A/N: I am back from the abyss, and ready to start writing again! I'd also like to mention this is a remake of my old, Twisted Hearts. In hind sight, everyone returning back to normal after Trigon was defeated was a HUGE plot hole that annoyed me, not to mention many other issues. Anyway, enjoy.
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Powers of Desire- Chapter 1: Just another day...
Some time after defeating the Brotherhood of Evil, things had settled back down to the average grind. The team got up, answered alerts of crime throughout the city, and shipped the criminals off to prison where they would usually break out after a few days or so; Today was no different, but something about it felt different. It was now a hot, stormy night and the winds were howling like crazy as if trying to warn the city of a danger to come. A pair of guards stand guard before a pedistal where a suitcase was floating several inches above, what the suitcase contained was unknown to the guards, but was scheduled to be picked up the following morning.
Little did they know it would be picked up much sooner then that as the alarm went off, red lights flashing as the guards raised their weapons and took aim at the door. Moments later, the door hissed open and revealed no one standing behind it. "What the hell?" one of the guards swore anxiously, expecting something to jump out any moment... he was half right. Something did finally pop out, but from above. The something was an armored figure with long hair, and a pair of swords which it used to strike both guards, releasing high volts of electricity to stun them.
With the guards knocked out, the thief made their way over to the pedistal where their prize awaited them. Then, the thief suddenly became aware of something and immediatly pulled back in time to avoid a couple birdarangs. "You must be new in town, so I'll make it simple: give up while you still have the chance," Robin states simply, the entire team behind him. With that, the thief raised their swords, lowering into a hostile stance. Robin noticed that the figure was very slender, even it's armor seemed to accentuate their slender body. The figure also had long hair, tied into pony tail which came out the back of an elongated helmet, a single red circle in the center of several circles the only noted feature of the helmet. But the most interesting feature was the figure's ears, which were pointed.
Before Robin had time to muse on this matter further, the red circles of the helmet charged up with a long whine, releasing energy into a single laser which came flying at Robin. He ducked as the others split up, the laser blasting a nice chunk out of the wall behind him. "Titans go!" came the single command as the team moved to take down this criminal as quickly as possible.
Beastboy headed the charge by turning into a ram, the armored thief nimbly cartwheeled to the side, quickly ducking under a blue beam from Cyborg's cannon. The thief then started to move with incredible speed, moving so fast that they left an after image of their body as they moved toward Cyborg. The thief was cut off short, finding that a piece of the floor had been ripped out and was now levitating in their path, cutting them off where Starfire had a chance to throw a volley of starbolts from above. The thief was only struck once before cartwheeling to the side again, making a dash back toward the pedistal. Robin jumped into action, swinging his bo-staff down at the thief from above while roaring to channel his ki into the attack. The thief blocked and retaliated with a swing from one of their swords, missing as Robin jumped back.
Beastboy moved in from the side, now a cheetah as he leaped into the air to try and pounce on the armored thief. With a blur of motion, the thief fell over backward, hooking their feet under his stomache where they simply kicked him off over their head. Springing to their feet, the thief was off again, running in a zig-zag pattern to try and avoid the hail of starbolts being lobbed by Starfire from above. It seemed like the thief was home free, there was nothing standing between them and the prize they saught! Or so they thought. Raven emerged from the floor, fixing the thief with an apathetic stare. "Azarath metrion zinthos!" Raven chanted, her shadow expanding and rising to form a large bird, sending it flying toward the thief where she would attempt to trap him inside a field of telekinesis.
"Alfsol!" the thief barked once, slapping one of their hands on the ground as a bright light built around their body. As soon as the hand connected to the ground, the thief's body released a brilliant flash of light, not very blinding at a distance but it would blind Raven as close as she was. Raven grunted and shielded her eyes, losing concentration just long enough for the thief to blast her with a laser from their helmet.
Starfire took this chance and swooped down, kicking the thief directly in the side of the head with a tamaranean war cry. Sending the thief skipping across the ground, not enough to severely hurt them, but enough to atleast daze him. The thief rose to their feet and looked up to see Robin, coming down from above as he grabbed a series of disks from his belt and lobbed them straight at Raven's attacker from above. With a single back flip, the disks just missing them by inches and released a surge of electricity harmlessly into the floor. The thief did not land back back on the ground, instead they had landed on the wall and were crouched low to it. "Dude!" Cyborg exclaimed in disbelief, pausing too long as the thief started to sprint across the wall. Cyborg fired, chasing after the thief but just couldn't get a fix on him.
Starfire flew up, eyes and hands glowing green as she said, "I do not wish to hurt you, but you must stop!" Starfire said simply, watching as the robotic eyes on the thief's helmet lit up and instinctfully shielded herself. But instead of a laser, a bright flash was released, brighter then before and seemed to knock Starfire out cold as she dropped out of the air immediatly afterward.
"Starfire!" Robin called out concerned, pulling a series of explosive disks out of his belt. Robin charged toward the thief again, flicking his wrist and sending the explosive disks into the wall as the thief jumped down and charged straight toward him. Bringing out his bo-staff again, Robin growled angrily and swung high for the thief's head, blocked by a sword as he followed up with a sweep for their legs. Tripping the thief briefly, Robin pulled out another disk to freeze him, only to realize that it was a feint! The thief righted themself, landing on one hand while twisting their torso and used the momentum to kick Robin squarely in the the chest and sent him flying backward. Robin righted himself, landing back on his feet as a pair of small cannons rose up from the thief's shoulders.
A volley of lasers fired, forcing Robin to go into evasive action, dodging laser fire as Cyborg layed down covering fire for him. The thief ducked low, making their already limber body even harder to hit before whispering something in a strange tongue. Then, the thief's body just vanished into thin air prompting Cyborg to pause for a second in surprise. Cyborg then yelled as a blade tagged him on the back without warning, an after image of a glowing blade dancing through the air as his body slumped over unconcious. Using this chance, Raven quietly rose up behind the thief, launching a kick for the thief's head. Somehow, the thief knew she was coming and spun around, meeting her foot with their forearm and from that brief touch, Raven became flooded with mental images.
"You're telepathic," Raven stated telepathicly with a grunt before gasping at what the thief's reply was.
"I am many things, seed of Trigon the terrible," the thief shot back telepathicly, their mental voice young and crisp, also male and also knowingly as just like with Starfire, the eyes of the helmet lit up and was followed by a bright flash of light which just as before, rendered Raven unconcious.
Enraged by this, Beastboy morphs into his Werebeast form and quickly pounces on the telepathic thief, pinning him to the wall. The thief struggled for a moment before another audible whisper was heard, his body completely disappearing from Beastboy's grasp. Seeing what had happend to Cyborg, Beastboy spun all around, keeping his senses sharp for any sound, smell, or sight of the criminal. The attack didn't come from any foreseeable angle, instead the ground at Beastboy's feet released a bright flash which momentarily blinded him. When the light faded, all Beastboy could see was darkness, feeling metal walls all around him and for a moment he didn't know what had happend.
On the outside, there was now a large metal cube in Beastboy's place, the thief standing crouched on the top where Robin landed and swung a flurry of blows with his bo-staff. Bending and jumping at different angles, the thief managed to dodge or block Robin's attacks before backflipping down from the cube. He broke into a run toward a wall, the eyes of his helmet lighting up and releasing a concentrated laser blast which destroyed a big enough chunk of the wall for him to dive through. Running quickly to the hole, Robin looks down and sees... nothing. No sign of the thief falling, no sign of impact where he landed, not any trace that he had ever been here aside from the hole in the wall.
Later back at the tower, the team sat down and discussed what exactly went wrong during their fight against this strange, telepathic and apparently magical thief. "Dude, I swear I had him but then he- he just vanished into thin air! And then I end up in some kind of box!" Beastboy exclaims in disbelief.
"I dunno how he did it, but if had used some kind of device, my eye would have been able to pick up the path, but there was nothing," Cyborg added confused.
"He managed to pick up my intentions before I had a chance to catch him by surprise, and he knew who I was," Raven added grimly, disturbed that anyone other then her friends knew who her father was.
"He was most... kind to only subdue us. Given what he has displayed, he could have done far worse," Starfire said adding her own thoughts about the fight.
"Yeah, what he did to BB... looked like a complete molecular reconstruction. BB's glad he wasn't fused with the metal," Cyborg nodded in agreement.
"So why didn't he? He had a clear shot at the brief case when me and him fought but he chose to run instead. Why didn't he try to kill us and why did he back off from the case?" Robin questions, furrowing his brow in thought. Something seemed... off here.
"Perhaps he was concerned with either me or Cyborg waking up during the attempt," Starfire suggests weakly.
"This might sound silly but..." Raven began, pausing as the others turned their attention to her. She wasn't really about to really suggest it was she? It sounded too fantastic even for her to believe. "I think we might be dealing with a real live, elf," Raven finally suggested, waiting for the laughter to start, but when none came she relaxed.
"You think he did what he could with magic?" Robin asked seriously, no mocking, no absurd questioning, he was taking the suggestion seriously from what he had seen.
"When he yelled, 'Alfsol' a bright flash happend. It roughly translates as 'elf sun' and is normally used to generate a high intensity flash of light equalivent to the intensity of the sun give or take, depending on the power of the user. Before I was knocked out, I heard him whisper a spell commonly used for instant transportation which is how he managed to avoid Cyborg's sensors. And what happend with Beastboy, it would take alot of energy to rearrange the metal of the floor into a giant box with any man made object, a sign of at the very least, alchemy," Raven replies before pausing, allowing the others to absorb all of that which if she would not believe if she heard it yesterday. "Elves are notorious in stories for being adept at magic, also given the ears and build of the thief in question, I think it's safe to guess we're dealing with an elf."
Robin narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded before saying, "Then I'm counting on you to look up any information on elves. I know alittle, like there are different types of elves, so anything else you can come up with will be vital. Also, you're the only one here who knows about magic because of-"
"Because of Malchior..." Raven interupted with a tone of acid to her voice. "I'll do what I can. If anyone needs me, I'll be in my room," Raven adds rising to her feet, phasing through the ground and dissappearing into her room. She did not need to be reminded of that error in judgement to know that she was their only source of occult knowledge. So much for an average day...
A/N: I hope to get back into the swing of things now, R&R and any questions you have I shall try to answer in the next author notes.