Chapter 5: Serving Well, Training Well
A/N* Thank you all who wrote kind reviews for my story!!! Thanks to all of you!!! The chapter is dedicated to you (no special orders): jasikaermine (especially you for the great reviews), Jillian4, Lady Serenity Moon Child, Tweek2, Tomboy, CheshireCat 46, Chibi Nataly, DarkWorld, S.M. and last but certainly not least, The Pebble!! Thanks you guys! And those who read it and liked it, but didn't find the time to review this story- thanks too!
Raven stomped angrily out of the bathroom after a refreshing shower in her new clothing. It was regular clothing, not the skin tight, leg showing, cape flowing costume she threw on every single day since she became a Titan. Raven had her hair tied up in a messy pony tail this time. She had khaki capris with a side zipper and a little hook on. Her shirt was a regular white tank top, but the problem was, that they didn't have shoes for her, so she just floated around the halls, talking with Alfred for a little while and then seeping in and out of the walls, trying with all her might to no bump into Robin or Starfire. Luck ceased out. As she was done venturing Robin's old room, she slipped through the solid matters of the wall, and tumbled into Robin. They both fell on the floor next to each other. This was the first time of the evening that they saw each other. Robin was provided with his usual crime fighting costume though. He just grinned at her. Her lips slightly open and her eyes staring into his. Her petite body then picked itself up and planned to wander elsewhere but stopped by a gloved hand on her wrist.
"We were looking for you. or at least I was," Robin smiled. Raven, inches above him because of her flying abilities, just stared at him. She started to feel heart broken. He had been looking for her- with Starfire. She read his mind. Her eyes grew weak with desperation to get away.
"I'll be down for dinner soon," Raven stole her hand back and floated down to the dining room. Just she and Cyborg were there. He prayed silently and started to eat. She witnessed his messy behavior as he chugged down Italian soda, called Biancas, with his Italian themed dinner. All their dinner plates were filled with Italian food. She was hungry but didn't find the appetite. She just stared at her Prosciutto and Figs, Fazzoletti and Ricotta Jam Tart until the rest came in. Starfire and Robin were enjoying each other's company and sat next to each other- across from Raven. Cyborg was on her left, while Bruce was on her right, at the head of the long rectangular table. Beastboy was sitting next to Cyborg and was trying to listen to Raven's and Bruce's conversation of how hard to train. Cyborg pushed Beastboy down in his chair and started to shovel more food into his mouth. The plates were being passed around so he took the one carrying Roasted Pork with Fennel on it.
"Whouldg yzou shit dowgn, yzou'sre gocnna mfake mse puwkge won yzou!" Cyborg chortled through mouthfuls of food. He showed Beastboy his mixed up food in his mouth with his Lemonade Italian Soda slushing on top. A few remnants of his food were floating on top which made Beastboy gag. He didn't stare at Cyborg all through out dinner or try to listen; he just ate and excused himself.
"You have a training room, am I correct?" Raven hastily asked. He nodded. She was straight to the point, forward if you must. Bruce liked that. He didn't have to answer so many questions. "We will train there; you will teach us basic moves and advance us from that point on." Bruce thought about it.
"I'll see what I can do," Bruce replied to the tone of her iciness in her voice.
'Thank you, Mr. Wayne. To repay your kindness, I'll help clean with Alfred and help prepare dinner,' Raven eagerly pressed against his thoughts, although she didn't say it out loud. Telepathy, what he suspected what one of her powers should be. He just nodded. Having help in fighting against people like the Penguin or the Joker wasn't such a bad idea anyway, and he did need a few more people to help clean with Alfred. He was growing old and it was taking advantage of him.
Raven continued her meal, disturbed by the flirting that went on between Robin and Starfire. She just picked up her dishes and the other empty dishes to clean it. Cyborg kept excavating food into his mouth and burped loudly. He handed the plate to Raven and she headed to the kitchen. She gently placed the plates one top of the other and left the water running to loosen the sticking food on the plate. She went out to retrieve the other left over plates and disposed of them; they were having dessert now and enjoying the taste. She skipped it, thinking that they were an excuse to put on more fat. As she took Starfire's empty plate from the main course of dinner, she noticed that she was turning red, red from jealousy, after collecting all the main course dinner plates, she turned off the sink and filled it with soap. Raven scrubbed so hard, it glimmered in the moonlight. After she was done, she did the dessert plates.
As she was walked into the living room, Cyborg yelled, "Hey! What's taking you so long Beastboy?! The movie's about to start!" Beastboy carried out two large buckets of popcorn. Raven scowled at them, but so silent that only she her self could hear it. She wandered aimlessly around and found the training room. Bruce was in there as Batman.
"Mr. Wayne, would you mind if I practiced in here?" Raven asked. Batman just looked at her. He nodded and left the room after telling her how to voice command the training room. She activated it level 10, the highest and most extreme level. Raven didn't think this would be such a difficult level, considering, she's been through worse. But, man, was she so wrong.
"Arg!!!!" Raven jumped in the air, dismissing a laser beam from below. But by surprise another laser beam hit her in the back. She grunted and fell to the metal floor. Standing up, she swayed and did a back flip, there were more laser beams after her. This of course was a hologram. But everything felt so real to her. Gas chambers awakened and let out fog so she couldn't see most things. It was so foggy she could barely see her hand in front of her face. Spears flew in every direction but she controlled them and sent them flying into walls, breaking them. Just then, a wall that seemed harmless popped up in front of her, it was about 4 feet wide, and it reached the ceiling from the ground. She moved away but it followed her. She flew as fast as she could, but it didn't work, it followed her so directly that it wasn't even a centimeter off. Another wall blocked her other sides. After a few minutes of tiring events of trying to avoid them, she set herself down on the ground quickly then started up as the third wall came ruptured up behind her, two walls on the side, none in front. She flew so fast that she almost made it a centimeter away from them but when she did, the completion of the box settled and the fourth wall came shooting off in front her. As it exploded, Raven collided into it and tumbled 8 feet down from her flying stance.
"This is harder than I thought," Raven said to her self. She looked up wards at the roof of the little trap box as it skidded down towards her, arrows were piercing through the box on her side but not behind her or in front of her. She wasn't scared but just a little frantic. She screamed, "Training Room: Hologram A-58; level 10 disconnect!" As soon as those words came pouring out her mouth, everything disappeared and she was as sweaty as hell. She collapsed on the floor and breathed slowly, trying to get her heart beat in control. She wiped the sweat off her brow and headed towards the weight room.
She thought maybe toning her muscles would help and started running five miles on the treadmill. It took her about 7 minutes and 30 seconds to run one mile but by the time she done, it had been about 35 minutes. Her legs got quite the workout. Again, after an hour on the other machines, she ran on the treadmill once more. She felt energized but she'd have to work out a lot more if she wanted to have powers stronger, more than ever. She went to one of the guest room provided for them and was picking up the heaviest objects with her mind, trying to upgrade that too. After making them stay up for 15 minutes each, she went out and then to the weight room, for they had heavier objects in there.
"I must have them stay up!" Raven convinced herself, all of them were floating in the air and now was able to advance onto making them move around, but she was moving them so slowly that walking turtles seemed faster than them. After circling them inside the room, she gently set them down and ran to Alfred.
"Yes, Ms. Raven, is there anything you need?" Alfred spoke gently. He was also kind to her and the rest of the group.
"Alfred, tomorrow could you prepare 10- 120 pound bags of wet sand and leave them in the backyard?" Raven spoke hastily. He nodded.
"I'll do what I can, probably, miss," Alfred said. "Oh, Ms. Raven, since you are working here now, you will be required to wear this." He held out a uniform, fit for her and she took it. Showering for the second time of the day made she smelled better than ever. She walked around the house cleaning a bit here and there. Washing the windows and vacuuming the rug for the next day was not an option. Her black dress matched the color of Alfred's uniform. It was just a plain black dress with a white apron over it. Her brand new socks that were bought by Alfred for her fit her quite well and were pulled up to her knees. He also bought her more training clothes and shoes. She went to sleep after everyone else and changed into pajamas provided for her.
In the morning after, she found herself wrapped in mounds of blankets. She woke, sweating from the nightmare that approached her cunningly, the nightmare of her father. She had this almost everyday of her life- but it never got so bad like this. It seemed so real, her father was ahead of her, if she could only reach him. If only- she took out her hand in sleep motion and reached forward screaming, 'TRIGON! I WILL REVENGE YOU! I WILL KILL YOU! ... ARGH!!!!!!!!' She made her night stand crash on to the ground with her anger and kept reaching up with her left hand. Someone reached her back. Robin was standing to her left, clutching her tiny hand.
"What are you doing in the privacy of my room?!" Raven bolted up, pulling back her hand. She started to snarl at him but he interrupted her shows of anger.
"I heard you scream... Something about killing triangles?" Robin snickered. She knew what he was talking about.
"My father... Trigon," She muttered under her breath.
"Are you alright?" Robin asked. "If your dad is upsetting you, I'll help you fight him off." He looked at her kindly and she softened away the hard look she had a few seconds ago. He reached towards her hand and held it in one of his. She tried to move her hand away but too scared that once she did, she'll lose him. Forever and he might go running to Starfire. She smiled and looked at her other free hand. He picked his hand up just as Cyborg rumbled in. Their moment of a budding relationship demolished, crushed by the wave of fate.
The others ran in too. "What's going on? Someone screamed and woke me!" Cyborg yelled.
"Chill Cyborg, we overslept anyway," Beastboy said, transforming back into a regular being from a dog. He pointed to the digital clock sprawled on the ground. It was 11:58. Raven rushed up and left them hanging there for awhile. When she emerged from the bathroom in her uniform, Beastboy whistled and Cyborg clapped.
"Looks like someone's going to the joint tonight and doing a litt-" Beastboy started to joke. Cyborg laughed his head off.
"I'm working here to pay back Bruce Wayne," she intervallic. Beastboy and Cyborg stopped laughing. Robin just stared at her. He knew she knew that she didn't have too, but she felt like it. She made her bed and seeped through the walls to make the rests' bed. After she was done with that, she headed to the kitchen where Alfred was waiting. "Sorry to keep you waiting."
"No problems, Miss Raven, although all of you missed Breakfast, except Master Dick, you will have to prepare lunch now. Mr. Bruce will not be joining us today," Alfred said. She prepared pizza for them and brought out the soda.
'Lunch is ready,' her voice echoed in everyone's head. The first one down there was Cyborg as like last night, he shoved pizza down in his mouth, enjoying the taste in which he had not savored for so long. She took a plate and tea to Alfred and got one herself and joined him in a different room.
"Thank you Miss Raven," Alfred said, taking bites of his. Her stomach rumbled about for she didn't touch it yet. She could hear Starfire let out a cheer for pizza and Beastboy fighting over the largest piece with Cyborg. "Is something bothering you?" Alfred asked.
"No, I'm fine," Raven said. He was like a grandfather to her.
"But you are wrong, your eyes are deceiving you," he spoke, finishing the last bit of pizza and drinking his tea to swallow it down. She looked up at him in surprise.
"My dreams are haunting me," Raven confessed.
"Ah, will you tell them to me?" Alfred still sipped on his tea.
"My father has killed one dearest to me-" Raven was surprised.
"Master Dick? Isn't he the one?" he interrogated. She nodded in embarrassment. He smiled in amusement. "Don't worry, I won' tell anyone," He patted her hand.
"I tried running to him but can never catch him," Raven finished. He nodded.
"Perhaps, one you hate much will hurt the one you love. It seems you need a little break today, why don't you go outside. Your sand is waiting," Alfred gently alleged. Raven nodded. In Gotham, the rain seemed to be going on and on. The fall-winter happenings didn't at all disturbed Raven. She changed into training clothes and headed outside. She trained herself in the rain and lifted all the bags at the same time and held it there for a while then rearranged them to hit the tree one by one, falling on top of each other.
Summoning a destruction spell, she directed it to one of the sand bags, blowing it up everywhere. Sand dust swirled in the wind and left her sight, the bag though, was too heavy too carry, so it stayed behind. She then lifted the remaining 9 up higher and higher until she couldn't keep them in the grasp of her mind any longer. She stacked on top of one another and went in. Mentally drying her self off she headed to the weight room. Running another 10 miles and then lifting weights without her mental powers exhausted her. She then went to the punching bag and took out her anger of her father and her jealousy of Starfire on it. She punched it too hard in fact that it emptied. Raven shrugged mentally picked them all up and dropped it in the trash. She sighed and went to the training room.
"Training room: Hologram A-36; Level 9 Activa-" Before it did activate, Robin stepped in and told her he would practice with her. She nodded. "Training Room: Hologram A-36; Level 9 activate!" The walls and the ground transfixed into a nature scene. The wide and deep river ran swiftly besides them and trees were everywhere. It was a perfect little for a picnic, if they weren't getting attacked. Airplanes dropped bombs on them and Raven tackled Robin down so he wouldn't get hurt.
"Remember, we have to protect each other! Don't let me out of your site, and I won't let you out of mine!" she yelled over roaring engines of missile throwing robots. He nodded and they fought against them. Raven being attacked by two at once used her mental abilities and smashed them together. Robin used his disks to freeze them and they combusted into metal pieces. Things got harder as arrows flew everywhere at them. Raven jumped sideways, dodging them successfully with Robin also jumping. One was about to pierce him when she controlled it and reflected into the one who threw it. She controlled all of them and slowly turning around, she let them fly to their owners; piercing screams shriveled in the air as holographic men fell from the trees. Dinosaurs rumbled her and there trying to bite their legs off. Raven grabbed Robin and carried him to the top of the tree where they could attack. Freezing them, Robin jumped to another tree as Raven just up rooted one and smacked the tyrannosaurus in the head, trying to get away, following Robin's lead. After attacking what was coming to them, the hologram safely shut down.
Water flooded as the hologram seem to end. It did end. What was going on now? Raven and Robin ran to the door and tried to blow it open but it wouldn't budge. Raven lifted them both up to the top of the dome. Away from the water but it filled the room quickly. She made a little air bubble for both of them. 'The water- was this part of the hologram?' she thought to herself. Air tanks formed in their arms as they sat next to each other, exchanging thoughts. Attacking sharks and sting rays tried to burst their bubble of air, but it didn't work. Yes, this was part of the hologram. Raven controlled the sharks, which were twice as long as them and mentally told Robin to wear his air tank as she put them on. The sting rays though were non-controllable since, she had 8 sharks to deal with. They attacked Robin but just in time, Raven hitched a ride on one of the controlled and grabbed Robin by the arm.
She picked up pieces of the sunken ship that computerized on the ground of the training room as well as the deeper part of the hologram ocean. She shot the sting rays down by piercing them with the wood from the ship. As they all fell to the ocean ground, the cliff leading to the deeper part of the ocean forced tentacles out. A 30 foot long tentacle wrapped around Raven and took her down to the crevices to the under world. Robin was now the one worried for her. He dove in after her but before he reached the cliff, the tentacle hauling Raven shot up and hit the girl against the rock wall. He took his disks out but was commanded by Raven to do something else.
'Don't! If you freeze him, I will too!' Raven commanded sticking a hand out to stop him. He just sat on the shark as the tentacle bashed Raven non-stop into the wall making rock slides. Even in the condition she was in she saved him. He had to do something to prove to her that he could be a more trustworthy team member as well, even if this was only a hologram. He directed the shark to the sunken ship and went inside where large swords and sharp edges were hidden. After grabbing one while the shark swam by fast; he then forced the shark to the tentacles. The squid tried grabbing him but he dodged them, jumping off the shark and swimming away. Raven obliged the sharks to bite the tentacles to weaken the squid. The squid crushed a few sharks.
Somehow, the squid sensed Raven was controlling the sharks and squeezed her enough to not allow her to breathe. Making his way to her, he slashed through the tentacle holding Raven. She slipped out but was caught by him. Her ribs felt a little crushed but a little source of empathy could help her, which it did. They swam to the top and found a shore near by, swimming towards it together; they reached it successfully with out a hazard of sharks or tentacles. Robin checked the time on his wrist. 6:08 PM. They were going to be late for dinner if this kept going on. When he was about to close off the hologram, bones of hands popped in every square feet grabbing them. The sand shuffled under their feet as they ran towards a tree but monkeys attacked them and bite them. Raven kicked them away and Robin froze them. The bones of the hands protruded and thus the eyes of the two teen heroes witnessed it become a full body.
Raven taking a glance at Robin's watch ended the hologram and she rushed out of the room. Robin just watched after her. She hurried to put the uniform and cleaned the place like she promised. Then rushed to their kitchen where Alfred was cooking meat. She had asked what to do and was ordered to bake biscuits. Dinner was now served.
A/N* Thank you all who wrote kind reviews for my story!!! Thanks to all of you!!! The chapter is dedicated to you (no special orders): jasikaermine (especially you for the great reviews), Jillian4, Lady Serenity Moon Child, Tweek2, Tomboy, CheshireCat 46, Chibi Nataly, DarkWorld, S.M. and last but certainly not least, The Pebble!! Thanks you guys! And those who read it and liked it, but didn't find the time to review this story- thanks too!
Raven stomped angrily out of the bathroom after a refreshing shower in her new clothing. It was regular clothing, not the skin tight, leg showing, cape flowing costume she threw on every single day since she became a Titan. Raven had her hair tied up in a messy pony tail this time. She had khaki capris with a side zipper and a little hook on. Her shirt was a regular white tank top, but the problem was, that they didn't have shoes for her, so she just floated around the halls, talking with Alfred for a little while and then seeping in and out of the walls, trying with all her might to no bump into Robin or Starfire. Luck ceased out. As she was done venturing Robin's old room, she slipped through the solid matters of the wall, and tumbled into Robin. They both fell on the floor next to each other. This was the first time of the evening that they saw each other. Robin was provided with his usual crime fighting costume though. He just grinned at her. Her lips slightly open and her eyes staring into his. Her petite body then picked itself up and planned to wander elsewhere but stopped by a gloved hand on her wrist.
"We were looking for you. or at least I was," Robin smiled. Raven, inches above him because of her flying abilities, just stared at him. She started to feel heart broken. He had been looking for her- with Starfire. She read his mind. Her eyes grew weak with desperation to get away.
"I'll be down for dinner soon," Raven stole her hand back and floated down to the dining room. Just she and Cyborg were there. He prayed silently and started to eat. She witnessed his messy behavior as he chugged down Italian soda, called Biancas, with his Italian themed dinner. All their dinner plates were filled with Italian food. She was hungry but didn't find the appetite. She just stared at her Prosciutto and Figs, Fazzoletti and Ricotta Jam Tart until the rest came in. Starfire and Robin were enjoying each other's company and sat next to each other- across from Raven. Cyborg was on her left, while Bruce was on her right, at the head of the long rectangular table. Beastboy was sitting next to Cyborg and was trying to listen to Raven's and Bruce's conversation of how hard to train. Cyborg pushed Beastboy down in his chair and started to shovel more food into his mouth. The plates were being passed around so he took the one carrying Roasted Pork with Fennel on it.
"Whouldg yzou shit dowgn, yzou'sre gocnna mfake mse puwkge won yzou!" Cyborg chortled through mouthfuls of food. He showed Beastboy his mixed up food in his mouth with his Lemonade Italian Soda slushing on top. A few remnants of his food were floating on top which made Beastboy gag. He didn't stare at Cyborg all through out dinner or try to listen; he just ate and excused himself.
"You have a training room, am I correct?" Raven hastily asked. He nodded. She was straight to the point, forward if you must. Bruce liked that. He didn't have to answer so many questions. "We will train there; you will teach us basic moves and advance us from that point on." Bruce thought about it.
"I'll see what I can do," Bruce replied to the tone of her iciness in her voice.
'Thank you, Mr. Wayne. To repay your kindness, I'll help clean with Alfred and help prepare dinner,' Raven eagerly pressed against his thoughts, although she didn't say it out loud. Telepathy, what he suspected what one of her powers should be. He just nodded. Having help in fighting against people like the Penguin or the Joker wasn't such a bad idea anyway, and he did need a few more people to help clean with Alfred. He was growing old and it was taking advantage of him.
Raven continued her meal, disturbed by the flirting that went on between Robin and Starfire. She just picked up her dishes and the other empty dishes to clean it. Cyborg kept excavating food into his mouth and burped loudly. He handed the plate to Raven and she headed to the kitchen. She gently placed the plates one top of the other and left the water running to loosen the sticking food on the plate. She went out to retrieve the other left over plates and disposed of them; they were having dessert now and enjoying the taste. She skipped it, thinking that they were an excuse to put on more fat. As she took Starfire's empty plate from the main course of dinner, she noticed that she was turning red, red from jealousy, after collecting all the main course dinner plates, she turned off the sink and filled it with soap. Raven scrubbed so hard, it glimmered in the moonlight. After she was done, she did the dessert plates.
As she was walked into the living room, Cyborg yelled, "Hey! What's taking you so long Beastboy?! The movie's about to start!" Beastboy carried out two large buckets of popcorn. Raven scowled at them, but so silent that only she her self could hear it. She wandered aimlessly around and found the training room. Bruce was in there as Batman.
"Mr. Wayne, would you mind if I practiced in here?" Raven asked. Batman just looked at her. He nodded and left the room after telling her how to voice command the training room. She activated it level 10, the highest and most extreme level. Raven didn't think this would be such a difficult level, considering, she's been through worse. But, man, was she so wrong.
"Arg!!!!" Raven jumped in the air, dismissing a laser beam from below. But by surprise another laser beam hit her in the back. She grunted and fell to the metal floor. Standing up, she swayed and did a back flip, there were more laser beams after her. This of course was a hologram. But everything felt so real to her. Gas chambers awakened and let out fog so she couldn't see most things. It was so foggy she could barely see her hand in front of her face. Spears flew in every direction but she controlled them and sent them flying into walls, breaking them. Just then, a wall that seemed harmless popped up in front of her, it was about 4 feet wide, and it reached the ceiling from the ground. She moved away but it followed her. She flew as fast as she could, but it didn't work, it followed her so directly that it wasn't even a centimeter off. Another wall blocked her other sides. After a few minutes of tiring events of trying to avoid them, she set herself down on the ground quickly then started up as the third wall came ruptured up behind her, two walls on the side, none in front. She flew so fast that she almost made it a centimeter away from them but when she did, the completion of the box settled and the fourth wall came shooting off in front her. As it exploded, Raven collided into it and tumbled 8 feet down from her flying stance.
"This is harder than I thought," Raven said to her self. She looked up wards at the roof of the little trap box as it skidded down towards her, arrows were piercing through the box on her side but not behind her or in front of her. She wasn't scared but just a little frantic. She screamed, "Training Room: Hologram A-58; level 10 disconnect!" As soon as those words came pouring out her mouth, everything disappeared and she was as sweaty as hell. She collapsed on the floor and breathed slowly, trying to get her heart beat in control. She wiped the sweat off her brow and headed towards the weight room.
She thought maybe toning her muscles would help and started running five miles on the treadmill. It took her about 7 minutes and 30 seconds to run one mile but by the time she done, it had been about 35 minutes. Her legs got quite the workout. Again, after an hour on the other machines, she ran on the treadmill once more. She felt energized but she'd have to work out a lot more if she wanted to have powers stronger, more than ever. She went to one of the guest room provided for them and was picking up the heaviest objects with her mind, trying to upgrade that too. After making them stay up for 15 minutes each, she went out and then to the weight room, for they had heavier objects in there.
"I must have them stay up!" Raven convinced herself, all of them were floating in the air and now was able to advance onto making them move around, but she was moving them so slowly that walking turtles seemed faster than them. After circling them inside the room, she gently set them down and ran to Alfred.
"Yes, Ms. Raven, is there anything you need?" Alfred spoke gently. He was also kind to her and the rest of the group.
"Alfred, tomorrow could you prepare 10- 120 pound bags of wet sand and leave them in the backyard?" Raven spoke hastily. He nodded.
"I'll do what I can, probably, miss," Alfred said. "Oh, Ms. Raven, since you are working here now, you will be required to wear this." He held out a uniform, fit for her and she took it. Showering for the second time of the day made she smelled better than ever. She walked around the house cleaning a bit here and there. Washing the windows and vacuuming the rug for the next day was not an option. Her black dress matched the color of Alfred's uniform. It was just a plain black dress with a white apron over it. Her brand new socks that were bought by Alfred for her fit her quite well and were pulled up to her knees. He also bought her more training clothes and shoes. She went to sleep after everyone else and changed into pajamas provided for her.
In the morning after, she found herself wrapped in mounds of blankets. She woke, sweating from the nightmare that approached her cunningly, the nightmare of her father. She had this almost everyday of her life- but it never got so bad like this. It seemed so real, her father was ahead of her, if she could only reach him. If only- she took out her hand in sleep motion and reached forward screaming, 'TRIGON! I WILL REVENGE YOU! I WILL KILL YOU! ... ARGH!!!!!!!!' She made her night stand crash on to the ground with her anger and kept reaching up with her left hand. Someone reached her back. Robin was standing to her left, clutching her tiny hand.
"What are you doing in the privacy of my room?!" Raven bolted up, pulling back her hand. She started to snarl at him but he interrupted her shows of anger.
"I heard you scream... Something about killing triangles?" Robin snickered. She knew what he was talking about.
"My father... Trigon," She muttered under her breath.
"Are you alright?" Robin asked. "If your dad is upsetting you, I'll help you fight him off." He looked at her kindly and she softened away the hard look she had a few seconds ago. He reached towards her hand and held it in one of his. She tried to move her hand away but too scared that once she did, she'll lose him. Forever and he might go running to Starfire. She smiled and looked at her other free hand. He picked his hand up just as Cyborg rumbled in. Their moment of a budding relationship demolished, crushed by the wave of fate.
The others ran in too. "What's going on? Someone screamed and woke me!" Cyborg yelled.
"Chill Cyborg, we overslept anyway," Beastboy said, transforming back into a regular being from a dog. He pointed to the digital clock sprawled on the ground. It was 11:58. Raven rushed up and left them hanging there for awhile. When she emerged from the bathroom in her uniform, Beastboy whistled and Cyborg clapped.
"Looks like someone's going to the joint tonight and doing a litt-" Beastboy started to joke. Cyborg laughed his head off.
"I'm working here to pay back Bruce Wayne," she intervallic. Beastboy and Cyborg stopped laughing. Robin just stared at her. He knew she knew that she didn't have too, but she felt like it. She made her bed and seeped through the walls to make the rests' bed. After she was done with that, she headed to the kitchen where Alfred was waiting. "Sorry to keep you waiting."
"No problems, Miss Raven, although all of you missed Breakfast, except Master Dick, you will have to prepare lunch now. Mr. Bruce will not be joining us today," Alfred said. She prepared pizza for them and brought out the soda.
'Lunch is ready,' her voice echoed in everyone's head. The first one down there was Cyborg as like last night, he shoved pizza down in his mouth, enjoying the taste in which he had not savored for so long. She took a plate and tea to Alfred and got one herself and joined him in a different room.
"Thank you Miss Raven," Alfred said, taking bites of his. Her stomach rumbled about for she didn't touch it yet. She could hear Starfire let out a cheer for pizza and Beastboy fighting over the largest piece with Cyborg. "Is something bothering you?" Alfred asked.
"No, I'm fine," Raven said. He was like a grandfather to her.
"But you are wrong, your eyes are deceiving you," he spoke, finishing the last bit of pizza and drinking his tea to swallow it down. She looked up at him in surprise.
"My dreams are haunting me," Raven confessed.
"Ah, will you tell them to me?" Alfred still sipped on his tea.
"My father has killed one dearest to me-" Raven was surprised.
"Master Dick? Isn't he the one?" he interrogated. She nodded in embarrassment. He smiled in amusement. "Don't worry, I won' tell anyone," He patted her hand.
"I tried running to him but can never catch him," Raven finished. He nodded.
"Perhaps, one you hate much will hurt the one you love. It seems you need a little break today, why don't you go outside. Your sand is waiting," Alfred gently alleged. Raven nodded. In Gotham, the rain seemed to be going on and on. The fall-winter happenings didn't at all disturbed Raven. She changed into training clothes and headed outside. She trained herself in the rain and lifted all the bags at the same time and held it there for a while then rearranged them to hit the tree one by one, falling on top of each other.
Summoning a destruction spell, she directed it to one of the sand bags, blowing it up everywhere. Sand dust swirled in the wind and left her sight, the bag though, was too heavy too carry, so it stayed behind. She then lifted the remaining 9 up higher and higher until she couldn't keep them in the grasp of her mind any longer. She stacked on top of one another and went in. Mentally drying her self off she headed to the weight room. Running another 10 miles and then lifting weights without her mental powers exhausted her. She then went to the punching bag and took out her anger of her father and her jealousy of Starfire on it. She punched it too hard in fact that it emptied. Raven shrugged mentally picked them all up and dropped it in the trash. She sighed and went to the training room.
"Training room: Hologram A-36; Level 9 Activa-" Before it did activate, Robin stepped in and told her he would practice with her. She nodded. "Training Room: Hologram A-36; Level 9 activate!" The walls and the ground transfixed into a nature scene. The wide and deep river ran swiftly besides them and trees were everywhere. It was a perfect little for a picnic, if they weren't getting attacked. Airplanes dropped bombs on them and Raven tackled Robin down so he wouldn't get hurt.
"Remember, we have to protect each other! Don't let me out of your site, and I won't let you out of mine!" she yelled over roaring engines of missile throwing robots. He nodded and they fought against them. Raven being attacked by two at once used her mental abilities and smashed them together. Robin used his disks to freeze them and they combusted into metal pieces. Things got harder as arrows flew everywhere at them. Raven jumped sideways, dodging them successfully with Robin also jumping. One was about to pierce him when she controlled it and reflected into the one who threw it. She controlled all of them and slowly turning around, she let them fly to their owners; piercing screams shriveled in the air as holographic men fell from the trees. Dinosaurs rumbled her and there trying to bite their legs off. Raven grabbed Robin and carried him to the top of the tree where they could attack. Freezing them, Robin jumped to another tree as Raven just up rooted one and smacked the tyrannosaurus in the head, trying to get away, following Robin's lead. After attacking what was coming to them, the hologram safely shut down.
Water flooded as the hologram seem to end. It did end. What was going on now? Raven and Robin ran to the door and tried to blow it open but it wouldn't budge. Raven lifted them both up to the top of the dome. Away from the water but it filled the room quickly. She made a little air bubble for both of them. 'The water- was this part of the hologram?' she thought to herself. Air tanks formed in their arms as they sat next to each other, exchanging thoughts. Attacking sharks and sting rays tried to burst their bubble of air, but it didn't work. Yes, this was part of the hologram. Raven controlled the sharks, which were twice as long as them and mentally told Robin to wear his air tank as she put them on. The sting rays though were non-controllable since, she had 8 sharks to deal with. They attacked Robin but just in time, Raven hitched a ride on one of the controlled and grabbed Robin by the arm.
She picked up pieces of the sunken ship that computerized on the ground of the training room as well as the deeper part of the hologram ocean. She shot the sting rays down by piercing them with the wood from the ship. As they all fell to the ocean ground, the cliff leading to the deeper part of the ocean forced tentacles out. A 30 foot long tentacle wrapped around Raven and took her down to the crevices to the under world. Robin was now the one worried for her. He dove in after her but before he reached the cliff, the tentacle hauling Raven shot up and hit the girl against the rock wall. He took his disks out but was commanded by Raven to do something else.
'Don't! If you freeze him, I will too!' Raven commanded sticking a hand out to stop him. He just sat on the shark as the tentacle bashed Raven non-stop into the wall making rock slides. Even in the condition she was in she saved him. He had to do something to prove to her that he could be a more trustworthy team member as well, even if this was only a hologram. He directed the shark to the sunken ship and went inside where large swords and sharp edges were hidden. After grabbing one while the shark swam by fast; he then forced the shark to the tentacles. The squid tried grabbing him but he dodged them, jumping off the shark and swimming away. Raven obliged the sharks to bite the tentacles to weaken the squid. The squid crushed a few sharks.
Somehow, the squid sensed Raven was controlling the sharks and squeezed her enough to not allow her to breathe. Making his way to her, he slashed through the tentacle holding Raven. She slipped out but was caught by him. Her ribs felt a little crushed but a little source of empathy could help her, which it did. They swam to the top and found a shore near by, swimming towards it together; they reached it successfully with out a hazard of sharks or tentacles. Robin checked the time on his wrist. 6:08 PM. They were going to be late for dinner if this kept going on. When he was about to close off the hologram, bones of hands popped in every square feet grabbing them. The sand shuffled under their feet as they ran towards a tree but monkeys attacked them and bite them. Raven kicked them away and Robin froze them. The bones of the hands protruded and thus the eyes of the two teen heroes witnessed it become a full body.
Raven taking a glance at Robin's watch ended the hologram and she rushed out of the room. Robin just watched after her. She hurried to put the uniform and cleaned the place like she promised. Then rushed to their kitchen where Alfred was cooking meat. She had asked what to do and was ordered to bake biscuits. Dinner was now served.