Princess-Korriandre: AHH! ZOMBIE TEACHERZ!

Beast Boy: See? See! Zombies are real! I told you! Ahh!

(The Titans, the Villains, Crystal and Princess-Korriandre are all in the studio fighting off zombie teachers.)

Starfire: Are all these your teachers?

Princess-Korriandre: Yeah. AHHH!

Red X: This is ridiculous! Why do they hire zombie teachers!

Crystal: Cuz the principles that hire them are zombies, too.

Slade: Who hires the princible?

Princess-Korriandre: I DON'T KNOW! WHY WOULD I KNOW!

Robin: Woah… these are almost as ugly as some of the villains we fight! (gets tackled by Mr. Berumen, the Spanish teacher) AHH!

Starfire: ROBIN!

Slade: BUAHAHAHAHAHA! (gets tackled by Ms. Reynolds, the English teacher) AH!

Crystal: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Slade: Shut up!

Crystal: MAKE ME!

Red X: Both of you shut up!

(A really large xombie teacher comes into the room and Princess-Korriandre cowers in fear)

Beast Boy: DUDE! Who is THAT!

Princess-Korriandre: (gulp) Mrs. Mendoza the… algebra teacher…

(all gasp)

Princess-Korriandre: ROBIN!

Robin: What!

Princess-Korriandre: READ THE DISCLAIMER BEFORE WE ALL DIE A LONG AND PAINFUL DEATH!

Robin: Princess-Korriandre does not own the Teen Titans! She will now magically make the zombies disappear! … WHAT!

Everyone my Robin and Princess Korriandre: WHAT!

(All zombie teachers disappear)

Princess-Korriandre: This is my fic. I am the author. I can make anything happen. HA! YOU ALL WERE SO SCARED! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

(All glare and walk toward Princess-Korriandre)

Princess-Korriandre: AH! IhaveanorigianalcharacterandhernameisCrystal,pleasedonotstealwithoutpermission!

(Everyone stops)

Robin: What did she say?

Starfire: She said 'I do have and original character and her name is Crystal, please do not steal without permission!'

Slade: Oh…

Beast Boy: What!

Crystal: (groans)

Red X: (laughs)

Princess-Korriandre: ON WITH THE STORY!

Crimson Blade

Chapter 9:

Crystal Summers walked into her apartment and booted up her computer and started spinning around in her rolly-chair. When the computer finally started up, she typed in her password and waited a few minutes more.

When it was done, she went into a blank document and started typing rapidly. She was typing up a report that was due tomorrow morning.

She was done in about an hour and thirty minutes and she printed the papers out and saved it to her computer and turned it off.

Having nothing more to do, she changed into dark blue short shorts and an oversized grey T-shirt. She laid on her stomach on her soft floor. She picked up her remote and started flipping through channels.

After about ten minutes of flipping, she heard a knock on her door.

She walked over to the door and saw a guy standing in front of her door. He was a little taller then herself and he had black hair. I've seen this guy before… Oh yeah.

"Hey, umm… Adam. How'd you know where I lived?" she asked.

Adam shrugged.

Well, I sorta tapped into the main frame of the association. How are you doing?" he asked.

Kori sighed. 'Why would he want to tap into a main frame to come to my apartment and… ask me how I'm doing?' she thought.

She stepped aside to let him in and he came in and looked around her apartment.

"Well, I just got done with my report a few minutes ago." She said.

Adam walked over to her couch and sat down.

"You umm… want something to drink?" she asked.

'Uh… no thanks." He replied.

Crystal shrugged and sat down next to him on the couch.

Adam fought against his lust toward the woman next to him and concentrated to look at her face and not her… erm… curves.

"Did you finish your report?" Crystal asked.

Adam shook his head no.

"What? That this is due tomorrow!" Crystal reminded him.

"I know…" Adam said somewhat defensively.

"Do you expect to stay up all night doing a report? You procrastinator…" Crystal scolded.

Adam shrugged.

"Hey, umm… why'd you come over here, anyways?" Crystal asked.

"I don't know… I just sorta came." Adam said.

Crystal was a bit confused, but still held her usual emotionless face and started to stare at the TV. She noticed that it was a girl flick and turned towards Adam, smirking.

"You can change the channel." She told him.

Adam looked at her gratefully and picked up the remote and started to flip through channels and stopped at HBO. It was currently playing Star Wars Episode 3.

Crystal smiled bit her lip. Adam turned to her.

"What?" he asked.

Crystal's eyes widened.

"Nothing…" she said a bit embarrassed. Adam gave her a confused look as she turned back to the TV. She smiled wider as a scene came up with Anakin in it.

Adam's eye's widened.

"Do you think Haden Christenson is cute?" He asked

"Hott…" she corrected absently. She suddenly realized what she said and her eyes widened.

"I… uhh… I mean…" she was interrupted as Adam's warm lips were pressed against her own. Crystal shivered and involuntarily melted into the soft kiss.

She didn't understand why she was doing this. She just… liked him. And he was a good kisser.

'What am I doing? We just met!' She inquired herself.

They both broke the kiss and looked away from each other.

'Oh, shit. I screwed it.' Thought Adam.

"Well, I guess I'll go umm… do my report. Crystal nodded and they stood. They walked toward the door and Adam walked out without a word. Crystal watched as he walked down the hallway and turned the corner.

She sighed and walked back into her apartment. Was that all he came for?

She hated guys more than anything. And that had just made it worse.

++ FLASHBACK ++

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair huddled in a dark corner, clutching her small daughter.

The two watched in fear as a man walked toward them, holding a knife threateningly.

"Please don't hurt her!" the woman pleaded.

The man brought the knife dangerously close to her neck.

"She is your daughter!" she screamed at him.

The small child looked up at her mother sadly.

"Please…" she whispered.

The man inserted the knife into the woman's skin and she silently bled as her daughter screamed in fear.

"Mommy?" the little girl clutched some of the woman's clothing in her small hands and tried to wake her.

The small girl buried her head into the woman's stomach and started crying. She looked up at the man.

"F-father? Why would you do this?" she asked fearfully.

The man starred down at her uncaringly and started to walk away from her.

"Please… I want to die, now…" the girl whispered to herself as she continued to cry.

++ END FLASHBACK ++

A single tear silently made a wet trail down Crystal's face.

++ FLASHBACK ++

A girl with shoulder-length brown hair walked down the halls of her high school.

It's not easy keeping your grades up being a Junior in high-school, is it? But Crystal had no parents. Her father abandoned her after killing her mother when she was about five tears old, forcing her to live by her wits ever since. But still, she was the perfect student with perfect grades.

"Who's that?" asked a boy with spiky brown hair.

"Oh, that? That's Crystal. I hear that her father murdered her mother. Isn't that sad?" said a girl with short black hair.

The boy with brown hair looked at her curiously.

"I think I'll umm… talk to her after school…" he announced to himself.

After school, Crystal walked out of her school clutching her books to her chest. A boy with spiky brown hair silently followed her, trying not to be noticed.

After a while of walking, Crystal turned around.

"Please stop following me." She said monotonously.'

The boy looked at her in astonishment.

"You knew I was here?" he asked.

"Obviously…" she replied.

The boy walked closer to her and extended a hand.

"I'm Xavier." He said.

Crystal took his hand and shook it. She had such a grip that it took all his pride not to wince.

"I'm Crystal." She replied. "I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow, or something."

"Actually…" Xavier pulled her closer to him and planted a hard kiss to her lips. Her mouth opened slightly in astonishment, and he quickly entered his tongue and it unwelcomely explored her mouth.

Crystal brought her hand back and shot it forward, punching him hard in the jaw, forcing him to break the kiss and hold his face in pain.

"Ahh! What the hell!" he gave her a death stare and she returned it ten times over.

"I don't think you'll ever do that to me again. If you ever come near me, I will kick your sorry ass." She growled and turned around and started walking.

Xavier scoffed and turned to walk the other way.

++ END FLASHBACK ++

Crystal closed her eyes to keep the pool of tears that were begging to come out.

'It'll go away, just like all the others…' she thought bitterly. She was tired of being used, kicked around.

'WHY does it always have to happen to ME!' she thought. 'I wish I could just stop everyone like that…'

That was probably why she joined the JCAA. She hated people like that, and she wanted to put an end to it. She didn't want anyone else to suffer as she had.

'I've become what I hate to protect what I love…' she assured herself. 'Killing isn't… ALWAYS… bad… if they deserve it…'

Crystal buried her face in her hands and cried herself to sleep.

Princess-Korriandre: (sniffle) that's so sad!

Starfire: Yes, it was… (sniffle)

Crystal: WAHH! (sniffle, sniffle)

Beast Boy: (sniffle) Yeah… (sniffle)

Robin: (sarcastic) Oh, yes, very sad.

Red X: (Also sarcastic) makes me cry… boo hoo…

Slade: (not sarcastic) OMG THAT WAS SO SAD! WAHHHHH!

Princess-Korriandre: (sniffle) I (sniffle) hope you (sniffle) liked that (sniffle) chapter!

Robin: Hurry up and say it! Oh, forget it. I'll say it FOR you! (mocking high-pitched voice) Please, don't forget to, like, review!

Princess-Korriandre: I DON'T SOUND LIKE THAT! (chucks a soda at Robin)

Robin: OWW!

Princess-Korriandre: Anyways… like he said, please leave a review! ) Thanx 4 reading!