I do not own Teen Titans. Nor do I own the word Vraal (used in later chapters). That name is owned by Emily Rodda, I just like that word. I do, however, own a cool glowy pen...thingy.
Apocalypse
Raven was in blissful paradise. Her mind had never been in such harmonious peace. Happy was skipping around, acting like a flower girl, throwing flowers on everyone, Rage was having a vacation, sipping lemonade on a beach that Imagination had conjured up for her, Lust was at the height of her power, constantly feeding Knowledge new ideas for spells, flicking her pale purple hair everywhere, Bravery was forever punching a black punching bag, getting stronger every minute. Even Timid was acting a little enthusiastic.
Why? Because Raven Arella Roth was in love.
It had started a few weeks ago...
Flashback
"C'mon, dance with me, goth girl!" sneered a blonde prat, with his stupid friends giggling in the background.
Raven would have sent him to another dimension if she had the choice, him and his stupid friends too, but the Titans where in hiding after their last visit from Slade destroyed the Tower and landed Cyborg in hospital. Well, a mechanic first, then the hospital.
"I would rather be hit by a meteorite," glared Raven, and continued sipping the complimentary punch laid out by the club's owners.
'Beast Boy, I am going to kill you for this,' thought Raven, ' you're the one who insisted we come to this stupid club,'
"Dance with me," said the boy.
"No," replied Raven.
The boy grabbed her wrist. Her cup of punch fell to the floor and splattered everywhere.
"Dance with me or I hurt you," he said, smiling evilly.
Raven kicked him with her black, slightly platformed boots right in the stomach. She turned back to run out the door, but his friends blocked the way and pushed her back. They were obviously slightly drunk.
"It isn't wise to pick a fight with a Teen Titan," Raven told them.
The blonde idiot grabbed her shoulders from behind, stopping her being able to turn around.
"Nice try, but your drunk friend told us all about your problem," he jeered.
Raven turned her head slightly to the left and saw BB, who was caked in flesh colored make up to stop anyone recognizing him, dancing on a table.
"Dumb drunk," spat one of the boys friends.
This guy was such an idiot, even for a drunk. Nobody insulted Raven's friends, especially Beast Boy.
Raven kicked backwards and got the blonde one in the stomach, flipped up and got his two friends a kick in the chin.
"Raven, stop!" yelled Robin, but it was too late.
"Azareth, Metrion, Zinthos!" she yelled. A shockwave emitted from Raven, sending tables, chairs and people flying.
Something started beeping in the room. Robin knelt down and picked up a small tracer that had been blown out of it's hiding spot by Raven.
"Oh no," he whimpered. Almost instantly, at least fifty Slade-bots crashed through the darkened windows of The Sparkle House.
"Titan's!" yelled Robin. Starfire threw a bowl of cold punch over BB, who instantly jumped out of his drunken state of being. The two lept over to Robin, Raven levitated.
"Surrender or be destroyed!" ordered the largest Slade-bot.
"Is that really a choice, or if we surrender, will we just be destroyed anyway?" questioned Beast Boy.
In response, the Slade-bot shot at him. BB squealed in fright.
"Titans, go!" yelled Robin.
Starfire shot a rain of Starbolts on the nearest Slade-bots, while Beast Boy changed into a buffalo and started ramming into them. Robin was sending bird-a-rangs at as many as he could reach. Raven was trying to take down the largest, dodging his martial-arts like blows.
Raven's eyes turned white and black tendrils shot up from the ground, grabbing the Slade-bot. He tore himself from them. Raven sent a Dark-beam at him. It sent him staggering back a few paces. Raven started to close in on it, but then felt herself waver slightly, then drop a foot. She hadn't meditated today. She was losing control over her powers. She would either lose them, or her soul-self would prevail. In this case, it was the first one.
You could almost see the grin spreading across the Slade-bots face. It shot Raven with a beam of energy. She was sent soaring out of the window, the remainders of the window scratching her.
She landed with a painful bump outside, bleeding and aching. She squinted through her eyelids. A figure had jumped through the window and was about to land on her. She rolled out the way just in time, her blue hooded jacket and black jeans torn, muddy and relatively blood-stained.
The huge Slade-bot loomed over her. It shot out a net, capturing her inside. She struggled, but became even more tangled within it.
A blade shot out of the Slade-bots right wrist. Raven felt her eyes widen, and struggled further.
Suddenly, a pole jutted out of the robot's stomach, or atleast where the stomach would be.
It crackled with electricity, then short-circuited.
It fell to the ground, revealing the handsome boy behind the attack. He had jet black hair, green eyes and was wearing dark blue shorts and a black top.
He pulled out his own pocket knife and walked up to Raven. She started to struggle again.
"Wait, I'm here to help," he stated. Raven stared at him, testing him telepathically, then decided he was telling the truth. She stopped struggling.
He cut through the net and pulled Raven to her feet.
"Are you OK?" he asked.
Raven nodded, blinded slightly by strange, heart shaped objects infront of her eyes.
"Well, if you ever need help..." he began, but then started blushing. The girl he had saved was quite beautiful. Her shiny purple hair was waving slightly in the breeze, she had long legs and was very curvy, and her eyes...her eyes were the most dazzling violet he had ever seen.
"Well, I...um...I mean...if you...er...um," he started. Raven felt herself smirking slightly at the boys plight.
"What's your name?" she asked.
"David...you are?"
Raven thought slightly. He had no idea who the Teen Titans are, no, he must know who we are, we're headline news, he just didn't know she was one of them. Well, she was not going to enlighten him.
"Raven," she replied.
"Well, I was wondering, Raven, that if you aren't too busy, maybe you might want to...um...I mean, if you don't want to..."
"I live in an apartment with my friends down Jade Horse avenue, you're welcome to pick me up tomorrow, just don't let my friends see you," Raven smiled.
She was telling the truth. The four un-hospitilised Titans were staying in an apartment until the Tower was reconstructed.
David smiled.
"Tomorrow at seven?" he asked.
"Perfect," said Raven.
This is my first FanFic, so please go easy on me. Oh, and members of R&B 'shippers United will remember this story as "Black Bird's Stolen Heart."