The air was warm and dreamy.
'Where Am I?'
The skies were a warm mix of pink and red and the clouds were high. Somehow, stars shown brightly through the pink mist, which of course, may seem impossible in any normal world (even hers), but this place wasn't normal. The moon was high, shining amongst the stars, penetrating the cloudy clouds.
The grass grew unusually tall here, lipstick red cherry blossom leaves blew along with the wind and fell from their respective branches, some dipping into the flowing river that swam by Raven and some just flew anonymously by, aiming for nothing at all.
'This place… is not of Earth…' Raven thought to her, sitting down onto the ground and leaning against a large, protruding rock, 'Maybe its all in my head…'
"Lucky art thou, for the scopes of thy one true love, thy heart's desire, scopes his eyes upon thee…"
"…Happiness?"
"Speak cleanly, for thou lie in the eyes of Love! Thy one and only…" the pink-cloaked Raven stared down, an undying, yet, strange sparkle filling her eyes, "Venus' moons! Thou hath become stricken with Love! Cupid's arrow hath stuck in thou Heart!"
"What do you mean?" the "real" Raven inquired, smirking, "I don't do love…"
Love danced around her, tossing pink rosary about, "Oh, but thou hast! Thy words beseech and confuse one, for thou hath begged for Love all one's life!"
Raven glared.
A strong gust of wind blew by, parting and twisting both Raven's hair.
"Thy eyes say nothing of the sort, for they do nothing but deceive thee!" Love smiled upon Raven,
Love looks not with the eyes,
But with the Mind;
And therefore is winged,
Cupid painted blind;
Nor hath Love's mind of any
Judgment Taste;
Wings, and no eyes, figure
Unheedy Haste;
And therefore is Love said to
Be a Child;
Because in choice he is oft
Beguiled.
Raven stood still in thought, recognizing the words, "…A Midsummer Night's Dream…"
"Hehe, Exactly!" Love's tone of voice seemed to change at that instant. Happiness overtook and stood in her place. "Don't be so blind!"
"What do you mean?"
Happiness glanced this way and that, "…Uh…."
Raven raised a brow.
"Um... buh bye!"
"Wakey wakey, tofu eggs and bacey!"
Raven woke up startled at the sudden intrusion, "Herbal-"
"Oh! And here's some tea!" Beast Boy smiled wide, placing the cup on the tray, along with the rest of the food. "How did you sleep tonight?"
"You know very well…"
Beast Boy frowned, staring down to the ground, "I didn't forget about that, last night was pretty scary! But, I mean…"
"Friend Raven! You have awakened!" Starfire cried out, joyously. "We have been worried of you for all this time, and I am happy that you are ok!"
Raven sighed.
"Beast Boy! What have I told you about making this tofu crap!" Cyborg hollered, angrily, "You know I cant eat this!" he began to rub his head out of frustration.
"Dude! I already told you, I've already been all of those animals! It would be like… y'know… cow… uh…"
"Cannibalism…" Raven interrupted, nonchalantly… "the act of eating the flesh of the same type of species"
"Exactly!"
"Haven't we been through this already?" Raven stated, picking up a book.
"Well… I was getting to that! If it wasn't for tin man here, always whining and complaining! Messing everything up!"
Cyborg glared, "Yeah, well, if you weren't so SELFISH and would actually care about the FACT that not every single one of us is a vegetarian…"
"Yeah, well…" the Changeling began to shift, "you should!"
Cyborg growled.
Robin sighed.
Starfire, having just walked in, tried to cool down the arguing.
Raven was gone.
Annoyed with all of the loud bickering and nonsense, she felt the uncontrollable urge to get angry. Really angry, but she held back, still fearing the nightmares of yesternight. She wanted to yell, as usual, for the to stop. Which usually worked, but this was a different type of frustration. A different level of anger. It seemed to verge onto a rage. A burning rage, a fiery rage. An undying rage, which was never tapped into, one which was just about to explode. The final straw was picked. The dam was breaking much to soon.
She had to prevent it, but she knew it was impossible. She had to get away, she had to escape! Escape! Escape! Escape was the only thing she could do, escape from the Tower!
These emotions could kill, destroy, and maim, she had no choice.
So she flew. She flew far away, as fast as possible, before she was to explode in an undying rage.
She flew across the city, across lakes and finally, into the desert wasteland (the same one In which Terra ran through months before). She landed, disgracefully, atop one of the many mecas and screamed.
Rocks blew apart in a blacky mist. Swirls of dust devils formed around her, growing rapidly stronger and larger as the seconds went by, until pretty soon, she was surrounded completely, engulfed by the dust. She wasn't affected at all, but she was soon covered completely by the mist, disappearing into the dust.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos, Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she continuously chanted to herself, trying to take hold of her emotion before things went too far.
It just made things worse, blurring her vision greatly, she began to see things. Strange things. Terrifying things. Images in the swirling sand began to form around her, images of fire, death and letters of unknown meaning. An omen perhaps? A sign of things to come?
She could've sworn she saw the rest of the Titans walk to her, before collapsing onto the ground, unconscious.
She slept for many hours.
The moon shone above her.
The night sky enshrouded her with its dark, murky mists.
The stars brightly shone above her.
All was quiet.
Raven lay, curled into a little ball, afraid of what she could not control.
Afraid of things that might come.
Afraid of all things to come.
