I hope 3866wordsexcludingthe title and these author notes can be deemed as 'insanely long.' Time is something I do not have these days anymore :(
But I have finished enough for another CHAPPY! YAY! Warning! BBxRae In this one! (sorta) :p
A summed up explaination of the events of Tyan's past is summed up as well! If you still don't get it, you'll get it later...
Things are going to get interesting...
To the guy who somehow got my email and asked me that one question fifty times: Look at the catagories of the story... it says Tragedy as one of them... That should answer your question. STOP EMAILING ME:p
Thank thee for the reviews!
Chapter 10: Oops! A Mistake! And Something Else...
Everyone sat quietly on the kitchen chairs, with the exception of Cyborg. Finding out the metal teen's "cleaning methods" he sent Cyborg to get the spare table from storage; they had a lot of duplicates of stuff in storage in case Raven went ballistic. Cyborg wasn't affected by the task much. He had a satisfying time with the news crews trying to reach the tower. Real satisfying.
-Flashback-
"I'm warning y'all! Don't make me do this!" yelled Cyborg. The boat kept coming. 'Well, at least I gave them a chance,' the metal teen thought. He aimed his left hand outwards, and it separated from his arm, flying straight at the boat…
"What the hell?" the driver of the boat said, before getting decked in the face by the hand. Quickly taking control of the boat, the hand drove the boat hard into the opposite shoreline, shattering the propeller…
"BOOYA!" yelled Cyborg in triumph, reattaching his hand. "YOU HAD IT COMING TOO EVER SINCE THAT REVIEW OF THE MEATY MEATS COMMERCIAL!"
-End Flashback-
Tyan was playing around with the metal sphere he used back at the museum. Robin was tapping his foot on the ground, waiting for the table to come in. Starfire sat quietly looking around, not cheerfully, but not extremely depressed either. Beast Boy was sitting there annoyed that no one was talking, and being blind, couldn't do much of anything but whistle. Raven was staring in Beast Boy's direction.
'How am I going to apologize?' She thought. 'Maybe after this meeting. Cyborg will probably tape it if he was here and alter the footage for blackmail…' The elevator beeped and opened, revealing Cyborg carrying a fold up table.
"Yo guys! Back with the spare table!" said Cyborg. Raven turned from the changeling to Cyborg.
"Just HOW many spare tables do you have anyway?" Raven asked curiously. Cyborg grinned.
"Hmmm… not counting this one," he plopped the table down in the middle of everyone, "nineteen? But that's normal; you should see how many remotes I've stored down there…"
Robin interrupted. "Let's get back to what we were doing. Tyan here said he had something to tell us." Tyan nodded, watching that all the attention was drawn to him; Cyborg grabbed an empty seat and sit down next to Beast Boy.
Tyan cleared his throat "Sooo… How to begin? Ah yes…" He waved his hand across the middle of the table, and to much of everyone's surprise, it became transparent… except it didn't show the floor beneath, it showed redish barren landscape.
-What is being viewed-
(Italics here is Tyan talking)
The viewpoint starts moving, arcross the landscape.
In many planes of existence, the beings there found a way to open rifts in time in space. Because of this, they met other beings, and they formed an alliance to help promote peace and trade within themselves. The Planewalker Council was formed…
Our curiosity was probably started this whole ordeal, but the Planewalkers kept exploring different planes of existence. Until they found one, that threatened this all.
Viewpoint goes over a cliff into a valley, sounds of battle yelling from a giant long mass in the middle of the valley. Grotesque creatures were tearing a smaller group apart, mostly made up of bipedal creatures.
We stumbled upon creatures, which feed on negative energy and feelings, and their sadistic tastes outmatched anything that we ever seen exist. Some could fly; others could tear people into shreds with claws or raw energy, but all could in some way coexist with each other without tearing each other apart. We called them Everto… demons in other terms. The war across planes began soon after the discovery.
Viewpoint changes to a futuristic burning city, the inhabitants, sleek white with two appendages on each side of the head, ran frantically away from the demonic invaders.
Weak points are formed where rifts were opened before. Tthe Everto took advantage of our carelessness of not properly sealing many rifts completely and tore through plane to plane like a plague. The war took its way all the way to the plane the Council was located. Funny thing was the council was based on this planet… this plane.
Viewpoint changes to Stonehenge, demons pouring out through the middle of the stones. Minotaurs, elves, dwarves, fey, a dragon… literally every creature that was myth or legend, fought against the Everto. But they were losing. As they fell many, more came out of the rift, just to kill more. The slaughter continued, until only three defenders remained. One of them looked exactly like Tyan.
In a last ditch effort, Merlin, one of the founders of the Council, used the lost souls from the battle to force them all back, at a great cost. A demon tried to take him down as he conjured a spell from a stone, and both were pulled into it, and the stone was lost in the explosion. Of the Council, all but two remained.
Viewpoint switches over to an alley in a 19th century town. Tyan, and the other council member, who was looking quite old and frail were facing each other. The Tyan in the 'movie' handed the other the blood red stone.
It took us many years to find the stone, but we did. We hid it as best as we could. But misfortune found us. Merlin's spell did not seal the rift at the stones completely. The demons came through.
Tyan and the other person, though halfheartedly, jumped through a rift weapons drawn.
They kept coming, and the only choice we had was go into the rift, and seal it off at the other end. We were captured, and tortured at Terilron, a citadel of torture…
Images stop suddenly.
-End-
Tyan waved his hand over the table, the image vanishing. "I prefer I keep my stay there private. I hope you understand." he said in a low tone.
"Uhh… can you go through that again?" asked Beast Boy, confused. His blindness prevented him from seeing the display on the table, but he was able to hear the tale.
Cyborg answered him. "Think of Clash of the Planets, with the evil people as scary monsters…"
Beast Boy fidgeted. "Oh… NOW I get it." He started beaming.
"That doesn't make sense Tyan," Robin said suspiciously. "The fact that you were in the picture when Stonehenge was intact, and with all the stuff about Merlin… that would make you-"
"extremely old…," Raven finished, also with a questioning look. Tyan nods.
"Because of my… situation in the past. I … stopped aging. I was born at what you call Stonehenge a very long time ago." He paused, deep in thought. "Hmm…. I don't EVEN recall how old I am…"
"Cool," said Beast Boy. "Living forever must be cool!" Tyan grunted and laughed.
"I wish. If I had a choice of living forever and being dead, I'd take the latter." said Tyan with a dead tone.
"Okay…," said Robin, furrowed in thought, "Lets say what you say is true. All of it. The language from back then is completely different from what is now. How can you even speak like us, or even understand us?"
Tyan pointed to his head. "One of my many abilities allows me to read minds quite well. All I have to do is search in there deep enough to find all the information I need to speak the person's language. It also helps to find out who your enemies are." He began chuckling. "Oh yes," he added. "Don't worry about me revealing secrets. I do have a set of morale ethics I abide by."
"So, what does this stone do?" Starfire piped up. Tyan stopped chuckling instantly.
"The spell Merlin cast back then did more than it seemed. It created a special void between any rifts I do not know much on the whole matter, but it disallowed the Everto to open the rifts themselves… but they can send images through the void to creatures on the other side."
"So how did they get through?" asked Beast Boy. Robin stood up.
"Slade…" Robin said quietly. Tyan nodded slightly.
"He may have been the one who opened the gate for them. The energy bound to the artifacts in that structure you call the museum may have gotten the gate opened. When it was used up… he had to find other sources…" There was a pause before Tyan continued.
"The stone though contains the soul of a demon and Merlin himself. Merlin's power was also infused within the stone, which could be used to do many things… like open a rift. Normally, since the discovery of the abominations, we've put precautions on any spells or enchantments we do to prevent the creatures of that domain to use them against us. Sadly, the demon's intrusion during the spell stopped that, and in time, the Everyo can find out how to tap its power."
"They have the stone now," said Raven in her monotone. "So what do we do about it?"
Tyan shook his head.
"It's my fight. All I have to do is wait for them to open a rift with the stone, jump in, and try to destroy it before they kill me…"
"Well, it's now our fight also. Slade's gotten involved, and there has been deaths accounted for this. We're going to help you," Robin said confidently. Beast Boy and Cyborg nodded approvingly.
"Yes, we must punish the ones who had killed those innocent people," Starfire said in a dignified voice.
"I don't think it would be wise for you all to help," Tyan said rubbing his chin. "The chances are you'd all die. Cyborg there got a taste of it first hand." Cyborg looked at him funny.
"It must have not done much because I don't remember it." The metal teen said proudly.
"The vial that saved your life erases the drinker's short term memory. You are only alive BECAUSE you forgot." Tyan argued back.
"We are going to help you whether you like it or not," Robin said finally. "If you are so worried about us dying and all, maybe you should tell us what we are up against? We've dealt with life and death situations before, and this is no different." Tyan sighed.
"Fine…, but all we can do is waiting for them to open a rift. Until then, or if I can somehow open one myself, I'll do the best I can to help you prepare But right now," he got up rubbing his hands together, "we need to find Throlanna."
Starfire's eyes grew angry. "She must pay for what she had done at the place of eternal rest!"
"I'm going out and go look, but chances are… she won't reveal herself unless she wants to be seen." Tyan said, walking towards the door to leave the tower. "She's weak now that her master is no longer in the same domain. I still say you should have let me kill her, she'll just harm more people," Tyan said walking out the door.
Robin turned to the remaining Titans. "I'm going to check on the mainframe to see if I can find any leads on that woman's whereabouts." Starfire got up haphazardly. "May I assist?" Robin nodded.
"Sure." The two walked out of the room. Cyborg got up as well and headed towards the elevator.
"My baby needs a tune-up! It wasn't handling satisfactory earlier…" He said, before disappearing from sight. Raven and Beast Boy remained.
"Uhh, Raven?" Beast Boy asked timidly. "You still there?"
"Yes," Raven said.
"I'm sorry for bothering you earlier," said the changeling, hanging his head in shame. "I shoulda known better to leave you alone..."
Raven frowned at what Beast Boy was doing.. 'Okay, this is your chance,' a voice in Raven's head said. 'Tell him you're sorry!'
Another voice piped in. 'YEAH! Don't be afraid to!'
'He doesn't like me because I'm mean to him…,' said another voice.
'KILL HIM! Put him out of his misery,' Said a bellowing voice.
'And I thought I had issues being a rational thinking jewel,' said Adelus in her mind.
"Shut up!" said Raven out loud. She clapped her hand over her mouth, as she watched Beast Boy get up and began his haphazard walk to the couch.
"I'm guessing you're still mad at me…" said the green titan sadly. Raven quickly and attempted to head Beast Boy off.
"No, that's not what I meant," Raven pleaded. Beast Boy stopped, facing in the direction of the Goth's voice.
"Then what did you mean?" asked the changeling curiously.
"I'm having a debate in my mind, I wasn't talking about you when I said shut up," said Raven.
"Oh."
"I'm sorry about overreacting in my room earlier. I didn't mean yelling at you or throwing you out of my room," She said softly. Raven began to feel a strange fuzzy feeling inside, but she ignored it. "Thanks for asking if I was okay though."
Beast Boy rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "You don't need to apologize, I knew I was walking into certain death going into your room and all pestering you after-," he began, before he found that something warm and soft was pressing against his lips, and a tongue entering his mouth. Raven was kissing him. The changelings empty eyes went wide, and Raven noticed what she was doing. Her mind went racing. 'Shit!'
Raven drew back from Beast Boy so quickly she nearly toppled over on herself. "Sorry," she said quickly before rushing out of the room.
Beast Boy was left in the kitchen alone in shock.
"Duuude… what just happened?" he said to himself. His brain stopped functioning, and was left standing there in a daze.
Tyan was jumping from rooftop to rooftop.
"So…" Tyan said to himself, "If I was an Everto, gravely wounded, and had an appetite to torture and maim, where would I be?"
He leaped again, landing onto a slanted roof. The roof tiles weren't very friendly. He fell onto his back, the tiles sliding under him, falling off the roof. In a matter of seconds, he found himself in a heap of garbage.
"Eghh…," he muttered, tossing a banana peel of his face. A gigantic form began moving slowly towards him. "I wonder what that would be?" he said curiously. It kept coming closer.
"Great, it's coming this way…," Tyan said to himself. He hid in the garbage. The garbage truck locked into place on the dumpster.
"Ahhh," sighed Cyborg, heading towards the fridge. "Another day's work done… Now for some steak!" He opened it, but to his dismay no steak was to be found.
Cyborg dropped to his knees. "Nooooo! Who would be so cruel to deprive me of steak!" He saw Beast Boy facing the couch in the corner of his eye.
"It was you! You little grass stain!" yelled Cyborg, who rushed over him, grabbed him by the neck and began shaking him furiously.
"WHERE DID YOU HIDE THE…?" said the metal teen, but then he saw Beast Boy's face. It was blank, drool hanging out of his mouth.
"Yo! BB," said Cyborg, shaking him gently now, who was starting to get worried. "I know I didn't kill ya!" He let go of the changeling, who in turn fell face first into the ground.
"…" said Cyborg. Starfire entered the room.
"Hello friends!" she said, though her usually vibrant greets was not in her voice. She hadn't gotten over the deaths yet. Cyborg let out a girly shriek as he quickly picked up the changeling and hid him behind his back.
"Friend Robin has found what you call a lead to the whereabouts of our enemies."
"Uhh, Star," Cyborg said hesitantly. "I'm going to stay behind with BB here… he's been alone in the tower for a while. Yeah... that's it. I'm pretty sure you three can handle yourselves."
"If you say so. I shall tell Robin." She headed back to the elevator. When she was out of sight, Cyborg let out a deep sigh.
"Damnit BB, you better not be dead." The changeling answer was a large amount of drool dropping out of his mouth.
"Alright, what was all that about!" said Raven irritably, safely locked away in her room, talking to herself. There was some cheering in her head, some groans, one crying, and one yelling angrily.
'It was Happy's fault,' said a voice
Happy piped in. 'No, it was Love's!'
"I don't CARE whose fault it was! I want to know how an emotion gained control of my body!" There was a series of 'ohs' echoing in her head. Adelus's voice popped in.
'That, my lady, would be my doing,' said Adelus.
"WHY?" roared Raven.
'Well, you looked like you needed some help with the apologies, and Happy and Love here had some ideas. I only just gave them that chance. You've been given a chance to feel, and these two here are quite convincing.' Raven growled in response.
"NEVER… and I mean NEVER… do that again, Adelus… Or you might find yourself in an unsavory position VERY soon… What do you mean they were 'convincing'?" said Raven slowly with a ting of a threat.
Adelus sighed. 'You don't want to know… Let's just say I thought Tyan had the worst of the tortures in Terilron…'
'Awww, come on Raven,' said Love. 'You know you liked kissing him.'
'I sure did,' said Happy cheerfully.
"Happy… you like everything!" shouted Raven.
'No I don't! I don't like you yelling at me...'
Ravenheard yelling from downstairs, and shortly after knocking began.
"Gah… we'll continue this disscusion another time," Raven said in a defeated voice. She went to answer the door, revealing Robin.
"Raven, I think we've found something. There's been a disturbance." Starfire soon appeared behind Robin.
"Cyborg shall be accompanying Friend Beast Boy. He has been alone all day." Said Starfire. Robin nodded looking towards the alien.
"That's probably for the best. We don't need Beast Boy feeling left out because of his eyesight condition." He turned to Raven. "Raven, can you teleport us to the intersection of third street and main?"
"No problem, said Raven. 'Adelus,' she thought.
'Yes mistress?' he replied in a jokingly manner.
'Don't call me mistress. I need to use my powers…'
'Say no more… There, just do what you normally do… careful with your feelings now.' Raven lifted her hands up in the air and all three were enveloped in a dark Raven and phased through the wall of the tower.
Cyborg meanwhile was despairing in the living room, thinking he killed the changeling or close to it.
"Come on BB! Say something!" he pleaded. He ran into the kitchen, filled a pail of water, and threw it onto of Beast Boy. The green titan jolted up quickly.
"EEK! Where am I? Why can't I see!" Beast Boy started yelling.
"Woo! I didn't kill you!" said Cyborg. Beast Boy turned towards Cyborg's voice.
"What do you mean," the changeling questioned. "You try to kill me?" Cyborg began rubbing the back of his head nervously.
"Well, I was lookin for the steaks but we didn't have any left, then I saw you standing still over here, and assume you took them… DID YOU TAKE THEM?" Beast Boy lifted up his hands in defense, even though it would have been useless because of his condition of not being able to anticipate any attacks for now.
"No I didn't…wait…" Memories from earlier that day came back to him. The story by Tyan, Raven's apology… the kiss…
"Oh shit!" Beast Boy said, looking extremely jumpy. "I can't believe that happened!"
"Man, what's wrong?" asked Cyborg, eying the changeling curiously arms folded.
"You promise you won't tell?" the changeling said in a pleading voice.
"Sure I won't, unless you killed someone," replied the metal teen smugly.
"Well… Raven…," began Beast Boy, but found himself at a loss of words.
"Raven what? Did she do something to you?" Beast Boy nodded.
Cyborg sighed. "Yo, BB… when will you learn that messing with the girl can get a bit dangerous…"
Beast Boy began flailing his arms in protest. "No, she didn't do anything like that!"
"Then what happened?"
"Umm…," Beast Boy said, rubbing the back of his neck. "She uhh…"
Cyborg leaned closer to him. "Yeees?"
"She kissed me," Beast Boy replied quickly. Cyborg did a double take.
"WHAT?" he yelled. Beast Boy's expression turned sheepish.
"Don't tell anyone!" the green titan said menacingly.
"Did I hear you right BB?" questioned Cyborg slowly. "She kissed you?" Beast Boy nodded.
There was a pause of silence.
Cyborg in the end decided to break it. "BB I got it! You probably imagined the whole thing! How many times you've hit your head?"
"Dude, I'm sure I was awake and sane at the time." Cyborg began laughing hysterically.
"Ah, now I get it! This is a joke! Good one!"
"It isn't a joke!" said Beast Boy, very irritated. Cyborg left the room laughing, heading to his room, leaving Beast Boy fuming.
Robin, Raven, and Starfire arrived at the scene at third and main. There were many police officers at the scene, forming a large circle in the middle of the street on third.
"What's the situation," Robin called at the group of officers. A familiar voice answered him.
"Hey Robin! Can you explain to these people that mechanical beast tried to devour me?" Tyan replied, pointing to a garbage truck that looked as if it was torn apart from the inside. The driver of the truck was busy in mourning for the beloved vehicle.
"My poor baby…" the driver said, and began weeping.
"And I thought Cyborg was the only one obsessed…" said Raven in her monotone.
The police chief of Jump City walked over to Robin, pulling him away from the others. "You know this young man?"
"Yes sir," Robin said quickly. "He's not around from here. He may have thought the truck was a creature trying to kill him."
"Ahh," replied the chief, turning to Tyan. "There was also I wanted to speak to you about." Robin's mask narrowed, as the commissioner cleared his throat.
'Man, I don't know what to think anymore. That kiss Raven gave me was sweet. Man, I wondered how hot she would have looked like when she kissed… What am I thinking? She's my friend! I don't have feelings like that for her… do I?' Beast Boy sat in the chair in wonder, what to do next. The door opening interrupted his thoughts.
"Who's there?" called Beast Boy.
"It's us friend Beast Boy!" Starfire called. Starfire, Raven and Robin walked in… Tyan, still covered in stuff that you DON'T want to know close behind. "Was your time with Cyborg most enjoyable?"
"Eh…," Beast Boy rubbed his neck. "Something like that… Duude! What's that smell?"
Tyan bowed. "That would be me. I was nearly devoured earlier." Raven smirked. "He decided to roam in a garbage bin on garbage day." Beast Boy starting cracking up. Robin however, was somewhat distant.
"Friend Robin, what's wrong?" Starfire asked worriedly. Robin turned to face Starfire, his eyes showing hints of sadness.
"The police chief stopped me while we were heading back. He wants me to do a speech in front of a city… about the deaths…" Robin said slowly.
This chappy is slightly happier andthan I hoped... but it'll do for me.
ReviewPlease! And PLEASE tell me if it's taking too long to develop either the StarxRob (Don't think I even started hehe)
or the RaexBB I can speed things up if needs be... :D
