The Lost Mimzy Chapter 7

7. All that's left

Mimzy sat and listened to the recitation of what had passed between her older sister's, working backwards.  From the events surrounding Galfore becoming Grand Ruler, backwards to the events that occured on Earth, and further back to Blackfire trading Starfire to the Gordanians to save Tamaran, and then back through a long string of childhood fights and struggles.

One thing Mimzy noticed about every event mentioned, though.  Blackfire was always the aggressor.  Now, Blackfire had always been aggressive, that made her a good warrior.  But it seemed like she had always gone out of her way to pick fights with Starfire.  Each time, Starfire had tried to greet her with friendship and kindness and love, and Blackfire had driven her to fight.  Finally, Mimzy turned to her eldest sibling.

"Blackfire...why do you hate Star so much?"

Blackfire looked at Mimzy, then turned her head away.  "You wouldn't understand."

"Try me," she said.

Blackfire looked at her, then sighed.  "Because...because Mom and Dad loved her more than me!" she said finally, covering her face in shame at speaking ill of the dead.

"Sister, what do you mean?" Starfire asked, confused.  "Mother and Father loved us equally-"

"Then why did you get chosen to get the crown?  Why did you always get the best of everything?  Why was it that - once you were born - they never had any time for me?  Why wasn't I good enough for them?"  Unable to stop it, Blackfire burst into tears.  This was why she had always kept her distance from Mim'hander, even though she loved her youngest sister dearly.  She couldn't hide anything when she was with her, not even from herself.  One look into thos baby blue eyes and it all came pouring out.  "I tried!  I tried so very hard...to be a good warrior, a good statesman, a good princess...but it was never enough to even get them to pay me the occasional compliment!  WHile everything you did might as well be an act of X'hall the way they acted!"  Blackfire seemed to fold in on herself.  "Why...why didn't they love me?"

Starfire couldn't help it.  Floating over, she wrapped her older sister in her arms.  "What mother and father did to you...to us...it was wrong.  It should not have happened.  And sister...even with everything that has passed between us, everything that has happened...No matter how vexxed I became with you, I never stopped loving you."

Blackfire slowed her tears a bit, sniffing in disbelief.  "You...you didn't?"

Starfire shook her head.  "How could I?  You're my sister."

Blackfire stared at her for a while, then with a wail, threw her arms around her and wept, all the pent up pain and rage and sadness pouring out of her in glowing purple teardrops.  Mimzy came up and hugged them both.

"No more fighting, okay?  We gotta stick together.  We're all the family we got left."

Starfire and Blackfire nodded.

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A distance away, Beast Boy pointed at the scene.  "Dude...what just happened?"

"We all just got royally pwned by a 9 year old," Cyborg said, realligning his curcuits after the shock of what he'd seen.

"Yeah," BB said.  "That's what I thought.  SOme kid, huh?"

"You can say that again," Raven said, then immediately regretted it.

"Some kid, huh?" Beast Boy said, with a huge grin on his face.

"Shut up, Beast Boy."