Sara's Decision

Chapter 38

The next night the team was in the bunker and they were waiting for Constantine and Zatanna to show up so they could learn how to use the magic in their tattoos to repel Darhk's magic.

A portal appeared and Constantine and a woman, who everyone assumed was Zatanna walked out. Once the portal closed, Constantine walked up to Oliver and shook his hand.

"It is good to see you again mate." Constantine said.

"You too John. So, what do we need to do for this training?" Oliver asked.

"First I will use a very lose dose of dark magic on you and see who can repel it. If you can repel it then I will up the dose of magic until I am using my full power. If you can stop that, you will be fine against Darhk." Constantine said.

"Ok, let's do this. Who wants to go first?" Oliver asked.

"I will." Laurel said.

"Ok love, I will start off easy and then I will gradually raise the power until you can no longer stop it." Constantine said and Laurel nodded.

John shot some of his dark magic at Laurel and she was able to counter it with her own magic. John kept doing this until he got to his full power and Laurel was still repelling his magic. Once they were done, John looked at the rest of Team Arrow and said "This girl right here is pure light. She will always be able to fight the darkness. If you let the darkness inside of you out way the light, then you will not be able to stop Darhk. Laurel will not have that problem. Who's next?"

"I will go." Sara said.

Sara had learned to forgive herself for her past sins a long time ago. That is why the blood lust no longer had control of her like it did when she was first brought back to life. John used a little bit of magic on her and she was able to repel it just as Laurel was able to. When he upped the power, she had a little bit of trouble until she thought about all of the good things that she had in life now and then she was able to repel it until John could no longer increase his power.

"Well, it looks like these two are both pure light. Darhk will not be able to control them." Constantine said.

"I don't know about that. I have a darkness in me. I just know how to channel the light when I need to." Sara said.

"Well, you might have to teach me how to do that." Oliver said.

"I will give you some tips before you go." Sara said and Oliver nodded.

Thea went next and she did just as good as Laurel and Sara had. The reason for this is because she was never trained by Malcolm Merlyn in this timeline to make her into the dark person, she was the last time around.

Roy decided that he would go next and he had a hard time with this because he wasn't able to get past the fact that he had a hard life up until this point. The more they worked with him the better he was getting at it though. John sent Roy off with Zatanna to work for a little while, while he worked on the next person which was Emiko.

Emiko seemed to be pretty good at repelling the magic as well. The team didn't think she would be this good at it, but it seems that being as she was now part of the Queen family and her siblings had excepted her, she was able to let go of the darkness that had been inside of her in the other timeline.

Now it was finally time for Oliver to get his turn with trying to repel the magic. Before he went up and started working with Constantine he walked over to Sara and asked, "How can I repel this when I know there is darkness inside of me?"

"You just have to focus on the light that is in your life. You think about Thea, Laurel, Emiko, and me. Think of our voices when the darkness starts to close in around you. That is what I did, and it worked for me, so it should be able to work for you as well." Sara said.

"Ok, I will give it a try." Oliver said.

Oliver walked up to Constantine and they began with a low dose of magic. Oliver repelled it easily. When Constantine upped his power, Oliver did as Sara had told him and it looked like it was working. He didn't realize that he had any kind of light left in him after all he had been through, so he had to use others as his light, and it seemed that it would be able to work for him.

"Looks like you got the hang of it mate. That really is surprising me." Constantine said.

"You aren't the only one who is surprised. I didn't think I had any light in me at all." Oliver said.

"Oh, come on mate. I don't think you would be able to keep all these beautiful women around you if you didn't have some light inside of you." Constantine said.

"I guess you are right. So, it looks like Roy is getting better at this. Could you come back and give us a refresher in a week or so?" Oliver asked.

"Yeah, Let's say next week at eight?" Constantine asked.

"Sounds good. We will see the both of you then." Oliver said.

"See you around mate." Constantine said as he and Zatanna walked through a portal leaving the bunker.

"How were all of you able to get the hang of this so easily?" Roy asked.

"Look Roy, they will be back next week. When they get here, I want you to think about all of the good stuff that you have in your life. That is what I did, and it worked for me, so if you are able to do it, it should work for you as well." Oliver said.

"I will give anything a try." Roy said.

"Ok, so that was mentally draining so why don't we all call it a night and we can all get back to work tomorrow night." Sara said and everyone nodded and headed out of the bunker to head home for the night.