Chapter 6: Unlocked
Well, hello all my readers!!!! Lemme hear a woot woot!! Ya'll know your waiting for the next chapter of the epic story The Girl Within…
I'm changing the writing style of the fanfic. The "script" format was getting to annoying, and it doesn't fit the mood of the story. So enjoy the new format!
Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans. I don't own anything except my laptop. So there.
Chapter 6 begins… here!
Raven closed her door, inner emotions reeling from the little outburst. "Stupid Beast Boy, stupid garlic… how could he even think that GARLIC… calm down Raven, you need to regain control." She sighed, and sat down on the bed, beginning her mantra, "Azarath… Metrion… Zinthos…" She picked up the mirror, and entered her head.
Once inside, she was greeted by her emotions. Anger came up to her and said, "Nice job back there Raven, you just gotta keep up the good work blah blah blah…" and went off on a tangent that sounded like a boxing coach. Bravery came up behind her, caught Anger's hood, and pulled it up and over her head. She then removed Anger's belt and used it to fasten the hood on her head. Then Bravery sat on her, and said, "What's up?" while Humor laughed. Raven ignored Anger's struggles to get free and said, "I need to prepare for Trigon's coming. I have to organize you all so that he won't be able to break my control."
A bright flash, and then Raven's mother, Arella, appeared once again in Raven's mind. She seemed breathless and tired, as though she had just run a race. "Raven…" she panted, "your father… he's planning to strike… tonight!... You must tell your friends… and then I will show you… a way to overcome him!" Raven and her emotions froze, and then Raven regained her composure. "Alright then," she said, a slightly apprehensive look on her face, "I'll go tell them. You rest, I'll be right back." Arella nodded, and then spoke. "Go quickly." Muttering her incantation, Raven disappeared, going back to her outside world.
The rest of the Titans were around the Tower, pursuing their own various activities, when they heard Raven's voice in their minds. "Meet me in the living room. Now." Each dropped what he or she was doing, and ran (or flew) to the room. As they entered, they saw Raven standing in front of the television. "Sit down." Each of the other Titans noticed that she had a slightly worried look on her face, and sat down on the big sofa. Raven began speaking.
"As you know, my father, Trigon, is going to attack the city in order to try and invade our dimension. I just found out that he is going to attack – tonight. However, there is – someone – who is willing to show me how I can overcome him. I will need concentration, because I don't know how long it will take. Do whatever you like to prepare, but don't come near my room." With that, she turned and went back to her room.
Raven re-entered her interior world, and immediately went to her mother. "What do you have to teach me?" she asked. "A way of containing Trigon, so that he may not try to overrun this world again," her mother replied. "Then teach me," Raven said. Her mother began to explain.
"You will not need to learn it, so much as unlock it. It is an ability that is within you naturally, but which is locked away. You must meditate and look deeply within your own heart, for only there can it be found. It is in the shape of a small black and red box. But hurry… each second you spend look for it is twenty minutes of the time in the outside world." Raven nodded, and began her familiar chant...
Azarath… Metrion… Zinthos… Azarath… Metrion… Zinthos…
Back in the real world, the Titans spoke to each other, each with an anxious look on their faces, watching the hallway that lead to Raven's room. "She said he was coming tonight," Robin worried, "but she didn't tell us when." Beast Boy sat up and said, "maybe we should make a plan of some sort, in case she doesn't finish… whatever she's doing." Cyborg looked at Beast Boy disbelievingly. "What?" Beast Boy exclaimed. Cyborg shook his head. "You came up with an idea. Do you know how unusual that it???" Starfire didn't want the boys to fight, so she asked, "Beast Boy, what is this plan of yours?" BB gave Cyborg a smug look, and then began his plan. "Well, we could get a bunch of B-52 bombers manned by intelligent chimpanzees, and - " he stopped, as everyone did the anime faint. "What?!?"
Raven's POV
Within myself… a small red and black box… where is it? Must search deeper… how long have I been searching? Time is passing so quickly outside… Wait! Was that it? If I can just unlock it with my mind…
A burning sensation, and then
Nothing
Then a pin in her heart
A kaleidoscope of colors
Opened her eyes
Saw her mother
And knew how to defeat her father, and the price she must pay to do it.
As Raven went to leave her mind, hearing the siren and sensing the flashing lights in the outside world, her mother stopped her. "Raven… Your father is here. You have unlocked a powerful force… And I want to say that I'm sorry. If it weren't for me, you would never have had to live through this… and that I love you." Raven nodded, and returned to her home.
As the Titans left the tower, she looked at the question in her friend's eyes. "Yes, I can defeat him." She knew that she would triumph over her father and save the lives of those she loved, and she knew what the price would be.
Her own life.
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-Firestorm