Hey everyone! I decided to take a little break from writing BTVS fics and write a Teen Titans fic!! I've been going over so many ideas in my head for stories, so I really hope you like my story, and please review. Thanksies, and enjoy.
Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Teen Titans. But since this is a TT fic, can I say I own BTVS? (Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?) Also, I do not own anything that may seem familiar to you on here, unless it is entirely legal for me to call it my own.
The sun was settling in the fiery sunset sky as the world turned its back on another day. The moon would rise soon above Jump City, and it would be another good day of solid crime-defeating victory for the titans.
What they didn't know was that they were being watched.
He was sitting in a tree high above the rest, gazing towards the direction of Titans Tower. From his far-seeing view he could recognize four figures in the top-most room of the tower. One missing, he mentally pondered. The moon was now raising high above the moonlit waters, a steady surface of milky reflection illuming the teen's face. He glared angrily at the port. How could anything be so beautiful in darkness?
She was, at least.
He watched her from the day he first came to Jump City. It had been almost a week ago when he first saw her. The Titans were battling Johnny Rancid once again when he came, and carefully he watched the teenagers fight fiercely. But she stood out. Her dark clothes, her pale skin, those deep amethyst eyes…
He shifted his weight from once foot to the other and stood on a branch beneath him. He leaned against the tree and watched as the fifth member of the team entered the room. He smirked. You just wait and see, dark one. You'll soon be mine.
A dull blink of light traveled across Raven's usual dark room. It caught between her eyes and interrupted her dream. Before the sunlight had poked into her mind, she had been having the strangest dream that green tofu was dancing around her and handing her a rose of every color imagined. Before the light came in, the last rose color was red.
She groaned. She hated when dreams were stopped, especially when they were not quite finished. She knew what her dream was about, however, since she had been having dreams quite similar to the one she had just had. Only one explanation: Beast Boy.
It was a quiet morning, without the constant fussing and arguing of meat and tofu, of video game battles or of Starfire's strange cooking disasters. Instead, the tower was silent all except for the sound of lifting barbells from the training room. Raven traced over to her closet and opened the doors. Which one to wear today? She thought sarcastically, staring at the two straight rows of blue cloaks. Then, one caught her eye. It looked pretty much the same as the others, the only difference being beautiful silver stitching on the hem of the cloak. It was a precious cloak, used mainly for special occasions (which rarely happened), but because of her dream, she felt particularly exempt from ordinary. Putting it on, she went to the training room.
Inside were already all of the titans. All three boys, surprisingly, were lifting barbells from the benches, all with equal weights, competing for glory. Starfire was in the far side of the room, aiming her starbolts at particular inanimate objects, reducing them to dust. Raven hovered over to the alien girl to train.
"Raven, morning greetings! Have you slept well?" Starfire asked brightly, destroying a nasty molding chair.
"Super," Raven answered monotonously. She glanced back at the three boys, watching them work hard to keep the weights lifted in midair, and then slowly bring them back down again.
"Friend, might you wish to meditate with me, so that we may prepare ourselves for a day of training?" Starfire's emerald eyes stared widely at her friend, hoping to bring out a social training from Raven.
Sounding relieved at the prospect to control her emotions, Raven gratefully accepted and, hovering in midair with her legs crossed, kept one eye open to watch Starfire do the same. Facing each other, they began to meditate freely, keeping in the steady rhythm of the words.
"Azareth Metrion Zynthos… Azareth Metrion Zynthos…Aza-AHH!"
The two girls flew away from where they were sitting seconds before a bench came flying in their direction. Following the source, Cyborg and Robin were facing each other, steam poring from their ears and faces as red as tomatoes.
"YOU CHEATER! YOU COUNTED BY TWOS!"
"DID NOT! MAN, IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT WINNING! I THOUGHT WE'VE LEARNED THAT..!!!"
"CYBORG, IF YOU CAN'T PLAY FAIR, THEN DON'T PLAY AT ALL!!"
"I.. SAID.. I.. DIDN'T… CHEAT!!"
Storming out of the room, Cyborg was still muttering to himself, loud enough so all could hear. "Spiky-haired little…thinks he's so smart…I bet all that hair gel affects his brain …"
Robin's head was metaphorically spinning in circles as he too stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind him. Beast Boy looked sheepish as he put down the barbell he was lifting and stood up. "Talk about a cat fight," Beast Boy said jokingly, morphing into a tiny green kitten.
"Friends must not behave this way," Starfire said tearfully.
Raven refused to meet neither Starfire nor Beast Boy's eyes as she traveled through the floor to the room below. Robin was sitting alone, his back turned away from the gothic telepath, glaring at the ground. "Go away," he barked rudely, only to receive Raven budge not an inch. Robin turned around curiously, flames still enveloping his emotions. "I said 'go away'," he growled.
"If you could stop being so impertinent then we might be able to restore peace. I don't want to deal with your constant bickering and stubbornness, so just apologize to Cyborg and get it over with." Raven's eyelashes fluttered in minor annoyance as she faced the Boy Wonder.
"Apologize?! For what? He was the one who…"
"Enough," she interrupted curtly. "Anger solves nothing. I have to meditate, and I can't do that unless you make up. There will be too much tension in the air and I will not focus."
"Why don't you think about something other than yourself, then?"
This had done it. Raven was about to lose her temper when an elfish figure appeared in the doorway. "Dude, Robin…..would it be okay if I had the training room to myself today?"
Both titans looked surprised as the changling requested what he had. Totally forgetting the former problem, Robin simply agreed. After Beast Boy left, Raven glared angrily at the interruption before disappearing into her dark abyss.
Robin and Cyborg still had not made up. Starfire was too distracted to talk to any of the titans other than Robin. Beast Boy was too busy training to notice any one at all. And Raven. Raven could not concentrate, just as she predicted. The violet-haired vixen had left the tower for the day, the rising anxiety causing her emotions to be less than under control. She flew high above the clouds, now coated with shades of blue and silver. She scanned the city below, the sun pinching the ground, causing the girl to squint. Irritated with the world, Raven flew down to try and walk through the sunny, happy day. A perfect day. This sucks. I was hoping for a gloomier day, one in which to wallow.
Heading towards the park to meditate peacefully under the oak tree, Raven bumped into a stranger unexpectantly. "I'm sorry," she mumbled shyly.
The stranger looked up, apparently not paying attention. "No, no, it's my fault. I was so absorbed in this book that I seem to have lost track of where I was going." He smiled, holding out the book for her to see. She leaned forward to take a glance. The front cover of the book was rotting, almost too unclear to read the title of the book. In block lettering was the words, "Confessions of A Dead Man". Intrigued, Raven looked up and studied the stranger.
He was a teen of about her own age, with long, chocolate brown hair with bright red tips. He was taller than her, with large brown eyes. He looked kind, but strong, with a strange dark innerness. Stepping back, he extended his hand politely. "Forgive me, I've been impolite. My name's Figaro."
Raven took his hand. "I'm Raven."
He put his book under his arm and started walking, Raven beside him. "Do you live here in the city?"
"I guess you could say that," she answered smoothly. "And you?"
"Actually, I just got here last night. I was staying in Gotham, but I got into a bit of….of trouble, you could say, so I had to leave."
"What sort of trouble?" Raven inquired suspiciously.
Figaro stopped walking and looked at the girl. She looked up at him equally, revealing no emotion to him. After a moment's pause, he continued walking. "Actually," he said, smiling, "I was cornered in an alleyway by a couple of thugs. They didn't bruise me too bad, but for them…." He stopped midsentence, lowering his head, a secret smile plastered on his face. "No one seems to know what it's like to harbor power, and when you release it, to not be able to control it."
Raven's eyes widened at this. "You have no idea," she answered quietly.
Figaro turned to her, a charming smile of his face. "Raven, would you do me the honor of spending the afternoon with me?"
Surprised, Raven was thrown at his invitation, but never-the-less accepted. "Alright."
"Raven!!! Where are you?!"
"Beast Boy, why are you yelling Raven's name in the middle of the hallway?"
Beast Boy was wondering the corridors of the tower, looking for his Gothic friend when Robin interrupted. "You know she has to meditate, so stop annoying her by screaming her name."
"I don't think she's here, man." Cyborg appeared from out the shadows, looking down at Beast Boy, ignoring the Boy Wonder.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, I think she left here hours ago, right when…." Cyborg stopped, gritted his teeth and continued. "She won't be back for a while."
"She didn't leave a note or…or anything?" The green boy wondered.
"Nope."
"I'm sure she's fine," Robin assured his friend. "She probably just went to look for a place to recollect herself." Robin went off, heading towards the direction of Starfire's room.
"I hope so. If anything did happen to her, it would be….totally all their fault. Faults. Whatever." Beast Boy whispered to himself.
Yay! Chapter One complete, signed, wrapped up and unwrapped again. This is mostly going to be about Raven, so if you have any suggestions on how to make this story better, feel free to share!
Anyways, Chapter 2 will be up soon, so stay tuned!
Have a great new year!!