Hi all! Ronan, Gea, and Golrinth will come up in this one!
Semine: Okay, someone's happy. Wait… Who are you and what have you done with Kali?
Kali: I'm an alien. Yes. The person who knows what happens next in Kali's fic and is writing the next chapter is an alien.
Semine: Okay, it's you! No alien can be that sarcastic or sardonic!
Kali: Do you have any words of wisdom this time?
Semine: None other than the happy fact that the writer's are finally supporting what I've said all along: Robin is an idiot when it comes to anything using one's heart. He's completely tactless
Kali: True. I'll get writing now.
Semine: You'd better!
Rhea was first to walk through the portal, followed by Raven, Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. As soon as Cyborg was out of the portal, the fabric of time and space sewed itself back together, being rather picky about getting torn.
"It's beautiful…" Raven whispered. Crumbling Roman style pillars lay on the floor. Cracks zigzagged across the floor. A mosaic of the heavens might have been on the wall once, but the color had drained out and all that could be seen was the faint memories of stars. As the Titans left the inner chamber they saw a charred body of a woman, probably an altar woman.
The Titans were shocked as they saw the outside of the temple. All of the land around them, for as long as one could see, was charred black and desolate. No signs of life could be seen. The only light came from the three moons that had so far risen.
"This is your home planet? How do you live here?" Beast Boy said, earning a glare from Raven.
"I don't live here. I live in the only place fully demon proofed. Azerath City. It's a few miles that way. Mo—Raven, do you mind teleporting us slightly outside the gates?"
"Why can't we just teleport into the city itself?" Cyborg said.
"Because there are shields that would kill us." Rhea held Raven's hand to lend her power and coordinates. A huge black shadow wrapped around the feet of the Titans, drawing them into it, and placing them in front of a huge city.
A milky white wall of energy barred their way into the city. Rhea walked up to the wall. She started to yell at a figure behind it. "Let me in!"
"I can't! Give me your name and home planet!"
"You don't recognize me?" There was a pause. "Rhea Drake, Azerath!"
"Okay. Do you have anyone with you?"
"No! These people behind me are just your run of the mill bandits! I have a Tim Drake, Raven, Koriand'r, Victor Stone, and a Garfield Logan! Raven is from Old Azerath, and Kori is from Tamoran! The rest are from Earth!"
The figure hesitated, but made up her mind. "Come on in!" Part of the shield faded out, and the figure was revealed as a woman in her twenties, wearing a shimmering white cloak like Raven's. "Hey. I had hoped it was you. I just wish that Awena were as nice as I am. Follow that nice guard and he'll take you to the customs building so you can enter." As soon as the Titans began following the uniformed man, she threw up her part of the shield.
The Titans sat in the cramped room at the Customs Building. The previous guard had left them, and they were waiting for the next one to check their identification. He walked in after a ten-minute wait.
"Names?" the guard said, skipping all pretense of a peaceful meeting. When they gave their civilian names, the guard's eyes widened.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't know. You look so young, and you came from the no-man's-land, and there's been no sign of His forces stopping, and—"
"It's alright, really. We're kind of out of it. We couldn't fully destroy Him, but we did do some damage. We first had to get out of there, so we could plan with the Tamoranians." Robin looked at Rhea to make sure his facts were right.
"Well then, sir. I'll just need your internal passport, for procedure's sake." The Titans all paled.
"Ummm… We don't have those…" Beast Boy started. Cyborg grabbed Rhea's passport and started making copies to fit the Titans.
"Just give us a second, sir. We barely remembered about those. Heh. Thanks for reminding us…" Cyborg looked at his handiwork. Five more passports were held in his hands, identical in form to Rhea's, with the proper Titan information, except the date of birth for Starfire, which was in Tamoranian, and he didn't know the conversion. "Here you go!" The other Titans made a mental note to hug the circuits out of Cyborg later for saving them.
The guard looked at them, nodding, then gave the passports back to the Titans. "Out that doorway. Ms. Drassion is waiting for you." The Titans left the Customs Building and entered Azerath City for the first time ever.
The city itself was about ten times bigger than New York City, with about five times the population. Parts of the city were obviously taken from Earth, like the Library of Congress, and the hospital in Israel. Some others looked to have been built within the last ten years or so, with distinctly new architecture and design. In the center of the city was a huge park with a lake to one side of it. And in the center of the park was a huge building, almost castle like, made out of metal and black marble.
The Titans expected Rhea to lead them to the towering building, but instead she walked along the park border until she came to a plot of land with three houses on it. Outside one of them, two small children were playing. When they heard people approaching, they looked up and gasped.
"She did it!" said the girl, with green hair and blue eyes.
Her brother, with blonde hair and green eyes, and a slight green tinge to his skin, said, "Duh! I knew she would!"
"Did not! You said that she would never come back and we'd all die!"
"No! I said she wouldn't come back! And look! She didn't! She brought back another Raven!"
"No she didn't! Check out the black hair! She brought back another Robin!"
"But it's a girl, and so it's Raven!"
"Robin is more useful!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
A boy, slightly older than the arguing twins, looked up from where he had been playing. "You're both wrong! Rhea came back!" And with that, the boy, little more than a blur, ran to Rhea and tackled her.
"Whoa boy. I can't breathe." Rhea looked up at the Titans from her spot in the mud. "This little bundle of joy on my lap is Ronan, and the twins are Gea and Golrinth." Rhea looked at the children. "Say hello. I didn't go to all the trouble of time traveling so you guys could stare at them."
The twins ran to the Titans screaming. "What do you guys like?" "What did the last bad guy do?" "Are you guys into suede yet?"
Rhea got up, dusted herself off, and looked at Ronan. He was clinging to her leg as if it were the last thing on earth.
"Go on. Talk to them."
Ronan looked up at Rhea. "They don't look like Mom and Dad."
"Silly. That's because I went and got them when they were my age! If you don't talk to them, how do you think they'll feel?" Ronan couldn't think of an argument for that, and slowly peeked his head out from behind Rhea.
"Hi," he said softly.
"Hello dear gnorfback! You are the child called Ronan, yes?" Starfire said over Gea, who she was giving a ride to.
"Yeah."
Rhea bent down to Ronan's height. "Do you want me to get Ms. Drassion for you?" Ronan nodded slowly.
"Hey! Ms. D! Could you come out here! I'm back, and I brought some friends!" Rhea shouted to one of the houses. A woman came out wearing full robes in a light blue. She let her hood down, showing off her sparkling blue eyes rimmed by silver glasses and brown hair.
"Rhea? I thought you'd never get back. I couldn't live with that, knowing that I could have stopped you on your insane journey." Ms. Drassion looked at the people behind Rhea (a.k.a. the Titans, Duh) and gasped. "You did it. You brought back the Titans from the past."
"Rhea…" Rhea turned to Robin. "How many people knew about this?"
"Oh don't worry. I only told the little ones and Ms. Drassion. Awena probably knew about it though…"
"And the people at the gates?"
"I went to part of my school with the mage, whose name is Kristen, and the guard knows the Titans. The whole city does."
"Just like at home…"
Just as Rhea was going to say something else, a booming voice assaulted the Titans. "RHEA! COME TO THE PLANNING ROOM IN THE ACADAMY! THE TAMORANIANS WISH TO SPEAK WITH YOU!"
"Yes ma'am. Wait! Awena! I have the Titans! I don't have to talk to the Tamoranians because they're here!"
"NICE TRY. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE PLANNING ROOM."
"Um. Awena? It's Cy. I wanted you to know that Rhea isn't lying. We're here."
A huge pair of yellow eyes appeared in front of the Titans. When they spoke again, the voice was softer. "I still want Rhea there. But you may come. I will see you in fifteen minutes." And the eyes disappeared in a small huff of smoke.
"So we're going where now?" Beast Boy said before turning into an elephant and pulling the Titans and Rhea onto his back.
"The big building that way!" Beast Boy lumbered there. "It's the top room of that tower." Rhea flew up and pried the window open, letting Beast Boy as the lark, Starfire holding Cyborg, and Raven holding Robin through before coming in herself.
They entered a large circular room, filled with Tamoranian guards and the king of Tamoran. A large onyx table was in the center, with a small box in the center generating a hologram of the planet.
"I am pleased that you went to the trouble of making it here on time." Awena appeared in a corner, her eyes (her whole body!) narrowed.
"Well, You know, when accompanied by a giant elephant, distance isn't that great. Good time, Beast Boy." Beast Boy bowed.
"Are the pleasantries over yet? I wish to work on plans to destroy the abomination named Trigon." The king looked at the Titans.
Raven stepped closer to the hologram. "What do you have in the way of forces?"
"Upwards of thirty thousand Tamoranians in the army, and we could get more if given a few more weeks to finish training." The king said gruffly.
"The sooner we do this the better. The Titans will infiltrate the citadel again. Ten thousand warriors should make a diversion, trying to gain more ground under the protection. Try to recapture Bellar or something. That will clear a path for us to go to the citadel, kill Trigon, and come back." Raven looked to Robin and the king to make sure this was a good plan. They seemed to have no qualms about it.
"Then the last of your army will be backup for the sally, and you shall lead the Tamoranians and Azaratheans to victory." A bit of music swelled up behind Robin at that particular point, but a swift glare at nothing in particular from Awena stopped it.
"So. Robin, you made the arrangements for the Tamoranians for kick ass. But what about us? We probably don't want to go to Trigon's fortress with magic. So how do we get there?" Cyborg stared at Robin, who looked around nervously at his future property.
"I hadn't thought of that…" he started.
"Don't worry! We'll use the only person who can deal with us and come out alive and sane! Silkie!" Rhea let out a sharp whistle, and from the backyard came a loud roar. Silkie, only fifty times larger crawled out, butting his head against the Titans, some of who petted back. (A/N: Guess who?) "Hop on, guys! We're off to see my grandfather!" Rhea used some conveniently placed edges of Silkie's exoskeleton to get up onto his back. The Titans, slightly dazed at the moth larvae's size, followed suit.
Raven's face set with a hard look. "We're off to kill my father. And I couldn't be happier."
Realize that when I said, "the Titans entered Azerath City for the first time," I meant it from the Titans' standpoint. For them, yes it was the first time. But from Azerath City's standpoint, it was somewhere around the three thousandth time. They friggin live there!
I don't actually know what a first grader brain is like. I can do four years old, because of my nephew, but he's not six yet.
'Sally' is not always a name. It also means a foreword march type thing. Look it up online!
Any suggestions, like "What does XXX look like?" or "I want more lemurs in the story!" would be greatly appreciated.
Preview of next chappie: "An odd thing about Tamoranians…"
Does anyone else think that the American Idiot CD is like a play or soundtrack? Or the story of St. Jimmy? Anyone? Or am I just a loony?
Semine: Yes. You are a loony.
Kali: Meanie.
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