Alright! The long awaited chapter! Okay, I had no idea where I wad
going w/ this... So I hope that it's okay! This chapter is dedicated 2
Riles… (that is if he/she doesn't have me killed…) Okay then, w/ that
In mind, let's move on!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans... (pulls out lightning staff) but I will soon! MWAHAHA! (AHEM)
As Always,
Marchwarden's Blueeyed Shadow (S)
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Under the Moonlight
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Chapter Seven
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The three titans ran into a rundown house which was surrounded with broken police lines. Raven sped through a door under the staircase. BeastBoy followed, "Raven? Raven, what are you doing?"
The metal man hurried quickly and held onto his stomach as he walked down the stairs which Raven and flown down and prepared his sonic cannon. And as soon as he reached the bottom of the stairs he saw something that infuriated him, a boy with sandy hair and violet eyes was about to finish Robin.
And after that, something peculiar happened, Robin was covered in black energy and carried toward the ceiling and Lexus smashed his foot into the floor. Robin yelled, "Raven?" And the boy looked absolutely and thoroughly angered. Raven descended from her position on the ceiling and lightly onto the floor, "Yes?"
A certain green changeling appeared in front of them and Cyborg stepped forward, "Where's Star?" Robin raced over to her but Lexus got there first and took out yet another knife, "Come to give her a goodbye kiss?"
Raven screamed out and the knife floated and threw itself into a wall, "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" BeastBoy Changed into a ram and charged into the blonde boy. Robin unbound Starfire's other ankle and picked her up. Cyborg cheered, but their victory was short-lived because the window at the very edge of the wall shattered and from the dust three familiar figures crawled out. Beastboy gasped, it was…
"Jinx, Mammoth, Gizmo." Raven stated monotonously. The three jumped onto the floor and the pink-haired sorceress laughed, "You didn't think that Slade would leave his newest member to a mission all alone, now did you?"
Gizmo shook his head laughing in his annoying sissy voice, "You shouldn't expect much of these crud munchers, Jinx."
Mammoth remained silent before running into BeastBoy and getting his fist ready. BeastBoy transformed into a mammoth and smashed him into the wall as Raven blocked an attack from Jinx. Cyborg however, did not have as much luck with Gizmo seeing to the fact that the kid was on his back, trying to deactivate him.
Robin ran in the direction of the stairs but was stopped by a hand clutching hard onto his foot and a silky voice muttered weakly, "Not so fast." BeastBoy yelled, "What mission is that?"
"Bringing back his trinket." The evil sorceress drawled out slowly.
The green teen was confused but Robin understood exactly what it meant and kicked his foot out, but Lexus never let go. Instead the idiot clung on tighter. Robin yelled, "Get off! STOP IT!"
"No, I will never stop."
Robin accidentally dropped Starfire and started out brawling with Lexus again and the latter advanced on him, grabbing him by the throat and chocking him. Robin had little oxygen left and was about to let go… the last thing he saw was a flash of green.
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"What happened?" was the first thing Robin said when he woke up. Cyborg was by his side and smiled weakly, "Well, you blacked out right when Starfire somehow got up and basically kicked that kid's butt."
"Starfire? We got her? We won?" Robin perked up, but Cyborg looked at him sadly, "Well, almost. I don't remember much because Gizmo temporarily shut my systems down, but Raven can tell you. RAVEN!"
The dark empath floated into the room, "What?"
Robin answered for the metal man, "What happened to Starfire?"
"She…" Raven sighed, "She's a tamaraian, her body has extremely good antibodies that help her wounds heal almost instantly after she receives them. But they require her powers to activate, and the chains that held her to that wall drained the powers from her, apparently an experiment that Lexus had. But what he didn't know was that it also sucked the life out from her. So when we took out the chains…"
Cyborg finished, "Her powers returned to her and the antibodies woke up. The problem is that her power came back slowly because so much life was taken out of her, it took a while to retrieve."
"Well that explains how she got up, but not what happened." The leader said impatiently.
The dark empath sighed again, "She was able to get up and use her starbolts, but she had little energy left and should have waited. But anyhow she got up and threw all the starbolts she could at Lexus and passed out. She wasted what little energy she had to save you Robin, and now she has little left… she might not make it."
Robin growled, "Well where is she?! We must save her!"
"Robin, she's in the infirmary. But don't get your hopes up." She finished.
The leader ran to the hospital wing of the tower so quickly, it looked like he was flying. He shoved the door aside and there he saw her lying down peacefully on the bed. The teenage hero rushed to her side and placed a hand on her soft cheek.
Raven looked at them sadly, "Her health isn't very good. It's not just her physical health Robin, her mental and spiritual. There's been turmoil in her mind for a while now and her physical health absolutely depends on her spirit getting better if she is to live. The only thing you can do is sit there and hope."
Then, she left figuring that she wasn't helping much, she wasn't good at this kind of advice. She walked slowly over into the kitchen and got a plate of spaghetti and sat to eat. BeastBoy was eating the same with tofu meatballs and Cyborg's was loaded with real meat. And an awkward silence hung in the soft air around them as they ate until Cyborg looked at his arm, "Robin's been sitting with Star for over an hour now. Shouldn't we get him?"
The empath shook her head, "No. He is about to lose the person he cares most about… leave them be. I can't help but feel guilty because there is nothing that I can do. Her health is on the line, and if her spirit does not get well she will die."
Silence once again loomed about when suddenly an idea struck the vegetarian, "Your mirror!" Raven looked at him strange, "Say what?" BeastBoy stood up, "Your mirror took us to your mind, can it not take us to Starfire's?"
"No, that mirror is a special portal to my mind, and mine only. But… I have an idea, BeastBoy, go get me one of Starfire's mirrors and some of her most beloved things." She tried her best to smile.
Cyborg laughed, "Does Robin count?" Raven semi-glared at him then smirked, "No."
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"Okay, if I get this right, I can make a portal to Starfire's mind. Hand me that candle, BeastBoy." Raven took a deep breath and began to calm down. She was about to do something that could alter Starfire's life, it was a bit scary. If she got it wrong, she could accrue even more damage to the poor alien girl.
The green teen did as he was told and asked, "Remind me why one of Star's most beloved items is a candle?" Raven sighed in annoyance, "It's scented. And she's had it for more than a year. Apparently, lavender lilac is her favorite fragrance. And since I want little questions so I can concentrate, I will explain the others as well. The green Star pendant because she treated it with much care, like it was about to break at any moment, the letter from her mother because her mother is obviously dead, that dried rose because… if she didn't love it, why did she have it dried? Besides, it's from Tamaran. The fountain because she loves water and any moving body of it, and finally that old photo album because it holds pictures of everyone she holds dear."
The two boys and gaped at her then asked at the same time, "How do you know that much about her?" At this she nearly laughed, "Because I don't waste away my brain cells in front of a pointless game." The other titans glared at her she took the mirror in her hands and closed her eyes, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Instantly the other items started floating and she started chanting louder with the building up of her concentration on the objects and the mirror, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos… Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos! AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!"
Suddenly all the things engulfed by black energy started whirling around in a circle above Raven, with the mirror in the exact middle. The black started swirling into blue, then to red, to green, to black again, and then into white as it all entered the mirror and a bright ring of energy burst out from the glass trinket and knocked everyone over except for the empath. Finally the mirror descended and softly placed itself back in her hands. She panted and laid the portal on Starfire's bed and rushed to the kitchen to make some tea.
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"You delayed saving Star to make tea?!" A green changeling waved his arms up and down in the air. The dark sorceress merely nodded and placed the empty cup on the table. Cyborg shut the green teen up, "Look BB, she's been through a lot. She just made a portal into someone else's mind. I'm sure she's going to be famished."
Raven smiled slightly and took comfort in the silence, her head hurt and she needed to rest before testing the portal. It drained a lot of her powers to make it and she was surprised she hadn't fainted. Her eyes closed and she relaxed her mind. Her emotions were too tired to annoy her and she rested in ease.
BeastBoy smiled at her, she was so pretty when she slept. Her eyes were closed lightly and she looked finally at peace. She didn't wear that angry face she wore during the day, she did not hide behind her faceless mask. This was her, the real her. The relaxed Raven. Out of all her expressions, he decided he loved this one most. This one was calm, peaceful, kind, serene. It gave out a sense of soft radiance, tranquility and content happiness. And suddenly, he found that he couldn't take his eyes off her. She was too beautiful.
The metal man took in a breath and looked at the two with admiration. They were perfect for each other, it was transparent. But they wouldn't admit just yet, no. They would in good time, but until then, quiet moments like these were good enough. He only wished that he could be worthy of someone so great. Now don't get me wrong, he was not at all in love with our favorite goth, not at all. He just wanted to be worthy of someone who would be as perfect for him as Raven was for BeastBoy. But he could wait, someone would come along soon enough, and would be just as sweet he knew it. He would wait patiently for his time.
Raven stirred and broke the silence and BB took it as a hint saying, "Try this, trust me. Sleep is good." He took the advice and changed into a puppy before curling up beside her. Cyborg went to go to sleep and smiled for the first time in a long while at the sweet scene before him.
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Robin held onto Starfire's hand and cried silently. He didn't want her to go, not now. She couldn't leave him now. He buried his face in her delicate shoulder, "Don't go. Don't go Star, don't go. Please, I can't bear such pain. Please Starfire, don't let go."
There was no response. Her body didn't even move. And even warmer tears streamed down the leaders face. His mask was secured as tight was it normally was, his hair was up, and everything seemed back to normal for him, except his broken heart. He desperately held onto her for dear life, "Hold on, Star. Don't let go. Look at all you've got to live for. You've got a great home, good friends, and have guys hitting on you wherever you go. Now I'll admit that last one isn't very pleasing to me, but…"
"Robin, Raven's found a way that she can maybe save her. Go to sleep and get some rest. She'll be okay." Robin's favorite guy friend comforted him from the door way, "You need the rest, Robin. Don't put yourself in danger too." Robin only nodded and Cy left. He turned back to his Star and cried once more.
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The next morning the titans all awoke with eagerness to save their alien companion and fear on the outcome of their tries. Raven walked into Starfire's room where everyone else was waiting for her and took a seat on the circular bed. Robin asked surprisingly calmly, "Can I go in with you?" the dark empath shook her head in a reply, "No. Since my powers made this portal, only my powers can activate it. And after yesterday, I've only got enough energy do put one person in."
BeastBoy sighed, "Then why not let Robin go?" Cyborg pointed to a book Raven had shoved at him that morning, "Because it's easier to do herself with her own powers… it takes less energy. And if she's to get in and out of the mirror alive, she needs all the spare energy she can get." Raven nodded, "See what you learn when you pick up a book?"
Finally it was time for her to go into Starfire's mind and she chanted, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Bright exuberant colors started swirling around her and her cloak rose in the air as she focused harder, "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" The three witnessing titans looked in awe at the colors and a voice started flowing out soothingly. It was a sort of therapeutic voice, but it wasn't Raven's… or so it seemed. It sang a song that had no words, but a definite feeling. The voice was joined by others exactly like it and the boys looked at the empath curiously until the mirror zapped her image into itself and she was gone.
Cyborg flipped the book open and started reading furiously. He truly wanted to know what the voices were. He found it and read aloud, "Singing will be heard. The voices belong to the emotions of the person being transferred into the portal." The other two boys grabbed the book and read it for themselves. God, Raven's books were interesting.
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A dark sorceress looked around and down at herself. She was cloaked in white, all her emotions were contained within herself… good. She looked around her and found a girl with vibrant red hair was crouched over sadly staring onto the blankness that was her mind. Raven walked over to her, "Starfire, look up."
The girl did as she was told and gasped, "Raven? What are you doing here?" Raven ignored this and continued, "Starfire, we're in your mind and I need to speak to you. Robin can't live without you by his side, he needs you to wake up." She looked at the empath sadly, "Robin would not wish me to be by his side as nothing more than a friend. It does not matter whether I wake up or not. Besides, I do not even know how."
"Starfire, he DOES care about you, even more than a friend if that is somehow consoling to you. We need you to wake up and live with us, Star. If you lay here longer, you will die. And Robin cannot bare that." The sorceress replied. Starfire shook her head, "I don't know. Friend Raven, you would not lie to me no?" "DO you think that I would lie?" was her response.
Starfire shook her head, "No." Raven sighed, "Robin loves you, Starfire. You have to take this chance. Do you want Robin to die because you're not there? If you die, you'll never get married, never have children, never watch movies with us, never look confused when BeastBoy teases you, never do anything fun." The redhead thought and didn't want Robin to die because of her. It was selfish and wrong, "How do I wake up?"
Raven sighed, half in relief, half in curiosity, "You have to except life, and let the force run through you. I don't know how you're going to do it, but you have to. You have to except the person you are and let your spirit flow. Don't hold back, that's how you got here." A bright light started flashing and Raven sighed, "I must go soon. Starfire, wake up. Oh, and one last thing, I know about Tamaraians. I know how if you fall in love with one person, you will love them your whole life. That's what made you hold back, I know. Star, take the chance and there will be rewards, I promise."
The alien nodded and closed her eyes and let go. She had to live, she didn't want her friends crying or dying because of her. And even if she stayed alone forever, she had to do it. Raven smiled for the first time in a long time and her last moments in Starfire's mind were happy. Before she left, she saw green spreading around, a water fall appearing behind her, Voices singing, happiness flowing. Starfire did what she was supposed to do, at least that's what Raven thought.
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A dark empath flew onto the soft carpet of Starfire's room and looked around, "Where's Robin?" Cyborg shrugged, "Where do you think?" Good point. BeastBoy yawned, "I don't know about you guys, but I am going to see if Starfire woke up."
They all rushed to the infirmary and smiled at what they saw. Robin was right next to Starfire and Starfire looked as healthy as ever. She put a hand to her head, "Ow, my head… Robin?" He smiled for the first time in what had seemed an eternity, "Starfire!" And a very strange thing happened, he hugged her with a death hug. Why was this strange? It was supposed to be the other way around.
Raven tugged the other two boys by their ears, "C'mon, let's leave them be." Cyborg whined, "Aw, c'mon Raven! It was just getting to the good part!" BeastBoy nodded, "Rae!" And they were off. The leader let go of Starfire and she smiled and cried with happiness, "Oh Robin! I am so happy to see you!" But Robin heard of hint of sadness in her voice, "What's wrong?" "Nothing." The redhead blushed.
"No, something's wrong, and you're going to tell me." He insisted. The alien blushed, "Robin? Might we go to the roof and enjoy the look of the city?"
"Of coarse."
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Robin looked at his feet and thought, 'This will be hard.' He blushed and took Starfire's hand, "Um, Star?" She nodded, "Yes, Robin?" His gaze moved back to his feet and he prayed that they would swallow him up and then he could tell her, "Starfire… I uh…" Starfire sighed and held both of his hands, "Robin? I have to tell you something. Now before I tell you this thing of importance, please make me a promise that if you shall say no and do the breaking of my heart, that we will still be friends?"
The teenage hero looked at her with confusion stamped all over his face, "Yes. I promise." She shuddered, "Robin, I have this feeling in my heart around you and it is weird and… it feels like I am on fire right here." the sweet and innocent girl pointed to where her heart was, "And I know what this feeling is, but I am afraid to tell you." He pulled her closer, "Why? You know that you can tell me anything." "Yes, but I am afraid that you will not feel like I do and will do the 'breaking of my heart' and I do not want that."
He smiled, "Tell me what you want to say, Star." Starfire smiled at the nickname and blushed, "I um, have the feeling of love for you, Robin." Shock filled every part of his body and his face turned a lovely shade of red as he whispered, "I love you too, Star." And before they knew it, their lips were connected and now matter how cold they were before, they were warmer than ever now. Robin pulled her as close as she could possibly be to him and she wrapped her arms around his neck.
Little did they know that the other three titans were smiling at them right then, and Raven put black bubbles around their heads, so they wouldn't break it up. And so there they stood, kissing and wishing that their moment would never end, under the moonlight.
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As Always,
Marchwarden's Blueeyed Shadow (S)
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Under the Moonlight
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Chapter Seven
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The three titans ran into a rundown house which was surrounded with broken police lines. Raven sped through a door under the staircase. BeastBoy followed, "Raven? Raven, what are you doing?"
The metal man hurried quickly and held onto his stomach as he walked down the stairs which Raven and flown down and prepared his sonic cannon. And as soon as he reached the bottom of the stairs he saw something that infuriated him, a boy with sandy hair and violet eyes was about to finish Robin.
And after that, something peculiar happened, Robin was covered in black energy and carried toward the ceiling and Lexus smashed his foot into the floor. Robin yelled, "Raven?" And the boy looked absolutely and thoroughly angered. Raven descended from her position on the ceiling and lightly onto the floor, "Yes?"
A certain green changeling appeared in front of them and Cyborg stepped forward, "Where's Star?" Robin raced over to her but Lexus got there first and took out yet another knife, "Come to give her a goodbye kiss?"
Raven screamed out and the knife floated and threw itself into a wall, "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" BeastBoy Changed into a ram and charged into the blonde boy. Robin unbound Starfire's other ankle and picked her up. Cyborg cheered, but their victory was short-lived because the window at the very edge of the wall shattered and from the dust three familiar figures crawled out. Beastboy gasped, it was…
"Jinx, Mammoth, Gizmo." Raven stated monotonously. The three jumped onto the floor and the pink-haired sorceress laughed, "You didn't think that Slade would leave his newest member to a mission all alone, now did you?"
Gizmo shook his head laughing in his annoying sissy voice, "You shouldn't expect much of these crud munchers, Jinx."
Mammoth remained silent before running into BeastBoy and getting his fist ready. BeastBoy transformed into a mammoth and smashed him into the wall as Raven blocked an attack from Jinx. Cyborg however, did not have as much luck with Gizmo seeing to the fact that the kid was on his back, trying to deactivate him.
Robin ran in the direction of the stairs but was stopped by a hand clutching hard onto his foot and a silky voice muttered weakly, "Not so fast." BeastBoy yelled, "What mission is that?"
"Bringing back his trinket." The evil sorceress drawled out slowly.
The green teen was confused but Robin understood exactly what it meant and kicked his foot out, but Lexus never let go. Instead the idiot clung on tighter. Robin yelled, "Get off! STOP IT!"
"No, I will never stop."
Robin accidentally dropped Starfire and started out brawling with Lexus again and the latter advanced on him, grabbing him by the throat and chocking him. Robin had little oxygen left and was about to let go… the last thing he saw was a flash of green.
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"What happened?" was the first thing Robin said when he woke up. Cyborg was by his side and smiled weakly, "Well, you blacked out right when Starfire somehow got up and basically kicked that kid's butt."
"Starfire? We got her? We won?" Robin perked up, but Cyborg looked at him sadly, "Well, almost. I don't remember much because Gizmo temporarily shut my systems down, but Raven can tell you. RAVEN!"
The dark empath floated into the room, "What?"
Robin answered for the metal man, "What happened to Starfire?"
"She…" Raven sighed, "She's a tamaraian, her body has extremely good antibodies that help her wounds heal almost instantly after she receives them. But they require her powers to activate, and the chains that held her to that wall drained the powers from her, apparently an experiment that Lexus had. But what he didn't know was that it also sucked the life out from her. So when we took out the chains…"
Cyborg finished, "Her powers returned to her and the antibodies woke up. The problem is that her power came back slowly because so much life was taken out of her, it took a while to retrieve."
"Well that explains how she got up, but not what happened." The leader said impatiently.
The dark empath sighed again, "She was able to get up and use her starbolts, but she had little energy left and should have waited. But anyhow she got up and threw all the starbolts she could at Lexus and passed out. She wasted what little energy she had to save you Robin, and now she has little left… she might not make it."
Robin growled, "Well where is she?! We must save her!"
"Robin, she's in the infirmary. But don't get your hopes up." She finished.
The leader ran to the hospital wing of the tower so quickly, it looked like he was flying. He shoved the door aside and there he saw her lying down peacefully on the bed. The teenage hero rushed to her side and placed a hand on her soft cheek.
Raven looked at them sadly, "Her health isn't very good. It's not just her physical health Robin, her mental and spiritual. There's been turmoil in her mind for a while now and her physical health absolutely depends on her spirit getting better if she is to live. The only thing you can do is sit there and hope."
Then, she left figuring that she wasn't helping much, she wasn't good at this kind of advice. She walked slowly over into the kitchen and got a plate of spaghetti and sat to eat. BeastBoy was eating the same with tofu meatballs and Cyborg's was loaded with real meat. And an awkward silence hung in the soft air around them as they ate until Cyborg looked at his arm, "Robin's been sitting with Star for over an hour now. Shouldn't we get him?"
The empath shook her head, "No. He is about to lose the person he cares most about… leave them be. I can't help but feel guilty because there is nothing that I can do. Her health is on the line, and if her spirit does not get well she will die."
Silence once again loomed about when suddenly an idea struck the vegetarian, "Your mirror!" Raven looked at him strange, "Say what?" BeastBoy stood up, "Your mirror took us to your mind, can it not take us to Starfire's?"
"No, that mirror is a special portal to my mind, and mine only. But… I have an idea, BeastBoy, go get me one of Starfire's mirrors and some of her most beloved things." She tried her best to smile.
Cyborg laughed, "Does Robin count?" Raven semi-glared at him then smirked, "No."
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"Okay, if I get this right, I can make a portal to Starfire's mind. Hand me that candle, BeastBoy." Raven took a deep breath and began to calm down. She was about to do something that could alter Starfire's life, it was a bit scary. If she got it wrong, she could accrue even more damage to the poor alien girl.
The green teen did as he was told and asked, "Remind me why one of Star's most beloved items is a candle?" Raven sighed in annoyance, "It's scented. And she's had it for more than a year. Apparently, lavender lilac is her favorite fragrance. And since I want little questions so I can concentrate, I will explain the others as well. The green Star pendant because she treated it with much care, like it was about to break at any moment, the letter from her mother because her mother is obviously dead, that dried rose because… if she didn't love it, why did she have it dried? Besides, it's from Tamaran. The fountain because she loves water and any moving body of it, and finally that old photo album because it holds pictures of everyone she holds dear."
The two boys and gaped at her then asked at the same time, "How do you know that much about her?" At this she nearly laughed, "Because I don't waste away my brain cells in front of a pointless game." The other titans glared at her she took the mirror in her hands and closed her eyes, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Instantly the other items started floating and she started chanting louder with the building up of her concentration on the objects and the mirror, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos… Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos! AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!"
Suddenly all the things engulfed by black energy started whirling around in a circle above Raven, with the mirror in the exact middle. The black started swirling into blue, then to red, to green, to black again, and then into white as it all entered the mirror and a bright ring of energy burst out from the glass trinket and knocked everyone over except for the empath. Finally the mirror descended and softly placed itself back in her hands. She panted and laid the portal on Starfire's bed and rushed to the kitchen to make some tea.
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"You delayed saving Star to make tea?!" A green changeling waved his arms up and down in the air. The dark sorceress merely nodded and placed the empty cup on the table. Cyborg shut the green teen up, "Look BB, she's been through a lot. She just made a portal into someone else's mind. I'm sure she's going to be famished."
Raven smiled slightly and took comfort in the silence, her head hurt and she needed to rest before testing the portal. It drained a lot of her powers to make it and she was surprised she hadn't fainted. Her eyes closed and she relaxed her mind. Her emotions were too tired to annoy her and she rested in ease.
BeastBoy smiled at her, she was so pretty when she slept. Her eyes were closed lightly and she looked finally at peace. She didn't wear that angry face she wore during the day, she did not hide behind her faceless mask. This was her, the real her. The relaxed Raven. Out of all her expressions, he decided he loved this one most. This one was calm, peaceful, kind, serene. It gave out a sense of soft radiance, tranquility and content happiness. And suddenly, he found that he couldn't take his eyes off her. She was too beautiful.
The metal man took in a breath and looked at the two with admiration. They were perfect for each other, it was transparent. But they wouldn't admit just yet, no. They would in good time, but until then, quiet moments like these were good enough. He only wished that he could be worthy of someone so great. Now don't get me wrong, he was not at all in love with our favorite goth, not at all. He just wanted to be worthy of someone who would be as perfect for him as Raven was for BeastBoy. But he could wait, someone would come along soon enough, and would be just as sweet he knew it. He would wait patiently for his time.
Raven stirred and broke the silence and BB took it as a hint saying, "Try this, trust me. Sleep is good." He took the advice and changed into a puppy before curling up beside her. Cyborg went to go to sleep and smiled for the first time in a long while at the sweet scene before him.
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Robin held onto Starfire's hand and cried silently. He didn't want her to go, not now. She couldn't leave him now. He buried his face in her delicate shoulder, "Don't go. Don't go Star, don't go. Please, I can't bear such pain. Please Starfire, don't let go."
There was no response. Her body didn't even move. And even warmer tears streamed down the leaders face. His mask was secured as tight was it normally was, his hair was up, and everything seemed back to normal for him, except his broken heart. He desperately held onto her for dear life, "Hold on, Star. Don't let go. Look at all you've got to live for. You've got a great home, good friends, and have guys hitting on you wherever you go. Now I'll admit that last one isn't very pleasing to me, but…"
"Robin, Raven's found a way that she can maybe save her. Go to sleep and get some rest. She'll be okay." Robin's favorite guy friend comforted him from the door way, "You need the rest, Robin. Don't put yourself in danger too." Robin only nodded and Cy left. He turned back to his Star and cried once more.
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The next morning the titans all awoke with eagerness to save their alien companion and fear on the outcome of their tries. Raven walked into Starfire's room where everyone else was waiting for her and took a seat on the circular bed. Robin asked surprisingly calmly, "Can I go in with you?" the dark empath shook her head in a reply, "No. Since my powers made this portal, only my powers can activate it. And after yesterday, I've only got enough energy do put one person in."
BeastBoy sighed, "Then why not let Robin go?" Cyborg pointed to a book Raven had shoved at him that morning, "Because it's easier to do herself with her own powers… it takes less energy. And if she's to get in and out of the mirror alive, she needs all the spare energy she can get." Raven nodded, "See what you learn when you pick up a book?"
Finally it was time for her to go into Starfire's mind and she chanted, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Bright exuberant colors started swirling around her and her cloak rose in the air as she focused harder, "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" The three witnessing titans looked in awe at the colors and a voice started flowing out soothingly. It was a sort of therapeutic voice, but it wasn't Raven's… or so it seemed. It sang a song that had no words, but a definite feeling. The voice was joined by others exactly like it and the boys looked at the empath curiously until the mirror zapped her image into itself and she was gone.
Cyborg flipped the book open and started reading furiously. He truly wanted to know what the voices were. He found it and read aloud, "Singing will be heard. The voices belong to the emotions of the person being transferred into the portal." The other two boys grabbed the book and read it for themselves. God, Raven's books were interesting.
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A dark sorceress looked around and down at herself. She was cloaked in white, all her emotions were contained within herself… good. She looked around her and found a girl with vibrant red hair was crouched over sadly staring onto the blankness that was her mind. Raven walked over to her, "Starfire, look up."
The girl did as she was told and gasped, "Raven? What are you doing here?" Raven ignored this and continued, "Starfire, we're in your mind and I need to speak to you. Robin can't live without you by his side, he needs you to wake up." She looked at the empath sadly, "Robin would not wish me to be by his side as nothing more than a friend. It does not matter whether I wake up or not. Besides, I do not even know how."
"Starfire, he DOES care about you, even more than a friend if that is somehow consoling to you. We need you to wake up and live with us, Star. If you lay here longer, you will die. And Robin cannot bare that." The sorceress replied. Starfire shook her head, "I don't know. Friend Raven, you would not lie to me no?" "DO you think that I would lie?" was her response.
Starfire shook her head, "No." Raven sighed, "Robin loves you, Starfire. You have to take this chance. Do you want Robin to die because you're not there? If you die, you'll never get married, never have children, never watch movies with us, never look confused when BeastBoy teases you, never do anything fun." The redhead thought and didn't want Robin to die because of her. It was selfish and wrong, "How do I wake up?"
Raven sighed, half in relief, half in curiosity, "You have to except life, and let the force run through you. I don't know how you're going to do it, but you have to. You have to except the person you are and let your spirit flow. Don't hold back, that's how you got here." A bright light started flashing and Raven sighed, "I must go soon. Starfire, wake up. Oh, and one last thing, I know about Tamaraians. I know how if you fall in love with one person, you will love them your whole life. That's what made you hold back, I know. Star, take the chance and there will be rewards, I promise."
The alien nodded and closed her eyes and let go. She had to live, she didn't want her friends crying or dying because of her. And even if she stayed alone forever, she had to do it. Raven smiled for the first time in a long time and her last moments in Starfire's mind were happy. Before she left, she saw green spreading around, a water fall appearing behind her, Voices singing, happiness flowing. Starfire did what she was supposed to do, at least that's what Raven thought.
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A dark empath flew onto the soft carpet of Starfire's room and looked around, "Where's Robin?" Cyborg shrugged, "Where do you think?" Good point. BeastBoy yawned, "I don't know about you guys, but I am going to see if Starfire woke up."
They all rushed to the infirmary and smiled at what they saw. Robin was right next to Starfire and Starfire looked as healthy as ever. She put a hand to her head, "Ow, my head… Robin?" He smiled for the first time in what had seemed an eternity, "Starfire!" And a very strange thing happened, he hugged her with a death hug. Why was this strange? It was supposed to be the other way around.
Raven tugged the other two boys by their ears, "C'mon, let's leave them be." Cyborg whined, "Aw, c'mon Raven! It was just getting to the good part!" BeastBoy nodded, "Rae!" And they were off. The leader let go of Starfire and she smiled and cried with happiness, "Oh Robin! I am so happy to see you!" But Robin heard of hint of sadness in her voice, "What's wrong?" "Nothing." The redhead blushed.
"No, something's wrong, and you're going to tell me." He insisted. The alien blushed, "Robin? Might we go to the roof and enjoy the look of the city?"
"Of coarse."
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Robin looked at his feet and thought, 'This will be hard.' He blushed and took Starfire's hand, "Um, Star?" She nodded, "Yes, Robin?" His gaze moved back to his feet and he prayed that they would swallow him up and then he could tell her, "Starfire… I uh…" Starfire sighed and held both of his hands, "Robin? I have to tell you something. Now before I tell you this thing of importance, please make me a promise that if you shall say no and do the breaking of my heart, that we will still be friends?"
The teenage hero looked at her with confusion stamped all over his face, "Yes. I promise." She shuddered, "Robin, I have this feeling in my heart around you and it is weird and… it feels like I am on fire right here." the sweet and innocent girl pointed to where her heart was, "And I know what this feeling is, but I am afraid to tell you." He pulled her closer, "Why? You know that you can tell me anything." "Yes, but I am afraid that you will not feel like I do and will do the 'breaking of my heart' and I do not want that."
He smiled, "Tell me what you want to say, Star." Starfire smiled at the nickname and blushed, "I um, have the feeling of love for you, Robin." Shock filled every part of his body and his face turned a lovely shade of red as he whispered, "I love you too, Star." And before they knew it, their lips were connected and now matter how cold they were before, they were warmer than ever now. Robin pulled her as close as she could possibly be to him and she wrapped her arms around his neck.
Little did they know that the other three titans were smiling at them right then, and Raven put black bubbles around their heads, so they wouldn't break it up. And so there they stood, kissing and wishing that their moment would never end, under the moonlight.
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A/N: YES! I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED IT AND CAN NOW WORK ON THE SEQUEL! YAY! I AM SO HAPPY AND AM TOUCHED BY ALL MY LOVELY REVIEWS!! Here's my responses!
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