Teen Titans – Side Stories and After – Snippets; Foxes Upon Foxes and Magical Girls Galore

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Genie in a Lamp Series – Be Careful What You Wish For – You Sunk My Battleship!

Basing this on the Anime, Dog Days. No deaths. Have lots of laughs and surprise guests! Enjoy! *

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Ami Grayson was on a rare losing streak which made her pout more than usual. Her brother's events with Raku, Mir, and of course Athena were in passing, but at fifteen she was no teen idol. She knew Ava was readying for a coronation, Anna was doing God knows with her new mentor and…

She was visiting from Yumi's pad to chill in her dopey brothers' apartment in Tokyo.

In a nutshell, bored.

"Can we play Go again? At least chess didn't put us to sleep!" Whined the moping teenager to her older bros. Aiden was going to be twenty this summer and Raku had decided that being seventeen would give him time to understand his magic as an "Archivist" much better while studying the dark arts (as Ami liked to joke) beside DreamWake and Constantine.

He'd gotten a break from his studies, and now sat waiting to play the winner, yawning. The cool breeze had pushed away any chance of snow, but rain. Global warming sized doubt, as Calciferus on the stove finally conveyed the ebony daughter's same sentiments. (From previous snippets ago. Cross over with Howl's moving castle!)

~ Raku! You can create chaos and order, baby? Why bother with these dummies, an' kiddie games? Make it stellar –

"Don't encourage him." Aiden put down a pawn as Ami just batted hers lazily with her fingers. "I'm bored…. Raku?" She watched her middle bro raise his eyes, shifting on the kitchen stood and waiting to flee.

"Y – yes?" The meeker side of Raku was why he was taken advantage of by everyone. Even after coming out as liking guys like Aiden (who he'd finally let go of to avoid destroying the planet,) he still felt like a shut in unless he was coaxed by his new family to fit in. Also, the said he was as a half mortal due to his sacrifice, somewhat on "the spectrum" by a rough scan. Savant syndrome didn't cut it. Social anxiety was not exactly the true case with the boy, but he'd have to get over it and move into the future he wanted to paint. However. (I was diagnosed with Asd, adhd and dyscalculia at young age so this is an aspect of the self here, roll with it! )

He was still gifted in a magical role that had him as the last "Archivist." A branch related to the sect of King Sulimon. He'd only known Azag's curse, but after Lil had been banished…he wasn't sure that he could ever use his craft again…but they sure thought he had more control. Not without his shadow, Ignito.

Ignito was the past that had existed as Raku's self, HAD he not become Lil's pupil. He was the opposing Roku, and neither good nor evil. A true half jinn left to his tomes and histories untouched.

But…

"He can't use his magic; Dad said he's still inexperienced in –

"I…can summon at least."

Where did that come from?

Raku clamped a hand over his mouth, getting a grin from that wily Ami – chan. "See? You can make this more like…. Aha! Battleship!" The girl stood up and the pieces rattled around by her weight against the tabletop. "No! Ami, Raku? Please ignore this shrimp. She doesn't know what she's talking –

~ Oh! You can use me! I'll make it so his powers won't do like last time. Remember? Eh? ~

Aiden threw a hand over his face, impersonating a gorilla. "How could we even begin to forget that…We had scallions to pull out of the carpet for a week…and they –

~ We had fun! Raku is on vacation and I know the perfect solution, ma' boy! ~

"I appreciate your concerns, really." Raku shuffled to leave, but Ami's fingers caught him –

His own hair stood up until Raku noticed what she was doing. Her big blue eyes…no,nonono…

Unsealing his heart, her other ability as Amaterasu's vassal of power came to the full.

"Ami! Let… go!" Aiden dragged her arm off, but the damage had been done. The Book of Manifesto or tome of his heart (the jinn's own lamp in this case) burst from the seventeen year old - half immortal's chest. He stood back gasping and shaking his head, deliberately.

"No…not again!" Aiden tried to stop the casting, but Ami already knew too much. "Let's play a real game of battleship…and…with… I know!"

"As you say…." Raku soon spoke in a monotonous way; his granting was done and Ami…had to take a step back to see who she'd called forth in this game…

Of an all out struggle.

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Slade looked at his watch and grunted. Noon. Will was refilling the bait bucket he said. He said that Joey was coming by, he said…

"I need a new fishing partner that won't take off on me –

Slade looked up. "A vortex? On Lake M –

The bait bucket fell to the grass as Will gawked. "Slade...He had just….Slade!! Don't you have any common decency??? Dammit, man! Don't you skimp out for some, mystical adventure!!"

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In a bar down in Liverpool, John C had met some pretty does that were busy….

"Aw, great." He grumbled and took a swig of his last pnt, not even blasting off to mars. ~ Vamp – boy had stepped in to escape the evening glare. ~ He suddenly felt a vaccum - sized pull and shouted as it dragged him away, the vamp taking a seat at the bar to order a tall bloody mary. "Put it on 'is tab." The vamp -- incognito said the bartender, who shrugged, then went to fasshion up the oddest choice taken in his establishment. Not since 1934. (Random date.)

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Dick Grayson and Joey (or Jericho) had bumped shoulders and were catching up on old times in a donut shop after the cop's earlier shift, right in Cali that winter. Dick rubbed the back of his neck, letting Joe know nothing about Ami's winter adventure since his mute friend was with Rose on a ski trip. "Yeah, after the holidays it became kind of dead in the –

"Uh oh."

Joey scratched his head, eyes concerned, until Dick dragged them both from the shop. Telepathically, Joe tried to ask who or what was after them.

"My kid...ESP ….and Raku…she must ha –

The zap left the two with unpaid sweets and a track record now increased for a dine and dash.

"Um, did you want these to go?" The sales clerk stood with shaking legs, shocked by that flash of light.

"I need to move outta this city..." Half heartedly, the clerk trudged off with the uneaten bag of donuts the men had ordered to go.

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Harley Quinzel and Pamela Ivy were just enjoying a messy beat down of the clown losers under Joker that had just decided to crash their dinner date at a swanky restaurant in uptown Gotham.

"Harley…what did you do to piss off your ex – this time??" Accusing her, that wasn't new for the joker's ex squeeze as she rolled her eyes, bat in hand. "I sent him a gag gift for his birthday. It was a rubber duckie…that spits out blood –

"A – Harles!" Ivy was too busy running in stilettos to care that a whirlwind of magic had them with their legs now exposed.

" Haaaeeeee!!!!" Harley just acted as freaked out as Ivy, despite the lower east side of crazy on that clown's bio.

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The trashing of their game of chess, and Aiden's rump sticking up in the air as Raku kept saying uncle below Ami's star dazed –

"What??" She held onto a speck that was Calcifer in her palm. He chuckled, whooping out ah cry as MORE players ended up falling face first into what looked like an armored ship's deck.

"Hey! This is not a cruse ship! Who the – Wilson…"

At the helm was Sara Santiago, and she had seen Slade with his mask off before…but never in a fisherman's vest. That, was new.

"Ami. What….pant….did you wish for?"

"To role – play battle –

"Why are we loped into this, she's your kid. Dick – for brain –

"Hay! It was an honest mistake…." Dick was a push over and the entire crew glared at him, including his own sons. "Right?"

"Nope." Ami shook her head, coyly knowing that she was to blame but wanting to see if her prediction this time to make frenemies was not just a vision caused by her unbalanced abilities.

"What did you do, make a –

"Slade growled under his chin at the one relic possibly able to whisk them all to the middle of a stage this vast. And empty, as ships started to pop up like in Tron. He groaned. "I'm not interested in your video games, child."

"Then get off of my ship." Astarte snorted, angrily. "All of you!"

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"What?? Calcifer said it would be ok, and Raku…."

She looke at his hyperventilating face and eyes. "I…I warned you! I can't…! –

"He never should." Astarte frowned. "Change it back, send them all back –

"But –

"Not until we win a game, lady." Harley pointed at a floating scoreboard as Ivy faint.

"Aw, shit." That was all she could say.

Slade turned to Raku and would shake the boy into reversing this mess, but not with his "aunt" watching.

"What, so we have to –

"Beat the home team." Ami shrugged. Aiden gawked and Joey hid a chuckle, annoying his dad who was hoping to see Will out of his fuming mind. Damn it! Demons and gods, again? He was on vacation too….

"Ami, we can't play. My shift is still on, Joey is visiting and you….have to study before school starts again in a few days."

"Relax, dad!" Ami grinned as Calcifer and she both looked at each other in agreement. "We win the game, you guys can go home and Astarte can mind wipe your brains! I think it works out and that way, none of us can be bored with the same old routine."

Dick's face fell. "No, Ami, we can't. You're not a –

"Oh, for god's sake!" Slade stood up and stomped over to the girl, ready to one – up Grayson as he had the Batman.

"You. Stop messing with time and space, and get that troll brother of yours to –

~Hey! Just for that insult, clown, I'm not moving myself until YOU bozos earn a damned ten points!"

"Aw, shit? What!" Ivy threw a hand over her face, until a hand came to her shoulder, making her jump into Harley's arms. "John!" She shouted back, seeing he'd joined their little trip into the deep blue of Tron – ville.

"What's all this about games I heard? Is the lad not doing well –

"I was tricked! She made me activate the book, sir!" Raku bowed miserably in front of his teacher. "I'm sorry!"

"That's a tall order. Tryin' to sink the enemy's ship while we are just looknig like a bunch of wankers off of our game –

"Tell that to yourself." Slade pulled out a hunter's knife and a belt beneath the casual one. "Nightwing?"

"Ah, you caught me." Dick sighed and plucked off his coat where under it lay the uniform, neatly pressed.

"Joey, you didn't leave for a mission. You missed out outing, however." Slade tapped his foot, earning a shrug from his youngest son. ~I had a long day of planning after the holidays, pop." He replied via their link. "Dick and I were catching up, and I ran into a snag at the bus stop –

"Aha." Still not convinced, Slade turned to Astarte as she held up a weapon of her own. Pistol. Lucky.

""Got anymore of those?" Slade asked, expecting a no but getting a tiny piece of crap instead for the trouble.

"Thanks." He replied sullenly.

She just smirked and watched the big boy gather up his small toy.

"Ah, so how do we start again?"

"Americans…" John threw a hand to his face at the miko – mini's question. "Didn't you play it before Ami?" Aiden frowned and tried to activate his sword of the golden dawn in that instant.

"Yeah, when I was ten maybe." She snootily retorted. "But…. I guess I kinda –

"Wanna send her to my extra – curricular classes? She'll never make that mistake again at a boot camp course, if she passes like her sister." Slade snickered, earning a gasp from Joey. ~ Pop! ~

"Anna made up her mind to work under you." Dick had not forgotten. Slade had taught her to fight and also to hold back her fire for the sake of humanity. He'd won which stung the Titans' and Grayson's kids' hearts a lot. Even a year later. "Having her leave us was enough -

"Don't be such a worry - wart, kid."

"Anyway, we have to finish the game, get our asses to our own times and then what?" Harley understood enough to know as the vixen interrupted the men's squabble; this was a battle royale. But the ship across from them made the first move, which sent everyone into high alert.

"Hit the deck!" Ivy used her vines to fling the oncoming canon ball meters off into the water, just missing its face –

"Nopera!!" Ami pointed, aghast as the others.

"No, faces…Great. Jericho? You're shit out of luck." Constantine sniffed and Slade raised his tiny gun. "That can't fi –

"Amplify it, wizard." Slade commanded, and John just went with the plan. "It hit im??" When Slade's raging against physics had...blown away the sorcerer before, now he'd sen it all...The bullet hit the nopera square in the...face it would have had.

The nopera in military garb was boneless as it was flung back by the one bullet, the ship now ready to open fire.

"This is a damn war, Grayson! A pretty screwed up fantasy to us, dammnit! Your kid didn't expect this wish to fail. But you weren't careless enough to let it happen, now we have to fight those monsters back to shore!" He dodged a shot fired as Dick took out his Escrima sticks and defended Ami and Raku with all they had. Astarte decided it was too far away to see any bodies hit the waves. Even these fake ones.

"We can't a clear shot at them this far away!" She shouted to her teams, the soldiers of her name and platoon on the ship's bow soon popped up, and also were faceless and wore all blue and black. She recalled being on the waves on patrol, but the spirited away anthology was a waste on those meta - kindred she was supposed to meet back in her world. Slade had reason to mad, but Harley was aware of it. Jumping destinations would not be an easy ride back to her base of operations.

Down below on the deck, Ami tried to find some humor in their predicament, but she withheld her tears for now. It wasn't the time.

"So, am I still in trouble?" Seething, the fifteen-year-old knew the answer to that one. Aiden groaned and let his light blind one of the nopera now on gliders in the sky, to go DS's way.

"Like hell you are!" Slade shot at the nopera on the glider as it hit the water. "What kind of death match does this kid play on her computer?? A gore – filled one? Terminator, crap??" He exclaimed, earning a roll of eyes from Dick. "Cool it, grandpa -

"Gra - Grayson, I swear...This is your fault for not supervising your own b -

"Bloody yes, if we even make it back in time for tea, he can reprmand the poor lass!" John snagged a canon ball with his power and watched it hit the ship across, only to have a new ship in its place. "Damn it all, but not sorry. Ami? You need to learn some self - ugh! Control...!" Water splashed in his face as Astarte steered like a woolly mammoth. " Who taught you how to drive? Seriously?" He yelled up at her rudely, stomping his feet.

Harley used Ivy's vines as a makeshift sling shot while the nopera on the green and blue team were acting fishier than this entire fake universe. " Uhh, you wanna see a shrink, girlie? Cause I ain't payin the bill on this rug – rat! She's worse than Dr. Psycho bashin' around in my head!"

Another bash and the creeps went for a swim.

"That...was partly my fault... I..." Ivy nervously smiled and tried to keep the "buns" memory of Psycho's happy trails locked away.

"What was that, Ivy - bear?"

"Nothing!"

"I guess…" Raku gulped from the sidelines. "We can be grounded, together?" Salt water droplets hit his arm as the canon balls kept getting deflected from their vessel.

Ami shrugged, acting like it was no big deal.

Everyone shouted, all but Dick and Joey, and Sara was too busy to give the gift of gab a shot. Calcifer just hummed and tried to act relaxed.

"SURE, WHY NOT??" The offended team members just flew into battle, seeing as Ami and her deal with Raku's influence was the one thing keeping this ship afloat.