Fallen Darkly

K.Blacre

State of Mind

Robin groaned and lifted his head off the ground. To his surprise, it was soft, not hard. Everything around him was white as far as the eye could see. Raven lay not too far from where he was. She looked unconscious, but then again, she could just not want to get up. Robin used his pole to help him rise to his feet and he walked to where Raven was. He bent down and gently shook her shoulder. She groaned but didn't show any other sign of being awake.

"Raven." He said softly. "Raven, are you okay?" Her eyes fluttered open and she looked up at him.

"I...I think so." She sat up and looked around. "I don't recognize any of this."

"Really?" She looked into his face, her eyes missing something they held before but for the life of him, Robin couldn't place what it was. "I guess falling off that bridge was a really bad idea." Raven let out a long breath and slowly stood to her feet.

"Well, we'd better get going." Raven said as she began to walk away from him.

"Where, Raven?" She turned around and looked at him. "Where are we going to go? I'm still trying to figure out how we got here!"

"I don't know where to go but if we don't try something, we might be stuck in here forever."

"Raven, this is your mind. You have the most control of anyone here. Why can't you use that to get us out?"

"Because, there are some parts of my mind that even I don't know. Now, if we're done talking about this, can we go?" Sighing in defeat, Robin followed Raven, who had turned back around and continued walking.

Szephyn sat on the small island, his head in his hands. Beast Boy held Starfire close to him and Cyborg stood looking around, all four hoping that Robin and Raven would come back. Tears fell down Seph's cheeks as he sat. Cyborg turned his head and saw Khystarah appear. She walked toward him and smiled softly.

"Hey. Raven and Robin are gone." He said. She didn't seem affected by it at all.

"Both of them? Only Raven was supposed to have left."

"Huh?" Cyborg's face was suddenly drawn into a mask of confusion. "Only Raven?" Khystarah looked down at her right hand as it elongated and sharpened. She looked back up at Cyborg, her eyes purely red. Smiling evilly, she shoved her hand through Cyborg's middle and walked away as he fell to the ground. BB and Star quickly looked up.

"Cyborg!" Starfire cried out. She looked at Khystarah. "You are not a very kind person." Starfire hissed. Her hand glowed green as she collected her starbolts and prepared to throw it. Khystarah smiled again and flicked her wrist. Star suddenly passed out and fell to the ground.

"NO!" Beast Boy screamed. He ran toward Khystarah and changed into a rhyno.

"Insignificant pest." She said just above a whisper. She spun around creating a whirl wind until she felt a sword run through her back and out through her stomach. Szephyn pushed it in deeper so the hilt dug into her flesh. His eyes had become pure white.

"Backstabbing bitch." Seph snapped. He jerked on the hilt and shifted the blade so the sides were verticle to each other. Purple blood oozed from the gap in her and her body fell limp over the blade. Beast Boy looked up at Seph, his eyes wide. Seph braced his hand on the woman's back and pushed her off the blade. Her body fell limply to the ground. Beast Boy ran to Star and patted her cheek softly. She slowly came out of her trance, her eyes looking up to meet BB's. Seph walked to Cy and bent down over him.

"Oh no." Starfire whispered. Seph closed his eyes and opened his nerve endings, every one of them. His hands were spread out just over Cyborg's middle where the hole was. Seph chanted something in a different language and, slowly, the hole in Cyborg came together. After a few minutes, the hole was completely filled. Cyborg's eye opened and his red eye flickered on. He sat up and looked at Szephyn.

"How many powers do you have, man?" Cyborg asked. Seph only smiled.

"Well, we've still got a problem." Beast Boy took a breath and looked at each of them in turn. "We're still stuck in Rae's mind."

The two of them had been walking for forever, or so it seemed. They hadn't stopped for breaks but continued, hoping to find a way out before something happened. Robin was starting to feel the affects of their walk in his legs and chest.

"Raven, we need to take a quick break." She stopped and turned around to look at him. "We've been walking for hours and from the looks of it, we haven't gotten anywhere."

"Robin, we can't give up that we might make it out of here. Not yet."

"I'm not doubting it, just saying that I need a minute or two to catch my breath." He plopped down on the soft ground beneath him and took several deep breaths, letting each one out slowly. He stood up and stretched quickly.

"Can we continue?" He nodded. "Robin."

"What?"

"Look at your hand." He held up his hand and looked at it. Half his arm was gone. He looked at his legs to discove the same thing.

"Raven!" Before her very eyes, he suddenly disappeared. She stopped breathing for a moment and was shoved back by an invisible force. When she stood up, she was completely alone.

"Now that I have you to myself." A voice said. Raven turned around to see a girl in a red cloak. Her hair was long and white. She slowly lifted her head to reveal red eyes and ashen skin. An evil smile played on her lips.

"It's me." Raven whispered.

Author's Note: I'M BACK! Sorry it took so long for me to update. I just got out of the mood for a while but I'm back and ready to continue where we left off! A whole bunch of new surprises lined up one after the other for you guys (mostly to make up for waiting so long to update) so prepare yourselves.