Alrighty, folks, second chapter's up!!! Yay!!! Before it begins, though, I'm want to thank everyone who reviewed my story, and reply to some of my reviewers (Yay! I have reviewers!).

BoxieRoxie: I wouldn't know if there was an episode just like this, because I've only seen Season 1 and the first four episodes of Season 2. So if this seems a little similar, it's completely accidental!

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Now, on to Chapter 2!

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I'm running, I'm running... I don't know where I am, I don't know where I'm going... I'm scared, no, terrified... Not only for myself, but for everyone else... Oh, I've stopped... All around me is death and destruction... Everyone's dead, everyone's gone... And it's all my fault... No, no, this can't be right... No...

Raven awoke suddenly, in a cold sweat despite the hot sun that beat down on her. Sitting up, she realized that she'd fallen asleep on the roof. Judging by the sun, it had to be about noon... She wondered vaguely why no one had come to find her.

She stared out at the sparkling ocean, reliving the last couple of moments of her dream in her mind. She was surprised that she'd been able to remember any of it, and more that a little unnerved- her dreams were getting more vivid; surely, the event that they were predicting would soon come to pass. She shuddered, remembering the last couple of moments before she woke up. She had to figure out what was scaring her, and fast, before her nightmares became a reality.

A sudden burst of inspiration came to her. 'I know, I'll-'

The thought was quickly interrupted by the sound of a door opening, and Starfire's cheery voice.

"Hello, Raven! We are all going to the mall of shopping... Would it interest you to accompany us?"

Raven turned to study the auburn-haired girl for a moment. She was almost positive that the girl was expecting a no; Raven hardly ever went to the mall.

"Actually, I think I will come."

Starfire looked surprised for a moment, but quickly recovered, her smile growing wider.

"Oh, that is wondrous! We shall do the shopping of clothes together, and-"

"Actually," Raven interrupted, before the alien girl could go any further, "I was just planning on going to the bookstore."

"Oh," Starfire replied, seeming a little disappointed, but then she smiled again. "Oh, well! It will still be wonderful to have you accompany us! Come... The others are waiting!" Without warning, she flew over and grabbed Raven's arm, dragging her across the roof. Raven gritted her teeth; already, she was beginning to regret this.


"All right, so we'll meet back here, in front of the food fair, around two-thirty. That should give everyone plenty of time."

Robin looked at the other Titans as they finished their lunch at the mall's food fair. His eyes landed on Beast Boy, who was stuffing the last couple of bites of his vegetarian special into his mouth.

"And Beast Boy... Try not to get kicked out of any more stores."

"Dude, that was so not my fault!" Beast Boy cried out defensively around a mouthful of tofu. "I thought those coats were made of real fur!"

Robin just rolled his eyes as he stood up from the table. "Anyway... Starfire and I are... um... going to go catch a movie. See you guys later."

As Robin and Starfire walked off together, Beast Boy and Cyborg glanced at each other, suppressing snickers. Then Cyborg stood up, too.

"Hey, man, I'm going to go check out that new game at the arcade. I'll see you there once you're done with your veggie-crap." He pointed at Beast Boy's lunch, a meal that could only look appetizing to him.

The changeling pretended to look indignant. "No animals were harmed in the making of this meal."

Cyborg chuckled. "Nothing real even went near that meal, BB. Anyway, I'll catch you later." He grinned and walked off, making a beeline for the arcade.

"So..." Beast Boy said, turning his attention to Raven, who hadn't spoken through the meal, "Where're you gonna go, Rae?"

"The bookstore," was Raven's clipped reply. She wanted to end this conversation as soon as possible.

"Hey... Need someone to go with you?"

"No."

"Oh..." Again, Beast Boy looked somewhat deflated, but he managed to hide it quickly. "All right, then. See you later!" With that, he jumped up from the table and ran after Cyborg.

Raven wasted no time. A couple of minutes later, she was in the mall's bookstore, searching along the aisles for one book in particular. As her search continued to grow longer, thought, she frowned.

"It's not here..." she murmured, half in disbelief. She was almost certain that it would be here. She needed it to be here.

"Well... Now what?" she leaned against the end of a bookcase, thinking hard. Suddenly, she remembered: there was an old used-bookstore at the other end of the mall. They might have what she was looking for.

Ten minutes later, Raven found herself outside the old bookstore. Quickly, she glanced up at a giant digital clock suspended from the mall's ceiling; it was two o'clock. She had half an hour.

'Well, that should be enough time,' Raven thought to herself as she hurried into the store.

Twenty-five minutes later, she found out how wrong she was. She'd combed through every shelf in the store twice over, and still hadn't found what she was looking for. Just as she was about to give up, and back to meet the others, something in the back of the store caught her eye. It was an old cardboard box, marked in purple marker, "Books- Fifty percent off". And there it sat, right on top of the pile.

Raven rushed over and scooped up the book of dream meanings, reaching into a pocket in her cloak- when she stopped, her face paler than normal. All of her money was back at the Tower; Starfire had been in such a rush to get her out the door, that she hadn't had any time to grab any. She'd have to research her dream's meaning, right here, right now... But she had only three minutes left.

Leaning against the wall, Raven began avidly flipping though the old book. Here was one...

Running: Is someone running toward or away from something? What? Why?

Raven raised an eyebrow. What the heck was that supposed to mean? Shaking her head, she continued to flip through the book.

Fear: What is it that you are afraid of? Perhaps someone is playing on your fears.

Another useless meaning. Raven glanced at the clock on the wall; one minute left. And she still had one more meaning to find. She quickly fumbled through the book, finally coming to rest on the right page.

Death: Death marks the end of a stage in life and a time of great change.

Raven sighed, tossing the book back into the box. She'd made it in time, but she didn't feel relieved in the least. Glancing once more at the book, she left the store.


A half hour later, Beast Boy and Cyborg sat in front of the GameStation, eyes glued to the screen, Starfire excitedly cheering them on. Robin sat listening to music, off in his own little world. Raven sat on the couch reading, attempting to tune them all out.

Unable to concentrate, she merely stared blankly at the page; she'd reread the same sentence ten times over, and still had no idea what it said. Her mind was focused on her dream, trying to puzzle it out.

'You've been stressing over this all day,' a small voice in the back of her mind said, 'You should take a nap.' As she thought this, her eyelids began to droop. 'No, no!' She shook her head violently, dark hair flying. She couldn't sleep. But she was so tired...

She fought desperately to keep her eyes open, but they seemed to grow heavier with every passing moment.

'No! Don't... go... to... sleep...'

She was running again... A green haze was following her, threatening to envelope her... She couldn't fight, she had to run... Everyone was hurt, everyone was dying... She was killing them all... Screams and yells surrounded her...

"Raven! Raven!"

"Oh, please, Raven, wake up!"

Suddenly, someone was shaking her, and her eyes shot open, widening as she took in the chaos around her.

Furniture flew madly about the room, light bulbs exploding randomly. Cyborg and Robin had taken cover behind the counter, staring up at the ceiling... Raven followed their gaze, and gasped to see Beast Boy floating only a couple of inches from the ceiling. Starfire crouched beside her, eyes wide in terror.

"Please, Raven, stop!"

Raven swallowed hard, closing her eyes and concentrating. A couple of seconds later, furniture began falling to the floor; Robin and Cyborg had to dodge a table that had landed right where they had been. A moment later, Beast Boy fell, landing on his arm with a sickening crack.

Raven opened her eyes and looked about the room, from Starfire's expression of terror to Beast Boy's look of pain.

This was not good.