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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 21, 2010 9:00:15 GMT -6
It was a sunny midmorning on the island known as Alcatraz. The sun gleamed down on the building now known as Titan Tower. This is where the scene is set. On the bridge leading to this historic island was a young man, three quarters of the way through his teen years, the sun also shining down on his Suzuki TU250, not only down on his beautiful bike, but his hair, which is a dazzling silver. This man is the silver haired one, Camaxtli.
Looking around as he drove further down the bridge he smiled as his eyes gleamed from behind his sunglasses. He liked the looked of the place, and he hoped they would accept him into the Teen Titans. He was powerful, he was a guy who believed in justice, and more so, he was a teen, seventeen to be more precise. He sighed as the thought of them not accepting him passed his mind. He quickly pushed it out of his mind for more pleasant thoughts.
Once he was on the island he skidded to a halt and looked up at the tower. He liked the design, very modern. He then fluently got off his bike. He looked up a bit more and he reached inside his hooded leather jacket and pulled out a packet of Richmond Superkings. He flipped open the packet and pulled one of its contents out placing it to his lips. He then placed his thumb against the tip and brought his body temperature up to a level that it would light the Richmond. He took a couple of puff to light it and then took a deep breath in exhaling afterwards as he stood there, Camaxtli, possibly the newest Teen Titan.
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 21, 2010 11:15:30 GMT -6
There was the soft sound of music from the side of the building. Melody was sitting there playing her flute and just trying to relax. Standing beside her was Shadow, her faithful black horse. But he suddenly neighed as he picked up on someone new on the island. She put her flute down and jumped onto Shadow and transformed into Ghostrider before going to see who was on the island that Shadow didn't recognize. She stopped in her tracks when she saw the silver haired guy smoking what looked like a cigarette.
"Can I help you?"
She asked in her deep and raspy but still feminine voice. Melody often wondered why she was the usual welcome wagon for new recruits. But hey, someone had to do it. She didn't know why but he unsettled her for some reason.
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 21, 2010 12:40:25 GMT -6
Cam had been just taking in the view of the building, actually thinking about what it would be like to be a member of this team. He knew he would have to work hard to impress them, he was pretty sure there were plenty of people out there that could do what he could do. In his opinion controlling the heat in the air was not that impressive a power, but maybe he was wrong, maybe, but he doubted it.
His train of though was derailed when he heard a raspy yet feminine voice. He looked over to try and find the source of the voice. What he was made him a little intimidated, not that he would ever admit to being intimidated, it was not his style. So, trying to hide the intimidation, he placed a smile on his face and removed his sunglasses, he squinted slightly as his eyes adjusted to the change in intensity of the light. Once his eyes had it was clear to see he suffered from Heterochomia. One eye was a hazel colour and the other, well, it was a striking, fiery red. He looked at the other person for a few seconds before speaking,
“Yeah, I’m ‘ere t’a sign up f’a d’a Teen Titans. D’a name’s Camaxtli, but y’a can call me Cam.”
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 22, 2010 21:37:59 GMT -6
"A new recruit huh? Fair enough."
Most were out but Melody knew that she was capable of putting someone through the paces and asking the necessary questions to help determine if someone was capable of becoming a member.
"Come with me Cam, we have some things to go through first to determine your eligibility."
She jumped off the horse that then turned and trotted off, leaving a trail of fire and disappearing into a shadow. She began to walk towards the building, assuming he'd follow. She walked into a large building on the side, it was the hall of Titans. Usually that helped let people know the lineage they were following of both former and current heroes.
"So where you from Cam?"
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 23, 2010 8:43:03 GMT -6
Cam pushed himself off his bike as she got off her horse. He looked around one more time before following her. He would love to live in a place like this; it was so different from the tiny two bedroom flat he used to live in with his dad. At the thought of his dad he anger grew slightly but soon let the flux in his emotions die down like a premature flame snuffing out before getting the change to shine.
When she mentioned going through a few things he thought of it as a test, great, he hated tests, what if there was a written test on the hero’s code or something like that, he had just learnt how to control his powers. Even with that going through his head he did not let it past he smile, a slightly cocky one at that.
As they enter the Hall of Titans he looked around and he had to admit he was impressed. So these were the guys he would be following the footsteps off. He would show them what he was made of, and he would become a member of the Titans himself. When she asked where he came from he brought himself out of the grand thoughts he had in enough time to answer,
“Oh, I’m from a small part of North-West London called Southall.”
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 23, 2010 19:54:18 GMT -6
"Sounds nice."
She said honestly before opening a large double door into a huge open gym. It was dingy and used only for tests like this, so it had been used quite a bit lately. The lights flicked on and it looked like a run down school gym with a maze in the middle of it.
"What are your powers Cam?"
She asked as she began to climb a flight of steps to an over look where she could easily watch him and command him when neccesary. Since part of this was also following orders.
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 24, 2010 9:47:01 GMT -6
Cam shook his head, it was not nice, it was a hell hole, well, for people who were not Indian, but he loved it none the less, it was his home. Well it used to be. He continued to follow her taking in everything; he needed to know his way around, if this place was going to be his home.
When they got to a gym looking place, with a maze of all things, he looked around; he guessed this was going to be where he was going to take his tests. He was kind of relieved, he thought there might be a written part, maybe later, but right now it seemed like they wanted to see what his powers where, which enhanced his suspect when she asked what they were,
“Well, I can manipulate the heat in me body as well as d’a heat in d’a air around me.”
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 24, 2010 19:03:35 GMT -6
"Interesting."
She said and began to manipulate some levers. Three mannequins dropped down, each about 7 feet apart. She wanted to know his limits so they were about 15 feet out, possibly simple. However it could be extremely complicated for him.
"You're allowed one step forward, no steps back or side to side. I want you to take out these 'criminals' in as few moves as possible but while doing it quickly."
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 24, 2010 23:21:39 GMT -6
Camaxtli nodded. He looked at the mannequins and judged how much power he would have to use. It looked simple enough, and even with only one step allowed he already knew what attack to implement to use his powers at full effectiveness. He was pretty sure this would work. He had to admit, he felt kind of lucky this was the test. The move he was about to do was his latest attack he had mastered, and in fact was one of his more powerful ones.
He got into his ready stance, his left hand out front with a slight bend at the elbow. His right hand was near the side of his face with much more bend to the elbow then his left arm so it was virtually at a right angle. His legs were bent at the knees and positioned diagonally in such a way his weight was balanced between them. He used the one step forward he had to move his right leg so it was now crossed with his left one. He then twisted his right foot so he left leg could come up and did a complete three sixty kick.
As the motion of the kick was happening there was a swirl of air around him. This was not air, but the very heat in it. When his foot was in the right place he released the heat through his foot sending an arching wave of intense heat right at the three slamming into the fake villains sending them flying off. At closer inspection there would be a series of scorch marks all over the mannequins from the intense heat they had just been hit with.
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 26, 2010 5:17:36 GMT -6
She watched as he took his time to get ready. Definitely something they would have to work on with him. If he took that much time getting ready everytime the villains would be all over him and his run as a Titan would be short lived.
"Not bad."
She pulled on some levers again and three more mannequins dropped down in a triangle pattern. But then a smaller one dropped down in front of the lead one to signify a hostage. But not just any hostage, a child hostage.
"Ok. Now take out the lead one first before taking the other two out. You're allowed two moves. And if the smaller hostage is harmed in any way you fail. Oh, and you only have 30 seconds starting....now. Go!"
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 26, 2010 12:07:16 GMT -6
Cam nodded, he knew he did not have time to get into his fighting stance, he also knew he would have to use one small move and one medium strength move. It should be enough to defeat them, but the first move he knew he would do was not exactly what a good guy would do. He poke two fingers up and a small amount of concentrated heat swirled around it. He then thrusted it out and it was almost like a dart as it when straight through the main mannequin’s head he then placed his hands on the floor heat swirling around him as he did then and he almost spilt himself in half as he sent two waves of heat energy from either foot sending them flying like the three before this test.
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 27, 2010 20:42:16 GMT -6
She took note that he did it quickly but also killed the lead mannequin. That wouldn't do, that was more an Avenger thing. They were the ones who had tendencies to kill the criminals, not something Titans did.
"Interesting method..."
Was her only response before she began to come down the stairs. There was only one test left and this one they did together. She walked past him and to the mouth of the maze before grabbing her lasso in one hand and six-shooter in the other.
"Now we go through the maze. You only do and move as you're told. It's like Simon says but more dangerous."
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Nov 29, 2010 1:16:38 GMT -6
Cam nodded; it was all he could do. He knew he should not have killed the main, fake bad guy, but he was still not skilled enough in his powers to use small waves over then the ones that were meant for cutting. He would train hard so he could master small waves, but for the moment he could not.
When Melody told him about the next task he nodded once again. He was pretty sure he was up to the task, well, he hoped. He turned towards the maze and studied it, it seemed simple enough, but if he had learnt anything in his life it was some things seemed simpler then they actually were.
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Post by Ghostrider on Nov 29, 2010 21:43:17 GMT -6
"C'mon."
She said as she began to walk through the maze. Of course she knew the way through but purposely wandered through like she was lost. She came to a dead end and turned around as a gate slammed shut about 10 yards away. 4 dummies dropped down, two on either side of the pair. Ghostrider took care of the two between them and the dead end firing a quick blast from her six shooter and taking out one before she spun and delivered a flaming punch to the other sending the dummy flying into the wall. She turned and watched to see how he would handle the other two.
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Post by Karrl 'Camaxtli' Garm on Dec 4, 2010 0:56:03 GMT -6
Camaxtli followed Melody as she walked through the maze. He had no idea where he was going, so he hoped she did. The look on her face made him doubt it, but he was pretty sure this was a part of the test; he needed to have faith in her. He looked around, his guard always up. When the gate slammed his instinctively went into a defensive stance and began to power up. When the four dummies dropped he saw her take care of two of them, he jumped ups and aimed a crescent kick sending a wave of heat straight at them sending them flying.
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