A/N: I'm really sorry for making you wait, please don't abandon the story. I was just doing some stuff. But I didn't forget about this.

Chapter 3 of Artistic Things and Castling Kings

"That's crazy."

"That's chess… now get out."

Cyborg had almost forgotten who's room he was currently in.

"Huh?"

"You heard me, now get out."

"B-b-but wait! I wanna see how you actually play this game."

Raven raised an eyebrow.

"What?" He said defensively.

"All right, one game," His face lit up, "one fast game."

"All right, I don't care. Let's play."

For a while, Raven wondered what he was doing when he was looking at the pieces in a funny way and then at the board. But then she understood why. He was new at this.

"I've got the pawns set up."

"I'll place them for you."

"No don't!" He said quickly, stopping her hands from taking the pieces. "I'll remember." He looked at the rooks. "Oh yeah, these go at the corners. And these…" When he finally placed them all, Raven corrected him.

"You misplaced the king and queen. Queen on her color, remember?"

"Do now." He said, switching his king and queen.

"Ok, let's play." He said, feeling excited to start his first chess game. He put out his hand and held a piece, but was stopped by a pale one.

"White starts first." She said.

She put one of her middle pawns two squares forward.

"Bold move Raven, bold move." He said, shaking his head slowly.

"Just play." She said, using her usual tone.

He laughed. The excited blue friend thought about his first move.

"Hmmmmm." He took out a knight and placed it in front of a pawn.

Raven did the same.

He then moved his pawn out in front two squares.

The game went on like this until one of Raven's pieces took one of his.

"Oops, bad move…" He said. These words were one of the few that were spoken during the game as Raven was a very quiet person. But even if Cyborg had been playing with someone else, he wouldn't have talked much because during the middle of the game, he began to concentrate harder.

"I wonder how come I never heard of this game before." He said.

"We live in a tower, away from some common things to average people. There are some things we may not know."

"Then how come I never saw it on TV?"

"You play your usual pointless video game. I fail to see how you would ever stumble upon this."

"So how did you hear about it?"

"I read about it." She moved her queen and took a pawn of his.

"So, since when did you know about this?"

"Enough questions," she said with her tone, "it's your turn."

"All right, all right, I'm moving…"

Cyborg was a beginner at chess, but Raven was surprised that he was doing ok for a first time. But she didn't tell him so. She just kept her silence and a hand supporting her head as she leaned in to look down on the board.

The pieces were scattered all a round, as if an army would be on a field. The funny thing Cyborg noticed was that just by looking, you could see who's army was advancing and who's was staying back, trying to defend rather than attack.

She drummed her fingers impatiently and looked up at him.

So he moved one of his rooks, and took her second bishop. For a brief moment, she was surprised, but she hid it well because Cyborg didn't seem to notice anything.

No way am I going to lose against a newbie. She thought to herself, now focusing even harder on the game. She thought about her next move carefully, thinking about everything that could happen. She paid special attention to her queen.

She had lost her bishop, she had forgotten about it all hidden away in the corner. She was focusing around the center of the board where she thought everything was happening.

The game went on like that. At the end, Raven was still surprised that Cyborg was this good for a beginner. But like she had expected, she had won. She felt… "happy?" for finally playing against someone and for winning. But she didn't show it.

Cyborg sat there and just stared at the finishing picture. He couldn't believe it, he could have prevented that. If only he'd paid attention to his king! It had been trapped in the area it was meant to be safe in. He had castled at the beginning of the game just like Raven had showed him to, but he had forgotten to make sure that his king would have an escape route.

It was behind three pawns, all aligned in single form horizontally. And it had nowhere to go, well, it did have someplace to go, but that place was covered by a rook.

"Checkmate." She said.

"Yeah." He said softly. "Now it's my turn." He said quickly, placing the pieces now even faster than he had the first time.

Before she could even refuse, he had moved his white pawn two squares up. She sighed, "One more game."

2 hours 26 minutes and 4 games later

Raven's eyes drooped. But with a little jolt, they opened. But her eyelids seemed to be getting heavier and heavier by the minute.

"Come on Raven! It's your turn."

"I know. I need to meditate. We've been playing for hours."

He looked at her with no expression.

"Hours."

He still looked at her the same way.

"HOURS!" She finally yelled. Trying to get her point across. But he still looked at her like nothing had changed. She gave up and closed her eyes for a few seconds. She tried to meditate right there.

Azera-

"Really?" Cyborg's voice said, interrupting her, my right arm says differently.

She opened her eyes to a still awakened Cyborg. He was staring at his right arm where his time must have been set up.

"My computers tell me that we've been playing this –fascinating – game for 1 hour and 27 minutessssssssssssssssss now!" He said, telling her the exact moment they'd reached 27.

"The point is..." her eyes closed, "we've been playing…" she sighed, "for… a… lo… long… ti…" She never finished that sentence because she fell face-flat right on the chessboard in deep sleep.

"Oh no!!" Cyborg yelled in horror. "How will we finish the chess game?? You fell on the pieces! Raven?... Raven? He didn't realize she was tired enough to fall asleep anywhere.

"Wait a second." He lifted her head slowly. As he lifted it, it came into view, bringing a scene so funny Cyborg had to hold his mouth with one of his gloved hands to stop from laughing.

This was the funniest state he had ever seen his dark friend in. Her mouth was curved upwards as he was pulling her head up, and her eyes closed, making a funny picture. For a second, Cyborg's red eye flashed with a white bright light. He wondered why this happened, but he decided he'd look into it later.

So our friend Cyborg picked up Raven easily and put her down softly and gently correctly on her bed. He had to look around to find the pieces because they had scattered all over Raven's bed when she had fallen on them. But when he found them all, he put them on the board and the board beside her bed.

Well, his job here had been done. He saluted farewell to Raven even though she couldn't see it and turned around to leave. He took a first step and then-

DOOM!

He had tripped on something! And now he was on the floor, staring at the floor, because he had fell on his face.

Behind he could hear stirring and Raven's voice.

"Who's there!?" She said in a stern voice. Then she saw Cyborg getting up.

"Cyborg?" She said, not understanding why he would be there. "What are you doing in my room?!"

Uh oh. He thought, this isn't good.

"Were you looking through my stuff?" She said, getting up. Her eyes flashed bright red.

"No Raven, I swear."

She yelled and threw him out with her powers. For the second time that day – if it was still before midnight, which it probably wasn't – he had been kicked out of Raven's room and had crashed into the wall in front of her door.

"Ouch." Was all he could say.

He got up and dusted himself off, before hearing a swooshing sound. For a second he actually thought that Raven had come to the door, but it was someone else whose room was quite close by.

Starfire walked out of her room and turned down the corridor where her blue friend had just got up. She was holding several papers that Cyborg guessed were more drawings she had made. He remembered the nice ones he'd saw at her room, like the waterfall and the pond…

"Oh, hello friend Cyborg!" She said, cheerful as always, knocking him out of an internal memory slideshow he was having. "I was going to present my artistic creations to our friend Raven. Is she still awake?"

"Um… I don't know, but I wouldn't go in after what I just did. You should just give her some time to cool off. He showed her an angry looking Raven as an example.

Starfire giggled. "Oh you are being silly."

"But Star, I seriously recommend that you –"

"Do not worry, our friend will forgive you for whatever shameful act you have commited. I will now go to meet her."

"Shameful act?" He repeated, he shrugged it off and as she got in he tried to stop her. But she assured him once more and refused to listen.

Oh well, he thought, maybe she'll have more luck than I did.

In Cyborg's room

As Cyborg was plugging in a cable into himself for a recharge that he'd been waiting for, he heard a scream and a bang against a wall. Oh well, guess she didn't succeed.

A/N: Yeah I know, it was terrible wasn't it? Oh man I don't know what I was thinking.

I thought I made the chess part too boring. What do you think? Please tell me. And as for the other parts, I thought I was getting off topic. Ohhh man!!
:( Please tell me what you think. And sorry for making you wait long. O.o There will be more. (If ppl are interested.)

Thanks for reading!