Chapter-19 Whispers Of The Mind--Part One Of Four
Hey y'all! . Your peace is over!….I'm baaaack! Tee-Hee! Yes, yes, I'm back from vacation, whooo! And as promised, here's another update 4 u! And thanx so much 2 everyone who reviewed! ;) I mean seriously! I knew this fic would do well, but it's gotten a much better turnout than I originally expected! Thanx again! . Anywho, this chappie revolves around the two groups who've already come together—Mammoth, Raven, Cyborg, and Gizmo, BB, and Kyd Wykkyd. You'll like it, promise! Now…R & R! Enjoy!...
It was early afternoon, about twelve thirty everyone had guessed.
And this little 'dream trip' was becoming more and more tedious with each passing day; but for two groups full of rivalries, it seemed more agonizing with each passing second.
As of now, the large single group was now walking through a denser area of forestry, while trying to avoid getting stuck by all of the immense piles of sharp plants around them. (Like you know those little annoying weeds with the pointy ass leaves that grow in people's yards? Yeah, those! I stepped on one of those son of a bitch's when I was away…shit that HURT! Tee-Hee!)
"Ow! Crap!" Beast Boy muttered as one of the thorns pierced his right cheek.
"Well, if you'd just, ow! Watch where you're ow! Going!" Gizmo piped up from the very back of the cluster as they finally exited the thick brushy area.
Just then, Raven shot back towards the other boys.
"Hey, here's an idea; why don't you ALL shut the hell up and just stop complaining so we can at least get somewhere before we die." Raven said in her somber tone as Wykkyd sighed, and the four other male members glared simultaneously at one another.
"Wow, she's optimistic." Mammoth muttered under his breath as Cyborg turned over to the hulking brute.
"Hey, well at least it's a plan! I don't see you comin' up with anything useful!" Cyborg bit back as Mammoth's face went from calm, to utterly livid.
Mammoth then threw a punch to Cyborg, who jumped right back up, more than ready to throw down with him.
However, his sonic cannon was of no avail to him now.
"Dude, is Mammoth always this friendly?" BB asked Gizmo, ending in a sarcastic tone.
"Hey! It's that tin can of a friend of yours fault! The crud head lashed out for nothing!" Gizmo cried out as BB lowered his angry glare to the child below him.
"What?" Was all the green changeling could muster at that moment.
While off in the distance, not too far from them, Kyd Wykkyd and Raven both released heavy sighs as they watched their friends argue and beat the crap out of each other. (Tee-Hee!)
"Agh, why did we have to merge our groups with people who have such acute rivalries?" Raven asked as Wykkyd sighed and shrugged from beside her.
"I dunno, fate has strange ways of arranging what's right." The pale boy replied as he eyed the other four members of the group fighting it off.
"So, what do you think of them?" Raven asked vaguely as Wykkyd raised an eyebrow. (Remember, he still has his mask off! YAY! Hotness! .)
"Excuse me?" Wykkyd asked as Raven decided to give him a better answer.
"Well, I meant to say, what do you think would happen if I looked into their minds right now, what do you think they'd be saying about one another?" Raven asked as Kyd Wykkyd looked to them, and then back to Raven with a smirk.
"Uhh, I hate you go die might be a popular saying." He replied as Raven smiled slightly, and then turned back to the quarreling boys.
"Well, whether they like it or not, I'm goin' in." Raven said as she sat cross legged on the dirt ground of the forest floor, and whispered her famous mantra.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She finished as she focused her hand signs first on Gizmo.
As Raven's inner self dove unnoticed into Gizmo, the child suddenly dropped motionless to his knees in the middle of he and BB's fight.
All her life, Raven had known that a person's mind was a portal to their true selves, and the one place where they could keep their secrets safe.
As Raven stood up and looked around, what the heart of Gizmo's mind looked like was a far cry from what was expected.
Originally, Raven had expected to jump in and find something that matched his techno boy personality; like the black portals of her own mind that matched her peaceful, yet somber disposition.
But, in Gizmo's mind, there was almost nothing of technological value, everything was bleak and dark.
Right now, it looked as though she were standing in the middle of a cave made of ice, with ten different tunnels all around her. But, which one to take?
Raven simply shrugged and walked down the first tunnel she saw directly in front of her.
As she glided through the tunnel, she heard strange voices all around her, ones she'd never heard before; like that of a mother crooning to her child.
"Welcome to our world, baby." The mother's voice said as a sound of a crying baby filled the tunnel.
"This must be, a tunnel of his past memories." Inner Raven thought to herself as she moved up into the tunnel a little further, now, she could actually see the faces of the people.
The mother, was a lovely red headed woman with aura-like violet eyes, and a face so white and prim, you'd think she was a geisha.
And the father, had a pair of light blue goggles on his head, and his hair was black and unruly.
"There, there, mama and daddy are here." The mother said again as the baby stopped crying, the father than spoke up.
"What should we call him?" The mother asked as she held up the tiny baby.
Raven knew instantly now that she was indeed within the confines of Gizmo's past memories.
"We shall call him, Cheeo. A perfect name." The father stated proudly as his memories began to pan to yet another one.
This time, little Gizmo was standing before a large yellow, hexagonal desk beside his two parents and one of his siblings.
Gizmo must've been about four here, as he was shorter, and hadn't yet shaved away his light brown hair.
"Now, are you sure this is what you want to do? I mean, he is rather young to be enrolled in this type of school." The old Hive headmistress stated as Gizmo parents both nodded in unison.
"Yes, our son may be young, but he is an extraordinarily gifted child. And he is better off on Earth than on our planet now, we are at war with Tamaran." Gizmo's father said as the headmistress nodded once, and handed his parents the papers.
Then, yet another scene came up, Gizmo was in tears, and his parents had left him with only a letter of their memory.
Behind him, stood a beardless Mammoth, and a younger Jinx, with her lovely pink hair tied back into a long, sleek ponytail.
"Look kid, your parents left you here for a reason, don't try chasing after them. You live here now." Jinx said as Gizmo's cried only grew louder.
After that, there were no more memories, just a bright light, that led Raven back to where she started.
"Hmm, what a fragile mind." Raven thought to herself as she glided into another tunnel, the one she was looking for…Gizmo's actual thoughts.
In this tunnel, there was nothing more than scenes and visions of he and Cyborg fighting it out, and then Gizmo's voice into what he was thinking through all those times.
"Back in the Hive, I used to be one of the best. But then I met you, stupid tin can! Now I know I got a long way to go, before I even get to scratch the surface of where I used to be. Thanks a lot!" Gizmo's voice began as Raven stood there frozen, just watching as similar visions passed her by.
"But, even as much as I hate to admit this, and trust me, I really do, through all those times we ever fought n' stuff, you made me stronger. And, and you set an example for me, and now that I've met someone as technically gifted as me, I have an actual goal to strive toward! And, and, even though I'll NEVER mention this EVER again, I guess….I wanted to be just like you." Gizmo's voice finished tensely, as Raven practically fainted from shock.
"WHAT? After all those times they fought and ridiculed each other, he wants to be like his enemy?" Raven thought to herself as she flew to the end of the tunnel.
Just then, whether it was on impulse, or just on accident, Raven's power over Gizmo's mind wore off, and she found herself back inside her own body.
Dark mind n' all.
As Raven's limp body sprang back to life, Kyd Wykkyd eyed her with a small smile.
"So, what'd you see?" Wykkyd asked as Raven sat back and sighed.
"Ah, nothing special." Was all the dark girl could reply with, unable to take in all of the surprising information she'd just gathered.
2 B CONTINUED!
Hey, sorry about the slight shortness of this chappie! ;( (Tears!) Pweeze don't flame me! Tee-Hee! BUT! As promised, there will be longer chappies, and there will be lot's more smiles n' joy in these chappies 4 u! Will update soon! See-ya! .
