Raventhedarkgoddess: And I'm still being lazy.....But hopefully this will be a little longer.
Chapter Three: Worth Fighting For
Expecting you to go away.
Leave me all alone.
Staring into space, so far.
The light is often shown.
Raven sighed deeply, a sound that made the people on the street around her that were close enough to hear the unearthly sound look at her oddly. Thankful for the hood on the jacket she'd found in Cyborg's room last month, she kept walking, quietly and reflectivly. Although it hung off her loosely and had a ratty hole in one pocket, it had belonged to Cyborg at one point and wearing it only reminded her of him and stiffened her resolution to figure his problem out even more. When I found out who did this, I'll kill them, she promised herself in her head.
Cyborg, she thought dulley. The streetlamp above her glowed an odd black color and she dodged a single shard of the glass as it hurled itself at the ground. I've got to be careful, she thought to herself. You can't help anyone if your idenity is figured out. Her feet lead her toward the back alley she walked down anytime she was in town, away from anything she could shatter and anyone that could possibly ask her questions.
Both of her eyes stayed to the ground as she moved forward. All she saw, though, was not the ground: It was memories of them, of training and riding in the T-car and smiles. What does it feel like to smile again? Raven thought. I'll just have to have Cyborg remind me when he wakes up. She didn't even notice the hand closing around her wrist until it was holding her in place.
"Don't make a sound. Just hand over all the money you got on you, nice and easy. We'll let you go then. First, money." Raven stared hard at the boy in the ski-mask. I could just avoid a scene, she thought. Would Cyborg avoid a scene? No! With that thought, Raven shook both thugs off her wrist. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven hollored, knocking both boys against the brick apartments so that their heads smacked first. The hood flew away from her head, and she sighed as the boys eyes traveled to her face. All cover was blown.
"It's that goth Titan girl. We shouldn't have attacked her, we're in so much trouble, we are such complete toast..... Ernie, I told you she looked strong, but you can't ever just listen, can you?" The shorter of the two boys was in a state of complete panic.
"Shhhhhhh," The boy called Ernie hissed. "Exactly like you said, it's that goth girl Titan who's been all over the tabloids lately. She likes that black guy, so she really wouldn't hurt anyone." He turned to face Raven. "Hey, come and hit me if you dare!"
"You have no right to talk about him like that. You don't even know him." Keeping her voice flat, her face calm, she stared the boy down. "You probably don't know what it's like to care about anything at all. So I suggest shutting your mouth unless you would like to go through the wall."
"Is that all you've got? A speech? Look, you're the one shaming yourself," Ernie told her, his deep voice hitting her right in the center of her fury. Without another word, she blasted both boys at the wall, holding them there, kicking Ernie, punching the other boy.
"Take it back, she hissed. "Take it all back right this second. Cyborg never did anything to deserve having punks like you on him." Ernie's blood had fallen across the front of the jacket she wore, the other boy was bruised but not bleeding.
"Apparently you Titans don't read the papers you're in. We take it back," he added at the sight of Raven's face. Both slumped to the ground, almost lifelessly but still breathing. Too angry to risk speaking again, Raven ran off into the night in the direction of the Tower.
The double doors to her home busted themselves open as she reached them. She ran inside and sank onto the couch, well aware that everyone's eyes were on her. Starfire was the first to reach her side, touching her hand gently. "Raven, what happened?" Always blunt and leaderlike, Robin cut straight to the point at the blood over the coat and t-shirt she was wearing.
"Some thugs and a dark alley." She shrugged it off. "It's their blood, not mine," she added in further explaination to everyone's shocked faces. "I'm gonna go get changed." She walked upstairs, leaving everyone staring after her in a shocked fashion.
Raventhedarkgoddess: Once again, rather short. But please reveiw it anyway.