A Dragon's Love (Young Justice)

Get It Away!

"Attention Robin, Attention Artemis. You have exactly 10 minutes to surrender, or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished." I hear as my vision slowly begins to come back. "Ow. My head..." I groan, eyes closed tight. "Dracona. Are you alright?" I hear. "I'll be fine." I mutter. Slowly, I open my eyes, seeing Kid and Superboy trapped inside metal in front of me. I try to move my arms, but they don't move from the walls. I look to see they've been stuck to the wall with metal bars. If I wasn't so disoriented right now, I could get out of this mess.

I look up to see one of the intruders, and I'm shocked to see an android. She's covered with fire, and is staring at something on the platform above where I'm trapped. "Aqualad? Miss Martian?" I call out. A fireball comes flying towards me and hits me in the chest, knocking the wind out of me.

Then, another android comes out from the waters of the bay. He lifts his arm, and the water begins to rise. My eyes grow wide with fear and I scream in terror. Why, hello there. Would you like to swim with me? I hear her voice echoing in my head.

"Dracona! What's wrong?!" Kid and Superboy ask. I hear them, but my main focus is the water, currently inches below my feet, and coming closer. I start hyperventilating. "No. No, no, no. Get it away from me!" I yell out in fear, kicking, "Get it away! Don't let it touch me!" I start spitting fire at the water surrounding me, trying to get away. The fire does no good, though. It hits the water, steams and sizzles, then goes away.

"Nine minutes and 45 seconds." The male robot states, coming closer to us. I barely hear him. I can barely even breathe. "James! James!" I scream. "Help me! James! Please, help me!" I'm hit with another fireball, and my screams fall into tiny whispers as I gasp for air.

Suddenly, Robin and Artemis both come up gasping from the water, catching my attention for only a moment. "Look out!" Kid warns them, and they quickly dive back under to avoid the fireball from the female robot. They resurface closer to Kid and Superboy. "You guys okay?" I hear Robin.

"Forget us. Help M'gann." Superboy tells them, gesturing to above me. "Aqualad, is she..." "She is unconscious. I fear she... we cannot survive much longer." I hear above me, but he sounds weak from exhaustion. Whatever's going on up there, it's killing them. The robot comes over to where the four are and starts shooting more flames at them.

Gathering up my courage, and trying my best to ignore the water beneath me, I build up a flame within my chest, and when the android is close enough to where I won't hurt the others, I spit a massive stream of fire at her, sending her flying a few feet before she falls into the water. That however, seems to have failed, because she was back up in the air and ablaze mere seconds afterward. A stream of water splashes over me, and I mentally start to panic as I hold my breath. Then, it just drops, and I'm gasping, sobbing.

Something happens to my left, where the stairs should be, but I can't tell what. All I know is there's a splash, and the commotion stops. "6 minutes." I look back at the water, and instantly regret it. I whimper, and look up at the ceiling, trying to ignore the liquid centimeters below my feet. "Dracona, what is the matter with you?" Wally yells at me. I look at him. Big mistake. I end up staring at the water, tears streaming from my eyes. "Please James... Please save me... You did it before, please do it again... Please James..." I say, mostly to myself, soaking wet. I didn't care if the others could hear me or not. It didn't matter. I was sobbing anyways.

I'm so lost in my thoughts that I no longer know what's going on around me. Not until Kid and Superboy start yelling, that is. "Hey, Red Tomato. Who's your girlfriend, Red Onion?" "Yeah, and by the way, worst death trap ever." 'What are they doing?' I wonder. I'm not about to say anything, though, not if they have a plan. "We can escape anytime we want."

"I can vibrate my molecules out of here before your binary brains can count to two." "And you can't drown a Kryptonian, dumbbots. We don't breathe air." Kid laughs. "And Ms. Martian? I can't believe you're buying her act." "Yeah. You know how hot it gets in the caves of Mars? That cage is just making her homesick. Duh!" Kid laughs again. "How about Dracona? Isn't she a great actress. She's only pretending to be too weak to get out of her bindings."

"Robin, look out!" Artemis calls out. A wave goes over to where Robin evidently is at, sweeping him off of the platform, and up to where the androids, Kaldur, and M'gann are located. Flames go over to another platform, where Artemis seems to be. Then, silence once more.