CH: 6

AN: I am SO Sorry for taking so long to update. My ass was getting kicked in school and I had A LOT of work to do during those four months. But now that school is out for now, here is the next chapter. I'll try getting the next chapter out much sooner. Thank you readers for not giving up on me.

Meow!

Ranma and Robin are seen dodging giant rocks that Raven fires at them in Rapid succession. Out of the ground, several trap doors and spike traps come out causing them to work harder at dodging the incoming projectiles. On the sidelines Cyborg is pressing buttons on a remote that controlled the obstacle course he used when he trained on the island. At first he protested about using such danger for training, but one death glare from Ranma made him agree. Beast boy was there too and he was just amazed at the amount of skill the three had as this was better than watching a movie. Starfire just looked on in worry for her friend's safety, especially Robin's.

The three had been doing this now for an hour and they were showing signs of the training they were doing. Ranma had the least amount of damage as he had gi torn up and is sweating. Raven; though she wasn't supposed to be training, she was getting exhausting from using her powers to try and hit two very agile opponents at once. She admitted that this helped with her accuracy and strengthened her powers.

It was Robin who was in the worst shape; due to being not as trained as Ranma he was getting hit by the obstacle course more and nicked by Ravens rocks she threw. His gi was torn nearly completely off and he was covered in dirt and scratches. The turning point of the day came as Raven threw an exceptionally large rock (15') at Robin by mistake and it was heading toward him with no way for him to dodge. With her concentration diminishing Raven couldn't stop it in time and the others watching yelled at Robin. Except for Ranma as he saw the look on Robin' s face that said he was going for an all or nothing move.

"Claws of the Iron Bear revised…Iron Bear Double Crush!" Cupping his hands behind him, Robin wielded his ki, for a moment, first struck with his left hand in a claw fashion stopping the giant rock then struck with the other that glowed slightly with ki, obliterating the rock into dust.

Robin landed on the ground hard and utterly spent and exhausted. The Titans went over to him; Starfire put her arm around her friend wondering why he was smiling so much. At this Ranma and Raven stopped the training as they considered this as an ending. As Ranma went over to him he couldn't help but congratulate Robin for his accomplishment.

"That was awesome man; you finally tapped into your ki." Ranma smiled at his friend.

Robin smirked though still exhausted. "Thanks to you buddy; I would have never come this far without you."

"Please rest now Robin, you have had a hard workout." Starfire soothed as she held him tighter.

"That's for sure, me and Rae-chan should wash up too, we both got a little sweaty training, right?" Raven nodded. All the Titans decided to go in to relax and have fun.

LATER:

Ranma smiled as he got his clothes, happy that Robin had gotten so powerful during his time here. Robin had a very good learning curve, not as good as his, but still very good. He wouldn't be surprised if he managed to truly harness his ki within a few more months. Unfortunately or fortunately, which ever you would like to look at it, Ranma's luck decided to show as he headed for the bath room and opened the door.

Ranma eyes widened to fill almost his entire face. In front of him was none other than Raven, just getting out of the shower, naked as the day she was born. Both froze as Ranma kept staring for a second longer until he screamed and slammed the door.

"I'msorrysorrysorrysorrysorry!" He yelled behind the door he leaned on.

Aftera fewminutes of embarassment,he got his bearings back and sighed trying to massage the headache he was starting to have. While doing this, he was also trying to get the image of a naked Raven out of his head; having little luck doing so. 'God man why does this always happen to me? Is it some cosmic joke? Man she has great body.'

After the last thought, Ranma started hitting his head repeatedly. "AAhhh! Stop it! Raven is your best friend." He got off the door and started going to the kitchen not knowing the door opened behind him. "She's my friend, so what if she has those big, adorable, puppy dog eyes and has a body that outclasses every girl I met in Nerima."

"I do?"

Ranma froze again after hearing that, and mechanically turned to face a blushing red Raven. He then scratched his head and chuckle lightly in this awkward position he was always in. "Uh heheh, um…Raven I'm sorry I walked in on you, the door was unlocked and…"

"It's okay, I guess I forgot you were getting ready to bathe and I just assumed no one would go into the bathroom because everyone else was in the main room. For now on Ranma be courteous and knock first." She stated though she still had some red in her cheeks from what happened.

Ranma let out a breath he didn't think he was holding. 'Gotta stop thinking Raven will try to mallet me for every little mistake I make.' "Yeah Raven I'll remember that, also you don't have anything to be ashamed of, you have an amazing body and…" Once again Ranma's brain was slower then his mouth. When Raven turned completely red he decided to leave, so he ran.

In the Kitchen:

"C'mon please!" Beast Boy begged.

"No!" Starfire said.

"Pretty please!" Beast boy begged again

"Making please, pretty, will not change my mind." She simply stated.

"Awe c'mon it'd be used for a good cause." Beast boy tried a new angle.

"Using my Raw Glaforian Worm pie to use in a prank on Ranma is not something I'd consider a 'Good cause'."

"I haven't been able to prank him once! He's harder than Robin was, and he doesn't just stop the prank he makes it back fire on me." Beast Boy remember the time a few days ago when he tried for the umpteenth time to prank Ranma.

It was a perfect plan, when he would go to his room a catapult would fire pies filled with red die making him red for the rest of the day. When he went into his room he somehow managed to redirect the pie attack on Beast Boy, on the other end of the hall and acted like it was nothing. Beast Boy still wondered how it happened. He was red for the rest of the day.

Shaking his head from the memory Beast Boy got stubborn and decided to unleash his ultimate weapon. "Fine Star, you wanna play rough, then so will I." Beast Boy then transformed into a small super adorable green kitten looking adorably up at her and mewed cutely.

"T-T-That is not fair Beast Boy!" She stated faltering as she started losing this battle.

'Heh your mine.' Was all Beast Boy thought as he continued to mew adorably up at Starfire.

Starfire was about to cave when Ranma walked into the kitchen. "Hey Star do we…AAAAGH! CAAAAT!" Faster then one could blink Ranma ran from the kitchen.

Starfire and Beast Boy looked rather strange until Beast Boy started grin evilly, well as evilly as a cute kitten could. 'At last I finally got something on him. He's afraid of cats so lets see how bad it is.' Thinking this he trotted down the hall where he saw Ranma run to. Starfire, knowing enough about her green friend, knew what he was going to do and went to get the others.

Near the end of the hall Ranma had become paralyzed with fear as he looked at the green demon kitten. As it inched toward him he moved back, soon it was too late and he was stuck at the end of the hall. Beast Boy was about to change back after he saw how afraid Ranma wasof cats, until he heard a strange meow coming from Ranma.

As one would guess, being in such closeness with a cat for so long the Neko Ken had activated. Looking around Neko-Ranma's feral eyes caught the sight of its strange green tormentor; he went low and hissed at it. Beast Boy not knowing what was happening didn't thinktochange back before Ranma's claws slashed down at him.

Beast Boy meowed as a scream and quickly dodged out of the way of the attack that went through the ground. One look at Ranma's eyes and Beast Boy realized that those eyes weren't human, but animal. Still forgetting to change back, he ran from Ranma in terror while Ranma followed. Through the hall Beast Boy barely dodged the slash attacks of Ranma, which was a good thing as he saw the attacks destroy walls and slice the steel doors they had so easily. He knew if he got hit, he would die.

'Man this has got to be the stupidest plan I ever made!' Beast Boy cried as he avoided another attack. It was then he saw Starfire, with Cyborg and Robin enter the hall.

"So Ranma has a fear of cats and Beast Boy's teasing him by turning into a cat." Robin summarized.

"Yes Robin, I saw him go…this…way…" This was all Starfire could say as the three saw Ranma running on all fours after the green kitten that was their friend.

Neko-Ranma immediately stopped at seeing the ones he considered his friends, for just a minute, which was enough for Beast boy to run behind them and transform back to normal.

"Mer?" Was all Ranma said as he walked cautiously toward the four. They moved away from him all the while Beast Boy, started sweating a lot as Neko-Ranma looked at him longer than normal. But then he sat on his haunches and started cleaning himself. After the four thought it was safe, Robin started questioning.

"Uh Beast Boy what did you do?" Robin asked.

"Dude I have no idea; I'd thought I would just tease him a little in my cat form and then boom! He starts acting like a cat, and even tried to kill me." Beast Boy shuddered at how close some of those attacks were.

"But dude, why is he acting like this? Is he faking it or something?" Cyborg wondered as bent down and looked at Neko-Ranma who was cleaning himself.

"I don't think so bud, I've seen wild animals and I know the look in their eyes. Ranma has that look, there is no way he is faking this, he actually thinks he's a cat." Beast Boy stated.

Robin nodded. "Star could you go get Raven she maybe able to help Ranma somehow." Starfire nodded and went to find Raven.

Neko-Ranma stopped bathing and looked at a support beam. 'OOH! Scratching post!' Was what Neko-Ranma thought as the cat went at it. All the Titans still present turned into sticks with round heads and white eyes as they saw their friend casually started tearing apart a beam that was made of steel and concrete making it look like he was actually having fun. He meowed happily as he was already 2/3rds the way into destroying the pillar.

"So you see Raven we are very confused."

The three Titans looked behind them and saw Starfire with Raven walking over from her room. Looking past her friends, she was shocked at what happened and faster than any had ever seen her powers move; her energy wrapped around Beast Boy and had him go over to her. Her eyes blazing in near homicidal rage at her team mate.

"What did you do to my Ran…um…I mean Ranma!" Raven growled at Beast Boy threatening to crush him with her power.

"Umm…hehe…it really was an accident, I was having fun with him when all of a sudden he just started acting like a cat." Beast Boy summed up to the very powerful and angry girl in front of him. Raven narrowed her eyes at her friend, but was forced to let Beast Boy go when something large pounced on her.

When Neko-Ranma was happily scratching his post, his nose caught a sniff of the one he cared about the most. It was strange she also had another appeal than just his need to care for her. She had this strange aura of pheromones that was attracting him very much. This scent made him immediately be attracted to her even if he didn't care for her. With this powerful attraction and his own desire to care for her, he couldn't have gotten to her faster and pounced on her and laid spread out on her whole body purring in joy.

Raven was confused to say the least as she looked at her friend who was acting so much like a cat, at the moment. As he purred and continued to lay on her instead of curling up, it gave her a mix of both comfort and uneasiness. His body was warm to her, and his muscles felt so good on her body making her feel comfortable. While at the same time Ranma, who was her friend, was laying on her. His purring so load that it vibrated her body, herselfnot sure how she felt about him, having his body so close to hers. All this pushed into more uneasiness, because when she was able to sit up, he started rubbing and nuzzling his head on her chest. Making her redder than she already was.

"Uhh Ranma could you please get off me." She muttered as she gently tried to nudge him off her lap. Though a part of her mind was resisting this and just wanted him to stay on her forever.

All her thought process was shattered at what Neko-Ranma did next. Neko-Ranma 'hopped' to her face, his 'paws' on her shoulders and kissed her. This kiss was not like when he kissed with Akane when he went cat. Instead this small peck on the lips lasted for about 10 seconds until he let go of her, and was about to take a nap on her lap. It took everyone by surprise at such a bold act on Ranma's part to do that to the goth girl. Even if he wasn't in his right mind at the moment the Titans knew anyone who even suggested such acts to Raven would get pounded by her. What surprised them was that she was just frozen and wide eyed at what Ranma did just now. After about a minute Ravens black aura started to form around her while she was still cationic. Faster than anyone had seen Ravens power move, her aura pulsed bigger, throwing Ranma off her, while she sat there with a glazed look in her eye.

All that was heard from Ranma after this was a loud "Meow!" in surprise at what was happening. He crashed into a wall near the kitchen where a conviently placed pitcher of cold water was. The impact of Ranma was enough for the pitcher to fall and soak Ranma in cold water. Thus breaking the Nekokens hold on him and turning him female.

"AAH! W-What's going on here!" Ranma-chan shook her head in confusion from the sudden change and having her mind back. She looked around as she saw her friends looking at her in worry. "What?"

"Uhh Ranma, care to explain why just a few minutes ago you were acting like a cat?" Robin decided to ask as the others were still in confused silence while one was still dazed by a certain kiss.

Ranma paled at what Robin said. "I-I-I changed into the neko-ken again?"

"Neko-ken?" All conscious Titans asked.

"Yeah, hey what's wrong with Raven?" Ranma changed the subject as his worry of Raven went up as he walked over to her cationic state. "Raven you okay? Hello!" Ranma yelled as he shook her. "What's wrong why is she like this?" He asked in a worried tone.

"Dude, you don't remember what you did?" Beast Boy asked.

"What did I do?"

"You don't remember anything?" When Beast Boy received a shake of the head from Ranma, he decided to sum up what had happened so far. "You uuhh, kissed Raven when you were acting like a cat, you also rubbed your face on her chest and laid on her like she was a pillow. Before that you tried to kill me when I was in cat form. After you kissed her, she froze up and her energy blasted you across the room, where you hit the wall, dropping and splashing, you with cold water."

Ranma blushed as he was told what he did during the Neko-ken, receiving nods from the other Titans, Ranma's blushed deepened as he realized everyone had seen him act like an idiot even if it was his fathers fault he had this problem. He then looked at Raven, and shook her gently trying to get her out of this daze. "So uuh any of you know how to get her out of this daze?"

"First I think you should tell us what was wrong with you." Robin suggested.

"I'll tell ya after we get Raven out of this daze. C'mon on Raven wake up!" Ranma-chan yelled at her still not getting any response. After a few minutes he looked at the others. "You guys got any ideas about waking her up?" He asked the Titans.

"I got an idea." Cyborg smiled as he put his finger in his mouth and then took it out. Grinning almost evilly at Ranma's questioning stare, he quickly put his finger in Raven's ear causing her to wake up with a surprised and hilarious look on her face after getting a Wet Willy. Everyone tried to not laugh but failed miserably as they busted a gut at the way she looked. The Titans and Ranma would have kept laughing if Raven hadn't grabbed Cyborg and dragged him down to her level with her powers.

"I told you Cyborg after the first Mad Mod scheme; 'never' do that again." She said evenly, but her glowing eyes said if they didn't stop laughing she'd tear them apart.

Every stopped their laughing and Cyborg sweated as he laughed nervously. "Hehe, sorry we had to do something because you were kind of in a comatose state after Ranma kissed you."

Raven immediately stopped her hold on him and started burying her face in her hood trying to hide her blushing at remembering 'that'. "Umm…so tell us Ranma why were acting like a cat?"

"Yeah and why would you kiss 'her' (ZAP!) OW!" Beast Boy yelped as a black lightening bolt struck his butt.

It was time for Ranma-chan to look sheepish as she looked at her friends. 'Guess I should tell em.' "Well guys its because of a stupid training that my idiot father found called the Neko-ken."

"The Neko-ken?" They all asked.

"Yeah you see it's supposed to be an ultimate fighting style. My idiot father found it while we were traveling during our training trip," 'Along with another technique that's even worse than the Neko-ken' Ranma shudder as the others wondered what he was thinking. "Anyway when I was six he decided I should do it being the idiot he is. The technique is deceptively simple. Tie the trainee upin fish productsand throw him in a pit with a bunch of starving cats until he learns the Neko-ken."

"What!" The all yelled all of them could only imagine what it would be like for a little kid to be doing something like that.

Ranma nodded at their response. "Yeah you see the technique has a huge flaw which is why it 'was' band. The trainee becomes unstable and gains a horrible fear of cats once done 'If' he survives. And that's what happened to me. After the 5th time going in the pit, I totally lost it and started acting like a cat, which is the Neko-ken. I lose all human decency and mind and just become a cat. My strength and powers increase to incredible levels, but after the Neko-ken I never know what happened while in it. From the people in Nerima that have seen and told me when I'm in Neko-ken, the only way for me to snap out of it is to calm me down with someone I care about or splash me and turn me into my girl form." Ranma finished pointing at herself now.

The other Titans were in silence as they computed all this information in. While they were doing this, Ranma splashed herself with warm water changing him back to male. When he sat back down the Titans started questioning.

"So your father did this to you five times?" Cyborg asked, after Ranma nodded he continued. "You know if he comes here, I don't think I could get arrested for brutally ripping his spine out, right Robin?"

"I could just tell the police he was a child killer. Plus Cyborg, I could lend you my sword so you can shove it up his ass if you want." Robin stated seriously.

"I could melt his flesh off to help punish the horrible man who hurt my friend." Starfire added helpfully.

"I could turn into a T-Rex and bite something important off." Beast Boy suggested.

"Stop guys think clearly for a second, since I'm his first friend I feel I should tear him limb from limb first for what he did to Ranma." Raven stated. Everyone looked strangely because she was always the logical one, one would have ever thought she would do something out of impulse like that.

Ranma liked the ideas his friends were throwing out about what they would do to the dumb-ass if he came. He was also glad someone actually understood what horrible pain he went through during that training. No one in Nerima really sympathized to his problem. Everyone, including Genma, had called it pathetic at how scared he was. Even when it was Genma's fault he had the problem. He decided to stop them, though he made a note to himself to remember asking them for help with the fat-ass's punishment.

"Guys thanks for the offers and I'll think about what you guys said but, he is my fat-ass doing what you were talking about will be my pleasure." Ranma told them seriously. "I gotta tell ya though, I wish there was a way to end my fear of the Neko-ken. It's a horrible weakness that is easy to exploit, because even before I turn into the Neko-ken, I become immobilized by the fear and I become vulnerable to attack." Ranma sighed.

After a few minutes of thinking of trying to help their friend Raven thought of something. "Hey Ranma can you come here for a second?" Ranma obliged and scooted over to her. She put her hands near his temples and dark energy started to form. She was surprised at the amount of barriers Ranma had before checking what she wanted in his mind. In fact she was pretty sure his mind would have kept her out if she tried really getting into his mind. Once she finished, she looked at Ranma. "Just as I thought, Ranma from scanning your mind I might be able to help you with this fear. If you allow me to go in I should be able to destroy your fear from within your mind." She calmly finished.

Ranma sat silent for a minute.

Outside Giant T:

"BOOOYAAH!"

Inside Giant T:

"Rae-chan I love!" Ranma yelled as he did a glomp that was a thousand times stronger than any an Amazon could have done on their best day. It threw both smashing into a wall. While Ranma received the impact, it didn't hurt him at all. He got up and started hugging and swinging her around in joy. The only way he could have been happier if she found a way to cure his curse.

"C-C-Can't…breath…" Raven smacked happy Ranma's shoulder. Seeing her turn purple, Ranma let go. After gasping in air she nodded and looked at the Titans. "Guys I need Ranma to come in my room in order to get intohis mind. The reason is that I can use certain objects in there that can helphim get overhis fear." With this said Raven and Ranma started toward her room.

Ravens Room:

Raven drew a mind circle around a sitting Ranma. The room was as dark and creepy as Ranma had first seen it. Though he didn't mind because that was just how Raven liked it. Once she was finished she kneeled and faced Ranma.

"Now Ranma I need you to shut off those barriers that surround your mind. I was barely able scan your mind with those walls in place. I doubt I can get into your mind with those in place." Seeing him nod, she thought of something. "By the way, why do you have those up? From what you said about the people in Nerima the only people who could actually use their head and not their fists was a girl named Nabiki, and an elder named Cologne, but I really doubt they would use mind tricks on you?"

"Well I found early in life that the only place I could be happy was in my head. I cherished the time I got to think on my own. So I guess I put up those to protect the only place I felt at peace. I can still be hypnotized as long as it doesn't affect what's in my head." Ranma said.

Raven thought on this, to have barriers like Ranma had, one had to be building them for years. She shook her head not wanting to know how long Ranma felt at peace in only his mind. Deciding to get started, she activated her powers. Her eyes glowing with Ranma's eyes glowing along with her. After a minute of some slight resistance her astral self made it into his mind.

Ranma's Mind:

Raven looked around at what Ranma's mind looked like. It 'was' peaceful, that was the only word that could describe what she was seeing. She was on a hill, in a sunny day near a tree. The weather was perfect, and relaxing the complete package of tranquility. Looking up at the sky, she saw the usual doors to other sides of Ranma's mind though they were no where near as many as her mind doors. She smiled a bit in humor as she knew he was kind of empty headed. The average person had 50-60 doors, Ranma had 40, proving that he didn't have very much knowledge in smarts. After laughing to herself, she started walking around trying to find a way to find his fears, a few steps later she stopped as she saw a Ranma in purple Chinese shirt.

"Hell-o there Rae-chan." This Ranma smiled as he hopped over to her. She started feeling a bit nervous as the strange look he had in his eyes as helooked at her up and down.

"Umm hello Ranma…" She stopped as he put his finger to her lips.

"Nuuh sexy, I'm not the real Ranma, I'm one of his emotions."

"Emotions?"

"That's right beautiful, Ranma like everyone else has some emotions sealed in his head for good reason or not. Unfortunately he hasn't used me at all during his time. It's ridiculous, if you ask me. I'm a good emotion to have, but does he use me? NOOO! He doesn't like me and I could have had such fun over in Nerima. But at least you make up for having me leave a place like that." This Ranma's eyes started having a wilder look to them making Raven more nervous.

"Soo…what emotion are you?" She asked having a pretty good idea what.

"Lust!" Ranma drool as he looked hard at Ravens assets in appreciation.

Raven turned red and immediately shut her cape around herself ending his free show causing him to pout. "Awww! Oh well, I can always make myself happy by looking at the memory of you naked getting out of the shower." He drool as he closed his eyes thinking about it.

Getting tired and embarrassed of this, she used her powers to reel him to her. "Look lust, I'm here to see Ranma's Neko-ken fear. Are you going to help or not?"

"Okay okay," Lust waved in peace. "Sheesh you won't even give a deprived man a glimmer to even look at." With this he started walking through Ranma's mind.

During the trip Raven had to work hard to keep herself calm as Lust kept blowing up her cape and taking pictures of her butt and chest. Luckily Ranma's Lust didn't try to grope her or steal her underwear. If he did that, she wasn't sure she would be able to stop herself from tearing him apart.

After a while walking, she gasped as she looked at an area of the mind that looked even more frightening and dark than her mind. The place had no grass, the trees were dead, there was no sun and the farther one looked the blacker it got inside. It even scared her a bit.

"Well here is the place my curvaceous, pale, beauty. Just go strait and you'll find three doors the Neko-ken is there but don't go into the other 2."

"Why?"

"Lets just say, there are things in his mind and memories that would frighten even you, the big man told me I can't tell you anything else, I respect his honor." Lust actually looked honorable for a minute, this was enough for Raven to drop her guard as his hand quickly darted out and grabbed her butt and squeezed. "OOOH! Nice and firm!" Before Raven could punish him, he disappeared.

"Ugh no wonder Idon't usemy lust." Raven sighed and started walking.

As she walked through the place it got darker and colder as shewent through the area. Around her their were glowing eyes following her making her feel like prey, but they never attacked making her feel really nervous. She finally made it to where she was supposed to go. In front of her were three black doors. The one on the right was labeled memories which meant these were his dark memories. The middle one had claw marks in an X shape with red feline like eyes on it. It was locked with a padlock and chains. Raven knew this door was the sealed Neko-ken. It was the third door that was the most curious.

The third was actually a thick black steel door. It had chains and giant locks all around it. As Raven's curiosity was peaked she walked closer to it and put her hand to it. The moment she did, she had to let go again. Her hand felt paralyzed by what was felt from just that instant. There was an evil behind that door that was more powerful than anything she had ever felt before. She had felt Trigon's power and this was even stronger feel of evil.

'What could be behind there that is worse than Trigon?' Raven thought as she decided it was better to hear this answer from Ranma personally. She decided to walk over to the door with the Neko-ken. Around her, her powers flooded the area and she started her chant.

"Azarath Metreon Zinthos!" A dark beam was fired from her hands hitting the door. Raven grunted in exertion as the door wasn't breaking much, the years of the Neko-ken in Ranma had made it a strong and powerful fear. It was then that sheused her most powerful blast. She lifted her arms and shot a giant beam into the air, the beam transformed into a giant raven and it dived down at the door. It wrapped around it breaking it and grabbing black orb that was its fear and technique and brought it toRaven. As she had it in her hands, she started muttering in an ancient language she used with the sealing of Malceor, already knowing the best place to put this would be in his book. After she finished the incantation the orb flew up and disappeared into the sky.

The Real World:

A dark orb shot out of Ranma's head and was forced into the book with Malceor.

After that was done Raven and Ranma woke up in her room. Ranma looked. "Did it work?"

"There is a way to see." With this Raven opened her door and walked out after a few minutes, she came back with something behind her back. Ranma got nervous and had a right to be as she showed him a scared green kitten from before.

Ranma gasped and was about to be afraid, until he felt that there was no fear. He didn't feel anything from the animal. He tentively reached out and started petting the kitten. Beast Boy liking the petting started purring. After a few minutes Raven took Beast Boy outside her room in satisfaction. As she was going into her room, she was surprised as Ranma held her in a peaceful hug. "Thank you Raven." Was all he said as he held her.

'Oh god it feels so good being in his arms. Wait what the hell am I saying. He's got such hard muscles. What! Should I nuzzle him? God dammit!' "You're welcome Ranma." Was all Raven could say as her mind was pretty jumbled right now. He let go of her much to her minds reluctance and left her room.

Few Hours Later:

After completing a mission of a bank robbery in town the Titans and Ranma decided to relax for awhile. When Raven got back into her room, she stopped in front of her full length mirror she used for going into her mind; she found a full mirror was much better transport than a hand mirror.

But instead of going into her mind she pulled down her hood and just started looking at her self. Though lust was probably doing what it was supposed to, she did wonder if there was any truth to his phrases he called her. Phrases like sexy, curvaceous, beautiful, all the rest, did she really look that good? This was a question she couldn't answer. Deciding that after a while of looking, she gave up and decided to ask someone else. This may have been embarrassing, but her curiosity would keep her up all night if she didn't have an answer.

Walking to Starfires room she knocked. Normally she would never ask something like this to her, but she needed a females opinion, and with Starfire being the only female in the tower she had very little choice. When the door opened Starfire looked at her questionly.

"Friend Raven what is it?"

"Umm, Starfire, could…I…ask your opinion? Whoa!" Was all Raven could say as Starfire grabbed her and quickly brought herinto her room Starfire was very close to her and had her hands cupped together and her eyes were big and dewy.

"Please tell me what you need my advice with." Starfire asked eagerly, she had waited a long time to help her friend like this.

"Umm, well…do I…I mean…do you think I look attractive?" Raven blurted out glad her face was hidden by her hood so Starfire couldn't see her blushing face.

Starfire paused, not expecting that, but she started looking around her friend trying to get a good estimate of what she had. After a minute she finished her evaluation. "Well friend Raven, I 'am' an alien to you humans, so I don't really know much about beauty of your world, but I can say that you truly are beautiful." Starfire answered truthfully.

Raven felt a strange feeling of pride at that statement. Having someone as exotically beautiful as Starfire say that she was beautiful made her feel really good for some reason. Giving Starfire a small smile, a rarity for her, she said Thank you and left. That night as she getting ready for bed she wondered what that third door she saw was. She decided not to pry as she knew that Ranma had it under control for now. She'd ask him about it later.

Trigon's Prison:

Slade grunted as he finally finished healing from the fight he had with that Ranma person a month ago. He looked up at his master and waited for a command.

"Hmm Slade you have finally healed. That boy is more powerful than I thought. No matter," A red bolt appeared in front of Slade and what came from it was a scroll with a list of items. "Here Slade these are the items I need you to get for my dream summoning. It will take a week to work so make haste with getting them."

"Yes Trigon." Was all Slade said as he went to do his job.

To be continued:

Well this is done again I apologize to my loyal readers for not updating in a while. Also from reading reviews, who in world said I was talking about the Neko-ken when Trigon was talking about Ranma? No this is something else that is far worse than that and that steel door has something to do with it, but you'll have to wait to find out what. Next Ravens mother trys to help Ranma's mother in Nerima and the moment has come for Trigon and Ranma to fight.