I do not own the Teen Titans. OK, wow. I haven't posted in a while, and I'm sorry. I have been so busy with moving and everything I just forgot. But now I'm back with a plan. You can expect new chapters about every Monday and Wednesday. Those are the days I have off of work. Maybe even two if I work fast. But enough, you guy's deserve the next chapter so here you go.
Chapter 3: Is Kevin there?
All night, Kevin never left, he never slept, and he never rested. He just continued to train. He had been going non stop ever since his brother's had shown up. He was training in secret, except for Robin who knew. He didn't very well care, as long as Raven didn't. She would worry, and he didn't want that. He would rather her not find out, which is why he would pretend to go to sleep, and then go to the gym and train. He had just finished about as many push ups and sit ups as anyone should ever do, and this was after running around the very large room for three hours. He was sitting down after finishing his last sit up, breathing heavily and very tired. But he felt he had to go on, he couldn't stop. He had to get stronger, he had to stop his brother's, he couldn't let them hurt his friends. But right now, he needed something to eat.
He left the gym and headed back upstairs, going straight for the fridge. It was still dark out, and it was very early in the morning, so all the Titan's were still asleep, so he had to be quiet not to wake anyone. He made himself three very large sandwiches', which should get him to at least a normal state of mind. He had been using a lot of energy the entire time he was training, not to mention all the weight lifting he did. His good arm was sore, the metal one, obviously, was not, which was kind of annoying at times, but there was nothing he could do. He decided to get some fresh air and head up to the roof to eat, but before he did that he got himself something to drink, just some water. He then started to walk and nearly tripped over something, and it was pretty big. He managed not to fall and looked at what he tripped over, it was a book. There wasn't a title on the book, and it was in the shadow's, and you would have never seen it if you weren't looking for it. He picked it up, and decided to bring it with him, see what it was about.
Kevin was sitting down on the roof, just looking out into the city. It was peaceful right now, the lights in the city glowing brightly. If one were to take a glance at this city without really knowing if there was anything in here, or its history, you'd think it was a nice place to live, maybe even take a vacation, but man was that far from the truth. A cool breeze blew across the air, blowing Kevin's hair. It felt nice, and small smile was on his face, something that hadn't been seen in quite a while. He then looked over at the book.
"OK, let's see what this thing is." He said as he picked up the book. He opened it up, and on the inside was a message written. "Property of Luke, don't touch. That means you David." Kevin cocked an eyebrow at this. No one with those names lived at the tower, so how did there book get here? He didn't pay any attention that and flipped the page, and there was a table of contents. "OK, this is weird." Kevin said looking at the contents. "Necromancy for dummies, Basic Spells 1 through 3, Advanced Spells, Eldridge secrets no man should know, French Pastries, Fancy Chesses and wines that accompany them." Kevin said the last two with confusion. Those felt extremely out of place. Those made the book extremely random. He didn't very well understand the first chapters, but he glanced at the French pastries section. He looked at a couple of the recipes, and they seemed pretty good. He would have to go make these.
It took a couple more hours, but soon everyone was awake, and Kevin had finished cooking breakfast, using a few of the recipes in the book he found. They weren't that bad actually, some of them were even great. It seemed everyone was in slightly higher spirits this morning. Everyone was chattering amongst themselves. Beast Boy was with Terra, Starfire with Robin, Cyborg hanging by Beast Boy and Terra, and Raven was watching Kevin cook and now, clean.
"Thanks for breakfast Kevin." Beast Boy called out.
"Yeah, it was great." Terra added in herself.
"No problem, glad I could do it." Kevin said.
"How did you sleep Kevin?" Raven asked.
Kevin was a little nervous at this question, seeing as it came from Raven, but played it cool. "I slept great, how about you?" Kevin asked turning to ask her.
"I slept alright. But are you feeling better from yesterday?" Raven asked.
"Well, until my brother's are gone, it'll be a while for that." Kevin responded. He finished cleaning, dried of his hands, and then started to walk out of the room. "I'm gonna go train a little more." Kevin said.
"Don't you think you should rest?" Robin asked. He knew that Kevin was up all night training. He could tell from how slow Kevin was moving, and how he kept his eyesight from everyone. His body language was a dead tell, and Robin knew how to read it, he had a great teacher.
"I'll be OK, don't worry about me." Kevin responded without turning. He then made his way out of the room, and back to the training room. He would work on his fighting instead of just his body, and ran over a few fighting drills and Kata's. He worked on these for what seemed like forever, and then he heard a sound he had wanted to hear all day, the alarm. He only hoped it was the people he wanted it to be. He quickly ran out of the room and back upstairs, seeing the other's already next to the computer to see what was happening. "Is it them!" Kevin asked quickly, not even bothering to look at the screen.
"No, it looks like it's just Dr. Light. He's in town destroying everything, looks like he's trying to get our attention." Robin said. Kevin didn't wait for the other's and ran towards the roof.
"It looks like he got it." Cyborg said following Kevin as well as the other Titan's doing the same. Kevin didn't waste much time and soon was in the air, flying towards the city. He just wanted to get this over with. Kevin was ahead of the other's, but they were able to catch up, and soon landed on the street's, in front of Dr. Light.
"Ah the Titans, good to see you again, but I'm afraid that this will be the last. You will not defeat the light..." But before he could finish his extremely boring speech, Kevin had already dashed at him at high speed, and delivered an elbow straight to his chest, sending him flying across the streets. But he wasn't done and caught up to Dr. Light and then did a spin kick as well, increasing his speed into a brick wall. Before he could fall to the ground, Kevin had grabbed the collar of his uniform, picking him up and lifting his fist, ready to finish him off. A face of anger covered his emotions. "No, please, don't." He started to plead, hoping Kevin wasn't going to do what he thought he was. Before Kevin could swing his fist though, someone placed there hand on his, pulling it away.
"Kevin stop it. That's enough." Raven was the person who stopped. Kevin looked at the expression she was giving him. It was one of disappointment, and Kevin was now a little disappointed in himself now lowering his hand and throwing him to the side. He didn't say a word, and flew up to the roof above them, just standing there and waiting for the other's to finish this up.
"Please, take me away. He is more terrifying than the girl." Dr. Light said, groveling at Robin's feet, just wanting to get away from the insane people that were there. A bit of time passed and soon, the cops came by, taking Dr. Light away. Robin had given the cops the police report, and everyone was hanging around the area, except Kevin who was on a nearby roof, just looking out towards the city. Maybe he was hoping he would see his brother's, but he knew he wouldn't.
"Friend, are you OK?" Starfire asked landing on the roof behind him.
"I'm fine Star." Kevin responded, but not in his normal happy-go-lucky tone. It was more like a tone of annoyance, like he didn't want to talk to anyone.
"You do not seem OK." Star said.
"I'm fine. Just go back to the others." Kevin said.
"Kevin, you can talk to us." Raven said, now landing on the roof next to Starfire.
Why did they keep doing this? He just wanted to be alone right now. He wanted to find his brother's and stop them. "Raven, I'm fine, really. I just want to be alone right now." Kevin said lifting of into the air and flying off, heading for the tower. He would just get home and train, that would make him feel a little better, at least he hoped it would.
Everyone was of course at the Tower, Kevin getting there about a half an hour before everyone else, and was in the gym training. He hadn't come up there yet, and of course Robin knew he would have to talk to Kevin about what happened with Dr. Light, and he felt like doing it now, instead of waiting till later. He got up from a chair he was sitting in, walking out of the room, no one asked where he was going. And of course, once he got there, he saw Kevin training, rather excessively. It looked like he had been shadow boxing as soon as he got home, covered in sweat. He was moving fast, and he wasn't stopping. He was probably just working on his technique.
"Kevin, can we talk?" Robin asked walking into the gym.
"Not right now, I'm training." Kevin said, not showing any sign's of stopping.
"Kevin, you've been training all day and night. You need to take a break." Robin said.
"I've taken a break." Kevin said.
"No you haven't. I know you've been up all night training, and if keep this up, your going to burn yourself out." Robin said. He was only concerned about Kevin's health.
"I'll be fine." Kevin said.
"I'm not sure you will. You've been acted different ever since your brother's were here." Robin said.
"Wow, you noticed." Kevin said sarcastically.
"Kevin, don't worry about them. We can stop them, we've stopped worse things than them." Robin said.
Kevin didn't say anything and continued. He didn't know what he was going through in his mind, the feeling of betrayal that his own family would do this. "Just go so I can train." Kevin responded.
"No Kevin." Robin said. He wasn't leaving until he talked to Kevin. "Kevin, what happened back there with Dr. Light?" Robin asked.
"What, I stopped him, that's what we do." Kevin said.
"Kevin, you were acting different out there, we all thought you were going to kill him." Robin responded getting more serious.
"But I didn't." Kevin said.
"Because we stopped you. Kevin, you need to get control of yourself, if you keep doing this you're going to lose it again like you did before with Slade." Robin said.
"And that's a bad thing?" Kevin answered back. He now stopped and looked over at Robin. "What if I do, and then I stop them? Isn't it all the same thing?" Kevin said.
"Not if you kill them." Robin said. "Kevin, if you keep doing this, I'm not sure if you can go out in the field." Robin said.
"What!? Robin, I'm fine." Kevin said.
"No, not if you act like this. Kevin, if you keep doing this, you're going to be a danger to yourself and the team." Robin said.
"Robin, you can't do that." Kevin said.
"I can because I'm the leader of this team, and I don't want to see any innocent people get hurt." Robin said. He then turned to leave, and Kevin started to follow after him.
"Robin this is crazy. What makes you think I'll even stay here anyway? If I know my brother's are out, I'm going to go after them. Nothing is going to stop that." Kevin said.
"Don't be so sure about that Kevin." Robin said. They continued to argue like this until they got upstairs and everyone saw them yelling at each other about how Kevin was going over the line, and Robin was being unfair.
"Will you two calm down?" Raven said to them, but that didn't stop them, and they continued to argue amongst themselves.
"Friends, please stop yelling, this is not helping anyone." Starfire said moving over to them.
"But out Starfire." Kevin yelled at her before going back to the argument with Robin.
This hurt Starfire, Kevin was not normally like this, except for when he got very angry, and bad things always happened when he was. Robin and Kevin just continued there argument, not caring about the others around them, who were trying to stop the argument.
Of course then the main communicator in the room went off, Cyborg was the one to go to see who was calling, seeing as Robin and Kevin were still arguing. "Hello?" Cyborg said. It was two people, looked like they were on Communicators.
"Is Kevin there?" The rather large one said.
"What!" Kevin yelled turning to the screen. He didn't know who these guys were.
"Luke? David?" Robin said. It was Tomb and Tapestry. They were the people who came by when Kevin was in that coma.
"Hey Robin, just thought we would call, give you guy's some help." Luke said with a smile.
"Who are they?" Kevin asked.
"That's Luke and David. They helped you when you were in a coma. Luke helped heal you up while you were unconscious, and they gave us backup while you were out too." Robin said. He then walked over to the screen, it seemed this finally stopped there argument. "What's up?" Robin asked.
After a couple of hours, Luke and David showed up, and apparently, they had two girls with them. After a long and confusing introduction, they told everyone that they were there wives.
"So wait, you have wives? How old are you guys?" Cyborg asked.
"Were both 16, only I'm older by a couple of minuets." Luke said.
"So why do you have wives?" Beast Boy asked.
"Well, we grew up in a different place than you guys. Our marriages were arranged. We were basically married when we were born." David explained.
"So, your marriages were decided before you met? That is sad, but it seems you have become wonderful friends." Starfire said with a cheery smile.
"Oh trust me, were a lot more than friends." David said with a smile, pulling his wife, Demeter, closer to him, a big smile on his face. The guy's already knew what he was talking about, but Starfire didn't really understand.
"Not to seem pushy or anything, but you said you can help me." Kevin said. "How can you do that?" Kevin asked.
"Well, I've seen what can happen." David said. "I can read your future, and I think I can help you with your problems, me and Luke here." David said. "I can tell you what is going to happen, or help you with it. I can tell you where there going to strike next, but my power is limited." David said.
"What can you tell me? I just need to know as much as I can. I have to stop my brothers before they do something worse then they already have." Kevin said, a complete serious tone was in his voice.
"Well, first tell me and my brother everything about your brothers, that way we know what we can do to help." David said.
"Fine, I'll tell you everything I know, but as soon as I do, we have to do something. No waiting, no resting, no planning. I want to stop them now, I don't care what the cost of it is." Kevin said.
"Kevin calm down, we'll all be able figure this out, don't worry about it." Robin said. "Just please calm down right now." He added.
Kevin took in a breath and let it go. "OK, I'm calm now. It's just my brother's get to me, even if I just talk about them." Kevin said. "But, I'll tell you everything." Kevin said. The next two hours were spent with Kevin telling David and Luke about his brothers, and what they were capable of before they came here, but he wasn't sure now that they were working with Slade.
"OK than, well. Give my brother and myself the night, and I can help you out. I want to be able to come up with some solid plans. I haven't seen your brothers, or Slade, but I'm sure we can figure out something that's solid and will work out well." David said.
"Wait, why do we have to wait, can't we think of something now?" Kevin asked.
"Great plans just can't be thought up on the fly. Don't worry, we'll have plenty of time, I promise." David said. Kevin remained silent for a moment, but he eventually let out a sigh.
"OK, I'll wait." Kevin said. He got up form the table and walked out, but was followed out by Raven.
"Kevin wait, can we talk for a bit?" Raven asked. Kevin stopped and turned around looking at Raven, but still no expression.
"Sure, about what?" Kevin asked.
"About you and the way you've been acting. That and I am worried about your health. I know about how you have been training all night and day, and I'm worried about you." Raven said.
Kevin was a bit surprised, but over all he wasn't. "I guess it wasn't hard for you to figure that out." Kevin said. "But Raven, I am fine. Don't worry. I've been OK, really I have." Kevin said with a smile, but he felt a little dizzy and nearly collapsed before Raven hurried over to him and caught him before he fell.
"No your not Kevin, your completely burnt out. You haven't slept in a week, come on, I'm taking you to your room." Raven said helping him walk all the way there. Kevin didn't protest and soon he walked to his door and into his room. Raven sat him on the bed gently, and then sat next to him. "Thanks Raven. I don't deserve a great person like you." He said with a smile.
"Yes you do Kevin. You're a good person; you can just be a little stubborn at times." Raven said.
"Look who's talking." Kevin said, nudging her with his arm. "But thanks for caring so much about me. You're right; I have been pushing myself to hard. I should try to at least get some sleep tonight huh?" Kevin asked.
"Yes, and don't worry, everything will be better in the morning." Raven said.
"Thanks Raven. I love you." He said giving her a hug and a small kiss. This made him feel a little more relaxed, and he felt like it would get better now, for some odd reason. It just felt like something was going to happen, something good. He just hoped to god that these feelings were right, and not some evil trick of Karma.
Wow, that took a lot longer than I thought. My bad. I just hit the worst case of Block, and I couldn't figure out a way to end the chapter. But I got to thinking, and I think I ended it on a good note….at least, I hope I did. I'll let you people be the judge. Tell me what ya think.