Dear Friends,
There are some events that can be foretold before their time. It is called Destiny, or Prophecy, of whatever name you care to bestow.
A prophecy ruined my life.
My powers come from my father, an inter-dimensional demon known as Trigon. He is literally evil incarnate. When I was born, there was a prophecy made about me- that on my birthday I would become the portal to allow Trigon to leave his prison and come to destroy Earth.
Let me make it clear now that this is a suicide note.
Please, don't try to stop me. It's too late, I charmed this letter to appear as soon as I died. I should have done this long ago. There was a clause in the prophecy preventing any such purposeful untimely death. However, not long ago I found a spell that would allow me to do what must be done.
All my life, I have lived under the shadow of this prophecy, like an ugly birthmark forever disfiguring my life. It is hard to forget that you will doom everyone and everything around you. I tried to do good, to offset the evil that I will wreak. But I knew that it was not enough, that is would never be enough.
Being with Titans was the best part of my life. For once I was a part of something instead of being on the outside looking in. For once I brought hope instead of doom.
Yes, there are some things that can be foretold.
But there are some things that no one could ever know.
Like how I would make such wonderful friends.
Thank you, for bearing with who I am even when I couldn't bear myself. Till we meet again. . .
Raven
P.S. Beastboy- I always told you about how your jokes were lame and annoying. But I never told you how much I appreciated that you were trying to make us all happy.
P.S.S. Starfire- I'm sorry that we never really got to do the "girl things" you always wanted us to. Thank you for always trying to make me feel included.
P.S.S. Cyborg- I hope that your new additions to the T-car turn out as planned. You were like a big brother to me.
P.S.S.S.-Robin- You were the first to accept me, when I told you that you wouldn't want me on your team if you really knew who I was, and you said you knew enough.
Raven closed her eyes, closed her fingers around the lucky penny Beast boy had given her last week. For the first time she could remember clearly, she felt free, no guilt lingering in the back of her mind, no doubt clouding her thoughts. In a moment her life would be over, and for a moment, she felt a glimmer of hope leap out from the organized chaos that was her mind.
"Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS"
Raven's eyes snapped open.
She felt for a moment, gusty torrents of darkness, overwhelm her, sweep her away and above, her spirit floating away on wings of fire, the blue Earth fading away; for that moment, a door opened, and Raven saw with utter clarity all the delicate strands of time that her led her to this moment, but then the moment was gone, and Raven was falling...
control slipped away. . . She had fought for control all her life. . .
Drifting. . . Relief flooded her. . . so pure, so innocent.
falling. . .
Raven's eyes closed for the last time.
As the petals fall,
like a house of cards,
Woven of the lies,
drifting, one by one,
soon I will be free
soon I will be free.
Cheers to my first TT Fanfic!
Reviews appreciated. There was this really tangential sentence I had, about Raven's last smile, which focused varyingly on rainbows, the inconsequentialness of life, the disparity between the intellectual consciousness and the instinctual one, etc. etc. Should I add it in/ offer as an extra on my profile? Did the verse at the end make sense?
Feedback appreciated!
Toodles!