Chapter 1
Jay's POV
A lot of people ask me, how did I find my legacy? How did I become what I am today? Well, I suppose I can tell you now. In case you didn't already know, my name is James Grayson. But you can call me Jay.
It started like any other day. I walked from my high school to my little sister's, Kori's, middle school. After that, Kori and I would walk home. Now, if you would have seen Kori and I walking home and didn't know us, you would have never known that we were siblings. While my sister had curly black hair and shining emerald eyes, I had spiky red hair and sharp blue eyes. Soon, my sister and I were home from school.
"Welcome home, my little glumborks!" said my mother in a cheery voice. She then wrapped us in a big hug.
"Hi Mom…" I said, trying to get free from another one of her bone-crushing hugs.
"How was the school?" she asked. Mom didn't entirely know English that well, my Dad said that he met her on a business trip in some other country, which I later learned that that was not exactly the truth.
"It was alright," I said.
"It was fantastic!" Kori said. Not only did we look different, we act different as well.
"Please, tell me about it!" Mom said. Kori blabbed on about how her best friend Emmie and her got partnered for some science project or whatever. I decided to go upstairs to my room and start on some homework. I had a huge English paper for Mrs. Logan's class. The assignment was to do a ten-page long autobiography about your favorite poet. Which was gonna take forever! At least we got to pick the poet. I finally decided on Robert Frost, who wrote one of my favorite poems called The Road Not Taken. I really loved that poem because of the sheer mystery of taking either path, not knowing what lies ahead, but taking the chance anyway. So I started searching the internet, scouring for information. Soon, I had about two pages of information. I sighed. At this rate, I would never get this finished. Suddenly, there was a knock on my door.
"Come in," I said. My Dad walked in.
"Hey Dad," I said, turning back to my paper.
"What are you working on?" he asked.
"English paper for Mrs. Logan," I replied.
"How long does it have to be?" he asked.
"Ten pages," I groaned. My Dad laughed.
"That sounds pretty typical of Mrs. Logan," he said. I didn't reply.
"Well, your Mother and I are going out tonight. Keep an eye on Kori, and there's some leftover pizza in the fridge. We'll be back late," he said.
"Alright," I said, closing my laptop. I went downstairs to say goodbye to my parents, and then started to go back upstairs.
"Jayyyyy, will you hang out with me?" Kori asked.
"No, I have an English paper to do," I replied.
"But Dad said you had to keep an eye on me," Kori replied.
"Fine, I'll hang out with you," I said grudgingly.
"Yay! Let's play some video games!" she said. I smiled. Kori always knew how to get me to hang out with her.
"I call first player!" I shouted, running down the stairs.
"No way!" she said, taking off into a sprint. She ended up beating me to the living room.
"Ha! I got first player! Wanna play Mario Kart?" she said, holding the controller.
"Sure," I said, grabbing another Wii remote. She put the game in. We chose our characters, and started to play. After about one hundred rounds of me winning, Kori finally gave up.
"What now?" I asked, grinning from ear to ear.
"Actually, I wanted to show you something, come on!" she said, grabbing my hand and running.
"Hey! Wait!" I said, but there was no stopping her from pulling me halfway across the house. We finally arrived at a door.
"It's the door to Dad's study, what exactly do you want to show me this?" I asked.
"Not the door, inside the study, silly!" she said.
"Wait, you've been in there!? Dad says that we can never go in there!" I shouted.
"I got curious, now come on!" she said, opening the door. It opened to reveal… a regular office.
"What is so important in the ordinary office that we aren't supposed to be in!?" I yelled.
"Why would Dad try to hide an ordinary office?" Kori said. Okay, I had to admit, she had a point. So we went in and explored. There was a desk with a computer, a large stack of papers, and for whatever reason, a bust of Shakespeare. There was also a lamp in one corner and there was also a bookshelf against the wall opposite the desk.
"What? A Shakespeare head? Totally not Dad's style," Kori said, playfully knocking on the bust. Suddenly, Shakespeare's head came right off!
"Kori! Now Dad will know that we were in here for sure!" I shouted.
"Hey, why is there a button here?" Kori asked.
"Please dont touch it…" I said, knowing that it would somehow cause more trouble. Of course, she pushed the button. Suddenly, the bookshelf moved out to reveal an elevator behind it! A small ding was heard.
"What in the world..?" I asked to no one in particular.
"Let's go in!" Kori said.
"Hold up, do we really want to know what's down there?" I asked, holding Kori back.
"Why would Dad hide something from us? It has to be important!" Kori said, running towards the elevator. I had no choice but to follow her. We went inside the elevator, which had no buttons, and it automatically went down. Soon, the elevator stopped, and dinged again while opened.
"What is this place?" Kori asked. We seemed to be in a cave of sorts. But, it wasn't your… average cave. There was a big computer in the center, a workout area to the left of the computer, various forms of transportation were parked to the right of the computer, and there was something illuminated behind the computer that I couldn't make out. I walked towards the illuminated object. It seemed to be a display of costumes.
"Hey Kori, come here," I said.
"Sure," she said. She walked over.
"Wow," she said. There were three costumes on display: a red costume with an R on it, a black costume with a blue bird symbol on it, and there was a purple costume that had a skirt and silver trim.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING DOWN HERE!?" came a voice from the entrance of the cave. I whirled around to see my father and my mother standing in the doorway. Boy were we in trouble…
A/N: Hey guys! So I've decided to start this Teen Titans story, I am very excited to write this! I know that I am supposed to be working on the second story in TTD, but I got sidetracked and came up with this. So anyway, please review/follow/favorite and I'll see you all soon! Thanks! ~Hannah :)