Chapter three is HERE!!!!!! Yup, I'm gonna try to make this one more fun to read, so expect more to happen. I also want to get a handle on the characters better, haven't done much with anyone except Raven and BB. So anyway, read on, and review review review. I need feedback to carry on people…
(p.s. how much bad language is allowed?)
P.P.S long one, sorry
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As Beast Boy read a bit into it, after the summary, he didn't think Raven liked this mushy kind of thing. Usually she would make fun of stuff like this. It just wasn't like her. Before he could think much about that, he got a dark feeling, and realized she must have done something to the book. It felt as if a shadow was flying towards him. He expected to get hit with some kind of curse, but it was something else. Something started to appear…
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As Raven was starting to finish in the shower, while she was running her hands through her hair, she remembered her one mistake. Beast Boy couldn't control being nosy to save his life. It was only a matter of time before he opened the book, and she had, in her haste, made it a teleportation charm. She started almost praying to herself that Beast Boy would just watch TV, but it wasn't so. As she could feel her body starting to fade into shadow, her thoughts begun running to "oh sht."
After less than a second moving through space, she was appearing and standing there, naked, right behind Beast Boy, dripping wet. It took her a bit of time to process what had happened; she was still a bit dumbstruck. It started to sink in where she was after a bit, and after Beast Boy slowly also realized what was going on, and was already turned around.
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They both just looked at each other. Raven not even really thinking at all, not sure what to do, and Beast Boy struggling to continue to look her in the eyes. It was Raven, just starting to feel a bit insecure about standing there naked, who broke the silence.
"I forgot to say, I put a spell on the book."
"…. Yea, you didn't mention that…."
"By the way, where is it?"
"Well, I dropped it on the floor there when I saw the cloud. I thought a monster was gonna appear. Heh…"
"I wouldn't say its not too soon. This still wasn't all your fault, but you probably need to be taught a lesson about being nosy."
"Open you books more often?" he finished with a grin. "OW, what the HELL Raven!!??"
Raven, who had started to become more modest and was covering what she could with her arms after blasting him, said, "You deserved that one. Now I'm going to go get my clothes from the bathroom, feel free to watch me walk away. I'd teleport, but I'm afraid you'll open the book again."
At that PRECISE moment, the alarm went off. There was a disturbance at the end of the parade route, in a town square area by a park.
"No time, we have to go Raven! No time," Beast boy yelled as he ran towards the door.
"I'm not going naked you idiot."
Robin's voice sounded over the loudspeaker. "We need you two here right now, we're getting destroyed. We were in the area, and Cybor'sg here. You'll need to teleport… NOW!!!"
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Raven was starting to get distressed, that was not good. She forgot modesty again, but still felt herself go red as she just stood there naked. Beast Boy was quite bothered to, but in a different way. He was shy about looking. He didn't see naked women every day.
"Beast Boy, I'll teleport you there, and catch up when I get my clothes on. We'll deal with this later. Now go," and with that like a flash he was standing with the others, who were staring at someone standing on top of a tall building. There seemed to also be a few craters in the ground as well. All three of them were panting heavily.
"Beast Boy, where's Raven? We need her," Robin demanded, while Cyborg and Starfire both fired at the man standing on top of the building.
"She'll be here soon, she had to put her clothes back on."
Beast Boy could tell that was a mistake the minute it left his mouth. Everyone, even the man on the building, turned to look at him. He almost forgot to avoid the two energy blasts. They just stared until Starfire spoke up.
"Excuse me Beast Boy, but why was Raven naked?" she asked innocently.
"Well, she was in the shower, and… I'll tell you later, I thought you were in trouble!?"
At this, they seemed to remember where they were. The silhouette on top of the building regained himself, and seemed to vanish. Beast Boy's senses began to kick in, and he wondered why the others weren't going to look for him, instead of getting in the air or running awa-… it was then that Beast Boy knew he was going to get hit, and hard. Once again, before he knew what was happening, he was pinned up against the side of a building, fifteen feet backward by a hand on his neck. It felt like he had been slammed up against a brick wall at 100 miles per hour, which it seemed he had.
"Hey little green dude. Beast Boy, right? Where's that goth girl? I haven't seen her yet."
At his mention of Raven, the image of her naked began to appear, but he held it back to deal with the matter at hand. He suddenly became enraged at the lack of respect, and transformed into a bull. He rammed the unknown villain back about 20 feet, and turned into a giant gorilla, jumping and landing onto his body.
"She has a NAME!!! It's Raven, don't forget it!"
It wasn't until now that Beast Boy got a good look at the man. He seemed in his mid twenties, with blue hair, black, loose sweatpants, and a multicolored jumpsuit top. One of his eyes was green, the other, oddly, orange. He wasn't overly muscular, but still seemed strong. While he was caught for a moment taking in the strange appearance, the guy disappeared again. Starfire flew down as the others ran back into the middle of the clearing. She got near Beast Boy to try and pick him up to safety, but was too late. Beast Boy found himself in a crater like the others he had seen, in even more pain.
"Yea, well I'm Slipstream. Don't forget that either. Oh, and one more thing…"
Beast Boy found himself against another building, but this time, not rammed into, more like teleported. He was five stories up, in an alley off the square. Slipstream was standing on a clothesline, once again holding Beast Boy by his neck.
"I can teleport and convert potential energy to kinetic. Your friends are having some trouble pinning me down, and I don't see how a walking zoo will help. I'm a hit man, but heard all of you were good, and was trying to have some fun. Looks like I was wrong. Your friends don't know where we are right now, but your scream will change that. How would you like to die Beast Boy? And don't worry, I'll comfort Raven for you," he said with a smile.
The world seemed to go silent. All Beast Boy heard was a ringing in his ears, and felt himself lose control of his body. All he knew was, he felt a desire to hurt Slipstream as much as he could. He was shifting animals so fast even he could not follow, it was like some other force was controlling him. He could not even follow his movements or attacks, only that he was slamming something, presumably Slipstream's body, back and forth down the five stories into the buildings on either side, while constantly shifting and attack, slashing, and biting in between. All he felt was his desire to tear Slipstream to pieces, and his subconscious was responding. He was not even aware of what he was hitting, only that he seemed to be connecting with objects, possibly the wall as well. It was all of haze of movement and lashing out that Beast Boy could only watch in shock. Before he knew it, he was at the bottom of the alley on the ground panting heavily, barely able to stand. He assumed that he must have killed the man in the wave of attacks and smashes into the wall, but he didn't see a body anywhere. He tried to regain some composure, but had lost all his energy in that wave. He wasn't even aware that the others were still looking for him and Slipstream. Where was the bastard anyway? Must be a mangled corpse by now.
"You are dead, little man," Beast Boy heard someone mutter, as if in pain, from the other end of the alley. It was Slipstream. He was still alive. Apparently he had managed to regain himself enough somewhere, probably towards the middle of the attack, to teleport away. He didn't avoid injury, and looked like a walking wound. He was also very angry, as opposed to how smug he was earlier.
"First, I'm going to kill you, since you are just asking for it after that freak out bit. Then I'm going to kill the rest of them, one by one, while they watch each other DIE." Beast Boy attempted to move, or maybe turn into something to attack, but simply couldn't. He was completely out of it. Slipstream noticed. "Oh, no more left in you? Well, then maybe I will have some fun after all. I think I'll wait for Raven to get here, and then kill all of you in front of her. While she's begging for death, maybe I'll give it to her." He was starting to sound more and more deranged, like he was losing his mind.
"N-n-ooo… you w-will…. Not t-t touch h-her… ow."
"No, I think I will actually. In fact, I might even try and force her to have-…"
He didn't finish the sentence. He seemed to be struck in horror. Beast Boy thought maybe he had lost it again, mentally he was enraged, but then he look behind him. Standing there was Raven, who already had black energy circles around her hands, preparing to attack.
"No, finish your sentence jumpsuit boy. What are you going to make me do?"
"The famous Raven, how nice to meet you. You should have seen what happened when I mentioned you to Beast Boy, he simply lost it. Look at how much he destroyed the buildings here."
"Look at how much he beat on you. I don't think he managed to knock all the sht out though."
"Watch your mouth little girl. I think I'll take care of you first after all, so your green friend can watch. It'll be over before you blink."
"Trust me, I won't blink."
Beast Boy started to regain his sense of speech, and tried to warn Raven about what Slipstream could do. "H-he can telep-p-port, and-.."
"I don't care what he can do, and don't talk or move, you're hurt."
Beast Boy quieted down, and just hoped Raven knew what she was doing. This guy was serious trouble. He remembered hearing about a hit man that could teleport and was able to take out Deadpool. This must be him. He couldn't even follow the movement, but Raven was dodging every attack. Slipstream really wasn't all that dangerous, once you have a chance to learn his pattern. He just teleports to somewhere where he has potential energy for motion, and charges. Once he starts, he can't stop. All it takes is the ability to tell where he's going to appear, and since Raven could see his thoughts she didn't have a problem. She was flying around, shooting blasts, throwing objects at him, and staying out of his way. Her cloak and hood were flying around in the breeze, and even in the heat of battle and pain, Beast Boy noticed that the suit she put on under her cloak was a bit small. He knew that now wasn't the time, but he couldn't help it.
"Azarath Metrione Zinthos!" she yelled, as she used telephone poles to tie him up after he smashed into them. That didn't stop him, he appeared at the top of the building, right over Beast Boy's body.
"I wonder what happens if I do the charge from here? Say good bye to Zoo-Boy, you gothic freak."
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With that, he jumped, and prepared to fly down and finish off Beast Boy. That didn't happen though. The worst thing possible that could have happened to him did. Raven lost her cool and got angry. It was all like a blur from the incident right before Halloween. He cloak turned a dark red, it seemed liker her body inside had turned to shadows. It was no longer possible to see her face under her hood, but four glowing red eyes appeared. Black tentacles of energy came out of her cloak as she rose up in the air, like a giant statue, fifteen feet tall of something under the red cloak. Slipstream held himself up in the air with all his might and power, simply feeling the pure hate coming from what used to look human.
Suddenly, he was back in the center of the clearing, the tentacles holding him to the ground, as the glowing red eyes on the red-cloaked shadow became bigger. The girl had teleported the three of them. Starfire tended to Beast Boy, as the other two tried to calm raven down. He was slowly being dragged into the shadow inside, as a demonic sounding voice begun to make whispering sounds. He had no idea how, but the name Trigon popped into his head, as in an answer to his question. The girl's voice, he could no longer remember her name, as if he was going insane, screamed out that phrase Azarath Metrione Minthos through all the other black noise. Suddenly, everything was normal again. The girl was back to normal.
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Raven's head was spinning. She had gone several years without losing that much control to her demonic side. The man, Slipstream they called him, had threatened Beast Boy, and she just lost it. She had her hood down, and was trying to calm down. If starting to feel more than a bit for someone caused this, she wasn't sure if she wanted it. Becoming her demonic form hurt her as much as anyone else.
She looked at Slipstream. He seemed to have gone mad, and was babbling incoherently. Cyborg used a metallic cord to tie him up, and put him in the T-Car, presumably to take him to a mental hospital. Raven really started to notice the huge battle scene, and wonder how much of the craters and scorch marks were left by her. She didn't even want to look back in the alley.
Then she looked over at Beast Boy. He was barely conscious, but Starfire said, noticing Raven's glance, "he looks like he will be fine."
"R-raven. S-sorry about the thing. I'll have t-to be more careful, or you'll go demon on me too," he said with a laugh. Then he fell asleep. Looks like he needed rest. Raven watched him for a moment, a bit of a smile on her lips.
She got her bearings back, stood up, and helped hold Beast Boy upright, while Starfire picked him up to fly him home. Soon it was only Raven and Robin left.
"Raven, I need to know, do you have a handle on yourself now? We can't have that happening too much, it could be dangerous to everyone. Every time it's happened before, you seem to have trouble controlling your powers for a few days."
"I think I'm fine. This time was different. I think I almost did it on purpose. If I hadn't Beast Boy would be dead by now. It doesn't feel like I'm losing my cool."
"If you're sure…"
"I'm fine, it's okay. Who has he anyway?"
"Apparently he was a hit man sent after us. Probably someone at Hive, since we already took care of Slade."
"Well, let's get back to the tower. I probably need to meditate now anyway."
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Yea, a bit longer than normal, but more action-y, if that's a word. Review ?
Its only gonna get more interesting from here.