Well, I forgot to mention. Raven's emotions don't cause her powers to go haywire... Yet. The only problem is if she uses them, they may go out of control and well, randomly attack things. So at the moment, her emotions aren't bound to her powers. Now, I don't own Teen Titans, yada yada, onward...
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Two weeks.
Two weeks gone by since escaping her father. Strangely, Beast Boy had been telling the truth about his intent but Raven still suspected he was hiding something. Oh well, as long as her father was repulsed at the sight of the garden on the roof, he would stay away from the building. If all failed, she would go to an abandoned Church to reside, that is, if she didn't catch on fire when she entered.
The building Beast Boy lived in was actually pretty ravishing. Despite the fact that it looked like something out of the European 1800's, it still contained the devices of the present, including something called Gamestation that the green boy was practically attached to. It was also three Storys high with multiple bedrooms and bathrooms. Downstairs, however, harboured a library and a massive room used to train in, both she occasionally visited. Of course, Beast Boy didn't own the building. It actually belonged to his grandfather, Pierre Logan. His grandfather was away to some business conference and conveniently wasn't due to return for three weeks.
If Beast Boy lived by himself in a building that big, well, it would be completed desecrated by the never ending parties he would throw.
" Hey, Rae!"
She was in her surrogate of a room making an attempt to meditate when Beast Boy stuck his head in the doorway. Oh how she wished the doors had locks.
" What?" She muttered, mildly annoyed
" Wanna go to the training room and duke it out? I'll go easy on ya!"
" No thanks."
" Oh C'mon! You can't stayed here all day meditating!"
" I have to meditate."
" Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!?"
" Will you leave me alone if I do?"
" I can't guarantee that I will but I can try."
" ...Fine," She sighed
Beast Boy grinned and anxiously paced downstairs. Raven returned to a standing position and walked out the doorway Beast Boy had practically flown out of and went down the staircase with dry anticipation. The changeling impatiently waited until she caught up and then raced up the hall to the training room. Look before you leap was a phrase that slipped his mind at the wrong moment.
All Raven heard from afar was a loud thud pursued by the tumble of two people. It was obvious Beast Boy had recklessly collided with someone. But who?
" Gar, you should watch where your going, my boy."
" Gramps!" Beast Boy graced
It was Mr. Logan, of course. His face thrived with wrinkles and underneath his business hat resided his short white hair. The hat of course hid his noticeable balding. Beast Boy's green eyes matched those of his grandfathers pointing out the animal DNA didn't make his eyes green as well. Being the typical business man, he was sheathed beneath a long dark brown trench coat and grasped two oversized briefcases. He appeared to be a polite elder who evidently influenced Beast Boy to be the nice guy he was.
" Good to be home." He smiled " So anything interesting happen while I was gone?"
" Funny you should mention..."
Raven calmly walked up to Beast Boy, who still had his back turned. As she was about to ask who the old geezer was, he went into a panic.
" GAR! WHAT IS THAT!?" Mr. Logan hollered in shock " LOOK OUT!!"
The 63 year old tackled Beast Boy and shoved him away from Raven. Then, regaining his stance, he pulled a pistol from his trench coat pocket and aimed it point blank at Raven. She was taken back by his action and prepared to bring a dark energy barrier around her. Raven happened to have her hood up which made her look like an evil felon bent on attacking Beast Boy.
" Stay away from my Grandson! Get out of here you atrocity!"
Beast Boy lunged to his feet and darted in the paths of the instant enemies. He stood in the gun's path and pushed his grandfather's hand to redirect the weapon's direction of fire.
" Gramps!? What are you doing!?"
" I'm trying to halt the burglar! What are you doing!?"
" Grandpa! That's my friend, Raven! She's not a burglar, or an atrocity for that matter!"
" Why is she here!?" He nearly hissed
" She got beat up by a big red guy. I let her stay here so he wouldn't find her again!"
" Gar, I'm disappointed in you!" Mr. Logan flinched " You let a complete stranger into our home!? She looks like she'll murder ya while you sleep!"
" She won't do that! She would have by now if that was her plan!"
" How long has she been here!?"
" 2 weeks today."
Mr. Logan shifted his glanced to Raven who was taking the insults pretty well. He looked at her the way a hungry wolf eyes a wounded lamb. She continued to stare back indifferently as Beast Boy broke the silence.
" Please Grandpa," He besought " She's harmless! I swear! She's actually helpful! Last week I she showed me how to cook that food you like without burning the house down! An-And she trains with me so I can get stronger! And dude! Yousaid looks can be deceiving! Grandpa! You have to let her stay, or else that thing will attack her again!"
Mr. Logan absorbed Beast Boy's words and had little choice but to side with him. Beast Boy didn't really have friends, being green and all, so hopefully the gothic appearing girl would provide him some sort of friendship.
" Ok, she can stay... But only if she does her fair share of the work around here."
" Thanks, Gramps!" He smiled, pondering if he should tell him about the little shopping spreeRaven had to replace the stuff she left behind at her hellious home
Mr. Logan proceeded past the two, shooting a glare at Raven as he walked by. He eventually reached the stairs and vanished up them onward to his office on the third floor. Beast Boy and Raven exchanged glances after he could no longer be seen or heard.
" Sorry about that." Beast Boy said sheepishly " My Grandfather is super religious so, at your level of... Darkness... He probably thinks your some kind of demon."
How ironic that he mentioned that...
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It was dark. There were tall stone structures all around the area, along with many other things. Blood, rubble, and corpses. Corpses? What was going on?
The sky bestowed a crimson-ebony fusion that poured a heavy rainfall onto the... Streets? It was hard to tell amongst all the dark purple fog stalking the ground. Distant screams and battle cries tainted the air. There was nothing untouched by the evil that caused such havoc.
Then something began to emerge from the shadows.... Something bulky and red... Something with four... yellow... eyes...
Raven's eyes shot open. Just a nightmare. The same plaguing nightmare that stalked her mind almost every night since she left her home. What did they mean? A vision of the future? No, that was preposterous. She knew she couldn't get back to sleep so why bother? She pushed the covers off and layed foot to the warm marble floor. She rubbed her eyes as she strolled toward the window. It was a bad habit of hers to gaze out the window and go off into a trance. Every time she did, she ended up back at square one. Subconsciously, She was looking for that something missing from her very essence. It didn't dawn on her that it was the reason for her habit.
She could hear the ruffled cries of a desperate woman in the opposite direction she was observing. Raven looked toward the source and grit her teeth. The entire building across the street had gone up in flames, and by the looks of it, there were people still inside!
Like a racing horse, she bolted to Beast Boy's room and knocked heavily on his door. Finally he opened the door and appeared to be standing up while his eyes remained closed.
" Mmm, what?" He snoozed
" Wake up, green bean, the building across the street is on fire! And there are people still inside."
" Hm...That's niceee....." He swayed tiredly "..........................Wait............... WHAT!?"
Raven rolled her eyes and dragged the zombie downstairs and then outside to the panicked streets. The cold night air forced them awake as the Pyjama-clad teenagers stared at the building as it enveloped with fire and thick smoke. The fire engine was just unloading the hose as the duo arrived at the scene The classical woman sobbed to a fireman that her child was still inside and people wrapped in blankets counted their blessings, thankful they were alive. At least the two wouldn't get stared at for their 'fashion statement'
" Dude..." Beast Boy gasped " What are we going to do?"
" Go inside and get the survivors out of there." Raven acknowledged
" Okay... No problem... Heh..."
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And done. Now that I'm back in my writing spirit, I guess I'll have another chapter up soon. Slowly its all coming together but the ending is all planned. And with the ending I'm plotting, some of you will demand a sequel so I have plans for that as well. So that's my 2 cents, tootlez.