As you all know, I own nothing. Nothing except the plot, and maybe a few books. But only a few. If you haven't read Lost yet, go read it first, or else this one will make little sense (as if Lost made sense, it did in my head anyway) and a lot of things will be cleared up throughout the second story of this little trilogy. So, without further ado, I bring you: Found.
Raven awoke to a feeling of dread and impending doom. It wasn't coming from her though. As soon as she woke enough to think straight, she felt for the minds of her team mates. What would I ever do if I lost my powers? She thought to herself. She felt each of their dreams, but only vaguely, she didn't want to emerse herself too deeply lest she see something she didn't want to encounter. Like the time she saw Robin's dream about Starfire.
But she did let just enough in to feel the general idea of the dreams. Cyborg, who was like her older brother, was dreaming of bacon. No surprise there, since that's about all he can think about while awake. Next was Robin's dream, big surprise here, he kept giving off waves of two different ideas: being with Starfire, and putting bad guys in jail. Cant he ever pick one? Next was the resident alien, although she was more human than most humans or those who claimed to be anyway. She was giving off waves of affection, and before Raven could severe that link with her, she got a flood of images of puppies of all different colors. Well that's different, never thought I would see a pink puppy with ears the size of an elephants.
She was down to one last person, but she should have known who it would be. He hadn't let her get a good night sleep in what seemed like weeks. She never asked about his dreams, and she wasn't sure she wanted to know what had him so worried in his dreams. So, she severed the connection with all of them at once, and got out of bed. She wanted to go to him, and let him know everything was going to be alright, but she didn't know how. So, she figured since she was up, she might as well get dressed, and do what she does every morning at this time.
She made sure she was fully wrapped in her cloak and bracing herself for the smell, phased through the floor to reappear in the sweetest guy in the world's room. As soon as her dark magic disapated she turned towards his bunk beds to see him on the bottom bunk thrashing and flailing about. His blanket was wrapped around him like a snake, and who knew where his pillows went in all that mess. In all this, she saw that all he was wearing was a pair of purple boxers with little green hearts covering them. She was blushing as she reached a hand to his forehead to channel soothing energy to him. He would never let me live this down if he woke up right now to find me in his room. Especially the way he is dressed. She convinced herself.
She looked at him as his mind calmed, not wanting to intrude in his mind. She knew he was smarter than he let on, although why he hid behind the mask of the team jester, she may never know. But one thing she did know, she liked it. He went out of his way to try and make her laugh, and some of those jokes were down right corny. But most were pretty amusing. She was getting lost in her thoughts, until she felt him stir under the gentle touch of her hand on his head. She was careful not to alert him to her presence as she slowly got up from his bed and phased out into the hallway right in front of the door to the common room.
As she walked through the door that swished open for her, she saw Robin sitting at the table, drinking his coffee and reading the paper. They had a routine. They were always up before everybody else, but they seemed to alternate between who actually got to the common room first. She walked over to the stove to start the water on to boil for her tea. While she waited her mind kept wandering back to the changeling and why he was having these nightmares. Maybe I should just bring them up, saying that his mental energy at night is keeping me up. She thought. Mo, then he will think im spying on him, so that's a no-go. I'll have to figure something out, these restless nights are hell, and I should know what that's like.
She heard the kettle whistle, and finished making her tea, taking it over to the couch where she had a book she had picked up the last time Star dragged her to the mall. Her only problem was, she couldn't get into it. She felt him walking down the hallway. She could feel he was distracted about something, but she wasn't about to dig. He seemed to have a sixth sense for when she was trying to even just brush against his mind to see what he was thinking. It was frustrating. Robin could do it, cause she had been into his mind before she had developed the ability to communicate telepathically.
She heard the door whoosh open, and heard his footsteps through the room, but she could tell he was still distracted as he walked right out the open floor to ceiling windows they had left open due to the nice weather.
"Did he just do what I think he just did?" Robin asked in his normal 'im not going crazy again, right?' tone.
"Yup." Was all she said as she felt him fly back inside through the same window.
Robin was studying the changling from behind his paper, she could feel the waves of frustration from not being able to understand him roll off of him like the waves against the rocks on the beach.
"Up early for any particular reason?" Robin asked knowing that it got under Beast Boys skin to be interrogated so early in the morning.
Why was he up this early anyway? Raven wondered. She knew he had a nightmare, but even so, he usually wasn't up till about noon, unless the alarm went off.
Beast boy jumped and let out a scream with such a high pitch, she thought he could give Starfire a run for her money when she went by the pet store.
"Yeah, just thought I would get an early start on today, and the nocturnal animals in me were restless for some reason." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck in that telltale way.
Liar. She thought to herself. She knew something was wrong, but she could feel he really didn't want to talk about it. She was about to drag it out of him when the alarm went off. I guess it can wait a couple fo hours, then I will drag it out of him if need be. But I have a feeling its about Terra. She couldn't hardly think the name without getting a little jealous, and a feeling of needing to protect him from any blonde who got too close, lest it happen again. She closed her book knowing she wasn't going to be getting back to it for a while, if she was able to get back to it today.
That's when a feeling of foreboding and doom sent a shiver down her spine, something bad was going to happen, she just knew it. The problem was, she didn't know what it was, or how bad.
Alright, Chapter one of the second book. Something feel familiar about it? It should, if not, go reread Lost. And yes just about everything will be explained in the coming chapters, some of them, you might not like, others might confirm your suspicions. Please review so I know what you guys think about it.