By Nyassa Kaiba
Chapter 10
A demon's day in madness kissed
I swear I never had it like this
Forbidden, yet I cannot resist
With fever I persist
The rages of your kiss
My reckless heart in fist
Yet I cannot resist…
Melissa Ethridge, Resist
Feralae took the seat next to Raven, listening as Robin and Cyborg went through the preflight checklist. "Engines?" Robin.
"Go and green." Cyborg.
"Landing gear?" Robin.
"Functional." Cyborg.
"Cyborg?"
"Hmm?"
"What are hamburgers doing on the preflight checklist?"
Beastboy burst out laughing. So did everybody else.
"I was hungry when I wrote the thing. You know how I get."
Robin mumbled something about no excuse and they finished the checklist. Feralae's heart began to pound. This was nothing compared to dragon riding, but this was still flying, and every Dragonmage lived to fly.
"Lay in coordinates."
"Laying in coordinates."
Feralae waited about ten minutes before she stood, stretched, and walked off to explore the cabin. She found a practice room in the back. Suddenly she felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Raven. "We use it to warm up before a big battle." She explained.
"I've got an idea for a team attack." Feralae said suddenly. "One that we could do, care to try it?"
Raven nodded. "Why ever not?"
Feralae nodded, calling Nidon to her. The dragon popped in with a squeak. "Every mage that I've met has a form their spirit takes when they use a spirit type spell. We call that form a Geas. Mine is a black dragon."
"So do my people." Raven nodded. "Mine usually takes the form of a raven, but when I get REALLY revved up, it takes the form of a black phoenix."
"So what if we were to put our darkness powers together… sort of a darkness spiral."
"Sound's plausible. Let's try it." The two of them got into position.
Feralae focused. "Rei to, Yami no ryu, HA!"
"Azarath… metrion… ZANTHOS!" Raven summoned her phoenix. The two blasts clashed midway and blanked each other out.
"Damn, didn't work." Feralae sighed. "It was worth a try."
"What language were you using?" Raven asked.
"Japanese, what else? Most of the spirit type chants that I do use Japanese." Feralae replied.
"What if we were to use the same chant? Use the same words that I do, only focus on your spirit, a dragon." Raven suggested.
"Okay, let's try it again." Feralae stood. She closed her eyes and focused, falling into position. The words of power that Raven used rang in her head, the powers of darkness welling up inside of her until they reached her mouth.
At the same time Raven focused on her spell. "Azarath… metrion… ZANTHOS!" They shouted together.
It worked. Feralae's geas, a black dragon, roared with joy. Raven's geas keened as it came to life. Then the two blasts spiraled around each other and merged and flew straight through the wall of the jet. "IT WORKED!" Feralae cried, glomping Raven and knocking her over. Then, sheepish, she pulled Raven up and swirled her into a happy dance.
The other Titans, except for Cyborg who was probably flying the jet, stood at the door. "What the heck?"
"We were trying to come up with a team attack." Raven explained, dusting herself off. "It worked."
Feralae grinned. "It worked, all it took was a little fiddling to work."
"I do not see a violin." Starfire stated, looking around.
"Skip it Starfire." Robin rolled his eyes. "Keep practicing. It might come in handy." He said on his way out.
"Good work." Beastboy said with his usual grin. He gave a thumbs up before he left.
"Friend Raven, are you alright? You seem to have become pretty protective of your Dragonsinger." Starfire stated.
"I'm fine Starfire." Raven said with the barest hint of a smile. Starfire shrugged and left. Feralae smiled, pulling Raven towards the locker room.
"Shall we celebrate?"
Nervously Raven followed her girl to the locker room. About the time the door was closed and locked Raven's instincts kicked in. She pushed Feralae back against a mat, kissing her hard and deep.
Feralae moaned in pleasure, hands wandering down her girlfriend's waist, gripping her lower back. Raven smirked, kissing her way down her girlfriend's neck, sucking at the skin. Feralae dug her nails in, moaning. Feralae managed to get one hand along her gf's thigh, the other hand began to massage her breast. "Oh Goddess… take me already…"
"I thought we were saving that?" Raven smirked, twirling a strand of her girlfriend's hair around her fingers. Her hands wandered south, rubbing at her through the cloth of her uniform. Feralae moaned again, running hands through the demon girl's hair.
Raven pulled back, shaking her head. "Man, I must have been out of it."
"Instinct again?" Feralae asked. "Man, I'm tired of this, are we or aren't we? I understand you want to wait, but this is getting a bit ridiculous."
"I agree." Raven leaned back against the wall. Raven, you must! The test is coming near! The Deva told her master. You MUST be ready! The link with Feralae will save your life. "Now then. Here and now."
"The door is locked." Feralae agreed. Feralae was surprised at the heat with which her girlfriend pushed her back against the wall and ravaged her, ravaged her lips and neck and shoulders and scrabbled at the zipper that held her leotard in place. And as Raven abandoned herself to the link, the right of every demon from the moment they are born, she knew what to do, deep in her heart she knew.
Their minds slowly became one, one creature in heart and soul. Feralae cried out, joy in her voice and mind. Tears streamed from the demon girl's eyes. Half dressed, the two of them curled up on the mat. Feralae saw everything, from Raven's family, to her past experiences as a Titan.
And she knew that Raven saw everything about her, even the incident that she never wanted to think about, and the moment that Feralae realized she was a lesbian. Raven saw her travels and her on/off superheroship as Dragonsinger. She saw her initiation into the dragon clan as a mage and the grace and power of the dragons that she coexisted with.
"Incredible…" Raven murmured. "I feel you… I am you…"
"And I you koibito." Feralae whispered, true, she had been ravaged, but Feralae had loved every minute of it. And she had made sure that her koi had known too.
"I think we'd better get up before we're missed." Raven groaned as she stood.
Feralae dressed the rest of the way and followed her koi out to their seats. Feralae leaned against Raven's shoulders.
"Friend Feralae, why do you have several bruises on your neck?" Starfire asked. She was leaning over the back of her seat looking down at them.
Feralae groaned.
"Bruises? Let me see." Terra popped up over the edge of the seat. "EEK! SHE'S GOT HICKIES! Have the two of you been making out?"
Raven growled and zapped her. But Beastboy had noticed by now. "No way, Raven and Feralae? Me see!"
Feralae heard Robin groan from the front seat. "You knew they were together Robin? How come you didn't tell me?" Beastboy demanded.
Robin made a face. "Because I promised Raven that I wouldn't tell." He replied.
"Man, Raven and Feralae, that's just flat out weird." Cyborg commented.
Raven growled, standing up and wrapping her arms around Feralae. "What is it to you guys? Are you in gossip mode or something? And what gives you the right to pry into my affairs?" Raven demanded, giving Starfire and Terra a warning zap. "And if you spread it outside the group I swear you won't like what I DO!" She shouted.
"Okay, if you don't want anybody to find out you're a lesbian, we won't tell." Beastboy said with a shrug. "It's just odd to us, you know? I mean, we didn't really picture you being with anybody at all. So what were we supposed to think?"
"I would think that you would trust us with something that major." Cyborg said with a growl. "But hey, if you don't think we can handle it that's fine." He was clearly offended.
"It's not the sort of thing you share." Feralae spat back. "I got made fun of for my relationship with Duel back in the eighth grade. You think I want a repeat of that?" Raven's anxiety was getting to her. She had to fight it down!
"Wait a minute, what does this mean?" Starfire asked. "What is a lesbian?"
Raven sighed, "It means that Feralae and I are a couple."
"A lesbian is a girl who falls in love with other girls." Replied Cyborg. "My older sister is one. So yes, I CAN handle that sort of thing."
"Well I've never met a homosexual before." Beastboy replied. "How do I handle it?"
"By not telling anybody outside of the team." Feralae replied. "I can imagine what Gizmo or Slade or somebody would do with that!"
"Humans find this a problem? On my planet we call them Two Spirits, and they are sacred, the essence of duality." Starfire blinked in surprise.
"Well on our planet some people consider it a sin." Replied Feralae. "Other people think that it's a disgrace and unnatural, other people think that it's against 'family values' and that it…" Starfire gasped. "Yeah, aren't some people brutal? Which is why I don't usually go telling people about it."
"You can trust us, we're your teammates!" Cyborg protested. "Honestly, to think that we'd spaz over THAT?"
"Yeah, well I thought. So there." Feralae sighed. "See? You guys are already spaz-ing out over it." She snuggled up against Raven for comfort. Nidon, crooning softly, landed on Feralae's back and snuggled between her shoulder blades.
"Is that what's been bothering you all this time?" Asked Beastboy.
"Yes, more or less. For a demon like me pairing off can cause problems with self control." Raven buried her face in Feralae's hair. "And man I had problems… I still have them." She sighed. "We link, in the soul, and that bond can't be broken. I'll always know where she is, no matter what happens. I can read her thoughts more strongly than anybody else's and just now she was affected by my emotions. It's a very strong link, one that I still have to work on controlling."
"I thought that you felt no emotions." Beastboy teased.
Feralae growled at him.
"Just because I don't show emotion doesn't mean that I can't feel it." Raven replied. "I just normally keep them in check, now, I have to learn to do that all over again." She sighed, stroking Feralae's long, deep red hair. Feralae's heart was still fluttering over the burst of emotion that she'd gotten from her koibito.
Lover, can you hear me? Raven asked gently.
I can! I can hear you in my mind! Feralae exclaimed.
That's because of our link. You can call me anytime you need me. And I can find you anywhere! Raven's heart still rang with the initial rapture of feeling another mind in hers. Why had she avoided it? Yet she was still a little scared over this new facet of her mind powers.
"We'll figure it out together koi." Feralae muttered, snuggling against her lover's chest.
"Yes, we will." For the moment Raven felt calm, serene. She didn't realize the problems that they would encounter just that evening.