The New Recruit
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Chapter 3
"Can you give us a demonstration of your powers?" asked Robin.
"Sure," replied Mercury.
Robin told Cyborg to go check on Raven, while he lead Mercury, Beast Boy and Starfire outside onto the obstacle course.
"Mercury this is just an obstacle course just to see what your powers can do okay?" Robin called as he went over to the control panel.
"No problem," said Mercury pulling her hood over her eyes as she prepared herself.
"Count down initiated," rang the computer.
"5…4…3…2…1."
Suddenly giant pillars darted out of the ground in all directions, but Mercury was ready. She vaulted over them with ease. Back flipping occasionally.
Robin increased the difficulty to level 5, which was little more intense.
Robots armed with laser guns surrounded Mercury.
Mercury used the moving pillars to her advantage; she rode one of the pillars high into the sky and drew her sword to reveal its impressive height. Mercury jumped down into the middle of the army and started slashing, ripping through the robots as if they were nothing.
One of the robots behind Mercury fired but instead of dodging the laser, she raised and ice blue shield to protect her as she continued to eliminate enemies in the other direction.
Robin was impressed, very impressed. He wondered how far he could push Mercury.
Robin cranked up the intensity to level 8, which was very difficult only Raven and he were successful in this level.
Mercury finished off the rest of the robots, thinking it was over let her guard down.
Gun turrets, bigger robots and huge spikes surrounded her. Mercury simply replaced her sword to her left hip, and teleported away from the line of fire in a flash of blue.
Mercury reappeared on top of a gun turret and shouted
"DEA AURA CAELUM!" (A/N Latin for goddess of the sky, wind heaven)
Mercury's eyes changed to blue and her hands had an ice-blue aura around them. Mercury levitated off the gun turret she was on, and then all the gun turrets were cover in the same ice-blue aura and lifted into the air only to be sent plummeting back down into all the robots bellow.
There was a massive explosion destroying everything on the obstacle course. Robin couldn't see anything because of the smoke that engulfed the entire island.
After two-three minutes the smoke cleared to reveal Mercury unscathed in the centre of a huge crater. Mercury levitated over to where Starfire and Beast Boy were standing. Both of them were staring with their jaws touching the ground.
"Um… did I pass?" asked Mercury watching Robin over to her.
"Dude that awesome! You totally passed!" cried Beast Boy jumping around.
"Oh yes friend Mercury that was spectacular!" said Starfire who was flying around with joy.
Robin finally made it over to them and said, "Where did you learn to fight like that!"
"Well I was trained at a young age in martial arts and by the way of the samurai that's where I got my sword," said Mercury pointing to her left hip.
"Well I'm very impressed you've passed the test far better than I hoped," stated Robin
"Come on I think it's time you met Raven."
Robin led the way into the med lab to find Cyborg and Raven talking. They looked up the doors opened.
"Cyborg, Raven I'd like you to meet Mercury," announced Robin.
Cyborg came over to Mercury and extended his hand and said, "Hello, there little lady."
Mercury took his hand and crushed it. Cyborg looked at his and said, "Little lady BIG hand shake well alright!"
Mercury smiled and walked up to Raven.
"Hi it's an honour to meet you," said Mercury.
Raven nodded looking at Mercury.
"Mercury possesses dark magic and is telekinetic like you Raven," Robin informed her.
Raven was still looking intently at Mercury and said, "You're half vampire aren't you?"
Mercury smiled again while everyone looked at her in surprise.
"How did you know?" asked Mercury.
"Your eyes have three flamed specks in each one," Raven replied.
"Ah yes that's usually a big give away," said Mercury, turning to Robin "That's where I get my dark magic and telekinetic abilities from."
"Ah… right eh Starfire, Beast Boy would you please take Mercury to the living room?" inquired Robin.
"Oh of course friend Robin," chirped Starfire happily as she showed Mercury the way.
Mercury stopped at the door and turned around.
"It was a pleasure meeting you all, and I hope I will see you later," said Mercury turning back to a very excited Starfire.
Once Mercury, Beast Boy and Starfire was out of ear shot Robin turned to Cyborg and Raven.
"So what do you think?" he asked.
"She seems cool," replied Cyborg "What about you Raven?"
"Have you seen her powers?" asked Raven.
"Her powers!" Robin cried, "They're amazing Mercury even completed level 8 on the obstacle course!"
"Level 8," said Raven thoughtfully, "Not bad, what colour does Mercury's eyes and hands glow when she's using her powers?"
"They go an ice-blue colour why?" Robin answered.
"It's just that dark magic varies from different types of species, like me all demons have a black aura and vampires have an ice-blue aura," Raven finished.
"Is she dangerous?" Cyborg asked, "You know does she bite people?"
"Mercury is half vampire so she isn't dangerous," spoke Raven.
"So does this mean you're okay with Mercury being on our team?" quizzed Robin
"Yes that's fine," affirmed Raven, "You better go save her from Beast Boy and Starfire."
"Yeah I wonder how Mercury's coping," grinned Robin.
As Robin turned to go he called, "Cyborg you coming?"
"In a minute I need to finish checking up on Raven" he called back.
Robin made his way to the living room to find Mercury being bored out of her mind by Beast Boy' s jokes.
"Okay okay I got one, why did the skeleton cross the road?" asked Beast Boy.
Mercury shrugged.
"To get to the body shop!" laughed Beast Boy.
Starfire was also laughing, while Mercury was trying to think happy thoughts.
"Um … Mercury can I talk to you for a sec?" said Robin
Mercury got up and walked towards Robin and muttered a quiet
"Thanks."
Robin laughed, "I know they can be a bit childish sometimes."
He coughed and put on a serious face.
"Mercury I've discussed it with the whole team and we'd be honoured if you became our newest member of the Teen Titans," Robin said as he extended his hand which held an official Titans communicator.
"Wow thanks!" Mercury said thrilled to have made the cut.
"You will be staying in the guest room next to Raven's," Robin added.
"If you like I can take you to your room the now?"
"Yes please," spoke Mercury as she followed Robin once again. She felt like a sheep following Robin all day.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter please review all comments are welcomed. – Dark Shadows 01