This is just an author's note before continuing! Yes I know the titans are ooc, but get used to it. This chapter may be a little off, considering I have had major writer's block. Also in this chapter Robin gets a little touchy with southern people! I am not racist! I love the southern states and everything in them including the people, it was just put it for some comedy...And finally everyone has been getting on my case about Raven and her anorexia. I understand she isn't that skinny in the SHOW! But this isn't the show people and I can do anything I want so...clears throat now that everything is taken care of, how about we get back to the story!
Chapter 4: Austin, Nevada
Daylight had already hit the titans when some of them had waken from their sleep. They realized that they were already on the road. Robin looked around noticing that only Aqualad was the only one other the Cyborg who was up. He was sitting in a chair near the window with his book in hand. Cyborg looked like he was in a good mood. Robin stretched getting out of his bed and sat in the passenger seat buckling himself in.
"Hey Robin, you sleep well?"
"Yeah fine thanks" Robin looked forward and watched the many signed roll by.
"So where are we?"
"Were in Nevada"
Robin looked surprised.
"How long have you been up driving?"
"Since like 3 in the morning" Robin looked at the clock. It was already past 9:30.
"You don't waste any time do you?"
He shook his head.
"Nope we gotta get their, this part of the trip is going to be so cool!"
"I can't wait till we get their then. A sign rolled by that said 20 miles until Austin.
"So where are we going?"
"Austin"
"So not too much longer right" Robin asked. Cyborg looked annoyed.
"Hey Robin could you cut it out with the questions, I'm trying to drive here and their not really helping.
"Oh...sorry" He rubbed the back of his head nervously and watched the road. Dead silence passed over them. It was so quiet, you could hear Aqualad flip his page. Robin looked around, the silence was killing him!
"So Cyborg do you think we could...?"
"GET AWAY FROM ME!" He yelled. Robin's face went red and he quickly unbuckled his seat beat and ran to the back. Aqualad chuckled and moved to the passengers's seat.
"You ain't gonna annoy me with dumb questions are you?"
"After what you did to Robin, I'm not sure I'm safe even sitting here"
"Just read your little book and leave me alone and nothing will get out of hand" He said still watching the road.
Aqualad held up a thumb and smiled at him.
"You got it dude" He buried himself back into the book.
Ahh finally some peace and quiet, now maybe I can finally relax and have a good time just enjoying everything that goes by Cyborg thought to himself.
"Your going to pay for that half demon!" Terra yelled
"Or not" He said sighing loudly. He watched the road and saw a small sign that lead to a rest stop.
Maybe I can settle things here, we can get some snacks, a trip to the bathroom, some fresh air and I think we'll be fine again.
"Alright everyone listen up!" He yelled. Everyone settled down. "Were gonna stop at this rest stop okay? So we can all refresh ourselves and get some fresh air okay? And maybe while your at it you'll learn ...NOT TO YELL IN THE RV! I"M SICK OF IT" He yelled. Everyone looked deathly scared of him.
"Well now that we have that little detail settled, who want's to go to this nice little rest stop to relax for like 10 minutes?" He said.
They all stuck up their hands immediately.
"Well there we go" He said pulling of into the exit. He parked in a long spot for rv's and shut off the engine.
"Alright everyone, we have 15 minutes! Get everything you need now, or don't get it at all!" He said. Everyone just nodded.
Terra ran to the small shop first.
"They have got to have make up in this place!" She said looking through the shelves.
"Yeah, I hope they have a lot of it! Your gonna need it all!" Raven said behind her back.
"I don't need advice from someone who wears that crappy grey stuff to make your face that pale!" She grabbed a paper towel wet it. Rubbing furiously on Raven's face. She removed it to see nothing on the towel and nothing had been smeared.
"Terra, this is my natural skin color, whether you like it or not"
"Yeah just the same as your hair huh?" Raven simply nodded.
"There is no way you are going to get me to believe that purple is your naturel hair color!"
Raven looked at her.
"Actually...it's violet" She said flipping it gently.
"I don't care if it's the color of the rainbow that isn't your natural color" Beast Boy just watched the bickering teen girl. Terra was fuming, but Raven managed to keep her cool.
"Umm girls, you just spent like 5 minutes arguing, why don't you buy your stuff now" He said nervously. Raven smiled.
"Sure" She said wandering over to the chilled drinks. She browsed the shelves looking for where they kept the cold teas. She smiled and slid open the glass door. She was hit with a gust of cold air and she pulled out a large green bottle. Closing the door she walked over to Beast Boy she handed it to him. He just smiled.
"Mint tea with Ghinsig?(I know I spelled that wrong)
"Okay, if that's all you want Raven"
"Actually I was thinking about something to eat to" She said looking at the bakery.
"What do you want? I'll get it"
"A pretzel please, and try not to get one with a lot of salt" She said
"Sure" He walked toward the small cart that had the many soft pretzels on it.
Starfire was also exploring the small store, Robin was never too far away. In his opinion, no person from the south could be trusted right away. He watched her eyes lit up in delight every time she saw something 'interesting' the first time he had to listen to her go on and on about how a curling iron resembled that of the headpiece of some great ruler on her planet. He just shook his head, wondering how the rest of the team was holding up. Lets see, Cyborg is buying...gum I think? Aqualad is...buying another book, Terra and Raven are quarreling, Starfire is browsing, Bumblebee is happily munching on what looks like a bagel and speedy is...flirting with the cashier. Figures he's so full of himself. Robin just shrugged turning his attention back to...Starfire?
"Starfire?" She wasn't there.
"Starfire?"He looked around, not seeing her face or anything.
"I knew that southern people were able to be trusted" He ran along the store looking for her.
"Robin!" She yelled. She was waving to him. "Over here, I must ask you something!" He wiped his forehead in relief and mad e his way to her.
"Yes Star?"
"I was wondering, could you tell me what these are?" She said holding up a bag of...pads.
"Uh well, you see star...these are...umm...hats! Yeah you wear them on your head" He said beaming.
"I see, then why is there a picture of underwear?"
"Well...umm" He saw Cyborg waving to him frantically.
"Sorry Star we gotta go, looks like I can't answer your question!" He said running out of the aisle and out of the shop.
"But we are in the same vehicle" She said to herself putting the package down she followed. Robin met up with Cyborg.
"Cyborg, I owe you one"
"You looked like you needed help"
"I did, thanks" He said panting and jumping into the rv.
It had been another two hours or so and the titans had finally come to Cyborg was carefully leading them.
"Alright ya'll wait here, this is where we are staying!"
He said hoping out of the rv door. The hot summer breeze was laced with humidity.
"Oooh man it's hot!"He said walking to the small cabin. As he opened the door a little bell sounded. One of the 3 people looked up at him.
"Come over here" She said
He walked over and stood infront of the women.
"What can I do for ya?"
"Well I was wondering if I could get a space here for like 2 days?" She looked over her computer tapping on the keys now and again.
"Well we do have a sight in the back, near the pool, if you would want that?"
"Sure hook me up with it" She nodded.
"What's your name?"
"Victor Stone" She nodded and typed in his name hitting a few buttons.
"For two nights...that'll be $34.00 for each person in your rv"
"Umm I have 9 maim" He said. She only nodded pressing a few buttons on her calculator.
"That will be $429 please" She said. He pulled out a wallet, He rummaged through picking out 4 100 dollar bills and 2 20's.
"Thank you very much your change is$11...have a nice time at Kingston Canyon Rv Park"
Cyborg walked out with his sight number and a brochure on the local sightseeing places.
"Well that women seemed enthused with her job" He walked out of the small building and saw that his rv was shaking around.
"What are they doing in there!" He marched angrily to the rv and opened the door in rage. When he got inside he saw that Aqualad and Speedy were head deep in an argument of some sort. Starfire and Bumblebee were trying to stop the fight. Robin and Terra were cheering them on. Raven looked like she was trying to sleep and Beast Boy, looked like he was trying to give out instructions.
"Look at this!" He yelled. Everything stopped.
"I leave you guys alone for 20 minutes and this is what happens? The team goes wack! Well I for one aren't going to tolerate that: He walked to his driver's seat and set the brochure in the glove compartment.
"Now sit down and shut up, at least until we get hooked up, then you can go into the pool and have as much fun as you like without breaking any of the campground rules, if we get kicked out then I am so gonna kill you guys!" He started the engine and he drove down the dusty path.
Everyone just watched out the windows as the dust blew by.
"Eww! I don't wanna go out there it's all dusty!" Terra yelled.
"Get used to it, as long as were out here in the west, most of what your gonna see on the ground is gonna be dust" Raven said. Terra glared at her. Cyborg pulled into a space in the back. Parking he got out of his seat and went to the refrigerator. . He pulled out his leveler and placed it inside.
"Well were all leveled, Aqualad, can you help me outside?" Aqualad nodded placing a bookmark in his book he set it down and opened the door.
"Geez Cy, it's really got out here"
"Actually it's just the humidity"
"I know that, I'm just saying that Terra isn't gonna like this"
"She'll get over it, she agreed to come on this trip"
"Yeah I suppose" He said pulling out the electric cable.
"Say Aqualad, you wouldn't happen to like Terra would you?"
Aqualad just looked at him with stern face.
"No, I mean she's a nice girl, but I really don't see her as my girlfriend, I really don't see anyone, I'm, more of a loner" He said.
Well I hope he doesn't see through my lie
"If you say so, I don't know it seems like she's take a liking to you is all, just wondering if you had the same feeling, I aint trying to pressure you"
"I see" He said finishing up his job.
"I'm gonna go tell em to get dressed for the pool k?"
Cyborg nodded and went back to tightening his water cord.
Aqualad walked up to the trailer door and opened it.
"Umm...I guess I should tell you to get dressed for the pool"
"Sure thing!" Beast Boy yelled and he ran back into the bathroom.
After an hour of calamity and arguments everyone had succeeded on dressing themselves in their bathing suits. They made their way out of the trailer in a single file line. The girls first and the guys last. Each girl wore a bikini to match their color. Bumblebee wore a mustard yellow with small white flowers and bumblebees. Starfire wore a light pink with little stars of every color. Raven wore a plain deep purple. Imprints really weren't her thing. Of them all Terra showed off the most, Unlike the rest of them who wore normal bikini's, she wore a tube top bikini hoping to impress Beast Boy.
The guys did the same thing. Each of them wore a pair of trunks that would suit their colors. Aqualad persisted that he just wore his normal costume, that's what he always used and convinced them that he didn't have a normal bathing suit. Cyborg only watched them from the side, he couldn't go in the water. Robin wore a deep red with dark green stripes running up the sides. Beast Boy wore forest green with the imprint of leaves. Everyone moaned when Speedy came out in a tight black Speedo and they told him to go back in and put on something suitable.
"But this is suitable!"
"Not it isn't it's disgusting and your scaring the girls!" Robin said pointing to the petrified girls, who were huddled in a corner. He sighed and went backing. He returned momentarily in black trunks.
"There are you happy now? I changed!"
"Yes, now do us all a favor" Terra shouted.
"And what would that be?"
Terra ran up behind him and pushed him into the pool.
"Test the water for us!" She shouted. He came to the surface and flashed a thumbs up sign.
"Good enough for me!" Beast Boy said jumping in. As soon as he hit the water it felt like a million cold daggers went through his body. He came quickly to the surface and jumped out of the pool as a fish flopping on the concrete. Raven picked him up.
"Eww! You picked up a fish!" Terra squealed.
"Yes, but it's Beast Boy" He morphed into a fluffy duck and rubbed his soft feathers against the inside of her arms. She patted him on the head and set the little duckling down. He morphed back.
"That water is freezing, I refuse to let the girls go in there!" He said. They just looked at him like he was crazy and jumped in anyway. A large splash of water hit Raven.
"Great, I wasn't planning on getting wet"
"Come on Rae! It's fun!"
She growled at him.
"My name is Raven!" She said lying on a sun chair. Beast Boy just shrugged and dove under the water.
The 7 titans who were in the pool were now exhausted and cold. They hadn't though to bring towels.
"Well as long as your just standing here listen up" cyborg announced.
"I would like you all to get your showers and hurry up, otherwise we wont have enough time to visit the landmark I want you to visit. The titans nodded and headed inside. Terra grabbed her stuff first and ran outside looking for the public showers. She didn't find them and ran back inside.
"Umm where are the 5 star showers?"
"There are none Terra, the showers are over there" He said pointing to a bunch of wooden posts with shower curtains diving each one. A hose was placed over top each one of the wooden poles.
"Your...kidding" She said disgusted.
"Those are out showers? There horrible! Why would someone pay for a shower like that!"
"Because that's what this place has to offer Terra, get used to it, this might be the case for many of out places out here in the west" Cyborg said.
"Well I don't like the west, I wanna go to the east where everything is clean and we can go shopping"
"You can go shopping out here"
"Yeah but it's like 200 miles to the nearest mini mall" She said pouting.
"Just get your showers and hurry up" He said. Raven had already walked over to the showers and placed her things inside her curtain. She turned on the hose. All the rest of them could see was a silhouette figure of Raven taking a shower. The rest of the girls including an angry Terra followed.
"See, you just need one to go and the other's follow like little ducklings" Cyborg said
The boys nodded and headed toward their own showers.
The titans were all cleaned up and ready to go. Cyborg had just finished unhooking the rv and they were pulling out of the site and heading toward Cyborg's first great landmark of the trip.
"I think you guys are really gonna like this place" He said his voice overflowing with anticipation and happiness.
Terra sighed.
Yeah right, what's he taking us to, the museum of dirt...oh I have something better how about we go to the national museum of torturing Terra! That's sounds like loads of fun.
When I agreed to this trip I didn't think we would be pioneers playing things back the in the old days. I thought we would be browsing Vegas or something.
She looked around seeing nothing of interest. She sighed. The rv stopped 35 minutes later and they pulled into a parking lot of gravel.
"This is gonna be loads of fun!" Terra said,
"I know friend Terra! Is this not going to be the best mark of land you have ever seen!" She said with a huge smile on her face.
"Umm Star, it's called a landmark" Robin said.
"Oh well, the landmark shall be most enjoyable no?"
Robin shrugged.
"You bet it's gonna be cool!" Cyborg said stepping out,
"okay Ya'll take a look at the one and only Strokes Castle!"
Terra's face lit up.
"A castle! Like with princesses! Maybe this wont be so bad!" She said running out the door.
"Actually Terra"
"What the hell is this! I thought you said this was a castle"
"Well they call it a castle...it's technically a house though. The family of Stokes lived here around the late 1800's, see there are 3 stories, each one has something different on it. Over time people kept stealing things from it so they put a fence around it. It's a fascinating piece of Austin, Nevada history" Cyborg said smiling.
"There isn't anything special about this heap of garbage!" She said scoffing.
"I'm going back in the rv where it's cold and there are fun things to do" She said sticking her nose in the air.
"Well I guess we couldn't help that" Robin said.
"Agreed, we should still get cyborg to teach about this building that is called a castle but is actually not" She said. They just looked at her and laughed playfully.
"I did something wrong?"
"No Star, were just having a little fun" Robin said.
"Oh...okay then!" She said she walked closer to the fence.
"It certainly is cool" Beast Boy said. Mummers were heard through the air. A half an hour passed and Cyborg drained himself of every last detail about the castle.
"Well come on guys, lets go in for something to eat then head back" Cyborg said.
They had returned to the campsite and all of them were tucked into their beds. Cyborg had his journal out.
Dear Journal
We visited Strokes Castle today. Everyone loved what I planned. Except for Terra, we'll find something for her out here. She just needs to get used to the west is all. Tomorrow I'm planning for us to go on a little nature trip. Some fishing and hunting, yeah that'll be fun, I know the guy will like it. I know I'm gonna get another round of complaints from Terra but still the rest of them will have fun. The west is fun for mist people and once we get into the east terra will have more fun. Well that's all for now.
He shut the journal and fell back on his pillow. He signed and turned out the last light in the rv.
There we go! There's the 4th chapter. Hope you like it! The next chapter I must warn you may bet a little iffy for some people. A little detail about hunting that's all. Oh and incase you are wondering what Strokes Castle is, I have some pictures of it. If you go to my profile their will be a section on their about pictures for Spring Fling. Just look at the one's under Austin, Nevada and you can see it!