I don't own Teen Titans. But that doesn't stop me writing about them.


10

"Yeah. It's me," smiled Beast Boy.

Raven's eyes started to change back to their normal color, and their normal quantity. Her wings folded back, changing back into a cape. Her hair darkened back into purple, but stayed the same length. Raven's leotard darkened back to blue, and she collapsed onto the ground. The hands holding BB vanished and he ran to her side.

She sat up right and he jumped back, startled.

"Could you please stop doing that?" he breathed heavily.

Raven got to her feet and ran out the alley to the street. She looked at the craters on the road, the missing wall from the building opposite her and finally, her battered friends.

Beast Boy ran up behind her.

'Raven, are you..."

"Don't follow me," she interrupted.

"What?''

"Don't come back for me," she said, not looking at him.

She ran down the street, around the corner, all the way to the city park. Thoughts raced through her brain.

I hurt my friends

I gave in to Trigon

I hurt Beast Boy

I almost killed innocent people

I almost killed Beast Boy

Those vampires are working for my Father

Those vampires made me almost kill my friends, even Beast Boy, they could do it again

Please let my friends be alright

Her side was aching and she was out of breath, but she carried on running until she reached the middle of the park, where the lake was.

Raven raised her hands and the surface of the lake froze. She walked out onto it, then incased it in a black orb. Now it was safe. Now she cried.

"Why is this happening to me?" she sobbed.
"Why me? Why do my friends have to be hurt because of me? It's not fair," She kneeled down and cried into her hands.

"Nothing's fair," came a voice from behind her. Raven remembered it as the last voice she had heard before she was brainwashed.

She turned around and scrambled to her feet, slipping slightly on the ice.

"Azareth..." she began, but the vampire lept onto her, knocking her down. It grabbed her arms so she was entirely powerless and pinned to the ground.

"Now, I know your so important, but I'm hungry and I deserve a bite," he smirked, baring his long fangs. Raven tried to squirm out from beneath him, but he was too strong.

Raven screamed. The vampire brought his head down, then caught fire and incinerated.

Raven gasped and choked as the ashes fell into her open mouth.

"It's normally slower, but you know what it's like with vampires and light," came the voice of a pyrokenetic, sick-sense-of-humored Slade Wilson.

Raven got to her feet and placed a black shield around herself as Slade sent a jet of flames at her, intending to imprison her in a cage of flames. His orders had been not to kill her, but he was free to harm her in anyway he wanted.

Raven started running. Slade ran right after her, shooting flames all the while. Raven dodged, flipped, jumped and rolled avoiding them. She turned around and sent dark-bolts at him. A sheild of fire appeared infront of him, blocking him from her powers.

She ran onto a dark, abandoned road. Raven could here the flapping of wings behind her, but took no notice of it.

Raven could feel her heart beating in her throat. It almost stopped when she hit a dead end.

She turned around to sprint out again, but saw the figure she was fleeing from standing at the entrance to the alley.

Raven looked up, and started to soar out the top, then skidded to halt as Slade made a fire cap for the alley.

She was trapped, and in severe pain as Slade shot her out the sky with a column of fire.


I hate Slade, don't you? R&R.