Time: 10:01 pm.

Date: October…. SOMEthing—2001 (WHAT day is it anyway!??)

Place: New York City, New York—otherwise known as Manhattan

 

            Okay—look. I don’t normally DO this journal thing often, but things have been getting un-cool around here. Disturbances of…  the unexplainable kind and bad days that just seem to surface just about anywhere. This past month…. Has been total hell for me, and for others I’m most certainly sure.

            I guess all of the problems started when both Kara and I were confronted by both Livewire and Volcana. The battle that was put up wasn’t one of the most successful battles that has been fought in MY history at least. In an attempt to protect Kara, Livewire threw a bus—a yellow bus at me. Arugh—stupid ME! I wasn’t thinking, nor concentrating hard enough and I automatically put up a shield to block it. Of course, you KNOW my ring doesn’t work against the color yellow. It’s my weakness—just as how kryptonite is to Superman, ya know? The bus went straight through—couldn’t get out of the way in time, and got hit…. Badly. I’m not gonna go into details about it, but I WILL tell you that the pain SUCKED.

About a week or so later, Guy Gardner came over—he’s one of the three Green Lantern’s here on Earth—it’s AWESOME ya know?? And here I thought I was the only one left. We worked and soon found out that we held the power to… reestablish the entire Green Lantern Corpse. It wasn’t going to be an easy task. It was going to take time, and even to this day, it still is. When we finally came to the decision to actually get out butt’s in gear and reestablish the Corpse I went and… told Kara about it. She… at first didn’t look so happy about it, but then she told me, “Do what you need to do.” I had to leave, even though I didn’t really WANT to. I tried to get her to come with us, but she wasn’t exactly feeling at one-hundred percent when I asked her...come to think about it, neither was I.

We left earth the next morning and traveled into deep space. It was just Guy and I. We would have brought Jade along with us, but we needed at least one GL to watch over the sector. The first thing on our list was to rebuild the ruined building, the building where the Guardians of the Universe accumulated. From what I understand it was almost entirely completely destroyed, from the GL, Hal Jordan, before. Something… happened, no one could exactly be certain of what it was. But he... snapped. He went on a killing spree and killed most of the Guardians along with all of the Green Lanterns. From earlier information I had learned that a handful of the Green Lanterns were still out there, out in other galaxies, along with a few of the Guardians who managed to get away from all of the slayings.

It took two Earth days to get the Headquarters back in order, computers and holo-projections up in running order. Both Guy and I left and set off for the Andromeda Galaxy and found one of the Guardians. This Guardian—actually had the Book of Oa with him!! The Book of Oa is the single most important Green Lantern tool, besides our rings and batteries. With the book, we were able to find profiles on all 3,600 Green Lanterns in the known universe. Of course, that number was drastically reduced, but can you BLEIVE there were that MANY GL’s!?? It’s definitely hard to swallow, I know, but it’s ALL in the Book of Oa! We were able to use the book as a map, to help find all of the GL’s. As we left, the single Guardian, he accumulated the other surviving Guardians. With out combined powers, we were able to light a ‘beacon’ to let the other Green Lantern’s follow, down to the location of the Headquarters. From there, the committee was replenished and our job was pretty much done.

The headquarters is located on a planet called Zepher. The original plans were to put it in deep space—but that wasn’t going to work. Zepher’s a really beautiful and isolated planet. It was newly discovered within the past two thousand millennia. Pretty YOUNG, huh? The headquarters, I know is in good hands. While on the planet, I was able to see a healer and the damage that was done to me in battle with Volcana and Livewire was completely healed. No pain, no NOTHING. Intergalactic healing RIPS!!

When we had to face the entire council, they presented both Guy and I with two crystals from the planet. Guy received this neon light blue stone, with a sparkling opal center, a Moon Stone. The stone the council gave to me was bark blue, with a red center, almost in the shape of a heart. There was a purple band around the red interior, possibly from the color chemicals combining. I was told that it was a Love Stone, the thicker the band around the red center, was proof of the on-taker’s commitment to the one they loved most. In a way... it was one of those lucky stones. Both, were to believe to have held special powers. Granting each with a special power. The one who possessed the stone, be it mine or Guy’s, was the ‘key’ to making the power came alive. The stone’s beauty and most unique shape automatically made me think of Kara. The blue of the crystal, completely reminded me of her sweet blue eyes. How they’d twinkle with delight when a kind word was said. It was settled, even from that moment.

Once we got back to Earth I didn’t dare go home. My body was exhausted, I could feel it, but.. I didn’t really care. All that time away from the girl of MY dreams?? Uh, uh. I don’t think so. Just doesn’t work THAT way for me. When I got to Metropolis—I had this FEELING she was there instead of in Smallville. Just seeing her was all I needed… I set the crystal in her hands, and we spoke—but then… she—oh man. She was SO upset—I swear I had NO idea what was going on. She…told me she.. didn’t want to SEE me anymore. On account “It’s too dangerous.” I could feel my heart sinking into my chest, HOW could this happen?? I could see my presence was only making her more upset, so I left—went to the Titan’s Tower and staked it out. Got depressed, I can tell you that much.. but somehow talking to Donna made it.. somewhat better. That emptiness and that hole was still there, what COULD I do?? It took a while, but I left… I didn’t go back to her, I couldn’t.. Couldn’t bare to see her so upset so… I… went to my ‘thinking spot’ You know.. on top of the Statue of Liberty?

I found myself talking to myself for quite a while, and felt someone come up behind me. Now the only way you can get on TOP of the statue is if you’re a rock climber, could FLY, or had one of those grappling things that Batman has. I turned… It.. was Kara. She—OH Gosh—if you would have KNOWN what emotions were running through my system at the time. I… love her so much—all I want to DO is protect her, you know? But, in reality I know I’m more… vulnerable than she. That night we talked the entire night—but NOT before I was plastered against a wall by Spiderman—YES, Spiderman! He got me with his webbing or.. whatever—we’ve crossed paths once or twice, but this time we stopped and politically insulted one another, in heroish kinda way.

The rest of the night, Kara and I went up to that special spot of mine and Terry’s… and Damien’s... the place where we just “hang”, ya know? We spent the night, just talking.. and talking, and.. enjoying the outdoors. Heh.. I don’t even know if I even SLEPT that night.. just having her at my side was enough thanks I could get.

 So… a few days later this GUY—no not Gurdner, but Carr-el. Did I even SPELL that right? Well, he’s Kara’s BETHROTHED! Apparently it was some arranged marriage type of thing and he survived the entire destruction of Argos and ARUGH—this guy is NUTS! I’m sorry, but there’s no way you can MESS with Kara and get away with it. The b*astard was trying to KILL her—and ME no less! I guess he didn’t like the fact that I was her ‘boyfriend’ and he tried to dispose of me. Yeesh—can we TALK about polite manners!??

So all of a sudden this PLANE goes wooshing by and I look up and it’s the BATJET! Kara told me she was going to call Bruce to see if he could help her out, I didn’t even know that he would actually come THROUGH, but he did. I transformed dispite Terry being in the apartment and flew out of the window. When I got to Kara she was YELLOW.. yellow paint. Remember the bad part of yellow, I told you about?? Something was going to happen, and I knew it—and yet, I don’t think I could have been more right. Car had tried to use his lazer vision, on Kara—I jumped in the way and well…The last thing I remember is seeing the moon and a tremendous mount of pain in taking my back—nothing but black before that.

I HAVE come to the conclusion that love HURTS. But the one I’m hurting FOR, is so worth it.

 

Peace out,

     Kyle