Zoicytes-Shadow: Pop ups are evil. KILL 'EM ALL I SAY! But yeah… You like arrested development? ROCK ON! Ok sorry that's like one of the best shows ever, especially because it doesn't have a laugh track. Oh good it seems like up updating fast… now I have to get longer chapters. And this one will be, if I can help it. Awh your stories are good, don't worry about how fast you update! It's the point of the chapter that counts… ok that didn't come out like I wanted it to but whatever. Spiders rule the world… and kill Britney? YES! BEST IDEA EVER! That Lilith, yeah she does. But she's a little off from what I wanted her to be, but whatever. She'll just be Lilith her own original and slightly insecure character. Never played Ico, I'll try it out some time. You wouldn't? Good. I mean oh okay… Hehehe what's wrong with being evil?
Angel Vanilla: Great! I'll try to update faster with longer chapters!
Xlife: Sigh it was… I wish I could have made it longer but it would have just stretched on and on with nothing. But I'm unhappy with the shortness factor. People hogged your computer? I'm gonna beat 'em down! Just kidding… hah hah… okay so it wasn't funny. Oh yes… yes, yes it is perfect ((the idea)). I shall update! Right… around… soon.
AngeloftheSecondHell: So I should start asking questions at the end of every chapter? Hah that would suck for you guys, because they might be really stupid and random like what's your favorite color… etc… Gaaha! Yes! You are right… very, very right. That's exactly what matters, but people fear darkness, they always mistake it for evil, which is not the case. Light is just as bad as dark. Just like what you were talking about, Lucifer wanting us to be free. I actually have to agree with that. Rambling is fun, as long as it isn't 2500 pages worth. Feel free to ramble, I like to read your ramble.
Samael Archon: You are a very interesting person. AND YOU CALLED ME A PREP. I AM GOING TO KILL YOU THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU! Anyways…
Snorfgarg, Snorfgarg, SNORFGARG! Now I've scared you into jumping out of a window. Sweet. Fine, be against worshipping dead drug addicts. Your loss. HAH.
I try, I try. Really I do, I didn't mean for that one to end so quickly, it just did. Ah well… This one won't, if I can help it. What will happen to the missing Silkie II? Maybe we shall read to FIND OUT YOU LAZY BUM! Thinking I would tell you… HAH. Lilith is there solely to bring in allies, like I have told you. She won't make much sense until she's erm… I can't tell you that much. BB's movie nights are… I don't' even know how to describe them… :shudders:
I have nothing better to say but READ ON!
Begin:
Raven could vaguely remember slipping out of meditation and into sleep. It was however, six A.M. time for her to get up. Time to see what the day would bring her. If anything. She didn't expect Lilith to be back for awhile, maybe a few days. Meanwhile Raven knew she would have to begin training Beast Boy. It would take more meditation to accomplish this, without making the T-Tower burst into flames. Again, Raven chanted…
Robin sat in his room. Six A.M. It was late for him. An hour late. Why had he slept so late? He hadn't meant to… Robin didn't know what to do with himself now. He needed Cyborg for help on the weapons, but didn't know how much to tell his team members.
Suddenly the alarm went off, awaking all of the Titans.
"Again?" Raven muttered to herself. Who would do anything at six in the morning?
The Titans rushed from the tower, Raven and Starfire flying, Robin on his motercycle, Cyborg and Beast Boy in Cyborg's "baby", or the T-Car as commonly known.
Raven hovered in front of the town bank, to find Jinyx all alone preparing to rob the place. "Idiot." Raven muttered, and began to say her mantra.
"Don't make that move!" Robin said before Raven could finish her chant. He always had to put in a one-liner. Raven sighed, why did he do that?
Beast Boy changed into a gorilla, ready to fight, Cyborg stood in his fighting stance, a scowl on his tired face.
Jinyx tried to fire her pink bolts at Raven, who dodged the shot easily. This was so pathetic it was annoying.
Again, before Raven could do anything Robin rushed forward and pulled Jinyx's arms behind her back, just as the police showed up
"Whatever." Raven said and turned away, ready to go home. Robin hauled Jinyx over to a police
"I'LL GET YOU TITANS!"
It was all just one move to suck up to Brother Blood. "I'm sure you will." Raven said sarcastically. "We fear you Jinyx. Look, I'm shaking."
"Ok Raven, I think that's enough sarcasm." Robin said. Suddenly he froze. "Where is Starfire?"
"She was flying just behind me a moment ago." Raven said.
"Back to the tower, we're doing searches for her."
"But I need to go back to sleep! I need my beauty sleep!" Beast Boy screeched.
"Suck it up." Raven said, flying above Robin, as Beast Boy and Cyborg groggily climbed into the T-Car.
"Where could she have gone?" Robin asked Raven, they were the first two to arrive at the tower.
"I know you're in love with her, but calm down. She'll turn up." Raven said in her monotone.
"Raven, I don't love her! I turned her down less than a week ago. No… someone else has got my heart." Robin was shocked at himself. Luckily Raven didn't press him with questions, he didn't know how he would answer. He was hit with it then, he was falling for Raven, Who he knew, would never even look at him. He pushed the thoughts from his mind. He would not, could not, fall for Raven.
"We need to find her." Was all Raven said. "She is the only pure one on this team. I need to train Beast Boy today too, or at least start. Maybe I will tell him how to change, I don't have the patience to teach him." Raven said.
"Yeah, I don't think anyone does. But where could Starfire be?"
"Hello Titans. I have your precious star, I suggest you don't come after her, she'll be just fine with me. I hope you are going to be okay without her, Titans, because I show no mercy. And Raven, I hope you haven't forgotten your wonderful birthday."
Raven shuddered. How could she forget? "I have to go to my room." She said as Beast Boy and Cyborg came in, yelling loudly at eachother about breakfast. Robin began to tell them about Starfire.
Raven sat in her bathroom, waiting for her bath to fill up all the way. She was exausted, and needed a bath. It would calm her, and hopefully help her forget what Slade had said, a little.
Remembering the prophecy? Raven's reflection hissed at her. Its hollow eyes, the same color as Raven's, only… empty, glaring at her. Shreds of clothing clung to its body. The reflection had the pale skin of Raven, and the purple hair, the same charka on her head. She was Raven just… empty.
"I am not a part of YOU!" Raven said, climbing into the bathtub. Just wanting to forget… to feel release.
Oh but you are every part of me, as I am every part of you!
"Lies. You always lie… to trick me. I will not start the prophecy. I will die first."
You cannot die! Your father will send you back. You will start the prophecy.
"Never." Raven dunked her head below the water.
I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clock screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As they're falling tell a story
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Raven felt safe underwater, she pulled herself back up and let herself breathe, trying to ignore the reflection screaming at her. She would, not, ever start the prophecy. Nothing could make her. She would fight Trigon to the last drop of her blood.
Don't say I'm out of touch
With this rampant chaos- your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare I built my own world to escape
Everything was so chaotic for her, Lilith, Starfire missing, training Beast Boy, Slade's constant reminders of the prophecy, and her reflection. It was all so much… Too much for anyone to handle.
Raven managed to shut out her reflection words, 'You will die damned child, you will die damned child,' and concentraited on her own world. There would be nothing, empty, peaceful, warm. The warmth Raven had always longed for, but never had been able to find. Her father had taken that away from her. He had taken everything away from her. She could never love, she would never be able to feel. She had nothing. Raven sighed, she couldn't let these selfish thoughts get in her way. Her team cared, she knew that. She had found friends in unlikely places, but she had friends.
Even when they made mistakes. Raven thought about Robin, knowing he didn't mean what he had said. It was the air… it was the demons… it was not him. Raven smiled, almost. He didn't hate her. He was her friend. Robin, out of all of the Titans was the one Raven trusted the most. They had so much in common, and the bond the shared only strengthened their friendship.
In her imaginary world they would all be there. All of the Titans.
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Raven had hidden herself so well from the Titans, even if they were her friends she couldn't risk opening up to them, she could hurt them. Though they didn't understand, Raven did everything to protect her friends. Robin had understood this, the rest, she knew would not.
Raven stepped out of her bathtub and dried herself off with a crimson red towel.
In her world, things would be perfect. Nothing higher, nothing lower, everything even. She would… feel.
Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot cease for the fear of silent nights
Oh how I long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light
There would be no silence. She would hear things, she would feel things, and there would be no Trigon! Freedom would be so sweet, if only Raven could taste it… if only if only.
Robin sat within his room, staring at his walls, all of which were plastered in newspaper articles on villains they had defeated or were after. Frowning, Robin glared at the picture of Slade. "He took Starfire! God knows what that madman will do to her!" If they lost Starfire Robin didn't know what he would do. She was so naïve it would be easy to take advantage of her. Slade knew this, he had no doubt about that. Starfire could be in a lot of trouble. They had to help her, they couldn't afford to lose her. Not now, not ever. Raven was right, they would need her in the future, purity was rare.
Beast Boy glared at his wall. Starfire was with Slade? What if Slade… no… She would be fine. She had to. He would never get to ask her if… Unimportant Beast Boy! Starfire would never look at you like that, just look what happened to Terra! Beast Boy scolded himself, he had destroyed Terra, he blamed himself for her leaving.
But Terra isn't important right now. Starfire is! Who will laugh at my jokes? She is the only one who sees my amazing humor! How could Slade just take Starfire from him? How could he be so cruel? How did Slade know how important Starfire was to the Titans? How did Slade capture Starfire?
All of the Titans wondered those questions, even Cyborg. It made no sense. While the others moped in their rooms, Cyborg did search after search for Starfire, with no avail. Slade was clever, but they would find Starfire.
Raven sat up, she sensed something crawl around somewhere in her room. It's nothing… it's nothing… it's- Raven tensed. She swore she saw Silkie crawl across her floor. Great, Starfire was missing and now Silkie was on the loose. Raven wondered if her day could get any worse. And to top everything off, it was only 10:00 AM. The darkness in her room seemed to press in on her, choking her. Raven was internally screaming, she knew she would have to admit to herself, she was scared. What Silkie was capable of scared her. The bug drew demons, in Raven's room, this was not safe. With Raven's reflection, this could create a battle the Titans weren't ready to face, especially with Starfire missing. Raven took a deep breath and stood up. Using her powers she felt around for the bug, trying to sense it.
The bug crawled past her feet, it's horrid smell leaking out of it's pores.
"AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!" Raven cried, suspending the bug in mid-air with her powers.
Fate had decided the bug would not be dying that night, Robin knocked on Raven's door, startling her and making her drop the bug.
Raven stalked over to her door and opened it for Robin, who looked very nervous at the moment.
"Raven I thought I heard you yell something, is everything okay in here?" Robin asked through the crack in Raven's door.
"No." Raven said, she wasn't going to try to lie to Robin, she knew it wouldn't work. She decided to invite Robin, in to tell him about the bugs.
"What happened? What's going on?"
"Remember Silkie II? The one thing you said you never wanted to see again?"
"Yes, why?"
"The bug is evil. It attracts demons to our world, sometimes from different dimensions. I'm not really sure how it works, I don't know if anyone is."
"I thought you "saw a bug" and decided to drop the ceiling on it?"
"It was more than one bug. The entire guest bedroom was crawling with the bugs. Starfire's berries made Silkie reproduce for some reason. Don't take that the wrong way Robin, this bug had a different way of making offspring."
"I wasn't. I didn't think it would."
"Hmm… it seems you aren't as perverted as Beast Boy. But back to the point, These bugs could be a danger to use, as a team we are not ready to fight them."
Suddenly Raven's CD player started playing Tourniquet by Evanescence. Raven shuddered internally, the song bringing back memories from where her reflection tried to kill her. It had been so recent, to Raven it seemed ancient. Time had crawled by so slowly for her, though so much had happened.
I tried to kill the pain
But only brought more
So much more
I lay dying,
And I'm pouring
Crimson regret, and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and scre-
Raven hit the off button with her powers, not wanting to hear anymore. She didn't want Robin to hear anymore, afraid it would remind him of her attempted suicide.
"What are we going to do about the bug?" Robin asked, after a moment of silence.
"I don't-"
CRASH!
Raven's window was broken open by Silkie, who climbed out, away from the tower.
"Oh Azarath… oh gods… no!" Raven said.
"We have to catch it!"
"How Robin? That bug is getting more powerful, they can be strong."
"Stronger than the titans?"
"Smaller, agile, good defense. It would gross Beast Boy out. There is a reason he never changes into bugs, save flies."
"I suppose that would explain things…" Robin mused to himself.
"We have to kill it. Before it develops an almost unbreakable shell."
"We have to find it."
"That will be easy enough." Raven walked over to her now broken, and open window. She looked down and saw the tail end of the bug. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." Raven said in an almost bored way, as she dragged the bug back up into her room.
"In my closet… there is a sword, it is in the chest, the unlocked one. Robin I'm trusting you not to go too deep, would you get the sword?" Raven asked.
"Right." Robin said, for the first time obeying a command, rather than giving one. Robin opened the brown chest, and pulled out a golden handled sword, a perfect straight and sharp edge, crafted perfectly. Robin was sure it had been made on Azarath, only such beauty could be created on a foreign planet. Carefully he handed the sword to Raven, who took it with one hand.
"Hold the bug down." Raven said. Robin, again, found himself listening. "Don't move Robin, no matter what do not move."
Robin readied himself, he held the bug by the head and by the tail, trying to ignore its foul odor.
Raven stood over the bug, with the sword in hand. She struck the sword down, digging into the bugs back, twisting around, pushing into its innards, watching it's six eyes go wide with pain as she shocked every nerve in it's body with an intense scream of shock.
Blood squirted out of the wound. Slowly the bug faded to nothing, dead, finally. Raven had almost been afraid they wouldn't be able to kill it, but they had managed.
In her bathroom, while Raven cleaned off the sword and Robin held it, Robin asked about Starfire.
"What are we going to do? Slade took her! And with her being pure, like you said, we need her."
"Don't blame yourself Robin." Raven said, washing some of the blood off of the sword. "You didn't do anything. This was all Slade."
"Slade! He is always behind something! ALWAYS!"
"Robin, calm down. You cannot obsess over what you cannot fix. This is how things work. You have to calm down. As a team we will find Slade and take care of this. You cannot go after him again. I don't care what the urge is, you just cannot. Fight whatever overcomes you."
"Raven, I try. I really do. I want to be a good team leader, but I also want to defeat Slade. This choice tears me, doing it on my own, or letting you guys come. If you come I endanger you. If I live and one of you don't, I don't know how I would cope, because it would be my fault."
"It would be our own fault."
"No! As the leader I have to do this, I have to take control and take fault."
"You don't take fault when someone breaks something, like a dish."
"That's different!"
"Lighten up Robin."
"Look whose talking!"
"Alright fine, so neither of us really do the whole light and easy thing, but we aren't that tense."
Robin was listening to Raven very closely. We have so much in common… I want to know so much more of you! Robin realized he didn't mean that in a friendly way at all, and realized what would happen if they kept on this topic for much longer.
"Raven, that's beside the point."
"I'm getting to the point. Now, lighten up, don't blame yourself for this Robin. It isn't your fault."
Raven put the sword in her chest, and now that Robin knew where it was, locked it. Not because she didn't trust Robin, she didn't trust someone taking advantage of Robin.
"I need to go train." Robin muttered, Raven had been steering back to a conversastion he wanted to avoid, things they had in common. They had a lot in common, a love of vampire books, scary movies, a hatred of the mall, tense… Robin tried not to think of Raven. He refused to fall for her. He refused to fall for anyone, fearing he would endanger them.
Robin let himself into the training room and began to work, lifting weights, running on a treadmill, his punching bag, sit-ups, push-ups, crunches, and any stretch you could name. This was his way of relaxing.
Raven sat alone again. She had opened up to Robin. Why should he care about me anyways? I'm just some useless freak. No. I'm sounding like my reflection now… haunting me… always… haunting. Meditate Raven. Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos. Raven thought to herself, slipping into her mantra, her way of entering a quiet peace, feeling comfortable with herself. Nothing could harm her here.
Starfire sat alone, in a cold room, terrified. Her ankle was cuffed to the wall, holding onto the hard stone with a chain. She was surrounded by darkness, a dank smell settling around her. Slade had taken her here, while she had been flying. Starfire had tried to scream, but Slade had his hand over her mouth. He had put her to sleep, and she had awoken here.
"What am I going to do?" Starfire asked herself, her green eyes had tears and fear swirling around in them. She did not know if the Titans would come, and she knew she couldn't get out on her own. Something in the air prevented Starfire from using her powers, leaving the Tamaranian weak and defenseless.
Why her? Why did Slade chose her? Starfire shook the questions from her mind, at least she knew none of her friends were hurt. There, a plus. If it had been Raven, or Robin, or Beast Boy, or Cyborg, Starfire didn't know what she would have done. The thought of having one of her friends hurt filled her with sorrow.
She had to get out. She was frightened of what Slade could do to her, earlier she had sworn she heard screaming. Starfire curled up into a ball and hid within herself. No one could touch her there. Only her happy thoughts remained with her, promising her safety… promises could be broken.
End.
Well… that was a bit shorter than I intended, but I didn't have much else I could really put in this chapter. So yeah… I hope you like it.
Oh, and before I forget, my updates will begin to take longer, I made an account of FictionPress, Inevidable Mistakes, so I'll be writing there too, when the thing lets me.
I had a thought, isn't Jesus considered an "angel?" if he is, wouldn't he have been fallen? So wouldn't he be more of the devil? Or am I crazy? Whatever though… I hope you like it, give me ideas for the next chapter, I'm getting kind of stuck! Please review!
Oh dear, I've forgotten my disclaimer for many of the past chapters, ever so sorry. Well, obviously I don't own Teen Titans. If I did Starfire and Robin would not flirt, and Robin and Raven would be together, and the prophecy would be out. I don't own any Evanescence or Green Day songs I have used in this fic. I don't own anything but the plot. SO DON'T TAKE MY PLOT! If you call it a plot...