Raven watched the new kids, hoping for them to move or something, just to break the tension. No one moved. She watched everyone uneasily, really really wishing there wouldnt be anymore silence. Then someone spoke.
"Hi! Im Breeze!" The girl with the wings spoke up. She stuck her hand out as far as it would go at the titans.
Raven looked down at Breezes hand, then at the other titans. She wasnt going to shake it. Beast boy grinned widely and reached to shake her hand when one of the boys with wings pulled her hand out of the way.
"Breeze." Blizzard said firmly, snatching Breezes hand out the way. "Get used to it."
Breeze knew that Blizzard was on about her powers after a second. "Oh."
"Hey, Im Blizzard." Blizzard looked right into Starfires eyes, as if nobody else was there. Starfire watched Black Ice.
Blizzard nudged Black Ice. "Huh?" Icy looked around confuzed. "Oh, Im Black Ice. You can call me Icy." He ran his fingers through his hair, trying to look cool again, Blizzard thought.
Raven looked at them all. "Yeah, uh, Im going to read for a bit." Raven said awkwardly, walking towards the door. She felt a tug at her cape.
"Hey what are you reading?" That Icy guy was standing right behind her. Raven could tell that he liked reading, obviously he wasnt into her kind of books.
"You wouldnt like it." She left the room, leaving Icy behind the door frowning. How come all of a sudden they have to get a bunch of obnoxious new kids, she thought. She lit the candles in her room and crossed her legs in a meditative pose, "Azarath, Metrian, Zinthus," She chanted. "Azarath, Metrian, Zinthus, Azarath, Metrian, Zinthus..." She contined to chant, and in her mind she pictured a dove. It flew around a pretty pink and white city, past the buildings and through a particular building Raven recognised. The dove landed to rest on her mothers shoulder. Her Mother welcomed it, smiling as it landed. Another dove landed on her other shoulder. Then, she walked indoors followed by countless amounts of doves. She slowly made herself a cup of tea, then sat and sipped her tea, stroking a dove that was sitting on her knee.
Knock knock, Raven hti the floor and snapped out of her daydream to someone knocking at the door. "Are you sure I wouldnt like it?" Raven recognised the voice, it was one of those identicals, probably the book person. He ignored the silence and continued speaking. "You know, I like all sorts of books..." Raven kept her patience and breathed deeply. This guy was getting on her nerves more than anyone ever! She would have to watch her powers didnt go bazerk again. He continued to interrupt her, "Anyone there? Hawk?" Goodness. Get lost, why couldnt he? He was so annoying.
"Look, kid, its Raven, and you wont like any of my books. Dont come in here." Raven quickly levitated a book and flicked it to a random page with her mind. She knew he would probably ignore her and walk right in.
"No, really, what are you reading?" The door opened and the Icy kid walked in. He looked around, but Raven wasnt a fool. She could tell when people didnt like things and this guy didnt like her room, but anyone could tell that because he did a terrible job of covering it up. "Nice room," He lied.
"This really isnt getting you on my good side," Raven replied. A candle went out, it was his fault, get lost! Raven thought. Icy looked down at her uneasily. Raven glared up at him. Unsociable, annoying, boring... People often described Raven like that. Now Raven could describe someone else like that for once.
Icy sighed and sat down on the floor. Raven scowled at him. "Who said you could sit there?" She had a strong edge to her voice.
The kid stood up again and turned to leave, frowning. Another candle went out. Raven felt slightly guilty. Ignore it, she told herself. Ignore it before your powers go. Icy turned and looked at her sitting with all the candles, several of which he noticed were out. "Uh, should I just, leave?"
"Yes." Raven bared her teeth and wished for him to go.
"Sorry about the candles, uh, do you want me to light them again?"
"No." This guy was on her last nerve, get out of here right now. The world had already exploded with Ravens emotions.
"Are you sure? I mean I could stay a bit in here..."
Raven closed her eyes and started to chant in her head, hopefully it would calm her down, save the Earth, she thought sarcastically. Azarath, Metrian, Zinthus...
"Are you still alive?" Icy poked her. Her arm went numb.
"Yes I am but you wont be unless you get out of my room right this second!" Ravens eyes started to go black, and black waves started to show around her hands.
"Uh, are you sure! I can help get rid of your anger problems!"
"What anger problems?" Raven asked as calmly as she could, she did have anger problems in Icys point of view. Then what happened was very fast. Icy felt the floor beneath his feet disappear, his back felt force and found himself upside down against a wall which now had a dent in it, probably from the impact.
"Hey! Whats your problem?" He fell forward and landed on his feet, dusted his shirt down with his hands and blinked a lot. That was girly, so now in Ravens point of view he was stupid, liked books, unsociable, annoying and now girly. No wonder he was following her around, wait, that was an insult to her. "You arent very nice!"
Icy did realise that he probably looked and sounded so pathetic right now, that girl had hundreds of books in her room and he had about three. He blew his chance to read more. That probably made him sound so much more pathetic. The door slammed shut in his face. "Bitch." He said under his breath, and walked away feeling his hands freezing into solid fists. He couldnt help himself from doing this, it just came naturally.
"Hey." Icy recognised the monotone voice, he turned and saw Raven looking at him from behind the door. "Sorry."
"What?" Icy stared at her. "You think im an idiot?"
"No. I think youre cool." She had a slight friendly smile on her face. "Really."
Icy huffed. He knew that she had gotten just a little bit out of control and that she was prepared to make up for it, somehow, but to accept straigt away would be so uncool. Wait, he wasnt even sure if she had gotten over her anger yet. "Hey, you prove it first. I am not getting thrown over again."
Raven was getting really flicked off now. Sure, she had just thrashed him, and then went to make friends again, but he was a boffin. Why did he need reason? "I..." She walked into her room and picked up the book she pretended to read with her mind. She showed the book to Icy. "Will show you my books?" She passed her book to Icy with her 'magic' so that it rested before his face. When he looked up, she smiled a small but sweet smile. Apparently she had won, because Icy was now smiling straight back at her.
Icy looked around Ravens dark room. He had looked at it a few times now, but he still couldnt understand why somebody would choose such a culture to live in.
Raven watched him, keeping completely still. He looked around her room yet again, this was starting to get annoying now. Emotions wont stop with this guy. He turned his head to look at her, then apologized. "Oh, sorry. Um, what do you do in here?"
Icy hated being alone with someone. He couldnt ever start a decent conversation, he should get a personal tutor or something.
Raven relaxed, finally he was speaking. But now she was feeling shy to answer the question, shut up emotions! People had often asked her this question and then decided she was strange. She looked at his peppy smile and sighed. "Read..." Her pale face then started to turn a new shade of red. "Meditate." She was getting embarrassed. Emotions!
Icy obviously could tell that she was shy about this. "Thats cool," He reassured her. "I cant meditate."
"I can show you," She said. What was she saying? She was totally letting her emotions go free! That wasnt good, then she decided to just hold them back a bit, after all, she just needed a friend. No, no, no, she didnt! he was annoying. Push the ejector seat button. "But I dont want to. Im going to push the ejector seat button instead. Kapow. Goodbye." She pointed towards the door. He was being so annoying! She was being so annoying! Emotions shut up! He left the room, leaving Raven to make up her mind and meditate in peace.
Kiera looked out of the window and saw the gas pipes and water pipes exploding in black energy around her. She shut her window and curled up in her bed, trying to get to sleep, ignore it, maybe it would pass. To get to sleep. To dream.
Smash! Bang! People watched the gas exploding and the waves of water flooding their homes. People rang ambulances and police, but it was useless, the forces were already trying their best. Others ran for shelter screaming, others protected their families, others struggled out of collapsed buildings and debris. Families, most of them were. Others were with their friends. Not many were alone. There was a yellow and black circle thing laying on the ground with a black T in the middle, somebody had obviously dropped it. But it was suspicious, so Kiera picked it up. It clicked open. There was a hooded girl on the screen, she was fighting someone. She looked angry, terrifyingly angry. She yelled and then came out of the yellow circle and into real life, walked towards Kieras brother, and started to fight. Kiera loved her brother so much but she knew he couldnt win a fight, so she ran up and skidded to a stop in front of the girl with the purple hood. That girl was a lot taller than her, maybe she shouldnt have done that. Keira was growing, Keira was growing, she was higher than the other girl and higher every second. No, she was Flying. She struggled to move, waved her limbs around helplessly, then she was dropped. Falling down towards the ground and then a green tiger appeared out of nowhere! Madness? Perhaps. The green tiger caught Kiera, but why? They were trying to kill her fugitive brother! Then she was gently dropped onto the ground by the tiger, he stood back a bit, then she heard her brother scream, the tiger was suddenly attentive and he leapt over Kiera catching his claws on her thigh. "Ah!"
Keira was suddenly bolt upright in her room. Nightmares. Keira hated them. She shivered, and noticed that her window was smashed, and that there was a car door in her room. She tried to get up but stopped when she felt an agonising pain in her leg. there was a shard of glass in her thigh, so she stayed still and cried for her mother, watching the blood run slowly down her leg helplessly.