I know all of you guy have been waiting anxiously for me to update this story. I think you all will be real glad to find out that this is going to be a longer chapter than that of the others. I like to thank all of my reviewers and respond to some. Here we go!
Tsukasasign: It's really hard for me to update like every day or two—which is what I would like to do—but I always end up having something to do. I'm free of projects and stuff so maybe I'll update more. Just to let you know, my brother also uses the computer a lot playing POKeMON net battle. I don't know why he wastes such time playing that because I find no entertainment in it what-so-ever! Glad you enjoy the story and thanks for reviewing.
Star taro: That is completely amazing. I'm trying to have a mostly serious story and someone thinks it's hilarious. Well Star taro, good for you! Laughing makes you live longer anyway. Glad you like the fic!
IronRaven: I am so glad to hear how nobody is OOC in this story (or any of mine and let's keep it that way)! I think that it is a little weird how people just put a character's personality the way they want whether it makes sense or not. I don't know, but it just bothers me in someway when a character acts out of their own character for no apparent reason. But when I write a story, I put myself in the characters' shoes and pretty much "download" their person into my head so I can think what they might think. It really helps if you are like a certain character you are writing about. For example, it is so easy for me to reflect Raven's personality and put it in the story because her person is as my own. Pretty much, all I have to do is think about how I would react in the same exact situation.
Brunette-Blessing: Mammoth is talking in third person because I took a quote from him of what he said in the first episode of Teen Titans (Final Exam).
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Fox Pocky: I assure you that the story will continue to get more exciting, more detailed, and more shocking as it goes on. Yes, I will try to update more often, but like I said before, it's hard when your Dad uses it and your nineteen year old brother is playing games and won't get off the computer unless I can summon enough energy to throw him off. Also, glad you like my story!
Angel Spirit: Seems like Cyborg has discovered Beast boy's crush, doesn't it?
Anyway, reviews are out of the way so lets begin with chapter six!
Raven: All of you foolish mortals shall know that troubled-ego is a fifteen year old idiot girl who still does not own the Teen Titans! In your face t-e!
troubled-ego: ;; I'm not that much of an idiot...
All of the emotions stood together in a group and looked into the distance watching the demon taking his time walking. He would arrive in any minute.
Knowledge knew it was now or never."It's time."
They all stood close together while rising up into the black mass of sky filled with red burning stars of Raven's pain and hatred. They spun in a circle around and around, over and over again until they inched close enough to touch and fused together to make a brand new being in Raven's cold and dark soul.
Purity.
The white-cloaked emotion softly glided towards the gray ground. The blue demon laughed at the new display. "Don't tell me that you actually think just because you changed your color that you can overcome my power!"
Purity smirked tauntingly. "Bring it on."
The transparent germ returned the competitive smirk. "As you wish!" The two warriors positioned themselves into fighting stances.
Raven continued to lay in bed – turning every once in a while – as her dear android friend, Cyborg looked on. 'You'll be safe as long as I'm here with you Rae. You're my friend and I won't let anything happen to you.' Cyborg thought about the time when he first made his T-Car and all the troubles he had to go through with it.
"It's just a car." Raven coldly spat.
Cyborg grew furious and stomped up to his telekinetic teammate. "She's not just a car, she's my car and I'm gonna find her whether you guys help me or not!" With that off his chest, he turned around and abandoned his friends to find his love...his car.
Cyborg kept on thinking about Gizmo driving away and escaping with his beauty. While he was intently pondering, a girl walked up to him.
"Fourteen milkshakes...not a good sign." she said as she sat down next to Cyborg soon afterward.
"What are you doing here?" the android asked with slight annoyance ringing in his voice.
"Looking for your car. As soon as we took Overload into the police, we all split up to look for it in the city." Raven calmly answered.
Cyborg felt slightly moved. "Might as well stop looking," he insisted. "T-Car's probably half-way to Metropolis by now." Cyborg paused and then continued, "From the day I designed her, I knew she was going to be something special and I worked so hard, every fuel injector, every sparkplug, I made her perfect! I put my heart, soul, and circuits into that car...and now she's gone forever. Maybe you were right. Maybe it was just a car." After that small speech, he decided to listen to what Raven had to say. Maybe she would insult him. Whatever she did, Cyborg could take it...or try to.
But Raven didn't insult him. Instead, she said, "Maybe. Maybe not. When I use my powers, I have to put a little bit of my soul into whatever I am moving. I become a part of it and it becomes a part of me. That's kind of what happened here. It wasn't just a car, it was...your baby."
Cyborg couldn't believe this side of Raven that he was seeing. He smiled at his new friend, she wasn't just a teammate anymore. She was a friend. "Yeah...thanks Rae."
Raven smiled.
Overload possessed Cyborg's car forcing Cyborg to destroy what he had worked so hard for. "She's not my car anymore."
Pieces from the T-Car flew everywhere and Cyborg just watched on as his love fell to pieces. Gizmo and an unconscious Overload were returned to prison as Cyborg stared at the pieces of his lost artwork. He felt Raven walk up to him. Yes, he felt her presence. "She's gone. Gone forever."
Raven pulled her hood down as she listened to her friend. "Maybe. Maybe not," the wind blew into her violet hair. "These are just parts. The thing you loved about your car, the thing that made her special—that came from inside you." While saying the last line, she gestured her fist toward her heart and looked into Cyborg's eyes – for she was sincere. Then she pointed to something on the ground and like magic, there the chip – the very soul of his car – lay on the cold gray street. He walked over to it as if he were in a trance and picked it up smiling.
Parts were being placed together, metal was being cut and gears were fitting in to make the structure of this new sculpture of art. Cyborg softly slammed the hood down of his new T-Car – freshly built – and smiled at his little helper, Raven, as she returned the smile. From then on, Raven and Cyborg became friends and Raven always helped Cyborg with the T-Car.
Cyborg snapped out of his flashback and began to think about the present. 'Raven helped me then, so I'm returning the favor for you Rae. I'm going to make sure that you get one hundred percent better.'
Meanwhile, Robin and the rest of the gang were running to the location where the H.A.E.Y.P were waiting for them on the roof of an office building. Mammoth sneered as he tossed a security guard off of the roof. Naturally the man screamed for death was soon to claim him; not if Robin would allow it.
"Starfire!" The boy commanded.
Starfire nodded her head for she knew exactly what to do. She swiftly flew to the descending manand caught him before he stained the street with his body. "Thank you!" the man gratefully breathed. Starfire nodded and brought the man to his feet. She released him and he sprinted away. Starfire glanced at Robin who immediately gave the order, "Titans! Attack!"
Beastboy changed into a hawk and soared into the blue above. Starfire grabbed ahold of Robin's wrists and flew him up with her. The three Titans gracefully landed on the roof and got into fighting stances.
Gizmo clapped. "Nice tricks clutch heads, but don't think those stinking acrobatics will beat us!"
"You got lucky last time!" Beast boy pointed a finger at them accusingly.
"Our friend was hurt," Robin agreed.
"We had to assist her," continued Starfire.
Jinx chuckled, "Just because one of your teammates is weak is a pathetic excuse for failure."
Beast boy fumed. "Raven is not weak!"
The three villains laughed. "Looks like veggie's in love!" shouted Mammoth.
"Teen love!" Gizmo joked as he choked on his laughter.
Even Starfire and Robin giggled a little. "Guys!" Beast boy shouted noticing his teammates laughing at him.
"Sorry Beast boy," the boy wonder chuckled. "But it is kinda funny."
Starfire stopped her laughing for a few seconds. "I agree Beast boy. I am sorry."
The H.A.E.Y.P stopped the little laughing exercise when Jinx said, "You still can't beat us. There's only three of you and three of us. But when there is five of you, you even have a hard time fighting us. What makes you think you can beat us when you're missing two of your teammates?"
Jinx had a point thought Robin. "We'll just find a way to beat you whether we have all the odds stacked against us or not!"
"Don't forget what happened last time." Jinx retorted.
Robin grunted and grit his teeth together. Their last defeat had been truly humiliating...he'd hate to think about it.
Before Raven was able to execute her infamous attack, she curled up in pain. She choked on the air and couldn't breath as she coughed and coughed. The telepath couldn't hold herself up in the air any longer and she fell hard onto the ground. Starfire, ran up to her strangely injured friend. "Raven! What is wrong with you?" she cried holding Raven in her arms as the fighting in the background stopped and everyone looked over from their positions to see what happened to the all-powerful telepath.
"...hurt..."
That was all she could say and she passed out after coughing a few more times.
"Raven! Raven!" Starfire violently shook her friend in a panic. Tears streamed from her eyes to see Raven not responding. "Raven! Please awaken, I beg of you! Awaken!" The Tamaranean sobbed. "Raven!" she cried out over and over again like a broken record that had no intentions of ceasing. Robin, Cyborg, Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth watched on as Starfire continued to shake her friend. Finally she checked for the pacifist's pulse...alive but her friend had shallow breathing and was burning up. Raven's face was reddening infact. The team sighed when hearing that she was alive but were also, at the same time, very much confused why she had been knocked out cold. Was it some invisible force? Possibly. Could Jinx have cast some sort of curse on her? Also quite possibly. Mammoth looked over to his now unconscious opponent, Beast boy. Raven was carrying heavy bricks and they dropped when she lost her concentration in pain. The bricks dropped down onto his head, therefore, knocking him out cold. Gizmo, who was about to be defeated, took this opportunity to his advantage.
"Take this scrum-buffer!" The midget got one of his robotic spider legs operating again and whacked Robin on the head.
"Augh!" Robin flew past Cyborg and landed near Beast boy who had his face in the ground and stars floating around his head. Robin got up and rubbed his head.
"Robin!"
Robin looked up to see Cyborg flying towards him from Mammoth hurling the android into the air. Several seconds later, the two Titan boys collide with a loud thud. Starfire, who is now angry after seeing all of her friends being tossed around, charges up her starbolts and rushes in Jinx's direction, but Jinx senses her opponent arriving and hops out of the way as the frustrated Tamaranean hurls her starbolt covered fist into the ground creating a large crater on the city street. Jinx somersaults behind the alien princess and counters with a pink energy blast that sends Starfire flying into a wall.
In the meantime, Robin and Cyborg finally get up and start to fight the H.A.E.Y.P boys. Robin fights Gizmo and his newly repaired tech with robotic spider legs while Cyborg battles with Mammoth and his King Kong sized fists. When Robin sees Starfire crash into the brick wall he gets distracted.
"Starfire! Unh!"
Gizmo whacks him once more. "You stinkin' pit sniffer! There's no way you can beat the H.A.E.Y.P!" Gizmo moves toward Robin who is now laying on the floor and pushes him down further with a metallic leg. Robin grunts since he's being crushed. Cyborg takes note of what's happening and tries to help by throwing Mammoth over to Gizmo.
With no one else to fight, Jinx decides to pick on the android. She runs behind him and zaps Cyborg with a blast of energy. That distracts Cyborg and gives Mammoth an opportunity to sucker-punch him.
The Teen Titans are defeated.
Gizmo laughs and finally lays off of Robin. "Those jack-heads thought that they could beat us! But look at them now..."
The H.A.E.Y.P look around to see three unconscious good guys and the other two who are weakened and helpless. The villains laugh once again. "C'mon, let's find other banks to rob. Jinx, take the jewels!" Gizmo ordered.
Jinx walked over to the area where she temporarily dropped the treasure in order to have two hands free for fighting and picked it up. Then she walked back to the other two.
Mammoth rubbed his stomach. "You don't possibly think that we could stop to eat something do you?"
Gizmo took a second to think. "Why not. Anyway, who's gonna stop us?" He laughed once more as they all walked away from the defeated and the weak.
The Teen Titans.
Robin became more upset the more he thought about the previous battle with the three evil-doers. "We won't experience defeat from you again! Like I said before, last time was nothing but a cheap shot!"
"Come on and prove it." Gizmo taunted.
Robin grit his teeth and furrowed his eyebrows. "Teen Titans, ATTACK!"
Starfire and Beast boy both charged after the H.A.E.Y.P with their leader following closely behind.
Inside Raven, the battle continued to worsen. The blue demon and Purity had their hands joined together and are trying to push each other away. They compete in strength and as they push, their energies are surrounding them in sparks of light and surging around like electricity dancing and sparks of fire surrounding them. A small crater surrounds them as they continue to compete in their strength and the gray ground begins to collapse under their feet, under the extent of their power.
{Disturbed: Down With The Sickness}
Drowning deep in my sea of loathing
Broken your servant I kneel
(Will you give it to me)
It seems what's left of my human side
is slowly changing in me
They both shout aloud as their powers raise like the fountain in a lake as it raises higher and higher. They finally jump away as the ground beneath them crumbles. Both are panting to regain their breath. Who said fighting was easy?
(Will you give it to me)
Looking at my own reflection
When suddenly it changes
Violently it changes (oh no)
There is no turning back now
You've woken up the demon in me
"I'll give you some credit. You're slightly better than I expected." said the demon.
Purity chucked, "Slightly better? I'm just warming up."
The transparent foe quirked a brow and smiled. "Really? Prove it."
"As you wish," Purity rose from the ground, levitating in mid-air. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Dark energy surrounded her hands. She took aim.
Fire. The demon ran around dodging the blasts with an amazing speed. "Is that all you've got?"
"Not really." Purity started firing more accurate shots.
'I do have to admit,' the demon thought. 'She sure knows how to turn up the heat.' He then chuckled at his innuendo.
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate, and let it flow into me
The demon grunted as he continued running, jumping, rolling, whatever it took to not get hit. He looked up at Purity for a second to see her power up even further. He gasped as this time her blasts were so accurate and fast that he didn't have the time to dodge them and got hit by the dark attack.
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother get up
Come on get down with the sickness
You f---er get up
Come on get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift, that has been given to me
"Arrg!" he shouted as he was bombarded with dark energy blasts. Purity looked on with confidence and smirked knowing she had her target. She waited for the smoke to clear and laughed. "Pathetic weakling! I hardly worked a sweat!" The smoke moved out of the way and Purity watched the little germ crawl out of a small crater.
"That wasn't as half bad as I expected." he muttered to himself as he crawled out. He looked up to see Purity laughing at him. "I don't see what's so funny!"
"Well, I have the upper hand here. I can attack you all the way up here and you won't be able to hurt me. Unless, you could fly or summon energy blasts, I doubt that there will be anyway that you can attack me." With that said, Purity laughed again as she lost herself in confidence, for she was after all, all of her emotions combined.
The demon stroked his pointy chin as he thought. 'She is right. I cannot fly nor summon energy blasts...'
He walked over to one of the many black, leafless trees and lifted it from the ground so easily it was like plucking a weed from the ground. Purity looked on at what the hell he was trying to do. 'Has he lost it? What is he doing with that tree? He probably knows that he can't beat me so he'll probably try to look for some way to escape. Yes, that's it. That coward is trying to run away. He's so transparent! I can see right through him!' Purity looked at him a bit and came to her senses. 'Wait, he is transparent!' She slapped herself in the head for being so dense.
The demon started spinning around with the tree clutched tightly in his hands and Purity continued to watch, confused. Finally, the demon released the wood and it soared high into the air toward Purity. 'If he thinks I'm dumb enough to not dodge that then he has seriously lost it.'
But instead of waiting for it to fly to Purity and miss her, the demon jumped onto the tree and flew with it. Now his weight held it down a bit but that didn't matter because he was a good jumper anyway. So he jumped off the flying tree and flew up to a surprised emotion and socked her it the face so hard that she spun like a drill and plummeted to the ground where she crashed on the hard surface.
I can see inside you, the sickness is rising
Don't try to deny what you feel
(Will you give it to me)
It seems that all that was good has died
And is decaying in me
(Will you give it to me)
It seems your having trouble
In dealing with these changes
Living with these changes (oh no)
The world is a scary place
Now that you've woken up the demon in me
The demon fell from the sky and landed cat-like onto the ground and his yellow eyes took a stare at the injured figure below him. He smiled with glee and stuck his foot on top of Purity's head immediately pushing down on it nice and slowly to make it all the more painful. Purity felt the pressure and growled knowing she was in a position of weakness. 'Damn you, confidence!' she thought to herself. She tried struggling to get out of this situation but she couldn't since her head was slowly being crushed.
Back in Raven's room all seemed peaceful. It was too peaceful that Cyborg almost dozed off in the chair he was sitting on that was positioned on the side of the pacifist's bed. The key word is almost because he would have dozed off if it wasn't for Raven's sudden screaming in agony that woke him and made him jump out of his seat, he would have been sleeping by now. He rushed to Raven's side and got a wet and cold towel placing it on Raven's head.
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate, and let it flow into me
Panicking, Cyborg tried to ask Raven what was wrong but she kept yelling in pain as if she were dying. Was she dying? This was not an ordinary sickness after all. 'Please don't be dying Raven. We need you. Beast boy needs you. If only you knew how much he cared for you Rae. If your not alive by the time he comes back, he's going to kill me!' In truth Raven felt like her head was splitting in half. She felt as if someone had their foot on her head and was crushing it into the hard ground. She felt as if she betrayed herself, like her emotions betrayed her and was now killing her.
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother get up
Come on get down with the sickness
You f---er get up
Come on get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift, that has been given to me
Back inside the mind of Raven, the demon lift Purity by the collar of her cloak and slapped her across the face. "You thought I was weak, you thought you could beat me!" He slapped her again. "Fool! I am invincible child, get down with the sickness!" The demon then threw her down the ground and kicked dirt in her face. In a blind frustration, Purity fired a blast of dark energy but the demon caught it and reflected it back at her. Purity's eyes grew wide as the blast was moving toward her. She couldn't dodge it because the hard fall temporarily paralyzed her and filled her with pain when she moved. Her eyes bugged out in fear. 'It's done.' The dark blast made impact with Purity as she screamed while her own darkness consumed her.
(And when I dream)
(And when I dream)
(And when I dream)
(and when I dream)
The demon laughed. "I win! I always win! No one can defeat the sickness!"
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
Open up your hate, and let it flow into me
The dark blast was gone and Purity vanished also. In her place were a variety of different emotions. Knowledge, Rage, Courage, Timid, Happy, Lazy, and Jealous; all defeated. The demon looked around. "Now that they're out of it, I can finally leave this place without having anymore trouble. Hmm, where is the passage to the nose..." He walked off in search of an escape route.
Raven finally calmed down and almost looked dead but she wasn't. Cyborg had her drink some herbal tea and got her to swallow some honey for her sore throat. 'Everything is all right now Raven.' Suddenly, Raven twitched and inhaled again and again. Cyborg looked on worriedly but soon found out there was nothing to worry about as she sneezed. Cyborg chuckled a bit and rubbed Raven's nose with a tissue. She was sleeping again, and boy do sick people sleep a lot! Cyborg threw the disgusting tissue into the waste basket and sat back down on the chair to continue watching Raven. Suddenly, the waste basket started to shake. Cyborg stared at it in horror. "What...the...hell?" he said as he continued to stare on. The waste basket was shaking violently now as something started growing out of it.
"AH!" Cyborg looked at what seemed to be a real life version of Osmosis Jones except more spikey with creepy yellow eyes and green spandex pants that looks like Robin's. The waste basket was broken by now.
The blue demon stretched. "Ah, so nice to be back to my normal size. Oh hi there!" He waved.
"W-were you in R-raven?"
The blue demon looked over to the sick telepath in the bed. "Aye, she looks much finer in person."
Cyborg jumped out of his chair and charged up his sonic cannon. "I'm warnin' you! Stay back!"
"Can you just let me take the girl in peace? I've just been in a fight with some emotions and before that I had to do battle with some white blood cells."
Cyborg cocked an eyebrow while still holding defense. "What the hell are you?"
The blue demon smirked. "I am Flu. The greatest Virus in all the galaxy!"
Cyborg couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"What? You've never seen a Virus before."
"I'm not sure what kind of virus you're talkin' about anymore." Cyborg shook his head. This was confusing.
Flu was inching forward and reached for Raven but Cyborg shot him with a sonic cannon blast. Flu didn't flinch. "And I thought robots were supposed to be highly advanced." He rushed toward Cyborg and held him by the neck. Flu scoffed at the patheticness and hurled the android into a wall. Cyborg tried to get up and run after Flu but he took Raven and opened the window in her room so that now he was standing on the edge of the window sill with Raven sleeping in his arms. "Ta, ta. I'd like to chat with such a fellow as yourself but I really must go. You know how it is, so many people to infect, so little time." With that said, Flu jumped out of the window. Cyborg screamed, "Raven!" and ran to look out of the window.
He was gone.
Worst of all, he kidnapped Raven.
Get up, come on get down with the sickness
You mother get up
Come on get down with the sickness
You f---er get up
Come on get down with the sickness
Madness is the gift, that has been given to me
Cyborg took out his Teen Titan com-link and spoke to Robin.
Meanwhile, at the battlefield, Robin and the other Titans panted. They were exhausted and they fought so hard to finally beat the H.A.E.Y.P. The police have just arrived and were taking the villains away. Robin's com-link beeped the Teen Titan theme tune and he took it out, pushed a button and spoke. "Robin here."
"I have some bad news." Cyborg said from the other line.
Robin was actually scared of what it might be. He called Starfire and Beast boy over to listen. Beast boy's face was filled with shock and Starfire's was filled with much more confusion. "What is it?"
"Raven's been kidnapped."
The three Titans exchanged glances mixed with horror, shock, anger, confusion, and hope. Hope that they'll find a way to rescue her. Hope that she will be okay. Hope that the sickness hasn't consumed her.
So what did you think? Suspenseful and it's getting good isn't it? Next, I will write my next SCHOOL WOES! chapter that you all have been waiting for. I made this chapter extra long for all of you guys so I'm hoping you enjoyed it. I'm in the mood for ranting but I'll save it for my next chapter of SCHOOL WOES! If you haven't read that story yet, you should really start now. Otherwise, you're missing out. I'll try to update sooner though. I just have to kick my brother off of the computer. I might have a disadvantage since he's 19 years old and is much stronger than me but other than that, a few black eyes and bruises might not be that bad... Raven's been kidnapped! What will happen to her? I know you've been waiting to see who this blue "demon" was. Well, first of all, as explained in the story, he's not a demon. He's a Virus. I put demon in the story because that is what Raven identified it with in her dream. That's all for now, see ya next time. Oh, and before I forget, This story is dedicated to all the sick people out there in the world. If you have been sick or are sick now, I hope you get better. If you have a friend who is sick, let them read the story, it might help them feel better because the character, Raven seems to be going through a lot more pain and suffering than the person reading it and that's all right. I found out that my story has a moral. Can you believe it? Me and morals?! Anyway, the moral is that though you may feel like you're suffering and going through a lot, there is always someone else out there on our cold, dark world that is going through far worse troubles. I mean, hell, there are starving people out there in the world and we are here eating and getting fat and even wasting food! There is always someone who is suffering more than we are. But for those who are feeling down, terrible and awful, whether you're sick or well, I share your pain and I hope this story will help you all to appreciate what you have in life. Now if you don't mind, I gotta go to bed. There's school tomorrow it's like 10:27. School starts at 7:30 in the morning. Anyway, see ya peoples!
Raven: yawn I'm tired.