Hey guys! So I have not really made a new story on here in a while and I have still be writing my old one that if I am being honest is sort of dead to me. I am on winter break right now and I have so much I would love to be writing but no real reason to write, then I remembered I don't need one. So, here it goes. This is sort of a new thing for me, I am mixing two things that I think would make a good story if portrayed the correct way, so I am going to try my best to accomplish that. Also, I would just like to put the disclaimer out there that my English ,after about almost nine years of speaking it, still isn't the best and I would appreciate it if you guys would give me some pointers on how to improve my story. Please give it a chance.
[Raven's POV]
So I go to a school of assholes. I noticed that for the hundredth time this year, while watching a cheerleader get a tongue shoved down her throat by a football star. Great just what I need to see at Seven frickin' a.m., this is High school though. I guess it isn't supposed to be glamorous. I cringed as I walked by the couple. Their lust for each other literally radiating off of them. Can they not get a room? I don't even understand why we need to go to school, this is like setting us up to get out secret Identities stolen or figured out.
"Rachel! Oh my gosh so you will not believe the weekended I had." I heard Laurel squealed, she was probably my only and best friend that I had here.
"Let me guess you got super drunk at a guys party and magically ended up back at home safe and sound." I replied sarcastically. She tilted her head to the side and laughed slightly.
"Oh my god you were totally there weren't you?" She asked, I nodded
"Yes because, while I am not saving the world I am out saving you from waking up in some ugly random guys bed." I said with a hint of disgust in my voice. We are supposed to be working on her drinking problem. She just goes out to random parties and gets wasted. So not cute. She smiled and looked down at her phone, she could be such a ditz sometimes I swear. She wasn't stupid though, no matter what people say. This is just how she copes. She goes out and drinks. I try to help best I can but, I am not always available.
You see I am on a team. I don't mean the cheer team either, I mean I am on a team of Super heroes. My name is Raven a super badass half demon half human hero, but to everyone else I am Rachel Roth the normal quiet and sarcastic human. When I am being me, I have Purple hair and eyes, both of which I got from my mother along with the rest of my human traits. My not so human traits are greyish skin and well the Gem of Scath in the middle of my forehead. All of which is covered up with a glamour to make me look normal when I come to school or when I go out. Just to keep us on the down low. That's Robin's excuse anyway.
"Well thank you for the save once again." She replied after a little bit of silence. "Ew why do couple have to do that on the lockers. Can't they find a nice science lab desk to screw on."
I snickered
"I don't know I don't think it would be quite has entertaining to them unless the whole room was watching them basically strip each other." I added she laughed with me as we walked down the hall to our own lockers.
"So do you and the...others, ever talk during school or?" She asked as I opened my locker and exchanged my backpack for some text books and my notebook, along with my pencil carrier.
"Okay, One you do not have to refer to them as the 'Others' and Second, yes we do but we try to keep it on the DL so that no one catches. Although in this school we could all come out as the Titans right in front of them and they still wouldn't understand." I answered. Laurel let out a snort. Laurel was pretty. She had long blonde hair that was wavy but not too bad. Bright green eyes that seriously popped and was tall and skinny. I was short and stubby standing next to her.
"Derick! You always do this, why can't you just talk to me about it?!"I heard some girl shout as she paced quickly after some guy. He didn't look like he wanted to talk. I see them arguing a lot. It's one of those couples you don't know but you know everything happening in that relationship because the fights are so loud.
"I wonder what he did this time?" Laurel mocked I shook my head and we headed to class moments before the bell rang.
The team was known as the Teen Titans, we had five members: Robin the leader, Cyborg the tech and muscle, Starfire the pretty one who was also the super bad ass, Beastboy the shapeshifter who was also a kid at heart and mind I swear, and then there is me I am the "weird one" I play with magic and spells. I rely on balance and meditation to keep my powers under control. We make a pretty good team.
During school we have to act like these ordinary kids. It's after school that our lives get interesting. When we go home to this huge giant T made from a Friggin' spaceship. So yeah not sure how that goes under the list of being " On the Down Low". I guess though. Usually when bad guys attempt to rob banks, steal cars, Kidnap people, hostages, and well mass murder. That is where we come in. We try to save the day best as possible and never really had any major setbacks. We are each very different.
"What's for dinner Cyborg?" Beastboy asked as soon as we walked into the front door.
"It's 4:00" Robin said it was followed by a high pitch chuckle coming from the green knucklehead.
"We should all try the new Tofu burrito" Beastboy exclaimed all he received were groans and head shakes from his fellow Titans. Beastboy is a Vegan, because of the very fact that he can turn into any animal on the planet. So he finds it really awkward to eat them. He tries to push us to eat it every once in a while.
[Red X's POV]
Great now thanks to Kayla's freak out today I need to do another job. Does she not understand that credit card is for emergencies only? Not for when she wants to get her nails done. This isn't some game, but she claims she won't know that until I open up to her about everything I have to do on this job. That sometimes not everyone makes it out okay. Sometimes I come back a little beat up. Not that she would understand anyway, she thinks that if I can change my name to go to school I can work, not how the system works I am afraid though. They would do a backround check and see that I am supposed to be dead, not really something your employers want.
I understand she wants to be let in on everything in my life but it isn't always possible. Kayla knows what I do, its a miracle that she is okay with it, but I can't tell her everything. She needs to get that. Now I am walking to my laptop trying to plan my next job. What can I do that will have a low risk at getting caught. It also needed to get me enough money to pay rent and replace the money Kayla spent. The mixture of these two things is hard to come by. If they have a lot of money the more guarded they are. Maybe I just need one that I can get out quickly after I get the money. I need something that I can survive means not drawing any attention from the Titans.
It was a cool night, the sky was covered in grey clouds and the city was lit up. It was a beautiful view from the roof I was on. The city was always lit up at night. I could still feel the cold through my suit. The only thing warm was my face that was covered by my Red X mask. I looked at my forearm at a dim screen that appeared showing me how much Xenothium the suit had left in it. had a full tank, should be enough to get the job done. I thought to myself this should be no problem just avoid the Titans. They are the real problem, the thorn I have stuck in my side. I could kill them. It wouldn't be that hard, all I would have to do is sneak into their giant fucking T and murder them all in their sleep.
I wouldn't do that though, I am not a killer. Thief? Okay I am that, but I don't kill people. Which is part of the reason that they are still a problem to me.
"It's time" I said out loud as my watch read 9:00 I jumped from the roof I was at and landed on the next, I continued to jump from roof to roof until I landed on the Bank. This one wasn't too heavily guarded but, still gave me a good about of money. I like it. I had good chances, now I just got to make sure I get in and out. I went ahead with my plan, found the air vents on the top and climbed in being sure to stay quiet. I looked through the vent that led right into the hallway of the room I needed. No one seemed to be there. I wasn't about to make that mistake though. I pulled the vent up and dropped a smoke bomb into the hallway, this released a sleeping gas, anyone inside the whole bank who breaths it in will be put to sleep. Good thing my mask vents the air before I breath it in too. I waited a good couple seconds until I heard the coughing and the bodies dropping.
Then I slipped through the vent area and down into the hallway. Dammit it wasn't an electronic door, this means I am going to have to just blow through it. I will have about two minutes to get the money and get out before the police get here, but the Titans might take a little less time to get here unless they are driving. Let me just go with thirty seconds. I put a giant X on the vault door and awaited a couple seconds.
[3rd person POV of Titans]
The alarm sounded throughout the Tower, a map came up on the screen showing the bank a couple minutes away from them. The Titans looked at the screen with urgency.
"We don't have time to waste, Titans Go!" The leader Robin said and with that the Titans were off each one getting there in their own way. The young heroes hurried over to the scene. They arrived to see the Police cars out front. Robin sent Raven to talk to the Captain and Beastboy to fly over and do a perimeter search. Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg went inside to look at the scene. Security guards lay on the floor, their chests slowly raising and falling. A couple seconds later they were joined by the young Empath.
"Officer said a gas was leaked to put the guards asleep and then the door was blown open, that's what triggered the alarm, when they got here whoever did it was already gone." She said her voice raspy and monotone.
"I think I have a slight idea on who it was." Cyborg said looking at the door. There were still a coupe of pieces of the door there, everything else was inside the vault.
"Red X?" Robin asked picking up an empty smoke bomb which was covered in little X's. Cyborg nodded. Robin's face turned an angry shade of red and he clenched his fist.
"How much money did he get away with?" Raven asked after a silence you heard the number 1,000 muttered underneath Robins breath as he cursed to himself.
"No one suspicious in around here." Beastboy added as he turned back into a person. He got away again, and this time they didn't even get to fight him. They didn't have a chance to get the money left.