WeaselChick: This chapter is totally villian centric. Read.

Dayna groaned as her stomach growled again. She was lying on her back under the willow tree, watching the branches sway in the breeze. "Thorn!" she screamed, sitting up. "Where are you? I'm starving!"
Thorn pressed a button on Xanka's computer and taped his fingers impatiently on the keybroad/data-control center. Behind him, Xanka and Gizmo had begun fighting again. Growling, Thorn shut his eyes in anger, and reached out to grab Gizmo by his shirt collar as he was thrown backwards by one of Xanka's kicks.

"Stop fighting and work!" Terra screamed, hitting Xanka with a rock.

Xanka pulled himself up from the ground. "What the hell was that for?" he yelled angrily.

"I told you not to fight," Terra said, preparing to throw another rock at him.

"I oughta kill you!" Xanka jumped towards Terra, but Mammoth reached out and grabbed the cape of his Red X suit.

"Thorn said to listen to her," he told Xanka.

"I don't care!" Xanka spat. "Let go of my cape, you fat fuck."

Jinx glared at Xanka and raised her hand. "Stop yelling," she said harshly. "Unless you want some bad luck."

Xanka rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. "I am so scared," he said sarcastically.

"You look so confident for someone hanging two inches above the ground," Jinx retorted.

Xanka smirked. "I'd look confident hanging two inches above anything if I was up against you."

Jinx scowled and fired a hex at him.

Thorn turned his head to see Xanka flip upward to avoid her hex. "Jinx!" he snarled. "Stop trying to hex your teammates!"

Jinx sighed and lowered her hand.

"Mammoth, let Xanka go."

Mammoth nodded once and let go of Xanka. Xanka scowled as he hit the ground.

"Xanka, stop picking fights with everyone. You can use that against the Titans."

Xanka crossed his arms again and nodded.

"And, Terra, my dear," Thorn said, his tone changing from harsh and angry to cheery, yet still angry. "do try to keep them in check without destroying my house."

Terra averted her eyes. "I am sorry, Thorn," she said. "I will try harder next time."

Thorn smiled. "Excellent!" he said, swinging Gizmo in front of his face. "And you." His voice changed suddenly back to the snarl. "Behave yourself." He dropped him on the ground as the computer beeped and his feet began to disappear. "Oh, beautiful," he said sarcastically. "I get to leave while I'm still angry!"

Xanka stared at Thorn, glanced at the others, then looked back at Thorn. "Uh, Thorn?" he asked slowly. "Are you all right?"

Thorn looked him in the eye. "Do I look all right?" he asked angrily as his shins started disappearing. "I'm about to be transported to a field whose weather is controlled by my emotions! I am as furious as I can be, and my anger will cause one hell of a storm!" He paused and looked at them, then sighed seeing they were staring at him. "How much of me has vanished?"

"You're up to mid-thighs," Terra informed him.

"Wonderful," he sighed, exasperated. "The area around the waist is always a pleasent feeling," he added sarcastically. Curious, he cast a look downward to see the line where visibility and invisibility reached creeping toward his waist.

His team shared a strange look as Thorn braced himself.

"It's going faster than usual," Thorn choked out through gritted teeth as he tensed. "And it feels worse."

"Uh, yeah," Gizmo said, watching as the line moved past his waist and up his stomach (Thorn breathing a sigh of relief). "I hyped it up. Xanka was complaining about how long it took to process his music vidoes, so I sped it up."

Thorn glared at him as his whole body disappeared-

-and reappeared in the field.

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Dayna shot up with a small scream as the weather suddenly changed to a fierce storm. She glared at a silhouette that had suddenly appeared about ten feet away from her and the tree and got to her feet. If that's Thorn, she thought, leaning up against the tree's trunk. I'll hurt him. She watched as the silhouette drew closer and pushed back some of the willow tree's branches.

"Dayna," Thorn began, but was hit in his chest with a large fireball. He groaned and sat up, only to be pushed back down by another fireball. "Stop!" he yelled.

Dayna put the fire out and crossed her arms. "That really didn't take long," she said sarcastically.

Thorn sighed and stood back up. "I know," he agreed. "You can blame Slade and the others for that."

"You picked up Slade?"

Thorn nodded. "Now can we go? I have a feeling that they are still arguing."

Dayna shook her head. "First, where did this storm come from?"

"My anger," Thorn said simply.

"Huh?"

"This place is in my mind," he told her. "It's a secret that no one knows about, a place that I can come to and relax."

Dayna stared at him. "What are you-"

"My subconscious made it, it is controlled by my emotions, and this is the first time I've been back here for eighty years," Thorn said quickly. The storm around them raged on, although the wind and rain had slowed some. He was calming. "That diamond that I pulled out of my cloak earlier allowed me to travel between here, your world, and the realm of Nor."

Dayna's eyes widened. "You're from Nor?" she asked in wonder.

"We can talk about this later," Thorn said, reaching out and grabbing her left wrist. "Right now, I need to get back to my house and control my team."

Dayna sighed and gave in, allowing Thorn to draw her close again. She thought of his house and flames began to cover them. Thorn looked down at her at the same time she looked up and smiled. As soon as the flames enveloped them completely, Thorn leaned down and placed his lips on hers and reached into one of the many pockets in his coat. Dayna's eyes widened and she struggled in his grasp. Thorn tighted his grip on her arm, at the same time pushing a small leather bracelet onto her wrist.

Dayna had teleported them so that they would appear anywhere in his house. The looks from the majority of his team informed her that where they had appeared wasn't the best place in the world.

"Dude," Xanka muttered, stunned, before bursting into crazy laughter. Gizmo glared at Thorn as he pulled away from Dayna and turned to them.

"What are you staring at?" Thorn asked his team. "Get back to cleaning."

They relunctantly got back to cleaning up the remaining rocks, Xanka still laughing under his breath.

"Thorn," Dayna said softly. "What was that for?"

Thorn turned to her. "Oh, that," he said, in a bored tone. "That was just to distract you so I could attach that bracelet on you."

Dayna looked surprised and turned her gaze to the red leather bracelet now on her left wrist. A small black gem was placed in the center of it. "And this is?" she asked Thorn.

"It is a bracelet fashioned in the realm of Nor," Thorn informed her. "It was made to constrict demons powers. I had to tweak with it just a bit to fit what I wanted it to restrict for you. In other words, you can no longer teleport with that on." He smile turned cold. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have something to tend to."

"And that is?" Dayna asked.

"Mystery has probably killed Slade by now," Thorn sighed. "Either that, or Slade has killed her." He then walked out of the room, and Xanka's laughter grew loud again.

"That was the weirdest thing I've seen!" he choked out between laughs. "How'd it feel to have Thorn's mouth on yours?"

Dayna snorted. "Probably better than yours would," she told him shortly.

Xanka's laughter ceased immediately and he glared at Dayna.

Jinx and Terra snickered. "Do you think Thorn's a better kisser, too?" Jinx asked.

Dayna tilted her head in thought. "Most likely," she said after 20 seconds.

Xanka's glare turned into a snarl and he made the X on the back of his glove into the four-bladed crossblade again, preparing to jump Dayna.

At that moment, Thorn appeared in the doorway, Mystery and Slade behind him. "Stop, Xanka," he ordered.

Xanka narrowed his eyes and the crossblade shrunk back into the X. "That was quick," he growled lowly.

Thorn shrugged. "When I heard your laughter stop so suddenly, I knew something was happening," he explained. "And I just can't have my barginning chip destroyed, now can I?"

Xanka snorted. "More like your girlfriend," he said lowly.

Thorn and Dayna glared at him. "What-" Thorn began, but Dayna cut him off.

"I am not his girlfriend!" she yelled at Xanka, firing fireballs in between her words. Xanka was thrown backwards into the wall (which was almost fixed completely), and he cried out in pain as she turned the last fireball into a stream of fire.

Thorn sighed and he walked forward, placing a hand on Dayna's shoulder. "Enough, Dayna," he said. "I think Xanka has gotten the point, yes?"

Xanka nodded weakly and struggled to his feet. Thorn let go of Dayna and walked over to him. "I think," he said, leaning down slightly so he could look him in the eye. "that Xanka and I must have a little talk, later. What do you say, Xanka?"

Xanka grimaced, placed a hand on his side, and nodded. "Sure."

Thorn's grin returned to his face. "Wonderful!" he said cheerfully. "Terra, take him to the infirmary and bandage him."

"Uh," Terra said slowly. "we don't have one."

"Then make one," Thorn said immediately, ushring them out. "The rest of you, finish the walls. Gizmo, see if you can fix Dayna's cage. If not, we'll have to find somewhere else for her to sleep."

They nodded and started to do what he said.

Thorn turned back to Dayna and layed his hand back on her shoulder. "Come with me, Dayna," he told her lowly. "I imagine you're hungry."

Dayna smiled and gladly walked away with him. Anything for some food, she thought happily.

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