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Posted by Donna Troy
on 5/4/2009, 7:50 pm
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The young boy known as Billy lays limp in my hands, as I look down in to his eyes I see an age of youth that makes me wonder if some times we are to young to play a part in the cosmic events that sometimes our hands are forced to play. When should innocence be lost to a universe? Perhaps the answer is never, or perhaps this is the way it is designed to be, after all I was a member of a teenage super hero group called the Teen Titans and we were no older than what now rests in my arms.
I fly through the sky, rising above the clouds and I can’t help but feel grateful to the gods for the powers they have blessed me with, but alas it appears the gods have their own agenda. In recent days since my return from another earth, I have been forced to adjust to gods that have long since retired the Amazons, instead acting their war torn will against man using the Gargareans, a savage group of men.
Now after halting their attack, it appears as if I may be the only person willing to challenge Zeus, but for now I have other problems, Wiccan still needs medical attention. With that final thought in mind, I increase my speed towards safer ground where I can then teleport to the Watchtower.
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Weeks earlier:
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“Zatanna have you managed to reach them”
“I’m trying, see the big swirling orbs above my head, the sweat dripping off of my forehead, that would be me trying Ted. Breaking through universal barriers is not child’s play”
“Ok….ok, I’ll just let you get back to it then”
“Yeah why don’t you just do that”?
Ted is forced to watch as the sorceress known as Zatanna gently sits herself upon an invisible seat, slowly she folds her legs as she sits floating in air. Once more she begins to chant mystical words and once more the orbs above her begin to swirl. Light dances as an explosion of power mixed with colour creates what looks like a swirling vortex above her head.
“YOU HAVE THEIR ATTENTION TED”
Ted looks at his friend, as her voice seems demon like, her eyes now black as night seem to bleed with energy, yet above her is precisely what he had asked. A portal to an old friend and a gateway between the multiverse. An Amazon, a fighter, a potential Diana substitute at least as close as he could ever hope to get.
“Donna we have need of you”
“Sort of busy right now, the JLA of this earth have been getting hit pretty hard by this universes Guardians, turns out just peace keeping was never what these blue skinned colour boys had in mind. Seems like they went with Sinestro and decided on taking charge of everything”
“How long before we can expect you back”
“Come on Ted, since the whole universe decided to go haywire, you know I’m needed as much here as anywhere else”
“I know, but I’m reforming the league and without Superman, Bats and Diana we could really use you on side”
“I don’t mean to sound disheartened Ted, but really, substituting an Amazon with an Amazon. I don’t want to be a replacement”
“Don’t be ridiculous, that’s not what I chose you”
“Isn’t it?”
“No, you’re a skilled fighter, a great tactician”
“Just like Diana”
“You have strength, speed”
“Just like Diana Ted”
“But you also have knowledge of the Multiverse, you have a better understanding of working with the next generation of superheroes, hell as part of the Teen Titans you were the next generation”
“Ted, I’ll have to get back to you. We’re under attack”
“IM LOSING THE CONNECTION”
Before ted even has time to speak, he turns to see Zatanna drop from her perch, her body seems to be convulsing as black energy crackles off of her skin like some mystical electricity.
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Present:
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I’ve been in the air for what seems like close to twenty minutes; in my head I predict it’s a further ten more minutes until I’ll reach a watchtower transport site. Transport sites have been slowly set up by Ted at key areas around the globe, allowing members to transport in an emergency directly to and from the Watchtower.
“Danger, initiating defence grid”
By the time I hear the almost robotic voice come from a shinning blue power ring resting snugly against Billy’s finger, does it shine with a pure brilliance. Like a sparkling blue Topaz crystal, enveloping the young boy in a rich aura that forces his body to slip free of my grasp.
“What the” I panic at first until I see that the rings aura does more than simply envelope Wiccan’s body, although stationary it seems to have granted him the gods boon of flight.
But with Billy safe, my mind instantly races for answers to the next question, just what had set the ring off in the first place.
I scan the horizon, unable at first to pick up anything out of the ordinary and then I see a twinkle, almost as if the clouds had lifted and a new star was being born before my very eyes, that is until the stars aura grows, a thick blood red as it races ever closer towards myself and the young sorcerer.
As the small red metallic object flies directly towards me, I instinctively raise my arms in a defensive posture; the small object bounces directly off of one of my bracelets. It ricochets away, where it seems to travel a few feet before its own power stops it dead in its tracks. Motionless as if dead it sits on the air, floating like a spectre.
“Wiccan wake up” I’d swear that second ring was almost thinking, on cue it reacts, almost as if it had heard my own thoughts. This time the ring seems to surge with power and once more I go to deflect its strike. This time however just before contact with my bracelets it disappears, reappearing on the other side of my arms. I don’t scream, or even have anytime to move as the ring plunges into my chest. My body reacts violently, convulsing in mid air I go into some form of shock. I try to stay conscious, every part of me wants desperately to fight this thing, but slowly and ever so surely, my eyes just like my body begin to shut down and suddenly I’m in free fall, I look up to see Billy still safe in his little blue cocoon, my last thoughts are what will happen to him should that aura fail.
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