OK! I have now figured out that all of you don't like my story! Well except for the ones that said they did. For all of you nice reviewers I am grateful. Well here I am with a wonderful new chapter for you all to read. HA. Yeah right. Now this one might be a little confusing and I understand if you don't like it. To each his own, but I would like it if at the end of the chapter you did review so I know what to do better next time. Gracias!
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An hour and a half after the 'bedroom incident' the Titans were all sitting around the living room table the same bewildered look on their faces.
"Is anybody but me finding a pattern in this game?" Cyborg asked looking around the table.
"Oh" BB replied sarcastically "You mean besides the fact that Kyzein owns all but five of the properties?" The titans looked down, all of them owned a railroad except for Cyborg who owned Baltic Ave.
"Not to mention all the colorful pieces of paper Kyzein also has acquired." Starfire piped up.
"That's the money Star." Robin explained for the hundredth time. " I think it's safe to say nobody but Kyzein is going to win this game. How 'bout we pack it up?" There was a murmur of agreement and everybody started to put Kyzein's money and property away.
"Dude, are you sure you haven't played that game before?" BB questioned.
"Yeah I'm sure. But wh-"
"Are you willing to say that while taking a lie detector test?" BB whipped out an authentic tie detector "Now how do you work this thing?" Raven, who had been sitting quietly, rolled her eyes and started off to her room. Robin sighted and said something about going to train and walked off. Starfire was currently trying to help BB untangle himself from the wires of the lie detector. Cyborg turned to the alien boy
"Lets head to the garage, at least there we can hear our selves think." Kyzein nodded and followed the half robot out of the room. They headed down the dark corridors in silence the sounds of an aggravated BB fading into the back ground. Once they reached the bottom level of the tower Cyborg stopped in front of a large metal door marked garage.
"You'll have to excuse the mess. I haven't had the time to pick up the place." HE opened the door and fest for the light switch, upon finding it he flipped it on and walked into the room Kyzein stepped in behind him and looked around the room. On all the wall were arrangements of many different tools, two vehicles sat in the center, one a motorcycle the other a blue and white car. Cyborg walked over to the hood of the car, opened it and started to tighten some loose screws.
"Hey Ky, you don't mind if I call you that do ya?"
"No not at all." Kyzein replied shaking his head to emphasize.
"Well I'm not trying to be rude or too blunt or anything but I see Raven as a little sister. Will you hand me that screw driver?" Kyzein plucked the instrument off the wall and after handing it to Cyborg leaned casually against the R-Cycle. Cyborg continued, upper half still buried in the car "And I was just curious you know as to your intentions towards her."
"My intentions: Kyzein repeated watching as Cyborg stood up.
"Yeah. Like I said I don't mean to intrude but…. The last gut interested in her wasn't exactly someone you write home about."
"Malchior." Kyzein stated. Cyborg nodded and wiped his hands clean of any remaining grease.
"She told you about him."
"Yeah, she did" He said eyes turning red "That dragon should pay for what he did to Raven." Cyborg chuckled at his angry expression.
"Calm down sparky. Malchior has to spend the rest of his days in a book. While I woulda liked to punch him til he couldn't walk straight, I think his punishment is just." Kyzeins eyes turned to normal but a scowl still remained on his face.
"Well at least I know you'll never intentionally hurt Raven." Cyborg said, "But the question still stands. What are your intentions towards Raven?" Kyzein shifted against the R-Cycle. He looked at Cyborg and decided to answer him truthfully.
"I'm not…too sure." he frowned trying to explain himself. I came here to keep a promise to a very close friend. But it's been a long time since I've seen her and she's changed. I'be changed too but I also think my feelings towards her have changed. I just don't really…understand how." Cyborg smiled, he liked this boy and he was honest to him. Good pick Rae.
"Well," Cyborg began, deciding to help the boy "Lets start with the basics." Kyzein nodded uncertainly.
"O.K. Do you find her attractive?" Kyzein rose an eyebrow in a very Raven like manner but ansered the question.
"Yes."
"Do you think she's smart?"
"Extremely."
"Do you think she's funny?"
"In a sarcastic way."
"Is she kind?"
"Very"
"Is she selfish?"
"No."
"Does
she have a pretty smile?"
"Beautiful."
"Do you value her friendship?"
"More than you know."
"Well my friend, I have come to a conclusion."
"What?"
"I believe you like our little Raven a bit more that just a friend." Kyzein blinked. Did he really? Perhaps he did. It certainly would explain a lot, why he sometimes blushed around her, why he kept catching himself staring at her, why he disliked Robin….
"Does Robin like Raven?" Kyzein blurted, he was usually not this forward and outgoing but be found he was comfortable around Cy and he was very friendly.
Cyborg hesitated a bit before answering. He know the answer buty was unsure of whether or not to tell his newly found friend. He decided since Kyzein was true to him, then he'd be true to Kyzein.
"Yeah. Yeah he does." Kyzein nodded after receiving the information.
"I guess that explains his er… bluntness towards me."
" What?" Cyborg asked worried about his leaders way of handling situations. "He didn't do anything to ya did he?"
"Well if you call threats doing something then yeah." Cyborg cursed the spiky haired leader under his breath.
"What'd he say?"
" Just that he'd be watching me. And not to harm Raven for the most part." Cyborg ran a hand over his head and sighed.
"Guess I'll have to talk with him later." he murmured more to himself than to his companion.
"Oh you don't have to do that." Kyzein said quickly "I don't want you two to get angry at each other over me. I can handle it."
"You sure man?"
"Yeah it's fine." Cyborg shrugged
"Alright, but you tell me if he does anything OK?" Kyzein nodded.
"And you're alright with me um…. And Raven?" Cyborg chuckled
"Yeah man. I just wanted to make sure you didn't hurt her. It's not really like my opinion matters."
"It matters to Raven." Cyborg raised his brow. "Much like you see her as a little sister Raven sees you as an older brother. On Azarath brothers are held in high status."
"Really?" Kyzein nodded "You have any siblings Ky?"
" No. Just me" Cyborg nodded in understanding
"You wanna go back upstairs and play a game of Halo?"
"What's Halo?" Cyborg just grinned and walked out of the garage.
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Raven sat cross legged a few inches above her bed with her mirror laying face down on the surface. She frowned. She was battling whether or not to enter the mess that was her mind. Sighing she decided to just get it over with, she closed her eyes and chanted.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." She opened her eyes and found herself staring into the same pair of violet orbs.
"Well hi!" Raven cringed at the decibel level of Happy's boece. She reached out a hand and pushed the pink cloaked girl aside. She looked back to Happy.
"Has anything strange been going on here?" Raven asked glacing around her surroundings.
"Nope." Happy responded turning in circles so her cloak would twirl But we got two new friends." She stopped twirling to face Raven. "I should go and play with them!"
"No Happy wait!" but it was too late, the girl had vanished.
"She's a bit annoying isn't she?" a voice asked from behind Raven, the girl turned to see a yellow cloaked replica of herself.
"Yes knowledge she is. Scary to think she's a part of me." Have you net these two 'friends' she was speaking of?" Knowledge turned while beckoning Raven to follow her.
"Well of course. I don't think there's one of us who haven't." She walked towards a bare branched tree and stopped with Raven beside her. "She's here."
Upon hearing Knowledge's message tow figures materialized in front of Raven. The one on the left had a very light pink, almost white, colored cloak while the other was a soft Magenta. The one on the right spoke.
"Hello Raven. I am Lust." Raven's eyebrows rose.
"And I" said the pinkish Raven "Am Love." A nearby floating rock exploded. Raven turned to Knowledge
"You knew about these two, and you didn't tell me!"
"I and several others tried contacting you , but your mind was….elsewhere."
"Elsewhere?"
"You were too focused on other people and things to give us any attention." Raven sighed and levitated off the ground crossing her legs. Her three emotions followed suit.
"When did the two of you come to be?" Raven questioned
"Well I," Lust said in a sultry voice "just arrived after Kyzein came in your room."
"Well at least that explains my powers reacting the way they did." Lust laughed lightly (A.N. Lust Laughed Lightly. HAHA)
"That was fun,
and quite entertaining."
"Entertaining isn't exactly the
word I'd use." Lust just smirked "And you L-Love, how long have
you been here?" Love smiled
"Well I've been here for quite a while but-"
"No you haven't" Raven interrupted "I keep all of you here in Nevermore in check and I know who all is here. You can't have been here without my knowing."
"Well as I was saying, I've been here for quite sometime but just haven't been strong enough to have a form that can be seen." Love pulled her good down to reveal her face. "You see I wasn't here in the beginning because you never met your mother and your feelings towards your father are far from anything likeable." Knowledge grimaced "I first came to be after you got to know your team. You love them as any friend loves another friend. Then you started to love Cyborg-" Raven interrupted again.
"I don't love Cyborg. He's more…"
"An older brother, I know. But like a younger sister loves an older brother, you love Cyborg. You're feelings for him continue to grow in a brotherly love and I would have soon become a 'physical' form anyway."
"So…. Why are you here now instead of later? What made you appear?"
"Kyzein." Knowledge spoke for the first time in the conversation. Love nodded.
"You always liked Kyzein and were very close to him, but you were just too young to feel or understand the concept of love." Raven closed her eyes and nodded her head. "Now this isn't like love at first sight or anything. You're feelings for him are just becoming stronger and you're beginning to see him as more than a just friend. Raven reopened her eyes.
"Well that's just dandy. How do I know if my feelings for Ky, or anyone else for that matter, are getting stronger?" Love motioned to her cloak.
"As you can see, my cloak is a very light color, almost nonexistent. But as your feelings get stronger my cloak gets darker." Raven turned to Lust
"Then why is your cloak full of color and not faded like Love's?"
"Because I am not a growing emotion." Raven looked confused so Knowledge intervened.
"Love is something that grows over time. It doesn't come full force to you all of a sudden. Most of us emotions are just ones you have, you may feel more timid at times but that timedness in general will not grow. Same for lust, it is just there and you may feel it stronger for one person than for another, but it stays about the same. I am like love. You have gained knowledge over time, I'm sure you don't remember but when you were first born I was almost as white as Love over there, if not more. But as you got more knowledgeable my color got stronger."
Raven thought back and remembered a time some of the emotions were of lighter color, she had just thought it to be her memory going haywire. She sighed.
"Well while I do not like the fact that I am gaining more emotion I accept that. I already have too many of you to deal with. I think it will be easy to control you Love." Knowledge snorted " But you Lust" Raven said looking at the girl "I can already tell you are very hard to deal with. I don't want anything to happen with you understand?" Lust smiled and said
"OH I do hope Aqualad comes by." Before Raven could do anything like, kill her emotions Happy popped out of the tree above them.
"I found you!" She said glancing at Love and Lust. "Let's go somewhere else it's boring over here!" She grabbed the two girls hands and in an instant they vanished. Raven gave an exasperated sigh. Just then a girl in an orange cloak appeared. Humor.
"Ah. Love is like soap. Once you think you have it slips away!" Humor started to crack up holding her sides. Raven turned to Knowledge.
" I give up on all of you." She closed her eyes and chanted her mantra and when she looked through violet eyes again she was back in her room, her mirror laying flat on her bed.
She got off her bed and pulled on the sleeve of her sweater. She missed her cloak and leotard. The girl walked to her room just in time to see Cyborg and Kyzein pass by. Both Azarathians blushed. Kyzein kept walking but Cyborg stopped in front of the red girl.
"Oh did you get sunburn Rae?" He asked laughing. Raven glared at him. " Just joking Rae. What ya been doing?"
"I went to Nevermore."
"Oh, anything changed?" Raven started to walk off towards the direction of the training room.
"Nope," she called over her shoulder, "I'm still insane." Then she turned the corner and disappeared. Cyborg chuckled to himself before turning and catching up with Kyzein on the stairs.
"Dude" he said laying his hand on Kyzien's shoulder "sometimes I think we're the only ones sane in this whole giant T. " Kyzein looked at him as if he were the one insane but decided not to say anything. So the two headed towards the living room as the sun set over the lake, not knowing what was in store for them very next day.
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A.N.
There it is folks. Confusing? Good! Well I've decided not to make you all review eight times for my story to be continued but it would be greatly appreciated if you all did review at least once for constructive criticism. Please? I'm not too proud to beg!
Love,
TheAngelsShadow
