Hey all! Here's the next chapter of "Under the Spell"!! Just because so many people reviewed!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!! ^_^
Disclaimer: Don't own Teen Titans. Never have, never will.
Normally, a robbing at the museum was a rather risky move. Only more so, since the police were crawling around everywhere. However, they were distracted by a situation on one of the lower levels of the building, far away from the objective. Precisely as planned.
Because of the need of extra guards, all the ones standing watch over a certain exhibit were gone, leaving the priceless treasure unprotected. True, the alarm system might have proved to be an obstacle……….if it was on.
More guards ran by, yelling to each other to get to the lower level. After they had passed, a mysterious figure dropped from the ceiling, landing in front of the holding case for a strange red jewel. As soon as he landed, the jewel began to glow softly.
His eyes were fixed on the treasure, even as he carefully cut the glass that separated him from his prize. He cut the glass into a diamond piece, so when he pushed one of the ends of it, it wouldn't fall out completely. Carefully, he pulled the piece of glass out, sticking in his free hand and taking hold of the jewel. As he did so, it began to glow more vibrantly.
The secretive man slowly pulled his hand that was enclosed around the seemingly perfect gem. When fully removed from its holding case, he opened his hand, the radiance from the crystal reflected in his eyes.
A test. He needed to test the flawless ruby rock he held. If he succeeded, then all the time he spent working…all the countless hours researching…would have proved to their use after all.
Enclosing his fingers around the gem, he placed the diamond-shaped glass on the ground. Focusing on it, he watched as it began to lift off, hovering in mid-air, until it was eye level with him.
It was perfect. Everything that he had worked for…all his plans and hopes, desires and wishes…would be filled in this one little stone. It almost seemed too good to be true.
And that was when a thought occurred to him. What if it was too good to be true? Granted, this precious stone had fulfilled one of the tasks so rumored to the wielder of it, but how could he be sure it would continue to live up to the name it has been given?
He could only be certain through another test. After all, his education and many years in his field of science has taught him that all things must first be tested before taken for true word.
But to what shall he test on? There was always the possibility of those he had sworn revenge on so long ago, after their cruel ridicule of his ideas. Claiming that his theories were truly absurd, and too romantic. They stated that he had put too much hope into his research, not enough thought or reason. They believed it would never work, and that he was just wasting his time. He vowed to someday prove them wrong, and that his hypothesis was indeed correct.
The gem, he believed, was the key to the answers that he had been searching for, and he knew that if they witnessed its great power, that would prove to them once and for all that he everything he had said was accurate after all.
But, in the slight chance the stone was not in truth as it had been so imagined, he would only succeed in enhancing his reputation of absurdity, and those who had so scorned him before would only have more right to do so. He needed proper test subjects to use the crystal on before unleashing its power on those he sought vengeance on.
Hearing voices, he stepped back into the shadows, as two guards walked down the hall. Both, totally oblivious to the fact that something was missing in the room they passed by, continued to talk amongst each other. At one point, this unknown man heard one mention 'the Teen Titans.'
He had heard about the Teen Titans before. They were in the media quite often, and were quite famously called a young Justice League. A group of crime-fighting superheroes, stopping evil in its tracks to ensure righteousness and truth in common city streets.
He smirked slightly. They will do.
TBC
Is anyone still there? *looks at empty chairs* Hope this wasn't too boring (actually, I hope it wasn't boring at all)………Ya see, I kind of wanted a little more depth to the villain, since he's going to be a major part of the story. I didn't want to just stick him in all of a suddenly, all mysterious like that. I kind of wanted to put a little more about him without giving too much away………*hears crickets in the background* ^_^;;; Well, to all who's left, please review!!! *hopes to still have some readers after this chapter*