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Teen Titans-Titans No More
Volume 3
Chapter Two
What have we got to lose?
After Beast Boy had determined the best route to take he and Raven had began making their way back out through the heavy forest undergrowth. Miserably Raven trailed behind him feeling useless and pathetic without her powers. Dejectedly she stared at her leader's heels letting out a discontented sigh.
"Aw come' on Raven cheer up. Everything is going to be alright. You'll see." Beast Boy said trying to reassure his companion.
"Honestly I don't see how, without my powers Beast Boy I fear we will most certainly be trapped in this dimension…indefinitely "
"In-Indefinitely" Repeated Beast Boy with a gulp while pushing aside a low hanging branch and holding it back for Raven to pass through unobstructed.
Raven nodded then continued to walk through the branches he'd separated for her. She fell in line beside him now and the two walked forward together in silence each sharing in the fear that they might never see their home again until finally after hours of traipsing through the woodland terrain and just before dusk the pair made their way out of the forest. The only trouble was… Now what? They had made it out of the wood but what were they to do now? Thought Beast Boy who looked to Raven for guidance. "What do we do now?" he asked her.
"We find shelter." She informed him.
"And then what?"
Raven just stood there silent she did not know what. What would they do after that? "I-I don't know Beast Boy but I do know one thing we need to find shelter some place safe to stay before dark the rest we can figure out in the morning. How does that sound?"
The green teen nodded in agreement and the two began searching for someplace to spend the night.
More time passed and it was late into the evening (much later than Raven would have liked) when the pair stumbled upon a gateway to a village, a village that appeared to be right out of a Brother's Grimm fairytale. The two looked at each other both unsure this small town could be either a blessing or a curse and they knew very little about their surroundings.
Raven only knew that she had wanted to banish the dragons from her world. There was no telling what dimension she had opened up. Especially since the kind of magic she had invoked was extremely unpredictable and no matter how many times one may have summoned that kind of power before if the tiniest variable or variables were over looked it could drastically alter the intended outcome. More simply put what Raven had done was both dangerous and reckless but she had done it out of desperation and if she had seen any other alternative she wouldn't have attempted it at that time where her concentration could have been so heavily compromised but they were here now and Raven realized she had to let it go and handle the cards she had been dealt with a slight sigh of submissiveness. She turned her head and met Beast Boy's jade eyes.
"What do you think?" she asked looking from him to the gateway.
Beast Boy shrugged and answered. "What have we got to lose" before raising one hand to the wooden double doors of the gateway, grasping one of the black iron handles and pulling it open for her.
"Ladies first" he said with a short bow, extended hand and a nervous laugh.
And rolling her eyes Raven entered.
Once inside the gateway the two felt as if the whole world had darkened further. Beast Boy shuttered and Raven looked around warily as they walked down the wide main street. Some of the buildings had signs but they were hard to make out in the dark. Thankfully they came across what Raven believed to be an Inn a short ways after turning right off the main drag.
"Do you think we should go in?" asked Beast Boy staring up at shady looking place of business.
Raven nodded but she too looked concerned. "I don't think we have much of a choice. I mean It isn't like we have a lot of other options." She reasoned.
This time it was Beast Boy who nodded and the two made their way from the street into the establishment. Inside the Inn it was eerily quiet the desk was abandoned and both Beast Boy and Raven were beginning to have second thoughts after all they didn't have any money and there was no telling what would happen to them if they couldn't pay but before the two could turn to leave that's when someone appeared.
The clerk seemed to be not altogether human, more like the monstrous humanoids found in Beast Boy's Science Fiction video games. The creature clearly female as distinguished by its chest had lilac colored skin, olive green eyes, wispy periwinkle hair, strangely in-bent arms at her elbows, and long feral nails. The devilish smile that graced that lilac woman's cherry lips made both Raven and Beast Boy gulp and take a step back towards the door.
The woman's smile broadened before she let out a painful shriek that not only deafened Raven and Beast Boy but made the world around them start blur and swirl until within in seconds everything went black…
Author's Note: Reviews please