I have decided that this story has run dry for me. I'm sorry for this, but my leg of the story ends here. So I've decided to hold a contest for someone else to continue the story. Send me a chapter (preferably in a Worc Doc.) where this chapter ends. The best chapter I receive will receive all five Docs of this story to post on their fanfiction profile and hold the responsibility of continuing the story in ANY DIRECTION THEY WANT. Details to enter will be at the bottom of this chapter. Thanks for sticking by me as I attempted to make this story.
"Dude, this place is huge!" Cyborg commented as he wandered around Stormwind's Dwarven district. With Beast Boy on his shoulder, who was croaking something, he felt like he was hang out on Earth again, all that was missing was a pizza place so they could once again argue on toppings. But alas Azeroth has yet to invent the pizza thought they could easily do so. Cyborg went into an alley quickly, looked around to see if it was safe, then poked Beast Boy to tell him it was safe to transform back to normal. Beast Boy did so and stood in front of Cyborg, who's back was to the city's streets.
"Dude, what's up?" Beast Boy commented, "I was looking around,"
"I have the most brilliant idea, ever." Cyborg said, "Why don't we show these people the pizza?"
Beast Boy immediately drooled at the memory of pizza, one of the things he deeply missed from Earth.
"That is, absolutely, the best idea ever!" Beast Boy almost shouted in joy, "I can't wait!"
"Too bad we don't have much gold," Cyborg said, making a motion that simulates empty pockets though he has no pockets to begin with. Beast Boy was confused, "What's gold got to do with introducing pizza to the world?"
"Ingredients, and a building for one thing," Cyborg responded with a shrug making Beast Boy sigh; their idea was far away now. Beast Boy did not look distraught though, he stood tall and spoke, "We'll find some way to make gold then!"
"Kay then, step one; get gold. Step two; find ingredients. Step three; open up shop!" Cyborg planned with a now reassured grin. He took a comically proud pose, hearing music in the back of his head, and smiled comically before Beast Boy rained on his parade, "so how do we make quick money?"
Cyborg stood up, now out of his comedic pose, and spoke, "maybe if we look around we can find out!"
Cyborg motioned his arm towards Beast Boy, in which he responded by returning to his frog form, and then they headed off to explore the city for a get rich quick method. In the alleyway they where just in, a human rogue stepped out of the shadows and smirked before he proceeded to follow the two that were suspected to be allied with the Horde.
Robin groaned as he stopped Starfire's urge to fly for the twentieth time since they entered Stormwind.
"But we have to look for them!" Starfire exclaimed quietly, as to not give notice to Gravel or anyone else around the two of them.
"I know that, but flying in plain sight isn't going to help us," Robin retorted. Raven then went close to the two of them and whispered back, "Too many people are here, I shouldn't even think of using my powers,"
"So we are looking for them on foot?" Starfire said sadly, "I miss Earth, I could fly around,"
"We were heroes on Earth, here we are unknown." Raven said, "And for my new family's sake, I'd like to stay unknown."
Starfire pouted, being denied her joy of flying.
"What are ye all yammerin' about back there?" Gravel said, taking notice to their conversation.
"Nothing important," Raven said calmly, Gravel decided to disregard everything and keep leading them towards the Trade Quarter; he was on a hunt for a drink after all. He didn't really care for what they were there for, only that he wanted to help them find their friend. Gravel really wasn't someone who would get suspicious, usually he's to drunk to care like any other dwarf, but when he's sober he still doesn't care to get into other people's business; he's just that kind of person. He didn't care who it was; he'd help them if their help pointed him in the direction of getting his next drink, it really was a biological need to have some type of alcohol. Heck, he thought back on the one time he helped an orc in exchange for a gallon of moonglow; best Lunar Festival ever.
In any case, with these newcomers, he felt like they were involved in something big; but it wasn't happening because of them. All of a sudden he felt sorry for something he didn't know, something not uncommon with people he meets. However this time he was greatly curious about these people; he's never met a human that wasn't born in the Eastern Kingdoms, and if he had met any they certainly didn't express it. Every human knew Stormwind by that age, no matter what. But again, it wasn't his business.
Speaking of business, he thought, there's the Trade District. He smiled knowing he wasn't going without booze this day, if a dwarf didn't have booze for a whole day strange things happened to that dwarf. Unspeakable things. He shivered at the thought, but he was able to shrug it off in order to speak to the three following him, "Thar be the Trade District."
Robin was the first to speak, "That was fast,"
Raven spoke after, "Can we find them in this crowd?"
Starfire spoke as soon as Raven spoke, "This place isn't as big as I thought."
Gravel laughed at the three responses, they really must be out of the way; he concluded they only stayed in Theramore Isle for their entire lives, still it didn't explain their wardrobe much.
Gravel, despite his shortened stature, pushed through the ever-moving crowd to help the Titans get through inside the district where they heard many people, adventurers and merchants, attempt to sell their wares.
In the Old district the rogue that had followed Beas Boy and Cyborg was tired of following them getting lost in the city and knew they'd be lost for a good few minutes; it would give him enough time to report to S7 or trade off tailing them to tell SI:7 about them. Luckily for him he found another of his colleges looking at his targets from around a corner. He went over o his college who noticed him immediately and pulled him to the side. The college spoke in a feminine voice, "Gyram, were you tailing this guy?"
The first human, Gyram, nodded, "It's not just one guy, see the frog on his shoulder? I saw that frog transform into the skinniest orc I've ever seen! Or a tall goblin!"
The woman scoffed, "You're working too hard!"
Gyram retorted quickly, "It's true Liandra! If we follow them long enough he'll transform again!"
The woman's eyes became daggers; "You address me as Lian like everyone else."
Gyram groaned, "Fine, but please just follow them with me for an hour and if he doesn't transform…. I'll take your next night shift!"
Lian smiled under her mask, "Ok, you're on. One hour."
Gyram smirked, "You won't regret this."
Beast Boy and Cyborg also found their way to the Trade District, though after many wrong turns in the Old District and running into alleyway deals. Thankfully the dealers stopped chasing them after they exited the Old District.
Cyborg sighed, "Remind me never to go in that section of Stormwind ever again."
Beast Boy let out a ribbit of consent before Cyborg continued, "So now we're in the Trade Quarter, there's gotta be some way to make money here."
Cyborg looked around to see many people bustling about trying to buy and sell. Merchants shouted out their wares and their price, but also mentioned that they should "act fast before they put it in the hands of the Auction House." Cyborg focused on the merchants, then watched as a tired merchant entered a building that many people came in and out of at leisure. Cyborg decided to investigate this building, so he went inside to see people crowded to his left. They all were trying to give their own bids on items the auctioneers were selling and the transition of gold coins was tremendous. Cyborg stood there for a minute then headed outside to an alleyway where Beast Boy safely transformed back into his humanoid form, "Did you see all that gold?"
Cyborg nodded, "That's the most gold I've seen ever."
Beast Boy smiled, "I think we just found our way into making gold."
Cyborg agreed, "But what do we have that we can sell?"
Beast Boy immediately dug through his pockets, trying to find something they could sell, "Um… no not that… uh…hmm…."
Cyborg then had an idea, "I could build some of that gnomish tech and we can sell it."
Beast Boy at this point held a clump of dust in his hand, "Don't you need lots of ore for that?"
Cyborg groaned, "Right, well maybe the others will know."
Beast Boy looked around, "Sooo, how are we gonna find them?"
Cyborg shrugged, "Let's start looking,"
Beast Boy them turned back into a frog and hopped onto Cyborg's shoulder once more so they could look for the rest of the titans.
Lian came out of stealth, stunned at what she just saw. Gyram got her attention, "Now do you believe me?"
Lian shook her head quickly, "Yes. These two must be spies, most likely from the Horde. But they sound like they have associates somewhere else in the city."
Gyram nodded, "You can keep tailing them, I'm going to SI:7 to report this to the higher ups."
Lian nodded, "Be quick about it. Who knows what they're planning in this city."
Gyram nodded and sprinted off towards SI:7 headquarters while Lian continued to follow Beast Boy and Cyborg.
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