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Chapter 16: Chapter 16
Hehe, couldn't think of a name for this chapter. Oh well, (Shrugs shoulders) what are ya gonna do.
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"Kariand'r! Kariand'r, where the hell are you? Kari—WHOA!" Mar'i cried almost loosing her ability to fly but got her balance back. She flew around the city searching high and low for her sister but couldn't find even a small glimpse of her. She growled in frustration and decided, landing on top of a business building taking a breather.
She looked up at the sky breathing in and out thinking about when Kariand'r and her went up against Deathstroke. She looked back at her injured shoulder, which was now on the verge of healing.
She sighed. "Wherever you are Kariand'r, I just hope you're not up against Deathstroke and if you're not, then watch your back cause when I find you I'm kicking your ass for flying off like this." She said walking off about to fly off into the night once more until she felt a presence behind her. She turned and saw a dark figure standing in the shadows.
Mar'i raised her hands ready to fight glaring up at the mysterious figure. "Show yourself!" She commanded, her eyes glowing a bright green.
"Chill out Mar'i, it's only me." The dark figure stated stepping out of the murkiness of the night. Shadow.
"Oh great, as if I didn't have enough problems." Mar'i groaned.
Shadow slapped his hand on his chest giving Mar'i a dramatic facial expression that showed pain. "Ouch. You burned me."
Mar'i rolled her eyes shaking her head. "What do you want? As you witnessed a while ago, I'm trying to look for Kariand'r so if you don't mind, I'd really like you to leave." She told him.
"Damn, you're a really icy chick aren't you?" He said walking towards her. Mar'i gave him a death glare turning her head away from his presence holding her arms across her chest looking snooty.
Shadow gave out a frustrated sigh rubbing the back of his neck. "Listen Mar'i, what I said back there, you know, when we first met, I didn't mean it. Like I said, I was really angry and frustrated and in a really cranky mood but—"
"I don't have time to listen to a broken record." Mar'i spat flying off. Shadow watched her fly into the air and decided to follow her.
When he caught up with Mar'i, she turned and saw him flying next to her. "Leave me alone! I told you, I'm trying to find my sister and really don't need some stupid guy in a black cloak following me."
"Well if you'd just let me apologize to you I'd let you be but you keep on ignoring me!" He yelled.
"To think after doing that for I don't know how many times you'd finally get the hint and leave me the hell alone!" She yelled giving him a penetrating glare.
Shadow sighed looking down at the ground and then looking back up at Mar'i. "Listen Mar'i, I'm really sorry about what I said back their. I know saying it because I was mad isn't a very good excuse. A nice, beautiful girl like you shouldn't be treated that way."
Mar'i's eyes went wide as she turned towards Shadow looking at him with her eyebrow raised in confusion. "Y-you—you really think I'm . . . beautiful?" She asked.
Shadow's face went red. "Uh—well,"
"Damn it! I thought I was thinking that! You're telling me that I actually said that out loud? I'm such an idiot!" He thought to himself.
Mar'i let out a loud chuckle. Shadow turned and looked up at Mar'i with his cheeks still a bright pink. "What's so funny?"
Mar'i looked at Shadow and gave him a happy smile. "You're face. Seeing your pale face this pink—it's hilarious! You never looked more like a dork!" She laughed.
Shadow raised his eyebrow and then turned his face away from Mar'i's view feeling it grow eve hotter. He then felt a jab in the shoulder.
"Ow. What was that for?" He asked.
"I forgive you." She smiled.
Shadow looked at her with disarrangement. "You—forgive me?"
"Yeah. Me acting like a total witch to you and looking like a dork in front of me is torture enough. Besides, you told me your sorry for like, the thousandth time. I think you deserve forgiveness." She told him.
Shadow looked at her and then gave her a joyful smile. Mar'i smiled back.
Just then, a kunai knife cut right through Shadow's black, long sleeved shirt from above. Mar'i and him both looked at each other with shocked and scared looks on their faces as they both looked up in the air and saw Deathstroke coming down on them.
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Kariand'r looked out into the night sky of 3 A.M, watching the bright stars shimmer in the night. Her head drooped in pure sadness still thinking about how her mother wanted her to leave Mar'i. The pain of her mother grabbing a tight hold of her arm still stung her furiously. She clenched her fist tightly trying to fight back the argument they had, biting her lip until she tasted the sickly sweet taste of her own blood; tears streaming down her Tamaranean skinned cheeks.
"Stupid mother. Stupid Tamaran. Stupid thrown. I just wish I could live here and become a crime fighter like mother and father use to be. I don't want the stupid thrown and becoming the Grand Ruler. Can't mother see that I don't want that kind of life?" She asked herself, her body shaking from trying to hold back her tears of dismal and animosity.
"Kariand'r?"
Kariand'r turned, staring back at Stevie, who was just standing their looking back at her with a concerned face.
"Stevie." She said in a small, shocked expression while quickly wiping the salty tears from her light blue eyes and drinking up the blood dripping from her lip. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
Stevie groaned angrily. "To get off of this rollercoaster we call life." He said placing his arms over his head. "What about you?"
"To get away from that witch I call my mother. I can't believe she wants me to just leave back to Tamaran and forget I ever met Mar'i and my father. How can she even think of such a horrible thing?"
"Well, at least you'll remember having a sis and a dad. When Shadow and I head back home with out mom, she's gonna wipe any memory we have with our dad clean out of our minds." He told her.
"She can do that?" She gasped. Stevie nodded his head 'yes'. "That's horrible!"
"Tell me about it." He sighed.
"And I thought my mother was a horrible person."
"Oh come on, your mother seems like a really nice lady. The reason she's being so rough with you is because she doesn't want to see you get hurt. I mean, besides Mar'i, you're her only daughter. If anything happened to you, she'd have no one to love." Stevie explained.
Kariand'r looked up at Stevie and then gave him a smirk. "Isn't that exactly what you're mom is doing for you and Shadow?" She asked.
"Oh no. I don't even know if that lying witch is even my mom." Stevie spat folding his arms over his chest.
"Oh come on Stevie. Sure she lied to you and Shadow, so have mine and Mar'i's mom and dad, but she's only doing that to keep you guys safe. Like your dad told you guys, your mom thought he was a bad influence to you guys because he wanted Shadow to be the next protector of Jump City but your mom just didn't want to see him get hurt. The same goes for you too, she doesn't want to see her own two sons get hurt. You're all the kids she has."
Stevie looked up at Kariand'r and then looked down at his shoes giving out a pitiful sigh. "You're right Kariand'r. Our moms are just looking out for us. But sometimes I wish they'd just butt out and let us do what we want once in a while."
Kariand'r rested a comforting hand on Stevie's shoulder. "I know what you mean. I'm a princess where my mom and I live and can't do anything fun! My mom gets too overprotective and tells me that she doesn't want anything happening to me because when she dies and I get killed doing whatever the hell I think is fun, then Tamaran will fall to pieces without anyone else to take the thrown. I hate it."
"Wow, rough." He told her.
Kariand'r sighed looking up at the night sky. "I just wish I could stay here as a crime fighter just like our parents use to be. Fighting crime, protecting the city."
Stevie sighed in pleasure. "Ah, wouldn't that be the life?"
"Totally." Kariand'r smiled.
Stevie sighed. "What I would give to be a crime fighting Teen Titan."
Just then, a shrill in the night made both Stevie and Kariand'r jump in fright.
"That was Mar'i!" Kariand'r yelled.
A scream of pain filled the night air.
"And that was Shadow." Stevie stated.
They both looked down at the smaller building below them, watching Shadow deliver a powerful punch to Deathstroke, but missed and got a high kick smack him right in the head.
"Deathstroke!" Kariand'r growled.
"Talk about awesome timing." Stevie smiled changing into an Ai Tojon—a two headed eagle—extending his large, brown coated wings and flapping them hard.
"Come on, we gotta go help 'em." Stevie told her.
"All right!" Kariand'r cheered, grinning determinedly; her eyes and hands glowing a bright light blue. "Let's go kick some Deathstroke ass."
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Well, that's the end of that chappie. I hope you guys liked it. I'll post the next chapter soon! Tootles!