Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. If I did, it would probably never have been aired and we'd all miss out on a good show.
I came up with this on a whim, but hopefully, it'll be good enough for a few reviews. This was written shortly before midnight, so I'm a bit skeptical as to why I even bothered with it. And I'm still on Notepad, so get off my back with spelling errors. I hope the dang lines took, and for those of you not familiar with me, I'm a bit tempermental. Or just plain mental, I'm not entirely certain. Half the time I'm surprisingly pleasent to be around. The rest of the time, I'm a bit odd, maybe even a bit eccentric. Or crazy. You be the judge. I'm only going to be back for so long, so enjoy it while it lasts. Or don't. I don't really care that much anymore. Well, I'm off to do something before I go to bed. Insomnia: My friend and my foe. My froe I guess. Idunno. (Shrugs with eyes closed.) In the meantime: Dust to Dust, Ashes to Ashes. Hallelujah, Amen. You are dismissed. And pass the mustard. (I don't remember where I heard that. If the person that has this sees this, let me know and I'll try to put it in here. If I can't figure out how, I'm doing a follow up and I'll put it in there immediately after the disclaimer.)
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"Titans, we have a serious problem." Raven was the only one who had never sounded the alert.
"What is it friend Raven? Has Slade returned?" Raven nodded as the others walked through the door.
"Worse. Someone snuck into the tower while we were out on that wild goose chase yesterday. They stole the book." Starfire gasped, Beastboy jumped back half a foot, Cyborg instinctively readied his sonic cannon, and Robin clenched his fists. The book she spoke of was the one that contained Malchior, the dragon that had been sealed within a book over a year ago.
"How? The security scans never picked anything up yesterday." Raven shook her head. Without the book, they were unable to imprison the ancient dragon again.
"I don't know. What I do know is that we need to stop him before he does something terrible." Without another word they took to their respective exits. Robin and Cyborg took one elevator to the garage level while Beastboy, Raven, and Starfire headed to the roof.
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When they got to the scene, they were shocked to see that Slade was there, talking calmly with the dragon. It seemed that Malchior wanted to go to his birthplace and rest for a while before moving on to forcing humans to bow to him. Slade was convincing him that revenge should always come first.
"I shall not be ordered by a puny human such as you. Leave me be, or face my fire!" Slade stood his ground, his hands behind him as he laughed quietly.
"I do not presume to order you, mighty Malchior. I merely believe that you should destroy those who imprisoned you in the first place. After all, once they know that you are free, they will undoubtedly try to imprison you again." Malchior lowered his head and exhaled smoke through his nostrils, trying to scare Slade. The man didn't even cough.
"You speak truth. I must destroy them if I am to achieve my goals." Slade laughed again, holding his hands out to his sides and bowing. Before the Titans could interject, he vanished without a trace.
"Malchior! Give up now, or we will be forced to hurt you!" Robin ran forward, intent on attacking the ancient dragon with everything he had.
"YOU!" Malchior blasted his fire at them, but they dispersed and began attacking from all possible angles.
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After ten minutes of fighting the Teen Titans weren't making much progress. They had managed to damage Malchior's wing membranes enough to ground him in the middle of the town square, where nobody would be hurt. The book was held by a chain around his neck, as an insult that it had been stolen so easily.
"You cannot defeat me!" Malchior let loose a deafening roar as Raven sliced the chain with her powers, Beastboy turning into a falcon and grabbing the book as it fell. He dropped the book as a large burst of fire singed his tail feathers, making him screech loudly and crash into a parked car window. Robin looked from his kneeling position and saw that Raven had the book in her hands. He stood up and yelled as loud as he could while running at Malchior.
"Now!" Beastboy looked up from the ground and stood up, turning into a T-rex to hold off the fire so Raven could recite the spell. Cyborg continually fired his sonic cannon in an attempt to draw the behemoth's attention while Robin and Starfire did the same from two other directions. As Raven spoke the first word, Malchior spat several words in rapid succession, and a large burst of wind knocked all but Beastboy to the ground or into either a car or a tree.
"I don't know if I can. He can recite powerful spells faster than I can recite this one." Raven dropped to her knees as Beastboy tried a last ditch effort. He transformed into a similar dragon to hold off Malchior. Raven gasped as Beastboy belched a large fireball and knocked the ancient dragon to the ground. He turned his head to look at her as she stood up again.
"Finish the spell, I'll hold him off. When you're at the last three words, I'll turn into a squirrel and get to safety." His high voice was barely changed, but the fact that he could turn into a mythical beast made her think of him in a whole new light.
"All right Beastboy. Here goes." Beastboy charged and clawed at Malchior, aiming for his mouth to keep him from casting another spell. After a few seconds, he heard Raven about to finish the spell and transformed into a squirrel and scampered away as fast as he could. Malchior started to speak as Raven reached the third to last word, but he suddenly stopped and looked up at a building.
'BANG!' A loud gunshot pierced the strangely quiet air as Raven spoke the last word. Malchior had slumped his neck down and was drawn and bound within the book again, trying to roar but only managing a growl.
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Several years later, the Titans were meeting someone at an outdoor cafe. Someone by the name of Nick wanted to talk to them about Malchior and they were curious, agreeing to meet him. They didn't know what he looked like, but he told them that they would know him right away.
"Are we sure that this isn't a trick?" Beastboy had been dating Raven since after they had sealed the dragon away and he was much more mature, though he still made a stupid joke on occasion. Raven had learned slightly better control over her powers so she had smiled now and again, mostly whenever Beastboy actually told a decent joke.
"We won't know until we get there. Besides, if anyone goes after the book again, they'll have to face Thunder and Lightning." Beastboy nodded. He and Raven were the only Titans available at the moment. Robin was with Batman, working on some new gadgets and upgrading the R-cycle. Cyborg was busy with something on the other side of the city involving a few small time crooks robbing a bank, and Starfire was with the Titans East helping Speedy, Aqualad, and Bumblebee learn how to speak Spanish.
"Yeah. You're right. Even if this guy starts trouble, there's no way he can beat us. Not since you've started teaching me how to use magic." Raven giggled softly as Beastboy formed a small green and white bubble between his hands. He had grasped the basics fairly quickly and could use small spheres of magic to hit targets out of his reach.
"Yeah, that'll make him think twice." Beastboy blushed as they turned the corner. Raven laughed into her left hand upon seeing the cafe. There were five people, and she knew who Nick was right away.
"That has got to be our guy."
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I'd like to note that I'm trying to seperate the scenes, but I don't know how. I've tried asterisks, pluses, slashes, and I'm going to try numbers. All while under attack by stupid Circuit City ads from Neoseeker. As you can see, numbers seemed to do the trick. And a friend of mine is going to hate this. He is plagued by the coincidence of seeing numbers in triplicate, so this many sevens is going to drive him out of his mind. Oh well, seven's a lucky number, so maybe this will up the number of readers and reviews.
From the desk of:
Lord Genesis Shadow, Founding member of the Knights of the Dark Ice and the Frozen Dark Samurai army