34It was an unassuming day. It had started out fairly uneventful, Wally was upset about school and Robin made up words. M'gann baked the worst possible cookies imaginable and Wally pretended to like them. Life was good for the team.
"Wally, you okay?" Batman's protege yelled.
"Ahh, I'm doin' fine." Wally said albeit unconvincingly.
Truthfully, Wally had been feeling off like life was just lying in wait to attack him with something unexpected. The whole team was uneasy, despite their best efforts to hide it. No one admitted it but something was amiss like bad news just waiting to spoil an uneventful day.
Almost nothing interesting had happened for months. They had one large mission about five months ago but since then it had been quiet. The JLA had been having far to many meetings for even Robin to attend but Aqualad did.
But, no one spoke up and possible bad news was delayed. Psych that'd be insane. Aqualad took it upon himself to ruin the day with poor news.
"Team, I trust you know of Klarion the Witch boy's recent capture." The Atlantan boldly said.
"Yah, what about it?" Kid Flash lazily said.
"He's going to be here in two days." He casually said.
Everyone immediately sat up. Robin spit coffee onto Artemis in a cartoonish way. Artemis looked shocked until she was doused with spit-coffee then she looked threateningly at Robin. Zatanna looked angry as they were letting the reason her father was Dr. Fate on the team. Super boy raised an eyebrow and then went back to what he was doing, indifferent.
"Why?!" Artemis nearly yelled.
"None of us can deny the Witch boy is powerful and that we can use his abilities." Kaldur said dispassionately.
"Who thought this was a good idea!?" Robin said.
"A majority of the JLA."
"He's not just going to become a member, is he?" Miss Martian said in shock.
"No, he shall have a Belle Rev collar on unless in battle."
"Woah woah, he's going to be living here!" Kid flash nearly yelled.
"Where else would he live?"
"I don't know!" He whined. "Who wants to be on a team with someone called a Witch boy, that doesn't even make sense!" The speedster complained.
"All of you would know this had you attended the meetings, the point of this is for Klarion to help us, to avoid prison and attempt rehabilitation." He paused " But the main reason for this meeting we are going to clear out a room for him."
The team went back to questioning
"Why does he have to be on our team!" Robin piped up.
"Yeah, what about the suicide squad?" Wally agreed.
"Klarion is a minor." Kaldur said to quiet them.
"No he isn't!" Wally exclaimed. "Is he, I mean he looks like one but is he?"
"Yes"
This did not feel right for anyone one the team.
The team eventually accepted this after some debating and stating that Klarion would be injured and can do only very few spells. After this the team calmed down and started to clear out the room for Klarion (The one farthest from the door and closest to Aqualad)
The next day, the team was stressing as though the president were visiting. Zatanna practiced so many new spells, M'gann was nicer and practiced making cookies which no one really understood why. The rest of the team took care of all easily foreseeable problems.
"Hey Robin." Wally asked as Robin was fixing a generator.
"Yeah Wally" Robin responded.
"How will Klarion train, I really doubt he's strong or anything and he doesn't have magic so what would he do?"
"Dunno, ask Kaldur." He said, not really paying attention.
Wally walked over to where Kaldur was. He was about to ask him hut was stopped by Artemis.
"Hey Wally, not the exact person I wanted to talk to but you'll do." Artemis said. "I'm worried for Zatanna. Klarion essentially made her dad Dr. Fate, I think she may try to attack Klarion now that she has the chance."
"Chill, Klarion isn't even here yet and I'm sure Zatanna won't do anything drastic and even so she seems fine." Wally said trying to reassure the uneasy archer.
"Are you sure?" She raised an eyebrow "She's practicing spells almost all the time now?"
"It's probably to gloat" He said dismissively.
Artemis looked at him skeptically. "Anyways, I have to leave now. Can you tell Aqualad for me?"
Wally nodded and she left.
"What were you two talking about?" Aqualad said from behind them.
Wally started to tell him but he cut him off.
"I know you are uneasy about Klarion, but it's for the best." Kaldur reassured.
"But if Klarion is joining this team how will he fight?" Wally asked.
"We were unable to collar his familiar due to magical defenses put up by Klarion."
Kaldur stated.
"So we're just gonna let a ridiculously dangerous animal wander through the base?" Wally complained.
Growing bored, Aqualad again answered. "No, he will be next to Klarion at all times."
Wally opened his mouth in an disbelieving fashion.
"But he could totally sic giant his cat on us!" The speedster yelled.
Kaldur took a deep breath and closed his eyes, when he opened them he began to speak in a frighteningly calm manner.
"Please try to respect my decisions as team leader" his eyes narrowed "All my decisions."
"But…"
Kaldur shot him one last glare and walked off.
;-) Please read and review! I know it's not the best. I wrote this chapter a good bit before I wrote the rest. So yeah it's the worst chapter but I will revise it soon. The rest is better.