AUTHORS NOTE! So here is my second chapter, I hope you enjoy it. I love criticism so if you have barely any or nothing but then I'd love to hear it all. But be nice. I tried to make this chapter longer than my first one because a very nice reviewer asked for a longer chapter. I HOPE I HAVE PLEASED YOU! R&R! Btw, my story is for BB&Rae lovers along with Robstar lovers. I ship both equally. This chapter is dedicated to BB&Rae. And my story is probably going to frustrate Robstar lovers to until the end... and then they might not want to kill me... and then hopefully I will redeem myself with my sequel which is totally dedicated to Robstar and NOTHING ELSE.
~Adolescent Olympian~
DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything bye
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Chapter 2
It was about 2:00 in the afternoon when the first Titan awoke, which was a particularly dark, hooded empath.
She yawned as she walked through the living room doors. She was mildly surprised to see no one else in the room, given it was 2:00. But then again, they had stayed up late fighting Dr. Light, and she was never one to sleep more then the others.
She smiled to herself, and, after making sure no one was watching, she popped a frozen waffle into the toaster. There wasn't any real reason for her to hide her love for waffles from her friends. Raven was sure that her team knew it, but it was just one of those things. Maybe she was just too classy for waffles. Or maybe it was because it was one of the few things she could actually make.
As she waited for her delicious waffle to toast, she put a pot of water on the stove for some tea. The toaster sprang the waffle up and Raven caught it in a black force before letting it fall onto a plate. She shuffled around the kitchen, with black splotches moving around her with a variety of different food items. When she was done, she had a very delicious looking stack of waffles and some steaming hot herbal tea. She walked to the large windows that overlooked the ocean and levitated in the air crossing her legs. She also levitated her breakfast. Or… lunch.
She took a big bite of her waffle, and was thoroughly enjoying it that she didn't hear the door swish open.
"Hey Rae!"
Both her and her food fell to the floor.
"Beast Boy! I… didn't… hear you… You startled me," Raven said standing and waved her hand, making the fallen items stack neatly in a pile on the floor.
"Sorry. Did you make… waffles?" Beast Boy said looking around her at the now clean mess.
She sighed, "Yes. I thought I would try something new."
"Cool! Breaking out of that gloomy, tea shell of yours I see," he smiled wide at her, "Well I guess I kinda ruined your breakfast, so let me make you another batch. I want to make some tofu waffles before Cyborg wakes up."
"That's okay, Beast Boy. I think I'm just going to go meditate in my room," She said picking up the stack and walking past him.
"Oh come on Rae, I'm sure you're still hungry. And you probably don't want floor waffles," He persisted following her.
She placed the stack in the sink and turned to leave, "Really, I'm fine."
Then he grabbed her wrist.
She turned to face him, a little surprised.
"Please? Don't go back to that dark room of yours," He gave her a goofy smile.
Raven sighed and pulled her wrist from his grasp, "Okay."
"Yes!" the green boy fist pumped, "Go meditate over there; I'll be quiet."
Raven looked at him suspiciously, but then gave him a small smile that made his stomach flutter.
He only smiled wider and dashed to the kitchen.
Raven turned and walked to her original spot, regaining her bored expression. She lifted into a floating criss-cross position, but did not make any attempt to meditate. Instead she just watched the green changeling in the reflection of the windows.
The corners of Raven's mouth lifted slightly and slowly as she watched the green goofball scurry around the kitchen, trying his best not to disturb her.
She loved how he cared.
Well, she loved all of them really. They all cared for her so much.
But especially him.
He would always try and help her and get her to smile. He has told her a billion times that he loves her smile. He wanted her to know that she can be herself around him, and for that she's grateful. He's irritating sure, but for all the right reasons.
So she just looked fondly at the reflection of the clumsy teen shuffling around lost in thought, a small smile gracefully painted on her face.
After a while, his razor sharp animal eyes that could see the reflection from across the room met her own in the crystal glass.
Raven saw his curious smile on the window. She quickly adverted her eyes.
"Whatchya starin' at Rae? Like what you see?" he teased.
"I was just making sure you were doing it right," She stated.
"Well, come see for yourself; I'm done!" The green boy flourished his arms.
Raven placed her feet on the ground and walked over to two plates of freshly made waffles. He pulled the countertop chair out for her and then took the one next to her for himself.
He donned a French accent, "For ju, madam, I have made ze dish of ze famous Fre-ench. ZE WAFFLE."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Bon appetite," Beast boy said.
Raven tentatively took a bite.
"Do you like it?" Beast Boy asked eagerly.
Raven looked at him and nodded, the corners of her mouth lifting again.
He shouted, "HURRAY!"
"Calm down."
"Sorry."
Raven turned her attention to a small steaming mug.
"You made me tea?"
"Yeah."
She paused, "Thank you."
"No problem Raven, anything for you."
Raven then spotted another steaming mug by Beast Boy's plate.
"I didn't know you drank tea."
"Well I don't- didn't. I thought I would try something new. I mean, you seem to like it. And I feel like I should make an effort to do some of the things you like. Because, that's what friends do. And I think we don't do any of the things you like. So I think we should… and…" He trailed off his little rant when he saw Raven just stare at him.
She was just staring at him. It wasn't her usual glare of disapproval. It was… different. And he was really confused.
Suddenly she jumped forward and hugged him. It was short, but it was the best thing in the world to him.
Then she abruptly turned back to her waffles and continued eating like nothing had happened.
He sat there for a while just shocked, but eventually went back to his waffles too, a stupid grin plastered on his face that did not go unnoticed by Raven.
They sat there in a comfortable silence as the other Titans slowly awoke throughout the day.
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It had been about a week since Dr. Light's attack, and the Titans were spending another day relaxing.
They were seated around a table in the living room playing poker. Cyborg was dominating and Beast Boy and Starfire didn't really understand the game.
"Take that!" Beast Boy said as he slammed down his cards.
"Beast Boy, that's nothing. You have a two, a four, and a nine. And why do you only have 3 cards?" Raven asked.
"Glorbnog!" Starfire said throwing her own cards down in frustration.
Robin laughed, "It's okay, Star; you'll get it."
"That means I win again!" Cyborg cheered as he took the pot of candy.
"What? No fair, I should have won that round," Robin complained.
"Hey buddy, I guess poker is just not your game," Cyborg bragged.
"If this was chess, you're butt would be mine."
The team just stared at Robin, and then burst out laughing.
Beast Boy was close to tears, "You're right. You could definitely beat us in a game of chess."
Robin was red-faced, "Shut up! Chess is a game of intellectual strength and strategy! It is very important for fighting."
"Whatever you say man," Cyborg said as his laughing reduced to chuckling.
"Stuff it, or you all will be running at 5 AM tomorrow," Robin bit.
His teammates immediately stopped laughing.
"You know, I'd like to learn chess."
"Chess is most challenging."
"Chess is cool."
"I like your hair."
Robin looked smug.
The Titans stopped their banter at the sound of a familiar siren. Robin dashed to the computer.
"Cinderblock," he called.
With that they were out the door.
They arrived a main city road, with lots of shops and apartments on either side. Quite similar to the road that they fought Cardiac on recently.
People were running and screaming, but the Titans didn't see Cinderblock.
Suddenly, he emerged from behind a building with a Toyota above his head.
Except this wasn't Cinderblock.
"Oh my pumpkin pie," Cyborg muttered.
He was Cinderblock x5.
"He has gotten larger yes?" Starfire asked.
Cinderblock was huge!
"Titans, GO!" the team sprang into action.
Robin reached the concrete monster first, and launched into a flying sidekick. Robin hit him square in his chest, and he stumbled backward to be met with a starbolt straight to the face. He swung his arm around haphazardly and hit Starfire, knocking her out of the sky. Robin sent exploding disks at him that proved ineffective.
"Argh!" Robin cried out in frustration.
"Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" Raven said as her eyes glowed white; 3 cars went hurdling towards the villain, who fell to his cinderblock knees.
Beast Boy had taken the form of a gorilla and climbed on his face, punching him. Cinderblock was batting blindly at his face and tried to throw Beast Boy off. But beast Boy had morphed into a smaller monkey and was dodging each of Cinderblock's blows so Cinderblock hit himself in the face.
Cinderblock roared in anger and successfully grabbed Beast Boy, throwing him 50 feet against a building. The green changeling morphed back into a human and slumped against the wall.
"Owowowow," Beast Boy moaned.
Cyborg was now firing at the monster with his sonic cannon and Starfire was blasting him. Cinderblock reached up and grabbed Starfire. He then proceeded to hurl her into Cyborg, sending them both to the ground.
"You okay Star?" Cy asked as they helped each other get up.
"He is skilled at throwing people," She replied.
Raven and Robin were now desperately giving it their all. That is until Cinderblock took the streetlamp Raven was using to hit him, and swung at her. She plummeted to the ground with a loud thump, and he started to advance towards her.
"Hey sidewalk brain!" Robin called, "Over here!"
Cinderblock turned around at Robin's tauntings. Robin was going in for another flying sidekick, but Cinderblock swatted him away, so that he skidded on the asphalt. Angered, Robin sprinted back towards the concrete block, who had returned his attention to Raven again. Robin grappled his way to Cinderblock's shoulder and drew back his fist to punch.
But before Robin could finish his action, a fierce, sharp, slash of white hit the side of Cinderblocks face making him stumble back.
It was like wind.
Confused, Robin sat there, which was a mistake. Cinderblock attempted to knock the Boy Wonder off his shoulder, but he only skimmed Robin as he dodged. Still, it made Robin fall, but he was able to grapple himself back onto the monster. This time securing his position, Robin again made the motion to punch Cinderblock straight in the nose.
But as he did so, another razor sharp blade of white came out of nowhere and struck Cinderblock across the face.
This time, it was the blade type thing that knocked Robin from the shoulder of the giant. Robin sent his grappling hook towards a street lamp before colliding with the street below, and landed safely where the other Titans had gathered.
They watched in shock as streaks of white appeared out of the air and attacked the block. Again and again swish swish swish swish. Cinderblock was growing frustrated that he could neither touch nor see this force that was pushing him back. He swatted angrily at the swishes like they were bees.
"What is that?" Beast Boy asked.
"Should we help it?" Cyborg said.
"Uh. Not yet, I want to see what happens," Robin said squinting his eyes.
Just then, Cinderblock apparently decided he had had enough and he immediately turned and started running down the street destroying everything in his path.
"Okay now we should do something," Robin said, "Titans, GO!"
The teens sprinted after the monster, and so did whatever the force was that had attacked him. Whatever it was, it kept pace with the 5 heroes.
It had become more visible, and now resembled a fireball. But it wasn't really made of fire. Each Titan was constantly glancing at this strange rocket thing. It was like a comet with a tail of white ribbons. The Teen Titans were utterly confused by this strange power assisting them.
Suddenly, it disappeared. Just into thin air.
"Huh?!" Cyborg cried.
But they had caught up to Cinderblock, and the others launched themselves at the giant. Cyborg shot rays of blue, Robin punched and kicked, Raven threw cars, Starfire shot starbolts, and Beast Boy fought as a T-Rex. Cinderblock was almost defeated.
"arrrgggHHHHH!" Cinderblock yelled, swiping wildly and grabbing all of the heroes in his enormous hands.
He threw them down with such force, and they skidded at least 10 feet on the asphalt. The team laid there for a second reorienting themselves, an they could hear Cinderblock's deep, unnatural laugh.
Suddenly, as the still disoriented team sat on the street, a gust of wind so powerful that it started to uproot trees came rushing through the valley of buildings.
"Get to the side!" Robin called, and the Titans dove to the sidewalk.
Cinderblock was trying his best to stand, but it was obvious he was putting all of his weight against the current.
Then, that same white comet came hurdling at the concrete monster.
"What's it doing!?" Beast Boy yelled over the howling wind.
The thing was gaining speed, headed straight at the unstable Cinderblock.
"Wait, do you see what I see?" Cyborg said as loud as he could.
"I see a girl!" Robin yelled.
"With a- horse?" Raven hollered.
In the midst of the winds and the rocket, a face of a girl, no more than 17, was thundering towards the block on what seemed to be a snow white stallion.
Then, it hit Cinderblock full on in his chest and sent him straight into the ground, the road breaking from the impact.
A huge cloud of dust and debris rose around him and a deep bellowing echoed through the street that made the teens shield their faces.
Everything was calm.
There was no more wind and the Titans stood up and brushed themselves off. Then the dust started to clear, and what they saw shocked them.
"Look!" Starfire called and pointed in the midst of the debris.
There was the girl, the same girl that they had seen, but she was lying on the ground struggling to sit up. Her arms shook uncontrollably in attempt to raise herself off the ground, and then she collapsed on her face, unmoving.
The Titans took off and Robin was to reach her. He gently turned over in his arms. The unconscious girl was limp and her head lolled awkwardly to the side. Her brown hair was long and wavy and she had a small face that was adorned with dirt, cuts, and bruises. She was dressed in ripped clothing that one could have guessed was once white.
The others crowded around him, but then Beast Boy said, "Hey, there's her horse!"
The stocky creature stood timidly away, and when Beast Boy tried to approach him, the stallion neighed and white ribbons swirled around him as he disappeared into the air.
"Um, the horse evaporated," Beast Boy called.
"We can worry about that later, Beast Boy; we need to get her to the infirmary," Robin said as he stood with the girl in his arms.
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