Disclaimer: Get off my case! I only own Tobias and the story!

Authors note: Hello again my friends, Im sorry for the slight delay in this chapters arrival. It was caused by the beginning of the school year and a load of yard work I "volunteered" to do. But I have received so many reviews asking me to get this chapter out that I just had to comply, I think I will respond to some of you.

To Darkmoonknight: thank you for taking the time to read my story I loved yours, Sin is really cool I think he can relate to Tobias because they are both creatures of the night (well the light wont actually kill Tobias but it dose seriously imped his abilities). And yes I know my grammar is bad but please bear with me on that one, just try to ignore the flaws.

To Nubia: Im glad your enjoying the story but im not quite sure as to what you were saying about when Tobias was looking in the mirror. Anyway thanks for the great support.

To Stelmaria: Im honored that you put me on your authors alert list thanks. I am wondering though, what kind of story do you think a character like Tobias belongs in? I would really like to know.

Now that I've show you all the gratitude you deserve, my animal brain thinks its high time I got on with the chapter, enjoy.

Dreams of beasts

As Tobias sat atop his bike while he rode home he felt Raven tense against him, he supposed she was uncomfortable having to be this close to him, hell she probably didn't even like him considering what Robin had told him about her. She confirmed his suspicions when she jumped of the bike the second he stopped it dropped her helmet on the groung and ran into the tower without saying a word. For the second time that day Tobias found himself shaking his head as he watched Raven run away from him. Tobias grabbed his bags from Cyborg and headed up to his room, he dumped the stuff on his bed and started unpacking it, once he had it all put away he went downstairs. Robin met him in the hall,

"Go get your shorts on were going swimming" he said

"Where"?

"We've got our own pool, now hurry up everyone's waiting for us" he ran off down the hall and out of sight.

"This place just keeps getting better and better" Tobias sais as he ran into his room to get changed, he came back out into the hall wearing his new swimming shorts when he realized... he didn't know where the pool was! He was about to go downstairs when he herd music down the hall, he followed it to a door a short way from his own. Tobias knocked, inside the music stopped and after a second the door opened to reveal Raven her usual blank expression in place.

"Oh, is this your room"? He asked,

"Yes" she said simply

"Ok... do you know where the pool is"? He was really starting to get annoyed by her harsh monotone voice and her ice queen attitude. Raven pointed down the hall,

"Strait down that way and to the left" she said never changing her expression,

"Thanks" he said matching her icy tone "you know I haven't been here that long so I don't have any right to preach to you about your attitude. But I think its pretty obvious that you need to sort out some serious shit in your life" without a backward glance he walked off toward the pool. As she watched him go Raven felt hot tears begin to form in her eyes, slowly she shut the door and switched her music back on letting the words wash over her. Listening to Linken Parkalways made her feel better but she was still crying at the end of the song, slowly she lapsed into a deep dreamful sleep.

Outside in the pool everyone else was having a blast as they played in the water, Robin and Tobias had been wrestling each other for ten minuets, cyborg was refereeing because he couldn't swim, while Beastboy and Starfire cheered.

"Come on Tobias do something" shouted Beastboy getting tired of watching the two simply locked up,

"Go Robin, remove his block." Starfire laughed, Tobias and Robin were at a complete standstill as each one tried to overpower the other, their muscular frames bent and twisted while the pushed and shoved. In the end Robin won, he broke the lock shoved Tobias's head under his arm and suplexed him for the victory. They spent the next few hours having a huge water fight but slowly one by one they left for bed, first Cyborg, then Starfire, and Beastboy, leaving Tobias and Robin alone.

"You about ready to turn in"? Robin asked,

"You go ahead im not tired, I think ill just sit in the hot tub for awhile" Tobias answered swimming over to the ladder.

"you sure"? Said Robin following him out of the pool, Tobias nodded,

"Yea im sure" he said walking over to the steaming pool of water. Robin shrugged and walked off, Tobias watched him go then climbed into the hot tub. Once he was settled and used to the water he lifted up his goggles and found the sun sufficiently gone, he placed them next to him then leaned his head back and closed his eyes.

Raven found herself walking through a dark forest, trees loomed up all around her blocking out all light yet she was still able to see. She was frightened, she could hear the sounds of roaring beasts in the distance some far away others seemingly right next to her. She was frozen suddenly when a great cat of some kind screamed out in front of here and a pair of big yellow eyes appeared in the shadows ahead. Out of the darkness a huge tiger paced its way towards her, but this was no ordinary tiger this tiger was black as the darkness that surrounded it, the beast seemed to have been forged from the night itself! The monster continued to come towards her and Raven couldn't find the voice to say her magic words, she closed her eyes and waited to feel the sting of its fangs... But they never came, there was no feeling of her flesh being ripped from her bones, she wasn't pinned to the ground while this creature devoured her. She opened her eyes, there was the tiger sitting in front of her its huge pale eyes looking at her intently its tail swishing from side to side.

"Ok"? She said more than a little confused, "why arrant I dead"? The tiger tilted its head to one side as if regarding her then it took a few steps forward and began rubbing itself against her like a common house cat! Though this cat was big enough to tear her limb from limb so she decided not to oppose it. Raven was about to try to leave when another huge roar ripped through the silence behind her, she whirled around to find herself face to face with a snarling monster from her deepest nightmares it resembled a hybrid mix between her demon father Trigon and the tiger at her feet. It had no fur only blood red skin, four glowing red eyes and black fangs, this new horror came charging out of the brush with her as its intended prey. But instead it met something it hadn't expected, the huge black tiger struck the devil beast like a battering ram as it plowed into it head on. The two of them went crashing into a tree, Raven watched horrified as the beastly behemoths slashed one another shredding flesh and fur alike. It was over in seconds the demon tiger slid out from under the black one and sunk its teeth into its spine snapping it like a twig, the horrid thing now turned to her hot blood dripping from its fangs. It was about to do what it came to do in the first place, but then it stopped and as if to mock the black tiger further for trying to protect her, the sadistic monster turned back to her already defeated knight and tore its throat out. Then finally satisfied with its work it turned its four eyed gaze on her and pounced.

Raven sat up in her bed cold sweat covering her body, her hands shot to her throat where the demons fangs had been a second before.

"A dream, it was just a dream" she whispered to the darkness, reaching over she flicked on her lamp and ran into her bathroom, she splashed water on her face and looked at herself in the mirror "Tobias" she said after a moment "the tiger was Tobias."

Outside in the pool Tobias screamed, his eyes snapped open revealing the animal behind them, growling he leapt from the water and landed in a crouch on the cement floor. He stood up slowly as he returned to reality, his muscles relaxed, his hackles lowered, and his human side regained control.

"I was dreaming, that's all, just dreaming" he said, he'd been walking through his forest he'd been there many times before, but there had never been another person in the forest with him in any of his previous visits. The forest was his no human belonged there it was a place for beasts, "what am I thinking? Im human nothing special about me just a little mix up in the eye department when I was born." Tobias thought to himself although he knew it was bullshit, he could jump fifteen feet in the air, see in the dark as if it were the day and there was probably something else he could do that he didn't know about. "I need to get out of here" he said and went back to his room to change.

Once inside Tobias changed into his black pants and tank top, he put on his boots, then as an after thought he threw on his pain syndicate sweatshirt. He went back into the hall where he bumped headfirst into Raven, she bounced of his rock hard body and landed flat on her rear,

"Hey watch it!" she said.

"Oh sorry" he said offering her his hand, she took it and he hoisted her up off the floor with no effort at all, he was about to walk off when an idea struck him "hey, im going out for a ride want to come"? Raven looked at him.

"Why aren't you asleep"? She asked genuinely curious,

"I could ask you the same thing, but to answer you im not tired. I haven't slept more than twenty minuets since I got here" he answered,

"So your saying you don't need to sleep"? Raven said with a slight hint of disbelief in her voice.

"Yea, im oh what's it called... an insomniac! That's it", he suddenly remembered his dream in the forest and what had happened there with Raven and that Devil cat. He looked away from her,

"Your one weird kid you know that"said Raven not noticing his sudden uneasiness, Tobias took off his glasses and smiled.

"You have no idea" he said smiling, Raven gasped and took a step back but then her gothic side kicked in,

"Where the hell can I get eyes like that"? She asked unable to take her gaze off their pale yellow shine.

"I have no idea, but they are pretty cool aren't they"

"They're beautiful" she said, but then it came to her as she remembered her dream in that forest and the black tiger. She remembered what she had said about the tiger, it had been Tobias she was sure of it, but she wasn't sure about what it meant she had experienced vision dreams before but they had never been like that. They were always flat out and direct, this one had been cloudy and symbolic with no obvious meaning, all she knew was that the black tiger had been Tobias, and the demon one had been her father Trigon.

"Hell-o Raven" Tobias said waving his hand in front of her face and snapping his fingers before her eyes.

"Huh? What?" she said coming out of her thoughts

"I said do you want to go with me"? Tobias asked, he really wanted to go now but he thought he should at least ask her.

"Uh no I think ill just go swimming" she said, he shrugged his shoulders and smiled at her'

"Ok Raven ill see you later" he turned and walked down the hall heading for the stairs, behind him Raven went back into her room to get her swim suit on. Downstairs Tobias went out the door towards his motorcycle, in five minuets he was riding into the city a dark knight in a sea of black.

Tobias stopped the bike in front of a club called Night life and went in, inside it was full of young teens and there were strobe lights and rock music playing. Most of the people were dancing so it wasn't hard to find a table, after a moment he felt someone watching him from the crowd he picked them out easily. It was a girl with pink hair surprisingly enough eyes that matched his own, she was with two other boys one was easily as big as Cyborg, while the other was no more than three feet tall. He was intrigued when he saw her so he lifted his glasses up and met her gaze, he watched as her mouth fell open and he smiled she made her way over to him fighting through the crowd until she was standing in front of him.

"You can sit down if you want, I don't bite" he said to her, she smiled and sat down across from him "so what's your name"? He asked her,

"They call me Jinx" she said casually "your not like most of the losers who hang out here this your first time in town"?

"Yea" he answered "im new here alright, Jinx? That's an unusual name" he said laughing slightly.

"Oh? And what do they call you?" she said suddenly getting defensive

"My friends call me Tobias, and I think its pretty unusual to" he said still laughing, Jinx looked at him she wasn't used to people being this nice or open with her. She decided she liked it and calmed down a bit, she grabbed a waitress by the arm and asked for something to drink then she turned back to Tobias.

"Tobias huh, that's a pretty cool name if you ask me I've never met anyone named Tobias before"

"Yea it is kinda cool isn't it"? He said

"Not as cool as your eyes" she remarked giving him a sly smile, he returned it and his pale yellow cats eyes met pale yellow cats eyes.

"I get that a lot" he said "but its never come from someone who's got the same model as mine"

"Same here" she said "and now I know what its like on the outside looking in" a couple of moments of silence passed then Jinx spoke up "hey, you want to dance"? Tobias thought of Raven for a moment then he remembered,

"She didn't want to come and I did offer" he thought. He nodded to Jinx and stood up "sure lets go" they walked out onto the floor and spent the rest of the night dancing, two cats in the moonlight.

Authors note: There you go this seems like a good place to end the chapter, sorry if it seemed a little short but like I said it seemed good to me. Sounds like Ravens got a little competition she better watch out, let me know what you think ill post the next chapter soon.