Chapter 04

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TwinstarDragon: thank you. Might be, except for the fact that tiamat forgot the dream as she woke up. True, but a good deal of meta abilities require outside interference to activate, like that band of teens in young justice: prime example being the teleporter kid. Interesting name but a bit long. It'll likely just be either 'crown clown' or 'eris'. It would fit her theme, but the ONLY parent she has that was 'crazy' would be harley, and that was because of joker, and what he did to her. Thank you.

Potternatzu: cool. I agree, sometimes shit happens. I would suggest that you check the review before you post it. Thank you, and soon

Umbra Lycan: it was akin to a dream of the future. Here's the next chapter

Previous

"Shut up and let me down," the boy ordered tiamat. "Hmm, no, i don't think i will. You can just stay up there for a while longer. However, i will turn you rightside-up, so all the blood in your body doesn't go to your head, thus killing you," tiamat said, before she turned him rightside-up, before leaving him hanging in the vine.

Now

Tiamat was heading into the school to get her things to go home, when she ran into alice. "Hi there, tiamat," alice said. "Hi," tiamat said, before she walked past alice. "And bye" she stated. After stand ing the for a bit, stupefied, alice turned and ran towards tiamat. "Come on, tiamat, wait for me!" alice cried out as she ran to catch up to her. Tiamat ignored her as she grabbed her things and left the building.

Why is she so cold to those around her? Alice wondered to herself, as she continued to follow tiamat, trying to get her attention. As she followed tiamat, she felt someone grab her from behind. Unable to do anything else, she screamed. Unknown to her, she got the attention of tiamat.

Tiamat heard the scream and ran to the source of the scream, and saw that it was alice in the grasp of an older man. "What are you doing to her?" tiamat asked the guy. "I'm gonna use her, then sell her," the guy sent bluntly, before he licked the side of alice's neck, causing alice to shiver in fear.

"You know," tiamat began, getting the attention of both alice and the pedo. "You remind me of the pedo-perv that tried to get me, not that long ago," she said. Alice's eyes widen in shock as she heard that. The pedo was wondering how the girl was still here, then.

"Fortunately for me, i became $800 richer AND got a brand new phone," tiamat said. They were shocked. A little girl joined him? "After all," she began, getting their attention. Tiamat suddenly had an insane smile. "A corpse has no need of such items," she finished.

Her last statement scared alice and enraged the pedo-perv. After all, what child WOULDN'T be scared of that? For the pedo-perv, he wondered why his buddy hadn't come back yet. Now, he has his answer: the brat in front of him had killed him.

"YOU BITCH!" the pedo-perv screamed as he literally tossed alice aside and charged at tiamat.

With alice

Alice closed her eyes, expecting an impact with the concrete. What she DIDN'T expect, was something soft. Opening her eyes and looking under her, she saw something that shocked her: she's laying on plants. "Where's poison ivy?" alice murmured to herself as she looked around.

Looking back towards her hopeful-friend, she saw that tiamat was dodging the guy's attacks like a gymnast. She got scared when tiamat got cornered, only for a vine to appear and throw her. Once tiamat landed, she suddenly had knives in her hands, and a sadistic grin on her face, before she threw the knives with pinpoint accuracy. The pedo screamed as the knives buried themselves in his legs as he fell to the ground.

She saw tiamat walking up to the guy, pulled out another knife and sliced the guy's throat.

Tiamat, just before the pedo charged

Tiamat saw the guy throw the girl aside, just to charge at her. Reacting quickly, she made soft, yet firm, plants grow under her. Once she did that, tiamat dodged the attacks like a gymnast. Man, this bastard will NOT let up. What did i do to piss him off? Tiamat wondered to herself. Just then, tiamat felt a wall against her back. Shit, she thought. She saw that the guy had a look of glee on his face.

Reacting quickly, she had a vine pick her up and throw her. She righted herself so that she landed on her feet, even as she slid backwards a bit. She grew a sadistic smile as she brought out her knives, before she threw them with deadly accuracy. The knives went into the guy's legs, just barely missing the major arteries. The guy collapsed to the ground with a scream.

Tiamat walked up to the guy and pulled out a fresh knife before she knelt next to him. "My mamas, are mama ivy and mama harley," she whispered to him, his eyes widened, just before he sliced his throat. Tiamat collected and cleaned her knives before she put them away and stood.

3rd POV

Tiamat walked over to alice, who honestly thought that she would be next. "You ok?" tiamat asked. Alice jumped a bit in surprise, as she didn't expect that question. Tiamat sighed. "I'm not gonna hurt you. My mamas taught me to not hurt the innocent. Scaring them is fine, but never hurting them," tiamat explained.

That statement caused alice to calm down. "And who are your 'mamas'?" alice asked. "Mama ivy and mama harley," tiamat said. Alice was shocked. "Now, care to explain WHY you thought following me was a good idea?" tiamat asked.

Alice blushed in embarrassment, because she knew she was caught. "I just wanted to be friends with you," she answered honestly, if rather timidly. "*sigh*, fine," tiamat said.

Alice's eyes widened in shock. "Really?" she asked hopefully. "Yes, we are friends," tiamat confirmed. "YAY!" alice said, just before she hugged tiamat in joy. Tiamat awkwardly pat alice's back. "Can you please let go?" tiamat asked. Alice's answer was to hug tighter.

Years later, tiamat and alice are 13

"Mama, it's time for the field trip," tiamat called out. "Alright, i'm coming," harley called back. "If you don't hurry, mama harley, we're gonna be late," tiamat called back.

Harley came out. "I'm ready, puddin'," harley said. Tiamat grabbed her mother's hand and ran out the door and to the school. After getting to the middle school, tiamat saw alice. "hey , alice," tiamat called out joyfully.

Alice turned to the source of the voice, and saw that it was her best friend. "TIAMAT!," alice yelled in joy as she leaped at her best friend to hug her. Tiamat had to let go of her mothers hand in order to catch her friend's flying tackle-hug.

Tiamat almost fell, but she managed to catch herself. Tiamat hugged friend back, as she put her in her feet. "What have i told you not to do, alice?" tiamat asked. "To not do a flying tackle hug," alice said. "And what did you do?" tiamat asked, hands on her hips. "A flying tackle hug," alice said sadly. "Yes you did," tiamat said, poking alice's stomach three times, one for each word.

"Now, come on," tiamat said as alice managed to get her giggling under control. "It's almost time for the field trip," she said before she ran to her classroom, with her mama and best friend following her.

The classroom

Tiamat rushed into the classroom with her best friend and her mother. "About time you two made it," tiamat's and alice's teacher lightly scolded them. She then looked at harley. "And who might you be, miss?"

"I'm one of tiamat's parent's, harley isley-quinn," she introduced herself. "Oh, it's nice to meet you," she said. "Likewise," harley said. She turned to her daughter and gave her a hug. "Now, remember: have fun and listen to the teacher," harley reminded her daughter. Tiamat hugged her mother in return. "Yes mama harley," tiamat said.

Harley left, tiamat and alice sat in their seats. About an hour later, it was time for the field trip. On the way there, tiamat and alice sat next to each other, just chatting. Meanwhile, in an underground vault, an item that was sealed for decades started to move on its own, as it sensed that its chosen master was getting closer.

The bus stopped, allowing the students and staff to disembark. Harley was stunned. "Welcome, students and staff, to the museum of power," the tour guide said, before giving a bow. "Please, follow me," the tour guide said.

The underground vault

The artifact raised its fists. It started to try and break out of the containment system holding it. It could sense that the master it desired was close. However, it could also sense that danger was approaching its master, and it wasn't there to defend or save them.

Above the vault

Tiamat was having lunch with alice. The tour was pretty cool. There were artifacts of power that heroes, villains and vigilantes used. From the bow of orion to the club of heracles. However, throughout the lecture, there was one item that really grabbed tiamats attention, and it was the 3D hologram of the royal clown. In her words, she thought that the royal clown was beautiful. According to the plaque describing the item, it was called the 'armaments of the royal clown' and it was used by a truly chaotic person who called themselves the 'royal clown', and they fought on BOTH sides of the law.

The clown was successfully separated from his armaments and was killed, his armaments locked away somewhere secure, never to see the light of day, ever again. If it EVER gets used again, it will cause untold amounts of damage.

Just as she finished reading the plaque, the building shook, and there was NO earthquake. There was a single, final, *BOOM* sound, accompanied by large amounts of fire and shrapnel. "Well, now, i have FINALLY tracked that bothersome clown to this general area," a voice said. The dust from the explosion cleared, and a floating man was revealed. The man looked similar to zatara, but instead of looking like a gentleman, he looked like your typical enforcer. He was also floating in midair, like dr. strange or dr. fate.

"Where is that clown? TELL ME!" the guy demanded. However, everyone was too terrified to answer him, except one person. "Why are you even here? Shouldn't you be doing children's parties, you magician wannabe?" tiamat insulted him.

Feeling insulted, the magician sent a few tendrils of solid magical power at tiamat. Tiamat leaped into the air to dodge the attack, and threw two knives at the guy. However, sadly, the magician caught them with two tendrils. "Really? Knives?" the magician asked in a deadpan tone of voice.

Tiamat's smile grew to show her bloodlust and a tinge of insanity. "Don't worry," she began as she brought eight knives to her hands. "I've got plenty more where those came from," she finished.

And so, the fight between the two began. Tiamat kept using her knives, while the magician kept using his tendrils. Suddenly, tiamat started using vines, in addition to her knives, much to the surprise of most people present, with the exception of alice.

"ENOUGH!" the magician yelled, before he used something akin to explosive magic, the magic surrounding the magician and sending her crashing into the far wall. When tiamat fell to the ground, dazed and in pain, she saw her best friend reach out for her. Tiamat reached for alice with her right arm, her body bleeding, when rubble from the collapsing wall fell onto her, burying her in its entirety, except her right arm, which hung limply, bleeding, exposed to them all.

Please, tiamat thought. Please, help me save my only friend, tiamat begged. "Now i'm really annoyed," the magician snarled. He went to where alice was dazed, stunned that her best friend was buried.

Underground vault

It heard its master's plea for help. So, after gathering its power, it broke free of its confinement. Now that it was free, it flew through the ceiling above it, in order to help its chosen master.

Above the vault

Alice was bleeding profusely from the magician's attacks. Bored, the magician grabbed the girl in a tendril and threw her into the wall opposite to where tiamat was buried. "I'm bored, so i'll just kill you," the magician said as he readied some tendrils. He then sent the tendrils to stab alice, only for something that NO ONE expected to happen, happened.

A large silver, glowing and ethereal left hand grabbed the tentacles. It had a black crown with rounded tips on the wrist and a tuft of fur under the base of the crown, surrounding the wrist. They followed the arm to the top, saw some fur going down the front of the shoulder. Its face was a mask that only covered the eyes (look back to the dream tiamat had for the design on the mask) and there were three pseudo-tendrils on its head, forming a kind of crown.

Everyone was staring, but only the tour guide was able to speak, if only barely. Regardless, everyone in the vicinity was able to hear them. "No way, the royal clown. It was supposed to be sealed in a cage in the vault. Why, how is it here? Why is it defending that girl?" they asked themselves.

"There you are, you bothersome clown," the magician snarled, before he released the earlier tendrils, causing them to disintegrate into nothingness, and made new tendrils to attack the girl and the clown.

However, the clown grabbed those, too. After disintegrating the current tendrils, the magician tried to use magic bullets. After firing the bullets at them, the ethereal silver clown created a shield over the girl to protect her. The clown then sent its own tendrils at the magician. The magician dodged the attacks, only for the clown to manipulate the tendrils to bind the magician.

"What the hell?!" the magician cried out in anger. "Let me out of this, you bothersome clown, so i can destroy you!" the magician ordered. The mask of the clown simply approached the bound magician, and its mask-face tilted to the side a bit, as if asking 'now why in the world would i do that'.

Back with tiamat, she can feel her body slowly healing. You see, after she was buried under the rubble, the shock and genuine fear that she was going to die, forced her meta-gene to activate, revealing itself to be a kind of healing. however, as her body healed, she was able to feel that power was near. the power felt like it was resonating with her.

With the clown and magician, the clown turned and saw the exposed arm of its chosen master. Let's go, tiamat thought. The eyes of the ethereal clowns' mask shined with a bright light, and quickly flew over to its master's arm.

Once it reached its master's arm, it decided to merge with her, and her meta ability, so it doesn't get sealed away, again, and so it will always protect her, as well as the descendants of hers. Though only one descendant at a time.

Once the clown merged with its master, the magician managed to break free of the bindings and turned to the pile of rubble, which chose to fall apart, revealing the annoying girl. However, the girl looked different. She was wearing the outfit of the royal clown. Her left arm was silver, with the fingers and hand being somewhat thick. Her right arm was black with silver stripes on the upper arm and had bladed fingers on its normal-sized fingers and hand.

However, perhaps the biggest change was her hair. It was no longer red with a blonde edge at the bottom. It was now mostly silver, with a black edging at the bottom.

The magician turned and sent magic bullets at alice, again. However, before the bullets could hit alice, tiamat got between her and the bullets. The cloak expanded, shielding them from the bullets and neutralizing them. Tiamat faced the magician, and got a bloodthirsty grin. The mask came over her eyes, and she said, "now, let the fun begin, *cakle*."