A/N: Here's my next chapter, yeah! Well, I hope you like it. I've
decided that the last one felt messed up because MAGE was out of character.
That screwed it up for me cause it's all about her. Also I used to have
squiggly lines to show when entities were talking, but they were deleted.
Disclaimer: I don't own Titans, I will never own Titans. This is getting really annoying. $&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&
Starfire and I were, well I was exhausted after our pillow fight. When I get bored I tend to go a little psychotic. The Titans found that out earlier, I had kind of been hopping not to show them that particular side to me. Eventually Robin stood up from his video game (when he was conveniently losing).
"It's time to go interrogate Fang Titans," he said in an authorities voice. I winced and scowled a little; he sounded so much like a leader. I have a problem with authority figures, it's weird I know. Every one, including me, got up and followed him out.
We walked over to Cyborg's car, and I suddenly remembered why I was going to swim. With a sigh I got in, I promised to myself that I wasn't going to cling. I was in the center, between Starfire and Raven. I buckled my seat belt and settled back. The car took off with a squeal.
Every one was slammed back into their seat. I began to take even breaths, forcing myself to calm down. I have always had good control over my emotions. We were gradually speeding up, we had reached the highway. I could hear the car shrieking, 'faster!'
I continued to concentrate on my breathing. I felt my body unwind; I vaguely noticed that we slammed around a corner. My eyes were opened yet unfocused, I didn't care what was going on around me. I began to concentrate on my self, the feel of the air against my skin and the way my hair swished to the car's rhythm. Eventually all I knew was the muted feelings of my body. I was out side of time completely, there was no time. And more specifically there was no car.
What seemed to me a second later Starfire was shaking me. "Mage, friend Mage! What is wrong with you?"
My eyes focussed, I felt better now. I needed to meditate once every day, I handled too much noise, and it was my only way to escape. Wind called in meditating, I call it zoning out. I shook my head drowsily and yawned, "I'm all right Star, and I just zoned out."
Raven looked at me then replied flatly, "You were meditating."
I shrugged, this wasn't new to me. "That's what everyone else calls it, but I have done it for as long as I can remember, so I call it zoning out. Meditation's supposed to be hard."
Raven shook her head, "Not once you've mastered it."
I gave her a confused look, "I don't think I've mastered anything. I tried a yoga thing once, I couldn't meditate the entire time." This was really interesting, I knew she meditated, but she still surprised me.
"Hmm," was all she said before climbing out of the car. I looked around, and realized that we were in the parking lot of what looked like a really creepy prison. It had the barbed wire, and the lasers. All of the Titans were standing by the doors, trying to make sure I was okay.
I climbed out less than gracefully and gave them a sheepish grin, "Sorry." I cringed a little when I said it, for good effect. They sighed but didn't answer, I felt stupid. I followed them towards the prison; the gray walls were getting closer. I began to get nervous, so I forced myself to calm down.
I breathed in deeply, and softly exhaled, I was immediately relaxed. I had to repeat the exercise a few times, but I managed to walk in looking as cool as a cucumber. We reached the door, and a guard escorted us down a long dark hallway. I found myself cramped in, and less than comfortable.
I jogged a little to catch up with Robin, "Why is this hallway so small?" I asked tentatively.
He glanced over to me, and saw that I was just about sprinting to keep up with him. He grinned and motioned for the guard to slow down, he did so with relief. Robin began to amble towards Fang; I slowed down to a more comfortable pace. "This tunnel," Robin said with a sweep of his arm, "Is too small for Fang to travel."
I looked around in appreciation, "So they made it AFTER Fang was put in his cell?"
"Yes," he replied with a smile. "Fang is physically unable to get out of his cell."
I chuckled, though I felt some sympathy. Never seeing the sun...
We finally reached his cell; it was some form of unbreakable glass. I don't know about you, but I'd never expected to hear unbreakable and glass in the same sentence. We walked up, and Robin went over to the speaking contraption. That would make things difficult. If it was like a phone, and recorded him, I wouldn't hear any of his 'language.'
I walked up and grinned in relief, it was an air hole covered with mesh.
Robin gave Fang a scowl, "We want to know why you attacked this girl." Robin reached back and pulled me up front.
Until then Fang had completely ignored us, I don't blame him. Life imprisonment, I would personally rather have a death sentence. He turned to us, his language was whispering, 'hope, sun, life.'
"Why would I want to tell you anything?" he asked jauntily. His body was saying, 'Hope, revenge...Slade, recruits.' These words continued to repeat.
Robin glanced at me, I shook my head, don't tempt the poor man. Robin nodded; he needed to keep him talking. "Did this have anything to do with Slade?" He spoke the name that way you would Devil, or maybe even God. Robin's language began to scream, 'Hate, evil...respect.'
He quickly subdued it; I was able to listen to Fang again. As soon as Robin had uttered the word, Slade, Fang's body had begun babbling. 'Slade, all his fault, Slade gave money, hungry so hungry, girl for money.'
My eyes widened, at the word hungry there was such pain and fear that I almost cried. "You know I don't associate with Slade, I m a loner." He said the last bit with pride.
His body continued to talk, 'Recruits, she was a recruit, damn Titans. Money,' suddenly the voice changed. Earlier it had been a twenty-year-old man's now it changed to a spider's. It was course and deep, grating against my ears. 'Blood, feed, revenge, eat girl, if hungry eat girl!' It roared, I jerked away, covering my ears. The scream continued deepening; I curled up in a ball. It was pounding at me, 'I know you can hear me," the spider whispered beneath it's roar. I vaguely remember looking up and seeing Fang standing like nothing was happening. Then Cyborg reached down and picked me up, carrying me down the hallway.
The scream continued, then it slowly dwindled till it was cut off by the slam of a door. I shook my head to clear it, I felt something warm dribble down my neck. In a daze I reached up and felt blood, my ear was bleeding.
Cyborg looked down at me, "Mage, Mage can you hear me!" he just about screamed at me.
'Yes!' I replied in a daze, 'I can hear you fine!'
The Titan's looked down at me in confusion, Starfire leaned in, "We can't understand you Mage."
Bless that girl, my eyes widened, and then I realized what I had done. I had spoken in my body's language, which is my native tongue. "Sorry," I told them in English, "the shock made me revert to my native language so to speak." They just stared at me, I glanced up at Cyborg, "Um, I can walk now."
He gave me an embarrassed grin and set me down, "What happened there?" he asked, completely mystified.
I instantly sobered, "Oh, he started to scream. I think he's crazy," everyone gave me an odd look at that, "He has a spider mind and a human mind. Spiders and most animals speak through their own special language. His spider self somehow knew I could understand him, and started screaming." I said this all as if I was telling them the sky was blue; I have the annoying habit of underplaying EVERYTHING.
They just took my word for it, "But you're all right?" Robin asked in a concerned voice.
I nodded, "Yup, completely and totally all right." I needed to lighten things up, they were way to serious, "And I got an adrenaline rush to boot." I made myself bounce a little at that, and sounded way to cheerful. To tell the truth I was terrified and really shaken, but there was nothing they could do about it. So I decided not to worry them, it's my usual coarse of action.
"If you say so, still, when we get back I'm going to have Cyborg make sure." Robin was going leader again, I forced myself to listen to him. For all he and I know the adrenaline is blocking any notice of danger, it is a fair assessment. He was still getting on my nerves though.
I climbed in to the car after Beast Boy, "Sure, whatever," I replied tensely. I don't like people having control over me; Wind was lucky to get away with what it did. We climbed into the car, and it screeched off.
I felt myself begin to panic, breath in, breath out. I began to zone out really quickly, and within a minute I was gone. The next thing I knew Robin was shaking me, "MAGE! I hope you don't make a habit of this!" I looked up, focusing on his face. It was almost purple from yelling, I found myself giggling.
He frowned and backed up, "I'm sorry Robin, you just look like a plum right now." I managed to quell my giggles at the look he gave me. I looked around at the circle of Titans, "How long was I gone?"
Cyborg shook his head, "The ride was half an hour long, and we tried to wake you up for ten minutes."
My eyes widened, I hadn't expected that, I better be careful or they'll never be able to wake me up. I bit my lower lip and climbed out of the car, I felt relaxed after zoning out. I needed to run around, zoning out always gave me excess energy. Starfire was perfect; I'd race her to the Tower.
I sidled up to her, "Hey Star, race you to the t tower."
She looked down at me, "Very well friend Mage, though I must warn you that I will most probably win."
I gave her a smile, "Ah but you see Star, and I don't always play by the rules." She gave me a lost look, I smiled, "I'll tell you what, and no rules apply here. You can fly, and I can use my less than conventional methods."
Star's eyes widened, "Oh," she grinned evilly, "I accept your challenge friend Mage." I grinned; who would have thought sweet little Starfire would be so competitive.
I got ready and said slowly, "Ready...Set...GO!" We both took off, Starfire started to fly. I leapt up and grabbed her, wrestling her to the ground. We rolled around trying to get up. I managed to get away first, and ran towards the building. Star grabbed my shoulders and shoved me down, crawling over me. I grabbed her and forced her to into the dirt, immediately making a break for it. We continued to struggle, gradually inching towards the building.
We finally reached it at the same time; Starfire was filthy, yet unharmed. I tend to play rougher than most people, I had a scab on my knee, and had scratched up my arms and hands pretty bad. Starfire looked over at me and gasped, "Friend Mage you are hurt!"
I gave her a grin, easily copping with yet an other scab, "Don't worry Star, we were playing rough. When you play rough you got to expect to get hurt." She nodded worriedly. I walked in and glanced at the mirror in the elevator. I gasped; I looked like I had been through world war two. My pale skin highlighted my blood. I had a new scab on the left side of my forehead, and it was bleeding like Hades. I had blood all over my arms from my little cuts that really would heal in about a day. My pants were torn and one knee was a deep purple, the other had a scab in a perfect circle.
The dirt had mixed to mud on my forehead, discoloring my hair and skin. I had mud all over my arms, and my clothing wasn't fit for a trash heap. I always scratched myself up like this; it was normal, now I know why Mom always freaked out. On the ride up I began to feel my scabs. A steady throbbing evolved, I dealt with it easily, and I mean it was just a scab.
I sighed and got ready for the Teen's reaction, they would probably start laughing. I entered the Living Room with Star, and everyone stopped to stare at us. "Wow Mage," Beast Boy began circling me, "You look like you went through world war two."
I gave him an honest smile, "Thank you."
Cy walked up and glared down at me, "Come on Mage, we need to take care of that."
I walked along behind him, "It's not that bad, and I can take care of it."
Cy didn't bother to answer he just kept walking, I sighed and shut up. We finally entered the hospital or first aid, or what ever it is room. Cy gave one more look at me and started laughing, "I can't figure out how you managed that in a race."
I scuffed my foot on the floor, "Well, it kind of evolved into a wrestling/shoving/race." He just shook his head. He took out a washcloth and soaked it in warm water.
I reached out and took it from him; this was not going to be pleasant. I gingerly pressed it against my left arm, it really stung. I patted off all of the mud and then went to rinse it, I then moved to the other arm.
"Oh no you don't," Cy told me, taking the washcloth from me.
"Oh come on, it's clean!" I whined, sounding a lot like a mosquito.
"No it's not," he replied and began to scrub at the scab. I started to wriggle and tried to get away, he held my wrist firm. "You should have thought of this BEFORE you went and raced Star." I slumped he was right, damn it. Eventually my wounds were cleaned and Cy had checked my hearing.
We walked down, Cyborg smoothly, I limped a little. The Teens were sitting around eating left over pizza, even Raven. I walked in, and saw a hat with various kinds of candies in it.
"What's that?" I asked, pointing to the delicious looking pile.
Beast Boy grinned, "It's the pot, we're betting on why Fang attacked you."
I grinned, "Can I bet too?"
Robin looked up at me, "Nice try but no." I glared at him, and believe me I'm good at glares. He coughed and nervously looked away, I couldn't help but smirk.
"Would you like the answer?" I asked them, settling myself on the couch like a cat.
"Yeah," Beast Boy began, "I'm ready to win."
I smirked, "Well, I'm only telling if the winner shares their candy with me." Every one glared, but Raven chuckled, I gloated.
"No way Mage!"
"That so isn't fair!"
Other exclamations were made, I just ignored them. Starfire looked up, "But I would have shared my candy anyway."
I immediately felt a pang of guilt, Starfire is so sweet and I can't even be half as good as her. Grrr... I sighed, "Fine, I won't charge you candy," I muttered reluctantly. Then I perked up, "What I learned was that Fang was basically starving, I think. Anyway, he seemed have been offered money for me by...well Slade." Robin started and gave me a shocked look, "That guess about Slade was a smooth move."
He shook his head, "I was just trying to keep him focused."
"Oh, well good for you anyway," I shrugged. "The weird thing I noticed was that he mentioned something about recruits. That's when the spider started screaming, so I think it was important. He said I was supposed to be a recruit, it was weird."
Robin's head snapped up, "The missing children, they were all said to have been...unusual." He was thinking hard, "The crime level has also upped since the children started disappearing." He swore softly, "I should have known."
I looked around, "What are you talking about?" Robin ignored me, "Robin," he continued muttering to himself. I took a deep breath, "ROBIN! What is going on?"
He snapped out of his reverie, "Slade has been kidnapping children with powers and forcing them to join him."
I gasped, "NO! Wait, who's Slade?" I was lost here.
Beast Boy answered me this time, "He's the ultimate bad guy. He and Robin are like nemesis's."
"Ooh," I breathed, this could be bad. Robin walked out of the room then to investigate, I had the feeling we wouldn't be seeing him for a while. $&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&
Cerberus5550: On Robin's t-shirt I agree, I explained that I thought Mage was out of character. I can't believe I messed her up. I completely agree with you, persistence and practice. I agree with the elf bit. Cerberus, don't back down, keep shoving your opinions at me. I am open minded, but strong willed. So far I just haven't seen an idea of yours I didn't like. That's why I ask you so many questions. Don't step back, I want your opinion. You are a reader, a respected reader, your opinion matters to me. Please feel free to shove your ideas in my face, I can handle it. I need ideas on lots of villans.
Bloody Angel X: Here's my plot, the HAEYP are recruiting more people. Some by force some not. There are more powers because aliens are mixing with humans and their genes are causing weird powers. Slade couldn't get Robin for an apprentice, so he is getting quantity over quality. Yes it was unorthadox. Well, I hope you liked this chapter. I need ideas on lots of villans.
Disclaimer: I don't own Titans, I will never own Titans. This is getting really annoying. $&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&
Starfire and I were, well I was exhausted after our pillow fight. When I get bored I tend to go a little psychotic. The Titans found that out earlier, I had kind of been hopping not to show them that particular side to me. Eventually Robin stood up from his video game (when he was conveniently losing).
"It's time to go interrogate Fang Titans," he said in an authorities voice. I winced and scowled a little; he sounded so much like a leader. I have a problem with authority figures, it's weird I know. Every one, including me, got up and followed him out.
We walked over to Cyborg's car, and I suddenly remembered why I was going to swim. With a sigh I got in, I promised to myself that I wasn't going to cling. I was in the center, between Starfire and Raven. I buckled my seat belt and settled back. The car took off with a squeal.
Every one was slammed back into their seat. I began to take even breaths, forcing myself to calm down. I have always had good control over my emotions. We were gradually speeding up, we had reached the highway. I could hear the car shrieking, 'faster!'
I continued to concentrate on my breathing. I felt my body unwind; I vaguely noticed that we slammed around a corner. My eyes were opened yet unfocused, I didn't care what was going on around me. I began to concentrate on my self, the feel of the air against my skin and the way my hair swished to the car's rhythm. Eventually all I knew was the muted feelings of my body. I was out side of time completely, there was no time. And more specifically there was no car.
What seemed to me a second later Starfire was shaking me. "Mage, friend Mage! What is wrong with you?"
My eyes focussed, I felt better now. I needed to meditate once every day, I handled too much noise, and it was my only way to escape. Wind called in meditating, I call it zoning out. I shook my head drowsily and yawned, "I'm all right Star, and I just zoned out."
Raven looked at me then replied flatly, "You were meditating."
I shrugged, this wasn't new to me. "That's what everyone else calls it, but I have done it for as long as I can remember, so I call it zoning out. Meditation's supposed to be hard."
Raven shook her head, "Not once you've mastered it."
I gave her a confused look, "I don't think I've mastered anything. I tried a yoga thing once, I couldn't meditate the entire time." This was really interesting, I knew she meditated, but she still surprised me.
"Hmm," was all she said before climbing out of the car. I looked around, and realized that we were in the parking lot of what looked like a really creepy prison. It had the barbed wire, and the lasers. All of the Titans were standing by the doors, trying to make sure I was okay.
I climbed out less than gracefully and gave them a sheepish grin, "Sorry." I cringed a little when I said it, for good effect. They sighed but didn't answer, I felt stupid. I followed them towards the prison; the gray walls were getting closer. I began to get nervous, so I forced myself to calm down.
I breathed in deeply, and softly exhaled, I was immediately relaxed. I had to repeat the exercise a few times, but I managed to walk in looking as cool as a cucumber. We reached the door, and a guard escorted us down a long dark hallway. I found myself cramped in, and less than comfortable.
I jogged a little to catch up with Robin, "Why is this hallway so small?" I asked tentatively.
He glanced over to me, and saw that I was just about sprinting to keep up with him. He grinned and motioned for the guard to slow down, he did so with relief. Robin began to amble towards Fang; I slowed down to a more comfortable pace. "This tunnel," Robin said with a sweep of his arm, "Is too small for Fang to travel."
I looked around in appreciation, "So they made it AFTER Fang was put in his cell?"
"Yes," he replied with a smile. "Fang is physically unable to get out of his cell."
I chuckled, though I felt some sympathy. Never seeing the sun...
We finally reached his cell; it was some form of unbreakable glass. I don't know about you, but I'd never expected to hear unbreakable and glass in the same sentence. We walked up, and Robin went over to the speaking contraption. That would make things difficult. If it was like a phone, and recorded him, I wouldn't hear any of his 'language.'
I walked up and grinned in relief, it was an air hole covered with mesh.
Robin gave Fang a scowl, "We want to know why you attacked this girl." Robin reached back and pulled me up front.
Until then Fang had completely ignored us, I don't blame him. Life imprisonment, I would personally rather have a death sentence. He turned to us, his language was whispering, 'hope, sun, life.'
"Why would I want to tell you anything?" he asked jauntily. His body was saying, 'Hope, revenge...Slade, recruits.' These words continued to repeat.
Robin glanced at me, I shook my head, don't tempt the poor man. Robin nodded; he needed to keep him talking. "Did this have anything to do with Slade?" He spoke the name that way you would Devil, or maybe even God. Robin's language began to scream, 'Hate, evil...respect.'
He quickly subdued it; I was able to listen to Fang again. As soon as Robin had uttered the word, Slade, Fang's body had begun babbling. 'Slade, all his fault, Slade gave money, hungry so hungry, girl for money.'
My eyes widened, at the word hungry there was such pain and fear that I almost cried. "You know I don't associate with Slade, I m a loner." He said the last bit with pride.
His body continued to talk, 'Recruits, she was a recruit, damn Titans. Money,' suddenly the voice changed. Earlier it had been a twenty-year-old man's now it changed to a spider's. It was course and deep, grating against my ears. 'Blood, feed, revenge, eat girl, if hungry eat girl!' It roared, I jerked away, covering my ears. The scream continued deepening; I curled up in a ball. It was pounding at me, 'I know you can hear me," the spider whispered beneath it's roar. I vaguely remember looking up and seeing Fang standing like nothing was happening. Then Cyborg reached down and picked me up, carrying me down the hallway.
The scream continued, then it slowly dwindled till it was cut off by the slam of a door. I shook my head to clear it, I felt something warm dribble down my neck. In a daze I reached up and felt blood, my ear was bleeding.
Cyborg looked down at me, "Mage, Mage can you hear me!" he just about screamed at me.
'Yes!' I replied in a daze, 'I can hear you fine!'
The Titan's looked down at me in confusion, Starfire leaned in, "We can't understand you Mage."
Bless that girl, my eyes widened, and then I realized what I had done. I had spoken in my body's language, which is my native tongue. "Sorry," I told them in English, "the shock made me revert to my native language so to speak." They just stared at me, I glanced up at Cyborg, "Um, I can walk now."
He gave me an embarrassed grin and set me down, "What happened there?" he asked, completely mystified.
I instantly sobered, "Oh, he started to scream. I think he's crazy," everyone gave me an odd look at that, "He has a spider mind and a human mind. Spiders and most animals speak through their own special language. His spider self somehow knew I could understand him, and started screaming." I said this all as if I was telling them the sky was blue; I have the annoying habit of underplaying EVERYTHING.
They just took my word for it, "But you're all right?" Robin asked in a concerned voice.
I nodded, "Yup, completely and totally all right." I needed to lighten things up, they were way to serious, "And I got an adrenaline rush to boot." I made myself bounce a little at that, and sounded way to cheerful. To tell the truth I was terrified and really shaken, but there was nothing they could do about it. So I decided not to worry them, it's my usual coarse of action.
"If you say so, still, when we get back I'm going to have Cyborg make sure." Robin was going leader again, I forced myself to listen to him. For all he and I know the adrenaline is blocking any notice of danger, it is a fair assessment. He was still getting on my nerves though.
I climbed in to the car after Beast Boy, "Sure, whatever," I replied tensely. I don't like people having control over me; Wind was lucky to get away with what it did. We climbed into the car, and it screeched off.
I felt myself begin to panic, breath in, breath out. I began to zone out really quickly, and within a minute I was gone. The next thing I knew Robin was shaking me, "MAGE! I hope you don't make a habit of this!" I looked up, focusing on his face. It was almost purple from yelling, I found myself giggling.
He frowned and backed up, "I'm sorry Robin, you just look like a plum right now." I managed to quell my giggles at the look he gave me. I looked around at the circle of Titans, "How long was I gone?"
Cyborg shook his head, "The ride was half an hour long, and we tried to wake you up for ten minutes."
My eyes widened, I hadn't expected that, I better be careful or they'll never be able to wake me up. I bit my lower lip and climbed out of the car, I felt relaxed after zoning out. I needed to run around, zoning out always gave me excess energy. Starfire was perfect; I'd race her to the Tower.
I sidled up to her, "Hey Star, race you to the t tower."
She looked down at me, "Very well friend Mage, though I must warn you that I will most probably win."
I gave her a smile, "Ah but you see Star, and I don't always play by the rules." She gave me a lost look, I smiled, "I'll tell you what, and no rules apply here. You can fly, and I can use my less than conventional methods."
Star's eyes widened, "Oh," she grinned evilly, "I accept your challenge friend Mage." I grinned; who would have thought sweet little Starfire would be so competitive.
I got ready and said slowly, "Ready...Set...GO!" We both took off, Starfire started to fly. I leapt up and grabbed her, wrestling her to the ground. We rolled around trying to get up. I managed to get away first, and ran towards the building. Star grabbed my shoulders and shoved me down, crawling over me. I grabbed her and forced her to into the dirt, immediately making a break for it. We continued to struggle, gradually inching towards the building.
We finally reached it at the same time; Starfire was filthy, yet unharmed. I tend to play rougher than most people, I had a scab on my knee, and had scratched up my arms and hands pretty bad. Starfire looked over at me and gasped, "Friend Mage you are hurt!"
I gave her a grin, easily copping with yet an other scab, "Don't worry Star, we were playing rough. When you play rough you got to expect to get hurt." She nodded worriedly. I walked in and glanced at the mirror in the elevator. I gasped; I looked like I had been through world war two. My pale skin highlighted my blood. I had a new scab on the left side of my forehead, and it was bleeding like Hades. I had blood all over my arms from my little cuts that really would heal in about a day. My pants were torn and one knee was a deep purple, the other had a scab in a perfect circle.
The dirt had mixed to mud on my forehead, discoloring my hair and skin. I had mud all over my arms, and my clothing wasn't fit for a trash heap. I always scratched myself up like this; it was normal, now I know why Mom always freaked out. On the ride up I began to feel my scabs. A steady throbbing evolved, I dealt with it easily, and I mean it was just a scab.
I sighed and got ready for the Teen's reaction, they would probably start laughing. I entered the Living Room with Star, and everyone stopped to stare at us. "Wow Mage," Beast Boy began circling me, "You look like you went through world war two."
I gave him an honest smile, "Thank you."
Cy walked up and glared down at me, "Come on Mage, we need to take care of that."
I walked along behind him, "It's not that bad, and I can take care of it."
Cy didn't bother to answer he just kept walking, I sighed and shut up. We finally entered the hospital or first aid, or what ever it is room. Cy gave one more look at me and started laughing, "I can't figure out how you managed that in a race."
I scuffed my foot on the floor, "Well, it kind of evolved into a wrestling/shoving/race." He just shook his head. He took out a washcloth and soaked it in warm water.
I reached out and took it from him; this was not going to be pleasant. I gingerly pressed it against my left arm, it really stung. I patted off all of the mud and then went to rinse it, I then moved to the other arm.
"Oh no you don't," Cy told me, taking the washcloth from me.
"Oh come on, it's clean!" I whined, sounding a lot like a mosquito.
"No it's not," he replied and began to scrub at the scab. I started to wriggle and tried to get away, he held my wrist firm. "You should have thought of this BEFORE you went and raced Star." I slumped he was right, damn it. Eventually my wounds were cleaned and Cy had checked my hearing.
We walked down, Cyborg smoothly, I limped a little. The Teens were sitting around eating left over pizza, even Raven. I walked in, and saw a hat with various kinds of candies in it.
"What's that?" I asked, pointing to the delicious looking pile.
Beast Boy grinned, "It's the pot, we're betting on why Fang attacked you."
I grinned, "Can I bet too?"
Robin looked up at me, "Nice try but no." I glared at him, and believe me I'm good at glares. He coughed and nervously looked away, I couldn't help but smirk.
"Would you like the answer?" I asked them, settling myself on the couch like a cat.
"Yeah," Beast Boy began, "I'm ready to win."
I smirked, "Well, I'm only telling if the winner shares their candy with me." Every one glared, but Raven chuckled, I gloated.
"No way Mage!"
"That so isn't fair!"
Other exclamations were made, I just ignored them. Starfire looked up, "But I would have shared my candy anyway."
I immediately felt a pang of guilt, Starfire is so sweet and I can't even be half as good as her. Grrr... I sighed, "Fine, I won't charge you candy," I muttered reluctantly. Then I perked up, "What I learned was that Fang was basically starving, I think. Anyway, he seemed have been offered money for me by...well Slade." Robin started and gave me a shocked look, "That guess about Slade was a smooth move."
He shook his head, "I was just trying to keep him focused."
"Oh, well good for you anyway," I shrugged. "The weird thing I noticed was that he mentioned something about recruits. That's when the spider started screaming, so I think it was important. He said I was supposed to be a recruit, it was weird."
Robin's head snapped up, "The missing children, they were all said to have been...unusual." He was thinking hard, "The crime level has also upped since the children started disappearing." He swore softly, "I should have known."
I looked around, "What are you talking about?" Robin ignored me, "Robin," he continued muttering to himself. I took a deep breath, "ROBIN! What is going on?"
He snapped out of his reverie, "Slade has been kidnapping children with powers and forcing them to join him."
I gasped, "NO! Wait, who's Slade?" I was lost here.
Beast Boy answered me this time, "He's the ultimate bad guy. He and Robin are like nemesis's."
"Ooh," I breathed, this could be bad. Robin walked out of the room then to investigate, I had the feeling we wouldn't be seeing him for a while. $&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&$&
Cerberus5550: On Robin's t-shirt I agree, I explained that I thought Mage was out of character. I can't believe I messed her up. I completely agree with you, persistence and practice. I agree with the elf bit. Cerberus, don't back down, keep shoving your opinions at me. I am open minded, but strong willed. So far I just haven't seen an idea of yours I didn't like. That's why I ask you so many questions. Don't step back, I want your opinion. You are a reader, a respected reader, your opinion matters to me. Please feel free to shove your ideas in my face, I can handle it. I need ideas on lots of villans.
Bloody Angel X: Here's my plot, the HAEYP are recruiting more people. Some by force some not. There are more powers because aliens are mixing with humans and their genes are causing weird powers. Slade couldn't get Robin for an apprentice, so he is getting quantity over quality. Yes it was unorthadox. Well, I hope you liked this chapter. I need ideas on lots of villans.
