A Magical Encounter
It was a boring sort of evening at the Titans Tower. No bad guys breaking out of jail, no trail to follow, nothing. Robin was reading the newspapers, Beast Boy and Cyborg were arguing, as usual, over video games, Raven was reading on the roof, and Starfire was at the mall. For once, everything seemed normal.
Suddenly, the alert klaxons sounded, and the lights flashed red. Robin threw down the paper and ran over to the computer. Cyborg and Beast Boy paused the game and walked over, and Raven appeared out of the ceiling.
The monitor switched to the view from a security camera on a nearby building. There was a woman in black robes, who seemed to be in the process of terrorizing civilians and the police. She had what looked to be a stick, and was emitting from it red and green flashes, both of which caused whoever was unlucky enough to get hit by one to fall to the ground and not move.
Next, she pointed the stick at a police van, uttered something, and the van exploded.
"I've seen enough." said Robin. "Titans, Go!"
At that moment, Starfire came through the door, loaded down with shopping bags. "Friends! I have journeyed to the mall of shopping and have discovered many earthly novelties. I believe you call such things-" She never finished her sentence, as the other Titans flew past her like she was a revolving door.
Grabbing her wrist, Robin pulled her foreword. "Come on-we've got a job to do!"
Downtown, the whole teem was horrified at what they saw. It was a scene from hell. Corpses everywhere, including some dressed in robes similar the woman who now stood before them in an alleyway. She seemed to be busy torturing some innocent bystander. His legs were locked up against his body, and he was screaming bloody murder. She released him.
"Had enough yet, muggle scum?"
All the poor man could do was moan.
"I'll take that as a yes. You bore me. I think I'll just finish you off now and save you the pain of dying the hard way."
"Not if we can help it!" Robin stood at the head of the group, ready to spring into action with his quarterstaff. Starfire swooped down and picked up the man and flew him to safety a few blocks away.
"I think I'm going to be sick." said Beast Boy, nearly tripping over a corpse.
"More muggles? I tire of this game. Surrender now and I'll promise you all nearly painless deaths."
Raven's eyes shone white. "What an offer. I feel a need to reciprocate. Azerath Metreon Zin-"
BANG! A sound similar to that of a car backfiring filled the alley.
"Impedimenta!" The woman was blasted out of the alley into the street beyond. Another figure in robes, these dark green, had just appeared before them, its stick now pointed at the group.
"Stay back!" it commanded with a British accent. "This woman is more powerful than you know!" The figure pulled back its hood to reveal the head of a teenager of no more than 16 with blond hair, blue eyes, as well as at the moment a look of pure hatred for the woman he had obviously come to stop.
Starfire, who had by now returned, stood up. "Who are you to command us? For all we know, you are one with her!"
The boy frowned at her. "It's for your own safety. Ignore me at your peril."
She prepared to throw a starbolt, but Raven grasped her arm and pulled her down along with Cyborg, who had charged his sonic cannon and was prepared to fire.
"We are dealing with unknown forces here. Let's watch first before rushing in and hurting ourselves."
"Wise Choice." He then turned and addressed the woman in a calm, almost conversational tone.
"Bella, Bella, Bella. When will you learn? The more you run from the dementors, the happier they are to see you when we return you to them. Besides, coming to America? Now you've gone and violated a whole plethora of immigration laws besides using the unforgivable curses and breaking the international statute of secrecy. I wouldn't be surprised if the Wizengamot condemns you to be kissed when we get you back. Azkaban might be too good for you. And, after what you did to my family, I'm half minded to kill you here."
This "Bella" woman lowered her hood now as well to reveal a sunken face, mad eyes, a twisted smile, and unruly hair. She looked to be in her mid-30's. She shot back a look of hatred to match her opponent's own. "Your parents got what was coming to them, daring to stand up to the Dark Lord. Besides, Wells, you cannot harm me! I was the Dark Lord's most faithful servant. None but him can equal my power!"
"We shall see about that. After all, I've taken care of most of your friends already."
"Heinous crimes for which you shall pay dearly! Avada Kedavra!"
A shot of green light emitted from the end of her stick towards the boy. He ducked just in time, and instead the blast carved out a crater in the wall behind him.
"Stupefy!" A shot of red light came out of his directly towards her.
"Protego!" The shot bounced back at him. Again, he ducked in time.
Another green shot came at him, but he rolled away just in time.
"I will make you regret what you did to my companions!" cried Bella in a rage. She aimed her stick, which Raven had deduced was some type of magic wand by now, at the boy again, this time bellowing "Crucio!"
The boy was hit by the spell dead on. His legs snapped up to his body and he began screaming in pain. She held him like this for a few seconds, and then released him.
"How'd you like that boy?" she spat. "That's just a sample. I have so much to show you."
The boy, panting, slowly rose to his feet. "You do not scare me, Bellatrix Lestrange. You might have killed all these others, but deep down inside I know that you are but a weak rat, an ignorant fool, incapable of anything but anger, hate and fear. You are a pitiful excuse for a human being, much less a witch."
The woman screamed and sent another jet of green light his way, which he dodged by quite a margin.
"Come on Bella, surely you can do better than that." With that, he disappeared with another loud bang, only to appear seconds later behind her back.
He started chanting out a string of strange incantations, spells, and curses so fast that an auctioneer couldn't understand him. But his wand did, and obeyed its master, sending one blast after the other of red, orange, and blue lights, as well as the occasional pale mist.
She was just as vehement, emitting several green and yellow flashes per second, all of which the boy incredibly dodged.
Finally, the boy cried out "Tarantallegra!" The woman's legs suddenly began flaying about violently, causing her to fall to the ground while her legs still kicked, apparently not under her control.
The boy took this opportunity to call out "Expelliarmus!" which made the woman's wand fly from her hand. She began to crawl towards it as fast as she could, considering her unobedient legs, but he was too fast for her. "Accio Wand!" he cried, and her wand flew to his hand, whereupon he promptly broke it in two upon his knee. He turned again to the woman, raised his wand, and said "Finite". Her flaying stopped, but before she could get up and run at him he said calmly "Petrificus Totalus". She went rigid as a board and fell to the ground.
Pointing his wand squarely in her immobile face, the boy said "Bellatrix Lestrange, I hereby place you under the arrest of the Ministry of Magic, concerning your use of unforgivable curses upon other human beings, violations of the international statute of secrecy, colluding with others for the murder of innocents, and," he added somewhat as an afterthought, "violating various immigration laws. You have the right to a lawyer and will be tried by the Wizengamot at a date yet to be appointed. Until then, you will be housed without possibility of bond at Azkaban Prison."
He sighed, wiped sweat from his brow, rose and turned to the group of teenagers behind him, who were all wide-eyed with mouths agape.
"As for you muggles, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to modify your memories so that you'll forget all of this."
Raven was the first to regain her composure, followed by the others.
"No way. I'm not letting you any where near my brain." she said in characteristic monotone, followed by assent of everyone else.
The boy was not up for an argument. "Look, I haven't the time for gutsy muggles. It's standard Ministry procedure. In order to maintain our secrecy, any eyewitnesses to magical happenings must have their memories modified. I'm not going to hurt you, just erase the last half-hour or so from you memories.
Beast boy came foreword, initial shock and awe turning to irritation. "What the hell is a 'muggle'?" he said.
"A non-magical human- normal, in other words."
"Well, we ain't 'normal' people at all. In fact, we're about as far from 'normal' as you can get." said Cyborg.
"And I am not human!" said Starfire loudly.
"Well then, what exactly are you then?" asked the boy.
Beast Boy started first, attempting to impress the newcomer.
"The name's Beast Boy and I'll be any animal you can think of." He then changed into ten different animals. He was followed by Starfire.
"I am a Tamaranian, from a planet far away."
A look of understanding suddenly dawned upon the boy. "You're the 'Teen Titans', right?" Everyone nodded in agreement. "Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you." He then began to eagerly shake all of their hands. "I'm Henry, Henry Wells. I did a paper on you lot for Muggle Studies one year. You're all simply fascinating. Now, let me guess..." he said, then pointing to each of them in turn. "You're Robin, you're Cyborg, you're Starfire, you're Beast Boy, and you're Raven." They nodded. He'd gotten them all. "Well then, that changes everything."
"Why?" asked Robin.
Pointing to Raven, he said "No way am I messing with her head; and," now he pointed to Cyborg "magic and electronics don't exactly mix well. I'd probably do irreparable damage to your systems."
Henry turned around suddenly to see that the spell had worn off and Bellatrix getting up and preparing to run.
"Oh no you don't. Stupefy!" The spell hit her and she collapsed, loosing consciousness.
Turning back to the others, "Look, I'd really love to stay and chat, but I've got to get this slime off to Azkaban, and then I'll have to inform the Ministry of the situation. It'll probably take roundabouts and hour. Is there some place I can meet you later and explain everything?"
"Umm, sure." Began Robin, "Come to our place. We're in the big T-shaped building on the island in the harbor."
"Do you have a fireplace?" asked Henry.
"Yeah. Why?"
"You'll see."
And with that, he grabbed the woman's arm, raised his wand, and disappeared with another loud BANG!
Authors' Note: Well, how'd you like it? It's my first attempt at writing fanfic, so don't be too harsh, but constructive criticism is welcome. This was more of an introduction. If I get encouraging reviews, I'll write more.