Super leaping flying fish of death! Gotta put something here so story format isn't altered. I hate that...
- Chapter 2 -
- Serenade and Cero -
- Yosemite Mountains -
Raven energymelds finding herself in some random part of Yosemite, within its woodland terrain. She looks around seeing nothing but the massive towering Sequoias all around and some shrubs that spotted the area. She sighs quickly a little annoyed. I should've let Cero take me to Serenade instead...
She crosses her legs levitating in a sitting meditating position, with eyes closed along with the usual "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" chant she focuses her energy into herself. Seconds later she has a third person view of the world around her, capable by her Soul Searching ability. Instantly her spiritual being flashes forward in a random direction; passing through trees and other obstacles in her search for Serenade.
I just got to find his location and then I can just teleport to him.
- Jump City -
The police took away Doctor Light in thier patty wagon like vehicle. What would usually be a typical decision to either go eat pizza or head back to the tower after a battle, however it wasn't due to Cero's presence and Raven's absence...
Beast Boy scratches the back of his head as he yawns. "So uh... are we going back to the tower?" Beast Boy then asks looking to Cero. That little dog is even more creepier than Raven... never thought anything would ever be.
Thoughtfuly Robin puts a hand to his chin, "I don't know, Raven seemed to be shaken up by this Serenade guy or girl..."
"The Master is a male, though he may have long mane like a females," Cero informed out of the blue startling Beast Boy and grabing everyone's attention.
"Anyway, I think we should help Raven look for Serenade," Robin finishes his sentence.
"Don't ya think that if Raven wanted our help she wouldn't have told us not to help her?" Cyborg reminds.
"But I too am worried about freind Raven, what if she is in need of assistance?" Starfire comments her concern, "What if the mountains of Yosemite are too large for her?"
"Raven will find the Master," Cero states somewhat ominous like a mysteriious fortune tellar, "It may take an hour or two, but she'll will find the Master."
"How do you know?" Robin asks looking to Cero suspiciously.
"Who cares?" Cyborg says a little restless, "Let's just go back to the tower and eat something!"
"Forget eating! I just want to sleep!" Beast Boy adds tiredly.
"But what of Cero?" Starfire asks steping near the midget of a chihuahua, "Where shall he go?"
"I guess he can come to the tower with us..." Robin answers logically, "Seeing that Raven is most likely going to bring Serenade to the tower."
Cero gets to his feet quickly, "The tower?"
"Yeah..." Beast Boy yawned, "You know the big one..."
"Okay..." Cero replies with a nod. Without a word shadows engulf the five and then fade away, just as quickly as they came. Cero sits, "Strange place to have your base at the Eifel Tower..." he comments sitting back down.
"Say what?" Cyborg exclaims looking around all over.
Starfire looks around seeing some french people walking about with there little hats and poodles, "I think you may have obtained the confusion, we reside in the Tower of Titan. Our home..."
"Wait hold on dudes, I think we should take a vacation!" Beast Boy announced happily.
Cyborg looks to Beast Boy, who all of the sudden was awake now, "I thought you said you were tired?"
"Yeah!" Beast Boy shouts giddily, "Gonna rest here on vaca-"
"No," Robin rejects, "Cero get us back to Jump City."
Cero tilts his head unknowingly, "Jump City?"
"The place we we're just at," Cyborg adds.
"I thought it was San Francisco... but okay..." Must be different in this Dimension.
Again the five are engulfed in the shadows...
- Yosemite Mountains -
Two hours pass as Raven continues her soul search for Serenade. During so she was surprised that she was capable of prolonging so long without rest. Her soul zips pass a lake where at the corner of her eye she spots somebody laying down. Without a second thought she teleported herself to the location where both body and soul reunited. She came lightly back to the ground from her crosslegged meditation, quickly she gets up and searches. I saw him... he's around here somewhere...
The sound of light waves caught her ear and turns to see a lake nearby, but spots something familiar within the water; the neutral grey cloak swaying in the water's current. "No..." she said quietly, "He's dro-" Some fish were nibbling on him, he moved his hands to shoo them away as if they flies before going back to his faced down laying position.
She then noticed that he was breathing, underwater, "Is he... sleeping?"
Hearing a warped voice from underwater he jumps up with the water exploding upward, "If you do not wi-" he sees the blue cloak then wips his face from the water dripping from his eyes, "Raven?" he asks squinting as his eyes attempt to gain focus.
Not knowing what to say or even how to say it, she just gave a small wave along with a sheepish smile, "Uh... Hi?"
He shook his head with a bit of water flying off of him, "It is you..." he speaks in awe going down on knee.
A tint of blush came over her as she looked at him uncomfrotably, "Please don't bow down to me..."
"I'm not," he informs breathing deeply, "The battle against Skath has drained me severely, I am barely able to stand, let alone talk."
She ingores her father's cover name, "Are you hurt?" she asks kneeling next to him, "I can heal you a bit, if you are."
"You can't heal me..."
"Yes, I can," she monotones firmly, "I may not possess the healing powers of my mother but I do know a few he-"
"No, you can't heal me," he says again, "I am... burdened, no healing magic or power can heal me." He then lays on the floor once more, "Just need some rest..."
"Let me get you to my home, you can r-" she stopped seeing that he was already sleeping, "Great..."
- Titan Tower -
Cero was sitting on the sofa silently with eyes closed. Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire looked at him from across the room; Robin on the other hand, was doing some research on the computer terminal as usual.
"Do you think he is meditating as Raven does on a regular basis?" Starfire asks the two silent like.
"I don't know..." Cyborg shrugs just as silent, "Beast Boy why don't you go ask?"
"No way!" Beast Boy rejects loudly, "If he's like Raven I don't want to even go near him, let alone bug him in his mediterranean or whatever!"
Cero's ears perked up slightly, "Raven returns with the Master..." Cero informs out of the blue.
Moments later Raven's energy rips out into a swirling worm hole with both her and Serenade emerging from it. Raven stood but Serenade was still laying on the floor sleeping.
"Raven!" Starfire greets her grateful happy go lucky self, "Where is your friend Serenade?" Raven looked to floor which then Starfire spots him, "Is he de-"
"No..." Cero states jumping to the floor, "The Master is severely drained."
Beast Boy and Cyborg come to see Serenade, but the only thing they can make out was that there was some tall guy hidden under a cloak, just like Raven.
"Great..." Beast Boy sighs distasteful, "He's just like Raven, he's has that cape thingy-"
Serenade stirs, "It's called a cloak..." he speaks picking himself up from the ground slowly. He stands up nearly matching Cyborg's height, "How am I like Raven?"
Beast Boy found himself on the spot, "Uh..." he stalled.
"Master are you okay?" Cero asks looking up to Serenade, "You seem barely able to stand."
With a quick deep breath, Serenade replies, "I am still drained from my battle..."
Starfire steps in front of Serenade, "Greetings Serenade, I am Starfire, friend of Raven!" she announces eagerly, "Please allow me to show you hospitality of Earth!"
"Uh... okay..." Serenade comments a little awkwardly. He then looks around seeing the different people around him.
There's some red head chick that's obviously not from Earth, an android, some green elf looking guy and a tri-color person; who now that I think about it looks like a traffic signal; how odd... but then again Cero is a talking chihuahua, doesn't get any more odder than that.
Everyone is in silence, staring at the Serenade, waiting for something to be said or done.
"Okay then..." Robin comments awkwardly with a sheepish grimace, "I guess I''ll introduce myself... I am Ro-"
"The Master needs to rest," Cero interrupts, "Not to be rude or anything, but fighting for years straight without sleep or rest, has taken its toll, physically and mentally."
"Yeah, what Cero said..." Serenade agrees shaking his head quickly again, "I am going to pass out..."
"You can sleep in my room..." Raven offers but soon finds that the others staring at her with a mixture of faces. A small blush comes over her feeling she was on the spot, "What?"
"Thanks for the offer, but I need to find somewhere with an abundance of water," Serenade says.
"The Tower is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean," Cyborg reveals, "Is that good enough?"
"That's perfect..." Serenade says fatigued.
"Why do you need water for?" Beast Boy asks curiously as usual.
"Water boosts my regeneration rates greatly, which I am in need direly of..." Serenade answers before looking to Cero, "Cero, get me outside..."
Cero nods obediently and the two are engulfed by Cero's shadow power. The team looked to each other seeing that Serenade and Cero left the room. Mostly everyone had a thoughtful look thinking on Serenade's words in the short time he's been here.
Raven sighed somewhat relieved... That may explain why he was underwater, when I found him at Yosemite.
Cyborg looks to his monitors, for no apparent reason... Boost regeneration rates? What is he some type of android or something too? But if so, why didn't my sensors detect any awkward signals?
Robin remains at the terminal, pretending to research stuff as he randomly typed keys. Hmm... Serenade... don't really like not knowing much about anyone, there's got to be some information about him somewhere...
Starfire looked to Raven thinking about Raven offering Serenade to sleep in her room. Does friend Raven smitten with this Serenade?
Beast Boy looks around during the silence, "So uh..." he starts uncertain, "What's going to happen now?"
"About what?" Cyborg replies looking away from his monitors to Beast Boy.
"You know, the creepy chihuahua and Dark Side Samurai guy..."
"I do not perceive Cero as creepy..." Starfire objects, "He's quite cuddly and cute, if I may say."
"Yeah, until he does something sinister, like brain controls you!" Beast Boy counters twisted and evil, "Or devours your soul making you a soulless slave..." he adds darkly.
"I never attempted to devour a soul before..." Cero states behind Beast Boy, who jumps up spooked.
"Stop doing that!" Beast Boy shrieks hiding behind Cyborg, "I hate that!"
"Why are you hiding behind me for?" Cyborg asks side stepping away from Beast Boy, "I don't think Cero's going to do anything to you... or at least not yet..."
"What do you mean not yet?" Beast Boy says, which then starts a bunch of nonsense bickering between the two, as they usually would do on the daily basis.
Raven cracks a small smile that lasts for a few seconds before she walks away not wanting to hear the two's excessive bickering. Maybe having Cero around might be a good thing after all... now I have something to scare Beast Boy with and keep him away from me...
Seeing that Beast Boy and Cyborg were mindlessly bickering, Cero looks to Robin and Starfire. I guess I shall seek whatever information I can now from these two...
"So uh Robin..." Cero starts, "What is it that you do?"
Robin looks to Cero a little strangely not used to the idea that he was talking to a chihuahua, "We are the Teen Titans..." he trails off.
- Titan Tower Shore -
Night fall came over the land and sea. Cero sits patiently as he waits for his Master to awaken from his slumber; even knowing that it would be a very long wait. With nothing else to do but think...
I wonder why the green one, Beast Boy, fears me for? I am just a talking chihuahua... Obviously it sounds like he watches to much horror shows and movies. Talking about that i am going to devour his soul and wh-
"What are you doing..." Raven monotones stalling briefly, "Cero?"
"I await my Master to awaken from his slumber." His ears twitch a bit hearing Raven's footsteps come closer, "I can ask the same about you"
"Curious..." she says coolly.
"What is the Master to you, Raven?"
"What?" Raven says confused, "What do you mean?"
"The Master spoke of times during his stay in Azarath as he..." he stopped briefly, "Stood there being an Honor Guard for the Seeress and you. Obviously I wasn't present with the Master. So?"
"The Arbiter was just, well..." she stalled thinking about her past, "Actually was possibly my only friend, that's if he even came close to be counted as one. Of course that's besides being my protector."
Cero rubbernecks his head back looking to Raven, "Really?" he asks a little curious and shocked. "You had no other friends?"
"No," she replies eyes shifting to the ground, "My mother and the counsel weren't fond of me having too much time outside the Temple's walls..."
"Sucks to be royalty in some cases, eh?" Cero replies looking back to the ocean.
He bought it, I didn't want to tell him about my prophecy. "Yup..." Raven monotones casual, "It's late why don't you come inside and sleep?"
"I am a dog," Cero reveals a bit climatic like, "And the others don't seem to accept my presence amoungst them."
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you find yourself feeling awkward knowing that you're having a conversation with a chihuahua?"
"Not really, maybe at first, but you sound like a regular person to me; unlike Beast Boy with all his gibberish..." Cero lets out a small chuckle, "Don't let Beast Boy get to you either Cero," Raven adds, "He's just... well... Beast Boy... some claim him to be smart, but I am not entirely sure about that though..." Cero continues to just sit there silently looking to the sea, "If you want you can sleep in my room, I won't mind you being in there," she offers, "Just don't be annoying like Beast Boy."
"I shall keep that in mind Raven."