DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Teen Titans. However... I own the following characters: Catgirl (a.k.a Kate Sakaki), Nina, Sarah Lex(well she's dead but she'll probably be brought up in convo sometime), Michael and Emily Greenway, Aquilus + Acerbus (both dead also but I still own them!), Keara Haww (also dead... hmm alot of my characters seem to die..)
WARNING: This fanfic contains depression, hatred, swearing,cat fights and also other yummy ingredients. But if this SOMEHOW offends you I suggest you press the back button and look for another happy-go-lucky fanfic...
WARNING (pt 2): This is a RAVEN/ROBIN ROMANCE fanfic. I just wanted to clear this with you guys because I always get atleast ONE review saying that its crap and should burn in hell because Rae/Rob sucks. I am not saying StarRob lovers should just die or anything but you probably will HATE this fic. But people open for some new type of writing should check out my other fics and see if you like it :smiles: maybe you'll like it, maybe you'll wont!
Okay, with that over and done with I'll like to personally say hello and welcome to The Shifting Winds of Change :cheers:
Anyways if yournew to this series I suggest you read the other 4 stories in this on going series. I promise you the first one (The Warming Chill of the Blackened Heart) isn't my best writing since well... it was my first thing ever to write (and other people read it).
Anyways I'm known for my long pre talks before the actual chapter so enjoy,
note: takes place three months after Nina is born/ about a year after we have last seen the titans
The Shifting Winds of Change
CHAPTER 1
An Explosive Battle and an Injured Starfire
"WAA!"
Starfire sent a steady stream of starbolts at the pink haired sorcerer. Jinx leapt up unto a metal beam while the starbolts hit the concrete wall harmlessly and in return Jinx sent a curse at Starfire. She dodged it… barley.
"Star! You alright? You need me to help?" Robin shouted breathlessly as he ducked as Mammoth swung his large fist at Robin's face.
"No Robin," Starfire replied sharply, "I will handle with glorfdin by myself!" Starfire said flinging random starbolts trying to hit Jinx. Jinx handled them easily, she bounded and leapt and preformed amazing acrobatic stunts with ease.
"Watch it!" Yelled Cyborg while him and Raven tried to catch Gizmo, "The liquids in this lab are flammable! IF YOU DON'T WATCH IT YOUR GONNA BLOW UP THE WHOLE DAMN BUILDING!" He yelled in frustration as Gizmo sent two blasts of yellow energy at him.
"You know hun," She called, "If you want to insult me be prepared to take a hit back!"
Jinx caught Starfire off guard as she sent a curse at the ceiling and it bounced against a metal beam loosening the screws. Drywall from the ceiling hit it and down came a shower of drywall, flooring from the floor above and a large heavy metal beam.
Everyone in the room stopped and stared at the deadly shower as it came crashing down on Starfire. She screamed as she tried to fly away but the metal beam crashed down and sent crashing to the floor with her leg twisted in a weird position while a sickening CRACK filled the room.
Gizmo was the first to break the silence as his high-pitched annoying laughter filled the room, "Ha-ha the snot chucker broke her leg!"
Catgirl hissed and leapt at him bringing him down. Gizmo shot a blast of lasers at to Catgirl to free himself and he scrambled to escape. The Hive members started running out of the room.
"Beast Boy! Catgirl! Follow them!" Robin barked as he ran over to Starfire.
The pair nodded and raced out of the room.
Robin knelt beside Starfire and rubbed her shoulder comfortingly, "Don't worry we'll get this off you. Cyborg?" He said turning around. Cy nodded, "I'm on it," He bent down and groaned while he lifted the beam off Star. Starfire bit her lip as tears swelled in her eyes. Raven then tried to help Starfire stand, "I cannot stand," she moaned, "Robin take me to the hospital," She moaned while flashing Robin sad eyes. "Cyborg and me have to help BB and Cat. Rae can you…?" He asked turning towards the dark girl. Raven opened her mouth protest but Robin shot her an I'm-sorry-but-please-do-it look.
"Can you walk or at least fly?" Raven asked as the boys ran out of the room, Starfire shook her head, "It huuuuuuuuuuuuuurts to much," Raven groaned and put one of Starfire's arms around her neck then flew out of the room.
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A low unintelligible laugh came from Mammoth as he held Catgirl up by one leg and was dangling her far enough so she couldn't bite or scratch him. Catgirl hissed and cursed loudly. Her face was red from being upside-down so long, "Shit," she cursed again. Spying an metal cup on the near by work table she stretched her body out and moved her lower half of her body towards the table she managed to pull herself up so she could reach the cup. But the stupid oaf saw what she was reaching for and he shook her but Cat quickly snatched up the cup and whipped the heavy metal cup at Mammoth's face. He roared and threw her across the room.
BB looked over his shoulder at the limp girl as she lay by the wall, "Cat!" He yelled. But forgetting Jinx and Gizmo for even a second proved to be stupid as Gizmo sent a yellow beam of energy at and Jinx sent a curse at him.
Beast Boy managed to transform into a turtle in the nic of time before being hit with both blasts. He went flying towards the wall also but his hard shell protected him.
Robin and Cyborg burst into the room. They stood in a fighting pose glaring at the Hive students. "Is Cat alright?" Cyborg called behind him to the woozy Beast Boy.
Catgirl lazily opened her eyes. Her ears were limp and her long black hair covered her unusually pale Asian coco brown skin. She stood up shaky but brushed it off as she stood beside the three guys.
She brushed a lock of hair out of her face and hissed, "Remind me again why we cant just blow the shit out of these guys…" Her golden yellow eyes narrowed in frustration.
"The chemicals in this lab are highly flammable," Robin began,
"And the state that this building's in it ain't gonna hold any more abuse to it, y'all already saw what happened to Star,"
"What idiots would put top secret lab outside the city with barely any protection and in a crumbling building?" Beast Boy asked.
"Ya idiots gonna stand there all day mumbling to yer selves or are you gonna do something?" Gizmo asked in his whinny voice.
"Maybe their too scared to do anything…" A soft coy voice came from Jinx who was leaning against the wall with her arms crossed, a look of pure smugness on her face.
"C'mon guys lets go there's no more action here," Jinx said as she pulled out a large gun type thing-a-ma-bob and pointed it at the ceiling. Just as her pale finger was about to pull the trigger a huge blast from Cyborg's nitro cannon knocked the gun and the blast hit the wall. It went through the wall knocking down other walls and sending drywall shooting into the rooms. And one unfortunate event led to another… a piece of dry wall came shooting from the hole in the wall and it flew and hit a table and knocked over a chemical bottle. The bottle broke and methyl methacrylate spilled all over the table which a burner was left on.
Now we all know what happens when a liquid heats up, it turns into vapor. Unfortunately this was a highly combustible vapor and the smallest spark (or say a huge blast of heat laser) could set it off. And that's exactly what happened.
A huge explosion racked the building. It shook the whole building like an earthquake. No one was close enough to be harmed from the first explosion but that wasn't anything to be cheering about yet. The explosion triggered more explosions and the poor old building couldn't last even if the teens inside lives depended on it… which they did…
Friend or foe… good or evil it didn't matter now. Everyone had to get out of the building and fast. The group twisted through fire death mazes in a desperate attempt to find a way out. But it seemed hopeless.
Beast Boy held his arm over his nose and mouth and coughed out the words, "There's… no… way… out… hopeless…"
Mammoth cracked his large knuckles, "Mammoth not dying here!" He yelled over the roar of the flames and punched out a wall.
"Good idea," Robin called, his nose and mouth covered by his cape, "If we can't find a exit we'll make one!"
Cyborg and Mammoth (being the strongest ones) punched out walls and led the group out of the death trap. And once out and into the fresh air the teens ran for their lives. Seconds after they had started running a HUGE explosion actually took the building down. It sent a powerful shock wave and hit the teens.
Cyborg opened his eyes slowly and rolled over onto his back. He sat up and looked at his body. Nothing impaled from flying dabree, good, he ran a brief scan and found nothing wrong with it besides having a headache.
A soft moan shot his attention to beside him. Jinx rolled over and her left arm flopped beside her hanging in a weird direction.
"Are you alright?" Cyborg asked as he crawled over to where Jinx was lying. "Is your arm broken?" He asked when Jinx didn't answer him. "I don't think so…" Jinx trailed off in a soft voice, "It's my shoulder that hurts… I think I landed on it funny…"
"Here, let me help you," Cyborg said helping Jinx sit up. He noticed how the arm seemed detached from the arm socket, "Your arm popped out of the socket. I know how to put it back… it might hurt a little…" He warned, "I don't care," Jinx said in a strangely clam and smooth voice.
He placed one hand firmly on Jinx's shoulder and held Jinx's forearm in his other hand. He pulled the arm and a soft moan escaped from Jinx's lips. Her eyes were clamped shut and she was biting her lower lip with a pained expression on her face.
Slowly her arm slide back into the socket and a clam expression floated over Jinx's face. She opened her pink eyes slowly and caught Cyborg staring at her.
A coy smile crossed Jinx's lips as she spoke in a flirtatious voice, "My, quite the gentleman aren't we?" Jinx fingered her necklace playfully.
Cyborg's jaw dropped and he blushed slightly, "I-I-I guess…" He stuttered.
The two looked over to the left as they heard Robin, BB and Catgirl calling Cyborg's name. "Well…" Jinx said standing up, "I better be going…" She turned around but felt something attach around her wrist, "Hey what the-"
Jinx whipped around her eyes narrowed and looked around down at the handcuff on her wrist, "What do you think your doing?"
"Don't get me wrong, Jinx," Cyborg said with a sly smile on his face, "I may be gentle but I'm not a push over,"
Jinx shot Cyborg a dirty look and hissed through her clenched teeth, "Up yours."
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"How are you feeling?" Raven's horse voice broke the silence in the Titan's hospital room.
Starfire's back and leg sat propped up by pillows on the bed. Her leg was wrapped in a split. Raven had healed the leg before when they first arrived at the tower and wrapped it up in a splint.
Starfire's eyes were closed and her body still lost in her own thoughts. She drifted in and out of subconscious sleep. Her mind twisted and turned in abstract thoughts as she laid there.
"I, uh, brought you some tea," Raven said slightly louder than her last sentence. She walked up towards the bed and placed the mug on the night stand beside the bed.
Starfire cracked open her eyes, "Thank you, Raven," She said softly and reached out to the mug. She took a sip and the hot liquid burned her tongue but Starfire was numb to the pain.
She sighed placing the mug down on the table again. She was alone again… not just because Raven had left the room. But slowly Starfire was drifting away from the Titans. She would sometimes stay a whole day in bed with the drapes closed and hiding under the blanket.
It was almost three years since being on planet earth and Starfire stood have matured more quickly into an adult Tamarian. But due to her depression she had gotten slightly paler and thinner. Tamarians needed sunlight to help them grow almost like plants. It was a chemical reaction in their bodies that helped trigger good heath. But besides going outside for missions she rarely left her room anymore.
Starfire's mind was slow and stupid beside of the painkillers and she couldn't think straight. I don't want to stay here anymore…she thought, Robin… Robin why don't you love me anymore? I want to go home now…
Yes, going back to Tamaran seemed like a better idea every day now. The team could manage with out her, they had Catgirl after all now. And Robin, he was becoming more and more sophisticated. Raven had changed him. Robin was even more serious to crime fighting and most of the crime had been washed out of Jump City.
Her mind tried to remember the battle but she was just getting more and more sleepier. Just as she closed her eyes she muttered "Robin get all the bad guys…"
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How'd you like it? Before you go let me just add a few more things:
1) I'm looking for another editor (I still have my old one I'm just looking for another one too). If you want to become one please EMAIL me (you can find it on my BIO page thing).
2)You'll probably notice that the first 5 chapters or so will mostly Starfire starring in them but then later it'll be like she's not even alive anymore...
hehehe I'll leave you on that note while I go to:
MUFFIN TIME:
Todays muffins go to: NevermoretheRaven, ChErRyBlOsSoMs-FlOwErOfDeAtH, kitsaruand beautifully-evilfor reviewing the last chapter of The Obbessive Mind of Desire!
Also a special muffin goes to my editor: elementcontroller who puts up with my bad grammer and my problems with commas!