Chapter 9

Starfire hummed as she walked through the hallways of her home, her arms were filled with laundry from the boys room and her, only one room was left, her dear Friend Raven. It was after Beast Boy was teleported to a place Raven called 'the pit of damnation, cast in the eternal darkness of agony' for using her underwear as a headwear that it was decided that Starfire was to be the one, and only one, to touch Ravens cloths and enter her room. Best Boy had yet to recover from his ordeal from where Raven sent him, he keeps on waking up at odd times of the night screaming about, Barney, pink flowers, rubber ducks, and polka dotted blue cats.

Still humming Starfire approached her friends door, over the years Raven had finally replace the silver steel door for a solid ebony stone door, her name was written in silver paint and shadowed in blood red paint, Starfire felt the magic of Ravens spells sweeping over her before the door opened. It was like staring into a black vortex; only the silhouette form of a bed, dresser and a bookcase could be seen. Still humming she entered Raven's room to gather her soiled laundry, only to drop all the clothing she transporting, there sitting on Friend Ravens bed was a another woman, she was reading one of Ravens books.

"Excuse me, stranger," Starfire's hands started to glow green as her eyes lit up, the glow from her hands and eyes illuminated the room and the stranger, "I must ask as of how you were to enter Friend Ravens room and for you to please leave it."

The stranger looked up from the book she was reading, strands of grass was clinging to her cheek, large red feline eyes stared into large green glowing eyes.

"Are you," the stranger looked down at the book and sounded out, "Stare-fire?"

Confused Starfire's eyes stopped glowing, but her hands did not and she still hovered a foot off the ground, "Yes? How may I help you stranger that have broken into Friend Ravens room?"

"Oh good!"

Before Starfire could question what was good, the stranger had leaped off Ravens bed and was giving her a hug that almost rivaled hers in strength.

"It is so good to meet one of the protectors of my new sister, brother would be so pleased to know that Sister Raven has been safe all this time, in fact this will help him, no poten-"

"Sister Raven? Raven is not your sister; Friend Raven is my friend and my younger sister!"

The stranger threw Starfire what could only be described as a haughty smile, as if she knew something she did not. "Sister Raven is not your sister, she could not be, for she is mine…well not right now, but when brother takes her as a mate then she will be!"

Growling Starfire flew higher up in the air, her eyes were blazing emerald, her hands flashed with green star-bolts ready for the use, "You are not sister to Raven, and you are not worthy to be called the sister of Raven, as the right of the Tamaranian Law, I evoke the ritual of Ek' vizikalmjoha ga' bo' ja, for the right of titled of Sister of Raven!"

Raven was sitting outside at her favorite coffee shop sipping her jasmine tea, her hair was pulled up in a lavender pony tail and she wore dark black sunglasses that hide her violet eyes from the rest of the world, to them, for now, she was just another young gothic woman, sipping tea and reading a book, in some unknown language, who didn't get enough sun.

Softly humming to the music blaring from the speakers Raven finished off her tea and went back inside the shop and to the counter to order a package of the same tea she just had.

"May I help you?"

Raven was meet with a person who immediately reminded her of her counter part nemesis Jinx, pink hair with black highlights and eye that were pink thanks to the contacts she wore, her clothing was a short black leather skirt and a hot pink halter top.

"Can I have three packages of jasmine tea and two of orange tea?"

"Sure, I'll be right back!"

Raven turned her back to the shop keep and looked around the café, it was scattered with mostly wanna be Goth males, a few scattered gothic girls staring into space here and there. Raven felt the presence of one of the gothic males come up and lean on the counter beside her.

The shopkeeper came back and handed her the bag of tea, "How much do I owe you?"

"Oh, consider it on the house, sweetheart, just give me your name and number and will be even."

Before she could even respond a bolt of pink energy slammed in her and flung her into the opposite wall of the Tea Shop, Raven felt her left shoulder dislocate as she crashed into the wall and fell to the floor on her hands and knees. The stare had cleared out by the time she hit the floor. Her right hand cradled her left arm as she tried to ignore the pain she looked up and wasn't surprised to see her arch nemesis, "Huh, speak of the devil and he shall come."

Jinx had walked into the store, her hair had grown out, it was now to her chin, and she still wore the prison outfit she escaped in. Before Raven could wonder how the hell Jinx had escaped from prison she was kneeling down in front of her, one of her hands where wrapped around her throat and the other was glowing bright neon pink.

"What the hell did you do to me?!"

In a second Ravens eyes lit up with her power and a bolt of black magic threw Jinx out the window of the Tea Shop and onto the pavement outside, with a painful grunt she popped her shoulder back into place and use her healing powers to take away the pain for a second, later the pain will back ten fold, but for know she needed to be able to fight without hurting.

"Three weeks, Jinx, you were in jail for just three weeks, surly the food wasn't that bad?"

Snorting Jinx stood up, surrounded by glass, "How would you know, you never had prison food before."

"No, but nothing can be as bad as Starfires' cooking." They both shuddered; everyone had the unfortunate pleasure of tasting Starfires food at one point in their life.

"At this point I would prefer your sugar addict aliens' food, then whatever the hell you did to me!"

Raven had barley had time to pull up an ebony shield when she was bombarded with pink hexes of doom. Phasing through the ground she came up behind Jinx who turned with another hex ready in her hands. Ducking so that the cotton candy colored hex flew over her head, Raven gather a bolt of black lightning in the palm of her hands and slammed it into the torso of the pink haired hex wielder, blasting Jinx away from her she went soaring trough the air and into the same wall she had blasted Raven into.

Raven floated over the pile of rubble where Jinx laid in, "What the hell are you talking about?"

Jinx set her jaw in a firm line, and forced the debris off of her, pushing herself up she stared up at the seductive demon-witch, her eyes glowing pink from her built up frustration fueling her magic, "I don't know what you did, but now I can't get my mind off you! I can't stop thinking of running my hands through your silken hair, caressing your voluptuous breast, of kissing your lushes lips! By the Goddess, I'm not even bi, what the hell did you do to me!"

Raven blinked at the sudden display of emotion from the vibrantly pink female below her, "I did nothing."

"LIER!" Jinx launched herself into the air and tackled Raven to the ground and kissed her, with a fevering passion she brushed her lips back and forth over Raven's in a firm, sensual movement that caused her to gasp at the sudden action.

Next she was chocking her. "Damn you, you beautiful, evil, amazing, despicable, sexy, damning witch!"

Gasping Raven formed an ebony shield between her and Jinx and flung Jinx off her and against the same wall (poor wall) where a large creak could be heard as Jinx hit her head against the stone and fell unconscious to the floor.

Groaning Raven took a good look at the destruction around her, all the windows to the Tea Shop had been destroyed from stray magical shots, the door was laying in two on the ground, there was a hole in the wall next to the door, and a whole bookcase of books was destroyed.

"Robin is going to be so pissed."

Sighing Raven waved her right arm at the disaster, she could already feel the pain returning to her left shoulder, "Azarath…" Jinx disappeared from where she was laying comatose on the ground to reappear in the Titians medic bay, strapped down to a bed.

"Metrion, Zinthos!"

Raven and her bag of tea disappeared.

When all was silent for a while the shopkeeper looked out from her hiding spot from behind the counter and at the damage that was done to her store.

"Well, what the hell?! Who's going to fix all of this?" Snorting in frustration she turned to get the broom only to jump back in shock, there floating in front of her was a letter and connected to it a check. Cautiously the shopkeeper snatched the floating piece of paper out of the air and read it.

"Sorry for the mess, thank you for the tea.

Raven of the Titians."

And connected to it was a check for five thousand dollars.

(This next part Pakkrat wrote for me, so say thanks to him, because if I had done it, it would have sucked!)

Starfire launches out with a punch initiating this ritual; Noxlafa blinks at this not realizing what has happened yet… but inches from her face as the punch comes in Noxlafa's eyes glow in red flame as a smile crosses her face. Noxlafa throws up her forearm and blocks the swing to engulf her own hands in red fire, both using similar powers though Noxlafa had other skills she found a "fair" fight would be more… amusing.

Noxlafa now pushes back Starfire's swing, causing Starfire to gasp in surprise right before Noxlafa launches her own punch with flames flicking across her knuckles into Starfire's face, causing the Tameranian's face to scrunch under the punch. Starfire is falling back on her legs to quickly look back eyes glowing brightly with green energy, Noxlafa holding a smile over her lips says "If this ritual you speak of is a simple contest of strength I will not loose!"

Starfire glares with defiant eyes, "You will not be able to call Raven your sister less you prove to me you are deserving! She is my sister in the Teen Titans!"

Starfire and Noxlafa begin punches but as their fists tap to the fields of green and red fire, they bounced back away with minor shocks of the mixing energy. Starfire made a right hook and Noxlafa makes a left hook, the two punches strike against each other and push off mixing the red and green as fingers locked. Noxlafa reaches out with her right to have Starfire to grip her left fingers with Noxlafa, the two now push off with their arms putting their faces inches from each other. Starfire and Noxlafa bear onto their teeth, snarling and growling as they begin to try and push the other off from the hand holds.

Starfire, still trying to topple Noxlafa, growls through her teeth, "You are a worthy opponent!"

Noxlafa, her teeth grinding with a push says "You are also worthy, even if you are a mere mortal!"

Starfire screams as her eyes glow bright, Noxlafa gasps dropping her body back and kicking Starfire in a roll. Starfire is tossed back and into Raven's bookcase crushing the shelves as her eyes then fire, burning a nice hole in Raven's rug. Noxlafa blinks, "Oh my… sister will be very unhappy with you!"

Starfire, pushing off the shelves stands to scream "Raven is not your sister, for you have yet to prove worthy of that title!" Starfire then narrows her eyes lying her hands on her hips, "Also, you are the cause of this damage, not I!"

Noxlafa clenches her fists at her hips, "No I am not! You are the one who tried to shoot me with eye beams!"

Starfire nods, "Yet you are the one that had moved!"

Starfire flies out with her two fists firmly in front of her, slamming Noxlafa back into the opposite wall; Noxlafa peels off of the wall hearing a cracking sound, she glares as she had crushed a dresser, "Oh no! Sister's dresser!"

Starfire yells, "She is NOT your sister!"

Noxlafa turns with her fangs twitching along with her right eye, forming a ball of flame she tosses it but Starfire levitating and dodging moves out of the way of the fire. Noxlafa begins tossing more and large balls of fire. Finally she tosses one the size of Starfire's head but Starfire flies up flat against the ceiling making the ball of fire bounce off the light above and then off the mirror Raven uses for her meditation, then straight into Raven's bed making its sheets and mattress catch up in flame. Noxlafa looks blankly at the bed, as Starfire floats next to her blushing, "Perhaps… we should have taken this battle outside?"

Noxlafa turns to Starfire blinking twice, "But you said this ritual was to prove my worth as Raven's sister, and that it must be dealt immediately!"

Starfire blinks, "Did I say that?" Starfire blushes as she says "Perhaps I did not take into account the damage this ritual often creates!"

Noxlafa glares her eyes on Starfire before grabbing the Tameranian's hair and tugging it, Starfire screams before grabbing Noxlafa's hair and tugging it as well. The two now begin a battle of tug-a-hair when a black aura appears in the room, Raven sighed, "I can't even walk in the mall anymore!" Raven opens her eyes wide to the burning bed, broken shelves and torn books, smoldering rug, and dresser drawers all tossed with their inner compartments all on the floor, "What in the name of Azarath happened here?"

Noxlafa and Starfire turn to Raven, they blink to her before in unison saying "She started it!" the two then glared at each other before tugging hair once more. Raven rubs her temples saying "At least my window is…"

The window is crashed into the room; Noxlafa looks and screams "Brother!"

Raven screams "Son of a… YOU!"