Raven In my dreams ,I see people dying .It has always been this way for me .There would be a world of ethereal tranquility and peace and then ,there would be fire and darkness .An army of monsters in dark cloaks and four glowing eyes,sets of 2 one on top of the other .They his like snakes,they have teeth like sharks,they shreak like harpies and under their cloaks,they are made of shadow .
Others were once humans who are reduced to ash,or stone or the lucky ones become horrible demons as their skin rips from their flesh and they burn red like the demon king himself,Trigon .
Whenever I wake up,I'm back here,in my room in the school with all the other metahumans,and I feel like I just came up from drowning . No,it's not the power that makes it scary .It's the side effects that make it bad . .Virgil knows the feeling,so we get along pretty well,so does Wally .He once ran so fast he burned his own clothes off .That and the poor guy's always hungry,always .People thought it was funny,and he makes jokes of it,but I've seen him eat things that shouldn't be eaten and pass out in class fro still,still not having enough . But then there are the really scary ones with the light behind their eyes,who nobody wants to talk about .The ones who don't have power because of some freak accident; The ones who might not even be human . There's Kaldur'ahm,who says he's from 'the coast',who stares into space at times like he hears something we don't here,see what we don;t see .From the marks on his arms,that he always hides,I know that he's just like me,his power .It's not some freak accident like Wally or Virgil,no . . . . . . .it's magic . The way he can talk to the sea creatures and the way he moves water,I've seen it .At first,we just thought he moved water and was really strong,but then Aquaman himself showed up for Kaldur,just like The Flash came for Wally . Aquaman and Kaldur would talk without talking,and I could feel their brain waves just running a mile a inute in a language that wasn't one a human would speak . "Are you a merman?",I asked him one day .He smirked and said . "Is it true that you're a demon?",he said .I had no words and he replied . "I felt it .All of the ones like us felt it",he said . And from the water,that parted on it's own ,and a young girl with tan skin,red hair and glowing amber eyes,along with a guy near nher age,my age pale,with glowing blue eyes and hair black as dark stood in the center ,commanding the water like gods . "Your secret is safe with us,Raven",they said and Kaldur vanished with them into the water . For a while,I felt better,I felt better because they knew what it was like to be the other,Kal especially,but you could never say a word . There were others like a girl calling herself Jynx,even tghough her powers were more like hexes,which I personally know something about .She dropped out though,dissapeared .With powers like hers,it was hard to believe the League thought she could do good some day . Which is why I know if they knew the truth about me they would throw me to the dogs . And then she came . She had to be one of the prettiest girls in the school .Jet black hair,blue eyes,lined black that had a light behind it when she looked your way . She had the eyes of a witch; Her name was Zatanna Zatara . Her father was Giovani Zatara,a member of the League and a stage magician,claiing his super power to be telekinesis .That was a lie;I know a magic user when I see one,but he's a man of illusions,so of course he fooled the world . But even then,I knew Zatanna was something else other than just human,And I knew from the moment she spoke her first spell,backwards no less,which is considered wprds of a heretic,that we would be friends .Everyone else did too,because for the first time,I actually had a permanent roommate . The last one was a girl named Lori who was constantly feeding off of my magic until I confronted her in a fight that practically wrecked the campus and nearly got us both expelled .Lori though,left on her own because she was smart . I don't take kindly to those who take from me without asking . Like all the other students at Justice Academy,Zatanna had to show her stuff .When she cast her spell,she blew all the windows out of the gym room and put them right back during the League's auditioning .That and her tattoos all dark and occult besides the one on her arm that's just a rose with thorns,much like she is . And like me,she couldn't always control it . For me ,I had to keep my emotions in check,lock them away and pretend like I'm not human,like I cannot feel like I'm breaking in two . For Zatanna,she had to keep using her powers,her magic . She had to use it or it would consume her . But like me,she was afraid of the possibilities,so she spent alot of time levitating in her bedroom and we meditated together . After a while,I started telling her about my dreams .My dreams about the monster Trigon who consumed and murdered and destroyed,worlds that weren't this one .And like me the horror that such a thing existed she took to heart . In turn ,she told me about her dreams about a woman named Zara who would come to us and teach us to master our magic,who would save us from ourselves .Zara and a being called Aerebus who loved her and sent her to this world . It seemed too good to be true,but Zatanna believed,so I believed . So we held on for a while,we waited .We waited for Zara to come,went to the spot where we knew she'd be on those nights when the moon was full because in the dreams,that was when she came for us . But she never came . Who cae instead were men in coats and monsters colored gray with red eyes and hborns that reminded me very much of the demons from my dreams . The first thing I did was looked for Zatanna ,and when I found her ,I sent her away because I knew I couldn't possibly live with the fact that she died for me . With my magic,I had her dragged back to our room at Justice Academy and put her into a deep sleep where no one could wake her unless she allowed it .That way she could always be safe . And in turn,I let them take me . I let them take me so that they wouldn't come looking for her . . . If I had known what they needed with me I would have run away .If I knew they needed me to make a weapon,I would not have allowed it . I would not let Cadmus have me . . .
It's into having power that's scary,no I've seen alot of people who can and have doen horrors on their own and all by accident .One girl nae Terra was found burried alive in a landslide because she couldn't control her geomancy .
She's afraid to touch anything made of stone .
Another guy named Virgil has electrokinesis and once accidently blew all the monitors out in the computer lab,and electrified all of out chair .He's a good kid but there are people who hate him and he always wears gloves now .It wasn't until recently that people stopped avoiding him like he was a plague even after they let him out of the basement .