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The city had been covered with a deep feeling of love since the early morning, on the fourteen of February, the Valentine's Day. All the citizens were in pairs, even the Titans, or almost the Titans.
Starfire held a theater at the living room. Robin had obviously been stuck onto the sofa by glue. At the other side of the living room, Beastboy had been telling Raven jokes the whole morning. The room was decorated with pink and red hearts. If it was the previous Valentine's Day, Cyborg would definitely have been roaring around and taking every single piece of decoration. But there are always some differences.
Cyborg, the only one who is alone in the tower, sited on a piece of rock near the ocean. It made sense, to him; Rainbow had left for hundreds of years.
"Rain, how long had it been since you had left?"
He flipped through a small calendar. The calendar is in red, with a big gold Chinese character.
"What a coincident. It is the fifteen of the first Lunar New Year month today. Two Valentine's days crush together. But why aren't you here."
"The time with you was so unforgettable. I can still remember the Halloween."
Start Flashback
In the previous Halloweens, the rooms were usually decorated with black curtains and plastic bats. But it was different this year.
"AH!!" We heard Starfire yelling the whole afternoon.
"Star, it is fine. How many times had I told you that they are what I made by my power and they are alright!" We heard Rainbow answering the whole afternoon.
It soon came to the night. Cyborg found one of his scanners could spot SOME of the traps and hidden objects. But it was about a droplet of water on the whole Earth.
Robin, Beastboy, Cyborg and Starfire were totally scared to death. But after this event, Raven and Rainbow started to spend lots of time together, chatting.
End of flashback
"Rain please, if there is a second chance for you to hold the Halloween, just please don't use those invisible women. If only that there is a second chance. So do you still remember the time when we went to the cinema?"
Start of flashback
The Titans had joined a marathon. They decided to spend a day in the theater
The leader had the first one to choose. They watched a really action movie. He was the only one who was paying attention. While the others were eating popcorns, he kept telling others that they should learn this move and that move.
Starfire chose a love story. And I mean the story that would make you feel itchy all over your body. She was the only one who is actually watching. Raven was reading with Cyborg's bulb. Cyborg and Beastboy talking about what they were going to choose. Robin took out his notebook and tried to draw diagrams of the attack motions during the whole movie. Rainbow was pretending to be the silly characters in the movie and successfully disturbed Robin whenever he looked down into his book.
Raven, without a debut, chose a horror film. I am not going to tell you much about it because she was actually the only one in the theater
After that film, the other five Titans returned and Beastboy had his choice, a comedy that you would find that the only thing you have learnt was to laugh. Except the Titans, the audiences were kids from kindergarten.
The Titans found that there next stop was extremely different. Instead of the screen, it was a stage. A famous Chinese literature, "The Dream of the Red Chamber" was made into a drama performance And this time, none of them left but all of them except Rainbow were asleep
The marathon of the Titans ended with a sci-fi film. They had thought that after the drama, nothing could be more boring. But they, except Cyborg, had the hugest disappointment. Without the subtitle, except the very scientific words, all they could hear were "the", "you", "is" of the movie and the "what" every now and then from Beastboy.
End of flashback
"If only you could still remember."
"Actually, isn't that no matter which way had you chose, you would still forget everything about us? You have once told me that for you Chinese, after death, would go to the next life. When the dead were making the way over the bridge to the next life, they would drink a bowl of soup that would make them forget every thing about their previous life. It is just a matter of time. Why would you choose to have it later?"
Start of flashback
"Rain, it is your life. It is your choice." Raven walked to Rainbow and whispered to her ear.
Rain turned her head to Cyborg but he looked away, not wishing to disturb her choice.
"Rae, I guess that I am not going to take that spell." She answered.
"But if you don't, you…" Raven wished to continue but she was stopped by Rainbow.
"I know that I am going to die very soon. But so what? Everyone is going to die isn't it?"
"There is a Chinese saying that '人生自古誰無死留取丹心照汗青' It means that every one is going to die. But all that matters is whether he had done what he has to, to have his name written in the history, even it is just a tiny name in the corner of the world's history."
"It isn't the same stuff. We can reintroduce every one of us to you. It is pointless to keep on arguing on something pointless!" Raven yelled.
"You told me that it is my own life and I am the one who is going to choose, remember? Why are you the one in charge?" she paused.
"Sorry, can't hold myself. You know, to me, forgetting my life is even worse than death. It is horrible. Think of it when you are in the house with lots of strangers in strange uniform of traffic light colors (Robin gave her a glare), it is just too horrifying. The length of life is not the most important but the meaning of it. We are like an actor of the story of mankind. I would have no regrets if I can fulfill my dream, to have friends that understand me. My mother once told me that what we need to treasure the most is not the future or the past, but the present. It doesn't matter if I am only Passenger A. It doesn't matter really." She stopped and held back a teardrop that wishes to escape from her eye.
"I guess that I can say nothing to confess you." Raven smiled softly.
"So don't try." Rainbow broke into a loud laughter.
End of flashback
"It is just the past right? It is just the thing that doesn't matters anymore. You had always been right, but not this time. How could you treat it as nothing? How could you treat it as it is something meaningless? I used to think that. But now I guess, I understand."
Start of flashback
It was Christmas Eve. Jump City was covered with snowflakes. The Christmas Eve should be a festival of reunion. And so it was for the Titans this year.
The black-headed girl stood on the roof of a giant T. The wind played with her hair. The white flowers landed on her raven hair, giving it an odd white outline.
"Awaken in such a morning?" Cyborg asked as he stepped out the shadow.
She smiled and turned to the view in from of her. Everything seemed so peaceful, so normal.
"The snow is interesting isn't it?" She asked, neglecting how stupid her question was.
"What?" He smiled because of her innocence
"It was still warm yesterday, but it is snowing today." She sat and embraced her leg.
"Things change. Everyday is different." He said as if the one next to him was a child.
"You know, this morning when I woke up. I was afraid. I had a feeling that I am going to die, sooner than what I had ever thought." She found her toes suddenly very interesting.
Cyborg sat by her side, smiling warmly at her as if she was a child who was scared of the sky falling down.
"A wise friend told me that the present is the part of life that we need to treasure, not the past nor the future." He told her.
Rainbow had a little blush on her cheek because of the name he had addressed her.
"That makes sense. Let's go back into the tower. It is totally freezing here." She stood up and took his hand.
End of flashback
"So then we had the best day ever. It was Christmas, and Christmas needs to be happy right? Not only happy though, it was faithful. We found you dead in your room the next morning, the Christmas Day. The time with you was short, too short. But it was the most enjoyable and meaningful time in my whole life. Now, I finally know that on that day, you had chosen the right path. If you had chosen to take the spell, this magical dream would never come true, never."
He stood up and headed back the tower. He sighed that he was alone at the Valentine's Day.
"Rain, I love you." He whispered to the air, not even knowing whether she would, or could listen.
Everything was just as normal as what it should be, except the rainbow that extended from the Titans Tower to the other end of the sky.
Quoting from the book "天作之盒" and translation :
他們深信彩虹是圓形的，
They believed that the rainbow is a circular.
經歷過人世的風雨，
After the experiences and suffers in the mortal world,
他們會在七色橋的另一端重逢，
They would meet in the other end of this bridge of seven colors,
永遠牽手同行。
Walk hand in hand ever after.
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Yep, this is the end. I hope that you would like this. Once again I thank all of you who have been reading this fic. This encourages me a lot. This fic is a really hard work for me. I really hope that you can do a little favor. It is simple, just click the button and submit a review! Anything will be accepted.
P.S. The Chinese stuff I had written in the fic is true . If you want to know more about it, write it in your review. You are most welcome to ask because I love the culture of my home country!