The source of my strength

The Shadow's game

A/N: Hello, everyone! After a lot of delay I'm here with the tenth chapter of this story, if you include the prologue. How fitting that this chapter is the one where we first enter court. And given that we're in court, I think we should enter the head of a new viewpoint character. Its time for femslash!

Chapter 9: The Shadow's Game

December 22 2030. Time: ?

Location: ?

All actions have consequences. Even if the payoff isn't until a long way down the road, what you've done will catch up to you.

If you aren't prepared, your life will be swallowed by the abyss.

Date: Feb. 09th, 2028

Time: ?

Location: ?

"In this world, there are certain kinds of people. People so inherently selfish and rotten that they will destroy everything around them just to get what they want. Watch out for these people, and stay away from them if you can."

"I think I understand now. I've met one of those people, and she's already stolen quite a lot from me. But I can't just stay away. If I'm ever going to reach my dream, I need to take things into my own hands. And with this, I will finally be rid of her!"

February 11, 9:00 a.m.

District Court - Defendant lobby No. 3

Athena Cykes strode down the halls of the courtroom, headed towards the lobby where Robin and the rest of their friends would be waiting.

Unfortunately, not much progress was made since yesterday. All attempts to track down Logan Sullivan proved to be futile, only for it to turn out that he was holed up in the Prosecutor's office and wasn't accepting visitors. Likewise, she had investigated the crime scene briefly but couldn't turn up any clues. It didn't help that Apollo and Mr. Wright were still busy with cases of their own.

Things looked pretty bad. But as the Boss always said, the worst of times were when a lawyer had to force their biggest smile. So when Athena reached the door to the defendant lobby, she stopped briefly and drew in her breath.

Athena burst dramatically into the lobby, a mile-wide grin on her face and and spring in her step. She faced everyone inside and declared at the top of her lungs,

"Alright, everyone! Who's ready to bust the Shadow and put a stop to him once and for all?"

She was promptly ignored by everyone inside. Robin was sitting in a chair muttering something under her breath, sweating profusely. Juniper sat in a chair next to her and comforted her girlfriend, holding her hand and whispering encouraging things in her ear.

Myriam and Hugh were huddled in a corner going over something in their hands, frustration clear on their features. It said something about their situation that Myriam wasn't even wearing her box.

"Hey now, don't everyone answer all at once," Athena said, almost feeling hurt.

This caught everyone's attention. "Oh, good morning Thena." Juniper said. "We're not exactly ready yet. But now that you're here we might have some new info to work with."

"Yeah...I really don't have anything."

Athena then explained her investigation and the results she got, or lack thereof.

Hugh and Myriam stood up and joined the rest of the group.

"At least that matches up with what we got," Hugh quipped as he handed Athena all the papers they had. It turned out to be all the evidence they had collected so far on the Shadow. "We asked around Themis yesterday about Logan, but no one would tell us anything."