Jarred rolled his eyes and muttered something about the priorities of 'mortals'. "I don't want to ruin the moment or anything, but we have thirty seconds before I have to drop this." he said loudly over the swirling noise of the blood vortex.
Zatanna let Agni go and smiled at him. "Remind me to thank you again later when we aren't in a life threatening situation."
Agni nodded "Oh I will."
"10 seconds!" Jarred shouted
Agni lifted his bow from his back and smiled "Lets go then"
Jarred waved his two hands in the opposite direction sending the vortex in all directions.
An idea popped into Zatanna's head.
Iivdril slowly appeared from behind a truck was covered in blood. "Wow..." she said in awe "I must have underestimated that short brat."
"HEY!" Jarred shouted "It's not my fault your species keeps on getting taller! Hundreds of years ago I was tall!"
Zatanna turned around and grabbed Agni again sealing their lips with another kiss
Rage radiated off of Iivdril, Jarred could tell she wanted nothing more than to stab her sword through Zatanna's heart
Zatanna slowly let go and twirled her wand around in her fingers
Agni smiled and notched an arrow and pointed it at her "You still think you can defeat us?"
Iivdril snarled vicously and began running at him.
"Leave her to me." Agni said firing his arrow.
Iivdril knocked it aside with one of her long swords.
Agni smiled as the arrow double back and stuck to the back of her armor. He pulled out his scimitars from his belt and dashed forward to meet her.
Iivdril's sword clashed into Agni's causing an earsplitting sound that made flocks of birds flee.
"You will die Agni." Iivdril spat, swinging her right sword at him
Agni parried her blow with his left bade and lunged the right one. Iivdril swung her other hand in an inward arc knocking Agni's' sword out wide.
Agni sidestepped her next attack. His swords weaved again. He knew he would have to kill her straight out, but he wasn't going to give up the chance of toying with her. His swords lunge in and nicked her chest, then twisted out before she could knock it away or parry. Agni's left hand went down and knocked her off balance, his right hand slashed across her stomach. Iivdril tried lunging his sword into his lung but he just knocked it away with his bracer. She went into a series of complicated moves but they were all foiled by Agni.
Agni slowly back away from her and sheathed his blades. "I don't even need my swords to beat you." he said
Iivdril laughed psychotically and lunged at him again.
Agni palm-blocked the first blade and twisted out of the way of the second. He flipped around and kicked her in the back sending her sprawling onto the floor.
A few feet away Jarred laughed "Wow... That was good."
Iivdril popped back up and swung her swords at each side of his head. Agni ducked under them and caught her knee that was aimed for his face. His hands burst into flames as he rammed them into her chest sending her back onto the floor.
Agni crawled over to her, still on his knees and whispered "It enrages you doesn't it? That I am not chasing you anymore? That I'm actually happy with a mortal. It just pissed you off that Belirhacyrd Aleanth, Prince of the Drow, has fallen in love with a mortal girl."
Iivdril's hands shot out and grabbed Agni by the neck and tried to forcefully flip him over. Agni rolled with it and fell onto his back. He gripped her hands that were like a vice around his neck and slowly pried them off.
"And your furious that no matter what you do, no matter how you train or how much power you get, you can never beat me."
Iivdril screamed with rage and tried to choke him again. She actually almost succeeded to but Agni through her off of him.
She picked up her sword and screamed "KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL, I WANT NO ONE LEFT ALIVE!"
Agni slowly backed away "Defiantly psychotic."
Jarred picked his shield back up and held it defensively "Agni, why must all your girlfriends do insane?"
Zatanna swatted him on the should but not without a small smile. "Seriously Agni? You went out with this nutcase?"
Agni walked over to them and smiled "I don't know what was wrong with me..." he said
Wind suddenly blew through the yard, again they were suddenly surrounded again.
"Drow..." Jarred said "Wow..."
Agni sighed and folded his arms. "I'll take the drow, Jarred take care of Iivdril."
Jarred nodded and banged his spear on his shield "For the heaven!" he shouted as he charged straight through the drow warriors to where Iivdril was. It was like the sea splitting before Moses. The drow flew away when he passed, like there was a force dragging them away.
"Excitable little fella isn't he?" Agni comment as he and Zatanna charged after him.
Zatanna nodded and placed a hand on the ground "Khelek hurro'!" she shouted not fully realizing what she said.
The sky over them suddenly turned dark and hundreds huge icicles several feet long thudded into the attacking drow killing them on the spot.
"What did I just do?" she asked bewildered
Agni smile and rammed his hidden bladed through the armor of a drow "You used one of my spells. It's one of my only ice spells."
"They teach you magic like this in school?" she asked "Ezeerf!" she shouted making several enemies be encased in blocks of ice.
"No, that's MY magic." Agni said punching straight through the ice "That's too dangerous to teach in the Academy."
Agni leaped over a drow and kicked him in the back of the head (a trick he learned from training with Batman and Robin) while on the ground Zatanna blasted the knocked over drow with another spell she just suddenly knew.
Jarred had ran right into Iivdril, she stood still and smiled at him as a score of drow warriors surrounded him. Jarred laughed and clenched his left fist.
The drow surrounding him suddenly clenched at their hearts or other vital organs in sever pain. Jarred clenched his fist slightly tighter and they began coughing up blood. He slowly let go and they fell down dead.
"Cool trick." Iivdril scoffed
Jarred smiled and drove his spear at her. Iivdril knock it aside and tried to strike his shoulder but I was blocked with his shield.
Jarred swung the spear and hit her with the butt of it. Before allowing her to recover he slammed his shield into her chest knocking the wind out of her.
Iivdril got back ran at him again.
"Halt." Jarred said commandingly
Against her will Iivdril felt herself stop in mid step.
"Drop your weapons."
Iivdril felt the urge to drop her weapons but fought it with all her will.
"Drop them, NOW."
Metal clattered onto the floor.
Iivdril felt she could move again and shot her hand out to punch the short, cheeky little angel.
"Kneel." he said
Iivdril felt herself being forced to her knees, head bowed and all.
Jarred waved his hand and a drow fighter running at him turned around and stabbed his comrade who then in turn was stabbed by another drow. Within moments chaos had broken in the drow ranks as well.
Iivdril felt Jarred's hold on her wan so she slowly stood up and inched towards him hoping he wouldn't notice.
"I did not give you permission to breath." he said without turning around
Iivdril's throat suddenly closed on itself. She felt all air leave her body.
"Didn't I tell you to kneel?" he said forcing her back down without even a flick of his finger
If Iivdril's skin wasn't already purple it would have been turning so.
Before Jarred could end her life he heard a voice behind him.
"Hmmph... it is nice to see you again Jarred the blood angel."
A blast of dark energy hit him in the back and he flew across the yard , through several tables into the floor.
There was a roar of gunfire and drow fell down dead around Agni and Zatanna. Agni pulled his hidden blade out of the throat of a drow. He switched to punching daggers and knocked down a few drow in his way and tackled Zatanna, pulling her to the ground.
"Is now really the time, Agni?" she said jokingly as bullets peppered their enemies and the area around them.
When it ceases Agni slowly rolled off of her.
"You can thank me later." Agni growled, shaking smashed bullets off of his cloak
"Uh guys... you're not going to be happy." Jarred said standing up a few feet away.
Agni stood up and smile "It can't be that bad its not like Abaddon returned from the-" He saw the looked on Jarred's face "YOU BETTER BE SHITTING ME."
"Nice to see you too Agni old man." Abaddon said behind him.
Agni turned around scowling "I killed... with fire."
"One of your many fantasies I know." Abaddon said casually inspecting his nails on his demon arm "Probably right next to the fantasies with that mortal girl."
Agni screamed, his arms burst into flames and he dashed with blinding speed and rammed his fist into Abaddon's chest.
Abaddon flew across the street and rammed into a building. "Wow... you've gotten stronger. You can almost control them now." Abaddon sprinted forward and slammed his sword down onto Agni's crossed hidden blades that he brought up to defend himself.
Abaddon kicked his foot out and sent him flying back over to Jarred and Zatanna
"You know..." Agni said wiping blood from his arm "You might want to like... go angel now."
Jarred clenched his fist at Abaddon who laughed
"Your blood magic won't work on me angel boy." he said
Iivdril stood up rubbing her throat. "Can we kill them now."
Abaddon nodded "Yes I think it is time for Agni and that mortal to die."
"Erif nrub, nordlauc elbbub!" Zatanna shouted
Fire stronger than she had ever seen herself use surrounded them, it rose high over their heads, around two stories tall.
Jarred smiled "I will enjoy destroying that demon."
"Gonna go angel now?" Agni asked
Jarred nodded and walked a few feet in front of them
"What do you mean by go angel?" Zatanna asked "Isn't he already one."
Agni shook his head and Jarred began to concentrate. "He is an angel in the form of a boy. I assume that it is his main materiel form."
Bright light flared off of Jarred, his whole body seemed to be emitting it. His armor opened in the back and huge white wings sprouted out spanning ten feet out.
Abaddon looked curiously at the flames towering over them. He was silent for several minutes. "We should not kill Agni. We still need him."
"But lord Abaddon-"
"That is final, WE need him and he must stay alive. But the mortal girl of his... do as you please to her."
Iivdril scowled but nodded all the same.
The flames began to go down slowly when they reached a low level they could see nothing still.
Light, pure holy light emitted from the ring of fire, tips of feathery white wings could be seen sticking out of the edges, in this wheel of light was a boy. A young boy with a huge sword of light he was holding in two hands. A wheel of light was behind him, blinding the demon and drow.
Next to him was a dark shadow, a prince who forsake his people. Two scimitars were in his hands a fire was blazing down his arms. A smile spread on his face.
On the angel's other side was a girl, a mortal girl. She too had a confident smile upon her face and a beautiful wand in her hand. She wore an elegant long sorceress robe. Her raven hair laying on her shoulders.
Abaddon looked stunned as they came towards him.
He would regret showing his face that day.
A/N: I really have to say I enjoyed writing this chapter. The battle and the dialogue was fun. I had slight writers block in the beginning but I think the chapter came out okay.
This chapter was originally going to be VERY long but I decided to cut it off here and continue the next chapter with the fight with Abaddon and maybe their mission.