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Chapter five: Initiation.

8:43 A.M. Living Room

It wasn't normal for Matt to be up this early. He didn't quite understand how other people could waste prime sleeping hours to be up at a time of day where nothing really happens. He cranes his neck to the left, then the right. " Oh well, at least I've finally got a minute to myself." He mutters. That'd also been a problem for Matt. He'd been alone for so long, that the antics of the five others he now lived with were beginning to wear his nerves down. " Hopefully, they stay asleep a while longer." He leans back on the couch, making himself comfortable. The TV was on, and he stared at it, not really seeing what was happening, his mind a jumble of resent events. As he sits there, he began to reminisce on the past two weeks he'd been living at titan's tower.

" Just what do you think your doing!? That's my room! No one goes in my room!" Raven screams at Matt.

" Wow, wow, I'm sorry, I didn't know!" Matt says, as he quickly runs.

" Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven yelled.

Matt quickly snapped from that memory. He had no real wish to relive his first goof on his first day in the tower. He rubs the back of his head in remembered pain, following THAT blunder. " Not like there was much to see…or was I there long." he murmurs, beginning to relax even more. His thoughts began to swim on again to another mishap after his first week in the tower.

" Ah, what a day! The sun's bright, the temperature's not freezing, and there's a lovely breeze. Nice day all around." Matt said in an all around good mood, as he approached the showers to wash the seawater out of his hair and warm his blood. He all too quickly opens the door, but is stopped half way by the sight of a slightly damp Starfire in the midst of slipping on a towel. Almost immediately, blood trickled down Matt's nose.

" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Starfire wails at the top of her voice. A voice so loud, it causes Matt to lose his grip on the towel around his waist, revealing that he didn't like to swim in shorts. And once again, Starfire screams, somehow managing to scream even louder than before.

" WAAAH!" Matt quickly picks up his towel. " Oh god, I'm sorry Starfire, I'm so so sorry, oh god I'm sorry!!" He stammered on and on, trying his best to avoid looking at her. His face glowing bright red.

Star quickly wrapped the towel about her. " GET OUT!" she bellows, tossing a star-bolt at him.

" ACK!!" He quickly steps out of the bathroom, and slams the door behind him, panting heavily. A powerful detonation sounded from the other side of the door. " Strong doors…" He said shakily, not knowing quite what else to do at the moment.

At that one, Matt had to chuckle. " And I thought Raven could be moody. It took me a week to placate Star." He continued to chuckle for a few minutes. Then he briefly relived that memory again. " Damn, she's one good looking woman." He said, blushing slightly. Once again though, he began to relax, and his memories flowed.

" So…what exactly are your powers?" Beast Boy asks.

" What do you mean by that?" Matt asked, a bit perplexed. " I mean, do you wanna know what I can do, or are you asking me to show you?"

" I didn't realize there was a difference…" Beast Boy scratched his head. " Well, how about you show us what you can do. It'd be quicker and less boring if you'd just show us."

" That is, if you have any super powers." Robin puts in.

" I've got a trick or two up my sleeve." Matt gets up, and begins to walk outside. " It'd be best to do this outside, and on something, you'd not get angry over."

" Ooookay…" Cyborg looked slightly confused, but let it go at that. They all then get up, and follow Matt to the steps leading out of the tower.

" Tell me Matthew, what is your power's nature?" Starfire asked, floating to the right of him and slightly ahead.

" Beastial. My demonic nature is that of a Beast Warrior, so I learn beast attacks. Or…demonic beast attacks, and Star, please don't call me Matthew, Matt will do." Matt said plaintively.

" I will try to remember that Matthew…oops!" She covered her mouth. " Sorry…"

" I see…" Raven mumbles. " It's no wonder your dark side takes the form of a vicious beast." She said, as she walked by him. " That also helps to explain further why you would want psychic powers. It would be easy to restrain it with them, but something else is bothering me…how is it that you have such latent powers as telekinesis?" She asked him directly.

" From my mom's side." He said shortly.

" I see…" Raven mumbles again. " It's easy to see that that subject's tender…better not pry anymore." Raven thought.

" Beast powers…all that sounds cool, but what does it really mean?" Beast Boy asked.

" You'll see." Was all Matt would say. It wasn't much longer when they finally got outside. " Alright, now I need a couple good sized boulders." He said looking around. " Hmm…that one will do for the first." He said, pointing at a rock quite a distance away.

" Alright then, lets see what you can do." Robin said.

All the sudden Matt sprints off at extraordinary speed, clearing the distance to the rock in no time. Then he leaps high in the air, so high he seemed to be able to fly. Then he came down, his hands raised high, and as he gets to the rock, he gives it a rake with his claws. At first, nothing seemed to happen to the rock, but then, it fell apart, showing that it had been neatly skewed in two. " Above average speed, extra high jumping, heightened strength, and these claws here cut through about anything." Matt ticked off his powers on his fingers.

A huge grin creased his face. " After that, they looked at me with a whole lot more respect." He sits himself upright again to shake of the reverie, and to take a peek at the clock. " Nine thirty? They should've been up long ago. Hmm…" He then gets up and decides to go look for them.

He had already searched all the other rooms when he came to the last one, the one he deliberately left for last. Raven's room. " I'm just hoping that if they are here, Raven doesn't kill me for entering without permission." He muttered under his breath. After a moment's hesitation, he enters the room. No one was there. " Well that's somewhat of a relief." He said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Deciding that since he was already here, he might as well look around. It had been five minutes, and he was about to leave when something on the table caught his eye.

" Well well, what have we here?" He takes up the book that caught his eye. " Hmm…book of Azar…" He knew the name. " Where in hell did she get this? These books are rarely seen outside Azarath." He quickly leafs through it. " Yeah, it's an uncut copy, so it definitely came from Azarath, but that's impossible…" He began to think on this, but he couldn't come up with anything, so he put the book down. " I'll have to find a way to ask her about that." He said as he left. He headed back to the front room, and once there, sat back on the couch and began to leaf through the channels. He was about to turn it off, when he caught site of a few familiar faces on TV.

" It's been fully an hour since the titans engaged the mysterious group of super villains, and there seems to be no end in site, as the titans are repeatedly pushed back by their ferocious onslaught. The titans seem to be in quite a bind by these strange villains."

Matt sat bolt upright. It was true, every time the forces went at it, the titans were forced to retreat a bit. Raven was being pushed back by a young girl with pink hair. Robin was hard-pressed by a grown man in a black and orange mask. Starfire was wrapped up in a dogfight with a beautiful young woman that bared a striking resemblance to Starfire herself, though her hair was black. Beast Boy faced off against a brown-furred brute while in the form of a gorilla. Lastly, Cyborg went head to head with a bite-sized tech-wizard that walked on mechanical spider legs. The fighting seemed a bit strained as the dark forces continued to clash with vigor even after an hour had passed, but the titans showed signs of fatigue. " This isn't gonna last much longer. They're gonna wear out! I gotta help 'em! …But first I should get dressed…" He said, as he quickly ran to the room he'd been given. It took him no time at all to throw on his cloths, then he went to his closet and took down a medium-sized box, and opened it up. " Raven's gonna kill me for borrowing this from storage but," He slips on the black hoodless cloak he saw in storage. " That's okay."

He then quickly ran down to the garage, desperately looking for some kind, ANY kind of vehicular transference. He was about to give up, when he saw a tarp in a corner, covering something up. " Hmm…" Matt walks over to the tarp and pulls it off. His eyes widened. " This'll do just fine!" He purred.

Well, here's chapter five. I'm gonna get to work right away on chapter six. Sorta had to change the line-up in the middle of this one. Tha's okay though. Don't forget to review, I'm starved for 'em!

Miss Myst