Hi there readers! I'm glad that you guy/girls really like the other chapter and if it made no sense, don't worry it will! And if you're still confused, I'd be glad to answer any and all questions.
Will you guys/girls tell me if I have I lost my touch?
Does this story seem dramatic? Because I don't know and you see I've been told that I'm quite good at romance but I don't know. To be honest, I've never been good at comedic scenes and managed to make things funny. Oh well, I'm more of a serious person anyway.
To Dreamzcometrue, congratulations on finishing your first story! Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
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On with the story...
Chapter 7: A Killer Morning
Beast Boy rose from the bed as the morning sun shone on his back. He had hoped that he what he heard last night was just a dream, but the memory still reverberated within the confines of his mind. Scratching his head, the green shape-shifter got ready for the morning and changed into his usual clothes. Looking around, he noticed that the room had remained the same since he had become a Titan.
A large pile of dirty clothes lay in the corner of his room completely mixed with his clean ones. Old pizza boxes littered the floor, CDs and CD covers were scattered all over the place, comics and manga were jumbled near a bookshelf. The stench of his dirty clothes, not to mention other questionable smells made his sensitive nose twitch in irritation. Video game controllers lay uncoiled on the floor as well as old papers and other rubbish.
'Geez...Five years go by and I have yet to clean my room!'
Stepping out the door and walking down the corridor, he noticed that it was dawn. Normally the green Titan would've been sleeping and be up in a few hours, but what had transpired last night was more than enough to keep him awake. He tried to comprehend the situation and knew that if he asked the empath, she would just remain silent.
'Raven hasn't changed! If she needed to tell us something important, she'd tell us about it when she's ready.'
Beast Boy shook his head as the thought of Raven changing entered his mind. He decided to forget it and kept walking towards the Common Room. That was until he saw Raven exiting her room and leaving towards the roof again.
"Hey Rae!"
"Beast Boy."
"How was your morning?"
"I haven't done anything yet."
"Oh, right. Um...what're you doing up this early?"
"I was about to ask you the same question."
Silence filled the air as Raven stared at Beast Boy blandly. The memories of last night began to flood his mind again but he tried to push them back. He found himself becoming more and more uncomfortable until Raven turned around and began to leave.
"Wait, Rae!"
"..." The empath hadn't even stopped to turn around and look at him nor acknowledge what he wanted. Instead, she kept on walking.
"Not too sociable." Beast Boy shrugged his shoulders and decided to blow it off.
The green Titan walked down the hallway and entered the Common Room. In there, he saw Robin sitting at the table and reading the newspaper.
"You seen Terra?"
"I think she's still asleep."
"Robin?"
"Yea?"
"Do you think...Rae's...changed?"
"Whad'ya mean?"
"She seems colder, less trusting. And she doesn't even tell me to stop calling her Rae, before she would at least talk to me about that. Rae doesn't even make a sarcastic remark anymore! It kinda seems like she hates
us."
"Raven doesn't hate us."
"I hope you're right..."
+Elsewhere in Titan's Tower+
Raven turned a corner and hoped to go to the roof, wanting to be alone. Her mind swam with thoughts until she bumped into someone.
"Oh! Sorry!"
"No, it's my fault."
"Oh, hi Rae."
"Terra."
"Spacey, aren't cha?" Terra put on a false-smile.
"..."
Raven gave Terra one last look at the blonde before she started for the roof again. Sunlight shone in through the large windows and silence filled the morning. All was quiet, to the exception of the occasional birdcalls, the gentle scrapping of the wind and Raven's footsteps toward the roof. Raven was almost halfway across the hallway when she heard a voice behind her that made her stop.
"Look, I know we don't like each other but you're gonna hafta deal with it! I'm here to stay!"
"Yes, I realize that" Raven answered monotonously.
'And it's because of me that you were able to come back and stay here...'
She let out a sigh before turning around and looked at the blonde Titan again, her expressionless face irritating Terra.
"So, stay away from Beast Boy! He's with me."
"I'm well aware of that."
"What-?"
"I do not plan on getting between you and Beast Boy."
"?..."
Raven turned around and headed for the roof, ignoring the confused look from Terra and disappeared for the roof.
"Grrr...I don't like her at all! Why the hell is she back?" Terra said irritably as she stormed towards the Common Room.
+Later that Day+
Most of the day had been quite slow for the Titans. Raven stayed on the roof until noon and came back down, only to retreat to her room. Cyborg, Terra and Beast Boy were in the Common Room playing video games. Starfire had gone to the mall alone while Robin stayed in the evidence room and spent his time examining artifacts.
"I'm finally gonna beat you, Cy!"
"Not if I've got anything to say about it, grass-stain!"
"You can do it Beast Boy!" Terra cheered.
As Beast Boy was about to reach the final stretch and pass the finish line, resulting in Cyborg's defeat, the Titan alarm went off. Its red light flared throughout the whole tower.
"Maan!" Beast Boy whined in irritation.
"We'll call this a tie!" Cyborg announced as he stood from the couch.
"Uh! Err...but..."
"Beast Boy. Now's not the time!"
"Fine" Beast Boy muttered.
"Trouble!" Starfire said as she flew in, coming back from the mall. "Where is Robin?"
"Here I am" the Titan leader announced as he came from the evidence room.
He ran to the main computer and pressed a few buttons. The monitor swung down from the ceiling and a picture showed up on the screen. Killer Moth was attacking the city, his massive colonies of moths almost covering the sky.
"It's Killer Moth. He's at Sunset Drive. Titans Go!"
"Got'cha!"
Starfire flew for the door, while Terra, Cyborg, and Robin ran towards it. Beast Boy was just about to head out the door, when he realized that Raven was nowhere in sight.
"Wait. Where's Raven?"
He glanced around the room; the alarm blaring in his finely tuned ears. He looked around for another second until he saw familiar black energy swirl in the middle of the room and Raven rose out from the floor. Her body turned away from him, so he could only see her profile.
"Raven! Trouble, let's go!"
"..."
Black energy swirled around her again and she melted through the floor. The green Titan made a confused face before he remembered the emergency and ran out the door.
+Sunset Drive+
All the Titans had decided to ride in the T-Car, to the exception of Raven. The car was oddly silent except for the engine and the wind that pushed against the car. They all had intense expressions, cars whizzed by them. People and buildings looking like blurs as they drove by to the crime scene. Wind blew in from the open windows and rustled their hair; they heard the cries and screams of citizens which got louder as they approached the crime scene. Many cars were stuck in traffic as they tried to get out of the city.
Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Terra exited out of the car when they arrived at the scene. Hundreds of thousands of Killer Moth's insects filled the sky and their buzzing drowned out all the noise. The Titans looked up to see Killer Moth in the air laughing manically amongst his colony.
"What do you think of my wonderful army Titans?"
It was then that the Titans had noticed that they were completely surrounded.
"Uhh...Dudes..."
"Titans Go!"
Starfire flew up and shot the beams from her eyes. Killer Moth dodged to the side and looked up to see Starfire darting towards him. She nailed him in the face with a powerful punch and he crashed into a tall building. He hit the glass and it began to fall to the pavement where bystanders watched in horror.
"Terra! The people!"
"Right! Got'cha!"
Terra's hands glowed yellow and slight tremor rocked the small boulevard. She lifted dirt from the ground and condensed it, forming an arch aboce the citizens. They cheered before they ran from the arch to safety.
"Phew!"
Her sky blue eyes looked up to see Starfire and Killer Moth fighting in the air. Terra pulled the arch towards her and condensed it further into a hardened dirt clump. She jumped on and rode it towards the sky while Cyborg and Robin tried a ground assault. Robin threw two freeze disks at Killer Moth but he dodged, while he dodged, Cyborg fired a blast from his sonic cannon and it hit him square in the chest. The humanoid insect grunted as he fell two stories but made a quick recovery and flew back into the sky.
Beast Boy ran up from behind Cyborg and jumped on his shoulder. He gave the robotic man a distinct look and morphed into an armadillo. Cyborg gave his green friend a smirk before he shot a blast from his sonic cannon and sent Beast Boy high into the air. Beast Boy spun and gained momentum before morphing into a T-Rex. The green dinosaur slammed its' head into the villain. Killer Moth soared through the air, only for his army of moths to gather around and cushion him. He got off his insect pillow and motioned for them to attack the Titans.
The hundreds of thousands of insects began to dive-bomb the five heroes, looks of determination etched into their faces.
Within seconds, the flying pests swarmed them. Starfire fired star-bolts and eye beams everywhere; Robin had taken out his bo-staff and swatted them away. Cyborg crushed the insects with his hands and fired sonic blasts in all directions while Terra flicked them away with spires and boulders. Beast Boy had turned into an elephant and crushed them under his feet and used his trunk to swipe them away as they crashed into each other.
Hundreds of the fallen insects lay dead on the ground but as successful as the Titans were in the beginning, they were starting to tire. They looked up and saw another wave of insects diving towards them. Then they looked at each other; blood leaked out of their cuts, beads of sweat dripped down their faces as they panted and examined each other's exhausted states. However, they continued to fight on and marveled at each other's determination.
"It looks like you Titans' have finally reached your limits!"
"Someone please knock him off his high chair!" Beast Boy rebuked.
"KILL THEM!" Killer Moth roared and the entire swarm began to dive-bomb in on them.
Beast Boy shut his eyes tight and waited for his death. Images of his parents flashed in his mind, the accident that made him Beast Boy, his meeting with the Titans, his first encounter with Terra. And finally, Raven. He remembered the pain he felt as he watched her become the portal and return, then vaporized Trigon. He remembered the relief when she returned only to disappear into the wind like dust and how he became like a zombie for the past two and a half years. Now that she returned, he felt enlightened and that she was the last thing on his mind but then he remembered what she had said that night. Her voice echoed in his mind.
'Raven!'
He expected to feel pain, but it didn't come and he opened his eyes. Along with the other Titans, whom also began to open their eyes, felt no pain. Beast Boy heard a light flapping sound near him and saw something black. They took a second to examine their surroundings and found the moth swarm just overhead but failed to get close to them. The buzzing of the moth's wings was ear splitting but none of them seemed to be seriously injured, no bystanders either.
Then they turned their gaze to a black figure standing in front of them, with dark purple hair.
"Raven!" The Titans said in unison.
"It seems that you're all having trouble, shall I take over?"
End Chapter.
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