Chapter 12

Collision Between Old and X Friends

The V Force was settled into their new home. Though it wasn't as big as Titan's Tower, they came to call it their home. They had also changed their names as Beast Boy had suggested and their outfits and looks.

Raven had changed their looks with a simple spell. She now had her same skin color but a darker shade and long black hair. Her eyes remained the same but her voice was no longer emotionless since Angel had told her she had to act positive to keep her instincts in check. Rae's new outfit consisted of her same blue cape with a black suite (like the X Men but with a V instead of X) underneath that Cyborg had designed to let her blend in with her surroundings. Her new name was Midnight.

Beast Boy was shocked when his skin was changed so it was no longer green but grey like Raven's (Midnight). His hair was a mix of blond and brown with fire red highlights. His eyes were now green and red. And his pointed ears were no longer pointed but normal. He no longer wore his jumpsuit. Instead he had the same type of suite as Midnight but it was designed to let him become invisible in any form, whether he was an animal or not. It also let him be as fast as Angel. BB had first said Beast Man but Midnight rolled her eyes so he settled with Beast.

Cyborg was more than shocked when Midnight had changed his looks so he looked all human, mostly. Except he had dark grey skin now instead of brown. His eyes were a dark brown and he had short dark brown hair. Like Beast's suite, it was designed to give him the same speed as Angel but gave him the possibility of flight, too, along with changing his appearance to looking like he was made of grey stones. He chose his new name to be Stone.

Angel's blond hair changed to a fire red with blond and dark brown highlights. His eyes were dark brown. His suite gave him the ability make illusions of himself around others. He chose the name Hemon.

Midnight raised a brow, "Why Hemon?"

He shrugged, "I thought it sounded cool and it was the first thing I thought of."

The V Force was well known around Jump City within the week but Starfire and Robin had no idea who they were.

"Maybe we shall ask them to be Titans and join our group?" Starfire suggested. She had not seen any of her friends since they had taken their things and left, or so she thought.

"We don't know anything about them!" The Boy Wonder slammed his fist down. "Where did they come from? Why are they here?"

Star put a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Perhaps it would be best if we go speak with them and get to know more about them?"

Rob smiled at her, "That's a great idea Star. Let's go look for them."

At that moment the V Force was eating free pizza that had been offered to them. The City knew the city didn't hire them and because of that they didn't have any money.

"This is the life," Beast smiled. "I'm glad we came with you Midnight. You're a better leader than Robin."

Midnight smiled back at him, "Thanks."

"It's true Mid. I mean you don't get obsessed and make us over train or act uptight." Stone added.

"You definitely don't 'get your panties in a twist' either," Hemon said, causing everyone to laugh.

"You do have to feel sorry for Star though. Being with that Boy Blunder all alone must be a real drag," Beast grinned.

They all nodded in agreement.

"We can't ask her to leave him and join us though." Midnight said.

"Why not?" Beast asked oblivious.

Stone, Midnight, and Hemon stared at him like, 'you seriously don't know?'

He laughed nervously, "I was just kidding! I know why."

Midnight went back to eating her slice of pizza.

Hemon and Stone leaned over to Beast, smiling slyly, "So when you gonna ask her out?"

Beast had been staring at Midnight so when he heard them asking him this he jumped, screaming, "AHH!" He fell backwards out of his chair, his pizza landing on his head.

They laughed at him as Midnight raised an amused brow.

Beast laughed at himself and smiled when he saw the laughter hidden in Midnight's eyes. "Hehe." He rubbed the back of his neck.

Starfire and Robin landed in front of all of them.

Everyone suddenly went quiet as Beast sat back in his chair wiping off the pizza.

"Hey, is it ok if we talk to you," Robin asked seriously.

Beast narrowed his eyes at him, almost growling.

Stone and Hemon frowned.

Midnight simply stared at the two.

"Please, we wish to become friends with you and know more about you," Starfire smiled.

Midnight stood up and Robin started to walk toward her when Beast stepped in between them, growling.

She put a hand on Beast's shoulder, sighing, "It's ok."

He stopped growling and looked at her, "He has no right to speak to you."

Robin frowned, "Why not?"

Midnight smiled at Starfire, "Star, I would like to be your friend. However, I can not say the same for your friend Robin."

Star looked confused.

Midnight invited Starfire to their home but Robin wasn't aloud to come.

Starfire followed them on foot. It was strange to her but it felt like she already knew them somehow. She followed them into an abandoned building looking building.

Beast sneezed.

Angel laughed nervously, "Sorry I still have to dust the main room."

Beast sniffled, "Why couldn't you tell me this before so I could avoid this room." He coughed.

Star noticed they had almost nothing in their main room. The only things were two couches, a few chairs, and a table. "You have no TV or box of cold food."

Midnight laughed, "Yeah, well we're still working on that. This is our home. My name is Midnight. This is Beast, Stone, and Hemon." She introduced her team.

"You will be my friends, yes?" She smiled.

Mid smiled, "We already are Starfire."

Star tilted her head, "How is that?"

"You already know most of us, just by different names. Beast was formerly known as Beast Boy, Stone's name used to be Cyborg, and me. You used to call me Raven."

Starfire's face lit up, "Friends! Is it really you?"

"I promised we'd see each other again, didn't I?" Midnight smiled.

The orange girl gave each of her friends bone-crushing hugs. She stared at the last member of the V Force, "Who is he?"

"He's the one who helped me take down all those bad guys the night we left." The leader told her. "Star, you can't tell Robin who we really are."

"Why not friend Raven?"

"He would never allow us to be friends anymore."

She gasped, "Why does he treat you so differently?"

"It's because I'm a vampire Star. He thinks I take other people's blood to survive but I don't. I know you don't understand but promise me you won't tell him."

"Is friend Hemon one too?"

"Yes."

Later that Night

Hemon knocked on Midnight's door. "Midnight?"

The door opened.

"You wanted to see me?" He asked.

"Yeah," she went into her room, motioning for him to follow as she sat on the edge of her bed. "How long do I have to be…the Chosen One? I mean, what exactly do I have to do?"

"I'm not sure. You see when my master trained me and taught me about the prophecy he also told me that the last piece of the prophecy had been stolen and possibly destroyed." He saw her grimace and continued, "But he did say there was something very important you needed to accomplish and then you will be in command of all vampires."

"I don't want to rule over them; I just want everything to go back to the way it was before I became a vampire." She lowered her head. "I want to live again, Angel. I don't want to live forever and rule."

Hemon understood. "I will do everything in my power to help you then." He bowed, "I'll be back soon." Then he left.

Midnight sighed as she sensed Beast coming closer.

Knock, knock, knock

"Come in."

The door slid open and Beast walked in, "Hey, Raven?"

"Beast Boy," she smiled.

He smiled back but stayed silent until he looked back at the door and then her, "Why does Angel look like the end of the world is coming?" BB joked.

She rolled her eyes, "He's always like that when we talk about my Chosen One deal."

The changeling sat beside her, "So what exactly are you chosen for?"

Mid sighed, "Rule over a bunch of dead people. But Beast Boy, I don't want to rule over them. I just want to live again and …" She stared at the ground.

"And what?" BB asked, worried.

"I beat Trigon before and Damnit I'm not letting him stop me from having my own life!" She said, determined.

Beast smiled, "Hey," he grabbed her hand.

She looked at him.

"No matter what, you'll always have me." He blushed when he realized what he just said.

Midnight froze and a small smile formed on her lips, "Thank you." She stared into his eyes.

Beast Boy watched as her eyes glowed for a second and was curious when she smiled at him, "What?"

"I like you better this way."

"What do you.." He looked down at his hands and saw they were green.

Watching them from the window were two red eyes as an energy shot from his hand and into Raven's back.

Suddenly she frowned.

"What's wrong?" The green boy asked.

"I-I don't know. I just feel angry for some reason."

Hemon came in, "Raven!" He saw the look on her face, "Shit, I'm too late. You've already been shot with negative energy."

"Negative energy," BB stood up, "how do we get rid of it?"

"She has to feel a positive emotion so powerful that it'll wipe the negative arrow she's been shot with free."

"And if I don't," Rae looked up at him.

"Then you won't be good anymore. Just like positive emotions keep your instincts in check; it can work vice versa for the opposite effect."

Three Hours later

Her fangs grew until even if she had her mouth closed they would show. Her nails grew into claws and her black hair became longer and wild. Raven's usual purple eyes turned red and split into four. She grew taller and purple and silver streaks appeared in her hair.

"Raven," Cyborg stepped back."Raven, don't!" Cy shouted as she got a sharp pipe and stuck it threw his head. Blood spilled and rolled off his machinery.

"You don't have enough blood to satisfy my need trash can." She said with narrowed eyes. Her stared up and saw the orange girl.

"Friend Raven, what has happened to friend Cyborg and why are you happy?" She asked curiously.

"Because you're next," she grabbed the orange girl by the neck and refused to let go. Using her powers she put a handkerchief over her eyes and held her arms together.

"Friend Raven, why do you wish to hurt us? I do not understand," Star looked extremely sad as Raven held her as she bit her neck, sucking out the blood. Starfire gasped in pain.

"I hate you all," she said as she wiped the blood from her lips and dropped the limp body.

Suddenly a disk hit her in the back but it was ineffective. "Midnight, what's wrong with you?" Robin tried to walk back as she walked forward.

"You really wanna know you skinny wimp?" She grabbed him by the collar and held him up, showing her fangs, "I'm hungry." She grinned and bit him.

"Raven," he gasped and tried to get away as he felt her sharp fangs pierce the skin.

"Took you long enough." She licked her lips, "Hm, not bad for a wimp."

"Raven, don't let it control you! You can control it!" Beast Boy shouted at her.

"What makes you think I want to control it?" Raven grinned seductively as she turned to face him, dropping Robin's body.

The green boy was backed into a corner, "Don't do this Raven! You don't wanna kill me!"

She put one hand on his chest to hold him there and used her other hand to stroke his cheek. "Beast Boy," she said in a sing a long voice.

"Raven," he blushed, "What are you…"

She moved her face in closer as if to give him a kiss.

He closed his eyes and relaxed.

Raven smirked and bit his neck, tasting his blood before licking the bite tenderly. Then kissed him full on the lips.

She pulled back from the kiss and watched his eyes open, "Beast Boy?"

He stared at her. "I'm a vampire!"

"Beast Boy are you happy I did it?" She hugged him and sighed happily.

"I'm happy you didn't kill me dead," he smiled. "Raven, how do you feel about me?"

"You're an idiot if you can't figure it out," Raven punched him in the arm, grinning.

"Ow," BB rubbed his arm.

"Oh my god, Beast Boy," Raven gasped. "I-i…"

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"The others are dead remember? Don't you care? I can't believe…" She screamed as she half expected it all just to be a bad dream. Slowly she shrunk and started to turn back but her new highlights remained. Tears started to leak from her violet eyes, "Beast Boy, I killed them."

The changeling wrapped his arms around her as she cried into his chest.

Angel flew down to them and saw the bodies, "Oh, man. Are you and Raven alright?" He walked toward them.

"She's back now but now I'm a vampire too." He said seriously.

"And the others?" Angel asked.

"Dead," Rae sniffled. "I killed them."

Angel sighed, "I know this isn't the best time but Kruton wants to talk to you."

"That basterd," Raven growled as she stood up, "Take me to him!"

Beast Boy sweat dropped, "Uh, Raven, you have to be positive remember? Or else it'll happen again." He placed a hand on her shoulder.

She turned around and smiled thankfully, "Thanks."

A long chapter to make up for the last two being so short.