A Raven's cry, a Robin's Answer

By: Crow of the black flame

Summery: Raven needs help emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually...but only a certain Robin can help her...but will Starfire mess this up? And who's BB's 'Friend'?

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, but I own Ice, X, and Iris (A/N: you'll find out about them later)

Robin: Do Raven and me get to hook up?

COTBF (Crow of the black flame): Maybe

Raven: Crow! I don't want to be with Robin! : A vase breaks:

COTBF: Sure, that's why the vase broke

Raven: um...no I don't! : Blushes, windows shatter:

Robin: Yes! : Grins:

Chapter 1

A regular day

Raven was in her mind talking to her personality Brave Raven. "Brave, stop always trying to take over and beating up all the people in the city that you think are giving you an 'attitude', its very annoying" Raven said in her usual monotone voice. "Hey! You wanna take this outside girl? Huh!? I'll take you on right now!" said a very pissed off Brave, "Brave, I don't need to fight you, I'll just stop fighting crime so you'll loose the very little freedom you have, and there is a reason you have a very little freedom. Jump City would explode if I let out my emotions, and you know that," lectured Raven as she glared at Brave. Brave put her hands up in defeat, "Ok, you win!" Raven just turned around and walked out of her mind into reality.

When Raven snapped back to reality she looked at the clock, 7:25 a.m. it read. 'Hm, breakfast should be ready in about 5 minutes, might as well head down now instead of Starfire knocking down my door singing breakfast in her language...again.' Raven got dressed in some slightly baggy knee ripped jeans, and an elbow length shirt, with the phrase; 'The world DOES revolve around me' on the back of it. She had also changed her costume; it was the same except underneath, it was more like a dress that had two leg cuts in the dress for more flexibility. (A/N: It looks exactly like the Raven outfit in the comic book)

Over the passed 3 years, the now 16 young women has developed her powers so she can show more emotions, but doesn't like to, but if things get out of hand, put your head between your legs and kiss your butt goodbye. Raven has also changed physically; her hair was upper back length. She stood at five foot nine, her breast were full grown at a good size, but she didn't care much about herself in that way. Raven usually had half her face concealed by her hair when her hood was down, or not on, such as the moment now, but she could see between the small gaps between her hair.

Raven reached down stairs to see Beastboy playing Cyborg in Mortal Combat with Starfire watching in awe, Robin looking out the window, and Terra was listening to music on a CD player.

Beastboy was five eight, second shortest; he had grown a soul patch and let her hair grow and slicked it back with way too much gel. His costume was different to; it was a one-piece suit, all white, with a red strip down the middle instead of a purple/pinkish one, with white boots and gloves. Momentarily he was wearing his pajama bottoms witch were light blue plaid, and a baggy white City Zoo t-shirt. Beastboy's powers grew as well, he was able to communicate with his teammates telepathically but only in animal form, he could form into animal hybrids that didn't exist, and use one power of the animal without transforming into it. For example he could use a chameleon's power of blending in with its back round, or he could transform his teeth to resemble a lion's, and ECT.

Cyborg had created a liquid skin for himself, it spread over his mechanical parts and sunk them into him and covered him to give him a more human look, when he used his sonic cannon or other parts of his mechanical being the skin would just ravel up like a shirt. He was wearing his skin and, unlike Beastboy, he was wearing regular cloths, he wore a pair of Levi dark blue jeans faded in the front on the leg parts a bit. He wore an And 1 t-shirt with these phrase inscribed on the back 'I bet your game is in the want adds!' He stood at 6'6 and had grown himself a nice Afro. Cyborg's mechanical power had tripled and now carried a electronic sword, it was basically like a light saber except it was electrical and was able to form into a handgun and hook up into automatic weapon, both shoot plaster bullets which, when connected with a target, exploded, shocked you a bit then knocked you out and put an electrical cage around you. George Lucas almost sued him.

Terra had cut her hair to shoulder length and had it in a ponytail; she was wearing baggy green pajama pants and an orange long sleeve shirt, she stood at 5'7 and a half. She had her wrap around the back of the head headphones with her new one hundred dollars silver Sony cd player/mp3 player with tv/dvd hook ups. She was listening to her Audio Slave cd; Gasline was on at the present moment. She swayed to the music a little, she now had more control of her powers, and now she was able to create weapons and shapes out of rock, like spears, and cages.

Starfire had put curls in her hair and hadn't changed her outfit, but her physical form sure did. Her breast had increased in sized, and she had much more curves, and her powers had grown tremendously, she now could double her star bolts and could shoot them out of her individual finger tips, giving her more control of how much power was put into a bolt.

Robin had thought of changing his outfit but never got around to it, he had already designed it, it was the Nightwing one, but couldn't decide when to introduce it to the team, for now it was concealed. He had grown to a six-foot form and his hair slightly grew, but still its spiky self. He was much more muscular now to, and now carried better weapons, he now carried two bo staffs witch can be activated to shock whatever it touches with a number of volts of electricity. He had paralyzing disks, and a disk that had the same effect of Cyborg's Sonic Cannon.

When Cyborg and BB noticed Raven they paused the game and, at a miracles speed, went up to her and said, in unison, "Hey Ray, where's the food!?" "And I'm supposed to know how?" "It's your day to make the food!" said a hungry Cybernetic being. "Um...I don't do cooking" Raven replied, "Hey! It was your idea to take turns last week anyway!" revolted BB. "Plus the last time it was your turn, you made me cook!" added Cyborg "Cyborg, you lost a poker game to me, that's why, and BB, no it wasn't, it was Robin's" she said pointed to Robin. "But you concurred" said Robin smirking at her "Fine, I'll cook" Raven rolled her eyes in defeat, it was too early to be arguing over something as pointless as cooking the first meal of the day.

Raven went to the cabinets and pulled out pancake batter, the mixer, tofu, and a tea packet. Then she went to the fridge and got out eggs, bacon, sausage, and OJ, (A/N: Orange Juice people, not the guy! lol) while doing this her powers where taking out pans, cooking tools, and set the table. In a matter of mere seconds, thanks to Raven's powers, the table was set and breakfast was ready. It was assorted with pancakes, sausage, bacon, scrambled and sunny-side up eggs, tofu food for BB, and herbal tea and OJ. "Breakfast is ready," said the monotone psychic girl to her teammates.

"Finally!" exclaimed Beastboy and Cyborg, Raven just rolled her eyes at their comment. "It all looks great Raven," said the leader of their group "Thanks Robin" replied Raven, "No problem." "This wonderful occasion should be celebrated! I suggest a Tameranen folk song!" (A/N: o.0; lol) as the Tameran was taking in a deep breath to sing a pale hand covered her mouth. "Um, Starfire? Maybe you should not sing, breakfast is a normal thing, you don't need to sing, remember?" said Raven, everyone gave out a sigh of relief, Starfire just said "oh," and sat down with her friends. Starfire had come accustom to these things but every once and a while, such as now, she'd forget.

Everyone sat down at the rectangular table, Robin and Raven sat on the right side, while Beastboy and Cyborg sat on the left, leaving Starfire at the head, and Terra was at the other head, leaving Starfire diagonally across from Cyborg and Robin, and Terra diagonally across from Raven and BB. The Titans started chitchatting; Cyborg and Beastboy were explaining how videogames work to Starfire, Terra giggling at her silly questions, but still listening to music, while Robin and Raven started talking about The Pledge of Allegiance issue. (A/N: The Pledge of Allegiance issue is about the lawsuit in California, about taking out "under God" and that it's unconstitutional)

"This whole thing is ridicules, under God" is just like saying "under Jesus", "under Zeus", "under no God" and etc. " commented Robin, "No its not, even the 1st amendment says that any form of government that based on religious beliefs is not right, and we're not allowed to exercise it" rebuttal Raven. There little debate went on for the rest of Breakfast, until Robin gave up of course, "Alright! You win!" he said putting his hands up I defeat "I know" she said. "How's that?" he inquired "I can tell what your going to say before you can say it, because I'm psychic, and even if that wasn't true, I took college courses on debating" she said in a matter-of-factly way. Robin just smirked, he liked his little debates with Raven, even though he never won, it was the only time they talked usually that was casual, the other times were about battle attacks, team tactics ect.

The team had become more like a S.W.A.T. team then super heroes and heroines, they would discard their costumes a lot to dress in bullet proof vests and black gear, with infiltration devices, smoke bombs, and even drove a armor car when the case called for it, they even carried the gun that Cyborg did with the electronic bullets, well BB, Robin, Terra and Cyborg did, Raven and Starfire didn't need them because of their advanced powers. The reason was because of the criminals of the city, like the street thugs were more organized and were able to obtain better weapons with planed out attacks to get their leaders out of jail or to rob every bank at once.

After Breakfast, when everyone was done eating, Raven had Cyborg do the dishes after a little game of Rocks Paper Scissors. "That's no fair! Your psychic, that's illegal!" complained the mechanical teenager "You have state-of-the-art computing system" rebuttal Raven "But even my system has a slim chance of being wrong!" Cyborg said, "So does mine, but rarely, like yours" Raven said. "But your powers are superior to my computing systems!" an outraged Cyborg "You should know by know that I always win, and you just admitted that I'm better than you, five weeks ago you bet fifty bucks that you would never say that" said Raven with her arms crossed and her weight shifted to one leg. "AW MAN!" said Cyborg as he headed over to the counter to start the dishes, but not before giving her the money he owed, while grinding his teeth; during this whole time Terra was laughing at Cyborg.

Raven had decided to watch some TV because she felt like a break from meditation for the day. She flipped through channel after channel until she settled for a movie on HBO; it was 'Darkness Falls'. 'I bet this movie would be much better in the dark' the psychic thought "Hey, I saw this movie, it was really stupid, The Japanese version of The Ring is a hundred times better, the American version sucked" said Robin as he sat on the couch, he wasn't in his normal uniform today, he was wearing dark blue jeans and a brown Element shirt. "Really now? I guess I'll have to take your word on it," she said "Hey I have an idea, why don't we go to Blockbuster and rent some movies?" suggested the leader of the Titans "That would be cool"

"Hey any of you want to go with me and Raven to the Blockbuster?" asked Robin to the rest of his team. "No, man, I have to build a new battery for my systems and I don't want to be around Raven again, I'm sick of gamboling with her!" said the mechanical super giant Cyborg glaring at Raven as she gave him a about-time-you-idiot look. "Not today, I have to meet a...um... friend...somewhere" said a suspicious animal morpher, "I do not wish to: yawn: accompany you, my friends, to the buster of blocks, I am tired: yawn:" said Starfire as she floated upstairs to her room. "No, I need to work on my guitar skills," said the earthmover as she went upstairs. "Guess it's just you and me I guess" said Robin "Yeah" she replied.

Robin and Raven went down to the garage to Robin's Black Mercury Cougar, with 20 in. rims, he had recently purchased it a couple days ago, and nobody knows he has it. "Whose car is this?" asked Raven when she saw it "Mine" replied Robin. "When did you get it??" inquired Raven "Two days ago" he answered, Raven shrugged and got into the front leather passenger seat of the car. "Nice car, does it have seat warmers?" asked Raven, Robin replied, "Yeah, but I had to add that myself, the button's up and to the right of you, see it?" Raven looked where Robin pointed and turned the switch up "Thanks" she said, and with that they left.

After a couple blocks, and uneasy silence, Raven turned on the radio to Q101 where the song 'Voodoo' was on (sp?), "I love this song, I used to have the CD with the song on it, until Beastboy broke it" Robin told the Goth girl that was to the right of him, she took out $20 and told Robin "About that, That was me who did it, BB just covered for me, here's the money" "It was you? How come you never told me? And how did you break it?" asked the confused driver. "I was taking out your CD from the CD player in the living room, and Starfire shoved some kind of pudding in my mouth, and I accidentally broke it, sorry, and I never told you because Beastboy said he cover for me, but I wanted to pay you back anyway, and since Cyborg just lost a bet this morning, her" she confessed handing him the money. "Oh, its ok, and keep your money, well, here we are" said Robin as he pulled into the parking lot of the Blockbuster.

Cliffhanger! Oh yeah, I don't own Blockbuster of the Teen Titians or Lincoln/Mercury car, I don't own anything!. :( Oh well. Please Review.