Chapter 10
KNOCK, KNOCK Jezz, who would be knocking at my door at this time at night. I got out of bed and go to the hoping it was BB so I wouldn't feel bad about yelling. I opened the door and just started to complain "What the hell are you thinking, waking me up. What the hell's your f…oh Raven, um, it's you." I could feel my face getting hot, and by the downward glance of her eyes to some random place on the ground, I could tell that I hurt her feelings. "I'm sorry. For some reason I thought is was, never mind. How can I help you?"
Clears throat "Can I come in, we need to talk." Raven said while walking in to my room. When she got to my bed, she set down and started to talk giving me no choice but to listen. I set on the leaf bed just waiting for her to start. "Like I said, we need to talk. The others seem to think that something is going on between us. I don't think they understand just how much a like we are. Both our parents are dead, we both feel like it's our fault, though my father got what he deserved.
"What I am trying to say, is in away we are connected. I am messing this up. Mist, you are the best girl friend that I have. You understand me. You…I…Mist, I love you. I want to love you, but I am afraid that I am going to hurt you. My powers are controlled by my emotions, and love is one of the strongest emotions there is. If I show that I love you, I can't know how it's going to affect my powers. I'm sorry. I can tell that I am hurting you, but you and I can't happen. We can be friends, but nothing more. Please for my sake, don't try to cause us to become more." She said, clearly in pain.
However, I couldn't let her stop with that so I responded "You think I like you, please, that is sick. You are one of my best friends, but I see you as nothing more. I guess you don't have to pretend that there is nothing between because there's not. I never even considered something like that there could be. I like spending time with you because like you said we understand what each other has gone through. It makes things so much worst that you try to avoid me, because our teams seems to think that there is something going on, so if you want to help me, stop thinking about your self and realize that all I want is your friendship. That way we both can be happy. Now please, I am very tried, just leave." I had to turn away from her so she couldn't see the tears in my eyes.
The only think I got was "Fine, if that is how it has to be." And she was gone. Robin stepped in to my room because I apparently left the door open. "How much did you hear? And do you think, is there anyway, that I can fix this. She just made me so, angry. Like using her powers is a good enough reason not to give love a shot. Robin I quit. We can't be a good enough team with two members so angry at each other. So I am going away maybe I can find another zoo and live the rest of my life as a tiger. No one would be the wiser."
"Request dined. You can't run from your problems. Raven will cool off, and I was going to talk to her anyway. You are right about you two fighting, so this is going to end. If you two are best friends like you said, then forgiveness will come. Just understand that it may not be easy." Robin said just as the alarm went off. When we got to the distress site, Slade and Terra were standing in front of Jinx, Center Block, Mambo Jumbo, and other villains.
"Crap, this is going to be a tough one." I said under my breath. I transformed waiting for Robins call.
Something inside of me felt weird when I transformed, and before anything could happen, from some where deep inside of me, a roar rose up. It bounced off the walls of the city. Fog came in off the ocean behind us and engulfed the city. Every one on both sides looked shocked and scared. Then suddenly, as if answering my calling roars were sounding all around us. It was cool and scary and the same time. In all the ally ways, figures started to appear in the fog. Suddenly I got another feeling, I let out another ear splitting cry. And twenty or thirty wild cats answered.
I transformed for about half a second and told Robin to give the order. He did at the same time that I transformed again and gave my command. In the mist of the battle, some one yelled. I turned to see what it was; Raven was being attacked by one of the lions. All over the other Titans were busy fighting one of the minions that Slade had brought with him. I ran towards the lion trying to give him commands in my mind, telling him to back off.
I jumped and tackled him to the ground. Knowing that Raven could read minds, I yelled as load as I could to fall back, but she was knocked out. Looking in the lions eyes I screamed something that I could not understand and attacked. I fell on him with my fangs bearded and my claws ready for contact. I was partly aware that behind me the battle had stopped and that both sides were watching us.
He caught me by the left shoulder and bit down hard. I could tell that this was going to be a fight for the death. He then threw me to the ground. I stood and then saw that he was again heading for Raven. She was awake but she was too afraid to use her powers. I jumped at him again. This time teeth meet neck and I bit down and tore left, taking half of his neck with me. His arm still above his head in striking position, he fell dead beneath me. I turned to look at the mob in the street who remembered that they were supposed to be fighting.
I ran over to Raven, transforming while I went. I could still taste the skin and blood and felt the blood running down my chin. She had bite and scratch marks on half of her body. Her skin was covered in blood. I picked her up to take her to the care and she gave me the strangest look, like it surprised her that I was trying to help. Then I tried to give her a look that said, I love you, you idiot. She smiled and raised her hand to block a rock from hitting my head.
"How sweet, the two love birds are protecting each other. It makes me want to throw up. Terra told me how Raven had gone soft; I didn't think it was possible. And it is quite a shame that you lived, Misty was it. Now I have yet another thorn in my side. Just another worthless Titan that thinks she is better then everyone else." Slade said in his normal egotistical swag.
"I am getting really tired of people calling me worthless. If I really was so worthless then why do my friends risk there lives for me? Why did Raven try to save me back when we first met? Why did the Titans take me in their wings after they found I had no place to go? How could I be worthless if they went psycho when they found out that you almost killed me? People don't stay by worthless peoples bedsides while they are ill! They don't have birthday parties, go to the mall with, or go to worthless peoples parent's grave sights. If I am so fucking worthless, why do you want to kill me so much?" I ask, truly pissed off.
I hadn't realized that all the cats had surrounded me and Slade. Every one of them were in attack position. A couple of them looked like they were already figuring out were Slade's weakest point was. I could almost hear them, giving battle cries. I had never seen anyone so scared before, but Slade had this look on his face like he knew there was no way he was going to get out of this.
With out thinking, I transformed posed for the attack. I knew the big cats around us would wait till I made the first strike. I felt fire my brain and my vision was get blurred, I had a feeling that my wild side was in control, and I was just along for the bloody ride.
Out of nowhere, one of Robin's boomerangs dug in to the earth in front of me. I could feel every bone in my body tense. There was no why I was going to stop, which was what Robin was telling me to do.
I dug my claws in the ground feeling the soil brake apart at the demand of my claws. Slade's shacking caused a very satisfying vibration to flow through the ground. Time seemed to stop at that second. I could tell that the Titans were all running towards me, the villains were being taken to jail, we won. Raven was still lying on the ground watching me. Slade was standing looking for some hope of survival. I could also tell that my cat followers were just as tense as I was.
Three things happened at once. I attacked, followed by my cat friends, Slade through one of gas mask bombs making him invisible, and Raven teleported above me and was trying to catch me by the tail. Knowing that Slade had gotten away, I side stepped which cause Raven to land on the ground with a load thud. The cats started to run back to where ever they came from, knowing it was over.
"What the hell are you doing? Slade is getting away." I yelled at the Titans, who looked worried. We were so close to being ride of Slade, but Robin and Raven diverted my mind, if I had just stayed focused, Slade might have been no more.
"We are heroes, Misty. Even if we don't like it, we give our enemy's a chance to defend themselves. If you don't, you are no better than the people we are fighting. Don't worry, we will get him next time, and trust me, there will be a next time. On another note, that was really cool, how did you call all those Big Cats?" Robin asked like a student would a teacher.
"Those weren't real cats, Robin. They were spirit animals. From what I could tell, they were all the different emotions a person has. I know that someone intoned to their soul could call spirit animals, that is what I do some times when you see the big raven over my head. So many in one time, however is unheard of. Misty could call them because she was mad at Slade, me, and her self." Raven enlightened us, then she went on explain that it was a very hard thing to do, and I might feel some side effects soon.
Since the battle was over and we didn't feel like talking about what had happened, we went to the pizza parlor. When we got back, Cyborg and BB went to play there racing game, Star and Robin went to do something. That left me and Raven to stare at the wall of the entrance hall.