Hey everybody, look I'm updating! Just like I said I would! Aren't promises great…erm.. anywho there's been some confusion in recent reviews and I thought that I might want to try and clear it up!
REVIEW QUESTION EXPLANATION!
First of all the question was how could Slade have shown Raven the future she will create when we already saw the future in "how long is forever?" Well time is always a complicated thing to explain so I will do my best. If I'm wrong here you are welcome to correct me…
Okay so when Starfire went to the future in "How Long is Forever?" she was witnessing the future that would come to pass at that time, and since present events constantly change the future, Raven's destiny had not been an issue in that episode, so when Slade came back and reminded Raven of her destiny that changed the future. So it's kind of a one-thing-can-change-the-future deal. Well, that or either what Slade showed Raven in the episode "Birthmark" wasn't actually the future but rather an illusion Slade created to show her the events she will complete once she accepts her destiny. So yeah, that's what I think happened…I hope that makes sense. If you have any other questions you can review and I'll explain them the best that I can! There's yet another reason to review!
A review note to Chica De Los Ojos Café: Good Job you were the first one to get it! For all you others, yes her friends are her weakness!
Okay now onto chapter 6!
Chapter 6: Turning the Titans
Raven sat bolt upright in her bed. Yet another vision of her father had plagued her dreams and shaken her from the comforting arms of slumber. She looked down at her palms. There she saw her father's branding burned into her. She clenched her fists and stared into the darkness. She hated her birthmarks, they made her feel like a piece of property that forever belonged to her father. Her thoughts shifted from her brandings to her father, Trigon. Just the thought of his name rekindled a fire deep within her. A fire fueled by her utter disgust of him. A fire she seemed to have since the unfortunate day of her birth. "There has to be a way to stop him!" She said aloud to her empty haven.
She repelled her hate for her father, temporarily, and stood herself up. She concentrated and used her powers to turn on her lights and summon a hoard of books to dump themselves in a neat pile next to her. "I will find a way." She said, determination washing away the exhaustion and fatigue.
"Ugh, this is pointless!" She exclaimed, slamming her book shut. In the pinnacle of Raven's frustration the heap of books beside her levitating figure were covered in black and shot up towards the ceiling. They landed, scattering themselves all over her room, spilling dust into the air. Raven mentally slapped herself for letting her emotions seep through her mental barrier. She immediately regained control after she forced them back.
Yet they sprang to the surface again when a light knock sounded from her door. She, again, put a damper on them as she went to see who was knocking. She pulled her hood over her head, not wanting whoever was there to see her tired eyes.
She slid her door open to peek outside and saw it was a tired-looking Beastboy. He attempted to smooth out his sleep-enduced wrinkled clothes and his atrociously messy bed-head. "Are you okay?" He asked, stifling a yawn in the process.
"I'm fine." Raven responded, getting irritated by this oftenly repeated question.
"What was that sound then?" Beastboy asked, craning his neck to see the contents of her room, where he believed the sound originated from.
Raven immediately used herself as a shield and blocked Beastboy from peering into her mysterious domain.
"Well, anyways try to keep it down, will ya? The rest of us actually sleep around here." Beastboy joked, but was shocked when he received an angry glare from Raven.
"Whatever." She muttered and stepped out of her room. The door closed shut behind her and she headed down the hallway.
Beastboy watched her retreating figure anxiously. Little did Raven know, Beastboy had seen her room. Although it was only for a second, he had seen the scattered remains of books littering her floor that he knew could've only been caused by the uncontrollable power that was raven's emotions.
Knowingly unable to fall back asleep, Beastboy followed the goth witch at a close, yet safe, distance. He eyed her as she strode down the hall. She seemed to almost be limping with fatigue. He had noticed this recently, since Slade showed up. Somehow he knew that Slade wasn't the distraction and fear he was witnessing. Raven had always been mysteriously strong, he gave some credit to her powers, but Slade had broken her down in a way that no one else could. Now, only one question lingered in the changeling's head, why was Raven so afraid of him? The question fluttered out of his mind as Raven approached the kitchen and living room.
Beastboy, a smooth operator through and through, waited by the door a few minutes as to not give Raven the notion to question him about following her. As soon as he found a sufficient enough amount of time had passed he walked through the doors to find Raven, herbal tea in hand, gazing at the sunrise.
"I ,ugh, couldn't sleep." Beastboy said, nervously racking his brain for a lie. Raven neither looked nor replied to his fib. "Heh heh." He laughed and toed the ground in Raven's silence. He shrugged it off as usual Raven and ascended toward the newly replaced couch. He gazed at the bemused Titan levitating near the window. Suddenly he felt an uncomfortable feeling. Being the outgoing jester that he was, he was skilled in "entertaining" large talkative groups of people, but the deep, silent, understanding moments he was lacking in expertise. He decided video games were the best way to break the ice. He flipped the switch to "on" and grabbed the game controller to the Game Station as he shattered Raven's blissful silence.
A twitching vein appeared on the agitated Raven's forehead, but she didn't falter from her position of watching the cool, calm waves lapping up against the shore of the island over an exquisite orange and pink sky.
After several games which always ended in Beastboy crashing his jet and losing he set his controller on the couch and walked up to the still silent Raven. "So Raven," he began, "you wanna play a round with me?"
"No." Raven replied simply.
"Come on, all you've been doing lately is reading." He argued, knowing that this fight would end the way it always did, in Raven's triumph.
"NO!" She finalized. She gripped her head. She felt as if an extreme weight had been lifted as her emotions ripped open her mental barrier and escaped her. She turned to Beastboy, her eyes began to glow an evil shade of red. Black tendrils unfurled themselves from under her cloak.
"Raven!" Beastboy exclaimed, scared and shocked at Raven's actions.
In reply Raven let out an angry snarl and the tendrils twisted themselves around Beastboy's figure.
"AH! Raven let me go!" He screamed in terror.
"Leave me alone!" Raven commanded, and with that being said the tentacles squeezing the life out of her companion picked him up and threw him into the wall nearest the door.
As her emotions began to weaken, Raven began to regain control over them. The tendrils waving madly around her disappeared instantly and Raven was left standing in horror at her half conscious friend. Making a split-second decision Raven chose to run, run far away from the mess her emotions made, back to the sanctity of her room, leaving the rest of the Titans to decide her fate. Funny, this seems to be the most popular thing recently.
okay well that's chapter six for you! I hope to have another up real soon! I'm interested in what everyone thinks so can you please review! I'll give you some candy!