Yay! new chapter...this one is middleish length not on of my long ones..so sorry for that. Thank you all my reveiwers and faithful readers. CHRIST! i never knew how much some of you like this story. im honestly flattered and couldn't ask for better readers. if you go onto my homepage on this, then you'll se that i've put up a description of my new story which will be published after this one. anyway...on with the story!
Chapter 20: The Beginning of the End…
Raven rubbed her eyes open. They were greeted with the rays of warm sun beaming down at her. She lifted herself up off the floor. Her and Robin had stayed up talking for most of the night and had fallen asleep on her bedroom floor. Robin was still lying peacefully down there. Raven laid the blanket which had fallen off him, back over him. She went and showered and got into clean clothes silently, trying not to disturb the sleeping Boy Wonder.
She went downstairs into the kitchen to notice that she was the first up as usually. She looked over at the clock. It was only 5:45am. No one else would be up for another 5 hours except maybe Robin. She turned on the tap and poured some water into the kettle then placed it on the lit stove. She placed a tea bag into her cup then waited patiently for the kettle to whistle, signalling that it was ready. She then poured the boiling water into her mug and dipped her teabag up and down to get all the flavour out. She then put her hands around the mug and closed her eyes at the comfort she was in. Suddenly, a world of black invaded her thoughts.
She was standing on a circle of dirt in the middle of emptiness. Then flames began growing from the ground and circled her. She was trapped. Raven's cape caught fire and burned off her, turning into a pile of ash on the floor. None of the flames however touched her. Tares began to creep their way all over her leotard before they ripped off the sleeves, the middle and the neck top. She felt her hair growing down her back until it reached midway. She looked at her hands to see red marks forming all over them. "Not again!" She gasped. The red burn marks appeared all over her body just like they had on her birthday. A look of sheer panic appeared on her face. "It's coming my dearest daughter." Trigon's voice echoed around her.
"It is your fate." Slade's voice joined it.
"It is your destiny" Trigon's said.
They repeated this echoing all around her. She fell to the ground on her knees and pushed her hands against her ears, trying to block their voices out. She shook her head whispering "No…no…no" over and over again. Then they stopped. She opened her eyes and saw that the tower was back in her vision. Everyone was standing around her while Robin had his hands on her shoulders, obviously trying to wake her when she was unconscious. She felt cold and noticed that her hair was still long and her outfit was still ripped. She could still see the marks all over her body. She stood up and ran over to the sink and began scrubbing them, trying to get them off her body. The titans stared at their fellow teammate. "Friend Raven, why are you scrubbing your body?" Starfire asked her concerning leaking from her voice.
"And how is your hair suddenly so long and why is your costume all weird?" Beast Boy asked confused.
"Have to get marks off." Raven said quietly and frustrated to herself. Robin walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Raven what happened?" He asked.
"I need to get these off me!" She said continuing to scrub. The marks weren't going!
"Raven, there's nothing there." Robin said.
"Can't you see the marks?" She said.
Robin gave her a worried look. She realised that she was the only one who could see them. But why? She suddenly stopped scrubbing and started to laugh fakely. "My Mistake" she said then ran off to her room. She got into a new outfit and cut her hair back to its normal length. She then sat down on her bed staring and her hands, which still had the burn marks on them. She sighed heavily. "This way dearest Raven, you will remember the task that's ahead of you and you will remember that you are always ours." Slade's maniacal voice echoed into her head then went away.
Suddenly a loud knocking on her door pulled her away from her thoughts. She got up and opened it to see Starfire standing in the doorway. "Friend Raven, I am most apologetic if I have disturbed you if you were meditating; I was just wondered if I might share something with you…" She began fidgeting.
"Come in Starfire" Raven said standing aside to let the alien girl in. They sat down on Raven's bed. "So, what is it you wanted to share with me?"
"Well, I was just wondering as to why you have red burns all over you?" Starfire said.
Raven's eyes widened in shock, "You can see them!" She said amazed.
"Yes." Starfire said simply.
"But how?" Raven said still amazed that Starfire could see them when only Raven was supposed to.
"I do not know. I can just see them. But why are they there?" She asked.
"Because they are Slade/Trigon's mark." Raven said lowering her head.
"But why do you bear them?" Starfire asked.
"Because they are showing me who I really am…a demon Starfire…a destroyer."
"Friend Raven, you are no demon and no destroyer." Starfire said beaming at Raven. Raven smiled lightly. "Would you like to accompany the rest of us as we journey to the house of moving pictures?" Starfire asked.
"Sure." Raven said. They got up and walked out of Raven's room. The others were waiting downstairs and were all surprised that Starfire had managed to get Raven out of her room. Robin walked over to her and looked Raven in the eye. "Are you okay now?" He asked concerned.
"Yes…I'm fine." She said smiling weakly. He took her hand and they followed the others out of the tower. The others went in the T-Car while Raven went with Robin on the famous R-Cycle.
They went to see the Ring 2. (Yes I know this film sucks but it's the latest one I've seen so I know it best.) Starfire jumped most of the time. Beast Boy, who was sitting between Cyborg and Bumblebee, was scared out of his wits. Raven and Robin got bored so Robin began questioning Raven about what she'd seen. "So what happened in the kitchen earlier?" He asked whispering.
"Nothing important." She said.
"Well it is if you were in the state of madness and the way you were on your birthday."
"I was just being…" She didn't get to finish however because outside came a massive explosion.
The Titans ran out of the cinema to see and hear people screaming and running. The sky was burning red and buildings all around were falling. "What the hell is happening!" Beast Boy said.
"It's the beginning of the end." Raven said.
Robin looked at her worried. "Are you sure?" He asked.
"Yes. Tonight is the night that it starts. "Raven said staring into the sky. What her destiny would be, whether it be destroy the world or save it, would be decided tonight…
sorry for the shortness but i hoped you all liked it.
anyway, until next time
CrimsonCape AKA Charlie
