A few years back
"Hubby! Had fun? I missed you"
Zatanna sprints to her apartment door as soon as her husband, Dick Grayson, opens the door. The magician snakes her arms around his neck while he hugs her waist tightly and embrace in a deep kiss.
"I missed you too, wifey. Have I ever tell you how much I love you?"
They broke their kiss with a smack but Zee stayed in her tiptoes.
"I think you have but I am always happy to hear it"
"I love you so much. With every beat of my heart"
Dick started his assault on his neck, ear and face area, pestering with soft kisses.
"Ha…ha…ha…Dick…you are tickling me"
"GOD! We get it! You two are a happy marriage"
Artemis screams from the couch before getting up and greet her boyfriend who was standing behind Dick.
"Don't be like that Arty"
Dick snickers while hugging Zee.
"As cloying as these two are…it's not their fault that someone hasn't gather the balls to pop up the question…"
Will comments looking at Wally but the speedster nor the arches hear it.
"What's up, bae?"
Wally pecks Artemis' lips
"Have fun Wally?"
"What's this?!"
The speedster couldn't answer his archer girlfriend as he was interrupted by Zee's questioning. The magician was holding an earring that she got from Dick's coat.
"An earring?"
Grayson was clueless as of why that stuff was there.
"And who's the owner of this?"
"Judging by your tone, I'm guessing that it isn't yours…"
"You don't know your wife's earrings?"
Donna asks in disbelief.
"First, do you know how many of those she has?! I used to think that I knew but every time she appears with new ones…"
The Amazon interferes from the couch. Donna was watching the event unfold from the sidelines while enjoying her snacks and wine.
"Yeah. That's true Donna. I love my earrings"
"And shoes, dress, jeans, shorts and yet she is always using my cloth-Ouch!"
Zatanna softly elbows him.
"Not the point!"
"It must be from one the girls on the sports bar"
Will reaches to that conclusion.
"What girls?"
The three women asks.
"There were these girls at the bar that approached us while we were playing pool…they challenge us to a game"
Will tells the girls.
"Let me guess they wanted you to teach them how to play?"
Artemis was glaring at Wallace while Zee finally understood the origin of the earring.
"Actually no. If they won, we would buy them a couple of drinks but if we won they would pay for our drinks"
Wally continues with the story.
"And clearly we clean the floor with them but Grayson told them that it wasn't necessary for them to pay for our drinks because we were leaving…"
Zatanna looks proudly at her man after Will develops the story.
"That reminds me that I don't want to hear you say the word wife for the rest of my life"
Red Arrow looks annoyed at Dick.
"Why?"
Donna changed her position on the couch to hear better.
"This dude was saying my wife and I; or Zee, my wife, and I just got this…or-or my wife and I have a pet bunny that's so adorable"
Will mocks his friend.
"Hey! I'm madly in love with my wife and we just got married"
It has been 3 months since Dick and Zee's wedding and the couple would use every opportunity to mention the fact that they were married or call each other husband and wife.
"Okay. Enough of these two. Let's get back to the girls that were hittin' on you"
Artemis was more interested in the events at the boy's outing.
"Okay. Okay. They asked us for another game since it was early and Wally was persistent on having another game with them…"
"Did he now…"
"Yeah but he thought it wasn't fair since there was a huge gap between our skills and he made three teams…each with one girl"
"Did he…"
Both Zatanna and Artemis were glaring at West.
"Hey! But W-Will got the phone number of one those girls"
Wally lifts his hands up to protect himself.
"Yeah but I'm single"
"We didn't do anything"
Wally was nervous under his girlfriend's gaze. Meanwhile, Dick whispers something to Zatanna's ear making her giggle.
"Stop it. You can't say those things to a married woman"
"I can if said married woman is married to me"
"Mr. Grayson…"
Zatanna giggles with Dick's boldness.
"Mrs. Grayson"
Ignoring their friends. Husband and wife engages in a make out session with Zee jumping to her husband's arms and Dick carried his wife to their room.
"How is possible that they are even hornier after getting married? Aren't they supposed to y'know…be more boring or whatever…"
Donna jokes.
"So what you are saying that it's okay if I let some guys buy me drinks and hit on me…"
Artemis ignores Donna's comment and her friend going at it as she was too focused arguing with Wally.
"Woo. Woo. Woo. That's totally different"
"How?"
Wally looks for some help from Donna and Will but they look to the other way.
"You know what? You can think about that tonight while you sleep on the couch…on this couch"
With that Artemis huffed before storming out of the place. Will stopped Wally.
"I will take her home. Let her blow some steam"
Wally nods before looking at Donna.
"You are really dumb Wallace. Anyway, enjoy the couch…I have too many glasses of wine and I'm going to sleep in the guest room"
"Morning, handsome"
Zatanna watches how Dick gets up as soon as she enters the room in the morning. Zee was holding a cup of coffee and was wearing his shirt, shorts and her robe.
"Morning, beautiful. Hot coffee and a hot magician for breakfast…what a nice way to start the day"
She pecks his lips but moves the cup of coffee to the side.
"The hot coffee is for me but you can have this hot magician"
With the cup away in the night table, Dick pulls her on his lap and Zatanna straddles him.
"I hope I don't get burned with how hot you are…"
Zatanna laughs and snorts.
"You just can't help yourself, can you?"
"No that I mind unwrapping you but what's with all these clothes? Usually, I wake up to this amazing naked figure or some sexy lingerie"
"I can't be like that because 2 things…"
Dick takes off her robe and undoing the bottoms of the shirt.
"1. If I spilled coffee while naked…it's going to hurt me so bad…"
Dick smiles seeing that she put yet another new blue set of lingerie.
"And 2…is because Wallace is on the couch sleeping and I don't want him seeing me naked"
"What?! What is Wally doing on the couch?"
"Apparently, he and Artemis got into an argument last night and Arty send him to the couch…our couch. Or at least is what Donna told me…"
"Donna is here?"
"Yeah. She's having breakfast with Pocus, she had too much wine and didn't want to go back to her place so she stayed in our guest room. You should talk to her…she's really stressed out because of the U.N and Luthor"
"So now I need to talk with Donna and Wally…I told Wally it was a bad idea"
"It really was. I don't know what he was thinking…were they hot?"
"They were attractive…I think. They were nice but I don't get why they put that earring on my coat"
"Because they were trying to get between us…"
"How? They didn't know you or me for that matter…I don't think that one or two games at the billiards make us best buds"
"Well…yeah but you were mentioning your hot wife every five seconds according to Will, so they put that earring for me to find it and to get in a fight with you and all that jazz and then you are going back to that place or the one that has Will's number would ask about you and then she will try to get in…be your friend a-"
"C'mon, Zee. Isn't that a little too far fetched? All that from an earring?"
"Baby. You don't know this kind of girls…they would do anything to get a man like you. It's like how guys do stupid things to try to impress a girl or do I need to remind you all the stunts that you pulled to impress me?"
She smirks at him.
"I guess not but then why aren't you mad like Artemis?"
"I wasn't mad at you or at the fact girls try to hit on you, I trust you. I was surprised that you didn't realize that they put that in your coat"
"I mean…I was on the zone. You should've seen how I beat Wall and Will without breaking a sweat"
"Yeah but you can't beat me. I'm still the queen of pool"
"I demand my rematch…"
"Under what grounds…?"
"T-t-that you love me?"
Zatanna snorts at his response and at her husband's awkward smile.
"Okay. But if you lose again…you'll have to wear a magician's assistant outfit for a month for my shows and my league missions"
"Alright. You got a deal but let me have some breakfast first"
Zatanna nodded before pecking his lips, she got off his lap and moved to her side of bed but was stopped by her husband's hands. Zee yelped in surprise as Dick grabbed her waist, torn her shorts away and put Zatanna upside down with her sex on his face.
"W-w-what are you doing?"
She asked flustered feeling his firm grip on her butt.
"Having breakfast…"
"Good morning, Donna"
"Morning? It's past 12!"
"Details. Details. Did you have lunch already?"
"Yeah. I make some pancakes for all of us but I put them on the freezer when I realized that you and Zatanna weren't coming any time soon"
Dick smiles as he opens the freeze and gets the frozen pancakes.
"Did you brought your pj with you?"
"Huh? No. Zatanna help me out with her magic in the morning"
"That means that you are not planing on leaving anytime soon, right?"
"Are you kicking me out?"
"Never. You know that you can stay as much as you want"
Dick sits on front of her and reaches for her hand over the kitchen table and tightly squeezes it.
"Thanks…"
"But why don't you want to go to your place?"
"I feel boring and lonely. It has been so much going on…the stress from Luthor's leadership in the U.N, the extra pressure from everyone against Garth and me…"
"Then why didn't you say something earlier? You have Cassie…"
"She's with Tim"
"Diana…"
"Having problems with Bruce"
"Zee and I…"
"You are living in your honeymoon and you just got married, I don't want to be the third wheel"
"You will never be that. We love you Donna, I love you"
"I know Dick but still…"
The Amazon looks down.
"Hey! What about we do something amazing this weekend? Camping trip! How does that sound?"
"I don't know…"
"Hey! It's going to be you, me, Zee, Will, Kaldur, Wall, Artemis, Conner, Megan and Raquel!"
"So three couples and three single friends?"
"No. A group of friends that needs to spend some time together and gather some energy"
Donna smiles with renewed energy.
"Alright but if you and Zatanna disappeared as soon as we get there…"
Present
"This place sure is nice but might not work to keep the low profile…" Artemis was mesmerized by the place, she has been in fancy places but no one as fancy as this one.
"Actually, that is this place specialities. The security is so tight that no one can take a picture inside, it's to keep this place as a safe space for famous people"
"And you and Dick have been here a lot?"
"No. We like to eat in normal dinners but we do treat ourselves from time to time. At first, I wasn't as recognized but after joining the league there was a spike in my popularity and then the shows hit off even more and well…but we much prefer to dress like undercover. We pretend that we are running from our families because our forbidden love or sometimes just come up with the craziest backstories"
"The pot dates the kettle…"
"Marries the kettle" Zatanna corrects her with the biggest smile.
"In any case, how are we finding our target?"
"I'm not sure yet but let me call my dad and ask him if he knows a way" Artemis was expecting a phone call but instead she saw how a blue fog appeared and start molding into Zatara.
"What in the hell is that?"
"An astral projection"
"Everyone is going to know that we are on a mission!"
"Don't worry. Only the two of us can see my dad"
"Piccola, I wasn't expecting your call. You must know that Mary and John are alright…"
"And Dick?"
"He's in the shower" Zee was confused by that statement, she and Dick took a long shower before meeting Artemis.
"Trace and Richard went to the park with the twins; Trace wanted to do some magic for the twins and I didn't get the details but somehow she ended up pouring mud and grass all over him" Artemis was holding back her laughter, she was dying to see the bird boy like that.
"How's Trace and my babies?"
"Dick told Trace to not worry about that since he wasn't hurt and the twins did get a good laugh at that. She's still nervous but is playing with the twins with Donna and Kory"
"Kory? What she's doing there?"
"Her modeling photoshoot was canceled and didn't have any other plans and came here to play with the twins and Donna but enough of that…what do you need me for?" Zee look at Artemis so she could explain the whole brain control and blood pact.
"That sounds like dark magic but if you undo their bonding the first time it's nearly impossible for someone else to bring it back. No even I could do that to something that you pull a spell on…that's some serious dark magic"
"That's why I thought but Artemis didn't got her dark bond with the leader back. I'm guessing that this new player got in contact with the girls and somehow trick them into the pact again…maybe with a paper cut or something like that"
"Mmm…unless"
"Unless what?"
"The Bloodspell is a really powerful tool used by the magician in the dark ages to get some kind of inmortality passing her soul to the bodies of the persons that took part in the binding…she could regain her access back to Artemis' body because that's a really old and dark magic that not even you could be able to clear my girl and the more lives she collects…"
"There are two girls left and me…"
"Then that means that is just matter of time before she tries to take on your body. You need to find the source and send her the the after life…and Artemis"
"Yeah?"
"Don't let the fear or guilt of not saving those girls reach you or else you will turn into an easy target…don't lower your defense. I trust that you two can catch this witch but be careful and call me if you need help"
"Will do sir"
"Love you, dad. Bye" Zatara astral form disappeared and a waiter came close to the girls.
"Are you ladies ready to order?"
"Where are we going to find a freaking ghost?" After a nice meal, Artemis and Zatanna continue with their search.
"We need to focus…she's after Tina and Joy if we find the-"
"Miss Zatara Grayson?" A large security guard approached the women.
"Yeah? Who are you?"
"I work for Mr. Dale. He knows that you are heard and would like to see you"
"Oh that's wonderful. Of course, I'd go to see him" Zatanna and Artemis follows the big man.
"Who's this Dale? And why are we seeing him? We have stuff to do like saving my body"
"He's the manager of this place. He can help us by giving access to the footage of this place if I remember correctly, you told me that Tina was working as part of a show but you don't know which one, right?"
"Yeah. I just know that she does one of those dances like the typical Vegas one"
"Then we can get more information from him"
"Zatanna. So nice to see you. I feel offended that you didn't tell me that you were coming to town…" Zatanna greeted the man like old friends.
"Sorry. It was something that came up in the last second and I'm in a rush for something. This is my friend Artemis" Artemis greets the man.
"A pleasure to meet you"
"Likewise"
"Sorry for asking this out of the blue but can you help us with something?"
"For one of the biggest stars from this casino? Anything" Artemis steps forward.
"We need access to surveillance footage from the show area of the last few weeks. We are looking for someone that performs here from time to time and we need to find her as soon as possible"
"What's his or her performance?"
"She's a dancer of…I don't know the name…it's the typical dance I'm here"
"The Las Vegas Showgirls? Because if you are looking for those…there are some performing right now" Dale signal them to follow him to the surveillance room and Artemis recognized her girl right away.
"That's it. That's her. Tanna, we have to hurry!"
"Sorry for leaving so soon. I call you as soon as I can and thank you for everything"
"Let's hurry before it's to late" Artemis was running through the Vegas casino with Zee following her right behind.
"Emit rof a wen kool!"
"Zatanna? What gives?!" Artemis stops in her tracks seeing her new attire that was like those girls with a leotard, stocking, heels and a tiara with feathers.
"You need to blend in. And get close to her. I'm going to cover you and we can ambush her when she reveals herself if she does" Artemis nodded before continuing her way.
Zatanna and Artemis were confused because the theater was empty as soon as they arrived and there was only a cage with a white tiger in bad shape in it.
"What's going on here?" Zatanna came close to the cage and saw the poor shape of the animal. She inspected the cage and saw her name tag.
"Sasha. Are you alright girl? Who did this to you?" Zatanna opens the cage and gets in with the tiger.
"What are you doing?" Artemis was surprised by the magician actions.
"She needs help" Using her magic, Zatanna make a big piece of steak appear and feed the tiger that instantly purred into Zatanna.
"Did you just make a Tiger purr?"
"Zatanna! Did you find her?" Dale quickly catch up with them with the giant man following him.
"No. It was empty but how they were able to clean this place so quick…" Artemis was confused and irritated.
"Thats because this was a trap…right, Dale? Or should I say Tina?"
"What?!" Crook look disbelief to her friend and right back to the man.
"How did you know?"
"You didn't ask for my husband, Dale and Dick are really good friend since he performed more than once for this casino and as close as we are…he wouldn't show us the cameras without a proof or an order…he respect his casino that much"
"Very good. You brought quite the detective…Artemis" Dale turn his gaze towards Artemis before falling to the ground. The next second, Artemis was round housing Zatanna.
"Artemis?! What are you doing?" Zatanna manages to parry some attacks from her friend. She knew that she was surviving the archers attack because Tina wasn't as good fighter as Tigress and couldn't take advantage of her skills…unless she stayed long enough on her body to adapt.
"Esaeler ym-" Before Zatanna could cast her spell, Artemis' body hit the ground and now Zatanna was trying to dodge the bodyguards attack.
"Give up sorceress! I have the advantage and im going to take my revenge and be more powerful than anyone after I take your body" Zee was about to get hit by Tina in the large man's body but was saved by Artemis that kneel him on the face.
"Zatanna, are you alright?"
"Yeah. Thanks…what about you?"
"I'm pissed that someone took over my body" The archer and the magician exchange looks and knew what they needed to do.
"Peels!" Zatanna used her magic to make Dale unconscious and prevent Tina from taking over his body again.
"Im going to take your powers!" The bodyguard's body fell to the ground and Artemis feared the worst. If Tina took Zee's body it was game over. But instead, she was surprised when a magic barrier appeared around Zatanna.
"Sorry, Tina but this body is spoken for and you cannot take control over it"
"Where did she g-"
"Artemis! Look out!" Zatanna tackled Artemis getting her out of the harms way from the attack of Sasha the tiger.
"Is she inside her? I don't have my tranq darts"
"Aren't you Tigress? Can you just talk things out with her?"
"You are spending way too much time with Dick with those lame jokes"
"Hey!" The women keep dodging the tiger's attack but Artemis got a mild cut from her claws on her arm.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah but it hurts. Let's finish this" Artemis and Zatanna got behind the curtain of the theater to prepare a sneak attack.
"Hiyaa!" The blonde launches her attack towards the tiger but Sasha fell to the ground mid. Tina changed bodies with her attacker again.
"Hey, Tina. Looking good" The witch look at the voices and saw Artemis and Zatanna standing next to each other. After a few seconds, Tina's host body turn into a dove.
"Og kcab ot erehw uoy gnoleb!" The duo watches Tina's soul screaming and leaving the poor dove's body.
"And that's a wrap folks!"
"Zatanna. Thanks for helping me with this…without you I'd be dead already" After fixing and explaining the situation to Dale. Zatanna and Artemis were making their way to the zeta tube to get back home. The moon was up and they walked as they relaxed after the mission.
"That's what I'm here. I will always have your back Arty"
"Thank you. Right back at you" Artemis stops and looks to the ground.
"I'm not good at this and I know that we don't work together that often but I'm going yo miss you on the field…" Zatanna takes a couple of steps and hugs her friend.
"And I'm going to miss you too but this feels like the right choice for me and my family"
"I get it and you have my full support"
"Thanks"
"What are you going to do with her?" Artemis looks to the side and sees the tiger following them.
"I was planing on taking her go Haly's circus. She can have a family there and they can treat her right with the added benefit that I can visit her as much as I want"
"That makes sense. I thought that you were keeping her in your house"
"Nah. There's not enough room for her besides…Pocus is really jealous" They keep walking and finally reached to the Zeta tube.
"Time to get home. I can't wait to see my babies and Dick"
"Yeah. Wally must be going nuts right about now" Artemis let Zatanna be the first one to make her trip back hope.
"Tanna…one more thing…"
"Yeah?"
"If you knew it was a trap and that Tina was inside Dale the whole time…why did you dress me like that?"
"For fun"