Injustice 3: The Might of Magic (Book 3)

The Man:

I stomp on the ground before drawing a circle with my arms.

"Llpospe tion," I chant. A golden cross appears out of thin air right before me, immediately followed by a large golden shield. As Morgan le Fay's and Mordru's magical orb hits my shield, it shatters and breaks apart.

"Impossible," Mordru says, lowering his arms. His eyes shake with worry as I draw ancient runes with my fingers. The ancient runes hang in the air as I draw more and more of them, each rune glowing with more power every passing second.

"What magic is that," Morgan says. "I have never seen any magic like that before!"

"Nor have I," Mordru says.

"Who cares," Klarion the Witch Boy yells. "Attack that old fart!"

Klarion pulls back his glowing arms before shooting them forward. Hitting the street with two magical red beams, the street then starts to shake. The street shakes for a few seconds before two large stone arms erupt.

Klarion screams as he moves his arms, the two large stone arms moving with him. The stone arms lunge at me. Drawing another rune, a circle with a bolt of lighting through it, I slash the rune before chanting the activation phase.

"Darrwiin's Bolt!"

In less than a second, the rune sparks with pure magical power. It fires a blue lightning bolt that shoots through Klarion's stone arms and destroys them. The Darrwiin bolt travels further and hits Klarion. Screaming as Klarion raises his arms, he summons a shield to try and block Darrwiin's bolt but it's no use. The bolt hits the shield and explodes, the explosive shatters Klarion's shield and knocks him back. He bounces up and down before finally staying down. With Klarion down, I prepare to turn around to face Morgan and Mordur, but as I do, I see Morgan standing in front of me.

Morgan slams her glowing hand onto the top of my head. A dark-green glow shines through her mask.

"Give me your youth," she screams. Trying to absorb the life energy right out of me, I clap my hands together and grab her wrist.

"Trust me," I say, keeping her hand on my head. "I'm older than I looked."

As Morgan tries to siphon my life energy, the dark-green glow shining through her mask changes. It changes from dark green to black, and Morgan starts to scream. As she screams, Morgan le Fay tries to pull her hand back but I keep it right where it is. A few seconds later, black sparks erupt between us. They travel up Morgan's arm and electrocute her. Letting go of her hand, Mogan twitches and smokes as she falls back.

"Two down," I say, "One to go."

Turning toward Mordru as he shakes in the air, he clutches his fists before pulling them back and then throwing them forward. With a massive beam of dark magic heading toward me, I use both rune magic and order magic, combining the two together.

"Ziao's Fire," I start, slashing a fire rune. "Breath of Gyosta! Kurkur's tsunami! Stone of Koshiy!"

Slashing an air rune, a water rune, and an earth rune, I then put two fingers down and two fingers up. Pulling my hand back and then pushing it forward, I chant another spell to come forth Crosses of Fate. The crosses merge with the elemental runes and before Mordru's eyes, they turn into elemental copies of me. Together, the elemental copies of me simultaneously swing their arms. They make a shield out of air, water, earth, and fire that blocks Mordru's attack.

While Mordru is stunned by my copies' ability, Morgan le Fay and Klarion slowly push themselves up. However, I don't have time to fight them anymore. I hear a beeping coming from my motorcycle.

"What," I say, seeing a fifth dot on the radar. "Who's that?"

With everyone still busy, I run over to my motorcycle and tap the dot.

"Oliver Queen? Wait, what? Oliver, you freaking idiot!"

I turn toward my elemental copies.

"Can you four handle this? I have to go."

The air copy of me nods his head. He flies into the air before clapping his hands together. Unleashing a powerful windstorm, the air copy pushes Mordru back. While the water, earth, and fire copies fight Morgan and Klarion, I jump back onto my motorcycle and ride off.

"Oliver may think he's okay, but the effects don't wear off that easily. I only hope Oliver's not in the middle of a fight."

Oliver Queen:

Screaming as Professor Pyg kicks the back of my knee, he forces me down. Swinging the scalpel in his hand, I jump back but he still manages to hit me. I scream again as my arm is cut and I fall back.

"Oliver," Dinah screams, still tied down to the table.

"It seems you are sick as well," Professor Pyg says, standing over me. "Well, as a doctor, it is my oath to fix you."

"Yeah," I say, holding my arm. "I don't think I'm the one that needs fixing."

As the darn Professor approaches me, a scalpel in his hand, I spin and kick the Professor in his stupid pig mask. Falling to the side, I push myself up and onto my knees. Reaching for one of my trick arrows, I aim at Professor Pyg. However, before I can fire, Professor Pyg grabs a nearby stand and throws it at me. I pull back my arm and shield myself as the stand, a tray, and a bunch of scalpels hit me.

Professor Pyg then screams as he charges toward me. Running toward me, a scalpel in front of him, I look down at the Professor's feet. An idea sparking in my head, I hold one end of my bow with both my hands. Winding up like a baseball player, I swing my bow and hit Professor on his feet. Tripping the Professor, I watch with a little bit of a smile as he once again falls to the floor.

"Not going to lie," I think, jumping back and reaching for another trick arrow. "I kind of enjoy doing that."

Loading the trick arrow into my bow, I pull back the bowstring and aim at the Professor. As he pushes himself back up onto his feet, he turns around, sees, and freezes.

I scream as I fire my arrow. My arrow flies through the air and lands at the Professor's feet. It unleashes a thick cloud of smoke that blinds the Professor. With him stuck in the smoke cloud, I fire three more arrows, one right after the other. The arrows land around the smoke cloud. They beep for a few seconds before exploding. They push Professor Pyg left and right before kicking him into the air.

While in mid-air, I run and jump, sliding with my knees on the fire. Now firing a grapple arrow at Professor Pyg, the arrow wraps around him. Pulling him back down, I reach for another trick arrow and throw it on the floor.

Professor Pyg falls right onto my sonic arrow Once he does, it activates and kicks him back into the air. With one last trick arrow, I quickly fire a stun arrow that shocks Professor Pyg as he falls to the floor. Since he stays on the floor for a while, I carefully approach him.

"Not the possum trick," I beg. "Not the possum trick. Not the poss--Baa."

As I approach the downed Professor Pyg, I'm hit with some sort of disgusting burning smoke. It hits my nose hard and I have to turn away.

"Well, that sucks," I say, kicking Professor Pyg but not getting a response. "I'm going to have a hard time eating bacon now."

"Oliver," Diana shouts. I turn to Diana and still see her on the table.

"Hold on," I say. I quickly walk over to Diana and free her. As soon as she's freed, she wraps her arms around my neck and pulls me in for a hug. I hug her back, and we stay like this for a while.

"Diana," I say, "Are you okay?"

"Am I okay," Diana repeats. "I should be asking you that! Are you okay? How are you here?"

"I'm fine," I say. "I--I--I'm fin--"

Before I can finish, my legs start to feel weak. A second later, they give out completely and I fall.

"Oliver," Diana shouts. She catches me before I can fall to the floor. Throwing one of my arms over her neck, she starts to test me. She places her hand on my forehead. She checks my pulse.

"Oh no," she says. "You're sick again. Come on! We need to get you back to the base!"

"Wait, wait, wait," I say, pulling back a little. As I pulled back, I feel an intense sharp pain in my hip. I scream as I hold my hip. "Not yet. Not yet."

I turn around but couldn't believe my eyes.

"Professor Pyg," I say, looking around. I blink a few times to make sure I'm not seeing things, but no matter how many times I blinked, I don't see Professor Pyg anywhere. "Where is he? Where did he go?"

Diana turns around and looks to but we don't see Professor Pyg anywhere.

"He must have escaped," Diana says. She shakes her head. "A problem for another time. Come on. Let's get out of here."

As Diana approaches the set of large metal doors, the doors slide open, and standing on the other side is The Man.

"Oliver, what are you doing out of---Oh no."