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IMPORTANT!! I have decided to leave Terra out of my ficts, I have prewritten my entire story already and I think having 7 titans would be to confusing. Also, I don't like the Terra/Beastboy romance thing, I think it portrays him as weak minded, and will IMMEDIATELY fall in love with anyone who'll give him the light of day. Remember the crush he had on Blackfire just because she laughed at his joke once? I don't know, I just don't like the concept. Sorry Terra fans. Now, on to the story
"Tell me what you feel, when you feel," Raven said in her usual emotionless voice.
"Uh..." I really didn't know what she was talking about.
"All of our powers are based on emotion," Raven explained, "Mine most of all, but we first have to get to the bases of our powers to fully understand them before we decide to release them." Oh, I understand now. We were sitting on by bed in my room.
At first, we were going to practice on the roof, but there had been a complication, Beastboy had decided to take a swim on the rooftop pool. We don't have much of a back yard, it being mostly rock down on the island, so our outside hangout is on the roof.
"Ok," Raven had said when we had been on the roof. I'm going to enter you mind to find-" SPLASH!!!
"Wohh!! Did you chickies see that?!? I totally cannonball!!"
"Ignore him" Raven said through gritted teeth. But Beastboy decided he didn't want to be ignored, so he climbed out of the pool and walked over to us. He was soaking wet and dripping all over us.
"What are you guys doin'?" Beastboy asked cheerfully.
"We are TRYING to uncover her powers," Raven said, with a bit of an edge to her voice.
"FUN!! I wanna play too!!" Beastboy said taking a seat next to me.
"No," Raven said getting annoyed.
"Awww. PLEASE Raven? I'll be good, I promise!" He turned and grinned at me. I giggled. What a dork.
"See? SHE wants me to stay!"
"No, she doesn't."
"YES, she dose!"
"NO, she dosen't!" He continued arguing with Raven, occasionally glancing over to me to see if I was still watching. I wonder if Raven will knock him off the roof, I though hopefully as I watched them argue.
"Beastboy! Leave... now. And change back into your normal cloths, you are dripping on us.
He pretended to look shocked, "But, I look so very sexy in my bathing suit!" He stood up and started to flex for us. It was just too funny.
"What... a... dork," I whispered to Raven like it was a secret and that I thought Beastboy couldn't hear.
He smiled, "You wana feel my muscles?"
"OH YES!!" I exclaimed with mock enthusiasm. I started squeezing Beastboy's, and I sorry but, skinny upper arm. But I pretended like I was having the time of my life.
"Ohhhh, BB! Your sooooo strong!" I exclaimed. "Oh my god!! Are those rocks under your skin? Nay, boulders, nay, MOUNTINS!!!" We both started cracking up and Raven just sat their rolling her eyes, trying to decide whether to be mad or not.
She sighed and grabbed my arm, "Come one Naomi, well practice in your room, we won't get anything done with HIM around.
"WAIT NAOMI!! Stay and tell me how strong I am!!" Beastboy called over to me. Raven was practically DRAGGING me across the roof so I never got to make a smart replied. So that's how we got to sitting in my room.
"Now, I'm going to enter your mind," Raven explained.
"Oker Dokers, but don't be expecting too much," I said, giddy with anticipation. She placed one hand on my forehead, and her other hand on her forehead.
"Is this going to hurt?" I asked suddenly nervous.
"No, you won't even feel it, now just relax." It was a lot less impressive than I thought it would be. The second Raven had chanted,
"Aserath Metrion Zinthos!" a blinding flash crossed my eyes, and then... that was it. Raven removed her hand and though quietly for a moment then she said,
"We already have a good idea what your powers are, but we need to do a little experimenting first."
"Wait," I said remembering back to what Robin had said to me when we first met, about the "sources".
"How do you guys know so much about me, when I've never met you before?" I asked, almost accusingly.
Raven sighed, "Naomi, listen, you are going to just have to trust us, ok? We don't think its time for you to... know something's yet. It could be pretty damaging to you emotionally. Ok?"
"What things?" I demanded, "What are you hiding from me?"
"I'll tell you later, but first let's get to your powers." She said, hoping to change the subject.
"Ok," I said hesitantly.
"I picked up a memory from inside your mind," Raven said, "Please, tell me about the fire."
"Oh that?"
FLASHBACK-
I felt the incredible heat surround me. I couldn't breath, the heat was suffocating me. I couldn't see, I blindly stumbled around my room, looking for any cool and clean, anything to escape from this fiery hell. The smoke worked its way up into my nose and lungs. My eyes started to tear, but the heat caused the tears to evaporate the second they left my eyes. Then I felt the white hot flame slowly start to lick its way up my bare legs
END OF FLASHBACK.
"Naomi?" Ravens voice snapped me back to reality.
"Oh, yeah... a fire." I cleared my throat. "When I was... ten I think, I found out my parents were getting a divorce. I was so upset I locked myself up in my room. I cried for hours, but then I just got angry... then the flame just... was, I guess."
"Anger." Raven repeated thoughtfully, "How did you escape?" I squinted, my eyes trying to remember,
"Well, I remember my parent's voices' screaming just outside the door, but the door was locked so they couldn't come in, and just as the fire started burning my legs, my window busted and... I fell out I guess, but I didn't land hard. I landed softly, even though it was a 2 story drop."
I began to realize how stupid this must have sounded, but Raven was nodding thoughtfully, as if she already knew what I was going to say.
"Here," She said, taking out a match, she obviously knew what my powers were ahead of time, but how?
"Now tell me," she said, "What makes you angry?" I thought for a minute.
"This girl I knew, waaaaay back when," I replied, "She pissed me off a lot."
"Ok, good, now look at this match and remember all the things she's done to make you angry."
"Mmmmkay." I looked at the match, remembering all the things that, that Kristy bitch had done. What a bitch. God I hate her. Just thinking of her made my face burn with anger. I felt this hotness behind my eyes remembering her. I gasped, as the match I had been looking at burst into flame. Raven calmly blew it out, she had been expecting it.
"Good," she said, "We can associate your anger with fire, now." She looked straight into my eyes, "I'm going to ask you to recall another memory that might be hard for you, but I need you to remember your most horrifying memory."
FLASHBACK-
My lungs burned, my arms flailed. The thick cold water surrounded me on all sides. I didn't know what way was up, or down. I stretched my fingers out to the full of there extent, desperate for the break of water.
I felt the strong current hold me captive under the water, no mater how I struggled it refused to let my go. The sharp rocks at the bottom of the river were cutting and tearing at my delicate skin. I kicked down on the rocks with all my might, ignoring the snap and sharp pain of the rock breaking my leg. The kick propelled me upwards. My head broke the surface for a split second, only to be dragged back down by the current. I opened my eyes under the water, tying to see through the murky water. I felt my mind shutting down. Black dots started blurring my vision.
I'm going to die, I thought sadly. Then my body crashed into something hard. My arms immediate clung for the only thing solid. I used the last bit of strength I had to pull myself out of the water. As my head broke the surface, my stale breath exploded out of me, as I sucked in a breath as sweet as my first.
I blindly scrambled onto the thing that had saved my life, ignoring the smearing pain that spread throughout my leg. I inhaled and exhaled so fast I was crying. Never before had I been so scared. As my vision returned to normal, I saw what had saved my life, a tree was lying an inch or so above the water, the trunk lying the full length of the river. I pulled my self across the trunk and fell into the muddy bank, and I rested. –
END FLASHBACK.
I blinked my eyes, trying to get out of that painful memory. I didn't want Raven to know how much that scared me; I tried to seem cool about it.
"See, when I was REALLY little, like five, I fell into a river when my dad took me fishing, it scared the shit out of me, but before I drowned, there was this tree that had fallen over the river... it saved my life. And even to this day-"
I snapped my mouth closed. I had almost revealed a secret of mine. I had almost told Raven about my phobia, my phobia of water. Since that day, I have never swam in a pool, or gone rafting or even taken a bath. I only will take showers. Its so stupid, I mean its just water, but I always freak out around it.
"So, yeah, that's about it," I said. Then another memory hit me,
"Oh! Oh! Raven! I just remembered! Do you remember the day we first met?!"
"Yes," she replied wondering where I was going with this.
"Good, because no amount of therapy will ever make me forget, anyway. I just remembered now. When I was running around all freaking out that time had stopped, I remember, the hall flooded out of no where! I was scared that time too, and it was water again!" I felt proud of my self for figuring it out on my own.
"Good, good. Now I need to remember the river memory again. Remember every detail. I shut my eyes and the memory hit me again. I remembered the pain,... water,... the FEAR!
"Naomi? Open your eyes and look." I opened my eyes to see... nothing. I looked to Raven who gestured over this side of my bed.
"OH GOD!" I exclaimed. There was more then an inch of water completely covering my floor.
"MY STUFF!" I shrieked.
"I bet you wish you had put it away when you were supposed too, not just scattered it all over your floor," Raven said with a small smirk.
"Oh, shut up. Now how do I dry things off?" I looked expectantly at Raven.
"Will it to happen, figure it out on your own." I hunched over the side of my bed staring at the water, trying to make it leave. How long we sat there, who knows? But things were still wet some time later. All of a sudden I heard a splash and the water ripped. I looked over to Raven who was amusing herself by using her powers to knock my stuff into the water.
"Oh thanks Raven, I didn't really need that mascara anyway," I said sarcastically. She gave me a small smile,
"You are not even doing it right."
"Then how do I do it?" I asked very frustrated.
"If fear made the water, what should make it leave?" she asked. All of a sudden my door swung open.
"Dudes! What's up!" Beastboy said happily. Then he looked down the see the water escaping through the open door.
"Hey, Naomi?" he asked pointing at the ground, "Do you know that your room is wet?"
"No! Really?!" I asked sarcastically. Then I started laughing.
"Naomi, look." Raven said. I looked down and saw that my room was completely dried. I leaned over my bed and touched my fluffy white carpet. It was completely dry. It dried because I had laughed, the OPPOSITE of fear.
"WOW!!" BB said, "You have water powers?!"
"Not only that, but fire powers as well," Raven said a little proudly. "And that not all of them."
"Really?!?" I said starting to lose my head in the excitement, "Lets find out the rest!" But Raven shook her head.
"No, we will a little later, but for now just practice with what you have. Just... TRY not to kill anyone okay?"
"Ok, I'll TRY," I said smirking in Beastboys direction, "But that's no guarantee." Beastboy gasped,
"Hey!! She's, like, threatening me! Well it's not going down like that!!! NO ONE IS TURNIGN LITTLE GREEN INTO SHISCABOB!!"
"Shishcabob?" Raven asked with a confused look on her face.
"You know," I said elbowing her, "When you put meat on a wooden stick and grill it."
"Oh... I see." My and Beasboys eyes met and we started laughing. Beastboy stuck his tongue out at me.
"How childish!" I exclaimed in mock superiority, "I will leave you to you naiveness!" I started walking out the door when Beastboy called,
"Oh, hey Naomi! Robin wants a word with you! Says it's really important."
StArRy- WOW. Another long chapter! But it's done. Anyway, I refuse to write another until I get more reviews!
IMPORTANT!! I have decided to leave Terra out of my ficts, I have prewritten my entire story already and I think having 7 titans would be to confusing. Also, I don't like the Terra/Beastboy romance thing, I think it portrays him as weak minded, and will IMMEDIATELY fall in love with anyone who'll give him the light of day. Remember the crush he had on Blackfire just because she laughed at his joke once? I don't know, I just don't like the concept. Sorry Terra fans. Now, on to the story
"Tell me what you feel, when you feel," Raven said in her usual emotionless voice.
"Uh..." I really didn't know what she was talking about.
"All of our powers are based on emotion," Raven explained, "Mine most of all, but we first have to get to the bases of our powers to fully understand them before we decide to release them." Oh, I understand now. We were sitting on by bed in my room.
At first, we were going to practice on the roof, but there had been a complication, Beastboy had decided to take a swim on the rooftop pool. We don't have much of a back yard, it being mostly rock down on the island, so our outside hangout is on the roof.
"Ok," Raven had said when we had been on the roof. I'm going to enter you mind to find-" SPLASH!!!
"Wohh!! Did you chickies see that?!? I totally cannonball!!"
"Ignore him" Raven said through gritted teeth. But Beastboy decided he didn't want to be ignored, so he climbed out of the pool and walked over to us. He was soaking wet and dripping all over us.
"What are you guys doin'?" Beastboy asked cheerfully.
"We are TRYING to uncover her powers," Raven said, with a bit of an edge to her voice.
"FUN!! I wanna play too!!" Beastboy said taking a seat next to me.
"No," Raven said getting annoyed.
"Awww. PLEASE Raven? I'll be good, I promise!" He turned and grinned at me. I giggled. What a dork.
"See? SHE wants me to stay!"
"No, she doesn't."
"YES, she dose!"
"NO, she dosen't!" He continued arguing with Raven, occasionally glancing over to me to see if I was still watching. I wonder if Raven will knock him off the roof, I though hopefully as I watched them argue.
"Beastboy! Leave... now. And change back into your normal cloths, you are dripping on us.
He pretended to look shocked, "But, I look so very sexy in my bathing suit!" He stood up and started to flex for us. It was just too funny.
"What... a... dork," I whispered to Raven like it was a secret and that I thought Beastboy couldn't hear.
He smiled, "You wana feel my muscles?"
"OH YES!!" I exclaimed with mock enthusiasm. I started squeezing Beastboy's, and I sorry but, skinny upper arm. But I pretended like I was having the time of my life.
"Ohhhh, BB! Your sooooo strong!" I exclaimed. "Oh my god!! Are those rocks under your skin? Nay, boulders, nay, MOUNTINS!!!" We both started cracking up and Raven just sat their rolling her eyes, trying to decide whether to be mad or not.
She sighed and grabbed my arm, "Come one Naomi, well practice in your room, we won't get anything done with HIM around.
"WAIT NAOMI!! Stay and tell me how strong I am!!" Beastboy called over to me. Raven was practically DRAGGING me across the roof so I never got to make a smart replied. So that's how we got to sitting in my room.
"Now, I'm going to enter your mind," Raven explained.
"Oker Dokers, but don't be expecting too much," I said, giddy with anticipation. She placed one hand on my forehead, and her other hand on her forehead.
"Is this going to hurt?" I asked suddenly nervous.
"No, you won't even feel it, now just relax." It was a lot less impressive than I thought it would be. The second Raven had chanted,
"Aserath Metrion Zinthos!" a blinding flash crossed my eyes, and then... that was it. Raven removed her hand and though quietly for a moment then she said,
"We already have a good idea what your powers are, but we need to do a little experimenting first."
"Wait," I said remembering back to what Robin had said to me when we first met, about the "sources".
"How do you guys know so much about me, when I've never met you before?" I asked, almost accusingly.
Raven sighed, "Naomi, listen, you are going to just have to trust us, ok? We don't think its time for you to... know something's yet. It could be pretty damaging to you emotionally. Ok?"
"What things?" I demanded, "What are you hiding from me?"
"I'll tell you later, but first let's get to your powers." She said, hoping to change the subject.
"Ok," I said hesitantly.
"I picked up a memory from inside your mind," Raven said, "Please, tell me about the fire."
"Oh that?"
FLASHBACK-
I felt the incredible heat surround me. I couldn't breath, the heat was suffocating me. I couldn't see, I blindly stumbled around my room, looking for any cool and clean, anything to escape from this fiery hell. The smoke worked its way up into my nose and lungs. My eyes started to tear, but the heat caused the tears to evaporate the second they left my eyes. Then I felt the white hot flame slowly start to lick its way up my bare legs
END OF FLASHBACK.
"Naomi?" Ravens voice snapped me back to reality.
"Oh, yeah... a fire." I cleared my throat. "When I was... ten I think, I found out my parents were getting a divorce. I was so upset I locked myself up in my room. I cried for hours, but then I just got angry... then the flame just... was, I guess."
"Anger." Raven repeated thoughtfully, "How did you escape?" I squinted, my eyes trying to remember,
"Well, I remember my parent's voices' screaming just outside the door, but the door was locked so they couldn't come in, and just as the fire started burning my legs, my window busted and... I fell out I guess, but I didn't land hard. I landed softly, even though it was a 2 story drop."
I began to realize how stupid this must have sounded, but Raven was nodding thoughtfully, as if she already knew what I was going to say.
"Here," She said, taking out a match, she obviously knew what my powers were ahead of time, but how?
"Now tell me," she said, "What makes you angry?" I thought for a minute.
"This girl I knew, waaaaay back when," I replied, "She pissed me off a lot."
"Ok, good, now look at this match and remember all the things she's done to make you angry."
"Mmmmkay." I looked at the match, remembering all the things that, that Kristy bitch had done. What a bitch. God I hate her. Just thinking of her made my face burn with anger. I felt this hotness behind my eyes remembering her. I gasped, as the match I had been looking at burst into flame. Raven calmly blew it out, she had been expecting it.
"Good," she said, "We can associate your anger with fire, now." She looked straight into my eyes, "I'm going to ask you to recall another memory that might be hard for you, but I need you to remember your most horrifying memory."
FLASHBACK-
My lungs burned, my arms flailed. The thick cold water surrounded me on all sides. I didn't know what way was up, or down. I stretched my fingers out to the full of there extent, desperate for the break of water.
I felt the strong current hold me captive under the water, no mater how I struggled it refused to let my go. The sharp rocks at the bottom of the river were cutting and tearing at my delicate skin. I kicked down on the rocks with all my might, ignoring the snap and sharp pain of the rock breaking my leg. The kick propelled me upwards. My head broke the surface for a split second, only to be dragged back down by the current. I opened my eyes under the water, tying to see through the murky water. I felt my mind shutting down. Black dots started blurring my vision.
I'm going to die, I thought sadly. Then my body crashed into something hard. My arms immediate clung for the only thing solid. I used the last bit of strength I had to pull myself out of the water. As my head broke the surface, my stale breath exploded out of me, as I sucked in a breath as sweet as my first.
I blindly scrambled onto the thing that had saved my life, ignoring the smearing pain that spread throughout my leg. I inhaled and exhaled so fast I was crying. Never before had I been so scared. As my vision returned to normal, I saw what had saved my life, a tree was lying an inch or so above the water, the trunk lying the full length of the river. I pulled my self across the trunk and fell into the muddy bank, and I rested. –
END FLASHBACK.
I blinked my eyes, trying to get out of that painful memory. I didn't want Raven to know how much that scared me; I tried to seem cool about it.
"See, when I was REALLY little, like five, I fell into a river when my dad took me fishing, it scared the shit out of me, but before I drowned, there was this tree that had fallen over the river... it saved my life. And even to this day-"
I snapped my mouth closed. I had almost revealed a secret of mine. I had almost told Raven about my phobia, my phobia of water. Since that day, I have never swam in a pool, or gone rafting or even taken a bath. I only will take showers. Its so stupid, I mean its just water, but I always freak out around it.
"So, yeah, that's about it," I said. Then another memory hit me,
"Oh! Oh! Raven! I just remembered! Do you remember the day we first met?!"
"Yes," she replied wondering where I was going with this.
"Good, because no amount of therapy will ever make me forget, anyway. I just remembered now. When I was running around all freaking out that time had stopped, I remember, the hall flooded out of no where! I was scared that time too, and it was water again!" I felt proud of my self for figuring it out on my own.
"Good, good. Now I need to remember the river memory again. Remember every detail. I shut my eyes and the memory hit me again. I remembered the pain,... water,... the FEAR!
"Naomi? Open your eyes and look." I opened my eyes to see... nothing. I looked to Raven who gestured over this side of my bed.
"OH GOD!" I exclaimed. There was more then an inch of water completely covering my floor.
"MY STUFF!" I shrieked.
"I bet you wish you had put it away when you were supposed too, not just scattered it all over your floor," Raven said with a small smirk.
"Oh, shut up. Now how do I dry things off?" I looked expectantly at Raven.
"Will it to happen, figure it out on your own." I hunched over the side of my bed staring at the water, trying to make it leave. How long we sat there, who knows? But things were still wet some time later. All of a sudden I heard a splash and the water ripped. I looked over to Raven who was amusing herself by using her powers to knock my stuff into the water.
"Oh thanks Raven, I didn't really need that mascara anyway," I said sarcastically. She gave me a small smile,
"You are not even doing it right."
"Then how do I do it?" I asked very frustrated.
"If fear made the water, what should make it leave?" she asked. All of a sudden my door swung open.
"Dudes! What's up!" Beastboy said happily. Then he looked down the see the water escaping through the open door.
"Hey, Naomi?" he asked pointing at the ground, "Do you know that your room is wet?"
"No! Really?!" I asked sarcastically. Then I started laughing.
"Naomi, look." Raven said. I looked down and saw that my room was completely dried. I leaned over my bed and touched my fluffy white carpet. It was completely dry. It dried because I had laughed, the OPPOSITE of fear.
"WOW!!" BB said, "You have water powers?!"
"Not only that, but fire powers as well," Raven said a little proudly. "And that not all of them."
"Really?!?" I said starting to lose my head in the excitement, "Lets find out the rest!" But Raven shook her head.
"No, we will a little later, but for now just practice with what you have. Just... TRY not to kill anyone okay?"
"Ok, I'll TRY," I said smirking in Beastboys direction, "But that's no guarantee." Beastboy gasped,
"Hey!! She's, like, threatening me! Well it's not going down like that!!! NO ONE IS TURNIGN LITTLE GREEN INTO SHISCABOB!!"
"Shishcabob?" Raven asked with a confused look on her face.
"You know," I said elbowing her, "When you put meat on a wooden stick and grill it."
"Oh... I see." My and Beasboys eyes met and we started laughing. Beastboy stuck his tongue out at me.
"How childish!" I exclaimed in mock superiority, "I will leave you to you naiveness!" I started walking out the door when Beastboy called,
"Oh, hey Naomi! Robin wants a word with you! Says it's really important."
StArRy- WOW. Another long chapter! But it's done. Anyway, I refuse to write another until I get more reviews!
