THE TITAN CHRONICLES, EPISODE I: SLEEPING PRINCE
by CidGregor
Rated PG / K-plus
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans or Sleeping Beauty.
This story is dedicated to SocialButterfli; without you, this story wouldn't have existed. Thanks, amiga!
Prologue
"AAAUGH!"
Killer Moth sighed at the sound of his daughter's scream. Oh, not again… he thought. Sure enough, a second later…
"DADDY!" Kitten shrill voice echoed through the house.
"Daddy's working, Kitten!" he shouted back, but he might as well have stayed silent for all the good it did. Thunderous footsteps came down the stairs into the basement, and Kitten burst into the room, looking quite hysterical, and more than a little insane.
"HE BROKE UP WITH ME…AGAIN!" she ranted, and Killer Moth sighed again. Of course…her boyfriend had done it once again. This was fast becoming routine between his daughter and the half-man, half-spider that was Fang.
What is this, the fifth time this month? He wondered. I don't even remember when I stopped counting…
Kitten ranted and raved about Fang for a while, and Killer Moth, having heard every word of it before, returned to his work and simply tuned her out, throwing out the occasional "No, he didn't!" or "How could he?" to keep her happy. Eventually she burned herself out, and sat down next to her father, muttering obscenities about her once-again Ex. Moth tried to say something, but he had never really been good with the whole 'comforting father' thing, so instead he settled on a simple pat on the shoulder and a sympathetic "There, there, it'll be okay."
"That's it! That's the last time he breaks up with me!" she promised suddenly. "I'm over him for good! We're never getting back together! Sorry, Fangy-poo, but this kitten won't be yours to pet ever again!"
Moth sighed again. He'd heard all this before, too. "Now, Kitten, Fang's broken up with you so many times…and every time you get back together, only to break up all over again…maybe it's time you found a new boyfriend. One who wont break your heart every five days."
"What's the point?" Kitten said. She wandered over to the wall, where a newspaper clipping from the day after the prom incident was pinned up. A huge picture of the Teen Titans took up most of the front page, with a caption above it that read, TITANS SAVE JUMP CITY FROM GIANT MOTHS! Kitten heaved a sigh of her own and traced her finger around Robin, who stood in the center of the group.
"Robin is the only other guy cool enough to be my boyfriend," she insisted. Then she glanced at the figure next to Robin, the beautiful Tameranean named Starfire, and Kitten felt a strong desire to punch something. "But that rotten alien girl has him wrapped around her little finger!"
Killer Moth suddenly grew stern. "Now Kitten, I warned you, that Robin boy is bad news. I don't want you fraternizing with any more superheroes. He's the one who put us in jail in the first place, if you'll remember."
"I don't care!" Kitten shouted. "Robin is the only one for me now…oh, if only he wasn't such a goody-goody good guy, he wouldn't care one lick about that Starfire…" Kitten froze, and suddenly, an evil grin crossed her face. "Oh, daaaaaaddy…"
Oh, no… Moth thought, I don't like where this is going…