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Thank you for your kind reviews!
Titanfan: I didn't take it the wrong way! Haha, it was funny! I just had some trouble understanding your review because of some of the typos, so I guessed and said, 'IT MUST BE GOOD' then I plugged my ears and didn't listen to anything but the voices in my head.
Xlife: Thanks, I'll try to update as much as I can but with that thing they call school… for me it's just something to fill the time when I'm not writing or boring my friends (shock of all shocks I have friends) when I call them. Heh… I'm insane.
Raven-Fieryblack: Good you've read both. I'm glad you love it! I'm so happy that people like this… I just wonder why you people like it.
Chica De Los Ojos Café: Thank you! Yes, it was a good suggestion, and it tied in so well. When people gave me ideas, I started to write and… well it came out interesting. I'm actually happy with it. Yeah, everything and anything on the internet is copied. Especially pictures of a certain band member of a certain band cough AFI cough that I like… but that's a different story. I think Mike I will have fun with Mike no matter how much I despise him for causing Raven pain. (And it's my story! I hate my own character! AHAHAHAHAHA) Slade is eeeevil! Yeah, he's goin' down yo! IT'S ON SLADE! COME ON, BRING IT!
Slade: what?
Me: NOOOOOOOO! DON'T HURT MEEEEEEEEEEEE! Can I have your autograph?
Slade: You will die now.
Me: coweres behind chair
Nyoko Iso: I'm glad you hit the button! happy dance, I got a review Thank you for your ideas. I would still be stuck without them. And don't call yourself attention seeking! I'm just to lazy to constantly check everywhere for stories. I loved it by the way, in case you don't get my review. Yes… the fluff was good. turns to Robin, see that should be you.
Robin: Shut up.
Me: You looove Raaaveeen!
Robin: Die.
Back to Nyoko Iso I'm a great writer? Wow… Thank you. So are you! And an awesome reviewer (arrrrgh cliché –twitch, twitch-)
Ok, so I hope you like this chapter, sorry if I forgot anyone, no offense if I did. Unless your flaming me. Then I am not sorry.
9…
Time with the Titans. Do it for them. Not for you, them. They want to see you, you need to be with people right now anyways Raven. I tried to tell myself that it was for the better I stepped out of my room, into the light with the others. I could feel Robin shooting be glances, wondering about me, what I had done without them. How he hadn't found me. I caught a small smile start to form on my lips and forced a frown.
"So Raven…" Cyborg starts casually as I sit down on the couch. "What have you been doing for the past year."
Is this really better for me? I ask myself.
"Nothing."
"Oh come on, you have to of been doing something!" Beast Boy says.
"Nothing."
"Yes you have Raven! Are you Slade's apprentice or something?"
"NO! You don't want to know what I've been through!"
"Yes we do Raven!"
"Fine…"
"So tell us then Raven!" Beast Boy said.
"Beast Boy, Raven may not wish to tell us for a reason…" Starfire said.
"What, does it have something to do with Trigon? Because I think we should know!"
"It has nothing to do with Trigon." I glared at Beast Boy. "It has nothing to do with you."
"I think it does!"
"FINE! Slade found me again."
"How did he find you and not us!" Beast Boy demanded.
"He looked." I retorted.
"What did he do?" Fury danced in Beast Boy's eyes, an emotion I had never seen in him. The others sat in a stony silence.
"What do you think he did? He tortured me!"
"Why didn't we find you?" Robin yelled. "We went to every spot Slade was, and once we found…" The boy wonder faltered for a moment, "We found knives soaked in blood, and cuffs danlging from the wall! How did you escape?"
"I didn't want to be found." I said bluntly.
"Why Raven?"
"Because I can't sit here and watch my friends change, for the worse, with nothing I can do about it! I needed to get away! I felt useless! I wasn't doing anything but causing pain." I told them they didn't need to know.
We sat in silence for a moment before Cyborg spoke.
"We have not changed Raven, it is you. You have become a…a coward."
The person I had once looked up to as an older brother now glared down at me.
"Oh? I have?" I asked, sarcasm dripping from my voice.
"Yes! You left because you were scared, because you couldn't face us." Cyborg said.
"You can't even begin to understand why I left." I said venomously.
"Cyborg stop, now." Robin said.
"No. I want to hear what he has to say." I said. Robin stopped talking and sank back into his chair. Beast Boy was a paler green than usual, and Starfire was floating in shock.
"I can't believe you Raven, for someone who has to fight a demon, you should be strong. You can't even face your friends."
"You- you work for- for him." I shot the words at him. "I can feel it! THAT IS WHY YOU DIDN'T WANT TO FIND ME, YOU KNEW I WOULD KNOW!"
Cyborg looked at me in a mixture of shock and hatred. "I do NOT work for Slade!"
"Raven, please, Cyborg would not." Starfire said.
"Oh yeah, then prove it!"
The alarm went off before anyone could say anything.
"I'll prove it in battle." Cyborg grumbled at me.
I glared at him. Robin walked beside me. "What?" I snapped. "Oh… sorry Robin I didn't mean to snap."
"I understand. Nevermind, I can tell you later, come on. We need to go."
I looked in horror at what stood in front of me. There were no drones, only people. People looking for blood. Batman had called our troops and we stood facing eachother. I didn't want to kill them. Even my demon side had some sympathy for the pathetic attempts they were going to make. Cyborg lunged forward, a second to late, or a second to soon. I saw them fire the gun. His robot side would of course feel nothing, but the pain coursing through his human veins would be intense. I looked at the murderer in horror.
"AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!" No part of me felt sympathy now. I was holding the human by his neck, my eyes crimson. "How do you feel about yourself?" I hissed.
"I feel fine."
"Stubborn aren't we?"
Anger was taking control over me, I could do nothing to stop her. I screamed as she gained control of my actions. (bold is anger talking/commanding raven)
"What do you think you are doing?" I growled. "Killing for no reason? Murder is what you have done. You fired before your masters command. I'm going to kill before I am commanded to and we will be even." I began to choke the man, watching his face distort and turn blue before he finally fell. I threw him to the ground.
"Raven!" I faintly heard someone calling me.
"What?"
"RAVEN! SNAP OUT OF IT!" It was Robin speaking. I tried to clear my head.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." I chanted. I felt myself returning to my normal state. Many of the windows around me were broken, the road was destroyed, and several people lay dead. Starfire was tending to Cyborg while Beast Boy fought alongside Bumblebee, Batman, Wonderwoman, and Superman. Our troops were charging relentlessly, I knew this would not be a battle we lost.
"Are you OK?" Robin asked me.
"Yes, I'll be fine." I lied. I was still shaking.
"Allright…" Robin said.
I glared ahead. They would pay. I would not forget Cyborg like this. Not ever. He wouldn't die knowing I hated him.
I'm sorry Cy, I believe you.
Raven?
Yes?
How are you doing…
Telekenetic powers. Don't ask. You were an amazing leader, I'm sorry I doubted you Cy. Thanks for everything.
Thank's Rae… I'm… sorry… For earlier, you are… amazing.
Goodbye Cy.
Goodbye Rae.
His last thougts. At least… At least he knew I didn't… I didn't want to finish that thought, not wanting to know what I would do to myself if he had died thinking I thought he worked for Slade. If he was, Slade wouldn't have killed him. Not like that. I push the thougts out of my mind and focus on fighting. Nothing but battle. It's all that seems to matter now.
Oh my… looks like something has changed in Raven too! PLOT TWIST! Betcha didn't see that coming! You were expecting a nice fluffy chapter weren't ya? Well, I agree with Wickedwitch9. PLEASE REVIEW! TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK, WHAT YOU WANT, WHAT YOU THINK I'M GOING TO DO NEXT! BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW!
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