AN/ OMG! Okay I finally was able to update, some stupid error with uploading the documents, kept me from updating, I was supposed to update Friday night. I guess the same happened with a few of you, considering there weren't many updates, ever since they fixed the email thing. I thought I would have this up early, but I didn't and that's going To cost me, now I really don't think I'm going to have it done, I think I'm going to tryyy, watch how I stress that word. To get another chapter done before the 1st week of December, so then by the time I get to the last, it will be probably the fourth week of December, and then maybe on news year eve, I'll have the mini epilogue, which will take me no time at all. Cross your fingers and hope I do, because I'm really hoping I do.
Ch.13
Absent…?
The birds were chirping…or wait, that doesn't sound like birds. Beastboy awoken to cawing sounds, rubbing his eyes, he blinked them a few times. He felt weight on him and looked down to see Timid sleeping, and looked around. The neutral zone was long gone; they were sleeping in the middle of the rocky path way, there were a couple of those black birds with the four red eyes sitting in the burnt looking trees.
Sitting up on his elbows he nudged Timid on the shoulder to wake her up, she began to stir slightly before slowly sitting up on Beastboy with her right hand on his chest, and the other rubbing her own eyes. Beastboy smiled, "Time to wake up sleepy head."
Timid had forgotten about Beastboys presence, and the fact she was just a minute ago sleeping on him, blushing slightly she stood up abruptly nearly tripping, "Sorr-sorry, I didn't mean to sleep on you." She said quickly, and embarrassed at the same time.
Beastboy waved his hand off, "Eh, that's ok...besides at least you kept me warm…" he paused realizing his comment, and added though it wasn't much, "hehe, ehh" that part was droned out as if it were just somewhat normal to say, but actually embarrassing.
He looked away for a second kicking himself for that comment. Timid looked away to, blushing again, Beastboy stood up and pretended to look around, while scratching the back of his head, and Timid was obliviously waiting for him to say something, still unsure of the situation.
Turning back to Timid, shrugging his shoulders once, "Well, I guess we should be heading back now." He motioned his arm for her to lead the way, "Ladies first." He said with the best a smile he could muster, casually before dropping his arm back to his side.
She nodded, "Right." She said quickly not trusting her own words and started to walk off in the direction back to Braves realm. The walk was not long, it was only a house long walk, no words were conversed throughout the short walk. When they finally got to the ring rock they entered to the smell of breakfast.
Wisdom, Brave, and well Happy was still in bed, sleeping soundly. The other two had breakfast out on the floor with a cloth underneath it, already eating breakfast.
Beastboy rubbed his tummy and said, "Mhm, something defiantly smells good, this morning." He saw a bunch of bagels, and ran over to where the other two were eating, before quickly sitting down and started eating breakfast himself. Timid walked over quietly, and sat down as well, pouring herself some tea.
Brave and Wisdom looked up from eating their breakfast, noticing there presence, and Beastboy spreading butter, that was "not" a dairy substance.
Wisdom put down her tea, and was about to speak until Brave spoke up smiling at an idea, "Um, Beastboy you do know that's "butter," right?" pointing to what he was eating.
Beastboy looked down at what he was eating, bagel and butter, and then looked back up to Brave confused, and said, "So…, there's a problem because…" trying to figure out what she was getting at.
Brave sighed, and said quoting on one part, "It's a "dairy" product."
Beastboy looked down in disgust at his bagel covered in…dairy, slimey, melting cow ingredient. He dropped it on his plate, and started turning sick, his cheeks bloating up looking as if he were to puke any second now. Brave started smiling funny at his reaction, and covered her mouth trying to suppress chuckles that would escape, indicating she was playing in anyway.
Wisdom rolled her eyes, and said, "Beastboy, Braves just joking, it's not dairy, I made sure it wasn't."
Beastboy exhaled the air he was containing, and felt relieved, Brave pouted that her fun was over, but she thought 'oh well' and continued to eat.
Wisdom took a sip of her tea before asking, "So where were you two, you both weren't in bed this morning?"
Beastboy was trying to answer, but had food in his mouth, so Timid answered for him, "Neutral Zone…we fell asleep." She said simply, adding the last part.
Wisdom went with that answer and went to set down the empty cup of tea. When she did her eyes traveled to the back label of the butter. It read, "THE BEST BUTTER! FROM THE BEST DAIRY COW!", and then in little words "This has been a product from the Inc. Corporation of Happy. Warning! We are not responsible for health problems considering of any birth of cows, or taking them in, please use with caution." It had a picture of Happy next to the sign with a big smile, with a "joking" in quotation marks.
She stayed there for just a sec staring at it, and thought, 'How did I miss that?' she reached for it slowly, and picked it up. Beastboy noticed he needed more butter, and went to grab for some more, when he found that the butter was nowhere in site, and turned to see Wisdom having it in her hands starring at it for some reason, and said, "Uh, Wisdom, are you going to use the butter, cause if not can I have it?"
Wisdom looked up from the label to Beastboy, then slowly looked back to the label then to back to him, "Uh, you know what, how about I get you a new brand, this one is uh…not a…um new brand, I'll be right back." She stood up quickly and went to go fetch a new brand of butter.
Beastboy blinked, confused watching her go off, and said, "Well, that was…weird." He shrugged and took a bite out of his bagel.
Timid was finished drinking her tea and eating breakfast, and was now just zoned out, still a little tired. Brave, finished just when Wisdom got back and handed Beastboy the "no dairy butter" labeled butter to him, when guess who plopped down beside Brave, grabbing a bagel, and making herself at home.
Brave was startled a little, and turned to see that it was Rude, "Gee, you scared me, where you'd come from?"
Rude talking with her mouth full, "My realm, Wisdoms, Timids, Knowledge's, Happys, and now yours, and I ran into Rage, now if you don't mind I'm exhausted and hungry." She said quickly, taking bite after bite of her bagel. She took Braves empty cup, and poured some milk instead of tea, and started gulping it down.
Everyone perked up at the name of Rage in an instant, except Beastboy, but he knew from the last time they met she was not something to cross, and meant bad news.
Wisdom immediately started asking questions, but calmly while the others listened in, "When, where, and what is she doing out of her realm?"
Rude down the last off her bagel and milk, and burped before answering, "She was snooping in your realm looking for BB, and I think Lust let her out, even though she was aloud to wander during this time anyhow." She stood up and walked over to the bed next to Happy, and plopped on the bed, lazily pulling the covers over her and resting her head on the pillow with a long yawn.
Wisdom wouldn't let Rude crash just yet; she asked a couple more questions, "What does Lust want with Rage?"
Rude snored slightly, Wisdom shook her, "Whhat, I'm trying to sleep here."
Brave stepped in this time, "Well, what does she want with her?"
Rude had her eyes closed and answered, "I think Rage is working for her, I don't know." She tried going back to sleep, but Wisdom and Brave wouldn't let her.
Beastboy was standing next to Timid listening to the whole conversion, Rude showed up quite unexpected, and it seems that even though the other emotions hadn't shown up they were still up to no good, mentioning that, brought up another subject, "Hey, uh Rude you haven't by any chance seen Knowledge, have you?"
Brave and Wisdom turned to Beastboy, surprised that they had forgotten that Knowledge had yet to return and turn back to Rude who was yet again snoring slightly again. Brave shook Rude, which Rude groaned, and answered, "I'll make it simple and quick, ok. I was sent by Raven to find you guys, I haven't seen Knowledge, and neither has Raven nor has she heard from her, now I'm going to sleep, so bug off." She then put the pillow over her head, so she could drown the others out, and dosed off within a minute.
Beastboy and the others stood in silence thinking off what to do now, Wisdom seem to be in deep thought, Brave and Timid did nothing but stand there waiting for someone to speak, Beatboy broke the moment of silence, "Um, so what does this mean?"
Wisdom shook her head and said with certainty, "I don't know, but I've decided, were going to go look for Knowledge, and then return to this realm."
Beastboy questioned, asked, "Were all going to look for her, what about Happy?"
Brave was about to say something, but Wisdom cut her off, "She'll stay here, Beastboy you and me will go off to Knowledge's realm." She turned to the other two, "Brave you take Timid and go to Lusts realm and see what she's up to, or any clues you can find."
Timid became worried, and Brave was like what?, "Wisdom, if we stay quiet, and keep where we are then they won't find us, there's no point in going that far, I mean look at Timid, she even thinks its not worth it." Showing that Timid also disagreed, but Timid hid that fact not wanting her opinion to be shown as Brave indicated, even though that was kind of hard to do when it clearly showed anyhow.
Beastboy also agreed, "Yeah, let's just find Knowledge."
Wisdom sighed, "You all heard what Rude said, they are still hunting us, and the fact that they haven't tried finding us or, taking Beastboy. It's a sign that they are up to something, it's exactly why I want you two to find what she's up to."
Brave was debating on weather that was still a good idea looking at Wisdom, she sighed, "Fine, will go, is there a time you want us to meet back here?"
Wisdom checked the clock across the gym up on the wall, it was at the time 11:45, she then calculated quickly before saying, "I guess because of how long it will take to get to the realms and back, we should meet back here at six."
Brave nodded and said, "I guess were going then, come on Timid." Brave started to walk off, with Timid behind her. Timid looked behind once more with a worried expression, before turning back and exiting out a different ring rock on the west side of the realm, disappearing.
Beastboy then turned to Wisdom, who also turned to him, "So I guess were going huh?"
Wisdom sighed "Yeah…well let's go then." Her and Beastboy then started to walk off, and exited out the south rock ring also disappearing. While Rude, snored quietly, and Happy still dead to the world, but not literally.
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Raven had already awaken half and hour ago and was down in the common room sitting in her love seat, a cup of tea still hot and brewing on the table beside her. A black book rested in her hands open, her reading quietly.
The others were also already up, but half and hour later then when Raven awoke. They were munching on breakfast, sitting at the table. They all had woken up late, mostly due to an exhausting battle during the night, that evidently up being a chase since it was Red X, and of course no luck in catching him.
Yes it was quite a quite morning to say the least, if it wasn't for Beastboy not being there and the exhausting battle, it may be a different story consisting of the normal argument "Meat vs. Tofu" argument every morning.
The three were poking at their breakfast, not to enthuse this morning, or about eating. They all yawned at the same time before continuing to poke at there breakfast. Which was no doubtly getting cold, the only one who seemed to be in a good mood this morning was Silkie who at the time was stealthily crawling towards the left over pancakes that were sitting on the stove, licking its lips hungrily?
Cyborgs eyes drifted on its own over to the stove, and widen quickly when Silkie was about to take a bite out of the pancakes, and probably the pan to go with it. He awaken real fast and jumped out of his seat and ran for the pan of pancakes, "No! Silkie don't eat…"
Chump!
Cyborg stood still in his spot half way to Silkie and paled, "…that."
Silkie had swallowed all the pancakes and the pan all together, the pan making a shape inside Silkie's stomach, it being sideways. Robin and Starfire also paled, of course it wasn't the shape of Silkie that worried them, oh no, it was what it ate, that worried them.
Raven had taken notice of the commotion, and looked up from her book to see when Cyborg yelled, and saw Silkie shaped differently then usual. She raised one eyebrow in confusion and asked, "Why is Silkie shaped like that?"
Starfire answered her question slowly horrified, and still paled at the same time, "Silkie has…consumed…the pan of…cakes." She said the last word more horrified than before.
Raven looked at Silkie who at the time wasn't feeling well, and showing his stomach wasn't agreeing as well either. Raven still looking at Silkie, now worried asked, hoping it wasn't true, "The "pan of cakes?"
Starfire shook her head slowly indicating a yes, "I am afraid so."
Just then Silkie started moving a little across the stove, showing signs of dizziness, and then it stopped, the larva's stomach started rumbling worser, everyone knew what was about to happen.
Robin quickly fired orders, while Raven, Cyborg, and himself, started to duck for cover behind the couch, "Everyone, duck for cover! Starfire get Silkie out of here, now!"
Starfire knew she wasn't going to like this, but it was her responsibility, she quickly flew to Silkie, scooped him up and flew out the towers doors. Where the others watched from behind the couch waiting for the inevitable.
BOOM!
The big explosion of green gas was so loud that it caught the attention of viewers outside on the beach, and the two fishermen on the docks.
The two fishermen were sitting off on the side of the docks looking at the cloud of gas; one turned to other and said, "Well, someone had blow fish this morning."
Now back to the Raven and the others who were now standing up slowly behind the couch waiting to see if it was over, even though it was still hard to see outside. The doors open for a split second, and then shuted quickly, though the other titans still got winded by unnatural smells, that made them want to puke, they held their noses.
Starfire came in with Silkie in her hands, who was now happy now that it felt better, and jumped out of Stafires hands, and went to scurry of to somewhere. Starfire on the other hand, well, her not so well. She had a stench aura rising from her, a look of disgust on her face, and her hair blown back because of the explosion.
Before the others could ask if she were okay she said, "I will be in the shower." And floated off out of the common room doors.
Robin stared at the common room doors where Starfire exited, before turning his attention back to the others. Raven had returned to sitting on the couch reading, but her face was still scrunched up because of the smell, Cyborg went to tend to cleaning up the food, and dishes. Robin with nothing else to do decided to go get the air freshner, and thought, 'At least this time it wasn't in the tower.' Finding the air freshener he started spraying.
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It had been ten minutes since the incident with Silkie, and the room still smelt awful. Robin spraying the air freshener just ended up making it worse, it was making her nauseated. Sighing she closed her book, stood up, and walked off out of the common room to her room. She would be thankful when Halloween would be over, and things could go back to normal, well as normal as they can get, considering if Beastboy gets out of her mirror in one piece, or in his clothes for that matter considering Lusts after him.
When she would reach her room she decided she would put up her book, and start meditating. She entered her room and went to her book case, and put away the book she was reading. She turned around, her eyes drifting to her bed and no doubt, there was another book, but it was sticking from out under her bed.
Confused as to why there was a book under her bed, she bent down and picked it up, it was the Book of Azar. 'How did you end up under my bed?' she thought.
She went to sit on the edge of her bed, with the book in her hands, and wondered, "Mhm, I wonder if there's anything in here about meditation mirrors?"
She opened the thick book up to a random page, and began reading, and flipping through it, 'Creatures, Ways of meditating, spells, incantations, rituals, "sigh" this is going to take a while.' She thought tiredly.
'Wish it had an index.' She thought last before continuing to look throughout her book.
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Meanwhile in the Mirror….
Wisdom and Beastboy were walking along a rocky path; other rocks were floating off the path containing other paths or no paths at all. For most of time they had not talked, Beastboy told a few jokes here and there, but she wouldn't laugh, only acknowledge that she understood the joke.
Sometimes she wouldn't get it, and he would explain so she would, but after that it died down, until she brought up something else, "Um, about last night…"
She was cut off before she could continue, "Oh, yeah uh sorry about running off like that I…"
Wisdom cut him off before he could say another word, "Oh, no I was talking about you and Timid, and you have no reason to apologize for last night, you had to go, you had to go, I understand." She said quickly, but calmly also not really wanting to go into the subject itself.
Beastboy face tinted red and rubbed the back of his neck, "Oh, well, um ok."
They came to an intersection, and Wisdom turned right, as well as Beastboy, and continued, "So you've seen the neutral zone, what did you think of it?"
Beastboy thought for a sec and said, "It's nice, but why's it called the neutral zone, and does an emotion live there, or something?"
Wisdom smiled, and said, "No, the neutral zone is a zone that only appears during when Raven sleeps, when everything is shutdown, she doesn't feel anything, that's why it's called the neutral zone."
Beastboy put his hand to his chin in a thoughtful look and said, "You know now that I think about it, I don't think I felt anything either when I was there, it was almost as if I were dead…strange." He shivered.
Wisdom, "So what did you and Timid do?" hoping she would know something that went down.
Beastboy shrugged, "Not sure, I fell asleep, so I don't remember much."
Wisdom expected as much, "Oh." She looked off to the side watching the birds fly off in a certain direction and thought, 'Guess I'll have to ask Brave about it later, I'm sure she's asking Timid about it to."
She was cut out of her thoughts by Beastboy, "I think were here."
Wisdom and him were standing in front of another rock ring, "Yeah, were here."
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"Oh, come on! Tell me, please, please, please, pleaseeeeeee!" Brave said, she was trying to coax Timid into talking of what happened between Beastboy and her the other night.
Timid shook her head, indicating a no, Brave sighed, but would not give up so easily, "Pleasee, I just want to know what you two did, come on it can't be that bad."
Timid thought for a second, before answering, "We fell asleep."
Brave sighed even louder, "Uh, I already know that, I mean before…!" Brave stopped, an idea struck her and she smiled teasingly. Timid didn't' like that look, "Did you…you know sleep "with" him?"
Timid looked off to the side blushing, and twiddling her thumbs, trying to act innocent, but Brave could see right through it.
"You did didn't you!" Brave said.
Timid shook her head quick, blushing madly, and "N-no." still continuing to not look at Brave.
Brave didn't believe her, "So you slept with him…...mhm,did you give him kiss to?"
Timid answered to quickly and loud, "NO!" she realized what she did and turned to see Braves reaction.
Brave was shocked from the outburst, but that slowly turned into a sly smile, "You sly fox, you so did it!"
At this point Timid cupped her hands to her ears and was shaking her head no with her eyes closed, while Brave was bickering about her kissing Beastboy, even though she could not here a word Brave was saying.
Brave got in front of Timid, and stopped her from going any further. Timid opened her eyes hesitantly, and uncovered her ears waiting for Brave to say something.
Brave waited for Timid to stop and listen, before asking, "So…..how was it?"
Timid pulled her hood further over her eyes, blushing even more, and started to walk on while Brave walked along side her still asking, "Come on Timid, I need details, I promise if you give me, lets say at least two details I'll drop it."
Timid looked from under her hood to Brave who had a sincere, but pleading look, Timid sighed, and rubbed her arm, still embarrassed, and said quietly and quickly, but not to quickly, "We talked…and I slightly brushed his lips while he was asleep."
She looked back to Brave to see approval; Brave stood back up, and said, "Mhm, ok I guess that's good enough."
She looked back to Timid, "So you didn't really kiss him, how come?"
Timid shrugged her shoulders, and said, "I…chickened out."
Brave shook her head, and put one around Timid, and said, "That's just like you Timid, now if I was there, you would have done it." Pointing at her, she then paused and then said, "And of course I would have also gotten my share of a kiss too." Still walking along side Timid with her arm still slung around her.
Timid didn't want to talk about this anymore and asked, "Are we…Done?"
Brave with one arm around Timids shoulder thought for a sec and then smiled and said, "Yep, were done." Timid sighed with relief, glad it was over with.
They were half-way to Lusts realm, it would probably be another hour or so before they got there. They continued to walk until they came to another rock ring, and went through it disappearing.
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North entrance to Braves realm…
Lust was currently at the North entrance to Braves realm, about to walk in. She had already planned how she was going to capture Beastboy, but she would have to do it quietly, and hopefully there weren't too many of her counter parts around him.
She slipped through the ring, and came from behind the boxing ring, and hid behind it. She looked over the top to see any activity, but didn't see any. She moved around the ring, and was confused; it seemed that nobody was here, but….wait.
Lust could here snoring coming from the center of the room, and stood up and walked over to where the source was, she found Rude snoring, and Happy sleeping soundly. She looked around and found no one else around, and thought, 'What in the hell, I walk a four hour trip here and my beastie isn't here, ahh, damn it!'
She turned to the other two, and said out loud irritated, "Looks like I'm going to have to find out from these two won't I." and started to walk over to the two.
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Lusts realm…..
Jealousy was tiding up Lusts sleeping quarters, for when she was to return to her realm, with Beastboy. She had a list in her hand of what Lust wanted. She checked the last box off, and looked about the room, looking to see if she missed anything, or something wasn't put up.
Jealousy sighed, "All done, mhm I think I should add my toys to, when it's my turn to have him."
Little did she know that Rage was at Lusts door, listening to Jealousy, a plan formulating in her head.
Jealousy frowned, "Of course I might not even get the chance, why can't I have him first, it's not like she has to!" throwing the checked list on Lusts bed, and herself. Her arms crossed over her chest, pouting.
Rage had the perfect plan, she stepped out of the shadows, and introduced her presence, "But we can always change that…can't we?"
Jealousy had heard Rage clearly, and sat up, seeing Rage smiling evilly, but a little mischief in that evil smile of hers also. Jealousy got the idea, and smiled back also, in the same way. The both began to chuckle evilly, oh he'll be there's, all they had to do was wait…
To be continued…….
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Well, this was an interesting chapter was it not, kind of short to. I got this finished before I clunked out, and became lazy again, and not finish it. Have some bad news, about the whole getting another chapter in before the first week of December, even though I'm deciding to get it in before next Monday, or maybe exactley Monday, depends, my week right now is busy . Um Sunday I had this get together family thing, cause my step dads grandma passed away thanksgiving night, she passed away at 11 o clock, I know sucky thanksgiving, we didn't even have thanksgiving like we usually did because of that. And Monday I didn't go to school because I had the funeral to attend to, which was at 11 o'clock, so I won't start planning my next chapter till probably Thursday or so, and not to mention I have this CCU thing to attend to for talented artist this Saturday, and if I pass this workshop, and Februarys workshop I get to stay, in this dorm thing and learn art, that's really advanced. It'll be for ten days starting on June 17-to like the 27. So if I do pass, and get to go during those ten days, I might not get to do any fan-fiction, but that's a long ways from now, and I have no idea why I'm telling you guys this, but anyhow. Yeah, so buuuuuut…if you guys wish, send me tons of messages, and I can force myself to try and get another chapter in before next Monday, and before Friday. But I have to get a lot to do so, and tons of reviews would also help! Sending me messages, will motivate me though, so if you want the next chapter up I suggest you do so, but I need some good messages to do so, or your reviews could also help, if there good enough to motivate me.