The Ragnarok Knight
Davey Smith
Introduction
The night was dark and stormy, just the perfect setting for the birth of the Ragnarok Knight. The one being that could bring forth the Ragnarok, the world's final night, or prevent it. The Ragnarok Knight could also command the Ragnarok Dragon. The year was 2014, the year that would be forever known as the beginning of the Era of Ragnarok. The Knight was born in a world of love and war, a world that would bring forth its own demise. The Knight's parents were one of the few gifted people, called metahumans, or superhumans, that attempted to prevent this demise. Davey, as the Knight was named by Starfire and Robin, Davey fit the description of a warrior in a Tamaranian prophecy, a child produced from two lovers of whom were from two seperate planets, and held important roles on their planet, but loved through battle and peace. The young child was indeed different, at four years of age, he had taken interest of martial arts and trained with his father, quickly reaching the blackbelt skill level of Jeet Kune Do, Tae Kwon Do, and the art of Dragon Daggers. His father was dumbstruck at his son's elevation through the skill levels. Davey often meditated with one of his parent's friends, Raven, to keep his mind sharp. His mind's sharpness was also proven by the technology he started to develop at nine years of age. The weaponry he developed and created on his own exceeded that of the American Department of Defense's most brilliant scientists. Davey impressed all of the Titans. Davey's dragon third, that's origin is still theoretic in the eyes of enemies and most scientists, had made his bones extremely durable. Davey's muscle's were enhanced by the dragon and Tamaranian thirds, making him nearly unstoppable in hand-to-hand combat. Also when Davey reached his ninth birthday, his dragon third showed itself on the outside. The dragon DNA showed its true purpose, a month after Davey's ninth birthday, he started to have aching pains in his back. Slowly, the dragon wings that were depicted on the stone tablets that the Ragnarok Prophecy was found on, appeared. At first, small and useless. Months went on, and they fully developed into the large black wings that he holds on his back today. Davey's abnormality was pursued by scientists and media everywhere. Davey at first enjoyed this unusual attention, but he soon learned it was too much attention. A kidnapper attacked the Tower with Davey in mind, and was brutally resisted by the Titans. He was a common mercenary hired by Slade, one of the Titans' arch-enemies. Davey learned that if the mercenary suceeded, Slade would have a new puppet, like the girl named Terra once was. The young child then donned on the blood red armor that was an heirloom through the generations of Starfire's family, and took his rightful title, The Ragnarok Knight. On the inside of the armor were engravings that were not even Tamaranian, but characters that were believed to be used long ago, before the earliest Tamaranian and Earthen civilizations were even dreamt of. Davey read the characters and they said,
"The Ragnarok Knight shall bring end to all of the evil that exists within the universe and then rebuild the empire that will consist of those worthy and spread across all the Lord created forever"
Davey paid no attention to it, but he was the only one who could read it.
Chapter One
Davey was on the roof of the Titan Tower. It brought back many memories, both good and bad. If Davey was a normal kid that heredity decided to attack with everything his parents had to go through growing up, Davey might not even be having the life he was enjoying. He could be himself without the binds of school, homework, and tight budgets. The Titans were spoiled in some people's eyes, but to everybody else, they were envied. Davey couldn't go an inch on the city sidewalk without a bunch of normal girls chasing him, begging for his autograph. He was often complimented on the traits that were given to him by his mother and father, Starfire and Robin. If he went somewhere without a single girl stalking him, something was wrong. In truth, Davey secretly envied them, the ordinary people. They could live a normal life, without thousands of people chasing them, and just live in peace. They could live a life with a destiny of their choosing, but Davey's destiny was predetermined. He would rule a vast empire that stretched across the universe, and see countless friends and family members die in his state of immortality. But Davey was not old enough to truly become the great ruler he was destined to be. He was standing there, on the roof, just watching the city mind its peaceful business. Davey also listened to the wind blow against his majestic wings and felt the air fill them. Davey was waiting for something to happen. Today was the Tamaranian 'Holiday of Cleaning', and on all of Starfire's celebrated holidays, something happened. Davey could also tell because a filmy substance formed on his wings whenever something was about to come seemingly from nowhere, and it was there now. Star had constantly been poking at Davey's wings ever since they fully developed. She almost thought that they came from Robin, and hence his name, but it actually came from herself. Davey was somehow not surprised to find that she was a descendant of the original Ragnarok Knight, and the genes that formed these dragon wings and his dragon third had been tucked away, and halved with every generation. But when Davey inherited the gene, it suddenly awakened and grew. The single strand of DNA that held the tiniest gene Starfire had passed on, was awakened from its dorment state and rapidly grew, taking over an entire third of his genetic code. Davey just stood, noticing a small black dot on the morning horizon, the moon had set hours ago, so it wasn't that. It slowly grew larger, and he saw the citizens running choatically using his binoculars. He slipped on his sunglasses, the same pair he fitted with an extra set of lenses on that was his homemade Heads Up Display, or HUD, lenses, and held the binoculars to his head. It was a missle. A straightfire missle. It would continually go until it made impact with a stationary object, like a building. By the looks of it, the path of the missle was a collision course with the Titan Tower. Davey dashed to the trapdoor, and set off the alarm when Davey made it inside. Davey met the Titans at the roof, and pointed to the missle.
"That is a missle set on a collision course with the Titan Tower, if you all want to live in this world as long as possible, I'd suggest helping me take that thing out." Davey briefed to the Titans as Robin, Davey's father, came to his side.
"Davey's right. If that is a missle set on a collision course for the Tower, then we're all gonna die." Robin added, "I doubt any of you want to die."
"Robin and Davey are indeed correct." Starfire said, floating next to her son and shaking her head, "I do not wish to die."
The Titans made a quick attack, they came to the missle, and continually attacked the front end of the warhead. Davey, in one do-or-die attempt, hopped on the arrow shaped threat's mid section, and beat a hole in it. The panel fell harmlessly into the bay and revealed a mass of tangled wires. Davey thought for a moment, then looked ahead. The tee-shaped tower seemingly grew as the distance between the missle and it decreased. The time Davey had to pick a wire was growing short, so Davey grabbed the whole mass, and dropped all but one, a red wire, he snapped it. The missle went flying straight up. Davey jumped off and beat his majestic wings against the air, and the film fell off and landed softly in the bay. Davey's wings were left with the sticky proof that the film was there. Starfire would have one heck of a time cleaning that off. Davey flew towards the bay, and grabbed the panel floating in the sea of saltwater. It had a round mark with a bladed 's' on it. Davey stuffed it in his belt pocket and flew back to the Tower, watching the missle explode harmlessly against a meteor. Davey saw Robin standing on the roof of the Tower, so he glided there, and Robin had an angry look on his face. Davey felt like he messed up again. Robin disapproved of something Davey did.
"You nearly got yourself killed doing that! That was reckless. If you're to live in this world, how are you still alive with your infamous and darn near suicidal actions?"
"What was I supposed to do? Throw a rock at it then stab it with my daggers? You and I both know that wouldn't work, even if the rock weighed two tons! Plus, the starbolts would have a limited effect. One steady stream for the time neccesary to destroy that missle before it got within range to blow the Tower up would cause me go up in flames! Everything you and Mom gave me are helpful, but my powers have prices! Too long a stream of red plasma, and my hand'll start to feel like the plasma is backfiring! And I think you can imagine how much that hurts. Remember when I was eight and training my starbolt ability?"
"Yeah."
"I nearly died due to the overheating that plasma gave me! The plasma I was generating had the same temperature of a bolt of lightning. I passed out with a fever that would kill a normal human in two minutes!"
"I know that, but what you did back there was too suicidal, and not to mention reckless! You could've died if that missle exploded!"
"At least I would've gone down trying to save a few lives and a home!" Davey yelled as he stormed through the trapdoor, walked into his room, and slammed the locked door shut.
Beastboy was standing by Davey's room, while Davey angrily stomped in and slammed the door shut. Not much he wanted to talk about. BB justed pressed his ear against the door, and heared a loud thud! as Davey punched the inside of the door. Beastboy felt a hard fist hit him in the head, and everything went black as he went dead into the wall across from Davey's door. Cyborg saw Beastboy fly through the wall, and imagined what he was going through with Raven. They were married, Beastboy and Raven, but they still had that little want to tease one another. Beastboy flew head first through Davey's door as a black mass, and Beastboy's limp and unconscious body lay on the floor. He was pretty much dead. Not really, but, he had the snot beaten out of him. Cyborg just watched as Raven's husband was grabbed by a glowing red hand, thrown back into Raven's room.
Davey jumped through the door he had just opened, and used the debris to quickly seal the hole in Raven's wall. Davey ran back into his room, and sealed the door shut. He grasped at his mind, attempting to meditate the way Raven had taught him. Davey's eyes were in his mind. Inside, there were two halves, one technologically advanced and civilized part, and the other was a wasteland where the darkness of Davey's berserk mind resided. Davey was inside his half, and walked around. Davey found the only accesible room in the city, and saw the beast waiting for him. The beast's red eyes glew a dark red, and it roared a hellish scream. The "Other" charged at Davey, and Davey quickly jumped backwards, and watched the Other fall face first into the floor of the large building. The building's walls opened, and out came many things, but only one would send the Other back to its hell hole. Davey pulled two twin plasma daggers, and impaled the berserk Other. The Other was Davey when he went berserk, but in Davey's mind, the creature was a large humanoid dressed in Chinese imperial general attire, a helmet with horns, heavily armored left arm, and Davey's key trademark, black dragon wings. The beast screamed in pain, and the energy daggers disengaged. The beast bled as it fled the building. The Other fell easily to light, and the plasma daggers provided just the right light, the Lux Et Veritas, or Light and Truth in Davey's mind. Davey awoke from his meditation instantly, and he found an attractive woman that was identical to Starfire in every way, except for one thing. Blue. Her hair, her eyes, her clothes, her gloves, and her boots were an icy blue. She looked at Davey, and he nearly slapped himself upside the head for looking so infatuated with his aunt Freezefire. She smiled, and was amused at how Davey did this every time he saw her. He was lucky to have Starfire as a relative. Her planet was the homeworld to many beautiful women. And Davey would've proposed to every one of them, if not for his age. If Davey were eighteen, instead of twelve, he'd be able to find the love of his life on Tamaran. Davey's soulmate could be on Earth, though.
"Are you okay?" Freezefire asked, "I heard a ton of commotion up here, so we came to check it out."
"We?" Davey asked, "What do you mean by 'we'?"
Crocmon appeared from thin air, and his crocodilian form was revealed as his active camo was disengaged."Me and her." Crocmon's voice said as his head appeared.
"Oh. I thought you were at-"
"Not anymore, I came back and decided to stay." Crocmon said happily, and held his wife, Freezefire, to him. "I'm here, and I'm wondering what happened. You see, me and Freeze were busy this morning, and couldn't see what happened."
"I hopped on an oncoming missle, and yanked a random cord, in hope to either mess up its jets,or disarm it and let it fall harmlessly into the bay. Dad got mad at me when I plucked a red cord, and the missle's nose shot straight up. I hopped off and watched it impact harmlessly into a falling meterorite. When I came to the tower, Dad was ticked. Needless to say, he scolded me for something he might of done himself. So I got mad, and used Beastboy as a tetherball between Raven and I."
"Robin had a slight reason to scold you. You're important them and the world."
"Yeah, them and the rest of the world! Am I noticed by major villains merely because of my powers, or is it to just ruin Mom and Dad's lives?"
"Most likely both." Freezefire put in. Her voice was calm and soothing enough to calm Davey down before he berserked.
"Freezefire's right." Crocmon said, and put his hand on Davey's shoulder. "I know it's hard to deal with yourself when everybody's out to get you."
Crocmon engaged his active camo, merely for fun, and followed Freezefire out. Her walk was enough to make a drunkard sober once again. Davey thought of today, and saw the time. It was five o' clock. Davey deactivated his body shields so he could eat, and went to the dinner table.