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Chapter Seven: Why Do You Even Try?

In the distance Raven could hear a slight beeping. She turned onto her side trying to ignore it. But the beeping wouldn't cease. Then she realized that the beeping was her stupid alarm clock telling her to get up for school. Raven gave a moan then covered her head with her pillow. School was not the place she wanted to be. She wanted to stay home. She wanted to study the book… and practice her powers. She hadn't practiced in a while she realized. The more she thought about it there was really no reason not to go to school. It was Friday, the last school day of the week. She'd have Saturday and Sunday off. She could practice then. With a small sigh Raven removed her pillow from her head and shut her alarm off.

Raven sat up thinking. She wondered if there was a way she could at least make school shorter today. With school being shorter today she would have more time to explore the city, when it was actually daylight and stores were essentially open. "I'll think of something" Raven mumbled to herself as she slipped out of bed. Too deep in thought raven didn't even notice what she was putting on. She slid on a small black top, skin tight black shorts and a navy blue cloak. When she glanced at herself in her mirror she realized what she was wearing. She was wearing the clothes she usually practiced in. that was her main thought. Practicing… but she had school. She looked over her clock. She was going to be late if she didn't hurry. There was no time to change. There was barely time to grab a bagel or something. Realizing how much time she had till class started she started dashing around. She grabbed her backpack, ran to the kitchen and grabbed a muffin then disappeared, then started running down the street to school.

She was slightly out of breath by the time she reached her math class. She was slightly annoyed. Most of the students had given her strange looks and Raven knew it was because of what she was wearing. She did not like the attention, but did nothing to stop it.

She quickly sat quietly at her desk. The classroom was very noising, but as soon as the bell rang everyone began to quiet down. Math was boring. Raven hardly paid attention. Instead she starred out the window and doodled in her notebook. Ms. Lax saw this right away and tried to embarrass the girl by asking her questions about the day's lesson. It didn't work. Raven knew every answer. Even not paying attention, when she heard her name called she'd answer the question without a hesitation. Raven smirked at her teacher. She had just finished answering her fifth question for the day and her teacher seemed disappointed. She had answered each question brilliantly. She hadn't cheated at all. Math was just easy.

Raven didn't really pay attention in physics either. She was too busy trying to think of a way to end school early. But it was hard to think with a stupid cheerleader yakking away. Katherine seemed to be very interested in the 'outfit' she was wearing. The girl didn't even seem to notice that her friend wasn't even paying attention.

In the hall on her way to her next class she asked Katherine if school had ever been let out early before. Katherine didn't see the question as being odd. She answered it right away. "A few years ago it started snowing. It was snowing so bad that the school was afraid that we'd all be stuck at school if we didn't leave soon. So the busses were called and we all went home" said Katherine calmly. That gave Raven an idea. It wasn't cold enough to snow, but what about rain? If places started flooding would school be let out early? It was worth a try.

During the beginning of English raven excused herself to the bathroom. As soon as she was out in the hall she looked around to see if the coast was clear. There wasn't a poor soul in sight. Now was her chance. Raven ran down the hall, looking for an empty room to position herself in for a spell. She didn't even know if she could do this, but she had a feeling she could. She was powerful. Of course she could do it. She phased through a door into a closet with cleaning supplies. She needed to be fast. She couldn't be gone from class to long. People would start wondering. With a deep calm breath Raven lifted up into meditation position. "Azarath Metrion Xinthos" whispered Raven to herself, her eyes closing and her mind beginning to clear. She continued meditating for a minute or two. She didn't know any weather spells, but she could probably make one up. She only thought about one thing. Making it rain. She spoke softly, speaking a different language. She added her magic words then started over. After a few seconds Raven could feel the clouds building over Jump City, she could feel them growing heavier and heavier with water. She continued on until the big dark clouds burst open sending droplets of water over the city, soaking into the ground. The girl concentrated on the rain. Billions of water dripped from the clouds, growing bigger. The clouds grew darker until slight thunder could be heard, well sensed since she couldn't really hear anything but her thoughts right now.

With a small devilish smile, Raven opened her eyes and dropped down to the ground. Water would poor out of the clouds until she ceased it. She would stop it once school was out and the dirt could no longer hold the water. Sensing no one in the halls still, she teleported herself outside her English class room. She straightened up and wiped the evil smile off her face. Confident that she didn't look suspicious she entered the room quietly. No one was really paying attention to the lesson anymore. Everyone's attention was at the storm that had seemingly come out of nowhere. A boom of thunder was heard making everyone but Raven jump slightly. She couldn't help but smirk slightly. This was her doing after all. "Everyone should be thanking me" thought Raven, "Soon we'll all be out of this place".

By the beginning of the next period school was dismissed early. The unnatural rain was building up so fast that the ground didn't have time to absorb it all. The water built up on the roads, in the parking lots, everywhere in the city. Everyone cheered when news came that school was being let out early.

Everyone was hurrying in every direction, trying to get out of the school as fast as they could before they changed their mind. Raven didn't rush. She took her time, knowing there was no way in hell that she'd be stopped from leaving. Calmly, Raven put her books in her locker and gave a small smile when her so called friends didn't show up. "They must have hurried out too" she thought relieved. Pulling her hood over her head as far as she could, Raven stepped outside. Even under cover she was getting pretty wet. It was windy, there were bright flashes in the sky and you couldn't even see past the rain it was so bad. No one was in sight or in her sense. Everyone was gone practically. All was rushing home, to get inside where it was dry. She laughed; a joyous hellish laugh that'd make everyone in their grave roll over in fear. There was absolutely nothing she could not do. "Time to practice" thought Raven, "and when the rain has stopped… probably in about an hour or so I can come back and make more sense of this place". She looked up at the sky and willed the storm to stop, not immediately, but in a more natural manner.

Thrilled with what she had done, Raven whisked herself away, to home, to her room. She gave a content sigh before she opened her eyes and changed out of her wet navy blue cloak into another one of the same color. After pulling her air back into a messy pony tail, she reached for her belt. She held it smiling, simply looking at her reflection in the red talismans. She hadn't felt this happy in a long time. Why was she so happy? Why did she feel like jumping up and down, giggling, like a complete idiot? Raven pushed her thoughts away. It was time to only concentrate on her training. She snapped the belt around her slim waist then exited her room. She walked passed her brothers room, ignoring them completely. They were not worth her time. They were worth nothing. She had better things to do than go harass them. The girl continued down the hall calmly, breathing in and out deeply, relaxing her body and mind, ceasing all extra activity. She stopped at the large, dark, scary as her brother's would call it, door. Behind it lied the room she practiced and most importantly, tested in. this room was the perfect room to concentrate in. the energy flowing through the room was most relaxing, well to her anyways. Her brothers found it disturbing. It was dark, making her have to use her senses more than her eyes, which was good. Your eyes could be very deceiving. The only thing you can truly trust is your senses and mind, nothing else. Everything else was a distraction, like vision, emotions and the like.

Raven opened the door quietly then slipped in. the door shut behind her gently. She looked out into the room. It was empty. Perfect. Like anyone would really be in here anyways. The only noises hearable were her own breathing, heartbeat and soft steps. Other than that it was eerily quiet. Just the way she liked it. She stopped in the middle of the floor, shut her eyes and silently commanded things to be thrown at her. Anything, large or small, anything heavy or light, anything at all. The creatures that looked like shadows with red eyes obeyed.

Objects, one after another was thrown at the girl. Raven easily maneuvered around the flying objects. Then weapons were added to the list. She ducked as one flew over her head and rolled to the right avoiding more. She did all this with her eyes closed. She moved gracefully, like a ballerina twirling. She jumped slid to the right, slid to the left and even caught some of them and threw them back to where they had come from. This wasn't difficult. It was simply a warm-up, something to get her limbs moving. After about an hour of this, Raven called for the creatures to stop. Everything stopped immediately. Objects flying in the air dropped to the ground. The girl opened her eyes, eyed the things that lay all around her than shooed the shadows away. "Be gone" she shouted with a wave of her hand. The beasts didn't hesitate. They disappeared, along with all the things that had been thrown at their mistress.

Sitting on the ground Raven began to stretch out her muscles. Her body moved fluently with no awkward motions. Raven stood up slowly and gave one last stretch to the ceiling. She was done, for now. She would continue on later today. The rain had stopped mostly. There was only a slight drizzle now over Jump City. It was time to become more accustomed with the city she now went to school in. before she left to earth she changed out of her shorts and tank-top into a tight long-sleeved cotton sweater and into a pair of pants of the same material. Both garments were black. Silently she snapped her belt back on, slipped the cloak back over her head and glided her boots back on, tucking the bottom of her pants into the boots. Why she was wearing this she had no idea. She really only wanted to wear something that was her at the moment; something calm and quiet, graceful and deceitful. This outfit apparently fit the criteria. Now she only needed to brush her hair out. Then she'd be ready to go. Pulling the rubber-band out of her long, smooth, glistening hair she reached for her hairbrush. She brushed it out loosely, letting her hair lay naturally against her head.

With one last look in the mirror she disappeared and reappeared in Jump City. Well not quite, she appeared over Jump City, in the air. The rain had stopped completely now and the sun was just beginning to poke out of the dark clouds that were lightening from there deep grey almost black color to a lighter grey. A slight breeze flowed through the area making pulling Raven's hair back. She hovered there in the sky for a few moments. The city looked kind of pretty covered with droplets of water and the sun just poking out of the clouds. Everything seemed to sparkle.

The city was pretty quiet. People were just now coming out of their houses, adults looking at the damage the rain had caused and children rushing out to play in puddles. Everything was calm. There was no rush or tension just tranquility. Raven liked the feeling. Usually the city seemed to be in a constant rush, in partial chaos. As usual she landed in an alleyway. Pulling her hood over her head she walked out onto the sidewalk and chose a random direction to walk in. her eyes gleamed slightly under her hood as she studied her surroundings. Turning onto main-street she walked passed a number of small businesses, each with their own little glowing 'Open' sign on the front window. In the distance Raven could see a slim part of the beach.

The girl walked to the beach calmly, eyeing almost everything with interest. Humans were most interesting. They tended to go with their emotions instead of their knowledge. Why? How could they be so confident that the right path was with 'their' emotions? It was ridiculous. Emotions only really brought one pain. Why would you want pain? Knowledge did not bring pain. So why not go with knowledge? There is supposedly only one good reason to have emotion; and that would be to know what is right or wrong? Knowledge can't entirely do that. You would think it could, but you need emotions to have morals.

Her boots sunk into the sand slightly with each step. Small waves lapped at the shore, rolling rocks back and forth. She sat on a log and looked out at the large lake? The T shaped tower still stumped her. Who in their right minds would want to build a building in the shape of a T. what purpose was there? There was absolutely, positively no purpose whatsoever. So why then? Raven pulled her hood off in thought and let the wind rustle her hair.

Unbeknown to her a boy curiously watched her. At first he was just slightly following her because he couldn't figure out what she was wearing. She kind of looked like a super hero wearing that cape. When he saw the purple hair he knew it was 'her'. The girl he had seen in the mall and had gotten distracted by when he jumped onto Dr. Light. He had to say something. Anything. But what? "I'm gonna mess this up" thought Beastboy, "ugh. But I 'need' to say something… but what". Taking a deep breath the green boy walked towards the strange girl slowly, silently praying that he wouldn't make a fool of himself.

Out of the corner of her eye Raven could see a boy watching her, and then walk towards her. But there was one odd thing about him. He was green. Was he not entirely human too? "Wait. He's the boy that fought that goon at the mall the other day" thought Raven. She grew more nervous has he grew closer and closer to the log that she was sitting on. "Why is he walking towards me? Why? Please, I don't know anything about boys" Raven thought to herself trying to keep herself from glancing at the green boy. The girl hardly breathed. He had stopped right behind her. She shut her eyes and waited for him to speak. "So… um…hi…?", said the boy. Raven opened an eye. Had he just phrased that in a question? Opening her other eye she shifted her body to face him. Everything about him was… well… green. His eyes, hair and skin were green. Raven didn't dare look into the boy's eyes fearing he would see right through her. "…hi…" said Raven a bit more confidently that he had.

Beastboy swallowed up the building saliva in his mouth. She was taking to him. A girl was actually talking to him. He stumbled over his words trying to say something without letting her know he was nervous… if she didn't already know. "I'm Beastboy…. I've seen you around a few times… but… I… don't know your name" he said sweating slightly. Why did he have to be so nervous? "Raven" said the girl. "raven?" questioned Beastboy, "what raven"? She rolled her eyes slightly then said, "my name. my name is Raven". "Ohhhh…." said the boy feeling pretty stupid.

Raven looked nervously at the boy named Beastboy as he sat down on the log besides her. Why was she so nervous? She could kill him in like a second if she wanted, so why be nervous. It was no use. No matter how many times she told herself that having this feeling was irrational, it would not leave. She turned back to the water, trying to avoid as much conversation as possible. It didn't work. He kept talking, not even noticing that I was trying to shut him out. He was totally oblivious.

"So… did you move here recently?" asked Beastboy trying to keep conversation. "Yes" was all she said. "Where did you live before coming here?" said Beastboy. "Far away" said raven with no emotion. She kept her answers as short as possible. If she didn't have to say anything more than why say more? Beastboy took notice of her short answers and tried his best to ask questions that would acquire more than two words. "Okay… what do you like to do?" said the boy, "I like to play video games and hang out with my friends". Again her answer was blunt, "read". "What kind of books?" tried Beastboy. "Stuff" said the girl. This wasn't working. Everything he tried he'd only end up with the same short response. He didn't know what to do.

Raven tried everything to get rid of him. She kept her voice emotionless, her answers short and didn't look at him. Could he not take a hint? Raven stood up. Maybe if she left he'd leave her alone. That didn't work either. "Hey… wanna get some pizza?" Beastboy said quickly as he saw the girl stand up. Raven gave a sigh then replied, "sure, why not". If she did this maybe he'd leave her alone for the rest of the day. "Cool" said Beasboy growing excited. He had finally gotten somewhere. He took out his phone and texted 'getting pizza. Want some? I met a girl…' to his friends or team, however you looked at it. Three replies came instantly, 'so there. A girl huh. Bet you can't get it to last for more than a hour.', 'yay', 'meet you there'.