Please Enjoy and I only own Nalah and the Grimoire also anything in italics is either a spell or in a different language.

This is the sequel to Silver Sorceress so I advise that you read that first. To those that have read my previous story I hope you enjoy this next instalment. I would like to thank my Beta Reader and a faithful reader Squadron and I hope him along with the rest of you enjoy this new installment

Chapter 1: - Mystic Madness

Himalayas

February 2nd 5:10

I trudged through the snow, barely hearing the sound that was made as it was crunched underfoot over the howling winds. The winds slammed onto my small frame and it felt like daggers of pure ice were being repeatedly plunged into my skin, freezing my body from the inside out.

One of my pale hands kept an iron clad grip on my cloak's hood, whilst the other held a book that showed a map to my destination. My cerulean eyes gazed over the page, it showed two points, one was silver and the other was green. I could tell that my destination wasn't far due to the position of the points.

I continued my trudge through this harsh environment, normally people would be resting but I couldn't rest for I had to reach my destination soon. I eventually stopped in what appeared to be a deserted area, the winds still howled a rounded me, as the full moon cast its' silvery light onto the world.

"Reveal that which I seek to my eyes only," I chanted. The area in front of me appeared to ripple and shimmered before a towering granite building appeared. It was only roughly ten feet high with a steep staircase leading up to an open doorway but nothing of the inside could be seen from the outside.

I ascended the staircase and entered the doorway, the darkness swallowed my form to the outside world, I unclutched my hood, my hand practically frozen from being exposed to the extreme cold, I summoned a fire orb to my hand which lit up the area around me and began to warm my hand. I glanced around and was glad that I had not moved.

Blades attached to wooden poles were pointed at me, the weapons were held by hooded figures whose appearance I could not described as the hoods shadowed their faces. Another hooded figure walked forward and stood behind the guardians their eyes bore into my form.

"Who are you and why have you come?" The figure asked in the native language of this land. Luckily I had absorbed the language before beginning my trek. Pulling down my hood I revealed my visage to the people before me.

"My name is Nalah and I have come to learn," I answered.

*Young Justice*

Mt. Justice

February 2nd 7:30

Five years later

I sighed as I stared at the picture before me, it was taken shortly after Zatanna joined the team. Superboy and Miss Martian were on the right with Superboy's arm around Miss M's waist. On the left were Kid Flash and Artemis who simply stood there but both held a smile on their faces. Aqualad stood in the centre looking every bit the leader he was. Myself and Zatanna stood in between Artemisand Aqualadbut between Artemis and Zatanna was another girl.

The girl had black hair that framed her heart-shaped face and she had beautiful cerulean blue eyes. The girl was Nalah or Silver Sorceress and she had been training somewhere for five years, I often caught myself staring at this picture when I thought of her.

Five years and so much had changed, members had come and gone. Sometimes I couldn't believe what had happened and what I had done. I was no longer the optimistic and light-hearted Robin, I was the serious and calculating Nightwing, sometimes I wonder what Nalah would think of this change.

My train of thought was interrupted when an alert went off, it was a sound I hadn't heard for a while. Nalah had set up a magical alert system and that was the sound that was going off, storing the picture I raced off and arrived in the room only to be meet with a very strange sight.

Zatanna, who had left the team and joined the Justice League, was levitating in the air as she avoided the snapping serpentine heads of a strange reptile. Superboy was pulling it back by one of its' legs. Lagoon Boy, a new member and another Atlantean was pounding away at the creature's numerous heads.

"Nightwing, help. But don't cut off the heads," Zatanna called out. I nodded and proceeded to jump into the battle. We were joined by Batgirl, the new Robin, Miss Martian and Beast Boy. Zatanna charged up magical energy and then set it towards the creature, we all jumped out of the way just in time to avoid being trapped in a cage with the beast.

"What the hell is that?" Superboy asked. Everyone looked at Zatanna who floated down to the ground. She opened her mouth when suddenly a golden portal opened up and out came Doctor Fate followed by what looked to be a mismatch of different animals. It had the fore body and head of a lion, the back body and the head of a goat and a serpent for a tail. Fate summoned and ankh and trapped the creature before tossing it into the cage with the other beast.

"It would seem that you have also been attacked," Fate stated as he stood by Zatanna.

"By what exactly?" Batgirl asked. Zatanna activated the holo-screens and pulled up various news reports and each showed cities being attack by strange creatures and the remaining members of the league, the ones that weren't off world at an inter-galactic trial, were fighting them.

"All across the world creatures of myth and legends have been appearing and attacking, luckily the only fatal one to appear would be the Hydra that you dealt with," Fate explained.

"Why are they appearing though?" Beast Boy, the young shape shifter seemed completely confused.

"That is… unknown," Zatanna stated, although I could tell that she didn't look too happy about it.

"The source is unknown as the magic used to do this is too well masked. However, there maybe someone who could help," Fate stated as he instructed Zatanna on what to do. A map of the Himalayas appeared with a green spot located amongst the frozen tundra "This point indicates a monastery of magic that has existed for millennia. They may be able to help," Fate explained.

"You will need a piece for the magic to be identified," Fate stated, then he walked over and seized the serpent tail. After he had cut it off, he handed it to me and left.

"Right, we need to handle this and quickly. Since it's magic Zatanna I'm going to need your help," I instructed "Batgirl, Robin, you guys will come with us, everyone else disperse and help the league deal with this attack," I ordered. Everyone nodded and ran off to prepare.

*Young Justice*

Himalayas

February 2nd 18:57

My feet crunched the snow as the four of us trudged through the snowy landscape, following the holo-map that my computer displayed. All of us stood out like sore thumbs, but luckily no one was around to spot us.

"This is so strange, I wonder who summoned those creatures?" Robin queried us. We all glanced at him but none of us stopped moving; I was sure that all of us were wondering the same thing. I wondered who could be strong enough to mask magic from even Doctor Fate.

"Who knows, could have been an accident or it might have been deliberate Batgirl suggested. It was a nice thought, but my gut told me that this was serious and not to be waved off as an innocent accident. I heard someone trudge up beside me, I glanced through my mask to see Zatanna, a worried look marred her normally pensive face.

"Do you think it's le Fay?" Zatanna asked. A shiver rushed through my body at the thought of the dark witch who was also ironically Nalah's mother.

"Possibly, but it could also be Klarion or some other crazed magic user," I stated in response. Zatanna nodded, but then she stopped suddenly.

"We're here," She said. The rest of us looked in front only to see an empty, snow-filled landscape.

"Um… Zatanna, there's nothing here," Batgirl stated and I had to agree with Batgirl nothing was here but if being around Zatanna and Nalah had taught me anything, nothing was as it seemed, especially when magic was involved.

"Laever eht neddih thgis," Zatanna chanted and suddenly the scene before us rippled and shimmered before a towering granite building appeared. It was only roughly ten feet high with a steep staircase leading up to an open doorway, but I couldn't see inside the building.

"Ok, so something is here," Batgirl conceded. I closed down the map before heading up the stairs, followed closely by the others. We stepped inside the building and were engulfed in darkness.

"Greeeeeat," Robin drawled at the sudden loss of our sight. Then a blazing light engulfed our vision temporarily blinding us. When our sight did return we saw that we were surrounded by hooded figures holding bladed staffs that were pointed at us. One of the figures was standing behind the rest, and they spoke in a strange language that I couldn't understand.

"Do you speak English?" Zatanna asked as she stepped forward. I glanced around but apart from the hooded figures and their weapons, I couldn't see anything.

"Yes, I do," The figure replied, the voice was distinctly male. "What do you want?!" The man demanded an answer, his voice gruff and cold.

"We need your help to identify a source of unknown magic," Zatanna explained as she held up the serpent tail. The man seized the tail and looked it over.

"Follow!" the man commanded as he turned on his heel and walked into the darkness. The hooded figures formed a box around the four of us and guided us in the directions the man was heading, their weapons were still held tightly in their hands.

We walked for a while through winding hallways and down stairs until we finally came to a set of doors. They were made of limestone and a lever was resting on the ground near the doors, the man walked over to it and pulled on the lever. A loud grinding sound echoed through the underground cavern and the limestone doors were dragged open.

We enter a large circular room that was bare of everything except a mat in the centre of the room on which an old woman was sat. Her hair was snow white and her face was lightly speckled with wrinkles, her eyes were closed and it looked like she was in meditation.

"Milady, guests," The man spoke his voice heavy with respect as he bowed his hooded head to the woman. Her eyes opened revealing them to be a warm hazelnut shade.

"Welcome, children. What do you seek?" The woman greeted. We all approached the woman and Zatanna handed her the serpent tail. The woman took the tail in her hands, confusion evident on her face.

"This came from a creature of myth which came to life due to unknown magic," Zatanna explained. The woman nodded her head, she stood up and walked over to a stone alter with a bowl and different bottles. She did… something to the serpent tail, I didn't know what, as all I could see were sparks and blue smoke surging up into the air.

"This is troubling." The woman spoke before turning to us, a grim expression on her face, "My analysis proves that this creature was brought forth by Pagan magic," The woman told us. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had heard that phrase before.

"However there is only one good practitioner left, it is lucky that she is here," The woman stated and motioned for us to follow her, and we quickly took off after her. Once more we were leaded through winding tunnels until we came to a small limestone door, the woman pulled an amulet from around her neck and placed it into a slot by the door. The grinding sound echoed around us again. We entered the small room and saw that the only occupant was in meditation, I couldn't make out any features due to the hooded cloak that they wore.

"Child, you have guests that are in desperate need of your magic," The woman explained. The person stopped mediating and turn to face us as they rose from their lotus position, however when the person spotted us a light gasp rushed from the woman.

"Robin? Zatanna?" The girl asked her voice light and soothing. I was confused as to how she knew the two but then she tackled Zatanna with a tight hug shocking the magician. The hood of her cloak slipped down revealing a pale heart shaped face, rich black hair that framed the face perfectly and sparkling cerulean eyes.

"N-Nalah?" Zatanna stuttered out before returning the hug to the sorceress. My breath had been stolen as I stared at the girl who just this morning I had been thinking of, she was still as beautiful as the day she left.

"Well aren't you going to hug me or are you too whelmed?" Nalah questioned in a joking manner as she turned to me, a bright smile on her face. I chuckled at the use of one of my made up words, and I pulled her into a tight hug.

"Not that I'm not glad to see you guys, but what are you doing here?" Nalah asked, confusion evident in her tone.

"Well, mythological creatures have been appearing summoned by Pagan magic and can that even happen?" Zatanna questioned completely confused by what was happening.

"It's February 2nd which is the Pagan Sabbath Imbolc, and on the Sabbaths Pagan magic is magnified, so it is possible. But don't worry I'm on it," Nalah stated and she performed a spell which, I guess, would allow her to locate the source, "I've found them. Are there any Zeta tubes nearby?" Nalah asked us. I shook my head.

"Thank the Triple Goddess," Nalah whispered, however I still heard it and I held in a laugh at her technology aversion, "We'll have to go by portal then," Nalah stated and she immediately opened a swirling blue vortex. Nalah stepped through the portal and we quickly followed after her.

*Young Justice*

London

February 2nd 13:24

I stepped out of the portal and took in a deep breath, the bustling city was quite the contrast to the quiet monastery. I turned to the four people that had come for my help, Zatanna looked the same as ever, but Robin had definitely changed.

Robin had grown considerably taller, roughly the same height as Batman and he was well-muscled. His hair had also grown considerably longer and it ended just passed his ears. His uniform now comprises a black unitard, black shoulder pads, boots and gloves. The chest area of his uniform was emblazoned with a blue bird with its wings expanded and his abdomen area was coloured in a lighter grey. He wore a black utility belt and carried his stick weapons in a holster on the side of his right leg.

I looked at the other two one boy and one girl, the boy was young probably only 13-14, he had a muscular build and short black hair. His attire was similar yet distinguished from Robin's previous outfit, in that he wore a red and black suit with a stylized yellow "R" symbol on the left side of his chest also the sleeves covered entire arm. He also wears black gloves and a black cape, with the inside being yellow and having a shape similar to Batman's cape. He also covered his eyes with a black domino mask.

The girl was roughly my age, from what I could discern, with a slender and fairly muscular build. She wore a dark grey form fitting costume with a black bat symbol, and black padding at the abdomen and lower back. She also had black boots, gloves and a black cape and cowl.

"We are talking about this Robin," I told Robin, who sighed, luckily we were in an alley way so no one could see us.

"Nalah I go by Nightwing now. This is Robin," Robin said as he gestured to the young boy. I blinked in surprise, this was too soon for me take in, but I took a deep breath to calm myself down.

"Ok, but we really need to talk later. But first let's stop le Fay," I said and I floated up to the top of the building followed quickly by the others. I looked down only to see a Bastet prowling the area around the building. It was a large black panther with huge black bat wings extending from its back.

"What is that thing?" The other girl asked as she crouched next to me, her eyes locked on the prowling beast.

"A Bastet. We'll need someone to distract it whilst myself and another sneak in," I stated, looking at the other three, Rob-Nightwing nodded in agreement to the plan.

"Alright Batgirl, Robin and Zatanna you distract the Bastet, whilst me and Silver Sorceress go in and stop le Fay," R-Nightwing instructed. I allowed a small smile to come across my face at his natural leadership finally shining through.

The others nodded then they leapt down and began to engage the Bastet, Nightwing motioned for me to follow him as he opened a roof window and we snuck inside the building which turned out to be a museum. I felt the magical tug and I followed it through the building.

"You know where you're going?" My companion asked. I nodded, focusing on the magical feeling as I followed it to its origin. We enter a large room with an exhibition. But the central exhibit was surrounded by roaring black flames and the pressure of black magic was present in the room.

"So you came out of hiding at last," Mordred's voice echoed as he stepped out, looking the same as he did five years ago.

"And I see you're still a snot nosed brat," I retorted, Mordred snarled at me and charged forward as he drew his sword. I flicked my hand and he was sent flying back. My magic had gotten stronger over the years and the training had only further my control over it.

"You've gotten stronger, but so have I." Mordred stated and launched a blast of black magic at me. I summoned my shield and it withstood the attack, through the flames I saw Morgaine's hair and dress and I snarled at seeing that wicked woman. Suddenly Nightwing charged forward and began to engage Mordred in combat.

"Go deal with her, I'll handle him," He reassured me. I nodded and charged forward, leaping over the black flames with the use of the wind. I landed behind Morgaine, she was within a ritual circle in front of a medallion which was a Triskelion.

"So you've come, but you're far too late." Morgaine stated as she stood up and turned to face me, "Your magic is no match for me and your pretty little boyfriend is occupied with my son." Morgaine teased.

"People change over time, Morgaine," I stated and I threw a blast of light at her, she countered with a black sphere. We launched magic attacks at each other for some time before she fired a powerful black magic blast at me sending me spiralling back, I slammed into the evil flames and I felt them scorched my skin. I pushed myself up as I glared at Morgaine.

"I told you, girl, you're too weak," Morgaine taunted, a smug tone lacing each of her words.

"No more miss nice girl," I growled out as I stood up gathering my energy, I noticed Morgaine flinch at my tone.

"You wouldn't dare unleash Curse." Morgaine stated, but I could tell she was unsure about her own words.

"Not Curse herself, but her powers are another story. Especially since I can now control them." I stated.

'And I hate you for it!' Curse exclaimed in my head, but I ignored her and weakened the mental barriers. I felt Curse's magic flow through me energising me.

"What are you doing?!" Morgaine cried out as she recoiled back. I could tell that she was shocked after all two streaks of platinum blonde coursed through my hair and my eye had become a rich shade of violet.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." I chanted, using the mantra a friend had taught me on how to focus when using the strongest of Curse's powers. Darkness began to churn and swirl around me, and I thrust it forward, sending out the dark energy towards Morgaine, the darkness slammed into her forcing her back, she cried in pain as the darkness retreated.

"This…isn't over, girl." Morgaine huffed as she shakily rose to her feet, before she opened a portal and disappeared through it. I focused my energy and sent out white flames which merged with and consumed the black flames before I put it out. I saw that Mordred had vanished as well.

I turned my attention to the amulet I stepped into the ritual circle and began to undo the magic that Morgaine had caused. The ebb of magic began to lessen and eventually it faded away altogether. Smiling I grabbed the medallion and held it up to Ro-Nightwing.

"Does Kid still do souvenirs?" I asked. He laughed and smiled at me so I took that as a yes.

"Everything ok?" Zatanna's exhausted voice called out. Behind Nightwing were the three we had sent to deal with the Bastet. They were exhausted and there were even rips in places on their costumes

"Yeah Nalah managed to stop Morgaine and undo the spell. By the way, what happened?" Nightwing asked, curiosity lacing his voice.

"This amulet combined with the magnified powers when used in a Mystic Madness spell caused the creatures of old to come to life." I explained. Nightwing nodded before heading to a nearby Zeta tube so that we could head back to Mt. Justice…despite my protests.

*Young Justice*

Mt Justice

February 2nd 8:20

We exited the Zeta transport and I looked around the area happy to see that it hadn't changed since I left, as I looked around I spotted an odd sight. An amphibious creature, he had green skin, red eyes and webbed ears, claws and feet. He has dark green fins on his head, the ends of which he had tied in a ponytail. He wore black shorts, and a black pouch around his ankle.

However the oddity came from the fact that he had his hands around M'gann's waist. I went over and tapped his shoulder causing him and M'gann to look at me, I noticed that M'gann's hair was shorter than five years ago.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I asked the amphibian. Before he could respond I felt a hand on my shoulder and I turned to face M'gann who held a shocked look on her face.

"Nalah?" M'gann asked. I nodded and couldn't resist a smile spreading on my face. The Martian then tackled me with a hug almost squeezing the air out of my lungs.

"M'gann choking not breathing." I croaked out. The young girl swiftly released me but a bright gleaming smile rest on her green skin.

"I'm so happy you're back, I really, really missed you." M'gann exclaimed as she held my hand "Oh by the way, this is La'gaan, my new boyfriend," M'gann explained as she stood by the amphibious creature.

"So you must be the Silver sorceress that angel fish told me about." La'gaan stated as he smiled at me in a friendly way, but I didn't like this.

"What about Conner?" I asked M'gann and she lost the vibrancy in her face. She opened her mouth to respond but was cut off by someone else.

"We broke up," Conner's voice sounded. I turned to see that the clone had not even aged a day since I left. Conner walked up to me and smiled "Good to see you Sorceress," Conner greeted me and I nodded in reply.

"Hey, what's going on in here?" A female voice called out. I looked over to see five more people enter the room, two girl and three boys.

One of the girls was a young African American girl, she had a pixie hair cut with a sweep bang and she wore a black and yellow costume that resembled a bumblebee. The other girl had a slender yet muscular build with blue eyes and blonde hair with unkempt bangs. Her hair was long, running down her back, and she wore a black headband. She wore a black sleeveless top with two stylized golden W's on it, which resemble the W's that Wonder Woman wore, across her camisole. She has red pants with two white stripes on the sides, and blue shoes. Like Wonder Woman, she wears two silver bracelets and star earrings though they were silver instead of red, and she had a golden lasso that hung at her waist.

One of the boys was a rather tall and muscular African-American male with short black hair and brown eyes. He wore a form-fitting shirt and pants. Another boy was a tanned teenage male with short black hair and brown eyes. He wore a sweatshirt, t-shirt and jeans. The final boy had pale green skin with green eyes and dark green hair, he had a simian-like form, which had dark green fur and a prehensile monkey tail. He wore a red and white single piece uniform

"What the? Ro-Nightwing!" I exclaimed. Nightwing held up his hands innocently "Explain," I stated to the detective who sighed.

"We got some new members and lost some, so let me introduce you," Nightwing explained "You've already meet La'gaan also known as Lagoon Boy," Nightwing gestured. I nodded before Nightwing turned me to the other two who had accompanied him, me and Zatanna.

"This is Batgirl and Robin as you already know," Nightwing stated before turning me to the group of five. "And here we have Karen also known as Bumblebee, Cassie also known as Wonder Girl, Mal who is an assistant, Jamie also known as Blue Beetle and Garfield also known as Beast Boy," Nightwing introduced as he gestured to the African-American girl, then the blonde girl, then the African-American man, then the tanned boy and finally the green skinned boy.

"Garfield as in Garfield Logan?" I questioned remembering the young boy whose life M'gann had saved.

"Yeah, nice to see you again," Garfield greeted and waved. I sent a gentle smile to the young boy.

"Everyone this is Nalah also known as Silver Sorceress and she's a member of the team and has been for 5 years. She's just finished training, ok," Nightwing introduced and everyone greeted me

"Where's Kid, Artemis and Aqualad?" I asked. Suddenly a chilling silence had descended upon the room almost as if I had said something wrong.

"Kid and Artemis are still together, but they quit the hero gig and are going to college. Beast Boy has taken over souvenirs," Nightwing explained. I pulled out the amulet ad handed it to him, he smiled and I was glad someone had brightened up.

"As for Aqualad it's complicated but he's also left the team," Nightwing stated but he seemed uneasy.

"Neptune's Beard, why are you trying to shroud the truth? Aqualad is a trai-," La'gaan exclaimed but M'gann had covered up his mouth preventing him from finishing his sentence. M'gann then released him and he fell quiet.

"Why do I have a feeling that I've just jumped into a chalice full of trouble?" I asked, causing a laugh to erupt from the oldest team members

*Young Justice

Zatanna's spells

Laever eht neddih thgis – Reveal the hidden sight