Whoo! I have my second chapter ready. I was writing it in the middle of French class when I should have been reviewing for my finals…oh well, I'm good at French anyways (cough-cough) Well I hope you like it. Oh their ages are pushed up a bit.
Raven: 17
BB: 17
Cyborg: 19
Robin: 18
Starfire: 18
Rolyn out!
Mommy!
"Friend Raven, do you wish to join me in the braiding of the hair as we partake in the female bonding ritual known as hanging out?" Starfire questioned poking the violet haired girl on the head, gently nudging it in the process. Raven's eyes slowly cracked, but only so far that her eyes were narrowed. Her concentration melted away all too quickly. A rush of annoyance came over the gray skinned girl as she placed her hands into her folded lap and lowered herself onto the ground out of her levitation so that she was sitting on the floor of the common room.
Starfire tilted her head innocently with a bright hopeful smile on her face. Raven almost felt guilty that she had her intentions on declining the alien girls offer and go off in search of another room where she would be able to meditate without any disturbances; also braiding hair didn't seem all that appealing when it came to the way the Tamaranean princess handled hair. Raven would have predicted that at some point she would face the issue of someone interrupting her, and she would have avoided the idea of coming to the common room where most of the other Titans gathered, but situating herself before the large window wall before the tranquil Jump City bay seemed an appealing spot to relax for a while.
She had gone a good solid twenty minutes without a single issue coming her way and after that she felt confident that people were finally getting the idea that she was trying to concentrate. Her friends should be able to understand by now that she liked her alone time. They had been together for four years. Oh, how wrong was she?
"Star," Raven began closing her eyes casually and pulling some stray hair behind her ear. "I was sort of busy with my meditation…maybe some other time." She finished in the calmest and nicest way she could; in other words she said it in her normal monotone.
Starfire pouted lightly, having already prepared if her friend had agreed. Raven's almost guilt practically ate away at her conscious trying to get her to cave since she always wanted her friends to be happy. The empath sighed in defeat as she rose to her feet, unwilling to let her bad feelings get to her for blowing off her friend was just not her thing.
"Star I guess…"
Raven was cut clear off as the entire room was illuminated by a flashing red light and an overbearing alarm rang throughout the entire tower. Raven sighed thankfully as Starfire floated over to Cyborg to see what the issue was. The common room doors soon hissed open and in came running the team leader, also known as Robin. Raven followed their example and floated over to be briefed on the situation. Nobody even noticed they were short by one member.
Cyborg was typing away at the main computer; glancing up at the screen every few seconds. He was at it very quickly since he was close by because he was focused on playing video games for the last three hours. He had stolen the video game out a certain Changelings room while he was sleeping and could not be torn away from it unless he won…or he got hungry...oh yea and in case of an emergency, can't forget about those!
"What do we have?" Robin asked as he gazed up at the screen. A full scale video soon dominated the television screen and giving the four Titans a clear view of what was causing the disturbance in the city. A large glowing black portal had opened up in the heart of Jump City and was eating up anything that was too close. People were running away from its strong pull, trying to escape being sucked up by an unknown portal, but the real situation was that the portal had torn away at a building swallowing its entire side and threatening to pull the people situated inside.
What clicked first was the energy the portal seemed to made from. It was identical to Raven's energy that she used in battle; black with a white glow tracing it. All eyes turned to Raven who looked just as confused as the rest of them. She flipped her cloak over her shoulder and crossed her arms and frowned at the fact that her friends could actually believe she was responsible for this.
"What?" She questioned. "It's not me. We're not even in the city." She deadpanned. The others remained silent before Robin gave his command.
"Okay we have to act fast, Titans Go!"
Starfire, Robin and Cyborg all made a run for the door before it finally occurred to them.
"Wait, where's BB?" Cyborg asked. Robin stopped for a moment and turned to Raven who was still situated in her same spot having yet to move. Without a word she spoke.
"Oh let me get him pretty please." She said sarcastically as she mocked enthusiasm. Robin shrugged.
"Meet us as soon as you have him." He ordered. Raven nodded and allowed her shadow to engulf her as she disappeared into the floor only to teleport into another part of the Tower as her friends went off to take care of the issue in the city.
She reappeared in a hall, right in front of a door that had Beast Boy crudely painted across the front. Raven didn't even bother to knock; she phased through the door preparing herself to enter the dirtiest place in the Tower. She kept her feet off the ground by floating above the mess by a few inches. The room was dark due to the fact that the curtains were drawn and all light sources were shut off. Raven floated over to the windows and pulled back the curtains to let the sun pour into the room. She glanced at Beast Boy's bed, no longer a bunk bed, but a full sized bed that was at least four feet from the ground, and there he slept, half laying off the side.
Raven rolled her eyes. His mouth was hung open and his head hung upside down off the side as well. She glanced at his digital clock which rested on the desk on the opposite wall to his bed and it read half past noon. Beast Boy hasn't been up at all that morning.
She sighed as her eyes scanned the room for what she needed and she finally located it. She picked up the toy monkey and wound it up a few times before placing by one the Changelings big ears and letting it go off.
"Help me! Help me! Help me count! 1, 2, 3, 4…"
"AHHHHHHHHH!!"
Beast Boy's all too sensitive ears caught the annoying chiming monkey ten times louder than a normal persons, sending him into a state of shock as he was scared out of his sleep. He fell to the floor with a loud thud and became entangled in his green bed sheets. The fall must have hurt due to the height of the bed and this made Raven smirk.
The green skinned boy fought to escape his bed sheets for a good three minutes before he finally was able to escape and stand to his feet with slight difficulty. The scene was quite comical and any person would have laughed at the scene, but Raven isn't any person. She kept her laughter bottled up and just continued to smirk.
"Good you're up." She stated simply. He narrowed his emerald eyes at her in a glare but she paid no mind to it. He was the least bit threatening right now.
"Thanks for the nice wake up call." He said sarcastically as he picked up his bed sheets and set them back on his bed.
"Welcome." She retorted matching his sarcasm. "You slept through the alarm, there's trouble in the city."
"Whatever…" The seventeen year old grumbled as he rubbed his eyes. Only Azar knows how he can still be tired after sleeping for at least twelve hours. Raven turned to leave but before she did she smirked yet again and turned to face him.
"Oh here's another idea, why don't you get dressed instead of saving the day in you leopard boxers." She chuckled lightly before exiting the room. The small pink tint that ran across her face went unnoticed as Beast Boy looked down and noticed that he was in fact in nothing but his leopard print boxers. He flushed in embarrassment as he went into his closet for one of his suits.
Raven leaned against the wall next to Beast Boy's door as she waited for him to finish getting dressed. She was proud of the witty remark she had made just now, but that didn't take away from the fact that she had just seen him half naked. She had to give him credit; all those years of training certainly paid off and showed perfectly through his defined muscles. Puberty had been very kind to him as well…except the way he towered over her with his new height…that certainly got on her nerves. He was different; with his old fangs being replaced by much larger and sharper ones and his green hair growing out a bit resembling Robins to some extent except for the fact that it now grazed over one eye.
His door slid open and he stepped out fully dressed and ready to go. He blinked in surprise when he noticed that she had waited.
"Clothes? Nice choice." She said sarcastically. He smirked.
"Oh come on Raven, you know you liked what you saw." Beast Boy taunted crossing his arms over his chest. Raven rolled her eyes.
"Sure, keep telling yourself that." She muttered pulling her hood over head using her powers. She then began to fly down the hall at top speed. Beast Boy quickly followed by turning into an eagle.
Starfire set the two people she had been carrying, on the ground a safe distance from the matter eating portal. She and Robin have been trying to get people from the collapsing buildings as far as they needed to be while Cyborg tried to figure out how to stop and/or close the portal but one thing became apparent: they needed Raven.
Beast Boy was also needed because there were dozens of people in need of help and only two Titans available to help them.
"Friend Cyborg, have you figured out anything yet?" Starfire asked as she came back to retrieve more people. Cyborg shook his head. He was behind a building that had yet to be pulled apart to make sure he was not sucked as well.
"No, this isn't anything caused by technology or natural occurrences. This is magic, we need…"
"I got it." Raven said as she appeared next to Cyborg with Beast Boy by her side. He sighed in relief and Raven went off. She flew towards the portal carefully, not wanting to be sucked in. She recognized this kind of portal. It was similar to the one she used to get to her home planet to escape her father, however this one had a different purpose than teleportation. It was time travel. Raven had to close it, unsure of what could be trying to come from the past or future.
"Azarath…Metrion…Zynth…"
"AHHHHHHHHH!!" The mixed high pitched screams came from the portal and got louder and louder by the second before something…or rather someone came shooting out the portal at mock ten. The impacted with Raven knocking the wind out of her and throwing her back into the concrete street, but as soon as the two screaming people were out, the portal began to shrink and close.
Raven groaned in pain and shook her head. She put a hand to her throbbing head and the pain seeped away as she healed herself. She tried to get up but was pinned down by two people in cloaks; one green, one indigo. By their size they were either young or really small adults.
The pair also groaned in pain shaking off the after effects of the sudden impact and the indigo hooded one opened her amethyst eyes only for them to widen in shock.
"Mommy!!" She cried as she dived at hug Raven, her hood being blown back in the process to reveal her green skin and shoulder length green hair.
All done! Please Review if you wish to know what happens next! Thank you for reading!
