Note: Yes, it's been a while, hasn't it? Been a loooonnnngggg time since my last update, but here I am, back with more and more yet to come. There will be…yes, there will be.

Chapter Five-Truth

Mirage stormed through the lower levels, shaking with suppressed rage. She went toward some distant sounds, listening to the echoes of her footsteps and the echoes in her mind.

"It's just a look in the mirror…."

A light came from an open door down the hallway. The sounds were growing louder as she neared it. Robin came into sight, practicing martial arts on a battered punching bag. Mirage stood in the doorway and watched him pound the bag furiously.

"Mind if I join you?"

Robin stopped and regarded her. "Couldn't sleep?"

"Something like that." Without another word she went toward one of the punching bags and imagined it was Illusion. The she began to beat her other self ruthlessly.

The only thing she forgot is want she imagined others saw too. Robin stood puzzled as he watched the silver haired girl pound the image she had cast over herself before.

Raven found that she was unable to sleep. She sat in the living room, meditating, trying to sort out every aspect of the night's strange events.

Thundering footsteps rang down the corridor. Beast Boy came into the room, looking shocked.

"Raven!" he gasped, speaking way too fast. "It was, like, the craziest thing I've ever seen. Mirage was all, like, not Mirage. Dude, she was the black-haired chick. And then she was, like, talking to Brother Blood and, dude, he was all 'You are in control?' and the black-haired chick was all 'Yeah.' Then Mirage came back from wherever and she was like 'Leave me alone!' And then he started going on about a mirror…."

Raven just stared at him for a few minutes. "Calm down. You've had a nightmare."

Beast Boy frowned and waved his hands in exasperation. "I'm not playing around! She's like, two people! The black-haired girl is evil, and Mirage isn't strong enough to fight her!"

Raven closed her eyes again, as if to go back into meditation, but thought better of it when she saw Beast Boy's glowering expression.

"I know you're upset about Terra. But the probability of a person having two totally separate identities that war against one another is very unlikely. It's very possible it was just a bad dream."

His eyes darkened with anger as he spoke through gritted teeth. "This has nothing to do with Terra."

Raven watched him as he walked away furiously. She sighed and tried to focus on her meditation again, but to no avail. She knew that somehow, Beast Boy might be right. There had been so many instances after Terra's petrifaction, though, where he had had outbursts, been like this. The arrival of a new girl…there was the possibility it had set their green friend over the edge…

"Azarath….Metrion…Zinthos…" It would take some deep searching before she could distinguish truth from fiction…before she could see through the illusions.