9th Titan: A Teen Titan Fan Fiction
Please excuse the present tense. This was taken from my Quizilla site, and I only had the patience to fix the stuff that bugged me highly. Feel free to comment.
Part 1
My name is Luna Gene. I have power over air and water. I can become invisible and fly with midnight blue hawk wings...oh, and I'm a Titan. Well, not officially, I help the Titans in a fight, but disappear faster than light afterwards. The Teen Titans refer to my as the Mystery Allie or the 9th Titan, but I don't bother sticking around long enough to find out why. I just do this because...I don't know, really.
The Titans and I just finished kicking Overload into the water, where he dissolves into electronic ash. I turn and run back into the dark alley behind me. No need to stick around.
"Wait!" Robin's voice pierces the night air and I hear him running behind me, and gaining; damn he's fast!
I hear more footsteps behind me, gaining speed. A blast of green light explodes behind me, I make the water sign with my fingers and blast it at the Titans, all seven fall backwards.
"Please..." I say, "don't follow me." I turn invisible and and fly away.
I'm sitting inside my apartment, eating breakfast, when I hear a knock at the door. I go to the door and call through.
"Who is it?"
"I am the Titans representative, Starfire. May I come in, please?" a girl's voice answers.
"Uh, Star, you don't have to be that formal!" another girl says outside my door.
I sigh and open the door. Two girls stand in the doorway; one I recognize as Starfire, and the other as Trayce.
"What do you want?" I don't bother hiding my exasperation. "I'm eating breakfast."
"On behalf of the Teen Titans," Starfire says, "we would like to give you this." Trayce holds out a Teen Titans communicator, and I take it, the yellow metal feels warm in my hands.
"Uh, thank you." I stand there, stunned. "I...I don't know what to-"
"Don't say anything!" Trayce smiles. "Just know that if you ever need help, we're just a button away. Oh, and only call for emergencies only, otherwise," Trayce whips out her ninja swords, "you and I will clash!"
"Fine by me." I smile.
"Um, okay," I suddenly realize my rude hospitality. "Please, come in."
Starfire and Trayce exchange nods and come in through the door.
"So...what's your name?" Trayce asks when I close the door.
"Luna," I respond.
We all sit down at the breakfast table. I move the remains of my breakfast out of the way. Looking at all the buttons on the communicator, Trayce and Starfire sit silently: Starfire, Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, Trayce, Phoenix, ---, and ---.
"What are the two crossed out names?" I asked.
"Oh, the first is Terra– turned to Slade– and the second is Jason– also turned to Slade." Trayce had a sour look on her face.
"Oh...I, uh, guess you guys have a thing going on with Slade?" I guess.
"Slade is Robins match in every way," Starfire explains, "except for the fact that he is evil and bent on destroying the Titans. He sends other villains to destroy us, and we defeat them. Slade plays us, and we go along with Robin..."
"Star, let me take it from here." Trayce takes a breath. "We follow Robin because he's leader. The kids a one man SWAT team! Slade wants Robin as his assistant...or at least he did, now he wants me. He already got Jason and Terra– but then again both went to him for power– and I won't let him get me."
"O...kay," I say, "so, Slade and Robin are pretty equal in the SWAT Category?"
"Most definetly." Starfire replies.
"Yup." Trayce says.
"Well, guys," I say, "you finally caught up with me!"
Part 2
I am standing in plain view of Plasmus; the big blob of purple Playdoe is within target range. I fly high above his head and signal to Robin. Robin sends a flying disk at Plasmus, just as Starfire and Cyborg send green and blue energy blasts at the big blob. They all go through him! Now I'm angry, I fly up to Plasmus's purple gooey face.
"Listen up, Playdoe boy!" I shout. "I don't wanna play your games, so find someone your own size to pick on, or-" Blue rings of God-knows-what energy shoot from your eyes and envelope Plasmus.
I recover from my shock and shout. "Raven. now!"
Raven flies over carrying a tank, both of us trap Plasmus inside. He goes to sleep and becomes the – once-was– Playdoe-guy. I slump to the ground, and stare at my reflection in a puddle.
Robin comes over. "Luna, what happened?"
"I don't know," I reply shakily. "New powers always make me a little uneasy. I never know what's going to come next.
"Let's go home."
I accept his hand to get up.
The team heads back to the Tower. Starfire tugs my arm and insistsI come and stay with them, and after much poking from Beast Boy and Cyborg, I accept.
I walk into Titan Tower, and are immediately taken by surprise! The place is filled with gizmos, gadgets, and the works. I stare in awe, but hide my astonishment when Beast Boy looks at me with a smug grin on his face.
"Nice place." I say casually. "Looks...uh...cool."
"Thanks," Cyborg says, "Made it all myself– " Robin gives him a peircing stare, "– with help from my friends, of course!"
I try to hide a giggle– huh? Me giggling??– as Robin tackles Cyborg to the floor. The two boys roll on the floor, then realizing everyone was staring– not to mention my suppressed giggle fit– they stand up and act all innocent– yeah, right!
"So, uh, you want the tour?" Cyborg pulls me out of the main room and down the hall.
"My room's off limits!" Raven calls after us.
Cyborg pulls me all over the Tower, from the top to the basement. I laugh, it was...AWESOME! My apartment couldn't compare, well, maybe my weapons room, but that was it!
"You...um...look familiar somehow." Cyborg studies my face.
"HIVE Academy, undercover job. Never finished it because this kid named Stone took Blood down." I brush off his comment.
"Uh...right! Well, that's the tour!" Cyborg walks to his door and opens it. "You, uh, wanna come in?"
I shrug and follow. Inside are pictures of Blood, and Stone! "You, uh, knew Stone and Blood?" I inquire.
"I was Stone." Cyborg looks down at the floor. "A'nt proud of it either, Blood almost destroyed me and the Titans. My robot and human mind were torn between being solid human again and my friends. Oh well, I made a choice, and it was the right one!"
I stare at him. "You're the reason I didn't finish my undercover job! You're the reason I went home empty handed! I spent four years at HIVE trying to find Blood's weakness, and you found it in less than a few weeks! You– " I'm cut off as Starfire comes in.
"Would anyone like to watch an Earth movie?" she asks. "Or am I interrupting?"
"No, Starfire, you're not. In fact," I give Cyborg a hateful glare, "I was just leaving."
Starfire, Trayce, and I are watching Dracula. I disentangle myself from Starfire's grip on my arm and walk to the top of the Tower. The wind feels cool on my face; I hear a noise in the corner of my vision. I spin around, bo staff raised and ready.
"Relax," Cyborg steps into the moonlight, "it's just me."
"Darn right!" I turn my back to him.
"Listen, Luna," Cyborg says, "I wanna apologize."
"For..."
"For...you know, HIVE. If I had known you were there, I would've helped you, but I didn't. So it's not really my fault."
"I guess." I look a the floor, then spin and catch Cyborg's neck at the end of my bo staff. "But it still doesn't keep me from kicking your butt!"
"True!" Cyborg agrees, nodding. He grabs my bo staff and flicks it out of my hand. "No weapons, this is combat!"
Cyborg and I twist across the roof, swinging punches and twirling out of each others reach. I laugh as we both tumble to the ground. My mouth accidentally touches his...and I let it stay there. I can't explain your sudden likeness to Cyborg, but you like it nonetheless. You two lie there for the rest of the night...
It's initiation day, for me anyway. Robin explains how my initiation will be different from the other Titans before me. I look out at the roof– set up for initiation– and see the poles, stalagmites, and robots painted like various bad guys the Titans had fought.
"Go!" Robin shouts.
I sprint through the course. One robot steps in front of me, I look around for an immediate weapon. I grab one of the poles from the roof, and vault over the robot, at the same time kicking its central drive– switching it off.
"Go Luna!" I see Starfire out of the corner of my eye, waving purple pom poms and cheering.
I concentrate on the circle of robots around me; they charge at eye contact– an improvement to the others I had fought! I jump and vault over robots as they crash into each other. That done, I land with my left foot behind my right, bo staff held at the ready.
"Well done." Robin claps. "But can you handle this?" he presses a button on his controller, and a purple glob rises from the floor.
"You have got to be joking!" I laugh. "Is that real playdoh? It looks so real!"
"Laugh while you can, this thing can tear through walls!" Cyborg boasted proudly.
The blob lunges at me, and I leap out of the way, fly into the air, and fire three blue starbolts at the big glob. The blasts turn into a cage of energy, imprisoning the thing.
"Fine...here you go!" Robin laughs, handing me my communicator back. "What do ya think?"
The communicator was now purple, with a golden moon behind the T– which was also blue.
"Wow, all this for me?" I'm astonished.
"That's not even the best part, look down." Cyborg smiles.
I look, and there's a door with a similar golden moon and blue T. I see a red button and press it, there's a rumble, and the floor opens into a room. My room! Whoa...!
"Thank you...I don't– "
"Don't say anything!" Beast Boy says. "It's the least we could do, you being a big help to us over the years."
"Come on, I gotta show you something," Cyborg leads me into my room, goes left, and presses another red button. The door opens and I see... my weapons room!
"Thanks, Cyborg!" I hug him, and he hugs back.
"Welcome new Titan!" I hear the others sing– Raven speaks it, she's too proud to sing!
Part 3
I hear a knock at my bedroom door. I mumble and turn to my bedside clock; 3:00 am.
"Who in there right state of mind would bang on my door at 3 am?" I mumble. The door continues to pound. "Coming!" I scream.
I open the door and Beast Boy is standing there in his green striped pjs.
"What was that light coming from your room?" he asks.
"What light?" I inquire. "I didn't see any light when I woke up to your banging."
"There was a light, and it lit up the whole Tower– my room included, and I am a light sleeper. No pun intended."
"I repeat myself, I did not see any light-nor did I dream it." I had found out that anything I dream can become real as long as I was asleep.
"Fine, just don't dream of light anymore!" Beast Boy mumbles. "Who says "nor" anymore?"
I sigh and get dressed, no point going back to sleep now. I press the button that opens a door to the roof and fly out.
"Guess I'll take a fly around, no harm." I spread my midnight blue wings and fly out over the city.
All the streetlights are on; a few houses have their TVs on; I can hear kids laughing as they sneak out of a second story window. All is normal...no, wait! I sense a disturbance, and am about to fly back to Titan Tower and do a search on the main computer, when a blast nearly misses my head. I contract your wings and fall the twelve feet to the ground. Taking out my bo staff, I jam it into the ground and slide down to the pavement.
"My, my, aren't we Miss Skillful?" I hear a snicker from the shadows. Standing, I hold my bo staff ready.
The wind sends ripples through my dark green shirt, my blue jeans wave above the ground, then are still.
"Who's there?" I shout. "Show yourself, coward!"
"Now, let's not be fistey." Slade steps out into the moonlight. "No need to shout."
"Figures it's you." I laugh coldly. "What do you want this time, another fight, me to beat your butt again, perhapes?"
"I want your heart." Slade says simply.
"Sorry, already got a boyfriend. Go get Jynx or someone else!"
"No, I just want to take your heart, from inside your body." Slade doesn't move an inch.
"Joking much? What makes you think you can have it? What makes you want to take it?" now I'm disgusted. "And what happened to you being a pile of smoldering ash? I thought Trayce kicked your butt to Pluto and you styed out of fear."
"You must be taking about my father." Slade said. "Let me introduece myself, I am Jericho, son of Slade. I am also the Prince of Darkness."
"Nice title." I say coldly. "Fits you well."
"And as Prince of Darkness," he tries to grab me, I jump out of reach, "I have a duty to my long since dead father: to find and convert all Pure Hearts to the Dark Side."
"Oh, and I have one of those precious Pure Hearts?" I ask, still on guard.
"Yes." Jericho answers with an exasperated sigh. "Now hold still!" His hand closes around my neck, and pulling me off the ground, keeps me there while he considers. "My father wanted Robin as his apprentice, I'm sure I could've taken him, but I think you'll do much better."
"And what makes you think I'll go along with this apprentice thing of yours?" I spit at him.
"I believe you will have no choice. You see, once I have your Pure Heart, I can convert it to a Dark Heart, and control you through it, apprentice." He slams me against a wall.
I stagger to my feet, Jericho pins me to the wall– now complete with indents that fit my body structure!
"I will never allow you to take my heart!" I scream in his face.
"Oh, you will." his hands harden into a cold hard metal, and he slips his real hands out. He plunges his hand into my heart. I kick him in the groin. He staggers back, holding my heart...it's in the form of a sword, a crystal sword. I stare at it, dumbstruck.
"Come to me!" Jericho sneers.
I feel a tug at my body, pulling me towards Jericho. I fight it, digging my hands deep into the cement, trying to shape-shift my molecules.
"I won't!" I scream, sending up a flash of red from my communicator.
"Foolish girl!" Jericho snarls, stepping closer. "No one can fight the call of their own Pure Heart!"
"Done it before– when it was inside my body– and I can do it again!" I scream in his face, trying to stand without success.
"I shall crush your heart where you stand!" he yelled.
"Go ahead, I got no complaints." with the last of my strength, I send a blast of air and water at Jericho, knocking my Pure Heart out of his hands, it lands inches from my feet. I fall forward and black out.
Trayce POV:
Seeing Luna's red solar flare behind her subconscious mind, Trayce pulls herself out of bed and goes to Raven's room.
"Get dressed!" Raven ordered as she stepped from her room before Trayce could knock. "We're going to save Luna."
"Shouldn't we get the other Titans?" Trayce asked, perplexed.
"Yes, you should!" Robin comes down the hall. Beast Boy and Cyborg soon follow.
"Luna's gone." Trayce announced, looking at first Robin, to Beast Boy, to Cyborg. "Raven and I saw her solar flare, she needs help."
"How bad was it?" Trayce sees worry in Cyborg's human eye.
"Bad, thick red." Raven answered. "Don't worry, Cyborg, your girlfriend'll be fine."
"She ain't my girlfriend!" Cyborg says, indignant.
"We can have more time for talk later," Robin says, "right now we need to act, and save Luna!"
The Titans run– and fly– toward the location of Luna's solar flare. They near the sight, and find Luna on the ground, unconcious, with a crystal sword hovering inches from the ground by her right foot.
"She's a Pure Heart!" Raven breaths, grabbing the heart and kneeling beside Luna.
"Huh?" all Titans but Starfire look at Raven blankly.
"A Pure Heart is one with an extremely good heart," Starfire answers, "and one who has a Pure Heart is in grave danger. The Pure Heart takes the shape of how powerful and brave the bearer can become, and if an enemy gets a hold of the Pure Heart, they can control the Pure Heart's original owner."
"So, you're saying Luna defied the hold of her Pure Heart held by Slade, and past out doing so?" Beast Boy asked.
"My father is dead! I am Jericho, son of Slade, and I will become a better villain than he ever was!"
"Dude, what kind of name is Jericho?" Beast Boy asks.
"I've put Luna's Pure Heart back inside of her, she should wake up in an hour!" Raven says.
Trayce looks from Luna's unconcious figure to Jericho, which the others are just standing there, it almost seems...he had a power over them!
"Well, you gonna fight me or not?" Jericho smirks.
"You almost kill one of my friends, you take her Pure Heart, and you expect me to not fight you? Bad planning, Jerry!" Trayce joked coldly.
"It's Jericho!" Jericho snarled, staring coldly at Trayce.
His stare nearly knocking her off her feet, Trayce returned the stare. Trayce reached behind her for her katanas. Jericho followed her hands as they whipped out the ninja swords.
"Do you expect to fight me with metal swords?" Jericho sneered.
"No, I expect to beat you to a sodden pulp with flame blades." Trayce turns her katana blades into live flame, and spinning the to show Jericho she wasn't bluffing.
Jericho followed the red hot blades with his eyes. "Oh yes, very impressive, bravo! Now can you use them?"
Trayce steps back, katanas spinning. Jericho lunges at her, Trayce plunges a flaming blade into his gut. Jericho's face distorts in pain.
"That the best you got?" he snarles, pulling himself free of the blade.
Trayce swipes her blade at him, he dodges and runs down the alley.
"Tomorrow, midnight!" he whispers harshly at Trayce.
Back in Titan Tower, Trayce and the others are around Luna in the infermery. Luna's unconciois body floats inches above the bed, her hands still clenched into fists at her sides.
"Will she ever wake up?" Beast Boy asks Raven, who's working on healing Luna's emotional wounds-already finished with the physical damage.
"Computers say all vials are fine, and that her heart is beating at a normal rate. She'll be fine." Raven takes her hands away from Luna's temple. "Let her rest, everyone out."
"Please, friend Raven. I would like to remain here with Luna, in case she wakes up." Starfire says.
"I'd like to stay to, Raven. After all, Luna and I care about each other...uh, not like a couple, just a friendship bond." Cyborg says.
"Whatever you say, just don't disturb her." the other Titans leave the room.
Cyborg sits down on a stool next to the bed. Starfire begins to pace.
"All that willpower in one girl, it amazes me." Cyborg whispers.
"Yes, it is quite astounding." Starfire stares at Luna's floating body. "I wonder if she can hear us..."
Luna's POV:
I can hear every word they say. Starfire and Cyborg are talking about my willpower, how it is so strong for one person. How they wonder if I can hear them. I can hear them all right, but can't answer. I want to answer so badly, but something is wrong. I can't move my mouth. I can open my eyes and move about if I want to, but I had gone mute. How am I meant to communicate? Telepathy? Only Raven and Trayce can do that, and that wouldn't make for a romantic evening with anyone. What am I to do?
'Wait,' I thought, 'What if I try moving my mouth and making sounds? I haven't tried, maybe it will work.'
I open my eyes, and see Cyborg and Starfire deep in conversation, looking away from me. I try to move my lips, and find I can!
'Now to speak.' I thought.
I focus on a low C Note, and begin to fight for voice control. The C was small and feeble at first, but became stronger and louder with each passing second. Starfire looked over at me and smiled. Cyborg turned his head and stared in astonishment.
I swing my legs off the bed and stand up.
"Oh, friend Luna! I am so happy you are well!" Starfire clapped her hands.
Cyborg picked up his communicator, and calls Robin. The other Titans come rushing in a few moments later. All out of breath, but looking very pleased.
"Luna, you're okay!" Beast Boy smiles.
"Of course I'm okay, why wouldn't I be?" I ask.
"You've been asleep for almost a day." Raven informs me. "It's 11:00 pm right now."
"Oh no!" I hurry to my room, the other Titans follow.
Luna picks up her communicator, he bowstaff, her throwing daggars, and her sword.
"What do you think you're doing?" Robin asks as I arrange all this stuff across my body.
"I need to go find Jericho." I answer.
"Oh no!" Cyborg exclaims. "You ain't going after that guy again, Luna. I am not gonna lose you again!"
I look at Cyborg in amazement. "Who said I was going alone?"
The other Titans stare at her, then Trayce with looks of confusment. "Then who comes with you?"
"Jericho asked Trayce specifically to come at midnight," I reply, "and I don't think she should go alone, so I'm going with her."
Two hours later, Trayce and I step back into the alley where we first met Jericho. I have my sword in my right hand, and a throwing star in my left. I shift uneasily from foot to foot.
"You scared?" I ask Trayce at last.
"A little, you?" Trayce says.
"More than a lot."
Jericho's POV:
Standing in the shadows, Jericho stared at his watch. 11:59:59...12:00. He stepped out of the security of the building, and walked over to Trayce and Luna.
Luna POV:
I see Jericho walking toward us, and raise my throwing star, ready to throw.
"I told you to come alone." Jericho said, low and menacing.
"You told me to come here at midnight." Trayce stared him down. "Nothing more."
"Fine, two on one was more interesting anyway." Jericho shrugged.
"I can give you a scar to match the one I gave you last time? Sweet!" Trayce gives Jericho an innocent smile.
All three of us lock eyes. Trayce and I staring at Jericho, each waiting for the other to make the first move. Jericho struck out first, aiming a punch in between my eyes. I held up a hand to stop him, and closed my hand over Jericho's fist. I send a charge of water electricity through my closed hand, up Jericho's arm. He screams in pain as the power hit him with such force, he fell back, clutching his arm. His eyes are closed in agony, badly underestimating my strength.
Trayce moves forward, her katana blades engulfed in phoenix flames. She locks the ends together, turning it into the dual-sided saber. Spinning it effortlessly in her hand, she leaps at her brother and in a carefully-executed array of strikes, if not for the red of the blades her moves were too fast to be seen. Jericho staggers backward, swearing under his breath. Ever since the incident where Trayce had completely obliterated Slade, she had apparently learned some new moves that he had yet to master.
Jericho gritted his teeth against the pain and pushed off from the brick wall, locking eyes with Trayce– his younger sister glares back, blood red stare rekindled. He forces himself to hold the stare long enough to conjure enough will to give her a taste of Dark Energy.
"This will hurt her severely." Jericho mumbled.
Though Trayce did not know it, Jericho had control over the Dark Element– the sixth element. He could bring himself to destroy a whole country in one burst– if he was up to full strength, which he wasn't anywhere close to!
"You gonna fight back or keep playing Staring Contest all night?" Trayce yawns.
"I don't understand, my Dark Energy can penetrate any person's will!" Jericho gawks.
Trayce scoffs. "You really HAVE lost touch with the real world. In case you've already forgotten, I have Fire in my blood. Dark Energy to me is no worse than a paper cut. And you know I'm physically immortal." She glares coldly at her brother. Jericho tries to cover up a scowl but fails horribly. "Since you're my brother, I thought I'd be nice enough to point that out before I kick your sorry ass."
I watch all this from the sidelines as Trayce and Jericho play a never-ending game of Sibling Feud.
"Immortal Star forgive me!" I throw myself into Jericho, his snarl fades into a look of shock.
I take out my Elemental Sword and holds it at the point between Jericho's throat and chest, then slowly lowers it to his heart.
"You don't have the guts to kill me!" Jericho snarls.
"You're right, I don't..." I say, leaving a purposeful cliffhanger.
"...I do." Trayce brings her katana blades back and flings them at her brother.
Jericho smirks and fades away into the shadows.