The Next Archer

Chapter 1

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10:45pm

December 2

Queen Consolidated Labs

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Two female figures dropped in from the top running across the side of the building. There stances low the older girl, a brunette assassin with criminal history, went in through the window and the other, a younger blonde who never had experience went in behind her.

The older girl went to a cabinet and pointed to a spot in the room that was covered in moon light. The younger went over and stood guard, her bow off to her side the moon so bright that she couldn't see the motion sensor flashing silently.

Quiet alarms went off and notified not just the police but the queen computer system, including the "arrow cave".

Guards came through the doors startling the young girl. She raised her bow confidently and shot the guards shooting them through the chests on sight

"Artemis!! Guard me, I'm getting the information" the older girl yelled and disappeared into the darkness of the building, not planning on retrieving her sister.

Artemis looked after her and then sighed to her self and started shooting again. After all the guards were down, the police arrived guns pointed and them surrounding her there was no way out.

Officer Lance came through the door his gun cocked and pointed at her "put the...bow..down" he said his eyes widening then glaring at the 17 year old girl. The girl finally raised her head, her tattered brown hood falling off her blonde head, her steel grey eyes meeting Officer Lance's.

The young archer dropped her bow but kept an arrow in her hand, all of a sudden she realized she couldn't win, she had heard a door close and knew her sister left her so she dropped the arrow.

The blondes lower lip quivered slightly, she was abandoned. She kept her emotions in check Officer Lance lowered his gun and came towards her slowly "Get on your knees..." He said gently trying not to make her become distraught.

The blonde did what she was told and put her hands above her head.

Officer Lance then got a phone call from -Him-

"After your interrogation, bring her to the roof top, I need to do my own interrogation" the auto tuned voice said then hung up.

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-Same time-

May 2

The 'arrow' cave

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"Oliver, you might want to take a look at this" felicity spoke as she looked at her computer screens. It showed the hole scene and Oliver's eyes widen.

Diggle comes up behind Oliver looking at the screens also

"don't tell me there was a 17 year old girl on the island with you" John said his arms crossed as he looked at Oliver then the screen again.

Oliver shook his head slowly, backing up towards the equipment "no, I've never seen her before in my entire life, Felicity, I want you to go through everything on her, that girl was trained...her aims were right on target, I'm getting her from Lance..." He said grabbing his bow "I'll be back in an hour, Diggle set up the equipment for interrogation if needed" was all he said before leaving.

"He's really interested in this girl, don't you think?" Felicity said to diggle looking up at him questionably "Do you think he knows her?" Diggle shook his head "Yeah, but with the look in his eye, he had no idea who's she was" John replied looking down at felicity.

"I worry about Oliver sometimes..." Felicity said turning her chair around and starting to do some research on why the league would've wanted someone so young in their forces, John looking at her, he rolled his eyes then went off to do his task.

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They sat the blonde down in the interrogation room. The police tried to get something out of her but the female archer didn't say anything except her name.

"Artemis" she whispered and officer Lance told everyone to leave the room. From there he grabbed her up "hey let-"

Quince brought Artemis to the roof tops "hey, arrow guy, here she is, now what on earth do you want?" Lance said before an arrow shot into the wall beside them and Arrow zipped to them.

"Thank you Detective Lance" the morfed voice started "now leave"

Lance turned towards arrow "what? I'm not just going to leave her with-"

"Leave" the dark voice said q

Lance grumbled and left the seventeen year old blonde with the masked vigilante

"What's your name" he said circling her slowly

"Artemis" she said almost automatically as if he gave her a command She looked at him.

"What- never mind, why did you break into Queen Consolidated?" He said , glad he hadn't asked her if they had met before although she looked oddly familiar to him. He looked at her bow that he had grabbed from the investigation room. He looked at her bow as he listened.

"Why should I answer to you" she quipped back, being the spitfire she was.

"Because you can aim and fire almost with something close to perfection" the male archer said standing in front of her staring at her expectantly.

"Am I suppose to be pleased by you complimenting me? like you're someone I'm suppose to impress?" Artemis asked crossing her arms. Showing him she wasn't afraid of him, but really, his profile as a vigilante hero type, it made her wary of her choices of words.

"Where did you learn moves like that?" The arrow grabbed her shoulder and turned her around to look at him

"The shadows is family business" she said and looked up to meet her eyes with his mask. "or at least thats what everyone keeps on telling me.

"You where taught by the league of assassins?" He guessed and she said nothing. "How old where you?" Oliver's eyes softened looking down at the young teen.

"I was five..." Artemis said lowering her head. Oliver looks at the girl again, his eyes filled with sympathy for the young girl

"How old are you now?" He questioned

"Seventeen, I'm short" the blonde looked at him and then sighed "I'll be tracked down, they'll want me back...the need only one way-"

"One way they release member, it is by killing them off" Oliver finished for her "but you aren't like them, are you?"

The female archer shook her head, she was looking at the ground or the cement roof top. She thought the 'interview' was over when the question came. "Besides your sister, who else is in your family"

Artemis would've, and should've refused to say it but she was tried of keeping everything in to her, and possibly, maybe arrow could help her. Save her from the assassins that would come for her soon.

"My father is SportsMaster and my mother is, or was The Hunter, they were master assassins for Ras'al Gul until my mother fell from a building and was paralyzed from the waist down, my dad then abandoned Jade and I in the league, then disappeared and we haven't heard of him since" the girl looked off into starlings brightened city then back at its savior as he spoke "some say he is dead..but you can never believe what you can't see"

"Artemis I think I can help you get out" he said turning towards her again. Her steel grey eyes lit up.

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