54Scions of Rao is a complete rewrite of the Sons of Rao I wrote in the beginning. It took me about a year to ponder about how I should change the story and make it more appealing. Also I was trying to become a better writer in one year, which is difficult considering that I am a horrible writer. I have also been trying to gather up the courage to actually rewrite this story.
My final reason for starting this story is because of the status of Superman Wonder Woman in DC comics. Recently, in my opinion, they pretty much fucked up Superman. They depowered him, made him moody, and they broke him off from Wonder Woman. I honestly think they are trying to make Superman more like Batman so that they could sell more comics. But what they don't realize this is that this is actually hurting them. They pretty much are on a self-destructive line at this point.
So, this is sort of my response to their writing. I know that there are many of you out there who are also disgruntled at current Superman/Wonder Woman plot, so I hope you enjoy my version.
As before, my story will slightly be anime-like, as I like anime as much as DC comics. I honestly prefer to write on a website where I can post pictures, also but this is close as I can get. When I am describing a person of item of my own creation, I will refer you to a pic on google as best as I can. The characters will pretty much look like Superman and Wonder Woman drawn by Tony S. Daniel (He is my favorite aside from Jim Lee)
I will try to write as best as I can, but I will need a Beta Reader. Please msg me if you are interested and know how this story will go.
This story, like my previous attempt, will be a crossover of N52 Superman/Wonder Woman and Young Justice. The story starts around Superman Wonder Woman #2 + after Young Justice season 2, with a bit of twist to make things more interesting.
I will try to update my story every 3-4 weeks when I can. I like to have my story to have as much meat as possible like other Superman X Wonder Woman stories, but not too much.
Please review, as reviews are the fuel for my passion and desire for writing. And Constructive criticism is allowed. (No Flames. I still need a Beta Reader.)
Fortress of Solitude
In his most private room, Clark Kent, better known as Superman a was studying a Kryptonian Crystal on his bed. It was sort of his pet peeve, when he was relaxing and was in the mood for some reading. As the Last Son of Krypton living on Earth, Clark believed it was his duty to read as much as he could. But this time it was different. He had find as much as he could about Doomsday, and the reason why was laying next to him.
His love and moon was sleeping peacefully snuggled next to his torso. Her raven black hair wrapped around her beautiful face and neck like a black halo. It also covered her naked chest, subtly accentuating her perfect breasts. Her waist down was covered by the white bedsheet, but Clark gleefully looked at the curves made by her hips, thighs and legs.
This perfection next to him was attacked by a Kryptonian monster called Doomsday. It was known as one of the greatest monster accidentally created by Krypton. So at first Clark immediately blamed himself for her wounds. But Diana hushed those accusations instantly.
'You are not responsible for the faults of others. No single individual should bare the burdens of an entire civilization.'
Clark supposed that Diana knew that more than he did. Her entire civilization was turned to snakes and her mother a stone statue due to something outside their control, a jealous Goddess's anger. A scorned Queen of the Gods. Diana spoke a little of it when she felt most vulnerable, and Clark stood by her for all of them.
Rubbed his hands on her covered thigh, Clark proceeded to read his crystal using his super-vision and heat vision simultaneously. There was nothing specific on Doomsday other than coverage of the damage it caused. But there was one section that Clark never saw before.
Mythology of Krypton.
We Kryptonians pride on being the most advanced culture and civilization, a crown jewel in their quadrant of the universe. But we could have never gotten to where we are without the Primordials that watch over Krypton. While it may seem controversial for such a scientifically brilliant race to be religious, we have deduced that these higher level beings watch over Krypton as their greatest creation.
Primordials, we believe, were the very first to come into existence as Gods among Gods. As they were already at the pinnacle of evolution, they created many races to populate the universe.
Rao, the First God of Suns, who created all of the starts in the universe to illuminate the path for us.
Un'Hanoa, the Goddess of Life and Wife to Rao. She gave us our first steps and continue to nurture us.
Ad'un, the God of Enlightenment and Knowledge, who has patiently taught us since time in memorial.
Ha'o, the God of Destruction and Wrath, who gave us the Art of War to push aside our enemies.
And Last, but not least, Jor-El the First, the Founder of House of El and a Kryptonian who was said to be so worthy that the Primordials made him one of them. He is the God of Hope, continual Hope that we Kryptonians can continue to better ourselves and eventually become Primordials ourselves.
Clark blinked at the last portion. Jor-El, his direct Ancestor, became a Primordial? That seemed really far-fetched, and this was his speaking as a Kryptonian. It is true that Clark met his fair share of Gods in his life; New Gods, Olympians, and other so-called Gods were, to him, nothing more than very powerful beings with unique abilities, nothing special. They are extra-dimensional beings, acting on higher plane of existence, but to Clark they didn't seem to be that way.
The scientist in him scoffed at this reading and Clark put the crystal aside.
'Hmmm'. Diana moaned and cuddled closer to Clark and Clark lowered himself to catch her lips in a kiss.
'Good morning, moon.' Clark whispered and his beloved gave him a small peck.
'Good morning.' She said a cute way only Diana was capable of. 'What were you doing?'
'A little light reading for the day.' The Kryptonian moved slightly so that he was laying right next to Diana with her head on his chest. He traced the healing scars on her arm and Diana felt this.
'Kal. I am only going to say this once more. You are not alone.' Diana spoke firmly and Clark smiled.
'I know. So any plans for today?'
'You and I are going to see my brother.' Diana opened one of her eyes. 'It is time that you are properly armed, Kal.'
So Hephaestus. Clark thought. 'Will he even help me?'
'He will. He just doesn't know it yet.' Diana closed her eyes again. 'Now be silent and go to sleep.' Clark chuckled in agreement, and took a small nap.
A few hours later they were underneath Mount Etna, Forge of Hephaestus.
"Always good to see you, Diana. But why visit?" The hard god asked his diving half-sister.
"I need to talk to you about weapons." Diana answered as Kal and she floated down to the ground.
"What? I have already given you enough weapons to kill an army. Ten Armies." Hephaestus said gruffly.
"It is not for me, brother." Diana motioned to Kal. "It is for him."
"And why is THIS man deserving of my aid? Why can't he pray like everyone else?" The God of Fire look at Superman with scrutiny.
"He is not an ordinary man. I should know." Diana spoke with pride. "He is strong as any of us."
"Strong eh?" Hephaestus raised his hammer to strike Superman, but Superman stopped him with ease. "Well, you are strong enough, Kryptonian. Yes, I know who you are...that symbol of yours is a dead giveaway."
"You know this symbol?" Clark asked. "Not many outside Krypton do."
"I have come across it a few times in my day." Hephaestus grunted. "As for the weapon..." Hephaestus grabbed his chin. "What would suit you the most?"
"Such noise down here, and I thought you had blown yourself up." The three looked up and saw two additional people coming down. "Yet instead I see you are entertaining guests. And I know this one. This one is your latest conquest is it not?" Apollo, Lord of Olympus, flew down along with his half sister Strife.
"They call him, Superman. And I believe I know why." Strife licked her lips as she looked at Clark, making him feel slightly uncomfortable.
"And I honestly thought you couldn't do worse than the previous one, sister. At least he was a warrior." Apollo looked at Clark with disdain.
"But you can't breed test, Apollo. You do know who her father is." Strife walked around Clark, checking him out. "Although...I have to say that he is one fine creature, sister. I haven't seen alike him since...ever."
Diana frowned at her sister's flirting with her lover, but turned back to Apollo. Apollo tended to make matters even worse.
"Oh well, I suppose demigods have low standards." Apollo turned around to leave, but he felt a strong grip on his shoulder.
"You are a God, correct?" Clark asked with a slightly irritated voice.
"Of course, mortal. I am indeed a God." Apollo smirked.
"Then I don't have to apologize." Clark said and Apollo could not see a power punch in his way. Clark hit him so hard that the God of the Sun practically smashed through Mount Etna, through the forest, and into the ocean several miles away from the mountain.
Hephaestus chuckled and crossed his arms.
"Oh my..." Strife giggled. "This one has a temper, Diana. No wonder you like him." Diana could only watch as a blast of godly fire hit Clark.
"You dare strike me? I am the Sun!" Apollo continued to blast Clark with fire. "I will burn you and your soul to nothingness!" Apollo roared, but hand came and grabbed Apollo's wrist and stopped his attack.
Clark was unfazed by the attack. In fact, the sunblast basically supercharged his Kryptonian body to the point where he was more powerful than ever in the past.
"Apollo, you fool." Hephaestus grunted. "You blast sun into a Kryptonian, a descendant of Rao no less? I don't even pity you, brother."
Clark grabbed Apollo's shirt, contemplated for a nanosecond about what to do, then threw him into the sky, so that Apollo would hit Mount Olympus, wherever it was.
"Before you say anything, I know you could have handled that yourself." Clark said to his lover and Diana only smiled.
"True, but I liked watching you the same." Diana smirked.
"My oh my." Strife's arms snaked around Clark's neck. "Is this the strength you use to pleasure my sister? If so, then I volunteer. I am much more experienced than that virgin you call lover."
Clark looked at Diana for help and the demigod took out her sword from her hip. "Strife?" Diana warned and Strife floated away.
"Well, it has been a delight, but now I must go and tend to my dear brother's wounded pride and face. See you later, Superman." Strife gave him a demented wink and left.
"Well, that was interesting." Clark commented, flexing his hands and tried to contain this vast power boost. "And what do you know of Rao?" Clark asked Hephaestus.
"Every pantheon knows Rao." Hephaestus unfolded his arms and patted his hammer. "I don't know much, but he was pretty much the Original Sun God who predated every pantheon. Hell, he might be as old as Gaia herself. As for the weapon..." Hephaestus looked at Clark again. "I am sorry, but I can't help."
"And why not? Do you still not deem him worthy?" Diana asked Hephaestus. "He just send the Lord of Olympus away as if he were a child."
"That is exactly the point." The God of Fire looked warily at his sister. "Diana, if I aid him by giving him a weapon like a Godkiller and he uses it to fight Olympus, I become an enemy of Olympus by association. I would never be able to return to Olympus again."
Diana gritted her teeth. "Is that so?"
Hephaestus sighed. "Mainly, yes. But in truth, I don't think I can make a weapon suitable for your lover. You are right. He is strong as any of us. However, there is one thing I do know of. Have you ever heard of the Blades of Supreme Conquest?
"Blades of Supreme Conquest?" Clark tried to remember. "I am afraid not."
"Well, every god of forge worth his salt know of them. Four of the most powerful weapons ever forged by god or mortal. It is said that the last wielder of these Blades ruled the entire universe absolutely." Hephaestus commented. "They are so mythical and legendary that nobody has seen them. And the strangest thing is...I hear that these weapons were forged by the Kryptonian God Rao himself. Zeus, I remember, traveled, looking for these weapons so that he could increase his own power, but he couldn't find them."
"So what you are trying to say is he should look for these weapons that may or may not exist, brother?" Diana asked and Hephaestus shrugged his massive shoulders.
"You asked for my help and I gave you what I can, little sister. Maybe that place he has in the North Pole has information about those weapons."
Clark and Diana left the forge and stood together looked at the ocean.
"I am sorry that I could not help you as I thought I could." Diana said.
"It is alright, Diana." Clark held her hand. "I didn't really hope for much help from him anyway. But what he told did strike me as weird."
"How so?"
"Kryptonians were a race who valued scientific knowledge, Diana. They weren't the most religious people, at least that is what I believed. While you were sleeping today, I was reading up on what I could on Doomsday, but I can across the Mythology of Krypton Gods. I did not think that Kryptonian believed in Gods." Clark explained. "And today I am told that I am a descendant of Rao and that he created these all-powerful blades."
"Does that knowledge hurt you in any way?" Diana asked.
"No. I am somewhat...happy to know a little more about my race." Clark smiled at his lover. "But I want to learn more about this. Do you have any plans right now?"
"I am going to meet Hestia in London." The Amazon Princess noted. "See you later, Kal?"
"See you later." They shared a short and passionate kiss and separated.
Mt. Olympus
Strife was laughing loudly as Apollo mended his cracked face. "You called him a simple creature, but it seems he was more than enough to handle you!" She screamed in laughter, nearly falling off her chair.
"Silence, Strife." Eros said, but he could not hide his own smile. "But it was funny, you have to admit. You basically crashed all the way to the top of Mt. Olympus."
"And this is so funny to you?" Apollo growled. "I will get that kryptonian."
"As I recall he has a brother." Strife waved her hands. "A half-clone...why don't you attack him?"
"Not a bad idea, Strife." Apollo walked up to his washing basin, touched it, and a picture of Clark's younger brother Conner showed.
"Well that creature looks alike, I can say." Strife commented and drank her ambrosia. "Not as handsome and ravishing, though."
"I will have the creature taken care of, as that thing is only half-alien, he won't be able to handle my power like the other one." Apollo looked at his sister Artemis. "Bring him to me. Alive and mostly unspoiled."
"Gladly, but do you mind if I have a bit of fun?" The shining goddess of hunt smiled.
"I don't care as long as I can torture him." The Olympian King walked away and sat on his throne. "After all, all that stand against me should fall. It is only obvious."
"Are you not afraid of retribution?" Eros asked. "That kryptonian will come for you if he founds out that you had his brother tortured and killed."
"And if that happens, Diana will have no choice but to fight against her own lover. You see, Eros? I always win." Apollo smiled.
London
Diana and her Amazon peer Hessia were sparring together in Hessia's martial arts class.
"So you are telling me." Hessia grunted as she blocked Diana's kick. "That your lover punched and threw Apollo into Mt. Olympus itself?"
"That's right." Diana threw another punch. "Still think he is dangerous to me?"
"More so than before." Hessia spun and thrust back her elbow, which Diana blocked with her hand. "Do you not think so?"
"Kal is strong. He is perhaps the strongest being I have ever met." Diana spoke as she grabbed Hessia wrist. "But his strength does not come from his abilities, but his heart." She grabbed Hessia's elbow and put Hessia in a submission. But Hessia flipped backward, releasing herself and kicked, making Diana let go of her opponent.
"So you have told me." Hessia guarded. "But men's hearts are as fragile as their egos. Can you honestly tell me that he has no ego?"
"If he has no pride, then he would not be worthy in the first place." Diana answered as she thrust forward a kick. "Kal has pride, in himself as a human being. That's what he has been all along, Hessia. A human being. No more and no less."
"More like he is in denial." The exotic amazon warrior crouched and made a land kick, which Diana blocked and returned with a jumping kick. Hessia blocked it, but failed to see a second kick to her stomach. Hessia flew back and gracefully rolled back on her feet.
"I do not care what you or others think, Hessia." Diana stood up proudly. "I am an Amazon in body and spirit. If he mistreats me, I will kill him myself."
Hessia stood up as well, wincing as she grabbed her stomach. "That is what I wanted to hear. I would have thought your love for him has blinded you."
"Kal makes me stronger in ways I cannot explain." The two of them went to their benches to wipe their sweat and hydrate.
"Is he that different from your previous lover?" Hessia asked.
"I love and trust Steve. He is the first man I trusted and loved." Diana explained as best as she could. "But I was never in love with him, Hessia. He felt more deeply for me than I for him. When he wanted to take our relationship deeper, I couldn't. Back then I could not make myself that vulnerable with anybody, much less a man." Diana recounted that memory, when she and Steve were out on a dinner date. Steve had asked her if she wanted to stay at his place, and Diana made a rather lousy excuse saying that she was not ready.
"And this Kal...Clark is different enough that you lay with him?" Hessia looked at her friend. "Physically I could see the appeal."
"It wasn't the physical aspect." Diana defended. "He was alone in this world ever since he was born. Like I was. Loneliness, inability to socialize or understand. That is what brought us together. We just built on that."
"So you love him."
"More than I have anyone."
"Does he love you? Has he said that he loves you?"
"He has. In our moments. But those are for him and I alone." Diana stood up. "Enough training. Shall we finally slay some beasts?"
"Of course." Hessia smiled and the two amazons went to fight.
"But admit it. Diana, you love the sex." Hessia teased and Diana blushed. "I knew it."
Mt. Justice
Conner was giving his robotic pal Sphere its weekly washing. Since he had no missions and nothing much to do, he decided to fill his hands with something. Next to him was Wolf, who was sleeping.
"Conner!" Superboy turned and saw Logan in his monkey mode. "Megan made cookies." He handed Conner a cookie.
"Thanks kid." Conner took a cookie and ruffled Beast Boy's head.
"So you back with Sis?" Logan asked as Conner chewed.
"Starting to." Conner shrugged. "Megan and I have things to figure out first."
"I hope you two do come back together. There was only so much of Fishboy I could handle." Logan jokingly gagged and the two of them chuckled and Sphere whistled. A beep rang in Conner's pocket and he pulled out what looked like a glass cube. Inside a cube was a text message.
"Cool, what is that?" Logan looked closer.
"This is a Codex." Conner showed Logan. "Think of it like a Kryptonian cellphone, just with a crystal supercomputer inside it. Normally I get happier messages."
"What is wrong with this one?" Logan asked.
"Superman had told me that a Kryptonian monster is on the loose. It is called Doomsday." Conner showed a picture by adjusting the cube slightly and Logan's eyes turned wide at the monster. "It was monster created when Kryptonian scientists played God with genetics."
"How did it come to Earth?" Beast Boy jumped to Conner's shoulder.
"I don't know. According to Superman, it should have been locked in another dimension. He encountered it years ago and he threw it in an alternate dimension called the Phantom Zone. He believes that there is a space-bridge between the Phantom Zone and Earth."
"Okay, you lost me in 'dimension." Logan grinned. "But Superman stopped it once, so he can stop it again, right?"
"Logan, that thing nearly killed Superman." Conner replied and Logan's smile disappeared. "Doomsday is a weapon of mass destruction and is considered the worst creation in Krypton history."
"What is the worst thing in Krypton history?" The two turned and saw M'gann. Logan jumped down to M'gann's feet.
"There is Kryptonian monster called Doomsday that may have escaped and might kill us all!" Logan mock-screamed and Conner rolled his eyes.
"Don't listen to him. It might be other there. But if it shows up, Justice League will handle it, that I have no doubt." Conner walked to M'gann and kissed her cheek, to which she beamed. "You are baking again."
"And I still have it." M'gann smiled and bit into her cookie. "It turned out better than I thought. How was it?"
"Pretty good, though you could have added more cinnamon." Conner gave her a wink.
"Oh come and make up already." Logan said in tired voice.
"Later, when you are asleep." M'gann answered. Logan walked away with Wolf and Sphere and the two former couple decided to walk outside. They shared this moment of silence in peace, waiting for the other one to speak.
"So..." M'gann started with her hands behind her back. "How are you?"
"Good." Conner replied. "What about you?"
"Good too." The martian's head was reeling with what to say.
What the couple didn't know was that they were being watched.
So this is my first chapter. I hope you like it. I am going to go somewhat slow for this story. I will try to update as soon as I can.
P.S There is really no schedule to my updating.