Authors note: Okay here is chapter three and I am sooo sorry to some people who actually care about my baby (aka my story) because my stupid brother deleted my first two chappies off fanfic and then he deleted my third chapter so sorry about the delay. Okay in this chapter I won't be talking about Raven or Koriand'r but I will be talking a bit about Victor and Garfield. But mainly it's only about Richard, so hope you guys like it whoever you are and puuhhhhhhhlease review! And if I make a mistake puuhhhhhhhhhlease tell me! Thank you now let's proceed with the story.
Chapter 3: Sheltered – Life after death
Young Richard was traumatized, no child should have to witness their own parent's death. Richard was so confused when "it" happened first the crowd kept an uncomfortable silence and then chaos, wildness. Everyone started running so he did too he just kept running and then all of a sudden he stopped, he finally absorbed what had happened. But he kept on walking hoping he could get away and everything would be back to normal. His head was out of control and his heart was thumping out of his chest. A tear trickled down his cheek.
'It couldn't of happened they're my parents they can't die. If you just warned your parents in time this wouldn't of happened,' Richard scolded himself.
"This must be a dream." Richard stopped he had ended up in front this huge sign in front of the ancient church. On the rusty metal sign the words Sacred Heart Catholic Church, School and Orphanage were engraved. Richard went into the church it was dimly lit by candles, the place looked deserted.
'Maybe I could stay here I mean it's not like anyone lives in this dump,' Richard said to himself.
"Who goes there!" A female voice shouted. The woman finally appeared wearing an overlay, white hood, habit, bib and belt. Richard then realized she was a nun.
"Ahh!" Richard screamed.
"Ahh it's a child I simply must wake up Sister Maria she'll be delighted."
"Come child you must be very hungry! Oh and I haven't told you my name, how rude of me isn't it. Well my name is Sister Cecile." The nun led Richard to a huge room with many tables. Then the nun then gave Richard some bread, cheese and water and left to do something else.
Richard sat there chewing on the crispy bread and sipping his water. It all seemed like a dream, him ending up at a church, him being rescued by a nun. "Child here comes Sister Maria," Sister Cecile pointed her hand at an old woman indicating her presence.
"Now child what are you doing here." Sister Maria said. Then he told her about what had just happened to him. "Come child you must meet the others," Sister Maria said softly. "They are very like you." She brought him to a huge room with many beds but only a few were occupied. All the children were sleeping, there were four boys and three girls.
"Here is Rebecca," Sister Maria pointed to an African American with black hair. "Nicole," Nicole had black hair and she looked Asian. "Skye." Skye was a twisting and turning on her bed shenhad light brown, curly hair.
Then Sister Maria moved on to the boys.
"Victor," He was huge compared to Robin not in a fat way a well built and tall way. "Garfield," Richard thought that the boy was very tiny compared to him and even his parents said he was very tiny himself for his age. The boy was very strange he had green skin and he was talking in his sleep. "Oscar," Oscar looked very nerdy he had freckles and light brown hair. And on his side table there was his glasses, he was awkwardly tall even taller than Victor. "And finally Newton," Sister Maria whispered. Newton was an albino and was quite skinny he was tossing and turning on his bed.
"You will be able to meet your new friends tomorrow."
"Thank you madam..uh..uhm…… Sister Maria."
"Goodnight Richard."
Next morning Rebecca, Victor, Nicole and Skye woke up early and they formed a mini circle around the stranger.
"What is he?" Rebecca inquired poking Richard in his stomach.
"Duh! A human," answered Victor.
"I was just asking," Rebecca then burst into tears.
They then moved away from Richard fearing waking him up and getting into trouble with one of the nuns.
"Did you have to say that!" Nicole scolded Victor.
"No."
"So… apologise."
"No!"
"Apologise!"
"Okay…… ok chee calm down already. Sss… sorry Bee."
"It's okay," Rebecca replied still sniffling from her little breakdown. "I know you didn't mean it."
"Ahh!" screamed Garfield.
"Victor!" Yelled Nicole.
"What I ain't done nothin'."
"Yes you did you just screamed." Nicole said in a doubtful voice.
"Well little miss smarty-pants looks like you aint that smart after all, cause I wasn't the one screaming."
"Oh no no no Victor I know you, you're the kind of person who likes to get nice people like me into trouble. I'm just listening to Sister Cecile who told us to be quiet for our classmates who aren't early birds."
"Oh…yeah but it ain't me who screamed but actually our little sleeping beast over there!" Victor said pointing at the little, green, sleeping fella.
"Well sorry… it's just that you always get in trouble so I just assumed" Nicole said sarcastically
A dark shadow appeared on Victor's face. He didn't like to be reminded about him being a trouble maker. It was him being a trouble maker which got him into this orphanage. Although really he was only half an orphan because his father was still alive. But he was still put in this orphanage/school/church by his father because his father said he couldn't look after him. The dark shadow quickly disappeared as quickly as it appeared, "Hey you bi..."
"Beautiful angelic creature who I worship a lot," said a pretty young girl.
"Thank you Skye at least someone here is nice," Nicole said sarcastically.
"Good morning," Richard yawned.
"Ahh!" All of them screamed waking up Oscar and Newton but not Garfield.
"Who are you," exclaimed all of them.
"I'm Ri…"
"Gimme one more minute Sister Cecile," moaned Garfield.
"Typical," Victor, Nicole, Skye and Rebecca all said in unison.
"Jinx," Nicole said quickly.
"Always the smart one Nicole," Victor said sarcastically.
"Hey!" Nicole said in a hurt voice.
"Sorry did I hurt you baby."
"Victor!"
"What!"
"Uhm don't want to spoil your moment… but my name is Richard and I hope we can be friends."
"Great, another polite one," Victor complained.
"It's a good thing Victor," Skye said annoyed.
"So!"
"Anyway my name is Skye."
"And I am Nicole."
Richard blushed to an unnatural scarlet.
"Man he ain't blushin' is he? Don't tell me he's shy also."
"Victor!" Nicole and Skye said in unison
"Well… I guess we should introduce ourselves." Rebecca said
"Hey isn't your turn today to wake up the sleeping beast."
"Yup." Rebecca replied putting on her famous puppy eyes.
"So ain't ya going to wake him?"
"Already have."
"Okay who's turn was it to wake me up today." Garfield said angrily
"Me!" Rebecca beamed with pride.
"Wow, the sleeping beast looks angry what did ya do?" Victor inquired
"I threw a bucket of water on him."
"Man she got you good I got to remember this," Victor chuckled happily as Rebecca blushed with pride.
"Hey don't be so mean to Garfield!" Nicole said defensively.
"Hey don't call me Cyborg." Victor said angrily.
"I'm sorry," Nicole said seriously. "I didn't mean to make you angry."
"Shouldn't we introduce ourselves to…?" Rebecca interrupted everyone.
"Richard."
"Thank you Richard, yes shouldn't we introduce ourselves to him?" Rebecca questioned everyone.
"But we don't know anything about each other either so what makes him so special that we should have to tell him about ourselves?" Questioned Newton.
"Nothing is special about him it's just I thought it would be nice for us to have a little uh..never mind it is up to you if you want to tell everyone," Rebecca asked. "You don't have to say anything personal."
"Well since your sooo keen to introduce yourself Rebecca," Victor said sarcastically. "You can go first.
"What!"
"We're waitin'," said Victor teasingly.
"Okay, ok I was born in Gotham City my family wasn't rich we owned a little second hand bookstore and I loved it. My brother hanged with the wrong crowd, doing drugs, drinking and smoking and he owed a lot of money to drug dealers. Then one day our little bookstore was set on fire by the drug dealers and that was the last I saw of my big brother, mother and father. A kind elderly woman found me under all the debris and took me to the hospital she looked after me for nine months and then she died. I was then taken here it's no palace but it's something."
"Wow I didn't think you had suffered as much as me. I always thought you had a happy life since you were always so cheerful and happy," Nicole said sympathetically. "I was born in Japan my parents were very rich and respected citizens. One day when I was seven I told them I wanted to be an air stewardess when I grew up. So they took me around the world, I went to Korea, China, New Zealand, Australia, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Africa, Brazil, Mexico everywhere. And then it was time for our final destination America but my parents never landed in America alive," Nicole's eyes started watering. "We crashed in Gotham City I only managed to be alive to this day because…"
"Because of what?" Richard asked anxiously.
"The Batman," Nicole answered.
"Who is he?" Richard asked interested by the subject.
"He is Gotham City's greatest and only superhero, how come you don't know him."
"I'm not from here we used to travel around the world a lot because my parents were acrobats. They were just murdered yesterday because the circus owner didn't want to pay a sum of money to someone. I saw them die right in front of me and then I ran and ended up here and Sister Cecile found me."
"So it's been a pretty rough week for you then," Skye said sympathetically.
"I guess you could say that, all I want right now is for my parents to be alive."
"You know what.. that was the same thing I said when my parents died," said Skye gravely. "I was born in Metropolis. My father was an architect and my mother was a lawyer. Everything changed one day when my dad got promoted. My parents went out to celebrate and I was left with a baby sitter. My parents took forever to come back and they never did. They were murdered along with another couple."
"Skye you never told me your parents were murdered," whispered Nicole. "Otherwise I…"
"You would have treated me differently," Skye said finishing Nicole's sentence. "It's okay Nicky I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to treat me differently."
"I guess you could say I'm luckier than you guys because my parents aren't dead," Oscar interrupted. "My parents were both from really rich French families. I was a love child, they managed to keep me a secret for eight years until some rumours surfaced that I existed and I was shipped of to America."
"Wow you're French, you never told me!" Newton exclaimed.
"Well it's not something I like to talk about... how about you, why are you here."
"I have been here ever since I was three years old I don't know who my parents are but I know they probably dumped me here because of my scary red eyes. I hate them!"
"I was lucky unlike you Newton, my parents were the best parents ever they were scientist we were a close knit family. My parents brought me up in a village in Africa because they were doing a study on African animals. Africa was cool there were all these beautiful animals. We lived there peacefully but one day I caught a rare tropical disease. My parents then invented a cure but the cure was untested I recovered but the cure left my skin green. Several years later, my parents died in a boating accident, I still feel that I could have prevented it. After the death of my parents, I was raised by King Tawaba a friend of my parents. One day two men came for me saying that I was needed in America. The two men were actually kidnappers and they said that I was actually an heir to a large fortune and they wanted my money but police found them and apparently they were being wanted for a string of murders. Then I found out that I had a grandfather. My grandfather found out about me and apparently he didn't know he had a grandson. So then I lived with him in his mansion for six months. But one day he died and the court sent me to this church/school/orphanage. And until I am sixteen I will not be able to touch the fortune my parents and grandfather left for me. Well that's basically my life how about you Cyborg, why are you here and why are you half robot?"
"Well my name is Victor Stone," Victor said angrily. "Not Cyborg."
"But it is a fact, you are a cyborg,' Oscar said in a professor like voice. "A Cyborg in the dictionary is a human who has certain physiological processes aided or controlled by mechanical or electronic devices."
"Yeah, yeah whateva... my parents were scientists all they cared about was science and at times I thought I was even jealous of science. Then one day my mother was driving me to school then BOOM our car was upside down and then black out. My dad apparently said I was about to die when he remembered a new experiment he and my mum had invented, it was an untested cybernetic technology. My dad used it to rebuild my body with a frame of enforced molybdenum steel, special polymers and plastics. My mother though my dad tried couldn't be saved. I was a difficult child always having to move schools then one day my dad gave up hope. He said he couldn't help anymore"
"Victor has an IQ of 150." Rebecca said proudly.
"No I don't."
"Yes you do you told me so yourself."
"I told you I had an IQ of 170."
"Oh sorry I forgot."
"It's okay Bee..."
"Dude what do you think of Sister Cecile is she da bomb or is she da bomb. She's pretty and kind…" Garfield said drooling uncontrollably.
"Sorry to spoil your moment Gar but Sister Cecile is a nun and she can't get married and anyway she is wwaaaaay to old for you." Nicole said sarcastically.
"Hey no fair, oh well at least I can still dream."
"Yeah Gar you go and do your D and D and if you don't know what that stands for it means dreaming and drooling." Nicole said playfully.
Brriiiiiiing.
"Breakfast." Sister Cecile yelled sweetly.
"Richard." Skye whispered quietly.
"Yes."
"If you need a shoulder to cry on just ask me ok?"
"Uh… thanks I will."
Authors note: Okay you like REVIEW NOW! The next chapter is probably going to be about our Teen Titans girls. Will they meet? Stay tuned and keep your eyes peeled for the next chappie.
Hasta Lavista.
