Priestess Aishisu: Eight reviews. I'm satisfied.
BlackShield: I do sometimes wonder where superheroes/villains come across their costumes. I mean, I, for one, have never seen a 'Heroes 'R' Us' store where all they sell is spandex stuff. Anyway, the great adjectives, smoothe sentence flow, blah blah blah, the usual.
You used the cat dragged in line! Hehehe!
Yay, mini-fight-scene. Not as fun as the one in chapter one, but still fun to visualize.
Kudos to the writer!
Scelus,
BlackShield
Priestess Aishisu: Well, I personally suck at all forms of fight scenes. About the cat dragged in thing, yeah, I knew I had missed some catpuns. Guess Raven's lived with Beast Boy a bit too long...
Raven A. Star: I couldn't help but laugh at the end part when Andrea said "Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The pleasure was all mine."
That was really great, and please update soon! I want to see how the Titans (well the four of them) handle it with Raven being all zoncked out. Zoncked? Where did I come up with that? Oo
Priestess Aishisu: Well, the pleasure obviously wasn't theirs!
rynn: haha its cool continue
Priestess Aishisu: Thanks
Elian Rhoss: Very good! I am very excited for the next chappie! :) You have fantastic writing skills and the plot is good too! And as for Andrea...I personally think it would be interesting if she turned out to be a heroine. Keep up the great story!
Rae
Priestess Aishisu: Thank you for your support.
mdizzle999872: BEAST BOY SHOULD KICK HER ASS! REAL GOOD!
Priestess Aishisu: Err...no comment.
VashTheStampede7123: OH NO what's wrong with Raven?! Great chapter! Sry that I didn't review the last one:(. This story is awesome! Please continue soon! :)
Priestess Aishisu: It's all right, no hard feelings!
CyborgAndRaven4Ever: Sorry I didn't review earlier, I meant to. Anyway, this was a great chapter. I wonder what's going on with Raven. Can't wait to see what happens next.
Priestess Aishisu: Same as what I said to VashTheStampede7123
BlackSword6: Priestess Aishisu,
Great story so far. I like where it's going.
And my opinion on the villainess or heroine, is no doubt villainess. She would make a great enemy for the titans. Just one thing. She's only made one Black Hole. if she can make them, why doesn't she use them as often as possible if they'll help?
BlackSword6
Priestess Aishisu: Two reasons: Andrea has been doing pretty fine without them, hadn't she? Anyway, Andrea herself doesn't have the power to create black holes, Trigon gave her the ability for the first battle against the Titans. Now that she's done her job, she works for herself.
Priestess Aishisu: at this point, all voting is off. I alone know what Andrea will end up as, and you'll just have to wait and see...
Chapter Synopsis: The Titans find out who Catwoman's true identity is—or at least her name. They confront her at the Rainbow Community Center and find out what she did to Raven. And they also discover a shocking secret that I'll just bet none of you saw coming. This is the chapter which changes everything!
"What was that back there?" Robin snapped as they exited the nightclub.
"Leave me alone," hissed Raven in annoyance, out of her daze and not very happy. She sounded outraged or at least irritated, but Cyborg wasn't fooled in the slightest. He could sense the fear behind her outward fury. Unfortunately, Robin didn't seem to feel the way he did.
"Hey, I'm not the one who went into a daze right in the middle of a big fight!" Robin answered indignantly. "You let Catwoman get away! Or...whatever her real name is..."
"Right," she sneered. "I told her to snap a cable and hit Starfire with it, I hit Cyborg with my birdarang, and I broke the circuit breaker. Is that about right?"
"Hey, I'm just trying to help you here." Robin protested, ignoring the glare of warning Raven flashed at him. "If something's wrong with you, I need to know."
"Hey man," said Cyborg from behind him. "You heard the lady, leave her alone."
"When did you start taking her side?!" Robin cried. "She isn't the only one here—she's part of a team. We can't have her zoning out in the middle of a battle, she could get somebody killed."
Thoroughly frustrated by now, Raven snarled under her breath, spun around, and stormed towards where the T Car was. "Now look what you did!" cried Cyborg.
"Fine. You try to reason with her!"
"Gladly," Cyborg retorted, angered by Robin's insensitivity. You three can just fly home or something, and I'll see if I can find out what's going on with Raven."
Stupid...bastard...Raven thought angrily, gazing out the car window at the sunrise. The sight of a sunrise always made her feel peaceful, but today seemed was as if it was testing her. She preferred the moon to the sun, always had always would.
She bristled at the sound of the car door opening. "Go away. I have enough to deal with without getting bugged by somebody who doesn't seem to understand anything."
"You're absolutely right, Reye." Raven blinked and turned so he was facing him. It wasn't Robin, it was Cyborg. "And I want to understand," he continued. "Raven, what's going on?"
Raven shook her head, letting him put his arms around her and hold her close. "I don't know," she whispered, resting her cheek against his chest, afraid in spite of herself. She turned up her head, and he could see tears on her pale cheeks. "Maybe Catwoman's little trip into my mind did more than we thought."
"What's is it, Raven? Have you figured out what Catwoman did to do?" Cyborg asked. It had been nearly a week since the last fight with Catwoman, and Raven had been zoning out and forgetting things more and more often. Now she said she had found some breaking evidence, and all the Titans were anxious to hear it.
"No," she replied, clicking a button. An image, presumably a painting, appeared on the huge screen of the Titans' main computer. It was like a psychic reflection—thousands of violent slashes of violets and indigos and lavenders and purples and blues and reds and greens on a black background, sparkling here and there with jots of gold and brilliant white. "But I have figured out who she is."
Everybody blinked in bewilderment, and Raven explained. "It's a painting by acclaimed artist Andrea Phillips. This is a picture of her." She clicked a few more buttons and a new image appeared on screen. Everybody gasped.
For it was her, no doubt about it, the one they called Catwoman. She was Andrea Phillips. "And according to her profile Andrea Phillips often does community work at an orphanage called the Rainbow Community Center. It's Artists in Action Week, so I'm betting my left ear that that's where we'll find her."
A small mob of kids and grownups scurried around, carrying any supplies that might be needed—buckets and brooms, gallons of paint, and drop cloths. Several artists had set themselves up along the sides of the building. There was everything from realistic images to intense impressionistic blurs of colors that made one think of exploding prisms. In some places, children worked side by side with adult artists. Reporters and members of the local art establishment wandered around as well, quietly talking amongst themselves and stopping now and then to interview artists.
A supple, graceful figure was painting a gorgeous leaping black panther. The Titans found her up on a scaffold, daubing paint onto what would soon be one of the panther's claws. Her ears perked up slightly as they neared and she glanced down.
She wasn't wearing the leather outfit they had thought had been her only one, instead she was wearing a scarlet miniskirt and midriffbearing black turtleneck. Redandblack glitter flames were painted on her legs and circled her belly button, she had black eyeliner and red nail polish, and there was a garnet necklace hung at her hairline that made her look like an exotic maharani. But it was definitely her.
"Consider yourself busted, Catwoman," shouted Robin, though with her enhanced senses she could have heard a whisper. His lips curved into a slight smile. "Or should I say...Andrea?"
Andrea didn't flinch. "Busted? For what, painting?" she crooned with obviously false innocence that faded almost immediately. She glanced this way and that through the group, her gaze now openly malicious. "Where's your friend Raven?" she sneered. Her full crimson lips curled spitefully. "Unconscious already?"
"What did you do to her?!" yelled Cyborg, pointing the arm which could blast at her.
"You mean you haven't figured it out yet?!" She laughed. "And here I thought you were smart." Cyborg growled quietly, though he could still hear it, and the blaster embedded in his arm blazed with energy. "All right, I'll tell you," she said, as casually as if he hadn't done a thing. "Uncle Trigon sent me to make his disobedient daughter incapable of fighting him."
She smirked when they gasped at the words 'Uncle Trigon.' "So he gave me a few black holes and I implanted one in her mind. In return, he gave me freedom from him—for now, at least, I guess." A shadow passed over her feline eyes, but it faded quickly. "Soon your friend will be gone forever, and Trigon will take over her mind. I suggest you enjoy your time with her while you can, because even Trigon himself doesn't know how to remove it!"
She was too caught up in explaining to notice the lithe figure which appeared behind her or the police appearing. By the time the dark shadow of Raven's soul self wrapped around her, it was too late.
Andrea Phillips uttered a terrible scream and passed out. She never saw it coming.
Priestess Aishisu: How's that for a teaser? Andrea is Raven's cousin, and she's now in jail. The Titans know what's wrong with Raven, and no one knows how to save her. Only I know how this will end!
New Poll (the heroine/villainess one is over, so don't leave anymore votes!): I'm thinking of writing a new Teen Titans fanfiction, and I need your votes to decide which one:
A: Bright Eyes–Unbeknownst to most, I have written three Teen Titans fanfictions known as Bright Eyes. The first was a detailed, poignant, Raven/Cyborgish version of how the Titans met and what their pasts were like. Did I mention it's accurate?
B: No Name Yet–What if the Titans never met? What if they all ended up in the same school, and began discovering each others' secret powers? What if the Teen Titans appeared from another dimension because of Beast Boy's mistake, and now need to bring the Titans together before the world is destroyed?
C: No Name Yet, Either–The Titans meet a mysterious, powerful girl named Lenore who was Raven's friend on Azarath and let her in the group. But unbeknownst to her, she was followed. Now two mighty forces are after Raven—and no one knows why. (Need ideas for Lenore's powers, personality, and appearance!)