Fist met snapping jaws and any mortal being would've been thrown 100 feet back but the hellhoud reared its head to lunge again.

"Behind!" Robin's voice yelled and on instinct I flew up to avoid the birdarange that embedded into the hound's shoulder. It yelped in pain before turning to Kaldur who was blocking the beast from the civilian that the hound was hunting. He was a younger boy who cowered under Kaldur's shadow.

The hound jumped in the air, rotten smelling breath filled my nose and warmed my feet even through my boots. Before teeth tore into skin Artemis's green arrow landed at its feet in a puff of smoke that smelled like charcoal and oddly sweet.

The hound coughed and wheezed but the arrow that would normally knock out a horse only slowed the thing down. In a barrage of practice attacks, I joined the team in the air with Miss Martian. After a few minutes that felt like hours, the hound was bloody and tired. Artemis knocked another sleeping arrow but before she could fire it, the hound must've sensed the danger it was in and ran.

"Let's get after it!" K.F. pulled his glasses down but before he disappeared in a flash of yellow, Robin grabbed his shoulder.

"Wait, what if we followed it?" A light of amusement in his eyes.

"And what? Find where it's running home to and who it belongs— Oh, okay I'm following," Miss Martian said as we landed with the rest of the group.

"We risk going against The League's orders to find the truth," Aqualad said, his usually even face was more quizzical. They were weighing the risks and benefits.

"Either way we need to follow it," I said and the growing voices paused to look at me. "I mean, our mission is to bring one back. If this one gets away we have to follow it. Whether it goes back home or somewhere else we have no control of. But better we catch up than turn up empty handed."

Everyone shares a few glances before nodding. At least everyone was in agreement about that.

"Sooo," Robin said, "If it so happens to head home and we just do happen to be thereee..."

"So let's just happen to be there," I said but I just hoped we caught up to it before it got home. I wasn't in a mood to speak to my uncle.

"Let's head back to the Bio-Ship. That thing moves fast, I don't want it getting too far ahead," Aqualad said.

Back at the ship, it was quiet again. The echoes of the last conversation still hung in the air. What was I supposed to say now. I'd have never been apart of a team, especially not one full of teenager.

"I'm sorry," I started.

"Don't worry about it," K.F. said with a waive of his hand. "Let's just catch this thing and find out what's going on."

I debate about telling them. It's normal for them, people like me. Wonder Woman took it me in because she is like me. Miss Martian was an alien for Gods sake. But there were things I did before I came here. I was a different person then, maybe they would understand.

My sixteen years of life felt like something of an Epic. The Odyssey, The Iliad, and Diana's story were known epics of the Greek Gods. I knew them well enough, but the lessons had been lost on me. Fate had its own plans and lessons for me.

I would tell them, eventually. Not right now but soon. Instead, I turned to the night sky. Thunder rumbled in the distance and my heart churned in response. I wanted to prove to him I could do it. That it was the right choice to let me leave and live.

It was only a few minutes of flying before we saw the hound again. Even wounded it was fast as it tore down the streets under the disguise of shadows.

"Do I land?" Miss Martian said.

"Wait," Aqualad stood as he watched. "It's slowing down."

"Almost home," Robin finished. "We're close."

"Wonder Woman has been around a lot recently," Artemis started and my stomach turned. Did she already figure it out? "Could it be Ares?"

Close, not quite. Then I realize she was talking to me. Because I would know and that makes sense.

"I don't think so," I watched as the hound turned down a dark alleyway. "With beasts like these, my money is on Hades."

"Hades? As in hell?" Kid Flash said.

"We prefer the term Underworld but yes. As in hell in hellhound. I wasn't sure at first," I lied. "But looking at it now I'm almost positive. It's connected to Hades somehow."

"No better time than the present to find out," Robin said as they dropped to the concrete. "Let's hope it's not just whelming." Everyone nodded in agreement and into the dark they went.

They split up with Artemis, Aqualad, and Miss Martian going around the back and the rest of us followed the giant paw prints in the sludge. The air was dank with the smell of trash and rotten food. They were between business and restaurants which explained the smell and sticky ground.

"I should've known you would've followed me," the voice was familiar but it wasn't my uncle. The voice was younger and lighter, but the shadows still danced at the edges of his words. "I did say you would be seeing me again."

The body attached to the voice emerged from the shadows, the lights of the street dancing on his high angled face and inky black hair.

"Remind me who you are again?" Robin said, scratching his head. "Didn't leave an impression, did he leave an impression on you guys?" He turned to the group who shrugged or shook their head. Everyone except for me. It was that boy from months ago, when I first joined the team.

"She remembers," the stranger gestured before scratching the ears of the hellhound. "Not nearly enough though. Glad you finally caught up with me. But for those who don't remember, the name is Cain."

It was familiar but distant. I could almost touch the memory. It went deeper than the mission months ago. This boy who couldn't be more than a year older than her meant something to her and the weird thing was that she couldn't place it.

"Is that your dog?" K.F. asked, appearing in a flash next to it and back to us. "Gotta put that thing on a leash."

"Not mine, I just do what I'm told. Isn't that right, Lana?"

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A/N: See author's note for a collage for Lana :)