Overall disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans and I really don't want to bore you all with one of these every update
Overall disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans and I really don't want to bore you all with one of these every chapter so let's get it out of the way now.
Hi everyone! I'm back with the sequel to Once Again. If you haven't read that one I would suggest reading it, but here's a brief re-cap: The Titans hadn't seen each other in years and they all had children (go to Once Again for names). After Robin and Starfire's daughter has a nightmare, the parents decide it's time for their kids to meet each other, and learn the truth about their parent's pasts. After learning that they have their own powers, the kids split up into teams and become the new Titans. One of the kids however turned out to be a villain and helped Fahrenheit, Slade's last apprentice kidnap one of the Titians. Of course the others came to rescue her, taking Fahrenheit down too. And now here we are.
Okay so maybe that wasn't as brief I wanted it to be but here is the first chapter of The Shaken! Thoughts are in italics.
Thalia awoke from her dreams and sensed that something in the tower was off, but couldn't quite figure out what. She pushed her bed covers away and examined her room.
She checked her bookcases first in case any of the spell books Mrs. Roth had given her and Desiree were missing.
'Nope, everything's here. The Brother's Grimm, Stephenie Meyer, and every enchantment book. Oh no! What if they did something to me!?'
Thalia ran over to her mirror and sighed in relief. Every thing about her was fine; the red streaks in her platinum blond hair were still there. She had decided to change it since her alias had green hair, and people would probably recognize her if she kept it that color all the time. Her skin had no sign of harm on them; her black pajamas didn't have any rips either.
The disturbance she felt was now gone so she decided to try to go back to sleep. But that plan didn't last long, there was a snowstorm going on outside the tower, and a noisy one too.
'I guess I'll just get a cup of hot chocolate or something, it's five in the morning, I'd be up in an hour any way.' Thalia once again threw the cover off the bed and this time made her way down the corridor to the common room.
As the sliding doors opened, Thalia noticed she wasn't alone in the room. Silently she prepared herself for battle. A figure stood in the kitchen near the table. Just as Thalia was about to strike it spoke.
"Hey! I know I say always be ready, but it's five in the morning! Training's not till after school, calm thyself grasshopper!" laughed Alex, the leader of the Titans.
"Oh Alex it's just you. You'd think I'd be able to sense your aura by now," Thalia said, calming down a bit.
"It's ok. You couldn't sleep either I'm guessing," Alex asked as she sat down to a bowl of cereal.
"Yeah, I thought something was in the tower but it turned out to be nothing," Thalia said as she looked through the cupboards for the hot chocolate mix. "What's keeping you up?" she asked even though she already knew the answer.
"Bad dreams," Alex said as she flipped her dark bangs out of her face. Alex had horrible reoccurring nightmares about the time she spent at Fahrenheit's lair. The poor girl usually woke up screaming from the memories. Tyler, her boyfriend and the son of Beast Boy and Terra, was usually always there when she woke up. His room was next door to Alex's and he'd done nearly everything but move into Alex's room with her to make sure she was okay.
The microwave beeped signaling Thalia that the hot chocolate was done. "No Tyler tonight?"
"No he's passed out outside my room, but he deserves to have a night off anyway. I don't think he slept at all in his room," Alex said finishing off her early breakfast. As she got up to put the bowl in the sink, Thalia could see where the scar that ended at the nape of her neck that she had from Fahrenheit's torture. The scar, though not entirely visible snaked its way diagonally across Alex's back and hadn't changed since the battle that was about six months ago.
"That disturbance thing might have been something from your dreams. Did you have a nightmare too?" Alex asked as she sat back down.
Thalia pondered this for a bit, "No, if I did I can't remember."
"Hmm that's interesting, but it's probably nothing. Well we should probably wake up the others, it's almost six anyway," Alex said brightly.
Thalia smiled and nodded. Then the two girls went to go wake up their sleeping friends.
"ACHOO!!" "Take cover!" Derek had sneezed once again, and Tyler ducked. Derek had the bad habit of sending off starbolts when he sneezed or coughed or shouted to loud. Since they were out in public, he had to be extra careful.
"Sorry, I think I have a cold," the half alien said, rubbing his nose as the five teens entered their school.
"You should have told me before we left, I could have healed you," Desiree whispered as other students walked past them.
"I'll be fine, really ACHOO!!" Derek said as he covered his nose again. Desiree shot him a doubtful look. The two had gotten extremely close in the past few months, but nothing was official yet. Derek was also Thalia's best friend, that's all he'd ever be but she was still worried about him.
"If you're sure," Thalia shouted as she walked off to her locker. But she immediately wanted to turn around once she saw who was standing there. Jude Masterson. He was the new kid at school, most girls had a crush on him and who could blame them? Jude was tall but not outrageously so with a lean frame, had shiny black hair with bangs that fell into his dark, almost black eyes and a charming smirk was almost always on his face. He wore a black leather jacket, dark jeans, vans, and a AFI band t-shirt.
Although all the other girls had taken a liking to him, Thalia was not impressed. She thought Jude was arrogant, self-absorbed, and many other things. And of course since the universe was always against her, Jude had taken a liking to her.
"Move Jude," Thalia said not looking at him.
"Good morning to you too miss," Jude said pretending to tip an imaginary hat. Thalia just shrugged, but he moved over to the next locker. As Thalia was getting her books, Jude was shuffling cards, rather annoyingly too.
Before Thalia could say something to make him go away, Jude said something, "And the Titans save the day again," he said sarcastically. He was staring at one of the TVs placed in the hallway, which had the news on of how the Titans had beaten Gizmo yesterday yet again.
"You don't like them?" Thalia asked suddenly not knowing why she had.
"I dunno, do you?" He asked staring at her with a smirk on his face. Thalia didn't answer but busied herself in organizing her locker.
"I think that Enchantra girl should change her name though, sounds too Disney if you ask me," Jude said going back to his shuffling. "Tragedy sounds way cooler, that'd be good."
"Sounds more like a villain name," Thalia said slamming her locker door and starting to walk away.
"Maybe so but it's far more intimidating," Jude said as he followed after her. Thalia just decided to ignore him, she liked her name and she wasn't going to be called something that sounded evil. Jude was shuffling his cards again as they walked, Thalia wondered if he knew that he was bothering her.
Jude ran in front of her and held out his deck of cards to her, "Pick a card."
'How random is this guy? He's talking to me about superhero names one minute and now he wants to play card games.'
"No! Now get away, I have to get to homeroom," Thalia said getting angry. But that didn't stop Jude.
"Homeroom's in like five minutes and you're just next door, I know I'm in your homeroom. Now pick a card," he pushed.
Thalia sighed and picked one, she looked at it: the joker, and put it back. "Now can I go?" It was taking all her energy not to send the boy flying with her powers by now.
"Sure miss, oh and here," he said as he gave her once of the cards face down. She flipped it over: the joker, by the time Thalia looked back up, Jude was nowhere to be seen.
At lunch Thalia found Alex sitting with Valerie. Valerie was a friend of Desiree's who had known about Desiree's power since they were little. She also knew about the other Titans and their powers too and was able to keep them secret.
"What's wrong?" Alex asked as she took a sip from her water bottle. Thalia looked frustrated as she sat down.
"It's Jude. She's got that look she had after that alien bug that swallowed her.," Valerie said spearing a piece of lettuce with her fork.
"Oh, y'know Thalia he's really not that bad. You should give him a chance he seems to like you," Alex said.
"Yeah, and maybe we'll let Gavin sit with us tomorrow!" Thalia snapped. Gavin had helped Fahrenheit kidnap and torture Alex all those months ago. Somehow he got bail out of juvey hall and was back at Jump City High. Gavin for the most part he had been good and hadn't started any trouble. As the girls talked he was glaring at them, that is until Alex turned and shot a glare right back at him. Not something one should take lightly considering Alex could shoot beams out of her eyes.
"He's too scared to sit with us," Alex stated. Valerie chuckled at this.
"Well hello ladies how are we today?" a voice said from behind Thalia. Jude said down next to Thalia.
"Hi." "Hey Jude," Alex and Valerie said.
"Goodbye Jude," Thalia said to her milk carton.
"Oh come on, you ladies are probably the most interesting people in the cafeteria. I'm not going to pass up eating lunch with you guys," Jude said to her as he took off his jacket.
"You don't have a tray with you," snapped Thalia.
"I cut gym and ate lunch then," he said simply.
"Well then there's no point for you to be here now then right?" Thalia said now glaring at Jude through her horned-rimmed glasses.
"Other than your excellent company, no miss," Jude said. Alex and Valerie just watched the two having their debate.
Just as Thalia was about to respond, the lunch bell rang. Jude stood up and bowed to them and said, "Good day ladies, see you around Thalia." Then he turned and left.
The girls got up but Valerie noticed something, "Jude left his jacket, Thalia you have your next class with him. You should return it," she said handing the jacket to the young witch.
"But!" Thalia started, but the watches Alex and Thalia wore started to beep. The two girl Titans looked at each other. Time to go. Valerie nodded to them and the girls took off to meet the others. Thalia still had Jude's jacket, and as she was running she sensed something? Magic? She looked down at the jacket. There was an aura coming off of it?
Thalia decided to ignore it, there were bigger things going on now. Her hair was turning green as Alex was placing her mask on.
'I'll give him his jacket back tomorrow. Maybe he'll freeze on his way home' That thought made Thalia smile, as she and the other Titans raced out into the cold to face today's villain
Well what do you think? I personally don't like it too much but you decide! Sorry if the Jude giving Thalia a card seemed too much like Rogue and Gambit, it just kind of came out. This story is going to co-star Alex and Thalia so the next chapter will probably be from Alex's point of view. Any way review please!!