----Hi....heh...wow this is really odd writing right now. I haven't writen anything in like....ever since school started and demanded almost all of my time! And you're talking to a marching band member w00t w00t! It's actually quite fun, but I might not be able to update until football season is over and done with. Marching alone takes up 90 of my free time. But I have lots of fun! Not to mention school work has already piled up real high....but ah well. I have a coolio uniform that has a cape and goes 'whoosh!' It's so cool! Lol....ok....so without much further ado, I give ye the story...well...and responses to reviews..well...since I can't really read them all at the time...I'll do last chapters and this chapters responses on the next chapter...my internet is being stupid...but oddly enough my Yahoo Messanger still works...hmm....weird...so does my Aim...weird..ok well, TAYK! I'M SORRY! MARCHING AND FOOTBALL GAMES TOOK UP ALL OF MY WRITING TIME!!!! GOMENNN!!!!!! Oh Yeah and all of you..please forget Terra was ever in this story cuz all this happens after she dies..or is like imprisoned, and another thing some of the events that took place in the episode Spellbound will be used from now on in this story. Well.....yup.....I love writing...heee hee hee I promise an extra long chapter this time! W00t w00t!
Disclaimer : Well...must I say it? I don't own Teen Titans...how ever long I protest and scheme they won't hand it over to me! Isn't that crazy?! I mean, who wouldn't trust lil ole, adorable me? Don't answer that.....especially you Momo and Yuki! I have cruel friends! ::tear tear::
Chapter 8 Suppressed Memories Part 3
Raven and Beast Boy looked around the dull meadow in which they arrived in. Everything seemed depressed and sad as they just stood dormant in their rooted places or as they flied about doing things that they would find regular. Raven's eyes were huge out of shock and fear as she took in her surroundings. A weird and eerie silence fell over the small plain as Beast Boy just stared at Raven, waiting for an explanation. He sighed when he noticed that she wasn't going to be able to talk for at least five minuets.
"Sooo....Where are we Rae?" Beast Boy finally asked as he rubbed his wrist that had been attached to the hand that had been attached to Raven's shoulder. He also took in the surroundings of the strange and dull place that they had been deposited in so forcibly. Beast Boy sighed again, though this time in impatience.
"We're in my home world, Beast Boy....I'm sorry to drag you into this mess. This should have never happened in the first place....if only..." Raven trailed off from her sentence as she looked the green man in the eyes to see that he was truly concerned for her. She didn't think anyone cared for her...it was quite hard for her to accept after what that dragon had done to her fragile feelings that were as soft and lush as a rose. She never really realized how much Beast Boy really cared for her. After a few minuets of her just staring at him he raised an eyebrow.
"Earth to Raaae! Come in Rae! You ok?" He teased as he waved his hands in front of her face. She blinked a few times and nodded.
"I'm sorry, I was just thinking." Suddenly a huge gust of wind surrounded the two. "We shouldn't be here...we have to leave." Raven added as she put her arm up in front of her face to block it from the wind. This wind was no ordinary wind, Beast Boy noticed. Usually wind is cold and chilling, but this wind was not. Something was making it and it wasn't mother nature. Raven looked at Beast Boy who had turned into a hippo so that he wouldn't be lifted off the ground and sent into the sky.
"Raven, what is this?! You should know since this is your home!" Beast boy managed to grunt. Raven shrugged as her feet began to lift from the ground, threatening to separate her and Beast Boy.
"I don't know what's going on, but I'm sure by now the people of this world know that I have returned and so...I will be punished for returning. Beast Boy...you must run from me and stay as far away from me as possible, for anyone who are seen with me like you are now will also suffer the punishment." Raven warned as her feet lifted off the solid ground and she began to be thrown back by the violent wind. Beast Boy then turned into a little green raven and rushed behind Raven, then turned into a huge green elephant. But just as Beast Boy did this, the wind suddenly vanished. Raven fell to the ground with a grunt and Beast Boy once again changed back into his human form. He held his head in his hands as his eyes had little swirlies in them.
"Why would I leave you Rae? No matter how much you beg me, I will stay by your side and protect you. I cannot and will not leave you. You are my friend, and that's what friends do!" Beast Boy replied as he smiled at her. She shook her head.
"I don't want you to be hurt...it one thing if I'm hurt...but it's another if one of my friends are hurt because of me. Please Beast Boy....leave me." Raven looked at him pleadingly. He gasped for he had never seen her eyes so fear full before. He once again shook his head.
"But how do you think I'll feel if you get hurt? I'll feel just as----" Beast Boy was interrupted by a loud boom and a flurry of people surrounding him and Raven in the clearing. He looked around, frightened and confused. The people all wore black cloaks, their faces all hidden in the shadows that their hoods made. Raven brought her hood down so that she may see better and be able to watch all of the people. Her violet hair blew in the soft breeze that still lingered.
"LOOK! It is the cursed one!" One of the people yelled and pointed to Raven. The cloaked figures all gasped at the sight of her and they all began to murmur amongst themselves.
"What are you doing here, you cursed thing. I thought we banished you." yelled another as he stepped towards Raven, his eyes blazing with rage.
"Don't ask me, It's not like I wanted to be here..." Raven looked at her feet and by doing so let her guard drop. During that time when her guard was down, one of the men lunged at her, hitting her hard in the face. Raven stumbled back into Beast Boy, who in return caught her.
"What did you do that for?! It's not like she came here to harm you, it's not like we had any choice!!" Beast Boy yelled angrily at the man who had hit her. Raven disentangled herself from Beast Boy's arms and once again put her guard up.
"The green one speaks! He must be allied with her, we must kill them before they destroy us all!!!" The man who had hit Raven yelled. Her eyes grew big and flashed with fear.
"No! He isn't allied with me. You have it all wrong, he is just a world traveler who just happened to be in the same place with me when I appeared, there is no need to harm him!" Raven lied as she took a quick glance at Beast Boy, who knew what she was trying to do.
"Yes....that is right, I am just a world...jumper...dude. I meant no harm. She was already here when I arrived," Beast Boy also added trying to also convince them that he was harmless. It seemed to work, for all the people looked at him briefly then returned to look at Raven. It was better to have one of them free, than both of them captured.
"You see? He has nothing to do with me, nothing at all!" Raven stated as two men came up beside her and grabbed her arms. She looked at them and sighed. "This is going to be a loooong day.." She mumbled as one of the two men began to speak.
"We must execute her punishment as soon as possible, the sooner it is completed, the less amount of time we are put into harms way." The two men began to drag the dark teen through the masses of people and walk towards the dull woods that surrounded them all. Beast Boy stood stricken as he watched them haul Raven away, but when he finally did regain his composure he began to walk after the men.
"I would like to go with you, if you wouldn't mind, please. I am quite interested in this....punishment that has befallen this young lass." Beast Boy said as smartly as he could. One of the men looked back to meet his gaze and nodded.
"So be it." Was all the man said before they started to walk again. The surrounding trees seemed to cry as they trudged through the creepy forest that seemed to make Beast Boy's skin crawl every time he heard a noise. His breathing became quite ragged as he continued to stare at the back of Raven's head. She would every once in a while trip on a root of a near by tree, and with every trip she made, she would get smacked across the face by either one of the men. Beast Boy could hardly handle it anymore, though he knew he had to sustain the cover he had so that these strange people wouldn't find out who he was. He looked at his feet as he walked, so that he wouldn't have to watch Raven anymore.
Raven hung her head so that she might be able to walk with out tripping, which would save her a lot of pain on her part. She would try to glance at Beast Boy to see if he had followed, hoping that he had not. But before she could fully turn her head she was smacked across the face. Eventually she got tired of getting hit and decided to stop looking behind herself. She let out a heavy sigh as they neared the point of civilization. The trees gradually began to thin and fences were seen, along with houses with little children playing and men working. But all of that ceased when they saw the violet haired teen emerge between two soldiers. The children would run to their mothers who would emerge from the house to also stare. All of their faces showed with fear and hatred, Beast Boy noted.
But on one particular house, Beast Boy could really feel the hatred and disdain strongly emitted. A little boy walked out to the fence that contained him, and threw a few rocks at Raven, hitting her once in the face and a few other times on the body. Beast Boy's heart twisted with rage and sorrow at this. Raven continued to look at the ground as she was pelted by more and more rocks. A little blood trickled from her mouth as she gritted her teeth. Ignoring the fact that Raven was being pelted by rocks, the two soldiers continued to trudge along the road, sometimes dragging her. Beast Boy choked back some tears, for he had really never understood why Raven was the way she was, but now...he knew why and he wanted to help her out as much as possible. He clenched his fists as he continued to walk on, devising a plan in his mind.
By the time they were in the center of the town, they had passed far worse people than the little boy who just threw rocks at her, but they passed at people who would yell and throw more dangerous items at her, such as a knife. A man decided to throw a knife at Raven when they passed by his house and successfully drove it into her arm, where she let out a cry of pain. She didn't dare use her powers to protect herself. That same man also decided to yell, "Go back to where you came from bitch. No one wants you around, everyone hates you!" Beast Boy was so tempted to yell out to the man that he was wrong and that some people did care, but he didn't want to blow his cover.
The small town was in a huge uproar over the fact that "the cursed one" was back and was in their peaceful little town. All of the people in the town gathered around the two men and Raven when they stepped up onto the pedestal in the center of the town. Beast boy was finally able to look at Raven, and what he saw made his blood boil. Blood trickled down her face, dirt was smeared all over her ashen face as tears fell from her eyes. Blood also flowed freely down her right arm from the stab that the man had made. His fists clenched tightly as he looked her in the eyes. She obviously noticed him in the crowd and also met his gaze. She let more tears flow down her face as she saw the hurt and sorrow in her green friends eyes. They almost seemed to drown her as she continued to stare at him. Beast Boy furrowed his brow in anger at what they had done to her as he began to advance towards the pedestal.
Raven, knowing where Beast Boy was going, sent a warning shock through his head, warning him to stop and wait until the right moment. If it had been up to her, she would have liked Beast Boy to not have followed and just to have stayed where he was. Suddenly the raging crowd grew silent to listen to the two men that had drug Raven there.
"She mustn't be allowed to live any longer. I'm sure that she has caused too much destruction and death where ever she went to. We must put a stop to her menacing antics before she kills us all. And I know that she will eventually, because she is the daughter of evil, a master of deceit and hatred. She can't learn to live among us that are civilized and know when not to kill. I say we just eliminate her right now, and then we would be rid of the pesky bitch once and for all." The man concluded his speech and as soon as he stopped talking the crowd was put into a chorus of yells. Beast Boy looked around disgusted and furious.
"Then it is decided! She will receive the punishment as well as death, for she is a special case and must be put through as much pain as possible before her soul is cleansed from all that is evil and demonic." Shouted the second man as response to the peoples angry shouts and yells. The two men that had a hold of both of Raven's arms began to drag her down the pedestal and towards a huge building west of the towns heart. Beast Boy, along with the anxious crowd migrated towards the building that looked a lot like a present day coliseum. He had to be there to prevent anything life threatening happening to Raven, for if he knew that he could have stopped any pain from befalling her then he would die happy. He didn't care if they killed him, he didn't want her to die though and he would be prepared to give himself for her.
He trudged through the dark and dusty road that seemed that it was going to burst because it wasn't made for all of the towns people to fit through it all at once like they were now. Before he knew it, Beast Boy was standing in the middle of a colossal ring, it's sandy bottom was bloodstained from many years of battle that had gone on inside of the death trap. He shook his head in disbelief.
"They can't....they...Rae...no...." Beast Boy stammered as he continued to look around. "They're going to murder her....she's going....no..." He continued as some of the townspeople passed him, though one old lady stopped next to him and just stared at him.
"Young 'un, what be the matter? You don't seem like you like this type of things. Who's going to be murdered?" The old lady asked as she continued to stare at him. Beast Boy was on the verge of insanity as tears streaked down his face. The old lady noticed that he wouldn't be moving for a while, so she took him by the arm and led him to one of the front row seats by a huge wall with chains dangling from it. It's blood caked walls made Beast Boy want to hurl, but he resisted the urge. He quickly glanced at the old lady and nodded his head, now that he was a little calmer.
"I thank you..." He bluntly said as he began to watch the two men drag Raven out, her cloak missing and instead of her usual black uniform, she adorned an all white gown. Her violet hair was a mess and her features showed that she was just as scared as a deer caught in headlights. Beast Boy twitched slightly when she looked at him, her eyes showing him that she was much more than what he knew. He clenched his fists tightly as the two men began to talk again.
"The cursed on will be cleansed today, so that she may be able to go to the paradise that we all seek, though I'm sure she will be left on the desolate wasteland where she will rot and suffer for all of eternity there where no one loves her and where no one will even bother to go and even bother to try and save. Though we all hope that she will be delivered to the paradise, I don't know if it is possible for all of the wrong doings that she has committed." With that said, the men brought her over to the blood caked wall that Beast Boy was sitting next to. The two men took her wrists and chained them to the wall and then just left her, dangling by her wrists. Beast Boy could hear her shoulders pop and then he heard a sickening crack, and Raven's shriek that told that both of her shoulders had come out of socket. He turned his head away from her, tears welding up in his eyes. Raven continued to look at him, her usually impassive eyes showing pain and fear. Beast Boy looked back up at her and watched her pained expressions before the men came out again, though this time dressed in blood red cloaks and in a hand a leather whip. The crowd once again recommenced their shouting.
"KILL HER!" Yelled the man behind Beast Boy. He looked at the old lady and found that she was shaking her head, her face tear stained. He sighed and looked back at Raven. But as soon as he looked at her, he lost it again.
"Their killers....murderers...they'll kill her...I never told her...! I NEVER TOLD HER!!!!!" Beast Boy yelled, as the crowd grew silent and just all stared at him, unknown to him. Tears flew from his eyes as he continued to look Raven in the eyes.
"Tell who what, young man?" The old lady asked him. He shudder slightly and continued to look into Raven's eyes.
"I....I...love her....I think.." Beast Boy murmured as the sickening sound of a whip hitting flesh echoed through out the stadium. Blood spilled out of Raven's back and stained the white dress. Beast Boy twitched again as he stood. The old lady placed her hand on his shoulder as he continued to look at Raven.
The sound of the whip was heard again and blood sprayed at everyone close to the wall. Beast Boy found his face dripping with blood by the time he finally recovered from his state of shock. He touched the warm liquid and twitched again. His normally happy features twisted into rage and fury as he heard Raven let out an ear shattering scream. Beast Boy put his foot on the edge of the ledge and jumped. In mid air he transformed into a small red and green raven and flew in front of Raven. His eyes were no longer green, they were a deep deep red color as he changed into a eagle and dive bombed at the man who was trying to kill Raven. Much to the mans horror, Beast Boy went right through his abdomen, killing him. The second man looked at the now all red eagle as it began to soar at him, his features twisted into fear. Beast Boy halted in front of the man and changed back into his human form, completely soaked in blood.
"Murderer....killer....murderer...." Beast boy chanted over and over again, his eyes still red. Raven looked at Beast Boy curiously and twitched slightly. He began to slowly advance towards the other man, who was breathing heavily.
"LET THEM GO! LET THEM GO!" The man yelled to some unknown being, but just as soon as the mans voice died from the air, gates were opened, but oddly enough, nothing seemed to come out of the gates. But Beast Boy was no fool, and began to look on the ground and found that shadows were moving towards him and at a quick pace too. "You're screwed now freak show, you will also be delivered today." The man said as he walked back over to Raven, whip in hand.
Beast Boy looked at the advancing shadows and changed into a small raven again so that he could soar above the ground, but suddenly a huge stone pillar was launched at him from the ground. He was so shocked he had no time to dodge the on coming threat, and was hit at full force and fell to the stadiums ground. He changed back into a human and wiped the blood that trickled from his mouth away. He quickly looked up at where Raven was dangling when he heard her scream again. He stood up and clenched his fists, the shadows advanced towards him again and he continued to feel something gnawing at his feet and ankles, though he began to trudge towards where Raven was bound to the wall. He bared his teeth as he grabbed the man that was beating Raven. He twisted the mans wrist until he heard a crack and then threw him where the little shadow things began to devour him instead of Beast Boy, whom they lost interest in. Beast Boy looked up and Raven and changed into a monkey where he jumped and crawled up her blood soaked back and ripped the chains out of the walls. He jumped down and picked her up for she had fallen. Her eyes were a little gray and glassy as he looked into them. Tears continued to streak down her face as he began to carry her away, blood also dripping from his ankles and his face.
"It's ok Rae...we'll be home soon...none of this is really happening...it's all a bad dream. And people do love you Rae...I know of at least four others. There's Cyborg, Robin, Star, and....Me." Beast boy mumbled to her as he carried her out of the stadium, half expecting some people to stop him, though no one did. They all stared in wonderment after the changeling, though some couldn't quite grasp what had just taken place. About two seconds after he exited, the crowd finally processed what had just happened and began to run to the exits, trying to recapture the "cursed one" so that she won't wreak havoc on innocent people.
------That is so cool....wow...this is quite the chapter wouldn't you agree? I mean...wow...I dunno if any of this stuff is true, but yeah. You're all lucky that I'll be able to update more now that marching season is over. Woo! I love marching it's so fun! Well...yeah...and aren't you surprised? No authors notes! Go me! I feel special now....yeah well..I was going to have Robin in this chapter but decided not to, I'm sorry if this chapter isn't as long as some of the others.....but I tried I really did. And So I wanted to get it done today so then you all could read it! I'll try to be better at updating...I will...it's hard though, ya know? Well...yeah! My advice for today is...Razors are always sharp....you don't need to run your thumb over the blade to make sure it'll shave you....heh....yeah...! Well...Till Next Time!
Peace Out Dude!
Sakura