El Loco: First of all.. HOLA!! I know it's been well over a year since I wrote anything here but due to some complications from the outside (really big freaking end of course exams) and some other internal ones (accidentally splitting my internet connection in two with my axe) I was unable to update my other story. But that's all in the past now, it's time to pick up the pieces of my life and move on!! Like I usually do anyway....
So anyway I welcome you to my latest creation "Muradin Bronzebeard the Teen Titan"! And I will also like to extend my deepest gratitudes to my favorite authoress, Ashishu!!! Who inspired me to take up the pen once again....well keyboard but you get the idea
mmm....what next? Oh yeah disclamer!!!
I "El Loco de el Clan de los Locos" state that I do not posses any of the following licensed materials: Diablo II, Steel Angel Kurumi, Teen Titans, Arcanum, Warcraft III, The Simpsons and Zelda. All borrowed materials are property of their rightful owners which I will not mention for I have no idea who they are.
So please do not sue me for I am not even profiting out of this... actually I should be getting paid 'cause I am in someway commercializing their products bunch of freeloaders.
Dizzied May: Totally agree. Bastards. Oh yeah. This story was beta'd by ME, THE BEST BETA EVER!, so. yes. all my fault.
In memory of my friend Shelica, whose death was caused by the intolerance and racism that plagued our school
Prolouge
They had left their dead bretheren behind among the corpses of the rotting undead guardians of the fabled blade Frostmourne.The human prince and his dwarven mentor entered the frozen treasure chasm, there was neither gold nor precious jewels to loot, not even a single piece of treasure could be seen in the dead cold cave, it would almost seem that all their efforts to reach the mysterious sword, and the sacrifice of their troops were in vain. However, in the middle of the desolated place stood a pedestal with a block of ice and trapped within, was what appeared to be a demonic-looking sword, with a blade that resembled fanged teeth and a ram skull engraved in the hilt. It was erected upright displaying it's malevolent precense to all who entered it's cursed domain.
The young prince led the way to the sword and rushed to it excitedly,
"Behold Muradin, our salvation. Frostmourne"
"Hold lad, therre's an inscription in the dais. It's a warning, it's says; 'Whomsoever should take up this blade should wield powerr eterrnal. Just as the blade rrends flesh, so most powerr scarr the spirrit' ... Oh, I should've know, the blade is currsed!! Let's get the hell out of herre!!"
As the dwarven warrior turned to leave he was taken back when he saw his companion step closer to the blade
"I would gladly bear any curse, to save my homeland"
"Oh leave it be Arrthas, forrget this buissnes and lead yer men home"
"Damn the men!! Nothing will prevent me from having my revenge old friend, not even you"
With this the young prince raised his warhammer to the air and summoned his spiritual strength
"Now I call out to the spirits of this place, I would give any thing or pay any price if only you would help me save my people"
Nothing appear to happen, dead silence only befiting the eerie place could be heard. Then suddenly a raspy ghostly wisper filled the air, pronuncing what it seemed more like an incantation than actual words, the ice block started violently shaking and the dwarven warrior changed to a defensive position but the prince stood unmoved seemingly fascinated by the whole scene. The ice that acted as a prision for the sword shattered and one of it's lost pieces flew straight for the dwarf, it went through his magickal hammer and magickal chest plate and into his heart.
"AAARRRRGGGHH!! .......uugg...."
The mighty dwarf was felled with a single blow from the ice shard as he lay bleeding in the freezing floor, he could still hear the ghostly wisper. He raised his head to see his human friend dropping his warhammer and taking up the sword and was schocked when he just suddenly turned and left. Leaving his mentor, fellow warrior and best friend to die. He allowed his head to rest in the snow covered floor and felt the warmth of life leaving his body quickly, then he saw darkness and felt finally death.
"Muradin... Muradin Bronzebeard!"
"Agh, not now mum, I still want to sleep some 'orre"
"Get up you fool!!! I'm not your mother I'm your lawyer!!"
"My lawyerr?"
Muradin awoke seated in a chair in the middle of a great hall sorrounded by cloaked figures dressed in gold, seated next by him was a man dressed in a brown cloak who seemed rather annoyed by the last comment.
"Werre am I!!??"
"Muradin Bronzebeard"
He turned to see another cloaked figure wrapped in brilliant golden attire, luminant tentacles seemed to be attached to his back and was seated atop a high pedestal, he was looking down on him, he spoke with a mighty authoritarian voice. Even so, Muradin was not one to impress easily.
"That's me, what do ye want?"
"Your time in the earth realm has ended mighty warrior, your spirit is now being held on trial to weight the actions you did in your time as a mortal, because you were a hero in the eyes of many your actions are of greater importance than those who did not strive as hard for power as you did. So then; we, the guardians of the celestial planes, will now judge the goodness or evilness of your soul as we have done so to many other heroes like yourself throught the centuries"
"...........Whut?"
Muradin narrowed his eyes to the angelic judge, so far he had understood absolutely nothing. The judged rolled his eyes and motioned to the man seated next to Muradin
"You got killed, and we're gonna decide whether you go to hell or heaven"
"AH CRRAP!! Don't tell me I got killed by measly block of ice!!!"
As Muradin said this, the assembly was covered in silence -it was never easy to be trialed right after you have died, the great majority of heroes do not enjoy the news of their own death and are prone to acts of anger, many a time an enreged hero took his frustrated anger upon the council and a powerfull warrior such as Muradin would take a heavy toll upon the council members.
"Oh well. Shit happens to ye everry now and then, now what was that about me going to heaven?"
The judge wiped some sweat of his forehead and cleared his throat
"Ahem. Yes, well, first we need to know your profile, attorney Virgil- if you please"
"Of course your honor, this dwarf esteemed council members, is none other than the stout Muradin Bronzebeard second in line of the Ironforge's throne and as such closest to Magni Bronzebeard the very king of the dwarves himself. He is very well responsible for the continued existance of the dwarven race, if not for him your honor many more Alliance's cities would have fallen under orcish seiges. He was prince Arthas's, the late new death knight, mentor but cannot be held accountable for his protegee's corruption, I dare even to say council members that Muradin was and still remains the most powerful and brave dwarven warrior in all of Azeroth's history"
"Ye forrgot to mention the most good-looking one"
The assembly let out an exasperated sigh, seems that even the greatest heroes have flaws.
"Yes, at any rate I have the report here of your most recent and important actions, Muradin Bronzebeard I will declare the veredict as soon as I'm done reading them."
"Yeh and make it snappy, I need to go to heaven so I can get me some fine dwarrven ale... they better have the Khaz Modanian type overr therre or some heads arre gonna rroll ye hear!!"
Muradin shouted at no one in particular as he changed to a more relaxed position, hands on the back of his head and feet on top of the desk that his attorney was using to hold his papers. He seemed very confident of his more heavenly future, after all- he was the savior of his race.
After a few short minutes the judge settled the scroll that he was holding in his desk.
"Muradin Bronzebeard,"
"Finally! Ye took yer bloody time, now open the gates of heaven alrready so I can get going"
"Who said that we were going to allow you to enter heaven's gate?"
"WHUT!?"
"Muradin Bronzebeard, it may be true that you were a brave warrior and defender of your race, but that's just it, your actions were solely dictated by the welfare of your own race. You would have struck a deal with the orcs if they would have left Khaz Modan, your home, alone."
"Agh! That's bullcrrap!! I killed hundrreds of those grreen-skinned bastarrds!!"
The judge smiled.
"That is another thing, your disrespect for the other races's traits are simply unforgivable, you are responsible for many stereotypes that were created in Azeroth, such as starting calling the undead 'Rotting Bastards'"
"Don't tell me yer in the side of the frreaking undead!!"
"Those poor souls were converted to the unholy ranks despite their will, you were in no position to insult them in such a manner"
"What are ye a bunch of pansies!!?"
"THAT IS ENOUGH!!"
The assembly room was illuminated by the enfuriated glow of the judge, Muradin and the others present were all taken back by this sudden display of power of the usually good-natured angel
"Muradin, your acts of insolence to those who are different to you are simply intolerable, you were beginning to see the error of your ways after the second war, but you soon fell back to your xenophobic ways."
The judge took out another scroll.
"Here I have a very extended list of the insults you used for the degradation of others as well as your own amusement, starting with using gnomes as the butt of jokes in strength terms and constantly taunting the human commanders of the Alliance as I quote, 'Yer prretty slow for a human aren't ye?'"
"Ha! Ye have to admit they're prretty bloody slow, like this guy that kept poking me when we werre in the middle of a battle and--"
"Your disrespect to this court only gives us more evidence to condem you to hell, Muradin, do you have anything to say in your defense?"
Muradin quickly turn to look at his lawyer.
"Hey, that's yer job isn't it? Ye have to get me out of this mess, otherrwise I'm going to the bloody 'ell!!"
"Don't worry Muradin, I foresaw this and thought of a brilliant plan way ahead of time."
"Allrright, this better be good."
Virgil stood up from his chair and looked at the judge as he wiped some sweat from his brow and adjusted his cloak.
"Your honor, esteemed council members, the defense wishes to have a 10 minute lunch break"
"Denied" bangs hammer
"Well, I'm all out of ideas."
"WHUT!?"
Virgil sat down again and simply started reading some hentai manga leaving Muradin looking back and forth in the assembly, at a loss of words.
"Ooh, tentacles" Virgil murmured
"Well, seeing that there is no defense against the crimes comitted by you dwarf, I now condemn your inmortal soul to an eternity in the fiery bowls of he--"
"STOP!!"
The doors of the assembly flew open and a girl with angelic wings entered the room rather angrily, archangels armed with flaming swords tried to stop her but were soon disabled by the girl's colossal strength. One true punch for each of them were all that she required to send them flying to other side of the room.
"Wow, that lass is prretty damn good"
The cloaked figures seated around the hall, started to disperse in panic, only the judge, Muradin and his incompetent attorney Virgil remained in their places.
"Steel Angel Saki, you know you artificial types are not allowed in here"
The girl that had desacrated the holy trial was dressed in a pure white tunic. She had dark brown hair and soft depths of swirling chocolate for eyes, and for a celestial being she was not all that impressive even though she had a pair of majestic angel wings on her back. She radiated with an aura of plain simplicity. She scowled angrily,
"I can't believe you were about to condemn brave Muradin for such an unjust cause!"
She walked toward the three remnants of the assembly as she spoke,
"Don't you think you are being a little harsh on him, Tyreal- afterall, he did save a lot of people. Not only dwarves, but humans and elves as well, a person that does things so unselfishly cannot deserve such cruel punishment"
"I care not for what you have to say Steel Angel, your metal impurity leaves you with no say in this trial or any other celestial affairs, for that matter"
Saki narrowed her eyes.
"Oh, so you dare judge this poor soul for being racist when you yourself can't even accept the fact that I was artificially made!??"
"OOooo she got you there Tyreal!"
"Shut up Virgil!!"
"Sorry"
sigh "You do have a point, Saki, I think I am being fairily unjust to Muradin, I must apologize. But I guess that this new position that I was appointed to is getting to my head,"
"Don't worry, all is forgiven" giggle
"So, does that mean I'm not gonna rrott in 'ell forrever?"
"Ha! Not by a long shot, you are not getting out of this one so easily Muradin."
"Blast it!"
Tyreal now reorganized his scrolls and looked for an answer to this new arisen dilemma, the archangel guards that were knocked out slowly regained conciousness and limply dragged their sorry selves out of the assembly hall to lick their wounds. One of them muttered as he left,
"Damn these trials... ung... why can't they simply send them to a quest or something more old fashioned... aggg... this guard duty shit is going to be the death of me..."
Tyreal heard this as they retreated and said to himself,
"Hmmm... that's not a bad idea, would definitely clean my hands in the matter"
He now spoke on a louder voice addressing both Muradin and Saki.
"I have come up with something that may well prove us that you are indeed worthy of joining the celestial ranks. Muradin Bronzebeard, as you know now, you are accused of highly grave crimes of xenophobia and because of that I will set up a quest on you so to speak, to prove the contrary your success or failure will of course be entirely your own decision and will leave me and this assembly free of any sort of guilt"
"Allrright! That's morre like it!"
"Sheez what a horrible disclaimer"
"Show some gratitude Saki, I am after all giving your little friend here a chance"
Saki simply rolled her eyes, for she very well knew that Tyreal was just trying to come out clean out of this one
"As I was saying, this will be what I have in store for you Muradin, you are a 10th level Mountain King are you not?"
"You bet yer pancy angelic arrse I am"
"Your task will be a simple one, I will give you a new body and send you to join a group of mortal heroes that are all very well mismatched, none of them have any similarities beside the fact that they are all good aligned, despite their differences they remain a team and work together as one. Your task, Muradin Bronzebeard, will be to join their ranks and gain an additional 10 levels while you are with them after you have done this you will be granted passage to holy paradise."
"Heh... I got this on me bag"
"However, there is a catch, for every insult or upfront you give to any one member of the team, or any one for that matter about their race, preferences or lifestyles you will recieve one negative level, if you manage to put yourself in a position where you are a Mountain King level 0 you will automatically die and I will personally hurl you to the fires of hell, is that clear?"
"Hmm... let me get this strraigth all I have to do, is kill a bunch of stuff while I'm being nice and frriendly to some rrandom blokes?"
"Yes, well I'm sure that you can gain experience by completing minor quests and such but, yes, that is basically it."
The dwarven warrior stood silent for a moment, he had never being especially good at working in a team, he was a great strategist and led his armies to many victories, but when stuck in a fight he always fought as an individual caring more about defeating opponents than being nice to his fellow soldiers. After a pause he spoke again,
"And uh... I don't suppose I got a choice in the bloody matter"
"No, unless you prefer me flipping a coin?"
"Ah, what the 'ell! I'll do it!!"
"Excellent! Oh, be advised that I will not send you back to Azeroth; this will be one of the many parallel planets that are interwined with your world, because of it Saki here will be your guardian angel seeing than she took a liking towards you."
"What me!?"
"Whut!? I don't need no bleeding angel of merrcy following me arround! I can take care of meself!"
"Like it or not you are stuck with her, unless of course you prefer Virgil."
"Wazzup!"
"No, I think I'll stick with the girrl thank you verry much"
"I thought you might say that, well now prepare yourself Muradin you are off to join the Titans"
"THE TITANS!!??"
Muradin had heard great legends of Titans supposingly creating the entire universe and he was shocked when he heard that he was going to be ascended to godhood.
"Ye mean the Titans creatorrs of Azerroth and all it's species? All powerful beings that shaped the dwarrven race in their image?"
"Errr... no I meant to say the Teen Titans"
"Whut!? Who the bloody 'ell arre the Teen Tita--AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
Tyreal banged his hammer and Muradin was swallowed by the very floor in a flash of light.
"You better get going to Saki"
With that the Steel Angel flew away to meet with her mortal charge, Tyreal turned to leave but Virgil approched him.
"Lord Tyreal are you sure it was a good idea sending him to them? I mean he's a dwarf for crying out loud he's not even a teen!"
"Don't worry, I shall put those young upstarts in a position where they will allow him in, just another brilliant streak from my superior intellect; now get lost I have to make preparations."
"Um... excuse me Lord Tyreal, another thing"
"Now what?"
"Uh... Do I still get paid?" :)
Saturday morning in the Titan Tower and all is well, the early hours of morning awaken the young heroes from their peaceful slumber and stirs them to embrace another day brightly. The lazy sun rays take their time to enter the tower's windows for they know that it's habitants are not to be trifled with.
"Come here so I can squash you!!!"
"In your dreams dude!!"
Peacefulness has no meaning in Titan Tower as even in the early hours of the day chaos reigns supreme in the Titans' headquarters
Beast Boy ran across the living room excitedly followed closely by Cyborg, they left a path of destruction wherever they went. Their leader, Robin, had awaken much earlier than them and was reading the morning news, oblivious to the rough play of his subordinates. The cheerful one of the group, Starfire, had been following the two wreckless teens; as they were responsible for getting her up, she entered the room levitating,
"Please! What is the meaning of such scandalous noise at this hour?"
"It's Beast Boy! If he thinks he can sneak into my room and steal my Game Boy, he's got another thing coming!"
"Beast Boy, I implore you please return the Playful Child were it belongs"
"(She means the Game Boy right?) No way Jose! Cyborg's been hogging it all week, it's my turn to play with it!"
"Jose? I am Starfire"
"You only want to play that Zelda crap anyway! If you at least played something that didn't suck I'd let you use it... maybe"
"DUDE! Zelda does not suck, Link totally rules, baby!!"
While the discussion raged on a dark shadowy figure approached it stood motionless as it surveyed the scenery giving apprasing glances as if it was judging the reality of the situation. The figure shook it's head in disapproval and took down it's hood revealing the face of a dark brooding girl. Raven scoffed and muttered in low unaudiable voice,
"I see than none of them died during their sleep... pity"
"Another glorious morning is it not, friend Raven?"
"Whatever" Yawns
She completely ignored Beast Boy and Cyborg fighting and only barely noticed Starfire saying greetings to her. She went over to Robin to serve herself some of her beloved herbal tea.
"Morning Raven"
"Morning, what's new?"
"Hmm... nothing much, seems that we have been doing an awfully good job as of lately there has been almost no crime for the past few days, except for your average bulgaries here and there. Nothing that the local police force can't handle."
"Figures, guess that the lowly scum of this city is no match for us" sips tea
"I wouldn't let my guard down, you never know when Slade might surprise us by coming back from the dead"
"Now there's a fun thought, an undead Slade, just my sort of thing"
Raven unconsiously smirked at the tought while sipping more of her tea, she did know of Robin's little obsessive problem over Slade and then she smiled when she thought of Robin lossing sleep over a zombie Slade nightmare. She took another sip of tea and turned around ending the discussion right there, it was then that she felt that strong feeling in her stomach and then rising to her chest. It made her open her eyes fully and cold sweat formed almost instantly on her forehead, she let her tea cup fall and shatter on the floor and would have collapsed herself if not for being caught by Starfire's powerful arms.
"Friend Raven! What is the matter? Are you unwell?"
"You allright dude?"
"Did you just called her a dude Beast Boy?"
"What? I uh... meant to say dude... ette... yeah! Dudette!"
"Quiet both of you! What's wrong Raven?"
Robin looked at Raven and searched for any injuries while she was being held only by Starfire's hold, her face was twisted up and seemed to be on some sort of inmense internal pain. However as soon as it had come the pain vanished.
"Wow, haven't felt that for a long while,"
She balanced herself on her own feet but even then Stafire refused to let her go being the overprotective girl she was.
"You haven't felt what?"
"Mana... and lot's of it"
"Mana? You mean magick like on Zelda?"
"Well, strangely as it may sound, yes you are right Beast Boy magick like on Zelda (lucky shot)"
"I don't understand Raven, what are you trying to say?"
"I'm trying to say that someone or something in approximately a 30 mile radius from here, either just casted a huge spell or unlocked something in this world... something powerful"
"Could mean trouble, Titans prepare to--"
Before Robin could issue a command, the great screen television started to flash, he quickly jumped to the main keyboard and typed something that would activate one of the cameras that Robin had installed all over the city's most important places. The one that responded in particular showed the inside of Gotham's city bank.
"Looks like a normal robbery, doesn't really seem to have a connection with magick."
Robin clicked a mouse and made the camera zoom closer, he could see people running in fear and explosions on the background, it was then that the boy wonder looked at what appeared to be a knight fully dressed in armor wielding a big tower shield and a broadsword.
"Yo! Check out the dude with the armor!" Noted Cyborg
The knight looked around and spotted the blinking camera
"Uh-oh"
"Sergeant we're being watched!!"
Another knight came running to the soldier, he was wearing the same armor as the last one but instead of a broadsword had a spiked mace in his hand. He looked back at Robin through the camera with a look of annoyance and then smashed it to pieces, leaving only static to be seen on the monitor screen.
"Well, that could very well be the surce of your magick Raven, Titans move out!!"
The three boys hurriedly left the scene, but Starfire was still holding Raven in her arms with a tight grip.
"Starfire, you can let go of me now"
"Oops, forgive me!"
Muradin awoke lying face down on hard pavement, the smell of sewer and trash filled his nostrils almost instantly but the foul smell was the least of his worries at that time. Opening his eyes he adjusted his vision to make out the landscape that he had just been teleported to. He appeared to be on a dark city alley, being a dwarf his vision was accostumed to darkness spending a great majority of his life in an underground city, but he was obviously on surface ground because he could see the sky.
Getting to his feet he realized that he no longer was wearing armor nor any of his weapons and items. Instead he was now wearing a strange teal shirt with what appeared to be non-usuable zippers by the sleeves, his waist was being held by a stout belt and he was wearing some pants made out of a material that he had never seen before and lastly, he had some rather stylish leather boots that came almost to his knees.
"A little bit fancy for me liking," thought Muradin
He scratched his head and noticed that his hair was now longer than before, it was also tied back in a long pony tail that went almost as far as half his back.
"Agh! How did this get herre? ACK! Me voice, what happened to me voice!!?"
Muradin then noticed that his once rough cool sounding voice had turned into an almost annoying squeak, he then heard some steps getting closer to him from behind and quickly turned, he immediately recognized the angel-girl that had helped him out on the trial. She was no longer wearing the tunic nor did she had her wings anymore but she was now wearing a strange maid dress.
"There you are! For a moment there I thought I lost--- oh... my... God..."
"Hey! Ye better tell me why am I talking like a bleeding peapsqueak!!"
"Ah, Muradin I think you need to look at this!"
She pulled out a beauty mirror from her pocket and showed it to the dwarf thane, when he looked at it the face that stared back gave him immense horror
"BLOOD AND ASHES!! What have they done to me!? I look like if I'm in my hundrreths!"
"Mmhh, if you are a hundred years old then in human years that would be about... 18?"
"Ma bearrd, my precious, beautiful long bearrd- it's gone!! I just have a measly goatie!!"
Saki was in the very brink of bursting out in laughter, Muradin looked ridiculous like a dwarven kid, and the attire he was wearing was very fitting for his new age, but not for the brave dwarven warrior Muradin that she had heard so much about.
"Oh, it's alright Muradin, you don't look bad at all"
"Looking bad is the least of me problems lassie, do ye have any idea how annoying it is to be a teenager dwarrf? Ye thought I was shorrt when I was an adult? Look at me!"
Muradin took some steps closer to Saki and forcefully pulled her by the waist closer to him. Seems that he did not realize his major trespass of personal space.
"I don't even rreach to yer waist line anymorre! People could actually confuse me with a... oh no! A GNO--"
"Ah ah, don't you dare finish that sentence Muradin Bronzebeard! That's the kind of talk that got you into this mess in the first place."
The now young dwarven hero released his guardian angel and angrily punched one of the alley's walls, the stone crunched and cracked beneath Muradin's meaty fist.
"This wasn't parrt of the deal! Is this some sorrt of sick joke that angel is trrying to pull on me?"
"Believe it or not, Muradin, this is for the best. Besides, if it makes you feel any better I think you look... well-"
"Whut are ye mutterring now lass?"
"That I think you look kind of cute! gigglegigglegiggle"
The mighty dwarf glowered heavily to the slightly blushed Saki, putting his best "That's the last thing I wanted to hear" face. He sighed in distress looking first at the hole in the wall that he just made and then back to his rejuvenated hands, despite their sudden decrease of age they were still his hands, warrior hands. He smiled, at the very least he had lost none of his power.
"Allrrigth, let's do this!"
"Glad to see that you still have your spirit Muradin"
"Yeah, yeah enough chit chat, give me sumething to do!"
"Very well then, since you are so excited about this whole thing let me tell you what do you need to do; in a minute or so there is going to be a disturbance in the city bank your future friends being the heroes they are, will more than likely try to quell it. Your job is to go aid them and after that persuade them into letting you join their team."
"What ye mean by saying I have to help them? Can't they do it by themselves!?"
"More than likely not, you see I know there will be a disturbance because Tyreal told me there would be one, he probably dispatched some desceased warriors to gain their attention and I think most warriors from this realm will have little chance against Azerothenian soldiers"
"Oh that's just grreat, I get to double as a bloody nanny....well I'm off then"
"Wait! I think that you know that telling any mortal here about you being a reincarnation and being from Azeroth and all that good stuff will compromise your mission, right?"
"A'courrse I know that, yer forrgetting that it's me werre talking about, not some bloody noob!"
"But still I most take some precautions.... oh yeah! You should also not tell anyone about you being a dwarf, elves and orcs and dragons don't exist in this world, well at least not anymore so therefore if anybody asks tell them that you're a....uh.. a scott!"
"Ah what?"
"If they don't believe you just tell them this:
(with the best scottish accent a japanese girl can muster) IT'S A KILT!!"
"It's a kilt?"
"Yes perfect! You even got the accent right" claps excitedly
"Uh..."
"Well now that that's settled you should hurry or you're going to miss all the fight!"
The now very excited angel girl forcefully turned a bewildered Muradin around and pushed him in the direction of the bank, that was now on fire, with such force that it sent the dwarven hero tumbling half way through the street barely missing a speeding fire truck that was just now making it into the scene.
"Agh! That girl packs quite a punch"
He stood up straight and as he was prepearing himself for the oncoming onslaught he caught a glimpse of five rather peculiar characters, three of which were flying entering the bank. He stood there for a second astonished and then getting a hold of himself followed them inside the building
Inside, the footman with the mace was barking orders to the other soldiers that were destroying everything that crossed their paths
"Allright you men! We have our orders, cause as much structural damage as you can!"
An orc riding a huge wolf, sliced through the reinforced vault door with his machete sword, giving the impression of a hot knife through butter.
"Finnally something I'm good at! RRAAAAAAAA!!!!"
It apperead that all was lost for the Gotham bank, already the vault door had been sliced on half and much of the citizen's hard earned money was flying everywhere. Though it seemed that none of the bandits were collecting any of it, the great bulk of their energy was bent on destroying everything as fast as they could. But when no one was expecting it, yet another explosion shook the building, this one drawing the attention of the robbers.
A group of strangely dressed kids confronted the pillagers, defiantly standing in somewhat of a pose as if to attract as much attention to them as possible. It was indeed working because all raiding activity from the outlaws stopped and was directed to the young newcomers, their attention was mainly drawn by the girls that were levitating. Yet the boy that appeared to be the leader of the group stepped forward.
"You guys missed the Reinassance festival by a couple of months, you know?"
The sergeant took one good look at Robin
"Is that so? Well, at least we made it in time for the circus eh, boy in tights?"
General laughter was heard from the bandits, and to much of Robin's annoyance he heard some snickers from his own group as well, no doubt coming from Beast Boy and Cyborg
"Ooh, man, he's so gay."
"GRR!! That's it! Titans attack!"
"Stand your ground boys!!"
At his command, the Titans charged into battle pouring down on the bank robbers like an enraged mob. Starfire and Raven shot from the relative safety of the air to their earthbound opponents targeting those that appeared to be the cavalry of the group, two huge green monsters with swords riding wolves the size of cows and some knights on horseback, while Beast Boy and Cyborg confronted the infantry consisting of some armor clad men and a group of greenskined monsters much like their wolf riding counterparts but these ones wielding big double blade battle axes.
Robin was then free to attack the sergeant, who just stood there banging his spiked mace on his shield tauntingly.
"ARRG!! What is thou doing Ragnar!? Dost thou not see we are being attacked from above? Ensare those witches post haste!"
One of the knights on horse screamed at one of the monsters riding a wolf as he was being blasted by Stafires' energy bolts, the creature whose apparent name was Ragnar pulled out a big steel made net and started whiriling it above his head, the dark sorceress noticed this and tried to warn her friend
"Starfire look out!"
"Huh?"
Ragnar threw the net to the air, aiming it to the orange skinned girl, it succeded to find it's target and twirled around Starfire's body immovilizing her and causing her to fall to the ground with the grace of a sack of potatoes.
"Now, run her through!!"
The knights fixed their lances on Starfire and were about to impale her but where thrown out by the tail slash of a green Tyrannosaurs Rex, who then reversed back to Beast Boy. The shapeshifter ran to the alien girl and attempted to untie her
"This net is too restricting! I am unable to break loose"
"Don't worry, I gotcha!"
Unfortunately he did not notice one of the axe wielding warriors running to him and then sucker punching him on the side of the head, his brutal strength being more than enough to leave the shifter seeing stars and planets.
"Sorry about that little brother orc--AAAHH"
Cyborg blasted the monster with his sonic cannon away from Beast Boy and Starfire and was sligthly amused by the fact that they just called his friend an orc, he was sure to put that joke into use after the battle.
"O.K.! Who else want's some of this!?"
"FOR LORDAREON!"
His cocky remark left him wide open for one of the footmen to rush him and crush him on a wall, using his shield much like a bulldozer. The same footman was then hit square in the helmet by one of the broken pieces of the vault door, which was being controlled by Raven.
Meanwhile, Robin and the sergeant were squaring off, but not before the boy wonder interrogated his opponent like every other new attacker of his city. He had the strange tendency to ask questions to any new villians that appeared in town for some reason.
"So, new guys huh? Who exactly are you?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing, you wouldn't happen to be Robin would you?"
"Yes, I am and I'll make sure you'll remember me well"
"Bah! You're very annoying for a snot faced brat in a clown outfit"
"I tend to be annoying to newbies like you"
The sergeant was somewhat shocked that Robin just called him a newb, it had been some good 30 years since the last time somone had called him a rookie. Dying in the battle of the orc homeworld Draenor's apocalyptic explosion, he had more than gained the experience necessary to notice that Robin was just trying to make him spit out some information.
Knowing that there was no way he was going to reveal that he and his men were emissaries of the gods, he decided to shut the kid up.
"Poor choice of words my boy, draw steel!"
He didn't wait for Robin to reply and charged at him, the Titan's leader swiftly dodged the charge and pulled out his quarter staff
"Ah staff? Pfftt! That's so boot camp"
"You'll not be laughing when you see what I can do with it"
"Try me you little punk"
The sergeant took a swipe at Robin with his mace but because of it's cumbersome weight was easily dodged by the young martial artist, in a counter attack, Robin used a sweeping kick on the seargent which in turned blocked it easily with his enormous shield and caused Robin's attempt of attack to backfire. He ended up hurting his foot by kicking the seargent's shield.
"Ouch!"
"HA! Not so tough now are ya, kid?"
"I haven't even started yet,"
In another effort to beat his adversary Robin jumped a great height and brought his staff down on his enemy, again the soldier simply blocked it with his mace and took the opportunity to bash the hero with his shield. Robin took the full blow but managed to somersault back and landed on his feet. It was then that he used one of his many other artifacts to aid him, he pulled out of his belt a throwing device in the shape of a bird and skillfuly sent it flying towards the knight, beneath his helmet the seargent smiled.
"Bad move, kid"
The sergeant quickly locked his shield on the ground, and leaned it to an angle. When Robin's missle crashed on the bandit's leader shield it rickocheted and bounced back directly towards Robin, leaving him with no time to react, his own missile got him straight on the face knocking him down on the floor. He heard the sergeant's heavy armored footsteps walking to his position, and then felt a heavy boot pinning him down to the ground and saw the obscure face of the villian looking down at him, his helmet and armor only made him appear more malevolent.
"There, that will learn ya not to call me newbie" snorts and then spits
Seeing that he had beaten his young contrincant, sarge looked across the destroyed and flaming bank looking how his men were faring. The scene that he beheld was a pleasent one for his cause, his soldiers were almost bursting with morale and had sucessfully beaten most of the Titan's forces, the orc infant (Beast Boy) and the orange witch were either unconcious or inmovile, and the two remainig heroes were locked in a loosing fight with the rest of his men.
The rouges seemed to be really enyoing themselves even as Raven sent huge chunks of cement at them and Cyborg kept them at bay with his sonic cannon they cheered and laughed as they fought and closed in for the kill.
"Yeah, Get 'em!!"
"HAR HAR!! We kills you dead real nice!!!"
"They're too powerful, we're not going to make it!"
"You better not go dying on me Raven, c'mon we can still take 'em!"
Robin could barely see how his friends were being beaten, it was hard to believe that his team would be deafeted by a mere group of bank robbers, their attacks had come too quickly to think of a plan B and Robin had underestimated their prowess. He had failied not only himself, but all who trusted in him, his friends his mentor his--
"For the Bronzebearrds!!"
"What was that? AGG!!"
Robin suddennly saw how a spinning hammer smashed into the sarge's face, not only knocking his helmet off and sending him flying but also succesfully unpinning Robin. He looked around for the one responsible for this action and was a little bit confused when he saw, standing there at the bank's entrance, a boy no taller than himself, with a confident smug smile on his face. He barked some insults at the remaining bandits and made them momentarily forget about their mission to destroy the Titans and instead attack the newcomer. They quickly sorrounded him, and Robin scrambled to his feet triying to get up to save him, but before he could do anything he witnessed how the kid created a big warhammer out of nowhere and raised it above his head,
"Eat thunder clap!! Ye sods!!"
With a heavy heave the child smashed his warhammer into the ground with such force that created a huge blast that completely obliverated the sorrounding floor where he was standing along with the bandits that happened to be standing there. They and their mounts gave agonizing cries of pain as they were enveloped by the blast and fell almost in one movement, battered, unconcious and for all purposes defeated
"Was that all? Lemme see four footmen, four grrunts, two knights, two wolfrriders and one sarrge? What the bleeding ale werre those guys thinking sending them at me like cows to the slaughter?"
Muradin swept some dust of his new stylish clothes and walked over to a very bewildered group of Titans, he looked around and spotted Robin, scoffing a bit, he extended a hand offering Robin some assistance getting up.
"Ye took quite the beating therre, didn'tcha lad? Ye 'ought to be morre carrefull in this buissness"
Robin took his hand and was back on his feet.
"Thanks we appreciate the help, excuse me I'll be with you in a moment"
With that Robin ran over to the bleeding knight sergeant and grabbed him by his armored collar to start interrogating him before the police arrived, while he was doing so Muradin found himself sorrounded by the other Titans who looked at him with some sort of discomfort.
Except Starfire who went straigth to grapple him in a crushing bear hug.
"Oh thank you so much for coming to our aid we are ever so grateful!"
"Wow! Easy therre lassie, yer gonna break me back!"
"Dude Dude!! Your accent, that's like soooooo cooooool! Are you like a pirate or something!?"
Almost out of thin air Beast Boy appeared a black pirate captian hat, with a white skull painted in the middle and putting it on he began talking to Muradin as if he was in fact a buckaneer.
"Arr me matey! Shiver me timberrs! Firre on the poop de--" wimpers
He was interrupted by Muradin smacking him in the chin, causing Beast Boy to bite down on his own tounge, incredibly Raven actually smiled at this.
"Thank you... I was hoping someone would do that"
"Ye blitterring idiot, I'm not a pirrate I'm a dwa.. oh wait, I mean a scott!!"
"Really? Prove it then"
Cyborg looked down menancingly at the miniature warrior, the android was not very intimidated by Muradin because of his pathetic height. Quickly all eyes turned to the dwarf who began sweating heavily and tried to remember what Saki had told him before.
"Uh... ummm..... It's a kilt?"
"Well, good enough for me,"
"Yeah aren't scotts always saying that?"
Muradin let out a relieved sigh, apparently these "heroes" well not very well versed in cultures different to their own, for they were easily fooled by such a half-baked idea. Only Raven narrowed her eyes but decided not to say anything.
As the rest of the Titans encircled the tiny warrior, Robin looked directly at a very badly wounded footmen sergeant and started interrogating him.
"chuckling You did good kid... cough! Not bad for a rookie, not bad at all... cough cough!"
"Fess up! Slade sent you didn't he? I know he's still out there!!'
"Listen up kiddo... I don't have much time... you... have... no idea... what's coming to you..."
"Oh no, hold on- an ambulance is coming, just hang on!!"
Before Robin could turn to get some paramedics, or even Raven he was grabbed by an armored hand who strongly held him in place
"NO! Listen....it's only....just beginning....I have to....go home "
"Wait, the only place you're going is to a hospital and then to jail"
But even as the Titan's leader uttered his response, he felt that his hand actually went past the knight's armor, the man that he had just confronted started looking traslucent and was slowly banishing into thin air. Then finally, much like a ghost would he disappeared leaving his last words hanging in the air.
"Be....careful....."
"Magick...."
Taking some steps back and wide eyed, Robin saw to his great surprise that the man that he was just talking to was gone, and looking back at the smoking crater that the kid had created with his hammer he also noticed that the rest of the outlaws had also disappeared. The young martial artist pondered a little at this as he saw how the kid that had helped them out was poking Cyborg's leg.
"Say, that's some fine suit of arrmor ye got therre lad"
"This ain't armor! This is a cybernetical enhancing human core with a Titanium aliation base"
"Ah what now?"
"It's my body"
"Oooo.... poke poke still rreal nice"
Wondering how that child just waltzed in and took all the robbers single-handedly it occured to Robin that this was no coincidence. Some one had set them up but he was not exactly sure why, most likely the newly hammer wielding boy was a pawn of yet another devious plot to bring the Titan's down but who was behind it all? Slade? The H.I.V.E.?. He could not think about it any longer, police sirens and firemen rushing in to quell the flames caused by the long gone attackers interrupted Robin's train of thoughts, he acted quickly and went where his friends and the new guy were.
"Raven, teleport us back to the tower, we have to let the authorities take care of the rest."
"Sure...."
"Oh, hold on therre laddie, I was hoping ye would.."
"You're coming with us"
"What!?"
"Rreally? (Damn that was easy)"
"You sure about that Robin?"
"Just get us out of here before the fangirls arrive"
Crinching at the thought of signing autographs Raven quickly enveloped all six of the present in an eerie black blanket of darkness and vanished them from the spot, just as the local militia and rescue teams could attend to the wounded and put of fires before they spread to the rest of the city, surveing the damage a grizlied veteran fireman muttered,
"Kids nowadays"
"AGH! I hate teletrransporrtation!!!"
All five members of the Titans stepped back from the place they just appeared and saw how their diminute savior stumbled a bit and fell flat to the floor with a thud.
"I'm allrright"
"Yo Robin"
The android that was Cyborg leaned closer to his leader's ear and whispered,
"What's the deal bringing this guy with us?"
"I'll tell you in a moment Cyborg, I think I know what I'm doing"
"You think? That's reasurring"
Taking some steps forward, the masked boy waited until the dwarven child was able to get up. He was a strange sight to behold, the kid was well Beast Boy's size, the shortest of the team, but was very broad shouldered like Cyborg and his somewhat fancy clothes could not hide the extremely well built muscles that he posessed. All in all he did not appear very frightening, in fact at best he was laughable, with his dirty blonde hair tied clumsily at his back and a goatie growing in his chin like some desperate attempt to show manliness.
It was his bronze skin that caught Robin's attention however, it was a deep shade of bronze looking like mud than spent a lot of time sun bathing, it almost looked like he was indeed made out of the metal, if the boy wonder had not seen him move he could have sworn the newcomer was just a statue. One could very well describe him as a living, breathing, life size bronze figurine. Clearly he wasn't human.
"First of all please let me thank you in behalf of the team for the rescue back there, it was quite a show"
"Yes! We are most thankful for your rescuing prowess"
Starfire clasped the small kid's hands with her own as a gesture of her appreciation. Much to the revived warrior's discomfort
"However I need to know who are you and what were you doing there"
"Me? Well lad..I uh....was just passing by and well.. saw the firre and decided to check it out"
"smirks You are lying"
"Yeah, even I can tell he's full of it"
Backed up by Beast Boy, Robin's confidence soared and took another dead stare at the short adolescent.
"I'm going to ask you again, why were you there?"
"taken back Hey! I don't need to be thrreaten by the likes of ye, I say you people should be thankful by me showing up like I did. Why if it wasn't for me those highwaymen would have slaughter the lot of ye!"
"Please Robin, do not be so hard on this gentle child he has indeed saved us from a gruesome fate"
Seeing that his first persuasive methods to make the visitor tell the truth had failed, Robin decided it be best to take another shot at it later, away from Starfire's interventions and when he would not guard his words so closely.
"You're right, I'm sorry"
"Ha! Bullcrrap I risk me heine to save ye and that's how you repay me? I'm getting the hell of herre. Good day"
Turning to leave in a rather nochalant way the dwarf was stopped by Robin who grabbed him by the shoulder. This was just what Muradin was hoping he would do.
"Wait just a second, you will have to excuse me but I have to take some precaussions when I talk to someone that it's not from my team. We have had some other..... misshaps in the past when dealing with strangers. Please let us start over, I'm Robin nice to meet you."
Now, Muradin was no aristocrat but he could reacognize eloquency when he saw it, and Robin was pretty damn good at it. Either way, even if he had been a complete idiot he would have accepted his invitation to start over, for it worked more to his favor.
"Allrright, well met Rrobin, let me intrroduce meself I'm Murradin Brronzebearrd and uh..I'm fairrily new to this rregion could ye help me out a bit?"
"Sure, what is it?"
"I'm looking for some blokes called the Teen Titans, ye wouldn't happen to know them rright?"
"Dude! Of course we know them that's us"
Beast Boy suddenly cut his leader's response by saying this, making the dwarven warrior sweat a bit he was expecting a difficult quest, but now seeing that he might spend some time with this group of people made him doubt about his ability to pass this test
"(Crrap I was afrraid of that) Oh yeh, I hearrd of ye quite a bit, mighty strange group of lads are ye not?"
"Well I don't know about that Muradin, you're pretty weird yourself"
"HA! I like yer sense of humor lad, that was quite a good one (filthy bastarrd)"
It was a good thing that none of the Titans could read minds, if not they would have been showered by insults about them, their relatives and in some cases even their pets. Muradin was not liking the situation, none of the one's present appeared to be someone that the dwarf thane will like to get to know.
"So, why were you looking for us Muradin?"
"Oh well, ya know I hearrd that therre werre some herroes arround 'ere and I'm one meself, a prretty bloody good one too, but ya know I've being worrking solo for a bit now and it's not my thing. So I hearrd that over herre therre was a decent grroup called the Teen Titans and I said to meself 'Say Murradin that's the kind o' people ye want to be sorrounded by, 'cuz therre bleeding Titans!' So whaddaya say lad? Would ye let me in this little team of yers?"
Even before Robin or any one else could utter a response, Beast Boy shot out
"No way dude!! We don't accept bullies here! My tounge's still hurting from that smack you gave to me back at the bank"
"Beast Boy"
Suddenly Muradin grew increasingly red almost to the point that smoke was coming out of his ears, that was the last straw, he had it with the little annoying runt
"YER WIMPERRING SICKENS ME!!! I have never seen such a pathetic excuse for a so called "herroe" in my entirre life, ye sniveling bastarrd better shut yer trrap beforre I'm forrce to burry my axe deep within yer skull!!! You nausieting half-brred yer father was an orrc mongrrel and yer mother was an elven whorre ---UUURRGGG!!!"
Almost as soon as he had finished that sentence a red light sorrounded Muradin, pulling his body downward and then going through the floor. The sensation was horrible, never had he experienced such inmense pain before, it felt like if someone had just sucked ten years of his life right out of his body. Bending a bit he clutched his stomach and wrenched his teeth, Robin looked at him wide eyed and then asked.
"Uh, you okay there Muradin?"
"I need to go to the loo"
"The what?"
"THE CRRAPER MAN! THE CRRAPER!"
"Oh oh the bathroom? Is right over there"
"Thanks!"
Rushing toward the direction Robin pointed, Muradin ran holding his stomach all the way and entered the room at an incredible speed for his short legs. Thus, he left the Titans momentarily.
"So what do you guys think of him?"
"Oh he is quite a bit hot tempered but I do not mind at all, if he wishes to join us I say we should not restrict him to do so"
"Man I say forget him, we don't need no jackass cramping our style"
"Yeah are you really going to let him in after he talked to me like that? Dude, I didn't even understand half the things he said"
"Hmmm....what about you Raven? What do you think?"
"Yay......more idiots...."
Raven stated lastly with no emotion whatsover. Robin looked at his teamates' expressions and comments and even despite he had a well thought out plan, he decided that in the end it should be the team as a whole that decided this matter.
"How about this? Let's have a vote, who says Muradin should be left out"
Cyborg and Beast Boy raised their hands in the air
"There's no way I'm putting with another antisocial"
The android extressed the word another as he looked to Raven, she barely noticed but both Beast Boy and Cyborg heartedly burst out laughing and then high-fived.
"O.K. now who wants him in?"
Starfire shot her hand upward immediately and then was followed by Robin himself.
"YAY!!"
"No offense guys, I do know that we shouldn't be taking people in like that after the whole Terra incident. But if he is in fact just trying to infiltrate us, I already have a trap set up for him, if he isn't a spy then I have to admit he did a heck of a job back at the bank"
Now that they were tied, the masked Titan's leader turned his gaze at the dark cloaked girl.
"We have two against and two in favor, it's up to you now Raven"
"sigh I already had my mind set to vote against, but I like not agreeing with Beast Boy so I'll say... yeah, let's let him in"
The Tamarenian girl gave a bone crushing hug to Raven when she heard that she had in fact agreed with her and Robin.
"Oh this is an ocassion for much joy and rejubiliation!! Yet another friend!"
"Ung! H--help me!"
The other two that had disagreed didn't seem to mind it much, there were still some chances their leader would change his mind about the whole subject.
Inside the bathroom facility of the Titans, Muradin was drenching himself with water from the faucet. He was not very surprised by the technology of the bathroom, his race's engineers had long invented aqueduct facilities that transported water much like the faucet that he was using. But in reality he could not care less, his main concern was now to aliviate the pain that he had just experienced.
"Man o' man must have been sumething I ate"
Closing the handle to make the water stop running, Muradin gave an aliviated sigh as he no longer felt pain. He looked infront of him and saw his reflection in the mirror. As expected he at first thought that someone else was with him in the room and almost created another stormhammer, but then remembered that it was just him and relaxed, he could still not get over the fact he was now a hundred years old which was eighteen for humans. As he stared at his childlike reflection he was startled by a womanly voice coming from beside him
"Naughty naughty Muradin"
"AAAHH!! Who the!!??"
Saki, his guardian angel was standing beside him leaning on a wall, looking somewhat dissapointed.
"Whut the bloody 'ell arre ye trrying to do? Kil me again!? And just how did ya get in herre!!??"
"Silly Muradin, I do not belong in this material plane I can move wherever I please astraly, but let's save the lesson in the time continuum for later shall we? I came here for more serious matters"
"Being what?"
"You just lost a level"
"HUH!? Then--then that was the thing that was hurrting me? But why? Whut did I do?"
"Oh please Muradin, do you really think that your little 'your father was an orc mongrel and your mother was an elven whore' of yours wasn't in the least bit insulting?"
"Come on! That was just a slip up, the kid was getting on me nerrves I didn't mean it!"
Muradin's girl guardian shook her head as a gesture of dissaproval, she was expecting much more from the mighty legendary dwarven thane.
"Lord Tyreal wishes to speak with you"
Saki took from her pocket a well sized golden medallion, which looked quite simple without any engravings or carvings. However, it's lustrous cover soon transformed into a crystal which showed Muradin's judge Tyreal and beside him his inept attorney Virgil who almost got him sent to hell, behind them was a cloudy background.
"Hey man! How's it going down there? Getting to know da ladies!?"
"Shut up Virgil!"
Tyreal, Muradin and including Saki all said at once at the brown robed man, who only closed one eye and shielded his face with his arms as he grinned, obviously pleased that he had annoyed all three of them so easily.
"Ahem, Muradin Bronzebeard"
The archangel Tyreal began to speak making his voice deep and authoritarian raising his arms and tentacle-wings trying to make himself appear more powerful. However, he suddenly stopped and then letting his shoulders drop he spoke again with a normal voice.
"Never mind, I'll make this short. You are in serious trouble, losing a level already makes me think that you do not realize the severity of your situation. Do you forget that if you fail, your soul will be sent to eternal torment?"
"Agg, ye know what? Hell doesn't sound as bad as staying with these runts"
"Oh really? How's about a little demonstration?"
Tyreal snapped his fingers and in flash Muradin saw how Virgil grew wide eyed and was sucked down by the floor, one second later he was violently pushed back to Tyreal's side not being his usual self but turned into a traumatized sniveling wretch.
"S-weet---he--heaven!! Faeries--e--every--where!"
When the dwarf Mountain King heard that could be sent to a place where he would be sorrounded by faeries he panicked. Faires to him represented everything that is not dwarven, with their butterfly wings and their non-violent attitudes and worst of all, no alcoholic beverages! Oh the thought shook Muradin to the very core, it was his own personal hell.
"Wait! I'll trry harrder I swear it! Just please, don't send me with the faerries!"
"Very well, resume now your quest, Muradin Bronzebeard, and keep this medallion- it will tell you what is your current level if the need arrises, go now and do your best"
"I--w-ant--my--bl--blankie"
Virgil's last words were lost as the medaillion closed and went back to it's original golden form, this time with a big golden "9" incrusted within it. Because he didn't like using jewerly and he didn't want to cause any suspicion among his new teammates about how he got ahold of that medallion, he placed it deep within his pants's pockets.
"Good luck Muradin" BAM!
With a powerful push, Saki sent Muradin blasting out the door and into a wall just before desappearing. The Mountain King was left much like a tortilla before he pried himself of the wall and infliated himself to normality.
"By Magni's bearrd! I wish she'd stop pushing me arround... literrally"
Pulling himself together he walked back to the living room were he had left the Titans, adjusting his clothes and cracking his bones back in their respective places.
He found them all seated around the kitchen table, discussing among themselves and preparing some food after a long day of fighting evil. The great ordeal had taken them to the end of the day, it was only that morning that Beast Boy and Cyborg were chasing each other throughout the tower and now the sun was setting and night threatened to reign supreme.
Muradin approached them no longer looking sick.
"Sorry 'bout that lads, I must have eaten something that didn't agrre with me"
"This shall certainly agree with you, friend Muradin, as I have prepared a special dinner in celebration of your arrival, please eat until... how do you say? Your heart is happy?"
"Your heart's content"
"Oh yes, that is correct"
Robin corrected Starfire while he was examining his food, it looked quite nasty with a strange assorment of different plants and other stuff floating among a purple looking substance that had the maleability of jello. Muradin took a seat between Cyborg and Beast Boy also looking strangely at his food but even more strangely at the Tamaranian.
"Thanks... uh... what did ya say yer name was?"
"Oh that's right. I forgot to introduce you the team Muradin,"
Standing up, and relieved somewhat that he didn't have to continue his Tamaranian dinner in the spot, Robin began naming the Titans one by one.
"As you already know, I'm Robin. The two at your sides are Cyborg and Beast Boy"
They greeted him somewhat aloofly as they were stuffing themselves with food, which it didn't matter much to them that it was made by Starfire, when either of them was hungry taste had little meaning.
"Yo" munch munch
"Yeah. I'm Beast Boy. Don't waste the name."
"The one that made our dinner today is Starfire"
"How do you do?"
"And uh... did I forget anyone? Oh yeah, sorry, she is Raven, Muradin"
".........." silence
That was not necessarily the warmest welcome Muradin had ever received, only the girl Starfire seemed to have any interest in him whatsover, he wasn't quite sure what she was, he had never seen any race with color skin as orange before, perhaps she was some kind of troll. The human boy Robin was keeping a close eye on him, but he decided it was the initial mistrust that a new member of team must receive. The one called Raven didn't even wave at him, Muradin was beginning to wonder if she was some sort of undead warlock, after all, she was the one that teleported them there. Cyborg, the hulking big human, was the one that Muradin saw any sort of promise, he had the look of a warrior and his body armor was nothing but impressive he would make sure to see his potential later.
However it was the green-skinned kid that made his stomach churn. At first Muradin thought he was a goblin, but his features were much too fair like that of an elf. It was his belief that maybe he was the spawn of an orc and and an elf mixture. Hence why he called him half-breed, he was not saying it out loud but the very notion of being sitted next to such an abomination was making him slowly lose control of his rage. The very thought of an elf and an orc mating was sickening to him not to mention that Muradin hated them both with almost equal fervor.
"Hey check this out!"
Beast Boy grabbed a handful of the purple substance that he was eating and sent it to the air, he quickly transformed into an elephant and sucked it by his nose, then he turned into a whale and spitted it out by his breathing hole again into the air, reassuming human form Beast Boy opened his mouth wide open to catch it. Yet in a horrible turn of events it changed course and landed right on Muradin's face, covering the rejuvenated warrior with purple stuff and Beast Boy's internal fluids.
"Oh man! I almost had it"
"Hey no playing in the table!"
Much laughter arose from the adolescents, instantly Beast Boy and his pal Cyborg made fun of the dwarf's misfortune strangely followed by Starfire who giggled and caused Robin to lose his composture and laughed with the group. Raven even, had choked a bit in her tea at the scene and was barely holding her laughter by covering her mouth with her hand.
The sound that came from the dwarven fighter was one that sounded like the enraged growl of a demonic ogre being hit in his toe by a sledgehammer.
"....ggrrrrRRRRRAAAAAA!!!!"
His outburst silenced the table and while they waited for the worst, the middle child of the Bronzeards stood up angrily and quickly grabbed more of the Tamaranian food.
"EAT THIS!!"
Tossing a big chunk of it at Beast Boy, the shifter managed to dodge it and splattered Raven all over her face.
The group was now filled with gasps, the rest of the Titans knowing very well the sorceress does not appreciate that kind of behavior and the new Titan frozen by the fact he might have just angered an undead warlock.
"Holy shit dude"
"Hey lassie I didn't mean to... WOW!"
Uncanningly the dwarf dodged a plate filled with Raven's food which was sorrounded with an eerie darkness and instead got Cyborg, who then smiled and screamed,
"FOOD FIGHT!!!"
Chaos broke out as Cyborg counterattacked by sending more food towards both Robin and Starfire. Who then took cover behind their chairs as they defended themselves, striking Muradin once more.
The dwarf now smiled, feeling the rush of mock battle going through his veins, the battle raged on across the room as all the Titans utilized their powers to aid them in the food fight. Beast Boy turned into a gorilla and sent even greater amounts of food towards his teammates, Starfire bombarding them, Robin dodging and striking like a true martial artist, Cyborg filling his cannon with purple ammo and then shooting it, even the melancholy Raven was somehow half-heartedly taking part of the game, mainly controling the remaining chairs to block the projectiles sent at her. Amidst the battle, Muradin was reminded of the fun times he and his brothers had while having the same fights at dinners in Khaz Modan, it had been so long since those times, leaving his childhod behind early to become a Mountain King and fight the orcish Horde at Ironforge Mountain's steppes.
But now he was a child again and he felt the long-forgotten sensation of playtime with friends, but still used a Mountain King's skills effectively as he threw food with both hands much like he would throw his stormhammers, knocking down any unfortunate Titan who wasn't fast enough to dodge it.
Some moments later, the room lay destroyed and all Titans except for their new addition were exhausted.
"HA HA!! Come on ye nancy boys, is that all ya got?"
"Muradin... please... you win"
"Calm down already"
"Oh, I guess I got a wee bit too excited"
"Well that's was some dinner, but I guess we have to start cleaning now"
Their leader Robin started directing his fellow Titans to clean the mess that they had done, but somehow Muradin felt very light-hearted. When he had thrown that filthy looking food at Beast Boy he was intending to hurt him badly, but now he was amazed at the turn of events that his less than good intended actions had caused. When the Mountain King kid had meant them harm, they responded cordialy, Muradin still possesed his dwarven pride and he was not about to let such good people be so amigable with him without a proper reason.
"Oi'! Since I'm the new guy arround 'erre. Why don'tcha let me take carre of that for ya?"
"You wanna clean all this by yourself!? Are you sure?"
"Shut up Robin before he changes his mind.... Sure dude, consider it your initiation"
"Ah! So that means that yer going to accept me as a Titan after all!"
"Eehhh.....D'oh!"
Beast Boy gave a crude imitation of Homer Simpson as he messed up, it was obvious that the dwarf had noticed the shifter's dislike of him, his little trick going amiss and landing on Muradin was no accident, but now he had almost given his blessing to his entrance.
"That's alrright me laddie, no need to get all worrked up about it"
"Muradin, why do you keep calling us "lads"? Your no older than any us"
"Oh, well ya see... that's... because... well..."
"Don't try to understand his jigs Robin, must be something them scotts say, right dawg?"
"Umm..Yeah! We scotts say that a lot (that was close!)" sweatdrop
"Well anyway it's getting late and we have to get up early tomorrow to test Muradin out, maybe you could sleep in Terra's room"
"GGRRRRR!!!"
The one that Muradin thought was a half elf half orc, quickly turned into a really big timber wolf and growled menancigly at his superior, he wasn't going to allow a stranger to sleep in the room of the girl that he had once cared for.
"I mean....uh...do you mind sleeping on the sofa?"
"Allrright! I get to sleep on some sorrt of furrniturre today! YYIIHHAA!!!"
"Right...I'll take that as a yes.... (I'm sorrounded by a bunch of weirdos)"
"That's it I'm out! Y'all discuss waaay to much, sleep tight"
"Yawns Oh I am deeply sorry, but I too am in dire need of some rest"
"No morre talking from any of ye, off ya go now to bed"
Almost pushing them all back to their respective rooms, the legendary dwarf was left alone to clean all the mess they had done earlier. At the end of what seemed almost minutes to him the room was left sparkling clean. Not surprisingly, Muradin had cleaned even bigger messes before and that was almost child's play to him, which would be considered fair play now, seeing that he was now a kid. Sighing as he finished his task he placed the mop, bucket and all the other cleaning utensils, including the hankerchiefs he used to clean the mess from his face, and allowed himself to fall on the sofa.
As he did he felt energy surging from his body and was enveloped in searing light, bewildered at what had happened, he reached at inside of his pocket and looked at the medaillion that Saki had given him. It now had a big "10" inscribed.
"I LEVELED UP OFF OF THAT!!!??"
The mighty warrior rested his head in the sofa's pillow and lastly stated weakly before going to sleep
"How embarrassing"
Dizzied May: Or some corny shit like that.
Dizzied May: They are so in luuuuuve...
El loco: He has not realized he doesn't have his axe yet
Dizzied May: EEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! vomits Ewewewew, dude that is sick.
So 'der ya have it, the first chapter of my twisted attempt of a fan fiction
A little resume in the characters I used
The Protagonist Muradin Bronzebeardfor those who have not played Warcraft III he is a dwarf heroe, which in the game are called Mountain Kings, who trains and is then murdered by this human prince named Arthas...which later kills a whole bunch of other people in a murderous killing spree. But that's another story, Muradin basically lives in this planet called Azeroth which can be easily described by saying that: It's inhabitants are freaking crazy seeing they wage war with each other all the time, and when I say all the time I mean it. To make his story short he is just the middle child of the governing family (the Bronzebeards) and he lived in the mountains of Khaz Modan in the city of Ironforge.
Yeah, I know it's complicated but come on I'm trying my best here I had to make a Fan fic of him because one: There are no Fics of him and two: he's my favorite character of the game
Closely followed by Garithos...............We humans have to stick together (just a thing he says)
The Steel Angel Saki she is a character of an anime series I like, called Steel Angel Kurumi.
The first time I watched the series, I was simply fascinated by her persona and somehow began idolatrating her almost religiously. Also I began pondering about how to make a fan fic of her
The Archangel Tyreal if anyone took the time off to read my worthless other fan fiction, it would be noted he was also making a guest appearance there as well. Tyreal is a character from a game called Diablo II, his character was appealing to me because he was the only angel that participated (or at least tried to because he got his butt kicked) in a war between mortals and hell. I mean really! That was supposed to be a battle between Diablo himself against the world and Heaven does nothing? So any angel that has the brains to get off his high horse and help out humanity is allright in my book
The Teen Titans O.K.!! HOLD ON NOW!! If I have to explain to you who are this guys maybe you shouldn't be in this section! After all that's why I placed this story here so I wouldn't have to explain the ENTIRE TEAM!!! You Savvy?
Virgil a minor character from a game called Arcanum, he was at first a ruthless gangster who became a priest. Obviously this change left him a little unbalanced because he acted nothing like your average, "Holier than thou" monk. But in the end somehow saves the world giving his life and goes to a happier place. I say somehow because I could NEVER BEAT THE DAMN GAME AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW HE DID IT!!
So now that you know all this, let's just say that I decided to save time by mashing them all in one fan fiction instead of one for each of them. Yeah I know I'm a genious
I am working on the second chapter as I write this so hopefully I will not let you guys wait long, for those of you who may read this.
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