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Abashed Enchanters, Part 2

The 2nd Teen Titans Fanscript – Fanfic Adaptation

By RavenStar

Author's Note: The plot for Abashed Enchanters is as follows: Jinx defects to the Titans, quickly quelling thoughts that she's trying to subvert them, and soon becomes a powerful new addition and friend to the group. But when an unexpected attraction starts forming between her and Raven, both girls find themselves confused over their feelings and emotions - and Cyborg finds himself needing a more efficient circuit breaker for his jealousy fuse.


ACT ONE

Lightning crashed behind Titans Tower. A faint green glow could be seen coming from the highest window at the very top.

Inside the Tower, it was almost completely pitch dark, as the power was out. The faint glow was coming from Starfire, who was using her powers to illuminate what of the living room she could. Jinx, Raven, and Beast Boy could all be seen in the glow.

"Find the circuit breaker yet, Cyborg?" Beast Boy yelled.

"Whoah, whoah, WHOAH!" From somewhere on the other side of the room, there was a painfully long series of crashes that made the other Titans twinge. After they stopped, Cyborg was heard groaning.

"Iiii don't think that was the breaker," Beast Boy said.

"What tipped you off?" Raven raised one eyebrow to accent her sarcasm.

"I'm fine!" Cyborg's voice was a lot further away now. "I only fell a few.………flights." A crinkling sound rang out in the darkness seconds later. "What? Aw, man! My light's trashed!"

At the same time, lightning cracked and thunder crashed. Beast Boy, startled, turned into a familiar-looking dog and jumped into Raven's arms, quivering and shaking in fear. "Down, boy," Raven commanded in an extra-dry voice, clearly annoyed. Beast Boy quickly obliged, changing back to human.

"Hey, Star?" Cyborg called out from wherever he was. "Could you gimme some light over here, please?" Starfire obliged and went to help Cyborg, leaving Beast Boy, Jinx, and Raven in the dark.

"Ugh - Beast Boy, tell me you wiped your feet before you came in..."

Suddenly there was loud metallic clang, and a cry of momentary pain. "Ow!"

Cyborg was coming up the stairs with Starfire's help. "Uh - Robin's up."

"Do you require some assistance, Robin?" Starfire called out.

From his room, Robin responded. "Please." Starfire headed for his room as there was another crash of thunder and lightning.

In the dark, Jinx had a question. "Doesn't the Tower have, like, a self-sufficient power supply separate from the city's grid? Y'know, like, hydropower, or solar, or something?"

Starfire returned with Robin. He'd heard all of Jinx's question.

He rubbed his head. "We did," he said, looking down, his voice trailing off near the end.

Cyborg explained. "We had a geothermal system, but before that volcano was stopped by Terra, the pipes that circulated the steam for it were melted by the lava flow." Beast Boy hung his head at this.

"Polyethylene goes like wax after the temperature goes over 65° Celsius," Cyborg finished.

Jinx suddenly started talking to herself. "Wax...geothermal..." She looked at Beast Boy. "That's it! Beast Boy!"

Beast Boy looked up. "Huh?"

"You can turn into an animal that can see in the dark, right?" Jinx asked.

Beast Boy snorted. "Um, yeah..." He turned into a cat for emphasis. Starfire giggled at the sight.

"Hey!" Cyborg turned to him. "Why did I have to go look for the circuit breaker alone, then?"

Beast Boy turned back into a human. "Um..."

Thunder and lightning crashed.

"Whatever!" Jinx said. "Okay, so you can. That's all I needed to know. Now, you guys have some candles around here, don't you?"

Robin was still rubbing the spot where he'd wanged his head. "There's a few in the kitchen cabinet."

"In candlesticks?"

"I believe so," said Robin.

"Okay," said Jinx, "Beast Boy, could you get those and just set them out around the living room, evenly spaced apart? At least we can light up this place for time being."

Beast Boy nodded and loped off to do so.

Starfire was a little puzzled. "These candles, do they not need matches to operate?"

"Yeah, they need matches - if you wanna light em the boring way." Jinx grinned and looked at Raven. "But I just remembered a really cool spell..."

Cyborg wasn't convinced. "Does this spell have any, uh - adverse - side effects? Cause the last coupla' spells we ran into didn't exactly get the results that were being hoped for."

Ugh. Had to bring up Malchior, didn't you? Raven narrowed her eyes. "Oh, they got the wanted results. It just wasn't expected that they would be used to return the favor."

The lightning and thunder reminded everyone there was still a storm outside.

A moment later, the sound of something being plunked down startled everyone. Starfire turned. "Beast Boy? Is that you?"

An animalic grunt was the response.

"Yeah, that's him," Robin said, relieved.

A few more PLUNKing noises, then Beast Boy returned. "Alright, that's done. But there's some mighty freaky shadows out there. I am NOT doing that again."

Jinx patted Beast Boy on the head like he was a - dog.

"Don't worry, Beast Boy. No one's asking you to."

Raven was a little impatient. "Could we just get some light in here already?"

"Alright, alright..." Jinx said. "Cool your wings."

She closed her eyes to concentrate, then opened them. They were now fully purple.

"Permissium flamma ex pectus diffugere lacer fluctus!" Jinx gracefully, balletically twirled her arms while she recited the spell.

Purple energy started swirling around her. The movement of her arms and hands drew it into a growing sphere of collected energy, that gradually changed shape into that of a heart as more energy was collected. At the end of the chant, Jinx brought this the area of her body where her real heart was, then she threw her arms apart. The purple energy heart cracked down the center into two streams of purple energy, which dove into the wicks of the first two candles – lighting them with a shower of sparks.

The sparks flew into the air. They shimmered pink, blue, grey, and red, then two streams of purled energy shot out from amidst the sparks and dove into the wicks of the next two candles - which lit in another shower of blue, grey, red, and pink sparks.

Then once again, two darts of purple energy dove into the wicks of the next two candles down the line.

One more time, the candles lit in a shower of blue, grey, red, and pink sparks- but with only one candle left to light instead of two, streams of purple energy did not streak from the cloud of sparks and dive into the wick. Instead, the multicolored sparks hovered over the last candle and started swirling around like a tornado - then this tornado of sparks was sucked into the wick instead of diving in of its own free will - and the candle lit normally, without any sparks.

The Titans all stared, stunned and awed. Starfire let her starbolt light go out. Jinx looked at Raven and Cyborg, a HUGE grin on her face. "Pretty cool, huh?"

"Whoah." It was all Robin could say.

"Wow..." was all Cyborg could say.

"Ok, look—" said Beast Boy, "I don't care what anyone else thinks, but that was the coolest thing I have EVER seen in my life!"

Starfire was awed. "That was most-"

"-beautiful…" Raven finished for her - tears of joy welling up in her eyes. Everyone but Jinx stared at her.

Suddenly, the candles went out, as if a gust of wind blew them out. The Titans could be barely seen in the dim light coming through the windows. "Aw, man!" Cyborg groaned.

"Well, at least there's some light coming through the windows now..." Raven grunted.

Jinx was farthest from the windows, standing right next to the spot where the faint light faded into complete black. She looked back at everyone as lightning flashed, showing nothing in front of her. Thunder crashed.

"Where are those matches?" Jinx asked. Beast Boy pointed in the direction of the kitchen. Jinx turned back around. "Good, I'll - AHHHH!"

The lightning illuminated Gizmo's face – about 3 inches away from hers!

The other Titans took defensive stances.

Gizmo grinned sinisterly. "Miss me?"

END ACT ONE