Authors note: Man. I am on a freaking roll today! And usually Im completely lazy and hate editing and posting. Alas, I must be changing.
Psh. No. I just want to get this up and over with for the SEQUEL! Its going to be insane and so much deeper and better than this xD I love this, but I love the sequel even better..and so will you guys :3 Anyway, its still raining.. and i love it when it rains. Its just so nice. It makes me want to drink hot coco and eat soup or something.
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Sparrows POV
Theres a corner of my mind, that's not good. Where evil likes to lurk and bring up cruel ideas. Where the anger,resent, and shame likes to hide. I thought I had locked that part of me up, sworn to never go there again, never let it touch me. But when I sleep at night, it crawls back. Shakes up my dreams into nightmares, makes me recall the horrors of my past. Makes me think I am not who I say I am. It's a horrible side of me, something nobody should ever have to see. But someone wants everybody to see it. Somebody is making it very hard for me, to control the tiny corner in my mind where all hell could break lose. My personal project? To find this somebody and kick their ass.
I woke up with a start. Sweat dripped down from my forhead as I swiped at them angerly. The clock read 3:30 a.m. Sighing I plopped back down on the pillows. My dream was one of many memoris from my time with Dawn. It was when we were only 12. It was the first year I meet her. She crash landed into the cave I was sleeping in for the time being, I had just ran away from home. Her black hair was tangled, laying on her shoulders, the cream and gold dress she sported was speckled with dirt. Her dark eyes were rimmed with black khol, gold chains wrapped around her head.
"Hi." She had said drily, brushing her self off and standing up.
"Hey." I had said back, too shocked to say anything more then that. It wasn't everyday a random girl landed in a cave.
"Do you know where I am? Like..what region or whatever you call them." Her voice was featherly, but defintily showed power.
"Well. Your in a cave." Slipped out of my mouth- she glared at me so I quickly continued, " America, the state Tenesse. And 'we' call them a country. What are you?" I questioned. She winced, me not knowing at the time the hardships her people recived.
"I'm a electic bender. I can bend or control any eletrical currents nearby, and produce lighting. You proabbly never heard of us before, we live in the sky. Sky City. A place for people like me. We're kind of secretive so don't be blabbering your mouth to everyone about me." She narrowed her eyes at me.
"I'm kind of laying low, so you don't have to worry about that." I shrugged, leaning back on the flat rock I was sleepin on earlier. She cocked her head at me, almost analazying.
"I'm Dawn." She finally said, after moments of silence.
"Sparrow." It just blurted out of my mouth, it wasn't even my real name. But seeing as I had taken the effort to wear a mask and all black ( my childhood costume before I found something better,) I might as well take a new name. Now out of the dark corner of the cave, I could see her perfectly. Olive skin, glowing gold tattoos, black hair. Probably the queen bee at whatever freak show school she went too.
"So. I hate to pry, but what are you doing in a cave?" she asked
"Well what are you crashing in my cave for?" I challeneged back.
"I asked you first." Dawn said, sticking her tounge out at me. Scowling I crossed my arms over my chest,
" Needed a change of sceanry. My parents werent the all hugs and kisses like the cold scientist type." That slipped out of my mouth too. It was sorta true.
"You can have my parents." She yawned. " Unless you enjoy bending practive everyday and meditation three times a day."
"Is that why you left?" I asked, curious.
"No. Okay maybe a little. But I'm a bit of a uh, reblious child. They told me I needed to take some time to chill off. Maybe head to Antartica soon." She replied, joking. Ignoring it I ased who were "They"
"Oh. Just my parents and you know, the head monk emperor guy person. Not sure what the real terminonlogy is."
"That's kind of harsh." I offered my sympathy.
"Eh. At least I'll get to see the world. Maybe stop some bad guys on the way." She snapped her fingers and a tiny flame appeared.
"Wow! I thought you said you only do electricty and stuff."
" Electricty can cause fire. But some serious fireholding takes a lot of time and practice for eletric benders. Same goes for Fire holders. Anyway, enough about me."
"You can stay the rest of the night here, but I'll probably be moving out by morning."
"Alright, what time are we getting up?" she asked, settling into some sand.
"What? We? I said me." I glared at her, confused.
"Oh I know, but I decided we could just be a 'we' instead of 'me.' Since you know were traveling together now."
I just looked at her shocked, as she turned her back to me. But I couldn't stop the grin creeping on my face.
From that day forward we never seperated, unless it was nesicarry and we wanted 'me' time.
But the dream didn't end like that.
The last face I saw that flashed into my mind before I woke with a jerk, was the face of the boy I murdered.
Dawn's POV
It was the end of my 10th date with Logan. I wouldn't tell the team this, but I felt as if we were acctaully a couple.
"And then he said, 'Bro, get away from the litter box!' " Logan cracked a smile as he told me a story about him and some of his friends when he was younger. It was pretty cute. I laughed along side him, our hands intertwined with each others. It was one of those rare moments when I felt like a normal teenage girl, that went to high school who had a super cute boyfriend on the football team, and her whole life was just awesome. When in reality I would always be a superhero, and I was dating a theif. Or fake dating. I wasn't really sure, but the feelings I felt, felt pretty real to me. "So." He continued, once we calmed down. " I'd think it'd be cool to meet your parents."
I practically snorted, " My parents? No, it wouldn't be cool at all."
Logan frowned for a moment, " Why not? Do you not trust me?"
"Of course I do." I replied cautiously, " It's just that I'm not always welcomed back home.."
"What do you-?" he started to ask before his beeper went off, he stopped talking to glance down at it, then looked back at me, " sorry, a friend needs my help. Talk to you later?" I nodded, letting him give me a quick kiss, then I watched him scurry down the street in the oppsite direction in which we had been walking. I couldnt help but feel suspicous.
I havent seen Sparrow in two days. She's either in her room, or the training room. Evils been pretty low and I'm so bored. A superhero that doesn't do supery stuff? Whose ever heard of that. I mean doesn't evil claim it 'Never rest?" Not to mention my trip to Sky City was a blow, considering my suspcions were a fail. So Terra had a green rock? Big deal she can play geologist on her own. So my villian of a boyfriend had a metal claw exactly like the one from like 20 centurays ago? Whatever it was, it was destroyed. And the blue gem? Safe and sound in Sky City. And all was well for the little heros of the Titan Tower…not. Starfire was in a rainy mood, Cyborg was building new gagets..alone, Robin was obessing over Slade…again, BeastBoy wasn't leaving the couch I think he exploded from too much pizza and Raven was locked up in her room as usual. Sometimes I swear Im the only normal teen on this team which dosent make sense because Im from a civilation of superfreaks from the sky. Weird? Very. So here I am, stitting at the kitchen counter eating an apple, and I don't even like apples. The skin gets stuck in your teeth. Gross.
"Hey." A sullen voice came from behind me. I turned in an 180 degree and saw out of the corner of my eye that it was Sparrow.
"Sparrrow! You're alive!" Sparrow glared at me from a distance, ouch, and walked out again, this time carrying a book.
"When did you start reading?" I called out after her.
"Since forever!" She yelled back, obviously annyoed that I didn't remember her joy of reading. Wincing, I turned back around and took a bite out of my apple.
BEEEP, BEEEP, BEEEEP!
The alaram system went off. Throwing my apple in the trash, I swung around and headed to the screen. Looks like Terra was on the move again. This time trashing local jewlery stores. My body went rigid, in thought of the stones and claw. I had convinced myself it was true, then unconvinced myself that it wasn't, and now im trying to convince myself again that it is? This is insane. My head throbbed and I clicked my tounge in annoyance. Only to discover apple skin stuck in my teeth.
Super.
Sparrows POV
The preicing sound of the alarm going off, whipped me out my book and back into reality. Shutting it closed, I left my room again and back into the living area. Robin was at the screen, eyes flaring.
"Slade?" I asked
"Terra." Cyborg replied, wipping grease on the rag he was holding.
"Jewlery Store, 10th aveunue, southeast. Titans. Move." Robin barked orders as we scuffled out the door and into the rainy afternoon.
BeastBoy, Cyborg, and I all rode in the T-car, BeastBoy chatting along the way.
" Finally! Some villian to defeat!" Cyborg, ignoring BeastBoy, sent Robin the exact coordinates. In fact, I didn't even reply. Carson's face still haunted my mind, the terrifed look in his eye, the rage in mine. The smooth sound of the slice of his neck with my bird song.
The pain was unbearable. I clutched my eyes tight and shook my head.
"You okay back there?" BeastBoy asked, turning around.
"Yeah I just-"
"No time. Theres Terra." Cybrog interuppted skidding the car to a stop.
Expect Terra wasn't alone.
"Who is that?" my questioned was not answered, instead it hung in quiet confusion.
Terra was yelling at a teenage boy, probablly a year older then me. Black hair hung in his face, but a wicked grin lit it up. He was pale, no doubt, and lines that looked likes stitches, frammed his mouth. The boy wore everything black except a bright red vest.
"Doenst matter who he is. We take him down." Robins voice crackled through the radio.
"On it." Ravens voice replied.
Yanking the car door open I swung my legs out and grabbed my staff and clicked it to full sized. Dawn jumped off her board and landed beside.
"Ah. These must be the Titans." The guy looked up, mischevious in his eyes. I could tell now that they were a shocking blue.
"Return what you have stolen!" Starfire claimed out. Her hands lit up with starbolts. I glanced at Terra, talk about a total face palm.
"I told you it wasn't there." She hissed at him.
"But you were still thinking about stealing something. That's not exactly what we call a good citizen." Dawn smirked. Terra glared and went to probably throw a rock or something when the guy placed a hand in the front and said "Wait."
With that he took to stepped forward, and grinned.
Dawns pov
"I'm the Collector."
His voice could have been The Riddlers, it was that annoying.
"The collector? Like a coin collector? Because I really need the state Washington to compelte my collection…" BeastBoy rambled on, making fun of this new villian. The Collectors face turned tomatoe red,I thought there was steam coming out of his ears. In one swift move, before I could blink again he had shot his hand forward, spikes jetting out of his fingertips like my lightbolt, pinning BeastBoy to the nearest wall behind him.
"I don't care what they call you. All I care about it is taking you off the streets, and back to where you belong. Jail." Robin planted his feet into the ground, his standard kung fu postion and dared the Collector to come at him.
"Jail? Never been. Sounds dreadful." The Collector said thoughtfullly.
"Oh don't worry. You'll fit right in." I said smirking. The Collector looked around at all of us, surprised. Each one of us in our own fighting positon, ready to strike.
"What? You don't want to hear my back story first? Why they call me 'The Collector?' How I got my scars?...Nothing?"
No comment.
"Ah. Terra, they're giving me the silent treatment for doing something wrong."
He's toying with us. Robins voice echohed in my head. By now Terra had gone compeltly red with rage and she grabbed the collectors arm, yanked the jewelery out of his hand, and threw it at us. Then, with an angry twist she pulled the Collector along with her as she ran out of sight.
"Follow her!" Robin yelled,
"Split up!" Cyborg yelled after him. Turning around to get Sparrow I found myself face to face with Red X.
Slades POV
"What!?" The stupid child had gotten himself into a rumble with the Titans. My directions were quite simple, check the jewlery stores to see if the yellow stone was there. If not, return back here. But that idoit rut decided to take what he pleased. It was time for control.
"Red X." I turned to him cooly, " Please fetch Dawn for us. I need the blue stone quicker then I thought."
He left without a word.
"Now for you." I turned to the collector. " .tsk. You simply cannot follow orders can you?" The boy crossed his arms over his chest and rolled his eyes, he shouldn't have done that. Kids these days, no respect. Slipping on the claw I placed the two gems I had in its place and held it out.
"What the hell is that?" The Collector now asked, scared.
"Your worst nightmare."
Sparrows POV
"Dammit. We lost her again." I kicked at the dust. After hours of searching, Terra and The Collector were no where to be found.
"We'll get her, eventually." Robin punched into his hand.
Starfire and Raven raced up to us.
"Find them?" they asked, out of breath. Before we could reply that no, we did not, Cyborg and Beast Boy ran up behind them.
"Dawn. X. gone." Also out of the breath, they tried to tell us something.
"Dawn..?" I asked confused.
" .with (gasp) Red X- but he was (gasp) different this time, not so ( gasp) charming." BeastBoy huffed out.
"He was not to be trusted. I could sense it." Raven shook her head.
"Then what the hell are we doing standing here? Where did they go?" I pushed my way up to meet BeastBoy face to face.
" Back behind the old conservatory." Cyborg said.
And then I was there.
" You are such an ass hole."
Was the first thing I heard when I bounced over.
And then Silence.
" Dawn! Dawn! DAWN!" I cried out, tears blurring my vision. I raced behind the old conservatory and saw something I didn't want to see.
Dawn was on the ground, hands tied behind her back and bandana stuffed in her mouth. But Red X was no where to be found.
Robins Pov
"So heres what we know." I slammed my fist on the table to get everybodys attention. After untieing a very emotional and uh, pissed off Dawn we sat down together to figure out this jumble.
"There is no doubt in my mind that this is Slade. We know for a fact this is Slade."
"We also know that Red X was working for Slade, and he wanted something from Dawn." Raven said curiously, setting down her book and glancing over at a very silent Dawn. She looked away.
" We also know that Red X really didn't destroy that claw thing, and Slade probably has it. The one X had must have been a fake. Also these random attacks from these villians." Sparrow added.
" Slade. He has to be using some sort of brainwashing device! Like in my comic Night of the Zombies: Brainwashed." BeastBoy yelled enthusisatcially. Cyborg clocked him on the head.
"But what does this all mean?" he asked.
" The Stone of inbetween. " Dawn said from her corner. She was sitting by the window, looking out at the sea, not at us.
"What is that?" Starfire asked, confused.
" He has it. I can feel it. He'll probably try to get the others. If he does then theres no stopping him. He'd be invincible." Her voice droned out, as if it was a computer.
" Come on Dawn. It'll be okay, we can take him." BeastBoy offered.
"NO. You don't understand. I was fooled, kidnapped, then dumped by some villian I should never have even trusted in the first place. This is my fault."
" 's not." I stood up and walked over to my team mate. " We'll get through this, just like we always do." She shurgged my hand off and turned away.
" We need a plan. Like, an invasion plan." Cyborg said, turning the attention away from Dawn.
"No." Sparrow argued, " We have to find the other 'stones' and protect them so Slade doesn't get control."
" They're impossible to find, the blue one is in Sky City, safe and sound, I already checked. The other one has been lost for over hundereds of years. " Dawn said again from her corner.
"Slade knows that we know. He'll be on the move faster than before. I bet he wanted Dawn for that blue stone thing." Raven replied.
" Well he found the first one, what about the second one?" Cyborg rose from where he was sittng and pulled out a map of Jump City from the cupboards.
Suddenly, I got an idea. It wasn't just the five of us anymore, we had two more titans.
"I have an idea."
Authors note: BAM! End. Not sure what chapter this is. Lost count. So, obviouslt the Titans don't know that slade already had TWO out of the three stones. I stopped naming the colors because I got too confused and couldn't rememeber. Sorry xD Anyway yeah.. Review! I hope you guys are enjoing this as much as I have enjoyed writing it! See you soon! 3 you guys!
~Running out of exits so its just me, Dawn.