AN: Thank you all for reviewing. I find it strange that so many people think the surprise person is Terra. It's definitely not her. Anyway, a reviewing asked a question a couple of chapters back about Raven and the book, and they get their answer here. :)

Chapter Fifteen: Creator

Being the first one to awake out of the remaining Titans at the tower, Cyborg was naturally the first one to arrive at the gym. He yawned and was in the middle of punching in the code to the gym, but immediately stopped when he noticed a note on the door.

-Hey team,

This morning I decided to go with Starfire with school today, so I won't be back for a while. Since I'm gone training will have to be cancelled for the day. You don't have to make it up, so don't worry about that.

-Robin

Cyborg rubbed his eyes and blinked. He assumed that he was dreaming since he had had many dreams that included this type of moment, and because what he had just read seemed too good to be true. Robin wouldn't have cancelled training unless it was some emergency, and if there was an emergency he would have alerted Cyborg and the others about it, no doubt.

While Cyborg was at the point of scanning the note with his arm to see if Robin really wrote it, Raven was the next to come to the gym. She gave Cyborg a funny look and read the note on the door for herself. While she read did so, Beast Boy gloomily dragged himself to the gym.

"What's that?" he groggily asked, rubbing his eyes.

"Training's cancelled," Cyborg simply said, with a sly smile on his face. He pressed a button on his arm, confirming that the scanning was finished.

Beast Boy's eyes widened, fully waking him up. "It is?" he then gave an alert look to his best friend and spoke again, "Or is it April Fool's Day already? If it is, I can't believe I forgot! I'd never forget that…"

"No, man. It's really cancelled! And I don't know about you, but I have no complaints about that. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some work to do in the kitchen...that kind of deals with eating." Cyborg hurriedly rushed to the kitchen, beaming.

Raven and Beast Boy watched him run off, and then stared at each other.

"So what are you going to do with your extra free time?" Beast Boy asked her. "The good news is true."

"I'm going on a walk," Raven told him. "I really don't feel like reading that book today."

"Can I come?" Beast Boy asked her, not a minute later.

Raven froze. A part of her mind screamed, No! Remember what people will think if they see you alone with him! And another, more compromising argued, Who cares? You already went to the arcade alone with him. The people can think what they want; they don't matter to me.

Raven decided the second voice was right. The timid in her head really needed to get a grip sometimes.

"Ok," Raven softly said. "...and I'll take my book, just in case we get bored."

"A change of heart?" Beast Boy directed to her last comment.

Raven shook her head. She just wanted to keep it in her sight at all times. There was no telling what would happen if it got into the wrong hands.

So, after eating a little breakfast and telling Cyborg goodbye, the two Titans headed out of the tower for the morning.

"So...where are we walking to?" Beast Boy asked. "And why don't you fly? It's easier...and you don't have to move as fast."

Good old lazy Beast Boy. "Well I said I was taking a walk, didn't I? We're going to the park."

"I thought you didn't want to be seen with me at the park."

Raven stopped walking. She didn't remember saying that directly to him. "Who told you that?"

He shrugged. "I don't know...I just figured that. Besides, Darcy never usually wanted to be seen with Lorenzo."

"What do they have to do with us?" Raven curiously asked him.

"I dunno...I just always thought Darcy and Lorenzo were a lot like us."

Raven walked over to a nearby bench and sat down. Beast Boy almost did the same, but when she glared at him he decided not to.

"They are nothing like us," she firmly said, wishing that the conversation was never brought up. "You're probably just imagining things."

"But I'm not!" Beast Boy protested. "I've been thinking about this lately, and I've wanted to talk to you about it. Almost everything we've done recently have been something that are just like things Darcy and Lorenzo have done."

Raven agreed with him inside, but she didn't want to think about it. That observation was the reason that she had lost interest in the book in the first place. It was the reason that she hid it, so that nothing else between them would happen. The book began to scare her. Besides, the things Darcy could do, she could never do.

But, she couldn't lie to the little green guy forever. Someone had to tell him that he wasn't crazy, or a victim of wishful thinking.

"Alright," she said sighed. "I agree with you and I think it is strange. I just don't know if it's intended or not," Raven added while looking down.

"Is that why you hid the book?" Beast Boy quietly asked, and Raven nodded.

Beast Boy sat down to her and put his hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure the author knew exactly what they were writing."

As if on cue, a tall figure slowly appeared behind a nearby light pole. They seemed to be as thin as the pole at first, and then their slender body extended out, as if they were doing a trick. Beast Boy and Raven had not noticed this yet however, but nearby screaming had gotten their attention.

The two Titans looked up to see a blue skinned, white haired familiar magician before them. He dusted off his black suit haughtily and smirked at them.

"I agree with the boy," he said. "The author definitely knew what they were writing. We can ask her right now."

He took his wand and it transformed into a giant hand, reaching for Raven. She dropped the book and dodged the hand.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

A black glow wrapped around the glove and it was tossed aside. The hand turned back into a wand, and fell to the grass nearby.

"I see you still have your skill," Mumbo replied, glaring at Raven. "We'll see who the better magician is this time."

Like Raven, Beast Boy didn't even stop to think that they had a real villain on their hands for the first time in a long time. He may not have been the brightest person, but he was smart enough to destroy what fueled Mumbo's power. He turned into an elephant and charged towards the wand on the ground. He stomped on it repeatedly and when he was done he grinned at Mumbo. "Fight's over, Mumbo."

Mumbo grinned right back at him. "I forgot to mention that I have many spare wands; that was merely an old one." He turned to Raven in glee, "But enough of the fighting, I just want to laugh at the Titan who happened to test out my book."

Knowing that she didn't want to hear more, Raven tried to knock the villain out, once again. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" she cried, and the bench she once sat on flew up. It hit Mumbo on the face, and he suddenly fell back. He quickly recovered and got back up and a new wand appeared from under his glove. "Shut your mouth," he said pointing it towards Raven, and her mouth zipped up. Mumbo turned to Beast Boy who was now behind him, charging as a bull, and put a wall right in front of the unsuspecting Titan.

"I'd advise you to not even try to fight me. I might receive help anyway," he said to both of them. To Raven personally, he continued. "Don't try to hide the truth. Obviously he knows you wrote the story."

Beast Boy turned back into a human and held his head. So what? he thought, but had too much of a headache to say.

"The story is quite funny, and I didn't even mean for it to happen to you! I know everything that happened. You see, everything you wrote in that book seemed to be just a harmless story, but once you found out that everything you wrote would come true between whoever was similar to the characters, you took advantage of it. I know you made Darcy and Lorenzo all lovey-dovey because you wanted too be like them. I also know that you didn't make Lorenzo's personality like this green fool's on purpose. It was an accident I believe, and he ended up acting just like him."

Beast Boy scowled and Raven's face fell. Mumbo was right with that, but she didn't regret that mistake—not one bit.

Mumbo continued, ignored both of the Titan's reactions. "You wanted your life to be just like your characters and got your wish. Too bad you couldn't keep it a secret any longer. Once the green one found out about you writing it I decided to reveal what was going on. I'm starting to think I shouldn't have...just for more laughs."

"What do you mean you didn't mean for it to happen to her?" Beast Boy growled, while still holding his head. "And so what if Raven wrote the book? It was a very good book, and I liked it. I enjoyed Lorenzo being like me even if it was an accident."

Mumbo laughed, "I swapped some items from various shops with my own creations, and this happened to include the bookstore. I didn't think someone would actually write a character based on their own self! And your speech is very sweet by the way…but it doesn't change the way I feel."

The changeling ignored his last remark. "How did you get out of the ice in Paris?" he asked. "…Along with the other villains?"

Mumbo's grin widened. "Let's just say, I got a little help."

A/N: Hehe, I bet a lot of people thought my story was pointless fluff with no fighting or "plot", but that's wrong. There's another fight scene, a couple of chapters later.