A/N- Hey, so remember last time when I said I was buzzing with ideas? Yeah, I kind of forgot all of them. Um, sorry about that. Thanks for reviews from –X-Deyoxsis-X-, buddybuddy96, TheDreamChaser, Shizuku Tsukishima749, Tsuki-hime Neko, fadedphantom, ourantamaki123, and Xaphrin. Now here it goes. This took me forever to write. It was just hard to arrange it how I wanted to.

Heart

Chapter 6: A New Strength

Closing the final book, Raven glanced at the stack of others right beside her. With a frown, she placed the book in her hand on top of the pile and looked over at her shelves. They were now empty. The stack of books was daunting. She knew most of her friends probably hadn't read as much in their entire lives as she had gone through in three days. But then again, she was hardly normal.

With a yawn concealed behind her hand, Raven stepped out into the hallway and walked toward the control room. The only times her reading had been interrupted were by two other Heartless attacks. She could see that Robin was getting nervous by them. But besides those attacks, she hadn't eaten, and her mind felt weak because of it.

Heads turned as she entered the room. She ignored them and walked towards the refrigerator, only to find it void of edible food. She groaned quietly and straightened, closing the refrigerator's door.

"Are you okay? We haven't really seen you much the past couple days." Cyborg was looking at her thoughtfully.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She paused, not wanting to seem insensitive towards his question, and then added, "Is there anything edible within the tower right now?" Cyborg chuckled sheepishly, apparently realizing (upon looking in the refrigerator) that no one had gone grocery shopping in a few weeks.

"Why don't we just go out for dinner tonight? Pizza?" He called the question towards the teens huddled on the couch. There was a general yell of approval, and gradually every person got to their feet. Raven watched, arms crossed, with a slight smirk on her face. The assembly of fighters stretched and talked all the way down towards the T-Car, while Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire chose their own methods of transportation.

The pizza place was empty when they all arrived, but few citizens ate a meal at four in the afternoon besides the titans. Their server approached the table a tad warily, perhaps because of the way the table kept shaking, or maybe because of the mustard shooting across the room. Raven sure couldn't blame the way he had his pad pulled up towards his face.

"Hey," Robin greeted him with a smile. "Um, we want one meat lover's pizza-," he ignored the cry of protest and continued, "One veggie pizza, one mushroom pizza-." Starfire interrupted Robin with a poke to the shoulder. "Robin, they do not offer the mustard pizza. What shall I do? I do not wish for another topping." Robin sighed and finished his order, "And one cheese pizza. Thanks." The server scurried away. "That way, Starfire, you can just add your own mustard."

Raven rolled her eyes and took a sip from the water in front of her. After so many years of her asking for tea, the pizza place didn't supply any. She wasn't that surprised by it.

The pizzas arrived not long after; Robin had been intelligent and called in ahead to say the titans were coming. Though he had not requested the pizzas over the phone, he knew that the pizza place would have had plain pies ready to add toppings to. The longer the titans waited for their food, the more nervous the staff would get. This way no one had to suffer.

The loud conversation was somewhat quieted by loud chewing and gulping of pizza. Soon enough, although with food in his mouth, Beast Boy began to speak, and slowly almost all of the others spoke between bites. Raven watched with a mild fascination as Starfire doused the pizza with mustard, and Raven pushed her own slice around on the plate. She winced as she felt another headache coming on. They were getting more frequent now. Robin gave her a concerned glance; she was stupid to have told him about them in the first place. She shook her head dismissively. I'll be fine.

And then Robin gave the server their debit card- funded by Batman, although only Raven knew that- to pay for the meal.

"Dude, that was totally worth the trip!" Beast Boy stood and stretched, an attractive blot of green wedged in between his front teeth. Raven was just about to comment on it, when the lit 'Pizza' sign above them blew out in a shower of sparks. It seemed like some sort of enormous power outage had ripped through the city; there was suddenly no light around them. Starfire lit a starbolt and held it before them so they could see. In the light, Raven could see everyone's breath escaping in mists. The temperature had dropped severely; suddenly she was very afraid.

Then they appeared.

There had to be millions of Heartless. They were larger than Raven had ever remembered, and as she rose her hands to fight, they trembled. The Heartless looked wider across the chests than usual, and their limbs were thick and rounded. It was so dark that the only way they could be seen was by their chalky outlines. Cyborg's light flipped up behind her. The visibility was still horrible. "Ready?" Robin asked her. She nodded slowly. Behind her, she heard Sora draw his Keyblade. For a long moment, everything was silent.

And then the battle erupted.

The numbers of Heartless were so large that it took no time for the titans and their friends to be split up. Raven quickly learned that her physical blows had almost no effect on these Heartless. It was getting colder, colder and she felt like she was going to fall-

But then she remembered what she had learned.

A white glow encircling her hands, Raven blasted a straight line across the crowd of Heartless. All those in her path died upon contact with the white power, and a satisfied smirk worked its way onto her face. She could tell that around her, her teammates were pleasantly surprised.

She had to remember to tell Beast Boy that reading really did come in handy.

A/N- Not to worry, the battle is far from over! This was so difficult to write that I actually had to take a break and come back to it. Well, you guys should know that the longer it takes me to write a chapter, probably just means it was harder to write. Yeah. Mhm.

Until next time,

Ignite The Airwaves