Hey everybody! In case you missed it, I added a little more to the last chapter!

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Raven's door automatically slid shut as soon as she walked through it. She leaned her back against the door, her breath still ragged. She brought her left hand to rest on her breastbone, trying to calm herself down. She brought her right to her mouth, as she slid her back down against her door, into a sitting position on the floor. She brushed her fingertips against her bottom lip. Her lips felt swollen, tingly.

She stood up and, slowly, made her way to her closet, trading her silky nightgown for her regular uniform. She slowly, yet steadily made her way to the spot in front of her window. Raven sat in a lotus position, and closed her eyes. She immediately floated into the air, a few feet off the ground, chanting her mantra.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos, Azarath Metrion Zinthos." She chanted calmly. "Azarath Metrion…"

(Flashback)

Raven looked around her, but she still didn't know where she was. It was obviously a wear-house district, the huge buildings towered around her making her feel small. The sun was no where to be seen although it felt like it should be out, the darkness was only broken by a few street lights in the distance.

But then she realized that there was another source of light. And eerie red light was silhouetting a building in the distance. Every instinct told her to run, every emotion was whispering to get as far away from the light as possible, but something was drawing her forward, something deeper, so she slowly began to walk toward the light.

As she rounded a corner still having several buildings between her and the light, she saw…something, it slowly came into focus. There were dark bodies laying everywhere, she couldn't make out any details because they seemed to be absorbing all the light from around them, they were like that because she wasn't meant to focus on them. But that wasn't what had caught her attention, because about fifteen feet off the ground Starfire seemed frozen, unmoving, with a hard expression on her face as she appeared to be desperately trying to get somewhere.

Raven walked beneath her wondering what was so important. She continued along the side of the wear-house running her fingers along the metal, tracing the countless starbolt burns. Slipping between two more buildings she came out in a long ally. At the far end a tall powerfully built man also stood frozen, raven realizing for the first time she was yet to feel fear in this place walk toward this new figure.

As she drew nearer she noticed the blue glow that seemed to engulf the figure, oh she thought its Cyborg but… he seemed to be missing something, and she stopped when she figured out what it was. His right forearm it was destroyed up to the elbow, the hand was gone and the rest was black and twisted, and some strange green liquid as well as blood seemed to be flowing from the tears in the armor. But because of the time distortions it had a weird ice like quality to it.

She walked around in front of him, and his face, it was contorted in fear. And he appeared to be trying to scream at somebody. His body was covered in dirt and scratches, remnants of a great battle. She tried to follow his eyes out into the open lot yawning before her, but again she couldn't focus on anything. But something else caught her eye. Just to her right Robin seemed to be in the middle of being thrown through a steel garage door on the front of a badly damages building.

She walked over to him and bent down to examine his face because he had a strange hand shaped burn on the right side of it. Suddenly the darkness started to lift and she could see more. There were countless more dark bodies on the ground and the origin of the crimson light was revealed as coming from a tall figure in a long robe. Just then everything started to move ever so slowly. Robin continued through the door Cyborg continued his scream and Starfire could be seen coming over the roof tops.

The robed figure, he seemed to be charging an attack. Magical words flowed from its mouth; the crimson light began to collect around its hands. Fear began to grip her as the light separated itself from the robed figures hands and crept across the lot toward a spot deep in the darkness. Raven stared as it continued getting faster and faster, lighting up all the buildings around the lot. But there was still a dark corner, the place the spell was aimed.

Raven looked around because all the time she had spent in this place, she still hadn't seen Beastboy, and it was starting to become unsettling. Then just as the crimson light lit up the corner, she gasped because there, with his back to the spell was Beastboy. He stood unmoving as it continued to gain speed and just as it was about to hit him, time seemed to stop once more.

She tried to yell at him to move, but no sound came out. She tried to run to try to save him, but she couldn't move. All she could do was watch as time started again, only this time it seemed to go into overdrive. The spell hit him with such force it sent off a shock wave. His lifeless body was thrown through the wall just in front of him. The bolt partially absorbed into his body and partially deflected into the dark sky destroyed everything in its path. But she couldn't take her eyes off the spot where he disappeared, even as the building began to come down on top of him.

(End of Flashback)


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