Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ The Pheonix Chronicles ❯ The Pheonix Has Landed ( Chapter 3 )

 

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Here it is, the next chapter!

I hope you enjoy!

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BTW: "..." =Talking

'...' = Thinking

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The Pheonix Chronicles - Chapter 3: The Pheonix Has Landed

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Raven gasped as she looked down at the meteor / stranger. He was strawberry blonde, about 6' tall and well built. He appeared to be dressed in some sort of spandex outfit, like any of theirs, like superheroes and villians wore. It was red, like flames, with golden armor pieces on his chest and legs. Even his boots, gloves and utility belt were a golden color. The chest plate had a large bird, a pheonix?, emblazoned across it.

The thing that shocked Raven was that she knew who he was!

 

"It's Him!"

 

Robin and Starfire both looked at Raven questioningly.

 

"You know him, Friend Raven?" Starfire asked.

 

Raven opened her mouth just to be interrupted by Beast Boy.

 

"Whoever he is, he's still ON FIRE!"

 

"Don't sweat it," said Cyborg as he popped a fire extinguisher port out of his wrist, aiming at the crater. "I'll take care of that."

 

Cyborg started sweeping the extinguisher back and forth across the crater, putting out the flames surrounding the stranger, coating him in the process.

Raven got a bad feeling , but just as she was about to warn Cyborg, a shadow attached to a fist came swinging out of the cloud of CO2 and sent him flying backward!

The stranger came staggering out of the cloud, coughing and hacking the cold stuff out of his lungs. He stumbled a couple steps and fell to his knees, dragging in gulps of fresh air.

During this time, Starfire helped Cyborg back to his feet.

 

"Man, that guy packs a punch!" Cyborg stated while checking the small dent in his chestplate. ' More repairs...'

 

"He doesn't like the cold, Cy," Raven informed him. "Be glad he didn't put you through the ground."

 

"Just how do you know this guy, Raven?" asked Robin, looking at her intently. 'She has some connection to the stranger. I don't know if I like that.'

 

"I'm not sure, Robin," she answered.

 

"I don't think now's the time, guys. Look out!"

 

Bumble Bee flew into Raven, knocking her out of the way of a fireball aimed straight at her!

Raven had been so intent on Robin she had missed the stranger standing up and firing on her.

His eyes were fixed on her, glowing brightly red and his hands were engulfed in flames!

 

"Die, demon!" he spat as he chucked another barage of fireballs Raven's way.

 

Starfire shot a couple of starbolts to intercept the fireballs, giving Raven time to dodge out of the way. The stranger turned to glare at Starfire and the rest of the gathered Titans.

 

"You would help it? A Demon?!" he spat their way, even now swaying unsteadily. The flames surrounding his hands dimming and flaring in response.

 

Robin stepped foreward, still at the ready with a Birdarang in hand. "She's a member of our team. She's no threat to you. And if you don't stand down we'll have no choice but to defend her. You're choice."

 

The strangers eyes narrowed as his lips set in a tight line. "She's a DEMON!" He pointed an accusing finger Raven's way. "You don't know what they're capable of! They destroyed my home! Will you still defend her?! Or will you help me destroy her and send he back to the hell she came from?!"

 

Raven flinched a little at the open discussion of her heritage, but she didn't let it distract her. 'Enough time for that later...'

 

Robin put up a hand, the one without the Birdarang, in a calming gesture. "I don't know what you're talking about, but I assure you, Raven hasn't been destoying anyone's home. If you'll just calm down and tell us what's going on, maybe we can.."

 

The stranger cut Robin off, "NO! I'm sick of talking! I'm sick of negotiations! All talking gets you is a handfull of dust that remains of your home and a heart full of memories that hurt too much to ever go away!" He turned slightly so he could watch both Raven and the other Titans. "If you're not With me, then you're AGAINST me! FINE! DIE WITH HER!"

 

At that point the flames on his hands roared to life and he started throwing fireball after fireball into the group of Titans.

 

"Titans, GO!"

 

Robin led the attack as the Titans split formation to try to surround their target. But try as they might they just couldn't bring him down. Starfire's starbolts were used mostly to deflect fireballs, Bumble Bee's little stingbolts did little more than tickle, Robin's Birdarangs never could get close before getting fried, same with Speedy's arrows. Beast Boy and Cyborg were the only ones that managed to get close but only succeeded in getting the shit stomped out of them for their trouble. Aqualad's attacks were the most successful, hitting him with waves of water from the shoreline, but it just seemed to piss him off more.

The Titan's pulled back to regroup when Robin noticed the stranger sway a bit more and fall to one knee, his fists flickering a bit.

 

"O.k., Titans. Now!" The Titans sprung back into the fray, focusing their attacks together.........just to have Raven block them with a shadow wall erected between them and him.

 

Robin looked at her, realizing for the first time that she hadn't been attacking with them.

 

"Raven! What are you doing?! He's trying to kill you, and the rest of us for that matter!"

 

"We've got to stop, Robin! We can't hurt him!"

 

"Girl, have you lost your mind?!" yelled Bumble Bee as she dodged a stray fireball that came over the wall.

 

Raven just readjusted the wall to cover a little more space between him and them.

 

"He's not one of the bad guys! He's just confused and disoriented!"

 

"Ummph!" Cy took a fireball to the gut that sent him 20 feet. "Doesn't seem disoriented to me," he muttered, picking himself up off the ground.

 

"I don't know how else to bring him down, Raven! None of us can get close!" said Robin as he dodged another stray fireball.

 

The stranger had gotten smart and started ricocheting his fireballs around the shield. A moment later he got back up from his knee, seemingly having caught a second wind, and tried to dodge around Raven's shield. She chose that moment to constrict her wall around him, wrapping him in shadows. All that they heard was a muffled thud as he hit the unexpected barrier and then he was back on the ground, looking up at them blearily.

 

Raven came down to hover near his body. The stranger locked eyes with her a moment. Rage and something she couldn't quite name, defeat maybe?, lurking in his gaze, all of it seemingly aimed her way.

"I'm sorry," she whispered as she pushed back her hood. His eyes widened, taking in her features with something akin to shock, and then passed out.

 

"What happened, Raven?" asked Robin as he came up to survey their attacker.

 

"I think he ran out of steam. You see, my shadows are cool by nature. He doesn't like the cold. When I wrapped him in the shadow wall it chilled him, effectively winding him. Having to stop and catch his breath just drained him enough to collapse. He was running on adrenaline all this time. It finally ran out."

 

Robin looked at her oddly, intently. "How did you know to do that, Raven? How do you know him?"

 

Raven's brows knit together in a small frown. "I don't know."

 

Then she wrapped him in her shadows, lifting him off the ground, and teleported them both away.

 

"What was that all about?" asked Beast Boy.

 

"Yeah, and where did they go?" asked Speedy.

 

Robin was looking at his pocket locater, watching the little bleep that signified Raven was in the infirmery. "She's in the tower. I don't know what's going on," his eyes narrowed. "But I intend to find out."

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O.K. people. What do you think?

What do you think of the new guy?

He has some pretty harsh views of Raven, ne?

And what about Robin? Does seem to like being left in the dark, huh?

Well, Please R & R, and watch out for Chapter 4: A Pheonix by any other Name...