4 Chapter 4: Meeting Acnologia

~MC POV~

I am now twelve years old. I know what people in Atlantis have been calling me. "The dog of the late Queen" and such, the prideful part of me want to rip their heads off as much as it wanted me to refuse anytime, she asked me to do something when she was alive.

I refused to listen to that part of me as I did not allow it to dictate what I say. I do not care about the opinion of the people of Atlantis as I am above such things. I was sad when she died. I wanted to resurrect her so badly, but I wanted to respect her wish. Getting rid of the temptation of creating a philosopher stone was harder than I thought. It took two whole years for me to do it.

After that I wanted to visit the surface world, according to Orion, the technology is more advance than in my old world. I just hope that they have similar shows, manga, and other things. It might cheer me up. When Orion said he was going to the surface world to fight a robot, I was intrigued thus I joined him and Kalduram.

Kaldur is one of the very few Atlantean who neither fears me nor tries to approach me for ulterior motives. The reason they fear me is because three years ago I managed to fully master one of my magic skills, blood bending. I could control the water in their blood but before mastering it, the control was robotic at best. Now I could even make them talk if I wanted to. It was thanks to the combination of my aquakinesis and Atlantean magic that I learned. I never used it after as I just wanted to show it to mom, but the guards were able to see me use it and rumor spread like wildfire… in the sea.

When we reached the surface, we headed to where the noise was coming from. I saw a guy in blue spandex, a red cap, and an "S" on his chest fighting…Well getting beat up by a robot that had glowing green eyes and a big green rock in his chest. That rock was the same as my necklace.

Orion went to help the guy in blue. He calls him, Superman. Kaldur went to help civilians while I went toward an ice cream truck. I wanted to eat ice cream as it had been twelve years since I had eaten earth food. I could recreate them via Alchemy, but it always had sea water mixed with them because I was still underwater. I also felt that someone was terrified behind that truck. I knew that thanks to my Haki.

I looked behind and found a little girl that was barely five to six years old. She had an ice cream cone in her trembling hands. She had dropped her Ice cream due to fear. I learned English thanks to Orion. Well, I refreshed my English during my fake lesson.

Acnologia: Hey little girl, are you alright?

???: *sniff* No! I'm s-s-s-sca-scared *sniff* I-I-I-I want my mommy and daddy!! WAAAAAA!

Acnologia: Look little girl, I am sure we will find them soon enough after the big bad guy goes to sleep. How about I make you another ice cream while we wait?

She seemed to feel better. She had stopped crying, but she still seemed scared.

???: R-R-Really! O-O-Ok *sniff* but what if he comes here?

Acnologia: Don't worry, I am strong, he won't hurt you.

I took her in front of the truck, and we made ice cream while Orion and his friends were fighting. I felt that more people were fighting but that did not matter to me. Does a lion care if a crocodile and a hippo fight? The answer is no. After five more minutes, I saw the robot that was fighting Superman flying toward us.

I grabbed Lucy, that was her name, and jumped out of the way. Superman, Orion, and someone dressed in black with a bat symbol on his chest appeared. I learn from their discussion that the robot's name was Metallo. Not very original but not my problem.

Just when I was about to leave with Lucy to a safe distance for her, Metallo tried to prove Darwinism. He pointed his hand which had transformed into a sort of energy cannon towards me. If he wanted to lose, he could have just surrendered. There was no need to get trashed. I looked at Orion with a look that asked if the robot was stupid. He gave a look that said that he had no idea.

I dropped Lucy and told her to get some distance from me. As soon as she was far enough, I used Soru to get close to the robot. If Lucy had been near me when I used it, it would have sent her flying. I had already clapped my hand before I grabbed the robot's neck. Lighting flew from my hand that was holding his neck, through his whole body.

Superman and the guy that I heard Orion, call Batman when I held Metallo's head looked surprised when they saw what happened next. Superman was clearly surprised but for Batman, I only knew that because I could feel his emotions.

Metallo's body changed into a trident. His face was at the intersection of the three prongs and the big rock was at the end of the trident. I threw the trident to Orion and went to check Lucy. She was alright. It took thirty minutes for us to find her parents. They thanked me before leaving. I noticed that people were swarming the three adults. I decided to tell Kaldur that I was going for a walk before leaving.

~3rd POV~

Batman was inspecting the trident that was Metallo's body. He could not understand how this was possible without looking at the inside. Metallo's circuitry must have been changed along his body, but he was still acting like before. The only thing that had changed was that he could not move. His necklace which was likely made of Kryptonite was also something that caught his attention.

Batman was planning on asking Aquaman about the origin of the new Atlantean when he noticed that something was wrong. Aquaman was having a headache. He came closer to Batman.

Batman: What is it?

Aquaman: I need to use the League network to find the Atlantean that was here a moment ago. His name is Acnologia.

Batman: He left against your wish, does this means he has rebelled against his king, or is it due to his age?

Aquaman: Neither does he just never listen to anyone… anymore and does whatever he wants though, most of the time he keeps to himself.

Batman: Is he dangerous to the public?

Aquaman: He won't go attacking people unprovoked.

Batman: That is good, but that necklace is made of Kryptonite. If villains were to learn of that he could be their target. He could be in danger.

Aquaman: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Kaldur: *Chuckles*

Batman: Is something funny?

Aquaman: HAHAHA! Sorry, it's just that you don't need to worry about people trying to steal his necklace.

Batman: Really?

Aquaman: Yes, what we need to worry about is the lives of those that will try to steal that necklace.

Batman: That's worse. You and I are going to look for him.

Aquaman: Aqualad, return to Atlantis. Inform Mera that I will return late.

Kaldur: Understood my King and good luck.

Aquaman nodded and left. Kaldur was happy that he did not need to join them. He had seen that Batman wanted to confiscate Acnologia's necklace. He was not sure if his King had noticed it, but he did not want to violate the unwritten rule of Atlantis. Never touch or take Acnologia's necklace. It had become such when a veteran elite soldier had accidentally damaged the necklace and Acnologia went into a frenzied rage. He beat up the soldier till the late Queen herself was brought to stop him.