A/N: And here we go chapter 6, I know it took a while but I just finished school last Friday, so I've been busy with finals and such. I am now a free man High school is over and for me summer has begun. I hope to get more writing done over the summer although I am looking for a job.

Anywho, ON WITH THE SHOW!


Chapter 6: History Belongs in the Past

Jinx sat cross legged on a large rock both hands outstretched, a small rock rested in her left hand. With a small flash of pink lightning it was in her right, then her left, right, left, right, left.

"Heheheheh… cool."

"Amusing yourself?" Jinx looked up at the dark figure in front of her.

"Yes, very much so actually."

Winking objects short distances was one of the many new magical talents Jinx had picked up over the past week and a half of training with Raven. Much of what she learned was control, that's what Raven did best, she could now focus her hex energy into a much larger variety of applications making a flame hotter or cooler focusing her magic into blades and waves or bolts, more effective and energy efficient than her previous blasts. Raven had learned a few new things as well although the majority of what she learned was martial, Jinx was agile like a cat and she had been teaching Raven how to be the same. They practiced hand-to-hand together and had built up a rather good synchronization fighting side by side with a combination of magic and martial prowess they we're quite the duo. Their unique bond gave them an almost telepathic level of communication; they seemed to just always know where the other was and what they were doing during a fight.

But the answer to their most pressing problem had not as of yet shown itself. How they were going to deal with the Wurm was still an unknown.

"I feel like we aren't getting any closer to figuring it out." Jinx said, the smile fading from her face.

The unspoken question of what did not need to be voiced.

"We have to try, we're the only ones with a chance of being able to do it." Raven replied.

"I know but we have no idea where to even start."

"Well… let's go get something to eat, we'll try again later." Raven suggested.

"Yeah alright let's go."

They walked side by side down the dirt path leading from the city to the gate out of Azarath.

They wound up at a small café for lunch, they had finished eating and were now just sitting silently at their table. Raven was nursing her tea in a contemplative silence. Jinx with her holo ring on was leaned back In her chair staring up at the sky.

She reached up a hand trying to touch the sky only to grasp empty air. "I want to fly."

Raven looked up one eyebrow cocked.

"I feel like that is the greatest freedom you can have."

"I don't know I've been able to do it for a very long time, I don't feel particularly free when I do it." Raven replied.

"That's because you aren't doing it right, when I learn to fly I'll show you how." Jinx replied with a wide smile.

Raven couldn't help a small smile of her own. "Deal."

As they left the café heading back to Azarath a hidden observer reports back to his superiors.


After that Jinx completely engrossed herself in all of the material she could find on various methods of using magic to fly for about a week. Performing a menagerie of experiments, and otherwise giving it that stubbornness that was Jinx. However her Hex energy seemed just as determined to remain firmly on the ground.

They were walking down one of Jumps' streets talking about magic and flight. Jinx wearing her holo ring was not that much different, it turned her hair black, changed her eyes to a cool blue without the slit pupils, changed her skin color to something a bit more normal, and gave her a dusting of freckles across the bridge of her nose. You'd have to have known Jinx pretty well in order to recognize her.

A storefront about a hundred yards in front of them suddenly exploded. Out of the dust came Mammoth followed quickly by Gizmo and two Hive lackeys, carrying bags of loot. Gizmo spotted them first, he squinted his eyes at them but immediately recognized her when her hands and eyes began glowing pink.

"Hey! You idiots it's the traitorous bitch!" He shouted to his teammates.

Raven stood ready next to Jinx both of them glowing with their respective powers, Raven had already pressed the emergency transponder on her T-comm. Jinx's holo ring flickered out as the two sides moved into standoff positions.

The civilians in the area had cleared out, the only sounds were from the destroyed shop front burning in the background.

"We'll finally be able to tie up this loose end." Gizmo said. "You know we've caught a lot of flak for taking so long to get you, but we got you now, bitch."

"I wouldn't bet on that." Raven replied lowly.

"Pffft, a Titan? You're really have gone as low as you can." Gizmo scoffed.

A streak of pink flashed by him and the bag of loot he was carrying split open spilling its contents. Jinx stood smiling one hand outstretched crackling with pink electricity.

"HIVE ATTACK!" Gizmo yelled abandoning the empty sack.

"I've got Mammoth, you get Gizmo." Raven said quickly before jumping off to the side.

Mammoth charged strait at her, she smirked pulling her fist back. "I've wanted to test this."

She threw her fist forward streaking obsidian energy, making solid contact with Mammoth's fist, there was a shockwave that cracked the pavement around them, but Raven hadn't budged an inch. Mammoth had enough time to stare dumbly down at Raven before he caught another soul powered uppercut to the jaw that sent him flying backwards and onto the two Hive goons.

He groaned and got back up slightly more wary of the dark sorceress before him, the other two were out cold however.

Jinx flipped and cartwheeled out of the way of Gizmo's wild attacks from his mechanical spider legs, seizing an opportunity she dodged to the side, grabbed one of the legs and brought her other hand down on it glowing pink, snapping the leg like a toothpick. Gizmo quickly retreated outside of immediate range and changed to ranged weapons, several rocket pods unfolded from his backpack and fired a barrage of missiles at Jinx.

She waved her arm into the air spraying out a cloud of pink, as the missiles flew into the cloud they failed catastrophically, detonating or falling apart. As the smoke of the explosions cleared Jinx saw the barrel of a gun leveled at her, she saw his finger tighten around the trigger. The gun went off at nearly the same time Raven tackled her. Jinx saw the gun go off in slow motion as she was pushed sideways through the air, and felt a searing pain shoot across her side as the bullet grazed past carving a shallow rift across her skin, reality suddenly came rushing back when she hit the shocking cold splash of passing through one of Raven's portals. She hit the ground with Raven on top of her as they skidded to a halt in a nearby building.

Jinx looked up into the amethyst eyes of her savior for several long seconds as she stared back into her own sapphire ones. Jinx let out a ragged breath. "That… that little…. SHIT."

Muffled shouting came from outside and the two quickly got up and headed back towards the street. Jinx moved into a sprint, she blasted the window out of the front of the building and jumped through the opening. She sprinted out across the street, sliding underneath Mammoth's slow attempt at a grab and ran up the side of a building. Jinx was in the groove, everything was moving in slow motion as she ran up the side of the building, like a sudden clarity had overcome her. One foot after the other up the wall until her momentum stopped, then pushing up into the air with pink sparks trailing in her wake. She twirled around in the air before swooping down under one of Gizmo's mechanical legs and back 20 meters into the air where she stopped… floating there.

"HAHAHAHAAHA!" She laughed.

She quickly zipped away as Gizmo tried to aim at her, easily dodging his shots. She stopped, summoning a bolt of hex energy into a spear looking for all the world like Zeus about hurl a bolt of lightning. Gizmo fired just as she threw the bolt. The bolt flew strait at the gun vaporizing the bullet and hitting the gun causing it to explode.

Gizmo reeled spewing a stream of curses. "Ack, HIVE let's get out of here!"

Gizmo released several smoke canisters, immediately choking the entire area with thick gray smoke, Jinx was about to give chase above the smoke when she heard it. A sharp hiss like the release of compressed air and then the flare of a rocket engine. A missile shot out of the top of the cloud of smoke arced over turning towards Raven who was coughing caught in the smoke. Jinx sped towards her.

She tackled into Raven as the missile was inches away, there was a crackle of pink, and with a flash of lightning they were gone. Another flash of pink twenty meters away inside a small shop, and the two came skidding to a halt as the missile hit the ground with a massive explosion. The glass storefront shattered pelting them with debris, but otherwise unharmed. Jinx got to her feet and helped Raven up, looking back out to the crater in the street.

"I'm going to kill that little shit." Jinx growled out clenching her fists.

"Jinx" Raven said placing her hand on Jin's shoulder. "Calm down, clear your mind you aren't in a state to be making that kind of decision."

She took a deep breath. "Yeah, you're right, but I don't think I'm going to change my mind, He tried to kill you that's where the line ends for him."

The T-car screeched to a halt outside and the two went out to meet the rest of the Titans.


Jinx lay on her back in the field around Azarath, Raven was off doing her own thing, they had found they could be apart from each other here, but always felt their connection. She stared up into the sky, and closed her eyes and took a deep breath. If I see him again I'm gunna kill him, he threatened Raven that's going too far.

She opened her eyes and floated into an upright position hovering a few inches off the ground. She looked down and smiled, that made her immensely happy. Time to go make Raven own up to her promise.

She flew off towards the city, she could have guessed where Raven was even if they weren't connected. The tallest structure in the city was a round stone tower, the interior had long since rotted away but the stone was still there, Raven liked to sit atop it and meditate. Way up there Azarath's thin atmosphere stopped reflecting light to make the sky blue, but instead a starless black void stretched out before you. Jinx trailed her fingertips along the tower's stone as she spiraled her way up to the top.

She stopped floating a few feet in front of Raven who was floating in the lotus position several inches above the broken stone of the tower's top.

"Hello Jinx." She said calmly and without opening her eyes.

"Come on I promised I'd teach you how to fly."

Raven opened her eyes and let out a slight sigh, with a small smile. "You say that as if I didn't already know how."

"I told you, you aren't doing it right, come on you said you'd let me show you."

"I did, alright lead the way." Raven replied stepping of the tower into the air next to Jinx.

"Ok follow me, we'll need to head back to Earth I know the perfect place."

They flew down towards the gates of Azarath.

"Jinx?"

"Mmmm?"

"How have you discovered how to fly…? What changed that allowed you to do so?"

Jinx thought about it for a second. "Well I suppose I found the right question to ask."

"What do you mean?"

"Well before it's like I was shouting at nature saying 'Let me fly!' and Nature was always just 'No you can't.' But then I asked 'Why not?' and Nature couldn't come up with an answer."

"That seems very much like you."

Jinx just smiled.


They soon found themselves floating high above the water of the bay, away from the city along the more rugged part of the coast.

Jinx stretched out her hand toward Raven, a smile on her face and the sun in her short pink hair. Raven took her hand, and Jinx took off. They flew low down to the water only a meter below them, Jinx reached her hand out touching the surface to spray water into the air, Raven reached her own hand out into the water, smiling as the water sparkled in the sun. Jinx pulled them closer to the coast flying along the rocky cliff face, lazily dodging around the pinnacles of rock jutting up from the foamy water, through an arch and then doing a loop up and over land flying low above the forest, a green sea stretching out before them quiet and beautiful. They took a turn now heading straight up into the sky up and up they went into the clouds. Vision disappeared as they flew through and only her grip on Jinx kept her on course. Suddenly bursting out the top of the cloud into another world, a sea of clouds in every direction, some taller clouds billowing into the sky, beautiful fluffy shapes bathed in the un-restricted rays of the sun in hues of orange yellow and purple. Raven looked over to Jinx who was smiling back at her, her hair was slightly damp from the cloud and her eyes caught the light of the sun, sparkling bright and pink. Raven moved closer bringing them together. Their hands released and Raven wrapped her arms around the thief's neck, while Jinx put her arms around Raven's waist, Jinx now flying with her back towards the ground and Raven above her, Raven closed her eyes and for the first time in a long time allowed her emotions to take over, bringing her lips to Jinx's. A simple kiss together as they flew high above the Earth below.

They sat on the bluff above the water. "You're right I didn't know how to fly."

"That's what I'm here for." Jinx replied putting her arm around ravens shoulders.

"This is strange for me, I've never felt this way before."

"Me neither, I figure we just go with it, do whatever feels right."

"How very like you to suggest that, but I'm inclined to agree with you this time, I don't think any amount of study or meditation could help me more than jumping into the unknown with you on this one."

"Damn right."

"Have you decided what to do about Gizmo?"

Unperturbed by Raven's sudden change of topic Jinx replied. "If he threatens us again, I'll end him; I have something truly worth protecting now."


It was a few days before the Hive showed themselves again, this time directly attacking them while they were on patrol one night. They now stood across from each other, Raven's motorcycle and their two helmets off to the side where they had skidded to a halt after narrowly dodging a flying car courtesy of Mammoth.

"I'll give you one chance to surrender before this gets ugly." Jinx said lowly.

"Ha, fat chance you and your little Titan buddy are going down." Gizmo shouted back.

Jinx turned to Raven. "Let me handle this, I need to do this myself the past belongs in the past, my past especially, allow me to put it back."

Raven nodded.

Jinx turned back to the two Hive members that had once been her trusted team mates. She floated a few inches into the air her eyes turning pink as lighting arced over her body.

"Last chance, do or die."

Gizmo pulled out two blasters from his pack and started a rapid fire barrage. Jinx easily reflected the shots with a shield, Mammoth charged at her, she easily dodged out of the way.

"Come on Mammoth I know you can't seriously mean to kill me, you might let someone else do it but, you'd never kill someone yourself."

The giant looked conflicted. "Yeah? So what? Why couldn't you have done the same? Then we could have stayed a team!"

"I don't work like that, I knew we were villains, killing someone felt like taking it a step to far, we weren't robbing candy stores and playing with the Titans anymore, we would be criminals, murderers, If I'm going to kill someone I need a reason to do it."

Jinx locked eyes with Mammoth, trying to convey all the feeling she had into that one stare. After a moment Mammoth deflated. "Yeah, I'm sitting this one out."

He walked over somewhat by Raven and sat down heavily. "She's very persuasive."

"Don't I know it." Raven replied.

Jinx smiled sweetly at her.

"FINE, I DON'T NEED YOU TO KILL THIS BITCH ANYWAY!" Gizmo shouted, unleashing a barrage of missiles from his pack.

Jinx threw out a wave of Hex energy that destroyed all the missiles except one, streaking strait at her she calmly snapped her fingers and the missile disappeared in a flash of pink and reappeared heading straight for Gizmo. He quickly scrambled away from it but the explosion mangled two of his mechanical legs. He now started randomly firing more energy shots, Jinx easily dodged between them and Raven brought up a shield around her and Mammoth.

"You're dangerous, reckless, and a demented little shit." Jinx called out.

Gizmo was yelling continuing the hailstorm of shots.

"You're like a mad dog, and I'm going to put you down, because you're threatening the people I care about."

The area was filled with smoke when Gizmo ended his barrage. With a whoosh Jinx cleared the smoke standing unscathed in front of Gizmo. She pulled her arm back and lightning crackled to life around her forming into a spear of brilliant pink in her hand.

"History belongs in the past, and that's all you are bad history."

She hurled her arm forward throwing the bolt, piercing strait through Gizmo and his pack.

"You… You bi.." Gizmo stated to say.

Jinx clenched her fist and the lightning spear exploded in a flash of pink, leaving behind a black burn mark and few pink embers floating off into the sky.

Raven walked forward and put her hand on Jinx shoulder. "How do you feel?"

"I'm not happy about it, but I can rationalize why it needed to be done, and I can live with that." Jinx replied with a slight shrug.

"That sounds like something I might say." Raven replied.

"Oh God I'm becoming the dark empress."

"Come on let's go home."

"Yeah, sounds good."

"Mammoth you know we could use someone like you in the Titans, I'm sure Robin would make sure you pay for your crimes in one way or another, but as long as you really want to change I'm sure he would take you." Raven said to the giant.

"I'll think about it, got some loose ends to tie up first." He replied.


The two decided to spend the night in Azarath, something they had done a few times before and had a place they could rest, so it was Noon the next day before they arrived back at Titans tower. Walking down the long bridge to the Tower's Island they were able to see a Justice League Shuttle sitting in front of the tower and the Titans assembled around it, talking to two JL members they couldn't recognize at this distance.

"What are the JL doing here?" Jinx asked.

"Nothing good."