Hello Everyone! I'd like to dedicate this chapter to jcyz and tennisgal456. Thank you SO much for your reviews, and I really appreciate the fact that you are still reading this.
So, I SHOULD be writing my one page report on the civil war of the United States, Making a brief timeline of the Iraq war, writing an essay on why Hilary Clinton will win the elections next year, making a map of the Middle East, and building a model of the Tower Of London out of wood and toothpicks, but I love you guys so much that I'll put it off until later. (Can you tell that my Social Studies teacher gives out the most random projects ever?)
So, here is the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans.
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'You SURE this will work?'
Mar'i's POV
I wasn't entirely sure it was going to work. Sarah had definitely proven her knowledge when she pulled out a long sheet of paper and a pencil. She started sketching a blueprint of the palace. The wedding was in three 3 hours and we were all crammed in a slightly large closet drawing blueprints of the palace and coming up with plans on how to get Jake out of here. And fast.
"Look," Sarah said, pointing to a room on the blueprints, "This is the main room; the wedding will be held here in precisely 3 hours. We know that this wedding is arranged, but we don't know why. If we know, we might be able to figure out a legal way to cancel it. Any ideas?"
"Maybe Jake really DOES have an irresistible charm. It sure works on me..." Clara said, dreamily looking off into space. I noticeably tensed.
"Don't worry about her," Sarah whispered in my ear, "She said the same thing about a forty year old man in the grocery store that looked younger than he was."
I nodded. Victor spoke, "What is there is an evil stepmother who can only get her fortune by this marriage?" We all stared at him like he was crazy. Suddenly, I got an idea. "Uh-oh," Victor said, "Mar'i has that look on her face." I rolled my eyes.
"Maybe not an evil stepmother, but what about an evil grandmother?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" Gar questioned.
"Think about it. Arella gave birth to the daughter of Trigon, and, because of that, was probably an outcast. When Raven committed homicide, it couldn't have helped her image. She was probably at loss for a job, and needed to be rich. By marrying Jake and Kasha, she would have a boat-load, no, a yacht-load of money. Everyone would see her as a wonderful person, too, and she wouldn't bear a bad reputation," I said. Cyborg nodded.
"One thing," Victor said, "Why did Kasha agree?"
"Simple," Sarah told us, "If she married, she got the kingdom and the right to rule before Nami did." We all agreed. There was only one thing left. How would we stop the wedding?
"Well," Clara said, "What if we distract the King and/or Queen? The wedding would be postponed. Then, while one of us does that, the others could kidnap the priest. That way, we would have bought enough time to safely get up there and tell everyone the truth before the wedding takes place."
We all stared at her in astonishment. "That is the single smartest thing I have ever heard you say," I said, wide-eyed.
"But that isn't enough to stop the wedding," Cyborg said. We all silently asked him why. He continued, "Like, at Starfire's wedding on Tamaran. True, basically the same thing happened, but we were being attacked, and that proved the greed and lies. We don't have anything here."
We all stared at our feet, defeated. (Hey, that rhymed!) Suddenly, Gar perked up.
"Wait a minute," he said, "For Azarathians, you need a parent consent form to have a wedding if you are under 20. Arella isn't a parent OR a legal guardian. This wedding isn't legal!" We all smiled. It was going to work out perfectly.
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I know this was really short, but it is a filler chapter. Sometime next week I'm going to have the actual wedding in the chapter, and I couldn't add any more to this one because I was afraid I'd over do it. So, I ended it there. Well, I better get to work on those projects...
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