MAELSTROM [femPercy x DC]

Chapter 22 - "So he's your... ex-fiancé?"

"Hold up. What did you say?!" Percy all but screamed into the phone.

"I said, I've got a lead on your mother. I'm still in town, Meet me on the roof of Gotham Academy." Talia said, before hanging up.

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Percy, way too excited and anxious to protest quickly pulled on her uniform before mist travelling onto the G.A roof.

"Gotham Academy, really?"

 "I do not need to explain myself to you. Anyways, this is what one of my men found. He's a son of Mercury. Might be why he was the only one to actually manage to get the slightest trace of her. The last trace of Salana, across any camera, any trackers and basically anything. Apparently, Marcus and Eight, another assassin who is a daughter of Hecate, managed to use some locator spell of theirs to find out who had her last. And that is the one person I hate most in the world."

"Bruce?" Percy gasped, shocked

"No. I love him, not hate. It's Deathstroke. That evil vermin who actually managed to kidnap me when the league was still broken."

"Ah, so he's your... ex-fiancé? Like before Bats showed up and blew Grandpa's mind with his 'awesomeness'" 

Talia paused, grimacing at the thought.

"...Not really, but essentially, yes."

"So the guy we need to bust now is Deathstroke, right?"

"Yes, we have a tail on him right now. We'll head to my place, gather some weapons, you have your katana, yes? Ok, so we'll prepare. Percy, do not make the mistake of underestimating Deathstroke. Before Bruce, he was the strongest. He is not an easy enemy."

"Of course." Percy said, gripping her sword, "Is he a demi too?"

"No. Fortunately not, however he has the strength of that Ares girl of yours... Clarice was it?"

"Clarisse, she'd kill you if she heard you calling her that. Or try to. Anyways, that's not too bad, but she's pretty strong. And like you said, I can't use my powers, so at most I can only use any water to give me extra strength or something."

Talia closed her eyes, before nodding curtly.

"That is correct. Now, do you think you are ready? You've already heard all about the man, you decide for yourself, 'is this target one that I can hit?'"

"I do. Honestly, after everything, how hard could it be, beating this one dude?"

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Percy regretted saying that. To fight 'that one dude', she'd have to find him first, and he appeared to be just too brilliant at hiding himself. And he didn't know they were after him, so he was just good in general. Of course, as one of the league's former members and probably one of the strongest, that was expected. 

Percy had expected it, just not this much.

Percy and Talia mist-travelled to the location the tail had sent them [some forest, the tail sent Percy a picture to visualise with.] and had caught up to the member who was tailing him, and continued following him silently. This was an interrogation mission, not an extermination one, so they actually had to get him isolated enough to talk in private without attracting attention.