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"Aren't you guys gonna fight over what to watch?" Robin asked Cyborg and Beast boy.
"Nah." BB replied gloomily.
"You pick something Robin." Cyborg told the Boy Wonder.
"Want do you want to watch Star?" Robin asked Starfire.
"I get to pick tonight's movie?" Starfire said big-eyed. She almost never got to pick out what she wanted to watch since she normally gave up the option to Raven on the grounds that she didn't know what to pick.
"Yes and you're gonna pick tonight's feature. Not Raven, Cyborg, Beast Boy, or me. You." Robin said wagging his finger at Starfire, which she caught and held onto.
"Fine. I've always wanted to see A Walk to Remember." Starfire said unsure about her choice of movie.
"Ok then, A Walk to Remember it is." Robin said as he turned on the Pay-per-view system.
Outside the scene was not as calm and cheerful, or rather less gloomy, than the scene outside. A cloaked figure was about to be engaged in combat with a Minator, a Fire Elemental, and a Devil.
"Ssstep assside human." The Devil spat the boy.
"I'm no human, fool!" The boy yelled at the Devil giving the beast a death glare. The boy was clad only in a tight fitting black T-shirt, black matching pants and a shimmering cloak that seemed to blend into the background of the Towers' base.
A gust of wind came out of the East and blew the cloak against the boy's body. The wind intensified for a brief moment before dying as suddenly as it had started. The boy turned his now red eyes on the odd trio causing all three to freeze under his paralyzing gaze. The boy flipped into the air and what landed in his place was one of the worst creatures in the Nine Hells. A creature feared by all others, even its overseers due to its great strength and the immense difficulty to bring one of them down. Fortunately for Earth and all the other creatures of the Hells these powerful Demons didn't pay any attention to lesser creatures.
Landing in the boy's place was a 1.8 meters (6 feet) Tanar'ri. Though he was short by Demonic standards the three lesser Hellspawn immediately began to back away from him. His gaze was powerful and piercing, just as his powerful pair of pincer arms that were just below his normal muscle bound arms. Each pincer had enough strength to snap the strongest known earth metals like twigs and each hand had short tough claws that were sharp enough to shred steel as were the longer claws on his feet. His legs were powerful enough to reach heights of 10 stories and allowed him to travel up to 500 miles in a day.
Two horns decorated each side of his head. They both started at the back of his skull and were bent foreword so that they formed a sort of helmet impression. His head was topped with a rig of short spikes that ran down the middle of his skull. The line of spikes continued down his back reaching a length of 45 centimeters (18 inches) before becoming smaller and ending at the base of his back.
His dark red skin glistened and reflected the moon light just like the armor that it was. No man made metal could pierce the hide of a Tanar'ri, only the darkest weapons forged in the center of the Nine Hells; weaponry bestowed upon the highest generals in Hells ranks, and weapons blessed with holy water could penetrate the tough skin.
He was wingless, a most unusual thing for the upper Demonic ranks, but that feature made him unique. That made this Tanar'ri unique. That made sure that no one forgot his name. He was Tir'eir, one of the oldest and most deadly of the Red Hand, the elite of the elite.
Even with his high status Tir'eir was a special case. He chose to bear scars from his fights, leaving him with countless scars on both his true and human forms, he chose to take this job when no one wanted it, he chose to defy the Devil himself, and he chose to be different. The last two choices had caused Tir'eir to be banished from Hell by the Lord of Lies but no one stopped him when Tir'eir wanted to get back in. He may have been kicked out of hell over a millennia ago but he was still a Tanar'ri who demanded and received the utmost respect from all of Hells creatures, both in the Underworld and on other planes.
The fight or slaughter was over quickly. Few creatures from except the strongest of each plane stood any chance against the strongest of each plane. In this plane the Tanar'ri were the planes' champion, even unofficially ranked above the every popular Archangels.
Tir'eir leapt up into the air and landed on top of the Fire Elemental smothering the human shaped magna formation into the ground killing it. The Minator was pinced into three pieces; head, upper and lower body, having the misfortune to be caught in the powerful pincers. The Devil was slashed across the gut and disemboweled causing the Devil to collapse to the ground opening and closing his mouth like a fish out of water. Tir'eir then crushed its head under his foot before shifting back to his human form. With a wave of his hand the carnage was sent off to whence it came, the fiery pits of Hell.
Tir'eir looked up at the Teen Titan's Tower, his eyes returning to their blue gray hue, and spotted a few lights up on the 10th floor. It was time to see if his super powered allies would be truthful or not.
Raven felt uneasy. She had sensed that something had entered the building but it seemed to disappear and reappear in random locations. Raven looked at the other Teen Titans but they all seemed oblivious. Cyborg and Beast Boy were half watching the movie half off in la la land while Robin and Starfire were actually cuddling, in front of everyone, on the main sofa.
Raven looked outside the giant windows that were up on this floor. What she must be sensing was something only she could feel. 'Why can't I figure out any of my powers?' Raven asked herself plaintively. It was an old question but one that had bugged Raven all her years. The dark energy she could control was only partial and Raven knew that if she could gain full control she could be move of a use to the group then she was now.
"Hey!" Robin exclaimed all of the sudden.
"What happened?" Starfire asked in her normal questioning tone.
The movie on the big screen had paused.
"Ok, which one of you has the remote?" Robin directed his question at Beast boy and Cyborg.
"I don't got it." Beast boy stated before putting on his adorable kitty face to reinforce his innocence about the matter.
"I can't do what he can," Cyborg said pointing at kitty-BB, "but I didn't do it."
By process of elimination all eyes fell on Raven.
"Get real guys." was the plain reply.
"I have the remote, as you call it." a voice said from behind all of the Titans. Everyone spun around and there stood the boy who stood at the top of the steps in the doorway that led to the living room. Only his head extended arm were visible as his cloak made him melt into the background.
"Your security is amazingly lax for such a big place." the boy said tossing the remote at Starfire who caught it. "Do you have what I want?''
"Who is this guy and what does he want?" Robin asked to no one and everyone.
"I am the person that saved your life in exchange for information." The boy introduced himself.
"Do you have the other serum?" Cyborg asked the boy.
The boy's arm disappeared inside his cloak before reappearing with an orange flask.
"Give the flask to Beast Boy here and we'll tell you what you want to know." Cyborg told the boy as Beast boy cautiously made his way towards the boy.
"Bare in mind that if you don't give me what is mine I will have to harm the wounded child. As a strict business venture you understand." The boy told Cyborg as he handed Beast boy the flask.
Starfire jumped over the couch and placed herself between Robin and the boy. "No one shall hurt Robin." Starfire declared as she got into a defensive position, hands and eyes glowing green.
"What is going on?" Robin asked but was entirely ignored.
"Well?" The boy asked as Beast boy made a hasty retreat to Robin and practically force its contents down Robin's throat causing much couching and wheezing afterwards.
The scene temporarily took everyone's mind off the current stand off.
The boy laughed. "You trust far to quickly. What if that had been poison? Or what if I told you that you had an alternative cure right here?" The boy grinned a sly grin at the group.
"What do you mean?" Starfire asked as she helped Robin sit up straight after his coughing fit.
"Innocence is a powerful thing. Heals and cures just about anything. If either of your girls had bedded the boy he wouldn't have had to drink my potion." The boy explained with another sot laugh.
Starfire had the normal look of confusion on her face until Robin, being the closest one to her, both physically and otherwise, whispered into her ear the meaning. The reaction was Starfire's eyes growing to the size of saucers, her facing going as red as a tomato, and her hiding her face behind a curtain for red locks.
"My answer." The boy said in a serious voice.
Cyborg was about to speak and Raven knew that if any part of Starfire's story about him was true they would be in deep trouble. So the only solution was to cut Cyborg off. "I'm the black bird. I'm Raven of the Teen Titans."
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