Chapter 6 -Crossroads.
In the past week Blackfire had become increasingly freindly particularly to Crow she was obviously flirting with him much to the dismay of Starfire who freqently interferred with those flirtations untill finally Crow got fed up with it.
"Ok Look!" He said suddenly as the two were in the middle of an argument they stopped and turned toward him.
"what?" they both said simultaneously.
"I'm tired of this little...compitition of yours. I'm not a prize and I'm not going out with either of you so there's no point in fighting over me." He said simply Starfire looked like she was crushed Blackfire seemed totally unfazed however.
"One Date." She said suddenly
"What?" now Crow was lost.
"One Date that's all I'm asking after that you can decide what you want and lay down whatever decree just gimmie one date." Blackfire replied she needed this oppertunity otherwise she'd likely never get him alone and then Trigon would be angry...
"Fine...when?" Crow said seeing the look in her eyes told him it was either this or continue enduring their bickering. he'd gladly simply go on a date if that was all it took to put an end to it. Starfire gasped she couldn't believe this.
"Hm..." She thought for a moment "Todays a saturday...so how 'bout tonight? say...eightish?" she asked
"Whatever...just don't keep me waiting when I'm ready to go." He replied and that was the end of that. he walked off and Blackfire stood with a smug look on her face quite proud of herself. Starfire simply glared at her.
"what? I asked he said yes you've got no one to blame but you for not saying anything." Blackfire told her and walked off to get ready for her date. It was about 6:30 so 8 o'clock wasn't too far off considering she hadn't even remotely been ready she hadn't even decided what to wear. Or if she would go out and buy something to wear...
Eight o'clock rolled around real fast actually. Crow was sitting with Raven conversing about Trigon and when it was likely he'd make his next move while Robin listened. He had forgotten all about the 'date' and Blackfire stood behind him with her arms crossed. she waited for awhile but seeing as she went unnoticed she decided to do something and bonked Crow on the head it was a playful tap but he turned angrily at her untill he realized who it was and why he'd been hit.
"We have a date remember?" She said impatiently.
"A date?" Raven looked up at him curiously.
Crow sighed. "A date..." he said without much enthusiasm. he wasn't really paying attention to what blackfire was wearing he barely even noticed it was different than usual.
"Now come on!" She staid stomping a foot and starting to drag him off.
"Er...guess I'm going.." Crow said not putting up much of a fight.
When they were standing outside it occured to him they hadn't set a destination for their date. "So...any idea where we're going?" He asked Blackfire stopped realizing they both had forgotten to plan on where to go. "hmm..." she thought for a moment and Crow started to head back in but she grabbed his arm "oh no...you're not going anywhere but with me." She said with a slight tease. she was flirting again. Suddenly she lifted him into the air headed across the water and landing on the rocky shoreline.
"So I take it this is our date?" Crow asked boredly.
"Our first stop." She replied sitting on a large rock. It was twilight Co-incidently Crow's favorite time of day unless it was a good starry night and given there wasn't a Cloud in the sky it looked like it would be. He sat on the rock next to her staring out at the water. the sat in silence for awhile just staring out at the sunset before Crow spoke up suddenly uncharictaristcally starting the conversation. "You know...you happened to pick a pretty good time to come out here...I like the twilight hours."
She glanced over at him surprised he was speaking. "I like it too...but Night time us always number one for me." she replied
"Only when the stars are out." Crow said leaning back.
"Stars? so you like them too?" She asked Crow looked at her Surprised Blackfire even cared about anything that wasn't green or valuable. "Yea...I find them...relaxing like the water here. tonight's gonna be a good night I can feel it." he told her looking up at the sky.
"Well naybe we should just stay here then." Blackfire offered inching closer to him he didn't mind it though if she really liked the stars she couldn't be all bad.
"I wouldn't mind that." He replied and Blackfire took the oppertunity to rest her head against his shoulder.
"You know...I never imagined you to be the type for a queit night on the beach." Crow said.
"Why not?" Blackfire asked looking up at him.
"You just seem like...the party type." He replied
She smiled weakly "you know...parties are nice...but not for dates." she replied
"And why is that?" he asked
"Because at a party alot of bad things can happen. I've seen it myself..." now her voice held a hint of sadness as she recalled a memory.
"Aren't you usually the bad thing that happens?" He asked reminding her she was the bad girl here.
"Hey...I didn't exactly plan on this life of crime thing...it just kind of...happened...see my old boyfreind and I were at a party when it started...things got out of hand and a fight broke out I wound up using my powers and accidently killed some guys. I hadn't meant to kill them just stun them but it was way too late we went on the run after that because he was in just as much trouble as I was and he had a record already if he got caught he was done...me I'd have been locked away for my part alone. though eventually he ditched me...found some other girl and that's about when I really lost it...after that I did what I wanted took what I wanted and whoever got in my way was as good as dead. even him..." Crow had been listening intently to her story and he noticed she was on the verge of tears it was also now that he looked at her and realised she had gotten new clothes for this date. a fact that had somehow eluded him before likely because he hadn't cared.
She was wearing a midnight blue skirt and a black and blue top with fishnets for sleeves. She had taken great care to pick the colors she figured he'd like the blue her reasoning being he wore blue all the time and Raven wore blue as well and everyone knew he was stuck on Raven.
"Blackfire..." He whispered not knowing what else to say than her name.
" Look at me..ramglin on about my old boyfreind on a date..." She said with a sigh she looked out as the setting sun.
"Don't worry about it...Hey after the sunsets I wanna take you somewhere..." He told her.
she perked a little "why after the sunsets?"
"You'll see when we get there." He replied and they sat like that for awhile untill the sun fully set and it was officially night time.
"well time to go" he said suddenly and carried her off to the eastern side of the city. landing in front of a place called "Starlight"
"what's this?" she asked curiously despite the fact they were about to go in.
"A favorite place of mine.A star themed resturant which just happens to have a branch here." he told her and led her by the hand inside.
Star themed was an understatement she soon found out. The walls of the place were painted black and had a sparkly stars on it some larger than others some as tiny as specks each appeared to be painted on individually and it gave of an sort of errie feeling like you'd walked into a pocket of space itself. everything inside was either black or clear as crystal or likely was crystal. she let out a slight gasp in awe when her attention drifted to the central light which served as the 'sun' of the place Illuminating everything it rotated slowly giving off a comfortable level of light. the whole place despite it's theme had a real high class feel to it. She could see hadn't really known what to expect before coming in here but now she saw that the few people sitting having drinks looked like they were carrying important papers some of them openly looking at maps of the stars and such so she figured they were astrologers or scientists. yea...real high class. there were a few 'normal' looking people but they seemed to be just sitting talking giving her the idea this place was pretty expensive to eat in too.
"wow" was all she could say.
"I looked them up earlier and made arrangements since I figured you didn't have much of a plan for our date and we had to come after sunset because that's when they open up. No set time just whenever the sunsets." He explained
He went to the front desk and mentioned their reservation not that it was really nessisary the place was far from packed not many people knew about Starlight and even fewer could actually afford to eat there. they had a table in the corner the manager obviously didn't like the look of Crow and Blackfire but there was nothing he could do about it but keep an eye on them. had it been his usual place Crow would've been welcomed personally by the owner and shown to his usual table.
They sat and were handed black menus with gold trim and Stars on the cover forming the word "Starlight" upon opening it the star background persisted and Blackfire's eyes nearly buldged at the prices. it was almost $200 for a drink and JUST a drink and that was the cheapest one. No wonder the place was empty.
"what's with these prices?" she asked
"If the drinks were any cheaper people would likely be killing themselves and not knowing it. they're that strong." he explained
"hm...we'll see about that I haven't had an earth drink yet that could get me tipsy." she replied taking it as a challenge she noted however a few of the food options actually were cheaper than the drinks though many were even more expensive, or around the same price."
"don't worry I can afford it I eat here all the time just don't get crazy...on second though I'll order for the both of us." he said seeing the gleam in her eye.
when the waiter came around he ordered their two drinks the Nova for Blackfire, and the Super Nova for himself. The special of the day was Star duck. So that's what they had. The glasses came and were some kind of crystal though Blackfire wasn't sure what kind she was positive it was valuable. and a large star was on either sides of the glass making for four stars total. It was a tall glass too.
Blackfire took a sip she closed her eyes at first reveling in the taste then swallowed and recoiled "what is this dynamite extract!" she asked trying to keep her voice down.
Crow just laughed. "now you see why I only got you the Nova. anything stronger and you'd have likely knocked yourself out. Drink slowly in very small sips I don't know what's in them and I don't want to know but it tastes like heaven untill you swallow it..." he advised and she gave a nod. she tried again this time a much smaller sip giving her a refined and upper class look for only a moment and she sat it back down much more sastisfied with it than the first attempt.
"Ok..so you're leaded...but how do you keep up that cash flow? I mean you're gonna run out of cash sometime seeing as you're not working or anything." she asked
"hah please...bank interest alone keeps my funds going not that I use them all that much besides for food. I was just fortunate my parents frequented Earth. otherwise I'd be in trouble though I do occasionally do other things for cash if I need some money in hand" he told her.
After that they ate in silence for awhile.
"so...Crow...tell me what is it really we're up against? I know you said knowing would be dangerous but I really out to know." She tossed the subject out there despite knowing enough about Trigon to know she couldn't beat him.
"Trigon the terrible. Is his full title. He's a demon who goes across dimensions and universes destroying all in his path and conquering the universes to build up his armies to go on to the next he leaves no life in his wake." Crow told her.
Blackfire was stunned now Trigon had only mentioned the destruction of this planet not all the others in the universe just what the hell was she supposed to do with all her money if he killed everybody thus making it worthless?
"Universes? but I thought he only destroyed planets..." she muttered
"hm? you've heard of him? well...whatever you heard it was quite wrong a serious understatement of his evil." Crow told her.
"Uh...yes I've heard of him I've been all over the universe and I've seen a planet or two he's been to...but if he's going to destroy the universe why's he doing it one planet at a time? I mean that'd take eons wouldn't it?" She asked
"because he must for this universe. it's protected by an ancient seal forged in times I don't even know of. A 'Crest of Stars'
the crest is actually a star pattern and Planets actually form the points of it and not stars as the name implies. the Crest is 6 planets. the five points of the star and then the heart of it binding them together. this planet is the heart." He explained.
Blackfire couldn't believe it she had yet again screwed up royaly she didn't want responsibility for the death of the universe that wasn't her thing she just wanted to enjoy herself is all.
"but what is it he needs exactly to come here?" she asked even Trigon hadn't told her that.
"I'm not sure exactly but I'm fairly sure he needs either Raven or me. Or for the planet to die in which case he can just come to our universe and destroy it." he told her.
"I can't believe this!" she thought finally she'd have gotten rich and gotten rid of her annoying little sister but it'd cost her everything else too. well obviously now was not the time to start freaking out Trigon was still expecting her to deliver Crow and Crow was still expcting to finish this date.
After thier meal they left the 'Starlight' and decided to simply wander around town for a while stopping whenever a place caught their interest. It was all going great untill Blackfire saw him. she gasped when she saw the man across the street at the corner wearing a trenchcoat and hat looking like he'd lost his place from some mobster movie. he was wearing glasses but he tipped them to her so she could see clearly his four eyes. No mistaking it. It was Trigon.Reminding her to bring Crow to him.
"what is it?" Crow asked looking at her with a bit of concern.
She almost panicked thinking of something to say something to tell him...something to get him somewhere out of the way..."uh..Remember when I came I mentioned there were some guys after me?" she asked
"yea?" he asked
"one of them is here." She told him Crow gave a understanding nod and didn't look in the direction she had figuring if the guy knew she'd talked there'd be trouble.
"You want me to take care of him?" Crow asked
"No...we're in a bit of a Crowded area and I know he won't hesitate to bring other people into this. I don't need that kind of publicity while I'm here." she told him.
"Alright so we lead him somewhere he thinks he can get the jump on us and we take him out." Crow suggested
'perfect' she thought
"Yea...lets do that." she agreed.
They carried on normally walking straight and Trigon of course followed. They led him to an abandonded contruction site (you know that one where the titans continually seem to fight cinderblock that never changes? yea that one.Give ya a guess why it's abandond : )) but Trigon didn't show right away.
"did we lose him?" Crow asked curiously.
"looks that way...but hey...we're alllll alone." She said throwing her arms around his neck.
"You don't give up do you?" Crow asked
"Never." She replied and seeing her opportunity kissed him rather suddenly.Crow though the date had been nice and all and maybe he'd even grown to like her a bit hesitated deciding what he should do before giving in to the moment and kissing back.
"Glad to see you two are getting along." Trigon said stepping from the shadows. Blackfire almost gasped and parted from Crow pretty embaressed she'd been caught kissing him. she blushed and looked down at the ground.
"Who are you?" Crow asked for no apparent reason seeing as he intended to relieve the man of conciousness soon enough.
"Give you three guesses." Trigon replied lowering the shades he wore slowly andplacing them in a pocket.
"t...t...Trigon! how? what're you doing here! what's going on?" Crow suddenly didn't like this.
"Blackfire led you here to me. She's been working for me since she went to the Titans." He explained
"What?" Crow looked at her hoping she'd deny it though he somehow already knew that wasn't going to happen.
"Why?" he asked
She continued looking down not able to face him actually it was more like she was afraid to. "I...I'm sorry Crow..." was all she could manage.
"Sorry! SORRY! you're going to doom the universe and you're Sorry! that's all you can say!" he asked furiously.
"I...don't know what else to say...he came to me offered me exactly what I wanted and I accepted he never said what exactly he was going to do here...and I didn't care..." She replied
"and for your service you will be rewarded with survival" Trigon cut in.
"I see..so this was about your life. Let's forget the quadrillions(yes that IS a number) of beings who'll be wiped out!" Crow yelled.
"Enough! I brought you here so you can join me boy or you can die trying to stop me here." Trigon finally interrupted.
Crow froze. he'd almost forgotten Trigon was even there he was so angry with Blackfire. now what was he to do? agree? or fight and die? running wasn't even an option...if he changed sides Raven wouldn't be able to stop him...could the titans make the difference? he wasn't sure. but if he died here and Raven became the evil one...then no one would be able to stop her. Certainly not her freinds.
what to do what to do?
End Chapter 6.
That's it boys and girls chapter 6 meaning the end is next though I've decided to write at least 3 endings I don't know how many I'll do before I finally stop. This would have been up sooner but I had computer issues and had to rewrite it also my first two endings went with it sigh i was gonna put them all up at the same time and everything too! by the way be sure to check out my new fic "Awakening" which I've put up today as well. it's a FFVII fic though I''m willing to bet you it's different from pretty much every other FFVII fic out there yea...I had a crazy Idea so I set about making it make sense. Just wait till you see how it turned out: )