Title: Shroud of Darkness 05: Melissa

Chapter 1

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN TEEN TITANS.

Raven had feelings for Starfire. No one knew it though. Not even Starfire. She kept it all inside her, but after the Tokyo incident, she couldn't confess. Not after Starfire confessed her feelings for Robin. Ever since then, she locked Love away in a deeper part of her mind. Her other emoticlones didn't feel that she deserved it, but they all knew how Raven got when she was angry. Even Rage had feared her then.

A week has passed since then. During that time, she stayed in her room, heavily meditating, trying to control her feelings. Robin, Starfire and Cyborg knocked on her door but she wouldn't let them in. An alarm sounded throughout the building and it broke her meditation. Her anger briefly showed before she got it under control.

"Raven, come on! The city's under attack!" Beast Boy shouted through her door. Raven got up slowly and walked through the door. She could see her friends sigh in relief but then remembered that the city was under attack. They all ran to where the disturbance was. Cars had been flung everywhere and people were all in a panic.

"What's gotten everyone so scared? " Cyborg asked.

"Maybe it has something to do with THAT!?" Beast Boy pointed at the rapidly approaching object. A huge thing fell out of the sky and landed near Raven. Raven looked over it-her body and saw that it was covered in scratches.

"Is she alive?" Beast Boy asked. Raven saw her eyes moving underneath the lids.

"Yeah she's alive, but we need to get her into the medical bay." Cyborg hoisted her over his shoulder and took her there. Raven looked around for what had caused her to fall but there was nothing in sight. Raven teleported back to Titan Tower and retreated to her room. Someone knocked on the door to her bedroom.

"Who is it?"

"Raven? This is your friend Starfire." Raven opened the door to reveal Starfire standing there.

"What do you want Star?" She couldn't handle this right now.

"I just wanted to inquire as to why you are staying here and not helping to cure the one in the medical bay."
"I just need to do some meditating."

"Okay, I will see you later then." Raven closed the door and tried to unsuccessfully manage to meditate. She decided to forego the meditating just this once and went to go see who was in the medical bay.

At the medical bay…

Melissa opened her eyes and was surprised to see such mortal technology around her. Angels are not meant to be hooked up. She saw a green thing in front of her face.

"Hey guys! She's awake!" He shouted. A boy in red and another one completely covered silver metal walked up to her.

"Hello." The red boy spoke.

"Hi." Melissa responded.

"What's your name?"

"I'd rather not say."

"Fine. Don't tell us your name." The green thing said.

A woman clad in purple floated in.

"Hello. I am called Starfire and these are Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg." Starfire introduced herself then the others in turn. The one in red is Robin, the green thing is Beast Boy and the one in silver is Cyborg. No wonder, look at him! Melissa slowly sat up and rested her back against the pillows. A girl all in black then floated through the ceiling.

"What's your name?" Melissa asked the girl.

"Me? Raven."

"Raven? That's a cute name." Raven's pale face didn't help to hide the blush. Another alarm sounded.

"Now something's attacking the Tower!" Robin shouted. Robin and the others all ran outside to leave Melissa to recuperate. It wouldn't take long. As soon as she felt that she was ready, she got out of bed, tightly curled her wings against her back, and ran to the roof. When she got there, she jumped off it and unfurled her wings to catch the air. She hurriedly flapped them and hovered in place. The others were all crowded around the front entrance.

She flapped closer to see what they were looking at. It was the thing that attacked her. How did it know she was here? She patted her armor and felt nothing.

She patted around her back, the parts that she could reach, and felt a tiny little lump. She carefully pried it off and examined it. A tracking device! He quickly threw it into the ocean, hoping that it followed. The lumbering thing got up, checked a machine, looked to where he knew it was beeping, shrugged and lumbered into the city. With that taken care of, she flew into the heavens to report back.

"Where did she go?" Beast Boy wondered. Raven had, again, retreated to her room. She couldn't get that face out of her head, the angelic face of the girl in the medical bay. She looked into the mirror and felt herself being taken to where she wanted to go. Love's prison.

"Love, who are you thinking about?" Raven asked her clone.

"Aah. I am thinking about that girl in the medical bay. I think she's cuute." Love sang. Raven just shook her head and let Love out.

"You're actually letting me go?"

"I'm letting you go, only because you have changed your mind about Starfire. Got that?" Love nodded fearfully. She didn't want to go back to that horrible place.

"Good. You can tell the others what I have said, just don't mention anything about Starfire."

This is the first chapter of the fifth story of Shroud of Darkness. The Shroud of Darkness series currently contains five stories, including mine. The first one is Shroud of Darkness: Sera. The second one is Shroud of Darkness: Emma. I'm not so sure about the third one. The fourth is being written by a good friend of mine, DarkDarsi and his is called Shroud of Darkness 04. Hope you like it.