Disclaimer: Totally just a waist of page, since I have no money! How the hell would I own Teen Titans, so no I do not own Teen Titans, once again, Athana is mine nobody is to use her, unless I say so, and I doubt that.
A/N: Ran into a minor snag with my o/c. It will be fixed but don't worry if I don't update.
Chapter Two: Dreams
A young girl about five slid halls of her home, she wasn't in Titans Tower , she was in Atlantis. Normally she would be in her socks if she was doing this, but she was punishing her parents. As she stopped sliding for the moment, she looked back and saw the cold stone floor scuffed up from her small black shoes. She looked at a young boy coming behind her, as he stopped he fell flat on his stomach.
" Your parents are going to be mad," the young boy stated sitting up he didn't know why he was doing this, he wasn't wearing shoes at the moment so he wasn't scuffing the floor, much to his friends objection.
"Come on Garth," she whined, "How many times do I have to go over this? We want them to be mad, they made me mad." She stood up ready to continue her rampage of ruining as much of her parents huge house as possible.
"Yeah but they're your parents," he said catching up to her, "What exactly did they do?" he knew he shouldn't have asked that the moment he did but it was too late. Athana stopped dead in her tracks, she turned around facing her friend.
"That is not important!" she screamed running off to ruin more of the house. She didn't look back anymore she just kept running, she may have only been five, but she did have a temper, everyone knew that, but her only friend didn't care, either that or he just kept forgetting.
When Garth did eventually did catch up to her he stopped in front of her, he was pretty smart for a five years old. They both were pretty smart, but when you have a friend like Athana you have to get smart or it would be pretty hard on you, not that is was easy now, "Stop," he said not moving, "You can't just destroy the house, tell, me, what, happened. What did they do?" She tried to get past but he wouldn't budge.
"Just move! Nobody asked you!" she shouted on the verge of tears. He looked at her as she did break down and started crying. She closed her eyes and kneeled on the floor as he kneeled down trying to comfort her, but it was no use, she had completely blocked him out, all she could hear anyway was her own crying. Suddenly when she couldn't feel him there trying to comfort her, she opened her eyes, she wasn't in her house anymore, all she could see all around her was black. The small scared five year old quivered, her eyes wide with worry. She slowly looked around walking, trying to find out where she was.
"Hello," she said hearing it echo off of the nothingness around her. Her eyes watered up with tears again as she started to breathe in and out deeply, "Where am I?" She looked around, what had happened? What was going on? What was going to happen? She turned around just to face nothing but dark all around her. She had no clue where she was, even if she was at home, she would never know, she couldn't see in the dark at all. She could be standing in the middle of her house and she would never know it unless someone turned on a light.
"You're not where you should be," she heard a deep voice boom from behind her, "You need to go home." She spun around to face a huge dark figure. She didn't know how she was able to see him, she knew all about her weakness.
"Wh-who are you," she asked scared to death, "Let me go!" The girl did scream a lot for being only five years old, she was also used to giving orders.
"I'm not keeping you here," the figure said, "You're the one who won't go home."
"How do I get home?" she asked calming down, she wiped her eyes and sniffed.
"That's all up to you," it said again, "But if you don't get home soon there will be trouble." With that said the figure disappeared. Athana looked around.
"Wait!" she called out, she had been scared of the figure, but she was even more scared of being alone, the five year old fell to her knees again but instead of crying she thought, "Why should I go home, not like my parents ever told me anything." She wiped her eyes still crying silently to herself. She stood up she wouldn't be so scared if there were people around, being alone scared her a lot. She didn't care what the figure said about trouble, she didn't really want to go back anyway. She sat down trying to think of a way out of here, she may not have wanted to go home, but she didn't want to be here either. She put her head in her hands, she had no clue what to do. She sniffed again closed her eyes.
Soon she felt a small breeze, quickly it grew to a strong wind she stood up opening her eyes to see a gapping hole in what she thought was the middle, all of the wind was going into that. She crouched down trying not to get knocked over, seeing a light coming from it. Knowing very well that she could get sucked in she tried not to go any closer to it, but something inside of her made her. She five year old was scared at her own actions not knowing why she couldn't stop crawling over to it.
The closer she got to it the harder it was to not get blown over. As soon as she got close enough to the hole to see the light was a fire, the strength of the winds was too much, she was blown over, not being able to hold on anymore she was sucked into the hole, the only other thing in it was the fire.
"AHHH!" Athana screamed sitting up, she looked around, she was in Titan Tower again, it must have been a dream. She sat there looking at the thin sheet wrapped around her legs. She unwrapped it seeing the light streaming through her shaded windows. She brushed her fingers through her hair as she stood up getting out of bed. She looked around, the room was empty except for a wooden stand with a book on it, the book was hers, the only thing she had brought with her. She walked over to it, she brushed her hands over the rough brown leather cover.
The book was old and the edges of the beautiful gold pages had started to brown, but she expected that, it was an old heirloom. Her mother had given it to her on her thirteenth birthday, about three years ago. The book was huge, it's spine held together by two metal clasps. On the front of the book in gold script were the words "Unda Alica," they were Latin for something, but she had no clue what it was. Inside were different spells and charms that she could do. Her mother had personally taught her how to do them, the only thing she did with her daughter since she stopped breast-feeding her when Athana was a baby.
"Athana," a Spanish accented voice came from her door that she had opened when she woke up. She turned around to see Mas y Menos looking at her.
"Hi guys," she said forgetting about the book for the moment.
"Desayuno es preparado," Mas said.
"Break-fast," Menos struggled repeating what Bumblebee had told him, actually Bumblebee didn't know why she had sent them, but they were the only other ones up, and she was busy.
"I'll be right there," she said faking a smile, actually she was pretty upset from that dream, but she didn't want to tell the Titans about it, she didn't want to worry them. She hoped it meant nothing, but she doubted it, when she had dreams like that they always meant something. The two left walking up to Bumblebee.
"Ella eyaculación," Menos said.
"Pero parece disgustado," Mas finished.
"I'm just going to guess that means they're coming," Bumblebee said as both Aqualad and Speedy walked in.
"Morning," Speedy said yawning as he sat down. Mas y Menos sat down next to him.
"Where's Athana?" Aqualad asked sitting down.
"She's coming," Bumblebee said, "Not that it matters," she added mumbling to herself. Just them Athana walked in not showing any signs of being the least bit worried. She sat down at the counter smiling.
"Good morning," she said to the others. Bumblebee made a small noise in her throat and Aqualad glared at her. She faked the best smiled she could remembering what Aqualad had said about trusting him.
"Sure is," she said, it even sounded fake to her but she smiled anyway. Aqualad shook his head slightly. He didn't care if Bumblebee liked Athana or not, as long as she was letting his friend stay here.
"Aqualad," he heard his name coming from behind him as he sat on the couch flipping through channels.
He turned around, "Oh hey Athana," he said, "What's up?" She walked around the couch and sat down next to him.
"I had another one of those dreams again," she said, "You remember them right?" She looked at his face, it was filled with concern. Whenever she had one something bad happened, either to Atlantis, her, or her friends.
"Are you sure it was one of those?" he asked, he was really concerned.
"Yeah, I'm positive, I don' know what to do," she said looking at him.
"Well what happened," he asked, "Maybe that will help." She nodded, willing to try anything, it had been bugging her for the past hour since she woke up and the others had finished combat practice, which she only watched, she went into explaining the dream to her friend.
When she had finished the dream Aqualad sat there in awe, "I don't know what it means," he said, "But you're definitely right, it is one of those dreams."
"I think something is going to happen to Atlantis," she said, "That… thing kept telling me to go home."
"But how do you trust it, you could barely see it," he asked her, "I don't think we should."
"I have to do something, I have to protect Atlantis," she said as Bumblebee walked in. She silently watched the two.
"You can't trust it," Aqualad said, "I don't want you to go back there."
"You're acting just like my parents," she said getting mad, "Nobody thinks I can take care of myself! They all think I'm some weak little princess!"
"You are!" Aqualad said, "You've never actually fought anything before except your parents! And that doesn't mean anything!" Bumble listened in awe, had she heard right, was Athana a princess?
"I thought you of all people would understand that I could do this, it wasn't the fight I had with my parents Aqualad," she said, "I've been having these dreams for weeks now, I thought if I got away they would stop, but they're only getting worse! I know I have to go back!"
"I won't let you!" he said, standing up, "I was always the one to get you out of trouble when we were little! Sneaking you back into the castle, cleaning up all of the things you did to 'punish you're parents' when you refused to and ran off! I'm not going to let you do something that could get you killed"
"You can't control me! I don't need you to protect me I can control my powers, and you would know that if you hadn't left me without another single friend that understood me in Atlantis!" She stormed out of the room leaving Aqualad standing there.
Athana stormed into her room the door closing behind her. She laid down on her bed, she knew she was being stupid, Aqualad was partly right, she couldn't just go off to Atlantis without a plan, she didn't even know what was going to happen. She just knew she had to do something. She closed her eyes trying to relax, when she heard a knock on her door. She opened her eyes and sighed, "Who is it?" she asked not getting up yet.
"It's Speedy, I heard you slamming you door halfway down the hall," he said, "You ok?" She got up and went over to the door.
"It's a long story," she said leaning against the door, she knew she shouldn't tell him about it, but she needed to talk to someone. She opened the door and he walked in.
"You can tell me," he said, she sighed sitting down.
"It's Aqualad," she said.
"Oh," he said in a small voice.
"We had a fight," she said, "You know he was the only friend I ever had in Atlantis, the only one my parents trusted to be around me, he changed so much," she looked at him, "You want to get pizza, I don't even want to think about him right now." Speedy smiled.
"That'd be great," he said standing up.
A/N: Maybe I introduced the whole princess thing too soon, but I have many secrets to reveal and a plot so it remains, and I have no clue if Speedy would be like that but whatever, he will be in this story. Oh yeah there is a link on my profile that leads to a picture of her. Review people, I need them to write!
