Fan Fiction ❯ TeenTitans; Road To Ruin ❯ Laughter, and pain, confusion and interest, and revenge, never forget revenge ( Chapter 18 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
The very same night as the fire, the craziness began in the tower.

It started with Raven and Beast Boy. The dark woman entering her room for an instant then coming directly back out. She searched the hallways for several minutes, before floating into the living room with a scowl on her face. There was the man she was looking for. "Sweety, where is my book? You know, the one about nuetering animals."

The green titan turned from the game with his son and shrugged before turning back. Oblivious to anything else, he hadn't noticed the disguised book sitting right beside him on the cushion. She did however.

"How did it get down here then? By magic?" Her voice was starting to get on his nerves. He sent her a mental message. "What do you mean you don't know? Oh forget it." She grabbed the book and stormed away.

Ghost just stared at the television and hoped no one would question him.

Almost immediately afterward, Robin came bursting into the room. "Does anyone know what happened to the chocolate suryp in Star's room?"

Beast Boy was starting to get pissed off with these interuptions, when the other man interupted. "How do you know there was chocolate suryp in her room anyway?"

The boy wonder left without replying, leaving the two to thier game.

Later that evening, Cyborg awoke to strange sounds coming from the kitchen. As he entered, there was glass and food all over the floor, wall, and ceiling. Soon, the others joined him, and all of them watched as one by one the cupboards were opened and emptied in a rush.

For several minutes, they watched. Finally a noise was heard form the hallway, and an extremely bored looking Ghost entered. Slowly, he stared from the mess to the titans and back. Then he turned to the cupboard which had just opened. In an exhausted voice he spoke. "The whipped cream is in the fridge, now hurry up and come back to bed. And clean up that mess before you do." Turning he went back to his room, the other's watching as a bottle of whipped cream was taken from the fridge and was being sprayed into a non existing mouth. Slowly, the mess began to clean itself as the can floated around the room.

Raven glared after her son, "Get back here."

He yawned half turning. "What maw?" When things began to glow black, he hovered back intot he room. "Yes ma'am?"

"Care to explain this?" She pointed to the floating cane as a pile of glass made it's way to the trash can of it's own acoard.

"Oh, that is just Cassie. I told her she could stay. Can I go to bed now?" The words were spoken matter of factly, as if he already knew the answer.

"And Cassie is?" Her voice was choking in her throat, she hated when he acted like this, as if she should know everything going on in his head.

"Oh, she's my girlfriend." With that he phased through the wall and dissappeared from sight. The can moved down the hall to his room, the mess only half cleaned.

A soft hand on her shoulder helped the message from her lover to get through easier. "We'll make him explain and clean this in the morning. For now, that whipped cream gave me some ideas."

Raven glanced back as she was being led out. "My problem is, why did Cassie want it in the first place?"

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It took several weeks to adjust to having a spirit living in the house. Ghost was one thing, they could see him, but Cassie was prone to barrowing things without having him ask for her, pull pranks for no reason other then to amuse herself, and cause general mischief through out the house.

Then came the day when there was a knock on the door. Raven lost the "not me" contest and was forced from her comfortable position beside a warm Beast Boy and an even hotter book, to answer the damned thing. Looking outside, she saw a short blond woman in glasses and a business suit. "Can I help you?"

A nasially voice answered. "My name is Sharon Doward, with the Jump City press. I would like to interview the new member we have seen with you all."

Raven shrugged, pointing to the kitchen. "Knock yourself out, I will go get him. You wait there."

Sharon sat in the kitchen, looking around the room, when she heard footsteps in the hall behind her. Turning, she didn't see anyone and the footsteps stopped. When she turned back around a tall man with long hair was sitting opposite of her at the table. "Where di you come from?" She sounded startled.

His green and violet eyes sparkled with amusement, but his face was as cold a mask as any his mother had attempted to put on. "I was here when you walked in, I even said hi and you waved back. What's wrong with you?"

Straightening herself, she brushed his comments to the side fo the moment. "I have some questions for you, first...."

She was cut off by a wave of his hand, "Come, let's find somewhere more comfortable to descuss this." She stood with him and they began walking to the hallway, when he seemed to fall through the floor.

A gasp escaped her throat, and she backed up into a solid figure. Turning she stared into Ghost's smiling face. "Hello, I was told you had some questions fo.........is this your card?" He raised a six of diamonds to her face and placed it in her hand.

Sharon stared at it for a second, then tossed it to the ground. "What are you talking about? I didn't pick a card?" Her voice was starting to get higher with each word.

Ghost looked at her as if she had lost her mind. "What am I talking about? What are you talking about? I don't see any card."

"That one you assho......." She looked down to where she had thrown the card, and a single, six sided die lay there. "What's going on here?" She looked up to find herself alone. "Now where did he go?"

A tap on her shoulder sent her spinning, those dual colored eyes staring down at her. "I heard you had some questions for me?"

"Wait, first tell me where you keep dissappearing to." Her voice was shaking with frustration.

"Dissappearing? Oh...... Those would be the spirits that live around here. I haven't seen you until just now, sorry about that. They can be a real pain, but most of them are harmless. Come on, let's go to my room and we can talk." He began walking away, and after a moment of doubt, she fallowed.

A door opened nad shut again after he entered, moving forward she smiled when it opened for her as well. Entering the pitch black room, she spun when the door slammed behind her.

Moans floated all around her, and the sound of chains rattle seemed to be everywhere. Suddenly, Ghost spoke up. "Remeber when I said most of the spirits were harmless? Some are just carnivorous." Jumping into sight, he changed form before her very eyes.

His face elongated into a three part jaw with webs connecting the savage maw to the other parts. Gray fur covered his body, and two tails ripped from his back. A retched screach excaped his chest as he was forced to all fours, claws sinking into the metal floor. Bright yellow eyes glowed in the lack of light, and the horse sized monster stared at her with hunger.

The scream caught in Sharon's throat and when the door behind her opened, she ran from the building without hesitation.

It wasn't until she was almost a block away that Ghost returned to his normal form and started laughing hysterically. "Did you see the look on her face, she was totally freaked. Your trick with the dice, and the falling through the floor thing? It was priceless, it was the funniest thing eve......." His laughter was cut short by an angry looking gothic teen standing in the door way.

"Johnathan, we need to have a talk."

Ghost was now in the living room, sitting on the couch and listening to his mother continue her tirade. On the opposite side of the room, his father had a stern look on his face, until Raven turned, then he smiled like a madman and tried not to laugh.

"Is your little cunt still here? If she is going to stay here, she needs to hear this too." The goth's face was bright red, and things had been breaking the entire lecture. Her son simply nodded, never taking his eyes from her's. He knew his limits with both parents, and crossing her was not the wisest decision. "Good. Now, do you have any idea how long it took Cyborg, Robina nd Star to calm down that poor woman? Well, do you?"

Beast Boy started shaking his head no, and waving his hands wildly to stop what he could sense coming. The smart assed comments were fondly refered to as "father moments" , but this was definately not a good time. Unfortunately, bad timing was something Ghost got honest, which meant it was coming even if all the armies of the world tried to stop it. "Before or after they stopped laughing at the freaked chick? Come on mom, don't you have a sense of humor?"

Raven smirked, BB cringed. "Of coarse I do, that is why I sent her the video of when you were a few days old and running around here nake screaming 'I went potty by myself!'. I think that will make up for all this, don't you? And as for your little girlfriend, we have to find a way the rest of us can see and hear her, otherwise we can't let her come around."

Ghost raised an eyebrow, after recoving from his mother's actions. "If you can't see or hear her, how will you know when she is here or not? It's not like you could stop her?"

The green titan across the room slapped his forhead and hid his face. This Father moment was lasting almost long enough to forgo the kid's life. Raven's eyes flared. "How about I just send you to Azerath? I think that would keep her away for a long time, don't you?"

The boy smiled, trying in vain to hide hisfear of the woman infront of him. "Oh, a body? Why ddn't yous say so, I can do that." His eyes glowed, a bright swirl of green and violet, his breath quickened. There was a flash of energy, blinding the other two living people in the room, then everything returned to normal. Now there was a fourth person sitting in the living room with them.

Cassie had dark brown hair trailing down past her waist and falling over the seat. Her deep brown eyes danced wildly in her head as if promising the mischief that had gotten them into so much trouble. She was niether fat nor thin, and stood only five feet tall. Her skin was tanned, amazing considering her flesh hadn't seen sunlight directly for almost three hundred years. Other then a large smile, she sat completely naked.

Raven slapped Beast Boy then Ghost for staring at the nude woman before ushering her off to find something to wear. She came back out garbed in one of the goth girl's leotards and Starfire's boots. Neither fit properly, but they would do for now.

The violet haired woman sat Cassie back down beside her son before continuing. "Since you two seem to spend so much time together, do you plan on accepting whatever punishment I give him?" The young looking woman nodded. She paused for dramatic effect, smiling when they knelt closer. "YOUR GROUNDED TO YOUR ROOMS."

"I don't have a room," Cassie's voice was husky considering her size.

"You do now, right beside mine, but until this grounding is over, you will be staying with me in my rom. That way I can moniter who goes in and out."

Ghost spoke up, "How long are we grounded?"

"A month." The finality of her tone made him cringe. The two turned to each other, this was going to be a long month.

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Midnight came slowly when you can't slep, and Ember was having a very difficult time. The place she had been brought was a barely more than a shack. The blond man lay on a bed in the single bedroom, and she had been given a broken loveseat to sleep on. Her legs hung over the edge and her neck was at a very uncomfortable angle.

Suddenly the door to the bedroom slammed open and almost off it's hinges a nude Noah walking out. His body was covered with a thick layer of sweat, his eyes looked hallow, and he was paler then she imagined possible. The tattoos over his flesh glistened in the moon light that shone through the windows. Moving to the fridge, he pulled out a botle of vodka and grabbed some tylenal from the top. Popping off the lid, he gulped down all of the pills and gluged half the bottle before turning back to his room. He never noticed the red head staring at him, or perhaps he just didn't care. Quietly, he returned to his nightmares.

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Tears fell from different colored eyes as they stared at the coming morning. The new light revealed her visible stiches and the different colored skin sewn together. She sat in the street, shivering in the cold. She couldn't remember anything before a few days ago, and for some reason her every sense was screaming at her to do something. Somewhere, there was something she should be doing. She couldn't figure it out though. In frustration she hit the wall she was leaning against and left a large hole in the bricks. Then it came to her, clothes, she needed clothes. Quickly she stood, covering her nakedness with her hands and left in search of something to wear.

The first man to come across her made the mistake of trying to grabe her. His intentions didn't matter, he lay bleeding and unconscience in a gutter, stripped completely. The woman continued on her way, her stomache now leading her to find something to eat.

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From his chair across from Terra. the sorcerer stared at teh ceiling. His head arched as he watched the magic go by. It seemed odd, as if made up of several kinds of magic. Or maybe it was from the mystic residue left from long exposure to magic. He found it interesting though, all this magic suddenly making it's way to Jump City. It was rather wierd that he had been drawn to the place at around the same time. Silently he wondered what had called him here originally. As he looked forward, he thought for a moment that maybe it had been her. It was a possibility. He had much thinking to do.

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A strong fist pounded into a stone wall, leaving an indent almost a foot deep. A savage growl escaped the beast's lips. It's wounds were almost healed, and it was begining to get anxious. His time would soon be at hand, then they would pay for what they did to him. No one would ever forget his name. Forever they would fear him.