STARFIRE'S ARC: TO BE A HEROINE, reboot, 2016
Part One
Prologue
"What can we know about the Light?"
"The Light?"
"The Light has its own name in the tales we tell our children, that in darkest of places a light will always gleam from somewhere off." Two masculine hands, rough bone and bulging knuckle, softly clasp a floating light from the ceiling that twinkled to resemble the night sky, which now burned a foreboding warning to the aliens under it: their own light source was dimming and the universe looked like it was shouting.
"I've—I've been fortunate as the elders say to have lived a lifetime of exploring galaxies myself." Between the fingers, the light twinkles and twinkles, lighting the tan, tan palms. "Though, I have been called naïve for never witnessing total darkness, have you seen it? The parts of the universe that are dominated by complete emptiness, the myths that haunt us, the supposed graveyards of the galaxy. Can you imagine how horrid the sight?
"I walk in our dying world and cannot help but to remember those myths: the stars, like ours, that have dimmed, the people who have suffered, the universe gone unstable, and the worlds that have become nothing. Clearly, even during our daytime, even with the three lights in our sky burning at my sides, I can see how dark our world can become.
"So I ask, can Light inspire us? It has manifested itself as hope."
"You are speaking too romantically, Galfore."
"Can you tell me that when we find ourselves wading through total darkness, will we be able to remember what Light was like?
"This invasion—it's our avenging the people who thwarted us from preventing this."
"My hurting heart, a lot of people—they will be killed."
"They will."
"Has the Grand Ruler spoken?"
"Tonight he shall send an attack force to Earth."
Author's Note: Let me welcome you here! I wrote the original series three to four years ago and its a bit painful to revisit, considering how much has changed. Although this is just a mere retelling of a Teen Titan story, "Starfire's Arc" means a lot to me (no matter how often I deny my love for fanfiction) because it fell in a time period where I needed a few heroes myself. So rereading this brings back mountains of memories all captivated in how I wrote as a narrator. I cannot express how special it is to revisit this "old self" (in quotation marks because I don't think we can ever lose the people we once were-another story for another time.)
That aside, I wanted retell my retelling using the voice I use now-which hasn't changed for the worse, I hope! I could give you a thousand thank you for reading this and if you decide to follow the story, I will be very excited to be writing for you. No fear the spoilers in the original series, aspects will change! With each update, if you don't mind, I would like to include a few things about myself as the writer of this story-like what inspired me to write this, the time a friend fought me for my account name (I lost and sulked for a week, knowing he had access to reading ALL my stories), and the multiple factors that contributed to this reboot series.
As for now, thanks again! Chapter One shall be up shortly.
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