Starfire Raven

I fear that one of my parents will stumble upon this fic. Of course, my greatest fear is being greased and surrounded by weasels. Yeesh.

You can see the villian in this chapter on my profile, or whenever you see me posting. I made some bastard sprite formed of about three Robot Master sprites. Then I drew it. I'm not sure why I did, but I did. Considering his appearance, I named him as appropriately as possible.

I grow tired of writing fight scenes, and since fighting is irrelevant in these one-shots, I didn't bother with trying to stretch this one out. I think you'll be fine.

Titan's Tower, Raven's Room...

Raven and Starfire sat, meditating as they oftentimes did, either before or after a shopping trip, courtesy of Starfire. Their breath stayed steady. Their chest rose and fell evenly and synchronized. Every so often, they would chant their mantra absolutely perfectly in sync, but it only occurred every few minutes. If you happen to wonder why they were in Raven's room, well, it provided a calm atmosphere. Starfire's room had absorbed every bit as much emotion as Starfire normally had. It was too vibrant and over excited for the empath to meditate properly.

So, here they sat, in the rather dark room, their minds and bodies perfectly synchronized. This state could be achieved between any two people, it just took a long time and a lot of bonding. Raven and Starfire had achieved that bonding after having switched bodies in that puppet master incident. It had also brought up... other emotions.

After a few hours, they stopped and stared at one another. They were on the exact same level of consciousness. The two could read each other's emotions perfectly. The perfection ended too quick for anything to be said, however, and so the moment of higher consciousness was lost.

They calmly walked out of the room, finding themselves far more aware of their surroundings than they normally would be. Raven said it before the alarms went off, in an exasperated manner.

"Titans, go."

Starfire nodded as the alarms went off, and the two ladies of Titan's Tower floated downstairs.

Main Room...

"Titans, there's an oddity in the city. It's fairly close to the Tower. About a mile away. The feed has reported that it wields two staves, one shooting fire, and the other shooting water. Let's take it down. Titans, GO!" Robin ordered.

Starfire and Beastboy flew out the window in the direction Robin indicated. Raven teleported Cyborg, Robin, and herself to the scene.

Somewhere Else...

The stange oddity sent a jetstream of water into a small group of people, pinning them to a wall, then froze the water, capturing its first set of hostages. The Titans appeared in various ways, prepared to fight.

"Titans, I am SKULWIZARD! And I am your doom!" it cacked.

"Take him down!" Robin ordered, pulling out his bo-staff.

Starfire tossed Starbolts, which Raven cast her magic on to enhance their properties. Skulwizard knocked the Magicbolts away with his fire staff, then blasted at the two with water. They were too slow, and the water froze them, rendering them unable to fly. Cyborg caught them with some difficulty, then set to work freeing them from the ice.

Beastboy turned into a kangaroo, leapt at Skulwizard, and kicked him hard in the chest. Robin caught him with a Birdarang, then with an electrodisk. Skulwizard lit up, then blew up.

"A robot," Robot said.

"Who sent it?" Cyborg wondered aloud.

"There's nothing left of Skulwizard to figure it out. Probably Atlas or Slade. We'll find out when the bad guy wants us too," Robin said, darkly.

"Umm... g-g-g-g-guys?" Raven chattered, still inside the ice.

"Pl-please friends? C-could you get us out o-o-of th-th-th-this block of c-c-c-c-c-coldness?" Starfire pleaded.

Titan's Tower...

Raven and Starfire came down with pneumonia from the ice. They'd heal within a day, but they still couldn't do anything for the whole day. They decided to have a meditation session, so the guys carried Starfire into Raven's room. Afterwards, they went to a gaming tournament.

The two girls meditated, going further and further into a deep state of calmness. The pneumonia actually helped them to focus, which allowed them to go deeper than ever before. They felt complete, and they tapped into the other. Their bond grew closer than it ever had.

Their friendship had strengthened further, and had come to evolve into something greater.

They said no words. They leaned forward, and their lips touched.