Poor Twisted Me Chapter 2

Hi guys. I meant for this chapter to be a little funny, but lately I've been feeling really depressed, so that might not work out as well as I planned it. Don't ask me why I'm depressed. All I'm going to say is that for readers of Castle in the Sky's "Satan's Child", read my review for her 8th chapter. That will explain it a little bit.

On a lighter note, this chapter is dedicated to StarfireRobin4ever. I threw in a bunch of RobStar fluff just for you. Well, for everybody, but mostly for you.

Also, Raven doesn't have Rage when her emotions are let loose, because if there was, everything would be destroyed. And that would be bad, since there would be nothing to write about.

Maybe answering reviews will cheer me up.

To WeasleyGirl-Yeah, Demon gal, moezy-chan, lizzy0888, and rebekah- Sorry, I read your reviews for the prologue after I updated for chapter 1, so I couldn't answer your reviews then. Well, thanks a bunch for reviewing.

Warprince2000- Thanks, I guess. I will try to update ASAP, but school's been a bitch lately.

Kestrel- Thanks to you too. Sorry for not putting more enthusiasm into my answers, but it's hard to feel happy right now.

Moezy-chan- Thanks, I guess.

StarfireRobin4ever- Thanks to you too. Star and Rob do make an awesome couple.

Celeste- Thanks for reviewing. To answer your question about Buddhism, it's not hard at all to be Buddhist. Basically, all you need to do is believe Buddha's teachings. Of course, that's lay-Buddhism. If you're more devout, then you need the right effort (meditation), among other things. And to answer your question about Linkin Park, I don't really like them. Being a metal purist, I strongly believe rap and metal should not mix. So, Linkin Park is often the object of my ire, seeing as they rap over rock riffs. It pisses me off.

Bunny133- Thanks, I will update as quick as I can.

PrincessCat- you know, I based Carmen on a bunch of traits from a couple ex- girlfriends and cousins, because I wanted Cyborg's girlfriend to be Hispanic. As for the name, I just like that name. I completely made that part about her parents up, but I did draw from elements of my grandfather's death. See, he kept a bunch of big cats like pumas and ocelots. He was kinda crazy. So one day, he decided to get a big 'ol Bengal tiger. And when he would feed these cats, he would go into their cages and feed them. Nothing happened with his previous cats, but that tiger got him. My mom was 16 then, but he was like a year-round Scrooge. I don't want to get into that, since I'm depressed enough as it is, but thanks for reviewing.

Maybe you guys can cheer me up. I need some compassion here.

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-Outside of Titans Tower-

Fenrir grasped onto the side of Titans Tower, idly listening for the right moment. Lyrim's orders were still fresh in his mind.

His torpor was cut short when his acute hearing picked up the words "...I'm going to bed..."

He scrambled up the side of the Tower like a spider, hundreds of feet above ground. Fenrir clambered over to the nearest window, and peered inside. Behind the hallowed glass, Fenrir spotted someone sleeping in bed, the covers skew about the divan. He couldn't tell which of the humans it was, so he observed the human's surroundings. In the corner rested a sunburst guitar and an amplifier, situated below a poster that read "Master of Puppets".

'Not room master want. Fenrir kill green human later,' the demonic hound thought to himself. He crawled to the next window he encountered and looked inside.

He found the Tamaranian girl in her room, changing for bed. He should have moved on to the next window, but he decided to look some more. You know, just in case there was...important information. Yeah, that's it.

A sudden knock on her door caused Fenrir to snap out of its trance. He scuttled onto the next window, making sure his presence was not detected.

The next one was empty. Fenrir continued onward.

Upon reaching the next room, it found what it was looking for. It peered inside, to make sure the Azareth was asleep. She was, to Fenrir's relief.

'Fenrir want kill Azareth. Master say not yet. Fenrir obey,' he thought to himself unquestioningly. He quietly grappled onto the window itself, and using his claws, began cutting a circle in the window through which he could fit. He surprisingly did it without a sound, possibly because the sheer serration of his claws allowed him to incise the glass with the most infinitesimal amounts of pressure.

Once Fenrir had made the hole a reasonable size, he crawled through without a sound and scoped the surroundings of his soon-to-be victim. He extended his leathery legs and began to creep, still as quiet as a ghost. Upon reaching his objective, he crouched on his hind legs and used his forearms to grasp what he was seeking.

The Azareth stirred in her sleep, and Fenrir alertly turned, his eyes trained on her every move. She merely turned in her sleep, dreaming. Fenrir heard her utter the words, "Beast Boy...I love you..."

Fenrir resumed back to his work. As he held the mirror in his hands, he slid his claw forcefully across the diameter of the mirror. As it cracked, he thought he saw several figures, each in different colored cloaks, approaching from behind the mirror, as if they dwelled there.

The hound pounced out the hole in the window in one giant leap, and free fell from the top of Titans Tower. As he neared the ground, he curled up into a ball, his excess skin flapping in the wind. Upon uncurling from the ball, he threw his legs out to the side, and a pair of giant wings sprouted from behind his shoulder blades, like a plant sprouting from the dirt. These wings were reminiscent of a bat's, with the thin appendage extending in a V-shape and skin stretching outwards, providing the uplift of air needed for flight.

As Fenrir began his flight, he lowered his altitude and skimmed the lake's meniscus. Extending his freakishly long claws outward, he grabbed onto a fish that happened to be swimming by. Without so much as looking at it, he opened his mouth and swallowed it in one bite, no chewing. As the fish slid down his throat he roared as loud as it could, making the sound echo across the city. Flying at well over a hundred miles per hour, he adjusted his itinerary and began flying in the direction of his master.

'Fenrir break mirror. Obey master. Master happy. Let Fenrir kill humans. Fenrir happy,' he thought brusquely. It didn't take much to please Fenrir.

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Robin grasped the roses in his left hand with a slight hint of apprehension. 'Now or never,' he reassured himself.

He knocked on the foreboding door. As he shifted the flowers in his hand around nervously, he was responded with, "I am changing, would you mind coming back at another time?"

Perfect. Just perfect. "Umm, Star, it's me, Robin."

"Oh! Well, hold on a minute, I'll be right there," the Tamaran called out. Robin started sweating. 'Oh boy,' he bemused.

A couple seconds passed, and Starfire opened the door. "Yes, Robin?"

She was dressing in a red nightgown that came to far above her knee, with a robe draped over it. Robin inadvertently stared at her attire, but then quickly regained himself. "Umm, Star, I uh, got you these flowers!" he said, thrusting the roses he had been holding behind his back towards the Tamaran. Starfire let out a squeal of delight and grabbed the roses. She looked at them for a moment, set them down on the end table adjacent to her bed, and threw her arms around Robin.

"Thank you Robin! This is oh so sweet of you! Thank you so very much!" she gushed, starting to cut off Robin's circulation.

"Star...can't...breath...seeing...colors..." Robin gasped out, struggling against Star's vice grip. Starfire let go, and gave Robin a moment to breathe before pulling him by the arm into her room. "Robin, you must help find a place to put them!"

Robin followed Star into her room, and began sweating slightly more at the prospect of him and Star alone in her room. Starfire grabbed the roses from her table and began scouting her room for an appropriate site. She tapped her chin with her index finger in a gesture of thought, and grasped Robin's hand as she walked over to her dresser.

Robin flushed furiously when Star grabbed his hand. 'God, if you get worked up about holding hands, how are you gonna handle going out with her?'

"Robin, what do you think?" Starfire asked, setting the flowers in a vase she conveniently had resting on the apex of her dresser. Robin used his free hand to flash a 'thumbs-up' sign. Starfire smiled, however not in her orthodox way. She threw her arms again around Robin, making careful notice to allow him to breathe.

"You are so sweet, Robin," she said with a hint of affection in her voice. Robin fumbled with his words in an attempt to respond. "Umm, yeah, it wasn't really, I, umm, it's not, umm, you're...welcome?"

Star didn't respond. Instead, she held Robin closer and rested her head on his shoulder, beginning to rock back and forth slightly. Robin lost all his doubts and embraced her as well, using one hand to gently stroke her hair and the other to hold her close to him. Starfire lifted her head up, and looked Robin straight in the eyes.

"Robin...I love you."

"I love you too Star."

Starfire moved her lips with agonizing apathy towards Robin's. But before there lips could lock, a loud "BOOM!" from Raven's room grabbed Star's attention. She broke the embrace and headed towards the source of the sound, still clad in her nightgown.

"Raven? Are you okay?" she yelled out. Robin grumbled slightly, complaining about there always being a distraction when it was least beneficial to him.

Robin jogged after Star, and opened Raven's door. There, just about every single thing in her room was thrown about, as if a tornado had hit her room. Robin had heard that expression before, but he could never imagine something more fitting to it than Rave's state of room.

Beast Boy came sprinting down the hall as fast as he could, skidding on the tile floor. Upon stopping, he ran into Raven's room frantically. "What's going on? Is Raven okay? What happened? Is Raven okay?"

Robin motioned for him to chill out. Beast Boy saw the wreckage in her room, and began panicking even more. "Oh no! Raven's been kidnapped! She's being held for ransom! WE HAVE TO GET HER BACK!" he said, grabbing Robin by his collar and shaking him as he ranted.

"Beast Boy, calm yourself. I'm fine. Sort of." Raven said from her spot on the bed, which Beast Boy had evidently not taken the time to see.

"Raven! You're okay!" he yelled, rather than a simple 'oh'. He ran over to her, but paused when he saw her. She held herself as if she had no feelings whatsoever, and when she talked, there was absolutely no trace of the slightest hint of emotion.

"My emotions escaped from my mirror. How, I don't know," Raven stated without feeling.

Beast Boy winced. "So, you're telling me that your emotions are all over Jump City? Every single one!?"

"Yes."

"And judging by your current state, I'm guessing we have to go get them?"

"Yes."

"God damn it."

Beast Boy rubbed his chin for a minute. "Well, I at least know where one is," he said, and walked over to Raven's closet in the corner of her room. He opened it to find a replica a Raven dressed in a gray cloak. Timid.

"Please, leave me alone. Nobody likes me," the emotion moaned. Beast Boy sighed, and grabbed her hand. He led her back to Raven's mirror, which lay scratched on her floor. He thrust Timid in front of the mirror, and it didn't take long for a big black hand to grasp the withdrawn emotion. Raven immediately snapped out of her impassive trance. However, seeing as there was only one emotion in there as of yet, that was how she constantly felt.

"Oh...hi guys," the real Raven mumbled demurely. Robin and Starfire, who had no idea what was going on, stared with their mouths agape.

"Umm...what the hell was that about?" Robin asked, bewildered. Starfire nodded and added, "Yes, please tell us who that gray colored Raven was!"

Beast Boy sighed. He really didn't want to explain this himself, and fortunately for him, before he had a chance to start, Cyborg's voice could be heard calling out, "I'm home!"

Sounds of moving about could be heard downstairs, and after a couple minutes Cyborg emerged into the hallway. He spotted everybody crowding in Raven's room, something that didn't happen. It just didn't. He figured the day that all the Titans were in Raven's room would be the same day that the sun would set in the east and the Rangers would win the World Series simultaneously. (Sorry to any Rangers fans. If there are any.)

"Why are we all here?" he asked. Robin turned to him and explained, "There was an accident with Raven's mirror, and now all her emotions are loose," he paused, then noticed Beast Boy jumping up and down, pointing to himself.

"Except for one, which Beast Boy found."

Beast Boy grinned at Cyborg, proud of himself. "It was Timid. I was just about to explain Raven's emotions and stuff, since Raven's a little...introverted right now."

Cyborg blinked. "Did you just use a word I didn't know?"

Beast Boy laughed and said, "I had to look it up. It was in an article. It means 'withdrawn.'"

Cyborg nodded. "Okay. And...you want me to help you explain it?"

Beast Boy nodded vigorously. So Cyborg sighed and began explaining Raven's mirror and her emotions, with occasional outbursts from Beast Boy.

At the end, Robin and Starfire were now thoroughly confused.

"Ooookay..." Robin said, and decided to not waste time asking questions. "Okay, Beast Boy and Cyborg, since you know the most about Raven's emotions, aside from Raven, you two go find the rest of her emotions. Star and I will try to find out who or what did this."

Cyborg and Beast Boy groaned. "Can't we get a little shut eye first?" Cyborg asked tiredly. Robin glared at him and said, "No! By the time we all wake up, they could be anywhere in the world!"

Although he had a valid point, Beast Boy still grumbled as he headed towards the window. He changed into a giant pterodactyl, and Cyborg hopped onto his back after grabbing the mirror. As the two flew off, Robin took to analyzing the scratches on the mirror.

"Who the hell could have done this?" he thought out loud. Starfire chose to ignore him and instead try to talk to Raven. Which of course was a futile effort, seeing as her single emotion right now was Timid.

"Raven?" Star asked kindly. The Azareth just shrunk back and said, "Please, don't talk to me. I'm not good enough to talk to you."

She tried to talk with Raven many more times, but all were fruitless. She sighed after a while and wondered how Beast Boy and Cyborg were doing.

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"Okay, let's think here. There's Brave, Happy, Knowledge, Lazy, Frustration, a couple others, but I can't remember them. Let's start with Knowledge," Beast Boy planned as he flew through the air. Cyborg nodded.

"Okay, so if I were Knowledge, where would I go?" Cyborg asked. The two thought for a minute as the wind rushed past them. About two minutes passed before Beast Boy got it.

"Jump City Museum!"

Cyborg snapped his fingers. "That's it!"

Beast Boy swerved down, a little too close. He almost collided with the ground, but managed to pull up before they both wiped out.

"Careful, BB." Cyborg scolded. Beast Boy scoffed and said, "You're lecturing me on responsibility?"

Cyborg rolled his eyes. "Hey, I have a sense of duty! It may be small, but it's there nonetheless."

They argued for a couple minutes more, but stopped once they reached the museum. They tried to walk inside, but an elderly guard held out his hand and said, "Stop! You're not getting in here without paying!"

Beast Boy groaned. "We're from the Teen Titans, though!"

The guard scoffed. "Sure, kid. You have any idea how many punks like you we get dressing up as the Teen Titans just so they can get in for free?"

"But we're the real Teen Titans!" Cyborg and Beast Boy protested simultaneously. The sentry turned his nose up and said, "Nope! Not falling for it! Besides, you two don't look anything like Beast Boy and Cyborg."

Okay, this had gotten beyond irritating. This was just plain infuriating. Beast Boy stepped back a couple feet from the guard, and changed into a T- rex. Cyborg opened up is sonic cannon and fired off into the sky.

"...Oh, my bad. Go on in." the guard said, terribly embarrassed. Beast Boy changed back to normal and walked with Cyborg into the museum.

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Next chapter: Beast Boy and Cyborg continue their search for Raven's emotions and Robin and Starfire begin to uncover the root of the problem.

This is mud signing out.