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Yay! Chapter twenty-eight! Sorry if this chapter is boring. I desperately wanted to do another fight scene, so…yeah. But there's a 'Raven Rage' scene, so it's fun. It also builds on the story quite a bit.
Thanks so much for all the reviews! You make me feel so special! I'm sorry again for not putting the lemon. I don't have anything against pre-marital sex, I just don't think it's something we adolescents should be doing. And there's also the fact that Rae and BB have only been together for a day or two in the story. It's easy to forget because I put too many chapters into a single day of events. Thanks for being so supportive of my beliefs and not yelling at me for not putting the lemon. You guys rock!
Anyone notice how much they play Spellbound lately? When will the new episodes come?
I also love how I didn't get any Terra haters sending angry reviews about chapter 27. Thanks you guys, because I know a lot of you probably hate her.
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Raven slowly blinked her eyes open. She gave a slight yawn and rolled over to rest her head on Beast Boy's chest. He was still asleep. Rubbing her cheek lightly against his warm skin, Raven inhaled his welcoming scent that was a mixture of sunshine and morning air. She gave a contented sigh. Beast Boy stirred even at the slight sound and lifted his head from the pillow it rested on.
"Hey," he said quietly, kissing her cheek. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him as the sound of the alarm blared in their ears. The door slid open.
"Beast Boy, there's trouble. Don't even ask for five more minutes-" Robin began before noticing the scene before him and averting his eyes. "Really nice you two. Put your clothes on and let's get moving." he withdrew from the room and the door slid shut behind him. Beast Boy and Raven looked at each other and burst into laughter as they crawled out of bed and put on the rest of their clothes.
"Well, he probably got a weird idea of what we were doing," Beast Boy said with a chuckle.
"It's his own fault for jumping to conclusions," Raven said, finishing with fastening her cloak and quickly clasping her belt around her waist. "Let's get going before he comes back."
Beast Boy laughed and followed her out of the room.
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A few minutes later, the distinct sound of flapping wings, flying bodies, motorcycles, and supercars occupied a path in Jump City, telling the citizens that the day was as good as saved. No matter how formidable the threat might be, it was no match for the Teen Titans.
It wasn't hard to find the source of the disturbance. Cinderblock certainly wasn't being quiet about things. It looked like a routine bank robbery, except for the fact that half of the building had been taken down by Cinderblock's massive body.
"Why can't they ever just use ski masks anymore?" Beast Boy complained after changing from a falcon to his original form and landing in the street beside Robin, who was climbing from the seat of the R Cycle.
"Who is he working for this time? We know by now that he's too stupid to pilot anything of his own," Raven asked from behind them.
"I don't know. I'm thinking maybe Dr. Light. But right now that's not what matters. What matters is taking him down. Titans, go!" Robin shouted. The five teenagers flew into attack mode, Robin in front. Cinderblock's colossal fist slammed into the pavement just to Robin's left, and Robin leaped unflinchingly up the rocky arm and onto the huge idiot's head as Cyborg hit the monster in the face with a series of blasts from his sonic boom. Cinderblock made a move to hit Cyborg, and though he didn't even come close, Starfire flew in defensively with eagerness to protect her friend from harm. She shot innumerable Starbolts straight at the stony head. His dull eyes turned slowly in her direction and he moved to strike, only to be startled by Robin leaping in from the side and giving the fist a swift kick. Robin's muscular leg delivered a forceful blow, and Cinderblock's strike was knocked off course, instead slamming into the side of the bank and knocking yet another hole in the partially demolished building.
The feeling of unity and the use of teamwork was increasing steadily among the Teen Titans these days, and it showed considerably. All the training Robin had been drilling into his team lately was also paying off: they were faster and more aggressive than ever before. It was clear that Cinderblock was getting frustrated by the fact that another team member flew to the defense of whomever he tried to attack. He was getting flustered already and they weren't even very far into the battle.
"He's losing strength! Let's take him down!" Robin shouted. "Beast Boy, Raven, Maneuver 16!"
Beast Boy morphed into the shape of a finch, flittering around Cinderblock's head to distract him. The cloudy eyes of the huge criminal followed the small green bird stupidly, unable to concentrate on anything but the twittering animal.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven shouted, catching Cinderblock off guard as she hit him with a jet of psychic energy and sending him flying backward into the street with a crash and a cloud of dust.
Beast Boy landed in the street as his normal self and cheered, giving Raven a high-five. "Yeah!" he said.
The massive column of stone scrambled to his feet once more, allowing only a few seconds of victory for the young team of superheroes before he began his single-minded mission to pummel them once more. Raven had been the one who had hit him, and he was able to wrap his tiny mind around this as he steadied himself and looked his foes in the faces. He charged forward. Raven's guard had dropped for mere seconds, but it was enough to put her in severe jeopardy. Beast Boy sensed this, and without even allowing himself a moment of thought he leaped in front of the Azarathian, the stone fist slamming into his own chest instead of hers.
Beast Boy flew backward, too shocked by the sudden blow to even morph as he sailed a graceful arc through the sunny morning air. A pair of arms wrapped themselves around him in midair and stopped his fall completely. Still stunned, he looked dazedly up into the face of Raven as she landed quickly on the ground with him in her arms. There was a look of deep concern on her face that he could not recall ever seeing before.
"Are you alright?" she asked, her voice a bit rushed with worry.
"Yeah," Beast Boy managed to wheeze, realizing only now that Cinderblock's punch had knocked the wind out of him. He gulped in a few breaths of the cool, refreshing air and felt the pinched feeling ebb. He felt her hand lightly brush his cheek with all the tenderness of a dove's wing.
"Are you sure?" Raven asked, a bit less panicked.
"Yeah. We need to go fight," Beast Boy answered, trying to hop out of her arms, but she held him back.
"No, you're not. You're staying here," she said. Beast Boy opened his mouth to protest, but Raven covered it. She removed her hand and placed it on his chest, pressing lightly. He winced. "See, you're hurt. You stay here and we'll take care of that useless piece of concrete," Raven said with a dangerous anger at Cinderblock in her voice.
"Is everything OK?" Cyborg asked. Raven turned to the cybernetic man standing a few feet behind her and deposited Beast Boy gently into his arms, turning to face Cinderblock. She took several steps forward and then hovered a few feet off the ground, starting toward the hulking villain. She stopped about two yards away from the mass of cement, starting to tremble with fury as she levitated higher to meet his eye level. The other four Titans watched with mixed expressions. Something told them that Cinderblock had crossed the line.
"You….hurt….my…Beast Boy!" Raven hissed, malice dripping from every syllable and her voice growing with every word until she was screaming. Her violet eyes narrowed and glowed the bright crimson of a true demon unmasked. "No one hurts Beast Boy!"
With this she hit Cinderblock with a blast of energy, sending him slamming into the bank and knocking down what was left of the walls. He barely had time to scramble to his feet before she was upon him again, sending him crashing into the building to the bank's left. He didn't even have time to stand up this time before he was cloaked in Raven's black force and lifted into the air. In her state of rage, Raven's powers were even more forceful, and they were able to lift the huge weight almost effortlessly and slam him back down into the street. By now, the other four were watching with wide, almost frightened eyes.
"If you ever come near him again it will be the last thing you ever do!" Raven roared, lifting him again and slamming him down to meet the pavement once more, which was cracking more and more each time. She repeated this several times, slamming him into the cracked ground harder with each repetition. "No one ever hurts the only one I'll ever love!" she snarled maliciously. Cinderblock rose even farther in the air this time, ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet, rising continuously, and then came soaring back down at in incredible, unbelievable speed. "NEVER!" Raven yelled as Cinderblock collided with the street. The pavement buckled beneath the force and shattered and cracked in a ten foot radius. The force of the collision was so great that Cinderblock's huge body smashed into hundreds of pieces, crumbling across the street and sending the smaller bits of rock flying.
The immense roar of crashing noises died away and Raven hovered in the air for a moment, surveying what she had done in disbelief as her eyes faded slowly to their normal deep amethyst. She glided slowly back down to the ground and stood there for a moment as if in a trance. Her four friends encircled her at a safe distance of several feet, goggling at the thin girl who now stood quite placidly in the center of the street, which was now mostly an intricate web of cracks and missing chunks. All four of them seemed reluctant to speak. Robin and Cyborg both made several attempts but could find no words. Starfire and Beast Boy were both doing the same thing: standing still and watching Raven with surprised eyes.
Raven was unable to move for a moment, and then she stepped forward and wrapped her arms around Beast Boy, hugging him more intensely than ever before. She clung to the small green teenager desperately like a drowning man to a thrown rope before releasing him very abruptly and reluctantly.
"We need to get home," she said in a suddenly businesslike manner.
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More soon. Wow, Raven was scary. I can tell you one thing: you'd better not mess with Beast Boy.