TheDenied: Thanks, I'm glad you like him. I'm not going to explain everything about him right away, but you will find out a lot more about him as the story progresses.
Angel Caida: Wish granted!
"Wow. The Boy Wonder eats at a greasy place like this?" Raziel said, causing Robin to smile slightly.
"Hey you came here too." Robin replied. Raziel conceded the point and nodded smiling while trying to keep his composure. He could remember watching Robin die, and now here he was standing before him. He thanked Robin and took his meal from the counter and turned to go eat at an empty table. He didn't want to risk an outburst.
"You're not from around here are you?" Robin said, and Raziel stopped and nodded silently. "Then why don't you come eat with us? I'll introduce you to my friends."
"You serious?" Raziel replied, slightly surprised.
"Sure why not?" Robin smiled and lead Raziel towards a table where four people that Raziel recognized despite the fact had been a long time since he'd seen any of those faces. The last time he had seen them they'd been older, no longer teens but adults. He remembered all four of thier deaths too.
"This is…" Robin said as he started to introduce Raziel but realized that he hadn't gotten his name. He looked at Raziel who took up where Robin had left off.
"Raziel. And you are Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire." Raziel said pointing to each Titan in turn still barely keeping the tears from his eyes.
Adonis, a frail boy who had gained control of a robotic suit that gave him strength that rivaled that of Superman himself. When he had the suit on he felt like he could do anything. And he tried. This lead to an aggravating habit of smashing things that belonged to other people, such as, cars, homes, buses, stores, small animals, groceries, and anything else that he decided to lift.
Today it was cars. Random cars. Like that one just outside that pizza place…
The Tamaranean princess had just enough time to hear the boys name and have a quick sip of mustard before the large green car that was spinning wildly through the air cast a shadow over the patio. Reacting quickly Starfire flew upward and caught the car, and was about to send it back to whoever had thrown it when she noticed that the car had occupants who had just 'misplaced their lunch' as she believed it was said on Earth.
Robin and the other reacted quickly jumping down from the patio and engaging Adonis. Robin attacked first swinging his collapsible staff, and though he scored several hits he caused no more harm to Adonis than a marshmallow would cause an enraged elephant. Robin was quickly swatted away. He smashed into a car and his body left a large dent in the side of it.
Beast Boy and Cyborg attacked in tandem next. Beast boy became a armadillo and rolled himself into a ball as Cyborg picked him up and threw him like a baseball, at Adonis. Beast boy changed again in mid-air, this time into a huge rhinoceros, but Adonis grabbed the huge animal out of the air and sent Beast Boy flying back at Cyborg. Cyborg was unable to get out of the way and the two of them were unable to move for a few moments.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven chanted as dark shadows moved around several random objects, namely a parking meter, a fire hydrant and more importantly a car. She sent these objects flying towards Adonis and while if they had connected they would have caused some damage, the self-obsessed, red suited,boy grabbed the parking meter and using it like a bat, sent the fire hydrant flying back at Raven who was caught in the chest and had the wind knocked out of her, causing herto lose her concentration. Without Raven's powers driving it, Adonis easily ripped through the car like he was shredding paper.
Starfire who had set down the car she had caught, as well asit's rather messy and unhappy occupant now charged into battle firing her starbolts at the huge red machine driven boy. The starbolts, though they did sting slightly didn't cause any real damage and once Starfire drew closer Adonis grabbed her bythe footand threw her forcefully onto the ground. Adonis pulled his fist back to drive a hammering blow that would likely cause some permanent damage to most anything.
"Starfire!" All Robin could do was call out to her. He was to far away to be able to get to her in time. Raven couldn't make her lungs work well enough to cough out her magic words, and Beast Boy and Cyborg were just now managing to stand. But there was one force still to be reckoned with. That force just happened to be a boy who put himself between Adonis and Starfire, and caught the punch with one hand.
"You will not harm Princess Koriand'r!" Raziel said in a strange voice like that of three diferent people saying the words. His eyes glowed dark blue slightly around the edges as he clenched his right fist, knuckles crackingaudibly. Raven tried to sense whatwas going on butall she feltcoming off him was purerage.Razielraised the clenched fistand smashed a blow into the red armored chestthat not onlycompletlywreckedthe armorit also knocked Adonis out completely.
Raven alone saw the dark energy that wasswirling around him, but as the moment faded so did the evil aura to be replaced by a bright shade of blue. She no longer felt the anger that had run off him in crashing waves, but instead a calm and simple peace flowing gently from him. Raziel fell to one knee and put a hand on his forehead andRaven saw the blue energy slowly return back into the boy's body and he stood again though he swayed a little, his eyes no longer glowed.
"Starfire! Are you alright?" Robin asked as herushed over to where Raziel knelt with his back to Starfire and helped the injured girl stand.
"You… You are Tamaranean…" Starfire whispered softly to Raziel. She hadn't been paying enough attention to notice earlier, but now she felt it somehow, she knew he was one of her own race, and more importantly of her own family. But For now she couldn't say much more. Her back ached where she had hit the ground. The pain was so bad that she had to lean heavily on Robin just to stand. For some reason Robin didn't seem to mind.
"No…" Raziel said quietly, his breathing labored. "I'm only... half Tamaranean…" With that he fell forward and hit the ground with a soft thud, completely unconscious.
"He saved Starfire, Raven. The least we can do is let him stay here for until he wakes up." Robinsaid plantively tothe violet haired girl.
"No Robin. There is something aboutI don't trust. There is more to this person than we know. We can't trust him." Raven argued back. She was right about not knowing much about him. They knew almost nothing about him other than his name. He hadn't stirred since he fell on the ground and after the police had taken Adonis into custody they had brought him back to the Tower, and ever since the Raven and Robin had been arguing.
"Look, if you want to you can stay up and watch him, but otherwise, he stays. I will not repay himrisking his own life to protect Starfire by throwing him out in the streets." With that Robin stood and walked out of the living room leaving Raven alone with Raziel still unconscious on the couch covered with a blanket and his head propped on a pillow.
Raven looked at the boy and knew there was something familiar about him, but she couldn't quite place it. She decided to do a little soul searching. Of course she wouldn't be searching her own soul, it would be this strange young man's soul. She crossed her legs and quieted her own mind.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…" She chanted slowly to herself. Soon her mind drifted away from her body and entered the boy's dreams.
Robin knocked softly on Starfire's door althoughas he did healmost hoped that she would not answer.
"Come in friend." Came Starfire's muffled voice through the door. Robin touched the door and it slid upwards revealing the lying on her stomach looking directly into his eyes.
"I was wondering if there was anything I could do for you. You shouldn't be moving around to much after that hit." Robin said as he walked slowly through the door. In truth that had very little to do with him being in Starfire's room. In that horrible moment before Raziel had stopped Adonis, Robin had been scared. Scared of losing Starfire. The strange alien girl had always been important to him, but he hadn't realized just how important until he had thought he was going to lose her. That thought alone had been enough to shake him to the very core of his being.
"I am fine, friend, Robin." The girl replied, staring back at him with those big green eyes. Some days Robin felt like those eyes could see straight past his mask. This was one of those days. "I merely require some sleep, and I will be fine in the morning, but you are troubled." She continued, and Robin froze up.
"What do you mean Star?" He said gulping.
"I'm not entirely sure. You seem nervous and your forehead has begun sweating. Are you suffering from the Glarfkontos?" She said. Robin prayed that wasn't the Tamaranean equivalent of a crush.
"Uh… I don't know what your talking about… um… I'm gonna go to bed now." Robin said as he ran out the door. Unfortunately for Robin, no amount of praying would change the meaning of Glarfkontos, and he had just proven to Starfire that he had it. She smiled into her pillow as she began to drift off into sleep.
Raven slowly glided downward through the darkness of the dream to land soundlessly on the cracked and broken pavement. Somewhere there was sound. The sounds of a battle. Strangely though the sky was pitch black the horizon glowed a combination of red and orange and yellow. Raven floated upwards once again and flew towards what she thought was a sunset. She couldn't have been more wrong. Explosions were causing the sky to change color.
Bodies littered the ground, men shredded to pieces, demons with hole blown out of them, body parts strewn about at random.As she drew closer to the battle, she began to be able to make out the shapes of people. There were seven of them, fending off wave after wave of demons. It was a moment before she realized who those people were.
The Titans. Much older but the Titans none the less. Robin was taller had scars all across his face, and he still hid behind his mask. Cyborg was huge, new additions to his suit were everywhere, but all of the parts looked as though they had been scavenged from a junkyard. Beast Boy was there and was surprisingly handsome during the few moments he was in human form. Starfire seemed almost unchanged, still beautiful but her eyes showed the toll that all this death was taking on her. Raven was there, and she seemed even darker than ever, he cloak black and dark bags underneath her eyes. Raziel was there as well, fighting against the never ending hordes of monsters. There was another but Raven could not make her out because of the yellowish glow around her.
As she watched however the Titans began to fail. One by one the Titans faded and disappeared, until Raziel was fighting alone. He fought bravely but it was all futile and as Raven watchedfear began to seep into his eyes. Without warning Raziel's head snapped aroundand hestared directly at Raven, his eyes widening. Suddenly the dream faded away and she was left with just him. But it was not just him. There were three Raziel's walking towards her in perfect unison.
One who stood on Raziel's left side was hatred, darkness and ragepersonified and Ravenknew thatthe black energy that had come off of Raziel earlierhadcome directly from him. On Raziel's right there was another who seemed to be the polar opposite of the black Raziel. His face was a slightly paler color, and she felt again the peace that had come from Raziel after the darkness had left him. Raziel stood between them and as he drew closer to Raven all three spoke as one.
"Leave. Now." Were the only to words that she heard,andRaven felt almost forced to comply. She began to back away and without conscious effort she felt hermind pushed out of Raziel's mindand sent directly back to her own body. She found herself lying on the ground her hands over her eyes and gasping for breath.. It was a few moments before she could regain control of herself. When she finally was able to stand again she found Raziel still laying on the couch, staring at her.
"Stay out of my mind, Raven." Raziel said quietly.