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"Where could they possibly be!" Robin shouted as he slammed his fist on his keyboard. Ugh! It's like they disappeared from the face of the earth! Maybe the others have found a clue, he thought with a sigh while taking out his communicator. "Have you guys found anything yet?" he asked.
"Nothing so far" he heard Cyborg said. Cyborg has been driving the T-car all around town trying find a clue to where his best bud and little sister went.
"I have also found the nothing, boyfriend Robin" responded Starfire. Starfire was also looking for clues for their missing friends, but she was searching from the sky.
"Well keep searching, this is the Beast we're talking about! Who knows what he'll do to Raven" he responded harshly.
"Listen man, as much as I would love to find my little sis, I'm almost out of energy and I have to recharge otherwise I'll be useless if there's a crime tomorrow." Cyborg said with a heavy heart, clearly not liking the idea of Raven being in potential danger.
"I too am feeling the tiredness and of need of rest as well" said Starfire
Robin, unable to deny his girlfriend, crumbled and said, "Fine, we'll continue the search in the morning." Then, he shut down the computer he was at and went to his bedroom to catch some zzzz's all the while thinking Where are they?
"C'mon Raven, you know you want to swim!" she heard a voice say.
Raven looked up from the book she was reading to see Beastboy in his swimming trunks asking her to swim. "I don't swim Beastboy and I'm at a good in the story" she responded while looking back down at her book, only to have it ripped away by Beastboy. "Beast….."
"Awe, C'mon Rae! We both know you've read this book a gazillion times" he said with a pouting face.
She wanted to say no, but she couldn't say no to his adorable face. "Fine, just give me a couple of sec-" she tried to say before she was picked up and thrown over Beastboy's shoulder. He's gotten taller and ,by the looks of it, stronger too she thought as she started to blush, but before she could dwell on the thought any longer she was dropped in the water. She quickly go up from the cold ocean water and was about to yell at Beastboy,but before she could her face was splashed by water.
"Haha, you should've seen your face!" He said laughing before he was knocked down into the water by a bubble of water. As he got up he noticed Raven smirking face and said "Oh It is so on now!" as he tried splashing her again.
And so the water fight commenced. After 30 minutes of splashing each other, both parties were drenched in water and panting for breath, but that didn't stop them.
"You can't hide forever Beastboy!" Raven shouted with excitement in her voice and a smile on her lips, while preparing for his sneak attack. Then she saw him swimming towards her, got ya she thought preparing her counter attack, but she never got the chance.
Beastboy jumped out of the water grabbing her waist and lifting her in the air while spinning and shouting, "got you!" with a giant smile on his face, all the while Raven laughing her lungs out.
He stopped spinning her around and put her back down in the water. While both were panting, he placed his forehead on top of hers and whispered in her ear "got you" with a sincere smile on his face. They both looked at each other eyes before Beastboy closed his eyes and started to slowly lean forward and, to her own surprise, Raven did too.
But when their lips began to brush Raven felt a cold chill waking her up from her subconscious. Mmm haven't had a good dream in such a long time pity I don't remember it, maybe if I fall asleep again it'll continue she thought. As another cold chill blew by she snuggled closer to her warm pillow she was hugging, wait a second what pillow she thought as she opened her eyes, only to see that the 'pillow' was actually Beastboy.
Beastboy was on his back, but a foot up so Raven's head was on his chest, with one arm around Raven. He was still asleep, unaware that Raven was awake and red faced from blushing so much.
A rock, near the cave wall, was quickly encased in ark energy and blew up. At least I know my powers are back she thought.
The boy before her started to stir, probably waking up from the explosion. Oh Azar, what do I do? Do I try and leave and pretend nothing happened? Do I stay still and hope he goes back to sleep? As she was thinking she didn't notice that in her distress her powers picked up another 3 rocks and blew those up too.
Okay, first things first, I need to gain control she thought as she slowly moved out of the embrace and started to meditate. A couple minutes later she hears Beastboy yawn and stretch indicating that he did wake up from the rukus.
"Mornin' Rae"he said through his morning stretch and after seeing that Raven was levitating he said, "hey you got your powers back!"
Raven, not being able to meditate with him talking, stopped levitating and opened her eyes to see that his eyes are back to normal indicating that Beastboy was in control again and he was brandishing one of his trademark grins. "My aren't you a perceptive one" she sarcastically said.
"Hey!" he shouted in mock annoyance and after a couple of seconds he asked, "so what happened last night?"
"You don't remember?" she asked, surprised that he didn't remember.
"Only bits and pieces, I've asked the Beast but he didn't answer." he said while shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh, well all we did was talk" and after seeing that he was going to ask "we talked about what he thought of our friends before he went out hunting for a 'housewarming gift' for the wolves."
"The wolves came!" he said while jumping up on his feet and started looking for them but to no avail none were to be found. "Awww man, I wanted to play with the cubs" he said kicking the ground and after a couple minutes of silence he asked, "So what now?"
"I guess we head back, they're probably worried sick for us" she responded.
"You mean worried about you, when they see me they'll probably arm their weapons, like I'm a common criminal" he said with head down.
"That's not true Beastboy, you're our friend" she said softly.
"I….. I just hope you're right. Now let's go home" he said with a sad smile, but Raven thought he wanted to say something else. "Oh you can keep the shirt" he said with his smile fully returning before flying out of the cave as a falcon.
Raven, who took a second to put down the growing feeling inside her, flew out following her green comrade.
"Okay guys, let's discuss on on how we're going to find Raven and Beastboy, and if needed how to take down the Beast" Robin said at their breakfast meeting.
Cyborg was the first to respond as he said, "how about we-" he never got to finish because at that moment the doors swish open to show Raven, with a fixed outfit, enter the common room.
"Friend Raven!" she yelled as she quickly flew up and gave Raven her infamous bone crushing hugs.
"Can't…...Breath….Star" Raven managed to choke out.
"My apologies friend Raven, I was just so worried about you" Starfire said while releasing Raven, only for Raven to be swept up into a another bone crushing hug from Cyborg.
"We searched everywhere for you Raven. We were so worried about you." Cyborg said before putting down the breathless Raven.
Robin, one who isn't much for hugging, stuck out his arm, which Raven shook, and said with a genuine smile "Glad to have you back".
Raven gave a small smile to her friends, but was slightly disappointed that Robin didn't give her a hug and said "Glad to be back."
"So where's grass stain Raven" Cyborg said.
Raven quickly looked around to see that Beastboy, in fact, wasn't there. "I don't know he was right behind me, maybe he went to his room" she finally responded back.
"He isn't the Beast still, is he?" Robin asked with his hand inching towards his belt.
"No, he isn't the Beast anymore" Raven responded with a little anger in her voice for the way Robin was quick to attack his friend.
"Still, Cy and Star go search for him to be sure he's fine" Robin ordered and soon it was just him and Raven.
"So, are you going to tell me what happened out there?" Robin asked with his mask narrowing.
"No, I won't but I can tell you that Beastboy did no harm" Raven said while crossing her arms.
"Tell that to a guy we found in an alleyway almost mauled to death" Robin said still wanting to find out what happened.
Mentioning him was the final straw and with 4 red eyes she yelled at Robin, "I said I'm not going to tell you, so deal with it!" then her eyes returned to normal and said with a sigh, "I need to meditate" and quietly left to her room.
Raven quickly grabbed her meditation mirror as soon as she entered her room and sat on her bed. She silently hoped that she didn't need to fight one of her emotions and just do the cleanup part as she chanted her mantra and got sucked up into the mirror.
Once in her mind, she floated down to the rocky ground and surveyed her surroundings. To her surprise there was no emotion she had to fight, nor any mess to clean up, in fact there was no one there.
Where is everyone she thought as she traveled to different sections of her mind trying to find at least one emotion. Until she made it to her yellow cloaked emoticlone, Knowledges, realm which was a giant library that contained all of her knowledge.
As soon as she reached the doors she realised it was slightly open and she could hear someone talking.
"I'm changing my vote to side with Happy"a shy voice said. Raven knew the owner of this voice it was her gray cloaked emoticlone, Timid, but voting for what?
"Traitor!" she heard an emotion yell. It wasn't demonic, so she assumed it was probably her green cloaked emoticlone, Brave.
"Calm down Brave, Are you sure you want to change your vote Timid?" she heard a soft voice ask. Raven guessed this voice was her purple cloaked affection based off of her soft sounding voice.
"Yes, I'm sure I feel safer in his arms" said Timid.
His? Who could they be talking about? Might as well confront about it now and with that in mind she opened the large door. As expected the door squeaked when she opened it, giving away that she was there.
As soon as she found the group of emoticlones she realised everyone was there which included: Affection, Brave, Timid, Knowledge, Wisdom, Rude, Happy, even Rage was there. Raven wasted no time and asked, "And who would be 'His' arms?" as she narrowed her eyes at Timid.
Timid, being timid, shrunk into her cloak trying to hide for the intense stare, but before she could respond she was saved by Knowledge.
"What we were talking about does not matter. You came here to see why your powers failed, am I correct?" Knowledge asked. Raven simply gave a nod and Knowledge continued, "That was Timid. Her powers grew exponentially and we were to busy dealing with Rage to immediately stop it. So by the time we got to her, she was too powerful for us to stop. It wasn't until you fell asleep that we could calm her down."
"I'm so sorry Raven, because of me we were almost..." Timid tried to say but broke into sobs before she could finish.
Affection flew over to her crying sister and gave her a comforting hug and softly said, "It's okay Timid, nothing bad happened, Beastboy saved us."
"Yeah, but it was that idiot's fault that we were out in that damn alley and had to deal with Rage" Rude exclaimed.
"It's not his fault, all he wanted to do was dance with us!" Happy shouted back.
"I'm sick of you always defending that runt everytime Happy!" yelled Rage.
"Enough!" Raven yelled quieting all of her emotions. Once it was quite she continued, "the past is the past. Yes, Beastboy got us into the situation but he also got us out of it, so we are not going to punish or praise him got that" as she eyed all of her emotions. "Good with that settled I'm am going to leave now. Don't cause any more trouble." and with that she left Nevermore.
Raven came back from Nevermore to see that it was already night time and she was already extremely tired from what little sleep she got from the cave last night, so she got in bed wishing that everything to return to normal, but a second before she slipped into her subconscious a little piece of her missed the warmth that Beastboy provided.
And with that Chapter 4 is Complete! I really surprised myself I thought I was going to make this chapter a bit short and it wasn't going to be done till next week guess snow really do make miracles happen. Anyway, the vote for who should Cy should be with is ending soon and so far I've only gotten 2 answers, so just in case you didn't know/ didn't read from earlier I am leaving it up to the readers to decide who Cy should be with. There are 3 potential candidates: Jinx, Bee, or Sarah Simms (Sarah was a romantic interest for Cy from the Titans comics for those who don't know). The usual, "Please review" stuff and all that other junk as well, but I do wanna say that those people who've written the over 100,000 word stories, heck even the 40,000+ words stories have gained some mad respect from me cause it ain't easy to get to those numbers. Anyway that ends my long rant for this chapter, till next time TheBigK1 signing off.
