Disclaimer: Teen Titans is not mine.
Summary: After losing her powers, Starfire feels she cannot be part of the Teen Titans anymore. She leaves the team of teenage heroes to live a normal life like a normal girl. But Robin shows her that powers do not make a hero.
The island seemed so far away all of a sudden. The giant 'T' seemed to be laughing at her now with its bold black and white colors as it towered over her in size. She used to be able to fly over the tower; suppressing the mocking size of her home. But now she could not fly. Here she was now standing on city grounds with even more buildings mocking her. She had never noticed how tall the buildings and suddenly she compared their size to the Titans Tower. They were nothing. Small. That meant, that she was even smaller than she thought. She looked up at the sky. It was still a beautiful blue with no clouds in sight. A sigh escaped her lips. Even the sky seemed to be laughing at her.
"Goodbye, friends and dear Robin." With her back facing the twentieth letter, T, she started pacing with one foot in front of the other.
The city seemed different. This was a citizen's view of their city, not a superhero's. People walked on the streets with their children or their pets. Cars honked at each other and sometimes pedestrians who got in their way.
As she walked the streets with the pre-school looking bag that she took to Tokyo that somehow managed to hold all her similar purple attires slung on a shoulder, the Tamaranian passed a jewelry store that caught her attention. On a window, a purple gem shined brightly from inside the store. She walked inside and asked to see the purple stone attached to a golden rope. Her body started to ache from the inside at the moment her hand contacted the stone. She remembered the stone that was inside of her and gasped. Could it be, she wondered, could it be the answer to her problem?
"Please, what is this?" Starfire asked the jeweler.
The lady smiled. "This? It has quite a story. This stone right here is the Stone of Usnarot. It was found by the Justice League in space!" She emphasized on 'in space'. "Batman ordered it to be sent here in Jump City! Goodness knows what goes on in that man's mind. Out of all places, why send it to Jump City? But he's too brilliant to defy his judgments. I'm guessing it must be special as if it holds magical powers or something."
"I see. This necklace is then, expensive, yes?"
"You bet,"
"How much of the green paper do you necessitate so that I may purchase this purple stone"
"Honey, you're a dear, but I don't think you can afford it. It's pretty expensive."
"But, I require this stone. How much? I offer my paper money of," she paused to take out the only money she had, "uh, twenty?"
Clearly, she still did not have a clear understanding of the currency.
"Sorry, sweetie. That's not enough. Not even close."
The jeweler took hold of the necklace and returned it to its place on the window.
A man looking to be about in his late thirties watched the whole scene. He had been at the store to buy his wife a gift when he overheard the jeweler and a customer converse. "That's a mighty fine looking necklace. I'm sure it would look mighty nice on a pretty girl like you."
Starfire smiled with her mouth open and her eyes glittered. "Truly? Then you will purchase it for me?"
He laughed and laughed to prove that his big belly could dance. "Pretty and funny. I like it." He looked at the alien who had a disapproving smile on her face. "No, I'm not going to buy that for you. But, I could help you get it."
Starfire's hopes seemed to rise all of a sudden. But soon it quickly descended. "How so?"
"Look, I don't know how you don't know who I am but I'm Jump City's well-known model agent. And I can make you a model. You've got the looks, the height, and you look just like that Titan: Starfire."
"I,"
"Don't worry, I know. I know that you're not her. But, that's ok. So, what do you say? Do we have a deal? You'll get paid and you can just model for us until you have enough money to buy this pretty necklace you want."
If it was the only way to get the necklace, "I accept." And they shook hands on it.
"So, what's your name?"
Starfire thought. She could not give her name Starfire as she would just get laughed at or maybe punished for impersonating one of the city's greatest hero even though she was the real Starfire.
"I, well, you see, I…"
"Spill it, girl."
"Koriand'r," she said as that was the first thing that came to her mind. She was not really lying as that was her real name and was called that in her home planet of Tamaran.
"Kory? Anders?" The agent repeated what he thought he heard.
Starfire nodded unsuringly.
The man shrugged and took out paper out of his suitcase and handed it to her with a pen.
And Kory Anders came to be Jump City's newest model.
Kory was immediately signed for the JC Fashion Corporation and was already asked to model for the following fashion show scheduled to happen within the week. Though still unsure of this idea, the alien was determined to get the necklace.
The week passed by rather quickly for the models of Fashion Corp., as it was now the fashion show. Heroes Fashion Week.
Kory's long and straight reddish auburn hair had been transformed and hair sprayed to two buns with one on each side of her head. Her bangs were blow dried so that it poofed more across her forehead as side swept bangs. Extra hairs that were left out were curled lightly and loosely. Instead of wearing her usual purple hero outfit, she had on lavender satin, kimono-like dress that fit her rather tightly. Luckily for her, her abs were tight and did not bloat. The dress went up to her knees but there was a slit that opened up from the middle thigh, which flung the dress. She was made boots identical to her long ones but the one she wore now were only long from the bottom of her knees to her toes. She was accessorized with a few silver bangles and earrings.
"Please, this is a 'hero's outfit'?" She asked her dresser. She had never worn so much stuff as a heroine.
"No, of course not. It's just a style. Now, go over there. You're about to go. Go, go!" the fashion designer replied, pushing her away.
But Kory Anders never had a chance to walk as an explosion sounded leaving people to wonder what was going on. By the second explosion, the audience was panicking. The third explosion came and screams started along with feet shuffling the floors as people ran to find an exit.
The explosions were an unusual violet color. Blackfire.
"Don't you look pretty, sister dear!"
Kory gasped. "Sister? What are you doing here?"
"Don't you miss me?"
Blackfire immediately flew down towards her sister and tackled her to the floor, slightly messing up her hair. Her hands contacted her neck and she added pressure. "I just wanted to talk."
"A-About w-what?" Kory asked through pain.
"I don't know. Things like how you won't be missed when you're gone. How foolish you were to fall for this plan."
"What plan?"
"The plan where Kitten and I joined together to bring you down."
"How- sister, how-h-ow could y-you?"
"It was easy. We learned how you and Robin got together and we did not like that at all. As a matter of a fact, I just don't like you. Kitten was madder because she was obsessed with that guy. But, whatever. We just knew that we had to take you down. So, we made a plan. When I was about to be a Titan, you were going to leave because you thought you'd be useless. I knew you'd leave again if you thought you were useless. What better way to do that than make you into an earthling with the Stone of Toransu. And the plan worked! You left like we thought you would. Now all that's left for me to do is finish you off. Kitten can have her guy and I can have my revenge."
"H-how did yo-you receive the s-stone?" Kory started to cough as she started feeling heavy headed.
"I was on Earth when your ship crashed. I went on the ship that was to take you to the Citadel and found it there. I've kept it since. Aren't you tired of talking yet?"
There was no response.
Blackfire smirked, letting go of her hold on her sister's neck. "This agency's closed."
She flew outside and started throwing her purple starbolts around to celebrate her victory. Or, the victory she thought she had.
Kory opened an eye and checked to see if her sister was there. When she appeared out of sight, Kory coughed and coughed from being strangled and holding her breath for so long to fake her death. She knew that was the only way she'd rid of her sister. She stood back on her two shaky legs and started to walk. The walls were crumbling and roof was on the verge of falling. Blackfire was shooting the building. Before she arrived outside, however, the shooting ceased. This gave her enough time to notice a few people left inside the building and allowed her to help them get out. It must have taken a good ten minutes by the time only she was left inside. She walked out the door only to have her heart skip a beat.
The Teen Titans were standing around watching Blackfire being taken away. They must have stopped her while I was feigning sleep and assisting others, she figured. But what shocked her the most was that in front of her was Robin. Her Robin. He was holding a guy up by the collar with anger expressed all over his masked face. She had heard the guy talk about him asking her out but she shook it off.
"Stop!"
Faces turned towards the voice. A mask met green eyes with make-up. And they stayed like so for a time.
"Star…"
Kory turned away and ran.
To Be Continued
Well, there's Starfire's side of this.
I hope you enjoyed it. It's not as good as I had hope (because I was typing pretty late at night) but due to the following reasons, I had to update:
1. PMs on me updating
2. Finals: it was either now or after. And, I didn't to have you all wait, now did I?
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