Fan Fiction ❯ A Raven's Feelings ❯ New Evil and Skai's Loyal Friend ( Chapter 6 )

Ch. 6: New Evil and Skai's Loyal Friend
After last night's adventure, Skai couldn't stay awake that morning. He had stayed in Raven's room longer than he expected. He had barely finished making breakfast and he fell fast asleep on his bacons and eggs. Beastboy, Cyborg, and Robin entered the room soon after. They stopped to find that their new team member sleeping on his plate. Sitting next to him, the boys started poking their friend awake. “What happened to you?” Robin asked. Skai sat up properly and yawned.
“I... just had to do something....”
“Is this about you going into Raven's room?”
“Wait... you went into RAVEN'S ROOM?!!!!!”
“Yeah, all he said he had taken Raven's book by mistake and well he seemed desperate to get it back. At least he survived.”
“I had to get it... it's a... how can I put this? A personal journal.”
“Why risk it? Dude, you should know by now that Raven goes crazy when someone enters her room.”
“I don't know. I just didn't want Raven to read it.”
“Why? Is it about her?”
“........”
“Sounds like someone has a crush on Raven!”
“What's a crush?”
“Oh, for the love of....”
“Is someone in love? Beastboy, who is in love?”
“Yeah, who?”
The boys froze. It was Starfire and Raven. Skai was wide awake now but still had know idea what they were talking about. “How long have you been listening to us?” Robin asked. The girls sat down. “Long enough to hear that Skai here has no idea what's a crush.” Raven replied. At least she wasn't there earlier or hell would have broken out. Skai was about to comment her answer but then the alarm went off. Robin jumped over the table and ran to the computer screen; the others followed.
As Robin typed away, a screen of the south part of Jump City appeared. It showed Jinx, Mammoth, and Gizmo wreaking havoc and stealing all the bank money. “Titans move!” Robin ordered. Everyone ran off and Skai stayed behind. He was staring at the screen. Raven stopped, noticing Skai wasn't' following, “What are you doing, Skai? Let's go!” He stared at her and nodded. “Coming.”

Location: South part of Jump City

“I love the sound of chaos! It's like music to my ears!” Jinx said happily as some of her bad luck waves destroyed a building. Mammoth threw a bus full of people, who got out quickly as they could, at another building. He started laughing. Elsewhere, Gizmo, on his mechanical wings, was gathering all the money from the bank. “No stinkin' snot brain, crud munching, skunk eaters are here to mess up our plan!” he laughed. All of a sudden, a biderang destroyed one of his wings sending Gizmo out of control and into a pile of rubble. “Well I guess we made it to the party. Titans go!”

Gizmo got up and activated his mechanical spider legs. “Alpha Omega! Go!” Jinx shouted and all three villains started to charge. Jinx went straight for Raven. “Azarath Metrio-” In one fast movement, Jinx sent Raven flying with only one punch. “You haven't change Raven. But I have.” Skai had no idea what to do but knew it was time to play hero. As Raven headed to the ground, Gizmo launched some rockets at her before Robin could stop him. Raven opened her eyes to find herself staring at rockets heading her way.
She closed her eyes again and felt something hard hit her side. Skai had pushed her out of the way and was able to dodge the rockets in time. They exploded on Mammoth who was taken by surprised. Raven rubbed her head feeling a bit dizzy from the fall. She couldn't feel any pain but she had landed on something. “Hey....” a voice said from beneath her. She opened her eyes to find that she was staring at the same reddish brown eyes earlier before. Her face was almost touching Skai's. “If you're done staring at my face. Can you please get off? ” She was sitting on top of him.
In his new outfit, Skai looked like a thief. All dressed in black and red; Skai wore a long red trench coat with armor platings sewed in but can't be seen. He wore matching red gloves and black cargo pants with inserted platings too.
Raven got off and Skai headed toward Beastboy's direction who was having trouble with Jinx. Raven could feel herself grow hot and her face red. “Hey Raven! A little help here?!” Cyborg shouted. Mammoth had become much stronger from their last encounter. She got up and went to help Cyborg. Beastboy flew past her and crashed into a car. “Dude, not cool!” he said before he past out. Robin and Starfire had problems of their own. Someone gave Gizmo new toys to play with too. “Eat heat seekers you crud munching losers!”
Meanwhile, Jinx was having fun with her new prey. She threw a punch at Skai but he managed to parry it with ease. “Who are you? A wanna-be titan?” she taunted. She was about to give him a spin kick but he was able grab her leg and threw her on the ground and pinned her down. “Ahhh... I know. Your just Raven's boy toy.” she smirked, “It's a pity. You're kinda cute. So how about a kiss before I destroy you?” “Who sent you?” Skai demanded. “Come now Skai... Give the girl a kiss...” said the unwelcome voice. Just then a red energy hit Skai in the chest sending him straight into a brick wall. “Skai!” Robin shouted but he was then surprised by a kick to the face. He crashed into the same brick wall. “Robin....Your losing your touch.”said another. It was Slade and Rakatsu.
Skai stood up and wiped off the falling blood from his mouth. “It's Slade?! How he'd?! Can everyone else see him?!” Cyborg said in disbelief who had finally knocked out both Gizmo and Mammoth. Raven carried Beastboy to the others and she was in disbelief too. Starfire rubbed her eyes, “This cannot be!” Robin got up as well but was shocked with horror. “NO! But.... you're....” “Dead? No, I'm alive as ever.” Slade interrupted, “Thanks to my new...friend... here. He has amazing abilities. I believe you already met him.” He pointed to Rakatsu. Robin didn't waste any time and attacked Slade. Neither did Skai.
The other titans had problems of their own. Cinderblock, Plasma and a whole army of Slade's robots appeared out of nowhere and were destroying everything in their way on Jinx's order. Anyway, back to Skai. He was having difficulties with Rakatsu who taunted him with every chance he got.
“You've gotten soft.”
“Shut up!”
“You can't even hit me.”
“You'll pay for what you did to my crew!”
“Temper, temper. All that anger with no power.”
“I'll show you power!”
Grabbing his sword, Skai made a swift slash at Rakatsu. He was able to dodge it; well most of it... A huge cut appeared on his cheek and a trickle of blood fell from it. “Your weak. And so were your tiny little crew. And your new friends are even weaker than the others.” Rakatsu lighted on top of a car. “You're stuck here with new friends. But have you forgotten about the one person who actually cares about you?” Skai gripped his sword tighter making his knuckles white as ghostly hands. “Shut up...” He was reaching his breaking point, which Rakatsu enjoyed; he was waiting for this. “Have you forgotten that you left her back at Heliopolis? Have you forgotten she's all alone there? Have you forgotten about....Akiko your beloved?”
“SHUT UP!!!!”
That was it. Skai couldn't take it anymore. Something arose from deep within him... another spirit of some sort.The others stopped what they were doing as a shock of dark energy swept over them. They were only able to watch. Skai walked toward Rakatsu but then disappeared. He reappeared in front of Rakatsu and his sword went right through him. For some reason, Rakatsu evaporated. All was left with of him was a small wooden doll Skai just laughed.
Slade disappeared too. So did Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, Cinderblock, and Plasma. All was left was Slade's little minions. Skai went for the whole army. Under twenty minutes, all were destroyed by Skai's blade. He laughed again. The titans didn't know how to react but knew he wasn't going to stop. He went straight for an onlooker. The onlooker screamed but Raven was able to stop him in time. Using her power that is.
Location: Titans Tower
Hours later...
Skai struggle as he tried to break loose from Cyborg's laser ropes. The harder he struggle the tighter the ropes became and by now they would have killed a normal human being. “So who knows what happened to Skai?” Cyborg asked. They stared at their psychotic friend. He wasn't himself; in fact, he was another person. “Let me go!” he said in a grunt. “There's nothing wrong with his brain waves or DNA.” Raven replied. “And we have tried everything to bring our friend back to his normal state.” Starfire sadly said. Beastboy, on the other hand, was playing with a small white furry ball he had found. “Heheh! This thing is cool!” He bounced it on the wall but he missed catching it. “Hey look out!” he warned. It bounced all over the room until it hit Skai in the face.
The furry ball landed on his lap and began to move a little. Skai shook his head, “What...in Ten-no's name is going on?” Everyone stared at him in disbelief. His face had a blank expression. “Wait you have no idea what you did just hours ago?!” He shook his head. “Hooray! Our friend is ok!” Starfire shouted with joy as she crushed Skai into a hug. “Starfire, I couldn't breathe with these lasers on and I believe you are making them worst!” She let go and freed him. As he stood up, the furry ball bounced high into the air but Raven was able to catch it.
It moved in her hands. “Whoa!” she let go in surprise. When it landed, a leg popped out. “What the hell is that thing?!” Robin asked. “I just it found by Skai's room and I thought it was a ball!” Beastboy explained. Another leg popped and soon after two more appeared. Then the last thing was a fluffy tail and a rabbit like face. “Kyuu?” (Sound effect comes from DNAngel the manga. I just love Wiz!) it spoke. It looked around at everyone before it spotted Raven. It smiled and jumped into her arms. “Riku! What are you doing out of my room?” Skai asked it.
“OK.... So he's a mutated rabbit that can turn into anything....” Beastboy repeated. Skai nodded and started chuckling, “Yes. He's even taken a liking into Raven.” He watched as Riku played with Raven who seemed to be amused and actually... smiled! He disappeared under her cape and reappeared in her hood staring at Skai. He smiled too.
“He's my most loyal friend. He would always travel with me. And luckily, Rakatsu... didn't kill or injure him.”
“This pet of yours is absolutely wonderful! And he is so cute!”
“Yeah, I guess this fur ball is better than Beastboy to keep around.”
“Hey!”
“That was kinda harsh, Raven.”
“Sorry...”
“Can we keep him, Robin?”
Everyone turned to Robin. He was thinking about it; obviously trying to think of a way to let it down slow. Something like... “No.” But then Riku jumped onto his lap and sat there staring at him. It changed his mind a whole lot. He petted Riku who enjoyed it and smiled. “Sure, I guess it wouldn't hurt. But what does he eat?” “Just carrots and herbs.”
That night...
Raven headed to the rooftop. She wanted to meditate there. More peaceful and quiet with the cool night air hitting your face; such a lovely thought. Annoyed with Beastboy and Cyborg's so called Game “Palooza” in the hallway near her room, she guessed it was a good idea too. Especially because Robin and Starfire had joined in. Starfire had dragged Robin into the game to distract him from Slade's reappearance. She wasn't use to all that kind of commotion. She just needed to be alone for now.
She entered the rooftop and found herself staring at Skai who was doing the same. He didn't expect anyone would find him there. “Hey...” he said in a kind of cute little boyish voice. He was sitting down and was reading a book. Riku jumped onto his head and smiled at her. He jumped off and onto her arms. Raven petted Riku and looked back at Skai, “Um... Can I join you?” he nodded. She sat next to him. For some reason, Raven felt like she could talk to Skai. “Can I ask why you came to Earth?”
“I... was just passing by here. I was going to another planet with my crew.”
“Until that Rakatsu guy destroyed your ship and man slaughtered your... crew, right?”
“You pretty much figured it out.”
“Do you think you're able to go back home?”
“...I doubt it. I left something dear to me at my home planet but I'm beginning to like it here.”
“So you really like it here?”
“Yes. This place is in intriguing, the people especially Beastboy. I've never seen anyone with so many disturbing things in his laundry or in his mouth!”
Raven laughed. “Hey that was kind of funny.”
“But when I came, the most intriguing person here was you.”
“I'm intriguing?”
“Yes, well you understand things people are afraid of learning. You have an interest in so many kinds of books and poetry. And your powers are just amazing. Even if you can't control very much.”
Raven felt her face go red again ignoring what he last said about her powers. He had complemented her again. Riku fell asleep on her lap as Raven and Skai stared at the moon that shined down on them. For a few hours, Skai told her stories about the stars and about his planet. She laughed and smiled. She liked his stories. He loved books and was interested in medicine that would cure people of diseases. And most of all, he was interesting. Raven felt happy and safe around him She fell asleep on his shoulder.. Feeling comfortable by his side. Nothing went wrong that night
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