Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ Realm Quest ❯ Chp. 2 Date With a Vampire ( Chapter 2 )

Chp. 2 Date with a Vampire.

"Raven, your uncle's a nut." Beastboy, sitting next to her, repeated what everyone had either said or thought.

"I know, okay. I know. He has flung me in every which place, since I was 5. He has problems."

The titans were sitting around the fire conversing about their situation. It had just grown dark outside, and besides the crackling of the fire, the sound of crickets and nighttime animals resounded in their ears.

"But...why___?" Robin asked.

"I don't know, mostly for entertainment. Once, I remember, after being forced over for a visit. I found a library filled with mov­ies of his victims' time in the different realms and stuff. There was a whole row of my adventures...every last one...it was horrible."

"So...he's...filming us?" Cyborg asked as they all looked around for cameras. "Why?" he asked after she shook her head yeah.

"You see he has this giant mirror which shows the persons on their journey. And he sits their and watches, him and whoever else. Well, he obviously can't sit there the whole time and watch them. So after the person or persons find the amulets and their sent back home. A movie will come out of a slot on the mirror frame, so he can watch later."

"Oh...Rae your uncle's a fr..." Beastboy started but was interrupted by Raven.

"If you say it one more time, I swear I will curse you," she threatened pointing a finger at him, making him clamp his mouth shut.

"Okay, what about this realm we're in? Have you been here before? What's it like? What are the dangers here? What's safe and what's not?" Robin asked sitting across from her on the other side of the fire next to Starfire.

"Yeah I've been here before." She sighed. "It's like medieval times and modern times put together. It has tons of magical crea­tures, things, and beings. Some good, some not, some dangerous, and some helpful." She finished off with a shrug.

"So what do we do now leader boy?" Cyborg asked Robin, sitting next to him.

"Umm...eat?" he said as if on cue as everyone's stomachs growled. Then they all turned to look at Raven expectantly, who was having trouble keeping the floppy point of her hat out of her face.

"What?" she asked frowning, after throwing her hat to the ground, realizing they were looking at her.

"Could you...conjure us up some chow...or tell us what's good to eat here?" Cyborg answered her with his own question.

"Again...I can try." She said as she grabbed the tip of her hat and shooting it with her gun hand, saying `food'. Lifting her hat up they were all surprised to see a plate of burgers. "Wow!" she said astonished at herself.

"Yeah wow! This is great! It's real meat!" Cyborg yelled happily with a mouthful of burger and a burger in each hand.

"Yes this is most...awesome!" Starfire said as she and Robin too took a burger and began to eat, although not as enthusiastically as Cyborg.

"Yeah this is great Rae!" Robin complimented.

"Ahem!" an annoyed voice sounded as Raven went to grab one for herself.

Looking up to where the noise had come from, Raven rolled her eyes. Shooting her hat again, she pulled out a box of tofu and tossed it to Beastboy.

He didn't say anything at first, but soon his face turned teary from joy and without warning, he lunged at Raven pulling her into a tight backbreaking hug.

"You don't know how much this means to me!" he cried as he held her limp form in his arms.

"Uhh, BB. Let. Raven. Go. She. Needs. To breathe." Cyborg said slowly as if talking to a child.

"Besides it's only tofu. He didn't need to hug her." Robin muttered darkly under his breath taking a ferocious bite of his burger.

"Oh sorry Rae. I didn't hurt you did I?" Beastboy asked concernedly as he dropped her unceremoniously to the ground.

"Oh, no. I'm fine. You just crushed a lung...but that's alright I have another." She told them as she stood up, her back facing them, as she brushed off her dress and hat before placing it back upon her head.

"What is up with you? You've been cracking jokes, smiling, and laughing all day. And yet nothing blew up...what's up with that?" Cyborg questioned from his spot by the fire.

Without turning around, Raven craned her neck so that she could see them. "This is the enchanted realm, not human, I can freely express myself, and I will be expressing myself many times, many ways." She told him a smirk adorning her face before turning to go to her sleeping bag. Which would have left an impression if she hadn't of tripped over her dress.

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Raven awoke to a nudging in her side.

"Go away." she mumbled as she swiped a hand at the offending object.

"Leave me alone" she whined as her cover was pulled off of her.

"Come on a Raven wake up." a voice pleaded as they grabbed her shoulders and began to shake.

"I said buzz off." She said sleepily as she hit, whoever was shaking her, in the nose.

"Oomph...ow" the voice went, and as she recognized the voice she sprang up and accidentally head butted the already hurt person, sending the person sprawling out on their back.

"Remind me to never wake you up." Cyborg laughed on the other side of the cave.

"Talk about not being a morning person, and it's not even morning yet." Beastboy joined in as the two began to laugh like there's no tomorrow.

Robin groaned as he sat up holding his bleeding nose. "I think you broke it."

"Stay still, let me look." Raven told him as she got up to sit in front of him.

"No, that's okay. It's feeling better already." He lied as his squirmed away from her.

"Oh quit being such a baby, I did it, so let me fix it." She replied as she crawled after him.

"No you don't hav..."

"Let. Me. Fix. It." She ground out fiercely as she grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him to her.

"Yes ma'am." He said shakily as a blush began to make itself evident on his face.

"Good boy." she said before letting his shirt go. "Now move your hand so I can see."

Sighing in defeat, he glanced over and saw Cyborg and Beastboy laughing their heads off at him. Rolling his eyes at them, he glanced at Raven's face as she looked at his nose. At hearing the laughter increase, he shifted his eyes down, and that's where they stayed, for his line of vision had landed inside of Raven's low collar dress.

`Oh wow, their big and... No, bad Robin. Must. Not. Look.' Robin thought as he averted his eyes, only to have them drawn back by some unknown force. `Damn teenage boy one track mind. Can't. Stop. Looking. I...ah...ah...niiiiiice.'

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"Oh looky here BB. It looks like Robbie has a crush on our little Raven."

"So it seems Cyborg, so it seems."

"This explains why he was acting so prissy yesterday when me and Rae left together."

"Possibly, But now should would put a stop to this, or help him out?"

"I say we help him out, but we make it hard as hell."

"You know, that just might work. Give us something to do while traveling."

"Yes I do believe we have some scheming to do."

"Yes I do believe so too."

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"Robin. Robin? Robin?" Raven called as she made her final analysis on his nose, only to realize he was too occupied with a certain part of her body. "Boys and their one track minds." She mumbled to herself. Sighing she grabbed Robin's cheeks with her hand and squeezed so that she got his attention.

"Do we have eye contact?"

He nodded his head yeah.

"Good. So as I was saying, your nose isn't broking so it won't too hard to heal. Do you hear me?"

Again, he shook his yeah.

"Okay so I'm gonna heal you now, so don't move."

Not waiting for a reply this time, Raven put a hand over Robin's nose, where it glowed black as she healed it.

"Whoa Rae you can still use your powers?" Cyborg asked as he a Beastboy stared at her in awe.

"Yeah I can. Didn't you guys try?"

Without saying anything Cyborg and Beastboy looked at each other then slowly looked away before trying their powers, where Cyborg's sonic cannon can from the palm of his hand and Beastboy changed into a wolf and back.

"Oh." they both said in unison.

"Idiots." She muttered under her breath as she looked around the cave and saw that her alien/fairy friend was gone. "Where's Starfire?"

"That's what we were waking you up for." Robin said still sitting in front of her.

Raven turned to look back at Robin hiding her surprise that he was still there. "So where is she?"

"Come on, that's what we wanted to show you." Robin replied as he stood up, her hand in his, and pulled her out of the cave, Cyborg and Beastboy following at their heels.

Outside it was still night, but there was dew on the grass, and now in between Raven's toes and on the hem of her dress.

"So...why am I out here? And where's Starfire?"

"Look up." Beastboy instructed her.

Looking up, her mouth opened slightly at the sight before her. Because right above their heads was a moving, display of lights of all different colors and sizes.

"Fairies." She said quietly.

"Oh hello friends." A high pitched voiced yelled as a glowing pink light floated down from the rest.

"Hi Star." Raven said in her monotone voice as she held her hand out for the miniature Starfire to land.

"Hello friend Raven, I see you have awoken. Look what my fellow fairy friends taught. I am now small, see." Starfire told her friend excitedly as she stood in her hand.

"Hey Star, what are you all doing up there?" Cyborg asked.

"We are celebrating the coming of the morning time and the leaving of the night."

"Of course. How could I forget?" He cried out hitting his forehead with his hand.

"I must go now, they are calling me. They are teaching me the ways of the fairy, isn't that exciting?"

"Yeah. You go ahead then." Raven told her as she flew off into the fastly moving lights, leaving a pile of pink, glowing dust in her hand.

"What you got there Rae?" Cyborg asked coming to stand by her.

"Fairy dust." She said with a smile before blowing it on him.

"HEY, ACK...DON'T DO THAT!" Cyborg yelled trying to dodge the fairy dust, but his efforts were futile.

Once he stopped moving he saw his teammates watching him expectantly. "What?" he asked in annoyed voice.

"Do you feel any different?" Beastboy asked.

"No why...ACHOO! (My sorry attempt at sound affects.) " he started to say but a huge sneezed caused by the fairy dust, raked through him and sprouted a mane of curly black hair on his head.

"Talk about your delayed reaction." Robin commented as they all sweat dropped.

"ALRIGHT I HAVE HAIR!" Cyborg yelled happily, as he began to do the happy dance.

"Well it seems that he's happy." Raven sighed running a hand through her hair.

"What's wrong Raven?" Robin asked concernedly as she seemed to freeze up all of a sudden.

But Raven either chose to ignore him or didn't hear him. With wide eyes, Raven pulled her hand from her hair and stared at it in horror. `OH NO WHAT DID I DO?' she yelled in her head, horror-stricken as she saw that the remaining particles of fairy dust that had stuck to her hand were now gone.

By now Cyborg, Beastboy, and Robin were watching her expectantly. All with faces ready and willing to laugh.

Then it happened, her hair changed. It started to elongate, she grew bangs, then turned white, and then...BAM! It's anime all the way, sticking up, pointing out, jagged looking, and shorter here longer there, hair.

"Whoa! Hey there Raven. Looking good...Yep, looking sharp." Cyborg told her, his face clenched.

Nobody said anything after that, but then the boys looked at each other out of the corner of their eyes and began bursting out in loud, obnoxious, laughter.

Raven wasn't obsessed with sprucing, but...her hair, in its current position, had her lower lip slightly trembling.

That is, her lip started to tremble; because soon the sound of laughter drew her attention away from her hair...then she grew angry.

"Think that's funny don't you?" Raven said in a threatening voice as her hands glowed black and her eyes shone white.

Gasping loudly the boys then clung to each other in fright. "NO RAVEN NO!"

"Well laugh at this. AZARATH METRION ZIN...whoa." whatever Raven was going to do to the boys was put on halt as a sprinkling of gold fairy dust showered down on her, shrinking her to the size of the fairies themselves.

The boys watched curiously as miniature Raven floated in the air for second before plummeting towards the ground, where, she was caught by a gold glowing male fairy.

"Hey put me down." They heard miniature Raven say, but after she looked the male fairy over she changed her mind. "Or maybe not." She said before they ascended into the air and joined the festivities of the dancing fairies.

"Hey where's he going with Raven?" Beastboy asked aloud, before Robin could. Because we know, he was.

"He has chosen Raven as his dance partner, and the others would like if you joined in." Starfire said as she came to flutter in front of them.

"Umm...okay?" Beastboy said confusedly before he was whisked away by Starfire, and the others were lifted away by a female fairy. (Or two in Cyborg's case.)

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"Well...that was...interesting." Robin said as the fairies left and the sun came up.

"I'm all sparkly." Beastboy said making everyone look down at themselves and realize they were all covered in different colors of fairy dust.

"Wasn't that the most joyous celebration ever?" Starfire asked happily flying overhead and spreading even more fairy dust around.

"It was something." Raven said in her monotone voice, happy that her hair was back to normal, as Cyborg sulked about his falling out.

"So leader boy, what are we to do now? The sun's up, we're up, so shouldn't we get started on this quest thing." Beastboy asked as they all turned to look to Robin.

"Alright team; before we set off we need to get prepared. That means getting water, weapons, food, blankets, etc., and having something to carry it all in." Robin said as he took charge.

"What for? We have Witchie Poo here to solve all our problems." Beastboy said clasping a hand a Raven's shoulder, who, inwardly blanched at the name `Witchie Poo'.

"What if we're separated, what if Raven gets sick or can't use her powers anymore, or what if she just decides to leave and make us fend for ourselves. Then what'll we do?" Robin asked calmly; knowing he won the argument already.

"Alright, alright. We'll get preparations."

"Now Raven, I need you to provide us with the weapons, blankets, sacks, and any other thing we'll need to survive on our own."

Raven didn't say anything, but shrugged, and took off her hat. She knew she'd have to do that stuff when they first arrived.

Holding the hat in front of her, brim up, she shot it with her finger then tipped it over and shook out all the contents. This consisted of a sword, a shield, a black velvet pouch, a bow and arrows, water containers, a broom, and 5 sacks.

`Hey I'm getting good at this.' She thought as a Mona Lisa smile spread across her face.

"Hey Witchie Poo, what's with the broom?" Beastboy asked as he grabbed the sword and shield and began to play with it, and accidentally stabbing Cyborg in the butt.

"Stop it." She droned, pertaining to the name Witchie Poo.

"Hey where's my weapon?" Cyborg asked Raven as he came to stand in front of her.

"You're a Greek god. What weapon do you need? But what I really want to know is what's with the broom?" Beastboy asked yet again as he popped into the conversation, by Raven's side.

"Friend Raven? What is this little bag for?" Star asked as she appeared by Raven's other side, holding the little black pouch.

"It's for holding things." Beastboy answered for her. "Now about that broom..."

"I should trade with Beastboy; I don't know how to use these." Robin said in a deadpan voice as popped up in the middle holding the bow and arrows.

By now, everyone was crowded around Raven and she was feeling a little claustrophobic.

"Are you sure I shouldn't have a weapon?"

"BLAH, BLAH broom."

"It is a very pretty bag, but of what use is it?"

"Broom Now Please."

"I would do much better with a staff, or boomerang, but not these."

"Helllooooo, What about the broom?"

"STOP IT!" Raven finally yelled.

And that's just what they did they froze.

"No need to yell Rae...we're right here." Cyborg said in a low scolding tone.

"That is the point. You're. Too. Close." She ground out, using her powers to move them a few feet back. "Now, you don't have a weapon because you're a Greek god! The little black pouch is for you to put your fairy dust! The bow and arrows are for you because you are an elf, and its best suited for you! And the broom is for me, because I am portraying a witch! Got it!"

"Yes ma'Am." they all said in unison.

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"Do I have to put you two in time out?" Raven threatened Robin and Beastboy when she caught them fighting with the weapons she had given them.

"NO, we were just doing what you told us too." Beastboy said innocently as he put his sword behind his back so it wouldn't get taken away.

"You, other side of the clearing." She said to Beastboy. "You keep practicing." She said to Robin, as she summoned a target for him to shoot at.

"Yes ma'am." They both said sullenly as they separated.

"How are you holding out Starfire?" Raven quizzed as she came over to stand by her pink glowing friend.

"This is most tiresome." Starfire complained as she frantically fluttered her wings making dust pile up on the ground before bending over to put it in her pouch.

"Well it'll be over in a little while." Raven said reassuringly as she left to go expect Cyborg, who was getting the sacks ready for traveling.

"How're we doing in this department big guy?"

"Well let's see here, the sleeping bags are packed, mini first aid kits, cooking and eating utensils, instant foods, and that'll be about it. All we have to get now is water for the containers and we'll be all set."

"Well in that case, once you get the water I believe we can start moving out," she told him before turning to leave.

"Yeah...hey you want to come with me?" he suddenly asked loud enough for Robin to hear, as his and Beastboy's make-Robin-jealous-scheme came to mind.

"What?" Raven asked confused.

"Do you want to come with? You're not doing anything here, I wouldn't mind the company, and it'll give us both something to do.," he argued.

"Well...I guess so.," she said uncertainly as she looked around at the others.

"Great!" Cyborg exclaimed as he grabbed the canteens and Raven, sitting the latter on his shoulder.

"Hey where are you guys going?" Robin asked frowning.

"We're going to get water." Raven said before she and Cyborg disappeared into the forest.

Once they were out of sight, Robin growled angrily and began shooting ferociously at the target.

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"Where are they?" Robin yelled furiously, pacing. "It's getting dark!"

"Dude stop worrying so loud, you're giving me a headache." Beastboy groaned holding his head and looking a little sick.

"They left hours ago; they should've been back by now." Robin said, ignoring Beastboy.

"Oh my stomach!" Beastboy moaned loudly scaring Starfire, who had busy watching Robin pace with mild fascination.

"What could they be doing?"

"I feel nauseous." Beastboy moaned, now being attended by a sympathetic Starfire.

"Look at that, the stars are coming out already!" he yelled frustrated looking up at the full moon.

In the background, Beastboy is having a seizure, and Starfire doesn't know what to do.

"Where are they? What could've happened?" Robin continued to say, oblivious to the happenings around him.

"Oooh, MY BODY ACHES!" Beastboy howled as his body began to change. Starfire screamed.

"What if they're lost?" he thought aloud to himself as a vision of Cyborg and Raven looking scared in a dark forest popped in his head.

Beastboy was now foaming at the mouth as fur began to sprout over his body, Starfire stood some distance away looking sick.

"What if they were captured?" he thought as the picture of Cyborg and Raven being held over a giant pot by monsters formed in his mind.

Now Beastboy's Clothes tore off his body, his arms and legs became that of canines, and a tail sprouted from out of his...you know.

"Eep!" Starfire yipped frighteningly as Beastboy eyes' rounded on her.

"Or even worse..." Robin said aloud as he stopped pacing and the worse possible scenario accumulated in his mind. Cyborg and Raven sitting down beside a tree in a beautiful spot, making out.

"WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY!" he yelled into the night angry as he could possibly get.

If Robin hadn't been so busy yelling at the night, if had turned around he would've seen Starfire being chased around by a big, green, werewolf.

"Beastboy will you be quiet I can hardly hear myself think!" Robin spoke out angrily as he turned around to yell at Beastboy, only to see a green werewolf and no sight of Starfire or Beastboy.

The werewolf now began to stalk slowly towards Robin, teeth bared, and drool drooling.

"BB? Bad Beastboy. Baaad. Staaaay. Bad Boy. Bad. Stay. Sit boy, sit." Robin scolded, shaking a finger at the werewolf as he steadily backed away.

But the werewolf paid him no mind as it hunched up its hunches preparing to pounce.

"NO! Bad BB, do not attack Robin! Do not attaahh!"

Without warning BB launched at Robin, but before teeth or claw, could lay into boy wonder, a firebolt exploded in its path, knocking it to the ground. Straightening up the werewolf growled before jumping into the dust cloud for its prey, only to find it gone, and in its place, a witch and a Greek god.

"Uhhh...who here knew that werewolf Beastboy was going to be green, just raise your hand." Cyborg said as he and Raven looked at the snarling green wolf that now approached them.

"I think we should run." Raven said emotionlessly to her remaining companion.

"Ladies First." Cyborg said gallantly swinging an arm towards the open forest.

"Why, thank you."

"Happy to oblige."

Were the last things they said before fleeing into the night, werewolf hot on pursuit.

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"Now how did this happen?" Raven yelled desperately as she found herself running alone through the forest with the sound of canine noises not far behind her.

`Oh wait, I can fly that's right.' she thought happily as her eyes glowed white and her feet left the ground, only to come crashing down painfully as her dressed got caught in the up upturned root of a nearby tree.

"Oh this is just great!" she yelled dreadfully as she tried to tug her dress loose, with the canine sounds getting evidently closer.

"Ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh!" the werewolf howled as the scent of its prey came closer.

"Oh no, oh no!" she cried silently to herself as she began to tug more ferociously on the skirt, but to no avail for soon the werewolf came in sight and was heading straight for her.

The wolf was so close now she could feel the ground vibrate as its feet touched the ground.

`This is just great; I've never even had a boyfriend, let alone flirt with anyone.' she thought despairingly to herself as she hunched over into a ball and closed her eyes to wait for her demise. But it never came. She waited a few seconds, and still nothing. Timidly she peeked open an eye only to find herself up high in the trees in the arms of a boy a little older than her, about 17-19, with ebony black hair pulled back into a ponytail.

Preparing herself to hit this guy and scream, Raven was cut off as the boy turned to her with deep coal black eyes and held up a finger to be quiet and then pointed down.

Despite herself, Raven looked down to see the werewolf sniffing around at the base of the tree. The two of them watched in silence as Beastboy rummaged around before catching a whiff of something and taking off in that direction.

"I really hope that wasn't Cyborg." Raven said before looking back up, only to see her savior staring at her.

"I guess I have you to thank for saving me. Well, uh, thank you...um" she told him as a blush spread across her face at the intense gaze he was giving her.

"Jacob." he told her in a velvety deep voice with an English accent, which caused her blush to deepen.

"Thank you Jacob." she said shyly as he set her down onto the branch. Now that she was standing up, she could see him better. He was tall and pale, and judging by the way, his clothes fit him; you could see that he had little muscles. He wore entirely all black. Black shoes, pants, shirt and jacket. His shirt was made of silk and it had a stiff collar that he had flipped up.

"It is always my pleasure to rescue such a beautiful lady from the jaws of evil beings such as that." Jacob said as he grabbed her hand and kissed it tenderly, never taking his eyes from hers.

"Well that evil being is my friend, when he's normal," she said breathlessly finding that she couldn't break eye contact...even if she wanted to. There was something about those black orbs that just...enchanted her.

"And why would a Minx such as yourself, be out alone with a friend who is not always normal?" he asked as he began to close the gap between them.

"I...I wasn't alone with him. I have other friends; we just were, split up.," she stammered as she began to move away from Jacob, only to back herself up against the trunk of the tree.

"Now why would they allow such a delicious looking Minx such as you, split away from them, when there are dangerous creatures in the forest like...?" he whispered softly as he put one arm on either side of her against the trunk.

"Like...what?" she managed to say as she drifted off into a blissful state, as Jacob began to kiss and nuzzle her neck.

"Like...ME!" he yelled as his face transformed from beautiful to that of a hungry vampire, teeth bared ready to puncture her exposed throat.

It was the touch of the fangs against her neck, which snapped Raven out of the trance. Regaining her senses Raven had just enough time to morph into the shadows and port to a lower branch, to keep her from being bitten.

Up above her, Raven could hear Jacob's growl of anger, and not soon after he looked over the edge at her.

"YOU!" he growled his face still contorted, but soon the beautiful one was back as he calmed. "You are not any normal human girl, are you." he said suavely as he began to walk to the underside of the branch.

"No I'm not, so you can go find your meal somewhere else." she shooed, becoming braver as she knew she couldn't be hypnotized as easily now.

"MEAL!" he howled, as he suddenly appeared up right in front of her, grabbing her around the waist and pulling her to him. "You intrigue me too much Minx, to waste on a midnight snack. You, I must have for eternity," he said as he tried to kiss her.

Morphing into the shadows again, Raven appeared in the branches of a tree, a little ways from him. He seemed impressed.

"Tell me Minx, what are you?"

Feeling playful, Raven waggled a finger at him in a scolding manner. "Naughty boy, to get what you want you must catch me first."

Grinning, a fangy grin, Jacob was on her in a blur. "I've got you," he said triumphantly making a lunge for her only to grab skirt, as she morphed out of his reach.

"Now you didn't think it was going to be that easy did you?" Raven yelled from the base of the tree he stood in, now in a much to short dress.

"I was hoping not," he yelled back, eyes flashing from the sight of her thighs, before jumping down, where he immediately took off, using his vampire speed, after his Minx.

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"I tire of this game Minx, show yourself." Jacob announced hours later as he stood in the middle of a clearing he had last seen Raven in.

"What's the matter? Not having fun?" Raven's voice asked.

"No Minx, but we'll both have fun if I could find you?"

"Is that a promise?" he heard Raven asked as a black gloved hand slid down his shoulder and across his chest. Grabbing the hand, he tossed Raven into the air, to land bridal style in his arms, but just as he looked upon her, she disappeared.

"Ooh, almost had me there." she teased from her hiding place.

"No...Now I have you," he said, as he suddenly appeared in front of her and pinned her to the tree before crushing her mouth with his.

"Well it would seem that you've caught me," she said playfully as he broke the kiss.

"Yes it would seem, now tell me, what are you?" he asked never shifting position.

"Me? Well...my...father...is...a..."

"Yes? What is your father?"

"My father. My father was a DEMON!" she yelled as her eyes glowed white and her powers pushed Jacob off her and flying into a tree.

"And my mother was a witch." She finished quietly as she morphed into the shadow of a bird and flew off.

"That...that Minx is a little vixen. I love it." Jacob said to himself before continuing his pursuit.

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"Is that the best you got Jacob?" Raven taunted as Jacob caught up to her.

To outsider looking in, all they would've saw was two blurs as Raven and Jacob raced by.

"I love a good chase Minx. No matter how long it takes, I always catch my prey."

"Well, I guess I'll be the one that got away."

"What do you mean by that my little Minx?"

"Its time for you to go to sleep." She said teasingly before bursting through the thick foliage and into the early morning day.

"Nooooo!" Jacob yelled angrily from the dark forest.

"Oooh too bad, you were almost about to catch me." Raven teased from the safety of the day.

"This isn't over Minx; I'll find you sooner or later." Jacob growled.

"That'll have to be later, because now, is not an option for you."

"Don't worry; I'll be with you, no matter what."

"Yeah, yeah." Raven muttered as she conjured her witch's broom and mounted it.

"Now let's see how to work this thing. Fly...fly...up and atom...get up...zip and zoom." Raven said with no success.

"There has to be someway to get this thing to riseaaaahhhhh!" Raven suddenly screamed as she flew up.

From amidst the forest a low chuckling could be heard.

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"RAVEN!" Cyborg yelled down the dark tunnel, that was Beastboy's throat.

"Get off! I didn't eat her okay!" Beastboy protested as he shoved his friend away.

"But we found you by her hat." Robin accused as he shook the hat at him.

"I do not think Beastboy would be capable of such a thing." Starfire stated, coming to Beastboy's defense

"Thanks Star!" Beastboy said as he turned towards her with a smile plastered on his face.

"You are most welcome Beastboy, for you are my friend and I must help you out, even if you did eat friend Raven."

"Gee, thanks Star," he said sarcastically as he became crestfallen.

"See, that proves it, now lest operate, she could still be alive in there." Cyborg said as he held Beastboy's sword up.

"I did not eat her."

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"Oh great, there they are." Raven said in mild happiness as her friends came in sight.

"Now how do you stop this thing? Stop...cease...quit moving...freeze...HALT!"

And just as she told it too, it halted. Abruptly. And swung her off.

"AHHH!"

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"Wait you guys. Do you hear something?" Beastboy asked as he held up his hands to stop his `friends'.

"Yeah. Sounds like...someone screaming." Cyborg said as they all stopped to listen.

"My eyes fool my brain." Starfire stated as she looked into the sky.

"What?" Robin asked confusedly.

"My eyes fool my brain. Must I spell it? We have guest." She said suddenly as Raven landed on top of Robin.

"Ooh yeah, that hurt."

"RAVEN!" Cyborg yelled as he picked Raven off the ground and gave her a backbreaking hug.

"See? I told you I didn't eat her."

"What?" Raven asked confusedly.

"You may not have eaten her, but something sure ate her dress." Cyborg commented as he set Raven down.

"I like it." Robin said to himself as he stared.

"Friend Raven, what has happened to you?" Starfire inquired.

"Well, you can just say, I've had a busy night."