Chapter sixteen is now up and running! Sorry it took long but I had a few things to do. First, I had to do the final exams for college, which were tough to begin with. Second, I had parotidectomy surgery on Thursday to remove a gland from the side of my head. So I didn't get the chance to write or type my chapter since I was in the recovery room the whole day. Another thing is that I revamped and rewrite the original Nightfire story so it can match up with Nightfire's Origins. For those of you who read Nightfire should look at it again cause I made a few changes. And speaking of Nightfire's Origins, I didn't get any reviews since my last update, but the hits for chapter fifteen were 22. Not enough but it's good to see people reading this. Let us continue on with the story. In this chapter, the new generation of Titans has taken over the family's legacy along with their new members. And with that, Nightfire is their leader. Everything seems absolutely perfect, or is it?
Chapter Notes
There are new characters that are in the Titan family; two of them came from different anime shows like s-CRY-ed and Tenjo Tenge. Their profiles are on the last chapter of Nightfire so if you want to know about them, check out their bio's. Also, Murakami high school from the final Teen Titans episode, "Things Change" will be on this chapter. Plus two guest stars from Ben 10 and Totally Spies are going to make their appearances on this chapter. And there's going to be a special part that's going to be quite heart warming. But you have to read to know what it is.
Titan's Age
Starfire-36
Cyborg-38
Raven-35
Beast Boy/Changeling-34
Terra-34
LM-38
Nightfire-17
Angel-16
Beast Girl-15
Terri-15
Robo-18
Impulse-15
Hyper Blaster-17
Souichiro Jr.-16
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans, s-CRY-ed, or Tenjo Tenge.
Chapter Sixteen: Family Visit
Three years later, things have changed within Jump City. For instance, the original Titans retired from taking care of their city but they didn't retire from being heroes. Cyborg, Changeling, Terra, and Raven had become official members of the Justice League while LM was in charge of being lieutenant for half the teams in Zion. Ask for Starfire, she retired on being a hero completely since she's so worried about the news about her Knorfka, Galfore dieing and she has to take his place as the next grand ruler. She now lives apartment complex not far away from the Tower so that her daughter would come visit her or her mother visits Titans Tower. And speaking her daughter, Nightfire is having a great time in her teenage years. Soon after their parents retired, their children became the next generation of Titans and Nightfire became the leader of that team. Not only that, they have required new members to strengthen their ranks. Members like Robo, the adoptive son of Victor Stone, A.K.A. Cyborg, and Keren Beecher Stone, A.K.A. Bumble Bee, who is a hybrid just like his adoptive father with all the gadgets and weapons necessary to take out the enemies. Impulse, the son of Jessica Allen, A.K.A. Jinx, and Bart Allen, A.K.A. Kid Flash, who has both speed and bad luck hexes. Hyper Blaster, an Ulter User from the Lost Ground that can turn two of his arms into assault cannons and the top right of his face into a targeting sensor. And Souichiro Jr., son of Souichiro Nagi Natsume and Aya Natsume, who is the master of the samurai sword and can control the chi of the wind. Together, this team battle criminals, masterminds, and dangerous enemies, old and new. And for Nightfire, it was a dream come true. After all the years of training and working hard, she finally made it to become the leader of her team. She had everything she ever dreamed off, well almost everything. She still missed her father so much and was trying to find a way to head back at time and prevent his murder. She didn't get any luck, but she won't give up until she finds a way. It's like she's on top of the world, but who know that one day that that world will start crumbling down around her.
It was a peaceful day in Jump City and no danger was a foot. At Murakami High, everything was dull and boring as usual. Inside one of the classrooms, Nightfire and Angel sitting at their desks, separate from each other, learning about world history 101. They're wearing the lousy school uniforms that were white plain button T-shirts, black neckties, blue short skirts, and marry Jane shoes with long white socks. Of course Angel, being the rebel that she is, modified her uniform by ripping her shoulder sleeves, have fingerless gloves on her hands, and black fishnet stocking that go down her legs. It's a known fact that when the Titan kids were born, their parents signed them to different schools for them to have a learning experience. And since they will continue to fight for truth, justice, and the last slice of pizza, they still have to get an education. But the best part of it was that when there's an emergency, the new Titans would leave school immediately to stop the bad guys and hurry back before the class is over. Now that's a good excuse to leave. Anyways, they were all learning about how World War 2 ended when American troops bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. But Night wasn't paying attention to it at all; instead, she was gazing at the window next to her watching the view from outside. She is going to meet someone after school and was thinking about what she's going to say. But just as she was in deep thought, the teacher broke it.
Teacher: "Ms. Anders."
Night reverted away from the window and looked at her teacher, Samantha Simpson. She is a very intelligent woman who lives in Beverly Hills in LA, quite close to Jump City. She has long flowing orange hair, sparkling green eyes with special reading glasses over them, tight cheekbones, and wearing classy suit with a long smooth skirt for school purposes.
Nightfire: "Yes Mrs. Simpson?"
Mrs. Simpson: "I know this is your last class today, but you should keep your eyes on the books instead of the window and pay attention before the final bell rings."
She quickly obeyed the teacher's orders and went back to her history book while few of the students snickered about it. Just as things were back to normal, the school bell rings. Samantha, or Sam for short, looked at the clock that reads "3:00", then sighed and look at the class.
Mrs. Simpson: "Oh well, time flies when you're having an education. Have a nice weekend class. Don't forget to read pages 205 to 220 on your history textbooks, there's going to be a pop quiz on Monday."
Everyone in the class moaned except for Nightfire then got up from their seats and left the classroom with their books in hand. Nightfire was about to leave when her teacher stopped her from heading to the exit.
Mrs. Simpson: "Ms. Anders, I need to have a word from you for a moment?"
Nightfire looked at her suspiciously then looked at Angel that was lifting her elbows up as a sign that says, "I don't know." Night looked back at the teacher, swallowed a lump, and walked to Sam's desk while Angel left class and waited for her at the locker area.
Nightfire: "Yes Mrs. Simpson?"
Sam removed her reading glasses and rubbed the temples of her head. She then lifted her head up to look at Night.
Mrs. Simpson: "Tori, how long have I known you in this class?"
Tori looked at her oddly then answered her question.
Nightfire: "Two years."
Mrs. Simpson: "And when have you ever made a mistake in this classroom?"
Nightfire: "Never maam."
Mrs. Simpson: "Then why were you starring out of the window the whole period?"
Now Night was getting nervous as she tried to give her an explanation.
Nightfire: "I was thinking about something I have to do today."
Mrs. Simpson: "I see… Well if you want to think about something, try doing it at recess then in the classroom. This isn't you."
Nightfire bowed her head down in shame, but for Sam started to reason with the half-breed.
Mrs. Simpson: "Tori, you are a bright and strong woman. Heck, you kind of remind me of me when I was in high school. You can't just let your mind get in the way of something like this. You know that."
Night looked back at her teacher, trying to explain it to her.
Nightfire: "I know, I know. But for me, this something in my head has been haunting me like oh… a long time."
Sam got up from her chair, walked over to her student, and her hands on Nightfire's shoulders.
Mrs. Simpson: "Listen to me Tori. If this something is a problem you're facing, you should confront it and never let it haunt you for the rest of your life. I had to face these types of problems when I was young, but I was able to overcome them."
Nightfire: "Gee, sounds like you had a very complicated life."
Sam had an anime sweat drop coming down her head as she remembered her time being a super spy with her friends, Clover and Alex.
Mrs. Simpson: "Uh… Yeah. You could say that. What I'm trying to say is that you can't let this problem get in the way of your work. You must solve this problem and get it out of your head once and for all. So that way you can continue on with you life without a care in the world. Do you understand?"
Nightfire gave out a small but simple nod.
Mrs. Simpson: "Good, now go home and study for the quiz Monday. I'm expecting you to get an A on it when you get back."
Night nodded again then left the classroom while Sam waves a goodbye to her. Nightfire just sighed and continued on walking to where her friend is waiting for her.
Minutes later in the school hallway, both Nightfire and Angel were walking down it. Night was talking to her friend what transpired with her and the teacher today.
Nightfire: "And then she said that I have to solve my problem, to confront it. Huh… Easier said then done. I've been suffering from this damn situation ever since I was born."
Angel: "Well you should've just paid attention to what Ms. Simpson was talking about instead of staring blankly at the view outside."
Night's eyes looked at Angel with a small smirk on her face.
Nightfire: "Looks like someone is turning into a teacher's pet."
Angel did the same look to Night.
Angel: "Takes one to know one."
The two friends chuckled a little then sighed in relief.
Angel: "So what were you thinking about back there?"
Nightfire's smile turned into a frown as she had her head down for a moment.
Nightfire: "I was thinking about meeting him again."
Angel made an immediate stop and looked at her friend in total shock.
Angel: "What? You're going to see him again, so soon? Don't you think it's getting a little early for all that?"
Tori stopped and turned her head to her friend's face with a serious look on it.
Nightfire: "I know it's too early. But there are some things I have to get off my chest and I don't know who to turn to."
Angel: "Why don't you talk to your mom?"
Nightfire: "And get bored to death with her stories about her planet, or those long poems she reads that last all day? I don't think so. He's the one I need to speak to privately and I don't want anyone else get in the way."
Angel: "But don't you think you should wait until Sunday to visit him? I mean it's a good day to visit."
Nightfire: "As much as I anticipate it, I'll take my chances today and see him. Besides, if I ever get a chance to visit, the alarm will sound and soon we have to go on missions that will last hours. I'll never have time to meet him. I thought now would be a good time to do it before an emergency comes up."
Nightfire smiled and winked at Angel. Then she walked away from her, letting her look at her friend in confusion.
Angel: "Hey where are you going?"
Without even looking back at Angela, Night answered.
Nightfire: "I'm going to meet up with a friend of mine that's taking care of something for me before I can head to the usual place. When I'm done with my business I'll come back to the Tower. I have the T-Cell so incase something comes up, you call me. See ya Angel!"
Angel: "I'll see you back at the Tower Night!"
She waved a goodbye to her friend as she watched Night disappear through a crowd of students. She then sighed, placed her hand into the shirt pocket, and took out a T-Cell. The T-Cell is not like the Titans Communicator the original Titans had, this was more advance. It looked like a cell phone but has technology to make it both a phone and a walkie-talkie between and during missions. It's light as a feather and thin like a blade with a metallic blue and silver exterior and the Titans logo on the front of it. Plus, after what the Brotherhood did a long time ago, these cells are locked tight so that no one will intercept their communications. Angle flipped it open, went to phonebook of the screen, clicked on the "Tower" option, and pressed send. After waiting for a few seconds, someone picked it up.
Angel: "Hi mom, it's me Angel. I was wondering if everything is ready for today?" … "Oh good, well you have to wait for a little while. Nightfire's visiting someone." … "Yeah, that's him. I just don't get why she has to do it? It's so ridiculous." … "I know her life is complicated and all but she really needs to get with the picture if she knows what's good for her." … "Can I ask you a question?" … "Why are we doing this so early?"
There was a long pause in the whole thing and Angel listened in on the person from the other line.
Angel: "O.K. fine, I understand it. But if whatever her mother is trying to hide from her, Aunt Kori has to tell all of us cause we're her friends. Got it?" … "Good. Well I should be heading back to the Tower right now, so I'll see you soon." … "Bye mom."
Angel hung up the phone and shook her head.
Angel: "Damn it! What's Grandma Kori keeping that's so important? It has to be good."
She then continued walking to get out of the school.
In one of the classrooms a seventeen year old boy that goes by the name of Ben Tennyson, was sitting on his desk reading a comic book he recently buyed. He had messy brown hair, yellowish green eyes, and wearing the same school uniform only this time, he's has blue pants instead of a skirt and sneakers. But the one thing that different about him was the strange watch he has attached to his left wrist. It was black with a metallic gray wires, green balls on the sides, and a face like dial that had a green hourglass shape to it. What all the students didn't know is that his watch is actually an alien device called the Omnitrix. And that device can let Ben take the form of ten different aliens and became a mysterious hero know one knows, not even Nightfire herself. He was getting to the best part of his comic when he heard a familiar voice.
Nightfire: "Hey Ben!"
Benjamin let down his comic and saw Nightfire standing outside the doorway of the classroom. Ben smiled, placed his comic on his desk, and stood up from his seat. It's a possible fact that both he and Tori had been great friends ever since they were in grade school, after seeing Night floating outside his window since they were five.
Ben: "Hey Tori, how was your day?"
Nightfire: "Fine, fine. What about you, trying to learn so far?"
She looked at the comic on the desk and smirked at him knowingly. Ben looked back at the comic and started to get a little nervous, but kept his cool.
Ben: "Oh well you know, I'm working around the clock being the best like you."
Nightfire hopelessly sighed.
Nightfire: "Ben, you have to study hard so you can be ready for the future. Maybe you can borrow some notes from your cousin."
Ben: "Who Gwen? That girl nothing but trouble to me. I can't believe I have to share a room with her. I can't go near her, let alone stand her."
Nightfire: "Well you may never know. She can help you out in a big way. Anyways, have you been taking care of my personnel belongings?"
Ben: "Of course, I've been taking care of it for the whole school day. It's sitting by the window, over there."
Ben pointed to where this special belonging is, while Nightfire looked at it and smiled. The personnel belongings were a bouquet of red roses in a watered filled vase she gathered in the garden outside Titans Tower. She gathered and watered these roses for a special occasion and she can't be there without them. She walked into the classroom, approached the window, and picked up the vase. Night then looked back at Ben, still smiling.
Nightfire: "Thanks Ben, you're a sure lifesaver."
Ben: "Eh… Don't mention it. I have my ways taking care of things. So what's the occasion with those roses? Did you find a new boyfriend?"
Nightfire: "What? Oh no, no way! I don't have a boyfriend! I just visiting someone I never got a chance to meet that's all."
Ben: "Right… You're "visiting" someone. That's sure a dead giveaway."
Nightfire stared at Ben with ice daggers coming out of her eyes.
Nightfire: "Don't get all romantic on me Ben, for me and my team, its missions first, free time later."
She walked past him and was about to head out the door, when suddenly…
Ben: "Hey Nightfire."
Night turn around a looked at Ben, since he knows her hero name when they became friends.
Nightfire: "Yeah Ben."
Ben: "I was just wondering. Since this it the weekend and all I was thinking that you and me could go to the movies and watch a sci-fi flick together on Sunday. What so you say."
Nightfire gave it some thought then gave him the answer.
Nightfire: "Well I could be busy with my team, but I'll see if I can find an opening for it.
Ben: "Cool! I'll check the schedule and call you to see if you can be there. See ya Tori!"
Nightfire: "Yeah, see you."
She waved a goodbye to him and left the classroom in a hurry. Ben waved a goodbye the second she left, then sighed at her strange behavior.
Ben: "I wonder what's so important about this person that she has to bring some dumb flowers?"
Minutes later, Nightfire was soaring through the sky and over the city, hoping no one notices her in her school uniform. She was holding the bouquet of flowers after she removed them from the vase and held them tight, not letting go of them. When she made it to her destination, she safely landed on the soft ground and then looked up at an open iron gate with sign on top that says, "Jump City Cemetery". Taking a deep breath, she slowly walked through the gate and entered the cemetery, looking around for something. Finally, she spotted a lonely grave on top of a hill. She slowly walked up to the hill until the grave was closer. When she made it, she saw the grave in full view. It was covered in a few vines and the tombstone looks a little cracked, but the words are still visible to her. She looked at it and traced each word with her single finger. This tombstone states:
Timothy "Robin" Drake
1988-2005
A Teen Titan
A Brave Leader
A Dear Friend
Soar into the Heavens our Robin
Nightfire looked at the grave for what seem to be like forever until she slowly walk step by step until she reached the dirt rectangular ground covered with a few flower, real and fake. She looked down at the tombstone, then carefully placed the bouquet of flowers she has on the empty space in front of the stone tablet. Ever since her mom told her the truth, Starfire took her to the cemetery where Robin laid to rest a long time ago. And when she was growing up, she always visit's her father's grave once or twice a month. And most of the time, she talks about personal things she can't tell anyone, especially her mother, but to the tombstone like her father was real. Once she stood up, she started talking.
Nightfire: "Hey dad, how are you doing? I know it's early and all but I thought I talk to you about something real quick cause I know mom would think to it differently. I hope I'm not wasting your time."
She sat down with her legs crossed in an Indian way in front of the grave and continued talking.
Nightfire: "Well, for starters, things are going well for me as always. My grades are still good at school but one of the teacher's were talking to me about what I did in history, saying that I was spacing out. Well I wasn't spacing out, I was thinking about you."
There was a moment of silence until Night started to admit it.
Nightfire: "O.K., so maybe that counts as spacing out but still I just wanted to speak to you. I mean, being a leader of the team, my friends are a little suspicious about my behavior to you. Once we were on a mission to stop Steamroller from stealing thirty to forty gallons of oil. Just when we were about to defeat him, my mind just got blank for the moment. Then when I snapped out of it, I saw a tanker soaring at me. I was lucky that Angel teleported me to safety or that would've been the end of me. Hell, I would've met you in Heaven and we would've had this type of talk. And before you could ask that question, yes I was thinking about you. Always has been, always will be. Every time I sleep, I always dream about you, touching you for the first time, hugging you for the first time, hearing you for the first time. Heh heh… Listen to me; I'm starting to sound like my mother. And speaking of which, there's a real reason why I'm here."
She gave off a sigh out of her mouth then explained why she's here.
Nightfire: "Sometime ago, when I was visiting mom in her apartment complex, I heard her talking to grandpa Galfore on her interplanetary comm. I didn't hear what they're saying, but I heard their voices. I seems that Grandpa Galfore sounded a little weak and they were talking serious. But before I got a chance to know what they're saying, mom heard me and immediately turned off the comm. I don't know what's going on but I could tell that the two of them are hiding something from me. And for some reason, I think it has something to do with me."
She stood up, walked a little closer to the grave, and placed her hand on the stone cold surface.
Nightfire: "I miss you so much daddy. If you were alive today, then I wouldn't be like this, so lonely without a father, so empty. Heck, I'm pretty sure mom is feeling the same way. I'm still trying to find a way to head back in time and prevent your murder but I'm still having a hard time looking through the archives and Aunt Raven's spell books to find one. But I promise, from the bottom of my heart, when I go back in time, I will personally put an end to Johnny's reign. And when that happens, you will come back to life and you, me, a mom will be a complete and happy family."
She gently soothed the top of the grave as a tear slowly came down the left side of her cheek. She quickly wiped the tear out of her face, turned around, and left her father's tombstone. But before she was going to leave, she looked back at the tombstone and said her goodbye.
Nightfire: "Sorry I can't stay for long, but I have to head back to Titans Tower before my friends think I was buried next to you. Bye dad, I'll see you next time."
She put her hand up to her lips and kissed it. Once she did that, she poised her hand in front of her and blew a kiss to the tombstone. When she was finished, she lifted up off the ground and flew to the sky, heading home. A few minutes after she was gone, a white dove landed gently on the tombstone and chirped a happy melody after this sad moment.
That's the end of chapter sixteen. I know it's a bit sad at the end but I have to keep the mood of the story well adept. And if you're wondering about the Impulse character from the original Titans, I have to find a character that can make a good member of the future Titans. So if anyone doesn't like my decision, whatever you do, don't flame me. Now this chapter is just the first part of what's to come. On the next chapter, Nightfire gets an unexpected surprise, both good and bad. You won't know until I update again. So please review me.