When Shadow opened her groggy eyes it looked like the sun was setting. Or...is it rising? How long have I been asleep? I need to help Robin!
A groan came from her mouth as she stretched. Her stomach growled it's anger at not having enough to eat yesterday, so she had the other protein bar and a beef jerky, while also drinking the last bit of water.
She rummaged threw the clothes she took last night, shoving down the brief guilt over breaking her promise so she could focus on Robin, and wore a dark green T-shirt with very dark blue easy-to-move-in jeans with some 'new' black and white tennis shoes.
She wiped the sleep from her eyes, standing up as she tried to recall where they had kept her and Robin. But everything was so blurry! However she took small satisfaction in seeing that the sun was indeed setting. At least it will make it easier for me to find him. I just hope I'm not to late...
She waited for the sun to hide under the horizon before trying to fly. She made it to midair with no problem. This is better. Neeyet headache. Neeyet nausea. Neeyet feeling sick-
Suddenly her body was taken with a spasm. She lost focused and crashed into the boxes and metal with her body jerking and twisting in various directions. It ceased though, as swift as it had happened. Great. Now I need to watch out for spasm attacks. She started to fly again. She didn't know what they were doing to Robin, and she didn't want to delay trying to find him any longer.
She was gliding above the buildings, trying to think of where to start, when she saw a blur of colorful wind rush down below. That could be one of Robin's teammates! Only when she tried following it, she couldn't find him. Deermo! They could help me.
Back at square one, she drifted over the city before coming to land on top of a building. Now what am I going to do. Shadow felt a presence behind her and turned as someone said. "You there. Do you know what happened to Robin?" It was a girl with black hair and blue eyes like Shadow, only she wore some sort of tuxedo-like suit, it reminded Shadow of a magician's costume.
At first Shadow was eager, but then thought. What if those people placed another tracker on me again and sent her to try and trick me into following her, making me think that she knows Robin and then before I know it, I'm ambushed and back to that...place. It all made since to Shadow so she slit out her blades and took on a battle stance, once the girl saw what she was doing she took her own stance and held out her hands.
"What you know of Robin?" She inquired again slowly.
"I could ask you the same thing!" Shadow said before throwing one blade and then the second at her. Shink! Shink! They flew at her. "Riadim ni ezeerf!" Her blades hovered, wobbling there for a moment to the surprise of both girls before rushing back to Shadow and inserting themselves back in place.
Shadow tried to blast her with her energy but she shouted out another incantation. "Reapasid!" Shadow's energy split in two and it became suddenly uncontrollable, Shadow lost her focus and the two large beams made several patterns in the sky before crashing into the roof, making the old, rotten, ceiling crumble down.
Admits the downpour of rubble Shadow managed to cover herself and heard the girl shout. "Em dleihs! Em etativel!" Blasting away her confinements Shadow was ready to face off again, the girl was there, flying? And with a white shield around her. Rocketing down from the roof was another girl, she wore dark blue and gray outfit and had a pink aurora around her.
Knowing if she tried to blast them the magician would just deflect it again, Shadow made the junk about them whirl around, protecting herself but effectively making the others try and head out for the roof. Shadow directed the mass of blackness, wood, metal, and brick to follow them, lifting herself as well, and making it shower from the sky.
She floated above the hole and was hit by a blast of blue light from the pink aurora girl. She landed on the ground. Raised her arms and was about to sling her blades at them when a red and green arrow landed by her, covering her in a fowl smelling pink substance that hardened. It only came up to her shoulders so she could still breathe and used the combined strength of her knives and energy to break free of it. Then threw sharp dagger-like blasts in the direction of the arrows, the two archers leaped out of the way. Shadow floated up. She thought she recognized one of those arrows but before she could think about it again she was trapped in a blew bubble.
She blasted it, swiped at hit, and hit it, but nothing would open it. It was the pink-aurora girl who had encased her inside it. Shadow meditated for a second, closing her eyes. She focused energy outside of the bubble making it snake up the girl's foot. Shadow heard them give a cry as the girl was being covered by it, blocking off her oxygen flow.
The bubble disappeared, but a jet stream of water blasted her. She crashed back down soaked. She lost focus and the girl was set free. Another arrow landed in the water, a short bout of electricity zapping threw it and her. She cried out, and saw big black blotches, but still tried to stand. A blur around her and the giant puddle went around, around, around and around. Getting faster and faster until she was spinning around in the water which was moving up.
But she still hadn't healed from whatever experiment those people did to her, as she was spilled onto the pavement something snapped and she lost control once again. She felt like something inside of her took over, and she could only watch from inside.
She stopped the speedster in his tracks, and roughly pulled both legs out of their sockets. Arrows shot at her, blue blasts flew towards her, somehow bricks formed together and tried to pin her down, yet the monster in her feasted on this. A girl with green skin and a boy with black hair had joined in the fight.
Shadow, again, covered the pink aurora girl in a black blanket, including the girl in the magicians suit as well. The magician somehow broke free and while she tried to help her comrade, Shadow flung her blades at the archers, making them go so fast that the archers could not react in time. Somehow she got control enough to make sure only the ends of the arrows were cut of, and not their necks which is what the beast had aimed at.
Shadow tried focusing, as her body fought the black haired boy and another guy with blue swords and black tattoos. Then she felt another presence in her mind.
The green girl?! The girl from mars! The sane part of Shadow then recognized the people she had taken down, but she had lost to much control and the beast was on a rampage.
The mars girl seemed shocked to find Shadow trying to regain control while she tried to make sure she didn't kill anyone.
"Help me!" She screamed at the green girl, she's telepathic, she can help. The people on the outside backed off for some reason, evading her instead of fighting, so Shadow could focus her strength on regaining control.
The girl helped, a lot. Together the monster tamed, and Shadow took over.
Everything snapped back together, like when you suddenly spring up from a sleep. Shadow was on the ground, sweat dripping off her face, and another spasm took over.
They stood over her, not knowing what to do, but Shadow didn't pay attention. She tried to regulate her breath and focus the cool night air to come inside. her and calm her. Whatever that experiment had done it had amplified her power, she hoped that it wasn't forever.
"Are you okay?" The girl from mars asked. Shadow looked at her, if it wasn't for her help, who knew how long it would have taken Shadow to regain control, and who knew how much damage she could have done.
"Da." She gasped, and accepted her hand to help her stand shakily to her feet.
"That's, the enemy!" The fast boy said, somebody had helped him so he could walk but you could tell it hurt. "Who cares if she's okay!"
Shadow mentally kicked herself for being so stupid and quick to assume, those two girls must be part of Robin's team! Idiot!
"She's not the enemy." The girl defended.
"Miss Martian, I hope you have an explanation." The water man! He was the one who spoke, and this girl must be Miss Martian.
"I do." She looked at Shadow, before looking back at the group. "When I was in her mind I saw her and Robin." Shadow shuddered to think of anyone being in her mind, but Miss Martian continued. "She didn't kidnap him, or mean to blow a hole in the bioship. She and him were on their way to Mount Justice when...something intervened, but that's as far as I got."
They eyed Shadow, and she nodded, she didn't like it that Miss Martian easily got that much information but at least they weren't trying to attack her.
"Do you know where Robin is?" The water-man asked.
"Yes," Shadow replied, clearing her throat before saying. "I was on my way to search for him when I was..." She looked at the magician and pink aurora girl. "Interrupted."
"It ain't our fault!" The aurora girl protested. "She attacked us first!"
"Rocket." The water man said, but before he could continue Shadow interrupted. "I did, I did not know who you were, and" She took a breath before saying, need to get on their good side, "I am sorry."
She got two different responses at the same time. The magician said. "That's okay," while Rocket said "You nearly killed me, twice!"
"This isn't bringing us any closer to Robin," The green archer spoke up.
"Right, can you lead us to him?" The water man said.
Shadow nodded. "Because of the...circumstances, I could not get to Robin. But when I left, I did not get to far, so I beleive he is close."
"Great!" Miss Martian said clasping her hands together, then introduced everyone. "That's Aqualad," The water man nodded, "Kid Flash," The speedster only glared at her, "Rocket," The girl huffed, "Zatana," She tried to give a friendly smile, "Artemis," the green archer only looked at her, "Red Arrow," his eyes narrowed, "And Superboy." the guy's arms were crossed. Why would anyone call themselves Superboy, why not Superman?
"We should get to the bioship and go." Aqualad said. Miss Martian held out her hand, and to Shadow's amazement a plane came into view. Pink and dark blue, Miss martian turned it around and it opened in the back, with a ramp leading up.
They started to file in. "It's going to be a little crowded, but I think we can fit." Miss Martian said, she was the second to last one in line to go in, with Shadow being the last and everyone watching her form the inside.
Shadow was hesitant to get on, but eager to find Robin, so when Miss Martian walked up the ramp she started to follow. She got five paces when it suddenly jerked up, causing her to land back on the ground, and she watched it close against her.
Shadow was furious. Is this their idea of a joke!? She "Hey you konvulʹsii! Ot-kreet!"
The 'door' slid down and Miss Martian was there. "Oh my gosh I'm so sorry! I don't know what happened."
Shadow glared at them as she lifted herself up onto the ship. "Is everything alright Miss Martian?" Aqualad asked.
"I don't know," She started replying, sitting down in the back seat and placing her hands on two orbs. "I guess-"
The ship violently went right then left, before stopping.
"Is that you doing this?" Kid Flash said glaring at Shadow, who had not been strapped in and flung one way then another. What was happening? She could feel a deep dislike at her, but figured it was the others feeling that.
"Neeyet." She replied.
"Nuh...what now?" He said, giving her a quizzical look.
"Miss Martian?" Aqualad said again. "Is the ship functional?"
"I don't know...let me talk to it." She said, and the orbs glowed white. Talk to it? What kind of insane, messed up people am I dealing with here!?
"Ooohhh..." Miss Martian drug out the word. "I see."
"See what?" Kid Flash asked.
"She just doesn't like you." Miss Martian turned to Shadow, who was picking her self up off the floor.
"Hold up," Rocket said. "Are you telling me this ship as feelings?"
"Of course she does," Miss Martian said, as if it should be obvious. "And she really doesn't like the Shadow."
"Wait," Shadow said looking at Miss Martian. "I'm Shadow, no 'the' in front of it, and you are trying to tell me that this," she pointed at the floor for emphasis. "Airplane can feel emotion, and it doesn't like me? Why?"
"Dude, it's called a bioship, or ship for short," Kid Flash started to answer for her. "And you kind of blew a gigantic hole in it, so I can see where it can be a little upset."
"Come on girl," Miss Martian said. "Make the-er, uh, make Shadow a seat."
Shadow waited, I forgot RObin said that I kind of damaged this plane-or bioship. The mars girl was right about it being crowded in here. This looked so strange! Finally a seat started forming right under Shadow and she had to move out of the way. She sat down in it and seat belts came out and strapped her in, making an uncomfortablely tight X, on her. Shadow knew things would not go well when they took off.
"Alright," Aqualad said turning to face the front again. "Let's get Robin."
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Translations:
konvulʹsii=Jerks (but now I see this mean more of convoltions so I apologize for getting that wrong.)
Ot-Kreet= open
So I sincerely apologize for not updating and if the font looks weird. I thank you so much for keeping me in line! I've been bogged down with school and, honestly, feeling a little unmotivated, so thank you for getting me back into gear! I hope you thought the fight scene was good, and I hope you like the bioship not likeing Shadow! I figured that if I was a bioship and someone damaged me almost beyond repair, I wouldn't want them on me again. And I'm sorry of some of the characters are out of place, especially Rocket and Zatana, I'm not as used to them... Also what Shadow said when she got knocked off was konvulʹsii-jerks and Ot-kreet open up. I haven't been giving translations only becuase I'm forgetful, my apologize...
Next chapter they get Robin! Let me know your thoughts on this chapter, till next time...peace out!