Chapter V: The Wedding
At last, it was time. Robin had a strange lumpy feeling in his throat, although he didn't know why. He was the one who had asked, but why did he feel frightened. Perhaps it was just a feeling of nervousness. Beast Boy just stood there, mumbling to himself and pacing in circles. Apparently, it helped him, though Robin wasn't sure it was his mumbling as much as his IQ.
Cyborg was unfortunately, wearing a tux. Both girls had insisted on it after BB and Robin had made him best man. Starfire and Raven were talking to themselves, wondering how the boys were feeling, trying to lose the feeling of anxiousness.
Then everyone remembered the wedding was tomorrow, and that this was just the rehearsal.
"You know Robin and Beast Boy, how come the girls made me wear a suit when you guys get to dress normal?" Cyborg asked as the three of them stood by Jack.
"They want you to get used to the feeling of it," Robin answered. Fayrii looked over to Jack, and Jack nodded to him. Fayrii began to play the organ, and Raven and Starfire walked down the isle, looking quite relaxed.
Suddenly, Jack held up his hand, asking everyone to stop. "What's the matter, Jack?" Fayrii asked, as everyone came up.
"I don't think you guys should have made me have those ten corndogs," Jack said, and ran outside all the way to the dock, to empty his stomach.
Everyone still in the cathedral looked to Fayrii. "Well, you're gonna have to be the priest for the rehearsal," Robin said. Fayrii's face turned pale.
"What? I can't do that, I've never practiced," Fayrii tried to get out of it.
"Please Fayrii?" Starfire asked, making a puppy-dog pout.
"Pleeeeze?" Raven asked as well (but with no face). Fayrii dropped his head and agreed.
This time, the girls walked down the isle with no music. As the girls approached, Fayrii thought rapidly, trying to think of what to say. He'd never practiced it, thinking he would never have to. Yet here he was. Finally, Fayrii remembered something he could say. Those words came from a movie he had seen called, Princess Bride.
So Fayrii took a deep breath, and began an exact mimic of the priest, "Mawige. Mawige is what bwings up togetha, today. And Wove, twue wove, a dweam within a dweam. Blah blah blah you may kiss the bride," Fayrii said when Starfire and Raven had reached the alter and had turned toward their boys. Fayrii jumped over to the organ and began to play just before they kissed.
They went home and slept. Because the even harder part was coming: the actual marriage.
The next day, everyone was awake at dawn. Everyone ate breakfast, and were about to leave, except that someone looked at the clock. So for 6 hours, they wandered aimlessly around the tower. Fayrii and Jack began playing a magic game around 3 A.M. and Raven joined in shortly afterwards. The object of the game was to pass the ball of magic to the right, and stop keeping it alive. The person who it was being passed to had to begin maintaining it right when the other person let go. If you messed up or missed, you were out until a winner was chosen. The other titans joined, and were able to maintain the magic ball, they just couldn't create it. Pretty soon, everyone was sitting in a circle, passing a magic ball around.
6 A.M. finally came. Immediately, Fayrii, Jack, and Cyborg put on their tuxes; Robin, BB, Raven, and Starfire got their clothes and all of them either flew or took the T-car to the cathedral. Once they were there, Robin and Beast Boy put on their suits. They walked to Jack, who had been told he wasn't supposed to wear a tux. The twelve-year-old had gleefully shredded it, and was now wearing his normal white clothes with a white cloak, the hood down. Fayrii was getting everything ready: bringing the cake, setting up the cameras the grooms and brides didn't know about, and standing by the door.
At 6:30, guests began appearing. The HIVE appeared first, and with one look at Fayrii's razor-sharp claws, they decided they really shouldn't cause any trouble. Then came Fix-it, and Fayrii had to literally drag him to stop him from "fixing anything." Following them came Thunder and Lightning, who realized that they were going to have to sit still for a long time. Starfire's family entered afterwards. Everyone else (if I forgot anyone) came soon afterwards.
By 6:57, Starfire stood in her dress behind the doors. Everyone was seated and waiting. In three minutes Fayrii would start playing. Starfire was wearing a white dress, with a silk underline. A (what is it called?), um, the white thingy brides wear was on her head. "I wonder where Raven is," Starfire asked herself. Right on cue, Raven walked out.
Raven was wearing a white dress (A sign of the apocalypse! AHHHH!) that was made with Tamaranian white silk, with white gloves, and white heels. It looked entirely like a different Raven, and Raven's cheeks were red.
"Raven! Your Tamaranian dress is beautiful on you!" Starfire whispered, causing Raven's cheeks to burn brighter. When the music began to play, Raven's cheeks returned to her normal color, and the doors opened.
The flower girl came down the isle (with whoever else does, it's 9 years since I've been to one, give me a break). Then Starfire and Raven came down the isle side-by-side. Robin and Beast Boy seemed to be using all their strength not to faint when they saw the girls. Cyborg was paying attention to Blackfire, while Jack and Fayrii seemed to be as normal as ever. Starfire and Raven made it to the later, and turned towards a weak- kneed Robin and Beast Boy. Fayrii stopped playing.
Jack started, "We are gathered here today..." While he spoke, the four titans only half-listened to him. Robin and Starfire were too busy looking at each other, as were Raven and Beast Boy. Jack asked for the presentation of the rings, and the boys took their rings and slid them on the girls' fingers. Then the girls slid the boys' rings on.
Jack started to talk again, and he got to the part where they say I do. Starfire was asked first. She replied with her eyes shining, "I do."
Robin was asked next. His voice was a mix of joy and seriousness as he answered, "I do."
Then it was Raven's turn. Her voice seemed unstable when she spoke, "I do."
Finally, when Beast Boy was asked, he answered, "I do."
"Then I pronounce you all men and wives," Jack said, now that it was almost over. "You may now kiss the brides."
Robin lifted Starfire's, the thing that women wear on their head. Then Beast Boy and Robin kissed Raven and Starfire. The organ struck up, and everyone clapped. After people congratulated, Fayrii walked up to the cake, holding a fine knife. He flipped all over, catching it with his shoe, hands, head, and tail. When he was finished, the cake was precisely cut into fine pieces. Fayrii handed each of the married a slice, then everyone else. Everyone waited for one of them eat.
Instead, Robin did something else. "Star?" he asked. Starfire turned towards him.
"Yes Robin?" she answered. Robin threw the piece of cake perfectly on target. Starfire stood there awhile, then threw hers back at a surprised Robin.
Beast Boy grinned and turned towards a frowning Raven.
She started, "Don't even think about it." But the cake flew true and landed squarely on her face. However, Beast Boy didn't expect Raven to throw hers however, and it hit him.
Then chaos erupted. Think about it. You have a whole bunch of teenagers, four of which are getting married, and they just got cake thrown in their faces. Yeah, one of the grooms called food fight. Cake flew everywhere. Mammoth was in a corner, catching and eating cake that came his way.
The chaos ended when a blast of magic disintegrated the cake Robin was about to throw. An uninvited guest, Mumbo, was on a stage.
"Hm, what to do?" he asked himself, preparing to ruin the wedding. Fortunately, there were two other magic-users in that cathedral, and one of them was a prankster.
Fayrii jumped up on the stage, saying, "Well Mumbo, you found out that Robin had scheduled a little entertainment before the final event." Robin hadn't, but he went along with it, to stop chaos.
Fayrii used magic and spun Mumbo in mid-air, then placed him in a box, and pulled out a katana.
"It's that I warn you, I have never trained in this weapon," Fayrii said, and brought the katana down through the box. He opened it, and the bottom half of Mumbo jumped up and ran out of the cathedral, while the upper half dragged itself after its legs.
Finally, Fayrii twirled his finger, and music began to play. Everyone started to dance to the slow tune.
The wedding song that the four had decided on was one Fayrii had written, successfully containing the four elements that they liked. It started out slow, like a love song. Then came Robin's rock part. The wedding party picked up speed. It meshed into a amusing little tune (BB's), which kept the same rhythm as Robin's. Then it transitioned into a horror/quick one, then slowed back to a slow song, and ended.
The guests eventually left, leaving the eight Titans to clean up. Fayrii and Jack handled that, while Cyborg got their cameras. Robin was still spinning Starfire around, who was giggle profusely. Raven was holding hands with Beast Boy prancing around in circles.
By noon, two ships (jet ships) were waiting outside. Raven and Beast Boy got on one, while Robin and Starfire got on another. The two ships flew off in different directions, heading for the couples' honeymoons. Cyborg got in the T-car with the two brothers, and drove home.
(A/N: This story isn't over by a long shot!)
At last, it was time. Robin had a strange lumpy feeling in his throat, although he didn't know why. He was the one who had asked, but why did he feel frightened. Perhaps it was just a feeling of nervousness. Beast Boy just stood there, mumbling to himself and pacing in circles. Apparently, it helped him, though Robin wasn't sure it was his mumbling as much as his IQ.
Cyborg was unfortunately, wearing a tux. Both girls had insisted on it after BB and Robin had made him best man. Starfire and Raven were talking to themselves, wondering how the boys were feeling, trying to lose the feeling of anxiousness.
Then everyone remembered the wedding was tomorrow, and that this was just the rehearsal.
"You know Robin and Beast Boy, how come the girls made me wear a suit when you guys get to dress normal?" Cyborg asked as the three of them stood by Jack.
"They want you to get used to the feeling of it," Robin answered. Fayrii looked over to Jack, and Jack nodded to him. Fayrii began to play the organ, and Raven and Starfire walked down the isle, looking quite relaxed.
Suddenly, Jack held up his hand, asking everyone to stop. "What's the matter, Jack?" Fayrii asked, as everyone came up.
"I don't think you guys should have made me have those ten corndogs," Jack said, and ran outside all the way to the dock, to empty his stomach.
Everyone still in the cathedral looked to Fayrii. "Well, you're gonna have to be the priest for the rehearsal," Robin said. Fayrii's face turned pale.
"What? I can't do that, I've never practiced," Fayrii tried to get out of it.
"Please Fayrii?" Starfire asked, making a puppy-dog pout.
"Pleeeeze?" Raven asked as well (but with no face). Fayrii dropped his head and agreed.
This time, the girls walked down the isle with no music. As the girls approached, Fayrii thought rapidly, trying to think of what to say. He'd never practiced it, thinking he would never have to. Yet here he was. Finally, Fayrii remembered something he could say. Those words came from a movie he had seen called, Princess Bride.
So Fayrii took a deep breath, and began an exact mimic of the priest, "Mawige. Mawige is what bwings up togetha, today. And Wove, twue wove, a dweam within a dweam. Blah blah blah you may kiss the bride," Fayrii said when Starfire and Raven had reached the alter and had turned toward their boys. Fayrii jumped over to the organ and began to play just before they kissed.
They went home and slept. Because the even harder part was coming: the actual marriage.
The next day, everyone was awake at dawn. Everyone ate breakfast, and were about to leave, except that someone looked at the clock. So for 6 hours, they wandered aimlessly around the tower. Fayrii and Jack began playing a magic game around 3 A.M. and Raven joined in shortly afterwards. The object of the game was to pass the ball of magic to the right, and stop keeping it alive. The person who it was being passed to had to begin maintaining it right when the other person let go. If you messed up or missed, you were out until a winner was chosen. The other titans joined, and were able to maintain the magic ball, they just couldn't create it. Pretty soon, everyone was sitting in a circle, passing a magic ball around.
6 A.M. finally came. Immediately, Fayrii, Jack, and Cyborg put on their tuxes; Robin, BB, Raven, and Starfire got their clothes and all of them either flew or took the T-car to the cathedral. Once they were there, Robin and Beast Boy put on their suits. They walked to Jack, who had been told he wasn't supposed to wear a tux. The twelve-year-old had gleefully shredded it, and was now wearing his normal white clothes with a white cloak, the hood down. Fayrii was getting everything ready: bringing the cake, setting up the cameras the grooms and brides didn't know about, and standing by the door.
At 6:30, guests began appearing. The HIVE appeared first, and with one look at Fayrii's razor-sharp claws, they decided they really shouldn't cause any trouble. Then came Fix-it, and Fayrii had to literally drag him to stop him from "fixing anything." Following them came Thunder and Lightning, who realized that they were going to have to sit still for a long time. Starfire's family entered afterwards. Everyone else (if I forgot anyone) came soon afterwards.
By 6:57, Starfire stood in her dress behind the doors. Everyone was seated and waiting. In three minutes Fayrii would start playing. Starfire was wearing a white dress, with a silk underline. A (what is it called?), um, the white thingy brides wear was on her head. "I wonder where Raven is," Starfire asked herself. Right on cue, Raven walked out.
Raven was wearing a white dress (A sign of the apocalypse! AHHHH!) that was made with Tamaranian white silk, with white gloves, and white heels. It looked entirely like a different Raven, and Raven's cheeks were red.
"Raven! Your Tamaranian dress is beautiful on you!" Starfire whispered, causing Raven's cheeks to burn brighter. When the music began to play, Raven's cheeks returned to her normal color, and the doors opened.
The flower girl came down the isle (with whoever else does, it's 9 years since I've been to one, give me a break). Then Starfire and Raven came down the isle side-by-side. Robin and Beast Boy seemed to be using all their strength not to faint when they saw the girls. Cyborg was paying attention to Blackfire, while Jack and Fayrii seemed to be as normal as ever. Starfire and Raven made it to the later, and turned towards a weak- kneed Robin and Beast Boy. Fayrii stopped playing.
Jack started, "We are gathered here today..." While he spoke, the four titans only half-listened to him. Robin and Starfire were too busy looking at each other, as were Raven and Beast Boy. Jack asked for the presentation of the rings, and the boys took their rings and slid them on the girls' fingers. Then the girls slid the boys' rings on.
Jack started to talk again, and he got to the part where they say I do. Starfire was asked first. She replied with her eyes shining, "I do."
Robin was asked next. His voice was a mix of joy and seriousness as he answered, "I do."
Then it was Raven's turn. Her voice seemed unstable when she spoke, "I do."
Finally, when Beast Boy was asked, he answered, "I do."
"Then I pronounce you all men and wives," Jack said, now that it was almost over. "You may now kiss the brides."
Robin lifted Starfire's, the thing that women wear on their head. Then Beast Boy and Robin kissed Raven and Starfire. The organ struck up, and everyone clapped. After people congratulated, Fayrii walked up to the cake, holding a fine knife. He flipped all over, catching it with his shoe, hands, head, and tail. When he was finished, the cake was precisely cut into fine pieces. Fayrii handed each of the married a slice, then everyone else. Everyone waited for one of them eat.
Instead, Robin did something else. "Star?" he asked. Starfire turned towards him.
"Yes Robin?" she answered. Robin threw the piece of cake perfectly on target. Starfire stood there awhile, then threw hers back at a surprised Robin.
Beast Boy grinned and turned towards a frowning Raven.
She started, "Don't even think about it." But the cake flew true and landed squarely on her face. However, Beast Boy didn't expect Raven to throw hers however, and it hit him.
Then chaos erupted. Think about it. You have a whole bunch of teenagers, four of which are getting married, and they just got cake thrown in their faces. Yeah, one of the grooms called food fight. Cake flew everywhere. Mammoth was in a corner, catching and eating cake that came his way.
The chaos ended when a blast of magic disintegrated the cake Robin was about to throw. An uninvited guest, Mumbo, was on a stage.
"Hm, what to do?" he asked himself, preparing to ruin the wedding. Fortunately, there were two other magic-users in that cathedral, and one of them was a prankster.
Fayrii jumped up on the stage, saying, "Well Mumbo, you found out that Robin had scheduled a little entertainment before the final event." Robin hadn't, but he went along with it, to stop chaos.
Fayrii used magic and spun Mumbo in mid-air, then placed him in a box, and pulled out a katana.
"It's that I warn you, I have never trained in this weapon," Fayrii said, and brought the katana down through the box. He opened it, and the bottom half of Mumbo jumped up and ran out of the cathedral, while the upper half dragged itself after its legs.
Finally, Fayrii twirled his finger, and music began to play. Everyone started to dance to the slow tune.
The wedding song that the four had decided on was one Fayrii had written, successfully containing the four elements that they liked. It started out slow, like a love song. Then came Robin's rock part. The wedding party picked up speed. It meshed into a amusing little tune (BB's), which kept the same rhythm as Robin's. Then it transitioned into a horror/quick one, then slowed back to a slow song, and ended.
The guests eventually left, leaving the eight Titans to clean up. Fayrii and Jack handled that, while Cyborg got their cameras. Robin was still spinning Starfire around, who was giggle profusely. Raven was holding hands with Beast Boy prancing around in circles.
By noon, two ships (jet ships) were waiting outside. Raven and Beast Boy got on one, while Robin and Starfire got on another. The two ships flew off in different directions, heading for the couples' honeymoons. Cyborg got in the T-car with the two brothers, and drove home.
(A/N: This story isn't over by a long shot!)