Ugh, first I was at my Grandma's for a few days, where I don't get internet on my laptop and don't feel like using their computer with only dial-up. So no chapter that day. Then yesterday, the stupid fanfiction site wasn't letting me login. The I logged in today and the site just vanished, like 'poof', bye bye. Anyway, now it's here, hopefully...better not jinx it by saying 'what else can go wrong?'
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"Hey Diana, I was wondering, this bracelet thing…" Terra began slowly.
"Yeah?" Diana answered nonchalantly, as she observed the split ends developing at the end of her hair.
"Well…I told you that I used it to call the titans right?" Terra continued. Diana nodded, still occupied with her hair, she had pulled out a pocket knife and was using it to cut her hair, "I was wondering why the bracelet already had a calling list, you know, it was already set up and everything. And that Kavi kid was speed dial 1,that was weird too." Terra held up her bracelet as she finished. Diana finished up her hair and put her knife away, she was quiet for a moment, but Terra could tell that she was carefully choosing her next words.
"Well, the bracelet was programmed on the orders of the person it was originally meant for, and that person apparently had Kavi for speed dial 1, pretty much everyone on his detail has his number programmed into whatever phone they have." Diana replied. Terra nodded slowly. But Diana quickly turned to her, "You can still keep the bracelet though. I mean, we have tons of 'em, it's no big deal if we give one away."
Terra once more looked over the bracelet, still amazed by how advanced it was. She wondered vaguely, how it was so impossibly advanced, but she kind of knew the answer already, Kavi was an alien, of course, no human had blueish skin like that. He must be from an advanced civilization.
"So…Diana, why are you working for Kavi and his family? You don't really seem like you're from the same planet." Terra wondered. Diana grinned at her.
"I'm actually from Kaleran's sister planet Tiarna, names sound nothing alike, I know," Diana laughed a little, "See, the two planets where very close allies for a long time, and our history books say that originally we where one planet, then there was some weird explosion or chemical science thing and well, there are a few different stories, one where half the people moved, one where the planet split in too, stuff happened, the two separate civilizations started getting different looks, all that jazz." Diana sighed and gave Terra a look, silently apologizing for the long story.
"Anyway, for facts, the planets were close allies, but there was some dispute over a deal that had been made, see, the prince of Kaleran was supposed to marry Tiarna's oldest princess, arranged marriage, go fig. Well, the prince was going to go through with it, but he went on a trip on 'official business' or something, and he came back with this other girl, saying that he loved her and was going to marry her instead. Tiarna was not happy. Anyway, the prince of Kaleran did some fast and stupid thinking. He promised that if he could marry this girl, that their first daughter would marry Tiarna's next prince, AKA, the son of the princess he was originally supposed to marry. See, this is a better deal, because Tiarna doesn't have to send one of its royal family members to another planet, they took the deal." Diana took a deep breath, and cleared her throat, which was beginning to get sore.
"Wow, was this recently?" Terra asked, beginning to get interested in the story. Diana nodded.
"You bet sweetie, that was about Kavi's parents, you see, they had Kavi, and then they had Kavi's little brother, Kavi's other little brother, and finally, Kavi's little sister. But this is the problem, Kavi is 15, Kavi's 1st brother is 12, Kavi's 2nd brother is 8, and his sister is 5."
"I don't see the problem." Terra told her, puzzled. Diana shook her head.
"I wasn't finished yet. You see, Tiarna currently has 2 heirs, they have a son, who is 17, and a daughter, who is 11. Kavi's dad, the current king of Kaleran, wasn't too happy about having to someday marry of his daughter to a boy with an age difference of 12 years, and Tiarna's rulers weren't particularly crazy about their son being single until he was 30. See, the date for arranged marriages is usually sometime around when the youngest of the two is 18."
"So…what are they going to do then?" Terra inquired, wondering what this story had to do with anything, and how they had started talking about it in the first place.
"Well, Tiarna wasn't going to be weaseled out of another marriage deal. The marriage between the two planet royalties was supposed to bind the planets as 'true allies and sisters', but now I think it's almost more of an honor kind of thing, so they really only had one choice, they started discussing marrying off their oldest daughter to one of Kaleran's princes. Kavi's dad was very set on his 2nd son, who is a year older than Tiarna's princess, but as you can guess, Tiarna was very impatient by this point, and they where testy about sending their only daughter off to marry one of Kaleran's princes, and they didn't want to get…uh, how do I put this nicely…I guess I can't, well, they didn't want to get ripped off again. So they offered a deal, they wanted either Kaleran's princess, so both their children could stay, or they wanted their daughter to marry the heir to Kaleran's throne, so she could at least rule Kaleran, if she couldn't rule her home planet. Kavi's dad chose to marry off his oldest son, that way he could keep all his children with him, and his daughter didn't have to get married off to a 17-year-old."
"That's awful." Terra sighed. Diana nodded.
"Kavi seemed pretty okay with it at first, his mom was kind of upset though, she really didn't want to marry her kids off to people they would hardly even know until the wedding day." Diana finished up. Terra looked at her.
"What do you mean that he seemed okay with it at first?" she asked. Diana groaned.
"Man, that another long story too! I'll tell you later okay?" Diana begged. Terra laughed at her a little and nodded. But before they could talk about something else, their attention was caught by Sid muttering "Uh oh."
It seemed the twins where starting a little spat, their discussion would have to wait.
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The King sighed, as he hung up the video screen again. Kavi wasn't picking up. Again. Well, he sent Diana after him, there wasn't much else he could do. He was tall, his skin was a darker blue than Kavi's,
as where most Kalerian's skin tone, but with Kavi's same gold eyes. His hair was a short, black as night crop, thinning slightly with gray streaks on the sides. He wasn't dressed in the geeky fur-silk cape thing or the giant gold crown with fake-looking huge jewels. He had on casual-formal Kalerian attire, black dress pants and very nice foreign shoes, all the way from a country on Earth called, 'Italy'. And a large black trench coat-like jacket with a maroon colored shirt underneath.
"He won't pick up." The king told one of his guards, who seemed to relax slightly when the king didn't sound mad. Then the king turned to the guard, "Where is she?" he asked, referring to the Queen.
"She's still a little upset you highness." The guard replied, he bowed slightly. But all the guards immediately jumped up, frightened, when they heard a loud crash coming from the Northern side of the castle.
"Hm, she does sound angry," the king thought aloud, as the crashing continued, "I suppose I'll just talk to her later." As soon as the final word left his mouth, the Northern wall came crashing down, sending the guards scattering.
"Or I'll talk to her now." The king murmured, his mood was certainly not improved by the destruction of his home.
"Sweetie, let's not take this out on the castle." The king told his wife jokingly. She responded by glaring holes through his skull.
"He's just like me!" she told him angrily, "He can't stand all these rules! And being inside this stuffy place all day!" She sat herself down roughly on half of a remaining bench. The king surveyed the damage for a moment, perhaps to judge how angry she was, and he sat down beside her.
"He's very smart, and he's very patient, much more than you." He joked. She gave him a mocking smile.
"And he's definitely more patient then you." She retorted, reminding him of his temper. His smile faltered.
"What I mean is," he began again, "as much as it annoys him, and as much as he sneaks out for dumb reasons, something tells me, with all the variables in this situation, that it might actually be important this time." He finished. His wife was quiet a moment.
"The kids miss him." She sighed, "He's more fun than their teachers." The king smiled and nodded.
"Well, I'll give him this, it's certainly never boring with him around."
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"Why don't you just suck it up and call her?" Kavi asked. Emerald looked up, surprised.
"Huh?" for once, he was confused.
"Well, you've been staring at your communicator for like, half an hour." Kavi replied. Emerald looked at him, still confused.
"What?"
"Luna. You're thinking about calling her, right?" Kavi told him, now motioning to Emerald as if this might help him understand.
"No." Emerald muttered, tucking the communicator away. Kavi shrugged.
"I feel weird when my sister's not around too, she's just always there, you know?" Kavi rambled.
"I know what you mean." Nikkos groaned, joining into their conversation, "Selena's always nagging on me."
"Well this is rare," Fade laughed, "Three of the quietest titan guys, all sitting around talking about their talkative sisters."
"If that's what it's come too, it must truly be that boring out here." Julia sighed. Nikkos shrugged.
"Well, with no girls to say everything in our heads for us, we might actually have to say something once in a while."
"Eh, I don't think I'm up to the challenge." Kavi told them, relaxing again.
"Right, when the going gets tough, Kavi gives up." Julia scoffed.
"Actually, that was you who gave up." Kavi replied, his mood darkening slightly. Julia glared at him, but thought it best not to pick a fight during such a high strung point in time for the titans team.
"Anyway," Julia continued, "You really should call her Emerald, you know how Luna is, balling her eyes out all the time, that being said, you Kavi, should really call your dad, remember what happens when they don't hear from you for a long time?"
"Eat dirt." Kavi replied shortly. Julia looked as if, for a moment, she might explode, but instead she stood up straight, took a deep breath, smiled, walked up to Kavi, kicked him in the stomach, and stormed off.
"You kinda deserved it." Nikkos observed as Kavi doubled over. Emerald and Nikkos both stared silently at Kavi for a while, but Nikkos got bored and wandered off to find something interesting, and Emerald silently left to grudgingly call Luna.
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Gemini was silent, her eyes where barely open and she couldn't move. She laid their on the couch, staring at the blurry wall, and somehow…completely calm, not really thinking about anything in particular, it was quiet, it was simple, she may as well not even have a name, not even that crossed her
mind. But suddenly, it was a flood, the memories and thoughts, the sicknesses the everything came crashing down on her, they came too fast to dwell on and it overwhelmed her, and crushed her, she couldn't breathe. She was gasping, but not breathing, reaching out to grab onto something. Anything.
But she couldn't feel anything, numb except for the crushing pain pushing down on her lungs, her heart was a weight in her chest. A rush of new pain as she fell off the couch, trying to grip the material of the cushions but only succeeding in pulling herself up to fall onto her palms. She was trying to scream but she couldn't hear anything, and suddenly-this part she remembered-the nausea hit, horrible, disgusting, still can't breathe…anything to make the pain end…anything…if there was ever a time to give in, now but then it was over. Nausea was still present, but tolerable, she could feel her lungs fill with air, just in time to see a green blur above her, and everything went black.
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"June, your being awfully quiet." Sleet observed, she kneeled down to be eye level with the sitting Junior, and stared at him.
"…"
"You're not really saying anything." Sleet sighed, still watching Junior.
"…"
And that was it, Sleet lifted up her hand, and her fingertips paled quickly until very small, thin, and sharp ice needles formed, and shot out to hit Junior in the head.
"SHIT!!" Junior yelled, falling back as he tried to lessen the blow, he reached up to feel his head, finding a small trace of blood as he pulled his hand away.
"What the hell?" he muttered, more to himself than anyone else.
"You weren't speaking." Sleet told him promptly. Junior looked up at her, too surprised to be too angry.
"I uh…was just thinking." He replied lamely, resuming his seated position.
"No, you've been quiet ever since you last talked to Sid." Sleet informed him, she thought a moment, "Did you guys have a fight?" Junior shook his head. Then he looked at Sleet, resting his chin on the palm of his hand, balancing his elbow on his knee.
"Other stuff, I'll work it out…" Junior trailed off.
"What? Did you like, accidentally call her fat or something?" Sleet inquired, her eyes narrowing.
"No! No way! It wasn't anything insulting or-"
"But you did say something! You admit to that! OHMYGODYOUFREAKIN'LOVEHER!!" Sleet screeched. The others turned to the high pitched sound that was almost near dog whistle frequency.
Junior was on her so fast that Sleet was forced to remember that he actually had amazing reflexes. His hand was clamped over her mouth and he looked completely humiliated as the others in their group stared, eyes widened.
"Nothing to see here! Back to work! Chop-chop!!" Junior told them, his nervousness so obvious that the others thought it best to let him and Sleet have one of their weird little moments. Junior then pulled Sleet a fair distance from the others, looked at her until she stopped struggling, and slowly removed his hand from her mouth. She was grinning from ear to ear.
"You love her. And you told her." Sleet sang teasingly, but at least fairly quietly. But Junior hastily shushed her. But Sleet whirled around and smiled at him with joy brighter than the sun.
"Knowing you June, I bet you told her on accident and then got nervous and ditched her."
"Yeah…that about hits the nail on the head." Junior sighed. Sleet cocked her head to the side, confused. But then she smiled again, realizing his dilemma, and how completely unnecessary his worrying was.
"It'll work out." She chimed, patting him quickly on the arm (couldn't reach his head) and she skipped off, leaving a sighing and nervous Junior behind.
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"It's North!"
"No! We go West!"
"Maybe it's Northwest…"
"You just said it was North!"
"Well I don't know!"
"I wanna go home." The arguing stopped when the youngest of the three started whimpering.
"Don't cry Melanie!"
"Yeah, we'll get there!" The two older brothers tried to carefully get their little sister to cheer up, if she cried, well, there wasn't much they could do about it. Melanie looked up at them hopefully, still whimpering. The two boys where lost, both geographically, and emotionally.
"This is all your fault." The younger of the boys muttered to his brother. The older one's head snapped back to the younger brother.
"What are you talking about? You where the one all eager to leave today!" The older brother retorted. The fighting broke out again and soon the youngest was crying. Luckily, a woman with wavy black hair stopped to help them.
"Do you kids need directions?" she asked, not fazed by their strange appearance after all the weird stuff going on it Jump City.
"KABABWABI!!" Melanie wailed. The woman could not decipher the word and instead turned her attention to the two boys, who had stopped arguing when she offered to help. The oldest stepped forward and cleared his throat.
"We're, uh, looking for Titans Tower." He told her. The woman nodded.
"Of course! I'll bring you there." She offered. Now, normally it was not a good idea to accept rides from strangers, but she was human and they all had freaky powers, so this time it was okay, besides, she wasn't a creep, not that they knew that. The woman walked them to a spot where the tower was visible, then put them on a boat with her fisherman friend, who rowed the three all the way up to the tower. Melanie calmed slightly. They finally made it to the tower, to the door, to the doorbell, only to have some strange pink-haired girl answer the door.
"Who are you guys?" she inquired, though it sounded somewhat less rude when she said it.
"I'm Merrit, this is my younger brother Aaron, and our little sister Melanie." The oldest introduced.
"I'm Jinx." The girl replied.
"Isn't this…uh, Robin's team?" Aaron asked confusedly. Jinx nodded.
"They called us a while ago, a few of us other titans are watching over their city while they finish up some long mission of theirs." She explained. All three children drooped. Jinx, deciding that three kids weren't going to pose any major threat to the titans, decided the least she could do was give them Robin's communicator number. They thanked her, and left, settling themselves on a park bench somewhere in the city.
As you might have guessed, these where the never before seen siblings of Kavi, and Melanie's inaudible cry before was an attempt to say his name while sobbing. They came to the past to look for him.
Merrit was gangly, and tall, while his brother Aaron was shorter and not quite so scrawny. They both had short brown hair, Aaron's darker, and gold eyes, their skin was blue tinted as well. Melanie was small and had light brown hair that was one shade from blonde, she was the only one with blue eyes and her skin was so pale, it almost didn't look blue, almost. Merrit had on a similar outfit to Kavi's, only lacking the goggles and with green instead of red, Aaron was dressed the same as Merrit, but with blue, not green. Melanie instead wore something similar, but it was yellow, and was a dress instead of pants and shirt. She had no straps other than her orange belt, and small white tennis shoes.
They all had the same bracelet as Terra, the one that most Kalerian's had. Kavi had it too, but rarely used it, he was the only one with those goggles, because Kavi had programmed them himself, they were, are better than the bracelets. Melanie was too young to have a real bracelet; she instead had an orange bracelet that was really more of a long distance walkie-talkie, but not long distance enough to
call people from another time period on another planet, as it only called their parents. Merrit and Aaron had their bracelets, but they were both broken from when they thought laser tag would be more fun with real lasers.
So they where only on the park bench for 30 seconds until they remembered that they needed a phone. They didn't have any money for a pay phone, but that was okay because it made Melanie cry until people thought that they were poor beggar children and started tossing money at them. They had plenty of money for a pay phone. After rock paper scissors, it was decided that Merrit would call. Now the only issue was, whether or not Kavi would even be awake.
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Kavi's sibs are kawaii!! (cute-for those who don't already know) By the by, Merrit's name is pronounced just like the word merit. And someone...it was CompulsiveTwitch I think...this was a while ago actually...said that I got the name Kavi from a band or something? I actually found it when I was looking at a baby names website...Kavi is an Indian/Sanskrit name. I just...I was having trouble making up a good alien name so I settled for a human name that didn't sound normal to me...ah well, I still like the name Kavi. It's cool. P.S. I will eventually describe Selena and Nikkos's outfits and tell the names of the king and queen, I just haven't really settled on some of that stuff yet. But I will! I swear!
