Helion and Raven talked. Just talked, about this and about that. Neither of them really knowing what they were asking, or what they were answering. Helion was just enjoying the company Raven provided, and Raven just sort of like being around Helion. As they talked she remembered back to that moment of pain when Innocence had died, her innocence. The pain was unbearable, and she had wanted to die. She had cried, but then someone held her gently, warmly, almost lovingly. She had cried into his chest without realizing who it was until the tears dried. It was a time when she needed someone, and someone was there for her. he was there for her. She guessed that now, she just felt safe with him around. She started to pay more attention to what they were saying after a while.
"Azarath, I've been there." Helion said. "I had wanted to do some traveling. I wanted to go far, and I went far. I left this dimension and spent a while their." Helion neglected to mention that it was 25 years spent there, from 1030-1055. "My power doesn't work outside this dimension, so it was around then when I began to study magic."
"I'm sorry." Raven said with a small shake of her head to clear it. "What were we talking about?"
Helion thought for a moment before answering. "I don't really remember. I asked where you grew up, you said Azarath, I said I spent some time there."
"You spent time in Azarath?" Raven asked, shock in her voice.
Helion smirked "Yes, I think I mentioned it a while back."
"I'm sorry." Raven said, almost smiling, the edges of her mouth beginning to rise. "I wasn't paying attention then, my mind was wandering."
"Don't worry, I wasn't paying much attention either." Helion chuckled gently. "Wandering minds tend to travel farther then we want them to. Where did yours go?" Helion asked, taking a sip of tea, his eyes never leaving Raven.
"Not far." Raven said quickly, not wanting to tell Helion what she had been thinking of.
It went back and forth like this for a long while. Both of them now paying more attention to what they were saying. They didn't even notice the time. A while later.
"But eyes are the window to ones soul." Helion said as he placed his now empty tea cup on the table. "Have you ever heard that?"
"Yes, but it just doesn't seem possible that someone can just look into anothers soul." Raven said, placing her cup down as well. "At least not without permission."
Helion chuckled slightly "Sometimes even when permission is not given, things happen. Its a way of life." Helion said, partially meaning his own life but not really saying.
He had managed to keep the more detailed bits of himself secret. When she asked where he was from he had said Greece. It was indeed true, but he did not mention Sparta.
Helion looked at the 2 cups and the pot. "I will clean up." Helion said as he stood. "You go back to sl..." Helion didn't finished because he noticed the sun was rising "looks like we missed night time."
He lifted all the dishes and took them into the kitchen. He placed them in the sink and walked over to the fridge. People always said the best way to a person's heart is through their stomachs, so why not.
"Would it be alright if I made breakfast?" Helion asked as he looked through the contents of the ice box.
"Ummm...I guess." Raven said uneasily after a second of thought. Then she heard him make a sickening noise as he stood.
"What the hell is this?" Helion asked with a smirk, lifting a plate with an odd wriggling thing on it.
"Oh, that's Tofu." Raven said, once again almost laughing at Helion's reaction. "Beast boy is a vegetarian."
"No kidding...makes sense. doesn't want to eat animals because he can become them." Helion said. "Very noble."
Raven was a little shocked as Helion's analysis. Cyborg still didn't know why Beast boy is a vegetarian. "Yeah." Raven said then looked out the window to the rising sun. "I guess it is noble."
Helion placed several thing out on the counter before he got to work. several ingredients and pans. Numerous utensils Helion guess that the Titans had no idea what they were for, join the pans and other items. He looked down at the gathered materials and a small flash if flame traveled up the front of his body, leaving an apron behind in its wake. Then he began to cook. Another advantage you have when you live long, time is plentiful. He had spent a long time cooking, sometimes there was little else to do, and he noticed that in all the dimensions he has traveled in cook is always the same. Everyone cooks, Its a way of the, and other, universe. But in all his long years, he had never cook tofu before in his life. He quickly had everything done and ready as they finished up on the stove. But he stood staring at the tofu for a good 10 minutes before he had finally given up and just poked it. He pushed a bit of magic behind it and changed it's flavor to that of the other things he was cooking. Of course this was done with no actual meat. A little bit more magic caused it to change shape into that of the other foods as well, but he kept them on separate plates.
Raven helped set the table. Though she didn't move and instead used her power to move the plates and dishes to the table. A little later the sun had risen and was about to come up fully over the horizon. The door hissed open and Cyborg floated into the room, drawn by the scent of the fresh cooked food.
"What is this I smell?" Cyborg said as he pulled a chair out from the table, then seated himself. "Raven did you cook all of this?...The last time you cooked for us the world was going to end, whats happening now."
Raven just gave him a deadpan look and pointed to the kitchen area with her thumb. She sat down as Cyborg turned to see Helion get rid of the apron in a puff of smoke. Helion looked up a Cyborg and grinned.
"Can this be an apology breakfast?" Helion said with a small chuckle. "Sorry about the head thing."
Cyborg looked from him to the food. "Depends on the grub." Taking up an egg, he put it in his mouth. His eyes began to water comically and his eyes widened."So tasty... What head thing?"
Helion smiled and sat down next to Raven at the table. He pulled up his chair and began to take a spars amount of food. He liked to eat, but got full quickly. Back home he had learned to live off meager rations of war, and old habits die hard. Raven had taken the same amount of food as Helion and began to eat as well. For a short time they ate in silence, then the door hissed open again and Beast boy yawned as he walked in. He looked at everyone that was at the table and looked at the food. Both Raven and Cyborg pointed to Helion who looked up from his plate as he swallowed a bit of egg.
"I made tofu stuff also." Helion said quickly before Beast boy started to complain, he could feel the whine coming and managed to stop it in it's tracks. "Over there."
Helion pointed to a secluded area on the table that had food different from the rest. Beast boy sat down and eyed the tofu. He put a little on his plate, then eyed it for a bit before hesitantly putting a bit in his mouth. He nearly dropped the fork.
"This...is...awesome..." Beast boy said and lunged at his plate.
Helion felt a pang of guilt at this seeing how he didn't really cook the food, but used magic. But none the less, they once again ate. But this time there was a bit more conversation, though it was mostly beast boy making stupid jokes. When they were about to finish eating, Helion looked around wondering where Robin and Starfire were. When he asked the others, Cyborg and Beast boy chuckled and Raven rolled her eyes.
"Ah." Helion said, realizing what was happening almost instantly.
Sure enough a few minutes later a very rumpled looking Starfire and Robin stepped through the door, big grins on their faces.
"Slept well?" Beast boy said, stressing the first word.
Raven hit him in the back of the head, Cyborg chuckled, Helion just smirked.
Several hours later they were walking down a dimly lit hallway. The hall was made of stone and had a steep downward slant. For several minutes they walked in silence, the only sound was that of foot steps echoing against the stone. Soon it opened into a slightly brighter and much wider area. It was large, but not to large and seemed to have a dark brightness to it. It was hard to see, but at the same time it was bright from small electronic lamps. In the center of the room was a small pedestal, and atop it stood the stone form of Terra. The group walked over to the statue, Beast boy hung back slightly and Starfire laid down a bouquet at the foot of it. An engraving on the bottom nearly brought a tear to Helion's eyes.
Helion stepped forward and stood right in front of the statue. He brought his hand up and placed it on one of Terra's arms, then slid it up to be on Terra's shoulder. He had continued on to her cheek, then touching her eyes with his finger tips as his thumb brushed her stone cold lips.
"Raven." Helion said without turning around. "I need you to get a few things for me." He took a small slip of paper out of his pocket and Raven brought it to her with her black energy. "How quickly can you get those here?"
Raven looked at the paper and a small smile formed on the corners of her mouth. "I will do it as quickly as I can." She said and was quickly enveloped by her black energy and sank into the floor.
"Robin, Beast boy." Both of them perked up. He took out another piece of paper and gave it to Beast boy. "Can you get those for me." Both of them look at the paper then nodded. Helion smiled as they walked off. That just left.
"Starfire, Cyborg." Helion turned around to face the two Titans. "Have you ever been to another dimension?"
Outside Titans Tower, a lighting bolt slammed into the ground. Then another, and another. One after another, lightning bolts fell from the sky and struck the ground for several minutes. Beast boy and Robin rushed out of the tower as a large black sphere opened on the place where all the lightning hit. They stared in awe as the sphere grew larger and larger till it was about 1/4 the size of the tower, where it stopped and began to flash from black to white. Wind blew around and great arcs of electric energy erupted from the sphere, crashing into the dirt on the ground.
The sphere rippled for a moment, flashing from black to white even faster. Cyborg and Starfire emerged slowly, both of them were sharing the load of a large square stone on their shoulders. They trudged forward slowly until they and the stone were fully out of the orb. When they were far enough away, they both dropped the large stone and fell to the ground breathing heavily. Robin ran over to Starfire's side and got down to help her. He looked over to Cyborg then back to Starfire, then he looked to the orb then back to Starfire.
"Star, are you ok?" Robin asked in a worried tone that cleared when she nodded then stood up."Where's Helion?"
"He was right behind us when we came through." Cyborg said with a wheeze as he stood.
There was a large Cracking sound from the orb as it flashed white for an instant. Then Helion flew from the orb and crashed into the ground. He slid along it for a few seconds, creating a large gouge in the dirt. Then the orb flashed again and a large bony hand emerged from the top of it and extended up into the air. It reached the height of the tower and was about to come down when Helion pushed himself up to his knees, then jumped to his feet. He threw his hands up into the air, spreading his fingers wide and curling them slightly.
"Reînchide" Helion yelled loudly.
Blue lighting shot from his palms and enveloped the orb. A monstrous roar came from the orb and the windows of the tower shook violently. The arm retracted back into the orb, but the orb flashed blue and disappeared suddenly. The arm however, did not. Blood poured from the severed arm onto the ground. Not a lot, but enough to stain the earth it fell on. It hissed and burned where the blood fell and the arm fell into the water. None of the blood made it to the water thank fully, but the spots of the island were barren and black where once grass grew. Helion stood breathing heavily while the others just looked at him. He bent over and held himself up on his knees. after a short while he stood straight up and held his fists high into the air.
"Woooohoooo!" Helion screamed, then fell backward onto the ground laughing.
The other stood still, still in shock at what had just happened. They looked at each other for a moment before running over to him. Helion sat himself of and spat out a bit of what looked like blood. Cyborg helped him back onto his feet.
"Dude, what the hell was that thing?" Beast boy half asked half shouted.
Helion gave a weary chuckle. "It's called a Druunnoth." Helion said as he dusted himself off. "Only lives in that dimension. It's spit turns anything to stone, and this stone does not exist in this dimension. It builds it's nest from this stone and only spits to add to the nest. We stole a bit of its nest."
"Why? Why do you need this rock?" Beast by asked, no longer yelling.
Helion wiped his mouth of a remaining drop of blood. "I need it to bring Terra back, I thought I told you that." He turned to Cyborg and Starfire. "Can you get that up to my room?"
"No way man." Cyborg shook his head. "It took both me and Star here to get this thing through that portal. No way we can get it up stairs, it must way 25 tons."
"27 actually." Helion said as he walked over to the large stone.
He placed his hand on it, several inches higher then himself, and pressed. A line of flame came from the sides of his hands and went around the stone side ways. He moved his hand to the right and did the same. This time the line of flame went up and down. He went to the other side and did the same. A few large parts fell to the ground with a loud crash leaving a standing rectangular prism. It was about 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide.
"There. Can you do it now, I need to get something." Helion said as he took a step back to look the stone over, nodding when he was satisfied.
"Of course. but may I inquire as to where you are going?" Starfire said quizzically.
Helion ignored the question for a moment and turned to Robin "Did you get me what I asked for?"
"Yeah, everything is set up in your room." Robin said, his face still one of confusion.
"Excuse me, But may I ask where it is you are going?" Starfire asked more forcefully.
Helion turned to Starfire, a small smirk on his lips. "I'm just going to get something from my mom."
With that a circle of fire spiraled into the air around him, and when it disappeared, he was gone.