"Her temperature is..." Cyborg reached for the thermometer, "...104 y'all, 104 degrees."

Raven coughed again.

"This is terrible," Starfire panicked, "horribly terrible!"

Beast boy turned to Cyborg. "Is she gonna be okay?" His voice cracked a bit. You could tell that the changeling was worried.

Cyborg nodded his head. "She'll be fine as long as we stick by her side like anyone's friends would."

"So," Robin cleared his throat, "should we...ya know, wake her?"

"Uh, I guess." Cyborg tapped on her shoulder and she awoke in a heartbeat. "Here's your lemon water Rae." he handed her a cup of lemon water Starfire had prepared. Raven took the drink, slowly sat up and drank it.

Robin handed her some tissues and the chopped up ginger root. "Eat this."

Raven slowly grabbed a piece of ginger root and dropped it in her mouth slowly chewing it. Her face wrinkled in disgust just before she swallowed it with some burning from the ginger following.

"Does that make your throat a bit better?" asked Robin.

She slowly nodded her head.

"Aight y'all, Raven needs some rest." With that said, Cyborg got everyone out of the living room leaving himself alone with the sick Raven. "Here." He placed a bell on the small table near the couch. "Ring that if you need any of us. Now, get back to sleep." he smiled and left for his room.

Raven fell asleep again and was being consumed into her dream world. It was a dark place with gray sand and dead trees. Stars dotted the black sky and two moons shone brightly. There she sat, on the cold sand near a lake filled with black water.

"Metrion," a mysterious voice called, "Metrion..."

Raven turned around and stood up staring into the dark woods behind her full of twisted, dead limbs of withered trees. "Who's there? Who's calling my name? Show yourself!" She slowly stepped forward and peered into the darkness watching intently, focusing on every detail in the cold, dark wood. A small raven flew out and landed in front of her feet as it sweetly stared into her eyes.

"Come unto me, Metrion," the innocent bird chirped and before her eyes, changed form and grew into a huge demon, and a demon that was very familiar to the telepath. It continued in a strong booming voice "Come unto me, my daughter!" The black figure moved its head from the shadows into a glimpse of light from the moons to reveal its face to be that of Trigon's.

"Father!" Raven cried. She stepped back from him.

Trigon stepped forward for each time Raven stepped back. "Come back to me! Let the sickness consume you!"

"No! I won't! I'll never return to you! I'll never return to the darkness as your spawn! Azarath Metrion Zint--cough!" she coughed and continued to cough. This was the worst time to get sick. She couldn't cast her spell; she couldn't concentrate nor defend herself.

Once again Trigon stepped forward and extended his hand toward his daughter grabbing her and picking her up. He laughed at her misfortune and started squeezing her fragile body in his humungous hand.

Raven's screams of agony were drowned out by more coughs. 'Why...why is this happening to me?'

A small blue demon creature jumped onto Trigon's shoulder and by reading Raven's mind, answered her question. "You are suffering my child because I made you this way. I made you sick, I made you vulnerable, and I made you WEAK! I am the sickness child! You are under my curse now!" The blue demon laughed. Raven couldn't breathe anymore. Her body was being crushed.

Everything turned dark.

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So how'd ya like it? Sadly, I probably won't be able to update again in a while since I got a BIG school project that I really need to finish.

Junsui Chikyuu : What happened in the battle against the H.A.E.Y.P. will be explained in the upcoming chapters. Plus, I've got a surprise to this story. Keep reading! You'll be shocked how it turns out.