Yeah, it's been a while huh? I don't think anyone cares though... :P But YEAH, this chapter is more detailed since I've had more time to write. Mwuahaha. It still sucks though. =/
Anywhos, disclaimer time... I do not own any characters used in this story except for Cara, and her role is quite important to the whole thing. A note about this chapter also. I'm going to be copying A LOT OF things based on the TV show, 'Charmed'. So uh, if this seems familiar to you, that's why.
-Requiem, Chpt. 3
He had tried everything, everything in his power to try and find her. The police had no luck in finding her, and they as the three remaining teen titans had equal luck. Robin paced around the tower, which was covered in so much black that it had become the perfect home for the missing titan, Raven.
Starfire had been trying to drown out her sadness by making the Pudding of Sorrow and then constantly eating it. In fact, that was all she did lately was chow down on that horrible tasting food, and cry over Beastboy and Raven.
Cyborg was doing the same thing as Starfire, minus the eating and crying part. He was making adjustments to the T-Car and obsessed himself over making it perfect to try and shut out the gfact that both of his teammates were gone. The fact that Beastboy was dead and Raven had gone missing. He secluded himself from Robin and Starfire, and didn't even leave the garage to go eat or charge himself. Robin would often check the garage to see how he was doing and find Cyborg working in complete darkness.
Robin, on the other hand, was trying to get as much help as he could in finding Raven. The unlimited number of search teams looked, and looked, and they were still looking, but to of no avail. Robin had also been busy making funeral arrangements for Beastboy. He planned on having a small funeral, but since the whole city mourned the loss of him and would probably want to attend, that would be practically impossible.
The crime rate had been eerily slowed down. The titans thought of that as a good and bad thing, a good thing meaning that they would have time to mourn, and a bad thing meaning that the bad guys were probably most likely up to something in their time of sorrow. Those god damn bastards...
"Robin?" Starfire asked, pulling Robin out of his thoughts. He looked down at the ground and realized how messy the tower was, but he didn't care. "Yes, Starfire?" he inquired. "Robin, you have not said a word since friend Raven had gone away," Starfire said sadly.
He blinked. 'I guess I'm not the only one secluding myself,' Robin thought and sighed. "I'm sorry Starfire... there's just so much stuff going on. I want them... both back. With us, like how it was before," Robin said, "...before that bitch." He muttered the last part, clenching his fists which started to shake.
Starfire noticed this, and placed both of her hands on his trembling ones. "Do not fear, Robin. We will find Raven..." she managed to choke out. Robin stared into her emerald eyes for a long time wondering if she was right. He unclenched his fist which had finally stopped shaking.
"You're kidding me," Raven said blatantly, staring at the weird ass girl who had welcomed her into her home and was holding up a pair of Care Bear pajamas in front of her. It was the morning after they had met and already Cara was getting a little too friendly.
"I kid you not, Raven," Cara said in the same tone that Raven used, continuing to hold up the Care Bear pajamas. "It's better than staying in the same clothes-I mean costume, for a VERY long time."
Raven grumbled and grabbed the pajamas out of her hand.
"You know, you handle your powers well," Cara said as Raven was about to walk away, "Even IF your emotions are so uncontrolled right now."
Raven stopped dead in her tracks and looked at her wirily. "What the hell are you talking about?" she inquired, and after that mentally slapped herself for asking, because Raven knew that she was in for a long speech.
"Well, I know that all powers like yours are based on emotions... and when we first bumped into each other, you seemed so angry but you didn't blow or melt anything up." Cara answered, her face filled with the same unemotional content that Raven had.
Raven raised an eyebrow, and wondered how this girl could know this much without even being acquainted for more than two days. "I've had a good grip on my powers since a couple of years back," Raven said, reminiscing on the time period when she had trained so much after the whole Terra ordeal. She felt like needed to get stronger, and Terra had shown her that. Even after the blonde bimbo was turned into stone, Raven severely disliked her, though to the others, they thought that she had gotten over it. While Raven thought, Cara had exited the room to leave Raven with her thoughts of her powers.
Raven had now had the power to move animate objects, without having to say her "azarath metrion zenthos's". She could transport herself anywhere in the blink of an eye, and the power to project her soul out of her body for short periods of time (astral projection). Raven also had acquired the ability of reading minds and still had the pain of being an empath. She had a lot of power, but this power drained the energy out of her most of the time which is why she kept her powers at a minimum.
She walked around Cara's house, noticing a picture frame holding a picture of Cara and two other girls her age. They were smiling, and looked happy. Raven's mood suddenly dropped. Why couldn't she have been happy like her? Even when she got a good handle on her powers she still didn't want to show much emotion to the other titans, because it would seem awkward.
Raven continued to look around the room, many artifacts of unknown origins standing on her shelves, collecting dust. Raven smelled burning lavender incense coming from another room and relaxed a little. She looked at all the colored candles this girl had and held the Care Bear pajamas in her hand tighter.
Cara walked into the room again and looked at Raven who seemed to be in a lost trance. "Um, do you want anything to eat?" She inquired, having changed into different clothes with pictures of cameras on the shirt. "There's a lot of food in the fridge. You know, aside from the magic shop, I'm in a culinary school so I believe that there should be at least something in there that you'll like," Cara smiled faintly. "Speaking of culinary school, I should get going. Make yourself at home."
Raven nodded and watched as she left the house, wondering what she should do next.
She wandered into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator which was overstuffed with different foods... but Raven wished for some reason that they would be covered in blue fur. Raven pulled out a salad packet. She didn't feel like putting any salad dressing. Checking the cabinets, she took out a plate and a fork, and grabbed some tea while she was at it.
It took a while for her to get used to where all the things where, but she had everything she needed for a meal. Raven poured out the salad onto the plate and sighed, starting to pick at it with her fork.
It was then that something caught her attention out of the corner of her eye. She noticed a book sticking out on the bottom of a counter. It bugged her, so she got up and went over to push it back under the counter.
Rather, Raven just pulled it out and read it. It was a heavy hardcover book with three moons on the cover. She opened it and flipped through it. It was a spell book. 'Spell to triple your power...' Raven thought, continuing to flip while she went back to her seat. She sat down and placed the book onto the table looking at the other spells.
One of them caught her attention. A spell to summon the dead. Raven felt herself getting nervous as she started reading the paragraph, only to be extremely disappointed as the spell wasn't for raising the dead, only their spirits.
'Should I...?' Raven started to think, but shook her head. She didn't want to tamper with magic she wasn't familiar with, since last night she had gotten some common sense knocked into her.
...But she had to, she had to see him again, spirit or not.
Raven looked at the ingredients required for the spell and when she had it thoroughly memorized she looked around the kitchen. Cara was in a culinary school, which meant she would have lots of herbs, and since she's a ... 'witch', she would have plenty of candles and many other things needed for the spell.
Now, all Raven needed to do was gather everything...
Yeah, that's it. It's a bit longer than the other chapters so yeah, GET USED TO IT.
Raven: I'm so out of character.
Authoress: Well, you just lost Beastboy so of course you would be.
Raven: --;
Beastboy: I'm never going to be in this story huh?
Authoress: We'll see. Anyways, reviews are appreciated...Not needed, but ok.
Starfire: Pops in Hi, review, or DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Other titans: Looks afraid
