Ok well, I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment, so here
it is, I'm submitting it, damn I'm charitable….
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The
sun rose once over Titans tower once more, and the beginning of the
Titans training day had dawned. The figure was standing in the living
room, staring out of the window leaning both of his hands on the top
of his staff. Robin, Starfire and Raven were already awake. Robin and
Starfire were sharing a breakfast. Raven was floating a few feet away
from the figure. Her legs crossed and her hands raised, far away in
deep meditation. Cyborg stepped into the room a few minutes, looking
around frantically and moving slowly towards the fridge.
"Oh boooy its bacon time for cyborg!" he said excitedly. Opening the fridge and pulling out the bacon and eggs, he lit the stove and waited for it to warm up. A few minutes later the eggs and bacon were sizzling in the pan. Cyborg stared at the food and started drooling in anticipation. As the food was ready to eat, Beast Boy walked through the door. Sniffing the air, he turned and his face dropped to the floor when he saw what cyborg was doing. Oblivious to Beast Boys presence, Cyborg flipped the food from the pan into the air and opened his mouth wide to catch it.
"NOOOOO!" Beast Boy cried, running towards Cyborg. As the food was about to reach Cyborgs mouth, Beast boy turned into a starfish and clamped himself over Cyborgs face.
"Mmph mpprh mmphl!" Cyborg tried to speak.
"No way dude, nobody's eating meat while I'm around." Beast boy said triumphantly.
In a mad dash for oxygen Cyborg ran around the room pulling at the starfish on his face, crashing into the furniture and making muffled noises. Frantically he punched the starfish as hard as he could, knocking himself several feet back. Stars flew around Cyborg's head as Starfire floated over and used her super strength to pull the starfish off of Cyborg's face. Starfire looked questioningly at the face on the side of the starfish, a small sweat bead leaked from the face and Beast Boy grinned. Starfire looked down at Cyborg but his eyes were pointing in different directions, missing a tooth. The figure turned to see that everyone was relatively ready.
"Listen up all of you, I am not going to teach you all the same thing, each of you will learn different things from me. I am only going to teach one of you at a time."
"Who's going to be taught first?" Robin asked.
"We will leave it up to fate to decide," The figure replied, he reached into his pocket and brought out five straws, holding them out in his fist in front of the titans, "one of these is shorter then the others, the one who picks the short straw is the first to be trained."
The titans all stepped forward and picked a straw, pulling it from the figures grasp. When the figures hand was empty, Cyborg was holding a straw clearly shorter then the other titans.
"Booyah!" Cyborg gloated, waving his straw over everyone else's head, angry waves rising out of their faces.
"It is decided, Cyborg will be the first to be taught. Come on Cyborg, let's go."
"Me…uh…right now? OK…" Cyborg replied hastily, following the figure out of the tower. Leading Cyborg out of the city, the figure took Cyborg into a deep forest, away from the sounds of the city, and into the calmness of the forest. He brought Cyborg to a babbling brook and stood next to it, watching the water flow.
"There Cyborg, don't you find this setting more preferable? There is no noise from cars, loud obnoxious music, or mindless babble, only the nature. Cyborg?"
The figure turned and looked at Cyborg, who had his eyes closed and was listening to headphones, nodding his head to the music. A small vein started to bulge in the figures head and slowly grew as his anger reached boiling point.
"ARRRR…. TURN THAT OFF!" The figure shouted at Cyborg, making him cry out in surprise and his head spin around.
"Whaaaa? What did I do?" Cyborg asked confused.
With an annoyed face the figure snatched Cyborg's headphones away and placed his hand on the top of Cyborgs head, twisting it around and pointing into the wilderness. Cyborg looked around, slightly confused and worried from the lack of electrical appliances and loud cars.
"Where are we?" Cyborg asked, "I know were not in Jump City anymore…"
"This is my place," The figure replied, " since coming to this city, this is the place I have lived and trained in, and it is the place you will train in. Until you learn what I have chosen to teach you."
"Sooo…. what is it you gonna teach me? How to make mega ninja waffles?" Cyborg asked. The figure sighed.
"No, it is hard for me to decide what techniques to teach others, because after I have taught someone a technique, I make it a personal law to not use it myself anymore, to leave that person to build, master, and pass on that technique. But I have chosen the technique that I am going to teach you, and it one I think will suit you perfectly."
"Is it throwing ninja stars? Or maybe its how to kill a guy with a pair of chopsticks, I saw that on a kung fu movie once, is it how to snatch a guys eye out using a penny?" Cyborg excitedly enquired.
"No, Cyborg. The technique I am going to teach you is called the Wonderpalm." The figure replied, somewhat proudly. Cyborgs face fell and his eyes widened.
"Huh? Wonderpalm? What's that some kinda super powered wave goodbye or something? What am I just supposed to wave Slade goodbye and he'll disappear? Come on man give me something good!" Cyborg criticised, making a pouty face much to the figures anger, being shown by a vein bulging in his head once more.
"You don't even know what the technique is yet you fool!" the figure shouted at him, "watch this, then see if you will learn it or not!" Cyborg turned a bored uninterested expression towards the figure who walked over to a line of trees. Closing his eyes and breathing deeply he placed his palm against the midsection of a tall and stout tree. Humming slowly his moved his palm slowly back a few inches from the tree, turning his palm towards himself, in a circle towards the ground and then facing forward once more, the figure slammed his hand into the tree and there was a slight rush of air and a rustle of leaves, then everything was calm. Cyborg started laughing and was about to make a remark. But before he could say anything, the figure smirked and held his hand up to silence Cyborg. A few moments of silence passed and suddenly there was a loud rumbling. Cyborg looked amazed as the line of trees collapsed like a set of dominoes, falling one after another.
"So, do you want to learn this 'super powered wave'?"
Cyborg stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes gaping, completely silent for several minutes. The figure waved his hand in front of Cyborgs faced, bewildered.
"Hello? Cyboooorg?"
Cyborg continued staring blankly for a few more minutes before a light slap in the face from the figure brought him back to earth.
"Hoooow did you do that?" Cyborg asked, shaking his head violently to clear it.
"Through focus of chi, focusing my entire bodies power into my palm, channelling it into one perfect strike."
"But I don't have my entire body…I'm part machine…so I can't learn your technique!
"Cyborg, I am not blind, I can see that. That is precisely why I have chosen to teach you this technique. Your body is part mechanical, so your body has lost much of its chi and had become weaker when your body parts were removed. But now look at you, you are whole again, and you still have parts of your body, your chi, it has been strengthened to compensate for your lost limbs, and so you can learn this technique, and you will."
Cyborg remained silent for a moment, thinking, after a few minutes he looked at the figure and nodded. Holding out his hand to Cyborg, Cyborg accepted it and the two shook hands. The sun then set over the forest and the mechanical titan began his training…
"Wonderpalm RAAA!" The call echoed through the forest as loud and clear as a bell, following it shortly was the sound of a tree falling. Ten days had passed since Cyborg has begun his training, his shiny and polished form was now scratched and filthy, his mechanical hands stained with blood and sweat.
"I…I did it…" Cyborg gasped, dropping too his feet and staring at his hands.
"Yes cyborg, you have successfully learned the wonderpalm, but you are not the master of it yet, before you can truly master the wonderpalm you must be able to summon its power in an instant."
The figure finished his words and drew his staff charging it with energy; he jammed it into a nearby tree. Causing it to explode and sent chunks of wood everywhere. With most of them shooting towards Cyborg.
"You must be able to summon the power Cyborg, I will not let up until you find a way!"
Cyborg panicked and dodged the chunks off wood flying at him, the figure wasted no time in detonating another tree, sending more chunks of wood toward Cyborg, with nowhere to run Cyborg tried to calm himself as the wood shot ever closer towards him.
"Summon the power, summon the power, summon the- RRGH!" The wood connected with Cyborg and threw him several feet backwards,
" Concentrate Cyborg! Remember to focus your mind and spirit!" The figure instructed, detonating a tree and sending the chunks towards cyborg once more.
Cyborg remained silent and closed his eyes, lifting his palm and pushing it slowly towards the chunks of wood, shattering them apart as soon as his palm came in contact with them. The figure nodded in approval and repeated this act several times, Cyborg shattering the wood time after time.
"Very good Cyborg, you have learned to summon the power, now we must see if you can learn to focus and increase the power used for the wonderpalm."
The figure walked towards a much taller stouter tree then he had detonated before, concentrating his hand into what could be his last wonderpalm technique he felled the tree, the top of it facing Cyborg. The figure stood at the other end of the tree, charging his staff with power.
" Get ready for your final test Cyborg!" the figure warned him before setting off the charged blast, sending the tree flying towards cyborg like a missile. " This is your final test Cyborg, if you fail then you will not live to regret it."
The tree sped up on its course, turning into a brown blur it flew faster and faster towards Cyborg. Cyborg, concentrating his energy, focusing his spirit into his palm, held his palm out forward slowly, performing the same rhythmic movements with his wrist the figure did the first time he saw that wonderpalm. Cyborg slowly pushed his hand forward and the tree collided with it, rather then throw Cyborg back the tree the split in too after coming in contact with Cyborgs hand, speeding past him and crashing into another tree, stopping their flight.
"Congratulations Cyborg, you have finally mastered the wonderpalm technique."
Cyborg remained silent and just stared at his hands, feeling the power flow through them.
"Before I pass on the title of wonderpalm master to you, I must first teach you of the history of the wonderpalm." The figure motioned for Cyborg to come closer and listen and he did so, " the wonderpalm was created hundreds of years ago, by great martial artists defending the ones they love, but with every good thing there is a bad side to it. There are those who took the wonderpalm technique and turned it to a way of evil, increasing its power at the cost of the users soul and willpower. You must never go down this path Cyborg, if you do then you will turn your back on your friends, and the only thing that will ever matter to you is attaining greater power. Cyborg, if you stray onto this path then the only thing will ever stop you is death."
Cyborg remained silent and nodded, asking. " What if my heart is pure…will I still be turned evil?" The figure remained silent and nodded. Cyborg spoke once more.
"Ok, so what now…" he asked, slightly unsure of himself.
"Stand before me Cyborg," the figure replied, Cyborg stood up and looked into the figure eyes, removing his shades the figure stared back into Cyborgs eyes. Removing his shirt Cyborg saw strange scars on the figures body, in several different shapes; one of these shapes vaguely resembled a palm-print. Placing his hands on Cyborgs half metal head, the figure concentrated his spirit, channelling his energy into Cyborg. The scar on the figures chest began to move along side his body, spinning and travelling along his arms. Reaching his fingertips, the scar moved from the figures body onto Cyborgs, drifting along slowly till it reached his shoulder. The scar began to shine brightly, looking as if it had caught fire, when the light faded, there was a black imprint of a palm in Cyborgs blue mechanical shoulder, as clear as day.
"Now Cyborg, you are the new wonderpalm master, as your power grows, mine diminishes…"
"What do you mean?" Cyborg asked, slightly concerned.
"Look at these scars on my body Cyborg, each of these is a sign of power, the techniques I've learned have given me power, but as I forfeit mastery of them, my power becomes smaller and smaller. I was charged with carrying these techniques, and passing them on to those I felt worthy of it. The Teen Titans are the ones I have deemed worthy of learning these techniques, once I have finished teaching you all these techniques; it is against my teachings to use them ever again. Once I have completed my training, you will be the only ones able of using those attacks, and each of you will carry a scar to show your mastery of it."
Cyborg looked down at the scar on his shoulder and remained silent, racing his hand across the newly made imprint on his metallic arm. The sunset over Jump City and Cyborg and the figure returned to the tower. Cyborg opened the door to the tower only to be tackled by the flying Starfire charging him to the ground and hugging him tightly.
"CYBOOORG YOU HAVE RETURNED TO US! Did you have fun learning from the wrung fu man?" She inquired excitedly,
"Ahehe, its Kung Fu Star, and yeah, I had a lot fun." Cyborg replied, standing up and brushing himself off.
"Cyborg has learned what I have to teach him, but he has been forbidden by me to tell or show anyone what he has learned. Gather the other Titans, it is time to see who will be trained next…" the figure cut in.
Starfire called all the other Titans and sent Cyborg away for a much needed recharge. Gripping straws in his hand like he did before he held them out for the Titans to pick. This time, Starfire was left with the straw clearly shorter then the others.
"Glorious!" Starfire said, with a large grin. "Does this mean I am to receive a magical wish?" She asked, with everyone else sporting large sweat drops.
"It has been decided," the figure spoke," Starfire will be the next to be trained…
I think that's a good place to leave it don't you? Thanks a lot for reading everyone and thanks also for the comments cause they're really appreciated, enjoy it, at the moment I've done what I swore I never would, and now I have 2 stories to write instead of one, for those of you who frequent my page or have joined the clubs, I've started work on a Code: Lyoko fanfic too, if you're a fan go take a look
