"Thank you. Thank you," Zatanna says before entering her dressing room and sees Raven there.
"We have made a bit of progress," Raven informs.
"Oh, good," Zatanna says getting a water bottle to drink from.
"His spirit animal is the Phoenix," Raven says bluntly and gets spit water in her face. "Almost my same reaction."
"A phoenix? I have heard of a few legends of that, but didn't think it was true," Zatanna says.
Raven wipes her face down. "Same. But now I need help on how to train someone with a spirit animal such as that."
"Well, I don't really think that it affects how you train someone in magic," Zatanna says.
"And when he needs to train on using the spirit animal itself?" Raven questions.
"How did you train yours?" Zatanna asks.
"Um…" Raven started.
"Where is he anyway? You usually don't leave his side," Zatanna says.
"Resting at the moment. Gaining his stamina back for more training," Raven answers.
"He collapsed?" Zatanna asks.
"No," Raven disagrees, "Just tired. Trying to make his spirit animal appear took much of his energy out of him."
"How is his water magic coming?" Zatanna asks.
"Progressing well," Raven informs. "We are now working on advanced forms of water spells. Though he seems to be grasping them quickly enough."
"Has he been able to manipulate the entire pool, yet?" Zatanna asks.
"No, not just yet," Raven informs.
"Then he has a long way to go still," Zatanna sighs.
"He will get there. I know he shall," Raven says.
"You have so much confidence in him," Zatanna points out.
"His actions and abilities have given that to me," Raven says as Passion started up again.
'And add a dash of love,' Passion teases.
"Also, I know you are telling the league about our progress. Can you keep what I told you about his spirit animal out of it?" Raven asks.
"Sure…but he has to get better and make up for fighting by himself," Zatanna advises.
"I know. He has beaten the Hive Five before with his wits, but we don't know his true extent in combat," Raven says.
"Then you may need to test that," Zatanna warns.
"I know…but I do not know how to do so," Raven says.
"Do you think he is ready for such a test?" Zatanna asks.
"Not yet," Raven says.
"Then take time to think on it," Zatanna informs.
Raven nods before teleporting back to Agradd.
Zatanna sighs. "Now I see why you quit teaching."
"That's right," Zatanna says, watching Agradd manipulate the pool.
Raven looks on concerned as she watches Agradd move the water around, trying to control all the water as of now. 'He's getting better,' Knowledge observes.
'He has trained hard since we learned his spirit animal two weeks ago,' Happy says nearly cheering.
'And progressing so far that even we would have a hard time catching up,' Knowledge points out.
'Well, we were never the best at elements,' Shy admits.
Raven frowns slightly as she realizes she needs to train more herself.
'You know, I wonder,' Knowledge says.
'What about?' Raven asks.
'The phoenix represents change. What change is he the harbinger of?' Knowledge asks.
'…good question,' almost all of them say.
As Agradd managed to manipulate the water greatly with his magical power, Zatanna's communicator went off.
"What is it?" Zatanna asks.
"Zatanna, we have a situation," John says.
"What is it?" Zatanna asks.
"We have a major blizzard starting to sweep through Norway into Germany. From what we can tell, it is magic in nature," John informs.
"And you want me to take a look," Zatanna sighs.
"No, we want you to go there and help. We have several other leaguers already there. Take the two you are training as well. We are going to need all the magical muscle we can throw at this," John informs.
"Okay. We'll head out soon," Zatanna answers and looks to Agradd still training and Raven looking at her.
"What is it?" Raven asks.
"A weather phenomenon magically created. Sending Germany into early winter. League says all hands on deck and since you two are training with me, you are coming," Zatanna says.
Raven immediately looks to Agradd at this point, seeing him still concentrating and looking worried.
"I can't leave him alone and many others will be there like Doctor Fate, Shazam, and others," Zatanna says, trying to reassure.
"Only if he isn't on the front lines of it all," Raven says getting up.
"You can't protect him forever and it's not like we are asking you two to go and fight a team of supervillains alone," Zatanna reassures before whistling at Agradd.
Agradd jerks in his meditation and makes the water he was lifting back into the pool. "Uh…yes?"
"Get dried and suit up. We have to go to work," Zatanna informs.
"Doctor Fate, how bad is it?" Zatanna asks as the three of them were teleported there by Raven.
"Bad, but we are managing to keep in check for now," Fate answers before looking to the three. "John told me you were bringing two you were teaching but didn't inform me Trigon's daughter was one," Fate says surprised.
Raven frowns heavily and looks away while Agradd just looks to her.
"What are we looking at? A chaos lord, ancient magic site disturbed, or something else?" Zatanna asks.
"It's not chaos or acting at random. Something is controlling this," Fate says looking up to an ancient Norse seal the had appeared when the storm had hit the barrier.
Agradd tilts his head at the seal and felt his body struggle to move.
"Agradd?" Raven asks noticing this.
Agradd's body shivers and shakes before suddenly it starts to move forward towards the seal. He then slowly lifts a hand and places it on the seal with the seal not doing anything.
"Agradd, what are you doing?" Raven asks.
'The frozen giants,' a phrase that ran through all four of their minds.
"Was that telepathy?" Zatanna asks.
"Oh, bollocks," a familiar voice says.
"Oh, no…" Zatanna groans.
"Christ, if it isn't one thing it's another. Now I am havin to deal with Norse monsters," Constantine says walking up.
"What did you say, Constantine?" Fate asks.
"This weather, where it originated, and that description, it can only be the…"
"Frost giant," Agradd says not thinking.
"Exactly," Constantine says.
"You're sure?" Fate asks.
"Positive. That or we got quite the fanboy trying to mimic them or they have come back to earth," Constantine says.
"John, we think we know what we are dealing with," Zatanna says into her communicator.
"What did you find?" John asks.
"It's the Norse frost giants or someone impersonating them," Zatanna says.
"You are sure?" John asks.
"Constantine thinks so and he isn't usually wrong," Zatanna says.
"Understood. We will look into it and will contact you if we find anything good," John says.
Raven walks up to Agradd before slowly placing a hand on his shoulder and seems to snap him out of a trance as he jerks and looks to her while letting go of the seal. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so," Agradd says before they heard what sounded like cracking.
They all slowly look to the seal and notice some hardline cracks in it, and growing more and more of them now as most of the seal cracks before it shatters like it was a mirror toward them, covering them in the seal pieces as it disappears and the storm envelops Agradd and Raven while forcing the rest back.
"Agradd!" Raven yells trying to find him in this storm as she had been doing for hours.
"Agradd!" Raven calls again before seeing a shape in the snow in the winds.
'So you are the other I was sent to retrieve,' a voice says before Raven felt her hands were bound and her mouth has something placed over it.
Raven felt herself being pulled forward and sees a female with black hair wearing heavy winter gear. "Really, you have your legs showing here?" she asks.
Raven frowns as she struggles to use her magic now, concentrating now while making sure to not misthink something important or she could end up cut in half.
'So tell me, how did you survive?' a voice says in her head.
'Survive what?' Raven thinks, trying to still build her spell. 'Where's Agradd?'
'The other one? He is fine. I got him earlier. Also, the attack that destroyed our homeland of Avalon,' the voice says.
'Avalon…you're a fairy?' Raven asks as she felt herself pulled onto something before feeling herself being teleported.
"Sorry for the wait. This one took forever to find," the girl says looking up to something as Raven found herself in a building seemingly made of ice, but it was not nearly as cold as it was outside.
"The other one is waiting for you," a gruff voice says.
"Yeah, I got it," the girl muttered dismissively.
'Is that an ice giant?' Raven thinks in shock, looking up at the fifteen-foot man who seemed to be a mixture of ice armor and flesh as she is pulled along into a room where Agradd was sleeping. 'Agradd!' Raven yells into her mind.
"The cold must have really taken its toll on him. But in the end, I guess it is to be expected seeing as he has never had a talent for magic," the girl says showing she obviously knew Agradd.
"Who are you?" Raven questions frowning heavily, now changing her spell slightly to fit Agradd.
"I'm Adash…wait. You aren't from Avalon, are you?" Adash asks, getting a good look at her now that she was out of the blizzard.
Raven raises an eyebrow while keeping a small glare at her.
"No. Your complexion is all wrong," Adash mutters as she looks Raven over closely.
Raven frowns heavily now, her eyes snapping to Agradd once in a while to make sure he is doing well. However, she just sees him sleeping away, not knowing what is possibly happening.
"So who are you?" Adash asks again as Raven found her powers blocked somehow when she tries to release a spell.
Raven sighs as she tries to find a way out of this without magic. "Raven."
"So Raven, what are you doing with Agradd there?" Adash asks.
"…helping him…" Raven mutters, watching the woman closely.
"How so?" Adash asks.
"Magic…" Raven simply says.
"…really?" Adash says unconvinced.
"Yes. He has been…improving." Raven chooses her words carefully now.
"So he can actually use magic then?" Adash asks, not noticing Agradd's eyes had open and was trying to silently move to her.
"Yes. He is starting in water," Raven informs, still trying to find a way to get out.
"Agradd, sit back down," Adash instructs.
Agradd freezes dead cold now and sits back down where he was resting. "Agradd!" Raven calls.
"Who are you?" Agradd asks, freezing Adash this time.
Raven sighs in relief, no longer worried about how he would never wake up. "Thank goodness," she mutters under her breath.
"You don't know who I am?" Adash says, starting to sound a little offended and was about to say something when Raven spoke.
"He doesn't remember anything from a certain point back."
Adash stops and turns to look worried at Agradd now. "Oh, for the love of…I am Adash of the northern families of Avalon where we are from," Adash informs.
Agradd stares at her before his face seems to smile and she smiles back. "Who? Raven? Who is that?" Agradd asks hopefully to Raven and makes Adash face fault.
Adash groaned in displeasure as she picks herself up and rubs her head while Raven blinks and then smiles at his cluelessness. "She is talking about Avalon. Her homeworld…and it seems yours as well. But you maybe don't remember because of your memories."
"Ah, right…also, Raven?" Agradd says.
"Yes?" Raven spoke up, trying to find a way out of their current situation.
"I may have used my power to steal info and knowledge on ice magic," Agradd informs.
Raven blinks towards him and Adash immediately gets out of her shock. "What…did he mean by that?" Adash asks slowly.
"And may have…he is falling towards us now," Agradd says seeing a shadow now at the door before grabbing them both and hurling all of them away from the door as it and the wall were destroyed by the head of a falling ice giant.
Raven groans as she sits up and looks to see the frost giant's head spinning around while the body lays in the doorway or the destroyed part of the wall where the doorway used to be. "That may be the league."
"No. That is the one I did it too," Agradd says before getting up as his hood seemed to morph to have a beak like part.
"That's good. Now can you get me out of these before she wakes up," Raven requests, showing her binds.
Agradd nods as his cloak turned ice blue and he touches them and they start to freeze over before shattering without Raven ever feeling any cold from it.
Raven looks at her wrists before rubbing it. "Are you okay? Her memories…?" she slowly asks, carefully getting up and watching him.
"No. This one," Agradd says poking the giant's head as Raven noticed this one had to be thirty feet tall.
"So that's how…does it have anything on the way out of here?" Raven asks, pulling her hood up.
"From what I understand, the warp pad they have will take us out and you can teleport us from there," Agradd says picking up Adash.
"What are you doing?" Raven questions, not liking the fact that he is actually considering this.
'Someone's jealous,' Passion sang.
"Well, she knows what they are planning and you told me she may be where I am from so take her back and we can question her," Agradd says smiling at her.
"I'll…keep an eye on her," Raven agreed rather slowly as she stares at the unconscious woman.
"I will when I can. I want to be with you though," Agradd says, making Raven swear her heart skipped a beat.
'Aw!' Passion screeches happily.
'My love, my husband,' Happy says parodying a song lyric a bit.
'We have more pressing matters right now,' Rage points them back to their current situation.
'Tell me you aren't happy?' Happy asks.
Rage stays quiet but looks away with a slight tint to her cheeks.
'He loves us. I can feel it,' Happy says hugging Rage now as Raven and Agradd made their way to the warp pad, only stopping once for Agradd to grab the only guard and use his power on him before leaving knocking the guard out.
'Remind me to get rid of those memories,' Raven requests as she felt herself able to use magic now.
'What about that ice magic?' Knowledge points out very impressed with Agradd along with Brave.
'…I'll select the ones he won't need,' Raven says after a while and starts to charge her teleportation spell.
'This is our chance. Have him hold onto you while you do this,' Passion says.
'Passion…don't get ahead of yourself,' Raven reminds.
'Mak…wait. She knows him and is from Avalon where she said he is from, so is she his family or a friend?' Passion questions.
Raven stops at that moment looks to Agradd as he steps up to her with Adash over his shoulder, still knocked out. 'We may have to ask soon.'
"Is something wrong Raven?" Agradd asks.
Raven blinks before realizing she was staring. "No. Nothing is…let's get out of here," she says before starting to teleporting them out of the area.
Agradd moved closer and wrapped his cloak around the three of them, trying to warm everyone as Raven charged her spell to escape this blizzard.
'He's so considerate,' Passion says before they teleported.
Agradd rested as Raven returned, having informed the league of everything. "Everything alright?"
"Yeah, how are you?" Raven asks, lowering his hood to see ice white like hair now.
"Better with you here," Agradd says.
Raven nods and smiles a little now. "Should I take care of your memories?"
"Can you erase them, but extract the ice magic knowledge before you do so?" Agradd asks.
Raven nods. "I will do what I can," she agrees as she touches his forehead.
Agradd, feeling that, pulls her close to hold her. "Can I rest with you, Raven?"
Raven became surprised now as she looks up to him. "Are you sure?"
"Yes," Agradd says laying his head against her.
'Do it!' Passion yells.
Raven sighs. "Alright."
"Thank you," Agradd says letting her go and letting her get back to work.
Raven watches him as he seems to now go to sleep and continues to grab the information and also throw away the ones he doesn't need.
'Our wish is coming true,' Passion says as Raven slept.
'Just wait. We have a few more things to do if you really want him,' Knowledge points out.
'My love, my husband,' Happy sings again, parodying the song.
Knowledge shakes her head as she kept reading.
'So we learn anything good from the ice magic?' Rude asks.
'I made a copy of the knowledge,' Knowledge says.
'And?' Rude presses on.
'All he has learned, we learned,' Knowledge says.
'Does this mean we can freeze Beastboy's lower half when he annoys us next time?' Brave calls.
'Please,' Rude requests.
'Will have to practice with it first,' Knowledge says.
'Raven is d…dreaming of Agradd,' Shy informs.
'Oh. Is it saucy?' Passion pushes and tries to look as well.
'It looks like a wedding,' Shy says.
'Even saucier…is Raven wearing white or blue and black?' Passion asks smiling widely.
'White,' Shy says as all of them started to watch as it looked like it was the reception after the wedding.
'Oh…so cute!' Passion squeals happy for her real self.
'She can lie to herself as much as she wants, but we know what she desires,' Rude says.
'A love life. Ah…so romantic,' Passion swoons.
'Let's hope our siblings don't ever invite themselves to meet him,' Rage says. 'We'll kill them if that happens,' Rage adds.
'Um…I think she has spotted us,' Shy says.
All their eyes turn to see Raven glaring at them and Happy gives a happy wave at her before Raven waves her hand in front of her and the view disappears. 'Aw,' both Happy and Passion groan.
'She can't say we didn't see it,' Brave says smirking.
'I doubt she will like us using this as blackmail,' Knowledge points out.
'On a serious note…are we going to wait for him to make a move or make the move ourselves?' Passion asks.
'I say we just take it,' Rage huffs.
'I'm all for it,' Passion says smirking.
'…if you need me, I will be in my area,' Brave says starting to walk off.