Dreaming
As soon as I fell asleep, I felt like I was plummeting down. I landed with a hard thud on the ground, flat on my stomach. I began gasping for the breath that had been knocked out of me on the ground. I heard a soft chuckle coming from far away. I struggled to my feet and began to frantically look around, searching for the source of the sound.
I was sure it was coming from in front of me, and I rushed forward. It just got darker and darker, until I hit what seemed to be a brick wall. I heard nothing, so I stood up. I turned, and an inch away from my face was Brother Blood. "I may not be able to brain wash you, but I can haunt you in your dreams…" he whispered in my ear. I tried to use my powers to do something, but nothing happened.
"This may be your dream, but I have the control. I simply wanted to tell you something…" I seemed to be suffocating, losing more and more air by the second. "What the hell do you want?" I said with all the breath I had, and gasped. "Why, I want to make you miserable. There is no way I'm letting another student go, especially one I've done so much for," said Brother Blood, glaring at me.
"You have… no choice… I've already… gone," I said. I was constantly gasping for breath in between sentences. "Hard to breath, isn't it? Before you die in here, I think I should give you the message… Cyborg. I know he's the person you care most about in the world, and if you do not come with me, I swear I'll rip his systems apart from the inside out," he said maliciously. "There's… no… way… you can… do that… He has security… locks, passwords. So many… even he… doesn't… remember… them all!" I said.
"I didn't mean personally. This is a virus. I can wait forever, sneak into his room, switch this with something he uses daily—like his re-charger—and then his system crashes. He can't live like that. Within five minutes, he would die without being able to tell anyone or cry for help. He'd be gone… unless I restore him with the solution. Once he dies, you'll find me and try to get me to fix him. But the only way I'll ever tell you is if you agree to join me again…" he said darkly. "This is the plan. Join me now and leave Cyborg out of this, or you can let him suffer and join me anyways. I'll see you next time you go to sleep," he said just as I was running out of breath. He faded into the darkness...
My eyes opened slowly, and I found that my head had been under a pillow. I laughed lightly, like it was a regular dream… but I knew it wasn't. It was a message that he delivered to me… I could tell by the way he talked and what he talked about. He was completely serious, unlike my normal dreams where he'd be dressed up as a clown dancing with a person who had Gizmo's head and Mammoth's body.
"Why does he want to torture me so?" I asked rhetorically. "And who would that be?" asked a monotone voice that belonged to none other than Raven. "Raven? What… what are you doing here?" I asked. "I was about to wake you up for dinner, Cyborg made ribs… But that's not the point. Jinx, who's torturing you? I won't leave you alone until I find out, and unless you tell me, I'm telling Robin… No, I'm telling Cyborg," she said, realizing Cyborg would have more of an impact.
"Just a dream, it probably meant nothing," I said, flopping down and staring at the ceiling. I never could lie to a friend with direct eye contact… I just found that out three months ago when I was trying to tell BB that Cyborg was in a different room than where he was during Extreme Stank Ball. I had to look up like I was trying to remember where Cyborg had hidden to tell him.
"Jinx, I can tell when something means anything or not. What was the dream?" she asked in a you-have-no-choice-but-to-listen-to-me tone. "You won't tell anyone else?" I asked, raising an eyebrow, looking at her straight in the eyes. "Only if it is personal, but if it is for the good of someone else or you I have to," she admitted. Man, Raven's way too smart…I thought to myself, looking down.
I explained the dream to her, almost like I was ranting. Raven simply nodded through the course of it all, and when I was finished, she hung her head down low. "It is a spell, called Dream Messenger. The person it is being cast upon becomes suddenly tired, and goes to sleep. They have a dream with the caster and themselves in it. Many times the person gets close to death, like you nearly suffocating underneath that pillow. The caster talks to them, and the longer they speak, the more deadly it becomes. You can't break out of the dream unless you can barricade your mind properly or the caster decides to end the dream," said Raven.
"How do you know about this spell?" I asked curiously. "I was reading a book. In the book, it said that in older times someone who was betrothed to someone she hated would use the spell to talk to the one she or he loved. It was really romantic." I gasped, and jumped back. "But that's nothing like this case, I would hope…" she said with a small laugh in her voice. I sighed and said, "That's romantic of them, but he threatened Cyborg." "Yes, we should tell Robin or at the least Cyborg…" she said. "Yeah, I know…" I said staring down to the ground.
Raven sighed and said, "We'd better get down there before Cyborg eats all the meat and all we're left with is Beast Boy's tofu junk." "Yeah, like last time… You'd think he'd save something for his girlfriend, but no…" I said rolling my eyes. "Trust me, when it comes to meat, no one gets special treatment. However I'm sure Beast Boy would be willing to share with… everyone," Raven said, recalling the millions of times Beast Boy tried to get everyone to eat tofu or soy milk.
"Now if only they could switch when it comes to foods… Or the type of food they eat," I said laughing. "No, I can under Beast Boy's point of view… It would be kind of like cannibalism." "Yeah, but I wish the fake stuff tasted better," I said laughing. "Then even I might become a vegetarian!" I continued. "According to him, that's what steak sauce and BBQ is for," she said.
"You know a lot about Beast Boy," I said, curious as to how she could know so much. "I do… Also, he's the one who tries the hardest to understand me. It's kind of an unspoken agreement between each other… We both understand each other even though we are completely different." "I think you are also the one who tries the hardest to understand him. The rest of us can understand him easily… But you try to find something deeper than we know," I said. Could she possibly like BB? No… Raven isn't the type to fall in love, especially not with BB.
She was silent after that. I couldn't tell if she was embarrassed or not, because she put her hood up. "Come on, let's head to the kitchen," she said simply. There's something there… Maybe she does like him but doesn't want to admit it out loud because she's embarrassed? No, Raven doesn't get embarrassed… does she? Raven may be the Titan who seems easiest to understand, but then again…She doesn't open up as well as most of us, now does she? Should I ask her all of these things? No they are way too personal questions, she probably wouldn't answer them. She probably wouldn't even trust Starfire with the answers to these questions. If she trusts anyone with the answers it'll probably be Robin, they have a bond. Oh, what am I kidding? Raven is the type of person to keep stuff inside of her, no matter how strong a bond is, right?
I followed her into the kitchen, and Cyborg and Robin were yelling about something. "I get the last ribs!" yelled Cyborg. "You've had the most, I should get them!" Robin yelled. "I made them, and plus, I'm bigger than you! So I should get them!" I walked up to them as they began pulling the plate with the last ribs on it towards themselves. I grabbed a napkin and grabbed the ribs off of the plate. "I haven't had any, so I think I've settled this," I said with a smirk. Robin and Cyborg both fell over, since they both wanted the ribs a lot and had probably been fighting for a long time over them (a fight neither one won).
I sat down and set the ribs on a plate. I eyed the mashed potatoes in the middle of the table and looked around. No one else was eating them besides Beast Boy. "Um, what's the deal with the potatoes?" I asked. "I made them myself using non-dairy butter, soy milk, and potatoes," said Beast Boy. He looked over at me and realized no one else was eating them. He sighed and said, "Pleeeease try them! I don't want to be the only one to eat them when I tried so hard to make it!" He was now on the floor, looking up at me like I was his only hope. I had no choice. I had to go in and eat the vegetarian mashed potatoes.
I put only a scoop of them on. Beast Boy smiled and jumped up. He watched me pick up my spoon and unsurely take a bite of them. I was expecting a horrible taste, but… "Beast Boy! These are awesome!" I exclaimed before put some more on my plate and eating them heartily. Cyborg and Robin who had just recovered from the first surprise of me taking their ribs fell again… No, wait. They fainted.
They landed on top of each other. Starfire walked into the room and saw that Robin had landed on Cyborg in an… inappropriate manner. She herself fainted but landed on the counter. "Dude, we have to take pictures!" yelled Beast Boy as he grabbed a camera that was lying on the counter just beside Starfire's head. "Beast Boy, that's my boyfriend. You know that you can't do that!" I said. He looked disappointed until I said, "Without giving me on of the copies!" He squealed in an un-manly manner, and took about ten pictures of them. I thought I heard him mutter 'blackmail' but I wasn't exactly sure.
Starfire woke before Robin and Cyborg. She looked at them curiously and said, "What exactly has happened?" "Well, they fainted because Jinx said my cooking was good…" started Beast Boy. He didn't get a chance to finish because Starfire fainted once again. I looked up at Raven and Beast Boy and asked, "So, you guys want to watch a movie?" "Sure!" they said (Raven less enthusiastically than Beast Boy).
Okay, yeah. The last part wasn't… necessary. But I thought the story could use some random comedy, and I couldn't pass up the chance to continue with the ribs thing once I was typing it. If I didn't continue it though, the chapter would have ended at Robin and Cyborg falling over. Lol, R&R!