Chapter 2: Mysterious Happenings
Estelle: hi ppl!!! Sorry for the wait but I'm not used to writing continuously. Anyway here's the second chapter. ENJOY and thanks to all of those who reviewed my first chapter!!
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Robin and the team made it out all right. As they ran out of there beloved home they ran to the far end of the island were Titan Tower was situated and watched sadly as it crumbled away, flaming from all angles, into the ocean.
"Were is Raven.... was she not supposed to be outside as Cyborg had said" Starfire asked, (she hugging a photo album that was in her desk which miraculously wasn't even burnt by the fire, she said it was made of a special metal from her planet) after they had looked over the ruins trying to find anything that may have survived. Beast boy was busy hugging the game station which had survived while Cyborg was crying over some lost software that had taken him months to program into his computer, which was now a blob of burnt plastic and metal.
"We should have gone back" Robin thought. "If we did Raven wouldn't be missing, she would be with us...safe."
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Raven awoke with a start. She had a major migraine and her arm, still bleeding slightly was throbbing. She looked around... she was in the classical bad guy hide out... an abandoned warehouse.
"Where am I" she muttered
She brought her hand to her head.....but she couldn't. She pulled on her hand to come forward but she just felt it recoil back. She struggled harder trying to rip both of her wrists free from the strange chains but the stayed. She looked up. She was standing in a circular type of machinery, her arms stretched out almost touching the top, 2 black chains hung out from the machine, each one tightly holding onto her wrists. But despite the hopeless predicament she seamed to be in she just gave a smirk.
"This person obviously doesn't know me very well." She said her eyes started glowing white "Azarath Methrion ZINTHOS"
The already black chains started to glow. They creaked as Raven concentrated harder and harder, crushing them, trying to break them. But they held fast. Raven looked at the chains with horror.
"There's only one element that can withstand my powers... one element that can withstand the powers of Azarath... but there can't be... its impossible... there can't be a deposit of hydrolyte on earth... there's hardly any on Azarath..."
As she debated this in her mind she didn't notice a shadow slinking closer and closer from behind her. The shadow let out an evil grin.
"So our sleeping brat is awake..." the shadow said.
Raven turned around as much as the chains would let her. She gave the shadow a cold stare. The shadowed person stepped into the light. She was young. Not much older than Raven... maybe even the same age. She had black hair and cold grey eyes, she was wearing a suit similar to Ravens but she didn't have the loose belt and under her cloak she was wearing baggy black pants and a black top. The girl smirked.
"So we finally meet..." she said. Her voice crackled slightly like brittle ice. "The great sorceress of Azarath and I, Flare... Azarath's keeper of the sacred flames..." she gave Raven a haughty look at the words "sacred flame"
Raven's eyes narrowed into slits. "What do you want..." she said, her usually monotone voice quaking slightly in confusion and anger.
"What I want..." Flare said, slightly amused. "Well. I want Azarath's most powerful sorceress' powers... that's what... also I shall gain even more power once I capture the boy wonder and hand him over to Slade, who will personally punish him for disobeying last time (Apprentice 1+2)"
Raven's eyes glowed white once more. She felt uncontrollable feelings for Robin, all her locked up feelings started rushing out. Different objects in the room started to explode. A table at the far end of the ware house rushed toward Flare, threatening to knock her unconscious. Flare gave another smirk.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
She calmly pressed a button on a control panel, situated a few feet from where she was standing in front of Raven. Raven stopped her telekinesis. She felt something sucking at her pulling, trough her hands and feet. She started to glow black; she felt the machine, sucking the very life out of her. She gave a small yell, grinding her teeth; the machine wasn't just sucking the life out of her. It was sucking her powers, her emotion... her soul. Flare pressed the button again. The black glow diminished, and Raven collapsed, falling as far as the chains would make her go, panting and trying to get her breath back. The pain was so intense. Like she was slowly disintegrating.
Flare smiled as thought pleased about what had just happened. As thought reading Raven's mind she said "This machine is state of the art. It makes you feel so much pain that it feels like your disintegrating, but it's really just sucking your very powers out. Unfortunately people who have run in's with this machine don't survive. The machine sucks out your very soul leaving an empty shell behind. There's no use resisting Raven. Soon your powers will be mine."
"But why do you want my powers. Aren't the powers of the keeper of the sacred flames stronger...?" Raven managed to say, her voice still shaking.
Flare gave Raven a suspicious look.
"You've never read the prophecy... have you?"
"No. I left long before I could...but what does that have to do with this."
"Well you shall never. As long as you don't know about the prophecy it can't come true... then I can have ultimate power..."
Flare started walking toward the exit. Before she opened the door she turned around.
"I'll be leaving now. If I were you I wouldn't try escaping, or else wonder boy maybe in over his head."
She gave an evil smirk and disappeared trough the door into the darkness of the night, leaving a weakened Raven alone.
"How did she know...?" Raven thought as she started to struggle again, desperate to escape... who knows what Slade has in store this time...
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Estelle: well that's the end of Chapter 2. Hope Ya enjoy. CYA!
Estelle: hi ppl!!! Sorry for the wait but I'm not used to writing continuously. Anyway here's the second chapter. ENJOY and thanks to all of those who reviewed my first chapter!!
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Robin and the team made it out all right. As they ran out of there beloved home they ran to the far end of the island were Titan Tower was situated and watched sadly as it crumbled away, flaming from all angles, into the ocean.
"Were is Raven.... was she not supposed to be outside as Cyborg had said" Starfire asked, (she hugging a photo album that was in her desk which miraculously wasn't even burnt by the fire, she said it was made of a special metal from her planet) after they had looked over the ruins trying to find anything that may have survived. Beast boy was busy hugging the game station which had survived while Cyborg was crying over some lost software that had taken him months to program into his computer, which was now a blob of burnt plastic and metal.
"We should have gone back" Robin thought. "If we did Raven wouldn't be missing, she would be with us...safe."
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Raven awoke with a start. She had a major migraine and her arm, still bleeding slightly was throbbing. She looked around... she was in the classical bad guy hide out... an abandoned warehouse.
"Where am I" she muttered
She brought her hand to her head.....but she couldn't. She pulled on her hand to come forward but she just felt it recoil back. She struggled harder trying to rip both of her wrists free from the strange chains but the stayed. She looked up. She was standing in a circular type of machinery, her arms stretched out almost touching the top, 2 black chains hung out from the machine, each one tightly holding onto her wrists. But despite the hopeless predicament she seamed to be in she just gave a smirk.
"This person obviously doesn't know me very well." She said her eyes started glowing white "Azarath Methrion ZINTHOS"
The already black chains started to glow. They creaked as Raven concentrated harder and harder, crushing them, trying to break them. But they held fast. Raven looked at the chains with horror.
"There's only one element that can withstand my powers... one element that can withstand the powers of Azarath... but there can't be... its impossible... there can't be a deposit of hydrolyte on earth... there's hardly any on Azarath..."
As she debated this in her mind she didn't notice a shadow slinking closer and closer from behind her. The shadow let out an evil grin.
"So our sleeping brat is awake..." the shadow said.
Raven turned around as much as the chains would let her. She gave the shadow a cold stare. The shadowed person stepped into the light. She was young. Not much older than Raven... maybe even the same age. She had black hair and cold grey eyes, she was wearing a suit similar to Ravens but she didn't have the loose belt and under her cloak she was wearing baggy black pants and a black top. The girl smirked.
"So we finally meet..." she said. Her voice crackled slightly like brittle ice. "The great sorceress of Azarath and I, Flare... Azarath's keeper of the sacred flames..." she gave Raven a haughty look at the words "sacred flame"
Raven's eyes narrowed into slits. "What do you want..." she said, her usually monotone voice quaking slightly in confusion and anger.
"What I want..." Flare said, slightly amused. "Well. I want Azarath's most powerful sorceress' powers... that's what... also I shall gain even more power once I capture the boy wonder and hand him over to Slade, who will personally punish him for disobeying last time (Apprentice 1+2)"
Raven's eyes glowed white once more. She felt uncontrollable feelings for Robin, all her locked up feelings started rushing out. Different objects in the room started to explode. A table at the far end of the ware house rushed toward Flare, threatening to knock her unconscious. Flare gave another smirk.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
She calmly pressed a button on a control panel, situated a few feet from where she was standing in front of Raven. Raven stopped her telekinesis. She felt something sucking at her pulling, trough her hands and feet. She started to glow black; she felt the machine, sucking the very life out of her. She gave a small yell, grinding her teeth; the machine wasn't just sucking the life out of her. It was sucking her powers, her emotion... her soul. Flare pressed the button again. The black glow diminished, and Raven collapsed, falling as far as the chains would make her go, panting and trying to get her breath back. The pain was so intense. Like she was slowly disintegrating.
Flare smiled as thought pleased about what had just happened. As thought reading Raven's mind she said "This machine is state of the art. It makes you feel so much pain that it feels like your disintegrating, but it's really just sucking your very powers out. Unfortunately people who have run in's with this machine don't survive. The machine sucks out your very soul leaving an empty shell behind. There's no use resisting Raven. Soon your powers will be mine."
"But why do you want my powers. Aren't the powers of the keeper of the sacred flames stronger...?" Raven managed to say, her voice still shaking.
Flare gave Raven a suspicious look.
"You've never read the prophecy... have you?"
"No. I left long before I could...but what does that have to do with this."
"Well you shall never. As long as you don't know about the prophecy it can't come true... then I can have ultimate power..."
Flare started walking toward the exit. Before she opened the door she turned around.
"I'll be leaving now. If I were you I wouldn't try escaping, or else wonder boy maybe in over his head."
She gave an evil smirk and disappeared trough the door into the darkness of the night, leaving a weakened Raven alone.
"How did she know...?" Raven thought as she started to struggle again, desperate to escape... who knows what Slade has in store this time...
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Estelle: well that's the end of Chapter 2. Hope Ya enjoy. CYA!