Tamaranian Nights
Chapter 5: Alone
Disclaimer: Again, I do not own Teen Titans or Arabian Nights by Sarah Brightman.
No!
A terrific emerald light erupted to life in Starfire's eyes as she bucked and reared in the cage, crying out in her rage. The bars rattled as she kicked at them with her forelegs and snapped at them with her back legs. The necklace slipped from her neck and the small prison fell to pieces as she was rolled out to the black ground. She shook her head, a little startled, and clambered to her feet, the wings behind her fluttering to steady her. Her eyes fell back onto her sister as Blackfire flew effortlessly in the air as free as a lark and singing twice as happily. Starfire, angered by her sister's inaction and lack of will to aid her in her time of need, shattered the spell that had held her as a hamesha. She was back as herself, as was her older sister. She blasted off from the ground in a righteous fury so blindingly bright, the creatures that had imprisoned her below dimmed and faded to nothingness.
Melodies unspoken
Flowing from the lotus of my heart
Ending where we start
"Sister," Starfire hailed her sibling coldly, crossing her arms before her tightly. Blackfire came to an immediate halt, her face falling at her little sister hovering in the air next to her, having escaped the fiends and broken the hamesha spell Blackfire had never been able to break. Starfire may not have been as great of a fighter as her elder sister, but when angered, the younger Tamaranian could duke it out rather nicely.
"Why, what brings you here little sister?" Blackfire drawled innocently.
"You know better than I, sister." Starfire chided drawing towards Blackfire with an ominous authority. "You have attempted to frame me for a crime I did not commit!"
Blackfire's smile faded. "Oh, that. It was only a little fun Starfire," Blackfire glided to the younger girl's right, her words slipping from her lips as soft as silk, "a mere fancy of child's play for the forbidden." Starfire followed her sister with her eyes, weary of the violet light that began to fill her sibling's eyes. "Besides," Blackfire continued, "if it is your decision to play into my affairs, then you stray too close to the fire..." A blackbolt appeared into the dark-haired girl's palm. "If you stray too close to the fire, you will get burned!"
In a flash, Blackfire hurled the blackbolt at her sister whom caught the missile full in the chest. Hurt by both her sister's piercing words and lashing strike, an anger of fierce determination rose in Starfire that could not be dismissed.
Promises unbroken
Promising a never-ending fire
Of love beyond desire
She deeply loved her sister, but if the situation called for the knocking of sense into ones being, Starfire would rise to the challenge. The red-haired Tamaranian steadied herself in the air and flew to confront her sister as a barrage of purple energy came down from the heavens to greet her. Starfire evaded the most of them, though a few clipped at her arms and some random others snapped at her legs. Having at last cleared the barrage of bolts, Starfire fired off a few of her own, which Blackfire seemed to dodge all too easily. The younger girl spirited up to maybe somehow take hold of her sibling and talk sense to her, but the older girl dove to her left, leaving Starfire high above and shot several more blackbolts as she descended. In a panic, Starfire hoped to qualm the lot of them by discharging them with her own starbolts, but the field was too wide, too well aimed.
The electric shock and the pain that followed afterward was too much to bear, Starfire fell from the sky. Falling, falling, forever falling; the ground rushing up to meet her—the collision was incredible. She felt nothing, nothing at all. Nothing but the waking shock of how she had survived. She struggled to move until she realized she was too broken to shift.
Blackfire touched down softly beside her, a harshly conquering smile curling her lips. Her violet eyes shone with bright rancor as she glared down at her younger sibling.
"Oh my poor, darling baby sister." Her voice was dripping with cruelty. Starfire cracked her eyes open to see her sister's vibrant smile. "It would seem that I am victorious, but I am not without mercy." The vivid violet of her power had returned and another blackbolt was readied in her hand. Starfire could only gaze up in horror at what her sister could possibly mean. "I shall free you from your misery. Farewell, sister."
She raised her hand to strike as Starfire shut her eyes, unbelieving.
A startled cry rang in her ears as something coiled tightly around Blackfire's arms, haltering her; tugging her sibling into the dark obscurity above. Starfire opened her eyes to find herself on her feet, aided by the creatures that had imprisoned her before—and there they were, stealing away her only sibling, binding Blackfire by her own dark deeds. The black-haired girl struggled viciously, but it was of no avail. The chains were too unyielding for her strength. She bellowed a cry of the utmost hate and ruin and fear, shaking the heaven's itself so that the star's themselves fell to her cry.
Starfire felt nothing but remorse and guilt for her sister as she was drawn ever upward. A tear slipped from her eye as those violet eyes glared forever down at her.
Alone.
Ending where we start
A/N: O.O Pretty intense. I would have loved to have gone into more detail, but I left it open for symbolic means and contemplative reflection. If you folks would like an actual sort of rewrite of Sisters I would be all too happy to do so.
Thus ends Sarah Brightman's song—but wait! There is another chapter! (More of an epilogue, but you get the idea). I wanted to avoid dialogue entirely, but I found that I would have needed it because the expressions themselves would drag out too much and tear away from the rhythm I required out of the score.
I honestly don't know what got me thinking of Blackfire and Starfire fighting in the sky from this song; I suppose my obsession brain pattern made me do it!
I'm pleased with how the story came out, I would still have preferred more detail, but I can only do so much! I just need to polish up the ending chapter and there you'll have it.
Please review!!!
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