ALERT--WARNING--ETC: This chapter has not been edited. LadyHood has not responded to my email, and i hoped to make these chapters in by sunday. But do not fret, becuase that is the least of my worries.I am worried about LadyHood, i hope she's ok. i would hate it if something bad happened, she was so nice! i'm probably making a big deal, lol, but i remember when she first agreed to be my beta...she told me in a MONTHS advance that she wouldnt be able to be my beta fore a week. That was a while ago, which was canceled since she's just so cool. It just shows how responsible she is...so hopefully nothing happened, lets wait for a safe reply. Until then...these chapters will be mistake land! yay! Please bear with me.
"You're late." Raven said smugly as her visitors rushed in.
"Hardy har har Raven. We wouldn't have been if your stupid neighbors didn't annoy us about wearing gloves and mittens." Terra replied as she took a seat on the couch.
"You can take them off here."
The group looks to the doorway to see Falcon standing against the frame. He might be young, but he knew he was mentally smarter than the kids his age were. That came from his mother, and he was sure of it. Dove had the same thing. It was almost like sixth sense. Sensing the message behind the words. No wonder Raven got that chosen power.
"That's Falcon." Raven introduced as Terra, Kory, and Garfield took of their sunglasses and mittens.
"Hey guys. I guess I'll be seeing a lot of you all." Falcon started, "So mind telling me your names?"
Falcon had over heard the conversation Raven had with Crow a few minutes ago, and felt obligated to watch. Even if he wasn't any help.
"That's Terra, Kory, Richard, Garfield, which you already know, and the one sitting in the arm chair is Victor."
There were a serious of 'hey's, 'hello's, and 'nice to meet you's.
Falcon sat on the floor, knowing he would be lucky to watch. He knew he was to no importance, but hey, why not watch a free show?
Crow strode into the teenage packed living room, with Dove trailing behind him.
Dove was always good with new people, but enough of them made her weary. Clutching to Crow's baggy jeans, she slightly moved behind him, away from view. Yet Crow seemed to not notice, and let her do as such.
"Well, well, well, we've got the circus in town. And they've done as much as come to our house, now that's service." Crow commented as he walked over to where Raven was standing.
"Hey, you're the one who's standing on the stage, man." Garfield countered back, light heartily.
"Wow Raven, I never knew you could teach an old gorilla new tricks."
"It takes skill." Raven played along, rivaling the simple look her brother had on.
Garfield scoffed and sat back inn his seat, a steam flowing out of his ears.
The whole time Crow had been insulting him, Terra stared in amazement.
'He…is so hot!' She never saw a hot Goth guy; they all seemed too quiet or gross looking for her. But this one had exceeded her expectations.
Nudging Kory ever so slightly as to not be seen with a silly blush on her face, Terra kept looking at Raven's brother even when Kory looked at her questioningly.
Looking where Terra's eyes told her to look, she saw Terra staring wild heartily at Crow, making her giggle inwardly.
'Terra has the crush on Crow. But how must I blame her? He is quite handsome.' Kory touched her cheek to feel it burn slightly. She knew they were aflame, if only she could extinguish it before he looked her way.
'Oh! It is too late, he has looked.' She noticed how his stare lingered on her more than the others, before he reverted his attention back to insulting Garfield. 'Maybe…' Kory thought, her hope high, 'No. He is just looking at the weirdness of my eye color.' Her hope was shot like a duck in hunting season.
"Alright Crow lets get this over with." Raven said suddenly. "Why doesn't everyone share what happened to them." She suggested.
Crow sat down as he listened to their stories, Dove still clutching into his arm. He felt her discomfort and knew of her slight fear of crowds. Unhooking his arm from her grasp he reached forward slightly and laced his fingers in with hers, messaging her small hand in his big one with his thumb. This in itself made Dove giggle only loud enough for him to hear, knowing she was feeling better.
As Victor continued his story, Garfield saw the small act given to Dove from Crow. He knew there was love in this family, there was no doubt about that. When he first met Raven, Crow was slightly nerved of Garfield's daily visits. But he got used to the custom, and didn't care too much about it. He remembered when Dove was born. Garfield had volunteered to help out as much as he could. For some reason, he thought Crow wouldn't give much to help, but there were moments that changed that thought completely. Some were the visuals of Crow staying up late with Dove, holding her in his strong arms. He held her like she was about to break, as if too much pressure would suffocate her.
It was noticeable, the whole 'holding her too close would suffocate her' thing. Garfield wasn't saying that like a metaphor, it was true. One day, Garfield had asked Crow about that. Crow told him that she starts to cry when you get too close to her, she's slightly uncomfortable and had a phobia for closed in spaces. Yet Crow held her perfectly. He himself was slightly haunted by small spaces, but Garfield knew Crow would push that away for any of his siblings. Crow would probably force himself through all the tortures of hell, as long as his siblings were safe. And Garfield knew that. Hopefully, he would be as brave as Crow one day…but until then, he'd have to depend on others for a while.
Crow had left the group 10 minutes ago, saying he had to check some things on his computer. He told Dove to stay with Falcon and Raven, and she agreed solemnly.
Dove looked over to see Falcon ogling Terra, while Raven was chatting with Garfield. Dove looked over to her left to see a large man with darkened skin. She had seen a lot of darker people, and Raven told her to stay away from them when they're in large groups, especially in their low class town. But Raven told her to stay away from practically any teenagers in big groups, but Dove was not stupid and knew what might happen, so she did what her sister told.
Looking towards the larger man again, he caught her stare and smiled sweetly at her. That confused her greatly, he looked like such a tough, mean guy, but there he was…smiling at her.
Haphazardly, she glided over to him. She was slightly taller than him when he sat, but Dove knew he was like Crow when he stood, a sky scraper.
"Hello." He smiled.
She gave him a shy smile and nodded her greeting.
"Wow, I never knew Dove Roth was shy."
Dove looked next to the larger man to see Richard grinning goofily at her. The group of teenagers had made her cower, not letting her see if there were any recognizable faces. Seeing Richard again made her shyness disappear.
"Richard!" Dove tackled Richard as he laughed.
"I knew it; you're not shy. Not you." Richard told her as he scraped her, and her surprisingly strong grip, off of him and set her on her own two feet again. "That's Victor. No worries Dove, he's harmless…most of the time." Richard joked.
Victor chuckled.
"Most of the time?" Dove questioned.
"Yeah, just don't steal his breakfast. That will lead you to a life without." Richard jokingly punched Victor in the arm, memories of their past came flowing.
Dove, figuring out it was a joke, beamed.
In the presence of her smile, Victor covered his eyes with his hand through chuckles. "Wow, talk about a bright smile. It reminds me of Kory's smile."
Dove giggled and tackled Victor, almost making the chair tip backwards.
Crow paced the livingroom, knowing there were 8 pairs of eyes watching a trail form on the floor.
"Crow. Stop it." Raven blurted. "Your pacing is annoying so-"
"We're going to need some space." Crow interrupted. He had stopped moving and stared at the floor in thought with his arms crossed over his chest.
The group was silent…
Crow looked around and spotted the object of is decision. Looking down at the wooded coffee table, currently being used as a bed by Dove, Crow said once again, "We're going to need some space." This comment still sounded more of a thought needed decision.
Richard started to understand and stood, but was told to sit back down.
"Let Raven do it."
Raven stared at the table, then back at him as Dove got off the coffee table and unconsciously sat on Terra's lap. Crow was still staring at the table, as if waiting for it to be moved.
Closing her eyes, Raven took a deep breath and whispered her enchantment.
The group watched as a black energy escaped Raven's extended fingertips and surrounded itself around the doomed coffee table.
"Now up and over." Crow murmured.
Gritting her teeth, Raven opened her eyes to show everyone the glow of white light. The coffee table lifted slowly, a little wobbly, but finally left the room in peace.
"Now set it down. Gently, might I add." Crow said as an afterthought.
Raven lowered her fingers towards the floor, and the coffee table descended.
Lower…
Lower…
Lower…
Low-
DING-DONG
The coffee table crashed as the legs broke off two at a time.
Raven's eyes returned to their normal shade of purple, but narrowed slightly.
"Who's that?" Raven growled.
Crow looked through the window's curtains to see two girls from his school with some sort of boxes in their hands.
"Um, Crow? Croooww?" They squealed.
"Get it before I get it myself." Raven said slowly. As it sounded, these two bimbo's interrupted her concentration, and right when she almost had it too! Raven had low patience.
Stealing a glance at Raven's narrowed slits, which are now turning a light white, Crow sighed and strode over to the door with his hands stuffed in his pockets, a laid back look twinkled in his eyes.
Opening the door, the girls looked at him with stars in their eyes as they shoved the two boxes in his arms.
"We baked you something!" The girls said in unison.
Crow opened the boxes to see, indeed, they had baked cakes for him. Why? Who knew.
A loud 'UGH!' was heard from the livingroom, and before the two girls knew it, the once perfect cakes in Crow's arms were now surrounded in black shadows and exploded.
The two girls were flabbergasted and scurried off to not be embarrassed in their cake-covered outfits.
Shutting the door, Crow set the exploded cakes, which were also all over his shirt, onto the ground.
Unbuttoning his black button down shirt and stripping it off, Crow was left in a simple white T-shirt, and emerged into the livingroom once more.
"Alright so now that we've got some room, let's begin."
Each person was to stand in the middle of the livingroom while Crow investigated. Falcon took notes, while Dove watched in interest.
Since he knew all about Raven's powers, he began with Victor.
Standing up, Victor 's shaky knee's surprisingly held him up.
"If memory serves, you think different parts from your car had emerged with your body to create a robot out of half you, or in other words, a Cyborg." Crow stated his hypothesis as he told Victor to stand in the middle of the room with hand gestures.
"Can I…" Crow extended his hand towards Victor.
Getting the message, Victor gingerly let Crow examine the ring mechanically sewn to his finger.
Crow tried to handle it gently, but it was beginning to hurt Victor. He felt Victor wince as a trickle of blood emerged from the small space between the metal and his skin.
"Sorry…I might start bleeding."
Kory gasped, not liking the idea of seeing her friend with blood on him.
"Dove, can you get me a wet paper-towel?" Crow asked without looking up, careful not to ruin in conversation.
Dove nodded and sprang up from Terra's welcoming grasp.
"Ah-Hah…" Crow finally found the small button on Victor's rather large ring.
"So this button makes you transform…" Taking the advantage that Dove was out of the room, "May we see?"
Victor looked down at his shaking knees. 'Do I really want to go through with this…?'
But before Victor could think anymore, Crow had grasped his finger and squeezed down on the small button, as he took several steps back.
Kory gasped and shielded her eyes as Victor doubled over in pain, his screams becoming louder…and louder…and-
Kory ran out of the room with no one really paying attention as their horror-stricken faces were centered on Victor's transformation.
Running into the kitchen, she bumped into a frightened Dove.
"What's going on?" Dove scarcely asked.
"D-do not go inside. It will not be g-good to watch." Kory lowered herself down to Dove's height and hugged her tiny form. Kory felt Dove clutch on to her shoulders, which surprised her, since Kory was mostly doing this for her own good.
Dove had already dropped the forgotten wet paper-towel as Kory lifted themselves up to her normal height.
Terra clutched Richard's shoulder as Victor started to bleed from his scarred stomach. Due to the fact that Victor was doubled over, the metal could not materialize in the correct place as long as his hands were covering his stomach.
Realizing that, Crow gripped Victor's shoulders, "Stand up straight or the configuration will not work."
With much difficulty, Victor stood straight, though he arched his back slightly, the transformation now completed, and the mechanical clicks and clacks had seized.
Drops of blood were collecting on the carpet, slowly rolling off the shiny new metal.
Everyone stared in wonder at the Cyborg in front of them.
Richard recognized the material on his body as the same material from Victor's 'baby'. Richard had stumbled upon it one day as he was looking for the way out. Not telling he had found it, he just admired it from a distance.
"Victor…?"
Victor opened his eyes to see everything like it was in his 'dream'.
Kory walked in with Dove in her arms. Victor turned around to see Dove stare up at him.
"Is that you?" She had asked timidly.
Nodding, Victor turned back around to see the small pool of blood he had left.
"It's ok, we'll clean it later." Crow spoke up.
He had never seen anything like this before. How is it that metal can act as a magnet to a human form, and materialize within it at the mere press of a button, by only drinking a radioactive substance?
Victor stood still as Crow walked over to him and stared at his new 'attire'.
"So this is the…second time you've changed?" He asked.
"Mhmm." Victor nodded.
"What does it look like in there?"
Victor looked up from the ground and stared at Crow. A stoic, yet a little more baffled look on his porcelain face.
A transparent window showed up in Victor's view as he wondered more about Crow. The data, which came up in binary code extracted files from the government. There was almost nothing about him besides his date of birth, family history and physical appearance.
"July 15th. Am I right?" Victor asked, a small chuckle in his voice.
"…Yes, that's correct." Crow answered wearily.
"I see everything like a computer, as I look at you and think of what your birthday is…the computer in my head generates where I can see that data, and if its filed in a computer…I'm able to see it. Kind of like hacking."
"So, I guess you've already got this all worked out."
"Only because its pretty obvious if you look through my eyes."
"You mean eye."
Victor looked up at Crow, "What?"
"Only one of your eyes are mechanical." Richard answered for him.
"Remember, you're only a Cyborg, not a full robot." Crow thought about it for a second. "Infact, I think you're the luckiest on in here, you can control your powers by just pressing a button." Victor looked from Raven, to Garfield, to Terra, and to Kory as Crow continued speaking. "And even when you are in Cyborg form…it seems your mind just has to think of something, and your robotic body does it. Just like a normal human body."
Victor smiled, "I understand what you're saying."
"So…did it hurt?" Garfield spoke up.
Victor looked at the shocked look on his friend's face. "Yeah, but it hurt a lot more the first time…I'm pretty sure I passed out."
"Good." Crow confirmed, "Then the more you do it…the less pain you'll feel. Your human body should get used to it…it's only logic."
"Yeah, I figured." Victor chuckled.
"YAH!"
The lamp near the corner melted to ashes.
"Wow." Was Crow's reaction.
Kory was up next, and told to shoot the green energy from eyes.
FLASHBACK
"So…"Crow walked around Kory in a circle, making her almost break down from nervousness.
"What your telling me," Crow had stopped before her, "Is that your Sister bombarded your door with an insult and warning, so you got angry and all of a sudden your eyes shot the green fire?"
"Yes."
"Hm…" Crow thought for a second. Though it was pretty obvious that Kory's power ran on emotions. But Crow was getting her power and Raven's mixed up. Raven's power comes out of control if she is to feel, while Kory's runs on them.
"Alright, so it's pretty obvious your power runs on emotions. The anger you had triggered some sort of reaction in your power and you fired." Raven said before Crow.
"Really?" Kory stared in wonder.
"Cooooll." Garfield cooed.
END FLASHBACK
"So you also have a lot more control over your powers than-" Crow had stopped talking as Kory started to float in mid-air.
"Oh! The joy of flight is much fun!" Kory floated a little higher and zoomed into the kitchen.
"…I'm guessing she has a short attention span." Crow murmured sarcastically.
CRASH—"EEP!"
"…And no hand-eye coordination." Crow added as an afterthought as the group filed into the kitchen to see what happened.
Kory was sprawled out in the middle of the floor with yogurt, marshmallows, and chopped fruits all over her.
"…FALCON!" Raven hollered.
Looking around, Falcon was no where to be seen.
"Running from the crime scene, huh?" Richard snickered.
"Dove. Find him." Raven seethed.
Dove saluted and ran off. "Yes ma'am!"
"I am so sorry Kory-" Raven started.
Crow kneeled down next to the fallen Kory and grabbed a strawberry from her forehead, then dipped it in the yogurt on her stomach. Eating the strawberry in one gulp, he commented, "Strawberry short-cake anyone?"
Kory felt her cheeks almost melt away the marshmallow bits on her cheeks, but she didn't move.
Grabbing a fork, Crow forked a marshmallow and held it a foot above her eyes. With his other hand, he poked the area between Kory's breasts.
Almost as a reflex, Kory jerked which trigged her eyes to shoot the green fire-like energy straight into the ceiling. Of course, being that she was only shocked, it wasn't too strong and only scorched it. Sitting up about to slap the heck out of Crow, Crow had already stood up and was eating a roasted marshmallow, making her blush darken even more.
Raven stalked behind Crow and slapped the back of his head, hard.
Richard, Garfield, and Victor were not only laughing from the slap; they had started laughing right when Crow had merely poked Kory. Their hysteric laughing had Garfield banging the floor with his fists as Richard and Victor's eyes were tearing. Terra was giggling slightly, but she was more shocked than ever.
Crow turned around immediately and stood over Raven like a parent trying to rid their child of a lie.
"Raven." He growled. Crow stared down at her with a glare made to kill preps and fluffy white bunnies all over the world.
"Crow, you bastard." Raven seethed, matching his glare with her own.
The two stares rivaled eachother for another 5 minutes before both owners of the famous toe-curling glare turned away, still slightly angry for eachother's actions.
"Obviously you need to get cleaned up." Crow looked down at Kory as she tried her best to wipe away most of the yogurt to no avail.
"So what, is that an added pressure point for a woman or something?" Garfield asked, almost too anxious to know.
"Not really," Crow answered as he offered Kory a hand up, which she reluctantly took with no doubt a blush ridden on her face, "You know how if you try to shove a fork down your throat too far, you gag?"
Garfield nodded.
"Kinda the same for women. A reflex, somewhat. It's like they have some barrier around their breasts that if you get to close, WHAM, reflex mode goes on." Crow looked to Raven, being that she was standing right next to him.
Crow Crow shoved a finger through the 'barrier' and almost touched the area between her breasts, not want to touch ANYTHING of his sister's. But before he could even touch the fabric of her shirt her hand reached up and slapped him so hard, it echoed.
A series of 'ohh…'s followed.
"It's all reflex." Crow croaked out, trying as hard as he could not to show it stung like hell.
I thought I was centering TOO much on their powers, so I kinda reverted it to a little outside the plot for a second. Hope you don't mind.
Only one person said NO to the slight Crow/Kory thing going on. The others said they don't mind, and one (SheaStar, hehe) said she's practically waiting for it!
The couple, Crow/Kory, wont be really 'going out' but subtle attractions will occur, much like this chapter. But down worry, A fluffy part between Rae/Rob is next! You shall like!
May I repeat for those of you who don't read the A/Ns: A fluffy part between Rae/Rob is next!
LIKE YOU ALL READ BEFORE: LadyHood was unable to be the beta for this chapter(so please ignore most of the mistakes), and unfortunatly i dont have any back up beta's. So that's why i might need one.So if you would like to be my back up beta when LadyHood in not available, please say so in a review with your email address. Thanks, i would so need it!
Hey everyone, guess what! I have a spouse (Bleu Cheesss. Rawr), 2/3 new lovers (sexgoddessmisha4draco, Bleu Cheesss, Mercedes), a new nick name MoMo,and I'm now allowed in a royal gnome family!(By the one and only 'NumbuhZero') YAY! Hahahaha…
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