Author's Note: I know there were a lot of updates this weekend, but the updates will be less frequent during the week. I've been putting these chapters up as fast as I can write them, but I might start stockpiling them, simply because I'm a busy senior in high school. Luckily next week is spring break so that should give me some writing time! But we'll cross those bridges when we come to them! On with chapter 5!
Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own Teen Titans!
Chapter 5
It's been about a month since the choir Christmas party and everything has been going great!
The next day, Koma returned from Tamaran for the day, just to tell me about the planet and teach me Tamaranean. It would've been nice to know our people can learn any language through lip contact; I wouldn't have wasted 2 years trying to take French in school. She also came back to bring me some clothes from Tamaran which consisted of a purple mini skirt and belly shirt, purple thigh high boots and some silver accessories. That, paired with a purple mask that outlined my eyes and had some winged details on the edges, is what I wear when I am Starfire and go to fight crime with Richard- err, Robin, I guess. With Richard's help, I've managed to not only control my powers, but use them to my advantage. Together, we became an amazing team.
Until our first bank robbery, at least.
We burst into the bank, ready to stop the criminal, but before Robin could even tell the guy to freeze, there was a bright yellow and red flash and by the time we had blinked, the money was put back and the crook tied up.
"Sorry I'm late, did I miss the party?"
I jump at the sound of a familiar voice and power down. Before I can ask, a kid roughly our age in a yellow and red uniform stops in front of us.
"Who are you?"
"Kid Flash, fastest boy alive. And you are?"
"I'm Robin and this is Starfire."
Kid Flash shakes Robin's hand and kisses mine. I look to see if anyone is within earshot and before he can greet me in French, I ask.
"Wally? Is that you?"
That happened about a week ago. After some discussion, Richard, Wally and I decided to form a team. We call ourselves the Teen Titans. We're pretty sure we're not the only super powered teens in Jump City and we've agreed whenever we find others like us to extend an invitation to join the team. For now, it's just us though.
Things haven't just been going great in my hero life though. My high school life hasn't been terrible either. The Sadie Hawkins dance is this weekend and Richard and I have been dating ever since the Christmas party. In fact, at this moment in time, we were heading to his house for some after school studying. Richard parked his car in the garage at Wayne manor. Before I can get out of the car he stops my hand with his. I can see from the look on his face that he's about to kiss me. I lean forward and beat him to the punch. I feel his hand in my hair, but before things can get too steamy, I hear a small beeping noise and sigh. That sound meant there was a crime somewhere in Jump. I reach into the backseat, pull my mask out of my backpack and put it on.
"Where are we heading?"
"The alarm's been tripped at the history museum."
I look at Richard, confused.
"The museum? Who robs a museum, honestly?"
"I don't know. Hurry up and get changed, I think it'd be fastest if you just flew us both there."
"Are you sure that's safe?"
We'd been going to great lengths to make sure that nobody connected Robin and Starfire to Richard and Kori. This included not allowing our relationship to interfere with our crime fighting. Richard looked conflicted now.
"You're right. You fly; I'll take the R-Cycle and meet you and Wally there."
I nod and get out of the car to quickly change into my uniform. I fly down to the museum and arrive just as Kid Flash arrives too.
"Freeze!"
The villains turn around to face us and we gasp.
Holding an ancient Egyptian amulet in her hand was Jenny. Except her skin looked paler and her hair was pink. Standing next to her was… a security guard? And a kid with a green helmet with one giant eye that vaguely looked like her pervy boyfriend, Seymour. As Wally and I gawked at the three, the security guard melted and reformed into Rowena who glares at Jenny.
"Great, Jinx must've fucked up disabling the alarms. SeeMore, let's get out of here, she can handle these two on their own."
SeeMore and Jinx nod and mumble "Yes Madame Rouge." Then SeeMore and Madame Rouge run away. I knew Robin would be right outside so I didn't bother to chase after them. I regain my voice.
"Jenny. If you put the amulet down, we can pretend like none of this ever happened. If not, I'm going to have to take you to jail, and I don't wanna do that."
Jenny puts on what I assume is supposed to be an intimidating face.
"My name is Jinx now. And I have no choice! I know you all noticed! I'm bad luck!"
"You don't really believe that do you? Whatever Rowena or Seymour told you-"
"It's not something to believe! It's a fact!"
With a wave of her hand, she shoots out a bright pink energy, when it touches a display case, all the glass falls apart.
"See? I wield bad luck! A villain is all I can be!"
"Jenny, that's not-"
"Shut up, Wally! This is my life now!"
With that, Jenny drops the amulet and runs out. As she leaves, I swear I hear her start to cry. We didn't bother chasing her; she didn't actually steal anything, so we just put the museum back together. By this point, Robin had arrived.
"Madame Rouge and SeeMore are on their way to jail. They mentioned a 3 ally of theirs, Jinx, what happened to her?"
Wally was near tears at this point and I rubbed his back.
"She… Got away. But she didn't steal anything."
Robin raises an eyebrow through his mask but doesn't question it. I mouth at him that I'll tell him later.
"Alright, we'll stay on the lookout for her. But for now, I think we're done here."
At that moment my phone rang. I checked the caller ID and saw it was Rachel.
"Hey Rachel, what's going on?"
Rachel's voice was shaky and filled with tears.
"K-Kori, s-something happened. C-can you please come over?"
"Honey, what's wrong?"
"I- I can't tell you over the phone. Just please come over."
"Okay, I'll be right there."
I hung up the phone and sighed. Now what?
And cliffhanger! But don't worry; the next chapter will be up NO LATER than Wednesday! Cross my heart and hope to die! Wednesday is a very important day for me, and I know I will definitely update on Wednesday! Maybe tomorrow if the stars all align and I get enough time to write, but don't get your hopes too high for that. Until then, R&R, you guys rock! -starprincess
PS: Also, if I could draw AT ALL, I would put a pic of Starfire's mask on my profile or make it the cover photo or something but I can't find one like it on a Google image search and I can't draw. At all. So, use your imaginations, sorry!
