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Ghost Helpline part 6
Green Arrow, Black Canary, martian Marnhunter and a gaggle of side kicks were probably not the best group to be handling a dragon. A dragon none of them could touch, it would just go threw everything. Especially arrows.
“I’m just a guy with some arrows I didn’t ask for all this magic and monsters nonsense.”
Arsenal snickered, “Its actually called Dungeons and Dragons Ollie.”
“I hate all of you.”
For now the dragon was sleeping, laid out the sand puffing smoke out of his nose. Having decided not to go threw with his threat of burning everything to ashes. If Ollie was being generous the monster almost seemed… depressed. Giving up his fight half heartedly, the beast had knocked Superman out of the air! He could definitely beat them but the dragon only stared at Arrow before grumbling deciding to nap, “What’s the point ? You humans are going to light yourselves on fire anyway.”
That was over an hour now and everyone sans the Marians were starting to grow jumpy. Inviting Constantine was always a headache, and the plan to collect help seemed down right batshit insane. But it wasn’t on Oliver so what could he do? He was just a guy with arrows.
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An hour, then another, then one more before a girl showed up. She looked unusual but he’s seen weirder. “Hey! Whose sidekick is this ? Who let her out onto the field? Get outta there kids.” Ollie pulled back an arrow, knowing full well it wouldn’t do anything against the giant lizard, but it was better than doing nothing.
She wasn’t even flying, she was just walking up to it. Like it was nothing she didn’t even seem scared just annoyed. “Hey! Somebody stop her be-“ the Martian hushed him,”Wait, look.”
Back straight, head held high, arms behind her, like a soldier. And Oliver would know he was well acquainted with a few, Stewart not withstanding. What was she- “Aaragon. You should not be here.” Her voice was loud, not commanding but stilled. She was, oh god this kid was nagging a dragon!
“I’m not angry…”
Oh my god no!
“I’m just disappointed.”
Green Arrow relaxed his arms, chuckling. The dragon, Aaragon actually looked shame faced.
—- ——
~Back at the watchtower~
Hal’s head was spinning, “We have to go after her!”
“Red Robin pull up a video feed now. Someone call in. We are not running into this situation without- “
“Bats shes just some kid!”
“She is an interdenominational being of unknown power who insisted she could take care of it. Call. Manhunter. first.”
—- —- —-
“What’s wrong this time Aragon I swear to CW if this is about a girl again.” Konstelacio dragged a hand down her face, ugh at least it was Aragon.
The two argued as the heroes regrouped to watch the show, uhh to gather intel.
“Come on now Aragon! What happened ! What are you really upset about? You haven’t gone off on a rage like this in months! Don’t make me call for help.”
“I don’t need help! And that’s Prince Aragon to you!”
Arsenal cringed, that couldn’t have been the right thing to say.
“No it isn’t, your sister has graciously allowed for you to have your title reinstated ONLY if you get help!” The girl huffed proud and tired. “And you were doing so good at foundling Aragon! What happened? You know I cant judge you. “ she snorted “I’m not Walker.”
“I don’t need counseling! I hate it! I hate everything! I hate humans!”
Konstelacio felt shaky in a sad way, she knew this speech. “That’s not how therapy works Aragon, you know that.”
“She’s right,” Black Canary stepped up. It was obvious the two beings knew each other and one of them was hurting. She approached softly, she was also the only one that could land a hit on this thing- even if she had to resort to ruining her voice. In case she was wrong she needed to be close enough to push the girl away.
The behemoth roared, “What would you know human!” Aragon snarled claws snapping around the girl!
Covering her, protecting her. Oh.
“Oh what did they do this time? Did they hurt you?”
Aragons neck rose, “As if these puny mortals could land a blow on the might Prince Aragon!”
“Ex Prince.”
“Gggrrrr!”
“Ether talk to me or let’s go home. You know we’re not supposed to be here.”
Aragon hummed looking down on the heroes, Arsenal hated it.
“It’s all gone.”
“What? What’s all gone?”
A low rumble emoted from the dragons despair, “Everything! My home! My castle! My kingdom ! Everything’s changed.”
“I’m sorry Aragon,” Konstelacio has been alive centuries and tried to acted it but in moments like this she felt small, so small.
“I am to, I didn’t mean to come to the living realm at all. I knew I was getting angry so I went out where I couldn’t damage sisters reputation anymore. I stubbles into a natural portal and just.”
“I understand suddenly being underwater must have been really scary for a fire user.” She missed the ocean… she the ancient ships not so much. “But why didn’t you come back afterwards! Honestly! I was starting to get worried -“
“No you weren’t.”
“What?” - Dinah pursed her lips closed, she had treated people like this before, she wanted to help, this girl was out of her depth.
“You didn’t even notice I was gone! No body noticed I was gone! Sister didn’t notice I was gone.” Aragon was frustrated, angry seething red. Things were perfect the way it was before! So what if he made some mistakes ruling after their parents died? And so what is Dora hated him? She doesn’t know anything! She doesn’t know how hard he had to work to keep everything together! .. so what if she was scared of him? He had been doing everything for her right? He had been… he was…
“I -I -iii”
“And it just made you madder right?” Black canary tiptoed, “Just made you feel like no one cares about you. Like you need to lash out to even be seen. I understand where you’re coming from. Your friend is right therapy is a long process and is bound to come with set backs and that’s okay. But you can’t just give up. Someone as strong as you is bound to push threw!”
Konstelacios throat filled with acid,“I’m sorry Aragon I didn’t know I’m a bad friend, please come home ? I promise to check in on you more. I’ll even blackmail FrightNight to hangout with us!”
“You would blackmail the FrightNight! For me?”
“I’d blackmail General Dan for you man!” The girl chuckled, “Tho speaking of the general we are going to have to check in with him.”
The beast moved back, and just what in the world was their general to make a literal dragon scared?????
“It’s okay Aragon I’ll do all the talking.” She winked up at the creature.
“Alright I’ll go back.” The mammoth of a livers pulled himself up towering over everyone, the girl didn’t flinch.
The blue ghost looked over at the heroes, “Thank you Healer for your words, I had not know I need to hear them. Kkhhmm and thank you green one the sight of a human closer to my time is … comforting I suppose. Archers are a rarity these days.”
The demon smiled finally time to go home!
“Wait, please excuse my interruption I have a few questions to ask miss Konstelacio.”
Aragon had begun to shrink into that of a young man, eighteen in medieval attire, instantly he was leaning over the girls shoulder. Protective. “And who are you?”
“Hello, My name is Martian manhunter.”
Fake it till you make it, Star City Kitchen edition.
Danny, outed to the government as a ghostly entity, is not only wanted by the government but unable to find work because of that.
Sam gave him money to help him escape, but an unfortunate run in with more than one gang of meta traffickers blew through that in an instant.
He needs a job. He needs to find a place to sleep.
He decides to answer an ad in a newspaper, for a personal chef for an unnamed person. Is it sketchy? Yes. Is it very likely to be under the table with no government checks? Also yes.
Besides, if it turns out to be someone bad, he can just go invisible and disappear for a bit. It'll be...unfortunate, cuz he'll have to steal what he needs, but it's doable.
He arrives at the meeting place, and there's a car waiting to pick him up.
Okay.
He gets in the car. Secondary location, here he comes.
It drives to a mansion.
Oh no.
It's Oliver Queen.
Oliver Queen put up that ad.
Oliver Queen takes one look at him, hums, and says that Danny is absolutely what he was looking for. That Danny just looks like how a chef should look.
Five minutes later, Danny finds himself in a kitchen larger than his old house, internally panicking and scrolling as fast as he can through cooking lessons on youtube.
Turns out, Danny's got a knack for cooking.
Like, he's actually pretty phenomenal at it.
If the food isn't trying to come back to life and eat him, once he's got the basics down, it's pretty easy to throw together a meal.
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Oliver, sleep deprived and injured, meant to ask Stan to make him something to eat.
Somehow he failed step one of just texting the man, and ended up reaching out to and placing an ad in a local newspaper for a personal chef.
Naturally, when someone answers it, he decides to get them over to his place so he can apologize for his stupidity and pay them the money they lost wasting time going to him.
Except that's a kid.
A dirty, unkempt, homeless teenager.
And...fuck.
Look, Oliver isn't a complete and total jackass, and it's not like the kid can mess up much if he's in the kitchen, of all places.
So he pretends like the ad is legit. Throws the kid in the kitchen.
Accidentally finds out that the kid wasn't fucking lying about being a good chef that was out of practice, holy shit? This food is so good????
Looks into the kid's background, quietly.
...
And in true Green Arrow fashion, uncovers a government conspiracy.
I just realized the girls vs boys ratio in the arrowfamily and I'm in shock-
Girls:
Dinah
Emiko
Sienna
Lian
Mia
Cissie
Jade (yes she counts).
+ Artemis in young justice. She's also very popular arrowfamily character.
I think Sin also counts as arrowfamily but I'm not sure.
So 7-9 girls depends on how you count.
Boys:
Oliver
Roy
Connor
And that's it???
I'm currently hyperfocusing on Lian so I started to think about the arrowfamily and I realized it.
That's so different from the batfamily where the female characters often don't get enough attention and are treated horribly.