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Kid Lantern	By : JessieMundaiFan Category: DC Verse Cartoons > Young Justice Views: 2074 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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(Darren's POV)
I was floating in a sea of colors. Every one of them was bright and illuminating as they danced with one another.
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, all seven colors of the rainbow shined together, as they lite up the universe.
I was awed by how in tune the colors were with each other. Nothing in the universe was left untouched by their light, except this small part of universe.
It was gray, no light could touch it. Unlike the other colors that were flying through the universe, gray didn't seem to want to move. It looked as if it was biding its time, like it was waiting for something.
But what?
"Darren, get up sweetie you have school!"
I was snapped out of my dream by my mom calling out to me through my door.
"Alright mom," I yawned in response.
Hearing the clacking of my mom's heals I got up and got ready to go to school.
I decided that I wanted to wait until summer to tell my mom about this whole superhero thing. I would tell her sooner but I am deathly afraid of her trying to move us again. I figured that if I wait until she gets more comfortable in this city then she'll be less inclined to follow her basic instinct of packing up and moving away from our problems.
Dad said I shouldn't get my hopes up though, and that the life of a superhero is wild and unpredictable.
I decided to take my Green Lanterns books with me just in care my classes get to boring and I need something interesting to read.
As I was packing up those books into my bag something slipped out of one of them and fell onto the bed. It looked to be a letter of some kind. Carefully I picked it up and read what was written in it.
Darren my dearest,
I watched your fight with that brutish Green Lantern and I must say
that I am impressed. My feelings for you are steadily
increasing with each breath I take.
Soon we will meet and this connection we have will be explored further.
Sincerely, Tobi
"This would be flattering if this wasn't so disturbing," I thought aloud.
Seriously, who is this Tobi guy and what does he want from me? How could he have been watching me at Oa? I thought only Green Lanterns lived there.
"Come on, Darren hustle," Mom called out to me again, "I don't want you to be late."
"I'm ready," I announced walking out of my door as fast as I could.
Maybe I should wait to tell somebody about this. I don't want to worry anybody, and I'm sure my ring can handle anything that threatens me.
At least I hope it can.
…
"Here we are," Mom sighed happily as we drove to my school, "have a good day sweetie."
"Thanks mom," I smiled back at her as I got out of the car.
"Oh, and don't wait up for me this evening," Mom told me, "I have another date."
"Why are you going to be gone the whole day," I asked her in confusion.
"He lives in a different city," Mom informed me, "he's going to drive me over to where he lives so we can spend the day together. I won't be too late out."
"Okay," I nodded, "have a good date mom."
"Thank you sweetie, bye," was what she said before she drove off.
I sighed as I prepared myself for the day ahead of me.
As I turned to walk into the school I accidently walked straight into someone. That person grabbed me by the shoulders as I fell into their chest.
I looked up to see that I collided into a blond hair male that was at least a foot taller than me. He was looking down at me with amused blue eyes.
Oh god, he's probably going to beat me up.
"I-I'm s-sorry," I stammered looking down at me feet.
My eyes widen as I felt a hand gently grab my chin and moved my head back up.
"It's not a problem beautiful," he chuckled.
I blush made it onto my face at the sudden compliment.
"I hope to run into you again," he told me in his deep voice.
Slowly he let go of me, his hands drifted on my body a bit before he took them off my body. As he backed up and went into the school I couldn't help but notice how strong and muscular he looked.
Suddenly, I heard the warning bell signaling that I only had a couple minutes before class started.
"Oh great," I groaned as I ran into school.
Luckily, I was able to make it just in time before the late bell sounded.
"The way you ran in here I thought you were trying to steal my thunder," Wally teased as I sat down next to him.
I giggled.
"I would never do that Wally," I replied playfully, "I here its hard work being a speedster." '
"Damn right it is," Wally boasted.
We then heard out teacher, Mr. Touble, clear his throat loudly.
"If you boys are quiet finished I would like to start class," Mr. Touble told us dryly.
I wriggled in my seat uncomfortably as I heard the snickering of my classmates all around me.
Science was painfully exhausting. I couldn't understand a thing my teacher was saying. For the life of me I just couldn't get science at all.
Looking over at Wally, I saw that he was bored. He looked as if he already knew what our teacher was saying. That doesn't surprise me though Wally did say he was good at science.
Having had enough of the scientific talk, I decided to pop open my Green Lantern books. The one I have on me discusses some new abilities my ring has. I flipped the page to a certain one that caught my interest earlier.
Energy Twin.
Power rings give the wearer the ability to create a twin of themself that can travel at far greater speeds than that of the ring wielder's physical form. While the energy twin is active the ring wielder must remain motionless because their life force is needed to guide the energy twin.
That sounds like a really useful ability. I hope it won't be too hard to use.
"Class dismissed," Mr. Touble stated snapping me out of my book, "I hope you all took notes because I'm not going to be repeating what I said."
"Notes," I whimpered to myself. I barely took any notes? What am I going to do?
"Wally," I cried out softly, "you have to help me."
I clung to his arm tightly.
"What," he yawned as we walked out class together.
"I didn't take any notes," I told panicking slightly, "and I don't understand a word he said. I am so bad at science."
"Chill out," he waved me off, "he wasn't talking about anything to complicated. I'll help you out Darren."
"You will," I looked at him in gratitude.
He pulled me into a one armed hug.
"Of course Darren," Wally smirked, "you'd be so lost without me."
I giggled and snuggled slightly into his shoulder before breaking away from him (but still walking close to him).
Gazing around the hall, I noticed a couple people giving Wally and I strange looks. I had absolutely no idea why. Did we do something wrong?
"Wally, why is everybody looking at us," I asked my friend.
Wally blinked at me and looked around the hall suspiciously.
"They probably want get with us," Wally shrugged.
"All of them," I raised my eyebrows at him.
"Were two highly attractive males," Wally stated as if it was fact, "of course they want. There lust for us is probably tearing them apart."
Highly attractive? I blushed and looked down at feet.
I think that I'm okay looking, but I wouldn't call myself highly attractive.
"Seeing that you have your insecure blush on I can only guess what you're thinking about," Wally told me as we walked into art class and took a seat beside each other.
Instead of desks, the class had desks that three people could sit at.
"You better not be thinking that you're ugly," Wally warned me with narrowed eyes.
I shook my head in denial of that statement. I'm insecure but I'm not that insecure.
"Good," Wally nodded, "because you are hot. Anybody, including you, who thinks otherwise is either crazy or need to get their eyes checked."
"Thinking that your hot, isn't that little, um, cocky," I asked hesitantly.
"No, its confidence," Wally corrected, "there's nothing wrong with feeling good about yourself. Being cocky is when you're acting like a jerk or stuck up just because you look good."
"Oh," I nodded.
"Is this seat taken," I heard someone asked.
I looked up to see that blond guy I met earlier.
"It's you," I whispered.
"Looks like fate is on my side today," he smiled down at me.
"No this seat isn't taken," I told him smiling awkwardly, "have a seat."
He did indeed sit down getting comfortable beside me.
"I'm Todd by the way," he outstretched his hand toward me, "I just switched to this class. My old schedule was crap."
"I'm Darren," I took his hand and shook it.
Once again, I noticed that his fingers lingered on my hand before he let me go.
"It's a pleasure to see you again Darren," he replied smoothly.
"Uh, Darren," I turned around and saw Wally looked Todd up and down suspiciously.
"Who is this and how do you know him," Wally asked the look he gave demanded that I give him an answer.
"I bumped into him when I came into school," I informed my friend, "I wasn't really paying attention."
"I told you it was alright darling," Todd reassured me lightly.
"Darling," Wally raised an eyebrow at him, "listen buddy…"
Whatever Wally was going to say was cut off as the teacher finally came in the door.
"I hope you all are ready to make some masterpieces," Our teacher, Mrs. Dered told us excitedly.
You can tell that she was one of those eccentric artists. I love artists like that.
"Alright class I want to see your interpretation of space and what you think it looks like," Mrs. Dered told us dramatically, "let me see your vision."
I chuckled at the irony. I just came from space, this going to be great. I smiled to myself excitedly.
"What's that smile for," Todd asked, "not that I mind that stunning smile of yours."
As I blushed at his compliment, I heard Wally growl for some reason.
"I love art," I proclaimed simply, "and I just developed an interest in space so I'm kind of excited to do this project."
Todd smiled at me charmingly.
"I'm pretty good at art but I think I could be better. Maybe you could give me some…hands on lessons," Todd suggested leering at me.
I chuckled nervously at the look in his eyes. Before I could respond I felt my chair being pulled closer to Wally's. I turned to find my face mere inches away from my friends.
"You said you were going to help me with art remember," Wally reminded me staring into my eyes intently.
I nodded robotically.
"I'll go get us some supplies," I told the two of them leaving them alone for a brief moment.
I wonder if that's a good idea leaving them alone, I thought to myself as I went to the supply closet to pick out some good materials.
When I returned I saw that Todd had a casual smile on his face while Wally was just glaring at him.
"Wally is everything okay," I asked him concernedly.
"Everything is fan-freakin-tastic," Wally grinded not taking his eyes off of Todd, "don't worry about me."
"Oh, okay," I sat back down at my seat and handed both of them everything that they needed. Wally stopped glaring now that I was blocking Todd from his view.
"Pencils? Aw, I wanted to do one of those pastelly drawings," Wally pouted.
"Pastels," I corrected in amusement, "and that might not be a good idea. Let's just try and work our way up to that okay?"
"Fine," Wally rolled his eyes at me playfully.
Wally looked down at the paper in front of him and then up at me.
"So how should I do this," Wally asked me, "should I just add some little dots and some different colors to make a good space drawing?"
I couldn't help but chuckle at him.
"You might want to be a little more detailed than that," I advised him, "the more layers and objects you put into your drawing the more appealing it can be."
"Is that what makes a good drawing," Wally raised an eyebrow at me.
"No," I shook my head, "sometimes less can be more, but for an assignment like this it would be better to be as detailed as possible. Besides, I like details in space paintings. It makes it seem more real to me."
"You do," Wally eyes widen slightly before a grin made it onto his face, "then layered and detailed my drawing will be!"
I turned back around as I heard Todd his throat loudly.
"You two seemed to shut everything when you talk to each other," Todd pointed out, "it's no wonder that the two of you are dating."
"W-W-What," I stuttered blushing furiously, "Wally and I are not dating!"
Todd's eyes widen slightly.
"You aren't," Todd gave me a look of surprise, "Wally gave me the impression that the two of you are."
"I did not," Wally shouted. I turned around and saw that he was blushing as well.
"Mr. West hush," Mrs. Dered berated having heard his loud declaration.
"Really," Todd raised an eyebrow at him.
"Yes really," Wally told the blond boy his voice being a lot lower this time.
"So Darren are you single," Todd asked me.
"I, uh, yes," I replied stepping over my words somewhat.
"Excellent," Todd gave me a grin.
"Rotten bastard," I heard Wally mumbled.
…
Todd spent the rest of the class trying to engage me in conversation. I could tell that he was trying to learn more about me. Why? I don't really know. We just meet and he seemed to take a great interest in me.
Todd, Wally, and I had just walked out of art. Todd was persistent on getting me talk to him while walked beside me being uncharacteristically quiet.
"Do you play any sports," Todd asked me.
"Not really," I replied shyly, "I'm not a sporty type of guy."
"That's okay, I'm not either," Todd shrugged.
"You're not," I eyes widened I shock.
"Nope," Todd smirked, "let me guess. You took one look at me body and thought I was a football player or something."
My only response was blush.
"I get that all the time," Todd gave me a sly look, "but I must say. I'm happy that you took time to check me out."
Wally groaned in annoyance. I noticed that he discreetly pulled me closer to him.
"So Darren I was wondering…"
"Oh, hell no," Wally mumbled.
"…if you're not," Todd started to say before Wally intervened.
"You know what we really have to get to lunch Darren," Wally proclaimed loudly. He started pulling us away from Todd.
Lunch? We didn't have lunch right now.
"Hold up Darren," Todd tried to protest.
"You know we'd love to stop and talk to you but we're already gone," Wally yelled back at him before picking me and sprinting to our next classroom.
"Wally," I squealed as he finally put me down in a seat next to him.
I pointedly ignored everyone else around me.
"What," he blinked at me innocently, "I don't want to be late for my next class my parents hate it when they get calls from my schools asking them why I'm always tardy."
"That's not what I'm talking about," I tried to him.
"What are you talking about," Wally was talking really fast, "you know what it doesn't matter. Let's just pretend those last ninety minutes of our lives didn't happen. Everything we did, everyone we met, doesn't exist anymore."
I blinked at him in confusion.
"Wally, what's wrong," I asked him gently rubbing his shoulder.
"I-I I just don't like that guy," Wally replied looking lost, "I can't explain it. I just don't trust him around you."
"Don't worry Wally he can't do anything to me," I reassured him.
"Hm," Wally looked down at his desk.
I bit my lip as I saw his melancholy expression.
"Even if he did try something, I'm sure the might Kid Flash would stop him and save me," I said lowly so only Wally could hear me.
Wally looked up at me.
"Wouldn't he," I asked him.
Wally gave me a small smile putting his hand above mine.
"Yeah," Wally nodded, "he'll always protect you. Always."
"I'm happy that he wants to protect me," I smiled.
"He needs to protect you," Wally corrected my softly squeezing me hand, "because you mean so much to him."
Oh Wally.
…...
I was at my last class of the day and I was getting a headache from all the information being thrown my way. I knew there was a reason I wasn't too fond of school.
"Darren," I heard Todd call out to me as he sat down next to me.
"Oh, hi Todd," I greeted.
"Is your bodyguard in this class to," Todd teased.
"No he isn't. I'm sorry about Wally," I was apologizing for him, "he's a really great guy he just gets a little overprotective sometimes."
"I understand," Todd nodded, "he really cares about you."
"Yeah he does," I smiled.
"That shouldn't stop us from being friends should it," Todd asked me. He noticed that he slowly reaching for my hand.
I pulled my hand away and tucked it under my other arm. A frown made it onto his face.
"Sure we can be friends," I reassured, "you can never have enough of them."
"You sure can't," Todd's voice had some kind of underlining meaning that I couldn't decipher.
"Let's keep us being in the same last class a secret from little Wally," Todd asked me, "don't want him freaking out again."
I was hesitant to agree, but decided I was going to. No use exciting Wally when I don't need to. He'll much healthier without all the stress I'm putting on him.
"Okay," I nodded.
"Perfect," Todd grinned at me.
…
"Thank god school is over," Wally shouted as we walked to Mt. Justice, "it is so boring there."
"It wasn't that bad. At least it was over quick," I said trying to compromise with him.
"I guess," Wally smiled at me, "at least I have someone interesting to be around now. School was hell without you there."
I smiled back at him.
As we arrived at the base we saw the whole team waiting for us and an older guy in red and black leather.
"Who he," I asked my friend softly.
"He's a friend," Wally told me, "Crimson Arrow! What's up buddy?"
I heard the older guy growl in annoyance.
"I told you a hundred times that it's Red Arrow," He stressed with a glare.
"Okay, okay sorry," Wally grinned, "I won't forget your name again Blood Arrow."
"You're trying to piss me off again aren't you," Red Arrow raised an eyebrow at him.
"What makes you say that," Wally blinked at him innocently.
Red Arrow sighed heavily.
"Anyway, let me introduce to my new friend," Wally dragged me in front of the bow wielding man.
"Hi, I'm Darren," I introduced myself quietly, "I'm Kid Lantern."
Even though he didn't like he was being intentionally threatening doesn't stop me from shying away from this man.
Red Arrow nodded. "Yes, Robin told me all about you. Well, it was more you and Wally but that's not the point."
"What," Wally asked in confusion.
I looked over to see Robin looking at us with a grin.
"Never mind," Red Arrow outstretched his hand for me to shake.
I took his hand and shook it politely. I, however, let out a squeal as he pulled me so close that we were chest to chest.
I looked up at him with a blush surfacing all over my face.
"Hey," Wally protested using his super speed to pull me away from his friend's body and onto his, "what are you doing you perv!"
"Hah," Robin cried, "three seconds flat!"
Robin held out his hand to Artemis.
"Pay up sucker," Robin grinned, "I knew he'd do it three seconds."
"I knew I shouldn't have bet on five seconds," Artemis sighed before handing the boy wonder a bill.
What is going on?
"Really Artemis," Aqualad shook his head at her, "I expect this out of Robin, but you?"
Artemis shrugged. "Hey I need something to keep me entertained just like everyone else."
"What is going on," Wally demanded voicing my question.
"Huh? What do you know, I thought Robin was lying," Red Arrow looked at me and Wally before shrugging his shoulders and leaving the base.
"I'm lost," Wally pouted, "let me in on the joke guys."
"You can't the joke be in on the joke," Robin replied smartly.
Huh? Now I'm even more confused.
"Enough," Black Canary ordered just walking into the room, "it's time for training."
"Aw, no mission," Wally whined.
"You have one tomorrow," Black Canary answered.
"Yes," Wally pumped his fist happily.
"But for today we're going to focus on honing your skills," Black Canary told us, "but first things first."
I stiffened as she looked toward me.
"Do you have any psychical training whatsoever," she asked me.
I shook my head.
She sighed. "This is going to tough."
"I don't really think I have to be that psychically fit," I reassured her, "the power of a Green Lantern comes from inner strength, outer strength is just a bonus. Some of the Green Lanterns I met on Oa weren't even vertebrates."
"Regardless I still want you to be able to defend yourself without your power," Black Canary expressed, "you never know when you might not be able to use them."
I nodded in agreement. That made sense.
"Can also use our training sessions to learn new techniques," I asked her.
"What do you mean," she blinked at me.
"Green Lanterns can do something else besides make stuff," Wally asked sounding a little shocked.
I gave him a nod. "There are several abilities, but the one I'm talking about now is called Energy Twin. It will give me the power to create a twin of myself that can travel places and go distance that couldn't normally."
"That sounds useful for the type of missions you and your team will be tackling," Black Canary told me.
"We do mostly covert mission," Wally said answering the question I was about to ask.
"Can you learn it by tomorrow in case you need it on your mission," Black Canary asked me.
"Sure," I nodded, "my book said it was an easy technique to use. I should know it in no time at all."
"Good," she gave me an approving look, "for now let's begin with some sparing session. Wally?"
"Sure," Wally grinned stepping into the ring.
"Who wants to bet me that he'll start showing because you know who is watching," Robin asked with a grin.
"Oh, please," Artemis rolled her eyes, "who would take that stupid bet."
Aqualad smacked his head with his hand with a groan.
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