Chapter 6: Shattered Emotions
A/N* And thanks Angelic*Anime*Dragon, blizzard-shadow-venus, and X-static
for that wonderful comment as well! Thanks everyone!
(new)*A/n** I only changed the dress from black to white. hehehhhhh.:D. And
a few word miss spellings.
After serving diner, Raven did her usual chores and training that night, but stayed up and waited for Bruce to come home, so she could properly greet him the way Alfred does, but since he didn't come home until 3 in the morning, she let Alfred take a break. After all, he was old.
"Welcome home, Mr. Wayne," Raven said in the dark. He jumped in surprise and turned to his right to see her standing by the cloak hanger. He took off his jacket and handed it to her. Somehow, in between putting the bad guys in jail and driving home, he operated to put on his usual work suit. He just looked at her for another minute and dragged his feet to his bedroom. The teenage girl, afraid of her nightmare to form in the midst of her most vulnerable state, tried keeping awake. She didn't succeed and fell asleep in her uniform, on the couch.
Nightmare__________
"Robin!" a young girl's voice echoed throughout the black hollow of her mind. She picked up the body of a young man. Tears sprang out. She bit her lip. Raven was that girl, and every part of her felt so surreal. A laugh came from a hooded being. It ran as far it could from her, and all Raven could do was stick out her arm and yell for her father's name, cursing him and screaming she would avenge him for the destruction of Robin's life. Usually that was where the dream ended, but it kept on. She finally reached the hooded father after running what felt like one hundred miles and grabbed a hold of his shoulders. She turned him around and unmasked his face. It turned out to be a she. It had been herself who damaged Robin all this time.
"It can't be," Raven whispered to herself while gripping her mirror image. She attacked her and punctured her in the stomach. The real Raven gasped for air because whatever she did to her, it did unto herself.
"Raven!" the mirror cried out. It repeated her name until she was shook.
Raven woke up to someone's shoulders in her hands. She looked up and saw it was Alfred. He had been trying to pry her arms off while repeating her name to wake her up.
"Miss Raven, your dreams are becoming quite real to you, aren't they?" he asked above her. She nodded. Realizing she was wearing the same uniform as yesterday, she took a quick shower and put on an identical uniform, washed and pressed. It was only 6 in the morning, making her feel a little groggy.
"Phfft," she muttered under her breath. Only 3 hours of sleep could deprive someone of their daily cheers. But she kept quiet and worked there.
For several weeks, this kept up. Everyone did their own training and then some with each other in the battle for the fittest. Sometimes, Raven trained with Batman. Somehow she always lost. One day, while retrieving the newspaper in the winter snow, she read their names in the headlines. A picture of the city burning down to ashes was shown under it with Slade's minions. Once inside, she sat down at the table in the dining room and read the article.
Where are the Teen Titans?
After several weeks of destruction from the H.I.V.E's, Plausmus, and
Cinderblock, the city is fed up. People have been asking, where are the
Teen Titans?
Since the first sign of danger, the city thought the Teens Titans would
come to save them once again. We were wrong. If you see in the picture above, it shows us that no one is here to protect. The population cut in half and the only ones living here are the evil-doers, the mayor and the
shop keepers. We have a few words form the mayor himself.
"We've been waiting for them to show up and beat the bad guys up like they always do, but now it's like they're really ignoring us. I think we don't give them enough respect," The mayor thinks. We all think that too. Please Teen Titans, please we need your help. If you're reading this, come back!
Raven checked the news on the television to see if the same thing was spoken. It was the top-story for weeks before and weeks to come. She knew they had to do something quick before their town turned devilishly hell for them. She flew swiftly to Robin's room, her dress puffing in the skirt section. Raven knocked but heard a little giggle. She was confused. 'Does Robin giggle?' the thoughts whirled in her mind. The door was unlocked, but she wasn't sure if she should barge in like. Instead her head went through the wall to check on Robin, but what she found wasn't at all pleasant for her. Robin and Starfire had been kissing. She went back out and was ashamed that she walked in on them like that.
"No, NO!" She cried out flying into her room, a mirror shattered and the pieces crashed into the wall, piercing it with every reflected image it had to own. The mirror had represented her very emotions. Shattered. Starfire and Robin? Was it just as illusion or was it real? She saw them though, their lips touched and by the quick peeks of it, Starfire did enjoy it, she wasn't quite sure of Robin though. She wasn't about to throw herself on the bed and wallow in jealousy, self-pity and depression, instead, she wiped the tears and stood tall. She was about to survive, she knew she had to. But all she could think about was her friends' kisses. The only thing to get that out of her mind was doing her chores and taking the life of another punching bag. Alfred walked in on her, scrubbing the toilet clean for the last three hours, she made breakfast and lunch but missed the two meal times. Her body wobbled in pain from lack of nutrition from last night's dinner and the last two's meal.
"My goodness, Miss Raven! Have you eaten for today?" Alfred stood over her, while her hands ached from the clenching her fist into a little hold of rags to clean. She looked up at him, sweat traveling down her face, hair mussed up in the most house-wife manner. Raven shook her head. "Very well then."
She didn't even plan on joining them with dinner that night, but as usual, she made their food. Everyone enjoyed her food, thinking that Alfred made it, but he credited it to her, though by the time he said Raven's name, no one was listening. She looked in on them and then left, making sure they were contented with their lives. Raven walked to the training room, locking the door on her way in.
"Training Room: Hologram E-58; level 1 Activate!" Raven commanded. She didn't feel like training, and instead, just took a walk through the park of the hologram. Nothing dangerous was shown here, but just a few bees and dogs whipping their tails around. She smiled at the happiness of it. Even if it was fake, she enjoyed a few simplicity of life sometimes. A flower, just bloomed entranced her with its powerful glare of red. She picked the tulip and laid down in the soft grass and looked at the hologram's sun. It reminded her of the sun rise that she and Robin witnessed together before they went to the amusement park. She then turned her attention to the delicate flower and sat up. Watching it she was remembered of her friend's kisses once more and she began to dispose of the flower by crushing it. She couldn't take this soft light of things any longer, deactivating it and then running back to do more chores, she was stopped by Robin.
"I haven't seen you in all day. Where've you been?" he asked in concern. She just looked at him and brushed up against him. They held their gaze on each other for another few seconds until she slipped through a wall leading to her bedroom. It was 11 PM, but all she wanted to do was sleep.
The next morning, she walked out of the kitchen after cleaning the dishes and found Cyborg watching T.V.
"This might be useful to you one day," she sneered at him and took the remote. This was the first thing she said to anyone in 24 hours.
"Hey! It's my T.V. time! I need that to switch channels!" Cyborg cried in protest. She shook her head in disappointment.
"We need to go back," Raven said, pointing to the view of shouting people and burning buildings.
"Is that what those guys did?! To our city?! The Teen Titans tower!!! It turned into an S!" Beastboy shouted, throwing his hands forward, making everyone who was watching TV notice it. Starfire, the only one still asleep was awoken by Beastboy's yelling and preposterous rants. She changed, brushed her teeth and showered quickly running into Beastboy.
"What is wrong? Why are you screaming? Why-" The ever curios Starfire gasped with wide eyes when she saw the T.V. screen.
"How long has it been up there, anyway?" Cyborg asked, pointing to the picture of S tower.
"I'd say about 45 minutes," Robin answered. Everyone sighed as Raven shut off her T.V. They watched her go down the hall to enter the room she so richly basically lives in. As she commanded it to go another 10, she thought of doing the hardest hologram to go up against: A-0. The easiest hologram there was is E-100. She had been training everyday since they arrived at the mansion. She had grown quite strong in both physical and mental health. She had even done push ups to help. Running ten miles everyday, lifting things and replacing them with another object didn't tire her out anymore. Another time, she lifted all of the Teen Titans and Alfred. She thought perhaps she could actually pass this one, since she passed all the others one she did except for the first few and the ones she had to quit for chores.
"Training Room; Hologram A-0; Level 10!!" She instructed. And so it began. She was floating through air, trying not to disturb the land mines, or air mines. The motion sensitive bombs were floating in the air too. There had been several in the ground and in the walls, but the ceiling wasn't safe either. There were spears waiting to pierce her down at the sign of a wrong move of defense. Raven's body went berserk when the weather and temperature changed every three seconds. First it was so cold, that frost bites nipped at your insides first not your outsides, then it turned scorching hot like you were being baked alive. When that was over, the weather would turn moist and foggy. At least the temperature was the only normal feeling part. But it had to change back into the bitter frost. Robots sensed her well being and escaped from hidden doors, safely out of eyes view. She kicked their heads off and twisted them around. Grabbing a few by the mind, she slung them into the air mines and threw them on the ground making that explode but not her.
'I have to avoid death and fight back,' she thought covering herself with the torso of a dead robot. All the air mines already blew up and so did the ground, the only thing she had to worry about was wall mines. Not touching the walls, she battled the robots. They seemed stronger than. They beat her up and threw her on the ground. Her skin tingled from the frost then steamed from the hot temperature. She got up still floating in the air. The robots morphed into Robin. They all laughed at her. Somehow the training room had the power to find out your desires and your hates and turn them to reality. But she knew they weren't real. They all started to attack her but she hadn't had the courage to defeat them. They were Robin. she hated him on the surface, but greatly treasured much too much for it to be sibling love. She wept and cried out as then started to ferociously beat her. She got and began to pound them into the walls. She couldn't stand it any longer and while more were attacking her, the spears from the ceiling never ended. She protected herself from a robot's body and hid under rubble until the spears intruded her hiding spot. She took a non pierced robot body and held out her hand. A spear sliced the side of her hand. The pain wasn't real but felt real. She had enough of this bull shit from her Team mates. Well just the way Robin and Starfire were continually flirting with each other when they know it's each other they like. Standing there, being attacked by spears sent her to become angry. She shouted a spell making them turn away from her and defying the laws of physics and shot the air broke it self in two then clattered on the ground.
Raven watched the blood drip down her arms and trickled along her fingers. She had almost defeated the entire hologram when the same black wall shown at her side. She looked up in shock for not knowing about it. She tried running like it did before but nothing worked. Seeing the rubble on the ground, she replaced it with her own weight and it worked. The four walls closed in on it and trapped it. But as soon as she did that, another wall popped up from behind her. She then repeated herself with each popping wall until all the rubble was gone. She was disappointed for now she was trapped. Trying with all her might to get out of that stupid box, success finally left her and she grew tired. The walls closed in on her. Raven sighed and let it. But thinking of Robin gave her strength. Was she in a final love with him? She didn't want to stop trying to show love to him. This could be her possible test of thinking of him for her. She punched the walls but hurt her knuckles. Instead she tried to pry her trap open with her mind.
Failed.
She then relied on both. That didn't succeed either. In an attempt to get out of the box she forced all her energy in her hands and legs and mind and whirled around punching, kicking and prying it open with her mind all at the same time. She waited for another second until all the walls fell down and burned into ashes.
"Hologram A-0; level 10- test passed," the computer told. Raven let out a smile and walked around the house. She didn't realize this, but she skipped lunch for that day and it was only an hour before dinner. She had spent six and half hours sweating out in the training room. She was quit sure she grew 5 times stronger than when she got beat up by Slade's minions. She felt quite pleased at herself.
Meanwhile____________________
"We chased them out of the city!" Gizmo laughed. He and mammoth ordered pizza and Chinese take out everyday, in celebration.
"Don't be so sure. They'll come back," Jinx said, modeling herself in Raven's clothes. "Look! She finally got something that's not blue. Perhaps she has taste in something after all." She was wearing a dress. Something white. It was a halter dress with a slit in the middle starting at the middle of her thighs to add a smirk to a few faces of men. From the slit, the rest of the dress dragged. Basically it looked like a dress to be worn at Toga party except with a high-class definition. Raven had also a bracelet and a necklace to go with it, but it was red to match her jewel on her forehead and white high heels.
"She has a taste in clothes," Jinx smirked. The boys whistled at her as Cinderblock and Plausmus just stared at them. Jinx added another statement, "They've been training, I can feel it, luckily we aren't the only ones training, right?!" They all yelped a yup.
"We'll get them, we'll get them good!" Mammoth joining I-know-it's-gonna-be- victory dance with Jinx (who was turning up the volume of one of Beastboy's CD's). Gizmo joined too by jumping on Mammoth's shoulders. They were merry for the time being.
"Yeah, Mammoth! We'll get them very good," Jinx grinned.
A/N* And thanks Angelic*Anime*Dragon, blizzard-shadow-venus, and X-static
for that wonderful comment as well! Thanks everyone!
(new)*A/n** I only changed the dress from black to white. hehehhhhh.:D. And
a few word miss spellings.
After serving diner, Raven did her usual chores and training that night, but stayed up and waited for Bruce to come home, so she could properly greet him the way Alfred does, but since he didn't come home until 3 in the morning, she let Alfred take a break. After all, he was old.
"Welcome home, Mr. Wayne," Raven said in the dark. He jumped in surprise and turned to his right to see her standing by the cloak hanger. He took off his jacket and handed it to her. Somehow, in between putting the bad guys in jail and driving home, he operated to put on his usual work suit. He just looked at her for another minute and dragged his feet to his bedroom. The teenage girl, afraid of her nightmare to form in the midst of her most vulnerable state, tried keeping awake. She didn't succeed and fell asleep in her uniform, on the couch.
Nightmare__________
"Robin!" a young girl's voice echoed throughout the black hollow of her mind. She picked up the body of a young man. Tears sprang out. She bit her lip. Raven was that girl, and every part of her felt so surreal. A laugh came from a hooded being. It ran as far it could from her, and all Raven could do was stick out her arm and yell for her father's name, cursing him and screaming she would avenge him for the destruction of Robin's life. Usually that was where the dream ended, but it kept on. She finally reached the hooded father after running what felt like one hundred miles and grabbed a hold of his shoulders. She turned him around and unmasked his face. It turned out to be a she. It had been herself who damaged Robin all this time.
"It can't be," Raven whispered to herself while gripping her mirror image. She attacked her and punctured her in the stomach. The real Raven gasped for air because whatever she did to her, it did unto herself.
"Raven!" the mirror cried out. It repeated her name until she was shook.
Raven woke up to someone's shoulders in her hands. She looked up and saw it was Alfred. He had been trying to pry her arms off while repeating her name to wake her up.
"Miss Raven, your dreams are becoming quite real to you, aren't they?" he asked above her. She nodded. Realizing she was wearing the same uniform as yesterday, she took a quick shower and put on an identical uniform, washed and pressed. It was only 6 in the morning, making her feel a little groggy.
"Phfft," she muttered under her breath. Only 3 hours of sleep could deprive someone of their daily cheers. But she kept quiet and worked there.
For several weeks, this kept up. Everyone did their own training and then some with each other in the battle for the fittest. Sometimes, Raven trained with Batman. Somehow she always lost. One day, while retrieving the newspaper in the winter snow, she read their names in the headlines. A picture of the city burning down to ashes was shown under it with Slade's minions. Once inside, she sat down at the table in the dining room and read the article.
Where are the Teen Titans?
After several weeks of destruction from the H.I.V.E's, Plausmus, and
Cinderblock, the city is fed up. People have been asking, where are the
Teen Titans?
Since the first sign of danger, the city thought the Teens Titans would
come to save them once again. We were wrong. If you see in the picture above, it shows us that no one is here to protect. The population cut in half and the only ones living here are the evil-doers, the mayor and the
shop keepers. We have a few words form the mayor himself.
"We've been waiting for them to show up and beat the bad guys up like they always do, but now it's like they're really ignoring us. I think we don't give them enough respect," The mayor thinks. We all think that too. Please Teen Titans, please we need your help. If you're reading this, come back!
Raven checked the news on the television to see if the same thing was spoken. It was the top-story for weeks before and weeks to come. She knew they had to do something quick before their town turned devilishly hell for them. She flew swiftly to Robin's room, her dress puffing in the skirt section. Raven knocked but heard a little giggle. She was confused. 'Does Robin giggle?' the thoughts whirled in her mind. The door was unlocked, but she wasn't sure if she should barge in like. Instead her head went through the wall to check on Robin, but what she found wasn't at all pleasant for her. Robin and Starfire had been kissing. She went back out and was ashamed that she walked in on them like that.
"No, NO!" She cried out flying into her room, a mirror shattered and the pieces crashed into the wall, piercing it with every reflected image it had to own. The mirror had represented her very emotions. Shattered. Starfire and Robin? Was it just as illusion or was it real? She saw them though, their lips touched and by the quick peeks of it, Starfire did enjoy it, she wasn't quite sure of Robin though. She wasn't about to throw herself on the bed and wallow in jealousy, self-pity and depression, instead, she wiped the tears and stood tall. She was about to survive, she knew she had to. But all she could think about was her friends' kisses. The only thing to get that out of her mind was doing her chores and taking the life of another punching bag. Alfred walked in on her, scrubbing the toilet clean for the last three hours, she made breakfast and lunch but missed the two meal times. Her body wobbled in pain from lack of nutrition from last night's dinner and the last two's meal.
"My goodness, Miss Raven! Have you eaten for today?" Alfred stood over her, while her hands ached from the clenching her fist into a little hold of rags to clean. She looked up at him, sweat traveling down her face, hair mussed up in the most house-wife manner. Raven shook her head. "Very well then."
She didn't even plan on joining them with dinner that night, but as usual, she made their food. Everyone enjoyed her food, thinking that Alfred made it, but he credited it to her, though by the time he said Raven's name, no one was listening. She looked in on them and then left, making sure they were contented with their lives. Raven walked to the training room, locking the door on her way in.
"Training Room: Hologram E-58; level 1 Activate!" Raven commanded. She didn't feel like training, and instead, just took a walk through the park of the hologram. Nothing dangerous was shown here, but just a few bees and dogs whipping their tails around. She smiled at the happiness of it. Even if it was fake, she enjoyed a few simplicity of life sometimes. A flower, just bloomed entranced her with its powerful glare of red. She picked the tulip and laid down in the soft grass and looked at the hologram's sun. It reminded her of the sun rise that she and Robin witnessed together before they went to the amusement park. She then turned her attention to the delicate flower and sat up. Watching it she was remembered of her friend's kisses once more and she began to dispose of the flower by crushing it. She couldn't take this soft light of things any longer, deactivating it and then running back to do more chores, she was stopped by Robin.
"I haven't seen you in all day. Where've you been?" he asked in concern. She just looked at him and brushed up against him. They held their gaze on each other for another few seconds until she slipped through a wall leading to her bedroom. It was 11 PM, but all she wanted to do was sleep.
The next morning, she walked out of the kitchen after cleaning the dishes and found Cyborg watching T.V.
"This might be useful to you one day," she sneered at him and took the remote. This was the first thing she said to anyone in 24 hours.
"Hey! It's my T.V. time! I need that to switch channels!" Cyborg cried in protest. She shook her head in disappointment.
"We need to go back," Raven said, pointing to the view of shouting people and burning buildings.
"Is that what those guys did?! To our city?! The Teen Titans tower!!! It turned into an S!" Beastboy shouted, throwing his hands forward, making everyone who was watching TV notice it. Starfire, the only one still asleep was awoken by Beastboy's yelling and preposterous rants. She changed, brushed her teeth and showered quickly running into Beastboy.
"What is wrong? Why are you screaming? Why-" The ever curios Starfire gasped with wide eyes when she saw the T.V. screen.
"How long has it been up there, anyway?" Cyborg asked, pointing to the picture of S tower.
"I'd say about 45 minutes," Robin answered. Everyone sighed as Raven shut off her T.V. They watched her go down the hall to enter the room she so richly basically lives in. As she commanded it to go another 10, she thought of doing the hardest hologram to go up against: A-0. The easiest hologram there was is E-100. She had been training everyday since they arrived at the mansion. She had grown quite strong in both physical and mental health. She had even done push ups to help. Running ten miles everyday, lifting things and replacing them with another object didn't tire her out anymore. Another time, she lifted all of the Teen Titans and Alfred. She thought perhaps she could actually pass this one, since she passed all the others one she did except for the first few and the ones she had to quit for chores.
"Training Room; Hologram A-0; Level 10!!" She instructed. And so it began. She was floating through air, trying not to disturb the land mines, or air mines. The motion sensitive bombs were floating in the air too. There had been several in the ground and in the walls, but the ceiling wasn't safe either. There were spears waiting to pierce her down at the sign of a wrong move of defense. Raven's body went berserk when the weather and temperature changed every three seconds. First it was so cold, that frost bites nipped at your insides first not your outsides, then it turned scorching hot like you were being baked alive. When that was over, the weather would turn moist and foggy. At least the temperature was the only normal feeling part. But it had to change back into the bitter frost. Robots sensed her well being and escaped from hidden doors, safely out of eyes view. She kicked their heads off and twisted them around. Grabbing a few by the mind, she slung them into the air mines and threw them on the ground making that explode but not her.
'I have to avoid death and fight back,' she thought covering herself with the torso of a dead robot. All the air mines already blew up and so did the ground, the only thing she had to worry about was wall mines. Not touching the walls, she battled the robots. They seemed stronger than. They beat her up and threw her on the ground. Her skin tingled from the frost then steamed from the hot temperature. She got up still floating in the air. The robots morphed into Robin. They all laughed at her. Somehow the training room had the power to find out your desires and your hates and turn them to reality. But she knew they weren't real. They all started to attack her but she hadn't had the courage to defeat them. They were Robin. she hated him on the surface, but greatly treasured much too much for it to be sibling love. She wept and cried out as then started to ferociously beat her. She got and began to pound them into the walls. She couldn't stand it any longer and while more were attacking her, the spears from the ceiling never ended. She protected herself from a robot's body and hid under rubble until the spears intruded her hiding spot. She took a non pierced robot body and held out her hand. A spear sliced the side of her hand. The pain wasn't real but felt real. She had enough of this bull shit from her Team mates. Well just the way Robin and Starfire were continually flirting with each other when they know it's each other they like. Standing there, being attacked by spears sent her to become angry. She shouted a spell making them turn away from her and defying the laws of physics and shot the air broke it self in two then clattered on the ground.
Raven watched the blood drip down her arms and trickled along her fingers. She had almost defeated the entire hologram when the same black wall shown at her side. She looked up in shock for not knowing about it. She tried running like it did before but nothing worked. Seeing the rubble on the ground, she replaced it with her own weight and it worked. The four walls closed in on it and trapped it. But as soon as she did that, another wall popped up from behind her. She then repeated herself with each popping wall until all the rubble was gone. She was disappointed for now she was trapped. Trying with all her might to get out of that stupid box, success finally left her and she grew tired. The walls closed in on her. Raven sighed and let it. But thinking of Robin gave her strength. Was she in a final love with him? She didn't want to stop trying to show love to him. This could be her possible test of thinking of him for her. She punched the walls but hurt her knuckles. Instead she tried to pry her trap open with her mind.
Failed.
She then relied on both. That didn't succeed either. In an attempt to get out of the box she forced all her energy in her hands and legs and mind and whirled around punching, kicking and prying it open with her mind all at the same time. She waited for another second until all the walls fell down and burned into ashes.
"Hologram A-0; level 10- test passed," the computer told. Raven let out a smile and walked around the house. She didn't realize this, but she skipped lunch for that day and it was only an hour before dinner. She had spent six and half hours sweating out in the training room. She was quit sure she grew 5 times stronger than when she got beat up by Slade's minions. She felt quite pleased at herself.
Meanwhile____________________
"We chased them out of the city!" Gizmo laughed. He and mammoth ordered pizza and Chinese take out everyday, in celebration.
"Don't be so sure. They'll come back," Jinx said, modeling herself in Raven's clothes. "Look! She finally got something that's not blue. Perhaps she has taste in something after all." She was wearing a dress. Something white. It was a halter dress with a slit in the middle starting at the middle of her thighs to add a smirk to a few faces of men. From the slit, the rest of the dress dragged. Basically it looked like a dress to be worn at Toga party except with a high-class definition. Raven had also a bracelet and a necklace to go with it, but it was red to match her jewel on her forehead and white high heels.
"She has a taste in clothes," Jinx smirked. The boys whistled at her as Cinderblock and Plausmus just stared at them. Jinx added another statement, "They've been training, I can feel it, luckily we aren't the only ones training, right?!" They all yelped a yup.
"We'll get them, we'll get them good!" Mammoth joining I-know-it's-gonna-be- victory dance with Jinx (who was turning up the volume of one of Beastboy's CD's). Gizmo joined too by jumping on Mammoth's shoulders. They were merry for the time being.
"Yeah, Mammoth! We'll get them very good," Jinx grinned.