Dis Claimer: i swear i didn't know i was supposed to put these up but i'll put it up...uh...i don't own them...simple as that..but i do own Kevin!lol..sorry continue with the story
Chapter 13: How it all Started
Kori pasted an emotionless face right back on to her new master. The look on her face would have made anyone pee in their pants. It was worse than Slade's masked face. For she look genuinely evil. Hopeless, enclosed her heart and there was nothing Starfire could do to save her. Her eyes changed from their light soft emerald color to a dark hunter green, vicious and blood desirable.
The evil pooling up inside of her was out.
And now Slade had to sharpen it up.
The masked master turned swiftly and walked up a few stairs to his throne chair, where he was to sit and watch it all go into cycle.
Kevin looked as if he was nowhere to be seen and by now even Kori was beginning to forget about ever wanting him there.
She needed no one.
No one.
She stood, erect, waiting patiently for her first obstacle.
"Okay, Kori, we'll begin to test your skills, we'll get to your inner core power shortly but I need to see what you can do without it first." He explained in a monotone voice, "No powers. Understood?" He asked, more as a threat than a question.
Before she could answer it begun.
She was equipped with only but two daggers and yet felt prepared to sabotage anything that got in her way.
What "way" she was thinking about…is yet to be uncovered. But what was evident here was the point in which she was sick of it.
Sick of it.
All.
With a clap of his hands, and roaring out the word "Begin" it started.
Robin locked his glare with that of the dark blue pupils of the scared man. Robin was fighting the urge to drop him and continue to look for his lost best friend.
But the worse side of him was winning this mental battle with himself and looked as if he was actually going to send this man with severe injuries to the hospital.
Robin didn't see the fearful man shaking in his grasp. What he saw was a certain tameranean named, Kevin mocking him, daring him to kill him.
Robin raised a fist about to collide it with the man's nose, but before he could achieve his goal a voice stopped him.
He knew somehow that something would stop him.
Something usually did.
It wasn't as if he saw into the future or anything, he just knew.
It was strange. But strange things happened. It would be a little bit strange if strange things didn't happen in the world.
"Stop." It was a simple four-letter word that commanded only but one thing.
Yet he couldn't find it in himself to automatically tend to that order.
He did halt, his fist a centimeter from his victim's face.
But all the same he stopped.
Robin growled a loud venomous growl that would make anyone seem small and shit themselves right then and there.
He refused to give up his anger release and winded his fist up once again, shoving the fact that his teammates were the audience right now.
It was also strange that it was still suppose to be daylight hours outside yet somehow all the moods of the five people occupying the area reflected on the weather, and it began to rain.
Droplets of water pitter pattered black street and consumed the threatening silence that loomed over them.
The day began looking more like night and the skies rolled with thunder as in anticipation for the lightening that was to come.
Cyborg held his sonic cannon up, the blue light humming, was added to the mixture of noises that was vibrating the earth at the time. His one real eye scrunched down into a glare, also trying to avoid the water falling from the clouds.
Raven, eyes black and hands aglow, stood still and calm, emotionless, although at the time it seemed that she was about to kill someone. Her voice was the one who dared to speak out yet for the moment it was beginning to seem as if no one had heard her.
Beastboy blinked in confusion of what he was supposed to do but crouched down on top of a street sign in a fighting stance too, none the less. Prepared to jump down and transform at any second.
But he ignored it.
Robin ignored it all.
Ignore.
Avoid.
Stop.
There it was again. The word rolling in his head. Showing him in the right direction. His direction.
But he ignored it. He tried his best to avoid it. He stopped it from entering his mind. Yet stopping was all of which he needed to do.
His thoughts once again filled up the gap needed for stopping him in the slaughtering of the man when the face of his beloved filtered his needed space and made his eyes open wider in recognition of what he was about to do.
He looked…shocked…confused…bewildered.
As if another part of him had taken over and the real Robin was back in place.
Innocent to all of what was happening.
But this wasn't true. Robin was there. He was just waking up from the anger reign in his mind at the moment.
All the past actions of is doing from the hour past, flooded his mind like a wave crashing down onto the rocks of the shores and in one fluid motion he dropped the man unintentionally.
He jerked back in surprise of hearing the man's grunt when he made impact to the floor.
And Robin stopped.
Cyborg blew out the air locked up in a lump in the back of his throat he didn't know he was holding in.
Beastboy looked as if about to cheer but lost his balance on the slim, thin pole and fell back wards with a thump and a groan.
Raven let her arms hang on her sides and her piercing glowing black eyes returned to their natural violet color.
Stop was all that was said.
The sound of bullets puncturing the air sounded throughout the training room and a redheaded alien snapped into action mode.
Her thought for the moment blanked and switched into survival.
She had to prove herself.
But for who?
For Slade?
No.
For Kevin…
…no…
For Robin…
No…
For her people…
No
For who she is?
No.
To stand for who she was and what she will become.
Yes.
For herself.
Yes.
For her mother.
No.
For her father.
No.
For her brother.
No.
To prove that she can be just like her sister of not better.
No..
Kori was doing this. No one else. No one other. She was. And no one else had any say or anything to do with it.
Not Slade. Not Kevin. Not Robin. Not the Titans.
No one. Only her. Her parents were no longer. And her sister was out of the picture.
Her brother long lost.
She wasn't doing this for them. She was gong to prove, mostly, to herself. That she wasn't a little girl.
Not anymore.
She didn't need protection. She didn't need a team. She didn't need a helper. She didn't need a partner.
She didn't need Kevin.
She didn't need Robin.
Not anymore.
She pulled out her two daggers from where they were being housed and did a high backflip backwards to avoid the shooting bullets.
The bullets grazed her orange tinted skin but somehow her energy burning deep inside reflected off from her body and bounced the bullets from herself although not a lot made it her reach.
She felt nothing.
Perhaps a pinch or soft poke here and there but no blood seeped out, and not a bruise or broken bone in sight.
She did a series of twirls with daggers in hand to bounce hit the aiming bullets back into their sockets and blowing the machine guns to smithereens.
Slade looked on with full interest.
Her power was growing and her protection shield was holding up a good amount of time.
There would come to pass the moment where her shield will turn to become a beautiful attack that is invisible to the human eye.
The one eye that he had, roamed the numerous battle stances that she took and how she followed her instincts perfectly.
All was going according to plan.
Before next week was to come. She would be ready.
They would leave for space. Her having all the room she was to acquire and his power in the palm of his hand.
But what puzzled him at the moment was why she was doing this.
He was going to attach a nerve controlling suit that made her body in movement with his. Her power with him.
That was once she backed down from it because she found out she was only a puppet, a pawn in his game.
But she found out. And just seemed to shrug it off as if she knew that was for to be planned all a long. Which it was.
But she didn't have that knowledge.
Now, she did.
And the master thought of this while observing her intently, making sure she was doing everything right.
So far so good. Only a few minor mistakes, but it will be soon to be covered.
He was not one to accept mistakes. But even if he was capable of harming her now.
He decided against it.
With the power she was forming, he couldn't risk losing it.
He glanced from the corner of his one eye to the young boy hiding in the shadows of the corner.
He could not be seen. Or at least not to be seen by anyone but his master.
Slade eyed the young man with much curiosity.
When he first founded Kevin he was going to be truthfully in saying he didn't expect much from him.
He was just to be used as a thief for his own petty crimes.
Dirty Work.
But soon Slade began to examine him more closely and found that he was an expert.
What a coincidence to fall into his hands.
After a while he became more trusting of Slade.
A fool is what he was.
Trusting Slade.
But he did. And after he became his apprentice, Slade's promise to the boy came back into play, to find his good friend Starfire.
When he heard Starfire Slade automatically thought of the many things he did not know of the young alien girl.
He knew everything about Robin.
Everything there is to know about Raven's side.
Cyborg is quite explanatory.
Beastboy had a file in Africa, which Slade took a glance at.
But Starfire.
Or Koriand'r, per say, was nowhere to be seen in a file on earth.
Except for under the Titan's profiles and even there, hardly any information is said about her, aside from the general information of birth, age, gender, birth place, and so on.
But nothing real.
Nothing true.
This got Slade to become suspicious. From the data and live videos he had collected throughout the Titan's tower and on the outside.
She seems to be the cheerful little alien who will always hold a smile.
For a while Slade himself was fooled. But when he had the time to think, he saw that no one could be so innocent.
So happy.
So carefree.
So open.
So much smiling.
So…her.
She was her own definition, which that could not be found in a dictionary of any planet.
She was a secret.
A hidden image.
Her act was so often used that it became the real show.
And Slade soon saw right through it.
He got the information from Kevinand'r first.
And after of looking furder into it. He was certain.
Sure.
That she was the ONE.
The chosen one. It may sound corny and always used. But this was no Star Wars. Slade made sure of that first.
She was chosen on her birth. A gift from the two worlds, that opened the gate to an earth destruction.
Heaven and Hell.
Her voice was to be called down from Heaven.
Her anger if it was to rule was to come up from Hell.
Somehow seducing the demons and Angels' help with her song.
And all that was ground would be no more.
She was to sing to calm things down once a while.
She was the reason it rained when she cried.
She was the reason it crackled lightning when she screamed.
She was the reason the sun rose and pulled the glow out of the skies when she smiled.
She was the reason the waters sparkled when she laughed.
She was to yell to cause havoc to replace the peace sometimes.
She was Heaven and Hell, kept in a promise she was never to be let it out.
Earth was her home, she had said once before.
Yet Tamaran was her birth place.
Starfire was the reason everything stayed in place,
Kori was the reason everything went out of order.
The books that held her legend were written from the past.
What Kori held was a gift.
Or so she was told. But she was only told that to hide her true self.
This wasn't going to be the Raven and Trigon thing all over again.
This was something else.
Something to do with the depths of love and hate.
And it all started a long time ago…long, long time ago…
The legend: How it started.
A long time ago there was no earth. No middle. Only Heaven and Hell.
Top and bottom.
The two worlds knew nothing of each other.
Heaven knew none of Hell.
And Hell in return had never heard of Heaven.
In the castles of the clouds above the red debris below, a young girl looked down before her.
Her name, was X'Hal…
Her wings small, but fit for her size, her hair red and curled, with emerald eyes dazed out as if in a deep thought.
She heard everything.
The screams of pain.
Yellings of fear.
Hell was not so far away.
She did not know what it was called.
She just assumed she wasn't supposed to find out about it.
It all looked so…
She did not know what to call it.
Her serine innocence was what kept the child from understandment.
So she developed names.
Words.
To call what was the havoc of down below.
She had never heard such screams.
Of pain.
Pain…that is a word she made.
It gave birth in her mind and it grew to understand that what was happening had to do with hurt.
Hurt….another word she formed into a definition for the cause of pain.
Hurt came from the actions of something or someone fearing.
To have fear.
Fear…yet another word to add to her vocabulary.
She did not know how those words came to form in her virginal mind, but she did not care.
Everyday she would come to understand the world below her more and more.
She would stand stiff and still unafraid and unaware to gaze down at the hellish world and wait for new words to pop into her head.
Along with their definitions.
One day…a word she was quite curious with ended up at the tip of her tongue.
Betrayal.
With that word came a word she knew all to well…
Love.
That word she knew from birth.
Love and Betrayal give birth to the second to last word she learned…
Hate.
Following that came the last word…it was a word that shattered everything.
It collided the two words…
It began everything.
And peace was the maker of it all…
Evil…
For some unidentified reason the angel could not keep the word in her mouth and it slipped out.
Her voice…
A voice…
A sound…
A soul…
It was new to her.
A voice.
The first voice to touch the white clouds of the Heavens.
Who knows…perhaps if she had said something else…something peaceful…something beautiful…maybe it wouldn't have happened…
But it did…
"Evil"
It was the first time in use of a voice and her vocal cords went dry from the word yet renewed into a new level.
A song…
All of a sudden the world trembled with might and the world below her opened into a big hole.
Millions of red eyes look up from below and for the first time burning with great intensity into her, the girl felt fear.
Fear…she knew now what it meant and what it felt like too…it was painful…another word she let slip out of her small red lips…
All the angles of the castles knew not of what to do…they just reacted with a soulless nothing…
But when the girl let out the word fear once again the world shook and everyone panicked.
The girl had power.
Her voice was what released it.
Somewhere deep inside deepened her to smirk…
Her eyes turned into a blood red color and she began to float down wards to the middle of the two worlds.
Now all of Hell looked up in impatience for her to say the last word and open the gates to conquer.
"Hurt"
All the Angles began to for some reason hit each other cause each other…
"Pain"
The young girl peered over her valley and over the castles walls…She was doing it…she was committing it all…and for some reason she did not stop…
"Hate"
With that word sent all the angels to become selfish and fight with each other…
The last word was at the tip of her tongue and it burned in her mouth once again to say it…
"Evil"
That was it…The gates of hell flew open and millions of demons, lost souls and evil things slipped out from underneath and over took all of Heaven…
But they thought back…the war between the two worlds went on for a god amount of decades…and the girl who started it all…learned one more word…a word that she began to feel when she saw what her actions had caused…what her voice had caused…what her power had caused…
Regret…it hurt her more than anything…and she needed to stop it…
She took a silver heaven sealed box left in one of the chapels from the yet to be destroyed part of Heaven and flew up above into space…she flew far…far…far away…until she was certain she could not be heard or far enough to keep away the evil…She flew off to places unknown…when she felt as if her life would give way at any second…she opened the box and sung…all her voice spilling into the heavenly box…Her voice reached a lonely planet soon to be called Tamaran and gave life to living beings…with her last breath she exhaled…sending the word X'hal far into the reaches of space for all of Tamaran to hear…her death sealed the box and floated it off into the clutches of Heaven where it replaced the peace and rose the ground conjoined with the waters to form the earth…the box was found by the Angle's of God and placed in a secret place…locked within a promise…never to be let out again…hundreds and hundreds of years later…the prophecy of Trigon becoming summoned by his first born daughter arose to a fearing greatness and the ones who held the promise of the voice box knew it was up to them to protect Heaven from yet again another disaster…the box was to be sent away… news ofthe birth of a young girl named Raven let out in all of Heaven and forced the Angels to hand the box to the planet of X'Hal for their own safety…there, it was to be given to the reincarnation of X'Hal…and kept a secret…a promise to never let it out…
There the two angels that were sent on the far away journey were in time for the ceremonial birth of a lovely princess ...one look at the new born and the Angels knew she was the one…she was the chosen one…they gave her the box as a gift…crafted of heavenly silver found no where else…but because of the small girl's age they created it into a beautiful bracelet…a silver plated bracelet like no other embedded in it were multiple sign that spelled out the girl's name…made to look exceptionally like the silver found on the planet…it was given to the girl…and the Angel's left…another destiny was to be created…and it was released in the voice of this fragile baby princess or Tamaran…
Koriand'r
Kori panted lightly taking a few gulps of air after her long training…it was over…Slade looked on and smirked under his mask…
'This is going to be interesting…' he thought to himself…in hispalm he rubbed a silver plated bracelet with embedded symbols that were meant to spell out a name against his metal gloved thumbs…
It glowed for a moment and then went back to normal…Kevin caught a short glimpse at it…
He walked over to the young alien girl and looked directly into her tired eyes…
"Very interesting indeed" He spoke out loud his breath fogging through the vents in his mask smearing her face…but she didn't care.
She did it…
She passed the training course…now it's time for test two…
Slade turned his back to her and looked into a shadowed corner…Kori was a bit confused as to why he was looking at the shadowed space so intently, but the thought was soon brushed off when she saw Kevin emerge from the shadows…
Slade gave him a simple command with the nod of his head and Kevin followed suit by looking over to Kori and walking over to the door waiting for her to come to his side so they would both walk out together…
The rest of the titans sat in the T-car...silent...
No one dared to speak to their leader and even Beastboy at the time was to afriad to crack any of his lame jokes. Raven was usally one to like silence, but ever since this whole mess started with Starfire and her freind...she just wasn't a big fan of it much anymore. Cyborg was in the drivers seat and got the clue not to speak until someone else spoke...but no one wanted to...
Robin was the only one who could break the ice, but he was in his own little world thinking of ways to kill Kevin when he see's him next time...
But all worlds must fade away at one time or another...
"We have to find Starfire." He stated simply...but this time the other titan's understood that although he left the statement there...he meant "or else" it wasn't meant as a threat, simply a fact...everyone felt it...something bad was going to happen if they didn't find her...truth it truth...fact is fact...
"We'll find her Robin." Cyborg reassured, although he new it was almost impossible for them ti find a super alien girl that could fly in and out of different planets if she pleased...but they have done it before and they could do it again...
"Yeah, dude...We all want her back...I mean who would be there to stop you from bashing a guy's head in?" Beastboy tried to joke, but by the death look Raven gave him he knew he had said the wrong thing...
It was silent once again...the cause of Beastboy's joke was yet again another fact...who would stop him? They were just lucky with this one that Robin was able to control himself...but next time?
Robin was the first to crack a small grin...a sad one...but still a grin none the less...
They were going to find her...even if it took looking all over the nebula...they would find her...
I know…I know…you deserve A LOT more than this but I had to end it there…I seriously was rushing to do this because I finally got HOME! YAY! THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPORT! Omg..the hurricane was a mess I lived on the part of Florida that got affected the most and my grandma was evacuated from New Orleans…we had to look EVERYWHERE for her and when we finally found her in a hospital in Highalea we had to make sure she was fine and she was okay to get out and into our house…thank you all for caring so much…I read a lot of you actually prayed for her! I feel so loved and I'm sure my family does too…I've been helping out a lot ever since I found out my grandma was affected pretty badly…. again THANK YOU ALL! And I forgive you sailorkukistarfire i understand, my brother willl sometimes do that on chator something when i'm on...you're forgiven!
I don't think I can thank you guys enough for being extra patient with me…and omg ihave start school again soon…and I'm WAY behind…sigh…well I finally got the chance to get on my old computer and write up a short chapter… it was probably boring but I had to get the story up and running again with that short little legend…the legend is supposed to get you caught up in what the story is based on…no the legend isn't a myth or anything…maybe it is but I'm not sure…if it is I had no intention in stealing it…I just made it up while I was in the hospital…I'll try to make the next chapter longer really I will but it's getting really hard…woo…I only have five minutes so let me just rap this up saying once again thank you SOOO much! And if u hav any questions please do not hesitate to ask because I will say I think the legend was a little confusing…at least I thought so…well..till next time
Sorry for the long wait peoplz…
Love,
Your one-n-only
Princess Lali of Both Spain and England
P.S: Okay again i'm sorry about all the wait and stuff but i am back and i will try my best to get more chapters for bothe my stories up and running...bye