Finally got a chance to post up a chapter today! I've been working at a job now, so it takes a while to get things going. I do have other stories I'm writing, so please be patience. I have written several chapters ahead on this, but I want to post them up weekly if I can. I'd probably post this every Wednesday if I can.
As for DragonMistress99, I am quite impressed with your theories on who is the seme and uke. I'm not going to spoil it, so I'll let you figure it out when you read the rest. However, height doesn't always show who would make out to be a seme and uke. Keep in mind, Robin does become Nightwing according to one episode where Starfire traveled into the future to stop the criminal. He did become taller than Starfire later on. I would have to say it is based on the personality of the characters among Robanny to figure out who would truly be the seme and uke. However, I like your outspoken opinion and willing to accept how this story may turn out. I had this all planned out before I posted this story.
As for everyone else, please enjoy~
Once he finally got Jazz to sleep, he joined me at the dinner table in this hotel room, and I was watching her relaxed. His hand patted my hand to ensure me that it will be fine. He struggled to show a smile to prove he's human, but I already knew that.
"Your sister and you are welcome to live with me. I still do have a mansion back in Amity Park, but it is up to you-"
My head shook, "No. We're not going back home ever again. The ghost portal is gone, mom and dad are gone, and my best friends are gone too. There's no point in staying around anymore." I huffed.
He nodded, "Then, Wisconsin or Colorado mansions will do?"
My eyes met up his', "No. I'm sorry, but we're not living with you." I pointed out.
His eyebrow rose, "Daniel, I do not understand. I'm not going to force you or ask to raise you. I am not even begging you to consider me as a father."
My head shook, "I mean, there are consequences if we live with you. Look, since I was fourteen, there was another timeline," I wasn't going to make the same mistake that the other me did, "I lost everyone, including Jazz and a teacher. I did live with you, but it got worse with my depression and at the end, I turned evil and repeated the whole thing. I refused to become dark as that timeline." My hands clenched up tightly, "If we live with you, my depression is caused by you. Jazz and I need to move far away and on our own." I explained.
Despite of the fact he's my archenemy, he has to understand where I was coming from. He needed to know the truth in order to prevent another Dark me. I couldn't even stand having to repeat another timeline to remember. It's a choice I have to make or I'd fail everyone gain. I couldn't do that again or regret to what I could have done.
"We would not want that, would we?" Vlad hummed, "I have an idea."
My head picked up at him, "What?"
"I arrange home setting, a job for her and you, and we can remain in contact every so often or as much as we can." Vlad explained.
If Jazz and I need support, Vlad might be the best option to help us on with living on our own. That's what we needed the most.
"That's fair." I sighed…sorry, Jazz, for not asking you to be involved.
I couldn't afford to risk this, but it was the best solution to do. Vlad and I ended up talking and working things out. He was arranging a special statue for our loss loves, including my best friends. A reminder to everyone that they will never be forgotten and it would be set up in front of the house.
Vlad and I talked about location, barely giving a wink to sleep, and discussing plans. It was taking a while, but we knew this would help for the both us. He's helping to change our lives and make ourselves happy and move on.
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I was carrying eight boxes up the stairs and knowing Jazz was carrying one box. We moved into a new house, a small two-story building with attic only, and moved here about three weeks ago. Jazz was left in charge to find a new home and she picked this one after a week. Once she checked it out, she told Vlad and he bought it for us. He arranged a job nearby us, where we get to work at the coffee shop slash bookstore. We would be working there by tomorrow and today, we're unpacking all of our new clothes, daily stuff, and other things. Vlad took care of the food, internet, and phone. So that was already set to go.
We're almost done unpacking everything since it took us almost three weeks. We already checked out the city and it was cool here. They got almost everything we could think of and a fresh start. We live on the other side of the country.
"Hey little brother, I was thinking about checking out their popular pizza and if you want to go out tonight after finishing up everything?" Jazz had to ask.
I chuckled, "Sure, Jazz. You know I'm all for pizza."
She squealed excitedly and I wanted her to stay happy. I was actually glad to have her and I get the feeling I won't be so depress. I still have one person I haven't lost and it's her.
We spent all day finishing up hers and my room to have all the basic stuff like bed comfort, sheets, pillows, curtains, alarm clock, desk, laptop, phone, and some stuff to put up. After that, our huge bathroom ended up having the shower curtain in purple shade (which made things neutral between us), sweet smell, and rugs by the tub and toilet. We have a small kitchen, small living room, huge bedrooms, two huge bathrooms, and one gigantic attic. We both didn't want to have the basement due to negative reminder in the back of our head. From now on, we run our lives normal as others do. Of course, we got a computer in the living room for backup on everything.
By the time we got the last box emptied, we put all the boxes upstairs by allowing me to phase them through the ceiling into the attic. It worked out perfectly well. Jazz grabbed her wallet and I did the same. We were ready to head out and walk to places as we get used to our surrounding. The coffee slash bookstore was less than five minutes away from us and we can easily see how that can work out for us. Vlad told us that we'll be getting paid ten bucks an hour there, but he'll be sending us two thousands dollar monthly in case we needed it. Other than that, he already paid in full for our bills and the house. There isn't much to the house, no needs to garden, a small garage in case we could plan a car or something to transform into, and the neighborhood is friendly…I guess.
There were several people around here and haven't expected this city to be filled with hundreds of them. Jazz and I weren't used to this amount of people before. People were excited to check out places and eager to be involved. Jazz grabbed my elbow and dragged me over to the pizza place she finally found. She loves to blend in normally as possible. I followed along and entered into the pizza plaza and I hadn't expected to be this huge and varieties of pizza businesses here.
We observed a few businesses and figured out which was popular and which is common. We chose to check out the common ones and ordered the basic of cheese and pepperoni pizza in small. We got our drinks and waited for the pizza to be finished cooking. It was actually nice kind of atmosphere. Since there weren't many people ordering from here, the pizza was set to go in ten minutes, and paid for already. We saw people heading the opposite way they came in with their pizza and she was grinning eagerly about checking it out. I chose to go along with it and we followed them. Apparently, there was plenty places to sit down and still some people heading outside by the stairs to up. We followed them and found a nice open breeze.
"Well, Danny?" She had to ask.
I chuckled, "Sure, we can eat outside."
We picked a table for two and sat down to eat. We were both starving after all day work. It's rare for a nice settling down, but we had to remind ourselves there will no longer be ghosts around here. We live in a normal city, like normal citizens.
I was finished with a first slice and aiming for a second slice-
Sirens went off and something was blocking the sun. My head jerked up and saw someone falling down to the ground. I grabbed Jazz and moved out of the way immediately. The person crashed down onto our table and destroyed what was left of our food! My eyes widened and couldn't believe it! Who would fall from the sky and land in the food court area? Jazz gasped and couldn't believe this herself. I can, but the person did not look normal.
My ghost scent wasn't going off, but why is this guy green? I marched up to him and crossed my arms.
"What the heck? Why are you falling onto our pizza?" I demanded to know.
He turned his head at me, "Sorry, a bad guy blasted at me and I was flying backward to here. I forgot to transform into something." He commented.
Transform into what? Wait, a villain here? Oh, no…what did we get ourselves into? He got up and immediately shifted into a hawk. He flew out before I could have had been given a chance to be explained. Jazz joined at my side and tilted her head.
"You saw that right?"
I nodded, "Yeah…I'm guessing hitting the library will get our answer?" Normally, a couple of years ago, I wouldn't have cared to go to the library. Now, I do.
She agreed, "I never seen a ghost here before."
"He's…not a ghost. I guess he's some sort of hero."
Jazz and I had no idea what we have gotten ourselves into and decided to walk out of the place. At least we ate, but by the time we got out of the pizza plaza, the street was full and no one was going anywhere. They were watching something on the right of the street. There were some odd people going up against one person who seems to have the power of lights. One of the odd people who wore red, black, and yellow clad over himself was shouting at him to stop in the name of justice action.
"Dr. Light, you are under arrest on breaking into the bank." His voice sounded much like a leader.
"I will not be stop! Fear me for I am DR. LIGHT! I shall blind you all!" The creepy dude admitted.
I counted up to five strange people against Dr. Light. Besides the obvious leader and the green dude. The green dude transform into a…rhino? My head shook and paid attention to the rest of them. A half robotic man ready to aim with his hand…wait, where did his hand go? Oh…it transformed into a sonic laser type. I checked over the rest, one was in a dark cape with a hood, and I wasn't too sure about her. Her vibe sent me off the wrong way a bit. Then, there's a girl, who has orange hair, is flying up in the sky and triggered her…blast. Hers were similar to mine, but she doesn't look ghostly to me. Then, back to the rhino, he seems to be fighting against the 'bad guy' as he put it with everyone else.
The leader attacked with a sudden bo-staff appearing in his hand. The energy of light was struck at him, but the robot man used his sonic blast to prevent the attack. The girl was chanting in another form of language and caused some sort of 'dark' magic against him. Dr. Light could not handle anything from her and almost vanished. Jazz and I was watching from a good distance, but it wasn't clearing up anytime soon. Everyone stood in their place, but these battle could go on forever. The girl from the sky was quick to block his chance to escape and tried to blind her. However, her eyes were way too sensitive set off her eye lasers against him. He flailed to the ground and kept attempting to move. He wasn't getting what he was attempting to do.
He was getting too angry about this situation and feeling as if he was losing. He stood up quickly and whipped out bright dome that passed everybody. Everyone was panicking and worrying what would be happening. Some had pushed, moved, or fallen to their asses.
"Quick Cyborg, pin him down before he gets away!" The leader whispered, but only leaving me to hear him.
The panicked squealing caught my attention and I felt on guard to my responsibility. My body spun around and finally saw Dr. Light holding my sister. I growled at him and my hand curled into a fist.
"Let her go!" I demanded.
He grinned darkly, "Get them to leave me alone or she will get hurt."
Oh, he has no idea who he is messing around with! My growling increase loudly and Jazz tried to smuggle out of his grip. He was holding onto her tightly and having one hand in front of her eyes.
"One movement or she will be permanently blind for life." He warned.
He only said one movement and that meant getting closer. I knew too well from almost three years of experiences and he was much worse than Freakshow could be! My glares distracted him-
"Let the citizen go, Dr. Light!" Robot man – Cyborg, said.
"One step closer and she's blind for life!"
Jazz glanced over to me, insisting that I overshadow her, and I knew too well. I grabbed by the shoulders and picked up easily by someone who seems too tall.
"HEY!" I was not in the mood to be in this position.
"My monitor reads something interesting and you are coming with me." His voice was dark…it sent me warning.
I glanced up, considering this stranger is carrying me by the waist of his', and he wore an odd mask. What is this? Halloween town? There was no way I'd be trap in his hold any longer. I heard someone screamed from being hurt and it was that guy with light power. Jazz must have stomped his feet or kicked him somewhere. Way to go, Jazz!
Now, I had to put up with this guy whose trying to kidnap. One of my arms managed to get out of his grip and punched him once in the stomach. He groaned and almost dropped me. However, it was perfect because I needed to touch the ground. My left foot swung to knock him down onto the ground and I glared at this crazy man.
"Don't come after me-"
"-if you do not come, I will expose your secret to the world of what you really are." He spoke to me.
I froze. No one should be able to know who or what I am. He was serious from his tone of voice, but I refused to show any fears to him. Suddenly, I felt another person picking me up in the air and landed a jump onto a roof. I gasped and looked over immediately to see who took me this time!
Oh, it was this leader guy and he looked over to the location I was at. I did the same and he was gone before we had the chance to see where he'd run off to. This was not good at all and had to get out of this situation ASAP. The leader was still looking and I needed to get back to my sister. I have to look after her and my feet turned to run into disappearance.
I couldn't move because someone got a hold of my elbow. Dammit! Today was not my day at all!
"I'm afraid you cannot go anywhere until you are safe from Slade." The leader mentioned.
I blinked, "Huh? Who?" Is my life that bad to turn out?
"The guy who kidnapped you and I rescued you from."
My head nodded slowly a couple of times, "Oh, him. Yeah, I can handle him fine. Now, I need to get home."
"Afraid not. You are being watched by titans." He stated.
I mentally groaned about this. I grumbled and wonder how my sister is going to see or know where I am. His arm slipped around my waist and I hate this! I can fly- oh, right, he can't know that, but I hate this! He used some sort of device to swing down back to the ground and he held onto me tightly. That prevents my chances to escape.
Jazz ran up to me, "Danny! You're alright!" She was pleased.
I nodded, "Yes…but this guy here thinks I need to be babysat by 'titans'."
The light bulb went off in her head and she knew immediately to what I was referring. She gasped and looked at all the people surrounding us, including the leader.
"Oh, The Titans? I've read so much about all of you!" She looked at the girls first, "You are Raven and Starfire!" Her head turn to the tall man, "You are Cyborg," Her head lowered, "You are Beastboy," and she turned to where I am, to the guy next to me, "And most of all, the Titan leader Robin!" So, they're heroes.
They smiled at her, glad to be well-known to her, and respectfully honor their lives to people like her. I understood what it was like to be recognize for what I do, not what I caused or has happened.
"Yes. However…Danny needs to come with us due to a criminal kidnapping him and that criminal-"
"-Slade."
Jazz nodded, "Slade is an understatement. So, you feel the need to look after him?" What is she doing?!
Robin looked over me for a bit and then back at her, "To protect him mainly. Slade might be up to something and take advantage of him."
She nodded, "Am I free to visit Danny?"
Raven tilted her head, "Be sure to ring the doorbell," She said drily about it.
Starfire nodded, "Oh, yes! It would be nice for your brother Danny to have company!"
Talk about barely knowing a thing of this city and I get trap by bunch of superheroes. Where was my say?! Oh, right…I wasn't fighting yet.
"And when am I going to have a say? Slade can't even take my own punch and I can take care of myself." I started to walk over to Jazz, but the leader held my waists tightly (despite of the fact he's only a few of inches shorter than me) and refusing to let me go.
"I am afraid not. Slade will be prepared for the next attempt and he's too interested in you." His head turned to my sister, "We'll protect him well. We need to head over to the titan tower."
Jazz nodded and she came up to hug me as she lowered her voice enough for me to hear, but for others can't, "Play along. Robin is right and Slade is difficult to approach. I'll inform Vlad and stay safe for myself."
"Tell him to protect you and if he can't do that, I'll kick hard to make him regret not taking this seriously."
"Just behave." She insisted.
I nodded and we broke apart. However, I was getting more annoyed to the way he's holding me and wishing he could just trust me. It wasn't that I was going to fly out and go invisible in front of them. I learned that because of Valerie and she almost figured it out, but I was glad for the duplication. The leader held me closely against his body and used his device to swing us over elsewhere. Jazz waved, concern for me, and knowing me too well. At least I can trust her to be safe. For me…I had to do whatever it takes from allowing them to know who I am truly, even if they're superheroes.
Right now, I want some space from Robin. He's holding onto me as if I am actually attempting to do it right now. He has no idea, but I rather not be questioned by anyone. He's too close on watching me and that's not good for me. He's suspicious already and can't push it any more than necessary.
We ended up in his motorcycle. Great, a reminder of someone who loves his motorcycle and can't even stand that. He turned to me.
"Hang on tight. This is going to be a fast ride to the tower." He warned.
Of course, he's one of those kinds of superheroes. Besides, Jazz better send me information about them before I have complication with them or misunderstanding here. Unfortunately, I have no choice. I held around his waists tightly as I could and he gasped for air.
"I see you're strong," He commented.
I grinned, "Yeah, obviously I wouldn't be able to get Slade's stomach so easily."
His head shook, "You're not getting out of this easily."
Ha! If only I could, he wouldn't be suffering this and be clueless about me anyway. For now, I was being drag over to their tower they called home and face the reality, normal will never happen.
