Chapter 10: Trade

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A man in traditional elegant Arabic clothes and stepped forward. Next to him was a man in a black and orange painted armor.

"Who are you?!", Superboy spat ready for the big showdown.

The well dressed man, obviously the leader, ignored him looking directly at Robin.

"maweid aldhabab lilmunzil", he said in a foreign language surprising everyone.

The team won't ever be able to forget wmhat happened next...

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Batman had tried and given up trying to decode and translate this damn letter the assassin carried with him.

This random bombing in his city wasn't helpful for his good mood either.
21 deaths...

So he decided to meet up with the only person he knew that could and would gladly help him.

"Hello, Bruce", Thalia al Ghul greeted her beloved (well beloved in her creepy assassin's fantasies).

"I need a favor", he said with an even deeper voice than usual.

"Straight to the point; I love it", the woman said with her most seductive voice possible coming elegantly closer.

"Can you translate me that?", he asked her handing her the letter over.

She took it from him with a flirtatious smirk, she began to read it, and her smirk slowly fell apart step by step.

"Oh...", she said almost embarrassed.

"What it's telling?", Batman asked her impatiently.

"Um... so... directly translated it meant: 'Tayir, time to come home'"

Batman raised a brow, "What does Tayir mean?"

Thalia seemed even more nervous. And she was never nervous.

"How about asking your little sidekick that question?", she said suddenly playing with her long brown hair.

"I already asked him; he said that he couldn't read the letter because it's written in and old dialect"

"Oh... I'm sorry to disappoint you, but this is just basic Arabic", she told him, "In this case, Tayir is a Name and you should definitely have a talk with your little child about lying"

She told him before jumping off the roof of the building they were on and disappeared into the darkness.

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Robin responded him.

"Ansaa dhlk!", he told them in perfect Arabic but you could clearly hear the venom in his voice.

The team looked shocked at these words. Robin never told them he speaks Arabic.

"I'd rather die!", he exclaimed loudly with determination in his eyes.

The team didn't know what to do. They were totally perplexed not understanding anything anymore.

"Very well", the man spoke calmly drawing his sword.

Soon everybody got into fighting stances ready to kick some ass..assins (yeah totally what I was gonna say).

But instead of charging at them, the old man stepped aside revealing Artemis and Kid Flash on their knees, hands bound behind their backs and with panicking expressions on their faces.

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