Wow, new fic already huh? Well, lets get startedthen…
This is a RobxRae, so don't flame the pairing! I will try and make this an interesting fic!
Summary: Raven falls in love with Robin when she strikes up a deal with an evil witch who can let Raven let out her emotions freely safely in return for her voice for a week. If Robin returns Raven's love and kisses her before the week is over, Raven gets her voice back AND be able to let out her emotions safely for the rest of her life. However, if Robin doesn't kiss Raven then she will lose the control of her emotion, not get her voice back and become the slave of the witch until the day she dies. There is no escape after being enslaved by the witch.
Disclaimer: Don't own the Teen Titans but I own the imagination for the story… :)
Dedication:DarkGirlRavenGrayson14 – she rocks! Read all her fics!
- Oh and a few lines in it are taken from the song Poison, by Alice Cooper. His song is really cool!
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Voice Of Emotion
Chapter 1 – The Deal
Sunday
The bright sun broke through the clouds over Jump City's Sunday morning. Everyone in the city was either having a lie in, having breakfast or getting ready to go to church. In Titans Tower, the teenagers were behaving as they normally do everyday. Cyborg and Beastboy in the kitchen, Starfire choosing what to wear, Raven meditating and Robin was in the training room.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos…" Raven chanted within the comforts of her room. Feeling energy and calmness pulse through her, she decided to get some herbal tea and some breakfast.
"Bacon!" Cyborg shouted.
"Tofu!" Beastboy yelled.
"Bacon and sausages!" insisted Cyborg, still raising his voice.
"Tofu and… tofu!"
"Man, you can't have tofu and tofu!"
"Yeah you can dude!"
"Will you both just SHUT THE HELL UP! Your giving me a headache!" Raven interrupted the argument as she grabbed her tea and began to butter her toast. Just then, Robin and Starfire walked, discussing the importance of a cell phone. Starfire had seen them in a shop at the mall and suggested the titans should each have one but Robin said how they need to be topped up every so often and their communicators are much cheaper and better than a cell phone.
"You see, friend Robin, they allow us to take the pictures aswell as making calls, playing games, recording the videos and going on the net of inter (internet)." Starfire explained.
"Yes I know, but villains could easily find out information about us if he got our mobile numbers" Robin commented then added, "Besides, our communicators are much more high-tech."
Raven glanced up and saw Starfire grinning at Robin as she tried to inch closer to him. Anger and jealousy immediately took control of Raven, causing the mug in her hands to break and smash to the floor, loudly.
Everyone paused and looked over to Raven who began to clear away the mess, despite the fact that she burned her hand with hot tea. She winced under the pain and immediately grabbed her toast and left for the roof after the mess was cleared. Robin rushed after her. Starfire and the two boys stared after them, then shrugged and began arguing over the breakfast again.
On the roof, Robin found Raven eating the last bit of her toast while looking out of the ocean. He came up to stand next to her so that maybe they could talk about why she had lost control of emotions so suddenly.
He opened his mouth to say something when he noticed dry tear marks on her face. Raven realised he was looking at her so she pulled her hood up and said to him,
"Stop staring at me. What is there to look at? I'm not as pretty as all those other girls."
"You are pretty Rae… don't think like that. Why were you crying? And why did your cup break?" Robin asked her.
"I wasn't crying," Raven replied stubbornly, "I lost control of my emotions. That's why the mug broke."
"But why did you lose control of your emotions?"
"I… I don't wanna talk about it."
"Too bad I want to" Robin said with his cocky grin. Oh, how she hated it when he did that! It made her feel more attracted to him… woah! She couldn't let something else blow up or break.
"Robin… well the thing is –"
The door hissed open. Cyborg stood there and called to Robin,
"Yo Rob, your eggs and bacon are ready!"
"I'm coming!" Robin replied before hurrying back down to the kitchen, looking forward to eating his delicious breakfast.
This left Raven alone on the roof with her thoughts… she decided to go for a walk around town. She knew that she needed to calm down and think without any interruptions from the other titans.
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"Why can't I show emotions without causing damage? Ugh! God it's so annoying!" Raven muttered as she passed an alleyway near the Jump City library.
"You can with my help, deary" a voice said from within the alleyway in the darkness. Raven stopped and began to step towards the voice. An old beggar woman appeared in front of her and smiled at the teenage girl.
The old woman was wearing a dark green dress that went below her ankles, with a brown shawl draped around her shoulders. On her feet she wore worn out sandals with which her yellow toenails poked out of. She had brown eyes and wrinkly skin with quite a big nose. She had a few warts on her face and was missing a few teeth.
"Who – who are you?" Raven asked nervously. The woman was kind of freaky. Especially now that she was stretching her thin long fingers towards Raven's cloak. Raven struggled but the woman told her,
"I have the power to let you feel your emotions freely, child."
"I'm not a child. I'm 16!" Raven said to the woman. Then thought and said, "You can really… do that? Let me feel my emotions freely, I mean."
"Yes. But you will have to come with me for a moment, as to not attract attention."
"Okay." Raven sighed.
The two females moved further down the alleyway, so it was nearly pitch black.
"Alright, for this to work, I will need your voice. You will have a week to let out your emotions safely. In that week, if you win the heart of someone special to you and they kiss you, you will be able to let out your emotions freely and retrieve your voice. However," - Raven knew there would be a 'but' or 'however' in this great miracle - "If you do not get a kiss from that someone, you will become my slave, lose control of your emotions and never have your voice back again. Now I just want you to say this and then your voice will be mine and you'll be able to have emotions freely!" The old woman explained.
Raven stood there in shock. How would she get Robin to kiss her in a week? However, this was the thing she'd wanted her whole life, to be able to let out emotions safely like everyone else. She didn't need her voice. She could use her powers by chanting them in her mind. Finally coming to a decision, Raven took the chances and nodded in answer.
The old woman smile and then took out a small red globe - like object then pulled out a piece of paper with writing on. The woman whispered,
"Say this once, and then sing "Your poison. Your poison running through my veins!"
"Sing?" inquired Raven.
"Yes! Now go!"
Sighing, Raven read the words out loud from the paragraph;
"My soul is sleeping somewhere cold. My emotions don't want to be free. They must be free! I command them to be free in order to take my voice and replace it with freedom."
"Now sing…" The old woman said quickly as the red globe thing began to spin around above her palm.
"Your poison. Your poison running through my veins." Raven sang. Suddenly the red globe unleashed its energy and a phantom red hand reached inside Raven's throat and grabbed her voice box. Raven's throat felt dry and empty. The old woman's crazed laughter echoed through the alleyway as Raven's voice became encased in her red globe.
"You can let out your emotions free now! But you must be kissed by the sunrise on Sunday next week. If you are not, then you will be automatically brought to me and become my slave until you die! There will be no escape! Enjoy this week while you can." The old woman cried out and then in he blink of an eye she was gone.
"Wait!" was what Raven wanted to say but no sound came out. She gasped. Her voice really was gone!
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Raven was in her room, lying on her bed. She had a week. That was it. She had no way of telling Robin her feelings! She'd have to show him… but she didn't know how. She was interrupted by a knocking on her door;
"Rae? It me, Robin. Can I come in?"
"Yeah." Raven said but nothing came out. She decided to walk over to her door and open it.
"I came to finish out talk –"
Raven's eyes widened at the word 'talk'. She couldn't talk! Even if she wanted to! This was harder than she thought. Robin stopped his sentence immediately and looked at Raven curiously.
"Are you okay?"
Raven nodded and tried to shut her door but Robin caught it and placed a hand on her shoulder. Normally, a lamp would of shattered to pieces, but now, because she could let out emotion freely, nothing happened. Robin seemed to notice something was wrong.
"Why did nothing blow up…? Raven what's going on?!" Robin asked walking into Raven's room and looking around before turning back to the owner of it and shutting her door behind them. Raven just shook her head and pointed to her throat.
"What? You've got a sore throat?"
Raven gave him a glare and tried again.
"Uh… you can't speak?"
Raven nodded happily and hugged him for getting it right. Robin was shocked but hugged back anyway, a blush rising into his face. He let go of Raven, looked her in the eye then said,
"You can't speak? Why? Why isn't anything breaking?"
Raven just looked at him before finally sighing. She found a piece of paper and pen and wrote down hurriedly:
I gave my voice so I could feel emotions safely.
Robin stared at the paper before finally saying to her while shaking his head,
"Oh God Rae… Why would you do that?"
Instead of writing down anything or trying to speak, Raven just looked away with a slight blush on her pale cheeks. Robin looked at her curiously before he was in submerged in deep thinking. Why did she do such a crazy thing…? Maybe she was… no! Raven couldn't… or could she?
"Rae… did you do this because… you feel strong… e-emotions for… someone?" Robin choked out.
Again, Raven didn't write a reply on the paper but just walked over to her window and looked out to the city. Robin followed her, amazed by how the moonlight reflected off her skin. She looked almost like an angel… his angel.
"Raven. I'll inform the other Titans that you won't be able to talk anymore. Or will you?" Robin asked her raising an eyebrow.
Raven shrugged in reply and then opened her door with her powers and Robin got the message then to leave. He added before leaving,
"Oh… okay. Raven… I hope you know what you're doing. Bye."
Raven plopped down on her bed, clearly frustrated about this whole thing. She was thankful that nothing blew up during that… heart to heart talk with Robin. How she loved him. And yet, he would never love her… or would he?
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That was the first chapter… how did it go? You like? Should I shouldn't I continue with this… um… story? Is it even good enough to be called a story? Review! And answer my questions or there will be no update! I need at least 5 reviews to update… I'm getting organized! Yay! Lol.
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raerobgal