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"I'd like to thank you all for coming to my wedding," Adonis said graciously, if not a bit pompously, to a large crowd gathered just outside the village, by the river. The area had been decorated for the event that Adonis had just mentioned. There was an arch, covered in garlands and bows, it was what Adonis planed to be married under. An older man wearing small half glasses, whose hair was graying and his bald spot was covered in liver spots, stood to the side of the arch. In his arms was a large book, he planned to read from it later to marry Adonis and his bride. There was a large table laid out with delicious food; it stretched out over ten feet as to accommodate everything. Adonis did not plan to have his wedding guests go hungry. On a table all it's own sat a very large wedding cake, with five layers and a mountain of white frosting. A little sign beneath it read,
"Mother May-eye's catering, 'Just like mother used to make'"
There were frills and bows, in pink and white everywhere, and a strange sort of band with dilapidated instruments were playing some very sappy music. The over all effect was, over done to the point of sickening.
"But first I better go in there and purpose to the girl." Adonis continued with a grin. Most everyone burst out laughing.
"Good one my ducky!" cried the priest with mirth. He gave a little cough afterward and mumbled under his breath in his English accent something like, "What rubbish! If he weren't paying me so well"
Kitten and Jynx were the only ones, not laughing; both of them glowed with anger. They bristled as Adonis strolled over the bridge to Raven's house. Raven, blissfully unaware of his approach was thoroughly enjoying her book. This particular worn leather bond book contained various myths about dragons. Raven read many books about the dark and mysterious, but dragons, or any magical creature for that matter, were of particular interest to her as of late. But she was interrupted in the middle of a particularly interesting part when she heard a knock at the door. She almost stepped on the dog as she hurried to go see who it was. She did not open the door right away but took advantage of Victor's excellent security system. She figured it must be Robin and Cyborg, who were due back today but it couldn't hurt to check. She pressed the red button on a video monitor next to the door. To her immense displeasure it was not her beloved brothers, but Adonis standing on her doorstep, waiting impatiently. She let out a small groan and opened the door against better judgement. The second she began to creak the door open; Adonis pushed his way in.
"Adonis" Raven said in a flat voice, "What a, ahpleasant surprise"she said unconvincingly, but Adonis appeared to have bought it or at least paid so little attention to her, that only the words and not the tone registered.
"Isn't it though?" he said smirking, pushing his way toward her. Raven backed away. "I'm just full of surprises, " he continued. "You know Raven there is not a girl in town who wouldn't love to be in your shoes." This was news to Raven, but she dismissed these words, thinking them to be, like most things Adonis said, of low credit. She took the opportunity to distance herself from Adonis and he ranted on, by getting on the other side on a cabinet with a mirror on top.
"This is the day" he said, but he stopped he had spotted himself in a mirror, he took a moment to groom his hair and then went back to what he was saying, "This is the day your dreams come true." Raven backed away from him, trying to put the kitchen table between them. They had resumed their game of cat and mouse, and Raven thoroughly hated playing the mouse.
"What do you know about dreams," Raven said with venom.
"Plenty!" Adonis said arrogantly. "Here, picture this," he said as he sat down in Raven's chair, stepping on the dog's tail and splattering her book with mud as he rested his dirty boots on the coffee table. The dog knowing not to speak in front of anyone but Raven or her brothers merely let out a yelp of pain. Adonis spared a second to glare at the dog, which shrunk away with a whimper, before he continued on.
"A rustic hunting lodge, my latest kill roasting on the fire, my little wife massaging my feet. While the little ones play on the floor with the dogs. Oh we'll have six or seven."
"Dogs?" Raven asked, expecting the worst. And sure enough
"No Raven!" he laughed, "Strapping boys, like me." Raven took her book began cleaning off, and scowled at the wall so she didn't have to look at Adonis,
"Imagine that" she said in her normal sarcastic tone as she put the book back on it's self. Again it didn't seem to register with Adonis, who was too full of himself to notice anything else. He pushed on,
"And do you know who that little wife will be?" Adonis asked, Raven walked to the other side of the room as Adonis stood up,
"Let me think" her stomach dropped, she hoped he wasn't going to say what she thought he was going to say. Adonis cornered her; she ducked under his arm, walked backwards across the room and put her back against the door.
"You Raven." He said smiling, as he strode toward her. Raven gulped,
"I" she stumbled searching for words as Adonis came closer. Then she had an idea; she put on a false flattered tone. "I'm speechless, I really don't know what to say." She batted her eyelashes. Adonis smiled as he came up right in front of her.
"Say you'll marry me."
She was cornered, pressed up against door,
"I'm sorry Adonis, but." She looked for something to say as she fumbled with the doorknob. "Ijust don't deserve you!" She pushed the door open and jumped to the side, and Adonis who had been leaning against the door, standing over her was caught off guard and went tumbling down the steps. She smiled sweetly at him As he landed face first in a nearby mud puddle. She restrained herself from laughing, because it might make something explode. She made to shut the door, but the dog came running out barking at Adonis, seeking revenge no doubt, she left him to it and shut the door behind him. After a while Raven poked a cloaked head out the door,
"Is he gone?" she asked the dog as he came running towards her with what looked suspiciously like a piece of Adonis's pants in his mouth. She looked across the river at the huge wedding being cleaned up. She heard a mud covered Adonis shout,
"I'll have Raven for my wife, make no mistake about that."
Raven made a scowl and then shut the door. Once inside she grabbed a book from the shelf and went out the back door. The second she walked outside she found the dog by her side. He had gotten rid of the cloth.
'He's a good dog,' Raven thought, smiling slightly. She gave him a pat. He had found his way to the family just like they all had, though he might have found them in a little more of a stranger way. One night when the three of them had been very young and their adopted parents had still been alive, they were all laying in the grass watching the stars.
"Look! A shooting star!" Young Raven said smiling brightly. A sack of grain exploded and the chickens scattered, and fought furiously over the heap of kernels. The two parents standing nearby shared a look but didn't say anything.
"Look it's coming towards us!" Said Victor with not alarm, but glee. And sure enough the shooting star turned out to be a small space ship, which landed right in front of them. The door to the ship creaked open and out of it came a green dog.
"Doggy!" shouted Robin who ran towards it before his parents could stop him. He grabbed the dog around the neck and hugged him tightly.
"Dear sir, could you please stop doing that, I can barely breath!" the dog said in a calm voice. Everyone had jumped back completely shocked. Raven looked fondly back at the memory, the dog had been with them ever since.
But she couldn't keep herself in a happy mood for very long as her thoughts drifted back to Adonis.
"Can you imagine!" she said fuming, to the dog. "He asked me to marry him! Me, the wife of that boorish, brainlessoh!" Some flowerpots next to the house broke as they walked to the field. She sat down by the cliff spread out her cloak around her and tried to read. She couldn't, she looked at the dog, lying next to her.
"I just want to so much more than this, Boy." She said sighing. " I want to be away from this place, I want adventure, I want to do something with my life." The dog looked up at Raven's face; she seemed to close to tears. There was a loud, 'thuck' behind them; it sounded like every apple had fallen from the tree. Raven seemed not to notice; she was staring off into to the distance. "I just wish there was some one who understood me." The dog made to say that he did, but there was a loud rumbling behind them. They turned around to see Victor's car bursting out of the woods. It came to a skidding stop.
"What!" Raven said alarmed, "Victor's car! What is it doing here? Where are Victor and Robin?" The driver's seat to his car opened, and Raven got in. She pressed the red button next to monitor nervously. Victor's face popped up on the screen,
"Ravenneed your helpwe arein a castle. the car.." Victor said on the screen, there was so much scratching on the recording she could barely hear it. It got so bad towards the end she could hear the rest, but she could figure it out.
"Okay Boy," she said, "Watch the house while I am gone, I have to go and get my brothers." The dog nodded his head and bounded back to the house. Raven closed the door to the car, buckled her seat belt and set of with a determined look on her face.