Disclaimer: Yep, don't own the Teen Titans. wish I did, but I don't. Sad.
Chapter One: Good Luck And Bad
Good luck and bad luck are so different. Jinx and I are just that. I havn't seen her in forever, more like five years. I only knew she had gone to an academy called H.I.V.E.. I didn't go with her, I'm good luck, and good luck doesn't seek out heinus crimes for fun or business. I make good things happen, Jinx is the oposite, but she was my twin. After I finally found traces of her in Jump City, I took the first flight I could and was in the process of getting there now. If I could find her, after five long years, that would be amazing. But was she avioding me on purpose? The intercome on the plane withdrew my thoughts.
"We are now landing in J.C.X., Please fassine your seatbelts until further instructions. Thank you for flying Air-United."
A grin grew wide on my face as buckled up for the dessent back to Earth. I was another step closer to finding my sister. When the plane landed, I grabbed my purse and shuffled off casually. Glad I wore civilian clothes instead of my super-hero outfit. I would have been stared at. I made it over to the bagadge claims and quickly found my dark green and purple suit case. I was about to walk to get a taxi when I heard a man argueing with someone.
"...How could you lose our seats?! WE PAID GOOD MONEY FOR THOSE!" The middle-aged man was yelling at the staff who was searching through documents on the computer. The mans family looked embarressed about this fiasco, I would be too.
"I'm sorry sir, but I can't-,"My eyes ilumenated to my powers and the staff lady looked relieved, she never saw me, "Nevermind sir, I found your reservations."
I smirked, proud of myself, and continued walking. Outside was warm, eighty degrease or so. It felt good to be out of the cold winterland of Washington State. In Washington, it rains three-hundred days of the year. And when it is warm its muggy, and here it was a dry heat. I loved the change, but I would get sunburned easily, I had an ashy-grey complexion. I whistled for a taxi and I jumped in. The man in the drivers seat was old and smelly, I wrinkled my nose without him seeing.
"Where to, young miss?" The odd fellow even spoke in an oldly-time manor, his accient was Irish. At least he was polite.
"A hotel, I think the name of it was Romada? But I'm not sure."
"I believe I know which one you mean young miss."
He drove me to the three story hotel and dropped me off. I paid him and walked inside to the receptionist at the front desk. The man behind the desk was lounged back in a chair reading a newspaper.
"Hello, can I help you?" The man asked looking up from his clipping. His glasses had a huge crack in the top, that was going to bother me.
"Yes, I have a reservation, under Monifa Ashbel." I spoke quietly, but just enought he could hear me. A few swipe of his computer keys later, he found it.
"Ahh, here we are. Your room is 245. Second floor, all the way in the back. Here is your passcard Ms. Ashbel." I took the card from him with a thank you and left for my room. I chose the back so I could escape through the back door quickly, and posibly unseen in my costume to find Jinx. I still had a secret identidy to keep.
The room, though small and plain, was warm and pleasent. Beige flooded the room; beige walls with matching curtains and sheets. A desk sat in the corner with a chair and a lamp, a long mirror was screwed to the wall beside the bathroom door, and a tv was propped on another desk acrossed from my bed. I plopped my big suit case on the bed and opened it. I imediantly threw on my hero attire. It was a Red corset top with a short black and red swirl-designed skirt. I pulled up my nyelons that were Black with the words "Charm" in pink all over them. My boots were black combat boots that reached just below the knee. I threw my purple hair into a long pony tail and left thick strands of Hot pink bangs untouched. I had no mask, I really didn't need one anyways, even with a mask, purple cat eyes is pretty hard to forget. I looked at my attire in the mirror with satifation. I opened a pocket on my suit case and searched for my necklace, it was a simple black chain with a ladybug charm, given to me by Jinx when we were ten. The ladybug charm meant to have good luck.
Jinx and I were different. She had pink hair and cat eyes while mine were purple. She wore a dress while I preffered a skirt. She was bad luck and I was good luck. She was Jinx, and I was Charm. Good and bad being twins was really fun growing up, she'd get us into trouble and I'd get us out. But a fine line was drawn between us, good and bad. She turned to petty theft, and I quickly became noticed as a hero. Jinx ran away from our foster parents when we were thirteen, she told me very little before leaving; She told me that she was going to the H.I.V.E. accademy and I could come to, I declined, and she told me I would always be her sister and she would miss me dearly, no matter what happened. But we were seventeen now, and I wanted to see her. I hadn't heard a word from her, no emails, no letters, nothing. It was like she vanished of the face of the Earth. Even when I tried to contact her, I came up emty-handed. I was bound and determined to find her, thats why I came to Jump City, I heard rummors that this is where she was with a group called the H.I.V.E. accademy. My source said he hadn't been in Jump in over two years, but when he was, someone with pink hair and pink cat eyes was too. I had a few places to look, but I would need more information on the H.I.V.E. accademy first.
I reached my purse and pulled out a small note pad. The note pad had an address for a local band of heros called the Teen Titans. I didn't know much about them, but I knew that I would eventually run into them, and I might need their help with my search.
I looked out the window and saw that the sun had just gone down. Perfect. Honestly I didn't know where to start, but I opened the window and popped off the screen. Even though I was two stories up I dove head-first for the ground and rolled easily to my feet. Luckily, no pun intended, the hotel was very close to the center of the city. I walked down dark streets and alleyways looking for trouble to stop, I might even run into Jinx. I was searching building tops now when I heard a scream of terror from bellow.
"HELP-MMMMMM" a ladys' voice shreiked in the night. I jumped down via fire escape, and planted a foot into a mans head. The man was daized and I smelt alcohole on his clothes. The lady that screamed was shaking and wide-eyed at me. She was in her late twentys and obviosly a hooker, but she wasn't getting paid for what was about to happen.
"Where did... what the..." She women stamered. I smiled at her, she calmed a bit. The man stumbled to his feet.
Yep, he's drunk.
"Who'd ya' think your messing with?" The drunkened man swayed to the right while he slurred his words. This guy was a bum, probably. Or a guy who relies on his monthly dissability check to cover his addiction. Not that I have a problem with either, it just makes me sick. The man stumbled forward with a fist exstended. I dodged out of the way easily and knocked him out with and uppercut to the face. The man flopped onto the ground, I looked at the women who was now against the wall in alart.
"Are you alright?" I asked, she nodded.
"Thanks, s'not easy living on the streets with dozens o' men like him," The floozy relaxed a little more and continued, "Who are you, if you don't mind me askin'"
"I go by Charm."
"So what brings you to the wonderful City of Jump, Charm?" It wasn't the women who asked. I turned to see a boy in red, yellow, and green spandex with a cape. his domino mask covered his eyes, his hair was crow-black. An 'R' was in yellow bold with a circle of black to the right of his chest.
"I searching for something lost." I glanced back at the women but she was sprinting down the alley away from us, I hoped she stayed safe. The boy, okay teenager, looked at me and crossed his arms.
"What was lost?" I wasn't sure who he was but I wanted information about Jinx, so I had to trust everybody to get that.
"Something dear to me, a sibling. Who are you?"
"I'm Robin, leader of the Teen Titans."
"Oh, well this is unexspected." I paused to flale an arms dismissably, "I didn't think I would meet you on my first night on the town."
"Who's side do you fight on?" He was very strait-to-the-point type of person.
"Blunt, aren't we? Well trafic light," I teased, "I'm not a villain so I must be good." He didn't seem amused at his new nic-name.
"You look familiar..." The teen said in thought. He might have seen my sister a few time, this was a good sign.
"I bet I do. Do you know a 'Jinx'." Any information would be great.
"Yeah, I know Jinx. She's in town, somewhere. Are you related to her?" I saw his mask raise in question as if his eyebrow did. I smiled warmly.
"She's my twin sister." His mouth flew open and, even though I hadn't known him long, it seemed unnatural.
"That explanes a lot," He muttured to himself, "How long has it been since you last saw her?"
"Four years, I think. Yeah, we were thirteen when she..." I shook my head, I didn't need to tell this stranger about our past. "So you know where she is?"
"I haven't seen her in a while, but I know she's still in the city."
"Last thing she told me was she was going to an accademy, the H.I.V.E. Accademy. I'm trying to find her, please, what do you know about them?" I didn't want to beg for information, but I wasn't going to let him leave without some kind of hint as to where she was or how she was doing.
"My team took down the H.I.V.E. accademy a while ago. She is the leader of the H.I.V.E. Five, they made up the top students of the accademy. Sorry, thats all I know."
"Thank you. Thats a start. Just the start I need." I smiled at him.
"Your welcome. So Charm, I assume you have a power like hers?"
"Yeah. My name is Charm for a reason, I bring good luck. I use good spells not hexes."
"Oposites," He stated.
"Wow, It must've taken a lot of though to come up with that." I muttured sarcastically.
"I was ju-" He was interupted by a ringing. He reached into a pocket on his utility belt and pulled out a round devise. The round devise was yellow with a black 'T' on the front. I was guessing that the 'T' stood for Titans.
"Robin! Hot Spot just activated his E.T.S.(1)" A deep teens voice said from the other side of the communicator.
"I'm on it. Get the T-ship ready." He closed his devise and put it away in a hurry. "Bye, it was nice meeting you but I have something I have to take care of." He ran off in the direction of the street towards a motorcycle that I didn't notice before. it was obviosly his, the front wheel had an 'R' for Robin on it. He jumped on it and was gone.
"Well, this could get interesting..." I made my way back to the Hotel.
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(1) E.T.S. stands for Emergency Transmition System. I made it up, though I'm sure there is something similiar to that around anyways. The E.T.S. is a botton on thier communicators and he activates it, if I didn't explane that.
Also, this story starts after "Homecoming pt. 2 and right before "Trust". I did tweak the story for this to work but I hope you guys enjoy.
Also again, check out my other storys, I have a few stories I will recomend in later chapters, by other authers of course.