Traya Smith (tiny_tornado) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-02-13 14:30:00

Entry tags:

inactive - traya smith, plot - "blackest night"

Black Winds
With the attack on the Young Justice League itself and reports of attacks coming in from the homes of various other teams and heroes, the need to make certain that their families were safe had never been greater. While Traya tried to force herself to believe that there was little to worry about--her parents were both alive, as was T.O. Morrow--she couldn't help but feel uneasy.

She supposed the Black Lantern version of Jai could still be out there. Knew it was, really, if what the Lanterns had said was right. But her daddy alone could have kicked that monster's butt. If she was there too, then there would be no problem at all.

"Traya..."

She slowed down for a moment. She was certain she'd heard something in the wind. A voice, calling her name.

Traya gathered the winds around her, carrying any near-by sounds. She was over New York City; there were plenty sounds of the city about her, lots of little voices too. Most of it was an incomprehensible babble.

"Traya..."

There. There it was again. And it had said more this time too, but in a language she didn't understand. She

thought

it sounded Arabic or maybe... A couple of the girls in the Biaylan Student Association had been teaching her a few simple phrases in Biaylan, but she wasn't even remotely close to fluent.

She dropped out of the sky and landed on a rooftop. Traya concentrated on the winds again, drawing more and more sounds to her on the air. She could swear...

"Traya..."

A second voice this time, but in that same language as the first...

"Who's there?" she demanded. "What's going on?!"

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	black_lantern 2011-02-13 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	"Don't you recognize your parents?" a female voice said before stepping out of the shadows. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-13 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	"Look at her, honey," A male voice said, stepping out of the shadows. "She's all grown up." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-13 11:57 pm UTC (link)
	Traya's eyes widened behind her helmet. "What..?" she gasped. "Who...?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-13 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	"We're your parents, honey. Your /real/ parents. Not some machine. How could you forget us so easily?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 12:00 am UTC (link)
	"We've waited so long to be with you, Traya." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-14 12:18 am UTC (link)
	Her parents? The voices triggered some kind of foggy, half buried memory deep within her. She knew, on some level, that what they said was true. "I'm not... I'm not afraid of you." FEAR LOVE (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 12:23 am UTC (link)
	"We can see it," she said. "You are afraid, but we will take that fear from you and give you peace. You can be with us and we will love you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 12:25 am UTC (link)
	"There's nothing to be afraid of, honey." He said soothingly. "We can finally be a family together. Doesn't that sound wonderful?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-14 12:56 am UTC (link)
	This... this wans't right. "I've... I've got a family," she said, trying to tell herself this wasn't real, wasn't really them... (FEAR) (LOVE) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 01:04 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, you do." Her father said. "You've got a family right here." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 01:18 am UTC (link)
	"We are your true family," she said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-14 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"I've got a new family," she said. "Mom and Dad love me." The winds were starting to pick up around her, erratically. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 01:39 am UTC (link)
	"We love you too, sweetheart. We want to show you just how much." She started moving toward Traya. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-14 01:41 am UTC (link)
	He moved forward with his wife. "Yes. Please let us show you, honey." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

tiny_tornado
2011-02-14 02:35 am UTC (link)

Traya took a step backwards. The winds began to pick up again, fluttering her cape and whistling around the rooftops.

"No..." she said. She knew they weren't real. They were just monsters wearing their flesh. Killed in some nameless accident in wartorn Biayla when she'd been little more than a baby.

The League had intervened and Red Tornado had rescued her. She'd never been afraid of him, not even then, when his voice had still been cold and mechanical, his own construction still crude and not entirely human. He'd brought her home to his own love, Kathy Sutton, and they'd become a family.

As a young girl, she'd known she was adopted. She thought about her birthparents, wondered who they were, why they'd had to die. But she'd been loved dearly and loved in return. And she had quickly realized that the family, made without blood, was just as real, just as important, as any other.

"No," she said firmly. "I can't. There's too many people who love me, too many people who rely on me. They won't give up on me... and I won't give up on them. Mom. Dad. Jon. Michael. The League Everyone."

"If there's anything of my birth-parents in you, anything at all... then you'll understand why I have to do this."

She brought up both hands and fired off tornado blasts.

(WILL)
(HOPE)
(LOVE)
(COMPASSION)

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	black_lantern 2011-02-15 12:47 am UTC (link)
	She was knocked back into a wall, but she started advancing again. "Don't fight us sweetheart. We're your parents. We love you. We just want to be with you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-15 04:44 pm UTC (link)
	The tornado blasts knocked him off his feet, but he started advancing with his wife. "There's nothing to be afraid of, honey. Nothing at all." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-15 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm not scared," she said, and she found that she wasn't. The winds were picking up again. It was like being on the shore of an approaching hurricane. "You gave birth to me... And I'm sure you loved me. But you're not my family. Not any more." (WILL) (HOPE) (LOVE) (COMPASSION) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-18 12:48 am UTC (link)
	The winds tore at his flesh. "But we are your family, sweetheart..." he said as the wind tore him to shreds. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-19 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Wind tore at her flesh and ripped chunks of it off. "Don't do this sweetheart. We love you. We want to be with you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-19 02:52 am UTC (link)
	"I'm so sorry..." Traya said, quietly. But the winds didn't stop. If anything, they only got stronger. (WILL) (HOPE) (LOVE) (COMPASSION) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-19 03:38 am UTC (link)
	More flesh was blown off but it didn't seem to bother the black lanterns. They tried to keep advancing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-20 01:30 am UTC (link)
	The flesh was torn from them, slowing them down a little in their advance as the winds got faster. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-02-20 02:21 am UTC (link)
	The winds had reached the point of a class five hurricane and a f5 tornado, localized to the rooftop. And were getting even faster. Her eyes closed behind her mask, Traya could still sense what ever little bit of the air was doing. "This ends... NOW!" (RAGE) (WILL) (HOPE) (LOVE) (COMPASSION) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-02-20 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	Flesh was ripped off her body at a faster rate and the Black Lantern was pushed against a wall. The thing kept moving though. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	black_lantern 2011-03-01 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	The flesh went off his body, and he was sent into a wall. He began to move...slowly. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tiny_tornado 2011-03-01 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	She needed to end this. She concentrated, forming a tornado vortex around the two, sending them hurling into the upper reaches of the atmosphere. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tiny_tornado 2011-03-13 04:27 pm UTC (link)
	(end) (Reply to this)

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