The Accounts of The New Teen Titans - Vol. 1 - Book 2: The Chronicles of Starfire - Chapter8 - Truce And Prisoners

The Chronicles of Starfire - Chapter 8 - Truce And Prisoners
On Tamaran,
The Paradise Planet,
Had now Paradise been
Lost.
Did its rivers now
Bleed.
Once a world so lovely,
Now all that
Remained
Twas the
Stench
Of burning flesh.
The cause of all this,
The root
Of all the
Destruction-
Did in one person
Lay:
Komand'r
The daugher of King Myand'r-
Had she
Decieved,
In jealous rage
The Black Fire,
Did it consume her.
Furious, twas she
That at birth,
Twas denied she
Her rightful position of
Princess-
The position which instead
Did go to her younger
Sister:
Koriand'r.
For many years,
Did Komand'r seeth
Did
Every chance she get,
Exact revenge
Upon
Princess Koriand'r
But when were sent
To Okaara for training,
She
And her
Sister,
Did the Black Fire
Rise higher
Than ever before.
Kill,
Did Komand'r try
Koriand'r.
When did the tables turn
And rescued
By Koriand'r,
Twas she
Did the fate of Tamaran become
Sealed.
Disgraced by her actions,
Did Okaara she
Flee.
But return to Tamaran
Did she
Not.
Only twas it discovered
Where had she run
When
The Citadel-
The bitterest enemy of Tamaran-
Their warships did sweep down
Did they lay waste
To Tamaran's defences
In a single blow
As before, had they not
Been able to break
The Paradise Planet
For a hundred years.
Clear, was it
To all Tamaran,
Komand'r- had she betrayed!
Five million
Did die in the attack
Did many more
Fall
As raged on
The Citadel's attacks
Soon
Paradise,
Twas it not any more.
One hundred years of war
Had they
Its toll
Taken.
No choice
Did King Myand'r have
Refused at first, did he
A truce.
But soon
Did he see
As red did the Tamaranean rivers run,
And the
Twas a truce called.
Sacrifice
Did a truce require
And twas requested
By The Citadel
One slave
In exchange for peace
If not these terms-
Heeded, were they
Obliterated
Would Tamaran be.
Specify, did The Citadel
Whom it was to be
The slave:
Princess Koriand'r.
Much did King Myand'r
Wish not to trade
His daughter so,
But no choice
Did he have.
Did the day arrive
The Gordanians - The Citadel's slavers,
Came.
"So soon?" asked King Myand'r. "Longer,
Hath hoped I it would be."
"Father,
Mother,
Brother,"
Did Koriand'r cry
Through her tears,
Her words
She choked.
"I love you..."
"Take one last look," the Gordanians
Growled
"For never shall your planet
You see
Again."
With that,
Twas Koriand'r dragged away,
Never again
Her home-
The Paradise Planet,
Tamaran
To see.