Here's chapter six; please enjoy!! KingOAnime
Titans Academy- chapter six- Betrayal and Realization
The rest of the day sped by very quickly. Tara and Monique were checked out by the nurse and given a clean bill of health. Ron tried apologizing to them, but they waved him off and said that it was fun and they were very impressed with his power.
There were more fights scheduled, but Ron destroyed the arena with that giant energy ball, so all other matched were cancelled until the arena could be fixed and that would take a while. The dance was on everybody's minds; tomorrow was the big day after all and the girls had their dresses picked out and the guys were ready for anything.
Ron had a good nights sleep and when the sun came up he got dressed and walked out to meet Yori. The dance wasn't until later in the evening, but for the day there were activities and fun events to see.
Ron rounded the corner and bumped into someone; THUMP!! He hit the ground hard while his head hit the nearby wall. He was stunned, but then wondered who he hit.
"I am really sorry," he apologized; then he felt worse when he saw it was Kim he hit.
She slowly got up and gave Ron a half serious stare that made him cower.
"Why so fast Ron? Yori and you have the whole day together; the least you can do is slow down."
"I'm sorry KP; I'm just a little too excited; I've never done anything like this before."
Kim gave him a surprised look, "What about the dances at your high school?"
"I never went to one; never had a girlfriend before."
Kim shook her head; she felt like a mother trying to teach a child how to walk, "Make sure she's happy, don't bore her, and don't forget to enjoy yourself; she loves you just the way you are so don't think too much about it okay?"
Kim then ran off to meet Josh, she gave him a good luck hug and waved goodbye. Her words loosened him up and he felt much better; now he was off to Yori's room.
Ron lightly knocked on the metal door making clanging sounds each time he hit it. "Who is it?" asked Yori.
"It's Ron, your prince charming," he replied. Yori opened the door and tackled Ron to the ground smiling like she had one a boxing match.
She got off of him and gave him a little hug and kiss. She was in a simple blouse and jeans; she told him that her dress for the dance would be a surprise. The two of them grasped hands and headed out to enjoy the day.
The couple went on every ride imaginable and Ron won Yori a little teddy bear. Kim and Josh caught up with them and they met up with their other friends to see a concert being performed by several students.
The rest of the afternoon was pretty normal and now that it was getting dark the dance was about to begin so Yori kissed Ron goodbye and said she would meet him at the ballroom.
Ron changed into his tux and headed for the large ballroom where all the other guys sat in eager anticipation to see what their dates were dressed like.
Wade was sitting nervously as he prepared to greet his date, Felix wondered what Monique would wear, and Josh paced back and forth; seemingly the most anxious of all.
"Why so wound up Josh?" asked Ron.
"Huh?" Josh hadn't even heard him.
"I said why are you so wound up?"
"Oh, sorry I'm just nervous today. You know the dance and everything."
Ron noticed that he seemed to be avoiding the real reason he was upset, but Ron decided to let it be. Then the girls started to arrive.
It was a tradition that the teachers would lead the students in and the males would bow and snatch their date out of the line. Ron didn't see Yori yet, she was probably in the later lines, but Kim was in the first line and she looked amazing.
Her light blue dress shimmered and sparkled. It went down to just below her knees and her hair was pulled up in a kind of cascading waterfall effect that made her hair look like a river flowing effortlessly. Josh bowed, took her hand, and led her to the dance floor.
As soon as the line was gone, the next line of girls came. This time Ron saw Yori and his eyes almost flew out of their sockets.
Yori had on a black dress that went down to her thighs and her hair was propped up by a pair of sticks. When she saw him she blushed since she had never dressed this way in front of him, but she was still smiling.
Ron approached her and after giving a regal bow he extended his hand which she took with no argument. The two began dancing to the music, getting a feel for it.
This was Ron's very first time dancing, so he hoped that he didn't step on her toes, but Yori seemed to leading him; she obviously has done this before.
""It's alright Ron, I'll lead you and when you feel ready you can lead."
Ron soon got the hang of it and after Yori gave him control his action changed dramatically. He held her close and spun her around like he was an expert, Yori was so happy she didn't want it to end. After about two hours of non-stop dancing the couple took a break, sitting down and having some punch.
Ron watched the other people dance, even teachers. Beast Boy was trying to dance, but Terra took over out of impatience. Jinx and Flash were pretty good, but you could see that Flash wanted to go faster. He looked at Jinx, but she flashed him an evil glare and he backed down.
Kim and Josh had been to dances together before so they were moving like a well oiled machine. Ron then noticed Yori's far off look and he gave her hand a little squeeze.
"Yori?" he asked.
"Huh?" she snapped back to reality.
"Are you alright?"
She smiled and replied, "Of course, I'm very happy Ron."
Ron looked harder and could tell she was hiding something, "Come on Yori tell me."
Yori felt defeated and drained she didn't care anymore, she had to tell him the truth, "Ron, the truth is…" but before she could continue Josh came up and grabbed Ron.
"Hey Ron, Kim's been waiting for a dance with you; I think it's time you show her your dancing feet."
Ron saw Kim waiting and he turned to look at Yori who nodded acknowledging him. As he walked over to her Josh sat down.
"Why did you do that?" Yori spat.
"Let the two of them have some time together; at least before it starts. Besides he's coming with us."
"Who?" Yori asked.
"Ron, Bonnie told me that he wants him."
Yori gave him a look of shock, "We can't, I won't allow it."
"What choice do we have Yori?"
"Do you have any idea what they'll do to him?"
"Of course I do, but everyone else will too."
"What about our plan? Now Kim will be even worse without Ron or you," Yori retaliated.
Josh realized this and couldn't bear the sight of Kim in anymore pain than she would be suffering, "Alright then what do we do?"
"I think I have a plan," Yori replied.
Kim was amazed by Ron's dancing, he had only been dancing for two hours and he already was leading her around the room very gracefully.
"Wow Ron, your dancing has gotten very good," she smiled letting him twirl her.
"You're just saying that Kim, I'm not a very good dancer," Ron admitted.
"Ron Stoppable, you are a very good dancer and I would be honored to dance with you any day."
Ron smiled at her and she returned it. "It's great being here with you KP," Ron said.
"Best friends forever?" she asked.
"Best friends forever," he replied.
As the music stopped the two decided to take a break, but since there were no tables open Ron led Kim to a corner of the room where two chairs were positioned.
At first they thought it was odd, but they shrugged it off and sat down; catching their breath.
Soon several dancing students began to giggle and snicker at them. They looked at each other in confusion then checked each other's clothing to see if maybe someone planted a paper sign on their back or something, but then Ron saw what the fuss what about.
Dangling above their heads was a single piece of mistletoe. Ron looked at Kim who was blushing in embarrassment. They had fallen into a trap; students put chairs in corners and then plant mistletoe in an attempt to see everyone kiss.
"W…Well I guess we should k…kiss; heh heh," Ron tried to sound calm, but inside he was sweating.
"Y...Yeah we don't want to break tradition right?" she weakly answered.
"Right, one little peck and then we'll satisfy the mistletoe gods."
Kim closed her eyes and leaned in, Ron did the same and after a few second of stalling they kissed.
They intended to kiss lip to check, but that somehow fell by the waste side. Kim felt very different; whenever she kissed Josh she felt happy, but when she kissed Ron her whole body seemed to fuse with his and she felt safe.
Ron had very similar feelings; his heart was going faster than it ever had before. Now this kiss was only supposed to last a second, but neither of them wanted to break away. They enjoyed this kiss, but they didn't know why.
After a whole minute passed by they finally came up for air. Ron could see Kim's eyes sparkle; he wanted her and she wanted him, but what was he thinking? He has a girlfriend and she has a boyfriend; he felt very confused.
"Ron?" Kim asked, she knew that kiss lasted too long know she was about to get in big trouble, but Ron looked at her with a smile and leaned in closer to her.
Kim wanted this more than anything; she didn't know why, but she didn't care. She leaned in with him for another kiss, but suddenly an explosion shook them out of it.
Students began screaming as robots began pouring out of the hole in the wall left by the explosion. They seemed endless; this room could hold over a thousand, but it seemed to be getting a little crowded. Then a masked man on a hovering disk entered through the whole giving everyone a dark stare.
"SLADE?!" the Titans gasped.
"Hello everybody, I'm back." he said with a wicked groan.
Ron and Kim had both heard of Slade, he was the Teen Titan's worst enemy. He was responsible for Terra being turned to stone and Robin almost betraying everyone, but supposedly a year before Titans Academy opened the Titans had defeated him for good.
"What do you want Slade?" Robin demanded.
"I just came to pick up my students; after all you've done to me it's the least you owe me." With a snap of his fingers his robot minions began to attack everyone. Ron and Kim quickly joined the fray.
Kim bent down and with one swift motion tore the bottom of her dress to give her more leg room. Ron removed his jacket and tie for more mobility and arm space.
Kim picked up tables with her powers and began flinging them at the minions. Ron went in with punches of electricity that smashed the robot's faces in.
After a while more robots came out of the gaping hole. Ron then could see Bonnie and Brick attacking students and picking them up; they were traitors!
Ron turned to Kim to tell her, but was met with a punch that sent him flying across the room. He looked up and could see that it was one of the forth year students who punched him. In anger Ron shot bolts of electricity at him; which he dodged.
Kim was picking up robot pieces and hurling them at other robots and bad students. She had seen other students, some of them friends, attacking the Titans and realized that they were betrayed.
Then Kim felt a hand touch her shoulder; she turned to smack the person, or robot, but was relieved to see Josh.
"Josh!" she smiled embracing him, "I'm so glad you're okay."
"Me too Kim," said Josh.
"Come on," she said turning back around, "I'll go after these bozos and you…AHHHHH!!!!"
Suddenly she was hit from behind by a fire ball; a fire ball from Josh.
"I'm sorry Kim," he said as her eyes slipped shut.
Ron saw everything; his eyes grew small with surprise, but quickly doubled in size as his anger boiled over. With a loud yell he came charging straight at Josh with his energy sword ready.
Josh heard the yell and smirked as he amazingly created his own sword out of fire. Ron jumped up and brought his sword down intending to hit Josh, but it met Josh's fire sword with a hissing popping sound.
"You back stabbing liar!!" Ron spat.
"I didn't mean for it to be this way Kim means everything to me Ron," he tried to continue, but Ron began bringing a volley of slashes and thrusts at Josh.
"Don't you ever speak her name again! I'll kill you; you never loved her, you never wanted to be my friend, and now you're nothing but a two-faced traitor!" Ron used his free hand to make an electric covered fist which he swung at Josh, but was met by Josh's own fire engulfed hand.
As the two fought for dominance Josh gave Ron a somewhat regretful look, but Ron was too enraged to notice.
"You are right about one thing Ron; I am a traitor," and with one big push he shove Ron hard against a wall. Ron got up, but was welcomed with tow solid kicks to the jaw. Ron struggled to get up, but he soon felt a warm hand touch him.
"Yori? Oh Yori I'm so glad you aren't harmed. I was afraid something bad might have happened to you." Ron groaned in pain as he attempted to pull himself up, but soon fell.
"Don't move Ron, you can't fight anymore," Yori tried to reason with him, but Ron shook his head.
"No, I need to keep going; he hurt Kim now he'll die for it." Ron used all his strength to stand and with some effort he was back up.
"Ron, please I can't bear to see you in pain; you must rest," Yori pleaded.
"Sorry Yori, but there are students in danger and traitors I need to fight. Yori, you go find Kim's body I'll stay here and…" but he was cut off by a sharp blow to his head.
The world began to spin and objects became blurry. He saw a dark figure hovering over him; just like his dream. He squinted his eyes to see Yori looking down at him.
"Yori?" he asked.
"I'm sorry………Ron-san" was all he heard before he fell into darkness.
Two robots made their way over to take Ron, but Yori shooed them off, "I'm taking him."
The two robots left and went for more fallen students. Yori picked up Ron's unconscious body and made her way over to Josh, who was carrying Kim.
They both went over to a table and put them both under it; covering it with a table cloth.
"Let's go," Josh said.
The two teens stood up to walk away and leave, but Yori gave one last look and said, "Take good care of him Kim-san."
After several minutes of fighting Slade proclaimed, "I'm afraid my time here is up."
"This isn't over Slade!!" Yelled Robin defiantly, but Slade just laughed as the robots and traitors carrying students left through the hole and were gone.
"Let's get this cleaned up and see how bad the damage is," said Cyborg looking at the worn out students and teachers. Everyone began to help wounded or unconscious people.
Kim and Ron were both still under the table, still asleep, and they were both holding hands. Cont…
Well that's it for now. Please review and I hope to get the next chapter out soon so keep reading! KingOAnime