Random voice: Due to authoress lazyness and lack of insiprasion, she's going to have a boring-
Raspy male voice: You will die…in seven days…
Random voice: AHEM boring and uneventful-
Loud male voice: BUT WHY IS THE RUM GONE!
bangs and yells in background
Random voice: AHEM. uneventful disclaimer, with no interruptions from certain sections…glare towards invisible person of the band Scribe owns no one except Pam and Horus.
Male: STOP LOOKING AT HER BUTT!
Random voice: BE QUIET BEFORE I PUT THE VENDING MACHINE UP YOURS! THE LONG WAY! composes self that will be all.
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Chapter 6
Both noticed the light coming towards them; it started as a pinprick of light and slowly became larger.
"That would be our ticket back out."
He blinked. "I thought you were supposed to go away from the bright light…"
She snorted. "A rather stupid idea made by humans, they assume heaven is bright and if you don't wanna die you don't wanna go to heaven yet and heaven is bright. In reality the light normally brings you back to the real world, although it takes a lot of mental will power to do so." She paused. "We on the other hand, are not on the verge of dying so we don't do anything except wait for it."
"Will we look different when we get back?"
She shrugged. "I don't know. We could look exactly the same or we could look completely different."
"So you could have white hair and I could be fat?"
She raised an amused eyebrow. "I doubt that."
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It had been close to three hours since the group had found out everything, and they had been sitting around waiting for their leaders to come out of 'The Trance' as Beastboy had termed it.
Pam and Horus had basically been sitting around, not even talking. Pam had materialized some book in some dead language and had been reading it for about two hours now. Horus had simply been sitting.
Jinx was the first to notice the difference in the floating pair, as her senses were more attuned than the rest of the team. The only outward change was more lightning around their bubble and it steadily increased. "Hey, something's changed."
Horus looked up. "Oh, yeah. It's almost done, shouldn't be long now." Pam didn't move her head, just turning a page.
"You're not going to do anything?"
Pam blinked once, looking at Cyborg. "No, why should we? All they have to do is wait for the light to reach them."
"What?"
A bright, white light started, steadily increasing. "That."
It wasn't long before it enveloped the whole room and everyone had to shut their eyes.
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Raven blinked, her eyes quickly adjusting to the light of the Main Room. Everyone else still had their eyes shielded, she arrived at the conclusion that her eyes adjusted easier, it would explain why Trigun hadn't cared if he lived in complete darkness or blinding light.
"Raven…"
She turned towards Rich's rather unhappy voice. She quickly hide her smile behind a hand.
"Pray tell why I'm wearing a skirt."
Raven looked down at her own outfit. "It appears we are in full dress."
"Which means what? I'm still in a skirt."
Raven snickered at her putout Consort. "It means, that I am dressed as a female pharaoh and you are dressed as my consort. The Makai was basically invented by the Ancient Egyptians, we just use Japanese terms because Makai has many Japanese influences."
"Can I at least be given a pair of shorts?"
By this time everyone else had recovered their vision and had recovered from the shock of seeing the change in their leaders.
Beastboy started laughing. "Robin's in a skirt!"
Robin's eyes narrowed in annoyance, his pupils changing to slits of annoyance. "Beastboy…"
Speedy and Kid Flash couldn't help but join and Cyborg tried hard to keep a straight face but failed miserably.
Robin growled in the back of his throat, his body heating up in annoyance.
Raven noticed this first. She sighed, figuring the boys had it coming to them. The only one not laughing was Horus, and that was because all male demons had to wear the lovely skirt at one point or another.
"ZANTOS!"
The room was silent for a few seconds as the boys took in their changed appearance. "Oh what the hell!"
Raven smirked, Robin's confused face looking towards her. His eyes had returned to the normal circular pupil and his body temperature had lowered. "That Rich, would be your first experience with out of control emotions and demon powers."
"Come on Rob! We're sorry, just give us our pants back!" Speedy looked extremely uncomfortable, his knees held together and his hands trying to keep the 'skirt' down. "PLEASE!"
"No, no I think I rather enjoy this." Robin crossed his arms, smirking happily. "So if I say Zantos it will make skirts appear on them?"
Raven shook her head. "No, Zantos is a shorted form of what your mantra is. You don't create your mantra, you're actually born just knowing one. It's a weird Demon thing. You simply haven't found yours yet."
"Found?" Robin's eyes didn't connect with the question as his eyes soaked in the new Queen of the Makai. "I found something alright."
Raven groaned, rolling her eyes. "Would you like a shorter skirt by chance?"
He grinned sheepishly, trying to look convincingly angelic.
The uniform hit him with a whump from where it had been hanging in the back of his closet. "Is this a hint?"
"Well, no matter how you see it, you're not really Robin anymore."
Richard Grayson followed the sway of hips across the room as Raven headed for the door. "Now who said you had to leave?"
Raven turned in surprise. "I thought…"
He smiled, wrapping his hand around her waist and pulling her closer. He looked down, his blue eyes sparkling. "Like you would see anything new."
"Gar, what'd you do with my shirt?" Terra picked through a pile of dirty clothes in the shared room, looking for her yellow Titans shirt.
"Why would I do anything with your shirt?" The disembodied voice came with a cloud of steam from the opening door of the bathroom.
Terra huffed, giving up and opening the closet. "Never mind, I guess I'll wear my gray shirt."
The towel clad superhero shrugged as he walked past to grab his black and purple suit. Despite what most people would think, Tara Maklov and Garfield Logan were, in fact, not totally living in sin. Just mostly. They were engaged, although this was relatively new and accompanied the room switch about two weeks before, even the team didn't know about the engagement. They had been expecting the room switch to come months ago according to Robin. They were just waiting for the ring to make it known. That's what they had said before the platinum band, it's inscribed date of Terra's joining of the Titans on the inside, the princess cut karat diamond partially set in it with quarters on either side. Another thing not well known outside the doom patrol and the Titans: when Beastboy had turned 18, he was allowed access to his massive inheritance; a year later he still had barely touched it.
For the moment, the ring was worn on a chain around her neck. The diamond sparkled in the afternoon sun until her shirt covered it.
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A/N: Blegh. X( Way too short and the only part I remotely like is the last couple lines. Sorry it took so long to have this chapter up and all. I'm only like half a chapter ahead of you guys for writing and it's bugging the heck out of me but I have such a freaken block on this story and I don't know why. Maybe it's 'cause I've been writing everything else. Anyway, I'm gonna try to update my profile page soon (as in once I have this up I'll start working on) 'cause it's way out of date. R&R!