1...2...3...30! Damn that was effective! I thought everyone was just gonna say 'screw you, i'll go read something else.' You all must love me very much. Well enough of the mush. Here's the chapter as I promised and I stayed up for a while modifying just for my special reviewers.
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Chapter 4: Nightmares
Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire arrived later, finding Robin on the couch, blankly flipping channels. Starfire flew over to him and smiled, "Hello, Robin. How was your day?" He stared straight ahead and said absently, "Uneventful." Raven's anger blew a hole in the wall of her room. (Yes, what one Raven hears, they all hear.) "Raven can be pretty lazy, let me tell you," Beast Boy said, flopping down on the couch.
The other Ravens quickly disbanded and went into their room. The huddled around the original who was hunched over, fist and teeth clenched. She'd changed back into her uniform, cloak gone blood red with her hood drawn up. Happiness walked over and patted her on her shoulder, "C'mon Raven. It's not so bad. Cheer up!" Raven turned suddenly and gave her a vicious look, "You think I care what you say? Why don't you shut up!"
Happiness shrunk under her anger and tears ran down her voice. Her cloak changed to grey and she moved away from Raven quickly. Raven looked at her confused. "The color has...changed?" She got up and walked to Happy/Sad and smiled faintly at her, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell." She wrapped her arms around her and gave her a tight hug. Immediately, her color turned back to pink and she smiled, "That's okay, Raven!"
Raven watched as her happy side danced around the room. I can make their emotions change. Then that means...I can turn them all to Hate! A sinister grin crossed her face as she whispered, "Oh, this should prove interesting..." She looked around at their color, "It's going to take a lot to change them all however." She sidled up to Sadness and grinned evilly at her. Sadness moved away nervously.
Raven reached out and grabbed her by the shoulder, "Where ya going?" She looked at Raven, eyes gone wide with fear and mumbled, "Nowhere." Raven shook her faintly, "Can't hear you. Why don't you speak up? What's your problem?" Sad's eyes had gone to the floor, tearing up slightly. "No wonder Beast Boy thinks you're creepy!" She blinked and her eyes turned glowing red and she pushed Raven away, "Why don't you shut up, stupid!"
Black tendrils of energy wrapped around Raven's ankles and tripped her up. Sadness looked as though she wanted to attack her again but Raven held out her hand, holding her on the spot. "Chill out! You can take all your anger out on Beast Boy before the day is through." She felt bad, a little, for bullying her other side but it must be done. "They've got to learn that you can't go pissing me off. When I'm angry everyone's gonna know!"
(This is where Chapter 4 was supposed to end but because you guys are so nice...)
It happened with out warning.
One second, Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg were sitting comfortably in the living room and the next they weren't. (Duh.) A black hole had appeared in the middle of the room and started to spread. "What is that?" Starfire gasped. "Raven!" Robin shouted, looking around. Her voice sounded in his mind, Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you. Yet.
Darkness swallowed the room and everyone disppeared. When Robin opened his eyes he was up against a wall of darkness in a position to suggest he might have been crucified. The dark energy was wrapped around his wrists. "Where am I?" Raven's voice, "You're with me, Robin." Raven stepped out of nowhere. "Hate," Robin spat. "Where are the others?"
She grinned, "They're in good hands. You need not worry." He pulled at the darkness surrounding him, "What have you done to Raven?" She looked at him, "What have I done? I think you should ask what you've done. Because you rejected her, Raven withdrew herself leaving the way for me to reign free."
"Then go back where you came from!" Raven smirked at him, "No why would I do that? I'm having way too much fun. And besides, if Raven wanted to she could stop me." Robin stopped and stared at her, "What?" She nodded, "That's right. Raven is watching all this. She's watching you struggle helplessly without a care in the world. She came to you in love and you turned her away. She's receded into my heart and doesn't have the slightest desire to come out."
"What heart?" Robin spat at her. "Insolence? In such a situation? You are truly a fool." She turned away, drawing up her hood. "You'll soon end up like the others." And started walking. "Wait! Where are they?" Raven disappeared into the shadows.
Starfire was sleeping. But the sleep was anything but peaceful. Nightmares of the worst kind plagued her. They weren't projections of Raven, they were fears of her own heart.
"Robin, wait!"
Robin was walking away from her surrounded by. . .Blackfire and Kitty! (Kitty from Date With Destiny) He looked back at her, "Sorry, Star but you can't expect me to like you looking like...that? Do you?" Starfire's face and body had changed like in the episode, 'Transformations.' Kitty smiled at her, "Don't worry, Starfire. I can take good care of Robie-poo."
Blackfire grinned at her, "Yeah, baby sister, Robin's safe with us." Robin put his arms around the girls' shoulders and turned away. "Later, Starfire." Starfire could only stare after his disappearing figure, "Robin, please don't go.."she whispered.
Beast Boy was enduring something of the same kind. Another fear of his heart.
"Terra! Help!"
Beast Boy held on to the edge of the crevice short from failling into the open volcano. Terra just stared at him, in her Slade uniform. Slade, himself, stood behind her. "Good work, my apprentice. Now finish the job." Terra raised her foot and gently placed her boot on Beast Boy's fingers.
"Sorry B, I've got a job to finish." As he watched her form turned to Raven's and without hesitation she crushed his fingers causing him to let go. "Terra!" He watched as she grew smaller as he fell deeper into the pit of hellfire.
And lastly Cyborg's.
He'd just awoken from his accident. His body clanked oddly as he looked around the white hospital room. He raised his hand to his face. It was robotic. He looked around, mostly all of his body was robotic. When he looked, his left eye analyzed everything in the room.
"What's happened to me? I'm not even human anymore! I'm a. . .a cyborg. I'm an abnormalty!" No longer a human, not even a robot, Cyborg was in between the two.
And so they were all trapped. Trapped within their own fears in a nightmarish reality.
Okay, I gotta say. I suppose begging for reviews was a bit babyish of me, huh? And maybe I should apologize, no? Well forgive me, eager readers, for getting full of myself and. . .stuff. Uh, yeah, won't happen again.
PROMISE.
