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Chapter 5
"Meeting the Family"

"So, exactly how far are your neighbors from here?" I questioned. There was no way this place had neighbors really close by. Beast Boy's kidnapping secret would have been discovered a seriously long time ago if he had.

Cyborg laughed at my question. "Neighbors? What neighbors? The closest place is 100 miles from here! And there isn't any roads that pass anywhere near here. I doubt if anyone even knows we exist."

I laughed a little before we walked to the door that Beast Boy was already at. He smiled at me, "Yeah, so we have all of this to ourselves."

With that, the door the supposed backyard was opened, and I gasped. This seemed to be the reaction he wanted, for his grin widened as soon as I let the air escape from my lips. I was amazed. Their was first a vast extent of grass and then trees scattered around large hills that were very close, but hid themselves within other mountains. It was absolutely amazing. I'd never, not even in my time traveling, ever seen something so pretty. I found that Beast Boy and Cyborg were already outside, and Beast Boy was still just watching me. Cyborg had walked over to a part of the grass and I noticed something white from the corner of my eyes. I looked down, confused.

"What's this?" I asked, pointing to the four lines that ran across the grass. They were like the lines you'd make on a baseball field, but more in the shape of a basketball court. And it was just an outline, nothing was inside of it like a basketball court.

Beast Boy looked down as well and saw the lines. "Oh, that's just for when we play fighting games, things like that."

At the mention of these games, Cyborg's adrenaline spiked. I did not understand. What could he have gotten so excited about so suddenly?

I decided just to run with it. Cyborg grinned at me. "Hey, Raven, I got an idea for how you can show me your powers."

I was curious as to his idea. But Beast Boy's eyes narrowed. Apparently he didn't approve of Cyborg's idea, whatever it was. They were both one step ahead of me though. "No, Cyborg."

"Was I asking you? I don't think so." He looked back at me. "Raven, how would you like to play a game with me?"

"A fighting game?" Now I knew why Beast Boy didn't approve. He wanted to protect me, I guessed. Was I still in bad shape from him knocking me out? I asked him as much very quietly, so Cyborg couldn't hear.

He flinched at the mention but shook his head. "No, but . . . I-."

"So I can run?" I questioned.

"Well yeah but-!"

"Then why shouldn't I play Cyborg?" I asked, genuinely curious. Did he have a reason?

Beast Boy frowned, "Never mind." He suddenly walked over to Cyborg, muttering something to him that I couldn't hear. Cyborg held his hands up, a nervous smile on his face before Beast Boy, formerly leaning forward, stepped back and headed back towards me, as if nothing happened.

"Hey, don't worry Raven, I'll make sure not to hurt you," Cyborg called to me from across the arena. Is that what Beast Boy had warned him about?

Beast Boy then leaned towards me and whispered. "It's not you I'm worried about."

I giggled a little before turning back to stand at the very edge of the arena, like Cyborg was. Beast Boy walked away from me and towards the left side, in the middle, out of the way. He held a hand up. "The objective of the game is to knock your opponent out of the arena, or out of the box for three seconds. Got it Raven?" I nodded. "Okay, on your mark, get set, go!"

Cyborg's right hand suddenly changed into a cannon, much to my amazement. It then began charging with a bright blue, neon colored energy and it was aimed directly at me. I darted away just in time. That would have surely knocked me out of the arena. This fire and dodge game went on for a few minutes before Beast Boy began cheering.

"Come on Raven, show him what you got!" He encouraged.

I stopped, turning to look at him.

Beast Boy:

As soon as I began cheering, I felt horrible. Cyborg seemed to take this as a moment to strike, her being distracted by me. My eyes widened as I saw (in slow motion from the sudden adrenaline rush I felt at the urge to protect her, for obvious reasons although I couldn't because it was against game rules) him raise his cannon towards her. Before I could even blink it was fired and Raven began turning. But it was too late. There was no way she could dodge that.

I felt bad again at this next part. I'd underestimated her.

Raven's eyes turned a bright white, like they had in the forest as her head turned. Just as it seemed the blue was about to hit her, it stopped. Just stopped. Right there. Then I noticed that it hadn't actually just stopped, her hand was in front of it and there was a black wall around it. Cyborg's color was just kind of making it look invisible because it was drowning her color out. Raven's hand suddenly pointed out, her fingertips aiming at Cyborg. The tin-man himself was in such shock by the time he snapped out of it he had no time to move before it hit him straight in the chest.

I gaped at this before shouting out. "One! . . . Two! . . . Three!" Then, for my own amusement. "Four! . . . Five! . . . Six!"

"Okay Beast Boy, I think we got it." Raven said, amused as she rolled her eyes at me. I grinned at her.

"You think we should check on him?" I asked, both of us looking at Cyborg. His head was rolling around, as if he was seriously dizzy and his eyes were closed. Raven's blast had actually knocked him out of the arena and into a tree, a couple feet away from the ending line for his side. That was funny. Raven had won and done it with a double bonus of doing both things you had to do to win the game.

Raven shrugged. "Why not?"

We headed over together until we were both looming over him, curious as to whether he was okay or not.

"Eh, did I break him?" Raven asked beside me.

"Uh," I looked him in the eye to see if he had a concussion. It didn't look like it, but I wasn't so sure if that meant he was okay. "I don't think so."

"Really?" She questioned again, flicking his head. We got no response. "Cause, it kind of looks like it."

"Hm," I glared at him, squatting so I was face-to-face with him. His back was against the tree, his legs out to the side. "Hey Cyborg?" Nothing. "Cyborg!?" Still nothing. "CYBORG!"

This got a jolt out of him and I stepped away. He sat up shortly after, on his own, rubbing his head.

He groaned. "Ow, what happened?"

Raven and I shared a look before I smirked at the big guy. "Let's just say Raven won."

Cyborg let out another groan. "Ow, my head."

"Here, let me help."

We both looked at Raven. "What can you do?" Cyborg demanded.

Raven held out her hands above his head. "You'll see."

I waited a moment, listening to her chanting under her breath. Then this odd blue glow surrounded her hands and my eyes widened. She was still chanting very quietly, but even I could hardly hear it, let alone anyone. Soon though, the purple bruise slowly growing on Cyborg's head disappeared. It was like watching evaporating water sped up. It was not something Beast Boy had expected. As Raven removed her hands, they both stared at her.

"Better?" She asked, as if pretending this was normal. Wait, was it normal for her to do things like that?

Cyborg nodded dumbly at this and Raven turned back to Beast Boy with a small smirk. She reached a finger out and pushed his jaw shut with her index finger. He felt embarrassed. He hadn't realized his jaw had dropped.

"You're welcome," She said before turning back to Cyborg. "Can you get up?"

"What? Oh, yeah, I'm fine, thanks by the way." The metal man said, standing.

"That's-," she began. A twig snapped behind is. In our talking and my staring at Raven, I had not noticed others approaching.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?"

I turned at once, surprise. "Oh, hey guys," I said.

Argent, the one who had spoken, was now giving Raven a speculating look. Raven looked a little nervous but did not move. Her hood was still above her head. I then realized the only one who had actually seen her face was me, since the whole time she'd been with Cyborg and at this moment, her hood covered the majority of her face.

"Hello Beast Boy, Cyborg," Red X said, his voice flat. I wasn't exactly best friends with the guy, but hey, we both had something in common. The Teen Titans hated both of us. But right now I was a little irritated with him. The look he was giving Raven had visibly made her cringe, just a little. But with my eyes, I noticed.

Then, to my relief, Kole, one of the nicest girls you could ever meet, stepped out of the group and practically skipped over to Raven. Kole moved very gracefully, even for someone so light and young. She was smiling and Raven seemed to relax a little, even though she was being approached by a stranger.

Kole leaned in towards Raven, and Raven blinked surprised. After studying her for a moment, Kole returned to an upright position and gave Raven her space. "Am I to assume that you are Raven?" Raven nodded.

"So, Beast Boy finally found you, did he?" Aqualad questioned, looking at me. I nodded.

"That's great!" Kole shouted, still in front of us. She held a hand out. "Sorry for not introducing myself, I'm Kole. That's Argent, Aqualad, Red X, Mammoth, See-More, and Gizmo." Everyone thankfully nodded as they were named, not relying on Kole's pointing skills.

"Oh, hey, where's-?" I noticed someone was missing. There was still one more person Raven hadn't met yet.

"I'm here, shut your trap!" A voice snapped at me, pushing through the bushes near the house. I laughed. She was always-. I then noticed Raven gasp, and her eyes visibly widened.

I was worried. "You okay?" I whispered to her.

Raven didn't reply until the absent party came fully out of the bushes, not paying attention. She probably had no idea of my guest. She was too busy dusting herself off. When she looked up though and saw Raven, needless to say, their reactions were not what we expected.

Raven:

Oh my god. No way was this happening. No freaking way. And yet there she was, right in front of me. And then I felt oddly smug, through my shock.

I'd been right.

"Jinx?" Kole asked, having wandered over to the equally stunned enchantress and now looking from me to her repeatedly. "What's going on?"

We both snapped out of it at that and began approaching each other cautiously.

As we neared a yard apart from each other, on the arena unintentionally now, we stopped, just looking at each other.

"Well?" She demanded. "Aren't you going to say it?"

"Say what?" I snapped back. "We clearly both know I was right. No point in scolding you for it. I'm not Robin." I then barred my teeth at her. "Does Kid Flash know about this, or are you the only traitor?" I hissed, my eyes narrowing.

She seemed angry at my accusation as well. "He knows I'm doing something, but not what. And that's none of your business, Raven." She looked over my shoulder. At Beast Boy, no doubt. She then returned her gaze to me. "You aren't exactly being faithful to your lovely team either by being here."

"I wasn't the one who joined the Titans off their own accord. I was assigned by birth. You, on the other hand, had a choice. Or did you do it just for fun and didn't take it seriously, like everything else you do!?"

I never got mad. But her betrayal of my mother was just too much. She'd crossed a line and we both knew it. There was no escaping what would happen. Not to mention we'd both agreed on it years ago.

Flashback:

"I know you're hiding something," I stated casually, picking at a flower as we sat next to each other outside the castle on the hill in the garden.

Jinx smirked at me. "And what would that be?" I shrugged. She turned away, calm again and we sat in silence for a moment or two.

"Are you ever going to tell me?" I finally asked.

She turned to look at me. Then smiled. "Tell you what, Ravie," I growled at the nickname, but she ignored me. "I'll tell you everything if you ever can actually figure out what my little secret is and then beat me in a fight, okay?"

"So you do have a secret, you just won't tell me?" She nodded. "Okay. Deal."

We shook hands.

End Flashback.

As if remembering it at the same time she reached into her back pocket and pulled out three little black and pink balls, her signature colors.

"You know the rules," She reminded me. I nodded.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

The smoke went up and covered the arena. We darted away from everybody, running side by side and hearing the coughing and shouts of confusion at the sudden blind effect. By the time Jinx and I skidded to a stop, we were well away from the crowd of people. No one would be stopping us anytime soon. We began circling each other.

"You've been feeding them information, haven't you? That's how he eluded them for so long," I accused.

Jinx laughed at me. "He's smart, but I did have to help him every now and then."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." Then she stopped, with a smirk. "But don't thank me yet."

Her palms flipped towards me and I rolled away, sending my own magic. They collided and made a rather large explosion, sending us skidding backwards. We both eventually stopped before racing towards each other once again.

At the last second though, she leaped over my head, rolling all the way until she turned and was behind me. But I knew Jinx style, I already had a plan. I jumped to the side and kicked my leg out, knocking her off her feet and onto the floor. She pushed herself off the floor with her hands before leaping away from me before I could do further damage to her. But I'd expected that too.

Grabbing hold of her wrist with my powers, I flung her into a nearby tree, and then another one until I let her drop to the floor. I made no move to approach her, but stood ready, waiting for her to get up or try to. She did not. She went for the cheap shot.

Jinx flipped her hands towards me, knocking me into a tree myself. I got up soon after and saw her still struggling on the floor.

"Give up yet?" I called to her. There was no 'silent' rule for giving up. She had to say it or I'd keep attacking her.

With a loud grunt she hoisted herself to her feet, unsteadily, but determined. "Not . . . yet," She panted.

After ten more minutes of needless fighting, I managed to pin her to a wall of trees and bushed with her hands incapacitated (they had been my main target, and now probably ached) beyond use. Finally she sighed, giving up her pointless struggle.

"Fine, I give. You win." She grumbled, unhappily.

I let her go. She dropped to the floor. "Do you want me to heal you?"

She sighed again, leaning against the trees. "Sure, why not?"

Raven sat down on her knees, in front of her, beginning to heal Jinx's wounds. Slowly the enchantresses body was beginning to cool, and she began talking.

"I joined the Titans to protect my friends, not betray your mom for fun. I never meant to do that, plus she's strictly off limits for any of us to hurt her. Okay?" I nodded, and Jinx continued talking as I healed her. "I actually met Kid Flash before the Teen Titans ever took me in. It was under his suggestion that I joined. I told him, well, hinted that I was a bad guy, but he hinted back that he would never know a thing and so long as no one got hurt from whatever I was doing, that he didn't know about, no one would ever know. Except for you." She glared at me. "Now you know. So what're you gonna do? Tell on me? Rat me out?"

I thought about this before saying, "I won't tell a soul if you answer some questions for me."

"Sure . . ." Jinx said reluctantly.

"They're not about you or Kid Flash." She sighed in relief. "What was Beast Boy like when I wasn't there?"

"He never mentioned you to me and I was hardly here anyways, otherwise I could have just freaking TOLD him." She growled, but then sighed. "From what the others tell me, he was really moody and depressed. Kind of like you in a bad mood," I nodded. I didn't take offense to it. It was true. "But, well, he never did. And you never told me so, well, this could have been over a lot sooner." She pointed out, but I gave her a warning look to continue. "Okay, well, yeah. He just wasn't . . .happy."

"Oh," We looked up at the sound of shouting.

"Jinx!?"

"Raven!?

"Guys, where the hell are you?"

"You out there?"

We looked at each other and I stopped my healing. She was all better now.

"Well, you think we have some explaining to do?" I asked.

She shrugged, I helped her stand. "I don't think it's any of there business, do you?"

I grinned.

Beast Boy:

I had no freaking idea what they were talking about. It was confusing me. Did Jinx know Raven? It seemed like it.

The exchange of taunts and threats was odd. I'd never seen Raven so angry. It was a different side of her. There was some mention about some guy named Kid Flash and apparently he was something special to Jinx. I wondered if Raven noticed, but her fingers were crackling pink sparks. They mentioned me too, Jinx looking over at me before Raven retorted something about the Teen Titans. Then it hit me. Jinx, an undercover member of the Teen Titans. Raven, formerly a real member of the Teen Titans, just found out Jinx works and is friends with the 'bad guys'.

Oh, this could not be good.

Then, to everyone's shock, Jinx dropped unseen, even by me, smoke bombs that blinded us all, making everyone start coughing in raging fits. But through my coughs and even the smoke, I saw a spark of pink, then a blue cloak, race off to the right. I stumbled after them and made it just in time to see them disappear. It was a couple minutes before we recovered enough to the point where we could chase after them. But they could be anywhere by now!

"Where-!?" I began.

The floor shook as, off in the distance to the left of where we were facing, a huge explosion erupted in the forest. Everyone, including myself, were shocked. Were Raven and Jinx really that pissed at each other? I knew no one but myself and Cyborg knew that Raven was a Teen Titan, so they were clueless as to why the two of them were now in a 'who-can-kill-who-first-match', but that wasn't important.

"Raven!" I shouted out, over the explosion. I then charged after it, despite the long distance, I was very desperate to get there. So desperate I forgot to change.

By the time we got there, I was once again seriously confused. Everyone else came shortly after.

The two girls were just standing there, waiting for us. Jinx had her hip out with one hand placed upon it and Raven with her arms crossed. They seemed . . . bored?

"Alright what the hell guys!?" Cyborg shouted.

The two girls simply looked at each other before shrugging.

"Nothing," they replied in unison before walking past us. I then noticed how beat up Jinx's clothes were.

I decided to ask Raven later before we all reluctantly followed them.

So, you all know Jinx's secret now! Don't you like how Raven totally owned her? And I wanted to get my daily update done early to finish my homework (YAY FOUR DAY WEEKEND) because I missed school two days last week for being sick. UGH! Make-up work.

Anyways, hope you liked this chapter. And Raven's absolute ownage of everybody.

Later!