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Raven's Heart Chapter 1 ((A Teen Titans Fanfic)) |
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((Cover))
Start Chapter 1
It was a dark starless night in Jump City. A dark silluette moved silently and gracefully across the rooftops towards the Jump City Museum.
"You sure this is gonna work?" The dark figure said through a small headset.
"Believe me, my young protégé; this is definitely going to work." Cracked a sinisterly familiar voice through the ear-piece.
The young man stopped in front of a lit billboard. He wore a black sleeveless hoodie, black baggy-fit cargo pants, and black boots. Underneath the hoodie he had on a black Under Armor turtleneck, the neck piece covering the bottom half of his face. His hair was in corn rolls, and wore a pair of black Oakley's with a band to keep them in place.
At the Titans Tower, the Titans were getting ready for the Friday Night Movie.
"C'mon B.B.! Hurry up with the snacks, we're about to start the movie!" Growled Cyborg.
"Yes, please quicken pace friend, I too wish to watch the film." Beamed Starfire over the back of the couch.
Beast Boy had just reached the couch with humungous bowl of popcorn covered in tofu butter when the alarm began to sound.
"GAH!" Beast Boy cried as he fell backwards, the popcorn flying all over the place. "Aww man....."
The large screen changed to one of the camera's in the museum. On the screen was the young man in the Crystal and Priceless stones Exhibit stealing anything he can touch.
"Dude! Who is that?" Beast Boy said jumping up off the ground.
"It’s just some average street thug." Raven said in her usual drolling voice.
"There haven’t been any real villains for a few weeks now, only these wannabes that can't even beat B.B. in a fight." Cyborg says with a large grin.
"Please let the local authorities handle him Robin." Starfire said with large puppy dog eyes.
Robin looked at Starfire, then to the rest of the Titans, then back at the screen. "Okay, since it is our Movie Night, we'll watch him struggle against the police, but as soon as something out of the ordinary happens we leave."
Everyone began to cheer, well, everyone except Raven. The young man however, finished filling the small satchel with jewelry and the three elemental jewelry he was sent to steal. He tilted his head slightly. "The cops are here, I'm outty." The man did a back flip onto the nearest case, then he lunged toward one of the light fixtures, swinging on it he launched himself to the edge of the open skylight and was gone.
"Um....dude...." Beast Boy started.
""Titans GO!" Robin cried.
Meanwhile, the thief was moving across the rooftops at top speed, knowing the Titans were now enroute to intercept him before he could escape back to Slade's hideout. As he dives onto the next rooftop a hawks flies past him.
"What the heck.......a hawk in the city?" The young man says slowing to a halt.
The hawk swooped down and transformed into a green boy. The thief was shocked for a moment, but recollected himself.
"Okay pal! You're going down!" Beast Boy said transforming into a polar bear and charges, swinging his claws at the thief.
The thief ducked and dodged Beast Boy's attacks, then back flips from the edge of the roof to the next.
"You must be Beast Boy, Specter. Sorry, but I don't have time to tame wild animals right now." Specter turned and took off across the roof leaving a dumbfounded polar bear behind.
"What are you doing apprentice, I thought you wanted to face off with the Titans?" Cracked the sinister voice through the headset.
"Listen Slade, I said I would leave a lasting impression on the Titans, I'm going to humiliate them by my own means, so shut up!" Specter said before taking the headset off and shoving it into the satchel.
As he neared a rooftop access door Cyborg burst through shouldering Specter into one of the outside vents.
"BOOYAH!" Cyborg yells.
"What the hell was that?" Specter stood up regaining his composure. "Wow, I was tackled by a tin man." Specter said sarcastically.
"The name's CYBORG!" He said charging.
Specter side-stepped Cyborg as he swung at him, Specter knocked Cyborg's feet out from under him, and pushed downward on his shoulder, causing him to rotate in mid-air, and momentum from charging carried him forward drilling into the vent.
"WHOA!" Cyborg yelled surprised.
"Now I take my leave." Specter said as he headed for the edge of the building.
Cyborg pulled himself free and aimed his proton cannon at Specter and fired. Specter had launched himself into the air, the blue energy beam whizzing inches below him.
"HOLY COW!" Specter said wide-eyed.
He fell toward the next rooftop; he hit the roof and rolled forward absorbing the shock, then continued to run. He began making his way in, out, over, under, and around the beams of the large neon signs when he noticed the shadow of a female flying above him.
"Excuse me sir!" Starfire yelled lowering herself to eye-level. "Excuse me, but could you please return what you have stolen, I do not wish to harm you."
"As tempting as that sounds, I must decline." Specter smirked. "And you may want to watch where you are going."
"Huh?" Starfire looked up and ran smack into a billboard. "EEP!" Starfire screamed before falling to the ground.
"Sorry! Should have warned you sooner!" Specter yelled over his shoulder as he jumped to the next rooftop.
Meanwhile, Beastboy and Cyborg had made it back to the T-Car and were in a heated discussion.
"Dude! I couldn't even touch him!" Beast boy whined waving his hands frantically. "I went all polar bear, and he was jumping and dodging and stuff, then he back flips to the next roof! It was like he planned it or something!"
"Oh yeah?" Cyborg said driving. "He threw me into an air vent, then when I shot at him, I missed, I MISSED!"
They both stopped arguing when heard a shriek, then saw Starfire falling in the distance. Cyborg began to speed up.
"Yo Robin, this guy just took out Star!" Cyborg said to Robin over the communicator.
Robin's head popped out of the communicator. "WHAT?! Is she ok, what happened, where is now?" Robin asked angrily.
"I'm sure Starfire's fine, but as to where he is or what he did to Starfire we don't know."
"I found him." Raven said appearing on the communicator screens. "He won't get away."
Specter continued running across the rooftops until Raven had showed up, he slid to a halt as the giant bird shape silluette.
"This is as for as you go." Raven said as she stepped out of the silluette.
Specter grinned beneath his guise as he vaulted over her only to be stopped in mid-air by the empath. Raven slammed him against the wall.
"I said STOP!" Raven put a lot of emphasis on the word.
"Looks like I have my hands full." Specter said dropping to one knee.
"Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven chanted.
Raven removed four of the vent cover from the roof and launched them at Specter. Specter stood up and ran toward Raven jumping over the first vent cover, rolling under the second, then diving between the last two tackling Raven and pinning her, ready to strike. He paused Raven's hood had come off. His eyes widened, his opponent was a girl and he almost hit her. There before his eyes very eyes was a goddess of pale gray skin, short purple hair, large bluish-purple eyes, topped off with a small red diamond in the center of her forehead. Raven took this moment as an opportunity to attack him. "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" She ripped a pipe from nearby and hit him across the face with it, knocking him off of her. Specter stood up only to be hit in the back with a vent cover. Raven began to assault Specter over and over with pipe and vent covers over and over. He did his best to dodge and block, but wasn't successful. Specter reached into his pocket and pulled out something he threw at Raven as he dove backwards barely dodging the vents and the pipe. Raven stopped the object and was about to send it careening back when she noticed that it wasn't a weapon, but a crystallized black rose. Raven reached out and grabbed the rose; she spun it slowly between her fingers. She was captivated; amazed by its mysterious beauty, before she realized it Specter had escaped. As Specter fell he grabbed the flagpole halfway down the side of the build, singing from it he did a flip landing on top of a parked van. In front of the van was clean Midnight Blue Yamaha. The owner of the motorcycle was just coming out of the pizza place across the street surrounded by a flock of girls as Specter hot-wired the motorcycle.
"Hey man! That my bike!" Said the unlucky fellow.
Specter revved the engine and peeled out, a few feet down the street he executed a front wheelie and spun around, then sped back toward the pizza place. Specter came to a screeching halt in front of the ex-owner of the bike.
"Well, I'll be taking this beauty off your hands." Specter said snatching the black helmet from the ex-owner and taking off down the street.
Not soon after Specter departed from the pizza he realized he was being followed by someone on a red motorcycle and they were closing in fast.
"I don't know how you got past the others, but you won't get away from me so easily!" Robin yelled as he side-kicked at Specter.
Specter blocked the kick, and swung at Robin who block. Soon they were both standing on their motorcycles exchanging blow after blow. After a few minutes Robin pulled out his extendable staff and tried to jam Specter's front tire.
"Your crime spree ends here!" Robin growled.
"Yeah, about that.......I don't think so!" Specter vaulted the motorcycle over Robin and lands on the opposite side of him, then pulls to a halt. "You want to watch where you are going!" Specter laughed pointing ahead.
Robin looked forward noticing a truck crossing ahead of him; he gave the handlebars a quick jerk to the left and slid underneath the trailer on the truck as it passed over him. As Robin stood up he saw Specter stand in front of the stolen motorcycle. Robin charged forward only to a bus zoom passed his face honking. Robin jumped back, when the bus had passed Specter was gone, it was if he had never been there at all. Meanwhile, Cyborg and Beast boy came down the street in the T-Car with Starfire flying above them.
"Hey, someone help me! Someone stole my motorcycle!" Said a young man running up to the window of the T-Car.
Starfire landed next to the owner of the stolen motorcycle. "Um, excuse me sir, but who has stole your motorcycle? Starfire asked politely.
"Come on Star, we don't have time to waste right now." Cyborg said urgently.
"He was wearing a sleeveless hooded sweatshirt, that's all I know." The young man said ignoring Cyborg.
"Dude! That's totally the guy we're after!" Beast boy said clambering over Cyborg toward the window.
"Bad news Titans." Robin chimed in over the communicator; everyone knew what was coming next. "He....he got away." Robin was so aggravated. How was it that a simple street thug could elude the Teen Titans so easily?
"Um, friends where is Raven?" Starfire asked.
Raven suddenly came out of the shadows in a nearby alley, as if answering Starfire's question. She was still holding the crystallized black rose in her hand, for some reason it intrigued her.
"Hey Ray whatcha' got there?" Cyborg asked.
"Huh?" Raven hid the rose in her cloak. "It’s nothing."
Cyborg shrugged. "Well, we're all heading back to the Tower to form a new plan of attack Seems Robin's taken the escape pretty hard."
Meanwhile, Specter arrives at an abandoned chemical testing facility on the outskirts of the city, it now serves as a hideout for Slade, Specter's master, mentor, teacher, sensei, which ever you prefer to call him.
"So you've returned have you?" Slade's voice echoed throughout the building. they didn't follow you did they?"
"Psssh, please it was nothing." Specter said tossing the satchel of jewels into the shadows.
"Good work apprentice. Now explain to me why you are 15 minutes behind schedule, and why you did not dispose of that motorcycle?" Slade asked angrily as he came out of the shadows hold the satchel.
"Ah c'mon!" Specter said throwing his hands in the air. "I should be able to steal something for myself once in awhile. And I guess I had some trouble with Titans on the way back, but at least you got your crap."
Slade rushed forward and grabbed Specter by the throat, holding him inches from his face. "Listen to me, and listen well. You are my apprentice, you will do what I tell you to do, how I tell you to do it, when I tell you to do it! Is that clear?"
"Crystal." Specter growled.
"Good." Slade breathed, letting go of Specter.
"I have one question." Specter said rubbing his throat. "What do you know about the chick in the dark cloak?"
"I see you've taken an interest in Raven, have you?" Slade smirked beneath his mask.
"I figure I should know as much as I can about her if I ever plan on countering her attacks, otherwise I'm gonna end up getting my butt handed to me every time." Specter lied. Raven huh? Beautiful name.
"Here, these are copies of the files I have on the Titans, keep them. You may find them useful." Slade said as he turned and head into the shadows. Seems I may have to keep a closer eye on my dear apprentice.
"Thanks boss man, this is really generous of you." Specter said hopping on the motorcycle and sped out of the chemical plant. "I'll get rid of this thing right away!"
End Chapter 1
 Warchild13 · Wed May 21, 2008 @ 04:18am · 1 Comments |
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