Teen Titans – Video Games Are Fun!
6. Chapter 5: Explanations & Discovery
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RaexBB72 – Thanks for the awesome review! I know a kid who swears a lot too. I call him "F-bomb Boy!" He doesn't seem to like it for some reason… hmmmm… oh well! Yeah, I ramble too! But, why shouldn't we? It's just so fun! So, for the emotion conversations, expect one every three or four chapters.. consider them my comedy skits for the story! As a matter of fact, there's another one in this chapter! What else did you ask me about? Oh yeah! If you've ever played The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, you should be able to guess who the guy was. But, for those who haven't played the game or just can't seem to remember for some reason, I'll be revealing his identity in this chapter. So, don't worry! Oh, and as for your review for chapter 5, I just had to have a bathroom fight scene. It's just some weird quirk I have. That whole naked thing was kind of an after thought. Maybe I should just make this entire story one big after thought if you like them so much!
Wait a second! I have fans? Where are they? Let me at 'em! Let me at 'em! Mama's got a squeeze box and daddy never sleeps at night!
TDG3RD – Okay, I enjoyed the romantic situations too. I kinda feel sorry for Starfire, though. I mean, she just tries and tries but Robin is just in too deep of a denial to even recognize the obvious chemistry between them. Plus, since she's naïve (not dumb!), she always thinks that it's her fault. By the way, I'm really sorry! They'll just be reaching the graveyard this chapter. This is kind of an informational chapter. I'm really sorry if it bores you to death, but a big plot twist occurs in it as to make up for the slowness.
Korey – Thanks for the review! I love your use of semicolons! Here's the next chapter just for you… and all the other people who're reading this story.
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Raven's POV
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I decided that a quick chat with my emotions were in order. I had just seen Beast Boy naked and had almost flirted with the little grass stain! I sat on the bed in the lotus position and chanted my mantra "Azarath Metrion Zynthos."
In Raven's Head
Happy: Back so soon? (does random cartwheels for the hell of it.)
Lust: Come oooooonnnnn! What's takin' so long?
Raven: How many times do I have to tell you? I don't like Beast Boy!
Brave: You're just in denial ya' little pussy!
Denial: No I'm not!
Raven: When did my mind become a sitcom?
Bill Cosby: When I got here!
Raven: Ooooookaaaaaaay?
(suddenly, Psychotic appears with the pockets of her robe bulging.)
Curiosity: Hey, Psychotic! What's with your pockets? Since when does your robe have pockets?
Psychotic: I had to find somewhere to store the tuuunaaa! (starts sucking some tuna directly from one of her pockets.)
(Timid runs up and hides herself behind Happy.)
(Trigger-happy dashes into view with a gun held out.)
Trigger-happy: Come on, Timid! It's not like you can die! Come on, let me shoot ya'!
(Timid continues to hide behind Happy.)
Republican: Go Nevermore! Look at how patriotic I am!
Raven: SHUT UP!
(everybody falls completely silent and stares at Raven.)
Raven: Well, now that I have your attention, who's responsible?
(Love who had just entered, quickly turns and attempts to leave with an expression of terror on her face.)
Raven: LOVE!
(Love stops in her tracks, slowly turns to face Raven, and begins to rub the back of her head while chuckling embarrassedly.)
(Raven sighs and begins to rub her temples, causing an earthquake, since she's in her head after all.)
(all is silent until Rude belches.)
(all look at Rude.)
Rude: What?
(Rude shoves her hands into her armpits shoves them into her face and begins to inhale the scent.)
Psychotic: Ooh!
(Raven slaps herself in agitation.)
Psychotic: I'm delicious! (shoves her hand into Trigger-happy's face.) Taste me!
(Trigger-happy pulls out a machine gun and puts it to Psychotic's face.)
Trigger-happy: You wanna die?
Psychotic: Finally!
Depression: No! Shoot me! Please!
(Depression runs and leaps at Trigger-happy who turns the gun on her and pulls the trigger after a quick shrug.)
(Depression falls to the ground, causing everyone to stare at her prone body. Then, she stands back up and begins to cry histerically.)
Depression: Why'd you shoot me? Do you really hate me that much? You're so hurtful!
(Depression runs away.)
(Raven clears her throat to regain the attention of her emotions.)
Raven: Brave!
Brave: Yessir!
Raven: Throw Love in Anger's pit!
Brave: Can do boss!
(Brave grabs Love and drags her kicking and screaming off into the distance.)
Love: (screams) Noooooo! Anger's gonna do bad things to me!
Lust: Oooooooooooh! Can I come?
(Lust runs after Brave and Love.)
Raven: And, now that that's taken care of, I can leave.
Back in the Inn
I opened my eyes to see Beast Boy sitting on the bed opposite mine, just looking at me. "What?"
He seemed to be surprised when I asked that. He shook his head and said "I was just waiting for you to finish so I could explain everything."
"Well" I began, standing up from the bed and moving closer to sit next to Beast Boy. He looked at me like I had grown an extra head, then I realized just how out of character I was acting and quickly compensated with an excuse. "I just want to hear everything, and your voice is so cracky that it can sometimes be hard to catch everything you say."
He looked almost disappointed, but quickly returned to his slight smile that seemed to be a near permanent part of his face… until recently that is…
"Okay, I guess we should do a Q&A thing."
"Q&A?" I asked, slightly confused.
His response surprised me greatly. "You ask me a question and I'll answer." He hadn't made a big deal of my not knowing something… that he did know. He just answered… calmly and with… understanding? Beast Boy? Understanding? Why can't I see those two concepts combined?
I finally decided upon my first question. "Who was that guy in the temple?"
"His name was Sheik. He's called a Sheikah. Yeah, creative name, huh?"
I smiled slightly. He's starting to get almost clever with his joking. He's realizing the difference between a pun and something actually funny. "Okay, so what's up with that temple anyways?"
"I think I should just tell you an abridged version of the whole story behind this world." I simply nodded for him to begin. I don't know why, but I trusted him to keep it short. I'm probably gonna hate myself for this. "First, those triangles that were all over the temple. They're just representing this countries cultlike obsession with a relic called the TriForce. It's said to be left where three goddesses who had created this world had returned to heaven or whatever. It's made up of three triangles, each representing one of the goddesses. There're the TriForces of Power for Din, Courage for Farore, and Wisdom for Nayru. The big evil dude of this world had gotten his hands on it, but cuz he was psychotic and stuff, he could only hold the TriForce of Power. So, the other two pieces went to a pair of destined people. The one of courage went to the Hero of Time, that kid we found dead in the temple, and the one of wisdom went to the leader of the sages, who we'll be meeting eventually."
"Okay, you explained the triangles, but not the temple" I said slightly irritably. But, I quickly calmed down when I realized that I was going to ask about the triangles eventually.
"Oh, right!" he began rubbing the back of his neck. "This part's gonna seem a bit rehearsed. "The Hero of Time, must play the Ocarina of Time…"
"Oh! Do you mean this?" I asked, pulling the ocarina from my pocket.
"Where'd you get that? I can't believe I forgot about it!"
"The 'Hero of Time' had it on him" I replied.
"Do you know how to play that thing?"
"Of course!" I answered indignantly.
"But… how?" he asked with an expression of such powerful confusion that it almost knocked me off the bed.
"We had these in Azarath. I used to play one to keep myself calm when I wasn't as experienced with meditating." I let out a sigh, realizing that I had interrupted him like an excited child. "Continue."
"Okay so, the Hero of Time plays the Song of Time on the Ocarina of Time at the Pedestal of Time, while holding the three Spiritual Stones, to open the Door of Time. Then, if they actually are the Hero of Time, they'll pull the Master Sword from it's rock… thingy, and enter the Sacred Realm. But, the Hero of Time was a kid and couldn't use the sword, so he was put into a deep sleep for like seven years, giving Ganon, that's the bad guy, the perfect opportunity to get his hands on the TriForce, leading to everything I said about that." He let out an extensive breath, probably because he hadn't breathed once through his entire speech. His face had taken on a rather unappealing shade of blue. And, when one's skin is already green, the blue tint takes on a whole new meaning.
I just stared at him for awhile. It was partially because I wanted him to get his breath back, but also because he had given me a lot to digest. But, something that he had mentioned earlier came back. "What are the 'sages'?"
"They're these seven people who exist to aid the Hero of Time in his quest to save Hyrule and all that crap."
"Something doesn't make sense" I said because, in fact, something didn't make sense. "If you're using the 'Master Sword', and I'm using the 'Ocarina of Time', then what does that make us?"
"I don't know. Maybe replacement Heroes of Time?"
"Why not…" I said with a shrug. "I think that settles everything. So, when should we go out and deal with those zombies?"
"We have to wait until dark" replied Beast Boy with a shrug.
"Why? They were out in daylight in that other town… place."
"That city's in a permanent state of darkness because of the over-the-top evil-ness of the owner of the castle."
"So, the main headquarters of everything good is less than a football field from the headquarters of everything evil? That's smart." I said sarcastically.
"Well, yeah. It is kinda weird. But, I just try not to think about it" he said with yet another shrug. What, is he obsessive compulsive? "We should try to get some rest… some actual rest. No bath is enough for what we're about to face."
What he said pulled me back to reality and reminded me that we weren't just talking about some story. We were talking about what was ahead of us… and speaking of that, "What's that thing we needed to get?"
"Huh?" asked Beast Boy, returning to the familiar little dimwhit I remember.
"Sheik said something about getting something before we could go to any of the temples" I said, glad to catch him having a brain fart.
"Oh, yeah. It's called the hookshot. It's a spring-loaded-chain-thingy. We might have to use it in and around the temples to come."
"What for?" I asked, hoping that if I pried he'd actually tell me what it was.
"I don't know, but 'rather safe than sorry', right?"
I simply nodded at him. He was right, and I was way too tired to continue this conversation. I went back over to my bed, laid down, still dressed, and said one more thing to Beast Boy before relaxing into the bed. "I'm going to sleep for a bit. You snore, you die."
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Terra's POV (That's right!)
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How long has it been? I don't know. But, I really don't care anymore. The Titans have taken good care of my prison over the years. I remember Beast Boy promising me that they'd find a cure. For a while, I was enraged that they had given up. But, I've made my peace. There's nothing that they can do for me. All I can wait for is my eventual death. Then, Beast Boy can finally move on. Then, I'll no longer hold up that place in his heart that I know I don't… and never have deserved.
"You are needed." What was that? It's been so long since I've heard a voice… speaking directly to mme. Most who come to this cave talk to eachother or in the worse cases, themselves, but never to me.
"The Titans need you."
"But, I can't do anything. I'm kinda stoned if you haven't noticed."
"That is no problem." I was about to reply when I sensed a change. My five normal senses had been immobilized along with the rest of my body, so my sixth sense has become greatly heightened, and that sixth sense was feeling something change in the atmosphere around me.
At first, it was just an atmospheric change, that could be best described as an increase in temperature… yet not at the same time. Then, there was a crack. I hadn't heard it, or felt it with my physical nerves. It had been another mentally sensed change. Then, there was another, and another, and another, and another seven, and more, and more, and… an explosion.
I fell to my knees… my real knees. All the feelings, sounds, sights, smells… I gotta take a shower… everything was so strong, probably because I hadn't used them in so long it just seemed so strong. But, I eventually regained control. It had taken almost three hours, but I was able to control my senses and my newly regained body, and only then did I realize something. I was naked! That uniform that Slade had put me in had crumbled right along with my stone prison. I was free… from that bastard, and from my own powers. They belonged to me, not the other way around. That idea, placed in my consciousness by Beast Boy, himself, kept playing through my mind, for it was finally true for the first time in my entire life.
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BB's POV
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I had never gone to sleep. I had spent the last couple hours just staring at the sleeping form of Raven in the other bed. She was just so beautiful. In her sleep, she had an atmosphere of perfect understanding of all the secrets of life. She had an odd, elegant kind of beauty, not that slutty, blonde kind that I had been into when I was younger.
I looked out the window and noticed that it was almost completely dark out. There would be just enough time to wake Raven and get to the graveyard. "I hope that this goes better than the other ReDead battles."
I climbed out of bed and approached Raven's. I took one last look at her stunning face and shook her lightly while saying "Wakey, wakey."
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Raven's POV
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I felt a soft hand on my shoulder and heard a calm voice, pulling me back to consciousness. It was the voice of Beast Boy. I looked up at his face and began to smile, but quickly blanked my face and sat up.
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BB's POV
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Was that…? No… but… a smile? Had she smiled at me? Maybe she'd just been having a good dream. It probably had absolutely nothing to do with me… but, then again, she's totally in love with me. I smiled secretly to myself as I helped her up from the bed.
There was no discussion. We just made our preparations silently. I strapped the Master Sword in its sheath… when'd it get a sheath? That was all for me, so I turned to see if Raven was ready. She was already standing at the door with the ocarina in hand… and a shield?
"Where'd you get that?" I asked pointing at the shield.
"I bought it… sort of" she replied.
"Oh. So, you bought this sheath, too, and these clothes?"
"Yeah" replied Raven with a shrug. "I thought we might need this stuff. You want the shield?"
"Nah. I couldn't" I replied waving one of my arms dismissively.
"Just take it" said Raven, throwing the shield at me. I caught it, but just barely. "I can use range to my advantage. You'll be fighting them head on. You need it more than me."
With that, I strapped the shield on my back. We nodded seriously at eachother, entering 'hero mode'.
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Raven's POV
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We were quickly approaching the graveyard. I could even tell. When we got there, we were slightly relieved to see that there were no zombies… yet.
Beast Boy knelt against a box facing away from the graveyard, and patted the ground next to him. I rolled my eyes and sat.
"I think we should figure out some kinda' strategy while we still can" he said, startling me nearly out of my skin.
"What?" I asked. I couldn't seem to believe that those words had come from Beast Boy's mouth. There have been far, far, far, far too many shocks today. The biggest catalyst of these surprises seemed to be the little grass stain, who I'd written off as the most predictable person on this Earth… but, then again… we're not on our own 'Earth' anymore.
"I think that you should mostly distract…" he began.
"I'll use the ocarina" I said interrupting him. I looked at him to see a confused expression on his face. "Don't tell me, this world doesn't have a song to paralyze the undead. Right?"
"Quite the opposite, actually" Beast Boy said with an amazed expression on his face. "What's it called in Azarath?"
"The Song of Light" I replied simply.
"It's called the Sun's Song in this world."
"If it exists, why were you so surprised?"
"'Cause, I just wasn't aware of all the similarities between this world and Azarath… can you play the song?"
"Shouldn't I wait for them to appear?"
"I just wanna see if it's the same song."
I sighed and pulled the ocarina from my pocket. I stood and squared my shoulders. I blew into the instrument a couple times to get reacquainted with it. Then, I began. It was a simple enough melody. I began with the three repeating notes, and was about to play the finale when Beast Boy grabbed my arm. "What?" I asked, agitated.
"Not now, I don't know what effect it'll have with no zombies around. But, it's the right song."
"Good" I replied, sitting down and wiping off the ocarina. "So, where'd you learn to use a sword?" I asked, attempting to make conversation for the first time in my life. I didn't want silence in such a black and dismal place.
He didn't reply. I was about to ask again, but his hand was against my mouth before I could even complete my inhalation.
Sorry everybody! I know I said that they'd reach the graveyard this chapter… although they technically did REACH it. It's just that nothing of any interest happened. Although, I'm quite happy about where this story is going. It seems like every time I start writing, I forget my plans for the chapter and go off in whichever direction my fingers take me… which seems to be to the edge of a cliff (which I can only assume leads to Candy Land) at the moment!
Signed
The Cheese!