Bad Hair Dreams
"We have to go now" Robin said, his tone was soft but he was giving an order. Starfire looked down at the mangled body that lay on the cold ground, fifteen stories below. "I do not understand. Why did the man do suicide if he was innocent?"Starfire says tears welling up in her green eyes, her hands clasped together at her waist as she stared downward. Usually Starfire's odd way of wording things was found humorous but at this time no one was laughing. Raven listened to the talk of her friends. The man had jumped only when she spoke and told him not to. He seemed afraid of her. If she had said nothing maybe he would not have jumped.
Cyborg looked onward at the dawn "He killed someone…no one could prove he was innocent" he said. Beastboy looked at the ground moving his shoe across the concrete trying not to say something stupid. Robin looked at Starfire. "He was going to do it no matter what" he said his eyes flashing towards Raven as if to reassure her that it was not her fault…she was not reassured. "Beastboy! Go down and check on him, see if he is alive" Robin ordered. "Aww! Do I have to?" Beast boy complained but he was already changing into his pterodactyl form, gliding slowly to the ground. He landed next to the man, as he did he caught a glimpse of Slade's symbol on the man's head than he heard a beeping sound...and the body exploded in front of him. Starfire was by his side in an instant and Robin yelled down from the top of the building "What happened!". "He just…exploded." Beastboy said confused, "and he had one of those glowing thingymadabers that Slade's guys have" he called up to Robin.
Raven landed on the ground silently. "That is why he looked at me before he jumped…that was his mission from Slade." She said sounding as confused as Beastboy. "Lets get some rest. We'll figure out what he wanted in the morning" Robin decided. Beastboy jumped in the air "Pizza!"he said as Cyborg agreed.
Once in bed Raven realized that sleep was not an option. Why had that man looked at her before jumping? Why her? Ever since her father had been defeated, everything Slade did seemed to involve her in some strange way. She stood up and looked in the mirror. What she saw scared her. The reflection was of her with long hair and torn clothes, the night that Slade had delivered his message. The image vanished as fast as it had appeared. She shivered and wrapped her arms around her body; she took off the hood of her cape and screamed.
Robin woke with a start. He had heard a scream. It had sounded like Raven. He ran out into the hall. Cyborg was already there ready to blast through Raven door. It did not take long for Starfire and Beastboy to join them. Robin nodded and Cyborg blasted the door.
They entered Raven's dark room and saw her standing terrified in front of the mirror, her hair was down to her hips. The hood of her cape fell uselessly at her back. She turned clowly away from her mirror with her eyes filled with horror and tears. "My hair.."she started. All the titans moved into action, Starfire grabbed the scissors, Robin took Raven's hand and moved her over towards her bed, Cyborg pressed a button on his arm and his arm soon changed into a waist basket, and Beastboy whistled at softly trying to seem innocent as he snooped around in Raven's room.
"Just leave it be" Raven said in her usual pathetic voice. She looked up at Robin her green eyes shining with tears, "just let it go" she said. She grabbed the scissors from Starfire and set them on her bed. Robin stared at her astounded that she would want to keep her hair that way. "Raven, what happened?" Robin asked worriedly. Starfire looked at her worriedly, "It may be different here, but on my planet hair does not grow that fast" she said in her strange confused tone. Cyborg pressed the button to change his arm back to it normal form, well for a Cyborg that is, then he looked at Raven "what could grow that fast" he asked.
Raven looked at her friends worried faces, suddenly Beastboy knocked a raven vase from her black vanity. Raven put out her power catching the vase. Although her father was gone her powers had changed very little. At first she had believed him when he told her that he took away her powers but he had lied. Her powers were inherited from him at the time of her birth and they stayed with her after her father had left. She looked at Beastboy angrily "You … are in so much trouble" she said. Beastboy smiles and picked up the vase, setting it on the vanity. After that the horrors of that night were forgotten, Raven kept her long hair but could not sleep at night since that incident.
This is a new kind of a story for me and I really hope you like it. Please tell me how I did. I need to know what to improve on.
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