Author Notes (Part I) : Tear! It's the finally addition to "A Caged Bird!" I'm so sad! Thank you for reading! I love you all! XD! Anyway, I justhas a couple VERY IMPORTANT things to say before we started
First, (anything in brackets like this is what the "mysterious character, from the last chapter is mumbling to themself. NO MATTER WHERE IT IS! Even if it's in the middle of someone else talkinging, it's them mumbling about something. they have a sort of double-personnality, which just makes them that much more lovable! XD)
Second, if you get bored easily, you can just skip down to the next line of hearts for the conclusion to the conclusion. (if that works...) and it'll still make sense with the story. You'll just never know who the mystery character is... oh well...now on with the show! err...story! XD (gotta love me...)
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A Caged Bird:
Conclusion
"Ohhh…" he moaned slowly opening his eyes. The lighs hurt his eyes, being so used to the darkness of that place. "Wait, it's not dark anymore. Am I out of there? Was I really not dreaming or am I still…"
"Robin! It is good to see you are now in a conscious state. Are you feeling any better?"
"Starfire?" Robin asked, still groggy and taken by surprise by the sudden scene change.
"Yes, and all the others as well!" Starfire said, giving him that bright and happy smile that always made him feel warm inside.
"Hey man, you feeling alright?" Cyborg said, happy his best friend was awake.
"Morning…" Raven said in her monotone, even though they all knew she was relieved.
"HEY DUDE! YOU'RE UP!" Beast Boy yelled jumping up behind Raven and landing on her, arms resting on her head.
"I hate you…" Raven said trying to control her emotions.
"How did – What happened?" Robin asked, starting to sit up, still confused.
Starfire just smiled brightly and lightly pushed him back to a laying position. "Rest."
"It's kinda a long story, but in the end we tracked you guys and got you out of there." Cyborg half explained, standing on the bedside opposite Starfire.
"I'm sorry you guys got dragged into all this, but thanks." Robin said blaming himself again.
Starfire smiled again and shock her head as if to say "No, it's not your fault, you are our friend."
Robin gave a thankful smile in response and, sitting up enough to lean against the beds headrest, asked "So how did you guys find me anyway?"
"Actually," Raven said calmly, now holding Beast Boy to the med. Room wall with her powers. "We had some help."
Cyborg then moved aside slightly and suddenly Robin found himself face to face with some ones extended hand, ready to be shaken.
"Konichiwa! (Giggle) good to finally meet you, Robin. I've heard so much about ya!"
Robin, taken aback by the sudden abruptness of someone he didn't have a clue about suddenly appearing in front of him seeming to know all about him, did the only thing he could think about not to freak out, and shook the figures hand. "Uh…hello."
He looked at the figure and saw that this mysterious figure not only looked very strange, but was female. She seemed to be covered in a type over shadowy darkness. Her whole body was like that and, as he looked up at her face, he noticed that she had shadowy cat ears atop her head. Her hair, which was extensively long reached down to, and Robin mentally kicked himself afterwards, her "donkey". On her chest was, thinly lined in gray, a pentagon with a slender "S" in it's middle.
"Glad you're finally awake! Enough to gawk at least." The shadowy figure said giving a laugh and smiling.
"Wha-oh! S-sorry…" Robin said embarrassed, realizing that he was staring at her like some kind of alien…not that he minded aliens…
"Well, I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Shadow Cat. Nice to finally meet ya! (I think I already said that…)"
"Wh…I-I'm Robin…but I guess you already knew that…"
"That I did." Shadow Cat replied, giving a wink and smiling again as if this was something that happened every time she meet someone.
"Um, do you mind if I as how?"
"Eh? Oh! How rude of me." She said, laughing to herself. "My bad. I know your father." When Robin gave her a strange look of uncertainty she finished. "Oh…I guess you don't call him that. Your foster father, Wayne?"
"Way- What!" Robin bolted upward, ignoring Starfires worried cringes, and asked "How do you know him! Ho is he doing? Is he coming down too? Do you know Alfred?"
"WOAH! Whoa! Calm down! (Wow, and to think that this kid was unconscious for like a day…) Okay, let me see if I can remember…um, met him first through my brother, uh, he's doing fine. No, he's staying at Head Quarters, and ya, I know Alfred. That it?"
Robin nodded still excited, and then recalled something she had said. "Who's your brother?"
"SLADE!" She said with a serious look.
The room went completely silent.
"Just kiddn'. (I think Wally's rubbing off on me…) Naw, my brother's Clark. Clark Kent? Ever heard of him?"
Still silent, but from uncertainty this time rather than awkwardness.
"Um…Superman?"
"What! You're Superman's sister!" Robin said looking even more shocked yet excited. Everyone else was taken back too.
"Yup!" She smiled "(Although I'm a lot less known…) I'm Lyndsay Kent! Or Deanikku, that's my Kryptonian name. Whatever floats your boat. My Brothers is Kal-el. (Think I got the better deal but…)"
"Wow…wait…Shadow Cat! That' right! I remember you know!"
"(Should Hope so…)"
"So you're in the Justice League too?"
"Mm-hm!" She replied, smiling proudly."
"So what are you doing here then? We're doing an okay job on our own without the justice League…well, mostly…"
"Don't Worry, we're not firen' ya. Bruce just asked me to come and check on you. (I seem to do a lot of that…)"
"So you're from Krypton too?" Robin asked, listen to every word Shadow cat said like a toddler and his favourite bedtime story.
"(Whoa…this kid knows a lot…) That I am."
"So, are your powers super strength and heat vision?"
"No, mine are different."
"But I thought all Kryptonians had those powers."
"Most do, but I don't. I thought that was strange too, so I researched it. (Do you know how hard it is to find information on a destroyed planet that's not even known to human kind!) And it turns out whenever twins are born, the first is normal, like Clark, and the second has a different type of power, like me."
"So, what is your power." Robin asked, noticing the rest of the titans were just sitting there listening intensely as if they still hadn't ask any questions of their own.
"I have the power of…" She started, then disappeared and reappeared on the opposite side of the bed next to Starfire. "…Shadow." She then appeared back in her first spot. "I can manipulate them. I become part of them and can enter people's minds through their own. Watch." She then vanished again and Robin heard a voice inside his head. Her voice.
"See?"
She then reappeared again. "Sometimes I can take over the persons body. It depends on their mind resistance. Lets have an example…"
Daenikku looked over at Raven, who in response let go of Beast Boy. As he dropped to the floor Shadow Cat disappeared once again.
"Ow…jeez raven, why'd you have to go and-" Beast Boy started but stopped as his eyes went wide. "WHA-" He then closed his eyes for a moment and stood up, opened them again and smirked stretching his arms out to the side. "See what I mean?"
"Does it hurt him?" Starfire asked worried.
"Naw, he'll be fine. Totally confusd, and he has no will of his own, but perfectly fine."
"Can you stay like that, it's finally quiet." Raven said in her monotone.
Shadow cat, still as Beast Boy, laughed and said "I could, but do you really think I want to?" She then reappeared next to Cyborg and Beast Boy collapsed against the wall, catching himself just before he fell.
"DUDE! WHAT DID YOU JUST DO!" Beast Boy yelled, still not quite sure his head was all his own.
"And the quiet dies…" Raven said rolling her eyes.
"Oh nothing…" Shadow Cat said, smiling deviously.
"Wait on moment please. Where you the one that made that strange power bolt back in the ware house?" Starfire asked, curious.
"Power bolt? ...Oh! That. Ya, that was me. It's another power of mine. Kinda like Clark's heat vision except in my version." She formed a pentagon symbol again, but this time made it with her thumb and index finger on her right hand only and turned it 90º so that her thumb was parallel with the floor. She put it up near her mouth and turned toward beast Boy again. She then blew through the hole, light and quick, and another pentagon symbol formed in light shot out, but this time it was smaller.
"Wait! What are you DOING!" Beast Boy yelled, realizing what was about to happen. "AUGH!" He yelled as the pentagon hit him square in the fore head. "(Bull's eye!)" He slumped down onto the floor, eyes closed.
"Ah! Wha- is friend Beats Boy alright?" Starfire asked, getting more and more worried as time passed on.
"Oh, he'll be fine. It was just a light one. I've only knocked him unconscious for about five minutes, or so. I would have done it for longer," She explained seeing Raven look at her as if to say "What, only five?" and then continued "But then I wouldn't have had him for any other demonstrations, would I. But, I can control how powerful the shoots are, withier it's five minutes or…well lets say the person wouldn't be getting up anytime soon, at all…" She then turned specifically to Starfire and said "What you saw in the warehouse was a more powerful version. Different ones are for different races of aliens. Now a shot like the one I used on beast Boy over there wouldn't really do much on a kryptonian. Actually, the equal of knocking out a kryptonian could kill a human. That's what you saw in the warehouse. That particular one wouldn't have killed Slade, but let's just say, he wouldn't have gotten away."
Robin's eyes widened at that. "What! He got away again!"
"(Whoopsy…)"
"We started to chase after him, but he had a detonator in the warehouse to blow it up." Cyborg explained. "We had to get you and Star out of A.S.A.P!"
Robin clenched his fists, gripping the sheets, but said nothing. Starfire, trying to change the subject asked "So…um…can you fly?"
"Eh? Oh! Sorry, I thought you were talking to Boy Wonder over there." Robin looked up, shocked and slightly embarrassed. "Ya, ya, I know all your stories. Apparently your Titan leader was quite the fighter back in Gotham." Starfire looked at Robin with a smile of brightness, never having heard these stories, and Robin blushed, looking down. "But ya, I can fly (Although there are a couple hitches…)"
"What else can you do?" Asked Starfire, clapping her hands together in joy.
"(Somebody likes story time a little too much…) Um…I have night vision. That work?"
"Glorious! Anything else?"
"Hmmm…don't think so…" Shadow Cat said, thinking.
"Sounds like you can do a lot." Said Robin, now attempting to hide his embarrassment.
"Well, I have to. I need to be able to match up with my brother after all." Shadow Cat said, laughing.
"You seem to do a pretty good job of it." Cyborg said. Beast Boy was now starting to wake up.
"(Took him long enough…) There is a small problem with them though, but we can work that out later. Right now, you need to get some rest." Shadow Cat finished, pointing at Robin.
"But, how did you, I mean, with the whole Shadow thing…" Robin trailed off trying to word his question properly.
"Eh? Oh, my bad. Let me guess, you're wondering how I possibly went through life without people asking about the whole 'over-shadow' thing, right? Well, I don't actually always look like this." She closed her eyes for a moment and as she opened them, the shadow around her disappeared in the flash of an eye.
She stood there smiling in sort of a smirkish way as the Titans gapped at her sudden change of appearance. She was wearing jeans with a black leather belt and a jean jacket, which was unzippered, over a red plaid shirt. Her hair, which was still as long as before, turned out to be a dark brunette, and her eyes were a deep green. Her cat ears and the emblem on her chest had totally disappeared. She looked kind of like a city-country girl crossover.
"Sorry, I wasn't exactly planning on 'super-heroing'. Other wise I would have dressed better." She explained giving a sort of embarrassed shrug with her hands tilted up.
The Titans sat, open mouthed, for the next couple of seconds, attempting to take in all the new info.
Robin managed to finally shake out of it and said "So…if you're part of the justice League, what are you doing here?"
"Didn't I say already? I'm chekin' up on you guys. Bruce asked me to. He's real worried about you, y'know? Even if he won't verbally admit it. So he asked me one day if I'd be willn' to swing by and look up on you guys sometime, and…her I am."
"So you are not staying?" Starfire asked, starting to get depressed at the idea of losing the chance for a new fried.
"Ya, but I'll have to come back every year or so."
"Oh…well thank you for your help…friend?"
Shadow Cat nodded, smiling. "Sure."
"Ya, thanks for your help, and I'm sorry you got pulled into this too." Robin said, apologizing.
"No problem. Plus, I think if I'd let you get killed batman would have killed me." Shadow Cat said, giggling.
"Look, feel free to come by anytime. We've got plenty of extra space around here for you to stay awhile, and we can always use the extra help. Consider yourself an honorary Titan."
Shadow Cat smiled. "Thanks, I think I will…"
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A few days later
Clop Clop.Robins steel shoes clanged against the roof as he walked over to its edge. He sat down, with his left knee up and the other folded toward it. He rested his arms on his upright knee and placed his head atop it, looking out at the water. He was I his full uniform again, but he still had all his bandages underneath. He closed his eyes and just listened to the waves and relaxed, happy to have finally been able to escape the medical wing of the tower.
"Robin?" He jumped, jolting his head up as he felt a warm hand on his shoulder.
"Starfire!" Robin said surprised. He half expected her to grab him and start dragging him back to the medical ward, yelling at him full volume, as he was supposed to still be resting. But she surprised him…
"May I sit with you?" Starfire asked.
"Uh, s-sure." Robin replied, startled. Starfire smiled, sitting down next to him on the right, and tucking both her knees up to her chest.
"It's pretty, isn't it." Starfire asked, starring out.
"Ya." Robin said, still not quiet over the shock of her sudden arrival, and how she wasn't upset with him.
"It's such a glorious day. I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than this; even on tameran."
"I have." Robin replied, slightly turning his head away to the left. Starfire looked at him, waiting for him to continue; which he didn't. She smiled looking back out at the water. She then closed her eyes and leaned over to rest her head on Robin's shoulder. His eyes widened at this sudden movement, but he didn't protest.
Eyes still closed, Starfire said. "Perhaps, someday, we may go and se this beautiful thing."
Robin simply smiled and finished. "I think you already have…"
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Author notes(Part II) : ODK! IT'S OVER! "A Caged Bird" is officially over! Whaa! oh well, it's about time, huh? Took me long enough to finish. Anyway, just before I get into my little speech, I'd like t remind you that Bonus Pages are on the next page (I published them at the same time) so don't forget to read thoese.
Now, anyone hate Shadow Cat? I know she acts like a teenager, but she's actually not. It's just her personallity. Nayway, for all of you Marvel Comics fans out there, I thought of Shadow Cat WAY before I even watch X-men:Evolution or knew that she existed, so DON'T YOU DARE THINK I STOLE HER NAME! Actually, I created her even before I saw teen Titans... (more about Shadow Cat to be posted on my profile page...)
Any Class of the Titans fans here? If so, my friend nightstar100149 has a story posted on her profle page. You should check it out. Please do, she's gonna KILL me if this dosen't work... (HAPPY NOW NIGHTSTAR100149! DON'T MURDER ME! I ADVERTISED FOR YOU! XD!)
Also, if there are any kingdom Hearts fans here, check out "Diary of a Dying World" by Stellaluna Uniqueness. It's totally awesome! Check it out! (she didn't ask me to do this, but I'm going to anyway. Love you!)
Well, this is it, fanfictions! "A Caged Bird" is over! It's been awesome! I'd like to thank a few people for helping me along the way. Stellaluna Uniqueness, for being the best friend a person could ask for, and more. moondust161 for inspiring me to get an account and give writing a try. Dlvvanzor for all there awesome reviews. nightstar100149 for TRYING to give me good reviews. XD! and of course, YOU! Thanks for reading my story! My next Teen Ttans story will be called "Her..." So, have a look at that when it comes. I'm going to be publishing a couple Fruits Baksket stories before then, so rad thoes too if you want. They're called "Enemy's Enemy is your Friend" and "Closer". Again, thank you guys SO much. I LOVE YOU ALL! ♥
Now...on to the bonus pages...XD
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