Teen Titans: "Fading" (Part 2)

Aura- Lots of weeks have gone by since Terra started to train. Many times had I gotten close to killing her, yet she still stayed with it; surviving through the hard times so easily. Now her perseverance has proved useful, she now wields two DUOs, one of them being lava.

I look up from the T.V. to see Niveus and Terra hovering over my shoulder, "What?"

Terra takes a while to look towards me and answer my question. "The TV."

I look back to the news channel I was on. It was just broadcasting a boat party on a new cruise ship. Boring. "And?"

"Look," orders Niveus as he points to the screen.

I look again. Nothing. "What?" I ask once more.

"Look harder," hints Terra as she puts on her grey cap and red sweatshirt. Was she getting ready to go somewhere or something?

I decide to look at the TV screen again, but harder. I skimmed the huge crowd that was partying on the ship's deck. Suddenly I freeze. "That's---."

"Slade." says Terra; she looks back at Niveus and me. "Well what are you waiting for, let's go."

Beast Boy- "Well what are you guys waiting for, let's go!" I yell anxiously.

"We're coming BB, just wait for a while!" says Cyborg as he fishes through the fridge one last time.

Robin appears through the door. "Is everyone ready?" he asks while fastening on his cape.

Raven was sitting on the couch as she looked up from her book. "Ready as I'll ever be." she answers with a very bored voice.

Robin looks skeptically at her, but then turns to a more important matter at hand. "Where is Starfire?"

"I am here!" she cheers as she comes through the doorway.

"Great, now everyone's here." says Robin, he motions for everyone to gather around him. Once they did he turned his leadership job. "Mow listen, if Beast Boy was right when he said he saw Slade on TV then we need to be on our guard when we get to the--------------------."

"Cruise ship!" I yell as I dart on board.

"Hey BB, wait up!" Cyborg quickly dashes on board; running past me and straight to the free food, "Hah! Too slow!" then dives for the food stand. A black shroud appears around him and stops him from moving any further.

"Quit fooling around!" yells Raven as she tosses Cyborg to the other side of the cruise ship.

"Cy!" I squeak while running after him.

"Like Raven said, we're on a mission, so no messing around at all!" Says Robin rather sternly. "Hey," he turns to Starfire. "Where did Beast Boy go?" She shrugs her shoulders. "Crap." he says while running the way he thought Beast Boy went.

Beast Boy- "Wow, this is such a cool ship!" I run over to the nearby crowd, hoping to hide from Robin. So many people were laughing, having fun while dancing. I walk over to the drink stand and pour myself a cup.

"Hey, Beast Boy!"

I turn to see who had just called me. It was Aqualad. "Dude!" I run up to him, nearly dropping my juice. "What are you doing here?!?"

"Robin thought you guys could use me since you guys are basically in the middle of the ocean." He looks and shows me that the cruise ship's anchor was up, we were slowly moving away from the dock. "So, is Slade back?"

"Yeah, do not doubt my TV skills! I saw him on the news where they were broadcasting part of this party. He's definitely here." I say this fact with a proud tone.

"Let's hope so." he says, still not so sure if I was making stuff up.

"There you are!" Robin comes running over with Starfire close behind.

"And Aqualad, oh what a glorious day this is!" she says with her usual positive attitude.

"Good to see you." Robin gives a nod to Aqualad.

"Thanks." Aqualad looks over Robin's shoulder. "Where's Cyborg and Raven?"

"Raven is probably reading a book somewhere." I say jokingly.

Aqualad gives a silly laugh and then he pauses. "I'll be right back."

"Why, where are you going?" I ask, but he was already gone.

Aqualad- I was pretty sure I felt someone watching me, so I went outside just in case. There were plenty of people outside but no one seemed familiar. I turned around and was about to go back inside when I see Raven in the walkway.

"Hi," she says.

"Hi," I say back.

"Well, this is awkward." she says to me.

"Yeah," I look inside to see Robin and the others. "We should-----."

"Hey," says someone from behind. Raven looks up as I turn around. "This isn't a costume party." says the girl who was about my age. She had on a purple sweatshirt, blue denim shorts, and a white scarf around her neck.

"We're not wearing costumes." I state to the girl.

"Then what are you wearing?" she asks.

"Clothes," says Raven plainly.

I couldn't help but laugh at that remark she just made. "Nice one." She doesn't look me in the eyes, was she actually blushing?

The girl laughs with me. "I know that!"

Raven looks up to the girl. "Who are you?"

The girl gives a small smile. "My name is nothing worth remembering."

"Would you rather be called purple?" asks Raven annoyingly.

The girl was about to say something when another girl ran up to her. "Niveus found him." says the other girl.

"Well, nice talking to you two, enjoy your date." says the girl as she leaves with the other girl.

"Date?" I ask.

Aura- When Terra and I finally caught up to Niveus the battle was already heating up. I rush in just before Slade kicks Niveus in the stomach. He slams into a wall and falls onto the floor. He curses while trying to get up. Quickly I turn to Slade; ready to fight, but he was already gone. "Damn it."

Niveus walks over to me; coughing, "Sorry, I tried to stall him."

"It's alright." I give him a reassuring smile. Before I could say anything else to cheer him up, screams come from the cruise ship's deck.

Terra runs up to us. "Slade left us a present; you guys need to come now!"

So we quickly ran outside to see a crowd of people running around screaming. A huge, giant, metal squid had surfaced from the water. It was attacking everything. "Titans, go!" yells a guy with a cape. Suddenly the Titans spring into action, but they are not enough to defeat the threat we had on hand.

(Hi, sorry about this release being late but I had tutoring on Friday and then I got on the train to go to my dad's. I wrote this whole chapter on the train so there might be some mistakes, and thanks to Aquaven11 I added AqualadxxRaven; always thought they would be a good couple! Well, anyways sorry for the late chapter but in return for it being late it's huge! Took up 5 pages on my notebook! LOL! PLZ review!)