Dairokkan: Eventually, every empire falls. Taken from within or from outsiders. Rome fell. Greece fell. Egypt fell. Great empires die, Tuan's home planet happens to produce beings who could disrupt tech just by existing. Say that this effect applied to earth tech. How long do you think someone (or a nation like that, that caused the entire world to loose technology) would live?

Kyre-JKM-Storm Dragon: Heh. So it is written, so it is done... or whatever the phrase is, I forget. One week (close enough) isn't that bad of an update rate, is it? Though I won't manage that feat often...

Chigy: The ball is out of my hands on Celadon Flight. The person who created Trevor requested that he create the chapter. Tentitive date for finishing that chapter is late november. Me, it would just be updated when I had inspiration, but apparently Trevor's creator doesn't work like I do, late at night with inspiration and flying fingers. But I'm wierd.

JNgirl: I like Tourisa myself, her personality is just like an aunt of mine. She doesn't get a lot of lines, but I still love her anyway. Plus, she can act like the bunny in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Who wouldn't love something like that?

Hotshot45: Eventually, yes. But I happen to suck at drawn-out combat, so it will take time for that to happen, I need to figure out a way so that it doesn't occur with no reason to back it. And sparring with Robin wouldn't count, that has to be safe...

Titan's Tower:

I landed on the roof, Raven landing easily (while I had to jog to a stop - but I'm getting better now…)

She motioned wordlessly towards a door, and I followed her down.

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I froze, looking at her. "Kori?"

She looked at me, and smiled widely. "Lugh!" She rushed up, and squeezed me into one of her hugs.

The other Titans asked almost as one, "You two know each other?"

I tapped at her side, and she loosened up enough for me to breathe. I said weakly, "Yup. We met at a library-world. I'd been doing heavy research, and she was there for a school project." She let me go, and I ruffled her hair like she was a younger sibling. "She didn't have a clue about the systems, so I helped her out. I'd been there for a Earth year, there wasn't anything I really didn't know about."

Kori (I guess her name was now Starfire) smiled broadly. "It has been a long time. What have you been doing all this time?"

I held up my left hand, the ring glimmering. She examined it, and her eyes scrunched together. "You became a military summoner? What title?" She didn't use Earth Language, she'd slipped into Universal Common Tongue.

I smiled weakly at her, and said, "Tuán."

She blinked. "Was that not one of your most…" she gasped.

I said in English, "Most powerful summoner echelon, named after one of our most famed summoners… who also was a murderer, and killed himself. I'm only the second Tuán, after the original… Kori, you should know that, I told you about it."

The Titans (excepting Starfire, as her name was now), didn't understand. I turned to them, and said gently, "It's like a power rating. I'm very high up on the scale, maybe at the peak of it."

They blinked, and the green one said, "Ok…"

I smirked.

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"So let me get this straight. You're over twenty-eight years old by our standards, but to your people, you're barely a teenager?"

I nodded. Raven said calmly, "Beast Boy, his people are extremely long-lived. They live to over two hundred years easily… some of them have lived for over a thousand years. He's barely fourteen by their standards. Too young to join the military in combat." She stared at me, and I nodded. "Quite right. Even with my power, I could only sneak out to help. My superior was fine with it, but his superiors didn't like it."

Cyborg said, "Dude, you sound like Ed from Full Metal Alchemist."

I shrugged. "I don't know about that, so I'll take your word for it. Anyway, why am I here?"

There was a dead silence. Robin finally said, "We wanted to talk to you, see what you could do."

I shrugged, raising a hand. With only a mental phrase, the mikran materialized in my hand. I wrapped it around myself, inside out, then looked at him, pulling the cloak over my head. "You could have just asked."

Cyborg whistled. "You had that up your sleeve the whole time?"

I snorted. "No, it was in another dimension. I called it with only a mental phrase." I shrugged, and looked out the windows. "And I can call creatures you call dragons with only a word."

There was a brief quiet. Beast Boy was looking at me like I was mad (I could see the reflection), but I remained silent. Finally, he said, "They exist?"

I nodded silently.

Someone whistled quietly.

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I sat on the rooftop of the building, thinking. The Titans had been nice enough, and it had been fun to see Kori again. She hadn't really changed, she still was the sweetness and light type I remembered.

With a sigh, I began to sing quietly a song that I'd loved for a long time. It had fallen out of fashion, with the war… everyone had lost faith.

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Cyborg paused, and tilted his head. Someone was singing, a rather haunting tune. "E te uni… hotu mevo… kavakanede… todo mevo… hasa fall anede… bete aeda…"

He scratched his head, then shrugged.

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I stopped singing the tune, instead quietly humming it, looking out at the sea. To think that now I blended in with the Earthers…

I looked back at the wings on my back, and amended, 'almost'. It was rather amazing, some of the… cards life dealt you.

Meh, they don't seem that bad. Kinda a kiddie club, but at the same time, they're remarkably mature… a few of them.

I shrugged, and commented dryly, "Raven, mostly. But most dark types are mature."

I heard a chuckle, and I turned, seeing a green face slipping through the door. Beast Boy, I think he was called. "Dude, who're you talking to?"

I smiled faintly, then shrugged. "I don't think you want to know." He paused, then his face twisted. I continued dryly, "I didn't think so."

He remained silent for a short while, and I continued to look outward at the sea. Finally, he broke the silence, asking, "Could you call one of those dragons?"

I slowly turned to look at him. He faltered, but I shrugged. They could meet Kell, the old A'neaka would probably love a chance to match wits with new beings. I raised a hand, concentrating on an area on the roof big enough to support him. Finally, I spoke aloud in Ocisishuhyan, "Kell."

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"Dude! He's huge!"

I mildly looked up at Kell, his 'lips' were quivering, showing he was repressing a deep laugh. "Go ahead and laugh Kell, I doubt anyone would mind."

Beast Boy turned to me (I'd slipped into A'neaka's tongue), and said, "Dude, that's creepy when you talk like that. What did you…"

Kell burst out laughing, a deep, somewhat menacing sound. Beast Boy whipped around, and backed up until I was between him and Kell, and asked in a worried tone, "Uh… is he going to eat someone?"

I smiled. "No, he's just laughing. Old… lizard's got a sense of humor that's a bit strange."

Beast Boy gulped, and finally said, "Yeah… I guess."

I smiled faintly. "Alright you old lizard, you had your laugh."

Kell snorted. Normally, an A'neaka would fry you for calling them a lizard, but that's our own private joke. "If I'm a lizard, you're a ni'taini. Though with those wings, it's difficult to tell now…"

Toiréasa hissed, indignant in my mind. Let me at that lizard, I'm going to bite his scaled neck until it bleeds!

I burst out laughing.

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Beast Boy had gone back inside, and Kell was snoozing on the roof peacefully. Kori had come up, she was sitting silently next to me… all of the Titans had drifted up at one time or another.

Finally, Kori said, breaking the silence, "I have wondered… how are you so able to blend in with the Earth society here?"

I laughed quietly. "Kori, I cheated. I used a shri'ka."

She looked over at me, and her face twisted. "The rumors about such things make them sound dreadful… are they, truly?"

I nodded absently. "You have a headache the whole time, and you'd best pass out after you take one, or you'll be in… hellish pain."

She hugged her knees, wincing.

I smiled slightly, and watched the foreign sky. There weren't many stars, due to 'light pollution' from the city, but there were a few. My own galaxy had many stars, but due to the binary moons and our proximity to the sun, we did not see very many of them during the night-cycle of our planet. Not to mention that since the Rationalists had shown up, and worked to eliminate us, the sky has become filled with smoke.

I said softly, "Kori, I envy you sometimes…"

Kori looked over at me, her eyes bright. "As, so do I. Your wisdom and experience exceed my own." She fell silent, then asked, "Perhaps you wish to remain here?"

I smiled sadly. "I'm not a teenager, by Earth standards, I'm an adult."

Kori smiled slightly at me. "But by your own people's definition, you are still a teenager?"

I nodded slightly, and Kori's smile widened. "Then you are still eligible to be a Teen Titan."

I smiled faintly, and sighed. "Well, you'd best go to sleep Kori, I'm going to be awake all night."

Kori stared at me, then blinked. "Did you rest recently?" I nodded slightly, grinning. She knew about my people, and the fact that our daily cycle is about double that of Earth's. Her planet's cycle was slightly off of Earth's, but nowhere near as bad as my home planet.

She nodded, and floated downstairs.

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The five Titans sat around a circular table. Starfire had been the last to arrive, and Cyborg sealed the room when she entered, soundproofing it.

Robin looked around, and said, "Alright, we know the basics about him. Starfire, anything you can add?"

Starfire looked off into the distance for a moment, then said sadly, "He has changed from before, when I knew him. He used to be… like me, but now he is much… quieter."

Raven added quietly, "His people are at war. With another race of beings… intergalactic murderers who are determined to exterminate his people, because of a unique trait of their species."

Robin stared at her, and she continued, "They generate an aura that disrupts certain technologies. Earth's technology is safe, as are other planets that have a history of magic, but the purely technological planets are utterly disrupted by the presence of even one of his kind."

Starfire nodded, and added onto the thread, "A part of his culture is when they become a summoner, they take a… new name, through a rather difficult test that judges their personal power. His is Tuán."

Beast Boy spoke up, "So? What's it matter?"

Raven gazed at him coolly, and said, "Beast Boy, the last Ocisishuhyan who had the name Tuán was a mass murderer… don't you listen?"

Beast Boy rolled his eyes. "So? Not like he's the same as that other guy!"

Starfire seemed saddened, as she said, "The naming ceremony is indicative of their power… and their likely course of life. Tuán took his life, after killing hundreds."

The three Earth-based Titans exchanged looks, and Cyborg asked the two girls, "How likely is it that he'll go the same way?"

Raven sighed. "Hard to say. I'd need to probe his mind to be sure."

Starfire said sadly, "I believe that he would not do such a thing… but he has changed, and I am not so sure, anymore."

Robin narrowed his eyes. "Not good hearing. We'll have to keep an eye on him."

Starfire nodded sadly.

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Sitting still atop the roof of the Tower, Tuán watched the sky in a distracted fashion. Kell awoke, yawned, and disappeared, using his free will to return home again, snapping the summoning 'bonds' like they were metaphorical paper chains.

In actuality, they basically were, for the sentient beings of their world.