Author Note: Hello! This chapter might be a bit short but I try to put out a chapter every weekend and short or not I want to get it to you. I really hope you like it and I read all your reviews, keep doing that I love it, and so there will be no RavenCy and I listened to what name you wanted as well, so read on to find out what it is.
My mother was a witch too. But we were still so different, she was a pure witch of light, beauty, and healing. And I...I was something much more morbid of a child. As I grew we found out that I was very different, I was attracted to black magic. Sometimes I blame my love of black magic on the people that tormented me and made fun of me as a child. I told you I was an outcast, many times questioning my faith in life.
But at other times I think that Black Magic isn't so bad, it's misunderstood like myself, my longing for answers and understanding of the unknown and unwanted brought me to the shadows. In the shadows I learned how to if not like, but be content with myself, no one could change me, hurt me, betray me, not in the shadows, no one ever dared to step in my territory. At first it was nice, but then I realized I was a witch, witches were humans, and humans no matter how cold they could make themselves seem, needed warmth. And I was lonely, but I could no longer escape. I was the shadow then. I was so depressed all the time and every one thought I was suicidal, so when I entered the Hive academy, I tried to seem happy, and hide beneath my smile.
I dug into the memories of my life searching for a name that could fit me yet wouldn't reveal that I was originally known as, Jinx. Looking off into the water my mind slowly trailed back into thinking of a new life with this new name. Befriending the Titans, I could have a home, I could show him how I truly felt, I could be another person, create another fate. That's what Mother told me when I was young. She said,
"Little Jinx, you are a young witch and you should learn now before people tell you otherwise. In this world, don't wait for things to happen and pray they'll be in your favor, that's the difference between witches and humans. Both witches and humans have the power, but only witches know that they can control their own fates. Little Jinx, times will come in your life where you will create your own fate instead of the one given to you, fate can always change. You must always give it another chance."
I never forgot what she told me, because a month after that she died, and I'd hated fate ever since. Still I listened, and that's why I decided to try the Hive academy instead of ending my life, because I believed my fate could change if I gave it another chance. Another chance...that's what I needed right then, standing before that island. And so it was decided.
Finally I could rest my eyes knowing what I'd be doing the next day. Softly, I collapsed onto a bed of leaves and grass. The earthy mattress I had crafted was full of lumps and twigs but I paid no attention. I gave into the slumber that called my name. Complete darkness enveloped me in sheets of pitch black satin oblivion. I heard nothing but the hollow wind and my thumping heart, I said nothing, I saw nothing, I felt nothing, but for once. I was something. And that was all I needed.
I was awakened by a loud, high pitched siren. How long had I slept? The crisp light of morning shot out beams of blinding brightness into my catlike eyes. Quickly I blocked the sun with my hands and took a few seconds to collect my thoughts. I had no dreams that night, that was interesting, it only felt like minutes I had been sleeping, wait there was a siren going off, I forgot. The siren became louder as I noticed it again. Then I recognized it to be the Titan's signal, they had a mission to fight. On cue I watched as they quickly exited the tower.
"Maybe I should help out..." I mumbled to myself, still tired but thinking again. I wanted them to trust me, I needed to create my new appearance. But that was just it, I had only a new name, I looked exactly the same as before. I decided that I would never change the color of my hair, I loved the combination of pink and black oh too much, but something had to go. Quickly I emptied bottles of bleach out of my bag. I undressed hoping no one was around to see me in my underwear, and gathered my cloths into a potion bowl, I poured the bleach into it, also some water surrounding the island.
I was hurrying and had no time to let the sun bake my clothes dry so I bewitched a hairdryer I carried, since my hair was hard to maintain, and the clothes were try. I winced at their blank, bright, WHITE appearance. But then I remembered Mother had told me that white was the color for purity and magic, both white and black made witches stronger when casting spells. I'd have to attempt regular magic now, no black magic, not with the titans around. Before I left I put on a white cloak of my mother's, she told me to wear it one day at this age, hoping that by now my thirst for dark magic would die. I was off, running as fast I could, there were ways to fly with black magic I knew, but I didn't know of any with light magic. As I ran I put my hair down, every one recognized my style of hair. Right now it was messy, curly and long, and I hated it.
It wasn't long before I saw the titans, they were in another deep battle. I watched as Raven was thrust to the hard black pavement of the street. She never liked me much, we were too alike, but Raven didn't give into the darkness the way I did, she used it to express herself and find haven. She probably also hated me because I invaded her room. From a distance I could barely see the villain, as I walked closer though, the results couldn't have hurt me any more than they did.
My old team, the ones I had once called friends were fighting the titans, and doing pretty well too. But they were joined by a new member, I knew her by the name of Bella. She was always nasty to me back at the hive, she was never an intellectual achiever, but all of the boys would die for her at any given second. Her slim but curvy figure was the jealousy of all the girls, but they were all dieing to be her friend anyway. She wore her blue hair in a puffy bun at the right side of her head held up with a sparkly silver spring, her clothes barely covered anything at all accept the places that of course had to be covered by Hive rule. A belly-less sparkly tube top and a lacy aqua miniskirt with platform boots was her attire. She was tall for a fairy, that's what she was a fairy, her powers included itchy, sleepy fairy dust, smoke, poison flower petals, and of course she could fly with those silver wings.
I took a deep breath, I didn't want to fight my old friends, and I prayed they wouldn't recognize me. From a distance I summoned the power of the moon G-dess and surrounded my old friends with a powerful bright shield of light, it gathered the villain's attacks without harming the Titans, and shot the attacks right back in their faces, but 3 times as worse, the thrice rule. They all collapsed to the ground, surprised, weak, and frightened. The power of the Moon, I realized, was very strong with my blood. The Titans were also surprised and quickly searched the area for a cause of this strange magic. I sunk into the background of the city, I realized how frightened I was now to meet the Titans. Perhaps I wasn't ready to confront them yet. 'Maybe I should just help them more before meeting them face to face.' I thought.
But the Titans didn't look for me too long, they got right back on their feet and attacked the villains before they could regain power. Shortly after that they were all taken to jail, which I knew was useless, they always escaped. It was always fun escaping, I remembered. But it wasn't fun facing Brother Blood when we got back, after we failed. I just realized then that Brother blood would hurt them now, to discipline them, like he always did to students that failed. We had to go through tough training and hard labor till he let us fight again. What I did just now, helping the Titans, would hurt my old friends, and I knew what that was like. I went from feeling good, to hating me, hating what I'd done. I wandered aimlessly through the alleyways, arguing with myself and saying it was the right thing to do, they were going to steal an ancient moon stone from the mythology museum, Brother Blood probably had a terrible use for it.
A moon stone sounded interesting. My Mother used to collect them. I walked into the museum, a bit curious. I had always loved mythology, but I could never go in these places, every one knew who I was. The museum seemed like an old place, filled with ancient scrolls, jewels, pieces of art. I found myself walking directly to the display of the Moonstone. There were many moonstones in the world but this one was special, it was blessed and Cursed.
It was said the Moon G-dess herself created this stone for a special witch girl that had lost hope and buried herself in hate and black magic. The stone was carved in the shape of a crescent moon and it glimmered with beauty. The girl was so happy to have something beautiful that she finally allowed herself to fall in love. Believing more than anything that this was true love she gave it to her lover as a wedding present. But on the day they were to have a ceremony of the joining of two lives, she discovered that the man had been with another, mortal lover, all that time.
With no second thought she stabbed his heart with the stone in front of every one at the ceremony. Later she found out that the mortal girl had tricked her lover, and was actually a dark demon. She had cast a love spell on him that he could not fight, though he really loved the witch. The witch, in so much despair by then, decided without hesitation to die early, and she killed herself with the same stone. She was set off into the ocean wearing the stone, the villagers hoping to rid their home of all black magic and misery.
But the Moon G-dess was terrified that her stone had caused such terror and she abandoned the holy village leaving one of her moon daughters to care for it. However that Moon daughter fell in love with a mortal and chose to become a mortal witch herself, greedily, so that she would not have to watch him die. She did not tell her daughter what she was, so when she died the daughter left the village to venture to the new world and the village was in famine. It is said that village was the only place on Earth you would never see the moon, so the waters were always rapid and dangerous, and eventually every one either left the village, or died.
Hundreds of years later the stone was found on the other side of the Earth, America. It is said the stone will always wander around the world, somehow, searching for a daughter of the moon that can release it's curse of murder and suicide, and bless it once again. Once it is blessed, it has powers beyond wildest dreams, but when cursed and in possession of a dark soul it can cause most terrible tragedies.
That's what the description said anyway. I read about it in a book once, it used to be in Gotham city, it had one of the best dark mythology museums in the world, but after terrible things started happening there they gave it to our city, nice huh? Well anyway, I stared, mystified by the power and history of this stone. I don't know whether I really believed in the curse or not, but it seemed pretty real to me. I could only shiver with the thought of it being held in Brother Blood's hands. He had a horridly dark soul.
"I've never seen you here before, did you come just to see this stone?" Said a low monotone voice. I recognized the voice right away as Raven's. At first this startled me, but it seemed normal for her to like such places.
"Well I, I heard about it, and being a witch it intrigued me. It's beautiful, isn't it?" I smiled and let strands of hair cover parts of my face, I prayed she wouldn't recognize me or sense my fear, Raven had a gift for sensing things like that. She stared at me awkwardly for a few seconds, and I thought she knew something was wrong. She probably did, but I knew she'd give it time before accusations.
"Yes, but you shouldn't be fooled by it's beauty, the stone is said to be blood thirsty." Raven spoke darkly, and I have to admit, she was freaking me out.
"I haven't seen many witches around here," she continued. "Are you from the HIVE Academy?" She stared at me with piercing eyes in a fixed expression, trying to figure out where she recognized me from. "You look...familiar." She mumbled under her breath but I still heard her.
"No, I've heard of that place, it's full of evil villains and psychos. I'm new to the city, I kind of just go wherever the wind takes me." I said, trying not to sound defensive. She stared at me for a few more seconds with a questioning expression. I wanted to get away then, I didn't want to meet any of the Titans yet, especially Raven, she seemed too suspicious. Did she know that it was I who had helped them in battle?
"My name is Raven, of the Teen Titans, what's your name?" She asked, still suspicious. I hesitated, for a moment, catching myself before I could reply saying Jinx. I had to get used to my new name, and this would be the first time I'd say it out loud speaking of myself.
"My name's Fate." I blurted out softly and smiled. The new name felt like a new home, a new shell, another chance for another life. The feeling was good, and Raven must have felt my happiness because when I put my hand out she shook it and gave the slightest, tiniest, but still present, smile. "I've heard of the Teen Titans," I spoke excitedly. "I think it's great, what you do for the city. I can only hope that one day, I can use my powers like that, and fight beside you."
I must have sounded like a crazy fan-girl or something just then but it was worth it, it was worth it if she didn't know about my past, or the name I swore just then to forget, Jinx. My Mother had named me Jinx, but I knew she'd be happy knowing I took the name fate, it sounded much more positive and uplifting. I thought of Mom then, hoping she could hear me in any way. 'Mom I'm making my OWN fate.' I thought, and suddenly I itched to see Cyborg.
Author Note: Again I apologize for the shortness but there will be another chapter coming next week, do know that I have been sick and that slows down the writing ability you know, I have updated I Love You My Beautiful Broken Angel as well for those of you that read that. PLEASE REPLY, it means the world to me it really does, I hope to see you next week too.
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