Hello everybody, sorry it took so long but this is the longest chapter thus far. I wanted to put a fight scene since that was the most asked for. (I think??) If I haven't said already, I will not be using every episode of Teen Titans and not always in order, just how they go with my story.
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Chapter 4 Date with Destiny Yeah right
Several weeks later, Danny was leaving school for the day. From out of the crowd of stampeding students, Matt and Ben approached their friend. They were both arguing about the grades they recently received on a test in science. "Dude, it's not my fault you failed." Ben said.
"Well you could have at least let me cheat off you." Matt said in a pleading tone.
"So Danny, how did you do on Mrs. Roger's test?" Ben asked his annoyance quite evident.
Danny just shrugged before pulling a paper out of his binder and scanning it. "I got a hundred."
"What?!" Ben and Matt exclaimed at the same time.
"How do you always manage to ace her tests, when the rest of us have trouble just making an eighty in there?" Ben asked his annoyance turning into disbelief.
"Well if it helps, my parents were very smart, if not a little eccentric, scientists and inventers." Danny said.
"Do you think I could cheat off you?" pleaded Matt.
"No."
"Please…"
"No, because the teacher isn't that stupid. However, if you are up to it I'll help you study. That is if you can get off Doom for five seconds every night."
"Must… not stop… playing… the precious." Matt said doing a Gollum impression.
Danny and Ben rolled their eyes. "So Danny, are you staying for the contest to see whose car is the loudest before prom tonight?"
"Yeah, I've been wondering who has the loudest car. I'm betting on it being one of the teacher's."
Danny, Ben, and Matt headed out to the parking lot where the contest was taking place. Standing where they were they could hear the very loud music coming from the nearby vehicles. However, what soon caught their attention was a semi that had pulled up and parked in front of all the other vehicles. The driver jumped out and climbed onto the trailer. From his vantage point, Danny could see that the guy had spiky white hair and wore an orange jumpsuit with the sleeves ripped off.
"Hey everybody let me show you what loud music actually is." the guy yelled, his English accent evident. He proceeded to pull a guitar off his back and strummed a chord.
Danny had gotten a bad feeling from the guy when he first arrived but he didn't see what was about to happen next. He never expected the sound wave attack, similar to what an old enemy of his used to have, when the guy played his guitar. The sound waves caused a few car windows to shatter and all the people in the area ran away screaming, covering their ears.
Danny and his friends, who were pretty close to the guy, were thrown back against a wall. Staggering to his feat, Danny rubbed his pounding head. Looking over to see how his friends were, he saw that they were both knocked unconscious. Lifting up his friends with more strength than a teen his size should have, he carried them away from the scene of destruction at a run.
He got them to other side of the school where he found a few panicking teachers trying to get students to safety. Laying his two friends down, he said to the teachers, "Get these two some medical attention. I'm going to go see if I can find any more people who are of need of help." Before the teachers could reply, he ran back the way he came, turning invisible and changing into his ghost form.
Pulling off two pieces of his bandages, he curled them into balls and coated them in ectoplasm before shoving them into his ear to try and block as much noise as possible. Now hearing only a slightly muffled playing, he could only wish that he had brought a pair of earplugs to completely cut out the noise. Now it's time to go and kick that guy's ass for hurting my friends.
When Danny got back to the noisy, guitar playing idiot, he saw that the guy was rocking out and a bunch of cars had already been knocked over. Turning visible in front of the guy, the rocker stopped playing and smiled. "So you've come to listen to the great Punk Rocket?"
"No, I've come to stop the idiot who's playing his music way too loud." Danny replied coldly.
"You? Stop me? Ha ha ha ha! I guess I'll have to turn it up a little then." Turning a little dial on his guitar from three to six, Punk Rocket continued to play. Danny tried going intangible, but the sound messed with his concentration and he was blasted into a wall. Quickly recovering, Danny got up and started unleashing a flurry of quick ecto-blasts, which collided with sound waves. While the sound waves didn't stop the attacks, they still slowed the blasts down enough to make it easy for Punk Rocket to dodge them.
Danny was getting angrier by the second and as his anger grew, so did his accuracy and power in his attacks, even with the sound waves impeding them.
When one blast missed his head by a few meters, Punk Rocket paused and laughed. "What's got your knickers in a bunch?" In his brief lull of playing the guitar, a blast knocked his pick out of his hand and scratched the top of his guitar. With a murderous look crossing Punk Rocket's face he said, "You put a nick in my baby, now you are dead meat." He then pushed a button on the semi he had driven earlier. One side of it fell away to reveal eight very big amps in two rows stacked on top of each other. He then reached over and plugged in his guitar.
If that was without the amps then... oh crap! Danny quickly sent a blast at the amps but it was too late. Punk Rocket had already started playing and the sound waves stopped his attack, causing an explosion. Danny tried to put up a shield, but it was to no avail. The sound waves reverberated through his shield, making him lose his concentration and once again he was thrown into the wall that seemed to love him so much.
When Danny staggered to his feet he felt nausea and dizziness sweep over him while a little blood drizzled out of his ears. This guy could give Ember a run for her money. I guess I'll have to use my ghostly wail despite the risk that I may pass out. Danny rose into the air while taking a deep breath, feeling power fill his diaphragm. Waiting a moment, he then unleashed his most devastating attack, the ghostly wail. Seeing this, Punk Rocket was determined to win against the level of noise and started playing his guitar, his sound waves colliding with the sound waves of the ghostly wail.
Punk Rocket's sound waves may have been powerful, but Danny's ghostly wail was on a whole different level. The ghostly wail overtook the other sound waves and obliterated everything in its path. The amps and semi were completely totaled along with Punk Rocket's guitar and a part of a building that was behind him.
Danny touched down on the ground, surprised that he had quite a bit of energy left, even enough to stay in ghost form and perhaps use another ghostly wail. My powers must have grown a lot over the last few years even though I haven't used them much. Now what am I gonna do with this idiot? He looked down at Punk Rocket, who was quivering in fear, and then at the cord to the amps before smiling.
The Titans had been alerted of Punk Rocket's "activities" and were headed straight there, when a loud noise that would later be described as a sound of death reverberated throughout the entire city. The Titans felt shivers run down their spines at the sound.
Raven nearly lost her concentration when she felt a huge spike in spiritual energy in the area where the sound was coming from and nearly fell out of the sky. Starfire, who was right next to her, helped right herself in the air. "Raven, are you well?"
"I'm fine, thank you Starfire." Raven didn't know what caused that huge spike in energy, but she had a sneaking suspicion that their mysterious hero was behind it.
Once at the scene of Punk Rocket's attack, they found what looked a lot like a war zone. About fifty cars were now complete wrecks, part of a building had collapsed, scorch marks covered nearly every surface, and bits of rubble littered the ground. The Titans scanned the scanned the area until they found Punk Rocket.
He was laying on the ground, tied up in what looked like a guitar cable rocking back and forth in a fetal position, mumbling to himself. "Stop… All the noise… Please stop the noise... My guitar... it's gone… Stop the noise... Please…"
Robin approached him carefully with the Titans in tow. He bent down to check on the captive's injuries and tried to ask questions. "Are you okay? What happened?"
"Stop the noise!! Please stop the noise…" Robin, after finding no serious physical injuries, had Cyborg pick him up and carry him as they headed over to where the police and ambulances were located.
The Titans were lost in thought about what they witnessed and the state of the criminal they had come to arrest, but Beastboy decided to add his input anyway. "Talk about déjà-vu. He looks like Dr. Light did after Raven lost her temper with him." Though with the glare that Raven gave him at his words, he decided that now was a good time to shut his mouth.
After handing Punk Rocket to the police, the chief walked up to them. "Titans we're glad that you could stop this madman, but what was that terrible noise?"
The Titans looked at each other before Robin spoke. "Someone else defeated him before we got here and quite honestly, we don't know what that sound was."
"Did Punk Rocket tell you who defeated him?"
"No, in his current state of mind he was unable to tell us anything. By any chance were there any witnesses?"
"We do have several students who were injured during his attack." Leading them over to the ambulance, the chief pointed out three teenagers with bandages around their heads. "The rest of the students had to go to the hospital because of their severe injuries but these three were healthy enough to stay."
"Thank you chief." The chief nodded to them and went over to a squad car and got on the radio.
"Danny!" exclaimed both Beastboy and Cyborg when they noticed him.
"Hey guys, uhh… let me introduce you to my friends, this is Ben and that is Matt." Danny said while motioning to the two guys next to him who in turn were staring at Starfire. "We were at the loudest car contest when that idiot attacked."
"Did either of you guys see anybody other than Punk Rocket during the attack?" asked Robin.
"No, I got knocked unconscious by Punk Rocket right off the bat." replied Matt.
"So did I, and if it wasn't for Danny we probably would have gotten…"
"Fenton!" Ben was interrupted by an approaching teacher. "After the amount of strength you just showed earlier, you're most definitely joining the football team."
Matt turned to Danny with a smile on his face. "I told you that the football coach had seen you earlier after you saved oof." Matt was silenced when he was elbowed in the side by Danny.
"Coach, I'm not joining the football team. Besides, what happened earlier was no big deal, it was pure adrenaline."
The Titans, who had been watching from the sidelines, were very confused by the conversation, so Robin decided to ask what was on all their minds.
"Excuse me, but what are you all talking about?"
The coach started in surprise when he finally noticed the Teen Titans, who had been standing there the whole time. "This young lad here, he managed to save his unconscious friends by carrying them both to safety. At the same time!" All the titans looked at a sheepish Danny and then to his friends, who both probably weighed more than him, individually. "Then he went back to see if there was anybody else who needed help."
Robin walked up to Danny, who was now fascinated with a spot on the ground. "Danny, did you see anybody fighting Punk Rocket?"
"Er…no. When I went back, I got knocked into a wall. Somehow I managed to escape without getting hurt again."
"You're a true hero Fenton! The school and city has plans to show its appreciation for the bravery you showed today, and you will join the football team." The coach said before slapping Danny on the back.
"Oww! You do know I just got hurt, right? Geez..." Danny replied indignantly as he winced and rubbed his back.
Now if there was anybody around Danny that could see what he was thinking, they would have seen him mentally beating his head repeatedly against a wall while calling himself stupid. The funny thing however, was that there was somebody who had decided to see what he was thinking.
I have to know if he is lying or not. Punk Rocket was defeated by somebody and this kid's emotions are going haywire. He may even be our mysterious hero. Raven thought as she walked up and placed glowing blue hands on his wounds, healing them. While she was at it, she also attempted to read his mind. Normally, she was against something such as reading people's minds, but curiosity on what he really knew about what happened was getting the better of her. But as soon as she tried to peer into his mind, she encountered powerful mental barriers. She could have easily broken through them, but if she did that he would notice as soon as she did.
Then Danny looked up, and she could see his blue eyes staring up at her. His eyes are beautiful, and he does looks kind of cute... Wait, did I just think he was cute? Okay, that's just weird. Hm… It seems that his emotions have settled down. Is it because of me?
Dismissing her thoughts, she pulled away her hands and moved onto Matt. She started to heal him, but as soon as she peered into his mind she immediately pulled back out, hoping that she wasn't blushing. The most noticeable things in his mind were images of Starfire that Raven hoped to never see ever again. She moved on to heal Ben, this time without even trying to read his mind, seeing that he had the same sort of expression on his face as his friend.
Fenton you idiot! Look at where you got yourself now. Everybody around you is thinking that you are some kind of hero when you're no... Danny snapped out of his inner turmoil when he felt his wounds being healed. Looking up, he saw the dark Titan, Raven, with her hands on his head, glowing blue. He stared at her covered face and caught sight of her amethyst eyes. Thanks to the blue glow coming from her hands, he could now make out the face that was usually hidden beneath her hood. She's so beautiful, why would she hide herself under that cloak? Wait… Beautiful? Great… I'm turning into my friends, falling for a girl like this who is completely out of my league. The glow of her hands died and when he considered it, he felt a whole lot better than he had earlier, and not just physically.
She silently walked over and healed both Ben and Matt, who in turn paid very little attention to her. Their eyes were mainly focused on Starfire, and Danny couldn't help but feel ashamed at the way they were staring at her.
He then noticed that the other Titans were busy talking to the police chief, who looked quite perplexed.
"Raven we've got trouble, a few jewelry stores are being robbed." Robin yelled.
Raven nodded and the glow from her hands faded completely as she followed after the rest of the Titans.
As soon as the Titans were out of ear shot Danny turned to his friends. "Since both of you are healed now, could you please get your eyes back into your heads?"
Miles away, in a dark basement on the other side of Jump city, there could be heard a loud buzzing sound, like that of many insects. Tanks filled the room and behind each pane of glass you could see many bright eyes peering out. At the back of the room there was the outline of a tall muscular guy, who was laughing joyfully. "Patience my children, soon you shall wreak the havoc that you crave. Soon I shall have the power I deserve. Soon the entire city will bow before its new master, Killer Moth. Ha ha ha ha." The guy stepped out of the shadows, revealing the form of a man wearing a giant moth costume.
However, his laughing was soon interrupted by a loud whiny voice. "Daddy! DADDY!!..."
Running upstairs, he burst into a blindingly pink room, almost knocking the door off its hinges. Walking over, he found his blonde haired daughter sitting cross-legged on her bed. "Daddy's working Kitten, can't this wait until…"
"No. He broke up with me. My stupid ex-boyfriend, Fang broke up with me and now I don't have a date for the prom." Kitten ranted while she walked around her room, throwing things as she went before she finally flung herself onto her bed and started to wail.
Killer Moth sat down next to her and hesitantly patted her head. "Uh… There, there. I'm sure you'll find another date."
"Ugh, prom is tonight, daddy! I don't have enough time to find a date." Killer Moth shrunk beneath the angry yell from his daughter. "You're going to find one for me."
Killer Moth jumped to his feet. "Now Kitten be reasonable. You don't seriously expect me to…"
"And I don't want just anyone. I want someone handsome, and popular and totally cool. Someone no other girl could get. Someone who will drive Fang wild with jealousy, I want…"
Robin was now stuck in the Titan's tower, paralyzed due to the venom that the "jewel thief" had shot him with before he got away. The good only thing about the whole situation was that the thief would stick out anywhere he would go, mainly due to the large spider he had for head.
Starfire held Robin upside down in the main room of the tower and started stretching and bending his legs making cracking sounds. "Better?" She inquired after a few seconds.
"Much. Thanks."
"I welcome you, there are few problems that Tamaranean acupressure will not solve."
"Now we can focus on solving our other problem." Now being able to move he pulled out his communicator and contacted the other Titans. "Titans, any luck finding our jewel thief?"
"We found something worse." Raven answered as her and the others stared up into the sky filled with hundreds of moths.
Raven, Cyborg, and Beastboy were able to hold off the first hundred moths that attacked the bridge, but just as they were about to celebrate their victory, the sky was blanketed with hundreds more. "Uhh…We're going to need backup." Cyborg relayed into his communicator on his arm.
"We're on our way." Robin replied. However, as he and Starfire were about to leave the room, the big screen that had showed Cyborg's communication switched over to that of Killer Moth.
"Don't bother! Even if you defeat a few of my children, you won't be able to stop me from releasing the entire swarm." In the background they could see the many moths, buzzing around in their tanks. "Unless you want your city reduced to a moth eaten wasteland, you'll do exactly as I say."
"What do you want?" Robin asked angrily.
"My demands are simple; the city will declare me ruler, the Teen Titans will surrender, and Robin… will take this lovely young lady to her junior prom." A little window appeared next to Killer Moth showing a blonde haired girl.
"Hi Robbie-pooh!" she loudly cooed.
Robin was dumbstruck. "Umm, what was that last part again?"
"Robin, who is this girl and why does she call you pooh?" Starfire inquired as Robin twitched.
"Her name is Kitten and you will take her to prom."
"This Prom is some manner of duel, yes? Robin eagerly accepts." Starfire said floating up closer to the screen.
"It's not a duel Star, it's a date." Robin interrupted.
Starfire looked like she had just been slapped. "He does not accept. Do you hear, Robin does not accept." Robin grabbed the still floating Starfire by the leg and started pulling her with him as he left the room.
"We're going to need a minute." Once out in the hall, Starfire started pacing back and forth ranting as Robin pulled out his communicator and contacted Cyborg. "Cyborg, report. How is it?"
"Bad, we can't hold them off much longer. If you're going to do something, do it quick." Cyborg replied as he was trying to hold back a moth that was eagerly trying to take a bite out of him.
"I have to do it." Robin said, interrupting Starfire's rant.
"WHAT!!" Starfire screamed.
"It's the only way to save the bridge, the only way to give us enough time to stop Killer Moth." Robin headed back to the main room with Starfire floating dejectedly right behind him.
"But but but but..."
"I have to Starfire, no matter how much I don't want to." The doors to the main room opened and still on the screen was Killer Moth and Kitten. "And I really don't want to."
"Do we have a deal?" Killer Moth asked.
"I'll take the girl to prom." Robin replied, his left eye twitching.
"Don't tell me, ask her." The bug man said as motioned to the window with the blonde.
"You've gotta be…"
"Do it!"
"Kitten, was it?" Robin asked through clenched teeth.
"Meowww" Kitten said doing an impression of a cat.
"Right… Will you go with me to the prom?" Starfire, who was standing not too far from Robin, had her glowing green hands balled up in fists and they were getting brighter each second.
"Ohhh Robbie-pooh, I thought you'd never ask." Kitten squealed in delight.
Beastboy, in his gorilla form, was fending off as many moths as he could while a few chewed through a cable that was near him. The cable snapped and was falling towards Cyborg, who in turn was surrounded by twenty to thirty moths. Raven, seeing the large cable falling towards her comrade, summoned her power. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" The cable was stopped by her black aura only a few feet above him, waving a hand she moved it away from him.
The mutant moths that had been encircling Cyborg started closing in on him. "There's too many, were not gonna make it." As he started to fire his sonic cannon at them, all of a sudden all the moths in the area retreated.
Beastboy transformed back into his human form. "Um, what just happened?"
Raven turned her communicator on. "I bought you some time. Killer Moth, he's controlling the mutant insects, find him and stop him." Robin said as a picture of the guy flashed onto the screen followed by a picture of a blonde haired girl. "Start your search with her."
"Who is she?" Raven asked.
"She is a manipulative grimflork not worthy of Robin's time." Starfire interjected angrily.
"Name's Kitten, she's got some kind of connection to Killer Moth, find the connection and I bet you'll find him. Starfire will join you to help with the search. Starfire crossed her arms and huffed.
"Hey, what about you, aren't you gonna help us?" Beastboy asked picking up on Robin's lack of involvement.
"I can't, I've got a date..."
Danny stretched. He was still tired from the earlier battle with the guitar playing idiot, but he still felt up to going to the prom. When he went home and changed into his tuxedo, and then made his way over to the ship where the dance was taking place, he had heard the battle taking place on the bridge between the Teen Titans and a bunch of insects. However, a few moments after the sounds of battle ended, he surprisingly heard very loud laughter and he must have been close to four miles from the bridge.
While he didn't have a date to the prom, he came anyways in hopes that he could ask one of the girls, who also came alone, to dance with him. That and he could always talk to his friends. He was now standing at the entrance to the ship, talking to his friends Matt and Ben, when he saw a rather familiar motor cycle stop at the pier. "Isn't that Robin's bike?"
"That can't be Robin's bike, why would he come to… prom?" as Ben was talking the rider pulled off his helmet, revealing Robin wearing a tuxedo and judging by his movements, Danny could tell he was not happy to be there.
Starfire then landed next to him, wearing a lovely dress. At this point Danny noticed that his friends were once again drooling at the sight of her. Then, if that wasn't enough, he saw something that made him visibly shudder in disgust. It was that horrific pink limo that belonged to a certain "popular" rich girl that utterly disgusted him to no end.
"Yoohoo, Robbie-pooh, your Kitten has arrived. Meowww…" Judging by the looks of horror on both Robin and Starfire's faces when she yelled that, they weren't too happy to see her either. Robin approached her reluctantly and she continued her loud exclamations, getting everybody's attention. "Oh, Robin, my date, Robin, don't you look handsome." Then she growled to him in a lower voice. "Compliment me on my dress."
"No."
"Do it or else."
"Nice dress."
Then Kitten continued her yelling. "Oh Robin you're such a gentleman, not at all like my worthless ex-boyfriend, Fang!" At this point Danny, who was only ten feet away from them, thought she could have woken the dead with her yelling. It certainly made him forget how tired he was. Then she spoke to Robin again in a low, sinisterly sweet voice. "Now take my arm, lead me in and would it kill you to smile?"
Danny thought he heard the creaking of bones as Robin's face contorted in pain to force a smile. "Maybe." He replied before escorting her onto the ship. Starfire glided forward, her eyes glowing a menacing green. Grinding her teeth so hard it sounded like a power saw cutting through steel, Danny wondered at what she would do. She then proceeded to punch the front of the limo Kitten had arrived in causing the back end to fly up before coming back down to earth, completely dented.
Danny, Ben, and Matt, from their position next to the back of the limo, were taken by surprise. "Hey Ben, you can try asking her to dance, I don't want to anymore." Matt said not looking away from the now destroyed limo.
"Me neither." was Ben's only reply.
The cruise on the ship was uneventful for Danny but he was having a good time watching the interaction between Robin and Kitten. At the moment she was trying to force him to dance with her and it made him wonder. Why the heck is Robin here anyways and with that "girl" no less? Judging by that display earlier, Starfire isn't too happy about Robin being with Kitten.
Kitten had finally managed to coerce Robin into dancing with her and she lead him out onto the dance floor, knocking everybody out of her way as she went. Yawning, Danny decided that he needed something to drink to help keep him awake and started to head to the punch bowl. Yet before he went too far, he stopped at what he saw.
Starfire looked like she had been in the process of getting some punch when she spotted Robin and Kitten going out to the dance floor and starting to dance. Her eyes were glowing green and the hand that was holding the ladle was glowing red while the punch started bubbling like a witch's brew. One couple made the mistake of asking for punch and received a death glare from Starfire, who quite literally looked like she was going to bite their heads off.
Danny turned back to the "loving couple" just in time to spot Robin leaning over the girl's shoulder with his communicator out, pleading with the people on the other end. Then all of a sudden he looked relieved and pushed Kitten away as she tried to kiss him. Smiling, he told her a few things. "What!!" Kitten screeched, getting everybody's attention. Continuing, she yelled about how her father was not in control and revealed a little triggering device in her hand. She then demanded him to pucker up as she tried to kiss him.
Robin stopped her before she got too close. "Not even if you paid me." He then proceeded to grab the trigger out of her hand and soon enough, a fight started over it.
"Fang!" Kitten cried when a guy with a spider for head appeared on the ship.
"He's your boyfriend?" Robin said in disbelief. While he was distracted, Kitten took the trigger back.
"Get your hands off my girl." Fang barged through some tables and in the ensuing chaos Danny ducked under a table. Turning invisible and going ghost he flew up into the sky. Still invisible, he activated his intangibility as he watched the proceedings. While he watched, he saw Robin getting knocked away from Kitten by one of Fang's four huge spider legs.
Fang approached Kitten but was soon hit by a starbolt, courtesy of Starfire. "Keep your legs off my boy! Robin, are you okay?"
"Best I've felt all day." Robin then pulled off his tuxedo revealing his uniform underneath while Starfire did the same. Danny and the two Titans turned to see Kitten kissing Fang. Robin then voiced the exact thought that was going through Danny's head. "You two make a really bad couple."
Fang went on the attack against Robin, shooting a flurry of webs and venom, he paralyzed a couple who had been stupid enough to stick around. While Robin fought Fang, Starfire and Kitten started fighting over the trigger, throwing each other across the banquet table.
Danny, floating above the battle, was having an internal struggle over whether or not he should assist them in their battle. Then he noticed that Robin could use some help, and Starfire was too busy handling Kitten. Danny shot two ecto-blasts that hit Fang, knocking him away from Robin. This brief reprieve gave him enough time to counterattack and with a flurry of punches, he finally knocked Fang out.
"You ruined my dress!!" Danny turned to see Kitten, now covered in a chocolate cake, pressing a trigger. She then charged at Starfire, who in turn merely sidestepped her and shot the trigger out of her hand with a starbolt. It rolled over to Robin who stopped it with his foot.
"Consider yourself dumped." He then pressed his foot down, crushing the trigger.
"NOOOO!!..."
The cruise ship had finally made it back to land and the police took Fang and an angry, howling Kitten. "Nobody dumps Kitten, Nobody! You're going to pay for this Robbie-pooh, you're going to pay!!..." Her ranting was finally cut off when she was locked up in the back of a police transport.
Danny found Ben, sitting at a table looking real happy. "What's got you so happy, Kitten give you her number?"
"Heck no, I just find it funny."
"Find what funny?"
"That my ex was caught in that guy's venom and is now completely paralyzed along with her new boyfriend." Danny looked over to where the couple was being carried off by paramedics while Robin was apologizing to them.
"Don't you think that's a little, I don't know, cruel?"
"You don't know Kelly."
"Well, anyway, where's Matt? Is he off trying to ask Starfire out?" Danny asked looking around.
"No, he went home saying something about being tired, or was it Doom? I keep forgetting which." Ben replied as he stood up stretching. "I gotta go anyways, I'm tired and my mom's probably worrying about me."
"Later man."
"Later." As Ben left, Danny started staring out into the harbor, lost in thought about what had occurred that day. His thoughts were quickly interrupted however by an argument between Cyborg and Beastboy."
"You're not keeping that thing in my tower!"
"Aww… C'mon Cyborg, he's cute and he's harmless." Danny turned to see Beastboy holding a very large grub, cradling it like it was a baby. Danny then noticed Raven standing about ten feet away watching the argument and decided to go over and talk to her.
Raven watched as Cyborg and Beastboy argued over whether or not he could keep the little Grub that was formally a mutated moth. That little creature is not staying with us if I have anything to say about it.
"Hello, your name was Raven wasn't it?" Raven turned around and was startled by the owner of the voice that had spoken to her.
"Yeah, and your name was Danny, correct?" Raven replied hiding her surprise from the guy that now stood before her.
"I just wanted to thank you for healing me and my friends earlier." At Danny's words Raven felt a sense of guilt for having tried to read his mind earlier.
"It was no problem, just a basic healing spell." As Raven spoke a song had started playing and not too far away, Starfire and Robin started to dance.
"Umm, would you like to dance?" When he asked her that he not only caught her off guard, but if anyone had been paying attention they would have seen one of the many lights that decorated the boat had been consumed by a black aura and blew up.
Raven's mind was working hard in double time, trying to keep her emotions controlled while she came up with an answer to his question. The answer that she finally gave, neither of them had expected.
"Yes, I would like to."
When Danny had asked her to dance, right after the asking he thought he was going to have a mental break down. Why did I just ask her that? She doesn't want to dance with me and she probably doesn't even like to dance.
"Yes, I would like to." Danny was nearly floored by her response, but he still manage to compose himself and took her hand, leading her out onto the dance floor. On the other hand, his mind at the moment was still having trouble comprehending what was going on. Meanwhile, his body went on autopilot as he went through the motions of a dance he memorized a few years ago. They started to dance not too far from Robin and Starfire, who in turn were oblivious to everything around them.
After a minute or two of dancing, they started getting used to it. Hey this isn't too bad. They thought unknowingly at the same time. Danny could again see her face, even with her hood up. It was as if the darkness that usually hid her was gone. As they continued to dance their eyes were locked onto each others', amethyst gazing into blue and blue gazing into amethyst.
Now separated from the rest of the world, they didn't notice Beastboy and Cyborg who had paused in their arguing, gawking at them. "BB, did you know that Raven danced?"
Beastboy's only reply was shaking his head no.
When the song finally ended, Raven and Danny hesitantly separated. "You're a good dancer." Danny said trying to keep his embarrassment from showing.
"You're a good dancer too." Raven replied, also trying to keep from blushing.
"Thanks again for the healing from before and the dance, I should be getting home. I've got work tomorrow, and I suppose I'll see you the next time you'll come into Cyber-café. Bye."
"Bye." Hearing her reply, Danny turned and left.
As Danny left the dance floor, Raven was still trying to figure out everything that had just happened. She then noticed Cyborg and Beastboy standing right behind her, smiling. They both opened their mouths to say something, but Raven beat them to the punch. "If either of you say a word, I will personally force feed you both that worm you have both been arguing about." Both guys quickly paled and closed their mouths, their grinning faces turning into looks of horror. "I'll see you guys later, I'm going on back to the tower." To have a chat with my emotions and meditate on what just happened. Raven let out a sigh and flew back to the tower as fast as she could.
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