Sirens Song
By: Love3lies
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters/places/objects from Teen Titans; they belong to their respective creators.
A/N: I haven't written a fan fiction in a long time so I hope you guys like it. Please R & R, constructive criticism will be taken into consideration, rudeness will be made fun of, and questions will be answered to the best of my ability.
Arista crocks her head to the side, her curiosity temporarily overcoming her caution
"Mermaid? What's a mermaid?"
Robin clears his throat
"A mermaid is… part human part fish…"
Arista's face lights up
"Oh you mean a syreni! Yes I'm a syreni "
"Sigh… re… knee? As in a siren?"
Arista shrugs her shoulders
"I don't know your words very well"
Raven clears her throat
"You speak Latin as your first language don't you?"
Arista nods
"I can speak English though I'm still learning. What's a siren?"
"In mythology sirens were beautiful women who were half fish half human and lured humans to their death with beautiful songs"
Arista dives back under the water and they can see the water rippling as she speeds away
-Arista wait where are you going?-
-You think I kill humans! My people don't do that; we would never hurt the land dwellers! You lied to me, you're here to kill me just like he said!-
-Arista what are you talking about? We never said that you killed anyone, you asked what a siren was, I just answered your question. Come back Arista so that we can finish talking… please-
Arista doesn't answer
-Arista you said 'he' who's he? Did someone else come and see you here in this cave?-
-yes-
-Was he a human like us?-
-yes-
"Someone told her that we were going to kill her, a man"
Robins face hardens
"Slade"
Raven nods once her eyes hard.
-Please come back and talk to us, it's very important that we learn all we can about the man who talked to you-
-Why?-
-Because we think that he might be a bad man who wants to hurt you-
-He said you would say that-
Raven sighs inwardly starting to get annoyed
-Please Arista you have to trust us, what can we do to make you trust us?-
There's no answer for a long minute and Raven is about to tell Robin that she lost the connection when Arista answers
-Come to me, come to where I am and I'll tell you whatever you want to know-
Raven looks at Robin
"She says she that if we come to her she'll talk to us, but from what I can tell she's almost a mile away"
Robin fiddles with his belt for a moment and then holds out two small mouth pieces
"No problem, these convert water into oxygen so we'll be able to swim under water as long as we need to."
Raven takes one of the mouth pieces and puts it between her mouth. Robin does the same and dives into the water. Raven follows him and once in the water motions him forward. The light of the lantern shows them that they are swimming through a tunnel at the end waits Arista. Both titans stop moving and stare at her. In the water Arista's black hair swirls around her and her aqua blue eyes seem to shine. She waits still as they study her allowing them to take in her tan skin, long slender body, bare breasts and finally her green glittering fish tail. When she opens her mouth even her voice is different, higher pitched and more musical
"Follow me"
She doesn't give them time to answer before taking off down another tunnel. Raven and Robin follow her but start to fall behind
"Arista wait we can't swim that fast"
Arista slows her pace but still the most they can ever see of her is a flash of green tail. When they find themselves at a dead end both are confused for a moment but a hand reaches from above to touch Ravens shoulder.
"Come up"
Its then that both of them notice that there is no rock above their heads and break through the surface of the water. All around them stalagmites glitter with an inner light making the cave bright enough to see. Raven and Robin pull themselves onto the rocks and look around for Arista.
"This way"
They follow the sound of her voice around a bend in the cave and to their surprise find her sitting in front of a fire. Her fish tail is gone replaced by two long well muscled legs.
"Come… dry off"
Both sit next to her on the ground and Robin holds his hands out to the fire
"What happened to your tail?"
"I'm not in the water so it went away"
She says it with a hint of humor in her voice as if everyone should know such things and Robin nod his head
"Ah I see"
"Arista can you tell us about the man you spoke to earlier?"
"Mh hm. He said his name was Slade"
Both Robin and Raven from something she notices instantly
"Did I say something wrong?"
Robin is quick to reassure her
"No no not at all, please continue"
"He came a few days before you. He said that he wanted me to come with him but I told him that I liked it here. We argued about it and then he left."
She holds out a communicator with an orange S on it
"He did give me this though if I changed my mind"