Disclaimer: I own none of the Teen Titans, nor do I own DC comics. My OC Frost on the other hand is all me.
Chapter 1
Late one otherwise peaceful night in front of the pizza place on the corner of Main Street is a kid that looked to be about 15 years old, was passing by on the sidewalk. The boy is wearing his usual blue jacket with white ice crystal designs on the sleeves and sides overtop of a sleeveless white t-shirt. The same designs also on the lower legs of his blue cargo pants.
A strange, tattered white cloak hanging around his shoulders waving slightly in a nonexistent wind making it appear seemingly ghostly and untouchable. His spiked snowy white mostly hidden beneath his hood with only his bangs visible hanging down in front of his pale almost gray face matching perfectly with deep ocean blue eyes. Fingerless black leather gloves with a single white snowflake design on the back with hard metal knobs on the knuckles along with a pair of black combat boots completing his outfit. This boy's name is Frost.
Having just arrived in Jump city Frost was lost and understandably frustrated.
"THIS! IS! RIDICULES!" Frost yelled more to himself then the few people that were around him. "I don't have a problem in the world finding this city, but the second I set foot inside of it, I'm completely LOST! You'd think a giant T shaped tower would be easy to find."
Ok, maybe frustrated wasn't a strong enough word for it.
Stopping and taking a seat in one of the many empty chairs on the lower level of the pizza place Frost put his head down into his hands and tried to figure out what to do next.
'…and the worst part is with even with what few people that are out tonight I can't use any of my power's to find out where their stupid tower is at.'. He continuing from were he left off. (Sigh) 'Not if I intend to keep them a secret anyway. I want to met the titans on my terms if at all possible'
During all of his ranting Frost failed to notice that everyone in the area was now giving him funny looks whether it was because of his appearance or his ranting was debatable. He also failed to notice the middle-aged restaurant's owner walking up behind him.
"Hey kid." The man said tapping on Frost's shoulder. The ethereal martial of his cloak moving unnoticed to avoid the older mans hand.
"Hmm, I'm sorry sir. I didn't hear you come over. What did you say?" Frost politely asked turning around and looking up from under his hood to see who was talking to him, his frustration all but forgotten.
(Chuckle) "You said that you where looking for Titans Tower, correct?" The man asked with a friendly smile, amused at Frost's overly polite manner.
"Yes sir, I am but how did you-" Frost started to answer bewildered.
(Chuckling again) "Kid, with how loud you were yelling just now, I'd say it's a safe bet that half the neighborhoods heard you just now".
Looking around Frost finally took note of just how many people were looking at him. With this in mind, Frost adjusted his hood for what little good it did trying to hide the flush of embarrassment on his pale skin.
Standing up. "I'm am very sorry about that sir. I didn't mean to cause a scene." Bowing his head a little in apology as he spoke.
"Don't worry about it, and you can drop all that sir stuff. Just call me Mac, everybody else does, I'm the owner of this fine establishment.".Mac said holdout his hand to shake. "So what's your our name?"
Raising his own gloved hand up Frost gladly shook Mac's hand. "Frost, I'm new to town. So Mac know where they put that tower?" Hope of finding his goal in his voice.
"Yup, they built it out on an island in the bay over there. Out of Towner's like yourself, coming in at night mistake it for a light house all the time too, so don't feel bad." Mac says pointing down the road and out onto the water toward what Frost had indeed first taken to be a light house.
Frost had to ask. "But if they live on an island, then how do they get in and out to the city to help out?"
"I think they've got some kind of private road under the water or something. I can't say for sure though, never seen it myself." Mac answered. "Although more often then not they just fly over."
"Aright then, thanks for the help." Frost said starting to walk off. "Maybe I'll see aye around again sometime, later Mac!" He half yells over his shoulder.
"Wait, your not going to try to go there are you?!" Mac yelled after him. But Frost was already long gone. (Chuckle) "Kid's today."
Frost now standing at the end of a long dock amongst many warehouses looking across the bay at the gigantic T shaped structure that is Titans Tower sitting on the not so distant island, deep in thought over what to do next
'Ok now all I have to do is fly over to the tower, knock on there door, tell them what happened and-'. (Bang) My train of thought quickly derailed as I hit myself in the head. 'Stupid! Why in the world are the Teen Titans going to believe you about this whole damn thing. I barely believed it myself, and I LIVED thru it! Stupid.' (Bang) 'Stupid.' (Bang) 'Stupid.' (Bang)
"Ow ok, that was dumb." Shaking my head before looking around for anyone in this part of the harbor. 'Well this is the only spot in the city that I can see into that place, might as well take a look-inside.'
Closing my eyes and summoned up one of my most useful of powers. When I opened my eyes again they were glowing a piercing ice blue light. Focusing on the tower in the distance my vision zoomed in on the structure and begin to make layers of the building seemingly fade away as I looked thro each of them in turn as I searched through the Tower's inerter. After about 20mins of looking for the Titans (and memorizing the buildings layout) I let eyes returning to their normal ocean blue as I came to the consolation that…
"Great, they aren't even home right now." I sighed pinching arch of my nose in frustration before looking up suddenly. "Wait if their not at the tower then they must be…this may be a good thing after all!" I exclaimed with a grin.
My power active again my eyes started to glow once more in their piercing blue light as I turned to face the city. But this time not seeing just the city, but also the life forces of every living creature.
'Ok Robin and Cyborg are both fully human so finding them will be like finding a needle in… well in a stack of needles, possibility Beast Boy too. My best bet is to try and find Starfire or Raven. Neither of them are human so they should have a different kind of light to them'. I reasoned to myself as I focused on expanding My 'sight' through-out the entirety city in front of me.
'Northern neighborhoods… no. Southern harbor… nope. Western shopping district… negative. Central business …yes!'. Putting more focus on the Central area of the city I saw that among the sea of white colored light's that represented a normal human's life force there was two distinctly different colored life forces together on a roof top, a bright green one and a dark black one. Along with them there were two other slightly abnormal colored human life forces. A large although dimly lit one, the other small but unusually complicated along with a slight green tint to it.
'Those must be them. No doubt the green one's Starfire I can see her life force a mile away it's so bright. The black one must be Raven, her life force is so dark if I wasn't for Starfire's lighting up the place I would have missed it all together. The other two with them are most likely Cyborg, and Beast Boy by the looks of things.'
'But where is Robin then?' after 'looking' around some more I saw 1 more life sign inside the building moving round two other's. 'maybe that's him getting ready to ambush some thieves or something.' (Shrugging) 'I guess I'll have to find out when I get there.'
Frost's white cloak moving on its own accord out of the way as a pair of large bladed wings grew out of the previously hidden slits in the clothing near his shoulder blades. Folded behind his back the tips of the longest blades almost touched the ground with the joints of his wings a couple of inches above his head. The wings completely bare up until reached the joint and spread out into four different blades. One of the blade continued along the original and continued along the whole wing and to the very tip. The three other blades arched down slightly and spread out evenly to each section of wing after the joint where they split up. The wings were mostly an almost unnaturally dark color that was darker than the black of space. Seeming so because of the lines of black running along the bright-silver of the blades, contrasting the black completely and making each blade sharp on only one side.
"If there is anything positive about this whole situation it would defiantly have to be flying." Stretching his wings out so as to relieve any lingering discomfort from hiding before leaping into the air. "I never get tired of this."
His wings did not work like a normal birds wings. There was an actual meaning for the empty spaces between the blades. He could charge the spaces with demonic energy and shoot it out like booster rockets. He could also control the amount of energy sent to the different spaces.
In other words it meant that he could fly incredibly fast, well still maintaining complete control his flight by only slightly flexing and turning his wings and controlling the force of the released energies. All of this meaning that Frost's flight was effortless despite his wings not seeming the slightest bit airworthy. (Take that gravity!)
"Lucky its dark enough out tonight for me to fly without being seen. If someone saw me flying thru the city it would net me a lot of unwanted attention" he mutters as he glides towards the spot that still held the lights of the Teen Titans life forces coming from of it.
Upon arriving Frost quickly retracted his wings his ghostly white cloak returning to its usual place around his shoulders. Relieved to find that the four of them are too busy talking amongst themselves to notice his quiet landing behind one of the building large ventilation unit. Starfire with Beast Boy behind one pillar, Cyborg crouched looking at his cybernetic forearm behind another pillar with Raven who is holding her head and seemingly looking for something.
'Did Raven sense me just now?' Equally curious and worried. (Shrugging) 'Probability just a fluke. Well, weather she did or not, with my wings like it is, she should be incapable of sensing anything from me now… at least I think.'
"I'm working a Slade lead on the far side of town; sure you guys can handle this without me?" Robin's says his voice coming from what Frost assumed to be a communicator built into Cyborg's arm.
"No problem." Came Cyborg's respond. Just in time for the life force Frost had at first thought was Robin, come out of another vent in the roof.
'Who the hell?! That is diffidently not Robin.' I thought as I inspected the new arrival. He was wearing a mostly black suit with pair of gray gloves and belt. He had a skull mask on with a red X marks over the right eye of his mask, his chest, on his belt buckle, and both sides of his gloves.
'Who is this guy? None of the news reports had anything on someone like this.'
"You working for Slade tough guy?" Cyborg called out changing his hand into his sonic cannon as he asked.
"Red X works alone." He said slowly before quickly raising his hand and firing a blast in the shape of a red x.
Cyborg responded with a blast of his own, not only stopping the attack but also continuing on to hit the spot Red X just jumped away from. Red X avoiding a few more shots before jumping once more and firing off some more X shaped blasts forcing Cyborg back.
'Well whoever this Red X is it looks like they have the situation under control' Frost thinks as he watches the fight from behind his hiding place.
Beast Boy taking his turn at bat, did a front flip while changing into a lion roaring as he continued toward Red X ready to pin him down. At least that was the plan be for X fired some kind of weird goop at him. Falling to the roof top before reverting to his human form, trying in vain to get out by changing first into a gorilla then a hawk and even an elephant before giving up exhausted and still stuck in his goop. One down, three to go.
'Then again I could be wrong.' The smile now gone from Frost's hooded face.
Next up Starfire throwing her star bolt's Raven and her black magic as a follow up. But Red X just did a few backwards summersaults easily dodging the star bolt's before jumping up to avoid a large black claw that came out of the roof top under him. Red X while still in the air firing two Red X shaped restraints from his palms, one at each of the girl's.
Starfire crying out as the X fired at her wraps itself around her like a strait jacket before making her fall to the roof top. Two down, two to go.
"Azarath Mmm-" Raven is unable to finish her mantra do to the other X strapping itself over her mouth rendering her spells useless. Three down, one to go.
"HAA…huh? ". Cyborg trying to grab Red X from behind misses when he sidesteps him, and dodges a punch by jumping over him. Now behind Cyborg Red X slaps another of his X shaped gadgets on his back. "What?!" Exclaimed Cyborg as his back opened up, exposing Cyborg's circuits to Red X.
"Hay! Heo!" Exclaimed Cyborg again, as he lost control of his spinning arms. "Who told you how to shut me down?!" He finished before he lost all control and Red X pushed him to the ground. Four down, none to go.
His opponents beaten, Red X, looks down at them a moment longer before starting toward the roofs edge.
"Well time to go to work" Whispered Frost as he readied himself for the familiar burst of adrenaline that accompanied his demon enhanced speed.
'Sounds like fun! AHAHAH!' Kuran shouted in his mind taking advantage of Frost's lack of sleep and meditation to try to take over.
"Damn it! Why now?!" I growled grabbing the sides my head with a horrified expression as the demon spoke in my mind. "Why the hell can't you just stay in your damn cage?!"
'Oh don't be that way Frosty. You'll get to show off in front of your precious Teen Titans, and I'll get to kill someone! Its win-win! AHAHAH!' Redoubling his efforts, trying to do just that.
"No…stop it." My eyes flickering back and forth from blue to red and back again. "SHUT UP!"
It was official. The Teen Titans had lost, big time.
His opponents beaten Red X look down at them a moment longer before starting toward the roofs edge.
"Yeah, you better run!" Cyborg yells after him still face down on roof top.
Red X running between Starfire and Raven, before jumping off the roof and disappearing into thin air.
"Sooo you guys see what I don't see?" asks Beast Boy.
"SHUT UP!"
"Dude, not cool." Beast Boy called to Cyborg thinking he said it.
"Uh, I didn't say that" Cyborg said seriously as he tried to reboot his systems.
"If you didn't say it…then who did?" Beast boy said looking worried, momentarily forgetting his struggle to get out of his gooey prison.
"Friends look! Over there!" Starfire yelled noticing Raven pointing.
Looking over the four of them saw as someone in a tattered white cloak staggered backwards out from behind a ventilation unit and into the open holding his head with both hands and growling. Jerking his head around at the onlookers giving them all a clear view of his burning crimson eyes as he realized he had been discovered before seemingly flickering out of existents leaving behind nothing but a blue shimmer in the air.
"Please say I wasn't the only one who saw that?" Beast Boy asked staring at the spot Frost had vanished from.
"You are not. I too saw 'that'. Should we not give chase?" Starfire responded in her usual innocent way.
"All things considered Star I don't see that happening. I say we just call it a night" Cyborg answered as he getting up having just finished rebooting his systems. "Besides we need to tell Robin about these guys"
After his little disappearing act Frost flew as fast as his cursed wings could carry him back towered the most disserted part of the city that he knew of…the docks.
'Oaa, he got away, that's too bad. AHAHAH!' Kuran thought to him in a mocking tone no longer fighting for control now that there was nothing of interest to do anymore.
'Quiet you! It's your fault. If it wasn't for you I would be getting thanked by the titans, instead they probable think I'm with that Red X character.' I snapped back.
'Probably, but watching you deal with this is far more entertaining."
'Oh I'm so happy that your enjoying yourself!' I declared sarcastically arriving in front of one of the more out of the way warehouses. Retracted my wings as my cloak again moving back into place as I walking inside.
'Oh, no worries about that.' Chuckled Kuran purposely ignoring the sarcasm. 'But as much as I love seeing you make a fool of your self, and believe me I do. Why are we even here? I guaranty you goth girl can't get rid of me'
'Liar, You just want me to give up.' Frost accused looking around for a place with enough room to concentrate.
'I don't need you to give up. When you sealed me you changed. Were connected now whether you like it or not. Oh, just so that were clear I'm just as upset about it as you are. You think I like it in here? My cage as you call it is cold as hell! On the bright side though I wouldn't have to deal with it much longer. Before too long I'll be free of whatever the hell you did and then this body will be all mine. AHAHAH!' Kuran laughed before fading into the back of his mind once again.
"Such is the time's I miss when he couldn't talk." (sigh) Sitting down in an empty space between some of the larger box's Frost made himself comfortable. Crossing his legs, and balling his hands into fists with knuckles touching in front of him. Frost settled into his usual meditative position and begin floating.
'I just pray he's just lying out of desperation.' So with no plans of moving from that spot for a good long while I begin focusing inwards doing whatever I could to reinforce the deteriorating seal that held the demon at bay within me for what little good it did.
The next morning back at Titans Tower the team was sitting around the kitchen with Beast Boy having the last of the goop from last nights fight cut out of his hair like gum by Starfire.
"I had no Idea Red X would pose such a threat, I should have been there." Robin spoke up after hearing what happened last night with Red X.
"You bet you should have been there, look at what he did to my do! I'm looking at two months of bad hair days." Beast Boy exclaimed pointing at his hair.
"Even if you had been there it wouldn't have made a difference." Raven stated.
"Dude knew how to bring each of us down, I guarantee he had a gadget with your name on it. Then there's that other guy, more then likely he was X's backup." Cyborg continued.
"Agreed you need not feel guilt, we are undamaged." Starfire assured.
"Helloooo!" Beast Boy said pointing at his hair again.
"Mostly undamaged"
"Besides even if you had taken Red X down, that other dude would have taken you out." Beast Boy said flatly.
"I thought Red X said that he was working alone?" Robin questioned.
"So he lied big deal, criminals do that." Cyborg answered.
"I don't think so. I got the feeling that something was wrong with him; he was in a lot of mental pain when we saw him." Raven explained
"What makes you say that Rea?" Beast Boy.
"I'm an empath Beast Boy I sensed it. He also had a weird present about him, almost inhuman." Raven continued "and don't call me Rea."
'That's not all though, it felt so familiar. Almost like me somehow, but that can be…can it?' Raven wondered privately.
"I don't know about the other guy, but from what you've all told me about this Red X, I doubt that he'd go thru that much work with his equipment, then team-up with someone so unreliable." Robin.
"Either way, I think we all want to know how your Slade hunt went." Cyborg said changing the subject.
"Nothing, lead was a dead-end, I should get back to work" Ending the conversion as far as Robin was concerned, and heading for the evidence room.
Later that night at the docks, inside of one of the more out of the way warehouses, an exhausted Frost stood up, giving a big yawn as he stretches out his stiff muscles.
"Well that's finally done." I said rubbing my eyes. "Yet another sleepless night, hooray." Yawning again and swaying slightly. "Come to think of it tonight makes seven sleepless nights in a row. Oh joy, a new personal best." I said wearily with a heavy dose of sarcasm sounding clearly through my tired voice.
"Maybe I should just wait until tomorrow to try and meet up with them again after a good nights sleep." Looking up though a skylight at the star filled night sky. "No, the sooner, the better." Heading to the door.
"Although I should probably stop talking to myself like a crazy person." Smiling a little at my own bad joke.
"Of course, they do say talking to yourself isn't crazy. It's when you answer yourself that your crazy." I reasoned as walking out and closes the warehouse door behind me.
'Although, Kuran likes to talk back every now and then. Dose that count? Hmm, who's to say, maybe I am crazy.' Turning towards to the tower in the bay and lighting my eyes with my visual power. 'I hope their home today. I don't think I could stretch my power throughout the city again tonight.'
"Thank goodness for small miracles, there looks like there just leaving." Spotting most of the Titans almost right away flying across the water. (Cyborg being carried by Beast Boy in pterodactyl form) "Probable another Red X incident, after such an effortless win I wouldn't be surprised"
'No Robin again? Guess he's still busy with that Slade thing. Why dose that name sound familiar?' (Shrugging) 'all well, best not dwell on it. All I have to do is follow the Titans. If they get in a fight I'll help out, if not, then I'll talk to them after. Preferably one at a time.' Not looking forward to being questioned by one person let alone five at once.
Frost watched carefully as the for Titans passed over head close by before releasing his demonic wings. Raven immediately spinning around looked over in my direction forcing me to retract my wings again painfully fast and dive behind some wooden crates to avoid being found.
'Crap! I guess Raven sensing me last night wasn't just a fluke. How am I going to get them to believe I'm not a threat when she can sense that asshole inside me?!' Frost mentally screamed borderline panicking. Looking out over the boxes to see the teen hero's standing less then a hundred feet away talking before ducking back down.
'Man, that is way to close! This is bad, this is very bad. This is not going at all according to the 'good impression plan'.' Frost thought. 'Ok, calm down. Need to hide and rethink this.' Focusing on slowing my heart rate to a crawl, pulling my magic cloak tightly around myself as I desperately tried to hide his life signs from Cyborg, and the demons energy from Raven.
"Please friend Raven, why do you stop us here when Robin is in need of are assistance?" Starfire asked worried.
"I sensed that weird presents again somewhere around here." Raven explained.
"Then where is he?" Yawned Beast Boy clearly mirroring Frost's own desire to go back to sleep.
"I don't know, it disappeared again almost immediately." Raven replied still looking around for the source of the presents in question.
"Immeda what? Beast Boy repeated not understanding.
"She means it was here one sec and gone the next, like your brain." Cyborg mocked.
"Hey!"
"Oh, I'm sorry suggests you had one to begin with." Beast Boy opened his mouth to continue, but was cut off by Raven.
"Will you two knock it off, I'm trying to concentrate" The demoness growled rubbing her temples.
"Other then us my sensors aren't picking up anything other then the usual rats. If the someone was here they're gone now." Cyborg stated.
"Please, Raven we can search for this person of mystery later. Robin is in need of our assistants." Starfire pleaded.
"Your right, let's go." Raven said giving in feeling slightly guilty for wasting time when their leader needed there help.
Chancing another look over the crate's to see the hero's giving up and continuing on there way. 'Looks like I have some good karma left after all.' Frost sighed in relief. 'That's pretty impressive though. Last night it seemed like she barely noticed me when I started to go full demon, but now she's nearly pinpointing me on just the aura off my wings. If this keeps up they're going to come to their own conclusions long before I'm able to explain.'
"Ok, I cant use my wings, so flying it out. Looks like I'm hoofing it." (Groan) "Man, I hate running!" Frost Whined, standing up and starting after them "Going to sleep is sounding better and better by the minute." My eyes glowing with their piercing ice blue light following their life forces as I ran after.
Finally after 20 long minutes of playing catch-up with the four Teen Titans I finally managed to reach the spot that my power had shown me they should be. Unfortunately he arrived just in time to see them going down into the subway.
Breathing heavy and feeling ready to drop I headed down after them muttering "If they end up on a train I swear I'm finding the nearest park beach and heading straight to dreamland." Frost promised himself rounding the corner to the second staircase.
(Train whistle) "…and now I hate trains." Looking over expecting most if not all of the Teen Titans to be on it somehow. Instead seeing a sight that made his blood run cold. There was Cyborg and Starfire in a heap by the stairs close to him, Raven under some empty crate's farther way and Red X heading presumably for the exit on the opposite side of the tracks, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was that Beast Boy was actually ON the train tracks in front of an oncoming train, frozen like a dear in the headlights.
"BEAST BOY!" Vanishing in a burst of power, a light blue tint left in his wake and reappearing next to Red X spinning a full 360 degrees and backhanding him in the face with enough force to leave an impression of the back of his fist in the titanium skull mask, and probably giving him a good sized welt too before taking off again. This time reappearing next to Beast Boy on the tracks gather him up and easily throwing him a good 20ft off of the tracks and onto the platform on the other side. Then jumping off the tracks to safety himself.
To bad that last part came a little late, as a sickening crack and a sharp pain in his left leg made all too clear. Tumbling across the platform before coming to a painful stop against a concrete pillar .
Beast boy rushing over to him "Dude, did you just save me?"
"Yea, too bad…it didn't go… as planned." Frost said in a weak pained voice. Grabbing at his leg that was now bent at an impossible angle, his pants leg shredded and stained red with his blood. "The train clipped my leg." The rest of the Titans (Minus Robin) coming up behind them.
"Beast Boy, you are undamaged?" Starfire said asked hopefully.
"Yea, I'm ok Star, but he's not." Moving out of the way so that they could see Frost's on the ground in the fetal position.
"Man, that looks bad." The Titans words getting fainter as everything begin to get dark. "Lets get him back to the tower" Was the last think Frost heard before he lost conscious .
End Chapter
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