Chapter Three: Frustration

The Titans were all sitting around the campfire, singing badly and telling cheesy ghost stories. It was good to see the titans having fun, well, except Raven. She was trying to meditate through Starfire and Cyborg's horrible voices combined, Beast Boy telling horrible jokes and Robin's pathetic attempts to keep the fire going. He wasn't very good because it was very dim. Robin was becoming frustrated, so he started to yell at it. Raven finally gave up when Cyborg said something to her.

"Hey Rae! Come roast marshmallows with us! They're good!" He said to her. She looked over at him and said…

"I think I'll pass." Raven was really trying to meditate still. Starfire had finally stopped singing her horrible folk songs; Beast Boy and Terra were already roasting their marshmallows. Beast Boy was so busy staring at Terra, he didn't realize that he stuck his marshmallow to Terra's.

"Uh, Beast Boy. Your marshmallow is stuck to mine." Terra pointed out without looking at him. She then looked over to meet his eyes for a quick second before they looked away, embarrassed.

"Raven, you must roast the marshmallows with us. It is most entertaining to watch them light on fire and twirl them around!" Starfire was lighting her marshmallows on fire and Robin was trying to tell her that she was supposed to lightly toast and then eat them, not light them up.

"If it'll make you guys happy, I guess it couldn't hurt…" Raven said.

"Great!" Cyborg exclaimed. "Now how all you do is take the marshmallow and put it on the end of your stick like this." He showed her how to do it. Raven sat there paying no real attention to Cyborg. She was wishing she could read or meditate or something at least slightly entertaining. Robin and Starfire were sitting next to each other; Beast Boy of course was sitting next to Terra, which left Cyborg sitting next to Raven. They were still stuck, so they were sitting in a circle around the campfire. Eventually they told their ghost stories, ate their marshmallows and started to get ready for bed. They had to use extra large sleeping bags, seeing as they were stuck together. After they all got set up in their pajamas, they set good night and went to bed. About an our later, Cyborg was asleep, holding a little teddy bear and snoring loudly making it hard for anyone else to go to sleep.

"He sounds like a garbage truck. I can't take it anymore!" Raven really was cranky, not that she isn't normally, but now that she was tired, she was about to explode on poor Cyborg.

"Relax, he's just snoring." Robin was trying to calm Raven down. Beast Boy and Terra had managed to fall asleep also. Starfire was going to have a difficult night with Cyborg hogging up most of the space again. Plus he was snoring, so it seemed like poor Starfire wasn't going to get any sleep that night, or for the next month. They finally all got to sleep, but Starfire wasn't so cheery the next morning. Cyborg was frying bacon on the little frying pan he had brought with him. Beast Boy was trying to shove his tofu bacon onto the pan, but Cyborg wouldn't let him. They were arguing pretty ferociously.

"If I didn't cook that tofu stuff yesterday, what makes you think I'll cook it today?" Cyborg asked Beast Boy.

"Because you feel like being nice today?" Beast Boy sounded hopeful.

"Nah." Cyborg said. "I don't think so." The boys continued to argue until Starfire had heard enough of it. She beat Raven to the punch.

"SHUT UP!" Starfire yelled. Both of the guys and Raven were stunned and they all fell silent right away.

"What's her deal." Beast Boy whispered to Cyborg.

"I don't know man. Maybe she's got a rock in her shoe or something." Cyborg whispered back.

"Mornin' guys." Terra said as she and Robin walked out of the tent. They both looked rough. Robin's normally messy hair was like a jungle and Terra's hair was on the fritz. "Thanks for breakfast, Cyborg."

"No problem! It's fresh eggs and bacon made over a natural flame. Mmmm mmmmmm! And it smells so good!" Cyborg was boasting about his breakfast he made.

"Hi Starfire." Robin said to her, but she just looked away. "What's wrong with Starfire?" Robin whispered to Cyborg.

"I think she has a rock in her shoe or something. Eggs?" Cyborg offered the delicious looking eggs to his friend.

"Sure Cyborg." The two of them sat down and started to pig out as usual. Raven was sipping her herbal tea, Beast Boy was now just getting the chance to cook his breakfast, and he seemed very angry about it. Terra was eating some of Cy's bacon and Starfire was sitting there with a grumpy look on her face.

"Yo Terra stop stealing my bacon!" Cyborg took the strips of goodness from her.

"You should share Cyborg!" Terra and Cyborg were having a tug of war with the bacon and yelling when Starfire yelled even more loudly.

"Stop!" Starfire shouted so the entire forest could here her.

"Starfire why did you yell like that?" Robin asked her with shock in his eyes.

"I have not been sleeping so well lately due to some unfortunate circumstances." She said grimly as she looked at Cyborg. All the others looked at him too.

"What?" Cyborg asked as they all gazed at him.

"Your snore sounds like a garbage truck." Raven said while sipping her tea.

"Yeah dude. Seriously you need like snore control or something." Beast Boy was trying not to be mean.

"Oh come on, it's not that bad. In fact it's good payback for what I have to go through." Cyborg said.

"Please Cyborg, enlighten us." Raven said while she was looking down at her book.

"Alright, I will. You know how annoying it is to have to take an hour out of your day just so Starfire can fix her hair. I don't know who she's trying to impress, but they're sure getting a lot of Starfire's time…"

"Okay Cyborg, we get it." Robin said, seeing were this might be headed.

"At least you don't have to sit there for hours listening to Azerath Metrion Zinthos. I spend so much time listening to that and doing nothing it's pathetic. I can't even really think without hearing those words over and over…." Beast Boy seemed rather angry. Apparently the anger was spreading like a cold.

"Well excuse me, but I didn't think that you could actually think deeply." Raven said to him, which apparently, was crossing the line.

"Raven, that's it! I've had it! I've had it with your attitude, I've had with your insults and I've had with your complaints! Even when I try to be nice and try to make you laugh, all you do is shun me or make fun of me or my jokes! Well guess what Raven? I've had enough!" Beast Boy was shouting very loudly.

"What are you going to do about it?" Raven said to him.

"This." Beast Boy morphed into a tiger. Even though Raven was stuck to him he was able to claw her across the stomach.

"Raven!" Cyborg, Starfire, Robin and Terra all shouted.

"Sleep tight." Robin threw his electric disk at Beast Boy, knocking him out. Meanwhile, in the depths of a dark, abandoned warehouse Slade was reviewing his plans.

"Excellent work, Plasmus. The titans are falling into my trap. Soon they will be so busy fighting each other they won't have time to stop me. Who knows, they may even eliminate each other for me. Wouldn't that be nice?" Slade was very confident in his plans. Back at the tower the titans were already having some issues.

"How could he just attack her like that?" Cyborg said in disbelief.

"I don't know, but these two have been fighting for a long time. Beast Boy just had just had enough of Raven's insults." Terra explained.

"Oh so now you're gonna blame Raven for this." Cyborg said.

"Yeah I probably should. She is always being mean to Beast Boy. He only tries to help her." Terra said to Cyborg.

"I wouldn't consider clawing her across the stomach helping her." Robin interrupted. "Raven may not be the nicest person but she would never harm Beast Boy like this. What Beast Boy did was cruel and stupid." Robin said to her simply.

"You never help Beast Boy, you always stick up for Raven. Why is it always his fault?" Terra shouted.

"It wouldn't be his fault if he wasn't always causing the problems!" Robin shouted. Terra and Robin continued to argue about whose fault it was while Starfire and Cyborg argued about their bad habits. It was not a good day for the Titans at all.