This is my first Teen Titan F.F. so please, read with a pinch of salt. I'm not very skilled with righting but I love it anyway. This isn't as long as a story as I usually wright but I didn't POUR heart and soul in this part because it was just for set-up. I want to improve my stories, so if you, the reader, have any constructive criticism, please share it with me.
Jump city. An ordinary, lively city with ordinary people. Once a crime ridden city, but thanks to the Teen Titans, all that changed. Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven. The Titans. Known by every citizen and criminal in Jump City. The Titans were the best thing to happen to the once small but now prosperous city. In the teams prime, they helped bring down the most powerful of foes. But nothing lasts forever.
After Jump City's crime rate dropped below 1%, the team was no longer needed. Also, at this point in time, the teen in Teen Titans no longer fit because everyone on the team were now adults. Even the two youngest and smallest, Beast Boy, 19, and Raven, 18 no longer looked like teens. In there younger years, Raven would grow only in muscle mature into a more feminine figure and, not knowing it, would stay at her height while Beast Boys' muscle mass would grow and his height too, now tower over her by 6 inches in the next year. Cyborg and Robin were both 22. Robin was now more muscular and Starfire, 20, would stay the same.
Then, one day, Robin called a team meeting. Unlike the usual meetings, Robin was sitting with the team on the couch. Everyone knew that something was up. Robin, looking down, suggested ending the team. No objections were made. The last call, which happened almost 3 months ago, was just a petty robbery. So, starting that day, the Teen Titans were no more. The city gave them a private ceremony, thanking them for there service. The T tower would be maintained in case if a new team would show up.
Robin became Nightwing and started free-lancing around Jump City. Cyborg went on the road to help those with lost limbs, saying how cybernetic parts can help them like they help him. Starfire went back to her home world to rule over her people, but staying in touch with Nightwing. Beast Boy became a spokesmen for Eco-friendly products, being green and having the superpower to change into animals really helped. Raven said she had business to attend to with her mother.
Now 3 years later, the city is still growing and prosperous. "Having the ability to change into animals and see from their perspective lets me feel… CUT! ...I'm way to hungry to do this right now..." A young green man yells as he sighs with frustration. A studio bell rings and crew rush to the set to reset it. "Alright, lets break for lunch!", a director yells with a megaphone. As the green man walks to his trailer, he sees his old best friend. "Hey Cyborg, how have you been?" the green man asks as he hugs Cyborg. "I've been doing great Beast Boy." Beast Boy laughs as he says,
"Its not Beast Boy anymore man. I go by my last name for public things, but my first for private things."
"Alright, but your still a grass stain… Garfield." Garfield laughs as his buddy makes fun of his first name. "Anyway tin can, wanna grab a bite? They just got down setting up lunch. They have sushi~~" The two walk towards the food table laughing.
"So, have you heard from the others?" Garfield asks Cyborg as he takes a bite out of his tofu burger. "Naw man. Robin, or 'Nightwing', is like a ghost now. Starfire has- well she's on another world so that's explanation enough. So anyway, what kinda ad you shooin' here?" Cyborg ask's as he inhales pieces of sushi. "What about Raven?", Garfield asks, ignoring Cyborgs question. Cyborg almost chokes.
"I forgot all about her Garfield. Iv only heard what you heard, and that was close to a year ago." Garfield sighs, "Man… I cant believe she left so quick. So didn't even say goodbye to me, and I thought me and her were getting so close."
After a quick talk, Cyborg goes back on the road and Garfield goes to finish the shoot. By the time Garfield finish's the shoot, it was near dark. As it turns out, the director had a very bad case of O.C.D. , forcing every line and prop to be P-E-R-F-E-C-T. Garfield walks into his nice apartment, wishing being an ad guy for eco-friendly junk paid more. He set his eco-friendly electric sucking P.O.S car keys on the counter. His apartment is a 2 bed and 1 bath, with a roomy living room that connects to the kitchen and dinning room. "Ugh… I hate my life.." Garfield complains to no one as he flops onto his couch and clicks on his TV. "What should I make...tofu? Na… I'm getting sick of that. I guess I wont eat anything then..." Garfield then grabs a beer from the fridge, (Garfield is 21 and yes, there are vegan friendly beers and wines) , starts drinking and flipping through channels "...I need a girlfriend… *sip* ...yep… I wonder how Raven is..." Garfield cant even think anymore, the beer relaxed his already exhausted body further and is having trouble staying awake. "Raven..." Garfield says with a sleepy sigh.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! "UHG! Five more minutes…." BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! "SHUT UP!" Garfield yells as he smashes a fist onto his alarm clock. "...I hope today is Saturday..." Garfield says as he sits up in his bed and reaches for his phone. "Sweet, it is. I don't have work today and tomorrow. I have the full weekend to my self. I'm going to sit back, and play some of my new games I got for my computer…. and Im talking to myself… I need a roommate bad..." Garfield then preforms his morning duty's, cleaning, making food, personal maintenance, etc. Garfield dresses in a white t-shit and worn blue jeans. "Time to boot up my baby," Garfield says as he pushes the power button on his $3,000 desktop computer. "Ok… lets check if any good games are out... What? If you have any console version of 'Brain Exploders 2: Return of the Ooze Bags' and it was produced before 2008, and you ship it to...you get a free, one-time use code, that will deposit $80 IN YOUR ONLINE WALLET?! I HAVE LIKE 3 BACK IN MY OLD ROOM IN THE TOWER!" Garfield bolts towards his apartment door, swiping is car keys on the way.
As Garfield approaches the front door of the tower, he is stopped by two guards. "Stop. You cant enter unless you are either superhero or a part of the maintenance crew." Garfield, without hesitation, pulls out his old I.D. that had his superhero info on it. One of the guards snatches the I.D. "Beast Boy.. Green... everything, height of… HA!… Weight… HAHA!"
"I wasn't THAT small!..." Garfield states as he grows frustrated. The guard reads the rest of the I.D. , and allows him to pass but stops at the door. One of the guards whispers to the other, "I only let him pass because I want to see what the Titans security system is like. I doubt that superhero wanna-be never even seen Beast Boy in person." Garfield jabs his thumb into the finger scanner and puts his eye up to the retinal scanner. Swish. The door slides open and Garfield leaves the two guards dumfounded.
"I missed this place," Garfield says as he walks down a darken hall towards his room, "Still looks the same… Ah. My old room." Swish. "AW GOD!" Garfield yells at the smell of his room. "The never cleaned it?" Then a bio hazard mask rolls into sight. "...I guess they TRIED… Man, how did I live in this place? There is black mold growing!? I'm just going to get my things and make like a tree and get out of here!" After a few minutes of searching, Garfield finds his old stash of rare games. "I knew these things would be worth keeping. And Raven said there are trash… well… these games do kind of suck." He picks up the box and leaves his room.
As Garfield walks down the hall, he stops at Raven's old room. "It can't hurt to go in..." As he enters, he notices that nearly all of Ravens' things are still there. Including her meditation mirror. "If I were Raven, I wouldn't leave this thing in the open, let alone leave it here." As he picks up the mirror, the handle burns his hand. "Gah! Did she place a barrier on it or something?"As he looks into the mirror, he can see a faint red tint to glass. "Something doesn't… look right." Garfield makes the mistake of focusing on the mirror and he is then drawn in.
"AHHHHHHHH!" SMACK! Garfield lands with a painful belly flop to hard rock and dirt. "Ow..." Garfield says with a face full of dirt as he stands up. He takes a look around, the sky is now a more bright red, floating off in the distance appears to be lava. The temperature has increased by 40 degrees at least. Instead of ravens being everywhere, its now just there skeletons. "Wow… Nevermore got a little… different." In the distance he can see eight iron clad doors. Within minutes, Garfield was able to walk to the doors. "Hmm...nine doors… ah, I know. Happy, Timid, Brave, Rude, Rage, Knowledge, Love, and Sloth. Raven must have locked up her major emotions. So that means shes a bigger buzz kill then before."
"Beast Boy?" A emotions voice came from the middle door. It sounded very desperate. He walks towards where the voice came, "Yep. Although I don't go by it anymore. So which emotion are you?" "I'm Raven." The voice responds.
"Yea, I know you are a Raven but not Raven Raven, so are you Happy? I like happy."
"No! Its me, RAVEN, the real one, Iv been locked in here for… I don't know how long. Just get me out of here!"
"Ok, but if your lying, your going right back in." Garfield then shape-shifts into a rhino and charges at the door, breaking it off its hinges. "Uhg… its been awhile since I did that." Garfield says as he streches. A blue Raven then steps out from behind the door, which also was a door leading into a personally jail world. "Thank You Beast Boy"
"Its not Beast Boy its just Garfield now, and how did you get in there?" Garfield asks, a little confused with the fact that the door that looks like it leads to no-where really has a some-where behind it. "One word: Rage"
"Rage locked you up? I thought you had her under control." Garfield asks with fear in his voice. Raven walks up to him, "First off, nothing is in complete control of anything. Second, my father has a powerful influence on corrupted souls and emotions. And Third… I forgot to check my emotions..." "So why aren't the other emotions begging for help?" Garfield ponders.
"We were all locked up for so long, I couldn't express any emotion if I wanted to, so it weaken them." Raven explains as Garfield hears moans coming from behind the doors. "Why did Rage lock up your emotions?" Raven looks towards the doors.
"You know where I draw my power right?" Raven asks. Garfield nods. "Well, my father strengthen Rage and told her to lock up my primary emotions, the ones that can't die. She did, and I was then vary weak power-wise and in a comma-like sleep. I was then able to focus my mind to travel to Nevermore and that's when Rage locked me up. Right now my body is being controlled by Rage, assisting my father, doing petty task's. Rage despises him and wishes nothing more then to destroy him, but my father is controlling her. I can break the bond but I need my main emotions here, including Rage." Garfield nods, "Raven, I can get the doors open but… how do we get Rage here?" Raven shrugs, "That part is something we need to think of when we get there. Just leave the magic to me. Now please. Open the doors."
The emotions were weak all around, but Happy, Brave, and Knowledge were the strongest, Garfield figured Raven was happy to be out, ready to fight Rage, and thinking up a plan to get Rage where they need her, but when it came to the last door, which housed Love, she was the strongest emotion compared to the rest. Garfield blushed when she began kissing him all over his face, but eventually peeled her off. "I'm not ever going to try to process that..." Garfield said to himself. As all the emtions gather, Timid, Happy, and Love form there own little group, whispering and laughing (blushing and hiding for Timid) and looking at Garfield. "Umm… Raven… what know?" Garfield says looking back and forth between Raven and the other three emotions. Raven looks at Garfield. "Don't worry about the rest. Give us..."
"An hour" Knowledge interrupts.
"Yes… Thank you Knowledge…" Raven says in a sarcastic tone. Garfield decides to walk towards the group of Raven's and ask them what's up. But before he can, he feels a hand on his back and a darker shade of Love's color walks in front of him. "Umm… What emotion are you? You look like Love but you are a darker shade?" Garfield asks as he removes the emotions hand. The emotion smirks as she sizes up him, "You look… delicious. My name is L-" Before the emotion can finish, Raven, with a deep red blush, covers the emotions mouth. "Shes no one! She just popped up, I don't know what emotion she is!" Raven says speedy as she drags the mysterious emotion away.
Garfield kills time by tic tak toe with Brave in the dirt. As it turns out, being brave is a bad thing sometimes. Brave kept making hasty moves to keep Garfield from winning, only to screw her self over in long run. By the time they stopped, it was 10-3, Garfield won. "Beast boy, everything is ready. All we need now is to get Rage here. We need to figure out how. We need to draw her back into Nevermore." With a bit of thinking, Garfield got an idea. "Happy and love. Please come here." Happy happily skipped over and Love sauntered over while she batted an eyelash towards Garfield. "Ok… So. This is my plan. Rage mostly hates nice emotions, such a Happy, and can't really hate Brave since there kind of the same. So, just like what happened the first time I went into your mind, we do it with Rage. So… Happy… tickle fight?..."
"YAY!" Happy jump onto Garfield and the fight began.
After an exhausting tickle fight, Garfield was on the ground, and Happy dancing around about. "Love, step forward." Garfield said as he sit's up. "Yes… Beasty…?" Love ask in a warm tone, adding a little erotic tension to 'Beasty'. To everyone's surprise, Garfield pulls down Love and kisses her. A passionate kiss that makes every one of Ravens' emotions gawk. The real Raven pulls up her hood to hide a deep red blush, "BEAST BOY!" Raven yells as she kicks his side. "My emotions are not for booty calls!"
"I don't know about you, but I am alw-" The mysterious dark purple emotions' mouth is covered by red energy before she complete the sentence. "You all sicken me…" A demonic voice rings throughout Nevermore. Everyone know where it came from. Rage. As the more brave emotions take a stand, the more timid ones retreat to the back of the group. Raven and Garfield take point. As the four red-eyed emotion floats down from the sky, her boats turn the stone around her glowing red. "I wasn't expecting to see you here, green one." Rage sneers as she takes a step forward.
"Beast Boy, distract Rage while we prepare the spell." Raven says as she rounds up her emotions. "Uhh… How?!" Garfield asks as he points to Rage.
"Find a way." Raven says irritated. Garfield begins to sweat. He takes a few hesitant steps towards Rage. "Hey… uhhh… Ra-Rage… What's a moth's life motto? Always look on the bright side… hehe" "You make me sick!" Rage yells as she charges Garfield.
"AH!" Garfield morphs into a bird and fly's away.
"Don't run, you will only die tired." Rage spits as she takes off after Garfield. Garfield then turns into a fly to evade Rages' sight. "You can't hide for long." Rage says as she gives an evil smile.
"Beast Boy! The spell is ready!" Raven yells from the ground. Rage hears this and turns towards Raven. "YOU!" Rage snarls at Raven and fly's towards her. CRASH! Rage impacts the ground and leaves a crater. "I locked you up, now I'm going to kill you." Raven then prepares to fight, but before she can get a strike, Rage smashes a fist into her jaw. "I don't want to use my powers. I want to feel your bones break and feel the warmth of your blood on my hands. Using powers would only make things less personal." As Raven struggles to get up, Rage kicks her side, causing sickening crunches and cracks. "GAH!" Raven cry's out in pain and roles over. Rage steps over to Raven and puts a foot on her throat. "Your weak. All of you." Rage adds pressure to Ravens throat. "Including Beast Boy. He's not ever here to protect his friend." Rage is positioning her foot to crush Ravens wind pipe. Before she can finish off Raven, a large green hand grabs Rages' shoulder and throws her. Rage jumps to her feet. "Who dare's to oppose..." A giant green beast cuts her off as it walks towards her, teeth bared and hands clenched into fists. "Who are you?" Rage demands. The beast only growls in response. "No matter, you will die as well!" Rage yells as she fly's towards the beast, charging her arm to punch. Before she can strike, the beast slaps Rage out of the air, causing Rage to tumble and role as she hits the ground.
"Rage is down! We need to perform the spell!" Raven says as she rushes over to Rage. The green beast stays idle, away from Rage and the other emotions. As the other emotions rush over, they go into the lotus position and form a circle around Rage. As every emotion and Raven is in position, Raven starts to chant, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos..." Soon, the other emotions join in.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos..." Rage starts to recover from the heavy strike. As she stands, she takes a look around to assess the situation. "I will not give up my chance to enter and destroy this world!" Rage yells in Trigons' voice. Rage fly's towards Raven and charges up a punch. Rage then throws the punch at Raven but hits a magical wall, which sends Rage flying back. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" Just like that, Rage collapses. The beast cautiously walks over to emotions. Timid is frightened and hides behind Brave. It begins to sniff the unconscious Rage. The beast turns into Garfield, "We will need to talk about that later, but for right now, Beast Boy, everything is ok. I can take control of my body."
"Ok… but I thought there would be… I don't know, a bigger struggle with Rage."
"Beast Boy… magic is not always a thing you can see. When it is visible, its usually due to lack of control and/or large amount of magic flow. The spell we performed on Rage was not powerful at all. All it did was make a barrier around her, cutting off all mental signals between my father and Rage." "Oh… Also Raven, its not Beast Boy. Its Garfield."
"Beas- Garfield, when I get control over my body, I don't know where I'll be exactly, so make sure to stick around the tower for a few hours. I will make my way there." Raven say's as she repairs to leave Nevermore. "Ok… but wait. Why do you want me there when you get back?" Garfield asked. Raven was already gone. "Well, I guess I'll be going too." Garfield say's as he begins to stretch.
"Aww… Please don't go! Not yet!" Love pleads.
"I'm sorry but I have to go." Garfield responds.
"Well fine." Love pouts.
"Bye bye Gar." Happy waves.
"Farewell." Knowledge waves.
"B-bye." Timid whispers.
When Garfield returns, the mirror is not longer hot and does not have a red tint to it. "Raven said to wait her for a few hours. I wonder if my old game station is here…" Garfield walks off the main room. "Sweet. It's still here." Garfield opens the game station. "Hey, I haven't seen this game in a long while." He hits the power button and sits on the couch with the controller. What seems like a few minutes playing was really a few hours. Swish. Raven then walks in. "Wow. Such a nostalgic feeling." Raven monotones as she walks in. "Yea, just missing the others." Garfield say's as he pauses his game.
"What have you heard about the others?" Raven asks.
"Well. Cyborg is still doing what he's been doing but is back in town for a bit. Robin is… no one knows where he is. Star is still back home." Garfield explains then yawns as he lays back on the couch. Raven walks over to the couch and sits a foot away from him. "What have you been doing, Garfield?" Raven asks looking straight ahead. "Well, I've been doing TV ads here and there." Raven shoots a surprised look at Garfield. "So you have a real job? I thought you would just make money doing video game competitions." Raven says as she looks ahead again.
"Raven. We all have to grow up sometime… But we don't have to completely grow up." Garfield grabs the game controller and starts playing. He could swear he heard a giggle from Raven, but not sure if was just the girl on the game laughing. "Do you have an apartment, Garfield?" Garfield doesn't look away from the game, "Yea, why?"
"I need a place to stay." Raven says nonchalantly. Garfield stops playing and looks over at Raven. "Uhh… You mean like, with me?" Garfield asks. Raven nods. "Um… Ok I guess."
"I'll pack my things." Raven says as she gets up and walks away.
I'm sorry for any sort of mistake(s) I made with spelling, grammar, etc. I try my best to fix those. Like I said up top, this was just to set things up. I hope it wasn't too painful to read. Please, I would really love to better myself, so any pointers or anything helpful I'd love.