Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. The plot is my own.
This story is set in an alternate universe.
This chapter is set in Kory Anders (Starfire's) POV.
Summary: A few miles north of Jump City California, there's a school hidden away from prying eyes in the forests. Students are not only taught general studies, they are trained to be superheroes. Handpicked by the Headmaster, the best are a group called Titans and these are their tales!
Prologue
What is a Titan?
That was the first question I asked when I arrived on this wonderful world at the tender age of thirteen. Taken from my ship, originally by the United States government, before being blindfolded and knocked out and waking up in a warm bed with the sun shining through the large windows, rejuvenating me. I was frightened when I heard the door open and saw two figures standing in the doorway, one much larger than the other. My hands and eyes had lit up almost immediately, a defense mechanism that had recently allowed me to escape my captors in deep space.
The larger man's body only seemed to shine in the light and when he put up his hands the silver metal reflected the sunlight back into my eyes causing me to lose focus, while the dark-haired boy beside him spoke softly to try and calm me down.
Dick Grayson and Victor Stone. Those were the names of my first friends here at The T, a hidden training and learning facility in upstate California. To put it mildly, it's a school for superheroes. Privately funded, children with powers, high IQ's, and a high level of athleticism are chosen to come to this very private and well hidden school and train until the age of twenty-two before they can officially graduate. Everyone is chosen for different reasons and if you are not a metahuman, it is much harder to get in, but those who are accepted and brought here have been very successful. And the ones born without powers are usually orphans who have no other family to take them into their own homes.
When I arrived, I was only the third student and the purpose of this school intrigued me greatly. It was a place where I could learn to control my newly acquired powers and more about the world I was now living on. But the first question I had asked Dick and Vic after they had finished explaining these things to me was what is a Titan. It was a word they had mentioned toward the end of the hours long conversation and yet, neither of them knew what that meant.
What is a Titan?
It was another two years before the three of us had really figured it out. When Dick and I were fifteen and Vic was eighteen and Donna Troy and Wally West had joined us at the school.
A Titan is a member of the Titans and the Titans are a family. A group of students handpicked by our school's headmaster that work together to protect, so far, the states of California, Washington, New Mexico and Arizona while working under secret identities. Since then, our family has expanded to include Gar Logan, Rachel Roth, Roy Harper, Garth, and Karen Beecher. We all have different powers, clashing personalities, and different fields of expertise, but we all get along very well.
And my name? It's Kory Anders. Today is the day I consider my seventeenth birthday, the day that marks the fourth year of my arrival at the T, and I'm sitting at the back of my advanced calculus class wondering how life could get any better than this. I'm the superhero Starfire, I've got the best friends anyone could ever ask for, and my communicator just went off!
I pull it out of my jeans pocket and smile before glancing over at Donna and Dick. Jump City, here we come!
A/N: This series will be different from my still ongoing Titans series and I promise, chapters do get longer! There will be action and the romance will be picked up a lot sooner than in my Titans series (good news for all you Rob/Star shippers)! Also, each arc will be set in one of the Titans POV's, though I may get away from that once and a while to try something new. The arcs will be set in the different Titans' POV's to move the story along through their eyes and get a better sense of what they're feeling. I would also like to say that this story is not connected with any of my other stories! You do not have to read any of my other stories to understand whatever happens in this one! I just wanted to make that clear since most of my stories actually are.
I hope you enjoyed the prologue. Please review and let me know what you thought!