Chapter I – Welcome to the Teen Titans
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The titans stood around the statue that was once Terra, most of them eyes downcast. The exception was Beast boy who was standing next to Nox his eyes watering from held back tears.
Nox kneeled by her sister's feet and placed a hand on the base of the statue "she's still alive, her soul is trapped in the stone…" Beast boy nods "We always thought she was in there but Raven hasn't been able to find a way to get her out." Both look at Raven who quickly looks away "It's not the easiest task" Nox stands and grabs both of the girls hands "Thank you for trying to free her, I can tell that even though you two didn't get along that you tried your hardest to free her and still are." Raven pulls away a little and nods. After a few more minutes Robin clears his throat "Let's go back to the tower so we can talk in privet, Nox we have some questions for you if you don't mind." The girl nods and after kissing her sisters stony cheek follows the group out.
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Back at the tower Nox is seated in one of the interrogation rooms. Robin and Starfire are the only ones in the room, the others having gone their own ways, knowing they will be informed of anything important via there communicators.
Robin is across from her and Starfire on his right, the alien girl keeps sneaking looks at her and even though Starfire doesn't mean it to be intimidating, it kind of is. Robin opens a manila folder and pulls out a picture "Is this the man who sent you here?" Nox nods "Yes he told me that you were keeping my sister prisoner and that I would have to fight you to get her back, I am sorry I attacked all of you if I would have known the truth…" Starfire reaches across the table and pats her hand "It is most all right friend, no harm was done and your reason was a just one."
Robin nods in agreement "No harm done, though if you wouldn't mind could you tell us a little more about what it is your power is, obviously its different from your sisters."
"My power is over the souls of the dead, I can summon corrupted souls and get them to do almost anything I want. Oh…" she pulls aside her cloak and unhooks a belt from around her waist "I can also use these to make any soul living or dead do what I want." Robin looks at her asking permission and she pushed the belt towards him. Being very careful he opens one of the pouches and pulls out a tiny bell. "It's ok you can ring it if you want it won't work for anyone but me." Gently robin rings the bell and nothing happens. "What does it do when you ring it?" "The bells name is Kir the sleeper anyone who hears it will fall into a deep sleep and can only be awoken by the next bell Kor the waker." Robin looks at Starfire who nods "would you mind demonstrating I have ear plugs" He pulls them out and pops them in his ears. Taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly she rings the bell in a small figure eight. Starfire's eyes start to close and a moment later she slumps forward into the chair asleep.
Nox puts the bell back in its pouch and Robin takes out the ear plugs. He gently shakes Starfire and when she doesn't wake up does so a little more roughly. After its apparent she's not waking up he signals for Nox to ring the next bell. Taking a slightly larger bell out she rings it in the same figure eight pattern and Starfire's head jerks up "what…did it work?" She looks to Robin who is smiling and nodding. "So what do the other bells do?"
Nox puts Kor away and presides to pull out each one and tell their name and power: "Next is Nin the walker, then Non the stopper Dis the speaker Dos the silencer, Rie the seer and Roe the blinder, most of them are self explanatory but the last two Rie and Roe they don't mean just your eyes, but all your senses. She puts the bells away and Starfire points to the last pouch which Nox never opened "What about that one?" Nox looks at it and shakes her head, "that's the bell I was named after, Nox the Death bell, anyone who hears this one, and I mean anyone even me will die instantly. Everyone looks at the ominous bell hidden safely in its pouch and a shiver runs through the room "I never take it out…just incase"
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The others were called into the living room again and found Starfire and Nox sitting on the couch Robin standing over them. Beast boy was in the back of the room and no one commented on the redness of his eyes, everyone knew it was from crying but no one was cruel enough to poke fun at him for it.
"Titans Nox has agreed to allow Raven to search her mind and if everything is well to become one of us at least until were able to free Terra." The other nods having expected something like this to happen and Raven moves in front of her. Once again she takes Nox's head in her hands and enters the girls mind. After several minutes she lets go and nods to Robin "She's good the only interaction she had was Slade was when he told her Terra was here, she doesn't work for him. Robin nods "Good welcome to the Teen Titans Nox" Robin hands her a communicator which she clips to her belt. Starfire jumps up and lets out a squeal "Oh good come new friend I will give you a tour of your new home there is much to see and then if you are not tired we can go to the mall of shopping and choose things for your new room!" Nox allows her to be pulled up and shoved past the others a small blush on her cheeks.
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After being shown around the tower, which by the way is a lot larger than it looks on the outside (which is pretty large to begin with) and being told not to worry about getting lost because there's a map in the communicator Robin gave her. They collect Raven (somewhat against her will) and head to the mall to furnish her room, the boys staying behind to move some furniture in.
"Guys this really isn't needed I don't have any money and I really don't need anything." Starfire giggles "Don't worry about money we have plenty and you need new clothes and besides shopping is fun!" Raven shakes her head but follows Starfire into a rather large clothes store. Several hours later they come out with a large amount of bags floating behind Raven. Next is a home decorating store where they buy several knick-knacks and other little things like rugs and things for Nox's bathroom (Each titans having their own attached to their room). The last place they stop at is the only place where Nox shows any kind of real interest, a book store. She easily fills several baskets and blushes when she sees raven hiding a smile. "Is… is this too much, I can put some back." Raven shakes her head "Its fine I'm just glad to see there will be someone else in the tower who reads" She picks up a book, the complete works of Edger Allen Poe "particularly if you like this" Nox smiles at the other girl "E.A.P. is my favorite poet" They pay for the books and Starfire opens her communicator calling Cyborg to come get them in the car and they wait out front for him.
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Back at the tower the boys carry all the bags into the room, not letting Nox see anything that they did to the once plain room. When they do allow her in they have her blind folded and there are several nervous chuckles. Finely she is allowed to remove the blindfold and lets out a gasp. What was just a bare white walled room just a few hours ago is now transformed into the room of her dreams. The walls are painted a dark green with the trim done in black there is a queen sized bed pushed against one of the walls, a box seat in the extra large window, a whole wall is dedicated to a floor to ceiling book shelf (Raven having sent a telepathic message to Cyborg once they walked in the book shop) all the furniture is made of a rich oak colored wood, the carpet is a thick and plush black thing, and even the bathroom follows the color scheme, the walls being green and all the fixtures black ceramic. The best part is reviled once the lights are shut off and the curtains pulled closed, the ceiling (also painted black) glows like the star filled night sky.
"Wow this is amazing guys… thank you but how did you know, my favorite colors and the stars its jut wow" Starfire smiles "Raven told us before we left" Cyborg chimes in "You don't mind do you?" Nox smile spreads from one ear to the other "No of course not this room is awesome truly thank you guys"
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A/N: The bells in order and yes I got the idea for this from a book I read but I changed the names and some of the meanings
Kir - Sleep
Kor - Wake
Nin - Walk
Non - Stop
Dis - Talk
Dos - Silence
Rie – See
Roe – Blind
Nox- Death
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