Hmm, this is where I say I don't own Teen Titans… okay, done. Chapter 8 is coming up any second now. Keep it up, to all people that review, and people that make the show :. Mhm, time for some stalking action, some trickery, and some demons ;. LETS GO!!!
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As Raven wandered around the back rows or the large bookstore, she decided she would maybe look somewhere else. She got sidetracked reading, and knew Beast Boy wouldn't know what to get her here. He might be back at the Tower already, she had been reading a while. But the book she was holding had passages about the Apocalypse, and it was interesting. She saw an illustration of a demon flying around with a pitchfork…
"Cool."
There was another about witchcraft, but it looked a bit more boring. She seemed to be in the gothic book section. That would explain why it was in the back, and she was the only one here. Beast Boy DEFINITELY wouldn't come here. He probably went to the mall, not Waldermann's. She put down the book about demons with a picture of the succubus Lilith, and walked out the door. The streets were fairly crowded, there was lot of last minute shopping going around. She hoped Beast Boy didn't find her, or she'd have more explaining to do. She was still in denia-… 'No, not denial. I don't have any feelings for Beast Boy. My own brain is against me.'
The next one she decided to search for him in was a large department store across the street. She couldn't search for him mentally, there were too many people. She could only hope it wasn't something that suggested she had told him anything important… or anything personal. She was wandering around the jewelry section, because that's usually what men get women, it was a start. He wasn't there, so she began walking by, but she noticed something. She didn't usually have much taste for jewelry, but she saw a pair of black, red, and silver earrings she really liked. They looked pearl, and were shaped like teardrops. She remembered the price, to see if she could afford them and come back some time. As she walked on through the store, she couldn't help feeling like she was being watched. She swatted at a fly that flew away from the food court. Still felt watched, so it wasn't the fly. Maybe she was getting paranoid.
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This was possibly Beast Boy's first stroke of genius ever. One subject Raven and he talked about last night was magic. The part he remembered the best were charms. You could get an object charmed to do anything. He had the perfect idea for a charm to put on a gift for Raven, one that he knew existed, but needed an object. So, there he was. A proverbial and literal fly on the fall. He made sure Raven was out of sight, and flew into a secluded corner to turn back into a human. Or what looked a bit human anyway. 'Still green with pointy ears…'
He walked up to the counter, and saw the earrings she must have been looking at. They were definitely her taste, that's for sure. But they would look good on her. Black, red, silver, and teardrop shaped. He mine as well give it a try anyway. They were a bit expensive, but he had plenty of money. Now, to head to the magic shop he already found to get them charmed. This would be the hard part. Raven might notice that magic had been used, and would catch on. He wasn't sure how much she could feel magic in the air. His only hope was that, as he could tell from last night, her emotions were confused enough that she might have less control over her powers. He still didn't know how she felt about him, but he was going to find out today, that's for sure.
He ran out of the store, then two blocks down, and down a back alley. He made sure to enter the store quietly, and walked up to the wizard at the counter. A tall, African-American man wearing a white trench coat, black suit shirt underneath, white leather pants, a white top hat with a black stripe, and a metal skull mask covering all of his face above his lips.
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Raven was stumped. She had looked all over the shopping district she knew Beast Boy always went to, but couldn't find him anywhere, it was almost like he had vanished into a back alley. As she walked past a glass display of the bookstore she was in earlier, she passed her reflection. Only it wasn't her reflection. It was some type of demoness that almost resembled a vampire. This didn't shock Raven, not much really could, but it was very strange. It seemed like she had seen it before, but the image faded very quickly, and was replaced by her own again. Something was wrong, like there was someone watching her. Before she knew it, some type of irrational fear took over her body, like it was being generated from somewhere. She couldn't think, walk, or even stand up straight. All she could do was feel some silent terror that seemed to come out of nowhere. Her powers were going out of control. Her body was slowly turning into shadow; it was working up from her hips at the moment. Her eyes were turning black as large tentacles of shadow were flying around from her back, throwing things on the street, knocking people over, and even causing wormholes in buildings. All the while a deep, evil, smooth sounding laughter echoed in her ears. A few more seconds and she would have turned all out demon. Fear was the emotion that could cause the most damage uncontrolled. That one Halloween was perfect evidence.
She had teleported the first place she thought of to get away from people. She got out her communicator once in the alley next to the bookstore to call the Titans before she finished transforming. Monsters were starting to summon around her as well. Eyes were coming out of the shadows for demonic looking creatures of every shape and size. The Titans could turn her back without causing to much damage if they were aware in enough time. As she turned it on, she realized the fear had disappeared. The shadows were disengaging, the monsters disappearing, and her body was returning to normal. She started trying to calm her hyperventilating incase there was another onslaught, so she could hold it back. It didn't come. Whatever caused the fear was done. The laughter was still ringing, but that was a side effect. It was almost too quiet to hear. She saw an image of her mind of some man in a white overcoat and a top hat with a skull mask, but then it disappeared. She realized this appeared for a split second in her reflection before her normal one returned, and that caused the terror that sprung up. She couldn't find a name with telepathy, but she recognized the presence. It was like with the demoness she saw, she couldn't place the feeling.
A door opened at one end of the alley. When the person walked out and turned around, they didn't see Raven. She had teleported again, and was at the top of the building. The panic on the streets had calmed down. No one had gotten a good look at her, so they wouldn't know it was Raven. That press was the last thing the Titans needed. This time or year things were slower, so they didn't have as much chance to impress people by saving the city. As the person walked out of the shadows of the alley, she saw that it was Beast Boy. He looked to his left and right, as if making sure no one saw him, turned into an eagle, and flew off. She made herself invisible so that he wouldn't see her flying away.
When he was back at the tower, which she could see in the distance, she become visible again, and floated down to the alley floor. She opened the door to the shop, and found that it was a magickal store. Not one she used the most, but she liked the talisman's here. She wondered how Beast Boy could have found this, much less known what to get her here. At least this was a relief. They must have talked about magick when she was possessed. It didn't show that he knew anything important. She walked out, and decided to go to that poetry reading after all. She hadn't lied when she said there was one across town. A few minutes and several hundred blocks later, she slowed down and landed on a more deserted street across from the store. There, on top of the bookstore, was the man she had seen in her vision, mask, coat, and all. He simply smiled at her, and evaporated into black smoke. In her mind, she heard the word, 'soon.'
Now she was very shaken. That wasn't a vision, he was actually real. That meant he was somehow stalking her, and had controlled the burst of terror that almost made her destroy the street and turn demon. He even knew that fear would do it easier and more efficiently than anger. He must be a powerful telepath to say the LEAST. And he planned on seeing her again. It must have something to do with that demoness. She would research it after the poetry reading. The last thing she was worried about at the moment was whether Beast Boy had gotten the wrong idea from something she might have said. It couldn't be true after all.
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Beast Boy was very lucky today. As he hid her gift in the pile of garbage in his room he knew no one would touch, he reflected on how nice the clerk at the magic store had been. The man had even found him on the street, as if reading his thoughts, and showed him where the store was. "Future magicians like you should know where to get supplied," he said with a wink. He had a very deep, soothing voice too. Beast Boy could tell he was a good guy. The man even suggested he charm an object for Raven. He let Beast Boy decide what. This was where Beast Boy's stroke of genius resulting from him not giving her enough information came from. Yea, he was glad there were some nice people left in the world. More people should be like that Mr. White.
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oooooo, getting twisted, sorta. yup, chrismas eve, and trust me, this is going to be a long day. at least two more chapters. also an exciting day. What does it all mean, and why is Beast Boy so easy to fool? youll see, and you already knew the second one didnt you?...
thanks to everyone who has reivewed, and to people who even read them. i have fun writing these, and i try not to dissapoint.