The full moon hung in the dark sky, as its soft light shone on the forest below. There was sound of battle coming from the woods. A tall wolf mix attacked a husky mix with fangs bared. His sharp teeth slashed through the husky's skin, spraying blood onto the bloodstained ground. The husky mix attacked back, and tore the wolf mix's ear. The wolf shook the blood out of his face, and lunged at the husky dog's throat. A shrill cry rose from the battle as the wolf mix's teeth sunk into the husky's throat. Warm blood filled his mouth, and the wolf tore the skin away from the husky's throat. The husky gasped for breath, but the only sound was a gurgling noise, and he fell to the ground dead.
The wolf mix turned around and attacked the dog behind him; a borzoi.
"You will pay, Crag!" The borzoi snarled at the wolf mix.
"Try to tear through me! I dare you!" Crag growled. The borzoi lunged at Crag, and they writhed and fought. All around them were many other dogs. A bloody battle rose, as dogs lay dead on the blood stained ground.
"Crag!" a voice cried out from the battle field. Crag turned to see a black dog. She had indigo eyes, and her fur was long, silky, and black then any dark night sky. Two dogs had her pinned to the ground. She defended herself with her paws; kicking and clawing the dog's faces.
Crag pushed past the borzoi, and ran towards the dog.
"I'll help you Raven!" Crag barked.
Suddenly, a dog lunged at the black dog's front leg, and his teeth tore through her skin. Instead of crying out in pain, she lunged at the dog's neck, and in a split second, she had tore through the dog's throat and bone. The dog fell to the ground dead. The other dog, not taking any notice to his death lunged at the dark black dogs throat. Then Crag bowled into the dog, knocking him off balance, and he crashed to the ground.
The black dog stood up and shook her fur.
"Thanks, Crag," she said.
"No problem Raven." Crag said. Then the enemy dog stood up and leaped at Raven. She turned around quickly, and with her hind feet, kicked him, and he soared back, and crashed into a tree. He collapsed to the ground, and they knew he had been taken care of. Raven shook the blood from her fur coat, and turned back into the battle, and Crag followed.
Beast Boy tied the shoelace to his shoes tightly.
"So where are we going for our run?" Terra asked impatiently.
"I was hoping through the woods. It's a full moon tonight, so I thought it might be kind of cool to go." Beast Boy said.
"That's a good place to go," said Robin.
"Yes, indeed!" Starfire beamed. "Say, where is friend Raven?"
"Probably in her dark room doing whatever she does in there. Meditate or something." Terra said rolling her eyes. Nobody seemed to notice her slightly rude comment. Beast Boy stood up.
"K dude! We're off!" he shouted.
"See yea." Cyborg said, his eyes glued to the video game screen. "But when you come back from your jog, you'll see that your high score got its butt kicked by my high score!"
Beast Boy and Terra were jogging down the sidewalk, heading for the woods. There was a path that leads through it, and let the people of Jump City see the wildlife. Beast Boy looked up at the sky, and saw the bright full moon against the dark sky. Stars dotted the sky, and they twinkled and sparkled.
"Beautiful night, isn't it T?" Beast Boy said pointing up at the sky.
"…yeah" Terra said.
They were jogging down the path, and entered the woods. The trees ands their long branches stretched over their heads. There was the sound of birds and crickets and…barking?
"Do you hear that?" Terra asked. Beast Boy stopped. He could hear dogs…a lot of them off in the distance.
"Aw they're probably just some dogs that got loose." Beast Boy and they kept running. Beast Boy kept his eyes open, as the sound got closer. Beast Boy and Terra kept on jogging.
"Don't you think that Raven's creepy?" Terra said. Beast Boy was shocked.
"Well…" he said. "A little. She just different—"
"So you do think she's creepy. Me too." Terra said.
"Hey, I just said that she was just differ-" Beast Boy began, but then he tripped over something that had been lying on the ground. He fell to the ground. He lay on the ground, and he heard Terra gasp.
"Beast Boy!" she said. Beast Boy sat up and saw what he had tripped over.
A dog.
It was a gray dog with black patches. It was dead, and had several deep wounds on its face, neck, chest, and back.
"This dog got into a terrible fight," Beast Boy said, backing away from the dead dog. It had died with its eyes wide open. It must have died suddenly. Beast Boy then looked around the path. Numerous dead dogs lay on the ground. The dirt path was bloodstained.
"What happened?" Beast Boy said, shocked. Up ahead, he heard the dogs.
"It must be a big dog fight!" Terra said, trying to sound worried.
"We should stop it before any more dogs die," Beast Boy said.
"Beast Boy! They're just a bunch of stray dogs! Let's go back!" Terra said.
"Dude, I've been a dog before. I'm not letting anymore die! There's no point for a dog to die! They're living creatures!" Beast Boy shouted. "Now come on!"
Beast Boy turned around and started to run toward the dog fight. He heard Terra follow him, and soon the dogs became in sight range.
There were so many dogs fighting each other. She started to shout at the dogs, hopefully top scare the dogs away. The dogs looked up, and started to flee. They all ran for the trees at the sight of him, forgetting about the dogs around them and the fight. All the dogs were gone, except two. There was a black dog and it had long black fur. Its front leg was torn and bleed, along with a wound on its should that was bleeding. It had a dog pinned to the ground. The black dog froze and stared at Beast Boy and Terra. The dog took its chance, and with its sharp fangs, slashed at the black dog's face. A deep cut started to form and bleed right under the dog's eye. The black dog cried out in surprise, and turned on the dog, and slit the dog's throat and blood spray over the black dog's bloodstained coat.
"Stop it! Stop it!" Beast Boy cried at the black dog. But it was too late; the black dog had killed the dog. Beast Boy felt anger purge through him. He approached the black dog. Why hadn't it run away like the others? Was it someone's pet? Suddenly he heard a voice inside his head.
"What are you doing here?!"
It sounded like Raven's voice.
"Raven?" Beast Boy said aloud. He looked around him.
"Beast Boy!" Terra said. Beast Boy turned, and saw the black dog had disappeared.
The next morning, Beast Boy woke up to Terra at his side. He had told the Titans about the dog fight last night after they had gotten back from their run. Beast Boy got up, and got dressed out of his pajamas and into his normal clothes. He got up and walked through the halls, and was heading to the main room when he stopped. He turned and walked towards Raven's room.
He knocked on the door.
"Raven? You there?" he called. He heard nothing.
"Raven?" he said again. Then he heard a sleepy noise that came from Raven's room.
"What?" Raven groaned. Beast Boy could tell he had woken her up. It wasn't normal for her to still be asleep when he woke up. She always woke up before everyone else.
"Uh…are you okay?" Beast Boy asked through the door. He heard a shuffling. Then the door opened, and there stood raven, in her pajamas. She was wearing a black tank top, and black pajama pants. Her hair was messy, and she looked extremely tired and annoyed. Beast Boy was about to start apologizing to her for waking her up, when he saw something. On her arm, was a bandage? It was bloodstained, and it looked like a bad cut.
"Are you okay?!" Beast Boy said, shocked.
"I just hurt myself last night is all." Raven said. Beast Boy looked at her, and saw a cut under her left eye.
"Dude, you got all cut up! What happened?" Beast Boy said. Raven seemed to suddenly wake up.
"Uh…I'm fine...umm…go away!" she said quickly. She was about to shut the door, but Beast Boy was blocking it.
"Come on, you need medicine for that!" Beast Boy said. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her out of her room.
"No! I'm fine!" Raven said loudly.
"No you're not, now come on!" Beast Boy said.
"What's going on?" Beast Boy heard Robin coming down the hall. Then Robin appeared, and he saw Raven's ragged state.
"Raven! What happened?! You're hurt!" Robin said.
"No I'm not, I'm fine!" Raven said, pulling away from them.
"No you're not Raven. You need special medical treatment for that wound."
"I just hurt myself last night! It's nothing to worry about!" Raven said.
"Raven, calm down. Let me just look at it." Robin said. Raven stood there a moment, then took off the bandage that was around her arm. Across her arm was a bloody, deep, cut.
"Dude…!" Beast Boy said.
"Come on Raven, we need to do something about that." Robin said. Raven followed Robin as they headed for the hospital wing.
"Rae! You okay?" Cyborg cried as he saw Raven pass by.
"I'm fine!" Raven said
When they got to the hospital wing, Robin had Raven sit down on the hospital bed, and Robin doctored her wound. The rest of the team came in, all curious in what happened to her. Then Starfire asked what had happened.
"I just hurt myself is all." Raven said.
"With what?!" Beast Boy asked.
Suddenly a different excuse flickered inside of Raven.
"Um…a couple of stray dogs came by, and attacked me."
"Dude! Me an' Terra totally saw this huge dog fight last night! There were dead dogs all over the place! I saw this black dog kill another dog. It was terrible!" Beast Boy exclaimed. Raven's eyes widened.
"So…you were there at the dogfight? You and Terra?" Raven said.
"Yeah,"