"Sorry about the wait, have a good day" (Quote from me, running food to waiting drive through persons)
Thanks for the concern Pakkrat, I'm still reading Too much Red, but already have New Nemesis and Akaige on my to-do list. My reason of absence goes as followed…
Okay… exam, exam, giraffe study (Looking at a giraffe for two hours). Maths exam, family day out and Report due. Report, Lab sheet and Computer went down.
Thus, the computer is taken to friend.
Four days later, it returns unfixed as friend got burnt.
Computer is then taken to another friend (Who owns an internet café). Computer explodes as soon as it plugs in, café blacks out wiping all the unsaved work. Customers leave, leaving me quite sheepish with the owner.
Power pack is properly installed, but soon realised that it lacks monitor and speaker outlets the previous had. So I had to get adapters two days later. Then I had another Lab sheet to do…
So sorry about the wait, have a good read.
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Starfire cries out in agony and Galfore rushes out.
"Ack! What are you doing here?" says Galfore, not amused at all.
"That's exactly what she said!" I (Blackfire) smile back. "And now here's the time when you got stuck in that glopper pipe!" and I flip the pages of her baby photo album which I had just posted on the UW (Universal Web). "And heres one with your first exalis wart. Hmm… I never, ever saw such a bung eye…!"
"MAKE HER STOOOoooop!" wails Starfire in tatters.
"Now, now Koriandr!" says Galfore, slapping me over the head with the album. "These pictures mean nothing. You are greatly respected by all. You have shown yourself an incredible being of power and wisdom. These pictures are nothing to that!"
I made a hasty retreat to the bathroom. "I also posted pictures of you picking your nose as well don't you know?"
"WHAAAT? YOU LITTLE INGRATEFUL, IRRESPECTFUL CHILD OF A FIENDISH MIND!" says Galfore, trailing to Tamarean words with a lot of oomph. He blasts the door with the force of his breath so hard he didn't need to use his fists. "IF YOU WERE STILL IN MY CARE I WOULD GIVE YOU A SPANKING ETERNITY WOULD NOT FORGET!"
"Umm… Galfore." says Starfire, looking around. "Where is my mate?"
"What? Oh, he is looking within the fridge." he says, still venting wrath.
"Oh…" and she ponders a bit. Her eyes go wide and pupils go out of focus. "YOU BIG BULLY OF A GRAKKOR! GET HIM OUT THIS INSTANT!"
"Very well…" grumbles Galfore, still eyeing the bath door with thoughts of strict discipline.
…
"Could you pass me that cushion?"
Raven gives that remark from Blackfire some serious consequences to consider.
Robin senses things might turn for the worst. Galfore had also, accidentally, broken a few bits of furniture while tapping his fingers on them, remembering the afore mentioned incident. Not one to waste, he started a small camp fire with it in the bedroom while Raven was taking aspirin. Therefore Raven was not in the brightest of moods; without mentioning the food stains and Robin staying up past his beddy byes.
"Very well, be that way!" grumbles Blackfire, taking another swig of Elazian.
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Flashb…
"OH NO YOU DON'T! NOT THIS TIME! THIS ENDS NOW!" says Raven, unable to take it anymore. The two and a half Tamareans cower before the wrath of Roth. Even Blackfire is rendered speechless (Temporarily) as knives and forks and burnt bits of stool float around the place. "This has gone FAAAAR enough!" she says. The lamp fizzles in her wake. "First you come in here with NO prior warning, you interrupt my schedule, eat me out of house and home, treat me like a slave, drink heavy liquor and offer it to a minor, break my furniture and burn my floor to boot! I'VE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH THIS BREAKING OF PRIVACY!"
"Don't forget the door …"
"As for YOU little Mr!" says Raven, glaring at Robin with eyes of a mad owl that sat on a porcupine. "You are going straight to get to bed!"
"I am already…"
"AND SLEEP!"
"Oh… right…"
"And YOU two!" she says, picking them up using her long suppressed powers. (Being lifted by anyone smaller than himself was quite an unusual experience for Galfore) "Are going STRAIGHT out my door! Oh! I forgot! I DON'T HAVE ONE ANYMORE!"
Like a conductor swaying, getting ready to swing down the last deafening note, she swivels around on the heels of her slippers. Her rrms horizontally outstretched and glowing in her power, the nanny of nightmares prepares to launch them out, not caring really if they broke through the neighbour's wall (In fact she wasn't aiming at the door, but more to the reinforced wall beside it).
"FRIEND RAVEN!" shouts Starfire at the door (Or rather, the previous position of) beaming her usual joy. Mistaking her extended arms as a gesture of greeting, she flies right at her and gives her a strangling of a hug. Blackfire and Galfore fall with a large thud as the power is quenched, the wielder of the control betaken by a stroke of luck. "It is so good to see you once again!" she says, crying a bit, it had been two months after all...
Raven doesn't say much, but manages a grumble that translated close to 'Hi. Put me down please… I'm dying'.
However…
"MOTHER!" shouts out Robin, flying full speed out from his bed and into his mother's arms. Regrettably Raven was still there and she continued to compress slowly into a pancake between the indifferent mother and offspring. "This is a great surprise and joy."
"It is also heart warming my Cassiofray. (Sob) Oh my little baby is growing up!" she sniffles, ruffling the hair and giving a kiss on the cheek. "Oh, sorry friend Raven." and she drops her limp form down.
"I'd never think I would be glad to see you again." says Blackfire, pushing off the large Galfore from their disposition.
"Indeed, you timing has improved no end." agrees Galfore, patting her on the head (Which would knock out a normal human and possibly crack their skull or drive them into the ground)
"What has brought you so far from Tamaran?" says Robin. "Though I am glad you have arrived, is not your work pressing. Is not Tamaran invading the planet Theo at this time?"
"They have called a ceasefire. And I hope it is a permanent one." says Starfire gravely. "They do not seem to want to listen to peace. The empire has grown arrogant and greedy."
"So why did you come here?"
"I came once I found out your Tamarean aunt, my sister, former lord of Tamaran, had dropped by." and she gives her sister a distrustful look. Blackfire just sticks out her tongue.
"It was perfectly legal." says Blackfire shrugging. "You have no case."
"All the more reason to suspect you oh suspicious one." retorts Kori. "I also noticed Galfore, my K'norfka, your Kar K'norfka, former lord of Tamaran on the list of arrivals, which heartened me and increased my longing to return to my earth home to see my family. So I have arrived."
"Eww!" says Blackfire, observing the ailing Raven. "She seems a bit crushed." she grins.
"Kommandr!" says Starfire angrily, feeling the forehead of her long friend.
"You must have quite an impact on her."
"Kommandr!"
"Want a drink? I think there is some squash."
"KOMMANDR!"
"There seems to be no bones broken." observes Robin, scanning her with her portable X-ray (Present from Cyborg) "But she will need to sleep now, and probably for another few days. I hope she gets of well again."
"On the other hand," buts in Blackfire. "We can continue with the story."
"Story?" says Kori.
"Of the time you were bearing Cassiofray." nods Galfore, after pushing the sofa into Raven's bed room (At the expense of the carpet and the greater part of the bedroom door-frame) "We were at the time you asked me to release your husband from the machine called 'fridge'."
"I'm going to fix myself some food." says Blackfire. "Why don't you continue sister?"
"Oh, please mom! Pleeeaaase!" pleads Rob, doing the eye thing.
"They are so alike it's not funny, it's scary." says Blackfire, rolling her eyes and heading to the kitchen.
"Very well. I shall do my best." smiles Starfire. "Ahem… I believe the tale continues as forward…"
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Flashback
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Rich shivers with a bit of frostbite, looking distrustfully at Galfore whom I lecture for his atrocious behaviour.
"And I do not want you to do that again!" I finish, keeping eye contact.
"Very well Kori…" he mumbles disappointed. "But if he harms you, I will harm him a hundred fold."
"Then you have nothing to fear my pathetic sister's husband." says Blackfire, flipping through the photos. "Galfore spanks like a Valcor with rheumatism."
"Have you better things to do then tormenting us?"
"No."
(Large exhale of displeasure all round)
"A thought has struck me." says Kori.
"Ouch!"
"I meant, I know of a place that might interest you." says Starfire, handing two tickets, one to Galfore as well. "These are to my friend Terra's fashion show. She gave forgetting that I cannot appear in public. It would be a waste to waste them such."
"Why would I go to this human show?" says Blackfire. "Let alone scar-face here!"
"I will ignore that comment and show my anger by finding your photos and posting them to bounty hunters." says Galfore.
"It is a very prestigious show." adds Kori. "The rich, famous and wealthy and well known will be of there present. A crowd of well esteemed and respectful…"
"Powerful?" says Blackfire, now firmly interested.
"In ways. Influential, yes…"
"I'm there!" and she snatches the tickets and flies out.
"What about me?" says Galfore saddened?
"I thought she might do that. One ticket is a fake." says Kori, giving him another. "You had best follow her to see she does not harm anyone, or worse, flirt with them."
"The safety of this planet and yourself is at stake. I shall do so." and he is about to fly out (Or rather at) the window, but for reasons best for concealment, he is guided to use the stairs.
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A man screams pathetically as his head is twisted around, by a man who already had his done. This one takes the helmet from the victim, an advanced helicopter pilot. The attacker, dressed in a trench coat with a brimmed hat steps into the cockpit, followed by a group of shady characters with an assortment of guns.
"Dark days ahead for the Nightwing…" he breathes out. His face, permanently facing backwards, smiles. "Yes… at last. Now; I have him!"
There is a yell...
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"Did you see her stir?" says Robin concerned. He brings in a cup of cocoa and places his teddy in Raven's arms. She holds it tight like a toddler. "If only I had my camera functioning."
"She seems to be having a vision of scare." says Starfire, covering her with a blanket. All of them rushed in when they heard her yell. "Blackfire! Stop drinking friend Raven's coffee and bring in the temperature measuring device."
In that little flashback, Raven saw that murder, Starfire did not speak a word of it. How could she? She wasn't there… but neither was she; when the criminal Dudley Soames, also known as Torque, stole the advanced tactical helicopter with a group of his armed men.
She wasn't there personally, but something was wrong… she wasn't meant to see the past that she had not seen… something was disturbingly at error, like some new power was filtering into her. A dark one she was trying to avoid… It was familiar and it hit her like a cold rag upon the back of her neck…
"Malchior…" she says, but it is no more than a breath to the ears of the others…
And in her thoughts she knew, though she tried to reason against it, that the book had fallen into evil hands…
And something was out to get her.
Um… Thanks for the reviews. Gotta do an assignment! Happy Reading and Writing!
Question (Not quiz) is there any character (Other than Raven I hasten to add) that you feel I'm doing wrong? Please tell me off.