Note:I do not own the Teen Titans, but I do own the others random people. Steal them and I'll be forced to A. stalk your eternal soul or B. murder you. Yup I'm done.
The entire room before her stood silent as Malicki opened the doors for Raven. The place was like a club, but there were only four people in it. The decorations and furniture was rich and beautiful. Raven presumed it was stolen. But, who were these people?
Her partner slipped past her and slammed the doors shut Without words, the man led in her front of the people. "Raven, meet the freaks of the other world." He grinned idiotically as he spoke the words. Freaks of the other world? What did that did mean?
"Eh!" yelled one that looked like an urban cowboy. His dull brown hair was shoulder length and wore a plaid shirt that was tucked into his jeans. "She be one of them Titan girls, Mal'! What you doing wit' 'er?" The electric light above Raven was suddenly extinguished. Raven tilted her head at the man's words. Obviously he didn't know anything about Malicki's plan's.
But something caught her eye. A light, flowing with electricity was hovering in the cowboy's hand. It was zapping constantly and he pulled it back to throw it, but a voice stopped him. "Pike! Put it back, I can't see a blasted thing!" Malicki began screeching.
"There are other lights, ya knows!" The cowboy repeated. But Malicki shot him a glare, making Pike blow lightly on the electricity so it regained it's slot in the bulb.
"Raven is our guest," he continued, "And you cannot harm her!" Raven was shocked; Malicki was threatening these men to protect her. Pike sighed loudly and slumped back into the couch, grumbling.
"The freaks of the other world?" The ex-Titan repeated his words. "What are you saying?" She leaned casually against the bar behind, but her violet eyes were sharp and alert on the men...the so-called freaks.
A man to Pike's right laughed, "You didn't think you and your Titan buddy's were the only freaks in the city, did you?" This tall and loud man's name was Sparky. Sparky was dressed in a tight black tee-shirt that showed off his muscled and loose fitting blue-jeans. His blond-brown hair was combed casually in front of his eyes, but then brushed away to either side. "'cause you're not." He chuckled lightly.
"Freaks? You call yourself freaks?" Raven was beginning to dislike these guys.
Malicki answered for her, "For every hero, there's a villain, isn't there? For every good deed, a bad one levels it out. The Teen Titan's are a group to protect the innocents. We are the ones that strip that innocence."
Raven didn't say anything. She had never thought of that. The freaks of the other world...the freaks fighting against the good. But she had never heard of Pike or his buddies before.
"That was Pike, he can extinguish electric lights to make it dark or use the electricity in his advantage. And this is Sparky, he can have chain lightning come out of his hands," Malicki was beginning to introduce his friends. He pointed to light-skinned man in a chair beside her. Hmm, she hadn't noticed him earlier. "And this is Kei. He has telekinesis and makes explosions..." He attempted to say more but Kei cut him off.
"Hello," he said in a bright, Scottish accented voice, "How do you do?"
Finally! Someone that wasn't blunt and could speak correctly. "Hello. What does he mean telekinesis and explosions?" It was a bit odd...that combination.
"What you like a demonstration?" He asked, locking his dark blue eyes with hers. Without any ado, he flung out his fingers, spread apart. She looked over at where Kei was locking eyes with. A bottle of liquor was being raised into the air, a red-orange glow another it. Then Kei clenched his hand into a fist and the bottle began to glow much brighter. He held it there for a few seconds before flinging his fingers out sharply, exploding the bottle.
Raven was amazed. "So I see," was all she could say. Meanwhile Malicki began screaming at him to clean it up before someone fell over it. But it was too late. A woman with brown hair and really bright blue eyes came through the back door...and fell over.
"PIKE!!!!!!" She screeched, as Malicki rushed over to help her up.
"It was Kei, Frost!" The yellow-eyed man began stuttering in his defense, "I swears!"
She was clad in tight black pants and a white tee-shirt. Two long silver bracelets caressed her wrists with strange symbols upon them. "And this is Frost, she controls ice," Malicki yelled over at Raven, trying to pull Frost away from the selves she had already knocked over.
"Yeah, look!" She shook out her hand, a stream of ice flowing from it. The ice covered Pike's body, making the cowboy scream, "I'M COMING!!" She cackled evilly.
Raven caught eyes with Kei, making a glance that asked, they always like this? Kei smiled slimly and nodded. "How do you like the freaks of the other world?"
Raven actually felt herself smile. "Freaks...is that what you call yourselves?" It seemed like something demeaning. She would never call herself a freak.
"It is what we are, is it not?" He looked off into the night, "Freaks to all of humanity that dare not understand us for who we really are." His voice was distant, like he was remembering something. Raven looked at him intently, listening to the words he spoke. "We're just shadows to society. We're not people."
She could really relate to those words. But she didn't know what to say...except... Then Raven did the only thing she thought would fit:
"Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such a name as "Nevermore."
