Gizmo's Birthday
Chapter-7 Back To Pahora AKA The Really Long Chappie For Artemis85
Yay! longer title! Tee-Hee:) Sorry 4 the very, very delayed update! Busy weeks 'n whatnot……Anywho, since this chappie is very long, and will pretty much cover the rest of the story, this will probably be the last real chappie 2 this fic:( So, I do really hope you've all been enjoying this. However, there will be a chapter 8- but it'll just be a basic AN about my characters, clearing up any questions you might've thought about them. Okay:)
It was morning.
Everyone in the room as of now, looked totally sick, or tired. Catrinna was hunched over a wastebasket on the couch, with a hangover, and Starfire was sipping up what was left of the vodka.
"I'm never drinking again." She said to herself groggily as she threw up once more.
Meanwhile, Gizmo, Mammoth, See-More, and Jinx walked out into their trashed living room from the hall, still clad in their night clothes.
"So, what does everyone want to do now?" Jinx asked as she looked around at everyone.
As of now, all of the titans (Both groups) Accept for Hayley had gone back to their respective towers, leaving the Hive Nine to deal with the otherworldly family.
"Well, we kinda can't do anything with the fear of them, running off around the city again." Steffauri pointed out, crossing her arms.
"Well, we were actually planning on, going back to Pahora. You know, this planet is just not good enough for Pahorans in this society." Juniper April said, as she placed her hat back onto her head.
"Well, yeah, I'll admit, this Earth shit takes quite awhile to get used to." Steffauri finished, as she looked around the room, at the family that had taken care of her, and at the life she once lived.
And it was at that very moment, that she finally realized what she had to do.
She walked over to Jinx, and nervously, she placed a single, shaky hand on her shoulder.
Jinx turned around, and saw the look on her friend's face.
"Steff, what's wrong?" Jinx asked.
"I-I need to tell you something, a-alone." Steffauri finished as Jinx shrugged, and followed her friend back into her room.
"Oh god, I-I-I never knew. But that's what you were trying to hide from us all this time?" Jinx asked as Steffauri finished her story.
"Yes." Steffauri finished, chocking back tears.
And with that, she broke down crying, and fell into her best friend's grasp.
"It alright, we all have had something horrible we've had to deal with that we've been hiding." Jinx said, as she looked more worried herself.
"Like who?" Steffauri asked as she wiped her eyes and got up.
"Like, me." Jinx finished as she wiped away one tear, Steffauri pulled her knees up to her head and replied.
"Well, I'm willing to listen if you'll tell me."
Jinx nodded, and began her story.
"Alright, I was born, in a tiny town in India, I had one sister, Charm. She was about four years older than me. Looked a lot like me, too." Jinx began.
"So, what was it like there?" Steffauri asked as her friend continued on.
Meanwhile, back in the living room, the family, the one titan that remained, and the Hive Nine (-2) were all sitting around, still doing nothing.
By now, Starfire had gotten drunk from consuming all the extra vodka that Catrinna had snuck back home, and Gizmo and Mammoth had fallen asleep in miscellaneous places due to their late night search the evening before.
"Hey, where're Steff and Jinx anyway?" Hayley asked as she got up from where she was sitting to go find them.
"Well, I'm going to go get a shower." Juniper April said as Kyd Wykkyd, See-More, and Billy smiled maliciously.
"Now that there's an opportunity!" Billy said as June left, not even hearing a single word of their –'master plan.'
Meanwhile, back in Steffuari's room, Jinx had finished her story, and was crying as well.
"Wow, that was actually pretty empowering." Steffauri replied as the door opened. Revealing her younger sister.
"What is this, Oprah?" Hayley joked as she walked in and joined the two.
"So, what were you guys talking about anyways?" Hayley asked as she plopped down onto the bed with them.
"Oh, nothin.' We were just, reminiscing, pasts 'n junk." Steffauri finished as Hayley let out a heavy sigh, that subject had a big impact on her as well.
"Oh, wow. Damn I picked the wrong time to come in." Hayley said as she got up forcibly and left.
"Hayley! No, wait up!" Steffauri called, but she acted too late.
Steffauri sat back down, and placed her hands over her face, and breathed in and out heavily.
"God, is there anything at all I don't fuck up with?" She said to herself as Jinx prepared to ask yet another question that would be difficult to answer.
"Steff, now that, I know you're sister's a titan, can you tell me, what was bothering her?" Jinx asked, Steffauri sat up a little more.
"Why?" She asked irritably.
"Well, we are best friends, and I just want to know more about you, since you're still kinda new to us n' stuff, so, do you want to, or?" Jinx cut her self off as Steffauri smiled and sat up all the way.
In the bathroom across the hall, Juniper April was in a hot shower, a towel, and her long lavender purple dress lay on the toilet seat, along with her glasses and hat.
She hummed a familiar tune to herself that she'd only heard a few days ago, unaware of the three uninvited guests creeping around in the bathroom near her.
"Spendin' all your money on me, spendin' all your time on me, she's got me spendin!" The girl sang to herself as the three boys tried desperately to fight bursting out with laughter.
Billy then crept up by the shower curtain, and began to hum to the death-tune from 'Jaws.'
"Duh dun, duh, dun, duh, dun, duh, dun duh, dun, duh, dun, DUUUUN!" He finished as he ripped open the shower curtain to reveal the shocked naked Pahoran girl.
"AAAAAGGGHHHHHHHH!" The princess's petrified screams rang throughout the HQ.
However, only a few people came running, but stopped at the bathroom door when a very scared See-More and Kyd Wykkyd tore out, and a bruised and mangled Billy stumbled out after them.
Juniper April followed, clad only in a towel, with a very satisfied look on her face.
"So boys, what have we learned?" Juniper April asked.
"Uh, never spy on a naked Pahoran girl who has the ability to potentially kill you afterward?" See-More asked, shrugging, Kyd Wykkyd did the same in silence.
And Billy, well, he was a little too shaken to respond.
"That's about what I expected anyway." She said to herself as she closed the door to get dressed.
A few moments later, the two other girls had retreated back to Jinx's room to finish Steffauri's story.
"Well, it all started, way back when. I was about six, and Hayley was four, our father trained us intensely, and from what our mother saw, too intensely. But, there was nothing she could do about it, she was powerful, but she paled in comparison to him. He was strong, abusive, and cared nothing for any of us or our world.
He was said to have been the worst king Rahiko's ever had in over 500-years. Well, by age seven, I already had my powers under total control, but Hayley, wasn't doing so good. And our dad beat her and mentally tormented her when she didn't do well.
And then, when I was eight, the war came, the one I told you about. And on her dying breath, my mother begged our father to take us with him to Earth, but he only told her- "No Kamina, I have no use for those useless things anymore." And he left. And Hayley, was the one it left the biggest scar on."
And with that, Steffauri was done with her story.
Horrible images from the past were now plaguing the corners of her mind. How she and her sister split up, and then regained one another's friendship, and yet, none of the adventures of life on Earth had even come close to fazing them as badly as the events of their former lives had.
Just then, Hayley appeared at the door.
"Steff, aunt Cat and Kris said that they want to leave now!" Hayley said in both relief and disappointment.
"Why?" Steffauri asked as she and Jinx walked out into the living room, with Hayley tagging along beside them.
Now, the large family sat around the room clad back into their original Pahoran garn, ready to go back home.
"Hey, why are you guys going back to Pahora, you still have two days left with us." Steffauri pointed out as her teammates urged her silently not to point that out.
"Well, Earth was, fun for awhile, but, we also have many duties to our people back home, so next time, you and you're teams come and visit us in Alaya, alright?" Kris asked as Steffauri and Hayley nodded with smiles.
Catrinna sketched out an odd looking symbol with the Pahoran flag's symbols in the middle on the floor around them, the family waved, and with a flash of blinding blue light, they were gone.
"Steffauri, the next time I try to plan a party with one of our families, please beat me over the head with something really heavy, okay?" Jinx said as Steffauri smiled awkwardly and nodded, as the two friends burst out laughing.
It wasn't the most…..normal party they'd ever been to, but it was damn sure the funniest!
-The End!
AN Time! WHOOOOOOOO! Yay Finally! I updated! Gizmo's Birthday is finished! But, I will be updating a chapter eight, which by the way is just basically a bio-page of all of my characters. And, if you've read Gizmo Agino, A Past In A Shadow, THAT is when they actually do go to Pahora! Now, I hope you all enjoyed it……REVIEW GOD DAMNIT REVIEW! XD Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeese? ;)