Fan Fiction ❯ Demon in Disguise: On Tamaran ❯ Chapter 1

Chapter 1

"We have arrived!" Starfire cried out joyfully as she and Raven emerged from the spaceship onto the planet of Tamaran.

Raven looked around at the tropical beauty surrounding them. "You were right Koriand'r, Tamaran is beautiful."

"Oh, I am glad to be home." Koriand'r sighed happily.

"Tamaran certainly has a lot of inhabitants." Raven observed, looking around at what seemed like millions of golden-skinned aliens.

"You are correct Raven, Tamaran is home to approximately eight billion people." Starfire informed.

"So Starfire, where are we headed?" the dark sorceress asked.

"To the home of my family."

"And that would be where, exactly?"

"It is there!" Starfire pointed to a building in the distance.

When they reached the building, Raven stared in awe. "It's beautiful."

The building in question was a large palace. Raven was aware that Koriand'r's parents were king and queen of Tamaran, but she had never guessed that their home was so extravagant. It looked to be at least ten stories high, topped by turrets and towers. The palace was surrounded by a garden filled with trees and beautiful and strange plant life of which Raven had never seen either on Earth or on her home planet of Azarath.

"Shall we enter?" Starfire asked.

At Raven's nod they entered. They entered a brightly lit room and were greeted by to people, a man and a woman. The man had the same color of hair as Star's older sister, Blackfire. While the woman had Starfire's long red curls.

<<Koriand'r, are they your parents?>>

<<Indeed Raven, they are my parents. King Myand'r, and Queen Luand'r of Tamaran.>>

"Koriand'r, it is wonderful to see you again!" Koriand'r's mother smiled lovingly at her second born.

"Indeed Mother, I am elated to see you both!"

"Who is she?" King Myand'r asked, indicating Raven.

"This is Raven of Azarath." Koriand'r told them.

"And what relation is she to you?" the queen inquired.

"Raven is my teammate and wife." Koriand'r said, smiling lovingly at the empath.

"Your wife?" Myand'r asked.

"Yes, we were married on Okaara." Koriand'r explained.

"Why on Okaara?" Luand'r asked, a puzzled expression on her golden face.

"Because that was the first planet in the Vegan star system we came to." Raven explained.

Just then, the sun began to set. After the sun had set Raven began to transform. Starfire's parents stared in fear at the demon before them.

"What is that?" Luand'r asked fearfully.

"I am a demon." Raven said, a hint of anger in her monotone.

"A demon? Koriand'r you married a demon?" the king asked looking with utter disgust at his daughter's wife.

"In a way she did, and in a way she didn't." Raven explained calmly. She had learned how to ignore people's comments about her looks, well sort of.

"I was not addressing you, demon." Myand'r glared.

Raven winced inwardly at his comment. 'Hmm, sounds like someone I used to know." Raven thought bitterly, remembering the no longer living Terra. She began to explain to the king and queen the reason behind her sunset transformation.

"Raven, I apologize for my husband's lack of courtesy." Luand'r said, after Raven had finished telling her account of the four years she had spent in Slade's captivity.

"It's okay, I'm used to it." Raven said trying to shrug off the comment.

"No, it is not okay! Apologize, Father!" Starfire ordered.

"Do not speak to me in that tone of voice, Koriand'r!"

"I said apologize." Kory growled.

"Why should I apologize to that, to that murderer?"

"Because you have hurt her feelings. And because she is your daughter."

"She is no daughter of mine! She may be your wife Koriand'r, but she is certainly not my daughter! My daughters are not criminals!"

"Oh, I beg to differ, Father." Blackfire was standing in the doorway, unseen by the others. "I am a criminal and you have no problem with it."

"That is true Komand'r. But you did not kill over one hundred people."

"Please stop. All of you please just stop. Please don't bring up my past in front of me. And don't talk about me as though I were not in the room. On Earth, it's considered rude to talk about someone when they're in the same room. Is it the same on Tamaran, or did Starfire forget to tell me something?" Raven was close to tears at this point. But she willed herself not to weep in front of the in-laws.

"You are right Raven, we are sorry." Koriand'r said, putting a comforting arm around the empath.

"I forgive you Koriand'r, but not him." Raven pointed at Myand'r with one large red forefinger.

"Excuse me for interrupting, but dinner is ready." a girl announced, entering the room. She had short blonde hair, big blue eyes, and was about Starfire's height. Her golden skin matched her gold colored dress perfectly.

"Thank you, Taryia. We will be there shortly." Queen Luand'r told her. The servant girl left to return to her chores, but before leaving, she got a good look at Raven, and knew they had met before. 'Raven, didn't I say that we'd meet again? Well now I'll be able to do as Slade ordered me to, and kill you soon.'

A/N: Yeah, Terra's back. She may be Tamaranean and be called by a different name, but it's still Terra. You'll understand how and why later. Converting /tmp/phpllPKmy to /dev/stdout