troubled-ego: Hey everyone! I'm back again and done with my project. I've got my cousin and her friend threatening to hurt me for not updating SCHOOL WOES! in like...forever, so I promise you all the next chapter will be up real soon. Also, after reading SuNsHiNe10's story, Hopelessly Devoted for the twelth hundreth time, I decided to try out those Rolos candies she was talking about and now I'M addicted to them. If you don't know what Rolos are, they are chocolate with caramel inside and really really gooooooooooooood. Mmmmmmmmm... *pops a Rolos in her mouth* Before I go, I have to tell you that I may be done with my project, but now I have to study for my finals! School sucks! Also I'm turning 15 on Tuesday which is on the week of the finals. WHY?!?!?

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

A small blue demon 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 breath anymore. Her body was being crushed.

Everything turned dark.

Immediately, she sprung up in bed, sweat everywhere. Her head was abrupting with pain and her throat was even more painful than before. She was in her room now. Her friends must have moved her off the couch and into her own bed. She looked over to her nightstand to see a luke-warm cup of herbal tea. Her clock read 1:30am.

'Bad dream. But, it felt so realistic. That place...I was back home in Azarath wasn't I? Father must have been trying to influence me again but who was that blue demon? I've never seen him before, and why would he be working for my father? My father works for no one.'

She took more time to breathe. Thinking too much only made her headache worsen.

Footsteps could now be heard followed by a knock on the door. "Raven, I'm coming in...is it okay?"

Raven didn't answer.

He figured she was sleeping so he opened the door (which of course was now unlocked) and saw Raven sitting up in her bed. Beast boy quickly ran over to her. "I thought you were sleeping."

Raven shook her head.

"Are you hurting?" he asked with concern spilling out of his eyes.

Raven slowly nodded her head.

Beast boy looked over to the untouched tea. He took it and held it up to Raven's face. "Drink."

He helped her drink every last drop of the tea and sat next to her on the bed. "Does that help you feel better?"

She shrugged her shoulders.

"Why aren't you sleeping?"

She wanted to say "Well, why aren't you sleeping" but instead she whispered in a raspy and weak voice, "Tired of sleep."

"Oh" Beast boy took off his glove and pressed the back of his hand against Raven's forehead. It was burning and her Chakra was as you could say, "as hot as hell".

"YOW!" He threw his hand back. "That gem on your head is like fire!"

Raven was in shock. She hurt Beast boy. She tried to say sorry, but it wouldn't come out. The telepath looked at her dear friend and examined his hand. It was red from where the back of the hand touched her Chakra and was a diamond shape. She concentrated and tried to heal his burn but her headache blasted into full agony. She cried and held her head, her burning head. Tears went down her cheeks like the Euphrates River flowing along the Egyptian lands. Beast boy panicked. "GOD! OH GOD!! Raven I'll be right back!" He turned into a cheetah and ran, he ran as fast as his feet would carry him to Cyborg's room. The changeling barged in as himself again and released Cyborg from his "sleep".

Cyborg rubbed his head. "What da hell is wrong wit you? I'ts 1:45 in da morning."

"Raven's in trouble!" Beast boy cried as he jumped up and down as if he had ants in his pants.

The android immediately rose from where he was sleeping. "Let's go." He raced to Raven as BB got to Robin and Starfire.

All four of them reached their sick friend's room to hear her screaming in pain from a head splitting headache. A strange energy emerged around her and it looked just like steam as if she was burning on the inside. Starfire quickly fetched a bucket of water and dropped it on Raven and she stopped screaming as the energy disappeared and she slowly began to calm down. Cyborg stuck the thermometer back into her mouth. Once again, the device beeped and the android took it out. His eyes bugged out of his head.

"105.7?!! Why is it getting higher?! I did everything the website told me to do!"

Robin took a look at the thermometer reading. "I don't think this is an ordinary flu."

The Titans looked at Raven who was shivering but deep inside her mind, the flames died down but smoke still rose from the grey sand of Azarath. Courage, from a distance looked on into the steam along with Timid. Both emotions saw an unfamiliar shadow walking in the clouds. Timid whimpered and hid behind Courage as she got ready to fight. Timid held onto Courage's green cloak and cried in fear taking a short glance at what was happening. Suddenly, a blue foot stepped out of the smoke.

Raven's battle with the flu was only beginning...