Disclaimer: I do not own Legion of Super-Heroes. They are owned by DC Comics.
While I'm working on my main fic, this idea came to me after reading 1000GreenSun's Arabian Nights fic. This is taking three faerie tales, two which people would know well enough, and another whose name escapes me, but one I had read about in elementary school, and changing them around to center around Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl, and their counterparts in the Legion of Super-Villains, Lightning Lord, Saturn Queen, and Cosmic King. The latter two most of you might not be familiar with, but you can look them up. Other Legionnaires will be featured, and the three stories are linked together. Names have been changed to better accommodate the era, although I've never met anyone named Lavar. It takes place in 1930s America, during the Depression era. Hope you enjoy.
Cautionary Tales: Prologue
Once upon a time, there were three friends who attended the same college during the 1920s. They were Michael Raines, Lavar John Bolton, and Eve Aries.
Michael came from a well-to-do farming family that lived in Virginia, with a younger brother named Garth and another sibling on the way. Lavar worked his way into school from a poor family in the South. And Eve was a beautiful redhead who came from money, specifically money gained from a weapons manufacturing company owned by her father in Manhattan, Titan Arms.
The three had met on their first day, in a philosophy class that they had each signed up for, and they got along wonderfully. They studied together, eat lunch together, went to parties together. They were truly inseparable.
Now, on the surface, the average person would see a group of friends. Nothing out of the ordinary. But it was more than chance that brought these three together. They saw what was inside each other. They saw past their own facades and saw the awful blackness inside their hearts. They were cruel and spiteful. Michael was lazy and cruel, and incapable of thinking beyond his own needs. Lavar was greedy and felt that the world was out to get him. And Eve was vain and jealous of girls prettier than her. Things happened to the people who opposed them. And the worst part is, no one ever knew the truth.
But, as they finished college, and went their seperate ways, a few people would see through their masks. Neighbors, children, siblings. And Michael, Lavar, and Eve would soon learn some all too unfortunate lessons about their dark sides.
Next: The Lantern