Hi! I'm back! Sorry for the typos in Chapter One, but when I edited it on the Document Manager, it just decided to ignore some of my formatting specifics. And I can't spell motercyle. Motorcyel. MOTORCYCLE! There. All calm now.

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And on with the show.

Ah, the Titan's Tower at lunch time. A place of utter pandemonium and controlled chaos. Cyborg and Robin were beating each other up in some videogame, with Starfire cheering whoever was winning at that moment. Beast Boy was bustling in the kitchen, making a vegan lunch, while Raven was sitting calmly in the back reading a book. Rhea smiled and sighed as she saw this, and went over to where Raven was sitting. Rhea curled up in a ball next to Raven, and began to read her own book.

"Guys! Lunch is ready! Get your tofu-balongea sandwiches before they're gone!" Beast Boy shouted. The Titans ran to the table.

"Dude. What in the world is this?" Cyborg said as he stared at the pile of tofu balongea and the soy milk in front of him.

"Chef's specialty. Meatless meat and milkless milk. Looks great, doesn't it?"

"Right..." Cyborg looked across the table helplessly. "Is there anything meaty here?"

Beast Boy stared at Cyborg in horror. "NO! A bacon strip might be a friend of mine, and a glass of milk might be from my old girlfriend! I can't eat meat or the bi-products of animals! It's wrong!"

"Yeah, but they're not smart. They are bred to be stupid, grow, and be killed for meat or be milked for cheese and cream. And butter. It's like protecting a rock or a wheat feild. There's no point, because they don't want to fight."

"But that's like saying that some alien race could come and eat and man-handle us for their own meal, and we don't deserve to be protected because we can't fight them!"

While Beast Boy and Cyborg fought over meat vs. vegan food, Rhea stood up and began to make a meat- filled meat breakfast. She set it on the table, and rushed to the sink.

"Ew. Ew. Ew. I can't belive I just did that. I touched the flesh of animals," she said as she scrubbed her fingers raw.

"Awesome! Sausages, bacon, balongea, and... Is this a meatball sub?" Cyborg stared at the table before him in awe. Rhea sat down again, eating some vegan contraption. Cyborg stared at her. "Did you do this?"

Rhea hung her head. "Yes. I violated everything taught to me by my uncle, and prepared...meat." Rhea looked thoroughly dusgusted with herself. Beast Boy stared at Rhea.

"You did that?"

"Yes. I just wanted you two to stop fighting. Eating meat is a choice people have to make. It is his choice, not ours." Rhea was oddly solemn when she said this, which was different from her attitude in the past few days. She had just been quietly happy, as if aware of how lucky she was to have such wonderful hosts like the Titans. Overtop of the quiet happieness was whatever mood she was in, but in greater magnitude. Saddness was immense sorrow, happieness was great joy, and anger was either cold fury or a furnace of energy, aimed at the target. Solemn was not a usual Rhea mood. Silence followed her small speech.

Raven finished her lunch and muttered something about meditation. That seemed to break the silence. Pandemonium was restored, and the controlled chaos that is Titan's Tower was again in place.

"I'm gonna beat you at Soul Calibur 2!"

"Not if I beat you first!"

"I call winner!"

Rhea smiled and sighed, something that happened a lot. Starfire looked at Rhea, slightly worried.

"Friend Rhea, what is it that troubles you?"

Rhea laughed lightly. "Nothing, fair Jravoon. Nothing at all."

Starfire smiled, which lit up the room. "I thank you for your compliment. You are indeed an honorable Gra-N'varr. Eckk ye tre vi-nidoo?"

"Legrenn va dr'cknall. Spo wenn?"

Beast Boy stared at the two teens, apparently babbling nonsense. "What in the world are you two talking about. Was that even english?"

Starfire was first to respond. "No. It was the language of Tamoran. I asked if Friend Rhea had ever seen the star system of Vi-Nidoo. She replied that she hadn't, but had visited a nearby system named Legrenn. She asked if I had been there."

"Ah." Beast Boy seemed to have not abosorbed a word of that, and soon resumed his game of Soul Calibur, which Robin lost quickly.

Rhea sat down nest to Beast Boy. "Ready to take the master of Azerath?"

"You're toast." Soon the two were button mashing until their fingers swelled. And even after that, they continued. Eventually, Rhea lost. She bowed in defeat.

"Ahhh... To tase sweet loss again. It has been a while."

Beast Boy smiled. "Y'know, you're a lot more fun than Raven. She's always so serious. At first, I thought it was just an Azerath thing, but now I see it's just her being grumpy. She could at least go to the trouble to smile. Or make us feel as if she cares whether we live or die." Beast Boy laughed before he noticed that the room had grown cold. A stony silence rung in the air. Ice cold fury eminated off of Rhea, aiming itself at Beast Boy.

"You don't understand, do you?"

"Exactly. She won't let us understand. She's always so standoffish..." Beast Boy thought quickly, wondering what he had said, and how he coudl fix this.

"No. You don't understand at all. If she told you, you would have nightmares every night. And if she actually felt, than we would all be dead. If you went to the trouble to think about it, you would realilze that the things that scare Raven, could actually hurt you."

Rhea paused long enough for that to sink in, then continued. "You don't think that it's an Azerath thing? It is. You think I'm naturally happy go lucky? No way in hell. Which, by the way, I had to go through to get the help of the famed Teen Titans. Raven lived in a time when emotions could get the ones you care about killed. Here, it could still get you guys killed if she acted as if she cared about your lives. And now, at Azerath, the storm has broken, and it doesn't matter how you act. The only thing that matters is masking your real emotions. My parents worked hard to get it so that you could express any emotion.

"Every day, I wonder, 'Will my parents make it through?' 'Will I come back in time?' I have to mask that worry with happieness. But Raven can't be happy, or that which made her happy will be destroyed or used against her to bring doom upon this world.

"So shut up. You don't know a thing about Raven or me or Azerath or emotions." Rhea stormed off to Raven's room, nodding to Raven, who was cowering in the doorway, where she had stayed when she walked in halfway through Rhea's rant.

Starfire, Cyborg, and Robin shifted uncomfortably in the now still room. Beast Boy seemed paralyzed, thinking out what had just been said.

Starfire came up to the roof. At the edge was Rhea, looking out to the sea soberly.

"Are you alright, friend? You seemed to have a problem out there." Starfire walked slowly to the edge to sit next to Rhea.

Rhea fingered her sleeves uncomfortably. "I don't like people thinking badly of others. Especially when they are trying to help."

"I understand. But you did not answer the question I asked."

"Crap. I should have known that you wouldn't fall for that. You're much too smart. I am fine. I just need to calm down." Rhea stared at the ocean for another minute, as the wind stirred her oddly colored hair. "The ocean really calms me. In Azerath, there's this huge lake for meditation. If I feel upset, I meditate there."

There was a comfortable quiet as the gentle sound of waves wafted up from the shores to the two girls. Birds chirped, cars drove in the distance, people below them moved around, mice nibbled at crumbs in the kitchen.

Starfire got a wonderful idea. "If the water makes you calm and happy, than we can share that with our friends! Do you enjoy the swimming in the water?"

"Yeah." Rhea smiled.

"Than it is settled. We shall go shopping today. We shall get the suits of swimming for our friends, and then go swimming! We should share our joy, not keep it."

Rhea smiled wider. "I like that plan. Let's go!"

Okay, that was a tad short, but the next chappie will be long as is my legacy!

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This is Kali, tired, and with a ten thirty appointment tomorrow. Sigh.

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