Story Title: Illusions

Rating: PG13 (for later chapters)

Summary: It was just another morning for the Teen Titans, or so they thought. There was no way to know what to expect when they answered a call for danger and ended up with an unconscious girl. I'm not exactly sure where this story is going to go, but I'll try to keep it entertaining. There should be some romance though. Robin/Star, BB/New Girl, and I'm up for suggestions with Cyborg and/or Raven, (seeing as they'd make kind of a weird couple). Sorry, it's a little slow at first, but it gets better… I hope.

harrypotterjunkie: Thanks for being my first reader! And thanks for the title imput!

Disclaimer: If you recognize it… it's probably not mine…

Chapter 3

"An illusionist? No wonder we couldn't hit the monster today." Robin commented; he knew it couldn't have been them.

"Could so…" Rhianna raised her eyebrows at him, grinning broadly.

He glared at her. "So, what should we do with her?" He asked his fellow titans.

"What do you mean?" She looked around, confused.

"Well, you're a villain. You were terrorizing the town today."

"Nobody got hurt…" She grumbled.

"So, you still scared everyone! What were you doing anyway?"

"Testing myself… I was trying to figure out how big I could go… and I did pretty well, huh?" She smiled. "I was trying to get your attention too… you guys are my heroes… and I think I could help you."

"We don't need help." Raven scowled, she didn't appreciate having anyone insinuate that they weren't good enough the way they were.

"I know! But I could still… uh… be useful?" She gave a little smile. She was clearly desperate.

"Let's give her a try…" Beast Boy offered, she was cute, plus, her little illusion was pretty awesome!

"I agree, let us see what she is capable of!" Starfire clapped, her eternal optimism kicking in, she was always up for new friends.

"I don't know. That was a pretty bad way of trying to talk to us." Robin said, still suspicious.

Raven didn't have to say anything, it was clear she didn't welcome a newcomer; she never really had.

The girl glared, "I wasn't going to hurt anyone!" She stood, rising a good seven feet tall, she looked giant. Fire billowed behind her. She shook her head, and fell back onto the couch, clearly her head still hurt. She blushed bright red at their frightened faces. "Sorry…" Her eyes teared up; she might have just ruined her chance.

Raven raised an eyebrow, at Robin. It was two against two, and Cyborg hadn't put in his two cents. Everyone looked at him. "Whatever, let's give her a chance." He turned to her. "Can ya' cook; I'm starved." She laughed, smiling. She glowed.

"Thank you so much!" He smiled and walked into the kitchen, Beast Boy and Starfire following; leaving her with Robin and Raven.

"Sorry about that…" Rhianna picked at her nails "I'm a little extreme sometimes…"

Raven and Robin just looked at her. They obviously didn't want anything since Raven floated out of the room towards hers, and Robin went to go work out and cool his nerves.

Rhianna hesitantly stood and walked into the kitchen. Starfire was giggling and getting out some mustard, Cyborg was grilling burgers, and Beast Boy was eating some tofu. "Want one?" Cyborg looked at her.

"Uh, no thanks, I'm not a big fan of cow…" she smiled "can I help myself?" She gestured to the fridge.

"Of course!" Starfire exclaimed happily.

Rhianna stuck her head into the fridge and came out with an avocado in one hand and a diet soda in the other. She set down the soda on the counter and looked around. "Uh, where do you keep the knives?"

"Here, I'll get one." Beast Boy stretched his arm over, opening the drawer and grabbing a knife.

"Thanks," She smiled and cut into the avocado "for giving me a chance." She looked around, holding the pit and the dirtied knife… she walked over to the sink and rinsed off the knife. "Kay, where's the trash can and washing machine?"

"Over here" Cyborg opened a drawer next to him which had a trash can inside and then pointed to another one.

She put them away and then went to the drawer where Beast Boy had gotten her the knife and pulled out a spoon. She scooped out the inside of the Avocado. "Mmm…"

"So, how do your illusions work?" Beast Boy asked her between bites.

"Yes! Tell us!" Starfire smiled excitedly.

"Well, I think I'm pretty much capable of affecting people's minds. I think that the illusions go one step beyond the whole mind reading thing… it's like, I can either observe or affect. All I have to do is concentrate very hard on who I want to affect and what I want them to see. It leaves me kind of vulnerable though… which is probably how I got knocked out. What exactly happened anyway?" she rubbed the back of her head, wincing.

"Well, when we couldn't shoot your monster down, BB here charged you." Cyborg told her, looking at Beast Boy pointedly.

"So you could see me?"

"No, he charged your monster."

"Oh. You must have hit me pretty hard."

"Yeah, sorry about that…" Beast Boy looked down.

"Whatever." She smiled at him. "So, what do you guys do for fun when you aren't doing… well, what you do?"

"Video games!" Cyborg and Beast Boy cried, running out of the kitchen and jumping over the back of the sofa. They were about five minutes into their game when smoke began billowing out of the kitchen, bringing with it a burning scent.

"Oh no! My burgers!" Cyborg ran into the kitchen when suddenly the smoke was gone and he could see a giggling Starfire and a smirking Rhianna.

"Gotcha."

So yeah, a little conflict there and a little fun, this is kind of where I wanted the story to go. I hope everyone likes this! Let me know what you think! I have some more chapters written… so I'll update pretty soon.