OMG! School is taking over my fan fic! I haven't had enough time to write it in forever! Thanks to all who reviewed and a special thanks to Jakenliker, who reviewed all of my chapters when she could have been doing homework! Read her story-it's sooooo good. It's an inuyasha fic, called Modern Japans True Evil.
You know, I felt so lonely because for weeks I didn't get a single reviewer!
Well, this chapter might get a little confusing at times because at one point im switching in and out of POVs.
Well, I kinda left the last chapter at a cliff hanger (heh, just like lost, cept that was a MAJOR cliffie) meh, not really. Well, on with the fic!
Disclaimer: I do not own the teen titans.
Claimer: I do own
--Greenfire
--Darkness
--Serpent
--the stupid friendship song
--Lila
--Darkheart
--Slain
--Death
--The army of death
Well that's it! On with the chapter!
Chapter 7- Visiting the DeadThe next morning, all the titans were gathered in the living room.
"Greenfire, you are a great friend and are very talented. I want you to join the Teen Titans. We asked you before but we were interrupted and I think we forgot all about it." Raven smiled a rare but radiant smile that surprised everyone. She held out the communicator and Greenfire took it.
"thank you so much! You guys are great!" she held the communicator for a second, then said "I'm sorry I kept my powers from you-I just wasn't ready to accept it." She clipped the communicator onto the back of her worn out jeans. They had holes on the knees and frayed ends. She straitened out her loose black T-shirt and smiled at everyone.
"Hmmmm…they're becoming friend. We'll get Raven tonight." Thought Darkness. She sent the thought to her closest and best…(for lack of a better word)…worker…Serpent. "Serpent! You will GET her tonight." Telepathy was a new trick she had learned in the past few months.
"Yes Darkness""That was…easy…" said Raven, disguising the surprise in her voice as sarcasm, although she didn't mean it.
"She…confessed so easily." Robin said as though she weren't there. Greenfire shrugged.
"I was tired of keeping my powers a secret. They were burning me up inside." She smiled, "no pun intended." The 'titans' started to laugh. Including Raven.
"whoa dude! You got raven to-to laugh!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "how?"
"so what, I can't laugh every once in a while?" Raven said innocently, which set everyone off again. After they all calmed down, Greenfire could feel a familiar-too familiar-dull pain in her head. She didn't know where she had felt it before. It almost felt like someone was trying to get into her mind. Suddenly it hit her-someone was trying to get into her mind.
She then did something only she could do-she visualized a suitcase. In that suitcase was a bunch of papers a photographs that represented her memories and her thoughts. She closed her eyes and saw a dark figure playing with the latches. She visualized a brick wall surrounding the suitcase, then, when that wasn't strong enough, a titanium wall. The dark figure disappeared.
"Ha!" she whispered softly. She suddenly realized that everyone was staring at her. Starfire pushed Raven aside and said,
"Oh, friend Greenfire! Are you sick?" She put the back of her hand on Greenfire's forehead. "Friend, you are warm. I fear for your health, therefore I shall use this earth device to see exactly how warm you are!" she grabbed a thermometer and stuck it in Greenfire's mouth and waited. When she pulled it out of her mouth, she said, "you have a temperature of one thousand and forty and the letter 'F'" she was confused.
"I think you mean one hundred and four degrees Fahrenheit. You should sit down Greenfire. You're also pale." Raven went to make herbal tea and Robin took her hand, leading her to the couch. As he held her hand, it went from very hot to deathly cold in just a few seconds.
"Guys, I'm fine! This happens to me all the time! I barely notice it anymore. Some of Raven's herbal tea will help. I just need to rest. I'll go to my room" She tried to reassure them.
"Dude, your room is too far away! you'll never make it!" interrupted Beast boy. All the Titans, minus Robin, made excuses to get away. He sat on the couch opposite her, making sure she didn't fall or anything. Greenfire got up without Robin noticing (he's so ignorant ain't he? Like clouds are interesting…) and started to creep away. a little too late, she noticed an extremely familiar presence in her head.
She instantly fell to the ground, holding her head. The pain! It was too powerful! She moaned and started to shake violently.
"No…" she whispered in very apparent pain. She bent over, her head almost touching the ground. She squeezed her eyes shut and continued shaking. Robin ran to her and picked her up, placing her on the couch.
"Greenfire! Greenfire talk to me!" he yelled, causing Raven to speed into the living room.
Greenfire opened her eyes, and stopped shaking. She tried not to show the pain in her face, but her eyes betrayed her. They were filling with tears and turning black and cloudy. She forced a pain-filled smile and said in a barely audible voice…
"don't interfere, Robin. Don't interfere…" she shuddered violently and her smile faded. The tears spilled down her cheeks and she began to have trouble breathing. Then, her body stopped shaking. The tears still poured down her face. She was breathing shallowly.
The last thing she saw was robin's worried face, trying to help her. Then her vision became dark, probably never to become light again…
From the door, a knowing smirk was plastered on Starfire's face. Darkness had managed to give Starfire the ability to be as dark and gloomy as she wished. At the moment, her hair was no longer bouncy, shiny and full. It was dull and coarse. Her skin was pale for not spending any unnecessary time out side and her normally sparkling emerald eyes were a dark, muddy green and clouded with evil. No one had noticed the gradual change in her appearance or attitude, and if she could help it, they never would.
Starfire let out a dark giggle, as she did every time she saw hurt to this extreme on someone's face. She loved the feeling it gave her, and it just made her want to do more. She could just barely remember the very first time she had hurt someone and from then on, couldn't stop, no matter how hard she tried…
FlashbackA small girl in about the second grade sat on a bench n the school yard. She wore a cute pink dress and her black hair was curled to her shoulders, with little pink ribbons in them. She had bright, joyful chocolate brown eyes that everyone loved to look at. Her name was Dominique. Her best friend and one year older sister, Monique, sat happily beside her. they looked exactly the same, except Monique was taller and her curls went to her shoulder blades. She was wearing shorts and a t-shirt that said 'Volley ball rox!' in her sister's uneven script. They were just sitting and staring. Then, an older boy, a bully, walked into a little boy. The little boy was one of Monique's friends. The little boy started to cry, because he had hurt his arm badly. Monique flew off the bench to help him up, but the bully had other plans.
"hey you pip squeak! Get away from him! I'm not done with him yet." She said. Monique stood in front of her friend, her hands on her hips.
"No!" she stood up to the eighth grader, determined to 'save' her friend from the bully. Dominique ran in front of her sister.
"oh, what is this? The little people come to stand up to the big people. Well, if it is, the big people are going the win." He leaned down to Dominique's height, his face barely and inch from hers. He breathed his putrid breath on her, but she stood her ground. He tried to push her aside, but she just stood her ground once more.
"I'm NOT moving!" she screamed with fury.
The boy made to push her aside again, but she did something extraordinary. She balled her small hand into a fist and punched him with such force that he staggered back two feet and fell, knocked out. She knew she had hurt him badly. At the least, his nose was broken. Kids looked at Dominique in amazement. They stared as though they could see right through her.
However, no one could even anticipate what would happen next. Cute, nice Dominique's eyes dulled to almost black. Then, she laughed. It was a horrible laugh, one that terrorized every kid whose ears it reached. She laughed until Monique threw a hand over her mouth.
"Dominique, what have you done?" she asked, tears filling her eyes.
The feeling in the little girl's gut was incomparable to anything anyone had ever felt before in the history of humankind. It was the start of little Dominique's horrible, irreversible, transformation to Darkness, Queen of Darkness until she would meet her match, the one who actually owned a crown of darkness.
End FlashbackShe had been so pitiful! She couldn't believe it! She hadn't seen, thought of, heard from, spoken to or acknowledged her family for uncountable years. Who needed families? She didn't need one…Did she?
Starfire shook her head and expelled that thought. She definitely didn't need her family. Not now, not ever.
Greenfire's POV
I woke up on a hard rocky ground. I shifted positions slightly, to avoid a sharp stone in my back. The sky was covered in brownish-red clouds, and a warm breeze stirred my hair as I sat up. I hated to come here every month, but I had to. I sat and waited, thinking of the night of the date.
I hated lying all the time to hide everything. I really liked Robin and Raven-they were great friends. However, I knew they would never let me stay with them once they know the truth of Greenfire.
I was deciding where to go next, when the air around me froze. The wind turned from warm to ice cold. Ice crystals formed in the air, and I jumped up and around to face a tall dark figure. It was at least nine feet tall. It wore a ripped back cloak the blew in the wind. It appeared to have no arms, but they were just under the cloak. It's hood covered it's face so well that it looked darker than the bottom of the darkest trench in the sea floor, except for two red spots that were its eyes.
"Slain." I said in a loud in-charge voice.
"You have changed again…master." It said in a raspy voice.
"Well, I have come to-to renew my leadership."
"You stammer, master. You are unsure." I drew myself to my full height and my hands lit up with green fire. My hair blew around I the wind. I must have been quite a sight to see a girl who wasn't even six feet tall standing up to a nine-foot monster.
"I have come to renew my leader ship!" I called. This time I was sure.
Raven was worried. Her friend's heart beat was slow, and she was breathing shallowly. Neither of them had tried to wake her.
"Robin she's been like that for an hour." Raven looked at her friend sadly. Her face was etched with pain. Sweat glistened on her forehead. Now and then, she would twitch or whimper or cry out in pain.
"She told us not to interfere, and she went to great lengths to say it.."
"But-"
"Raven. Please." Robin paused, "She always seems to know more than we do. When I told her about this girl I saw in the park, she told me that I couldn't trust anyone anymore and that people aren't who they seem to be." Robin said.
"I heard something like that. After star came back, she wanted to talk to Beast Boy. Then Cy and I listened in. they were saying how someone could destrioy this world and the next." Raven reported.
"Rae, this is going to be big." HE said.
"It could mean the end of the world, but we can't stop it, just like with Trigon." Raven spat the name.
"But we found a way to stop it, don't you remember?" Robin pleaded, remembering how Raven beat Trigon because of his hope.
"But this time we really can't stop it."
I hated the temple of the dead. It was an old structure that looked to be about four centuries old. That was pretty good, considering it had been there since the first animal died-billions of years ago, probably. Two large pillars with purple fire burning at the top of both of them marked the entrance to the temple. Starting from each of the pillars, a knee-high wall made of chipped, worn gray blocks surrounded the area. The area inside the wall was grassy and a few weathered blocks littered the ground. In the center of it all, a huge pillar rose. It was inscribed with the story of the world. AT the top of the huge pillar was a black fire. At about my h chest height, there was a crevice in the pillar. I walked up to this crevice and braced myself.
Slain, the nine foot monster, stood to my right. Another identical monster came up on my left. His name was Death. These two were the leaders of the army of death, the biggest army in the universe, so big it could fill countless galaxies and easily destroy the entire universe at my command.
"Her heartbeat is almost nothing. She is barely breathing. Robin…she's dying." Raven analyzed.
"Can we do anything?" asked Robin, sitting on the couch not moving a muscle. He couldn't handle death very well, never could. "And where are the others? They all left."
"I don't know…this is really bad."
Darkness, Night and Flash were fully disabling Cyborg. Darkness and night had knocked him out and brought him to the warehouse.
"Almost…done!" The three stood up straight. They had finally disabled Cyborg's defenses. Just to be sure, they had put amechanism on him that allowed him to live and talk when the wished, but he couldn't move or use any other technology.
Cyborg was brought to the room where Star and Beast Boy were. Flash, night and Darkness all changed into their Teen Titans forms and left with a laugh.
I stood in front of the pillar and, in a second, something that never ceased to amaze me happened. A line of purple light from the two fires on top of the entrance pillars began to form a ball of light in the crevice. Then, every single symbol on the center pillar lit up with a black outline. From the fire on top of the pillar, two strands of black light went around the pillar, behind me, through my heart and fuelled the growing ball of balck and purple light. When the light went through me, it didn't hurt. Why? don't ask me. I always wondered about that.
I waited for a few seconds and then the ball of light turned into a beam the went into my heart and didn't come out behind me. This time it hurt.
"Robin! Her-hear heart…it-it stopped! She isn't breathing!" Cried Raven, totally out of character.
"What?" Robin jumped off his end of the couch.
"She-she just stopped breathing-just like that!" Raven whispered. A vase exploded into a million shards in the hallway.
"What do we do? She told me not to interfere." Robin said in a shaky voice.
"Wait…" Raven paused, "Some-something's happening…"
"Wait!" Starfire called. Darkness whipped around.
"What do you want? I'm busy today." Yelled Darkness.
"Why are you destroying us? why?" Star whispered.
"Because your leader has something very important to me. Or should I say someone. She and him are very…close." Night and Flash stared at Darkness.
"Who? I demand you tell me!" But Darkness was already gone.
I was consumed by black and purple light. Searing pain shot throught my entire body. My hair blew around and I could feel cold sweat running down my sides.
Then, as soon as it had started, it ended. I stood in the same place I was before, and I was shaking. I could feel myself being pulled back to the real world…
Raven was leaning over the body of her friend, trying to comprehend what had happened to her, when Greenfire took a deep breath and her eyes flew open.
"Greenfire! Whot happened?" Demanded Raven, helping her up. Robin put his hand on her shoulder.
"Greenfire your heart stopped. You were dead, but you are talking to us now." Robin said firmly.
"I-I…I-" Suddenly, Greenfire had a searing headache and her hand flew to her head. She swayed on the spot, and both of her closest friends in the world tried to keep her steady. Her vision blurred, then the world was dark again. Then…a room materialized…
FlashbackThe room was cold. Snow pounded on the only window, trying to get inside. In front of her was a very angry shadow. Right now, the actual person the shadow portrayed was in a meeting, only to discover her agent had failed. Now was time for discipline.
"You're weak! Pathetic! You don't deserve to be given a home by this organization. You don't belong here you worthless pile of Shit!" the shadow screamed.
"I'm sorry mistress. I have failed you for the last time! I will do better!" She recited.
"You had better do much better, or I'll throw you out onto the streets in the middle of the steel city winter!" Screamed the shadow.
Greenfire bowed her head and the room began to dissolve…
End FlashbackShe smiled a wicked and sad smile. She would know that shadow anywhere.
"I know why beast boy and Starfire have been acting so weird lately." Greenfire strode over to the computer and pulled up a map of jump city on the huge television screen.
"You guys got trackers or what?" She asked. "No wait, don't tell me." She focused her energy on Robin's mind and looked through his brain. She found the code easily and typed it in. the Code was-
"'titansgo!'? what kind of password is that?" she muttered. She selected change password and entered the password for that ('Koriand'r'… she wondered which love-struck boy wonder had entered that?). she changed it to 'firegurl' and pulled up the tracker system. A trio of blinking dots appeared. They were purple, light blue and green. the purple dot was in front of the other two, and the three were walking toward the shore line, obviously coming back from wherever they had gone. Greenfire's eyes strayed to the tower, where another three dots were there. She clicked on the tower and selected 'living room.' The three dots were there. One was red, one was navy blue and the other was black. Obviously the black one was she.
"Are the trackers in the communicators?" asked Greenfire. Robin nodded. Ravne looked surprised.
"Trackers? I thought we put those on bad guys." She said.
"it was just to keep tabs on you guys. And me." Robin confessed. Greenfire pulled the map of jump city again. She pulled out her communicator and called Starfire.
Darkness was almost at the shore line when her communicator beeped.
"what?" she said somewhat sharply into the communicator.
"Hey Starfire, where've you been?" Greenfire asked.
"Oh, friend! I was just searching for something to cure your sudden illness!" Darkness regained her character after the slip.
"What about BB and Cy?"
"They have gone to the mall of shopping!" Darkness had to stop from shuddering. She hated being so damn cheerful all the time. Wasn't this girl ever sad?
"Yeah? Well the trackers say that they are right behind you." And the line went dead.
"Damn it! They have trackers! Flash! Night! Go to the warehouse and alert the council of the trackers. Leave your communicators with me. I expect that tracker is there." With that, Darkness took their communicators and headed to the tower.
Starfire felt a tear slip down her face. I was nearing night and three of five titans were captured. She knew they would try get Raven tonight and she was helpless. She looked over to beast boy, whose eyes were serious for once in his life.
HE had just thought of the consequences of Raven being taken. Robin would be all alone with just Greenfire by his side. Sure, they were a great team, but they had no chance against Darkness's army of super powered teens. She would probably beat them in tem seconds!
Starfire leaned her head against the wall as the tears slipped down her face. She knew it was not possible for darkness to capture Robin, so from what she had heard of darkness, she guessed that they would try and kill him. If that happened…she didn't know what she'd do.
Alright Starfire! Come on. Be getting of the grip on yourself. She will NOT destroy Robin. She-she CANNOT!' but in her heart, she knew she was wrong.
"But-"
"Robin! I've had enough of your protesting! This is the realsity! We can't go after her because if we do, we'll be killed!" Yelled Greenfire.
"B-"
"ROBIN! SHUT THE HELL UP!" her hair blew around and her eyes lgowed green. Her hands were covered with green flames.
"Robin, I suggest you listen to her." Came Raven's voice from the shadows. Robin took her advice and calmed down. Greenfire bit her lip and extinguished a stray flame on the floor.
"Robin, we need to deal with this calmly. We need all the information we can get, and we have to put our feeling for out colleagues aside. I know it's hard, and I know how much you don't want to, but you have to. If you don't, it will just hurt even more when the time to fight comes. Believe me, I know. I learned the hard way." She looked out the window at the setting sun, so beautiful over the ocean. She sighed and turned to her friends. "First, we should get some sleep. I don't know where our 'friends' are, but I have a good guess that they're panicking over the trackers." And with that, she left the living room and headed to her room. Raven and Robin did the same and soon everyone was sleeping. Not soundly, but sleeping nonetheless.
Well? How was it? Did it need work? If so, which parts of it need work? Which parts did y'all like? How would you describe this chapter in five words or less? Do you think I ask too many questions?
I DO TOO MANY COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS! SAVE ME FROM THE EVIL COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS!AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Well, this is Ravenrockstheworld signing off, and I am so incredibly sorry it took so long to update! So long for now!
