Hello boys and girls I'm back. Sorry for the long time between updates but I do have a life even if it's a small one. Homework, holidays and friend trouble has kept me from updating but not anymore. So I'm sure all of you are dying to see what happened to Robin, or for those Robin haters dying to see him die. Sadly nether are coming for the time being. That's right I'm milking this cliff-hanger for as long as I can. So you'll get to see what happens to the team when Robin's gone. Its mostly going to be a Beast Boy, Raven thing. Anyway, after I very long wait I bring you chapter eight of Teen Titan Pregnancies.
Chapter 8: Daddy Issues
Robin had been gone for a month now and in that time all the Titans had gone through some things. Starfire and her mother grew more and more worried the longer Robin was gone and The King grew more and more gleeful. Raven had really started having mood swings left and right lately and Beast Boy was being hit by it the worst. Beast Boy had more then one problem to deal with as he and Cyborg where now the only active Titans and when the Villains heard this Jump city turned into an open range. Both the boys were exhausted most of the time because of it but with Robin gone The King had been happy enough to help them on occasion.
Right now Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg were walking down the street with Raven leading the way, her seven month pregnant stomach a step or two ahead of her. Raven said she needed no help walking but Beast Boy walked close to her just to be safe. Cyborg just walked behind the couple wondering why Raven had even asked him to walk with her a Beast Boy. No words had been spoken so far and they had been walking for a good half hour.
"Um Raven?…" Beast Boy said tentatively so not to set Raven off, "where are we going?"
"You'll see when we get there," Raven said in her normal monotone voice, luckily for Beast Boy her mood was normal but to him that was just a sign it was about to swing.
Beast Boy dropped back a bit to talk to Cyborg but he still kept a close eye on his pregnant fiancée. "Where do you think were going?" Beast Boy whispered to Cyborg as Raven continued to lead the way. By now a few people had noticed them walking down the street and started taking pictures, something everyone had been doing since Raven and Starfire started to show.
"I have no idea," Cyborg whispered back as he watched one of the annoying people snapped his picture. "I just want to know why she dragged me along."
Raven and the boys continued to walk for about a half hour more and at the end Beast Boy was more tired then Raven, but Raven had been floating for the past half hour. "Are we every going to get there?" Beast Boy whined taking a chance at setting Raven off. Luckily she was in a happy mood.
"Were here," She announced pointing to a lone store along a over wise empty street. The store looked like it wasn't occupied just like the rest of the street besides the 'Open' sing on the door. The windows were blacked out with spray pant and the store itself was panted black with a few parts chipped off revealing the former tan colure it was. And above the store set an old black sign that said in blood red writing, "Black Box: oddities, charms and ancient tomes."
"Dude this is where you should buy Raven's wedding present," Cyborg joked as Beast Boy stared oddly at the store.
"Come on guys," Raven urged as she walked into the store, the boys following close behind. The inside of the store was no worse for the wear then the outside. The room was open with a door in the back leading to some kind of back room or the alley outside. The walls were black and so was everything else. Dozens of shelves lined up in rows held many oddities, charms and ancient tomes just as the sign outside had said. A few candles gave the room an eerie glow at the front of the room was a counter that closed in around an area that held the cash register and another wall of tomes and charms that seemed more unique. The only way out of this box was a movable part of the counter like in many stores.
"Raven," A girl said suddenly popping up from behind the counter and sending the boys jumping a few feet in the air. The girl was skinny and wore a gothic looking schoolgirl uniform hidden slightly by the huge book she held in front of her self. Her hair was blond and went down her back to her waste and was slightly fizzy but straight. She wore very large glasses that made her eyes looked magnified and not a bit of makeup covered her pale face.
"Hello Mina," Raven greeted the girl calmly as the boys recovered from there shock, "is that the book?" Raven asked refereeing to the large book Mina held.
"Oh yes, yes, yes, yes!" The girl said stepping out from behind the counter. The tall boys now both noticed that she was about a head shorter then both of them. "Is this the boy?" Mina asked coming uncomfortably close to Beast Boy's face as her large glass like eyes studied him.
"Yes, this is Beast Boy," Raven said almost proudly as she moved to Beast Boy's side. Beast Boy just laughed nervously as he waved slightly.
"Are you sure?" Mina asked still very close to Beast Boy's face, "because if your wrong."
"I am very sure," Raven said placing her hand on her stomach and smiling slightly.
Mina took a step back and looked at Raven's stomach, then to Beast Boy, then to Raven, then back to her stomach. She looked puzzled and there was a awkward pause in the room before Mina smiled and said, "congratulations," before turning and moving to the door in the back of the store. Raven followed her and signalled the boys to follow as well.
"You got any idea what's going on yet?" Beast Boy asked Cyborg as he followed Raven and Mina into the back room.
"Not a…chance," Cyborg said stunned at what was in the back room. The room was like walking into the eighteenth century with its old worn grey stone walls. In the far corner or both sides of the room were two statues of a man with a demonic face. One with his arms out stretched and the other with them closed. On ether side of the door was a large torch that lit the room. In the centre of the room was a circle drawn with salt with strange symbols inside it.
"Take your places in the circle," Mina said as she stood on the other side of the room in-between the two statues. The large book she had been holding now open in one of her hands as she held her other hand out.
"Come on,' Raven said as she grabbed Beast Boy hand and entered the circle with Beast Boy opposite her. She held both his hands and made sure they stretched over the middle of the circle.
"Did you bring it?" Mina asked as she studied the page in the book as Cyborg moved beside her and watched with puzzled eyes.
"Of course," Raven said letting go of Beast Boy hands for a second to reach into her cloak and pull out her mirror. She placed it in the middle of the circle and resumed her position with Beast Boy, now closing her eyes and bowing her head.
"Alright then," Mina said calmly as Beast Boy and Cyborg grew more confused. "Then may it begin!" she shouted as she her eyes began to glow white. The fire that lit the room flames turned from red to blue as they burned brightly. The circle glowed white sending light around Beast Boy and Raven as the symbols inside the circle glowed as well. Raven lifted her head to reveal that black energy was spewing from her eyes and mouth.
"Is this safe?" Cyborg asked as Beast Boy just stood wide eyed in the middle of the circle.
"Not really," Mina said calmly as she began to read the incarnation, her hand still out stretched towards the circle.
"Right," Cyborg said moving behind one of the statues.
The wind began to pick up as Raven's mirror began to shake, blowing her and Mina's hair and making Raven's cloak lift off the ground slightly along with everyone else's clothes. Different colure winds began to fly from the mirror as they circled Raven and Beast Boy. The pink and purple coloured winds moved around Beast Boy longer then the others as they caressed his face. The purple one gave him a breeze like kiss on his check before all the winds entered Raven turning the black energy coming from her into white energy.
"Was that it?" Cyborg asked moving from behind the statue.
"Not yet," Mina said not even turning to look at Cyborg as the energy began to spry from her eyes as well. The ground shook as Trigon emerged from the mirror in all his four eyed glory. Beast Boy took a step back letting go of one of Raven's hands as Trigon's had hit the ceiling and he began to growl fiercely. "Do not break the circle!" Mina yelled as The lights dimmed slightly.
Beast Boy quickly moved back into place grabbing Ravens hand. Raven just continued to stand there as a light shot out of her glowing charka and hit Trigon in-between his fours eyes. Trigon screamed loudly as he got hit by the light being driven back into the mirror. He was pulled back in and two cage doors appeared on ether side of it. They closed in on him as he banged on the mirror making it jump slightly. In the middle of the doors was a small stone shaped key hole which Raven's charka filled when it fall from her head and into the lock sealing the mirror and sending Trigon falling into the blackness of the mirror with a loud, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The ground stopped shacking and the wind stopped blowing as the room turned back to normal. The torches once again burned red and the circle was now nothing more but a burn mark in the stone floor. Mina lost her balance as he eyes stopped glowing and Cyborg caught her before she hit the ground. She smiled up at him shyly and Cyborg smiled back, laughing nervously as he scratched the back of his head. Raven still stood with her eyes closed again, but she now wore a white cloak and luckily her stomach remained completely on touched.
"Whoa," Beast Boy said as Raven opened her eyes, which had tears brewing in them as she hugged Beast Boy in a bone crunching hug that would put Starfire to shame.
"Ok, explain to me what just happened?" Cyborg asked as he and Mina moved beside the couple.
"Mina's one of my oldest friends and awhile ago we found a book that showed how to turn the portal into my mind into a prison for a demon as strong as Trigon." Raven explained as she picked up the mirror that Trigon was held in and put it into the folds of her cloak.
"Wait if you found the spell awhile ago why didn't you use it then?" Beast Boy asked as the group moved from the back room.
"Raven needed true love to make the spell work but she didn't have it," Mina said for Raven as she put the book in the shelf behind the counter.
"I was going to ask you when we first started dating but…" Raven said carefully.
"You weren't sure if what we had was love," Beast Boy finished giving her a shot kiss, "its ok I understand."
Raven smiled at him before turning to Mina who was once again behind the counter. "We have to go but I'll see you soon Mina," Raven said as she began to leave the store.
"You are so invited to the wedding," Beast Boy said as he followed Raven out.
"Um bye,' Cyborg said as he smiled and left the store leaving Mina waving a quite good bye to all of them.
Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg walked down the now dark street on there way home as the street lights began to turn on. "Well that was fun," Beast Boy joked as he held Raven's hand.
"I still don't get why I'm here," Cyborg said as he walked behind the two.
"Duh, you were there encases Trigon got lose from the spell and we needed to fight him," Beast Boy said in a know it all tone.
"Well as long as the love was true there was no way for him to break out so we were completely safe." Raven said as she continued to walk.
"So then why did we bring Cy along." Beast Boy asked now just as confused as Cyborg.
"I was trying to get Mina a date," Raven said sending Beast Boy into a laughing fit that lasted ten minutes and made Cyborg embarrassed for just as long.
"Shut up," Cyborg said slapping the back of Beast Boy's head.
"Oh I saw the way you caught her when she fell," Beast Boy laughed, "oh Cyborg I love you, marry me tin man." Beast Boy joked as he badly imitated a damsel in distress. Beast Boy got slapped in the back of the head for this and after a few minutes decided to stop making fun of him. "So can I see it," he asked.
"See what?" Raven said glancing at him.
"The mirror."
"Alright," Raven said after a few minutes of Beast Boy's sad puppy face, "but be careful." She handed him the mirror and Beast Boy stared at it in amazement. That's when a bus almost hit him when he tried to cross the street making him drop the mirror.
"Uh oh," Raven said as she and Cyborg moved away from the mirror which Beast Boy picked up.
"Its ok," Beast Boy said showing them the mirror. The charka then cracked and fell out of the mirror as the cage flew open. "The mirror will hold him right?" Beast Boy said as he smiled. The mirror smashed as Trigon flew out of it just as he said this.
Trigon stood as high as the four story buildings around him as he huffed loudly in rage. "You!" he boomed out as he grabbed Beast Boy in one of his hands. He brought him up close to his face and snorted making wind rush past Beast Boy's head along with the smell of brimstone. "Are you the one that impregnated my daughter?" He asked angrily as all four of his eyes focused on Beast Boy.
Beast Boy gulped loudly and squeaked out a meek, "yes."
Trigon got even closer to Beast Boy as his blood red eyes stared into his as he yelled with extreme rage, "I shall destroy you!"
