lostmoonchild: Another chapter, another update. It's probably a good thing that I don't sleep very well at night (isn't it sad when pillows get tossed onto the floor in favor of a mattress?) so I can get chapters written for you guys. Okay, and I just had a random thought from Stephen King's "Misery" where Paul Sheldon goes on about being a pet writer for a very crazy woman.
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Chapter Thirteen
The smell of something cooking brought Beast Boy back to consciousness, his body stretching as he woke up. He stared when he saw that a little girl that had the same colored eyes as Raven was sitting on her heels, watching him carefully. She tilted her head slightly to the side as if curious before asking, "Are you my sister's mate?"
"Your sister's what?"
"Her husband. Are you my sister's husband."
"Which sister?" Beast Boy questioned as he sat up.
The little girl frowned slightly as she looked at him carefully. "Raven. Are you Raven's mate or are you two just sleeping together for fun like brother says?" The little girl questioned. "Brother says that humans are stupid and are the most arrogant and greedy of all creatures."
"Is that so?" Beast Boy questioned. "Well, not all humans are like that."
"Sister said that you needed to wake up. It's breakfast time."
"What's on menu? Demon?"
The little girl frowned slightly as if she didn't understand his joke. "No," she said finally. "Raven caught an animal when she was getting plants for you." The little girl frowned even more. "Sister never goes to get anything for anybody. She must like you if she's doing that."
"Right. Where's Grandmother?"
"Yelling at Trigon. Grandmother's his mommy."
Beast Boy froze. That nice demon that was providing them with a place to stay was Trigon's mother?! How could something so evil possibly have been born from somebody so nice?
The little girl giggled at the look on his face before getting up and skipping outside, announcing that he was awake. When Beast Boy got outside, he was surprised to see that Raven was trying to pry one of her younger brothers off of her and that everybody else was laughing. "What's going on?" Beast Boy questioned.
"Meys decided that he wanted Raven." Noka laughed, his eyes dancing with excitement. "Unfortunately for him, Raven doesn't feel the same way."
Beast Boy watched as Raven began flying around, trying desperately to make her little brother let her go. "You're not going back to Earth with me!" Raven told her brother.
The little boy clung tighter to his sister, clearly not willing to let her go. After fifteen minutes, Raven sighed and shook her head while Meys grinned knowing full well that he had won. "Have fun teaching the little monster." Sapphire said with a laugh. "He still takes the occasional limb."
Raven glared at her sister before looking at the little boy that was rubbing his head against her breasts. "Lesson one," she said as she pried the little boy off of her and made him stand on the ground, "you do not touch my chest. These," she pointed to her breasts, "are mine. They are not there for your amusement."
Beast Boy looked away quickly, not wanting to get caught staring at the young woman's chest. If she caught him staring, she'd probably kill him. Then again he could just claim that he was curious about how she was going to take care of her little brother.
After Meys was resting comfortably on his sister's back, he rested his chin on her shoulder as Raven handed Beast Boy some fresh plants. "They taste like tofu so you shouldn't complain too much." Raven told him with a slightly disgusted face.
"Uh, thanks. Maybe next time I can go with you."
Raven nodded slightly before darting over to the cooking meat. "So this kind you can't eat fully cooked?" Cyborg questioned.
"No. If it's completely raw then it'll actually kill you but if it's fully cooked then it's like eating somebody's smelly shoe." Raven told them as she took the meat away from the fire. "It tastes better when it's about halfway or three quarters of the way cooked."
Alynn smiled a bit, clearly pleased with how easily everybody was beginning to adjust to being in Azarath. "Sister, I was thinking that we could go see Mother." Alynn told her sister lightly. "I'm sure that she'd love to meet our friends."
"Arguing would be pointless, wouldn't it?"
"Seeing as you lost the argument regarding sending our friends back to Earth, yes."
"Give Arella our love." Noka and Nierki said at the same time.
Raven and Alynn frowned slightly. "Go find your mother and give her your love." Alynn told her older brothers.
"She's a skeleton."
"I'm sure you can get it up for her."
As they ate, they listened to the light arguments that took place. The older ones seemed to have no problems poking at everybody else's mothers which resulted in the younger ones shooting the comments back. They supposed that it'd be pointless to make cracks about their father seeing as all of them shared the same father. Each one hated Trigon for whatever reason but they all seemed to like the Titans.
The group stiffened when a young man with cold eyes appeared, a smirk placed on his deathly pale skin. His eyes were the color of ice and appeared to be just as cold. For some reason, the Titans got the feeling that not even fire could warm his eyes. "What do you want?" Noka demanded as he stood up, followed quickly by the other siblings.
"Your precious grandmother is dead. Trigon killed her just a short while ago."
Hisses filled the air as the half demons braced themselves, their bodies prepared to either attack or defend. "Get on my back, Meys." Raven said softly.
The boy didn't argue as he listened to his sister, clinging to her shoulders as his legs wrapped around her waist. "So you adopted one. How will that work with you living with humans on Earth and him living here?" The man questioned lightly.
"I'll drag his sorry butt to Earth." Raven told him. "When I don't have a reason to live on Earth, I'll come back here."
"Your father will be so pleased."
Raven's eyes narrowed as she stepped back, clearly not enjoying the man's presence. "Why don't you leave before I decide to lose my temper and just steal your life?" Raven snarled.
The man frowned as he stepped back, clearly understanding the woman's threat. "I'll be back later on," he promised, "and you will all die."
When he vanished, the siblings looked at each other. "Get the medical herbs gathered up and pack up some cooked food for the humans. The rest of us will eat what we can catch and won't stop to cook it." Nierki ordered with a serious look. "Anybody that hates uncooked food had better get over it because we're not stopping."
As the siblings quickly moved, the Titans could just feel their anxiousness. "Could he have been lying?" Robin asked Nierki.
The young man shook his head before answering, "We know when people are lying to us. He wasn't lying. Trigon did kill Grandmother and nobody's stupid enough to stick around here."
"We need to go to the monks for protection." Raven said with a worried look.
"He'll be hunting down your friends first, sister, you know that. No, our best chance at survival is to run while we still have a chance."
Raven hugged herself, clearly upset by what was going on. "Raven, we'll be okay. You guys know every inch of this place and know how to survive. Don't worry, we'll be able to keep up." Robin said with a reassuring look.
The young woman moved anxiously, clearly torn between what her head was saying compared to what her instincts were saying. Moving Meys so he was in front of her, she held him close to her and rocked softly back and forth. "Are we going to die?" Meys questioned with a frightened look.
"Not if any of us have a say in it." Raven answered as she hugged her brother tighter. Lightly pressing her forehead against his, she murmured softly to him, "I'll kill whoever tries to take you from me. I swear it."
"What if they try to take away your friends?"
"I'll kill anybody who tries to take away what's mine."
As they looked into the woman's eyes, they could see that she was being perfectly honest. Anybody who dared try to take away anybody that she cared about with her entire being would die and they would die a very slow and painful death.
For some strange reason… they found it oddly comforting.
lostmoonchild: Okay, I'm thinking that there'll be a lemon in the next chapter but I'm not entirely sure. I can feel the next chapter working its way into my brain so we'll see what happens next. Show me the love and leave a review. Hate it? Let me know what you hate and I'll see what I can do to make improvements.