Feelings

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Element and Raven were on the roof of the tower, meditating. When Element met Raven up here, he was a little nervous due to his new found feelings for her. It was a good thing for him that she didn't detect his emotions when they started, due to the fact that she was struggling with hers too.

After a little while of meditating, they were both able to get their feelings under control, relaxing as the peace of meditation took over. They were just about to get to the most calming part of meditation, when…

"YO!"

Element lost his balance and fell, fortunately landing on his feet before he hit the ground. Predicting that Raven wouldn't be able to slide her feet under her, Element turned and caught her in midair. His right arm was under her legs while his left arm was holding her back. After about two seconds of holding they both began to blush at the position they were in. Element's spine shivered from the feeling he got touching her skin.

Cyborg was standing right behind them, scratching his head. "Um, am I interrupting something?"

Blushing even deeper, Element quickly set Raven on the ground. He turned his head to Cyborg. "No, nothing, we were just meditating. What do you want?"

"Meditating, riiight." He rolled his eyes, both human one and mechanical. "Oh, I've got the reports back from the scouts, thought you might want to look at them."

"Good, I guess that me and Raven will have to meditate another time. Show me the report." They followed Cyborg as he walked down to the inside of the tower. Element was regretting Cyborg interrupting them, he found that he liked the feel Raven in his arms, her skin touching his. Raven found herself also missing the moment, if it were different circumstances she might have even put her head on his shoulder, reveling in his grip.

As they walked into the kitchen, they saw Robin standing over the table, examining a piece of paper, obviously the information the probes were able to get. Element walked over to Robin, gesturing for the piece of paper. "So what do we got?"

"Something very interesting." Was his only reply.

Element read the sheet, seeing what Robin meant. It seemed that there wasn't just one thing in the air, but two. The difference was one was obviously just hanging there, while the other had some kind of cloak about it to mask it from radar and other electronic devices. The one not cloaked was smaller and had a few laser defenses, while the cloaked one was bigger and the protection on it didn't show any defenses, but readings showed that there might be a lot. Element looked up at Cyborg. "How hard was it to find this second one?"

"The thing is I came upon it by accident. I wouldn't have found it at all if I didn't notice something strange. At first when I looked again there looked like nothing was there, but I decided to probe deeper. It was a good thing I did, it took all of my skills to find that information. Whoever hid that didn't want anyone to find it."

Element looked back at the sheet of paper, a hard look on his face. "Then that's where Slade is."

Robin put his hand up. "Hey, I'm not arguing with you, but what about the other thing?"

"He was probably going to use it if we ever thought that he was in the sky as a distraction. I mean it even has defenses, that should be enough to get our attention."

"I know, but what if the cloaked one is a trap? To get us off the trail of the non cloaked one."

"You heard what Cyborg said, it took all he had to find this, and besides, even if it's a trap, we'll get to fight him anyway, that's all I'm hoping for."

"Okay, okay," he finally consented. "Let's get ready to go there. I'll be in the training room, anyone want to join me?" Reluctantly all of the Titans went to follow him except Raven and Element. Robin turned around to address them. "You guys coming?"

Raven spoke first. "We'll be meditating, we weren't able to finish this morning."

Element nervously interrupted. "Um, actually, I'm not sure I'll be meditating, there are a few things I have to do to prepare."

Raven looked at him skeptically. "Like what?"

"Mostly think, there's a lot of things I have to deal with, could you do me a favor? Could you stay off the roof, that's where I'll be and I'd like to be alone."

Raven turned around and walked towards her room, sadly regretting that they couldn't spend some last moments of time together before the fight. "Sure, go ahead, I'll come get you when everyone's ready." As she walked off, she thought of how insensitive he was not wanting to spend time with her. Little did she know that he regretted not being with her just as much as she did.

Element grabed himself a cup of tea from the kitchen to help him think and traveled tp the roof of the tower. Once he got up there he sat on the edge of the roof, feet dangling over the side, and started to think. He thought about many things, Slade, the hideout, what would happen when they met, the team, his mother, but, mostly, he thought about Raven.

This is the first time I ever felt like this, is it actually love, or is it just some stupid crush? I don't know which it is, and I have no idea which I want. Does Raven feel the same way about me? No, she prbably just thinks of me as a good friend.

That one part of himself spoke out again. But what if...

Hey, you get back down into the part of my self that you came from, I don't want to have another argument with myself.

OKay,okay. And it went back down.

Where was I? Oh, right, she probably thinks of me as just a friend. Should I tell her what I feel anyway? She mightnot want to talk to me after that. Of course maybe after that we'll still remain friends, or maybe she does have feelings for me. I mean what about the theater, of course she did say that she knows what it's like to be scared, so she was probably just trying to comfort me. Maybe I just shouldn't bring it up, just let things unravel from here, if she likes me something might happen, and hey, I might be able to ask her out some time, then tell her. I think that I'll just do that.

After about two more hours of thinking, Element heard footsteps behind him, he turned around to see Raven.

"We're ready."


The Titans were in the air, the base was somewhere in the distance, invisible because of it's cloak Beast Boy was in his Teradactyle form and was holding on to Cyborg, while Starfire was holding on to Robin. They were all discussing what to do.

"Okay, guys," Element suggested, "I think that we should go right towards the front of the thing."

Cyborg piped in. "Why don't we just go towards the back, if we go towards the front, Slade can easily see us."

"Yes, but Slade is probably expecting us to go in the back, if we go towards the front, we could probably catch him by surprise."

Robin stepped in (not literally). "Element's got a point, I say we go in the front, agreed?" They all nodded theie heads. "Okay, let's go."

The Titans flew to the area that housed Slade's base, once going through the cloak, they coud see what the thing looked like. It was huge, as big as the tower, but the thing that caught theirattention was all the laser cannons pointed their way. Robin shouted out loud as the cannons opened fire. "Titans, defensive maneuvers!"

The Titans all flew around, dodging the beams, Cyborg shot at cannons with hissonic cannon, disabling each one he hit. Starfire shot each one with her star bolt eyes, while Robin threw his disks at the ones he could. Raven was using her powers to disable various cannons, but the person that was doing the most damage was Element. He released wave after wave of giant fireballs as big as each cannon, every time one of them hit the cannon would melt, they were getting taken down by the tens. After a while there was only a few left, Element let out his last wave, but it wasn't fast enough. One was able to get a shot off before getting hit, the shot went out and nailed Beast Boy square in his chest. He let go of Cyborg, who fell along with the person holding him.

Element acted quickly. "Raven, catch Cyborg with your powers."

"What about Beast Boy?"

"I'll take care of him." As he swept down and caught a limp Beast Boy, Cyborg was enveloped in darkness and floated right next to Raven. Element flew up next to the others. "That was close, let's go in." They all flew to the front of the floating base, only to find nothing there.

Robin had a skeptic look on his face. "Um, I don't see a door."

Element's face broke out into a grin. "The I guess we'll just have to make one." He held up his hand, it started to grow white with the light energy. Suddenly a huge beam of the energy was shot out, and a hole was blasted through the wall. They all climbed in, Element laid Beast Boy down. "We're going to need someone to guard Beast Boy, Starfire, do you mind?"

"No, but I would like to help my friends to defeat our enemy, and I don't want to be alone."

"Starfire," Robin stepped forward. "We need someone to watch Beast Boy, I'm the best fighter, we might need Cyborg's mechanicalskills, and both Element and Raven are pretty powerful. Besides, I don't want you to get hurt." He held her hands and looked into her eyes. "So can you please watch Beast Boy, and after a while if he wakes up you'll have some company, all right?"

"Yes." After that Robin bent in to give her a kiss. She wrapped her arms around his head an they shared a good few seconds of this. Robin broke it up and the Titans continued their way. After a while of walking they entered a hallway, they were about halfway down when a big group of Slade's robots appeared at the end of the hall. The Titans got intp their battle positions and were just about to unleash their attack when Element raised his hand up. A wall of water appeared in front of him, kind of like a big, square, wateryshield.

"Icicle assault!" Suddenly a storm of icicles shot themselves out of the water, just ripping through the lines of robots until there wasn't any more left standing.

Cyborg just stood there with his cannon still poised and charged, he turned his head towards Element. "What was THAT!"

Element's face was a littlemore serious than it usually is."I want to get to Slade quickly, I'm not going to have an army of robots stop me."

"Okay, man, but next time you're going to destroy a whole group of robots in one hit, you need to war..." He suddenly started to twitch,after a faint sputtering sound, he fell over, a robot was at the end of the hall, one of those curved laser beams in his hands. Robin let fly a boomerang, cutting the thing's head off.

Element walked over to Cyborg, inspecting him. "Crap, we lost him for the fight, Robin,could you stay here with him?"

"WHAT? What about Raven?"

"I've got a good feeling that Raven doesn't know Cyborg's electronics as well as you do, we're going to need him up and running, and you're probably the person who can do that. Besides, once we meet Slade I don't trust you that much to keep your promise about touching him, no offence"

"Alrigt, alright, I'll stay, just go." As he turned around to work on Cyborg, Element and Raven ran of to try and find Slade.

After a while of running they finally came upon a huge door set into the wall. Element looked up, "This has to be where Slade is." His face looked eager as he raised his hands. "Let's nock this down." His hands started to turn white again. Quickly Raven put her hand on his chest to stop him, then, with the other, she pushed on the door. It opened, the site that they saw shocked them.

Over a hundred robots, both big and small, filled the room, all of them faced towards Raven and Element. In the very back, back towards Raven and Element with his hands held behind his back, was Slade. He spoke up. "Hello, Element, it seems that we finally meet again. How long has it been sinceI killed your mother, three years? Too bad you had to see that, otherwise you would have become my apprentice and lived a life of splendor. What, no comment? I would have thought that after all these years you would have been mad enough to have said something nasty to me back." He turned around, and as he looked at Element his one visibleeye widened a little bit.

Wondering what could make Slade react like that, Raven looked over to where Element was. What she saw was something that made her almost truly frightened.

Element was standing there shaking, his face was red, his breath was fuming, his rage had taken him over. His head whipped back as he yelled out loud. "SLAAAAAADE!" Suddenly a huge gust of wind came howling through the room, centered around Element, Raven had to get a good grip of the floor so that she didn't fly off. A huge pillar of fire arose from his body,reaching towards the ceiling. Throughout this only one thought ran through Raven's mind.

This is not good.


Sorry it took so much longer than usual to update, I ran into a bit of a writing problem. I won't go into details, all I can say is that I could only Write at school. Now, about this chapter, I was going to have it longer and have it stop at a further point, but it's long enough already, and now this makes my next chapter longer. Oh, I forgot to tell you guys earlier, but in my stories Robin and Starfire are together, but it'll be like an almost regular relationship, sorry Socialbutterfli. I'd like to reply to Anter, thanks for the review, but I'm curious, why is it that you read to chapter 10 for the review but reviewed on chapter 9? Hope my cousin's reading this, hey bro, tell me what you think. I don't usually do sneak peaks, but this is kind of obvious, next chapter Element and Slade finally fight, and something else happens, all I can say is that it should make Socialbutterfli happy. You guys know the drill now, read and review!