Hello! This Ariana (not Adriana, Ariana) with a Sort-Of-But-Not fan fiction. I'm putting this on fanfiction because there is absolutely no doubt that it is inspired by Teen Titans which I totally respect and even though I'm nineteen years old, I will still watch reruns to no end. But this is not about Teen Titans directly. It's about my own team of Teenage Super Heroes, many of the character's personalities have been much inspired by the titans. If you wanted to read about the Teen Titans, move on. If you're willing to give my story a try then by all means read on.
Oh yeah. And I don't own the Teen Titans.
Adriana waited patiently with her legs and arms folded as she relaxed in a chair. People walked by her giving her odd looks, and who wouldn't. She was blue. Light blue in fact with ivory hair. She had wore a skin tight dark blue outfit that was customary where she was from, that she'd never go back to. And this moment she was waiting outside the cafe knowing sooner or later, it was going to happen.
The bank across the street erupted with gunshots, and the alarms sounded.
From her seat she grinned to herself.
"Well, its about time. I thought this was supposed to be a bad neighborhood, sheesh," she muttered. She threw the rest of her frappacino in the trash and charged across the street, hopping over parked car.
"Nobody move and no one has to get hurt!" she heard. Her slightly darker shade of blue colored lips curled into a smile. She slowly tried to pushed the door open as to not aggravate the robbers. They had locked it. She bent down, pouted her lips and blue a cool breath into the keyhole. With that the inside crystalized. Her element was inside. She could now control in kineticly. With a thought she turned the lock and the latch released.
She opened the doors where three robbers were making their way over to the counter.
"Hey!" she shouted. One of them turned around.
"We got super heroes," he warned his crew. Adriana smiled coyly.
"No super heroes. Just super hero," she said. He pointed his gun and fired. Adriana held out her hand and with a thought it was completely frozen in a hard block of ice. The ice shattered on contact. He fired again and again. The hostages were covering their ears. Adriana met each bullet with a frozen bodypart. Ice shattered into the air. Adriana stopped all of them mentally and let them hung in the air.
They all flew at high speeds back at the villians. They fell backward with the force. Seeing as they were all temporarily incapacitated she turned her attention to the few hostages on the floor.
"Go!" she shouted to them. They all got up and ran for the door. The police surrounded the place. Adriana smiled to herself and put her hands on her hips as the beaten robbers staggered to get to their feet.
"I hope you'll all go quietly, gentlemen," she said confidently. One of them was cradling his arm that might be broken.
"Who are you?" he asked. She smiled pleasantly.
"Why, I'm a super hero of course," she said. And with that she went to make her escape.
Adriana was about halfway back to her place when she heard the sound of sirens making their way toward the station. She turned her head and watched as the police car went past her alleyway without giving her a second look. She gave a breath of relief. She knew very well she was wanted for Vigilante, but she didn't care. She couldn't be a freak without using her freakness to help the lives of others. So she was going to have to be invisible in the real world. She found where she had stashed her regular clothes and stopped to get dressed. She put her legs through baggy pants and pulled an even baggier sweater over her head
Finally, she put her hood up over her white hair. She stuffed her blue hands in her pockets and walked down the street as a citizen. Adriana had an anxious feeling. Someone was close. She had no idea who or why she was feeling this way, but she felt it. On either side of her were red brick walls. She was in an alleyway. There wasn't really a lot of places to hide. She looked at the iron gated fire escapes and at the aluminum trash cans.
"Hello?" she said.
"Hey," responded a voice from nowhere. She looked around unable to see anyone.
"Who's there?" she asked.
"Ummm..." There was a long pause. "I don't think I should tell you my name." Then he appeared out of nowhere. A blazing white figure with black eyes and black hair. He looked like a teenager. Like her. He wore clothes like every other teenager, but they were the same white as his skin. It was almost painful to look at him. Like a much more mild version of staring at the sun.
"After all, super heroes have to have secret identities don't they? Vigilante is illegal," said the boy. He offered his hand to be shaken. "You can call me Ghost." Adriana waited a moment and then decided she could trust him, and shook his hand. He smiled.
"You're a ghost?"
"Not exactly," he said. "So my fellow super hero, what do you call yourself?" Adriana resumed her confident composure and put her hands on her hips.
"I don't believe in all that secret identity stuff. My name's Adriana. Besides there's really no point to a secret identity, its kind of hard to miss a blue person. Unless you're in Las Vegas. It's kind of hot there, though," Adriana said continuing walking with her hands in her pockets. Ghost followed.
"No kidding. It was easy to follow you," he said. "I notice you go looking for trouble. What's your power?"
"Ice," she said simply.
"Ice is a broad term. I mean, what can you do?" Ghost pressed floating in front of her.
"It's kind of like aquakenisis, mental control over water, except its with ice. I can create ice from the moisture air around me and control it with thought," Adriana said pointing to her temple. Ghost cocked a eyebrow that was black like his hair.
"That's it?" Adriana scowled at him. She started to walk away with her nose in the air.
"Well, at least I'm not dead," she said immediately on the defensive.
"I'm not dead," Ghost pointed out. "I'll tell you my story, if you tell me yours," he said. Adriana thought for a moment and shrugged.
"Sure. Why not?" she said with a sigh. Ghost sat on the ground with a solid thud. Unsure of else to do, Adriana sat across from him.
"Okay, when I was fourteen I was in this car accident. There was a drunk driver and what not, anyway...I got a pretty bad concussion and went into a coma," he said. Adriana was suddenly much more interested as realization suddenly hit her. This was another super hero seeking her out. But why? Was this the break she was looking for? "Doctors were talking about pulling the plug. For some reason, I could hear this whole conversation about doing the right thing. So naturally, I freaked out. I freaked out so bad that...all of the sudden I was floating out of my body."
"Wait. Out of your body?" Adriana interrupted. Ghost looked slightly irrirtated.
"Yes. Can I please finish my story?" he said irritated. Adriana was quiet. "Anyway, so there I was in the same form you see me as now. I could go anywhere I wanted. I was invisible. But I had to learn to be visible. I had to tell my mom not to pull the plug. So I practiced focusing, channeling my spiritness, or whatever it was. I sat in on some yoga lessons and tried some of their mental techniques like meditating and stuff. Soon I learned how to solidify. So I was kind of like a...a...what do you call those ghosts that can move stuff?"
"Poltergeist," Adriana offered.
"That's the one! Yes, I was a poltergeist. But still no one could see me. So I left notes everywhere for my mom telling her not to pull the plug," Ghost went on. "That delayed my mom's decision a little while longer, but then she started getting skeptical. So I trained myself to be visible. Finally I could reunite with my mom. I went back into my body and in a month, I was able to wake up. But here I am, still able to do this." Adriana mulled over the information in her head.
"So somewhere you're body is lying unconcious?"
"Nope," he said. "This, what your seeing right now, is my soul. Somewhere my body is doing what it does everyday, completely zoned out. Because I'm right here. I guess you can say I'm on auto-pilot." Adriana's brow furrowed.
"Oh, I think I understand," she said. "So you're pretty much the epitome of a soul detached from your body."
"Yup."
"And you were stalking me because...?" Ghost's black eyes stared into her blue ones that were lost in the hood of her sweater. The two teenagers were right across from one another, sitting on the cold concrete ground of the alley. Ghost leaned forward and put his hand on her knee. Adriana felt her insides and heart panicking.
"Because I have fallen in love with you," he said. Adriana's eyes went wide. Ghost stared at her intensely. She opened her mouth to say something only to stutter.
"Uh...I...uh..."
Ghost snorted.
"Relax, I was only kidding," he said giggling. Adriana's shocked look dissipated into anger.
"You're a jerk," she spat.
"Oh come on. Can't a guy stalk a girl without any romantic affiliation?" Ghost said with a shrug. Adriana stood up.
"I'm going to ask again. WHY. ARE. YOU. FOLLOWING. ME?" she said slowly and harshly like was talking to an idiot. And for all she knew, she was.
"Because. I wanted to see what other super heroes are in Sinclair. It's a big bad city, I wanted to know I had back up," he said. The ivory colored boy floated up, still cross-legged to her eye level. He smiled broadly. Adriana walked right past him.
"You're still a jerk," Adriana stated. Ghost turned around and phased though her, stopping in front of her.
"I know! Wanna go find other super heroes and make a team?" Ghost asked. Adriana stopped for a moment to think. This was what her goal had been after all. She needed a team. She didn't know what she was doing in Sinclair by herself. However, she thought that when she finally found a team it would have nothing to do with a stupid invisible guy.
She supposed beggars couldn't be choosers.
"Fine," she said with a sigh. "But only as long as you're not the leader."
"What do you mean? This is my idea," he argued. Then Ghost thought while tapping his chin with his forefinger. "No wait. You're right. We need someone bossy to be the leader. You're a little over emotional to be a leader. Maybe we can find someone in our quest for other super heroes?"
"You're on thin ice, Ghost. Don't call me over emotional," Adriana said. Ghost chuckled.
"Bad pun. But you can use that in a battle with an evil villian or something," he said. As Adriana blushed a slightly darker shade of blue flustered into her cheeks. She'd thought the pun was quite good. "You'll know when to meet with me again." Adriana gave a confused look.
"How?" she asked.
"Check the papers," Ghost said with a wink. With that he disappeared into the air again. Adriana folded her arms across her chest. She waited for the feeling of his lingering presence to diminish and then she started back to her sad excuse for her home.
There's my first chapter! Reviews are welcome. This is prewritten so I'll have a few more chapters up pretty soon.
