Titans and Gods: Awakening

A Teen Titans Fanfic by Lavender Gaia

Editing and Assistance by Laine

Chapter 2: Ignorance is Bliss

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or any of the recognizable characters appearing in this chapter. They are all property of DC Comics.


"Thank you for coming," Robin smiled, holding out his hand, which the older man shook firmly. "But can I, um, ask you a question?"

"Of course," Superman nodded.

"What's with the pink duffle bag?"

A figure flew up behind the Man of Steel. "Actually, that would be mine," Wonder Girl grinned. She landed on the roof gracefully, clothed in the red body suit dotted with gold stars, the famous W in the middle of her gold wire belt and knee high black boots with heels that were equally dangerous. The Boy Wonder stared at her in shock before she asked, "What? No hug?"

Two super strong arms wrapped around her. "It is so nice to meet you, new friend!"

"You must be Starfire," Wonder Girl realized, returning the hug with equal force. "It's nice to meet you too." After the alien let go, Robin took his turn with the Amazon princess. "I missed you, Dick," she whispered in his ear.

"I missed you too," He held her for a second, before pulling away.

"Why don't we all go inside and you can tell me what this is about," Superman suggested. Robin nodded and led them downstairs to the great room where everyone continued to watch their movie.

Starfire switched on the lights, ignoring everyone's glares. "Look who we found!"

"Superman!" Cyborg stared.

"Donna!" Speedy ran to her, picking her up and spinning her around. She giggled happily. When he succeeded in making himself dizzy, he set her down and looked at the big guy. "Oh, hey, Clark."

"Roy," he nodded to the redhead.

The leader of Titans East approached the new girl, a friendly smile on her face. "Hey, Wonder Girl, I'm Bumblebee."

Wonder Girl shook the outstretched hand, adjusting the lasso at her waist. "Oh, please, call me Donna."

"We can do introductions later," Robin told them, ignoring the looks at his harsh tone as he lead Superman over to the meeting table. "I'm sorry to have to call you out like this. We really just ran out of options."

"I know that you wouldn't have called unless it was important, Robin." He understood that the boy had established Bruce's pride over the years, rarely asking for help.

"There's a pyromaniac on the loose and he's more powerful than you'd imagine someone with a lighter to be," Beast Boy grumbled. The rest of the Titans filled him in on the story, trying to remember any details and relay them to Superman.

He sat in the chair, turning the information over and over again in his mind before sighing in defeat. "I can't think of what it would be. I'm sorry." Feeling something pull on his leg, he glanced down where Mas and Menos were holding out a roll of paper.

"Mapa!" they insisted.

"Right, the map," Robin groaned at his own stupidity. "We've pretty much pinpointed where this originated from, but we're not sure what to do about it."

As everyone began to pour over it once more, calculating the longitude and latitude, Aqualad glanced at Wonder Girl, noticing an odd look on her face. "Something wrong, Donna?"

"No, I guess not. It's just that I'm sure I've seen that before."

The table turned to stare at her. "You've seen this before?" Raven asked slowly.

Hesitantly, the Amazon nodded, brow furrowed in concentration. "Have you ever gotten the feeling that you've seen something before but then you can't remember where? Oh, this is going to bother me all night."

"Maybe it's something you learned in school," Clark suggested, trying to jog her memory.

"That's not it," she shook her head. Her index finger lightly traced the circles Robin had drawn, as if that would help her remember.

Speedy put a hand on her shoulder. "Do you think you could have learned it in Themyscria?" he suggested.

"If I did, Diana would know it too," she reasoned. "I'm sorry I can't be more help."

"We'll call her," Robin decided, going over to the computer with Clark.

Wonder Girl bit her lip uncertainly and Cyborg placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Hey, don't worry about it. You're helpin' more'n anyone else has. We might actually have a lead."

"How do I call the Watchtower?" Superman asked the younger superhero who reached over and pushed a big, red button, initiating the dial tone.

"Hey, you said never to push the big, red button!" Beast Boy cried indignantly.

"Exactly," Raven muttered. "We don't need you calling up the Justice League every time you have a paper cut or need help on the crossword puzzle."

The green man glared at her, but was ignored as Wonder Woman picked up their call. "Wonder Woman here."

"I'm sorry to bother you, Diana, but I need your help with something," her sister explained. "It's this map. I know it's familiar, but I can't put my finger on it. We thought maybe you've seen it before."

She nodded. "I'll do whatever I can."

"We're scanning over a copy," Robin told her.

The groups waited on bated breath as Wonder Woman reviewed it on the computer. It only took her a minute before announcing, "This looks like a modern copy of the map of the Elixirs that mother had."

The Titans glanced at each other in confusion as Donna's mouth fell open in shock. "Oh, great Hera, that's right."

"What's going on?" Beast Boy looked back and forth between the sisters. "Am I missing something again?"

Wonder Woman looked solemnly over the group as Donna whispered, "I'll tell them, Diana. Thank you." The older woman managed a forced smile before hanging up.

"What are these Elixirs?" Bumblebee asked.

"Um, it's actually the Gaian Elixirs. A story we were told growing up on Paradise Island," Wonder Girl began.

Raven stood up suddenly. "I've read something about that." She walked back into the hallway. Beast Boy followed her immediately, not giving up a chance on seeing Raven's room. The rest of the Titans followed, also curious as to the empath's dwellings.

She searched through books littered on her floor, quietly mumbling to herself. When the volume she was looking for wasn't there, she went to a bare section of her wall and pushed what seemed to be an invisible button. Part of the wall separated then slid into a greater part of the wall, revealing a large room lined with shelves full of books.

"Did you guys know she had this?" Beast Boy asked the other boys.

Robin shook his head, eyes wide behind his mask, as Cyborg ranted, "Man, I helped design this tower and I didn't even know this was here!"

Trigon's daughter wandered through the shelves, looking for exactly what she wanted. "Found it." Sliding it off the shelf, Raven flipped to the index, then the page she wanted, reading off the text, "The Gaian Elixirs: Seeing the destruction done by the Gods among the people, Gaia established four Elixirs strategically placed so those that needed them to contact the Gods with dire need would be able to. The Elixirs give the wielder ultimate power over whatever they're carrying; Hephaestus' fire, Areolas' winds, Poseidon's water, and the power of Gaia herself over the Earth." Raven closed the book.

Roy shrugged. "So we have a crazy dude with a godly power over fire. We can handle it."

"That's the nice version," Donna told them.

"There is a mean version?" Starfire asked, green eyes wide. "What is so nice about this version?"

Wonder Girl sighed. "Not so much a nice version as an incomplete version. Once someone has all the Elixirs they go to the temple of Ouranus, and reawaken the gods, titans, Gaia and Ouranus. Then they petition them for rebirth."

"You have to have death before rebirth," Superman muttered.

"It would essentially be the end of the world as we know it." She took a deep breath. "The gods would end all that is and start anew."

Robin crossed his arms over his chest. "In other words, we have to stop whoever is looking for these things before they bring about the Apocalypse."

She nodded. "Basically."

"Everyone better get some sleep," Robin ordered. "We've got work to do tomorrow."

He filed out of the bedroom, back into the great room. "Do you want me to stay?" Superman asked, placing a hand lightly on the Teen Wonder's shoulder.

Robin shook his head. "You have your own work to do. Thanks for coming."

"You know I'm only a call away." He nodded to the rest of the Titans before leaving them to examine the map again.

"Alright, Titans, we only have three points on here. Where's the fourth?" Bumblebee questioned.

"And fifth," Aqualad reminded her. "Remember, we have to find the temple of Ouranus as well. If they have all of the Elixirs, there could still be a chance for us to stop them there. "

The eleven teenagers did their best to look over the paper without crowding each other. After only five minutes, Speedy announced, "I give up!" He sat down in one of the chairs. "Don't you remember anything more, Donna?"

"Roy, I couldn't even remember what the map was of," she told him, "Besides, it's going to be off from whatever Mom had back home anyway."

The archer pulled her down to sit in his lap. "Then let's just leave it to the second best detective in the world, shall we?"

Two hours later, after everyone had either collapsed elsewhere or had given up and gone to bed, Robin was still running figurations in his mind. "Man, why don't we just go to bed?" Cyborg protested, "Maybe you'll be refreshed after you get some rest."

"Robin, please, we do not want you to get obsessed with this like you did with Slade," Starfire put a hand on his.

He pulled away. "This isn't Slade, Starfire. This is the end of the world. And not Trigon's end of the world either. The gods will destroy everything because it's their world and they can!" The alien princess looked scared at his sudden outburst. "Star, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled at you. I'm just…frustrated."

"We all need some sleep," Raven ordered. "Except maybe this lump." Sometime within the last hour, Beast Boy had transformed into a dog and taken a nap on one of the chairs. She used her telekinesis to push him off, sending him sprawling on the ground.

"What'd you do that for?" He grumbled, rubbing his head.

"If you're going to be useless, at least do it in your room," she shot back.

He glared at her before looking at the map in an attempt to be. "Hey, wait a second." Grabbing the pencil from Robin's hand, he started making little circles on the paper.

"Dude, what are you doing?" Cyborg groaned. "You can't just randomly pick places where you think they might be."

"I'm not!" Beast Boy stood back, pointing to his two points righteously. His teammates, as well as Speedy and Wonder Girl just looked at him like he was crazy. "Look!" Rolling his eyes, he drew lines between all five points.

Everyone finally saw the genius behind the madness. "A perfect pentagram…" Donna whispered.

Raven looked at the green man in shock. "How the hell did you figure that out?"

"Dude, I rule at connect the dots!"

Robin shook his head, as if trying to figure out why he didn't see that. "Alright, let's get some sleep guys. We're gonna have to stop the end of the world tomorrow."

"Something new and different," Raven muttered and as they walked back to the bedrooms, no one could argue with her.


Could it get darker than pitch black? That's what Robin wondered as he ran through the darkness. At the moment, he couldn't remember exactly what he was running from, but he was sure it was bad and things would only get worse if it caught him.

He fought his way through the fog, wondering what was in front of him, or behind him or anywhere. It was lighter beneath his eyelids than around him. That was never a good thing. Suddenly, the ground fell from under him and he was falling up. He crashed through an unforeseen force, feeling as if needles were ripping through his skin.

And then he woke up, sitting in his bed. Sweat poured off his face and on to the blankets below. "Dammit," he cursed. It was the fourth time this week he had woken up from a nightmare and he could never remember what it was about afterwards.

Untangling himself from his sheets, he walked down to the bathroom. Pulling off his mask, Robin splashed cool water on his face. Bloodshot blue eyes stared back at him from the mirror, almost ordering him to get some sleep.

As he walked back towards his room, the sound of laughter from the great room caught his attention. Roy sat on the semi-circular couch, watching television. The redhead looked up. "Couldn't sleep either?" It wasn't a question and Robin didn't bother answering it. Though years of training said that he should be doing something productive with his downtime, such as patrolling, he sat next to his friend on the couch.

Speedy offered him a bowl of cheese puffs, which Robin took eagerly, shoving the junk food in his mouth. "So, what do you think Heaven will be like?" Speedy asked.

He choked on the cheese balls. "What?"

Roy shrugged. "I don't mean to be cryptic or anything, I was just curious."

"You don't think we're going to win this?"

"Damn, Dick," he grumbled, deciding not to use codenames for such a personal conversation, "These are gods, and demi-gods, and the very beings that created all life on this planet. I'm not exactly optimistic."

He sighed, leaning back against the couch. "Don't be like that. We have to fight this."

The redhead shrugged. "I'm not saying we're not going to. I just think that we also have to realize that there's a good chance we're going to get our asses kicked and the world won't be here. So maybe we should concentrate a little bit on those things that we always promised we'd do before we die." He smirked at the Teen Wonder, "Including that thing that everyone wants to do before they die."

Dick snorted. "You're such a pig. Is that why you insisted on tucking Donna in and told her she could crawl into your bed if needed?"

"If you're gonna aim, aim high. And you really can't get much higher than Donna. You're not going to go all big brother on me, are you, man? Because I really don't need that right now, and you know I care about her, and—"

"Save it, Roy." He held up his hand to signal Speedy to shut up. "Listen, you know that there will be scores of superheroes on your ass if you hurt Wonder Woman's sister. I'll just make sure I get to you first."

He shrugged. "Fair enough. You'd probably be more lenient than Diana anyway."

The two sat in silence for a while, each immersed in their own thoughts. "I know that we could die," Dick told him softly. "It's just not something I want to think about."

"Are you gonna call him?" There was no need to say who "him" was. "I mean, if we know that this isn't going to work."

"I don't know. I guess it all depends on what Clark tells him. I mean, Superman's really the closest thing Bruce has to a friend. Are you gonna call Ollie?"

He opened a can of soda for himself before tossing one to the black-haired boy. "I'm not fighting with Ollie. At least no more than usual." He sighed. "What do you think is worse: knowing that the end of the world is going to happen or not knowing and being surprised when you wind up dead?"

Robin thought the question over. "I don't know. They usually say that ignorance is bliss, but I don't think that's the case. At least this way we get to try. Even if we fail, we have the chance to do everything we've always wanted to do before we die."

Roy nodded, electing not to share his opinion as he ran a hand through his short hair. "You know, there has to be some good side to this."

Dick coughed into his drink, the bubbles going up his nose. "A good side to the end of the world?"

"I dunno. Well, I guess we don't have to worry about missing anyone if they die, right?"

Picking up the bowl of cheese puffs, he dumped them over the archer's head. "Shut up, Roy."

The two teenage superheroes sat and enjoyed each other's company as the sun rose in the horizon, greeting what could be one of their last days.


A/N: I don't think that's a real myth, though it could be. Comic books have never been very concerned about staying true to mythology anyway. Oh, and map in Spanish really is "mapa" which I actually had to translate using bablefish. My three years of Spanish really paid off.

This is the first time I've ever attempted writing for Superman. I'm sorry if he's completely out of character.

I'm a big fan of the Titans comics (which is currently Outsiders, starring Dick and Roy). One of the main things I think they forgot in the show was to give Robin a male best friend. He has Starfire, which is all good and fine, but she's not exactly the best person to have guy talk with. The creators, I suppose, did this, on purpose so that they wouldn't have to chance an inappropriate conversation for the kiddies' ears. Luckily, I am here to solve that problem! As a teenage girl, though, I can only guess what teenage guys talk about. This is my guess.

Questions, comments, reactions and reviews are greatly appreciated.


Review Responses:

Starrydreamz: I'm glad you like it. Thanks for reviewing.

Tigerchic121: Good to see that other people like Speedy/Wonder Girl together.

The Girl Wonder: I adore Donna; I'd be hard pressed to write something without her. Thank you for reading.

Neilie: I know what you mean about Donna being Donna. Anyone could write something saying she's Wonder Girl, but it's not the same if she doesn't act like it. I pretty much already responded to you on the forum, so I have nothing more to say.

DOJ: No, I'm not abandoning Wishful Thinking. The next chapter is almost finished (one page left, I'm pretty certain) but it's on my other computer, which is dead thanks to the stupid hurricane. I'm gonna do the best I can with the JLA, but it'll be my first attempt at writing them. Here's a cookie for recognizing our dear friend John. And no, Donna isn't going to come between Robin and Star in any way; she's with Roy in this, all the way.

Whylime: A cookie for you for recognizing Pyro! I adore Wonder Girl, I would feel bad for not including her. It's nice to know other people like her too.