Hey Sorry everybody for this being late. I have been so swamped with College, lacking inspiration, and just being to lazy to write.
I decided that I would make up for it by posting a semi long chapter. This one is a little dule but I promise you everything is important for later in the story.
Thank you guys so much for following me and all of the reviews so far. Please keep it up, otherwise I'll honestly forget about updating. (Pun)
(Raven's POV)
I woke up when a strand of light peeked in threw my dark curtains to hit me in the face. My body still hurt so I tried to just lay there and ignore it, until it got the better of me and I grumpily sat up. With a yawn I got off my bed to lazily open my curtains. Pulling one to the side I looked up at the sky.
Man, it's already 2:00.
I didn't have a clock in my room but I didn't need one. On Azarath we could always tell the time by where the sun was and after dark it didn't matter. The monks had a strict bed time.
I turned and caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I really took a beating last night. My leo had a huge gash in it where you could see an already healing scar beneath it. There were slight bruises on my legs and judging from the pain on my back there was probably one back there too. Well I did go through a wall. I got closer to the mirror to examine my forehead. The gash from last night was now a tender scar.
Wow, Cyborg was right there isn't a lot of blood here. I was expecting a horror movie scene.
There was just a little dried blood in my hair but nothing a shower wouldn't fix. She pulled some fresh cloths from her dresser and closet and made her way to their bathroom. She and Starfire shared the same bathroom. While the Tamaranean did have some weird things, she was neat with it all and Raven didn't mind sharing. It was late now though, so Starfire would be done in the bathroom. She undressed while the shower warmed and turned around to examine her back in the mirror. Sure enough, practically her whole back was black, blue, and that weird green color.
She sighed, another night's sleep should do the trick.
She hopped in the shower and began to wash her hair of the blood. It was harder to take care of now that it was longer. It required more brushing and extra washing. She had considered cutting it short again but decided against it every time. Women hood was suiting her nicely and she enjoyed looking in the mirror to see an image like her mothers. To me she was the most beautiful person in the universe and it's an honor to get her good gene. Of course, I could never be as beautiful as her.
She very gently took the soap and washed her body trying her best to avoid the bruises to no avail. Finally done she got out and carefully dressed herself. It was a good thing she brought pants with her, the team would freak out if they saw her. Her legs were covered in blue spots. Her long black pants had a leathery kind of feel to them and went good with her leotard fitting her just right. Pulling up her boots over her pants she clipped her cape on. Examining herself in the mirror one last time she left for the living room.
The doors to the lounge opened with a swoosh and she walked into see Cyborg and Beast Boy on the couch, Robin researching who knows what on the computer, and Starfire preparing some kind of purple food in the kitchen. I walked down to the kitchen pulled a cup from the cupboard and retrieved a tea packet.
"How ya feelin Rae?" asked Cyborg as I began to prepare my tea.
"Fine," I replied while placing my tea in the microwave to get warm.
"Are you sure? You really took a beating last night!" Leave it to Beast Boy to say it like it is.
"I just need one more night's sleep," I said casually.
"Friend Raven, won't you enjoy some of the Traditional Tamaranean Glorp-ka?" asked Starfire gesturing to the purple pile of goop on the counter. I watched as a little part of the goop started to scoot away from the plate it was on and run away. I swear I even heard a little scream. Starfire saw this and quickly smacked the little dot of goop and throw it into the plate again, and turned back to me with an innocent smile and a giggle. I heard the ding for my tea and retrieved it.
"Thanks, but I'm fine with this." I said grabbing an apple from the fruit bowl. I turned and left before I could see her disappointed face and took the elevator up to the roof. I took a bite out of my apple as the doors opened and I stepped outside.
There was a lot of training equipment up here but there were also a lot of nice places to relax. So she went over and took a bench that had a nice view over the water. Finishing her apple she took a sip from her tea. Hmmm, Jasmine. It was good but she had to say that her favorite was Rose Tea. But it just doesn't taste the same store bought though. You have to make it yourself to get the rich flavor. And it has to be fresh, reheated tea was just nasty.
Letting out a little sigh as she finished it she set the cup down and flew up into her meditation pose. The meditation would help her heal but it would also let her escape into her mind. And there was a few things she needed to explore. Like that weird message her darker half had said. 'Worthy'? What the heck does that even mean? Not like she had bothered to give an explanation, no she was far too busy for that. What did she even do in her mind all day? Whenever I want to ask her something it's oh no that would be too much effort. But whenever she wants to say something it nothing but listen to me!
Hmm! She let out a small pout and let her magic take over her so she could meditate and explore her mind.
(Kyd's POV)
"Hey Kyd come out, Gysmo wants to say something!" yelled Mammoth pounding on my door.
A silent sigh to himself he got up from the floor from where he was meditating. A small candle was in front of him still lit from the hours of meditation, wax was pooling everywhere around it. A small blow he blew out the candle and placed it on his shelf. He then went to his bed and flew on his cape lifting his mask over his face.
The whole team already knew what everyone looked like under their masks but they all agreed that it was safer for their identities if they keep their masks on outside of their rooms. If they wanted to go out without it they should make sure they're away from the hideout before changing.
He left his room and teleported down to the lounge area where everyone was.
"Hey Kyd," Gysmo said calling to him.
'What is it?' He thought to him.
"I need you and See-More to get the next piece for the machine."
'Are you sure you want it so soon, if the Titan's catch wind of this we'll have a lot of trouble to deal with.'
"Don't worry, you won't be working so close to them this time. We got Punk Rocket to do a job on the other side of town. They won't even know your there."
'Very well.' He thought plainly and looked to See-More.
"Alright man, we leave in an hour." Said See-More happily.
(Raven's POV)
I awoke from my meditation a couple hours later to find my communicator going off. Quickly I flew to the elevator and went down to the living room. The team was already there getting a debrief from Robin.
"Punk Rocket is reeking havoc at the Jump City Mall," Said Robin pulling up a security tape of Punk Rocket blasting a shopping booth with his guitar, "Let's move Titan's."
She was just about to teleport them down to the garage when Robin spoke up again. "Raven, I want you to go on patrol."
"Why?" she asked bluntly.
"You're still injured from the fight last night and your powers are exhausted from healing yourself."
"I'll be fine." She said.
"That may be, but I don't want to take any chances with you getting hurt more. My team comes first." He stated.
She knew she could never argue with his logic. When it came to team safety Robin was almost never shy on that. She sighed to herself and nodded to him and the team raced off to the vehicles.
Not much later she found herself over the water flying into Jump City going on patrol for something that had already happened that night, which she was apparently not invited to. She hated patrol, what was she even suppose to be searching for? Oh, sure the bad guy is robbing a bank but before he does he's going to run outside and make a scene of it so that she'll see it. Isn't that what the security system tie on their communicators for?
BEEP, BEEP!
Wow, speak of the devil.
She quickly took out her communicator and opened it to find a small blinking red dot at the docks. She was close to it.
But the second she looked at it again the dot had faded and disappeared. Her communicator was silent again. Ok, that was weird. It was probably just a cat or something tricking the alarm. She was about to fly away, then stopped to look in the direction of the docks.
Huh, I am way too paranoid, she thought and flew off to the docks.
The docks were silent, the boats were all parked by now and all the workers had long gone home. But she couldn't shake this weird feeling she had. Someone was close she didn't know who but she knew that they were. Silently she flew through the air weaving through all of the warehouses. She stopped when she heard a small rustle behind her and slowly turned around to see the shadow of a beast. The creature moved back and forth finally coming closer until it was under the light post. A small Tabby cat appeared and mewed at her.
She let out a small sigh. Partly of relief and partly of annoyance. "You scared me," she said quietly.
Then she actually did hear something. The sound broke through the night silence and she turned to the warehouse behind her. Because of all of the thievery lately the warehouses had been stepping up in their security details little by little. Some had little security devices while others were more up to date. And this one was definitely up to date. It at least had to be the most protected warehouse here. The heavy metal doors, the thick glass, and state of the art security cameras. Nothing appeared to be broken but the sound unmistakably came from this warehouse.
Maybe I'm a little too curious for my own good.
She teleported into the warehouse. It should have been pitch dark since the workers left but no, there was a few lights on in one part of the warehouse. Silently she levitated over to where the lights were. As she levitated she looked up to see that all of the security camera's appeared off. Coming up to a motion sensor see examined it. This looks off too.
Another sound quickly grabbed her attention and she flew up over the crates in the building to look where the sound came from.
"Kyd Wykkyd!?" she said watching him as he went through an open crate pulling out some kind of metal thing. He froze as the heard her voice and looked up to her. His red eyes piercing glow captured he deep blue ones.
"Wha-," she didn't get a chance to ask before she was hit from behind. The hit burned as it hit the soft spot on her back still injured from the previous night. She knew that the hit she received had broken skin. The pain of the hit became too much and she felt herself fall to the floor and black out for the second time in the last 24 hours.
Thank you for reading.
I'll try to remember to keep updating. It's not that I don't know where the story is going it's just that I've been really lazy in writing it. And I'm not exactly sure how to put it all into words. But I promise you I'll keep with it.