Author note: I am so sorry about this taking so long. I've been really busy with school and everything and yadda yadda blah. So I apologize deeply. Hopefully it won't take me so long to post the fifth chapter. By the way, can't wait for the new episode of Teen Titans this weekend! Raven, a babysitter? Now that's something I gotta see.
"Raven, are you still sure there's nothing wrong?" Robin asked, twisting around in the front passenger seat to look back at her, his eyebrows furrowed with worry. "You look a little pale."
"You mean," Raven started with her nose still pressed against the window softly. "Paler than usual?" Cyborg started laughing.
"I'm serious, Raven," Robin was getting slightly annoyed. "Don't tell us that nothing weird is going on. You can't fall on the floor groaning and moaning and then get up and tell us everything is fine. What's going on?"
"Yes, Raven," the young tamaranian picked up. "Please tell us what is going on with you." Raven sighed and pulled the hood over her head.
"Is it ... Something to do with your powers?" Robin pressed onward. Raven bit her lip.
"This has nothing to do with me," Raven told him. "It's someone else we have to be worrying about."
Was it the way that Raven pulled her hood off and stared out the window? That emotionless face she usually displays was now showing a sign of anxiety and fear. A few strans of her short purple hair, drooping down her forehead and into her eyes, her nose slightly wrinkled.
It was all this that made Robin believe her. "All right, Raven." Robin said and turned back around in his seat. "Who is it that we should be worrying about?"
"Is it a villian?" Cyborg asked as he steered the T car off the highway.
"I don't know." Raven replied truthfully with a slow shake of her head.
"Do you know who it is?" Starfire wanted to know. Raven bit her lip again.
"I'm not sure." she said.
The rest of the Titans sighed, seemingly to give up. There was a few minutes of complete silence, until Raven said out of the blue, "It's someone we know." And before any of the other Titans could ask who, Cyborg suddenly slammed onto the breaks, causing all the Titans to lurch forward then snap backwards, all thanks to the seat belts.
Robin was unlucky enough to lurch forward and slam his forehead into the glove compartment. He sat up rubbing his head and groaning. "What the hell was that for?" he demanded, glaring at Cyborg, but Cyborg wasn't looking at him. He was staring straight ahead.
"Look!" he jabbed a large mechanical finger at the front window. The other Titans looked, and they gasped.
There in front of them, lay about thirty or fourty cars all piled on top of each other. The other cars surrounding it had crashed into each other trying to avoid the car pile. Smoke was arising everywhere and fogging up the view. Sparks and small fires were errupting. All the cars in the car pile were filled with terrified civilians inside, people were shouting and screaming and crying for help. Ambulances were already at the scene trying to figure out ways to get to the poor people.
"Why hadn't the Titans sirens gone off?" Cyborg muttered.
"I don't know," Robin grunted. "Maybe someone tweaked around with the system."
"We must aid them!" Starfire exclaimed ripping out of her seatbelt. "Come, friends!"
"Starfire!" Cyborg shrieked angrily. "How many times do I have to tell you to unbuckle the seatbelt instead of tearing it right out?"
"I apologize," Starfire became a bit solemn. "But in times of trouble there is not much time to think. Come now!"
"Star's right," Robin said as he unblucked his own. "Titans, Go!"
Cyborg and Raven both seemed to snap alive, they unblucked their own seatbelts and pushed themselves out of the car. Starfire was already midway towards one of the ambulances who were seeking aid, and Robin was sprinting down the sidewalk to an argument which had broken out between three or four drivers.
"It's about time you got here!" one of the paramedics snarled nastily at Starfire as she approached. The paramedic was standing over a stretcher who had a mangled looking body on it. The person on the stretcher, who was soaked in their own blood, was screaming out in terror. The person was only about twelve years old.
Starfire scooped the child up into her arms and flew off without another word.
"Cyborg!" Robin called to his mechanical friend after breaking up the fight. "What can you do about this car pile?"
"I'm on it!" Cyborg pointed his clenched fist forward as it transformed into a gun about ten to fifteen inches wide. He blasted the top of the car pile, which cars had been evacuated by the owners since they were able to get out, and sent the vehicles launching through the air.
Raven concentrated on the other half of the pile and began to carefully pick up each and every one of the cars with people in them, and gently set them on the ground.
"Azarath... " Raven mumbled, then trailed off as she sensed the perpetrator nearing the scene. "Shit." Raven's concentration broke off, and she suddenly dropped the cars she had been meditating. The alarms went off.
"Hey watch it, you crazy bitch!" one of the drivers shouted after slamming his head into the steering wheel. "I thought you were supposed to be professionals!"
"Yeah really!" said another. "Where's the Justice League when you need them?"
"We're doing the best we can!" Cyborg shouted furiously, then he turned to Raven. "You okay, Rae?" Raven shook her head.
"He's coming." she announced quietly.
"Who's coming?" Robin demanded, he then grabbed Raven by the shoulders and shook her. "What the hell is going on around here? What aren't you telling us this time?" Starfire landed on the ground beside them, her stomach, chest and hands covered in blood. Robin gasped.
"Starfire!" he exclaimed. "Are you hurt?"
"No, I am... " Starfire observed the scene before going on. "I am fine, but they are not." she nodded at the people still smashed by the cars. She flew over to the pile and began to try and pick up one of the cars.
"Help her!" Robin barked at the other Titans, saliva spraying from his mouth.
"We got it!" Cyborg reassured him as Raven began to meditate the car, Starfire had been struggling with.
Suddenly the wind began to blow at them furiously, sending cars everywhere to flutter into the air like rag dolls. Robin held onto a pole, and Starfire grabbed onto his leg. Cyborg weighed too much to let the wind really effect him and Raven had created a shield around herself to prevent her from blowing off.
"Titans...!" Robin grunted. "G - Go...!"
"Go where?" Cyborg wanted to know.
"Up there!" one of the paramedics shouted pointing towards the sky. And sure enough, as they all looked up they saw a large muscular figure zip through the air quickly with its legs and arms outstretched. The figure had long spiky hair, large fangs and claws and a long tail. There was a brief moment that the figure allowed himself to glide around, then he landed on the side of the bridge not far away from the car pile up and chaos.
He rested on his knees allowing his hair to droop far over his eyes, but no one could avoid that large smirk of his, in which he wore upon his face. The back of his hands rested on the concrete and his back hunched over.
"Who's that?" one of the drivers demanded.
The figure's grin widened as he slowly corrected his posture. He got up off his knees and stood very straight and tall, about five or six inches over six feet. His long tail stood erected over to the left side.
Besides his menacing looking facial expression, and chill that runs up your spine when you look him right in the eyes, he was extremely attractive. His eyes were slim and a deep green, and he was wearing a large black hoody, which he most likely store from some local skateshop, since the pricetag was still on it and baggy dark blue jeans. His feet were covered in dark brown boots, which looked a little cuffed up since he had been sprinting around in them. His skin tone, was a bit strange, though. He looked extremely pale with a slight shade of green. His hair color was also a bit unnerving, it was dark brown with small mashes of green in it. His cheeks were covered in jet black spiky bristles and even the back of his hands seemed a bit hairy.
Green liquid was oozing out the side of his lips and off the point of his fangs as he just stood there, grinning at them.
Raven grunted. "It's him." she seemed out of breath.
"It's who?" Robin blinked. Cyborg jabbed a finger at the mysterious figure.
"You know this guy?" he asked.
Raven was about to say yes, then no, but neither was the correct answer. She simply squared her shoulders at them helplessly.
"Well, well, well," the figure laughed, his voice was deep but yet strangely mellow, smooth, harsh and troublesome all in a sexy way. But it was unforgettable, Raven knew for sure this was the same guy, no questions asked. "If it isn't the Teen Titans." he put his hands on his hips and stood there observing them.
"Who are you?" Robin reached for his fighting stick, but the figure cocked his head forward and gave Robin such a horrific look, that it even made Robin freeze in his tracks.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," he told him in a playful way. He then gave the car pile a lazy glance. "Oh," he said with a different kind of smirk now. "Sorry 'bout that. Hadda get that outta my system."
"You did this?" Robin asked glaring at him.
"Of course I did." the figure said with a shrug.
"You better tell us your name," Cyborg said turning his arm into a gun. "Because I'll knock you down so damn fast when you wake up, you'll be in prison."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that, Cy." the figure shifted his body so that his right side was facing towards them, he slid his left foot back and his right forward to keep himself balanced, then switched his erected tail in the opposite direction. His fists went up.
"How do you know my name?" Cyborg demanded. Raven rested against the gate of the bridge. She felt a little dizzy, and she was pissing herself off. She knew this guy, but yet she didn't. Who was he? Why was it so hard to grasp his identity? Why did she not want to kick his ass like all the other Titans did? What was wrong with her? Was she freaking out? Was her powers going nutso on her?
She slid into a sitting position and hugged her knees against her chest, then rested her forehead on them. "Ugh.."
"Raven!" Starfire exclaimed. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know." Raven blurted out bitterly. Her least favorite answer to a question, but now she had a knew question that she couldn't answer.
Who was that oddly familiar guy?
Another Author Note: Also, I would greatly appreciate some feedback, and no I don't mean stuff like, "oh your story is really great" or "your story sucks ass." I mean stuff like tips and ideas. I don't really know where this story is going... Well, I do, but I don't know every single detail, so if you give me some ideas, I just might use them. But hey, any reviews is great. And thank you to all of you who have left reviews!