Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans or any other copyrighted superheroes/super-villains. I do own the configuration for the future Titans. I made them up.
Author's notes: Like I said in the previous chapter, the story will be switching to Hunter for about 5 chapters. Afterwards, the story can go any which way. Don't worry all those who are reading this for the other OCs or the main characters, the story will shift after chapter 8, promise. For those that reviewed here are answers to your reviews:
Wildfire Wolf: You'll just have to wait and find out later.
STARFIRE-ROBIN-forever: Thanks for the support. I thought that you would like Chapter 3.
knightdelsol: Thanks
Star-Elie: I am so here it is.
And for those who don't know what the word 'queried' means. It means to ask in common terms.
So here's Chapter 4!
Talking with Grandpa
Hunter was sitting at Raven's feet as she lay on the couch reading a book with unidentifiable writing of the cover. Hunter was doing his sharpening-of-arrows-every-other-week routine. Raven looked up from the book she was reading to take a good look at her future son. "Hunter," queried Raven, "It's obvious that you my son because you have my purple eyes and hair. It is also obvious that your Beastboy's son because of your ears. But I was wondering, do you have our powers?" It seemed like a reasonable question that he would have to answer at one time or another, so he replied, "Well... yes and no. Let me show you." Hunter stood up and held his hands above his head. All of a sudden a small black disk appeared in his hands and began to grow wider until it covered the two of them. Raven recognized it to be a teleportation portal that she sometime used. Raven looked at Hunter's eyes to see that they were no longer purple. Instead they had turned a dark green and were pulsing with energy. Just then the portal dropped over them and in a few moments time, Raven found herself lying down of the roof with Hunter standing next to her, his eyes back to normal. Raven was astonished 'It was just like mine except that the tunnel on the inside was green instead of purple like mine!' "Wow!" said a flabbergasted Raven, "What else can you do?" Hunter looked happy at the praise from this younger-version of his mother. He said, "I can't shape-shift like my dad, but I can manipulate my shadow into an energy form of any animal I want. When my shadow is in animal form I can see through its eyes if I choose. That way it can be used for recon. Also, whenever I concentrate hard enough on a certain attribute of any animal I can gain that attribute. If I concentrate on strength or speed I will become that strong or fast. The only downside is I can only use one attribute at a time and when I receive the power I also receive the weakness like a cheetah can only run very fast for short amounts of time so I would have that weakness too. I also can't make any physical changes to my body, that means I can not grow wings for flight."
That is very interesting, my boy
Hunter looked around for the source of the voice with his bow out and an arrow already drawn. He turned to his mother and asked, "Did you just say something?" Raven looked at him quizzically and replied, "No, but your most likely tired from the needless usage of your powers. You should go lie down." Hunter took one last look around before he submitted and followed Raven downstairs.
That night Hunter had a very strange nightmare. He was on a plane of grey-rocky terrain. This sight disturbed him because he hated to be out in the open with no trees or wildlife around him. He looked up at the sky expecting to find comfort in a clear blue sky. But he found none, because the sky was just a big, black, empty void. All of the sudden a figure popped up right in front of him. It took Hunter a moment to realize that it was another him! Hunter noticed that they were wearing the same outfit except that instead of light green battle armor, the doppelganger (I love that word! D) was wearing forest-green armor. Hunter warily asked, "Uh... hi. Who are you? Do you know where we are?" His doppelganger said, while doing upside-down pushups, "Hell yeah! So you've finally decided to visit! Took ya long enough! Let's go skydiving without parachutes! Oh... yeah about your question I'm you and this is you!" Hunter looked at the doppelganger like he was crazy when another Hunter clone popped up beside the original, this one with yellow armor. The yellow Hunter looked over at the dark-green Hunter with a look of contempt. The dark-green hunter was trying to shoot an arrow up into the air and see if he could catch it before it hit the ground. The yellow Hunter turned to the original, sighed, and proceeded by saying, "I'm sorry for interrupting, but you'll never get any information by directing all of your queries towards that microscopic-brained imbecile. We (he pointed to himself and the reckless Hunter) are you in a way. We are parts of you. The reckless idiot is your bravery and I, am your intelligence. This place in a way is also you. This place is your innermost mind." Suddenly there was a repeating booming sound that began to grow louder. The yellow Hunter's eyes grew wide with fear and he quickly said, " You must go! It is not safe here. But head my words of caution! Do not listen to the voice or you will release a great evil upon the world. Now, Awake!" With those words Hunter woke in a cold sweat.
The next morning at the breakfast table Hunter talked to his friends about the dream. On Hunter's left sat Stone, on his right sat Falcon, and across the table is where Raven sat reading a book. Hunter turned to Falcon and said, " I had the strangest dream last night." Hunter looked up from his plate of pancakes and said, "Really? What was it about?" Hunter said, "These two guys who looked just like me popped up. One was some kind of psycho and the other one was a bookworm. The bookworm talked like a college professor and the other one actually asked me to if I wanted to go skydiving without a parachute! The bookworm started spouting out a bunch of information that basically meant that he was my intelligence and the psychotic guy was my bravery. Right before I woke up the psycho was trying to do that sword-swallowing trick with one of his arrows!" "You must of had some really bad food last night! Falcon's dad tried to warn you not to eat so much of Starfire's pudding!" exclaimed Stone.
Raven couldn't help overhearing the conversation, looked up from her book with worry in her eyes, and began to ask question very quickly. She said, "Did these two guys who looked like you, were they look different in any way? Did they have different colored clothes?" Hunter looked at his mother in amazement. Taking that as a yes Raven continued, "The guy who called himself your intelligence, did he have on yellow? If he did then the supposed 'psycho' had on a forest-green, correct?" Hunter was dumfounded at Raven's knowledge. Raven, not even waiting for the response, said matter-o-factually, "The place you were in had a black, starless sky and grey soil, and your doppelgangers called it you inner mind, right?" Hunter was struck speechless and could only simply nod. Raven got up from the table put her teacup in the sink and came back. She looked down at her future child and said, "They were not lying. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to think about something." She walked out the door, leaving a confused Hunter and a group that was astonished at her sudden talkative attitude.
Hunter became extremely paranoid over the next few days as the strange voice that only he could seemingly hear, kept talking to him. Then one day Raven was walking outside Hunter's room when she heard Hunter yell out.
"COME OUT HERE AND STOP TORMENTING ME FROM THE SHADOWS IN WHICH YOU HIDE, COWARD!" yelled Hunter.
I do not hide in the shadows
Hunter put a finger in each ear in order to block out the deep, menacing, disembodied voice.
Of my lineage and you do not even know where I am! Here's a hint, if you can hear me but nobody else can, which means I am not on the outside. If I am not on the outside but you can still hear me that mean I am where? It is pathetic if you cannot figure this out; do not make me ashamed to call you my grandson!
Suddenly, it all became clear for Hunter. 'If I can hear the voice but it is not on the outside of my body, then the only place left where it could be coming from is...'
YOUR MIND! HAHAHA!
'But... but... how!' thought Hunter.
Why don't you just ask your mother? After all she is right outside your door!
Author's Notes (cont.): Thank you all so much for reading my story. Before I got into writing I was in the nut-house. The people were really nice there. But the sure didn't say nice things when I escaped. Whoops! Gotta go! I think I see them pulling into the driveway now! I'll put up more chapters when I can find a secure terminal.S#, they brought back-up this time! And tear gas! I love this little game of hide and seek! They're getting really good at it! (runs out door and fires wildly at pigeons)
