Disclaimer: I own nothing but Tobias
Authors note: Hello again, I have received a few reviews and they encouraged me to get this chapter out a little faster, I have taken into consideration some of the input that was given to me but it was mostly along my the same lines as my ideas anyway. Thank you for telling me what you think I greatly appreciate your thoughts, and I would just like to make it clear once more that bashers are completely welcome to rip my story apart if they so desire, like everyone else their thoughts are important to me.
Chapter 2: The eyes of a hunter
It seemed to Tobias that he lay there in the dark for an eternity thinking. He was sure he had not slept. When he looked at the small digital clock on the bedside table its luminous glowing numbers read 6:32 AM and this provoked him to rise. He slipped on his shirt and shoes and went out into the hall but was immediately forced to run back into the room to hide from the burning of the morning sun. When the pain passed and his vision cleared Tobias recovered his glasses from next to the clock and placed them on his face, he then slowly put his head out the door. Once convinced the light was bearable he proceeded down the hall and descended the stairs into the living room he had passed through previously, he now saw that the room was decked out in awesome electronics. There was a huge plasma screen tv, an x-box, stereo, and the biggest collection of movies and DVD's ever.
Tobias stiffened as he suddenly became aware of another presence in the house, he herd humming and followed the gentle sound into what appeared to be the tower's kitchen. In the corner with her back to him stood a girl with long fiery red hair mixing a bowl filled with some kind of batter. She was dressed in a pair of sweat shorts and a pink belly top exposing the lower half of her naval.
"Hello" he said awkwardly
"Good morning" she had a voice like honey, she turned around and he saw her stunningly green eyes fill with fear as she dropped the bowl which shattered on the floor followed by her scream. Then a male voice came from behind him.
"You ok Star"? Tobias turned to find himself facing either a boy or a robot, he wasn't sure which. But whatever it was when it caught sight of him it landed him a punch that sent him sailing out of the kitchen and across the living room."Hey punk! How did you get in here"?
"Whoa chill man" Tobias yelled ans he somehow flipped his body and landed unscathed on his feet. Then the girl he had scared now actually flew out of the kitchen and began throwing what appeared to be green fire balls at him. Then an anomaly occurred, something reacted inside Tobias's head and he got an odd sensation in his gut, all of a sudden he was doing a string of backhand springs to safety. That did it Tobias had, had enough, he stood up and leapt what must have been ten feet in the air at the big robotic one... but he never made it, he herd someone behind him mutter something funny and a black shroud enveloped him and slammed him into the wall plastering him there. He looked up to see the red haired girl and the robot closing in.
"STOP!" Shouted a familiar voice, Tobias turned his head to see Robin running down the stairs "Jesus, what the hell are you all doing"?
Tobias sighed with relief as he watched the two who had attacked him stop and look at Robin,
"Robin" said the red head as she ran over and hugged him "you are back, I was making breakfast when I was startled by this stranger"
"Hey Starfire" he said returning her embrace "he's not an intruder, he's my new friend Tobias from Gotham he's gonna join the team ". Robin looked around at the faces of his friend which were sporting numerous different looks, the red haired girl laughed and said
"Oh good a new friend, I do so love meeting new friends...oh no I have forgotten about breakfast" and with that she rushed off into the kitchen. The big one had a look as if he thought Robin were crazy,
"What? Your just inviting someone to join the team without even asking us? You just bring him in here and expect us not to expect him of anything, damn Robin we've been on this team since we were thirteen and now you bring this guy in here just like that"?
"Look Cyborg" said Robin "Tobias is my friend, he has serious amnesia he doesn't know anything about himself other than his name! Me and Bruce found him homeless and naked in the middle of Gotham city, so I brought him here to stay with us, I mean look at him, he's filthy looks like he crawled out of a grave for crying out loud"!
Tobias cleared his throat loudly "oh don't mind me im just stuck to a wall here"! Robin laughed
"Let him down Raven" he said, Tobias slid towards the floor but again somehow landed on his feet. He looked over at the girl named Raven and his mouth almost fell open, she was beautiful, her body had all the right curves. Her face was hidden by the hood of the large blue cloak she wore even his eyes were shut out by the darkness it cast across her features, yet he did manage to make out some of her definitely gorgeous features. She slowly lowered her hood revealing pale white skin, violet hair, and a stunning pair of lavender eyes that made his heart skip a beat. She just stared at him no emotion in her expression except... yes! There had been a flash of-perhaps curiosity in those eyes but it was gone so fast he couldn't be sure.
The big robot one came over to him now "hey man im sorry, names Cyborg" he said extending his human hand. Tobias shook the hand warmly glad to be on this guys good side'
"Im Tobias, nice to meet you cyborg" he said smiling, suddenly a new voice sounded from the top of the stairs.
"Duuuuude, I smell pancakes"! Tobias looked to see the freakiest looking kid he'd ever seen sliding down the banister towards them. The boy had green furry skin, green hair, green eyes, and a small fang sticking up from the left side of his mouth. It wasn't until he landed at the bottom of the stairs that he spied Tobias "hey, who's this guy? Is he here about the garbage"? He asked, Robin snorted.
"No Beastboy his names Tobias, he's a friend of mine and he's living with us now". Beastboy shrugged "ok, now where was I?... oh yea pancakes"! He rushed off into the kitchen quickly followed by Cyborg. Tobias walked over to Robin
"Am I really that dirty"? He asked, Robin burst out laughing
"Yea, you are" he said between his laughter. Come on ill show you to the bathroom, you really should shower before you come to breakfast". Robin led Tobias up the stairs and past his new bedroom, stopping at a door just down the hall, "there's towels in there already and you can wear those same clothes for now we'll go to the mall after we eat alright". Robin walked back down the hall to join the others in cooking. Tobias stepped into the bathroom and clicked on the light, not that he needed it but he wanted to see himself in the mirror, when he did look at his reflection he made several lifestyle changing decisions in a matter of seconds. The first was that he really did need a shower, his whole body was covered in a thin but visible layer of grime, the second was absolutely had to get some new clothes , the white t-shirt and blue jeans didn't match him at all they were completely out of contrast with his long black hair and most of all with his eyes, oh how Tobias loved his eyes. Robin had been right they were in every aspect wicked, they had no white in them only a pale yellow with narrow slits as pupils. They were so catlike they gave his entire face a slightly feline appearance, there was something sinister almost evil about them and Tobias just loved it. Deciding he preferred the dark over the light he switched it off before stepping into the shower, he liked the hot water running down his back ans through his hair, he must have spent twenty minuets just standing there soaking in it. When he judged he must finally be clean Tobias shut off the water and stepped out onto the tiled floor, switching the light back on he went to the mirror again this time his reflection revealed a very good looking young man staring back at him. He had lean but incredibly toned muscles that were by no means bulky or full of gross pulsing veins. Combined with his eyes he found it was like staring at big cat, slim yet powerful, sleek yet sexy. Finding a comb Tobias ran it through his hair and using a rubber band he tied it back in a pony tail, finally, replacing the glasses on his face Tobias walked out of the bathroom, he crossed the hall and entered his bedroom. He sat down on the bed due to the lack of anything else that might serve as a chair he looked around, Tobias liked this room it had no window to let in the suns hurtful light, and it was his. There was a knock on the door, rising he went to answer it, it was the red haired girl
"Hello" she sais brightly "I have brought you pancakes". She held out a plate loaded with at least five kinds of pancakes on it, "I did not know how you liked them so I made you one of each" she said in the same happy tone. Tobias smiled taking the plate
"thanks, um do you want to come in"? He watched as he huge green eyes light up.
"Oh yes, I am most eager to lean of you new friend Tobias, and may I say you look much nicer now that you have been cleaned" she laughed and stepped into the room. "Um, must it be so dark"? She asked,
"What? Oh sorry, just a sec" he walked past he over to the wall and flipped on the switch. the room was flooded with light, once her eyes adjusted the girl looked at his face,
"Wooooow" she whispered "your eyes, they are most beautiful I've never seen such eyes" she sat there looking into them silently. Tobias began to feel uncomfortable so he broke her gaze to eat the pancakes.
"These are great" he said without looking up "thanks for brining them" he looked up at her now "sorry if I scared you before" he said. She blushed clearly embarrassed,
"It was just that you were a stranger and you were so dirty and Robin had not spoken anything of you".
"Yea well its really hilarious now" he laughed "what's your name anyway"? He asked curiously,
"I am called Starfire" she said laughing a little too "but my friends all call me Star". There was a moment of silence then they herd Robins voice from down the hall,
"Star, Tobias, come on were going"! Tobias stood up and stretched his powerful frame,
"Well Star you herd the man, lets go". He grabbed his glasses from the dresser and they left the room.
Downstairs they found everyone else waiting for them.
"Finally!" Beastboy laughed "I thought I was going to die of old age" he continued laughing all the way out the door.
"You get used to him after awhile" Said Robin walking up to them, he was dressed in black baggy jeans and black muscle shirt with his R logo on it. "Alright, lets roll".
"You got a car big enough for all six of us"? Tobias asked skeptically, Robin nodded
"Yea, Cyborg's got the T-car, I've got the R-cycle, and Beastboy, Star, and Raven cant drive."
"So we definitely have more than enough seats" Tobias said, then another voice cut into their conversation,
"You seem to have forgotten that you have a motorcycle and can therefor get there on your own". Tobias tuned around to find the girl Raven standing behind him, she had shed the cloak and was now wearing a black long sleeve shirt that stopped just above her naval showing off her belly ring. The shirt was decorated with a large purple raven silhouette on the front, she wore very baggy black pants and heavy combat boots.
"Yea" Tobias stammered "I- I guess your right", then Robin cut in,
"just follow behind me its not that far" he said walking over to his bike. Tobias turned back to Raven,
"So how are you getting there"? He asked. Her face never lost its blank expression and her voice was just as lifeless when she answered,
"I hate riding on Robins bike and Cyborg has already left with the others so that means you're the only one left to take me". She walked past him without another word and climbed on the back of the bike, he followed her and got on in front of her then started the engine, "you sure you can handle this thing"? She said almost mockingly.
"Don't worry about it" he said,
"Hey wait! Don't you have helmets"? She asked a slight quiver in her voice. Tobias looked over his shoulder at her and flashed her a smile containing true mockery, then he cranked back the throttle. Raven was almost thrown from the bike as it shot foward with incredible power, she had to catch hold of Tobias around the waist and hold on for dear life. Raven was shocked by the amount of muscle he possessed he made Robin look like a cotton ball, and that was saying something. She had found herself admiring Robin's body more than once and it had always infuriated her, yet now she didn't feel upset with herself at all, in fact she was feeling something she had never felt before. She pretended to be adjusting her grip when in truth she was running her hands over his stomach felling his ripped abb's.
"why am I doing this"? She asked herself "I cant have relationships, I cant even show the simplest emotions or ill loose control of my powers and I could end up blowing away the entire tower". Then another piece of her mind said
"But its ben so long since you found that out, its been years, maybe now that your older you have a better control".
"But why would he ever even want to be with someone like me"? She argued back "once the world finds out about him every girl in Jump city is going to want to be his girl friend, and no won has ever once thought I was worth looking at twice".
"Maybe that's because you've never put any effort into making them look", Raven was about to say something in her defense when she realized that she was having a full scale argument with her own head! Although everything she had just debated had been true, just last week she had overheard Beastboy tell Cyborg he thought she was the weirdest girl ever, and he went on and on about how she didn't have feelings and had never once said anything nice about anyone. She remembered how much this had made her cry and how she had run up to her room and cried for hours without even really knowing why it had upset her so much, but then she realized... she was feeling! She was experiencing deep emotional pain and nothing was blowing up, or melting, or flying across the room. No windows broke, no lights exploded, nothing! But Raven was afraid to let it happen again to see if she was really finally free to express herself so she had dismissed it as a fluke. But the arrival of this guy Tobias was making her think, she had never been attracted to anyone before so she didn't know if she actually liked him or just liked the fact that her was incredibly hot in every aspect of the word. There was just something about him that mystified her unlike anyone else she had ever met.
"What the hell's wrong with me"? She thought suddenly angry "this isn't like me at all, I've known him two hours! I don't even know anything about him other than his name"!
"But then again neither dose he" said that argumentative voice again.
"Shut up!" she thought unwilling to be drawn into another debate, so she forced herself to think about nothing at all, she went into a light state of meditation and didn't even notice when Tobias stopped the bike and turned off the engine.
"Um" he said "you gonna let go any time soon?"
"What?, oh" she released her hold on his waist and hopped off the bike, then she quickly walked over to stand by Starfire. Tobias shook his head as he watched her go,
"That's another thing you'll get used to" said Robin coming up to him "Ravens the coldest thing since ice, she never lets herself show any emotion, and on the rare occasion that she dose, its never a good emotion. The two of them just stood there for a couple of seconds until they herd Cyborg call them'
"Hey are you two just gonna stand there all day or are you coming in?" they looked over to find that the others had all gone into the mall already.
"Lousy deserters" Robin said as the two of them ran to catch up.
Once inside the mall Robin shifted momentarily into leader mode "ok, so who's going off with who?" he asked, Beastboy, who was now wearing black pants and a green shirt that had a picture of Calvin doing Hobbes on the front spoke first.
"Cye and me are going to hang out at the arcade" he said with his usual toothy grim in place. Robin nodded and the two of them ran off,
"Friend Raven and I wish to explore the stores of garments" said the ever energetic Starfire, who was holding a less than enthused Raven by the arm.
"Cool" said Robin and they to ran off, well it was more like starfire ran off while Raven was reluctantly dragged. Robin turned to Tobias,
"So I guess that just leaves you and me" he said, but Tobias had other plans.
"A Robin, I think I want to find my stuff on my own ok?" he said, he noticed that this seemed to really bum Robin out, "but how about you and me catch a movie later alright?" that did the trick.
"Sweet" he said I'll see what's playing while im looking around" he turned and started walking off, then came back "hey I almost forgot, you'll need this" he opened his wallet and handed Tobias a credit card. "When your done meet up with us in the food court ok",
"Thanks, and I will" said Tobias taking the card and walking off. Two minuets later he was walking through what seemed to be an endless line of stores and people, after a moment he saw a store that had a black sign with red jaggedly printed letters, there was heavy rock music emitting from behind its glass front wall. Tobias walked in and found himself surrounded by black dark clothing, jewelry, and all kinds of things that would suit one of a gothic nature, which apparently he had. As he walked around he picked up several things for his wardrobe these included, a very tight black tank top with an animal skull on the front and crossbones behind it, another tank top this time a full shoulder one with a white spinal column going up the back, a black sweatshirt that said "big evil, pain syndicate" on the front in white letters. He also bought a few pairs of baggy black pants, and last a pair of big leather boots, black of corse, done up with lots of big heavy buckles and straps.
Tobias left the store and continued walking through the mall, soon he came across a hair salon. He ran a hand through his long black mane made up his mind and went in. Inside he was directed to a chair where a pretty girl cut his hair as he directed her to, when he left the salon Tobias's hair was severally shorter but not quite so short as Robins, he had cut the sides and back short while leaving the top long enough for him to slick back.
Now that he had taken care of enough things Tobias proceeded to a bathroom where he changed into his black stealth pants, skull tank top, and his boots, he decided to finish off the look with a belt that was designed to look like a chain. When he was done dressing Tobias picked up his old clothes and dumped them in the trash, walking over to the mirror he looked himself over,
"I am so bad-ass!" he said to no won "Ba-ad to the bone".Tobias left the bathroom and continued his search, he bought socks, deodorant, boxers, a razor, black swimming shorts, a pair of heavily tinted goggles, and finally he got himself a pair of sunglasses that were much lighter in weight and cooler looking yet still blocked out the sun sufficiently. He was about to go find the others when something got his attention, he walked into a biker store and picked up a simple helmet remembering what Raven had said earlier.
Robin and the others were sitting in the food court enjoying pizza and soda's when a boy in all black, and mid length slicked back hair walked up and sat down at their table.
"Uh, can we help you?" asked Beast boy, the others all snorted into their soda's trying to hold back their laughter.
"Um Beastboy, its me" Tobias said raising his eyebrows, the green shape shifter still didn't get it,
"Well duh its you, but who are you?" he said absolutely oblivious to the others who were having a hard time subduing their desire to mock their friends impudence. Tobias flat out laughed,
"It's me To-bi-as, do- you-know-who-I-am?" he spoke very slowly making several hand gestures. The others could hold it in no longer they exploded with mirth, amidst the laughing Robin passed Tobias a soda,
"I checked at the theater and there's nothing worth seeing at the moment" he said "but we all talked about it and decided were just gonna have a movie night at home, sound good?" Tobias took a long drink from his soda.
"Sounds great" he said "lets get out of here" outside Tobias stashed his bags in the T-car after digging out the helmet he had bought and passing it to Raven. "Feel better now?" he said smiling, she took it without response in fact she was silent the whole trip back consumed by her thoughts. In truth Raven was trying not to think at all but it was incredibly hard to keep her thoughts of Tobias. Mostly because she was enthralled buy the fact that he had bought clothes from her favorite store and they looked great on him, they made him easily ten times hotter that he had been before. Plus his haircut combined with his thin strap tank top made the muscles in his biceps and shoulders very visible. Raven just wanted to run her hands all over his body, but she was jerked from her fantasies when the reflectors on the road ahead were enveloped in her black aura and ripped themselves free of the asphalt flying in all directions.
"Damn it!" she screamed inside her head "why cant I just for once have what I want? Why do I always have to hide behind this mask of emotionless ice? Why! Why! Why!" She screamed, "I cant do this, I cant do this" she breathed trying to regain control over her wild emotions "I am calm, I am Raven" she thought "this is nothing more than a distraction and I will ignore it, I cant have relationships, I cant have lovers, and I cant ever be happy" she closed her mind off from all thoughts of Tobias, love, and friendship.
Tobias picked up speed as he rode towards the tower he could now call home, and the people he could now call friends, unaware of the feelings brewing in the harts of both himself and his silent companion.
Authors note: well what did you think? Im a little iffy about the ending but its not as easy as one might think, I got Tobias's look finished off and now you know what kind of style he has. Soon I may even let you in on some of the secrets not even Tobias himself knows. Well if you liked this chapter let me know ta ta!