Okay...This was a dream I had,except the dream I had included me,my friend and my bro instead of the teen titans.And an innocent baby intead of Starfire and Robin.But I left the wardrobe in.Don't know why,but I did.
What It Takes For Love To Be True
Raven sat in the common room,reading her latest book.
It was 11:30,but no one had gone to bed yet.No one was going to.Because every ten years,on this day,a storm would come.
Newscasters,meteorologists,and scientists all tried to explain the phenomonen,but none could even begin to guess.But everytime it came,it left massive destruction in its wake.
So none of them wanted to go to sleep.Cyborg was running around like a headless chicken,sealing up the windows and screaming that an storm of that size was going to fry his circuits.And his 'baby's' circuits.He seemed more worried about the latter.Raven still found it annoying.
Beast Boy was running around too,except he was a chicken.A particularly loud chicken.A vein popped in her head.Sometimes she could almost stand Beast Boy,but now was not one of those times.Without looking up from her book,she chanted the familiar mantra under her breath.Beast Boy slammed into a wall of black power,reverting to his human form.
"Owwww..."Beast Boy moaned,clutching his head."What was that for Rae?"
For some strange reason,everytime he said that,there was just the faintest little flutter in her chest.But she was Raven,the half-demon,an unfeeling void.Happy was not getting her way anytime soon.And neither was that stupid emotion that hid in the shadows.Happy's new 'best friend'.Raven knew who the emotion was,but she ignored her.She was strong enough to."For being an idiot."Her monotone hid the flutter in her chest.
Beast Boy cowered."But I hate storms and they say that it's gona knock out the power and kill people and I don't want to die and I don't wana be without my Gamest---Mmmmmppphhh!"His comment was cut short by another strip of black power.
Raven shut her book with a slam.The vein tensed in her forehead again.She flew past Beast Boy,deliberately ignoring him.She went over to one window and heaved on the board over it.It creaked and groaned,but gave way almost immediately.
She threw it over her shoulder and ignored the cry of pain from Robin.The Boy Wonder muttered under his breath,something about people who enjoy the pain of others too much,and a word not generally used in kid's tv shows.After a few seconds and a couple of glares directed at the half-demon,he gave up and continued to explain to Starfire about storms.Storms weren't a regular occurence on Tameran,and the alien had yet to see one here on Earth.So she was understandably anxious,or nervous,depending on your point of view and whether or not you've read A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Dying light shone through the window,illuminating Raven's pale face.Jump City was far to the north,and it being summer meant that sunset wasn't until now,late into the 'night'.
Raven scanned the sky,then grabbed Beast Boy and shoved him towards the window.She undid the spell binding his mouth as she began to talk in her usual emotionless monotone."Look.There's nothing except a few clouds around the horizon.I don't know what used to happen on this day,but nothing happened today.Quit being such a wimp, Beast Boy."
She turned back from the window,intent on finishing her book.She had only taken a few paces though,when the light from behind her was cut off."Cyborg,there isn't going to be anyth-"She turned around to face the half-robot,but cut herself off as she saw that he wasn't anywhere near the window.
Beast Boy looked back at her in triumph."See?The sun was just cut off by something.The storm's nearly here."The triumph melted from his face as he realised what that meant.
Raven shoved him aside to get a better look out the window at the horizon.The sun had indeed half-disappeared behind a dark shape,casting Titan Tower into shadow.She struggled to disern what the shape blocking the sun was.
Her eyes widened in suprise and she took a step back,right onto Beast Boy's stomach,who let out a slight 'oofff'.For the third time today,she ignored him.
"What is it,friend Raven?"called Starfire from the couch.
Raven turned her head to look at the orange alien.Her voice was hoarser than usual as she answered."Me...meteors.It's not a storm.It's a meteor shower."
Raven just stood there as her friends gasped,running to the window to see for themselves.Beast Boy turned into a hawk,flying out from beneath her foot.She still didn't move.This freaked her out.There was no way that she and her friends could fight a meteor shower.She dimly heard Robin calling for anything,anyone to stop the impending doom.It was useless.Nothing they knew,no one they knew, could stop this.She felt everyone panicking around her,rushing to and fro.
The first meteor hit.It crashed into the sea near to the tower.The salt water hit Titan Tower,breaking the windows even though the planks over them still remained.The water rushed around the still unmoving Raven,throwing her back.She had time to register her back crashing into wood,before the door of the wardrobe shut,sealing her in darkness.The water and wardrobe acted as one,somehow protecting her from the following blasts.
The heat scorched her skin,even as the icy water chilled her to the bone.Her back bled from splinters in the wardrobe,but she was alive.Even as she thanked whatever kind of deity existed,another meteor hit,this one a lot closer.Her hair crisping at the ends,and steam pouring from all around her,she blacked out.
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Raven stirred,dried salt crackling on her face.Everything ached,and she was burned all over.She coughed as her lungs rejected the salt water inside of it.She turned to the side and let her body remove all the traces of sea water from her.Rolling back onto her back,she hesitantly opened her eyes.
Light streamed into her eyes,and she quickly shut them again.Opening her eyes slower this time,she managed to make out the cloudless skys above her.She groaned,and raised herself to a sitting position.Her leg was almost definately broken.Luckily,it was only a stress fracture,allowing her to heal it relatively quickly.
After that was done,she tried to stand on it.It hurt,but held.Getting off of the smashed pieces of wood,she began the task of finding her friends.Knowledge kept telling her they were dead.She ignored the emotion.She would find them and they would be alright.
She kept struggling on,over the rubble that was once the Titan Tower.She slipped so many times,and lost count of the scratches and gashes left by broken glass and twisted steel bars.Raven wouldn't give up until she at least had proof that the rest of the Titans were gone.Until then,she would search without rest.
Her mind kept going to the last words she had said to Beast Boy.
Quit being such a wimp,Beast Boy.
If only she had listened.Beast Boy could have saved them all.
...They say that it's gona knock out the power and kill people...
But she had to be Raven,and ignore everything the only person she had ever loved said.Tears filled her eyes,and rubble began to glow black and slowly rise into the air.
She wiped the twin streams that poured down her cheeks.She breathed deeply and chanted the familiar mantra."Azarath,Metrion,Zinthos.Azarath,Metrion,Zinthos."Her emotions in check,she continued her search,climbing a giant pile of rubble in front of her.They just couldn't die on her like this.
Upon reaching the top of the rubble,she wished she never had gone up there.She felt so sick,she just collapsed to the ground,ignoring the pain of the jagged concrete biting into her.A scream of pain came from Raven,her eyes glowing white.Robin and Starfire were gone,their bodies twisted and mangled.
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He hurt,so badly.But nothing compared to the pain that the scream tore into him.His eyes snapped open.
He had to help her,she was in pain.He didn't care that he himself was probably in more pain than her.He didn't give it a second thought.He heaved off the cement block that trapped him.Luckily,it was very thin.Anything heavier,and the weight would have crushed him before now.
He emerged from the rubble.She was there, only a few hundred feet away.Black energy swirled around her, tossing rubble around and around her.
"Raven!"
The black swirls of energy stopped,then disappated completely."Beast...Boy?"
She had turned around and now stared in wonder at the bloody green boy."Beast Boy!"
Thoughing all caution to the wind,she ran as fast as her legs could carry her to the boy she loved.He extended his arms slowly to her.She leap into them,burying her face into his torn chest.She could tell it hurt him,but made no move to loosen her grip.He,in turn,tightened his arms around her.She murmured his name into his chest."Beast Boy."
"Rae."