Chapter two: Rides, Games and Cotton Candy
When they finally reached the amusement park, Raven got out of the taxi they were bunched up in. They took two. Starfire, Raven and Cyborg took one as Robin and Beastboy took the other.
"This is the greatly admired amusement park?" Raven huffed. It wasn't the same amusement park that Starfire got attacked in a few months back (it brought horrible memories); this was a bigger one, with a lot more booths for food and games and bigger and better rides. More rides. 'Great, just the place for me,' Raven mused with herself. She looked glum and a little less passionate about the place than everyone else.
"Cheer up, Raven! We will see many great things and enjoy the taste of cotton candy!" Starfire breezed. She glided up to the ticket center.
"How many people?" the woman behind the glass window asked. She seemed bored enough.
"Let us count, there is Robin, me, Beastboy, Cyborg and Raven! Ah, that is five please," Starfire chirped. She used her fingers making the woman smirk.
"That would be $99.95, please," the woman said. Robin ran up and paid. Starfire thanked him.
"No problem," Robin took the tickets as the ticket manager told him to have a fun day at the amusement park. Once they tore the tab off to the ticket takers, Beastboy and Cyborg headed to the arcade. Starfire bought 5 bags of cotton candy. That left Raven alone with Robin.
"Which ride do you want to get on?" Robin asked. Raven became annoyed that the first thing he said to her was 'which ride to you want to get on?' She shrugged and told him to choose. "Have you ever been on a roller coaster?"
"A roller coaster?" Raven queried. "Those are for babies. I'd rather go on one that makes you scared for your life." Robin looked at her oddly and took her hand.
"C'mon. It'll be fun," Robin ran leaving Raven to fly behind him. They waited in line for a few minutes and finally got to the front.
"Excuse me, but you'll have to take off your capes, you two love birds," the ride manager said. Raven blushed and Robin stared at her uncomfortable posture. Robin ignored it as she finally folded hers up.
"No! No! We're not going out, we're friends. Haven't you heard of us? We're the Teen Titans!" Robin justified their names as the ride manager stared at them as if they were crazy.
"But I've got a special feeling about you two. Just wait, it will come to you," the old man smiled. Raven just shook her head and sat at the front with Robin to her right. It was a small car but it was alright. The train of the carriage for 16 people took off slow and paced it's self to become faster at 70 miles per hour then increased its speed by 25 more MPH. They were going up and down and around and around. Speeding their way through loops making them go up side down gave Raven a frightening feeling the whole time until they reached a big hill. She hid it so well, Robin laughed.
"You have to be scared of this one," Robin said as they inched upwards, waiting for the big fall.
"Robin! There is no time for games right now! There is a hole and we'll fall into it soon if we don't do something!" Raven pointed to the middle of the downward part of the exciting hill. People over heard her and started to shout.
"We're gonna die! Oh hell no!!" Someone in the back cried. The little boys and girl started to beg for their life to someone unknown.
"QUIET! I WILL BE ABLE TO FIX IT IF YOU ARE SILENT!" Raven roared. Robin stared at her in disbelief.
"Shut your self up, bitch! We don't have to be quiet if we die soon!" A man from two rows back yelled. She growled at their misbehavior and focused her attention on the tear of metals. She had cast a spell and with a flick of her two hands, the melted metal wrought itself back to its original position. She kept her mind focused there as they swept downward at a 105 mph average. She didn't even notice the fall until they had to step out.
"You two better be thanked. You saved 16 people lives," the ride lever-manager said and then thanked them. But once they were settled people who were on the ride passed them and made faces at Raven.
"She's like from another planet! I mean, the way she dresses!" a passer by said. The crowd laughed at her and pointed.
"Dude! She is from another planet!" his friend called out and the people who've been saved or witnessed the incident called her either bitch or threw popcorn at her. Raven ignored it, knowing herself that she should've taught those people a lesson in when to thank others and when to throw junk food at them. Robin just patted her on the back, trying to comfort her.
"Don't listen to them, they don't know you like we do," Robin said quietly. Raven pushed back the hand that Robin landed on her shoulder.
"No one knows me," Raven said. Her hair flew this way and that out of rage. The bottles of soda and the window to the arcade cracked causing people in the arcade and Cyborg, Beastboy and Starfire to look up (Starfire joined them when she saw Robin trying to make Raven have fun). She was mad enough that the bottles shattered and splintered, piercing the air and then landing on the cement ground with a crash. She flew up into the air and headed somewhere far away from home.
It was late fall and early winter. The water at the beach was cold but it suited the mood that Raven felt. Tears wanted to be unleashed but she wasn't brought up to show her emotions. She finally cracked the mask of strength that concealed her vulnerability and broke down. Raven wrapped her arms around her folded knees and buried her head at the crook of her elbow. One after another, tears fell straight down to her lap and ran towards her hips. The artic wind finally took a toll on her warmth and she tried to grab her cloak but realized it was left behind at the amusement park. She muttered under her breath about how worse her day could get until the tide rose and splashed onto the rock that she was sitting upon and wet her too. Seaweeds found her head and rested itself on it. Water dripped endlessly from her hair and the some slid down on her nose. She sputtered water out of her mouth and blew her once-soft-but-now-floppy hair to the side but failed in the making.
Raven became so furious that a wave turned and flopped everywhere. Clouds, not on her account, formed and hail started to crack into the dry sand and wet it. They were bigger than her eyes, and splashed the water half her height. She smiled. Raven then got to her feet and accepted the bruises that hit her. She was a bit too tired to not forget the incident that happened earlier and she began to drift over the water creating an invisible and protective shield over her head to their tower.
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"Robin! What is bothering Raven?" Starfire yelled in worry after Raven disappeared into the cloud covered sky. She rushed out the door to greet him in the most apprehensive manner. Beastboy and Cyborg followed suite. They wondered the same thing as well.
"She saved the people on the Roller Coaster ride and now they won't accept her," Robin summarized. Starfire's face drooped and she bit her lower lip.
"Man! That's just jacked!" Cyborg complained banging his fists into the cement wall, causing a small dent. Beastboy nodded in return. But they did realize that she wasn't leaving and that they'll find her usual self in the living room reading probably by the time she went home. Just then, a voice came on the radio.
"Would everyone please go in the restaurant or your nearest building, a hailstorm is approaching and we'd like you to keep safe from injuries, thank you," The voice commanded. "And if you are willing to leave now, there are several taxis for you waiting outside or you can drive home in your cars." Then a click was heard and people rushed into the building or went to the main entrance. The group ran towards the main entrance to reach the last cab that waited for them. Robin sat in front as Cyborg, Starfire and Beastboy squeezed in the back. When they finally got home, they looked for Raven, but she wasn't to be found. She usually didn't respond to acts of discrimination like this but this was different.
For a day and half, Raven didn't come home, but instead, she wandered the streets, and passed by the pizza place where they first met the H.I.V.E's. She ran a finger down a few bricks and walked in. Sitting down, a waiter appeared and asked if she'd like to order. She wanted a small cheese pizza and paid. Eating the cheese pizza slowly, she wondered if she was really made for this world; if she was suppose to be with her father, Trigon in Hell. Or perhaps not even on the team, maybe she could act like a regular human, and be homeless, performing tricks for the circus. She finished and jumped over the walls of the restaurant shaped pizza. Raven then leaped up to fly finally decided to go home.
With a door slam awakening Beastboy in his dog form, he ran to the door and sniffed Raven's shoes. He jumped up and tried to lick her face but she shoved him to the side. He turned back to his usual self.
"What's wrong with you? I was only trying to be nice," Beastboy gruffed. He turned back to a dog and ran to the rec room to play vide games with Cyborg. Starfire over heard Beastboy to see who it was that just walked in the door.
"Raven! You must be tired; we shall bring you to your room! I will assemble the others for the celebration of your return home," Starfire cheered. She flew off into the gym room where Robin was working out then to the rec room to get Cyborg and Beastboy. Raven pitied them and she levitated to her room to take a warm shower. After she was done, she decided not to put on her usual uniform, but pajamas. Her collared, button up, cotton shirt felt nice against her. Her pajama pants as well. When she finished brushing her hair, she pulled half of it up to a ponytail. Her jewel gleamed when she stepped out of her dark room into the light. As she approached the kitchen, Robin was there.
"What happened to Starfire's Welcome Back party?" Raven asked in a monotone voice. Robin smiled at her pajamas; she never wore different items of clothes outside of her room.
"Cyborg and Beastboy want cake if there's a party and Starfire's trying to make a call to the bakery down the street. Where have you been?" Robin asked.
"Around," Raven answered. She got a cup of tea and sipped until it was gone. When the hail storm was gone, there were rain storms with lightening and thunder, covering the sun. Thunder and lightening boomed all around the city and finally succeeded to cause a brownout. Robin jumped at the noise, Raven just casually enjoyed her hot cup of tea and Starfire just repeated the word 'hello?' until she became angry and hung up the phone while Cyborg and Beastboy were hitting each other with the controls.
"There is no one on the other end and the lights are out! I cannot see!" Starfire fumed and then the room became green as her hands powered up and her eyes glowed. Raven then concentrated on the candles around her and they flickered into a yellow orange and the room became brighter. Beastboy and Starfire made their way to the storage room and brought out a lot more candles in which they lit but saved 10 incase the candles melted out. Raven thinking nothing of the darkness sat at the counter surrounded by the dirtiness of the kitchen. Cyborg sat at the couch in the rec room playing a thumb war with Beastboy with Starfire bemused and she clapped her hands in Cyborg's defeat when Beastboy turned King Kong on him. Robin went to watch them as Raven continued sipping her tea. Her boredom caused her to clean the kitchen with her mind and it became sparkling clean, or it would have if not for the brown out.
After a few hours into the night, Raven became bored of cleaning the room and ventured down the halls with a candle in her hand and into her room. She didn't meditate in her room this time. Instead she picked her poetry journal and wrote her first few versus of poems. Raven had never done anything like this before but the dark feeling in her became so sudden and large that she had to pour it onto paper, writing it in a form in which she knows best. If she didn't take time to do this, she would've been corrupted by the feeling of loneliness and susceptibility and turned away from the freak fighting life she led, and her friends, someone she knows she can count on.
When they finally reached the amusement park, Raven got out of the taxi they were bunched up in. They took two. Starfire, Raven and Cyborg took one as Robin and Beastboy took the other.
"This is the greatly admired amusement park?" Raven huffed. It wasn't the same amusement park that Starfire got attacked in a few months back (it brought horrible memories); this was a bigger one, with a lot more booths for food and games and bigger and better rides. More rides. 'Great, just the place for me,' Raven mused with herself. She looked glum and a little less passionate about the place than everyone else.
"Cheer up, Raven! We will see many great things and enjoy the taste of cotton candy!" Starfire breezed. She glided up to the ticket center.
"How many people?" the woman behind the glass window asked. She seemed bored enough.
"Let us count, there is Robin, me, Beastboy, Cyborg and Raven! Ah, that is five please," Starfire chirped. She used her fingers making the woman smirk.
"That would be $99.95, please," the woman said. Robin ran up and paid. Starfire thanked him.
"No problem," Robin took the tickets as the ticket manager told him to have a fun day at the amusement park. Once they tore the tab off to the ticket takers, Beastboy and Cyborg headed to the arcade. Starfire bought 5 bags of cotton candy. That left Raven alone with Robin.
"Which ride do you want to get on?" Robin asked. Raven became annoyed that the first thing he said to her was 'which ride to you want to get on?' She shrugged and told him to choose. "Have you ever been on a roller coaster?"
"A roller coaster?" Raven queried. "Those are for babies. I'd rather go on one that makes you scared for your life." Robin looked at her oddly and took her hand.
"C'mon. It'll be fun," Robin ran leaving Raven to fly behind him. They waited in line for a few minutes and finally got to the front.
"Excuse me, but you'll have to take off your capes, you two love birds," the ride manager said. Raven blushed and Robin stared at her uncomfortable posture. Robin ignored it as she finally folded hers up.
"No! No! We're not going out, we're friends. Haven't you heard of us? We're the Teen Titans!" Robin justified their names as the ride manager stared at them as if they were crazy.
"But I've got a special feeling about you two. Just wait, it will come to you," the old man smiled. Raven just shook her head and sat at the front with Robin to her right. It was a small car but it was alright. The train of the carriage for 16 people took off slow and paced it's self to become faster at 70 miles per hour then increased its speed by 25 more MPH. They were going up and down and around and around. Speeding their way through loops making them go up side down gave Raven a frightening feeling the whole time until they reached a big hill. She hid it so well, Robin laughed.
"You have to be scared of this one," Robin said as they inched upwards, waiting for the big fall.
"Robin! There is no time for games right now! There is a hole and we'll fall into it soon if we don't do something!" Raven pointed to the middle of the downward part of the exciting hill. People over heard her and started to shout.
"We're gonna die! Oh hell no!!" Someone in the back cried. The little boys and girl started to beg for their life to someone unknown.
"QUIET! I WILL BE ABLE TO FIX IT IF YOU ARE SILENT!" Raven roared. Robin stared at her in disbelief.
"Shut your self up, bitch! We don't have to be quiet if we die soon!" A man from two rows back yelled. She growled at their misbehavior and focused her attention on the tear of metals. She had cast a spell and with a flick of her two hands, the melted metal wrought itself back to its original position. She kept her mind focused there as they swept downward at a 105 mph average. She didn't even notice the fall until they had to step out.
"You two better be thanked. You saved 16 people lives," the ride lever-manager said and then thanked them. But once they were settled people who were on the ride passed them and made faces at Raven.
"She's like from another planet! I mean, the way she dresses!" a passer by said. The crowd laughed at her and pointed.
"Dude! She is from another planet!" his friend called out and the people who've been saved or witnessed the incident called her either bitch or threw popcorn at her. Raven ignored it, knowing herself that she should've taught those people a lesson in when to thank others and when to throw junk food at them. Robin just patted her on the back, trying to comfort her.
"Don't listen to them, they don't know you like we do," Robin said quietly. Raven pushed back the hand that Robin landed on her shoulder.
"No one knows me," Raven said. Her hair flew this way and that out of rage. The bottles of soda and the window to the arcade cracked causing people in the arcade and Cyborg, Beastboy and Starfire to look up (Starfire joined them when she saw Robin trying to make Raven have fun). She was mad enough that the bottles shattered and splintered, piercing the air and then landing on the cement ground with a crash. She flew up into the air and headed somewhere far away from home.
It was late fall and early winter. The water at the beach was cold but it suited the mood that Raven felt. Tears wanted to be unleashed but she wasn't brought up to show her emotions. She finally cracked the mask of strength that concealed her vulnerability and broke down. Raven wrapped her arms around her folded knees and buried her head at the crook of her elbow. One after another, tears fell straight down to her lap and ran towards her hips. The artic wind finally took a toll on her warmth and she tried to grab her cloak but realized it was left behind at the amusement park. She muttered under her breath about how worse her day could get until the tide rose and splashed onto the rock that she was sitting upon and wet her too. Seaweeds found her head and rested itself on it. Water dripped endlessly from her hair and the some slid down on her nose. She sputtered water out of her mouth and blew her once-soft-but-now-floppy hair to the side but failed in the making.
Raven became so furious that a wave turned and flopped everywhere. Clouds, not on her account, formed and hail started to crack into the dry sand and wet it. They were bigger than her eyes, and splashed the water half her height. She smiled. Raven then got to her feet and accepted the bruises that hit her. She was a bit too tired to not forget the incident that happened earlier and she began to drift over the water creating an invisible and protective shield over her head to their tower.
Meanwhile___________________
"Robin! What is bothering Raven?" Starfire yelled in worry after Raven disappeared into the cloud covered sky. She rushed out the door to greet him in the most apprehensive manner. Beastboy and Cyborg followed suite. They wondered the same thing as well.
"She saved the people on the Roller Coaster ride and now they won't accept her," Robin summarized. Starfire's face drooped and she bit her lower lip.
"Man! That's just jacked!" Cyborg complained banging his fists into the cement wall, causing a small dent. Beastboy nodded in return. But they did realize that she wasn't leaving and that they'll find her usual self in the living room reading probably by the time she went home. Just then, a voice came on the radio.
"Would everyone please go in the restaurant or your nearest building, a hailstorm is approaching and we'd like you to keep safe from injuries, thank you," The voice commanded. "And if you are willing to leave now, there are several taxis for you waiting outside or you can drive home in your cars." Then a click was heard and people rushed into the building or went to the main entrance. The group ran towards the main entrance to reach the last cab that waited for them. Robin sat in front as Cyborg, Starfire and Beastboy squeezed in the back. When they finally got home, they looked for Raven, but she wasn't to be found. She usually didn't respond to acts of discrimination like this but this was different.
For a day and half, Raven didn't come home, but instead, she wandered the streets, and passed by the pizza place where they first met the H.I.V.E's. She ran a finger down a few bricks and walked in. Sitting down, a waiter appeared and asked if she'd like to order. She wanted a small cheese pizza and paid. Eating the cheese pizza slowly, she wondered if she was really made for this world; if she was suppose to be with her father, Trigon in Hell. Or perhaps not even on the team, maybe she could act like a regular human, and be homeless, performing tricks for the circus. She finished and jumped over the walls of the restaurant shaped pizza. Raven then leaped up to fly finally decided to go home.
With a door slam awakening Beastboy in his dog form, he ran to the door and sniffed Raven's shoes. He jumped up and tried to lick her face but she shoved him to the side. He turned back to his usual self.
"What's wrong with you? I was only trying to be nice," Beastboy gruffed. He turned back to a dog and ran to the rec room to play vide games with Cyborg. Starfire over heard Beastboy to see who it was that just walked in the door.
"Raven! You must be tired; we shall bring you to your room! I will assemble the others for the celebration of your return home," Starfire cheered. She flew off into the gym room where Robin was working out then to the rec room to get Cyborg and Beastboy. Raven pitied them and she levitated to her room to take a warm shower. After she was done, she decided not to put on her usual uniform, but pajamas. Her collared, button up, cotton shirt felt nice against her. Her pajama pants as well. When she finished brushing her hair, she pulled half of it up to a ponytail. Her jewel gleamed when she stepped out of her dark room into the light. As she approached the kitchen, Robin was there.
"What happened to Starfire's Welcome Back party?" Raven asked in a monotone voice. Robin smiled at her pajamas; she never wore different items of clothes outside of her room.
"Cyborg and Beastboy want cake if there's a party and Starfire's trying to make a call to the bakery down the street. Where have you been?" Robin asked.
"Around," Raven answered. She got a cup of tea and sipped until it was gone. When the hail storm was gone, there were rain storms with lightening and thunder, covering the sun. Thunder and lightening boomed all around the city and finally succeeded to cause a brownout. Robin jumped at the noise, Raven just casually enjoyed her hot cup of tea and Starfire just repeated the word 'hello?' until she became angry and hung up the phone while Cyborg and Beastboy were hitting each other with the controls.
"There is no one on the other end and the lights are out! I cannot see!" Starfire fumed and then the room became green as her hands powered up and her eyes glowed. Raven then concentrated on the candles around her and they flickered into a yellow orange and the room became brighter. Beastboy and Starfire made their way to the storage room and brought out a lot more candles in which they lit but saved 10 incase the candles melted out. Raven thinking nothing of the darkness sat at the counter surrounded by the dirtiness of the kitchen. Cyborg sat at the couch in the rec room playing a thumb war with Beastboy with Starfire bemused and she clapped her hands in Cyborg's defeat when Beastboy turned King Kong on him. Robin went to watch them as Raven continued sipping her tea. Her boredom caused her to clean the kitchen with her mind and it became sparkling clean, or it would have if not for the brown out.
After a few hours into the night, Raven became bored of cleaning the room and ventured down the halls with a candle in her hand and into her room. She didn't meditate in her room this time. Instead she picked her poetry journal and wrote her first few versus of poems. Raven had never done anything like this before but the dark feeling in her became so sudden and large that she had to pour it onto paper, writing it in a form in which she knows best. If she didn't take time to do this, she would've been corrupted by the feeling of loneliness and susceptibility and turned away from the freak fighting life she led, and her friends, someone she knows she can count on.