Dark Awakening

Rain poured down upon a girl running through the streets. The girl was in a dark cloak, which surrounded her entire body. She turned into a dark alley and leaned against the wall to catch her breath. After a moment of rest she quickly looked out into the street and saw that it was deserted.

Her breathing was going from heavy gasps of breath to an almost silent sound. Quietly she backed into the alleyway further, hoping to use the darkness to hide from the evil that was fallowing her. Suddenly she backed up into something solid. Gasping from the knowledge that it wasn't the wall, she readied herself to run.

Unfortunately for her an arm had quickly snaked its way around her waist. Struggling to escape from her captor, she lost much of her strength. The one holding her just laughed. She turned to see who was holding her and just her luck a car had swept by. Sadly the one holding her was her enemy. For this person held the two faces of the two people she feared the most. Slade and....

Conciseness entered my body as I awakened from my torturous sleep. Strange sounds swept through my head as I slowly came back to reality. I could feel that I was laying on something incredibly soft. Cautiously I opened my weary eyes and saw bright lights shinning above me. Turning my head to the direction to where the soft whispering noises were coming from, I saw five fuzzy shapes surrounding me. It seems my vision hadn't fully come back to me yet.

"Hey look man! She's waking up," said the green shape with a somewhat immature voice.

"Oh wonderful. This has become a joyous moment, yes?" asked a girl with orange hair. The sound of her voice was kind of high pitched.

"Yeah Starfire. It is good news," said a guy with a commanding tone to his voice. The person, who had just talked, turned to me and asked, "Raven are you okay?"

My vision had just cleared up to where I could see the detail in their faces. The one who had just spoken to me was a guy who looked about my age. He had black hair that looked like it was somewhat spiked. He was wearing a mask, and a colorful outfit. Looked like the leader type.

I turned my eyes next to a girl with orange hair that went below her shoulders. She beautiful green eyes that were filled with so much happiness that she never knew. The outfit she had on was a two-piece. Both top and bottom were a medium color purple. She did not seem to be an earthling due to the aurora that was coming from her.

Looking over at another guy who was... green. He looked like a teenager who just wouldn't grow up. Immature was the word that constantly came to my mind. Though he looked like he enjoyed life to its fullest. Even with the immaturity I sense that is inside of him, I would give anything for the emotion that rolls off him. He wore a black and purple suit that seemed to go well with his green colored skin.

Blue and white caught my eye then. Right next to the green guy was a man who looked half man and half machine. He seemed to be the competitive yet easy going at the some time. He had two different types of eyes. One looked black and the other was red, which looked like its use was for scanning items.

The last person I saw was a girl. Looked pretty normal. She had long blonde hair, and blue eyes. A kind smile was there upon her face. Her outfit looked normal too. The clothes that she wore seemed to be used for mountain climbing.

Bringing her hand to her head, she flipped a stray strand of her purple locks out of her face. Then she looked at everyone in the room as a whole. When she did that memories of last night flew into her mind.

Springing up suddenly from shock, Raven soon realized her mistake. Head pounding from the pain she quickly clutched her hands to it. Once the pain subsided she finally answered the masked guys question.

" To answer your question, no I'm not. My head is pounding from an enormous headache." Raven said to the Titans she than looked at them and asked a question of her own, "What happened? How did I end up here with you?"

Robin stepped forward, "You had passed out when we got there. We saw you in the hands of Cinderblock. It looked like you were going to be squished to death. Pretty much what happened after that, we kicked their bad guy butts and brought you here." Robin then took a deep breath. "Now would you mind telling us what happened? Why were they getting ready to kill you?"

"For saving my life I shall give you an answer. I couldn't live with myself if I killed innocent people just for the sake of control. It didn't sit well with me personally. So I betrayed Slade. I had hoped you would come to give me a hand. I thank you for saving my life and stopping Slade from doing terrible deeds." Raven calmly explained wincing once in a while due to the pain in her side.

All the Titans stared at her. Raven just sat there waiting for what they would say next. Silence was her only answer until a flash of color came at her and she was in a breath-taking hug.

" Oh, I am so happy that you were not evil like we originally thought. It is great to hear this from you. I am so happy I shall recite the poem of thankfulness. All 200,000 verses." exclaimed an extremely happy Starfire.

Raven would have asked her to stop hugging her; the only problem is that she couldn't breath. Not even speak a single word. Luckily for her, the other Titans had noticed Raven going blue from lack of breath, and moved Starfire off her.

Raven just nodded her head in thanks, for she was still out of breath from the extremely strong hug. Sleep seemed to have seeped into her body and she felt herself lose conciseness once again. Except this time it was a peaceful one.

Hi everybody! I apologize once again for not being able to update lately. I've just been piled with homework over the weekends. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. It made me happy to know that I have been finally able to update. Well just to let you know this story is come to an end, but there is going to be a sequel. I shall write about two or three more chapters for Dark Destiny. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it.

-cjrogue