The Path in Witch to Take

Chapter six: Visiting a Friend

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans, and I'm running out of creative ways to say that!

Hello, people! I think this story will be shorter then Double Trouble. Wait, I don't think, I know. Unless you give me some very good plot tips of yours (puppy eyes). Please? Anyway, yahoo! I'm going to have fun with this chapter! The joy! The terror! The… oh, whatever! And thanks, Mayura, for e-mailing me back! How did you like your chapter? I thought I captured everything, but I did add in Selene, your caramel colored kitty. Meow, I love kitties! Please e-mail me back! I'll start on that story ASAP, once I finish this one. I don't want to do two fics at a time, I have to learn to only do one at a time, or else it will be a disaster and I'll never finish either of them and… well… it just isn't pretty! So I don't want to do that one and have me still working on this. And besides, you won't have to wait that long. This story won't take a long time to finish.

Beast Boy sighed and leaned back to the couch headrest. Ever sense Terra had left, nothing had been the same.

Starfire had tried to keep up his usual happiness, and tried to cheer everyone else up, but the tower just felt empty. Cyborg spent hour after hour in the garage, 'fixing up the t-car'. Raven spent almost every living hour in her room, and Robin was constantly in the workout room, training for what only God knows. With Slade defeated, their only real enemy was wiped out. The rest of the villains were no real threat, and crimes had become scarce in Jump City. Things were now quite boring.

Isn't it amazing, he asked himself, how two blond haired twins can change everything? Raven and Lauren had a very unlikely friendship. Though sharing none of the same interests and hobbies, Raven had confided in her, and even got her into meditating.

Terra, well, was Terra. Fun loving and caring, whenever they had a boring hour, she'd jump up and say, 'hey, lets all go to Pizza Hut and throw pizzas at the annoying waiters and waitresses' or something like that (A/N: just for the record, I don't own Pizza Hut either). Oh, don't worry, they never did that. That was just an example of something Terra might want to do.

Yep, he concluded, you can't find element-controlling, goddess summoning, blonde twins like those. No matter how far you looked.

He jumped up. He had the perfect plan! It would give them something to do, and get Raven out of her room. How much meditation did that girl need?

He stood up and headed to the kitchen. He would start his recruit with Starfire.

"Hey, Star!" He bounded into the kitchen, and Starfire flashed one of her warm smiles.

"Why, hello friend! What is it that makes you want to journey into the realm of stoves and appliances, as you call, the kitchen?"

Well, Beast Boy thought to himself, she can certainly extend a simple 'Hey' into a lengthy greeting. He smiled and laughed at his own burst of humor.

Starfire tilted her head and looked at him strangely, "Beast Boy, what is so humorous?"

He stopped immediately, figuring out that he was laughing at something he had never said out loud. A sweat drop appeared on his forehead and he giggled nervously.

"Hey, I was just wondering, you know how the days have been getting a little boring lately?"

"Well, I have noticed that they are a bit uneventful-"

"Yeah, so have I," he cut her off, obviously exited about what he was going to say next, "So I was thinking that we could take a trip to visit Terra! Where do they live? Narasville, or something like that. Anyway, it'll be FUN, and we can see the two girls again!"

Starfire floated up and down with excitement, "Oh, glorious! That would be most enjoyable, friend!"

Beast Boy grabbed her hand and dragged her to the garage, "come on," he said, "let's go get Cyborg!"

The two friends reached the garage and found Cyborg polishing the car that didn't need to be polished and singing softly under his breath:

"When there's trouble you know what to do…

Call Cyborg!

He can shoot a rocket out of his shoe….

Call Cyborg!"

Then he realized that he wasn't alone in the garage, and sped around quickly and was face to face with BB.

"What are you doing in my garage?"

"Oh!" Starfire stepped in before Beast Boy could say anything, "friend Beast Boy wishes to go an adventure to Narasville, to see our friends Lauren and Terra again. And it would be most enjoyable if we could share the moment with all of our friends!"

Cy smiled and put down the polish, "sounds great to me. It's been boring here in the tower because those blonde twins left. Now it'll be harder getting Rae and Rob to join."

"Oh, glorious, Cyborg! Let us now venture into the room of training to acquire Robin for our quest!" And with that, Starfire sped up the stairs.

Robin was madly punching at the punching bags, wondering.

Why the heck are you spending your life training?

Robin aimed a kick and shot back to himself.

Simple. There is nothing better to do.

And with that, he continued to throw punches and kicks.

The trio came into the 'room of training' and saw robin madly kicking and punching at the poor, helpless punching bag. They couldn't tell if he was angry or not. You never could tell with that mask…

"Robin?" Starfire asked softly, and Robin immediately stopped his marshal arts practice and faced them.

"So what's this party I didn't get invited to?"

This time Beast Boy said the little speech, "we're going to go visit Terra and Lauren, so come on!" And without further ado, he grabbed Robin by the wrist and headed out the door Raven's room.

Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg all stood in front of Raven's door. Slowly, Starfire lifted up her wrist and knocked.

"Raven, it is Starfire."

"And Cyborg," Cyborg said, "and Beast Boy and Robin."

"We wish to invite you on a quest! We wish to go to Narasville and visit our long lost friends!"

Raven opened her door slightly, just enough for them to see their eye.

"Give me one good reason to leave my room. Just one."

Starfire looked straight into Raven's eyes (or in this case, eye) and said, "You will be able to see Lauren again, and we will get out of our tower and actually do something."

Then you could see the ever so faint of smiles on her face, and she said, "be right back."

She closed her door again, and then opened it fully. She was in her uniform, like all of them, hood up.

"Let's go."

They all got into the garage and piled into the t-car. Cyborg set up the navigational system and off they went onto the highway, singing along to the radio's cheesy songs. About two hours later, they finally reached the sigh that said 'Welcome to Narasville' and they all piled out of the car. Then stopped dead.

"No way"

"I don't believe it"

"Gasp"

"What happened?"

They all looked at each other and nodded. They split up and looked around the town. Not really knowing what they were looking for, just some trace of life.

Beast Boy ran on the sidewalk, looking this way and that. He climbed up the remains of houses and looked for anything. Throughout all of this, he was franticly screaming, "TERRA!"

Raven walked down the middle of the road, turning her head this way and that. She wasn't as frantic as Beast Boy was, but she was still worried. I mean, they were her friends. She was worried about them, and she wanted to find them.

Then she saw a figure dash behind a burnt down house, and Raven followed. The person was either a Narasvillian, who could tell her what happened, or an enemy, which could also tell them what they did. A win win situation.

The person led her on a sort of U around the house, and once she rounded the corner, she was gone.

Raven shook her head and desisted to search the porch, I mean, she was so close to it already. She climbed up the steps slowly, and then spotted something glittery on the ground. She bent down and picked it up, only to find it was a picture of a family. Not just any family, but the Markson family.

"Hey, guys!" She yelled urgently, "Look at this."

They all ran over and Beast Boy grabbed the picture. They all looked so happy in the photo, like they were just living a carefree life. Not expecting the sorrow that would crowd their lives. Just looking at it he could feel their happiness.

"Friends," Starfire said, "look at this."

They all went to Starfire, who bent down and dusted off a stone tablet with odd words on it.

(A/N: if you don't know what tablet that is… I cannot help you)

Raven looked it over and said quietly, "this is the secret language of Azarath. Not many people know this."

But she seemed to know it, because soon she was chanting the same spell that Terra and Lauren had chanted less then a week before.

After Raven finished the spell, the same swirling vortex and got sucked in. In an instant, they were laying on the ground. They weren't in a forest, but inside a dark, dim house.

They immediately got up, and looked around. It was cold and dark, and they could barely see a thing.

"Okay," Beast Boy said, trying to lighten the mood, "maybe this vacation wasn't such a good idea."

"No," said a female voice from the corner, "it was a perfect idea."

The girl switched on the lights, and the warehouse was brightly illuminated. They turned to the corner where the voice had come from.

It was Raven.

Raven tore away from the group and went up to the other Raven. The other Raven stood her ground, violet eyes meeting violet eyes.

Raven tore her sight away, "Don't worry. I'll explain everything."

They all sat in a circle, facing Raven.

"Okay, where do I begin? To you, this world is messed up. Not the same, you don't get anything, yadi yada. So, to you this is a parallel universe. You guys," she pointed to Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy, "are evil. You," she pointed to Raven, "are considered a witch, and people discriminate ageist you and try to capture you, because they can get a lot of money if they turn you in and you get burned at the stake. You are in danger every moment."

"Now, the people you know as villains are the Teen Titans. Icicle, Gizmo, Jinx, Mammoth, a new guy named Eric, and Slade."

"WHAT?" Robin yelled, "SLADE IS A TEEN TITAN?"

Raven raised her hand, "and everyone- except raven- is an evil person in a group called the Red Serpent. Come on, you can get a better grasp on things."

They all headed out of the strange house, to find Jump City! Before they could get on the main road, Raven pulled them aside and behind the house they had emerged.

"You can't be seen!" She said urgently, "it would be weird for them so see the Red Serpent hanging out with Raven, and then they'd see me and you and think that I used my witchcraft and cloned myself and I'll be more wanted then ever!"

"So then," Raven shot back to the other Raven, "what should we do to get home?"

Other Raven smiled, "Mt. Recna. Come on."

And, putting their full trust into someone they barely knew, they left to the giant mountain.

Yes, you've waited so long for such a short chapter. I'm such a bad, evil, not nice person (repeats while whacking self). And I also have to say it's not my best work. I've done better, much better. Sorry, I wrote this at two o' clock in the morning, and the only reason I'm awake is because I've just drunk three Mountain Dew's. Give me some credit, here!

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