Hey, what's up? Well here's the next chapter hope you enjoy! This chapter for some reason I decided to make a mini-song fic in it. Remember This is song lyrics.
Change-Of-Heart2: Thanks for the review. Sorry for not updating soonner it's just not feelin well lately. Also my minds been somwhere else. (Still have no password...)
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Pairings: R/BB KEEP THE FAITH! (Lighter), RO/ST, WO/RY
"Talking"
'Thinking'
The scene following the collapse of the warehouse wasn't pretty...Ryoko woke up just in time to see the building collapse and the gigantic fireball explosion rocket from it. Ryoko screamed and launched herself in the direction of the warehouse. She began to dig through the rubble faster than a mole digs into the ground. "What are you doing just standing there? Help me!" Ryoko shouted over her shoulder at the rest of the Titans.
They all snapped out of their trances and they feverishly began to sift through the rubble of the destroyed building. After hours upon hours of digging, they were finding nothing at all. The only thing that was found of Wolf was his three fanged necklace. However, Ryoko refused to give up and she dug at the same pace that she had in the beginning well into the evening hours.
At about midnight, the rest of the Titans told her that Wolf was gone and he was probably never coming back. Ryoko slowly stopped her digging and she sat stunned. She sat on the ground staring at the three fanged necklace that was in her hand. The only one like her that had survived through the murderous attacks of Kross and his creations. The only one that had accepted her and the only one like her...was dead. Ryoko along with Raven and Beast Boy, who were the only ones to stay with her, left for the tower. Upon reaching the tower, Ryoko said nothing to the Titans in favor of leaving to Wolfs' room and locking herself inside. Ryoko then let all of her anger, fear, and sorrow pour from her soul in the form of tears that seemed to endlessly streak down her face. She sat on Wolfs' bed and cried all of her emotions out.
"Dude I feel bad..."Beast Boy said regretfully as he sat on the couch with his ears drooped slightly. "Yeah me too..." Cyborg said in the same disappointed tone. "I believe that it is appropriate for us to partake in the feasting of sorrow pudding." Starfire said in her usual chipper tone however, it held a mournful mood to it also that brought it down a few notches. Robin told Starfire that it wasn't a good idea. Instead of fighting the notion, Starfire nodded and just sat down on the couch alongside Robin. "Well what are we gonna do?" Beast Boy asked the group.
"Since we spent almost the entire time digging in the wreck I don't think that we will find any trace of Wolf anywhere." Raven said as she floated into the room proceeding to sit next to Beast Boy. "How do you know that he isn't alive?" Beast Boy asked. "Because if he was still alive then I could sense him...and since I couldn't then he must be..." Raven said seriously in the beginning but trailing off at the end. "Oh..." Beast Boy said quietly as the rest of the Titans understood. "Is there gonna be a funeral?" Cyborg asked the question directly. Robin nodded and said, "Even though he wasn't with us for very long he was still part of the team." Everyone nodded as they started making funeral arrangements.
Ryoko sat in her room, he crying slowly subsided into a quiet sob every once and a while. "Maybe the radio will help..." Ryoko said to herself as she leaned over the bed and pressed a little button on the little radio by the bed. After a few commercials, a piano came on quietly. Then ever so softly, a female voice began to sing... I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone.
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase.
Ryoko began to, once again, feel the hot sting of tears prick at the back of her eyes. This song seemed to be playing to her heart as it made her remember Wolf. How he gave his life to save her and the rest of his friends and all...
[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me.
Even though she hadn't known him for years, she was sure that she loved him. And now that he was gone...she was missing him. The way he always smelled of steak sauce and other meat products. The way he would always agitate someone in the tower enough to get them to throw him out. Ok maybe not the best qualities but you get the idea that no matter how insignificant the details were, she was going to miss him.
You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me.
This verse just continued to pile on the short yet sweet memories that she had of Wolf. His single eye that always, no matter how weird it looked, always had a deeper sense of understanding. His constant speeches telling her not to worry about him...
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase.
[Chorus]
And Ryoko thought no matter how many days, months, even years passed...she would never forget him.
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along.
[Chorus]
As the song came to a close Ryoko shut off the radio and began to cry into the pillow. After what seemed like hours upon hours of crying she finally fell asleep in a sea of her own tears.
The funeral that was planned for Wolf was modest but still a good service for a deceased Titan. All of the Titans were dressed in black. Robin and Best Boy were both wearing black suits and Cyborg wore...well he didn't wear anything. Instead, he partially painted himself in a pattern that made him look like he had a black suit on. Raven wore a black dress as had Starfire. Ryoko also wore a black dress...but she also wore a black veil.
Each one of the Teen Titans went up and said a few words about Wolf and what he had done in the short time they had been with him. Ryoko was the first up and she began to tell everyone just about everything she new about Wolf. When she came to the final hours of his life, she began to crack down in a fit of tears and Starfire had to go and help her off the platform. Beast Boy went up next and credited him for finally getting himself and Raven together. Raven also agreed with Beast Boy on that. Robin said that he was a valuable member of the team and such. Cyborg said, in a short moment of joking, That he was going to miss the only other person who was as dedicated to eating meat as he was. Starfire finished by saying that they will all miss him. Beast Boy, Cyborg, Robin, and Raven carried out a casket filled with rocks to represent a body into a hearse for the last ride. They arrived at a graveyard and a priest said the final prayers along with the eulogy and it was over.
The next days weren't anything to get crazy about. It was only four days until New Years but it sure wasn't a time for celebration. During the course of the days counting down to New Years, Robin asked Ryoko if she wished to join the Teen Titans because of her obvious fire controlling powers. Snapping out of her moping stage for a brief moment, she agreed. Robin added that since he wasn't going to use it, she could have Wolfs room.
Not a particularly good thing to say because...well I will tell you this. It is funny to see Robin running around with his pants on fire because he pulled a Beast Boy like move. After getting over the initial anger for having his pants set aflame he and the rest of the Titans helped Ryoko gain more control over her power with some rigorous training. It was a short process because since she was created from the mythical creature that controlled fire and volcanoes, it came more naturally than she or the other Titans thought it would. The days passed slowly and things eventually got to be centered around New Years.
"Robin why do people on earth celebrate the coming of a new year?" Starfire asked Robin in the later morning hours of New Years eve. "I think it's because people like the idea that they have a fresh start, a clean slate for the next year...or they just want a good excuse to get drunk." Robin said shrugging his shoulders at the end. "Oh..." Starfire said as they both turned their attention to the large screen TV that was perched in front of them. Robin raised the remote and he began to flip though channels aimlessly as Starfire sat next to him mesmerized by the screen. Cyborg was down in the garage tuning up the T-car and Raven was attempting to teach Beast Boy how to meditate. Ryoko continued to stay in her, formally known as Wolfs', room. Over the past days she only came down once and a while for food, water or to train on controlling her nearly perfected powers...but today she stayed exclusively in her room, save a few times for food and such.
The evening hours came quickly as even the sun seemed to set early in anticipation of the New Year. Ryoko came out only two times during the day, once to get food, the other to train. Everyone was getting excited for the old year was coming to a close and the New Year was coming to be. Ryoko sat in her room tears streaming down her face as she wore on a piece of desk stationary before her. She wiped her eyes and looked at the clock by the bed. It read 11:40 and she once again wiped her eyes for the umpteenth time. She turned her attention back to the paper and she wrote some more finally coming to an end. She read it to herself and it read much like this.
Dear Teen Titans,
I'm sorry but I just can't live like this anymore. Ever since he died, I felt as if my life and my heart are descending into an endless black hole of sorrow and despair. Everything seems to remind me of him and...It's tearing me up inside. I'm sorry but this is the only conclusion I could come up with, and I know it looks like I took the easy way out but I just cant deal with this anymore! I know most of you would say 'don't do it look what you have to live for'...but your wrong. With him gone I have nothing left. My only link to my origin, the only one of my kind...the only one I ever loved has died and I want to join him. I'm sorry but I'm at the end of my rope. Your friend,
Ryoko
Ryoko sobbed to herself as she neatly folded the note and put it on her bed. She emerged from her room for what seemed to be the final time...
In the deep darkness of the midnight air, a lone figure stood at the base of Titans Tower. The figure looked up at the gigantic 'T' as they leaned on a metallic looking walking stick like thing. They slowly began to hobble into the gigantic 'T' with a slight grin on their face. They entered the building silently and walked slowly, leaning on what now was revealed to be a sword, to an elevator in the entrance room. They got into the elevator and pushed a button not for the living room floor but for the roof. They arrived upon the roof and they looked at the moon for a few moments before the figure walked to the entryway that held the stairs.
Ryoko walked slowly into the kitchen trying to be as inconspicuous as possible. She looked around the living room and found that all of the Titans were there. Robin and Cyborg were both getting the fireworks ready in the kitchen as they were about to bring them to the roof at midnight. Raven and Beast Boy were acting all close and such, and for some reason Ryoko felt a twinge of pain in her stomach as she looked at them. They looked so happy so content to just be with each other...Ryoko shook off her thoughts and she scanned the rest of the room. Starfire was sitting next to Robin and Cyborg, occasionally asking Robin a question or two.
Ryoko felt herself tear up as she quickly grabbed the rest of her last meal and she ran to her room. Ryoko rushed in and ate her meal in complete silence until she was finished with the last morsel. She then walked to her door and locked it tightly. She wandered around her room for a minute or two until she got a stern and determined face. She reached behind the dresser in her room and brought forth a noose that she had fashioned from old rope. She stood on her bed and strung the noose around a pipe on the ceiling that acted as a bar. She tightened to rope around the bar then she slid the noose around her neck. "Good bye everyone and I'm sorry..." She said as her eyes began to tear and she to a light leap from her bed...
The lone figure walked down the stairs very slowly their gold and silver eyes flashing with the faintest of light. The figure then happened upon the hallway down from his prize. He walked up to a room that had the word 'Wolf' scratched out from it. It now had the word 'Ryoko' on it but for some reason the word was crossed out with marker. The figure lightly touched the handle of the door attempting to open it but it was locked for some reason.
The figure raised their eyebrow and they put their ear to the door to listen. They hear the squeaking of springs and then the slither of a rope. They heard slight sobbing and the words 'Good bye everyone and I'm sorry....' The figures eyes grew wide and they then used their walking stick sword to slice the door open. The crashed into the room with a great bang as they saw Ryoko flying in the air with a noose tied around her neck. The figure drew a knife from its side, and with super human speed, they threw the knife slicing the rope. They rushed over to Ryokos falling form and they caught her in their arms.
Ryokos eyes closed as she fell. She didn't feel the rope tighten around her neck but she did feel like she had been caught in angelic arms. She opened her eyes to find that she was in her room still. Ryoko closed her eyes and she began to cry once again. The intruder that had saved her set her upon her own two feet and Ryoko went into a frenzy. She ran into the intruder beating her fists into their chest. "I hate you! Why did you stop me?" She yelled as she began to slow the beating of her savior.
"Because I couldn't let you die..." A voice said that she assumed to be the perpetrator. However, she couldn't recognize it as being Robin, Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, or Starfire. Suddenly two arms wrapped around her frame and she recognized the warm, 'I'm home' feeling instantly. At first, her mood was shock, then joy, then anger. "You! How could you have me worried like that!" she yelled tears streaming from her face as she began to hit her saviors' chest once again. The figure grinned a little and tightened its arms around Ryoko. She eventually gave up her hitting and she turned her head up to look into the face of her rescuer.
Two eyes stared back at her one gold and one silver. The left golden one had a long scar going over it. The knight in shining armor was obviously a boy and his hair was silver with a golden shock in front. Wolf grinned as he looked at Ryoko with a calm half smile. "So you miss me?" He asked plainly. Ryoko jumped in his arms and she threw her arms around his neck. Her lips made contact with his in a VERY long and passionate kiss. After she parted from his face slightly, "I'll take that as a yes." Wolf said as he walked them over to the bed.
Wolf let Ryoko go from his arms and he saw a small slip of paper on the bed. Ryoko tried to grab it before he did but Wolf being Wolf had it in his hand and reading it before she was halfway to the paper. He read it to himself and when he was finished, he looked at Ryoko with worry evident in his face. "Why..." was all he could say. "Because...we thought, you died. We even had a funeral, and I couldn't deal with you gone..." Ryoko said as she leaned on Wolf. Wolf quirked an eyebrow and said, "So you love me huh?" Ryoko instantly blushed and quietly said, "Yes..." "Well I love you too." Wolf said softly as he gave Ryoko a large toothy smile. Ryoko ginned as she slid her arms around him in a hug. Wolf draped one arm over her in a hug and said, "So...I had a funeral? How was it...I seemed to have missed it."
Ryoko was about to say something but she stopped herself and said, "Hey wait a minute how did you survive?" Wolf gulped hard and said, "Uh you don't want to know..." Ryoko was about to say something but Wolf gave her a stern 'don't ask' look so she decided not to. After a few moments of silence, Wolf and Ryoko heard the sounds of fireworks and other indications that the New Year was upon them. Ryoko looked up at Wolf and said, "Guess it's the New Year...well do you want to see the rest of the team?" Wolf had a devilish grin on his face as he said, "Hold that thought, I have a better idea..."
Well that's it...There's gonna be maybe one real chapter then and epilogue then I think this things done. I might have sequel but it is still in the plot department so...yeah. And if you want to know how he survied...be prepared for some sickening stuff for the next chapter. Hope you like it so far, Cyah!