Chapter 15: Reaction
After a long flight, we finally settled into the docking station that I didn't even know existed in titan tower. It felt good to know that this was home.
'Now.... what was that important thing I had to do.....'
And then the memory hit me full force: Blood trickling down denim. A scream.... then a crunching noise. More blood. Then blackness... I had killed someone. And now I had to tell everyone else.
We walked up the stairs. Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire were talking about what had happened on the plane ride up to Mictopia. Robin was the only one truly listening; I was busy thinkingof ways to say what I needed to, and Raven, was.... well...... Raven.
When we reached the door to the main room, I jumped in front of the group. Raven let her hood down. My palms started to sweat.
"Friend? Is there something you need to partake in telling us?" (Of course, that was Star.)
"Ummm...... yeah. About that. See...."
Silently, I said to Raven, 'What do I say?'
"The truth." She said out loud.
Everyone turned around, confused at her outburst. I blushed. Thinking how it really wasn't an outburst.
I said the following as quickly as humanly possible: "Well this guy stabbed me I lost control so I accidentally killed him." But it probably sounded like one word because their eyes were like this --- 8-o. Even Raven could hardly understand me, and she already knew what I needed to say.
I power-walked so fast my P.E teacher would have been proud. I didn't look back; I went straight to my room. If I had, I would have heard Beast Boy say, "Whoa...", I would have heard Starfire's squeak, and I would have seen Cyborg scratch the back of his blue metallic neck. (A big manga-style sweat drop is on his forehead) Raven went to her room, and emerged again with something shiny in her hand.
My door opened. Raven sat down next to me on the floor. She handed me a big metal.... thing with a blue jewel that was mounted on a diamond shaped metal peice. I turned it over. The jewel was bare in back; no metal mountings held it from behind, only on the sides.
"It's a shakra. It will tone your powers."
"How do you use it?"
She motioned for me to give it to her. I did. She moved my hair and fitted it around my forehead so that the jewel sat just above where my brow and my nose met. It kind of looked similar to a crown, and made my mind calmer. It was easier to think.
"Wow... how did Iever function without one of these? Thank you Raven..... this means a lot...."
"Don't mention it." She said, as she got up and left the room. Before the door closed after her, she added, "Meditate."
And I obeyed.