(Several fans pound angrily on N/M Shin's bedroom door) Come on out dammit, you have to write the fic!
Taiba: Marry me dammit!
N/M Shin (From behind door): But-but I ran out of ideas!
T-S-S: Well, come out here and write it anyway! (Cassie and Cinderovermus growl from behind T-S-S)
Chaos: And make it a songfic!
Several other fans: Yah, make it Evanescence! (Argument ensues) No, more Avril! (Argument continues) A-Teens! (Several begin chanting) Dido, Dido, Dido, make it a Dido!
N/M Shin: How did you find my house anyway? Help, jax, get them away from me!! (Jax is tied up in basement)
Wanda: Come on out! We have cookies!
N/M Shin: (Opens door) really, cookies?
(All fans and N/M Shin walk to computer room and munch on cookies while N/M Shin writes chapter)
N/M Shin: Hey, what kind of cookies are these anyway?
MOOgeostheCHICKEN: They're ginger snaps (Winks at other fans)
N/M Shin: NOOOOOOO!!!! (Looks at cookie in disgust) oh, well (Continues munching cookie) yummers!
Disclaimer: Okay, I own the following things, do not use them without my permission under penalty of me coming over to your house and smashing your computer into little bits: the Lurose, Raven's outfit, the tattoos, bane, any planets I make up, the plot of this story, Were Terra, Jax the were wolf, and giant mutant cookies. I think that's it, so, don't use them, on account of, they're mine.
I guess you wanna read now, huh?
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Beast Boy and Starfire fell through the dark vortex towards their destination. The vortex dropped them onto a large, floating rock, which seemed to hang from the reddish-black sky, suspended, as if by magic, among the other rocks.
Beast Boy rose from his crouched position on the ground while Starfire hovered above his head, surveying the unfamiliar place.
"This place seems most unwelcoming," She said fearfully as she landed at Beast Boy's side, "Let us find what we are searching for and leave very soon."
"Don't worry," he assured her, "Raven controls this place, and a bunch of other Ravens are here too."
"Hey everybody, BB's here!"
As if on cue, Beast Boy felt himself being knocked down onto the ground from behind in a warm hug. The pink Raven had her arms around his neck, and was smiling warmly as he got up onto his feet.
"Hey, um, do you think you could let go now, please?" He asked politely, the overly-happy Raven probably scared him the most.
"Oh, sorry," she apologized as she released him, then turned her head and shouted, "Hey, Star's here too!"
"Um, hello," she responded awkwardly as she searched for the right words, "strange pink happy form of Raven."
Beast Boy took a moment to look the emotion over. She had, apparently, also dawned a new costume. Except for the fact that hers was a light pink, instead of Raven's deep reddish outfit. The tattoos were still black, however, and seemed to stand out against her pink glow.
"Hey, Star's here!" the green Raven shouted from above, "Alright, she's fun!
Starfire gave a confused look as she looked at one Raven, and then at the other, confused beyond words. Her head swam, and she began to feel dizzy. How could there be two Ravens, when none of them acted, even remotely, like the real Raven?
Then a gray Raven materialized next to Starfire, fidgeting as she talked, as if she was very shy. Starfire looked at her, confused as to her behavior. But, she had to admit, the outfit looked best on the timid emotion by far.
"Hey Star," she said, looking down at her feet, "what are you doing here?"
The green Raven sidled over with her hands in two of her many pockets, looking, in Beast Boy's opinion, very very cool.
"Yeah," brave responded as she reached Beast Boy's side, not noticing him slightly drooling, "Why are you here? You shouldn't be here, you're not allowed in here, heck you're not even allowed in Raven's room!"
"Well," Beast Boy explained, "We missed her, and we figured we could get in touch with her by using the mirror. I kinda just wanted to talk to her, err...you, whatever."
The three Ravens collectively 'awwed' at his statement, making him blush a deep red under their gaze.
"Hey," Brave interrupted, "Didn't that know-it-all want to tell them something?" She asked the other Ravens.
"You shouldn't talk about knowledge that way," Timid warned, "she, um..., knows things."
"Well, duh!" Brave argued, "But just because she knows so much doesn't mean she can boss us around all the time! We're just as important as that yellow-clad bitch will ever be! Someone should go stick her head in a-"
"Ahem," the said emotion fake-coughed as she descended towards the group, "please, Brave, for all our sakes, keep your thick-headed comments to yourself."
The pink Raven laughed at the comment, and at Brave's reaction to it.
"Oh yeah?" She challenged, shaking a fist at her, "Come down here and say that!"
"I am down here, you Neanderthal." She retorted back.
The Brave Raven scratched her head, "I don't even know what a ninny-an-noodle-thingy is!"
"My point exactly," she finished as she focused her attention on her friends, "Now, about you."
"Listen, because it is very important," She began, "Things aren't going as well in the conquest as Trigon had hoped."
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Trigon, Raven, and Knight and all sat in silence at the dining room table, Trigon practically shaking with fury. His fist was closed tightly around a glass of water, and Raven was sure that he would break it.
"One question," he started as he let go of the fragile glass, "How come, even though we've done it to hundreds of other planets, we could defeat this small planet, whose name I cannot even pronounce?"
"Fannigar," Raven corrected (A/N I didn't make that up, that's where hawk girl is from, remember?), "And we couldn't defeat it because the fannigarians are a warrior race. Everyone on the entire planet is a soldier, and they have advanced equipment," She added, looking down at her shotguns and knives, "And we don't even have a strategy."
"We have a strategy!" Trigon yelled, banging his fist on the table and knocking over his glass.
"Oh, yeah," Raven mocked, rolling her eyes, "You smash, I shoot, and Knight kills. That's one advanced strategy."
"It has worked so far," He responded, "Why does it not work now?"
"I told you," she groaned, "They're a lot stronger and better than anyone we have faced so far."
"Well," he concluded, getting up from the table, "We'll just have to try harder then, won't we?"
Raven looked proudly up at her father, if there was anything that she admired about him, it was his sheer determination. Not his strength, not his speed, and not his power, but that driving force within him that kept him going. Even if he wasn't the best father in the world, he could be worse, and the demon inside of her couldn't help but admire his evil.
"We will train, and attack them tomorrow," he concluded, leaving the room. Raven also left the room, headed for the opposite side of the ship, where her training room was located. But before she left the doorway, she heard one, final word from her father.
"You have made me very proud, little dark bird," he said over his shoulder, "But tomorrow, you will make me even prouder."
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The Fannigarians swarmed Raven over their rocky battlefield, and it took all she had not to rip their throats out. She simply flew around them, using her longer, dagger-like knife to cut the barrels off of their weapons. And it did work, for a while.
The warriors soon realized her strategy, and attempted to shoot her before she decapitated their weapons, firing electric-blue energy at her. The energy guns hurt immensely, but she managed to dodge most of them.
Only once was she in extreme danger. The soldiers swarmed her after a particularly painful hit and began to shoot her on all sides, she wasn't sure how she had gotten out, or survived the pain, but she was horrified when she saw blood dripping from her knife.
Raven flew back to the ship, badly injured from the fight, and ran into the medical bay. She grabbed a handful of painkillers and swallowed them, waiting a few moments for the medicine to take effect.
The effect was almost instant, masking the pain while her powers healed her wounds. She, in fact, didn't even have to touch her injuries to heal them, with all of her powers concentrated inside of her. Her wounds healed from the inside out, disappearing from her skin, almost as if by magic.
'Duh,' she said to herself, 'It is magic.'
She suddenly heard the door open behind her, and heard heavy footsteps and angered, ragged breathing coming closer to her. She knew who it was, she didn't even have to question, it was Trigon, coming to punish her for holding back. Like he had so many times before.
Raven calmly turned around to face her father, who was not injured in the least. He looked as if he hadn't even broken a sweat, which, she knew, he probably hadn't. He basically shot the Fannigarians with his eyebeams, not risking a confrontation.
"Little dark bird," he said, pulling something out from behind his back, "I said you would not disappoint me today, and I meant it. If you, by your own free will, will only hold back, then maybe if I took it away, we could actually get something done."
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"Y-You're wrong," Beast Boy stammered, "Y-You're lying she- Raven would never do that she can't- I mean-"
"It is the truth," the yellow Raven said solemnly, "Trigon has lost two battles because Raven was holding back, and he's planning something to make sure she never does it again. She will kill by the thousands, unless something is done."
"What will he do to her?" Starfire asked, almost afraid for an answer, "How can he force her to do such things?"
"W-We're not really sure," Said the green emotion, stepping in for her friend, "But if torture and threats didn't work, we can only assume it will be very bad. Trigon is hell-bent on defeating this planet, but you probably have time."
"What?" Beast Boy asked, confused by the entire conversation, "Time for what?"
"Time to help," Happy yelled, "You can go there and keep her from killing the planets! You and the other Titans can follow them, and when they land on a planet, you guys can help!"
All that the other titans could do was nod, and Starfire broke into tears. The silence was so eerie that, well, let's just say that it was a long walk to the forbidden door.
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"Whoa," Cyborg gasped, eyes glued to the television, "Robin, come in here quick! You gotta see this, man!"
Robin walked in from the kitchen (A/N It was his turn to make breakfast) and sat next to his friend on the couch.
"We have just gotten word that Fannigar, the warrior planet, has just earned its title, having just defeated Trigon on his attack of their planet. The battle was extremely one-sided; the Fannigarians quote "Running circles around the demon curs" unquote. Yes it was a great day in Fannigar today, and the military officer had this to say."
The camera showed a large, muscled man with even larger feathered wings, wearing a very prominent battle costume. "They will definitely come back, I have no doubts about that, and when they do, we'll blow them out of the galaxy. Hear this Trigon," He shouted into the camera, "Your reign of terror ends at Fannigar!"
The camera went back to the studio, "Fannigar, truly earning its title, 'the warrior planet'. Next up we de-"
"That doesn't sound too good for Raven." Robin stated, walking back to the kitchen.
"I have something that sounds even worse for Raven," Beast Boy said solemnly as he walked into the room with Starfire, "And we need to get the spaceship warmed up."
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Dun dun dun!!! That's the longest chapter I've ever written that wasn't a songfic!!
Well, I gotta go do my schoolwork and bake another giant cookie, see ya'll tomorrow!!
Until then, read, review, repeat!!
