Okay guys sorry for the late update. My sister finally got on break and hijacked the computer.
(Robin's POV)
"What have you guys found?" I asked into the communicator.
"Your right Robin there's definitely more to this than meets the eye." Answered Cyborg, "I contacted all of the possible companies that could be their next target and asked them to amp up their security, like you said."
Good, if the company's at least know something is coming that gives us more of a head start then we had.
"BumbleBee, how are things looking at the port?" I asked the communicator.
"Yo Rob we think we found something," She answered back. "Aqualad was swimming below for any clues and we think we might have found Raven's communicator."
"What? Is it broken?"
"Yeah it's pretty busted up. But there's no sign of her anywhere." She replied back.
I let out a sigh. So that's why Raven hasn't replied back. There's no telling where she might be now or if she's even alright.
"Robin!" came Speedy's voice over the communicator.
"Yeah Speedy?"
"While I was looking through the warehouse where the transmitter coil was stolen I found something. It's a hair…..and Robin…it's purple."
I could feel my eyes widen. Raven. She was there. She must have seen something while on patrol and went to investigate. If she was there when all of this happened that means she must have ran into the people who did this.
Which means, that they probably have Raven.
I clicked the talk button on the communicator again. "Team, were going to put out an ETA on these villain's. Whoever they are, they know where Raven is. And were going to find her no matter what."
(Raven's POV)
'Married? What do you mean?' he asked me.
"Well, not married per say. More like you're married to me." I answered back. This whole thing was so damn confusing that I was having a hard time trying to explain it. I myself only knew the basics on the whole subject.
'What do you mean?' he asked back. At this point in the conversation his red pupils were staring at me with worry. It was odd seeing him without his costume on 24/7. But I had so say that I preferred looking at him in the eye.
"When you drank my blood for the first time you wanted more right?" I asked back, disregarding his question for the moment.
He took a second and then answered, 'yes.'
"That explains then. Ever since then your body has been subconsciously trying to claim me. And I'm also guessing that this is the reason you've been attacking me out of the blue?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him.
'I have no control over it if that's what you mean.'
"So now your demon half is trying it's hardest to finish what you started." I said kind of pointing the blame at him. After all I had no say in this.
'What do you mean finish?' He thought confused and walked toward me. I turned to glare at him and he took a step back, taking a place standing next to the bed rail.
I had to think about it a second before replying. This whole thing was so screwed up right now, all I had was some theory's to go on. It's not like I think about this every day.
"Well a mating ritual is suppose to consist of two demons drinking one another's blood as..they..well you know." I said awkwardly turning around to hide my blush. I may be a teenager but I am still a virgin. This whole conversation was way out of my comfort zone.
'While they have sex?' He asked straight out.
Not answering I kept my back turned and let out a slight awkward cough at the question. Did he really have to be so upfront about it? This isn't exactly what I'd like to be talking about.
I could hear a strange sound in my head after that. It wasn't clear and sounded really gumbled, like when your ears are covered and you have a really hard time hearing. I turned to Kyd wandering what he was doing, and what I saw surprised me.
He was leaning up against the bed, with his head down and body shaking. For a second I could have sworn he was crying, and I reached out my hand to see if he was alright. But a second later his head raised and looked at me. And I saw something that I had never seen on him before. Not in all the time we've faced each other. Not even in his journal…his smile.
His body was shaking more and I saw him try to hold himself up on the bed rail for support as the strange sound continued in my head. It was so strange, so foreign…he..he must be laughing.
"What's so funny?" I asked him.
'I….I thought I was crazy,' he got out in between the other strange sound that rang out in the background of my head as he let his legs go and fell to his knees. 'All this time I thought my demon side was taking over and I was becoming some evil monster like I always worried I might be.'
He stopped to think for a second. In many ways he was just like me. I had always worried that my destiny was to bring destruction because of my parentage. Even after the battle with my father. I still worry about what I might do someday. Maybe I was being selfish with my thoughts, but it was nice to have someone who thought the same way you did.
'And it turns out all I was doing was trying to bang my wife.' He said and went back to chuckling by the bed post. He had fallen back and taken a place with his butt on the ground.
Or maybe not.
"It's not funny," I said in all seriousness.
'Just a little bit,' he grinned back at me. His white teeth gleaming against his pale skin.
"You don't get it do you? Demon's mate for life, there's no going back from this!" I said trying to keep my cool but I could hear the hostility in my voice as I glared down at him.
He stopped smiling and straightened himself out on the floor lounging casually. He seemed to be considering what I said. Going through all of the possible situations before he answered.
'So there's nothing we can do?' he asked.
I sighed, "To be honest I don't know. I've never run across a situation like this where the mating is only half done."
I sat down on the arm rest of the sofa, facing him. And we stared at each other.
How did I get stuck in this situation? Not that Kyd isn't appealing, but I'm a hero he's a villain. That irony if I ever heard it.
No, what sucks is that I didn't get any say in it. He never asked me if I wanted to mate with him. And after all of this time of thinking that I couldn't have a relationship with anyone, I end up half way married to a villain planning on taking over the world.
I had only done the minimal research on demon mating. I wasn't really planning on it ever coming in handy. Now I guess I was kicking myself for being so stupid. I wasn't sure if there was any way to break it off or not. Because of the blood bond demons are literally apart of each other for the rest of their lives. If I had my powers it might be easier to tell, but without meditating on my demon half there is no way of knowing.
'So were stuck like this?' asked Kyd.
"I'm not so sure. I think if I could get in touch with my powers, my demon half might be able to release you from our bond." I said unsure of myself and turned my head to look at the wall.
He looked at me surprised at this comment. I didn't really expect him to take off these bracelets, but it was the only idea I could come up with so far.
"I won't try to escape. I want this bond ended just as badly as you do." I said turning back to him slowly. He caught my eyes and look at me silently for a second. He seemed to be considering the comment I made carefully.
'You really think that will work?' he asked me finally.
I was startled for a second surprised that he was listening to me and replied back. That he was actually considering my proposal, "To be honest, I don't know. I figure if I release my powers now after having them locked up for so long and my injuries having not healed yet, my demon side will completely take over me. And seeing as you're the only one here right now, she would face you."
'But she might release me from our bond?' he asked turning his head away to the floor to think of the situation.
"Maybe. The way I see it she could do one of three things. One: she could release you. Two: she could kill you," at this his head shot up to stare at me, "-or Three: she could..ugh…well finish it."
'And by finish it you mean-'
"I mean finish the mating process."
The silence in the room after that last comment was more awkward than it had been the entire time I was here. I really don't know how else to put that as soon as my demon is released the first thing she might do is try to jump his bones.
A few seconds later he got up off the floor and started walking.
'I guess I better get that key then.' He said and opened a portal.
"So really want to try this?" I asked before he walked through, "I could end up killing you!"
It was odd to me that he was even taking this into consideration. The Kyd I had known the last few days wouldn't have done that.
But this Kyd was different. Not only was he being honest but he was taking me into consideration as well. We had actually had a normal conversation without trying to kill one another.
He turned back to me slowly before saying anything.
'Like you said. I want this bond ended as much as you do.'
And he walked through.
(Kyd's POV)
But do I really?
My head kept going over the conversation we had in my room. It was weird having an actual conversation to her and not going crazy or getting angry for no real reason.
But finding out that your secretly married ? That was a little more than what I was expecting. I was hoping she would say it was some weird demon puberty but no, we had to end up married because of a mistake. Technically we're not even married. I'm just married to her.
This might not have been so bad if I had been aware of it the whole time. To think that all of that weird stuff I had been doing was a part of some mating ritual. And instead of telling her, like I should have, I kept it from her and made her suffer more.
I can only imagine what could be going through her head. She must hate me after all that I've done. Why would she want to be bonded to someone like me? Either way in this situation she has a 2/3 chance of things going good for her. If she frees me or kills me it's a win for her.
But then there is always that 1/3 chance.
That 1/3 chance that she might want me too. I don't know if it's my inner demon speaking or not, but being bonded to her might not be so bad. We had similar habit, powers, same sense of style, we were both outcasts at some point. But I also might be drawn to her because I just want someone like me.
And then what about what her demon side had said before?
Worthy.
Was that a sort of claim? Before she had seemed to enjoy seeing me. And she did say something about finishing a bond?
Should I have told this to Raven? Or would it have just made things worse? Whatever he demon was thinking Raven didn't really have that much control over it then. She couldn't even remember what she had done. If her demon side had been interested in me then, would she still be now?
I have to stop thinking like this. I have to get the key so I can unlock her bracelets and free her from her restraints. Once all of this is over I can finally go back to how things were before. Or be done with this life.
Teleporting to the lounge I started walking towards Gysmo's little tinkering corner where I had seen him with the key remote. Hopefully he didn't put it away somewhere where I would have to take time to search through his things.
The others were all lounging around talking over the TV. If I was subtle no one would notice me pocket it and teleport away.
Walking up I spotted the little silver key remote on a pile of blueprints. I reached out to grab it but heard the sliding doors to the lounge open before I could.
"THOSE STUPID TITAN'S!" yelled Gysmo as he came in.
"What's the matter?" asked Mammoth, getting off the couch with the others. By now they had all noticed me.
"The Titan's know the plan is what happened!" yelled Gysmo some more as he threw a temper tantrum and began to kick various things, "Not do they know what we plan on doing but they blocked off The Micro Bionics Lab in Jump City to stop us from getting the last piece!"
"There's nowhere else we could get it?" asked See-More.
"No, that place has the only mirco-enhancer for miles. Without it the machine won't even cover a building." Gysmo replied still pouting.
"Then let's just do what we'd done before," Said Billy. "Yeah, make a distraction for them to rodeo with and send Kyd in under their noses." Said another.
'Not a good idea,' I chipped in, 'they'll be looking for someone like me trying to slip in and out. Even with a distraction they'll take that as a cue to start looking for me.'
"Rodge that!" Said Private HIVE, "I've also heard that Titan's East are still in town. That creates a bigger problem for us."
"Then what the heck do you suggest we do?!" asked Gysmo.
"Well we can always just do the opposite of what their thinkin we'll do." Said See-More casually.
"What do you mean?" asked Mammoth confused.
"Well, they would be expecting us to do the same thing and try to distract them so we can get the micro thing. But why not just go full force?"
"You think that'd work?" Asked Billy.
"Right now we're running out of options. It's only a matter of time before they tell some of those big name super heroes and track us down. If we wanna do this it better be done soon."
"See-More's right. If we hit them head on by surprise I can whip up something to knock a few of them out and the rest of you can take care of the others." Said Gysmo while thinking. You could almost see plan running through his head.
The others started conversing about the heroes they would take out and the ways they were going to fight them. Mammoth making various punches at the air and See-More turning his eye to different settings.
'I think it would be best if I stay here.' I thought to them. I had better get this over with before they get to distracted.
They all seemed to stop at once the conversations coming to a close to turn to me.
"Why would you want to do that Kyd?" Asked See-More walking up to me.
'If the Titan's have pieced together the machine that places us at the warehouse by the docks. Where we not only stole a machine part we stole their team mate. They are still looking for her diligently and if they were to find their way here to free her, that would also leave the machine vulnerable. If I was to stay here, I could guard the layer and teleport the machine to a safe place should they come looking.' I thought at them.
"Not a bad idea Kyd," said Gysmo. "I worked hard on that thing. The piece were getting will be useless without the machine itself. You should stay."
The others seemed to accept this idea and went back to their previous conversations.
I nodded. 'Will you give me the remote key to the bracelets? The last thing I need is another Titan running around.' I asked.
He looked at me a second considering my proposal before walking to his desk, "sure thing." And he tossed me the key which I caught above my head in one hand and brought it down to examine.
While the others were getting ready, I would set up everything I needed to prepare myself for any Titan's. And then I would go back to my room to rid myself of this bond and Raven forever. A villain and a hero just don't work.
"Has anyone seen Adonis?"
This next chapter is where things get intense. Warning! Will be rated M.