AN: Holy hell this took forever! Well truth be told its been ready three separate times but it just didn't feel right. Now to make up for my slowness I hope you enjoy the slightly longer chapter and that's it. Don't 4get to review
AN2: I recently read an author's work and within it was a message. People hate being ask to review. That a reader is enraged to the point of becoming the incredible hulk by the simple phrase R&R. I'm taking a poll yo see if its true so please R&R.
Alienvspredator5- Well I'm glad you liked her. I wanted to make her to encompass all aspects of ones love, affection, lust, desire, and the boarderline obsessed. And I can honestly say I'm also very pleased they're finally together. Tanks for teh review and enjoy.
DonCossak- *Throws new chapter into lions den and quickly jumps behind flame proof wall* I still haven't the slightest clue what I'm doing here but the positive reviews keep dragging me back. So thanks for reviewing and hope you enjoy the show. Oh and as for the phase, this isn't the word for word then translation, but it essentially means "I'm going to kill her."
OH… MY… DOG? IS IT RAELLY THAT TIME AGAIN?
Starfire floated down the hallway, having nothing else to do. Robin was buried up to his eyeballs in the newest Hive case. Cyborg was busy with his new pet project, something about a rocket or something like that. BB was nowhere to be found, and Jake and Raven, well lets just say the pair had become quite close over the past week.
The pair were all but inseparable recently, and neither cared in the slightest that the whole team, sans Beastboy, knew why. The more she thought about it the crazier it seemed, with Jake's quiet nature and Raven being, well Raven, one would think they'd be more reserved than her and Robin. But as Jake often proved, one would be wrong.
Starfire came to a four way interesting hallway and found herself at a loss for where to go. She touched down and walked forward about half a step before an idea emerged. 'Maybe I should go find Beastboy, he's been awful quiet these past few days.' With the course set she spun right and continued on her merry way.
Not tens seconds past after she started off than her search ended. A green shapeshifter in the form of a humming bird raced around a corner down the hall and flew straight for her. "Greetings friend Beastb-" The bird's only response was to bank sharply as it past her, barely avoiding her head as it whizzed by. She jerked her head around just to see a ball of green feathers shoot off around a corner. Something felt off seeing BB like that, not even bothering to say hello. It made her uneasy to say the least. Wondering what was that all about, she set out to figure out what the boy had found.
Her answer came in a very unexpected form. As a wave of black energy surged down the hall, encasing everything in a cocoon of obsidian. The energy seemed to devour the light as it went leaving only cold darkness in its wake. Star didn't need to be told that wasn't a good thing and so she went the way of Beastboy, rocketing down the hall. Behind her light bulbs exploded like firecrackers serving only to convince her she to fly faster.
Drifting around a corner so fast she actually had to run on the wall she saw a glimmer of safety at the far end. Pouring everything she had into her speed she zoomed by a green bird also flying for that open door. Closer and closer it became, and yet still a seemingly impossible distance away. Hazarding a glance over her shoulder she saw the pitch maw still hot on her tail and gaining. As she looked back time seemed to crawl as she flew through the threshold.
She turned and slammed the door, as a single green bird fought its way through the darkness and avoided being caught in the closing door. Starfire sank back against the door, breathing heavily and heart racing. Beastboy was in much the same condition, crumpled in a pile on the floor. Without even lifting his head he mumbled into the floor. "Star? You alright back there?"
"Yes friend Beastboy, I am unharmed. Are you hurt?" Star responded.
"I'm good." He mumbled into the carpet. He rested a few seconds before speaking up again. "Star?"
"Yes Beastboy?"
"What the hell just happened?" He questioned.
Starfire didn't answer. In truth she was asking herself the exact same thing.
The answer to their collective question was currently pinned against a wall all the way on the other end of the tower. Raven, back flat against the hall and tongue fighting for dominance over Jake's, didn't take notice of her soul self claiming the tower for itself. Her fingers dug into his shirt, grasping to pull him closer to herself. Jake was all to happy to comply.
As they parted, both gasping for breath, Raven opened her eyes enough to notice the hell she had been inadvertently causing. A quiet gasp escaped her, and it wasn't just from where Jake's hands were venturing. "I think we to STop." Her voice cracked at Jake's provocation.
She pushed him back playfully, "Jake, if I blow up the tower then we won't have…"
"We can stay at my old place." He tossed back knowing exactly what she saying, and not wanting to stop quiet so soon.
"And the rest of the team?" She asked.
Jake sighed and seemed to concede, "Okay…" then looked back up with new born energy, "…they can share the guest room."
Raven just shoved him back again, "Your incorrigible." Jake seemed to back down a bit, understanding they needed to stop before things got out of hand. Raven closed her eyes and began a chant. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos" As she chanted the darkness started to withdrawal, slowly but surely it receded back under her cloak until finally the hall had been purged of the shadows.
Raven opened her eyes to find a war torn hallway, looking as if a bomb had went off in a munitions factory. Jake smiled at her when she finally came to, "I guess we'll need to be a bit more careful in the future."
Raven smiled back, sending a wave of energy down the hall to clean the debris off the floors. "You may have a point. Come on, there's other areas we can destroy for now." She teased.
No sooner had the words left her mouth than an alarm shattered their moment. The same thought ran through both their minds, "Fuck." With a loud sigh out of both of them they stalked off to the common room.
When all the titans arrived, some more traumatized that others, Robin brought up a map if the city on the tv screen taking up half a wall. "There've been reported attacks all over the city. We don't have a positive ID on who's behind it but whoever it is their out in force."
Cyborg looked over the map, noting the locations of all the blinking red lights, "Damn man, its like a warzone out there."
Robin nodded at him, "Cy, BB You guys take Uptown. Star and me will handle the residential neighborhood. Raven, Jake, you two got the Docks. Any questions." When no one said a word then he continued, "Titans, move out."
Raven sank into a pool of shadows momentarily leaving Jake behind. He meanwhile ventured to the kitchen to grab something he'd left there after breakfast. Three strides later he was standing before a counter reaching for that blasted chain that had broken once again.
Raven emerged beside him from a pool of black on the ground as his fist closed around the cold metal links. Without looking at it he pocketed the broken chain and shrugged on his vest that Raven had been kind enough to retrieve for him.
"You Ready?" He heard Raven call from beside him.
Out of the corner of his eye he looked at her, "When am I not?" Raven took the que and opened another portal beneath both of them. The shadows embraced them, the cold carried them and then all went black.
The journey took all of thirty seconds but in that pocket dimensions it may as well have been thirty minutes. There was nothing other than him and Raven there, yet the shadows were so thick they practically chocked you. But for every darkness there is a light that dares defy it, and this was no exception. The shinning at the edge of existence was rapidly approaching, signaling the end of their ride. As they passed unscathed through the purifying light the darkness died away and left the standing, or rather floating above the paved lots of the Jump City docks. Jake fell away and made not a sound as he took the ten foot fall with practiced ease.
Raven meanwhile took flight even higher to gain a better vantage point over the area. Her comm crackled to life as Jake's voice reported in. "LZ's clear. Moving to the warehouse, far right."
Raven looked where he was talking about and scanned the area, "Looks clear, keep your eyes open, just in case."
"Copy that. Moving." Raven watched as Jake jumped from cover and quickly made his way to the wall of the building. Edging along the sheet metal, careful as to remain silent as the grave. She was covering his advance so intently in fact that she missed that rustle of fabric in the wind behind her. Movement went unchecked until world went back and she went down.
When Jake finally rounded a corner it was into a loading yard shared with three other warehouses clustered around the courtyard. Various fork lifts and other loading equipment were parked in the back of the yard, behind a ten foot gate, and behind them. Was a single loading bay door, shutter only halfway down.
That raised a few red flags in and of itself. Plucking his comm from his belt he dialed Raven and reported his find. "Raven, got an open door on the north wall. You got anything up there?"
-Static-
That wasn't good. Jake started looking around trying to spot her signature blue cloak. "Raven, you awake up there?"
-Static-
Damn. Either she was busy and couldn't answer witch was bad or she completely unable to answer witch was really fucking bad. His mind was reasoning that she silenced her comm or was experiencing radio interference, but his gut was telling him that something bad was going down and since it had never let him down before he listened. Seeing a drain pipeline secured to the warehouse beside him he decided to get a better view on the area, and so it was that two minutes later he was standing atop the building.
His eyes ran over the entirety of the surrounding area and when he saw the reason behind why Raven hadn't responded there was only one viable response. "Ah Shit."
AN: So how bout it? Good enough? Below average? Condemnable to hellfire? Let me know.