Heres the latest installment. enjoy!
Chapter Four
That night, Raven's mind was filled with the same nightmare, but as the night went on, the nightmare increased in it's horror and ferocity. She woke up because of it earlier than the previous nightmares had caused. Sweat covered her whole body, heart pounding. She got up, body sore and took a shower. Only after she finished getting dressed again did her heart finally start to slow. The clock said it was three a.m. She tried to go back to sleep, but couldn't calm her mind enough. She finally got up after struggling to sleep and went to make breakfast. Or in her case herbal tea. She finished her cup and went back to her room. Again she tried sleeping, but still couldn't let herself. She read until the sun was already up. Then she went into the commons area to find everyone awake and doing whatever it was they did in the mornings.
She sat at the kitchen table where Starfire, Beast Boy and Robin were already sitting. Cyborg was cooking this morning.
"No nightmares?" Robin asked.
Raven sighed. "Actually it was worse. I woke up at three and couldn't sleep."
"So they are getting worse…" Robin said thoughtfully.
"Nightmares?" Beast Boy inquired.
"I've been getting these nightmares recently, but I'm sure-" Raven was cut off.
"No, they're not going away Raven, we need to look into this." Robin said.
"We agreed on another week."
"But they're getting worse."
"Raven," Beast Boy jumped in with a worried face. "We should look into this if it's interrupting your sleep."
"I'm fine."
Cyborg had just walked over placing steaming plates of warm eggs and sausage. He also had a small plate of tofu that he placed in front of Beast Boy. Cyborg sat down next to Raven with this plate stuffed with five times the amount of food on everyone elses plate.
"I don't know Raven, from what I heard over there, It sounds like this will only continue to get worse." Cyborg said stuffing a sausage in his mouth. Starfire nodded in agreement.
Raven sighed in defeat. "Tonight, if I wake up again, we'll look into it. Deal?"
Robin nodded and started eating his breakfast. Raven looked at her plate. The eggs and the sausage were placed in a way to make it look like there was a person smiling at you. She started with the sausage that made the smile. Then the alarm went off.
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The Titans found themselves in the middle of a street in Jump city fighting Plasmus, the same strange symbol upon his chest.
"You sure you didn't find anything?" Cyborg asked Raven. As blasts of red energy shot freely from plasmuses mouth.
Raven was too busy dodging these red beams to answer him. Robin tried explosives, Cyborg tried his sonic blast. Starfire tried her star bolts, but nothing would stop him as normal, but they seemed to have an even lesser effect than normal.
Raven was overcome with the same feeling she had felt with Cinderblock. It felt like anger, but somehow detached. It didn't vanish this time. It distracted her with how strong the feeling was. She was so distracted she didn't even notice the car flying toward her that Plasmus had thrown. Beast Boy, noticing she wasn't moving out of the way jumped between her and the car and stopped it as the Beast.
"You okay Rae?' Beast Boy asked after moving her behind a building.
"Somethings not right…" She couldn't explain what was happening to herself or to Beast Boy.
"What? What's not right?"
Raven only shook her head. Then it suddenly went away. Her head was clear again. She sat in lotus position and projected her soul-self out from her body. It found it's way to Plasmus and entered his body. She quickly made him fall asleep before returning to her own body. She ended it as she had before, but while inside of Plasmus, something felt different than it usually did. She couldn't place her finger on it though.
Beast Boy gave her a suspicious look before they rejoined their friends.
"Good work, Raven" Robin said. Cyborg gave her a high five as Starfire swayed in the air with joy. "We still need to figure out what that symbol means. "Robin reminded them all, sobering them up from the victory.
"I'll meet you guys back at the tower," Raven said and teleported away.
She immediately went to her books and searched with a new vigor, but the symbol was not the only thing she was searching for. She was also looking for an answer as to what has been happening around her and to her. The strange behavior of her friends, the weird feelings, they all had to mean something, and she was going to find out what.
An hour later a knock came at her door. Beast Boy stood there with a plate of pizza.
"We went out for pizza. Thought you might like some." He said holding out the plate.
Raven took it realizing she was hungry. "Thanks." Another wave of strange feelings came over her. Different from the previous ones. Strong, powerful, but gentle.
Beast Boy was already walking away and with each step he took, the feeling went dimmer and dimmer until it was gone. She felt closer to her answer, but couldn't quite put her finger on it, but she was close. She could feel it.
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She stayed up late into the night focusing her energies on finding the answer to what was happening to her, and ignoring the symbol completely. Exhaustion came, but she ignored it. The answer had to be somewhere.
Finally, around one in the morning, she found the answer. It was in one of the books Azar had given her. A book about creatures and their powers. In the section about demons, she found what she had been looking for. Empathy: the power to feel one's emotions and control them.
Raven's mind couldn't handle the thought that she may be controlling her friends, she couldn't manage thinking of what it all meant. Not in her exhausted condition so she went to sleep, thoughts haunting her last moments of consciousness
I hope you liked the BBXRAE moments. next chapter it'll get really good. promise.
