Welcome to my first fan fiction. I really like the idea behind this story. I think any idiot could have done it more justice, but I think it's fairly clever. I've wrtten the whole story, but I've chopped it up into a series of chapters to make it easier to read. As soon as I get at least one good review I'll post the next chapter. (Reviews from friends DO NOT COUNT).
Disclaimer: Titans I do Teen own not.
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Raven sat on the roof of her giant T shaped home meditating. She chanted softly to herself facing the city she protected that lay far below her. The sun began to sink below the horizon behind her, lacing the sky with pinks and reds. She kept her deep violet eyes closed as she heard her friends attempting to sneak up on her from behind rather loudly. Starfire held a disgusting neon colored cake in her arms that she had apparently made herself. The only other member that seemed thrilled about their surprise birthday party was Beast Boy who prancing along next to Star with an armful of presents. Robin seemed to be fuming over the idea, betting that their secretive friend wouldn't really appreciate a big deal on her birthday, and Cyborg apparently had decided to get drunk for the occasion.
Raven sighed and opened her eyes as a burst of noise came from behind her. Every one seemed to be singing a different song: Star sang a song from her home planet, Beast Boy sang about some odd monkeys in a zoo, Cyborg sang a rather slurred version of happy birthday as loud as he possibly could, and Robin hummed pathetically cringing at the horrifying tune they were bombarding Rae with.
"Happy Birthday, friend Raven." Star shouted attempting to embrace Rae and hold the cake at the same time. The cake slipped from her arm and would have splattered on the ground if not for Robins fast reflexes.
Robin wondered why he'd bothered saving the hideously colored cake that would probably taste far worse then it looked, "Star-"
Starfire threw her arms around Robin gratefully, "Oh, thank you Robin. What would we have done without the cake of birthday?" But again the cake slipped from its holders arms and Robin made no attempt to save it. He regretted it a second later as they were showered with disgusting blobs of cake bits.
Cyborg seemed unaware ofhis cake shower as he stumbled forward towards Raven, "Come on suga... Lay some... Erummmmm... suga on me", Raven looked at Cyborg, her eyes wide with terror, ready to throw her friend back if he tried any such thing. She was relieved (if not a little grossed out) when Cy grabbed Robin instead and gave the poor bird man a deep passionate kiss.
Robin grabbed Cy and threw him back down the stairs. No one had ever seen Robin looking so angry. Beast Boy's jaw dropped to the ground and he began to drool a bit in amazement and disgust, "Duuuuuuuude!"
Starfire appeared to be ready to slaughter Cyborg for kissing her Robin. Her eyes had a greenish glow to them and a rare glare, that would have terrified the shit out of Cyborg, smothered her face. Raven was mildly amused, but kept a look of cool indifference plastered on her face.
Robin coughed and picked a nicely wrapped present from the pile now lying on the cake covered ground and held it out to Raven, "Sorry about the cake. Happy Birthday Raven."
The thick black wrapping paper shimmered slightly as she began to tear it off. Inside lay a shimmery blue cape. It was definitely a little to fancy for her taste, but she smiled slightly. She removed her favorite, plain blue cape and tried the fancy one on, securing it with her old red jeweled pin. There was an elaborate design in a slightly darker blue inside, and it felt warm and soft against her bare shoulders.
"I figured you could wear it for special occasions." He still hadn't recovered from the awful slobbery kiss Cy had given him and he stuttered furiously.
"Thanks Robin." Her jaw was begging to hurt from smiling so much.
Beast Boy swept forward, present in hand. The tattered green wrapping paper poorly covered the little read and black broach inside and she quickly replaced the tarnished pin holding on the new cape. She looked into it's blood red heart admiring the veins of black shooting through it. As she stuck it through she poked her skin, drawing blood. She cursed silently as she finished hooking the clasp in place. She smiled up at Beast Boy.
"Robin told me what he was getting you... I thought this might look nice with it." He sweat dropped and rested a hand on the back of his head uncomfortably, "I got it from that store your always going to. The one with all the dead things in it, the books, and that stupid burnt smell"
"It's called incense Beast Boy. I like the broach. It's very... cool" She cringed as she used the word "cool", but was rewarded with a bright overly cheery smile from her dearest friend.
She opened the last two of her gifts. Some odd smelling purple and green fudge from Star and a heart shaped box of chocolates and some flowers from creepy old Cyborg. She floated down to her room, only being accosted once by Cy on her way there, and set her gifts on her bed. She decided to continue wearing the gifts Robin and Beast Boy had given her. The fudge started gurgling oddly at her and attempted to crawl from its dish. She picked up a book and swatted it back, then threw it into a trunk. She locked it and threw the key back onto her bed. She threw the flowers in the trash can but decided not to waste the chocolate. She popped a caramel filled one in her mouth as she settled into her bed. She heard a drunken robot man babbling outside her door. Something about movies and Saturday. She ignored him as she drifted off to sleep.
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There's Chapter one. I hope you like it. It will get so much better. I'm really excited about the next chapter, where... oh, I can't give anything away. I promise you Raven fans will like the next chapter. Especially those Raven fans out there that are a little sick of Star always being so perky and don't think Rae and Cy make a very good couple. REVIEW! It can only get better from here!
