A/N: Sorry for making you wait if you were. And thanks for reviewing Paramore. =)

Chapter 2 of Artistic Things and Castling Kings

"It's none of your business!!" She yelled furiously.

She held him with her dark powers and threw him out into the hallway. Before he had even fallen to the floor, the doors had closed.

With a crash, Cyborg fell to the floor. "Yowch!" He yelled, as his head hit the wall. He held the area where it hurt with his eyes closed, propped up against the floor.

A whistling Beast Boy turned down the hall where Cyborg was, and as he saw Cyborg in front of Raven's room on the floor, he whistled noticeably louder and walked by. But then he laughed, turning back and pulling his friend up.

"Cyborg!" He shook his head, "Shame on you, you know better than to go into Raven's room."

"Well maybe if you weren't making so much noise, I wouldn't have had to go in there."

"So, what was she doing in there?" Beast Boy asked.

"She was, uh…" Cyborg looked around for a few moments, "reading a book." He finished.

His green friend looked at him quizzically. "Why'd you hesitate?" He asked.

"I didn't hesitate." Cyborg said quickly.

Beast Boy squinted his eyes, looking directly into Cyborg's, trying to see if he was hiding anything. He returned his eyes back to normal and Cyborg slowly sighed, thinking he'd just passed a test.

"I'll be watching you." Beast Boy said, using his index and middle finger to point at his eyes then at Cyborg's.

He walked backwards and turned around a corner. And his head popped out of the corner, making sure nothing had happened after his brief absence, and then went back.

Cyborg looked at the end of the hallway where Beast Boy's head had just disappeared from, with one eyebrow up. He turned around and walked down the hall.

He didn't want to tell Beast Boy what Raven had behind her; after all, she did want to keep it hidden …

***

(At dinner.)

"Can we start now?!" An impatient green teen said, with an outstretched groan.

"Not yet Beast Boy, Raven's not here." Robin said.

They were sitting around their dining table, waiting for a certain dark teammate to show up.

"Yes," Said Starfire, who was sitting beside Robin. "we must wait for our friend Rav-

She was cut off by a yelling Beast Boy; "RAAAVEEENNN!!!! WE'RE STARTING DINNER AND I'M HUNGRY!!!" He had his hands cupped around his mouth.

"Beast Boy!" Said Robin sternly. "You interrupted Starfire and DON'T SCREAM!!"

Starfire just sat between the two, very lost.

Cyborg, on the other side of Starfire, sighed. "I'll go get her." He said, unheard by the two yelling teammates.

"Yes!" said Starfire. "I can show her my artistic creations."

"Uh, sure thing Star, whatever you say." Said Cyborg, who was now at the door.

The walk from the main room to Raven's was a quiet one. Well, not exactly, because you could still hear the voices of two loud teens.

As he got to Raven's door the noise faded away. He stopped and took a deep breath.

"Here goes." He said under his breath.

He walked forward and jumped back, expecting sharp spikes to block the doorway, but, no spikes, he noticed, surprised. He walked in and looked to the corner where Raven had her back to him.

"Um, I'm here to tell you that dinner is starting so, yeah. Dinner is… starting."

She turned around to look at him. "That's not really why you're here, is it?" She asked him.

"It is, it actually i-"

"You came into my room twice today." She said, cutting him off with her emotionless tone.

"Yeah, isn't that funny?" He said. "I didn't even realize that," he slapped his forehead, "haha." But of course he knew. Going into Raven's room wasn't something you did everyday.

"You know Cyborg," She continued, "I think you're forgetting that it is forbidden to enter my room." She said, getting angrier by every word that escaped her mouth.

"All right Raven, now you're really starting to scare me." He said, taking a step back.

"Twice!" She said, anger boiling up inside her, "In one day!"

Before she could say another word, she was interrupted by Cyborg.

His eyes were upon the objects of last time, which were, just like last time, behind Raven.

"Wha-?" She said, forgetting her anger and looking back behind her. But he had already started walking toward her bed again.

"Raven, why don't you just tell me what it is? It's been bugging me all day."

"All right fine." She said.

Cyborg instantly became surprised at how fast she gave up. And then to Raven's surprise, he put one foot behind the other and closed his eyes tight with his arms in front of him. It looked like he was bracing himself for a collision of some sort.

Raven almost smiled at the sight of Cyborg like this. But she fought it back; "What are you doing?" She asked, forcing her usual tone.

Hearing this, Cyborg brought his arms down and opened his eyes slowly.

He chuckled, "I thought I was gonna be tricked again."

He laughed, and it was surprisingly challenging for Raven not to laugh at this like him.

"So you're really going to show me?" He asked, getting excited with a smile on his face.

"Don't make me change my mind." She said, giving him a stern look.

"Oh, right." He said, trying to look like Raven. (Expressionless.)

She moved aside and let him see the mysterious objects.

He stared at it, not knowing what to say, then he looked at Raven.

"It's called ________."

"Oh…" He said. "What exactly is a _________?"

(A/N: Lol I'm not that mean.)

"Chess is an old game, I'm not sure about its origins, but I know some basics about the game…"

"So it's a game huh…"

"Yeah, there's 64 squares on a chess board" she held up the board and showed him the squares, "and 32 pieces. 16 of these pieces are black, and 16 are white. They're placed at the opposite end of the board. If the white pieces are on this side," she gave him an example, placing the pieces quickly, "like this, then the black pieces," she placed the black pieces, "are over here."

"Wow." he said softly. He was now sitting on her bed while she explained.

"You see, chess is like a game of war, one army on each side, you are the one in control, you control your army, so it depends on your skill if you win, or lose. It's a challenging game, you must think twice before you act, or else it will cost you." She said, flicking one of the kings off the board with her finger. "Dearly."

Now Cyborg was really interested, he stared at her. She played with the pieces; she looked as though she was deep in thought over her own words. Clearly, there was more to this game than what meets the eye. Sure, at first sight, it's just a couple of pieces and a board, but when you take time to think about it...

He looked down at a piece and picked it up to examine it. He put his finger around it, he couldn't feel it. He hadn't felt anything for a long time. (His hands were covered with the gloves.) But still, he looked at it closely. It had a round head with a tiny edge that went all around under it.

"How do you use this one?" He asked Raven, holding it up for her to see.

"Well that piece, is a pawn." She said.

"A pawn." He repeated softly.

"That pawn," she took it from him and placed it on one of the squares, "has 7 companions, and they're all placed on the second before last row. Well, there's actually 16 of them. 8 white, and 8 black."

"You can do many things with a pawn, you can promote it, you can use it to capture another piece, you can also...

She went on, explaining the different things you could do with a pawn, and other pieces as well.

In fact, she went on and explained the whole game, and how to play it. When she finished after her long explanation, there was a long silence.

Cyborg just stared at the board which was now carrying all the pieces. They were all placed correctly, looking like two armies face to face, about to start a deadly war.

"That's crazy." He said finally, in amazement.

"That's chess." She corrected him with a small grin on her face.

***

(Back at the main room.)

"Awwww, they're never gonna come!!" Beast Boy groaned.

A/N: Lol they're still waiting for Raven and Cyborg to come eat with them. Well anyways, sorry for not making this any longer, but it seems like the more I write the less words there are. Hehehe, anyways, I hope I didn't destroy a great opportunity to write a nice chapter with this one.

So yeah, tell me what you thought of these two chapters or just this chapter. :) ^_^ =D :D