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Sorry I didn't update sooner. I play Lacrosse, and I had three games this week and a practice, and today was my first day off…urg. I'm so tired. I'll prolly update on Saturday.
Thirteen years later…
The boy formerly known as Robin, Nightwing, sat comfortably on the couch in the Titans tower. After the disappearance of one of their own, Starfire, the Titans didn't break up. They never employed any other heroes, though. They stayed as the originals, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg, and the older Robin-Nightwing.
Nightwing leaned forward, typing something into their computer. "You guys, I think I might've found a lead on Starfire's whereabouts!" He called to the other Titans, who were spread about around the room.
"Man, you say that everyday," Cyborg stated. "Don't you think it's about time you give up searching on her? If she wanted to be found, she would've made the job much easier."
Nightwing was up in three seconds flat, finger shaking dangerously close to the hybrid's face.
"I made a promise. I swore to myself I would never give up searching for her. I never will. Watch me. I'll find her someday. I will find her," Nightwing spat.
"Sorry, man," Cyborg apologized, holding his hands up in front of his body. "I didn't mean it like that."
Nightwing said nothing but returned to his seat on the couch.
Raven looked up from her book. "Beast Boy, I know this has been a habit of yours for thirteen years now, but will you PLEASE keep your toenails off the coffee table?" she asked, a hint of disgust in her voice.
"Rae, those aren't mine," Beast Boy stated. He walked towards the coffee table, inspected them, and came to a conclusion. "Those aren't even toenails."
Raven took a closer look at the coffee table, as did Cyborg.
"HOW MANY TIMES DO I NEED TO TELL YOU TO KEEP YOUR STUPID TOFU OUT OF OUR LIVING ROOM?" Cyborg shouted.
It seemed that the mistaken toenails were in fact bits of shredded Tofu. Beast Boy sweat-dropped before scooping the bits into his hands and tossing them in the garbage. "Whoops."
"Oh, I'll show you whoops, you little grass stain," Cyborg stated through gritted teeth, running after the now petrified Beast Boy.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos," Raven muttered, enveloping Cyborg in a black bubble. "Don't you dare hurt him."
There was a series of random bangs and garbled shouts from inside the bubble. Raven released him.
"You only take his side because he's your beau," Cyborg teased. Beast Boy took to Raven's side, wrapping an arm around her waist.
"What's your point?" he asked, kissing her lightly on the cheek. Raven let a half-smile creep across her cheeks, softly closing her book and laying it on the coffee table.
Nightwing sighed. How he wanted to be like Beast Boy and Raven. He wished that Starfire would come back to them. He longed to be with her the way Raven and Beast Boy were with each other.
BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP!
The alarm sounded loudly and red lights began flashing around the room. "Trouble," Nightwing stated, alert as ever.
"No duh, former Boy Blunder," Raven stated sarcastically. He glared at her before turning back to the screen. He punched in a few numbers before a face appeared on the screen.
"Whirlwind. He's making some trouble in a downtown bank," Nightwing stated.
"Didn't it take us…almost five seconds to beat him last time we faced him?" Beast Boy asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Not even, but yes," Nightwing confirmed. "Titans, GO!"
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"Moonfire!" Kori Anders yelled through the high winds that were engulfing the bank they had been standing in. "KIMI ANDERS GET BACK HERE THIS INSTANT!" Her daughter was seemingly ignoring her, as she kept on running.
Kimiand'r was what her Earth name translated to on Tamaran. Starfire opted to use a more human name so no one would suspect "Kori" of being the missing Titan.
"Mom!" she heard her daughter yell. Kori closed her eyes and re-opened them. Anyone around her would see only two green beams in place of her eyes. She lifted herself from the ground and flew to where her daughter was. She tried to control her powers. She not using them as liberally as she used to, had lost most control of them. Whenever she was scared, angry, depressed, her powers would begin peaking out.
Her daughter, in full recognition of her powers and just passing transformation, had dark blue circles engulfing her clenched fists. She blinked and her eyes turned the same blue as well.
"Mom, we have to stop him. If we don't-" but she was interrupted by her mother pushing her aside into a dark alleyway. She had seen the (not so) Teen Titans flying their way. Pinning her daughter to the wall, she tried to explain why she shouldn't use her powers in public, but Kimi struggled from her grasp and ran towards the source of the problem.
"KIMI!" her mother yelled. She took a deep breath before quickly chasing after her..
"AIEEE!" Moonfire yelled as she rose into the air and shot three starbolts at this man who called himself Whirlwind.
Usually, Moonfire didn't get into things such as this. This was the kind of job for the Teen Titans, Moonfire's heroes. Her favorite was Nightwing. He is soo dreamy!
The man, who had created quite the wind in the bank, dodged them easily.
"Foolish girl!" he drawled. "Thou shalt never defeat Whirlwind!"
She shot a combination series of eye beams and starbolts. Whirlwind dodged most of them, sending a gust of air towards Moonfire. She ducked out of the way, and, unknown to her, it hit her mother. Moonfire sent ten more starbolts towards him and three of them hit him square in the chest. He fell to the floor, unconscious.
The winds died, and the money he had collected with them was immediately returned to their original spots around the bank.
Moonfire turned to see what had become of her mother, and saw her lying motionless on the floor, next to a crumbling brick wall. She panicked, darting to her and picking her up, three seconds before the wall collapsed.
Moonfire laid her mother on the ground. "Mom," she called. "Mom!"
But she didn't awake. Moonfire checked her pulse and was relieved she was still alive. "Oh, I'm so sorry mom. I shouldn't have bothered." Moonfire enveloped her mother in a hug, stray tears falling from her now normal eyes.
There was a tap on her shoulder. She turned and looked up to see the Teen Titans staring down at her.
She jumped up and straightened her outfit, nearly having a coronary. "Oh my GOD! You guys are the Teen Titans!"
Moonfire was literally shaking with excitement, before reminding herself her mother was lying unconscious behind her.
"What happened?" The tall green one, Beast Boy, asked.
"Umm, well Whirlwind was trying to take over the bank…and…I kinda defeated him," she whispered this last part as to not attract attention. Her mother, for some reason, never liked attention placed upon her.
"You defeated Whirlwind? By yourself? But you're only-like-fourteen!" Beast Boy exclaimed.
"Thirteen," she corrected. "But I'm no average thirteen-year old."
Nightwing raised an eyebrow. Moonfire swooned. He was even hotter up close.
"Please help my mother," Moonfire changed the subject. "Whirlwind pushed her back into the brick wall. I'm lucky I was able to fly to her fast enough before it collapsed," Moonfire panicked.
"Fly? You can fly?" Nightwing asked.
"I can do a lot of things," Moonfire responded proudly, resting her fists upon her waist.
"We'll help you," Nightwing affirmed. The Teen Titans looked at him in shock. Usually they left this kind of job for the paramedics. He scooped "Kori" into his arms. "Follow us."
Moonfire did as she was told. They led her to the T-Car. Nightwing slid her mother into the backseat, which automatically opened up into the trunk, forming a small, makeshift cot.
"For emergencies," Nightwing commented when he caught Moonfire gaping.
The tall, half-metal man slid into the driver's seat. Beast Boy slid into the front as Moonfire and Nightwing slid into the back seat.
"Raven, do you think you could get everything cleared up with the police? I want to ask this here girl a few questions." The silent, gothic one, Raven, nodded and walked away from the T-Car.
Cyborg started up the car and they were on the road in seconds. It just processed through her mind that she was in a car with three of the four Teen Titans. Wow. Her friends wouldn't believe this one when she went back to school in a month.
"So, what's your name?" Nightwing asked, chancing a glance at the girl's mother. She was out like a light.
"I have a few different names. Kimi Anders is my primary name," Moonfire giggled.
The car was dead silent. "What did I say?"
"What is your mom's name?" Nightwing asked.
"Kori. Kori Anders is her name. When we go to-" but Moonfire stopped abruptly, hesitated, and said no more.
"What were you going to say?" Nightwing asked her.
"Nothing," she replied softly, staring out the window.
Cyborg turned around to give Nightwing an odd look, but he shrugged it off.
"You mentioned you have powers, what can they do?" Beast Boy asked from the front seat.
A few seconds passed. Her mom told her not to tell anyone about her powers. She wasn't even supposed to tell her best friends! Well, it IS the Teen Titans. She could trust them, right?
As she opened her mouth, Cyborg called out, "We're here!"
Moonfire gazed up at Titans Tower. She had a poster of it in her bedroom. Her mom had asked her to take it down on several occasions, but she always kept putting it back up. The T-car drove into the garage, stopped, and then all the Titans began piling out.
"I'm not sure my mom will like being here," Moonfire commented offhandedly as Nightwing pulled Kori gently out of the car. He cradled her in his arms like one would cradle a child.
"Why?" Cyborg asked, getting out of the car as well. Moonfire slammed the door shut, following Beast Boy around the car and into the elevator.
"I don't know why my mom doesn't like the Teen Titans. It's just, I'm a huge fan. Whenever I mention all of you kicking bad guy butt, she goes into a somber mode and tells me to stop talking about it. I ask her why, but she won't answer." Moonfire remembered back to almost four years ago. "After you had defeated Slade for the final time, I actually had a party with my friends. We know all about you and knew he was your biggest villain. I told my mom about the party idea and she forbade me from having it at our house. She said it was for personal reasons. I'm still not sure if she was joking, but I was complaining about how she didn't like the Teen Titans and she asked me if I wanted to see a grown woman cry."
The Titans let this information sink in. They led Moonfire into their Medical examination room, setting her mother down on a nearby bed.
Nightwing examined her mother closely, but she was sure it had nothing to do with her injuries.
"What did you say her name was?" Nightwing asked.
"Kori Anders," Moonfire replied. Nightwing tapped his chin in thought, before realization dawned upon his face.
"Kori Anders. Kori Ander. Koriand'r," Nightwing whispered.
"How did you know my mother's real name?" Moonfire asked, trembling.
"Is Kimi Anders really your real name? Do you have any nicknames?" Nightwing asked, completely disregarding her previous question.
"Well, in my-er-culture my real name is Kimiand'r," Moonfire replied.
Cyborg and Beast Boy's heads snapped up from the computer that was showing all her mother's vital signs.
"Any others?" Nightwing asked.
"Sometimes she calls me Luna because my most common nickname is Moonfire," she replied, digging her toes into the floor.
All three Titans present gasped.
"Your culture. You were hesitant of saying it. What is it?" Cyborg asked.
"I'm not sure I should. My mom says it's not safe to tell anyone where I come from. If I do, I could endanger our existence on Earth and I would have to go back to-" but Moonfire quickly shut herself up. She knew she had already said too much. Her stupid big mouth could be such a hassle sometimes.
"Are you from Tamaran?" Nightwing asked softly. Moonfire gasped.
"How did you know?" she asked.
"Call it a hunch."
Raven appeared in the doorway of the Medical examination room. "What'd I miss?" she asked, seeing all the shocked faces of the male Titans.
"Many things," Beast Boy told her. Nightwing stepped closer to Moonfire, kneeling down so her was almost eye-level with her. He stroked his chin with two fingers, examining her.
"Moonfire, you said?" Nightwing asked her.
"Yea."
"Thirteen?" he asked again.
"Yea."
"That's just about how long ago Starfire left the Titans," Nightwing commented.
"What are you getting at?" Moonfire asked.
"Your mom might just be the long lost Titan," Nightwing informed her.
Moonfire felt woozy, and then the world went black.
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