The Raven, The Robin, and the Wolf
Legal Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans(unfortunately) and I am not making any money by writing this story. I do however, own Ken and if any of you use him without my permission, I'll sue your ass so fast...anyway, enjoy the next chappie
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Ken watched on as a young Raven ran toward him.
"Big brother, big brother!" She yelled. Ken knelt down and hugged her when she reached him.
"What's wrong, Raven?" He asked.
"I had a scary dream. A big, mean man came and took you away." Raven sobbed.
"Don't worry, Rae. I'm not going anywhere. I'll always be there for you." Ken said softly. Suddenly, time seemed to rapidly pass. Raven began growing and looking older. The more she aged, the farther away she seemed.
"Ken, where did you go? I thought you said you'd always be there for me." An older Raven said.
"Raven, I'm right here!" Ken tried to yell, but no sound came out of his mouth. He saw a large, red figure appear behind Raven. Praying it wasn't was who he thought he was, he looked at the figure's face and saw six yellow, glowing eyes glaring at him.
"Yes, Ken," Trigon said, "You said you would always be there for her. What happened?" He said cruelly. Laughing evilly, Trigon created a black axe and held it above Raven's head. Ken tried to shoot Trigon with a dark energy blast, but nothing appeared when he thrusted his hands out. He tried speaking an incantation, but again no sound came out of his mouth.
"Damn you, Trigon!" He yelled.
"Tsk, tsk. That is no way to speak to your father. Come here, boy." Trigon pointed his index finger at Ken. Ken found himself walking toward Trigon. When he reached him, Ken was handed the axe Trigon had formed.
"Do it now. Kill her." Trigon said, and then disappeared. Raven turned her head to look at Ken and smiled.
"Ken, I'm so happy to see you again!" She said. Ken found himself moving against his own will.
"Raven, I'm sorry." He said with tears in his eyes. He cocked the axe back and swung it with all of his might at Raven's neck.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Ken bolted upright in bed, screaming. After a few seconds, he calmed down and got out of bed. He walked into his bathroom, created a foam cup, and filled it with water.
"Damn it, this can not be happening again." He panted. He looked into his mirror, but instead of seeing his own handsome face, he saw an evil, red, yellow eyed face looking back at him. He shook his head and looked back into the mirror.
"My mind is just playing tricks on me." Ken chuckled. He drunk his water and turned around, hoping to go back to bed and have a dreamless, uninterrupted sleep.
"I'm afraid it isn't, son." An evil voice said. Ken froze when he saw the same evil face that was in the mirror looking at him.
"Trigon, what are you doing? I thought you didn't have enough power to project yourself." Ken said.
"It will take a while to regenerate, but it is worth it to see my son once again. I would appreciate it if you would call me 'dad' a little more. After all, it's what children do." Trigon said.
"I'm not a child. I'm almost a man."
"Yes, yes, of course. Two more years and you'll be grown?"
"Like you haven't been keeping track."
"You know me so well, like a child should. Well, my energy is almost depleted. I shall be checking back with you in about a week to see how you are doing." Trigon smirked and disappeared. Ken stared at the spot he was at with disgust. He threw away his foam cup and walked back to bed. Before he could lay down, he heard a voice at his door.
"Ken are you awake? Can I come in?" Ken was relieved to hear Raven's voice.
'You can come in, Rae.' Raven walked in to find Ken sitting on his bed, smiling at her. Raven sat on the bed next to Ken.
"Why were you screaming?" She said groggily.
"Screaming?" Ken said, his voice sounding much squeakier. "No one was screaming."
"Don't lie. Your voice is sounding much more squeakier, plus you've let your mind defenses down. What did you dream about?"
"I...dreamed that all the girls in the universe disappeared." Ken said quickly. Raven giggled.
"Seriously, what did you dream about?" She said in a monotone voice.
"I…dreamed that Trigon was alive and he was trying to get us."
"Don't worry about that. I can already defeat him. Let me show you." Raven's hand began glowing light blue and she placed it on Ken's forehead. Raven's memory flashed before Ken's eyes. He saw Raven's emotions all combine with Raven into one. He saw her cloak turn white and the sheer power that she had was glowing in her eyes and mouth. Trigon attempted an attack, but she overpowered and defeated him with an attack of her own. After she had defeated Trigon, she casually floated back down to the ground and her cloak reverted back to its original color.
Raven took her hand off of Ken's forehead and smiled. Ken beamed at her.
"I can't believe it! You actually tapped into your powers long before I got here!"
"So that other time in training was just my second? I thought I did it more than that."
"Nah, you let your rage control most of you. That time, it was with the use of all your emotions. Only, you didn't even attempt to control them. You only manipulated them into a single blast. We're gonna practice that in the morning, so you better go get some rest now."
"We can start now."
"Why now? It's so early."
"Look at your clock."
Ken looked over his shoulder at the digital clock next to his bed. It was six in the morning.
"Still too early. We'll start at eight." Ken touched Raven's shoulder and teleported her to her own room.
'You have to teach me how to do that.' Raven thought, laying back down onto her bed.
'Later.' Ken said. 'Let me rest right now.'
'Ok, fine.' And so the siblings slept, never aware that a yellow eyed demon was watching them.
Later that day
"Ok, let's see. Three sets of fifty pushups, two sets of twenty-five depth pushups, five sets of twenty sit-ups, one set of thirty v-crunches, ten minutes of leg-ups, fifteen minutes of squats, and ten laps around the tower. We're just about done with physical training warm up. Now let's move on to the weight lifting." Ken said enthusiastically to an exhausted, sweaty Raven.
"Ah…come on. Can't I take a little break? Maybe get some water or energy drink?" Raven panted.
"Fine." Ken stuck out his index finger and created a large black hole in midair. He stuck both of his hands in and pulled out a bottle of water, a bottle of Gatorade, and a bottle of Volt energy drink.
Back in the Tower's living room, Robin was sitting on the couch, staring at his right hand.
"Hey, where'd my Volt go?"
"Ok, I have some Purifina water, some red Gatorade and a new kind of energy drink. It tastes really good, but as you drink more it gets really nasty."
"I'll take the water." Ken tossed the water to Raven, which she gulped down greedily.
"Save some for later. You're gonna need it." Ken said, walking over to set the weights up.
"Ok, the weights are ready. Catch!" Ken yelled, tossing two twenty pound dumbbells to Raven. Raven caught them without looking and walked over to Ken.
"Impressive, but don't think you're gonna get off easy just because you can catch something…by just…sensing it….Raven, why didn't you tell me you could do that!"
"You never asked." Raven said, laying down on a small bench next to Ken.
"Ok, you can start by…"
One grueling hour later
"Isn't there another way…to do this?" Panted Raven.
"Yes, but that would take about a decade. This method only takes about seven months. I'm cramming all the lessons into a few, long, painful lessons."
"Good for me." Raven said sarcastically.
"Quit your complaining. Physical training is over. It's time to train your powers." Ken and Raven donned their cloaks and Ken teleported them into the middle of the Jump City sea.
"Why did you take us all the way out here?" Raven asked, looking around.
"So your powers won't cause any damage. In the middle of the sea, the most you could do is create a tidal wave."
"And why is that?"
"I'm going to stop suppressing your powers for a while, but I'm going to create a barrier about two miles away from us, just in case."
"Ok." Raven began suppressing her emotions as Ken stopped suppressing her powers.
"Now, start meditating, but keep a link between our minds so the only thoughts in your head, other than yours, will be the ones I send to you."
"Ok…Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos…Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos…"
'Raven,' Ken said telepathically once Raven was in a trance, 'Raven, listen carefully to me and do what I say.'
'Ok.' Raven replied.
'Now, your emotions are a part of you. They are what trigger your powers. You need to learn to control them and manipulate their control over your power so you can control it. In that memory you showed me, you did that, but you didn't maintain that control over them. This is what you must do.' Ken touched Raven's temple and began saying the chant along with her.
"Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos…Azarath…Metrion…Zinthos…" A dark blue aura surrounded Ken's body and slowly entered Raven's body.
An image flashed before Raven's eyes. She saw Ken walking around what looked like the world inside her mirror. A dark blue and purplish aura surrounded Raven and slowly crept up to her head. A second later, Raven found herself walking with Ken inside the world.
"Ken, what's going on?"
"Relax Raven. This is just the same place we went to when we entered you mirror. This is your mind. We're going to learn how to control your emotions. We'll start off with some you feel every once in a while." Ken snapped his fingers and a black-clad Raven was standing in front of them.
"Wh-who are you? What are you doing here? Get out!" The Raven shot a dark energy blast at the siblings, which they easily dodged.
"Raven, this is your fear. You need to learn to control it."
"How do I do that?" Raven said timidly.
"Woah, it's already controlling you. What you have to do is visualize it as a part of you. Feel the irresistible urge to overcome it, control it. It is a part of you, but it is not you. You can control your body and your emotions. Go ahead , Rae." Ken stepped back, leaving Raven and her scared emotion alone.
"Stay back!" The black-clad Raven said. Raven tried to take a step forward, but found she couldn't move.
"No Ken, she might hurt me!" Raven yelled.
"Raven, overcome your own emotion! Control it! Remember, it's a part of you, but it isn't really you!" Ken yelled to her.
Raven tried to call on the help from her other emotions, but found she could not. Raven stared her emotion down, plucked up her courage and walked towards her emotion.
"Stay back, I'm warning you!" Raven kept walking until she reached it.
"No, I'm not going to fear you. I'm not going to let you control me. I won't let my fear control my powers. I control them, not you." Raven said. The black-clad Raven looked up at Raven and grabbed her hands. Raven tried to fight out of the grip, but found she could not. The fear emotion combined with Raven. When Raven looked at her cloak, she found that it had turned considerably darker.
"Congratulations, Rae. We'll be taking on two more today, intelligence, which I think will come quietly, and rude."
By the time Ken had returned to his own body, Raven's cloak had turned a mustard yellow color. The two ended their trances and Ken smiled at Raven.
"You did real good today, Rae. I didn't think you'd learn so fast. Anyway, we're done for today, so…" Ken grabbed Raven's shoulder and teleported them back to the tower. "you can have the rest of the day off." Ken began walking to the kitchen.
"Ken." Raven said.
"Yeah?"
"How do I change my cloak back to its normal color?"
"Just visualize it changing back to its original color."
Raven closed her eyes and when she reopened them, her cloak was back to its purplish color.
"I'm gonna go get something to eat. Later." Ken walked off. Raven spent the rest of the day meditating. She found that is was a little easier now that three of her emotions could no longer trigger her powers. As she was getting ready to go to sleep that night, she heard a knock at her door.
"Raven?" Robin said. Raven smiled and opened her door to find a nervous looking Robin looking down at her.
"Yes?" She said in the most sultry tone she could manage. Robin looked down at the ground to try to keep from looking at Raven's more interesting parts, which would blow his whole plan if she caught him.
"I was just…sorta, kinda wondering…if you'd like to go out to eat this weekend? The others are going to be back next week so I figured we could do something together alone." Raven blushed.
"Sure. I'd love to go out."
" Great. How about Saturday at seven?"
"It's a date. Good night, Robin." Raven kissed Robin on the cheek and closed her door. Robin felt like he was walking on thin air as he went back to his room. That night he had very pleasant dreams.
"Looks like my plan is going good…even if I didn't do anything this time." Ken said as he lay on the couch in the living room, watching TV.
"Don't worry. You two lovebirds will be able to be together soon. I'll make sure of that."
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Ken: What's that smell? Oh my, it's plot development!
Raven: I like whre this is going. Is it going to have more scenes of me and Robin kissing? May be topless?
DR: >.>...O...k...I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear that. Anyway, yes the plot is developing. Cookies to anyone who can guess what's going to happen! To answer a few more questions, Raven is going to get stronger than Ken in some things, but not all. I may have the rest of the TT crew hook up, I'm not sure. Terra will not be in this. And Trigon is going to...do something really bad! Ha, bet you thought I was gonna tell you!
Ken: You thought he was going to give that stuff away? No. We just trick y'all.
Ravem: Yeah, you all are just going to have to find out the Trigon is trying to...
Ken and me tackle Raven
DR: Scuse me, folks, I'm going to have to find about 5 progressingly larger wooden bokes, 5 metal boxes, and a submarine.
Ken: Raven, I hope you find a way to breath while you're going to be down there.
Raven: Breath? What are you about to do? why are you stacking those boxes like that? Why are you carrying me over to them? Oh crap.
DR: Ken, can they still see us? Turn the camera off! Um...Until next time, FF people! R&R!