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"Hello? Kyd?" Raven called out cautiously. She knew he was in here, she could sense him, but where he was in the building is what she wanted to know. She had teleported herself to the Hive Five base, and used her powers to slip by the Zombies, unnoticed, that where in front of the broken, heavy, steel doors. 'Crap' Raven thought as she heard a shuffle of feet and a loud moan followed by a few screeches. Raven began to slowly back up, right into the arms of a waiting Zombie.
"Uhhnmdfg" the Zombie grunted and leaned down to bite her. Raven screamed and summoned her dark powers and shot it at the zombie who flew backwards into a horde of them. She swept her gaze around and realized they had her surrounded. One of the shrieked as Raven began blasting them with her powers. As soon as they would get hit they would just get back up and continue attacking.
With slight difficulty Raven levitated off the ground and began to fly through the hoard when suddenly a black portal appeared in front of her and enveloped her. She relaxed realizing who had her, Kyd Wykkyd. Raven fell out of the portal landing hard on top of Kyd Wykkyd. He winced in pain and gently pushed at her, asking without word for her to get off him, she was hurting him,
"Oh! I'm so sorry." Raven yelped as she scrambled off of Kyd. He smiled weakly at her. Raven looked around and realized that she was in the forest outside of Jump City. She turned to Kyd, "Did you get us here?" he nodded then began to struggle to his feet, but collapsed and slumped against the tree, Raven rushed to his side, "What's wrong?" she asked concerned. He grimaced and unwrapped the cloak from around him to show an array of cuts, scratches, and bight marks along his whole body. Raven stared in horror and looked up into his red eyes, "Where is See-more?"
Kyd looked down, I couldn't…I tried. I really did! There were just too many… Raven looked at him and felt guilt claw at her. She felt as if she should have been there, helping him. She shook her head of the ridiculous thoughts.
"Can you get us back to the hide out? I would but it took a lot of energy to teleport all the way to Jump City then having to fight them immediately after." Kyd stared at the ground before looking back up at her a hesitantly admitted
I am weak. I cannot… It took to much getting us here safely, these…injuries are making me weak. Raven cursed herself inwardly for asking that question, she should have known that he was injured.
"Stay still." She murmured and a blue light formed around her hands, she reached forward and tried to heal him, but before she could lay a hand on him he reached up and grabbed her hand.
If you heal me, you take the injury and place it on yourself where you heal them on yourself, correct? He asked for confirmation in her mind. She looked at him,
"Yes?" she answered uneasily. Kyd pushed her hand away,
I can't let you. This poison is to strong. I can fight it, I just need time. Raven shook her head,
"Please Kyd! It's to strong! You have too much of it in your body, you will die if you don't let me help you." Kyd shook his head remaining stubborn,
If you take it, then you will die. Raven turned her head away knowing he was right.
"At least let me take some of it." He stared at her uneasily,
Fine…but not too much. He demanded. She nodded and quickly took action before he could change his mind. She reached out with a blue haze onto her hands. Gently she pressed her hands gently on his arm taking the poison out of his body and absorbing it in her own. She watched as some of the scratches begin to heal. She moved her hands on his other arm and repeated the process, on his legs, chest and abdomen. She could see the relief come over his face and fought to hide her own pain. She drew her cloak around her when she saw his scars becoming her own.
Raven clinched her teeth as she felt what felt like dirt, begin to flow threw her veins. She forced her eyes closed as her eyes rolled into her head from the pain that his scars brought her. She knew he didn't want her to but she did, she took all the poison from his system and into her own, where she would fight it off, with a whimper of agony she collapsed on the forest floor, all the poison gone from his system. Then the lights began to fade Raven! She heard faintly in her mind before the whole world just blacked out.
"Is she…is she d-…dead?" Raven heard a timid voice ask and she forced her eyes open to find herself in Nevermore, most of her emoticlones surrounded her, Raven sat up,
"Why am I here?" she asked groggily.
Wisdom: "You came here when you fainted." Raven snorted,
Raven: "I don't faint."
Anger: "Well you did. In front of him. In the middle of a dangerous place."
Timid: "He…He's not going to hurt us is he?"
Raven: "He better not. Where's Brave?"
Wisdom: "Brave is off, helping fight the poison in your body." Raven nodded before turning and noticing an emotion who seemed bigger and brighter then before,
Raven: "Love? Is that you?" Love nodded,
Love: "Yup! Long time no love!" she said enthusiastically,
Timid: "I-I…I thought we loved Beast Boy?" Love shook her head,
Happy: "YAY! We're in love!" she giggled before falling to the ground and kicking her feet up in the air and pumping her fists.
Raven: "Wait! Who are we in love with?"
"Raven?" She turned at the sound of the new voice. It sounded husky, like it hadn't been used in a while, yet silky, like the purr of a kitten. She took a step back in surprise,
"Kyd Wykkyd?" she whispered in disbelief. He was looking around and hadn't spotted Raven and her emoticlones yet. She glanced at her emoticlones to gouge their reaction. Happy, Love, Timid and even Anger had heart-eyes.
"B-but…what?" Raven stammered turning to Wisdom,
Wisdom: "Why do you think you were willing to give your life to save his?" Raven began to say more but saw Happy running toward Kyd. Raven crouched behind a bush with Wisdom, Love, Timid and anger to see what Kyd would do.
"Kyd!" Happy screeched and propelled herself into his arms. Kyd stumbled backwards at the force Happy had crashed into him with.
"Raven?" Kyd asked timidly. Happy nodded, well happily. "Why are you wearing pink?" Raven began to explain but gasped
Happy: "Look Kyd!" she giggled pointing to a strange looking bird on the other side. Kyd turned to look and Happy skipped back to the bush where she was yanked down and Love stood up and took Happy's place. Kyd turned back, and took a step back when he saw Raven…in a different color,
"How…How did you change so fast?" Love didn't respond and well she wrapped her arms around his neck. Before she could do anything, Raven stood up,
"Love…heel?" she commanded questioningly, not sure how to get her to let go. Love immediately let go and sulked back behind Raven. Raven walked up to Kyd who was looking at Raven's emoticlones with wide eyes. He opened his mouth to question her but she shook her head at him and he closed it. A sudden thought occurred to her,
"How are you in my mind?" Kyd smirked then chuckled as if it should have been obvious,
"Raven, I'm half demon. I can go into anyone's mind any time I want." She glared at him knowing he was lying, he held up his hands in surrender, "Okay! I'm half demon and your half demon, I can connect our inner demons and it gave me access to your mind." Raven nodded accepting this explanation. Then another thought occurred to her,
"How are you talking? I thought you were mute!?" Kyd shrugged,
"I've always been able to talk in other dimensions." Raven suddenly began to giggle. Kyd looked at her questioningly, she shrugged and smiled at him.
Suddenly Kyd remembered why he was here and his face fell serious, Raven stopped giggling and waited for him to speak, knowing he wanted to say something,
"I told you not to take it all." He growled at her suddenly angry. Raven took a step back and stared into his red eyes in disbelief.
"Kyd, you where to weak. You would have died if I hadn't taken it all." She retorted hotly. Kyd flinched,
"Well how do you know you won't die now?" he demanded trying to make his voice hard but Raven heard the thread of worry that leaked threw even though he tried to hide it. Raven felt herself soften and laid a hand on his cheek forcing him to look her in the eyes,
"I won't die. I'm strong enough to fight through this." Kyd nodded slowly accepting that, "Now, why are you here?" Kyd looked at her confused,
"Oh! After you…passed out, it attracted some attention-," Raven stiffened, "So I teleported us further away, but they are coming. I can't carry you! I am to…weak. You need to wake up!" Raven looked at her emoticlones, they all nodded at her,
"Fine but you must go before I leave." Kyd looked like he was about to protest but instead nodded and brought his cape up to leave but not before Love threw herself at him and wound her arms around him. Kyd looked shocked as she leaned up and whispered something in his ear. He blushed, nodded, glanced at Raven one last time, red eyes gleaming and vanished with a swish of his cloak.
Raven stared at her emoticlones, "What did you say to him?"
Love: "It doesn't matter, go! He's waiting for you!" Raven hesitated before nodding and sitting down cross-legged, muttering her spell under her breath.
Raven woke up, head throbbing. Orange light surrounded her as the sun began to set. She opened her eyes groggily and found herself face to face with Kyd Wykkyd, they were close enough that if she leaned forward slightly, she could have kissed him, 'Beast Boy' she chided to herself. Love suddenly spoke to her, 'You don't love Beast Boy' Then Wisdom kicked in, 'But Beast Boy loves her.' Happy then spoke up, 'does it really matter right now?' the argument kept raging through Raven's head.
Kyd saw the conflict in her eyes, without moving a muscle he spoke to her, Raven? Are you alright? Raven snapped her head up and blinked slowly at him,
"Yes, I ju-," a rustling in a bush followed by a screeching jolted her and she stood quickly, black glowing in her hands, it was weak, but it was there. Kyd Wykkyd stood up quickly beside Raven. The bushes exploded and three zombies fell out screaming. Their faces were rigged, pale, and torn. Dried blood caked them and their eyes were black and teeth were stained yellow. One of them she noticed only had one eye, with a gasp she recognized See-more. Wykkyd was staring at him with sad eyes. He raised his cape but instead of getting into a fighting position he pulled Raven close and swished his cape around her, teleporting them further into the forest, it was directly in front of a small cave.
Wykkyd was still holding her close. Raven began to gently pull away but Wykkyd held her in place. She was about to shove him away when she noticed his back trembling, realization hit her and she realized her was probably silently crying. Not wanting to embarrass him she wound her arms around his neck and rested her forehead on him shoulder, he responded by pulling her closer against him, his arms around her waist. I'm sorry. He whispered in her head, even in this form of communication she felt the words tremble. Raven didn't pull away, she didn't respond in words. She just held him tighter and let him grieve silently.
Authors note: Hey guys…sorry, I know, not the best chapter. Hopefully the next chapter will cover for it! Don't forget to review, reviews urge me on and let me know I'm not talking (or writing in this case) to no body.
