Chapter 22: Watching the Stars Pass By
A/N** Yes!! Finally. Raven Robin fluff!!!! Or at least more. heh! ^^ Chapter dedicated to my reviewers! :D Sorry if this chapter is confusing.
Everything's going to unwrap in the next few chapters.
And btw, Loselen Snow Star, don't sweat about it, I'm really sorry if I
offended you, Senorita Mango and Hillaryfriend. :D
As they took off at warp speed, they entered their information at the two possible sites and the air-craft flew it self as fast it could to their first planet. Robin smiled. Raven cocked his head to that.
"What?"
"We'll be finding a cure for them, I know it!" Robin grinned at the thought.
"Yes, I believe we will," Raven trailed off.
'Slade said. that Cold Stone was stronger than he was. DAMN IT! Fuck. he's right. I could barely beat Slade with my own strength, even if it depended on my life. But they're all depending on me right now,' he thought. He looked at Raven standing in front of the stone Starfire, Beastboy and Cyborg. He heard her sniffle and remembered those were her best friends. 'Raven's depending on me right now.'
"I'm going to go train in the hologram deck, that alright with you?" Raven asked. He nodded.
"Let me come with you," he said, walking right along her side.
"What for? Didn't you train already? Hmph, I guess it won't hurt we help each other," Raven declared. He nodded as they walked through the sliding doors of an elevator and up to the hologram deck.
Robin typed in a code for the hardest level he found on the computer and began it. As demons, machines, aliens and evil copies of the ones closest to them took shape in front of them, so did the treacherous back ground. It was rainy and the waters rose to their waist so it would be difficult to run in while their opponents had no difficult time to attack in. They were also on a cliff, so the running water had tried to push them down. Sometimes the water unexpectedly turned to a boiling degree for a set of minutes and they had no pattern. The water boiling could last for seconds to minutes and go right after the one before it ended. Raven had no problems with getting out of the flood, but the rain had the same format.
Every time the boiling rain happened, Raven grabbed onto Robin's hands and protected themselves by chanting a spell.
"Alright! Drop me down there!" He yelled pointing at a dragon demon that was flying under going in circles, gradually going up to where they were while Robin threw freeze disks at the others. She nodded and felt that the boiling rain had stopped. He gripped his fingers underneath the scales and pulled out a clump.
"What in hell are you doing?!" Raven screamed. She felt hot water rise in temperature and trickle down her neck. She created a forced field and saw Robin grabbing onto the horns of the dragon with one hand and holding the scales in the other.
"The scales are resistant to temperature and always stays at body temperature!" he screamed back at her. Raven nodded and fought against their fake comrades.
"Raven, do you hate me?" a copy of Starfire mimicked.
"Huh?" she looked confused.
"Do you hate me?" her innocent voice echoed. "It is just that, you and Robin are together and you said you did not love him. Yet you have become special to each other and left me with no one. Do you hate me?"
"Of course not... and I don't love Robin!" Raven screamed at her, forgetting it was just an illusion. Robin turned his head and was smacked into the water.
'Did she just say. she didn't love me?!" Robin asked while the water almost scalded his skin. Raven swooped down and grabbed him, setting him on the dragon again. She got the Dragon scale armor and handed it back to him.
"This is only battle, Robin. You have to confuse your opponent and not let them figure your emotions, unless you want them to destroy you and your comrades," Raven scolded. He smiled and nodded and continued fighting.
"Raven, this is your chance to tell me the truth," the copy said. She then hissed as her eyes glowed red and her hair few in tangles and she shot red energy balls at Raven. She defended herself against all her team mates turned evil. Millie was even there and a double of Robin too.
"Hey! Don't let them get to you!" the real Robin yelled at her. She nodded. They began a fight that stood on hours on end; they were just waiting for it to be finished. It was timed for another two hours and every time they defeated something, it would come back stronger with more energy.
Raven looked at the timer, hanging in the air.
'Shit, one hour to go,' she thought to herself. She continued sparring. Every time she sliced through the fake Starfire, the new one would come back fighting even harder and always asking the same question.
"Do you hate me?"
"STOP THAT!" Raven yelled. Starfire flew around her asking the same thing over and over again.
**5**
"Do you-" She began.
"Didn't you hear me the first time?!" Raven responded angrily. She sped towards the Tamaran and kneed her in the stomach. Quickly, she twisted her arm and threw her at the fake Beastboy who was jumping in an attack between Robin and the fake Cyborg.
**4**
They both were knocked into the boiling water and were scalded.
**3**
"I said 'No.' I don't hate you Starfire," Raven sneered. Robin looked back at smiled after hearing what she said. He was on a dragon still, holding a pack of scales in one hand and warding off Cyborg with the other. He had grown quite tall and muscular over the few months with the help of extra- training and exercise, but still as cocky and ambitious as always.
**2**
Robin kick Cyborg in the face punched him in the waters.
"What happened to all the demons?" Robin asked. They looked around each other as all the hot boiling water poured down the cliff. The dragon steamed from underneath its scale finally being burned from the inside out. Robin jumped off.
**1**
"What happened?" Robin asked, looking at Raven. She shrugged.
**0**
"It was on Timer mode, but it's restarting again." Raven trailed. She tried to shut it off, but it wouldn't even show any signs of shutting down.
"What the hell is going on?!?!" he yelled out in anger. They felt soft grass grow underneath their feet. Trees appeared in particles and the moons, stars and glowing planets orbed into view.
"Final Death Match," a voice from the hidden computer said. Raven groaned.
"I guess we were supposed to fight each other, then," she stated. He nodded.
"Begin," the computer commanded.
"We have two hours," she affirmed. He nodded again. "Ready?" She asked while standing in her fighting pose.
"Whenever you are," he responded.
Robin made the first move as Raven jumped. He tackled her down but she teleported behind him.
"Huh?" he quizzed, feeling the air for him.
"Right behind you," She smirked. She kicked him in the back of his head. As he tumbled over, Raven concentrated her mind on the tree. "Azarath- metri- OOMPH!"
A bird-a-rang almost cut her cheek as she dodged it by wrenching her head back. One strand of hair was cut. She tried running as Robin threw freeze disks at each other. She jumped and flew in the air.
"Azarath. metrion. ZINTHOS!" she screamed, ordering boulders and trees to be thrown at Robin.
"Ugh," he complained. He took out his retractable bo staff and threw it as if it were a spear at Raven. She easily dodged it, took control of his air- borne staff and hit him with it. It went threw his cape.
"Hmph," she smirked.
"Impressive, Raven, now let's see you do this!" Robin shouted at her. He took out a few of his freeze disks and continuously threw it at her. One hit her elbow, making her shout in pain and out hit her ankle, causing her to fall down on the ground. The last one he threw with out paying attention hit her foot so she was frozen to the ground. "Shit, ran out! You got lucky! Or maybe not- you ok?" he held out his hands. Raven's eyes were closed as she said a little inaudible chant.
"Raven?" he kept on repeating. "What are you- agh!"
"Be careful. Keep your guard up, Robin," she ordered.
"Yeah," he said.
They kept fighting as in kicks here and a punch there and the occasional use of weapons they owned.
"Hey! You almost hit me!" Robin whined.
"Isn't that the main objective?" she stated. He shrugged.
For another half an hour, they battled with each other, trying to keep their emotions for each other down, but Robin couldn't resist at laughing at how Raven was in denial of everything.
Before Raven kicked him in the face, he bursted out with laughter. She stepped back.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Ok." she began to punch in the stomach and he responded by slicing the surface of her skin with his bird-a-rang's. Seeing that he was reaching for his staff (that was knocked out from his hand), Raven went in for the 'kill'. He began laughing again.
"Err."
"Sorry, it just makes me laugh whenever I think of you trying to beat me," he said.
"Trying to?" Raven cocked her head. He smirked. "I won't try, I will!" She had gotten serious and so had he. They began to slash at each other until Raven said something unexpected.
"You're holding back! Fight me like I was Slade!" she yelled at him. They were now in a position where he was hitting her downward with his staff while she blocked it with an invisible shield. He stopped trying when she mentioned Slade and tried even harder.
"I can't."
"And why not?" she asked.
"Because it's you!" he screamed at her. She shrugged.
"I don't care if you hurt me; we just need to save our friends." She told him.
"I still can't, I just can't replace you with Slade!" he stated. She sighed. Why couldn't he do this? He needed to prepare for the fight against Cold Stone.
"Arg- just pretend I killed Starfire then," all she wanted was for him to grow stronger in mind and physically. He had become weaker once he had fallen in love.
"Why you.!" He yelled at her. She was taken back a bit, but smirked.
"Yes! Fight me with all you have! There we go, we can win now!" she was pleased.
He went through her shield, which surprised her, and hit her shoulder. She felt an ache through her body and touched her shoulder. A warm liquid was drenching her fingers. She looked at it. Blood.
"Raven. I'm sorry. I- just-" Robin began. She shook her head and smiled at him weakly.
"No! It's not your fault. It was mine, I just wanted you to use your full potential," she stated.
"Are you at least alright?" he asked. She nodded. She was still standing, but she felt her knees starting to give way.
"Robin, what you said -"
"Yeah? What about it?" he asked, reaching out, then held her hand.
"KEEP FIGHTING ME!" she screamed. She held her shoulder but jumped back. "I hate Starfire! I want to beat her face in!"
"What the!? Hey, you can't say that!" he said, dragging his staff on his right while running towards her. She tried to jump back again but was caught by the tree.
"Hmph. Face it Robin, she's not the one for you!" Raven yelled at him. Of course she was lying about everything she said about Starfire, though. She lifted her hand and grabbed his staff. Their faces were only inches apart.
"No."
"Yes- face the facts," she smiled. She didn't mean to harm him. She just wanted to help him in battles.
"Well, you're lying so-" he trailed off, looking into her eyes.
"What?" she asked. He released his grip on the staff like she did, but was still holding it.
"Why do you say those things?"
"Er- because-"
"Are you jealous?"
"Jealous of what? Being jealous of something is idiotic!" she screamed at him. He smirked.
"You are jealous!" he yelled. She blushed.
"No! I just wanted you to fight all the way, so you can save Starfire!"
"Oh, well, it's nice to know you care about her."
"It's not like you do anyway, so one of us has to," she answered. He nodded. He was about to walk away when she asked him another statement, "I didn't mean any of those things, I just- I'm sorry."
"It's ok, I think we need to bandage you." he smiled. The light of the moon shined through Raven's eyes and somehow he was sort of lost in them.
"Um. one more thing," she said.
"Tell me," he whispered in her ear.
"Robin, why do you love Starfire?" she almost choked on her own words. Tears welled up. He smiled and looked at the stars.
"Same reason Jerikai loved you," he said.
"I see, thank you for engaging in battle with me," she expressed gratitude. He hugged her. "Robin- what are you doing?"
"If anything happens to you-us during battle, I want to tell you." he began.
"What?"
"Just wanted you to know that I love you," he simply told. She quirked her eyebrows. His face demolished inches away from her face.
"As a friend!" she tried correcting.
"No. more than that," he said, shaking his head. She wasn't believing what she was hearing.
"Prove it," she wanted him to prove it. She didn't want it to be a big mistake again.
"Okay," he said. He bent his neck down. The lips were so close to each others. Her eyes wide with fear mixed in with excitement. His left hand touched her face as her left hand slide down to wear he was gripping the bo staff. She slightly hugged him back and tip-toed to meet his limit. The stars twinkled at the site of the two. She knew it was an illusion, but maybe.
It was all too real though, it was all too much. He loved her. more than a friend. he proved it too.
Robin was kissing Raven.
A/N** Yes!! Finally. Raven Robin fluff!!!! Or at least more. heh! ^^ Chapter dedicated to my reviewers! :D Sorry if this chapter is confusing.
Everything's going to unwrap in the next few chapters.
And btw, Loselen Snow Star, don't sweat about it, I'm really sorry if I
offended you, Senorita Mango and Hillaryfriend. :D
As they took off at warp speed, they entered their information at the two possible sites and the air-craft flew it self as fast it could to their first planet. Robin smiled. Raven cocked his head to that.
"What?"
"We'll be finding a cure for them, I know it!" Robin grinned at the thought.
"Yes, I believe we will," Raven trailed off.
'Slade said. that Cold Stone was stronger than he was. DAMN IT! Fuck. he's right. I could barely beat Slade with my own strength, even if it depended on my life. But they're all depending on me right now,' he thought. He looked at Raven standing in front of the stone Starfire, Beastboy and Cyborg. He heard her sniffle and remembered those were her best friends. 'Raven's depending on me right now.'
"I'm going to go train in the hologram deck, that alright with you?" Raven asked. He nodded.
"Let me come with you," he said, walking right along her side.
"What for? Didn't you train already? Hmph, I guess it won't hurt we help each other," Raven declared. He nodded as they walked through the sliding doors of an elevator and up to the hologram deck.
Robin typed in a code for the hardest level he found on the computer and began it. As demons, machines, aliens and evil copies of the ones closest to them took shape in front of them, so did the treacherous back ground. It was rainy and the waters rose to their waist so it would be difficult to run in while their opponents had no difficult time to attack in. They were also on a cliff, so the running water had tried to push them down. Sometimes the water unexpectedly turned to a boiling degree for a set of minutes and they had no pattern. The water boiling could last for seconds to minutes and go right after the one before it ended. Raven had no problems with getting out of the flood, but the rain had the same format.
Every time the boiling rain happened, Raven grabbed onto Robin's hands and protected themselves by chanting a spell.
"Alright! Drop me down there!" He yelled pointing at a dragon demon that was flying under going in circles, gradually going up to where they were while Robin threw freeze disks at the others. She nodded and felt that the boiling rain had stopped. He gripped his fingers underneath the scales and pulled out a clump.
"What in hell are you doing?!" Raven screamed. She felt hot water rise in temperature and trickle down her neck. She created a forced field and saw Robin grabbing onto the horns of the dragon with one hand and holding the scales in the other.
"The scales are resistant to temperature and always stays at body temperature!" he screamed back at her. Raven nodded and fought against their fake comrades.
"Raven, do you hate me?" a copy of Starfire mimicked.
"Huh?" she looked confused.
"Do you hate me?" her innocent voice echoed. "It is just that, you and Robin are together and you said you did not love him. Yet you have become special to each other and left me with no one. Do you hate me?"
"Of course not... and I don't love Robin!" Raven screamed at her, forgetting it was just an illusion. Robin turned his head and was smacked into the water.
'Did she just say. she didn't love me?!" Robin asked while the water almost scalded his skin. Raven swooped down and grabbed him, setting him on the dragon again. She got the Dragon scale armor and handed it back to him.
"This is only battle, Robin. You have to confuse your opponent and not let them figure your emotions, unless you want them to destroy you and your comrades," Raven scolded. He smiled and nodded and continued fighting.
"Raven, this is your chance to tell me the truth," the copy said. She then hissed as her eyes glowed red and her hair few in tangles and she shot red energy balls at Raven. She defended herself against all her team mates turned evil. Millie was even there and a double of Robin too.
"Hey! Don't let them get to you!" the real Robin yelled at her. She nodded. They began a fight that stood on hours on end; they were just waiting for it to be finished. It was timed for another two hours and every time they defeated something, it would come back stronger with more energy.
Raven looked at the timer, hanging in the air.
'Shit, one hour to go,' she thought to herself. She continued sparring. Every time she sliced through the fake Starfire, the new one would come back fighting even harder and always asking the same question.
"Do you hate me?"
"STOP THAT!" Raven yelled. Starfire flew around her asking the same thing over and over again.
**5**
"Do you-" She began.
"Didn't you hear me the first time?!" Raven responded angrily. She sped towards the Tamaran and kneed her in the stomach. Quickly, she twisted her arm and threw her at the fake Beastboy who was jumping in an attack between Robin and the fake Cyborg.
**4**
They both were knocked into the boiling water and were scalded.
**3**
"I said 'No.' I don't hate you Starfire," Raven sneered. Robin looked back at smiled after hearing what she said. He was on a dragon still, holding a pack of scales in one hand and warding off Cyborg with the other. He had grown quite tall and muscular over the few months with the help of extra- training and exercise, but still as cocky and ambitious as always.
**2**
Robin kick Cyborg in the face punched him in the waters.
"What happened to all the demons?" Robin asked. They looked around each other as all the hot boiling water poured down the cliff. The dragon steamed from underneath its scale finally being burned from the inside out. Robin jumped off.
**1**
"What happened?" Robin asked, looking at Raven. She shrugged.
**0**
"It was on Timer mode, but it's restarting again." Raven trailed. She tried to shut it off, but it wouldn't even show any signs of shutting down.
"What the hell is going on?!?!" he yelled out in anger. They felt soft grass grow underneath their feet. Trees appeared in particles and the moons, stars and glowing planets orbed into view.
"Final Death Match," a voice from the hidden computer said. Raven groaned.
"I guess we were supposed to fight each other, then," she stated. He nodded.
"Begin," the computer commanded.
"We have two hours," she affirmed. He nodded again. "Ready?" She asked while standing in her fighting pose.
"Whenever you are," he responded.
Robin made the first move as Raven jumped. He tackled her down but she teleported behind him.
"Huh?" he quizzed, feeling the air for him.
"Right behind you," She smirked. She kicked him in the back of his head. As he tumbled over, Raven concentrated her mind on the tree. "Azarath- metri- OOMPH!"
A bird-a-rang almost cut her cheek as she dodged it by wrenching her head back. One strand of hair was cut. She tried running as Robin threw freeze disks at each other. She jumped and flew in the air.
"Azarath. metrion. ZINTHOS!" she screamed, ordering boulders and trees to be thrown at Robin.
"Ugh," he complained. He took out his retractable bo staff and threw it as if it were a spear at Raven. She easily dodged it, took control of his air- borne staff and hit him with it. It went threw his cape.
"Hmph," she smirked.
"Impressive, Raven, now let's see you do this!" Robin shouted at her. He took out a few of his freeze disks and continuously threw it at her. One hit her elbow, making her shout in pain and out hit her ankle, causing her to fall down on the ground. The last one he threw with out paying attention hit her foot so she was frozen to the ground. "Shit, ran out! You got lucky! Or maybe not- you ok?" he held out his hands. Raven's eyes were closed as she said a little inaudible chant.
"Raven?" he kept on repeating. "What are you- agh!"
"Be careful. Keep your guard up, Robin," she ordered.
"Yeah," he said.
They kept fighting as in kicks here and a punch there and the occasional use of weapons they owned.
"Hey! You almost hit me!" Robin whined.
"Isn't that the main objective?" she stated. He shrugged.
For another half an hour, they battled with each other, trying to keep their emotions for each other down, but Robin couldn't resist at laughing at how Raven was in denial of everything.
Before Raven kicked him in the face, he bursted out with laughter. She stepped back.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Ok." she began to punch in the stomach and he responded by slicing the surface of her skin with his bird-a-rang's. Seeing that he was reaching for his staff (that was knocked out from his hand), Raven went in for the 'kill'. He began laughing again.
"Err."
"Sorry, it just makes me laugh whenever I think of you trying to beat me," he said.
"Trying to?" Raven cocked her head. He smirked. "I won't try, I will!" She had gotten serious and so had he. They began to slash at each other until Raven said something unexpected.
"You're holding back! Fight me like I was Slade!" she yelled at him. They were now in a position where he was hitting her downward with his staff while she blocked it with an invisible shield. He stopped trying when she mentioned Slade and tried even harder.
"I can't."
"And why not?" she asked.
"Because it's you!" he screamed at her. She shrugged.
"I don't care if you hurt me; we just need to save our friends." She told him.
"I still can't, I just can't replace you with Slade!" he stated. She sighed. Why couldn't he do this? He needed to prepare for the fight against Cold Stone.
"Arg- just pretend I killed Starfire then," all she wanted was for him to grow stronger in mind and physically. He had become weaker once he had fallen in love.
"Why you.!" He yelled at her. She was taken back a bit, but smirked.
"Yes! Fight me with all you have! There we go, we can win now!" she was pleased.
He went through her shield, which surprised her, and hit her shoulder. She felt an ache through her body and touched her shoulder. A warm liquid was drenching her fingers. She looked at it. Blood.
"Raven. I'm sorry. I- just-" Robin began. She shook her head and smiled at him weakly.
"No! It's not your fault. It was mine, I just wanted you to use your full potential," she stated.
"Are you at least alright?" he asked. She nodded. She was still standing, but she felt her knees starting to give way.
"Robin, what you said -"
"Yeah? What about it?" he asked, reaching out, then held her hand.
"KEEP FIGHTING ME!" she screamed. She held her shoulder but jumped back. "I hate Starfire! I want to beat her face in!"
"What the!? Hey, you can't say that!" he said, dragging his staff on his right while running towards her. She tried to jump back again but was caught by the tree.
"Hmph. Face it Robin, she's not the one for you!" Raven yelled at him. Of course she was lying about everything she said about Starfire, though. She lifted her hand and grabbed his staff. Their faces were only inches apart.
"No."
"Yes- face the facts," she smiled. She didn't mean to harm him. She just wanted to help him in battles.
"Well, you're lying so-" he trailed off, looking into her eyes.
"What?" she asked. He released his grip on the staff like she did, but was still holding it.
"Why do you say those things?"
"Er- because-"
"Are you jealous?"
"Jealous of what? Being jealous of something is idiotic!" she screamed at him. He smirked.
"You are jealous!" he yelled. She blushed.
"No! I just wanted you to fight all the way, so you can save Starfire!"
"Oh, well, it's nice to know you care about her."
"It's not like you do anyway, so one of us has to," she answered. He nodded. He was about to walk away when she asked him another statement, "I didn't mean any of those things, I just- I'm sorry."
"It's ok, I think we need to bandage you." he smiled. The light of the moon shined through Raven's eyes and somehow he was sort of lost in them.
"Um. one more thing," she said.
"Tell me," he whispered in her ear.
"Robin, why do you love Starfire?" she almost choked on her own words. Tears welled up. He smiled and looked at the stars.
"Same reason Jerikai loved you," he said.
"I see, thank you for engaging in battle with me," she expressed gratitude. He hugged her. "Robin- what are you doing?"
"If anything happens to you-us during battle, I want to tell you." he began.
"What?"
"Just wanted you to know that I love you," he simply told. She quirked her eyebrows. His face demolished inches away from her face.
"As a friend!" she tried correcting.
"No. more than that," he said, shaking his head. She wasn't believing what she was hearing.
"Prove it," she wanted him to prove it. She didn't want it to be a big mistake again.
"Okay," he said. He bent his neck down. The lips were so close to each others. Her eyes wide with fear mixed in with excitement. His left hand touched her face as her left hand slide down to wear he was gripping the bo staff. She slightly hugged him back and tip-toed to meet his limit. The stars twinkled at the site of the two. She knew it was an illusion, but maybe.
It was all too real though, it was all too much. He loved her. more than a friend. he proved it too.
Robin was kissing Raven.