Yea, yea, yea I know I know. I got to do the disclaimer. I don't own Teen Titans blah, blah, blah. Now that's all said and done time for the story.
Chapter 5: Big guns, Big decisions, and Big problems
Robin sat there on the metal floor of the training room for almost an hour after his "chat" with Sibuna. The thoughts replayed themselves over and over in his head.
'A city where even Slade would be scared to do something stupid for fear of you.'
"A city where even Slade would be afraid...is such a thing possible?" Robin knew the vampire was old and probably picked up stuff during his long un-life.
'I can help you and turn you into an even more feared crime fighter. Even Batman wouldn't be a match for you.'
Robin at one time would've thought that to be impossible as Batman was a master of every fighting style known to man and trained Robin personally. But Batman wasn't over 3000 years old, Sibuna was. Where Batman had experience, Si had more. He remembered what Si had said about not wanting to make him a slave or image of himself. That's what Slade wanted to do and Batman too in a way. An image of themselves. That's why Robin left Batman to start the Titans. He didn't want to be an image of Batman and wanted to be a normal teen. Robin wanted to rid his city of Slade and any villain . No not his city, the Titan's city. Then Raven popped into his head.
'He can help us against Slade.'
"Maybe I can accept him. Though when we do face Slade face to face, He's mine."
Robin picked himself up and left to get cleaned up. He got to his room without anyone seeing him and good thing too. He thought his face wasn't that messed up from the fight. Boy was he wrong. He noticed his face was swollen, his back was bruised, and his leg which felt like it was only lightly grasped had black bruise marks in the shape of a hand around it. Robin was amazed at the marks Si left and stepped in the shower hoping it would help him. Robin came out and noticed his face wasn't as swollen but the bruises were still there.
"Damn he really did a number on me. Wow."
He then heard a knock at his door. Not wanting to show himself off he put on his bath robe on and went to see who it was.
"Starfire? What are you doing here?"
"Im sorry did I come at a bad time?"
"No I just got out the shower that's all."
Starfire covered her eyes as she saw people do on the t.v. when they see others out the shower.
"Im sorry! I shall come back some other time!"
Robin closed the door after she left and sighed. Starfire was innocent and naive which is what he liked about her but he didn't know if he loved her like she knew he loved him.
"I'll think about it later." Robin changed into some normal clothes and went to the kitchen to eat. He found Cyborg and Beastboy arguing about who beat who in Smash Brothers. While Starfire was listening and making mental notes of what they called each other for later reference and last but not least a slightly annoyed Raven.
"Hey guys what's up?"
"Dude tin-man says he beat me but he didn't. My gender confused ninja beat your giant turtle fair and square!"
"No way man! Robin its like this. I beat Sheik with Bowser and grass-stain here says he won!."
Robin was trying to back out of this conversation like he always did so he turned his attention to Raven.
"What's wrong with you Rae?"
"My pet is mad I left his toy on the ceiling and says it's my fault. I told him he could get it when the sun goes down but he wants it now to see if it works."
"Hmm bummer well he'll just have to wait I mean he got what 5 hours left?"
"Just about."
"Where is he now?"
"Sleeping, he says it makes time go faster."
"When your what he is, everything makes time go faster"
"Though knowing him he has the ability to do that."
"Most likely Rae."
'So I take it you and him are getting along?'
'Yeah we are.'
'That's good.'
Robin went to the fridge and found nothing but blue furry food greeting him. He quickly slammed the door.
"Well guys it time for a grocery run."
All at once the room burst into joy as BB, Star, and Cyborg talked about what they were gonna get. Raven went to get more tea and found there was no more. Now she was glad for the run.
"Dude I call shotgun!"
"No you don't last time you wet yourself in the T-car!"
"That's cause you wouldn't pull over!"
"We were near the tower! You could've held it for another two minutes!"
"Guys can we go now?"
"Yes!" screamed both of them as they continued to argue all the way to the store.
What was supposed to be a quick hour long trip took five hours as the T-car was crammed full of food plus a new dog bed for Beastboy. The ride back was Hell on Earth as Beastboy turned on the radio to listen to N'sync while everyone else was trying to change it to something they wanted.
"What? I like that song."
"Were not listening to it."
"Why not?"
"Cause grass-stain if I have to here the phrase Bye, Bye, Bye! One more time im kicking you and your Cd out of here!"
"Well I thought it was a good song." Beastboy crossed his arms like a kid who got his toy taken away and started mumbling. They finally got to the tower but when they got there the sun was already down. They got all the food to the kitchen after 8 back and forth trips to the car.
"Ok everyone start putting stuff where it belongs. While I get rid of this blue gunk."
Robin found Sibuna tinkering with something in the living room while he threw the trash bag away.
"What are you doing?"
"Fixing my gun wonder-boy."
"Looks heavy."
"You have no idea." Sibuna slipped the ammo clip in and stood up aiming the gun at the wall and then putting it down.
"Wow."
"Like it? It's a shotgun version of a gun a friend of mine once had."
"It's nice, can I hold it?"
"I'll be surprised if you can pick it up."
Robin tried picking it up but to no avail as the gun barely even moved.
"What the hell is this thing made of?"
"Simple, it's made of pure silver."
Robin looked over the gun and whistled.
"That's a lot of silver. What does it fire?"
"13mm silver, armor piercing, high explosive, shrapnel bullets. Pretty powerful stuff."
"Wow armor piercing? Explosive? Just who or what do you shoot with this thing?"
"Vampires or fake ones at least."
"Then why do you need silver? And why hunt you own kind?"
"What the movies tell you is false. Crosses don't work, garlic does nothing, a wooden stake does jack shit. Only silver or specially blessed weapons can kill us. Also im nothing like the freaks that call themselves vampires but are simply man-made copies of true no-life kings like myself. They don't deserve to have un-life."
"Man-made vampires? That's possible?"
"In this day and age almost anything is possible."
'That's true.' Robin was getting interested by this conversation and decided to learn more.
"So tell me more about vampires. I've read a lot of books and movies and I want to know the truth."
"Well Dracula is real. He's in England right now. I fought alongside him before I was placed in that tomb. Also vampires can't turn you simply by biting you. Their victim has to be a virgin and they don't just drain you of blood they have to give you some of their blood when their done drinking yours. A newly turned vampire is called a fledgling and until they drink their master's blood they will remain a servant to the vampire who turned them."
Sibuna then noticed everyone gathered around him and Robin to hear this conversation. Then more questions came in.
"Dude what powers does a fledgling have?"
"None Beastboy. A fledgling has to get used to itself before it starts developing powers. It has to get used to its new eating habits, its new body, it has to learn to breath again as it doesn't need air to live anymore. Basically a fledgling is like a cadet."
"Dude I thought a fledgling would get all these cool powers and stuff. You know like turning into a bat or fog. Wait, can you guys do that or is that more movie propaga...prapagan...lies?"
"Yes BB we can do that and do so much more." Sibuna grinned at the thought of unleashing his powers. But wouldn't unless his mistress said so.
"Okay like what else can you do."
"Yes, I too would like to know your powers. Can you fly like me."
"Yes princess I can except I have wings and to answer the other question I can walk through walls, summon lots of nasty creatures, etc, etc. I'll show you all of them some time for now get ready because the alarm is about to go off."
"How do you know tha..." Cyborg was interrupted by the sound of the alarm going off.
"One of my powers is I can see a few seconds into the future if I need to."
"That's good to know." Robin brought up the screen which showed Cinderblock blocking the guards while a robot was sneaking into a building.
"Its Slade and he's trying to steal something from the bank."
"Sounds like fun, can I join the party?"
"Sure when Slade is involved we need all the help we can get."
"Finally I get to have some fun after so long."
"Titans Go!"