Hallooooooo, my peeps!! I'm baaa-aaack!!! :) Yay I actually have two reviews on this story, and both from some of my FAVORITE authors!!! Thanks, Peppermint Dream and Amethyst Eyes!!! You guys rock!! :)
Oh, and here's the Latin language popping up again! Geez I just can't get rid of it, can I??? :) The chappie titles will be Latin for "first", "second", "third", and so on. I know, REALLY creative, huh? Also, "caela" is Latin for heavens or skies. Ah I just love that name! So pretty!!!
But on a more serious note... RELIGION: Okay, I feel kinda silly putting this in, but I know religion can be a touchy subject these days and I just wanna be safe... Yes, obviously since Caela is an angel, God will be mentioned in the story. And I do know that since this is the WORLDWIDE web, lots of you might not believe in Him. And so I just wanted to say that in writing this story, I mean absolutely NO disrespect in any way to your beliefs. I'm Roman Catholic (if you've read my bio you know I go to Catholic school and everything), but I have no problem with other religions. So please don't think that I do and get mad at me!!! The last thing I want to do is make enemies!!!
Okie-dokie... well with that taken care of, on with the chapter!!! :)
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Gotham City High School, 3:16 p.m.
Tick, tick, tick, tick...
Dick Grayson sat in the detention room of his high school, fiddling impatiently with his pencil. Boredom was really starting to drive him crazy. The classroom was so lifeless and empty, even the detention teacher had fallen asleep, and was currently snoring away like a foghorn. Dick didn't really blame her.
He glanced at the clock for probably the sixteenth time this minute. Still 45 minutes of his sentence to go. Tick, tick, tick... Every second felt like an hour.
Dick shifted in his chair and sighed. What he would give to be out fighting thugs and thieves with his friends. Dick was the only Titan who went to a normal high school. This was understandable, since the others were a bit too eccentric to blend in with a crowd of normal teens. Nevertheless, Dick often found himself jealous of the free time his friends had. They didn't have to suffer torture like this...
Dick's thoughts were interrupted by a ringtone-like noise coming from his backpack. He immediately recognized the tune and prayed it wouldn't wake up the detention teacher. As quietly as he could, he reached into his bag and pulled out a sort of walkie-talkie marked with a yellow "T." His Teen Titans communicator. He flipped the top up, revealing a small video screen which currently displayed Beast Boy's face on it.
"Uh... BB... this isn't really a good time..." Dick whispered worriedly, his eyes locked on the detention teacher. She shifted slightly in her seat, but thankfully remained fast asleep.
"Robin! Where the heck are you!? We need you!" Beast Boy yelled. He was obviously in distress. There appeared to be some sort of battle taking place behind him...
Dick's worry switched from concern for his secret identity to concern for his friends. "Why? What's going on? Is everybody alright?"
"No, man! We're getting creamed here! There's some new supervillain dude who's kicking our butts!!! Badly!!! C'mon, Rob! We need your help!!!"
"But... Beast Boy, I'm kinda stuck here..."
"Do whatever you can! Just get your butt over here!!! This is an emergen- AAARRGH!!" Beast Boy was interrupted by a beam of solid red light blasting into him. The connection immediately terminated.
"Beast Boy??? Beast Boy, can you hear me???" Robin called worriedly. A sudden loud snort from the sleeping teacher quieted him. He needed to get over there... Beast Boy and the others really looked like they were in trouble... but how was he supposed to pull it off without waking up the teacher and not getting noticed?
Robin was debating whether to escape using the door and risk running into hall monitors, or climb out the window and risk waking up the teacher, when he heard a small tapping noise coming from outside. He looked up and saw Maura outside the window, waving at him. He quietly got up and walked over. "What?" he mouthed.
"I wanted to come bust ya out of here!" Maura said. Her voice was muffled slightly by the glass.
"But..." Dick glanced worriedly back at the teacher. "I can't..." he mouthed, shaking his head.
"Oh, come on, Dick! You and I both know you don't belong in there. Just open the window and I'll help you climb out. It'll be fine! You won't wake up Sleeping Beauty over there." she said, eyes flicking over to Dick's snoring captor.
Dick hesitated for a moment before answering. Time was starting to run out. If he was going to help the other Titans, he needed to make a move, not wait out his unfair detention sentence. "Okay," he mouthed to Maura and began slowly opening the window, eyes on the teacher the whole time...
"Okay," Maura whispered, the window fully opened now. "Gimme your hand." She grabbed a hold of him and awkwardly half lifted-half dragged him out of the window. When Dick's feet hit the ground they both made a break for it.
Dick and Maura stopped running when the detention room window was out of sight. They both leaned over, catching their breath. Maura started giggling. "Oh my gosh, that was so much fun!!! That teacher is gonna wake up and have no idea what happened!" Her giggles turned into full-out laughs. But Dick was too worried about the Titans to join in.
"Listen, Maura... I'd love to talk, but... I gotta go..." he said, obviously distracted.
"Huh? Oh. Okay." She smiled. "Yeah, I have to go too... well, I'll see ya later!" she said, and took off.
Good, Dick thought to himself. He ran off, looking for a place to change into his Robin costume. He grinned. Showtime.
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Downtown Jump City, 3:27 p.m.
Beast Boy wiped the blood from his lip and growled. This guy was really starting to get on his nerves. No matter what they did, he just wouldn't go down! Most of the baddies the Titans had fought in the past, except for Terra and Slade, were annoying lunatics that he and his friends could easily destroy. But this guy was way different. BB wrinkled his nose in disgust. The villain's scent was dripping with sheer evil. Sometimes Beast Boy would smell something like this coming from Raven, but only when she was really ticked off. It was a demonic sort of smell- now so bad that it threatened to make Beast Boy gag.
The villain, Xathaiel, stood haughtily in the middle of the road, grinning evilly. "HA! You puny adolescents think you can defeat me!?"
Cyborg stood a few feet behind him, planning to use the element of surprise to his advantage. His hand morphed into a blue cannon. "Uh... dude? Have ya noticed that you're an 'adolescent' too?"
Xathaiel whirled around, only to be greeted by an angry Cyborg charging at him, cannon aimed and ready. Just as Cy fired, the devil-boy held up his hands and a red force field appeared between him and the robot. Cyborg's blast bounced off the barrier and back at him, hitting him with tremendous force and sending him flying.
Xathaiel smirked. This was WAY too easy. But his victory was cut short when green starbolts blasted through the field and hit him, knocking him over. The demon got up off of the ground and saw Starfire hovering above him. Her eyes and hands were glowing her trademark green- a sign that she was really ticked.
"You are a bad, bad, BAD man!!!" she yelled. Starbolts flew at Xathaiel with every "bad" she said. "You have hurt my friends!!!! And I will make sure you will not win!!!!" she declared, and unleashed her full fury on him. Suddenly Xathaiel was hit with all of Star's power- starbolts and eyebeams and everything she had, she threw at him.
Beast Boy quietly observed Starfire's attack, smiling to himself. This Xathaiel guy is toast, he thought. But out of nowhere came a sudden flash of red light. BB looked up again to see Star sprawled out on the ground. "NO! Dammit!!" he yelled. BB immediately transformed into a green rhino and charged at the demon. Xathaiel looked over at the incoming beast, not impressed. He erected his red force field again, and sent Beast Boy flying backwards. He hit a building and laid there on the ground, unmoving.
Xathaiel smirked. "Well. Looks like victory is mine."
"Don't be so sure..."
The demon-boy turned around and saw a shadow in the form of a raven come up through the ground inside the force field. The shadow dispersed and a demonic-looking girl with a dark blue cape stood before him. She began to chant her usual "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!!" when Xathaiel grabbed a hold of her by the jaw.
"You." Xathaiel frowned at Raven curiously. "I sense something strange from you. You're a demon, are you not? Why are you wasting your time helping these children?"
"I'm only half-demon, you slimeball," Raven spat. "And these 'children' are my friends. Now let me GO!!"
"Hmmm... a little fiesty, aren't we? Well, I like that in a woman. Perhaps I shall keep you for my personal entertainment......AARGH!!!" Xathaiel was interrupted when a red batarang hit his wrist. It caused him to release Raven.
"Why don't you keep your filthy hands to yourself?"
Xathaiel looked up, cradling his hurt hand, and saw Robin standing a few feet away. Raven teleported over to him.
"You okay?" Robin asked, not taking his eyes off Xathaiel.
"Yeah," Raven said shakily. "Thanks."
Xathaiel frowned thoughfully at Robin. "Do I know you from somewhere?"
"I don't think so," said Robin. "But I have a hunch that you're about to get to know my fist!" And with that, he charged angrily at the demon-boy.
Xathaiel huffed. "Ha! You are nothing but a mortal! What could you possibly do to me!?"
Robin didn't slow down. "Ha. You'd be surprised."
"Oh, really?" Xathaiel effortlessly sent a beam of red light at Robin. The boy wonder fell to the ground. "AARGH!" Robin yelled. This guy is tough... all of a sudden I'm not so sure we'll be able to take him down alone...
"LUMINOSA CAERULEA LUX!!!!" (English: bright blue light)
Suddenly a brilliant flash of blue light illuminated the entire area. Robin and the other Titans looked up to see a girl about their age, who could only be described as an angel. She hovered about ten feet from the ground, her crystal-white wings beating rhythmically. Her hair and long, flowing gown were also pure white. In fact, the only hint of color on her came from her hollow, pupil-less blue eyes, which were currently boring into Xathaiel like drills. The final clue to her divine nature came from the black cross that hung loosely around her neck.
"Xathaiel." Her voice chimed out over the city, making her somewhat intimidating. "Your reign of terror ends here!"
"Ha! So God has sent one of his angels to stop me, hm? Well we'll see about that! The Son of Satan won't go down so easily!" And with that, Xathaiel disappeared in a cloud of red smoke.
"Coward," the angel remarked. She flew down to Robin. "Are you alright, Robin?"
"H-how do you know my name? And who are you?" Robin stammered.
"I have been watching you from above, Robin. Everyone up there knows your name." The angel pulled him up off of the ground. "You are doing good things down here, Robin."
Robin peered at her curiously. There was something strange about this angel. Robin felt like he had seen her before, but he just couldn't place her. "Do I know you from somewhere?" he asked.
The angel smiled. "I do not believe so, Robin. My name is Caela. I have been sent here by the Lord to help you defeat Xathaiel." Her voice hardened. "Because he must be stopped."
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OMG I just love Caela!! I'm so proud of myself for creating her!!! :D
Anyway, please review again!!! I write for you guys!!! I wanna know what you think!!
The next chapter's coming next weekend, as always!!! I'll see you there!!!
-clouded leopard :)