Okay, here's another chapter of Power Hungry. I hope you enjoy it!
"Robin?" Starfire asked me concerned. "Yeah, Star"
"Are you feeling okay?" She could tell; I wasn't feeling okay. "Um…" I didn't want to trouble her with my problems, but sometimes, it was hard not too. "No I'm not, Star" I said, "But don't worry 'bout me, I'll be fine." I said this in my most reassuring voice so I wouldn't scare her. "If you say so" She replied and faced the TV screen.
I had been feeling a bit woozy lately, but I had no idea why. I had thought about seeing a doctor at one point, but decided not too, thinking that I'd get over it. The feeling was still there, and all attempts to fix it failed. At this point, I was determined and almost desperate to be cured. I had told Raven, but she couldn't do anything and told me I should get help, just in case.
I faced the TV screen now, too, and cheered Beast Boy on happily. Or, at least convincingly. "Go BB!" I shouted, "You can beat 'em!" Beast Boy, hearing my cheer, swerved past another racers car and used his turbo speed. Turbo Racers Two, my favorite game. I had beaten Cyborg's high score once, but just couldn't get past his new one.
"Oh yeah! Who's the champ!" Beast Boy cried in triumph. "Um…" Starfire pondered, "You are?"
"You betcha!" Beast Boy said twirling around the room, "I finally beat Cy's record" He danced around the coffee table and started singing. "Oh, oh yeah! I'm the man!" He sang. Then a sound of failure filled the room and the lights went out.
"What the!" Beast Boy cried annoyed. "Robin?" Starfire questioned me through the darkness, "What is happening?" I looked outside to see a small drop fall from above, but not enough to turn out the lights.
"Scanner says there's a glitch in the electrical system," Cyborg said turning on a flashlight, "I'll go check it out."
"So will I." I said running to his side.
We walked down the narrow steps to the basement of titan's tower. I shuddered as coldness flowed through my veins as we entered the damp, dark room. Though I had been here many times before, I felt a bit of fear, but tried to push it back.
"Veroom, veroom" I looked around anxiously. "Did you hear that?" I asked Cyborg. "Yeah," he stopped and looked around too. Then a bright, red light turned on and headed towards me. "Um, Cyborg" I panicked. "Run!" Cyborg said heading for the steps.
We headed upstairs and ran into the living room. But to my surprise, instead of telling everyone what we had seen, we just sat down on the couch and laughed. "What do you think that was?" I asked through my continuous laughter. "Don't know" Cyborg replied doing the same.
"I do," We turned around to find Johnny Rancid standing in front of us. "What the!" I said through gritted teeth, "How'd you get in?" I thought for a moment. Could the light in the basement belong to his motor cycle? I asked myself, No, we would've seen something. "Dude, what do you want?" Beast Boy scowled.
"Oh, nothing." Johnny said reluctantly, "Just wanted to visit."
"Yeah, right" Alex said through gritted teeth, "I'm sure that's the case."
"Don't criticize me!" Johnny said walking towards Alex. He towered over her and said "Maybe I should just break your skinny little body in half. Then all my troubles would be over." He smirked "It would be easy enough."
"Get away from her!" Beast Boy said hesitantly. "Really, Johnny," I said, "what do you want?"
He stepped away from her and sighed. "I don't know," He said "I just felt like torturing you." He walked over to me. "In fact," He added, "I was thinking maybe I could end the titans right here and now. But then I thought, who would I annoy then?"
I felt a sudden urge to destroy something, but pushed it out of my head. This is the kind of feeling I had had all day. It was really annoying me, but once, I almost agreed with my desire. "You're right," I said "let's get 'em"
All of the titans' eyes grew wide. I was amazed by what I had said, but for some reason, I was quite satisfied with my answer. Even Johnny looked at me with surprise, but then he smiled evilly. "Alright then," he said, "let's get started." He cracked his knuckles and turned his hands into two fists.
I also smiled and looked at the others. They were all standing against the wall, afraid. Afraid, I said through my head, what a wonderful word. I took out my staff (I really don't know what it's called, so will someone tell me? Thanks) and headed for Starfire like a rampaging elephant.
I was just about to hit her when I snapped out of my trance. What? I looked at my hands in confusion and then at Starfire. She had closed her eyes so she couldn't see what was about to happen. "Stop!" I called to Johnny, who was prepared to punch BB. Johnny stopped and looked at me. "What?" he asked apparently surprised by my sudden change of mood. "Get out of here," I said.
"What!"
"You heard me."
"You can't stop me!" He prepared to punch BB once again. "Oh yes I can!" I said whirling around and hitting Johnny on the head hard with my staff. "Owwwwwww!" he yelled and ran out of the entrance.
I was afraid of the mood the others might be in, so, I avoided them and ran to my room. What just happened? I asked myself, running through everything that had happened. I slammed my door and plopped on the bed. I was too frustrated to sleep and to angry to read, so I decided to think it over again.
"You know it's to late" I looked around, but no one was there. "You're going to do horrible things and you know it." It was that voice again. "What are you talking about!" I yelled wondering if it was just me. "You know what I'm talking about." The voice said cruelly, "You're afraid of yourself, or at least, you will be." "What!" I answered "Who are you?"
"I," The voice said "am your conscience. You're worst nightmare. Your best friend."
"My what?" I was confused. I started banging my head against the wall, trying to make the voice go away.
"That's it," It said again, "end it now. You know you want to." It was all going to fast. The vision, the lies, and the recent events. Sure, the powers were awesome, and after I told Star about it, she was happy for me but it was changing me. I felt like all the good that I was doing was some how bad. Everything I lived for was a lie. Everything I did, I regretted. "It's ridiculous to just ponder away like that." The voice said, it's evil tone flowing through my ears.
"Just end your life here and now. It's simple enough." I couldn't believe this, what I was hearing. My conscience wanted me to kill myself. Something was wrong about this. I knew it. And then, I realized it.
"You're not even here." I said through gritted teeth. "But yet, why are you torturing me? Why are you making me re-live everything I wanted to forget? Everything I didn't want to know? Everything I wish hadn't happened?" I stopped. I was getting angrier by the second. "Why that's simple." The voice concluded, "It's everything you have to know. You can't forget it, you won't." It didn't make any sense. What was happening, I didn't understand, in fact, I wasn't sure if I wanted to.
"Go away!" I cried out through tears. "Go away!" I lay in my bed and closed my eyes and the voice went away.
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