Mark 12:29-31 " 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
God seems to put a lot of emphasis on love! The most important things to do in following Him are to love Him with everything you have, and to love other people more than you love yourself. Why is that? What is so important about love?
1st John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
A definition I’ve heard for wickedness is “the absence of God”. If God is love, then we can replace the word “God” with the word “love” and still have the same meaning, right? So wickedness is “the absence of love”! Wow, I guess that might be what’s so important about love, huh?
1st Corinthians 13:1 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
The tongues of angels…I wonder what angels talk about? Well, they are constantly in the presence of God, right? I’d like to think that because of God’s awesomeness, the angels can’t stop talking about Him! He’s just so amazing that everything they could talk about pales in comparison!
So, if we spoke the way that angels speak (talking about God) to other people (as we’ve been called to do), but don’t love those people that we’re talking to, we’re not going to make any impression on them at all! All we’re going to do is be the stereotypical “hypocritical Christian” who is just telling them something to get brownie points from God! A clanging cymbal that everyone just wants to be quiet!
The only way we’re ever going to get people to listen to us when we tell them about God’s love for them, is to show them His love through us!
Matthew 24:12 “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.”
This verse sounds a lot like what’s going on today to me. Love is being distorted by the world around us, even by Christians! All that the world tends to see when they think of love is s*x, or something that is there through the good times, but leaves when the storms of life come. This is a horribly distorted image of love, so much so that we can no longer see the very definition of love (God) in it anymore!
And Christians have similar problems. We “love” others by not telling them about God’s love for them. We say, “Oh, but I don’t want to offend them” or “They’ll think that I’m weird, and that will give them a bad image of Christians”. But really, how can we say we love our friends when we won’t even tell them about the most important thing in our lives? Is it really loving to let them walk blindly through life and then find themselves in hell when they die? No! No, that is not loving at all! That’s the opposite!
Dear friends, I struggle with this too. I am not a “super-Christian” who has brought many to Christ. In all honesty, I’ve never brought someone to Christ. I’ve helped someone rededicate their life to Him, and I’ve been there when someone accepted Christ for the first time, but I’ve never been the one to go up to someone and tell them the good news of Jesus. I think “Oh, they’ll see it in the way I live and if they’re interested they’ll ask me.” And while it is very good to live a life that shows Christ through it, that is not enough. This is something God has convicted me of recently, and I am trying to get better at it, because, as I said, that’s what true love is. It’s caring enough to do the hard things that could offend people, but it could also save them or at least plant a seed in them.
1st Corinthians 13:8 "Love never fails."
But without love you are sure to fail.
~SeaChel
Chapter 13
The Truth
“What?” Cassie exclaimed standing up.
“Yes, I’m Wolf Woman. Now maybe you can understand all of those times that I ran off, or stayed away for a week, or lied to you. I’m not saying that that’s an excuse for lying to you. I should have told you before, but maybe you can see why I did.”
Cassandra looked away from Julia, but then she looked back, “Prove it to me.”
“Prove what?”
“That you’re Wolf Woman.”
“Oh, okay.” Julia said, “Cap Flow.” The Wolf Suit appeared on her. “There you go.”
Cassie turned away, “All right. Now take it off so that I’m just talking to Julia, not a Superhero.”
“Cap Flow,” Julia said once more.
There was silence for almost a minute then Cassie lost it, “How could you have kept this a secret from me? All those times we trusted each other with our crushes, wishes, and all other secrets, but really you were keeping the biggest one of all to yourself! I thought you trusted me! I thought…”
Julia sensed what she thought, “I loved you?”
Cassie turned and nodded, hot tears running down her face.
“I do love you, Cassie. That’s why I kept it a secret. If you knew then someone could hurt you to find out. I didn’t want that to happen.”
“So you lied instead and hurt me yourself.”
“I know.” Julia said, “I know. I have hurt you. By not being there for you, and by not telling you about this. Cassie, I was wrong, but please believe me, I thought that I was doing the right thing. I truly did.”
“Well it wasn’t.”
“I know now.”
“And it hurts.”
“I know that too.”
“I still love you.”
“I’m glad.”
“But I’m a little mad.”
“At least.”
“Yeah, at least.”
“I’m sorry. But now you know. I hope that someday you’ll forgive me for not telling you.”
“I do. I do. But I’m still mad so I don’t. But I do.”
Julia laughed quietly, “Think about it, clear your mind and we’ll talk later.” She stood up and walked over to the door. “Night, Cass.”
“Night, Julia.”
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Mon, Nov 20th, 2056
Julia and Cassandra ate their dinner in silence. Their parents talked about what they’d done that day. Every once in a while Julia or Cassie would nod their head, but they did nothing more than that.
Finally, Christina Wolfe got sick of their silence, “What’s wrong with you two? Normally you’re talking so much that Dad and I can’t get a word in edgewise.”
“Julia can tell you.”
Julia turned and looked at her sister, “Are you sure that you want me to be the one to tell them?”
Cassie just nodded.
Julia sighed, “Cassie is mad at me because she found out a secret that I’d been keeping that I’d never told her.”
“Well Cassandra? Is that the reason?” their Mom asked.
She nodded.
“People are entitled to have secrets that they don’t tell anyone, Cassie. Except for their parents that is,” she added quickly.
“I know, but I’m still mad.”
“Why? What was the secret?”
Julia sighed again, “She found out who I am last night.”
“Oh.”
There was silence for a little bit, and then Michael Wolfe asked, “How? How did you find out, Cass?”
“Because the Principal talked to me about Julia and why she was gone. He had a completely different story than I had been told. I asked her about it and caught her.”
“Julia!”
“Mom, I tried! But like she just said, she caught me. I had to tell.”
“So it’s really Mom’s fault that you didn’t tell me?”
“No. I still wouldn’t have. Because I didn’t want to put you in danger. Mom wanted that too, but I wouldn’t have told you anyways. I’m sorry. I should have told you earlier, but it seemed like the right thing to do.”
“Yeah well it wasn’t!”
“People make mistakes, Cass. The Bible says that all people sin. That ‘all’ includes me. I’m not sure that keeping it a secret was a sin per-say, but it was a mistake. One that I truly sorry for.”
“Yeah, well-”
“I think I liked it better when you two were quiet.” their Dad broke in. “Cassie, Julia admitted that she made a mistake and she said that she was sorry for it. Can’t you forgive her and move on?”
Easier said than done!
Julia started at this thought that she’d heard come from her sister. It had to be a very strong thought, or else she wouldn’t have heard it. But it surprised her, not because her sister thought that, but because she wasn’t used to her developing powers yet.
“Yes, Dad.” Cassie turned to Julia, “I’m sorry I yelled, and I forgive you. I know that you thought what you were doing was right.”
“I forgive you for yelling. Thank-you for forgiving me.” Even though it’ll probably take a while before you truly do forgive me.
There was silence for the rest of the meal. Cassie finished first and ran upstairs. Julia rushed through the rest of her meal and ran up too.
Julia knocked on Cassie’s door. “Come in,” a quiet, slightly annoyed voice said.
“Cass?”
“Yeah?”
“You haven’t asked me yet.”
“Asked you what?”
“What I promised I’d do with you when I came back.”
“I haven’t been in the mood to ask.”
“Well,” Julia said, “do you want to know?”
“Sure.”
“Well, I bought tickets for us to go see our favorite band, Implosion.”
Cassie’s eyes lit up.
“But then I was delayed and the concert was two days ago.”
“Oh.”
“So then I thought, ‘Maybe I can trade them in for some tickets to another concert by them’, but that didn’t work out either.”
Cassie groaned, “Why are you telling me this?”
“Because then I happened to tell a good friend of mine about what happened, and he personally bought us two more tickets to see the show in Portland, Oregon, plus two-way tickets for a plane ride there! We’d leave on Friday after school, stay at your old friend Melissa’s house, go to the concert with her on Saturday-I’m paying for that ticket-and then come home on Sunday.”
Cassie’s eyes widened, “Really? Wow! And you’ve talked this over with Mom, Dad, and Melissa’s parents?”
“Would I tell you this if I hadn’t yet?”
“Wow! This is great! So who’s the friend?”
Who do I say? Dick or Robin? “He or she wishes to remain anonymous.”
“Well, tell him or her thank-you for me!”
“I will.”
“And thank-you for doing that originally, and for working this all out.”
“Are you still mad at me?”
“Yes, a little. But I’ll get over it; I just need some time.”
“I understand completely, Cassie,” Julia said. “I really do.”
“Thanks, Julia. And I won’t act like I did at the dinner table again; that was really rude of me.”
“I know you won’t, and I forgive you for doing so.”
Cassie stood up and hugged her sister. They had some problems, but they’d work them out together.
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Leo looked over Rabies’ shoulder, “How’s the Neutrium coming along?”
“Very well, Leo. Soon it should be ready to use.”
“It’s too bad those darn Super Friends wiped the location out of our minds.”
“Yeah, and off of our computer when they came to steal the info. But don’t worry, Leo. Soon the little bit we do have will be ready, then we can get some payback!”
That's the end of The C.F.M.C. I am currently working on the story that comes after this, but it's going rather slowly. Because of this, I won't be posting the next installment of Wolf Woman's story until I start getting back into my Superhero flow. In the meantime, however, I am posting another story of mine at this blog: Songflight. It is totally unrelated to this story and has nothing to do with Superheroes, but I hope that you will still come by and see if you like it. I hope to be able to post more Wolf Woman stories, as well as a story about another of my Superheroes that takes place about ten years before Wolf Woman came into being soon. But until then, I hope you enjoy Songflight.
~SeaChel and Wolf Woman
Hello fellow Homeschool Bloggers! This blog is where I post chapters from the book I am writing entitled "Songflight". Because this is my first attempt at writing my own book (aka, not a fanfiction-type story (see Wolf Woman for an example)) I am making my posts here visible only to my friends. I am very attached to this story and my characters and ideas and do not want them stolen. If you've read the description and are interested in reading my book, I suggest you first go to my regular blog (SeaChel) and get to know the author before asking to add me to your friends list. Thank-you all, and God bless!
~SeaChel
Once they were sure that the Legion was taken care of, the Super Friends had one more thing to do: destroy the Neutrium.
The most powerful of the Super Friends all went to the mine the Legion had made and found the Neutrium. They grabbed a small sample to make an antidote from (in case more Neutrium was ever found) and then destroyed the rest..
Once their job was done, they all headed to the Titan’s HQ. This was a day to celebrate.
Once those who were hurt in the fight were taken care of, they all headed to the big room. There they listened to rock music, talked with friends, and pigged out.
Wolf Woman, who had dyed her hair back to her natural blond color, would wait for all the fun; first she had to figure something out that had been bugging her. She walked over to Raven.
“Hey Raven,” she said, “could I ask you something?”
“Sure, what is it?”
“Telepath, while I was captured, scanned me and found out some things about me. He told me what he found out and one of the things that he said that he found was that I am telepathic. Was he telling the truth?”
Raven looked surprised, “He said you’re telepathic?”
Wolf Woman nodded.
“Well, I won’t know for sure unless I scan you. If you really want to know, fine, but that’s what it will take.”
“Yes, I want to know. Go ahead Raven.”
Wolf Woman braced herself, when Telepath had scanned her before it hurt very badly, so she wanted to be prepared. Raven looked directly at Wolf Woman, yet somehow through her. Raven’s pupils enlarged slightly and Wolf Woman felt a little pressure, but no pain. In fact, Raven’s presence in her mind was slightly soothing.
Then Raven took a deep breath and let it out, “Yes, Wolf Woman, you are telepathic.”
Wolf Woman was silent for a while, trying to take it in. “Wow, I am. What do you think I should I do? Do you think that I should learn how to use my telepathic powers?” Saying “my telepathic powers” sounded weird to her; since this was totally new to her she wasn’t sure of how to address it.
“Yes, I think that you should, though that’s really your decision. But if you do, the other telepaths here and I can help. It will take a while before you get really good at it, but I think that you can do it.”
“Thanks Raven, I think I’d like that.” Wolf Woman said.
They were both silent for a while, then Wolf Woman smiled and said, “Wanna go find some other friends to talk to with me, Raven?”
Raven smiled, “Sure.”
So they walked together, towards Grey Wolf, White Wolf, and a few others. Wow, so I am telepathic. It’s weird to think of myself that way. Then she silently prayed, “Thank-You, Father, for this new gift that You have given me. Please help me to use it for Your glory, and help me as I learn how to use it. Thank-you that we were able to stop the Legion of Doom’s plans to destroy us and to hurt many other people; without Your help our plan would not have worked. Thank-you for my friends and please help me to have a good time with them celebrating our victory, and help us to remember where we got this victory. I love You. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.”
Wolf Woman decided to keep her telepathy a secret from everyone except the other telepaths, who would be teaching her. Someday the others would find out, but for now it would be a secret weapon that even most of the Super Friends didn’t know that they had.
She and Raven got over to their friends. Wolf Woman talked with them throughout the whole party, glad to be back among friends. She told them all about what had happened to her while she was captured (leaving out the part about her being telepathic) and then they told her what had happened while she was gone.
After a couple of hours, Julia went home and told her parents what had happened. Then she went upstairs to talk to Cassandra.
“Hi Cass,” Julia said, peeking through the door crack, “Can I come in?”
“Sure,” Cassie said, “but only if you’re going to tell me the truth.”
“What?” Julia said walking into the room. She sat on the floor while Cassandra sat on the bed, “What are you talking about?”
“You told me that you were going to a friend’s house because she was going through a hard time.” Cassandra said, “But then the Principle came up to me on Thursday and asked me how your work at the church was going. He said that Dad told him that you were baby-sitting younger kids at the church while the adults had a Bible study.”
Oh no! “Umm, the Principal must have heard Dad wrong,” Julia suggested.
“How could he get that out of ‘She’s spending some time with a friend who’s having a hard time’?”
“I don’t know,” Julia admitted.
“Well, since I know that you weren’t working at the church, Dad must have lied for you, but the question is, why would he lie about that? Then I ask myself, then was she really at a friend’s house at all? Then I ask myself, why is my sister lying to me?” As she said that last question, her voice cracked.
“Cassie,” Julia started, but then she stopped. She had no clue what to say. Should she tell her the truth? Or should she try to make up a great explanation. A Bible verse popped into her head, “Thou shalt not bear false testimony against thy neighbor.”
“Okay God,” Julia quickly prayed, “I’ll tell her. Please help her to understand!”
“Okay, Cassie.” Julia said, “You want the truth, so I’ll give you the truth. But first I need to say that I’m sorry about lying to you; I didn’t want to but I wanted to protect you. Knowing this secret might put your life in danger, and I don’t want to do that to you. But now I’ve also realized that by lying to you I’ve been sinning, and that by lying I hurt you. I just want to say I’m sorry and I hope that someday you’ll forgive me.”
“Go on.”
“Okay,” Julia took a deep breath and let it out, “Cass, I’m a Superhero.”
~Wolf Woman
Hey Guys! I just posted the first part of chapter 12 of "The C.F.M.C.", but before you go and read that, I wanted to let you know that I just made a new blog for a new story that I'm working on (no, it has nothing to do with Superheroes) called "Songflight". Here's a quick exerpt from the story:
Kallar opened the door and stepped aside to allow Karn to enter first, then Hannah, and then Melissa. As she walked in, Melissa felt a significant change in temperature; it was a lot hotter inside than outside.
There were four young men standing around the dragon, using their combined mental strength to keep the young dragon in the middle unable to break his bonds. The power of the Slayers was in their minds; if a group of Slayers’ combined mind power is greater than a dragon’s they are able to weaken it, even kill it if they are strong enough.
The dragon they were guarding was a white, meaning it had the ability to breathe ice and was strengthened by cold temperatures. To further weaken it, fires had been lit all throughout the hut, heating the air till it was almost unbearable. I’m glad I’m not one of the men who has to stay in here, Melissa thought.
Just then the White Dragon looked up at her and its icy-blue eyes met her blue-grey ones. He almost seemed to plead with her, plead that she would aid his escape. "Help me…Singer."
Melissa was taken aback; had the dragon just talked to her? How does it know my nickname? she wondered.
Karn jumped in front of his daughter, "Keep your evil eyes away from my daughter!" he boomed. The White Dragon lowered its head to the ground, weakened even more by the presence of an enhanced Slayer. Karn then turned to face his daughter, "What did the foul creature say to you, Melissa?" he demanded. "What did it say?"
"He asked me to help him," she said, still confused by the dragon’s plea.
Karn laughed and turned back to the dragon, "It’s so desperate that it would ask the daughter of Karn, the great leader of the Seaside Slayers, to help it! Foolish, cowardly lizard! You attack our kind, and yet you aren’t willing to face the consequences of your actions! Well, you will receive no help and tonight you will still die!" And with that, Karn led his family and Kallar out of the hut.
Kallar walked beside Melissa, "Now that you’ve heard the beast’s voice inside your head, can’t you feel how evil they are?" his brown eyes flashed with excitement.
"It didn’t feel evil," she almost whispered, "it felt like he was scared."
"And well he should be!" He shook his head slightly so as to get his raven-black hair out of his eyes. "I promise you, Melissa, that dragon will suffer tonight for entering your mind without your permission and trying to lead you astray!"
Melissa looked at the ground as she walked, she didn’t want it to suffer. More than anything she wanted to help the White Dragon to escape. But there was no way to do it, he would be guarded all day until the ceremony, and then he would be tortured and die. And all she could do was watch.
Hope that sparked your interest! If it did, go to the Songflight blog and read the first part of chapter one!!
~SeaChel
Hey Guys! I'm going to do a real post soon, but I wanted to let you all know that I just made a new blog for a new story that I'm working on (no, it has nothing to do with Superheroes) called "Songflight". Here's a quick exerpt from the story:
Kallar opened the door and stepped aside to allow Karn to enter first, then Hannah, and then Melissa. As she walked in, Melissa felt a significant change in temperature; it was a lot hotter inside than outside.
There were four young men standing around the dragon, using their combined mental strength to keep the young dragon in the middle unable to break his bonds. The power of the Slayers was in their minds; if a group of Slayers’ combined mind power is greater than a dragon’s they are able to weaken it, even kill it if they are strong enough.
The dragon they were guarding was a white, meaning it had the ability to breathe ice and was strengthened by cold temperatures. To further weaken it, fires had been lit all throughout the hut, heating the air till it was almost unbearable. I’m glad I’m not one of the men who has to stay in here, Melissa thought.
Just then the White Dragon looked up at her and its icy-blue eyes met her blue-grey ones. He almost seemed to plead with her, plead that she would aid his escape. "Help me…Singer."
Melissa was taken aback; had the dragon just talked to her? How does it know my nickname? she wondered.
Karn jumped in front of his daughter, "Keep your evil eyes away from my daughter!" he boomed. The White Dragon lowered its head to the ground, weakened even more by the presence of an enhanced Slayer. Karn then turned to face his daughter, "What did the foul creature say to you, Melissa?" he demanded. "What did it say?"
"He asked me to help him," she said, still confused by the dragon’s plea.
Karn laughed and turned back to the dragon, "It’s so desperate that it would ask the daughter of Karn, the great leader of the Seaside Slayers, to help it! Foolish, cowardly lizard! You attack our kind, and yet you aren’t willing to face the consequences of your actions! Well, you will receive no help and tonight you will still die!" And with that, Karn led his family and Kallar out of the hut.
Kallar walked beside Melissa, "Now that you’ve heard the beast’s voice inside your head, can’t you feel how evil they are?" his brown eyes flashed with excitement.
"It didn’t feel evil," she almost whispered, "it felt like he was scared."
"And well he should be!" He shook his head slightly so as to get his raven-black hair out of his eyes. "I promise you, Melissa, that dragon will suffer tonight for entering your mind without your permission and trying to lead you astray!"
Melissa looked at the ground as she walked, she didn’t want it to suffer. More than anything she wanted to help the White Dragon to escape. But there was no way to do it, he would be guarded all day until the ceremony, and then he would be tortured and die. And all she could do was watch.
Hope that sparked your interest! If it did, go to the Songflight blog and read the first part of chapter one!!
~SeaChel
Chapter 12
The C.F.M.C.
Telepath smiled, “That’s two more codes we know.”
Oh great, Julia thought. He’ll probably find out more before this fight’s over! There’s no one here that can protect us. ...unless he was telling the truth about me being telepathic! If he was, then maybe I can protect us! I’ll try next time he attacks one of us!
The Leopard, Rabies, and four minions came out towards the Heroes, surrounding them. Tiger Lady hissed, claws extended; Batgirl, now free from Telepath’s attack, straightened up and reached for a Bat-a-rang from her utility belt; Dark Warrior drew his double katanas; Beastboy changed to a leopard and crouched, ready to pounce; Julia, though not Wolf Woman, waited to attack.
“Let me at them first, guys.” Telepath ordered.
Beastboy leaped over two minions’ heads and ran to pounce on the Telepath, but after two leaps Beastboy crumpled to the ground in pain. Julia tried to block the attack, but she couldn’t.
The others followed Beastboy’s lead and ran forward to attack Telepath. One by one they fell to the ground. But once two of the others went down, Beastboy got up again.
He can only get two at a time; we just might be able to do this. Julia ran out with her friends, but was stopped instantly by the Telepath. I won’t let him win!
Julia got up, despite the pain and slowly, painfully moved towards Telepath. When the others saw her they did the same. Telepath quickly switched back and forth, hurting a couple of them for a little bit and then needing to get a different teen who was getting too close.
Telepath saw that he needed help, “Now!”
The other Legion members ran forward. Leopard drew her claws and used them as swords against Dark Warrior, Rabies went after Beastboy with a tranquilizer gun, and the four minions split themselves amongst the other Titans. The Heroes kept trying to get to Telepath, but whenever they tried he would stop them with his mind.
Julia figured that in order to win this one they’d have to take out the Telepath. So, I’m telepathic, huh? She looked over at the fallen prison bars and tried flinging them with her mind.
Telepath just laughed, “I said telepathic, not telekinetic!” Then he pulled out his radio and called Leo, “Leo, I just scanned them. We were wrong, we only need ten codes. I have them all,” he then whispered them to Leo.
What? Only ten? Oh well, I’ll figure that out later. Julia ran over to Batgirl, who was fighting two minions, and helped her out. Even without weapons or gadgets, she was an excellent fighter.
Then Julia remembered something that Telepath had said earlier: “deep scanning another telepath, trained or not, is much harder work than deep scanning a normal person”.
So I guess our best bet is me. With that thought, Julia turned and ran towards Telepath. Julia felt pain in her head but kept going. You aren’t going to win!
She heard Telepath say inside her head; “This isn’t the battle that you should be worrying about.” She knew that he was talking about the C.F.M.C. “We now have enough codes to get into the computer. Sorry to break it to you, but your friends are history, Miss Wolfe!”
She hated the way he said that, Stop calling me that!
With pain still throbbing in her head Julia jumped, kicking Telepath in the shoulder. Since she was in pain she didn’t get to her normal kick force, so Telepath was still standing but he was shaken.
She jumped at him, but he moved out of the way. She landed on her hands and changed it into a back handspring (not a very graceful one, but it worked). Then she ran at him and punched. He blocked it and she punched again. And again. And again. Then she kicked at his head, but he caught her foot. But she’d been expecting that and she jumped up and kicked him in the face with her other foot while flipping over backwards. She landed on her feet and jumped at him again, this time hitting him in the back of the head and knocking him out cold.
Then she looked back and surveyed the rest of the battle. Two of the minions were unconscious, Leopard and Dark Warrior were still dueling, and Rabies was trying desperately to hit Beastboy with his tranq gun. And he had his back turned to her. She ran at him, jumped and kicked him in the back of his head. He fell to the ground, unconscious.
Beastboy then ran to help Dark Warrior, while Julia and the girls finished fighting the minions. Soon all of the villains were out cold.
“Is everyone okay?” Dark Warrior asked. The others nodded their heads. “Then let‘s go,” he said, “We have another battle to catch!”
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Raven looked around at her teammates. They could see the army of Super Villains and Minions coming towards the C.F.M.C. hideout.
I sure hope that this plan works.
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Robin saw the Legion coming their way. He grabbed his radio and called Aqualad.
“Watch Tower team,” Robin said, “The enemy is coming this way; we need you and your group to get here ASAP.”
“Will do, Watch Tower over and out.”
Then Robin called Raven’s team. “Do you see the enemy?”
“Yes, Robin, we do.”
“Get ready, we’ll need you very soon.” He shut off his radio.
All right, I hope that the Wolf Rescue and Watch Tower teams get here soon; we’ll need all the help that we can get!
The Legion’s army came in as fast as an eagle’s shadow. The Super Friends, trying to protect their most valuable information, quickly met the attack.
After a few minutes of fighting, both the TT and JL Watch Tower teams made it to the battle and helped to ward off the attack. Ten minutes later the Wolf Rescue team made it back along with Julia, who was now a brunette Wolf Woman (she looked just like White Wolf, only with shorter hair). Before running into the fray, Batgirl handed Wolf Woman a small, circular object. "What is this?" she'd asked.
"It's a stablizer. I can't tell you why you need it just now, but you do!"
So Wolf Woman slipped the stablizer into a compartment in her utility belt, and then ran in to join the battle.
Soon Telepath, Leopard, Rabies, and the minions came to join the fight. Telepath then tried to hurt people mentally but was blocked by a telepathic wall made by certain telepathic members of the Super Friends.
The fight went on for what seemed like hours but was probably only a half hour. Minions quickly went down but the others were not easily broken. When it seemed that the Super Friends would win, the Legion brought out their new secret weapon: the Ninjas.
Ninjas were an advanced type of minion; stronger, better trained, they didn’t go down as easily as regular minions. They even were better fighters than some of the Legion’s main members! With their new help, the Legion had the upper hand.
Wolf Woman was one of the heroes in the back, so she met the Ninjas head on, along with a few other heroes. Wolf Woman had been trained in all martial arts except Jujitsu, so she wasn’t quite sure what to expect.
A bunch of the Ninjas tried to run past the back lines and into the main fighting; Wolf Woman and the others tried to keep them away, but a bunch of them got through.
Finally, one of the Legion’s members made it to the Computer. Rabies typed in one of the codes to access the Complete Files. No one moved to stop him; all were too busy fighting. Rabies typed in the second that the Legion knew. Then the two they’d learned from Julia.
Then he typed in one of the phony codes Telepath had gotten from Batgirl when he first scanned her. Then the screen went all red and all of the Legion members disappeared!
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Raven watched as the entire Legion’s members appeared in the room that her team was in. Raven’s team had only ten seconds before the Legion disappeared again and reappeared in the Legion’s own hideout.
Raven’s team consisted of all of the Super Friends’ telepaths. The members of her team were: Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Troia, and Martian Manhunter.
Raven joined hands with the other telepaths and combined her powers with her team members’. Together they erased any memory of the C.F.M.C. from the members of the Legion of Doom’s minds. They also wiped away any memory of the Neutrium’s whereabouts.
They finished just in time, for right after they were done the Legion disappeared.
~Wolf Woman
Tiger Lady looked around at her teammates, Batgirl, Dark Warrior, and Beastboy, who would be accompanying her on this mission. Their mission: Break Julia out of the Legion of Doom’s prison.
Once in the chopper that they would take to rescue Julia, Tiger Lady called Robin on her radio, "Okay Robin, we’re all set to go."
"Has Raven come by yet?"
"Yes, but I don’t understand what she did."
"In case Telepath is there and tries to scan you for C.F.M.C. codes, she put faulty information in your minds. Just wish we’d thought of that before we sent out spy team. Anyway, you all have two fake codes placed in your minds, as well as information saying that you only need ten codes to get in. Hopefully he’ll be there and see it."
"Wait, you want him to scan us?"
"Raven also put up blocks in your minds so that he can’t see anything else. Raven told me that he shouldn’t notice the blocks if he’s only looking for the codes, so he won‘t get suspicious. Don’t worry, he won’t see anything."
"All right. Wolf Rescue over and out."
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Once Tiger Lady turned her radio off, Robin called Aqualad, who was in charge of watching over TTHQ, "Aqualad, I have reason to believe that the Legion will come here in full force soon. Stay at HQ, but be ready to come here fast. And also be ready to get the Justice Leaguers who stayed to watch their HQ to help once I call."
"Will do, Watch Tower over and out."
Robin then called another group of Titans and Justice Leaguers, "Raven, are you and your group in place?"
"Yes, we’re ready and waiting for our part in this battle."
"Good, stay ready and alert. Computer team, over and out." And with that, he shut off his radio.
Robin surveyed his group’s position. They would be fighting to protect the Complete Files of the Main Computer, more commonly known as the C.F.M.C.
The Main Computer was where all Teen Titan and Justice League information was kept. What was in the computer alone was harmless even if the Legion found it, basically it just had the mission files that everyone made after a mission on it; it was the Complete Files that they had to worry about being accessed.
In those files was all the information on every one of the Super Friends, including every one of their weaknesses and secret identities. The reason that they had it was in case one or more of the Super Friends turned bad, that info would come in handy then. To protect the files from being opened by only one of them everyone only knew two of the thirty codes. That way the files could only be accessed by a big group of the Super Friends and not just one or two of them.
So why even bother with protecting it if the Legion only knew two of the codes? It was because with the Legion’s new secret weapon, Telepath, they could find out the other codes easily. Plus, if they found out that they only knew two of all the codes, they would probably just destroy the computer and the files. The Super Friends had to make the Legion forget about the C.F.M.C. forever, and they knew just how to do it.
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Julia felt horrible; the Legion now knew the location of the Computer and two of its codes. I can’t believe I let him trick me like that! I hope that the others will be prepared for what’s coming their way.
Then Julia remembered something that Telepath had said earlier, after he’d scanned her to get the codes: "That’s two more codes we know!"
Why did he say "two more codes"? Plus he didn’t say anything about the location. So they must have already known some other codes and the location. But how could they have figured that out?
The only other two that have been captured recently were Plastic Man and Catwoman, and both said that they didn’t tell and that they hadn’t been scanned. So how did they figure that out?
Just then she heard footsteps coming up the prison hall. It was some of the Titans! Dark Warrior had his crossbow out, watching out for enemies. Close behind him followed Beastboy, Tiger Lady, and Batgirl.
"There she is." Dark Warrior pointed to her cell.
They ran up to her. "Whoa, Julia," Batgirl said, "I didn’t recognize you with brown hair! Are you alright?"
"Yes, I’m fine, but they found out the location of the C.F.M.C. and more than two pass codes."
"Telepath?" Tiger Lady asked.
"Yes."
"Wait a minute." Beastboy said, "More than two? You only know two."
"I know, but somehow they know more than what they got from me."
"Well, there’s no time to worry about that right now. Do you know where the keys are?" Tiger Lady asked.
"Yes, Leo has them," Julia said.
"Don’t worry about keys, dudes," Beastboy said, "Just back away from the door."
Julia did as he said while Beastboy turned into an elephant. He quickly knocked down the barred door.
"Thanks BB," Julia said.
"Now let’s get out of here." Batgirl said. They started walking, but suddenly Batgirl stopped and, holding her head, she cried out in pain.
They turned to see Telepath standing behind them. "You didn’t think that I’d let the prisoner escape, did you?"
~Wolf Woman
Chapter 11
Telepathic?
It was late at night before William and Gregory got back to TTHQ, almost midnight, for they had had no transportation. But once they’d gotten there they wasted no time in getting their information to White Wolf and Robin.
"These guys did a great job," White Wolf told Robin after looking at the contents of the jump drive. "Not only did they find the location of the Neutrium, but they also were able to find out why the Legion was hacking into our computer system. They were looking for the codes for the C.F.M.C. and its location."
"If they’re so desperate to find the codes that they’ll hack into our computer, even knowing about our firewall that they most assuredly can’t get past, then they’re probably torturing Julia for the codes right now, since Leo knows that she’s Wolf Woman. So we need to get her out, soon!" Gregory said.
"At least she doesn’t have very much to give them," White Wolf added, "She knows the location, but only two of the codes. But still you’re right, we need to get her out of there."
"Plus if they get what she does know through the Telepath they probably won’t believe that she doesn’t know all of the codes." William pointed out, "If they think that, they might keep torturing her for something that she doesn’t know."
Robin’s eyes flamed with anger as he remembered what Leo had done to her before. He grabbed his radio, "Batgirl, you have a mission, meet me in the briefing room and bring Tigerlady, Beastboy, and Dark Warrior with you."
"Sure thing, Robin," she replied.
Robin switched off his radio and turned to the others, "I’ve recently learned from Raven, Troia, and other telepathic members of the Super Friends that with close range telepaths are very powerful; so I don’t think that Julia will be able to protect what she knows. So we need a team of Super Friends to go to where we keep the C.F.M.C. and guard it. White Wolf, I’ll need you on that team along with Grey Wolf, Atomic Teen, Starfire, Supergirl, Rottweiler, Golden Retriever, Cyborg, Gadget Guy, Superstar, various Justice Leaguers, and myself. I’ll call Superman and tell him of the situation and have him send some of the Justice League to help. The remaining Titans and Leaguers will watch over both Headquarters’ until we call them in."
"All right, Robin." White Wolf said.
"But wait." William said, "What about the Neutrium?"
"I need to talk to Superman about that," Robin said, "But believe me, we’ll do something about it!"
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Sat, Nov 18th, 2056
"Good morning, Miss Wolfe."
Julia sat up straight and looked around for the source of that voice. It was the Telepath.
"Did you have a good sleep?" She heard him ask. But his mouth was not moving.
"Get out of my mind!" she said threateningly.
"As you can see I’ve sent everyone else out of here," he said, this time his mouth was moving, "There are a few things that I want to discuss with you. Like what I found out about you yesterday." he said, "Unfortunately, you fell unconscious before I could find everything I was supposed to look for."
Thank-you, God, she prayed silently.
"I sent them out because it’s against the rules of a telepath to talk about personal stuff that you learn about someone without that person’s permission. Don’t give me that look, even if I’m on the ‘evil’ side I have to keep the rules of a telepath."
"So you can’t tell them about the C.F.M.C. unless I say that you can?" she asked hopefully.
"No, that’s not personal per say." he said, "Now about what I learned. Number one is who you really are, Miss Wolfe. You’re Wolf Woman. I also learned of your old relationship with Leo the Lion before you were enemies.
"Now I have a question for you:" he continued, "Have you ever thought that you heard someone say something, like yelling or screaming, and then find out that they didn’t say anything at all?"
Julia’s mind raced back to after her first mission with Ivy and El Coyote. She had heard Grey Wolf yell, but he said he hadn’t yelled at all.
"Yes," Telepath said grinning, "It has happened to you once this past month, hasn’t it?"
She glared at him, "Stop that."
"The reason that I asked that was because of something else that I learned while searching your mind: you are telepathic."
"WHAT?"
"Yes, it’s surprising that you didn’t find out until now; most gain their powers around the age of thirteen. It’s too bad you aren’t trained; one out of a hundred million humans are telepaths and only one out of a hundred of those telepaths are trained. Oh sure those who aren’t trained can hear the very loud thoughts of others, but those who are trained can do so much more."
"How do I know that you’re telling the truth about this?" she asked.
"Why would I lie about it?"
There was no reason that she could think of, but maybe he did have a reason that she didn’t know about, how could she know? So many things raced through her mind at once. If this were true what would she do about it? Would she try to find someone who could train her to use her telepathic powers; or would she leave it alone? But she kept coming back to the same question: was Telepath telling the truth?
"You don’t think that you want to be trained and yet at the same time you do. And, you don‘t know if you can trust me." Telepath said.
"Stop reading my thoughts!" she snarled.
"You know, I’ve become pretty powerful in that area," he said, ignoring her, "I could teach you if you want, with a few conditions."
"Supposing I was interested, and I’m not, what would those conditions be?" Julia asked.
"Simply to switch sides," he said as if it wouldn’t be a big decision, "We could use more telepaths on this side."
"Never."
"You know, it’s really easy to read people’s casual thoughts when you are as good a telepath as I am." he said, changing the subject, "So when you are around me be careful not to think of anything important that you don’t want me to know. Like the pass codes for the C.F.M.C."
Instantly she thought of what she knew, not on purpose, but by reflex. She quickly tried to cover her thoughts by singing something in her head.
But it was too late, "Gotcha. That‘s two more codes we know!" Telepath grinned, "Thank-you for your cooperation, Miss Wolfe; deep scanning another telepath, trained or not, is much harder work than deep scanning a normal person, so you just saved me some work." And with that he started to walk away, but he turned back, "By the way, nice tune."
~Wolf Woman
Who doesn’t like a good love song? I know that I do, in fact I LOVE a good love song! One where the lyrics are just right and make your heart pound as you think of your future love story. One with words like "You know when the sun forgets to shine I’ll be there to hold you through the night" (Jonas Brothers) or "Do you ever think when you’re all alone of all that we could be, where this thing could go?" (David Archuleta) or even "If you could see that I’m the one who understands you; been here all along, so why can’t you see you belong with me?" (Taylor Swift). Yes, we all love good love songs.
But something has struck me lately. A question that a few months ago I would have thought myself crazy for asking.
Why?
Why is every popular song nowadays is about romantic love? Why is every other thought in the teenage mind is about romantic love? Why do we hold this concept so high in our minds and in our hearts?
Now, you probably think I’m crazy for asking that. You’re thinking something like, "Well, SeaChel, it’s like this: IT’S ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE THINGS GOD HAS CREATED! He made Adam and Eve, so obviously He wants us to fall in love with someone someday and have a romantic relationship. What is wrong with you, SeaChel???"
Well, I’m not here to tell you that romantic love is wrong. Far from it! I really want to experience romantic love someday! I really want to get married someday! There is nothing wrong with the concept, in fact it’s quite beautiful! But why is this never far from our teenage (or close to teenage) minds?
Recently I developed a crush on a guy in my Youth Group. And what I always do when this happens to me is I start reading books like "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" (Joshua Harris) so as to strengthen my convictions in the area of romantic love in the teenage years (I’m not really going to go into that in this post, but here’s the short story: I believe that one should not enter into a romantic relationship until he/she is ready for marriage). So I read three books on the subject and then started into a fourth one, called "Boy Meets Girl, Saying Hello To Courtship" (Joshua Harris).
The first two chapters of this book were devoted to knowing when you’re ready for a relationship and knowing if you have the right motives for said relationship. Well, long story short, I realized I didn’t have the right motives. In fact, I realized that I had a problem. Idolatry.
"Now wait, SeaChel", I can hear you think (yes, I am telepathic), "You read a book about guy/girl relationships and you learned that you’ve been worshiping an idol?" Sounds weird, huh? Well, I haven’t bowed down to a false god, or sung the praises of one, so don’t worry. But what does idolatry mean, exactly? Does it just mean bowing down to or worshiping an idol? I think it means more.
To me, idolatry means raising someone or something up to a place that belongs to God. And that’s what God convicted me of as I read those two chapters. See, I’ve always thought of romantic love as something that would fill a hole inside of me, something that would make me complete. But only God can ever truly fill the void inside a person. Yet I had set aside a small part of that hole to be filled by my future husband, not God. That’s where I slipped into idolatry.
Again, I’m not here to tell you that guy/girl relationships are bad (because they aren’t!) or that marriage isn’t an incredible, wonderful gift from God to people (because it is!). However, a relationship cannot be what makes us feel complete! We cannot be thinking "Once I find the perfect person, then I will truly be whole!" No, God is the only One who can complete us! And if we raise a relationship to that place in our hearts, then it has become an idol in our lives.
Slowly, God has been helping me to take my hopes and dreams for a future relationship down off the pedestal I’ve placed it on. It’s not easy, I still have crushes and I still stumble in this area, but it is worth it! Only when you take out your false idols can God truly fill those holes! God wants so desperately to be the One who will truly complete you. Will you let Him be that one?
"Marriage is not the completion of two people. Rather, marriage is the joining of two people who are already complete in God into one who is complete in God."
~SeaChel