Jaime Reyes One Shots

Selene

     I ran through the woods, my bow drawn and an arrow notched, I looked over at my mother and her hunters, I waited for her signal. She nodded and I let my arrow fly, it hit the bear with perfect precision, the hunters released their arrows and they all hit their marks as well. We watched the bear fall as we slowly walked over, I listened for the sound of a monster approaching, with this many demigods in one area, a monster was bound to find us. I heard the sounds of a fight about 15-20 feet away from us, I looked at my mother and she nodded, I nodded in return before taking off towards the fight. I made it and saw a team of what looked to be superheros fighting a Minotaur. I huffed before notching an arrow and letting it fly at the Minotaur, the heroes looked at me in shock but I ignored them and continued firing arrow after arrow at the Minotaur, it roared at me in anger and charged. I quickly slung my bow onto my back and drew my celestial-bronze sword, I ran forward and slid under the Minotaur's arms as I slashed at its side with my sword. I stood and spun around as I used my Umbrakinesis to surround the Minotaur in shadows, I used the shadows as chains to pin the Minotaur down, I stalked over and stabbed the Minotaur in the head. I flicked the blood off my sword and removed my arrows from the Minotaur's body, I cleaned the arrows and my sword with my black cloth before returning them to their rightful places. I heard the heroes approaching me, one of them spoke up, he had a slight Spanish accent,
     "What was that?!?! You never said anything about us dealing with, whatever that was!" I turned to face them to see the one that looked like a blue bug shouting at the man in a black suit with a blue bird on his chest, I noticed the redhead in a white and red suit was staring at me, while the final kid was a blonde girl who seemed to have a sleeveless shirt with the Wonder Woman symbol on it. They must be members of the Young Justice League, mother mentioned them once in passing, something about Diana saying they would be helpful on some hunts?
   "That, was a Minotaur, a monster from Tartarus. I had a theory that one was in the area, but I did not think it would attack mortals such as yourselves." I could tell my voice surprised them, I had often been told that it was smooth and sounded as musical as a lyre, I wasn't surprised by the comparison, a lyre was my mothers musical instrument. I sighed at the way the males were looking at me, all of them save the bug boy were staring at my body, I knew that I was beautiful, I was reminded of it often by the hunters. I was formed from a constellation, my mother wanted a daughter but she prided her chastity so she created me from the stars. Because of that I had pure black hair, my eyes were a deep midnight blue with specks of silver making my eyes look like the starry night sky, and I had fair skin, I had a lean shape, I wasn't tall, but I wasn't short either. I looked back in the direction where I had come from when I heard footsteps, I soon saw my mother and her hunters emerge.
   "Mother, I believe that these are some of the Young Justice members Diana told us of. They were being attacked by a Minotaur, I do not sense any of them to be demigods, but perhaps the apprentice of Diana is." I noticed my mother was glaring at the man in a black suit with a blue bird on his chest, he seemed to be the leader of their team.
   "You must be Nightwing, Diana has told me much about you. You are lucky that I feel generous tonight. What are you doing here?" I turned to face the team once more as Nightwing, the man I presumed to be leader, stepped forward and kept eye contact with my mother, well, as best of eye contact one can maintain with a mask.
   "I am Nightwing, I'm here because Wonder Woman told us that you and your hunters would be here tonight hunting a bear, I was also told that your daughter would be with you. I was wondering if your daughter would be interested in joining our team, we could use her help on our team." I rose a brow at him before looking at my mother, I could tell she did not trust him. I placed a hand on her arm before nodding.
   "I would be honored to join your team, Nightwing. I merely request one thing, should my mother and her hunters need me, I am allowed to leave and assist them at once." Nightwing nodded and promised me that I could. I smiled at this before facing my mother, she seemed hesitant but nodded. She hugged me before turning and leaving, they had more hunts to complete after all. I turned to face my new team members, Nightwing gestured for us to move, the blue bug boy flew above us while the redhead took off in a sprint and turned into a blur, leaving us all long behind, Diana's apprentice followed but walked backwards so that she could talk to me.
   "Hi! I'm Wonder Girl, but you can call me Cassie. The redhead speedster is Impulse or Bart, you know Nightwing, and last but not least the boy in a bug suit is Blue Beetle, or Jaime. What's your name? And I thought Artemis was one of the maiden Goddess's?" I smirked at the last question as I nodded, I started following them, falling into step with Cassie, she spun around to walk forwards as she looked over at me, I kept my gaze forward but I did tilt my head to her as acknowledgment.
   "My name is Selene, and yes, my mother is a maiden Goddess, she created me from the stars, that is why I do not bare much semblance to her. I have no father, and really no mother, Artemis is merely my creator, but she treats me like her daughter so I have always thought of her as my mother. I am curious, why were you wanting me to join your team? From what Diana has told us your team is very strong and does not require assistance?" I was curious, and I suppose my question surprised Jaime as he flew down so that he was hovering just above Cassie and I.
   "The team's always looking for new people, and honestly, none of us were told that we were recruiting someone. Nightwing just told Cassie and I to go with him, and since Bart practically refuses to leave my side he tagged along." As he finished that I felt a gust of wind and suddenly Bart was walking backwards in front of Cassie and I. I rose a brow at him as he grinned widely at us before he started running circles around us.
   "This is so crash!!!! You being apart of the team, we're so gonna crash the mode now!!" I was confused as to what he was saying, crash and mode did not get used in the way he was using them.
   "I believe that you are using 'crash' and 'mode' wrong Bart. Unless, you are from the future!" I snapped my fingers as I came to this conclusion, I looked at Bart as he skidded to a stop in front of us, we had stopped beside a ship, Jaime landed and allowed his armor to retract. Bart stared at me as he tried to figure out how I had come to my conclusion.
   "I am from the future, how'd you figure that out so fast!? Are you able to read minds too!!!? The history books didn't actually have much about you other than you not following your mom's example of staying away from men, and that you were one of the strongest warriors." I rose a brow at that before shrugging, I followed them as they all walked onto the ship, I noticed that Nightwing was sitting in what looked to be the pilots spot, but I had a feeling this was not his ship. I could see that Jaime was getting slightly irritated by something and that he was glaring at his shoulder, no, he was attempting to glare at his back.
   "No, I do not have the capability to read minds, I am simply very observant, and while I do not know much of the mortals world I do know that 'crash' and 'mode' are not used in slang the way you were using them." I slowly walked over to a seat behind Cassie and across from Jaime, Bart sat down in the one in front of Jaime while he continued asking me many questions, I did my best to answer all of them, Cassie would also occasionally ask a question, Nightwing mostly remained silent but he would occasionally ask me something, but Jaime seemed to be muttering to himself, I noticed that the others were all ignoring it, but I noticed how he kept his gaze trained on his "shoulder" I noticed that his annoyance and frustration were slowly increasing until he snapped.
   "No! It would not be optimal to obliterate her! She is an ally, an ally! Ally means teammate, which means we help them and work together.... NO she is not a threat!!! That doesn't mean anything hermano! Callate! Por favor, just leave it alone!" Everyone stared at him in shock but I was curious, I looked at him trying to figure out what could be causing this outburst.
   "Jaime, what gives you your abilities? And, who were you just shouting at?" He looked sheepish and rubbed the back of his neck before sighing and jabbing a thumb at his spine.
   "I have a scarab attached to my spine, it gives me the suit and the powers, but it also talks to me. Gives me advice, most of the time it's helpful, at least now it is, but occasionally it still tells me to eliminate or terminate someone. Think Jimminy Cricket, but with a bad attitude." I took that in before getting an idea.
   "Can it hear your thoughts? You could talk to your scarab mentally, if that makes you more comfortable. It is just a suggestion however, you do not have to if you do not wish to." Jaime blinked at me in confusion before grinning.
   "That's a genius idea hermosa! Gracias!" I blinked and tried to think about what hermosa meant, I recognized gracias but hermosa was a new one. I was about to ask him what it meant but I decided not to, I would figure it out in time. It would be nice to be apart of this team.

    "Hermosa? Where are you?" I heard Jaime's Spanish accented voice carry through our apartment and smiled before calling back to him.
     "I am in the bedroom Jaime!" I heard footsteps and then the door open, Jaime walked in and came to stand behind me, his arms coming to wrap around me. I smiled and leaned back into his embrace. Jaime and I both looked out our window to stare at the full moon, I smiled before hearing the chirping of Khaji Da, I heard Jaime huff and I could tell he and Khaji were arguing in his head. I turned my head and kissed Jaime's cheek. He smiled at me as he kissed my forehead, he sighed and I could feel all the tension flooding out of his system.
    "Long day?"
    "You have no idea hermosa." I smiled and scratched the back of his head before he and I climbed into bed and went to sleep, I was blessed to have him as my husband, my mother may not like men, but Jaime is not like most men, he genuinely cares for those around him and will do whatever he can to help people and make this world better, and for that, I am eternally grateful.