I wanted to write something new and I decided for Teen Titans. I loved and still love this show and I have a few ideas. In my story, Raven is 19, Beast-Boy is 20, Starfire is 20, Robin/Nightwing is 21 and Cyborg 23. So enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I own nothing cause if I have had the show wouldn't have been canceled.
Raven sighed. She was in her room, meditating.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." She repeated over and over again. She had been doing this for more than a hour. She opened her eyes and looked to her clock. It showed 7 a.m. . Sighing again, the empath went to her closet and took some clothes. She walked towards the bathroom for a quick shower and got dressed.
Raven was wearing a black tank top, white jeans and black boots. She wanted to wear something more... appropiate for this day than her usually clothes. It's been four years since they had defeated her father, Trigon. She had stopped being afraid of her birthdays since then even though she still felt a bit uneasy. Well, it was probably because her friends threw her a surprise party every year since then and they made her go into the living room using different scenaries. Like the one from the first year had been. She smiled remembering how scared she had been.
(Flasback)
Raven was in her room, meditating. She was floating over her bed when she heard someone knocking at her door.
"What?" She asked harshly.
"Oooo, friend Raven..." said in a sad voice the alien girl. "I am afraid that I have some bad news to tell you."
Raven's eyes opened. "How bad?" She asked, worried.
"Our friends... Both Beast-Boy and Cyborg are hurt and Robin..."
"Star? What happened to him?"
"He... he is dead." Answered Starfire, her voice shaking.
"What?" Asked Raven and fell on her bed. She got up from her bed and went to Starfire, not bothering to open the door but using a portal.
The red-haired alien seemed surprised to see that. There was tears in her eyes and down her cheeks. "Robing died." She repeated.
"How? How... has that happened?" Asked the Raven, her voice also shaking.
"The... The boys went to town earlier to... to stop HIVE from robbing the Bank. They... They managed to hurt our... our friends."
Raven nodded and bit her lower lip. "Let's see what I can do."
Starfire nodded and the girls went to the living room. What she saw, however, managed to surprise Raven. The boys were alright and the living room was decorated. On the table there was a chocolate cake. Raven's eyes grew wide.
"What... What does it mean?" She asked.
"Happy birthday, friend Raven!" Squealed Starfire.
"You... You lied to me!" Said the empath, looking at her alien friend.
"Well... It did work, didn't it?"
"Yeah. Thank you so much!"
(End of flashback)
After that they had stopped using 'dying' excuses but they had used roads of candles in every year. It had been Starfire's idea but they had promised they would use something else this year and Raven was curious what it would be.
Raven opened the door, expecting to find flowers or gifts or her friends at her door. Instead she found a letter on the floor. It was pink and had a black raven on it. Raven took theletter and opened it.
'The girl who can literally light a room with her presence is invited into the living room.' She read. The purplette smiled softly. She had a hunch about who could have written that letter. Her green friend was the only one able to do such an invitation. It was so... Beast-Boy. Raven did appreciate his invitation.
She went to the living room where she find her friends and the birthday decorations.
"Happy birthday!" Yelled the Titans.
Raven gave them a small and sincere smile. "Thank you!" She answered.
Starfire approached her. "I wish you a hery happy anniversary for your nineteenth day of birth, friend Raven." She wished and gave Raven a bone-breaking embrace.
"Star... I... I can't breath..." said Raven after a few seconds.
"Oh. I apologize." Said Starfire and let Raven go.
She took a deep breath and smiled at her alien friend. "It's okay. But next time be more... careful. Okay, Star?"
She nodded and smiled brightly. "This is your birthday present from me."
"Thanks." Answered Raven and took the gift from Starfire.
The others gave her the presents. When it was Beast-Boy's turn Raven giggled silently at his reaction.
"What is it?" Asked the green boy.
"No-nothing."
He gave her the present. "You know, I have never seen you in this kind of clothes."
"Trying new things." She answered and took the guft from him.
"Then you should try a date with me too." Said a familiar voice that made Raven smile.
"Aqualad?" She asked and turned around to see her friend. "What... What are you doing here?"
"I came to give you this." He answered and gave her a small box.
She opened it and found a beautiful raven-shaped necklace. "Wow... It is beautiful." Said Raven. She turned around and Aqualad put it around her beck.
"I am glad you like it. Now, about our date..."
Raven blushed and turned to face him. One of the lights flickered from her powers. "You have been serious? You want to go to a date with me?"
"If you want too. I won't force you."
Raven smiled brightly and her face become even more red. "Yeah, sure."
"Great! How about this evening?"
"No problem. I will be looking forward."
Aqualad smiled and gave her a quick peck on her cheek. "Happy birthday, Raven." He said and turned towards the door. "See ya later!"
"Bye!" Said Raven, her cheeks coming back to their usual color. She sighed and went to her room, leaving some startled Titans and a jealous Beat-Boy.
"What happened?" Asked Robin, now known as Nightwing.
Starfire approached him and took his hand in her own. She rested her head on his shoulder and smiled. "I believe that friend Raven will have her first date."
Nightwing smiled at his girlfriend. "It was a metaphorical question, Star."
"Oh..." was everything she said.
Beast-Boy shook his head. "Raven? To a date? With Aqualad?" He asked.
His half-robot friend put his hand on his shoulder. "Yeah. It is strange for me too but we have to be realistic. Raven starts being interested in boys. And you do remember how she was when we met Aqualad, don't you?"
Oh, he remembered well. He had been so jealous that Raven was being friendly towards Aqualad. "Yeah, I do remember."
"Anyway, do you want to play some video games, BB?"
"Nah, I am not in the mood for games. Sorry, Cy. Maybe later." Responded the green Titan and left to his room.
Cyborg looked after his best friend and shook his head. "What is wrong with him?" He muttered before going to his own room.
(In Beast-Boy's room)
"Man, what's wrong with me? Why do I keep having yhis sensation? Why... Why am I being jealous?" Beast-Boy asked out loud. His eyes grew wide with realisation. "No way! There is no way in which I... in which I could be... in love with... No! Or maybe I am? Ugh! Why is so hard to figure out?" He almost yelled. "I suppose I am but... How would Raven react if she finds out? She would probably hate me forever."
(In Raven's room)
Beast-Boy wasn't the only one with questions. Raven also had some question to ask herself.
"Why have I accepted? I don't even like him in that way. But more important: why would he invite me to a date? Why? Why? Why? There are plenty of girls who would die to go out with Aqualad so why has he chose me?" She asked out loud. "It is my first date so... But why I don't feel it's... okay?"
Shaking her head, Raven went to her closet to see what she could wear. She found a purple, knee-lenght dress which Starfire had made her buy it when they had gone to the Mall together a few months ago but the purplette had never wore it. The dress was pretty but she decided against it.
"No! I don't want him to see me wearing it!" She said and searched something else.
She chosed a black tank top with a skull on it, a pretty, black, knee-lenght skirt and black boots.
"Hmmm... Why not?" She asked and placed the clothes on her bed.
(Later that evening)
Raven got out from the tower. She looked around and saw a siluette.
"Aqualad?"
"No. Sorry." Said a voice with whom she was familiar.
She saw Beast-Boy approaching her. "Beast-Boy? What are you doing here?"
"I enjoy watching the sunset. It gives me... happiness."
Raven smiled. "I enjoy watching the sunrise. It makes me feel good and... it is very peaceful. You cannot like the sunset without liking the sunrise."
"Well, I guess I will try." He said and gave her a small smile.
Raven couldn't help but admire his maturity. Beast-Boy not that had only grewed, but he had maturised a lot. He was now taller that her, she reached his chin, and he behaved as any 20-years-old boy should behave. She had observed his behaviour changing with every passing day. He wasn't the silly, pranky and annoying teenager he had been. Raven couldn't help but feel something fluttering inside her chest and stomach every time she layd her eyes upon him. The changelling had also a plenty of girls that were drooling after him everytime they saw him. He was very muscular and Raven could only admire him into the dying light.
"-ven? Raven?"
"Huh? Did you say something, Beast-Boy?"
"Yeah, I did. I was saying that Aqualad is here."
"Oh." She said and tirned around in time to see Aqualad approaching them.
"Hey, Rave!"
"Hello!"
"Wow, you look great!"
"Thank you!" She answered and her cheeks became pink.
Aqualad was in his normal attire and that fact made Raven wonder if he had really wanted to go out with her.
"Ready to go, Rave?" He asked and lifted his hand.
"Yeah. Let's go." She answered and took his hand. "Bye, Beast-Boy! See ya later!"
"Bye, Raven! Have fun!"
(Later)
The date wasn't as good as Raven had expected from Aqualad. They had seen a movie, which Raven didn't consider to good, and Aqualad took her to the tower.
"Thank you!" Muttered Raven before entering.
"Maybe we do this again?" Asked Aqualad.
Raven looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Less likely. Sorry but I... I refuse. Bye!" She said and closed the door.
"Um... Bye!" Said Aqualad and left. "Eh, there are plenty of girls prettiest than she is."
"What did you say?" Asked someone.
Aqualad looked around him and saw Beast-Boy. "What are you doing here, Beast-Boy?"
"I was walking. Now, plenty of girls prettiest than Raven? Are you kidding me? Raven is the prettiest, no! She is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. You have to be blind not to see that!"
"Wow, calm down!"
"No! I can't believe that she went out with a jerk like you! Raven deserves someone better than you are!"
"Ha! Do you think it's you, don't you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You think that she will choose you. She only talks to you because she has known you for so long but she doesn't even like you."
Beast-Boy felt himself growing angry. "You really don't undestand."
"What? That you have no chance to her? Well, I kind of understood that. You are the one who didn't."
Oh, Beast-Boy would have turned into a T-Rex so easy and beat the crap out of Aqualad but he stopped himself from doing that. What would Raven think about him then? He chosed to turn around and enter the tower.
Aqualad left and tried not to smile at his plan. He shook his head. Oh, the boy was so sensible towards his emphat friend. He had no idea how Raven hadn't observed the love that Beast-Boy had for her when evertbody else had seen it.
Raven had heard everything. She couldn't believe what Beast-Boy had said about her. She teleproted herself to her room before the green Titan would have entered.
"Beautiful?" She asked out loud once she was in her room. "He thinks that I am beautiful? No, it can't be, can it? Is he... No! I doubt it. As Aqualad said, there are plenty of pretty girls in this world. And I am not that pretty."
Shaking her head, Raven got changed into her usual clother and started opening her gifts. The first was the one from Starfire. It was one of the traditional objects from her planet that Raven won't understand. Never. The next one was from Cyborg. He had given her the sunglasses that she once had told him she wanted. Raven smiled and took the present from Nightwing. He had offered her a nice golden bracelet which she really appreciated. But the one she really wanted to open was the one from Beast-Boy. She opened it and her eyes grew wide. He had given her a book she wanted so much. He had found out a few months ago when they had met into the bookstore.
(Flashback)
Raven was looking through more books. She found nothing interesting.
"Hey, Rae! What are you doing?" Asked Beast-Boy, hoping she won't slap him for using 'Rae'.
"Just looking for some books. You?"
"Looking for comics. I advice you to let your long books a while and try some comics."
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "No, thanks. One of us prefere not to loose the purpose of reading something interesting for..."
"Okay, okay. Just say 'no' next time, okay?"
Raven rolled her eyes. "You are so..." Yet she couldn't continue her phrase because her eyes laud on a book behind Beast-Boy. She went towards it and was ready to buy it when her cominucator beeped.
"No! Why no?" She complained and put the book down.
"Don't worry, Rae. You will buy it some day." Tried Beast-Boy to comfort her as the got out from the store.
She turned her head to face him. She had her four, red demonic eyes. "Call me like that again and you will be in trouble!"
Beast-Boy gulped and nodded, his arms raised in deffence.
(End of flashback)
Raven smiled at the memory. She got up from her bed and went to Beast-Boy's room. She knocked.
"Yeah?" Asked the green boy.
"Beast-Boy, it's Raven. May I come in?"
"Yeah, sure." He answered.
Raven opened the door and entered only to see Beast-Boy on his bed, reading a comic.
"I came to... thank you for my present."
"Well... um... You are welcome." He said and sat up, putting the magazine on his bed. "Um... Is this all?"
Raven wanted to ask him if he had meant what he had said, about her being beautiful but she resisted this urge. "Yeah. Good night, Garfield." She wished and got out.
Beast-Boy looked after her. "Good night, Rae." He said and sighed. He liked it when she called him 'Garfield'. His real name sounded so good said by her.
Shaking his head, Beast-Boy lied down on his bed and closed his eyes. In a few minutes he was already asleep, dreaming about a purplette.
Entering her room, Raven sighed. "What is wrong with me?" She asked herself. She took her mirror and entered her own mind, wanting to know what happened to her feelings.
Raven entered into her own mind and found herself fate-to-face with her happy side. Only that Happiness wasn't alone.
"Happiness, what's happening to you?" Asked Raven.
"Oh, Raven! I am so happy!"
"You are always happy." Stated Knowledge.
"Why?" Insisted Raven. "Why can't you let me focus?"
"Well, I was so happy when Beast-Boy said that words about us... about you."
Raven sighed. "This is why you almost made me cry out in happiness?"
"Yup!"
Raven sighed again. "Why? Alas, jus tell me why."
Knowledge grabbed her hand and smiled at her. "Come with me."
"Why and where?" Asked Raven.
"Just... trust me. I know what your problem is and I do know how you will be able to resolve it."
Raven nodded and went after the yellow-cloaked emotion. They soom arrived into a place Raven knew well but she hadn't gone too frequently there. She saw a few of her Emoticlones together, talking. There was Love, Rage and Timid.
"What? What are we doing here?"
Knowledge smiled. "This is the cause of your chaotic feelings."
"My Love, Rage and Timid sides?"
"The first one is the most."
Raven's eyes grew wide. She approached her feelings and saw Love smiling, Rage frowing and Timid draping her hood over her head. "Hi!" She greeted her Emoticlones.
"Raven... It is good to see you here. I have something to tell you." Said Love.
Raven closed her eyes. "Love... I know now. I felt it before but... now it is more powerful than then... too powerful."
"I... Do you... do you think he feels the same way... for us as we do for him?" Asked Timid.
"I don't know." Answered Raven, opening her eyes.
Rage growled. "You have heard what he has said about her, Timid. He sure does."
"But... But what if... what if he doesn't? What are we going to do then?"
Raven sighed. "I don't know. And I can't just go and ask him. I have to be more... suptle."
The Emoticlones nodded. Love smiled at Raven. "You should return to your world."
Raven also nodded and returned in her room. She sighed and fell asleep thinking about a certain green boy.
(Next day)
Raven was in the kitchen. She had just finished making her herbal tea when Starfire came to her.
"Friend Raven?" She said.
Raven took a sip from her tea. "What is it, Star?"
"I... I have a question to ask you."
"Um... Sure. Ask me."
The red-haired alien grabbed Raven's arms and got the emphat to her room.
"Star? What are we doing here?"
"It is part of the 'girl talk' to be in a more private place, isn't it?"
"Yeah. So, what was your question?"
"Well, I wanted to know what is between you and frien Beast-Boy."
Raven's eyes grew wide and she almost drawned with her tea. She coughed and put the cup of tea on a table. "Why would you ask that?"
"Well, I heard Beast-Boy saying to Aqualad that you are the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. And then I saw you entering Beast-Boy's room."
Raven's cheeks became red and she draped her hood over her head. "Star, there is nothing between us. We are just... friends."
"But why..."
"I don't know what happened with... Beast-Boy and Aqualad." Lied Raven. "And... I entered Beast-Boy's room only to thank him for the present he gave me. It was something that I wished to have and he knew it."
Starfire nodded. "I see."
Raven let out a breath she didn't knew she was holding. "So, Star, how are the things between you and um... Nightwing?"
Starfire smiled brightly. "Everything is fine, Raven. He is very sweet and caring and he opens up to me every passing day."
Raven also smiled, happy that she had changed the subject.
The girls sat in Starfire's room until 12 p.m. when they had an attack from Dr. Light.
Dr. Light was into the Mall, attacking people with his beams of light. When he saw the Titans he grinned. "Time to enlighten the mood!" He joked.
Nightwing narrowed his eyes. "Titans, go!" He said and they proceed to stop the villain.
It was a pretty quick fight. Dr. Light shot beams of light at the heroes as they tried to avoid them. Raven tried, in vain, to use her black energy against his white one. For some unknown reason, he did manage to stop every attack from her. Until he did something than enraged the half-demon girl.
Dr. Light managed to hurt Beast-Boy. Raven's eyes grew wide seeing the boy she had a crush on flyint through a window. Her inner Rage came to surface. She had four red, full of hate eyes. Her powers unleashed and she caught Dr. Light into her black energy.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She chanted and threw the villain into a nearly building. She lifted a car and threw it into his form.
Her friends' eyes grew wide. Robin helped Beast-Boy on his feet and they watched teriffied how Raven managed to beat the crap out of Dr. Light.
When she decided that he had had enough, Raven lifted the villain with her powers and gave him to the autorrities.
"Th-thank you." Said the police officer. He put Dr. Light into his car and left.
Some reporters approached the Titans as Raven finished healing Beast-Boy's wounds.
"Thanks, Raven, but there was no need for you to do that."
Raven have him one of her rare yet sincere smiles. "I know. But I wanted to do it."
"Raven?" Asked a reporter. "How did you manage to defeat Dr. Light?"
Raven arched an eyebrow. "Meaning?"
"Well, your magic wasn't working but then it came out as black, evil energy. How is possible for a 'hero' to have so much dark power and a villain to use..."
Nightwing cut him off. "Raven is too tired to respond your questions. Leave her alone!" He ordered.
The reporters complied, grumbling.
"Thanks." Said Raven. She turned into a raven and flied to the Tower.
"What was that?" Asked a startled Beast-Boy.
The first chapter is done. What do you think? Should I continue or stop writing Teen Titans fics? Comments and criticisms are welcomed but no flames please. Tell me what you think. Read and review please.