Books
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, duh.
Element was sitting in the kitchen, drinking a cup of tea while reading a book. Cyborg walked in, giving a sigh and looking a little disappointed. Element's head perked up from the book. "Hey, man, what's got you down?"
Cyborg looked at Element, "You know that thing I made to monitor underground to find Slade?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Nothin', we found nothin', it seems your hunch was wrong."
He gave a groan, then a sigh, "Well, at least it did one good thing."
"What?"
"At least we know that he's not there, that's narrowed it to the surface. But now I'm going to have to go through al of those things with Robin again."
"Hey, let's get on a different subject. Looks like a good book you're reading, what is it?"
"One of my favorites, Eragon, and it's was, I just got finished with it," he said while throwing it on the table.
"You know, I bet you read as much as Raven does."
"She reads?"
"When she's not meditating, drinking tea, or locked up in her room, although I guess she reads in there, too. You know, it looks like she's reading right now."
"Hmm, I need some new books, I wonder if she knows any good places?"
"I wouldn't ask her, man, she doesn't like to be disturbed while reading."
"Well, neither does I, she probably just needs a good subject to talk about, like books, for example."
"Okay, man, it's your funeral."
Element walked over to Raven, seeing that Cyborg was right in that she was reading. He could also see that she'd be hostile to anyone that talked to her, even him, probably. "Hey, Raven." He said as he sat down. Raven just sat there, with her nose even deeper into the book. "Sorry to disturb you, but I need to get some new books, and I thought that of all people you'd know where to go."
With that she stuck her head up. Element continued, "See, I heard that you read books a lot and hate it when people interrupt. I'm exactly the same way, so I was hoping that you would be able to help me."
"Sure," she didn't know why, but Raven was starting to like this guy more and more. "Barnes & Noble is always a good place to go." She put her head back in the book.
"Sorry to keep bothering you, but the problem is that I don't know where it is in this city."
"Oh, sorry, you know the electronics store we were at a while ago?"
"Yeah."
"North about two miles, then east about one and a half, it's a big building so you can't miss it."
"Thanks, I appreciate it, I'll leave now so that you can get back to your book, okay?"
As he left Raven found herself not thinking about the book that she was reading, but about the guy that just walked out the door, heading to the exact same book store that she always goes to when she runs out. Wait a minute, why am I thinking about him? I have a book in my hands, what's wrong with me. First the movie, now this? It's like I'm... no it can't be, can it? I can not afford this to happen, who knows what will go wrong. I'll have to deal with this when I meditate. With that Raven stuck her head back into the book, trying to forget what just happened. Although every once in a while her mind would start to drift off.
Element finally landed in front of the Barnes & Noble. "Finally found the place, next time I'll just head Northeast instead of bothering with miles. At least it was worth it, this place is huge, my kind of bookstore."
He headed in, looking in awe at all of the shelves with all kinds of books. Before going through he went up to one of the people at the desk. "Excuse me, I'm wondering where..."
The clerk took out a piece of paper. "Here, take this map, it's a lot easier that way."
"Holy shit, you need a map to get through the place? This place is great, I have got to come here more often." And with that he set out to find all of the books that he could carry.
An hour later, Element stumbled back to the register under a huge pile of books. But before he got there he stopped short, seeing the clerk held up from a guy with something in his hand.
"Give me your money," he said in a whispered voice. Element jumped behind a book case, listening. "Make sure that your hands are where I can see them, and put everything in the bag. Nice and easy, we don't want to start a fuss, now do we?" Suddenly, the handle of the gun glowed a bright red. "Ow, god that's hot! What the hell happened."
After he dropped the gun, he tried to run away with the money, thinking that something else weird might happen. He might've just stayed still. Both his ankles were incased in a ring of stone that jumped together, making him fall. After that, his wrists were incased in stone, also, but instead of just snapping together, they were bound around his back.
Element walked over to the man struggling on the ground. "If I were you, I'd stay still and stop cussing. We don't want to start a fuss, now, do we?" He raised his hand and suddenly the man was lifted due to the stone that covered his wrists and ankles. Element walked over to the clerk, letting the man hang. "Here's your money, oh, and I'd like to buy these books." He set them on the desk, making it shake. The clerk looked at him with shock.
"No, you don't have to pay for these."
"I insist," he brought out a wallet.
"You just saved the store, I don't want you to have to pay us."
Element thought, "How about this, I'll pay 50 percentof what this costs, okay?"
"I think it can be arranged." He started to bag the books with a smile on his face. "It's still a lot more money than anyone's ever paid."
"Thanks, I can not wait to read all of these." He walked out of the store with three large bags carrying a huge amount of books. He motioned to the guy still hanging in the air. "Come on, you, we need to get you to the police." The man sputtered out an exceptional amount of profanities. "What did I say about cussing?" was heard as he walked out the door.
The clerk sat at the desk, a smile on his face, as he started counting the money. His smile was wiped off, though, as he heard a BOOM as the door was blown off.
Element was just knocked back right though the door he just went out of. He sat there rubbing his head and body. "Ohh, what the hell was that?"
Suddenly the smoke cleared and he saw Cinderblock standing outside in the parking lot, obviously too big to step through the doors.
"Hey, I've heard of you, you work for Slade. Well, a friend of Slade is an enemy of mine." He said this last part very ferociously. He shakily got up, recovered himself, and charged right at Cinderblock.
Cinderblock was a little taken aback by how he just ran right at him. He through a punch, aiming for the small figure going right at him. Element's legs were suddenly encased in rock which folded and bent whenever his legs moved. He jumped Cinderblocks punch, kicking him first in the face and then again in the back of the head when he got past.
Before he could land his leg was grabbed, and he was hung upside down. He looked at Cinderblock with a smirk. "Bad idea." Suddenly his leg was covered in fire, traveling down it and on to Cinderblock.
He may have been made of rock, but he could still feel heat. He let go of Element, who landed on his feet, and started to smack the flames. Element looked at him with annoyance. "I have no time for this, let's finish this." He slammed his open hand on the ground, calling out. "Arise, DRAGON OF EARTH!"
The ground started to shake, and the pavement under Element suddenly opened up. A dragon, bigger than even Cinderblock, arose from the ground. But unlike other dragons, it had no wings, and was made completely of stone. As soon as Cinderblock saw it he discarded the fire and started to run.
He was stopped almost as soon as he started as the long stony tail slammed into him from the side, knocking him right into the building, though not through. The dragon then curled it's tail around him, tossing him into the air. He came down with a force that shook the ground.
Element stood on top of the head of the dragon. "Shall we finish this?" The dragon nodded it's head. "Careful, I'm right on top of you, you know?"
Cinderblock started to get shakily to his feet. Seeing this, Element started. His hands touched his forehead, midriff, left, then right chest, like when people pray. As he touched each he said a different place he said a word. "Wind, Earth, Fire, Water." As he said each word a form of it appeared at each point of a holy cross the size of Element. Suddenly, he shouted out. "God, give me strength!" The last part was a little stretched out. Suddenly, the Elements combined to create a cross made out of the light energy. Finally, he shouted out the three words that ended the fight.
"CROSS OF DESTRUCTION."
He slammed his palm into the back of the cross, sending it flying forward. The farther it got out, the bigger it got, until it was the size of Cinderblock when it reached him. When it hit him he went flying black, being sent all the way back to the other end of the parking lot, which was a pretty far distance.
Element dismissed the dragon, it sank into the ground, the ground repairing itself when the dragon left. As soon as Element got to Cinderblock, he rapped him up in stone, and with the other criminal, witch was knocked to the side in the beginning, and his bags of newly acquired books, he started to head to the "special" police department.
Hope that you guys liked the one, sorry if the fight was short, I wanted him to beat Cinderblock like he was nothing. Tell me what you think about Raven's thought, I thought it was nicely planted. And in case there are some who are wondering, no, he can't summon actual dragons, he just shapes the elements into the shape of them and controls their actions. Here's a little tidbit of info, in the third story I write, he's going to do something with a dragon that is going to be awesome! I'd also like to say thanks for the review, jonjetman.So you know the drill, read and review, especially you, Socialbutterfli.
