A/C: A couple review replies before we begin.
Xulei'ie'iender: They haven't completely accepted him, not yet. However, if someone like Yusuke were on somebody's side, you wouldn't go yelling at him either.
Dea Lunae: Thanks for the review. Raven's branching out to try to find out as much as she can about Ranerou, but trying not to make it too obvious at the same time.
As a side note, I'll probably be updating mainly on the weekends.
Nuff Said!
I could tell Raven didn't completely trust me, but I still felt like I wanted to spend as much time with her as possible. It was odd, like a whole new world. As I thought it over, I couldn't uncover anything about it, so I decided to reserve the subject for later on. This was when the siren went off. It had been about a week that I had been with the Titans, and still I hadn't told them about myself, or my powers. But I knew they wanted to know as much about me as possible. Heck, it's a bit of a giveaway when Cyborg goes into each room installing more cameras, especially the room you live in, right? That's what I thought. Anyway, back to the matter at hand, as the Titans filed into the main room, followed by myself, Robin was waiting, "At ease Titans, I just needed all of you here so we could hold a meeting to learn about our new friend, Ranerou." The Titans nodded, but it annoyed me that Robin would intrude on my time going over the events in my mind just so the Titans could learn more about me, even though I saw it coming.
"My name is Ranerou Terris Black. I'm a hanyou, but one with the powers of the wind. My only emotion problem is with my anger. Anger makes my powers go out of control if it teams with hatred. But both have to be great for me to lose my control. My family was that of a noble English knight's heritage on my mother's side, though a knight she never was. The family in particular had been the only masters of a special weapon, a cross between a mallet, mace, and sword. This weapon was a great deal of weight to carry, of course, but it also dealt great damage to the enemy. My hair's slight tinge of light-green is symbolic of my heritage on my father's side."
"That's a lot. But what are you like?" Robin asked, and I noticed he was holding a lie detector.
"So I take it there's still no trust for me here. Okay. I like anime and manga, as well as video-games, reading, and music. I'm a loyal friend and strong ally. Koenma, the idiot that stuck you guys with me isn't my friend any more than yours. Also, I'm not interested in ditching you guys to join Slade and Trigon," I stated, annunciating clearly and loud enough for the detector to read. It never beeped "Lie" as I spoke.
"Well, Ranerou," Robin said after a while, "I'm gonna have the team vote on whether or not to let you join. But first, do you want to join the team?"
"Of course I do. There's also a mystery I'm unraveling that requires me to stay."
"What kind of mystery? Maybe we can help."
"Nah, I'm gonna keep at it alone, then if I still need help, I'll ask one of you. It's something of a personal matter."
"Okay, but if you want to talk about it…"
"You'll all be ready to help. I've heard this before, but on a different matter. Now then, I'll be off so you can have your voting. And send someone to tell me the results this time," I said as I walked out. Not three minutes later, Raven knocked on my door and announced that the team had accepted me. I smiled slightly and returned to reading my book. Truly as if on cue, the trouble alarm started.
When I reached the main room, Robin handed me a communications device, then started to inform us of the situation: "Cinderblock, Plasmus and Overload are attacking different parts of the city."
"Sound familiar," Cyborg said more than asked, looking at me.
"Look, I don't even know who Cinderblock and them are, let alone what's going on," I said, seeing suspicion in the eyes of my teammates. After all, everyone knows lie-detecting technology only goes so far.
"We haven't got time for this," Robin said. "Cyborg and BB will go after Plasmus at the factory, Starfire and I will get Cinderblock at the construction site, and Raven and Ranerou will go after Overload at the power plant. Titans, go!"
Raven was flying towards the plant, but I hadn't really figured out how to use my powers for that, so I just used them to speed up my running speed. Raven got there first, of course. When I got there, she told me his weakness, water. I quickly formulated a strategy and decided to start immediately, before Overload got any stronger, so I provoked him, "Yo, shocker, can't catch me!" That got his attention. As he ran towards me, I jumped into the air, using my wind power as a spring of sorts, flipped over him, and watched him run into the bay that I had been in front of a few seconds earlier.
"Good job Ranerou," Raven complimented. Another rare moment, I thought, but not unacceptably so. We returned to the tower after I retrieved to the chip on which Overload's data resided. Waiting for us was one man wearing armor and a full-head mask. Raven appeared slightly intimidated for a second, and then regained her composure. I could tell the person's identity from a briefing Robin had given me during the past week. It was Slade.
"Well, well, well Raven, you've got a new friend, I see." Slade chuckled and walked over. As his gaze shifted from Raven to me, his eyes were met with a death glare so cold he stepped back, for a moment scared, then hardened his resolve and sent me flying into a wall with a kick. I smiled slightly, puzzling both Slade and Raven. Then Raven realized that my darker half was going to take over soon. Slade swiftly ran up and punched me in the gut. Another wrong move on his part. "How'd you like that, newbie?"
I yelled, letting the power of anger take my mind for now. Slade stepped back a couple times as dark green marks appeared on my cheeks and my eyes turned blood red. I howled a battle cry and a spear made of wind appeared in my hand. I flew over to Slade, staying close to the ground, and slid to a stop on my feet in front of him, then used the blunt end of my spear to strike him under the chin. This caused Slade breathing trouble. He jumped back and shot a pillar of fire at me, which was deflected by a wind barrier, which pushed forward, getting closer and closer to Slade. Upon impacting him, it dissipated, and I flew up to him again, tripping him in a sweep kick, then after reaching about 160 degrees of rotation, I kicked up, passing a handstand and slamming my knee into Slade's arm. He screamed in pain and decided it smart to start running. "You haven't seen the last of me, punk!" he shouted as he ran away, clutching his arm. About thirty minutes later, the others arrived. By then, I had returned to normal.
"What happened?" Robin asked, seeing the damage from my impacting the wall.
"Slade was waiting," Raven answered.
"What? Where'd he go?"
"He ran off like a baby," I said, chuckling slightly at the memory. "A cliché line was all he could muster on his escape."
"Woah. What could send Slade running like that?" Cyborg questioned
"I did. He apparently intended on knocking me out so I couldn't help Raven. His mistake."
"Dude, how did you-?" Beastboy asked, but he couldn't find the words to finish his question. Starfire flew over and hugged Raven, saving BB the need to finish his question.
"Friend Raven, thank goodness you are unharmed!" She said, tightly hugging Raven.
"Star, I can't breathe. Your hugging me too tightly."
"Sorry Raven," she said as she set Raven on her feet.
"Only one way to celebrate this momentous and historic achievement," Cyborg stated. "Waffles!"
I smiled. "Okay, while Cyborg is preparing the waffles, who wants to play video-games with me?" BB and Robin raised their hands, and then convinced Raven to join, and we began to play Super Smash Bros: Melee. I chose Young Link, Robin was adult Link, BB picked Donkey Kong, and Raven chose Samus.
The party that followed the meal of waffles was huge. It amazed me. BB had forced Raven to join as well. I stood up as "Simple and Clean", the intro and theme song for the video-game "Kingdom Hearts" started. I walked over to Raven, a little bit nervous, and asked her a simple question that seemed to take a lifetime to say: "Would you like to dance?" I didn't have any clue why I was so nervous, but it was washed away as Raven agreed and stood up. We started dancing, and it was a dance I enjoyed, though I hadn't quite knowledge as to why, though I had a guess.
The next day, I asked Cyborg to meet me in the garage. He was puzzled, but said okay. "Okay Ran, what's up?" he asked when we reached the garage.
"I think I'm falling in love with Raven." This made him laugh for a while before he looked at me and realized it wasn't a joke… then he laughed even harder.
"Okay, tell me what's going on."
"Well, I can't seem to get her off my mind. That mystery I mentioned earlier was this: Why did I, do I feel the need to spend as much time as possible with Raven? The answer, I think, is love."
"I think you're right, Ran. And if that's the case, then you've come to me for advice on how to tell her."
"Correct."
"Well, I suggest you just ask her to some great event. And I happen to have tickets to all the major events this weekend. A concert by Puffy AmiYumi (the band that sings the theme song of Teen Titans), the grand opening of the newest restaurant, and the premiere of ' Wicked Scary 2'."
"Umm… I choose…"
End
A/C: Sorry if it's very short. This is where you get to vote. Where will Ranerou take Raven? Will she accept the invitation? You choose. Please read and review.
