Sorry about the long time for the update, I went away for a bit. It's summer holidays. I have every right to relax. :p

I did get this done though. I also know what I'm going to do for the next chapter, so HOPEFULLY I will have it up soon. Hopefully!

P.S. I changed my username.

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A loud scream fills my ears, and this time I think it is my own. Then I see Nashwa beside me. It is her scream, and she looks normal. He blackened spring blue dress is flapping in the wind, her black hair is surrounding her face, and her mouth is wide open. Tears are leaking out of her eyes and then they get caught by the air and fly upwards.

I watch the dim lights behind the smoke, which are probably stars, drift farther and farther away. The fire on the building wall is now beside be and above me instead of below me.

I know we are falling, but I can't do anything about it. My body refuses to move, and all I can do is stare at Nashwa and the wall. I can't move my eyes either. I can't move anything.

I am gradually getting lower than Nashwa, and pretty soon I'll only be able to see her as a flying object against a starry black backdrop.

Then I see something different.

A red and purple streak flies past me and seems to grabs the little girl out of the air.

But I'm still falling.

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"If this keeps on going on the whole City will be burned down within a year."

"Yes, already two apartment buildings have been attacked, and an office building. Our city is in great danger."

"Our city's always in great danger."

"What really bugs me was that it was that the office building was attacked in broad daylight. I mean, how could someone not notice?"

"There's been one building set on fire each day so far, not including today."

"If we don't catch him soon, then we run the risk of not protecting the city."

"What do you mean by him?"

"Isn't it obvious? Slade's doing it!"

"But Slade doesn't have his powers anymore, and I don't think he has that weapon thing, plus, he can't teleport and someone would probably notice a guy carrying a 6-foot axe thing with him.

"He probably got his powers back after Trigon was killed."

"I guess that could be possible man, but I really just think it's an arsonist."

"Think about it! Since Slade-"

Silence.

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My eyes flutter open, and I look around me. Then I sit up and really look around me, my eyes wide and burning.

Flames everywhere.

On the curtains, the bed, the chair, the walls, the corpse.

The corpse.

It's bigger than Nashwa's, about my height, and it seems to be moving.

It's standing up and walking closer towards me. The flames are dancing around its body and everywhere it steps catches on fire.

There are a whole bunch of ghost flames around it. An army of flames, with hallow eyes that never close. Just like the flames that followed Slade. No, like the one's that followed my father. The one that followed me.

The corpse reaches out, and its mouth is making incoherent sounds, like its mouth is covered with something.

I close my eyes and I feel its hand rest on my shoulder.

I open my eyes.

…And I find myself staring face to face with Robin.

His eyes are filled with concern, well his mask is at least. He has a frown on his lips, and he's staring straight at me. Right into my eyes, into me. No, he's staring right through me.

"Raven?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you okay?" He asks it, and his voice is filled with concern, but I can feel that he's more worried about something else right now than me.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I lie. I mean, I only just saw the infirmary burn down, and a corpse coming straight for me.

…The infirmary? Why am I in the infirmary? "Robin, what happened?"

"We believe it was smoke inhalation, but we couldn't find any traces of anything on the computer."

Smoke inhalation? "There was a fire?" Maybe there was an actual fire, and I was in here, and I was just remembering. Which doesn't really make sense… I mean, why would there be Slade's fire army, and a corpse.

"You mean? You don't remember?" He asks me.

I shake my head.

He pulls the cushioned chair towards the bed, and sits down on it. He takes a deep breath, and then begins. "There was an apartment building on fire in the city. In was a major fire, and the firefighters couldn't handle it. We came to help them, and you sensed that someone was inside."

He takes a breath.

"You said you had to go in and find this person, and said you would be okay, so-"

I can't hear his voice anymore. My head is fillings with memories, words, and images. I see a little girl on a rooftop, my hands on her shoulders, fire dancing in her eyes, I see the body of a dog, the fur mostly burned off and one of its legs burning. I see a black portal, and I hear a little girl screaming. Then I hear her screaming again and we're falling. Falling into oblivion.

Robin's stopped talking now, and he's looking at me again.

"I was falling… what- what happened?"

"Beast Boy caught you."

"Oh."

"But I want to know what happened to you." He says, his mask now taking it's regular, position. Robin's acting like the leader again, instead of the concerned companion. Oh well, knew it was too good to be true.

"What do you mean?"

"Why'd you faint?"

"I thought you said it was smoke inhalation…"

"That's what I told the others, but like I said before, there were no traces of it. Also, I don't think it would cause you to be out for two days."

"Two days…" I whisper to myself. I straighten up my composure and look him straight in the eye, err, mask. "Well, I can't think of anything else that could have caused it." I lie. I can think of tons of different things that could have caused it.

He sees right through it, I know, but he acts like he believes me. He gets up and leaves the room. I get up and teleport out, going to my room. He'll probably be annoyed that I'm not here, but that's not my problem.

I notice I'm still wearing my leotard and cloak, and not a hospital gown. I smell it and notice that there's no smell. I decide to change anyway.

I grab a candle and a match. I light the match and place it against the candle's wick. It bursts into a huge flame, and I feel a burning pain in my finger. I drop the candle, which goes out.

I stick my finger in my mouth, then take it our after tasting my uniform. I pull off the part of my uniform that is covering my finger and find it not burnt. I find that the uniform is in good shape also.

Something is not right about all this, and I decide to check it out. I teleport out, this time headed for the apartment building.

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It's still there, still standing, and not a mark on it.

I reach out to touch it, but my hand goes right through the hall. I pull my hand out, look at it, then reach out again.

I blink and the building vanishes into thin air. My hand yet again grasps nothing.

There are ashes everywhere, along with a bunch of people looking through the ruins and cleaning up ashes here and there.

"Excuse me, miss?" A man taps on my shoulder.

I turn around and give him a confused look. I must look pretty weird. Gothic Raven wearing an ash covered cloak, my index finger sticking out of my uniform, a dumbstruck look on my face, and I've just seemed to notice that I'm not wearing my boots.

"You're the one that fainted and dropped that little girl, right?" He doesn't seem to be polite anymore, if he ever was at all. Now he just seems to be a mad citizen who wants to tell me everything I do wrong.

I ignore him and walk away; he follows for a bit, telling me something, but I can't hear him.

I'm too intrigued by the smoke that's floating up into the morning air.