Alrighty! This is chapter three. I'd like to express my deepest apologies for not updating anything that already exists. I've got about a million reviews for my lil cross over ficcie. I did that one entirely because I couldn't find many decent non-slash Harry Potter fics and there were even less decent Harry Potter/ Teen Titan crossovers (no offence to any one)
The thing is that I have more ideas for this ficcie than any other ones. Last Wednesday night I didn't even get home until ten, but I was luckier than some. (See American news for North Carolina on Wednesday and Thursday) Surprisingly, it gave me a good idea: A list of things that are either possessed by demonic spirits or the root of all evil. I don't want to hold you all up any longer, so that list will be at the end of this chapter. Now I will get some milk, and then start the chapter! XD
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"Raven! Raven! Are you in there!" Beast Boy pounded on the door some more. He all but jumped back when the door slid open on its own. He leaned in slightly to the dark room and watched as book after book crossed his vision. He looked to the far left of the room where a book shelf reached from the floor to the ceiling and all the way along the wall. Raven darted from place to place with amazing speed, muttering to herself just loudly enough that Beast Boy could hear her talking, but not discern any words. Every few seconds, Raven would pull a book off the shelf she was in front of; flip through it, then through it over her shoulder. Of course, this was extremely out of character for the dark girl who apparently didn't notice Beast Boy.
"Uh… Raven? I brought you some pizza… If you want, I'll just leave it here, but-"
"AHA! I've found it!" Raven floated to the ground with her nose in a book, still ignoring Beast Boy. She crossed the room gliding just in front of Beast boy as the door shut behind him. Her eyes darted over the page as she reached over, grabbed a slice of pizza, and sat against a wall.
"Um… I know I'm not supposed to be in your room and stuff, but… what exactly did you find?"
"Sorry, what?" Raven looked around until she spotted beast Boy. More odd behaviour. "Oh. What are you doing in my room?"
"I brought you pizza." Beast Boy was getting slightly nervous. Raven looked down at her right hand as if just noticing the pizza she was holding. Then again, this may very well have been the case. She took a bite, chewed, and swallowed.
"So… why are you still here?" Beast Boy blushed. Fortunately for him, Raven was scanning the book and didn't notice.
"Because you aren't mad at me." Raven raised an eyebrow. "…and…" Raven looked up at him. "Hey… what did you find?" Beast Boy said nervously, trying to distract Raven.
The pale girl took another bite of pizza and continued to read. Beast Boy took that as a queue to sit and set the plate down on the floor as he looked over Raven's shoulder at the thick, dusty volume. The symbols were strange and there didn't appear to be any larger spaces than were between each simple mark to distinguish words. They reminded him of Chinese in that the symbols seemed to have been hand drawn by a feather quill or something of the sort, but they were much different. He was jolted rather rudely out of his revere when Raven finally spoke.
"This book is really more of a record book." By this time, all that was left of her slice of pizza was crust.
"What does it record?"
"This book has every demon, and a description of it. Well… That's not exactly it…" She frowned and furrowed her eyebrows, trying to think of better words.
"Oh, I get it. It's like an encyclopedia on demons, right?" Beast Boy watched as Raven's finger paused on the page after tracing along under the writing.
"Well… yes, but you're only half right. An encyclopedia would only have types of demons and famous demons. This is a list of every single demon in existence" She turned the page. "It has a description on every one of them."
"Ohm. I get it. But wouldn't it go out of date? I mean, demons have to be dying and…" The green boy trailed off as several lines of symbols dissolved and were replaced by new ones.
"Wow… So it's… a magic book?"
"Of sorts." She flipped through several pages.
"Is it hand written?" Beast Boy asked hesitantly. He leaned closer and squinted as if that would help him read the strange writing. He had already forgotten to wonder why Raven hadn't thrown him violently from her room.
Raven skipped a few more pages entirely.
"By yours truly," Raven seemed to be growing frustrated as if she couldn't find what she was looking for. "Where is she? She has to be here…" She whispered to herself.
"You wrote this?" Beast Boy's eyes shot up in surprise. "Talk about writer's cramp."
"Demon muscles don't cramp." Raven angrily flipped the page again. Beast Boy jerked his head up and stared at the side of Raven's face. Demon? Raven? Some one like Robin would have expected as much, but Beast Boy wasn't one to even make guesses about others. He immediately stored this rare information in his mind along with all the other tidbits he kept about the titans. He'd write it down later.
The two teens sat in silence for a time as Raven's slight anger and frustration grew. Beast Boy actually fell over in shock when raven jumped and shouted with delight, causing a few grounded books to leap into the air for a few seconds.
"Finally! I've found her!" A random notebook and pen flew to Raven and she began feverishly copying from the worn book. Beast Boy stood and marveled as Raven used her powers to create two floating tables to hold the book and the notebook as she wrote. He walked around her and gazed over her writing which was, luckily for him, in English.
"Jianxo of Trigon the Terrible and Vanessa of Earth in the Third Dimension. Vanessa being a vampiress, Jianxo is a Vampyress of half-demon heritage. First child of Vanessa the Vampiress. Seventh child of Trigon the Terrible. A hex sorceress. Current location: Earth of the Third Dimension. Age: 17. One of two surviving spawn of the demon Trigon out of 876."
Raven was about to shut the book but happened to look down at the page. She growled and erased the last number of "876" and replaced it with "878". Beast Boy noticed and asked as she slammed the book shut, "Why did it skip a number?" Raven levitated it to her bed along with the note book and pen.
"It means that somewhere, the bastard has conceived twins." Beast Boy frowned.
"Then why didn't you make it 'one of four surv-"
"Because they'll be killed soon enough." Raven picked up the last piece of pizza and walked out of the room eating it. Beast Boy grabbed the now empty plate and ran out after her.
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"Who's doin' dishes tonight?" Cyborg dropped the empty pizza boxes into the giant trash compacter. "And its laundry day too, right?"
"Uhm…" Robin walked over to a massive wall calendar and traced his finger over the present week to Saturday. "Dishes are…. Starfire. Laundry is Raven. Dinner is Raven too, and… Cyborg needs to fix that drone on the obstacle course. Me and Beast Boy are free."
"I'm gonna go ahead and get started on that drone thingy." Cyborg thought for a moment. "And then I'll upgrade the whole thing. Boo yah!" He got up; obviously happy he didn't have to deal with the dishes.
"Hey, how come Beast Boy never came back from Raven's room?" Jinx said, looking around the room as if he was there but she just couldn't see him.
"I do not know… Perhaps he has gone to his room rather than come here again?" Starfire didn't sound confident, but she couldn't think of another positive reason.
"Who?" The higher pitched male voice came from the doorway. No one really seemed surprised, but it made Jinx jump, but then again, she was standing about two feet in front of the newly arrived Beast Boy. Of course, it wasn't on purpose, but when Jinx whipped around to see the little green boy, Raven walked past the other way so, in the mind of Jinx, wasn't in the room. So when her gravelly voice was heard next to Robin on the other side of the room, who could expect anything less than another spin to face the kitchen… and a fall right into Cyborg.
"You, Beast Boy. How the hell do I have laundry and dinner on the same night?" Jinx's already pink cheeks turned a bright shade of red as she stood back up and followed Cyborg from the room. Robin frowned at the calendar, then turned to raven, shrugged, and walked away. Raven rolled her eyes.
"Robin, could be any less helpful?"
"No, guess not." Beast Boy opened the refrigerator to find something to eat just as Starfire elected to turn on the TV to, as she put it, watch 'the lady with large hair who knows everything." Or the midday news. Either way, Starfire believed that the news anchor with hair so huge bald eagles could nest in it knew what was going on because she knew everything.
Robin stalked out of the room without saying anything. He was probably going to the gym, but who could say for sure? Next to Raven, it was Robin who had the most trouble trusting people outside his 'circle'. So as Raven and Beast boy sat on the couch with Starfire, thinking Robin would be training, said boy wonder was actually heading downstairs to hide on the rafters in the dark basement where the broken drone from the obstacle course was waiting.
"…So with this weather, there won't be any beach goers until later this spring. Back to you, Barbara."
"Thank you, Mike. Well, since the beaches aren't open yet, what can the family do together until it is? The Varris Wheel, Ferris Wheel three ring circus is in town starting-"
"HOLY SHIT!" Beast Boy screamed in surprise, shock, and ultimately, fear. Both girls whipped their heads around to look in his direction only to see him flee the room muttering in disbelief. Starfire turned off the television.
"Shall I speak with Beast boy to see what 'the matter' is?" Starfire was chewing on her lower lip. Raven was also confused, but refused to let it show.
"No… I think we should leave him alone."
"But friend raven, I really-"
"If it were me, what would you do?" Starfire thought for a moment.
"I believe I would question Robin for advice." Raven nodded.
"And what would he tell you?" Starfire sucked in her breath and looked away for a moment.
"I believe that he would tell me to let you be until you choose to speak with us."
"That's right so-"
"Unless it could bring harm to yourself or others." Starfire said quickly, cutting Raven off. At this point, raven was truly at a loss for words.
"I… I guess… No. Beast Boy would tell us if something were going to hurt us or himself."
"You are sure?"
"Of course."
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"Hey, Jinx. Hand me another short screw." Jinx reached into a compartment in a medium sized light blue bin and extracted a small piece of metal and dropped it into Cyborg's hand with a small metal-on-metal clink. Cyborg plugged it into the screwdriver that was his left hand.
"So why did you leave the HIVE?" Both Jinx and Robin tensed. The first because she was taken by surprise, and the latter because he was waiting for the answer.
"I… I don't…"
"You don't have to tell me just now." Cyborg said kindly, "Just talk when you're ready."
Robin deflated. Jinx sighed with relief. Only Jinx wasn't looking forward to the answer to that particular question. Robin walked along the rafter swiftly and silently until he reached the end near the door and swung down. The moment the door shut behind him, that oh so irritating alarm with the loud noise and flashy lights goes off and everyone, minus Beast Boy, appeared in the living room.
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This is so dumb. I was struggling to get two hundred more words in for a nice 2000 word chapter (like the others and the ones to come) but once I hit 2000, I could find a good stopping point. Like I said, I'm a firkin idiot. Oh well. Please review. I am so going to fail language arts, which is pretty ironic because all I ever freaking' do is sit at the computer (when I'm not roller blading, at school, playing sports, or eating) and read and write and check my e-mail. More reading and writing. I'm going to stop before you all decide to skip this. And I'm so sorry about all my other fics which are… sitting on my conscience (which didn't appear until I started writing fanfiction only to find out that I had an irrational fear of commitment, old people, and my house. I hope we move. More specifically, I hope we move into the house down the street.
Wild Spirit
