#completelywhelmed

[backwards-spellaholic]

It seems like one of those nights we ditch the whole scene (PT 1)

Zatanna:  With a satisfied sigh, Zatanna pushes away the pile of bills she's just paid online. After closing her laptop, and not wanting to consider how awfully poorer she is than half an hour ago, she picks up her phone and taps frantically on her screen.

[Text] To: Greek Goddess

This is like the billionth time I'm telling you to come see my home sweet home.

 I just paid the bills. No powercuts will make me des-invite you. 

 Artemis: [text] To: mistress of magic

Artemis finishes putting her books away. Before grabbing her jacket and telling Wally she's off. Artemis heads out to the nearest zeta and setting coordinates to Brooklyn. Once arriving, she walks the short distance to Zatanna's apartment knocking on the door

Zatanna: She smiles excitedly at her phone before getting up and starting to get her place in conditions. Quickly, she gets tired from doing it the "normal way" and with a few murmured spells has the place spotless and everything in place. Upon hearing the knocking she runs to the door, trying to remember if she has anything really edible at all.

"Artemis!" She beams as she opens the door, engulfing the blonde in a hug.

Artemis: Artemis grins upon seeing her and hugs back laughing lightly.

 "Hey Zee!" She says pulling away and stepping into the new apartment.   "Gotta say, it's a pretty nice place." Artemis says admiring the "new home sweet home"

 Zatanna: "Well, it does now,” she admits sheepishly. “I haven't been really around. I forgot to pay a few bills and they kinda expect you to do that every month," she shrugs. At times like that, she misses living in the Cave, and only with a great deal of willpower she'd convinced herself to come back, after going back to her former place once the power was cut. "Come, I think I have some of Megs' cookies," she offers, leading her friend towards the kitchen.

She rummages through her half-empty cupboard till she finds the Tupper ware holding the delicacies. Placing it on the small kitchen table, Zatanna take a seat after urging Artemis to do the same.

Artemis: Artemis smiles and sits down beside Zatanna, grabbing a cookie. Seeing the bin of cookies made her think the butter sweet: when she and Wally make their final leave, she's not going to see M'gann as often let alone have her cookies.  Upon biting into the delightful cookie she couldn't help but blurt out

"Man, I'm gonna miss these..."

Zatanna: Her smile falters a bit, and her brows furrow in confusion. "What do you mean? We could zeta to the Cave and pick up some more... M'gann always makes lots of them."

Artemis: Artemis sighs. She knew this talk was coming eventually and now was as good a time as ever.

"Listen, Zee....Wally and I have decided that we should be headed for retirement. And of course we'll still visit...just not as often," she sighs looking at her friend trying to appear as sad about it as Artemis actually is.

Zatanna: Her smiles vanish from her face, which is contorted in something between annoyance, confusion, and maybe, even pain. "What?" She mouths. Then out of the blue, she bursts out in laughter. "Oh, God, you almost got me there. Good one, Art," she concedes, popping half a cookie into her mouth.

Artemis: Artemis looks at Zatanna's sadly now. The seriousness in her eyes increasing. "Zatanna...I'm serious. We're leaving the team." Artemis says "It's been a hard choice but Wally thinks it’s for the best."

Zatanna: Still, Zatanna stares at her for a few seconds, unbelieving. "But... you love this. Both of you do," she replies, shaking her head slightly. "How can you leave?" She frowns deeply, mulling on how Wally seemed to be the one to blame for this, in her opinion, rushed decision. "And what do you think?"

Artemis: After a pause, she opens her mouth but closes it. "Look, I love it. And I didn't want to go at first. But Wally and I, kind of figured out we have a lot on our plates with college and everything.  And I still love it; don't think that's ever going to change..."

Zatanna: Her lips tighten in a firm line as she takes a few deep breaths. She should be happy, this is her friend figuring out her life and putting it together. But she can't, not really, though she's going to try. "There's nothing I can say to make you change your mind? I could compel some of your teachers to be more lenient, or help you with some of your homework," she offers, grimacing at the end - she's no idea about advanced Biology or Chemistry or whatever they're taking.

Artemis: She looks at Zatanna hearing her bargaining and almost chuckles.  "That’s very nice of you to offer, and while homework help and more relaxed professors sound awesome, Wally already has his mind set." Artemis says giving Zatanna a sincere look an taking another bite of a cookie. "We'll be around, as much as humanly possible."

Zatanna: "I will move in with you two, if you don't call at least once a week," she threatens. Then her lips curve in a sad smile. "I can't believe you're really doing this, it'd be so weird. You can't leave... Does anyone else know?"

Artemis: She shrugs. "Not really. I think Wally told Dick though. And you better believe we'll be skyping all the time. And visiting of course. Especially you, and Oliver and my mom..." Artemis' seemingly neutral faces falls. "I'm going to miss it like crazy Zee."

Zatanna: "Then stay," she insisted, with a big grin to soften the imperative in her voice. "Pretty, pretty please?" She sighed, the engines in her mind starting to work. "Is this because of... what happened with Tula and all of that?"

 Artemis: "Partly. Wally...he's worried something like that might happen again... And..." Artemis can't help but fall victim to Zatanna's sweet begging. "For what it's worth, I'll try talking to Wallace."

 Zatanna: "Tell that brick-head that I'll even go through the effort of casting a protection spell on you," she assured her, feigning annoyance, smiling a bit.

Artemis: "He means well, just being Wally." Artemis rolls her eyes at the thought of some of the many discussions and even arguments on the matter. "Hey, I have an idea that will cheer you up."

Zatanna: "Bring it on, girl," she smiles brightly, feeling like Artemis' and Wally's decision has somehow been at least delayed.

 Artemis: "Let's go out. Like old times. Catch a few goons" She smirks remembering their fun "girls night"; which involves all the normal girl things with a little more action.

[completelywhelmed]

He's back in the radar

Welcome back, Red Arrow!

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[completelywhelmed]

She's a sight full of Wonder...

...with a punch to match!

Welcome, Wonder Girl! 

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[backwards-spellaholic]

Wonderful Training

Zatanna: It was one of those days in which the Cave was unusually empty. Conner and M'gann had gone out and Gar was nowhere to be seen, she was regretting having come but didn't feel like going back to her home just yet. So she was just sitting at the kitchen table in front of a half-empty glass of milk, when the computer announced the arrival of Wonder Woman.

Zatanna: Zatanna quickly stood up from the stool she'd been sitting on and nodded vigorously. "Yes. Yes, I am," it had been a while since she'd stopped being intimidated by Wonder Woman, but she still admired her a lot. She started to move towards the training area. "So, how you been?" She asked in an attempt to make small conversation with the Amazon.

Wonder Woman: The two made their way into the training room, where Diana began her warm-up exercises. "I've been well. We've been busy at the Watchtower, with the new memberships."

Zatanna: "Oh," she said and stood on her place for a while, watching her warm up. She had received hers that same morning "I got mine... and I kind of don’t really know what to say yet," she mumbled, finally stretching a little, and avoiding looking at her.

Wonder Woman: She paused just slightly, just a little bit underwhelmed by her reaction. After all, Diana had been the one to suggest she be considered in the first place. Had she overestimated Zatanna? "It's a big decision, of course. I just hope you consider all angles of the situation before you do make a decision."

Zatanna: "It's not that I'm not honored that you're considering me. It's just that... I don't know," she looked down striving to find the right words. "It is a big decision and I don't know," she repeated, shrugging, "I have this feeling that accepting your offer is kinda leaving the team behind. And I'm not sure I can do that," not to mention she wasn't sure she could deal with seeing her father on a daily basis and not being able to at least talk to him.

Wonder Woman: Pulling her left arm across to the right side of her body, Diana nodded. "I understand completely. You've had experiences with the team that made you who you are, of course it feels strange to walk away. Try to think of it as the next step. Joining the league will mean so much more growth and improvement for you. And of course you'd still have the opportunity to work with them, as we mentors do."

Zatanna: Zatanna nodded, taking a moment to absorb Diana's words. "I haven't thought about it that way," she confessed. "I'll think about it," she promised and moved towards the training floor. "I'm ready when you are."

Wonder Woman: Diana stood, smiling slightly. "Let's get to it then. Today we'll just work with general hand-to-hand combat. Keeping your agility up and your senses sharp are necessary in case you're ever in a situation where using magic is impossible, right?" She sets her feet and drops into a defensive stance, smirking. "Let's see what you can do."

Zatanna: "Okay, right," she agreed. She wasn't a big fan of not using her magic, but she didn't suck that much at hand-to-hand combat. Preparing herself to attack, she tried to remember what Black Canary had taught her over the year, what she'd picked up from Artemis -especially the things she wasn't supposed to do. Feet firmly planted on the ground, she tried with a right hook.

Wonder Woman: Reading the dark-haired girl's move, she lifts her left arm up to block the hit before swinging back, stopping just before her knuckle connected with Zatanna's jaw and knocking her off her very with a sweeping kick. She looked down with a smirk and shrugged one shoulder. "Now, what went wrong there?"

Zatanna: "I'm too slow and you're too fast for me?" She tried, though probably wasn't the right answer. Probably she’d done what she had been taught not to do. She scrambled up to her feet and got ready once again.

Wonder Woman: "You put all your focus into the one swing. You can't go for a hit and forget the rest. Watch me.” She drops back into her stance and goes through motions of a right hook and then a block.  "Take the hit, but keep your eyes on your opponent.  Read their movements. "

Zatanna: She paid close attention to the woman's movements and nodded. "In my defense, can I say that I won't let my opponent get so close to me? I fight better at a distance," she smiled apologetically, "But I think I got it."

Wonder Woman: "You're right." She said, straightening up and starting to grab her lasso. "But you won't always be able to decide." Diana then grabbed her arm and performed another takedown.

Zatanna: "Ouch," this was not really doing any good to her self-esteem, even less when she kept imagining BC yelling at her for not putting into action all that she'd supposedly learnt. "Okay, okay, can we start from the top? Let's wipe the slate clean."

Wonder Woman:  Surprised, she turns back to the sparring mat. She had expected to be moving right along. "Alright, let's do it. Zero all. Your move, kid." Once again, the Amazon drops into her stance, eyeing her opponent intently.

Zatanna: Zatanna took a deep breath and cleared her head to focus it at the task at hand - takedown Wonder Woman at least once. Wincing slightly, she shook her head to shake off the idea of how impossible that seem. This time she went for a high kick, followed by a left hook.

Wonder Woman: Diana ducks the kick, and knocks Zatanna's arm back before dropping her guard and giving a smug look.

Zatanna: She hurriedly stomped on her left foot with her own heel and directed a punch with her right hand.

Wonder Woman: Shocked at the sudden turn, she has no time to plan a defense. When the punch connects, she finds herself falling backward to the mat, unable to catch herself. She looks up at the magician's proud face and chuckles. "Now that's a takedown!”

Zatanna: Despite herself, Zatanna raised her arms in triumph. "I can't believe I did it! Can I get like a signed statement certifying that this actually happened?" She joked.

Wonder Woman: Getting back to her feet, she extends a hand. "I'll write up a certificate to hang in the living room. To be awarded with your League membership." She retorted.

Zatanna: Taking her hand, she lets out a content laugh. "That'd be amazing. I'll make tours for people to see it." She bit her lip but didn't stop smiling. "So I won't get it if I say no?"

Wonder Woman: She rolls her eyes, still smiling.  "Of course you will. This is a big moment!" Diana patted her on the back.

Zatanna: "I don't want to take a decision just yet, but I think that right now, I'm sixty percent into yes," she confessed, unable to stop a feeling of self-pride. Not everyday you get a pat on the back from Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman: Feeling a bit of pride of her own, she pulls Zatanna in for a hug. "I respect whichever decision is right for you."

Zatanna: Zatanna hugged her back. "Thank you. For everything."

[backwards-spellaholic]

Wonder Woman sent me a message to meet her at the Cave for training. I'm suspecting this may have to do with the offer of joining the League, which I still don't know the answer to.

I'm bit excited for this meeting, to say the least. Not everyday you can train with the Amazon Princess.

[stealing-all-tires]

So...hot....Need shade...I shouldn't have left that place...but I couldn't stay there either...

[completelywhelmed]

He's as conniving as he is bald,

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Go say hello to our newest member of Completely Whelmed! 

[kryptonian-hot-head]

Redundancy

We fought again. I left the cave with Wolf to clear my head.

What's wrong with us? We didn't use to be like this.

 I just...need her to understand. I'm speaking from experience. No one wants someone else to mess with their heads, to have no control over your own thoughts. Memories. Feelings. 

Sphere went looking for us when we didn't return by one in the morning. She drove us to the school's football field. 

I took out my anger on the bleachers.