A/N: I don't own the Teen Titans, and it is quite exhausting to write about them whether I own them or not! If you read please review, it'll take a minute of time and I'll be eternally grateful. This is my first Teen Titan and Romance fanfic, but don't bother to go easy on me, I want to get better at this so let me have it!

Thank you, ever loyal reader, I hope you enjoy.

CrimsonBlade117

Nightmare

"Azerath metrion synthose, azerath metrion synthose……." the girl chanted into the night, her dark magic holding her steadily off the floor while the magic of the surrounding dark played games with the light that fell upon her supple form. Raven had found meditating more and more necessary as time had passed, more stresses had presented themselves. Her dreams were getting worse and worse, they grew in vividness and intensity by the day. Along with the dreams she'd begun to notice another chink in her emotional armor, Beast Boy. Her mouth moved as she thought the word, Beast Boy, giving it energy and power over her. He really caused her to feel, she admitted to herself in the darkness, be it happiness, annoyance, or pity…any emotion. He plain and simply made her feel and she couldn't have that, could she? She focused more as she returned to her meditative clarity; hopefully it would clear her mind of Beast Boy, giving her a rest from fighting the emotions he so easily conjured inside her. Giving up on meditation as a safe place from thought of Beast Boy, Raven decided to go to sleep hoping for better dreams than usual. After changing into her black silk pajamas and climbing into bed she laid on her back and closed her eyes, pulling the covers up to her stomach and enjoying the settling darkness as she slipped into sleep.

Beast Boy's mind was different from the rest, it never entered a solid REM cycle. This did not affect the amount of rest he took away from a session of sleep, but just meant that his brain waves functioned differently than other's. Even though this difference in his mind's makeup existed he dreamt as usual, but not as usual of Terra. Robin dreamt of failure, Raven dreamt of destruction, Starfire dreamt of rejection and Cyborg dreamt of corruption.

On the roof of Titan Tower a figure garbed in a tight suit of red and black put his hand on the concrete, checking if it was time to begin his plan. Yes, they all slumber and dream, their weakness is at it's peak…he thought as he jammed a black metal cane through the concrete, pushing it down until only gem at the top and a few inches of the shaft showed. An iridescent red glow began to pulsate from the gem as it was activated, locking in on the vulnerable brainwaves of the sleepers below and giving the masked villain power over them. As powerful as you are out here, he gestured to the tower and the area around it, you are totally mine when you're in here, he thought as he tapped his temple through his suit. A figure exactly the same as the one on the roof appeared in every bedroom in the Tower, touching it's pointer and middle finger to the temple of the room's occupant. With that touch the link was forged.

Robin's body twisted beneath the covers on his bed as the figure by his side took control, his mind being invaded by the unknown force. He didn't struggle, he couldn't, he just dreamt. He fought in his dream, he fought his one and true enemy; Slade. Slade was what kept him awake at night, the very thought that Slade was defeated did not help this, it gave him no armor against his worse fear. Slade was dead, defeated by Terra in her sacrifice, but that consoled him none as he lay unconscious. Every blow he landed on Slade was shrugged off as if it hadn't landed at all. Slade's attacks had the exact opposite effect; they were powerful and quick, devastating Robins defenses quickly. As Robin battled for his very life he felt hope and desperate fear at the same moment, Someone will come, he thought, I'm not alone in my battle, my friends are coming! he screamed at Slade in his dream as he fought with renewed vigor.

Cyborg lay on the slanted metal table that he slept on every night, recharging his batteries while resting his human components. The foe that stood beside him held it's fingers on his right temple, feeding images to his brain. His dream earlier had been about riding in the T-car, speeding along enjoying himself. As the enemy interfaced with his mind he corrupted the image, decaying the car and leaving Cyborg looking awestruck as everything around him deteriorated. The steering wheel rusted and began to fall apart in his hands as his very hands began to degrade. It spread along him slowly, much slower than his environment, like a disease working it's way in one's tissues. It moved dreadfully slowly up his hands, his eyes followed it move in horror, a horror that gripped his entire being. This was what he feared, this was the single most horrid thing his mind could conjure, the most terrifying possibility ever. The seats in the car that he rode grew moth-eaten before his eyes, the entire car becoming ridden with decay. He had to stop the car as the tires popped, the decay reaching them and releasing the air they contained. He got out and looked over his once beautiful creation, the source of his happiness, the T-car. It lay in ruins as it fell apart even more as the seconds ticked by. He stumbled away from the T-car, walking along the road, watching as the very world disintegrated before his eyes. Where are the others? he mentally asked himself, I know they'll come for me, they'll come! he thought as he trudged on, terrified beyond comparison. His life was over and he knew it.

Starfire slept soundly as the man in swirling red and black touched her temple, taking the reins of her dreams and turning them against her. She had been dreaming of flying through the beautiful skies of Tamaran, her home world. This dream was morphed and twisted by the evil form beside her, twisted into a dream of flying above Jump City and flying to the Tower she now calls home. She sensed something was wrong as she entered their shared abode, her friends were silent, cold, unhappy. They all glared at her as she walked in, all whispering things she could barely hear.

"…eyes, they creep me out….."

"….what's up with how she talks? She just doesn't get it….."

"…..why doesn't she just get out….."

They were all talking very rudely of her, and it really hurt her feelings. She could feel more than hear a phrase….get out…..get out…..GET OUT…GET OUT! She realized they were all chanting it under their breath as if she couldn't hear it. What hurt her even more is that she was starting to realize that they wanted her to hear it, they wanted to hurt her and to make her cry. Her friends were all she had and the Tower was her home now, they couldn't possibly understand how much they hurt her by being like this….or could they? What if that's the point, what if my friends really don't want me here anymore? she thought to herself, wondering how this could possibly be.

"Hello…..friends. I retrieved a movie from the movie place, would you like to watch it with me and eat the corn of pop together?" Star asked, trying to be friendly but still very hurt all the same.

"No, we don't want to watch any movies with you. You sicken all of us, me the most!" Robin said as he stepped forward, his eyes dark and glinting menacingly. Star had never felt pain rip through her like when he said those words. Did he have no idea of her feelings, was he so cold that her silent affections had never gotten through? Or, the worse option by far, did he not care, did he know her feelings but not care because he hated her? She was violently jerked from her thoughts as Robin's right hand drew back and flew forward slapping her on her left cheek, hard. Tears seeped from her eyes like blood from wounds as her cheek began to sting, the physical pain quite secondary to the torment inside her heart. She turned to fly away but found that she couldn't, she was far too upset to fly. She ran away from their screams of joy at her leaving, ran from the pain to the edge of the island. She sought solace on the shore of the island but it didn't come, she was simply left saturated in pain. Her only solace came from the thought that maybe those weren't her friends, maybe they were under control of some sort…..she had to hope that to keep living at all.

Raven reacted to the stranger's unfelt touch as she would electricity; her body jerked and relaxed again, relaxing deeper than before. Her dreams had been an unformed mix of darkness and silence, reflections of her dark soul she would have said. They were simply shapes in the dark, harmless dream monsters that morphed into a more hazardous variety. The villain that stood beside her searched her mind, finding his prey. Her dream changed and she now stood in a landscape of destruction and death, surrounded by broken stone figures of her friends. Portions of her surroundings were smooth blast craters, cut clear as if by lasers. Other damage was ragged, torn and blown apart. She tried to control herself but she felt herself begin to break down. She could feel the acid of guilt eat her apart from the inside so expertly, as it had always done. She could feel the emotional barriers that she had erected being attacked and finally falling as she glanced to a stone on the ground….Beast Boy. Once more she mouthed the words, succumbing to the powerful emotions that ripped through her. Hate, guilt, love, and pain all became one as she remained silent in her darkest fantasy, her nightmare, the nightmare. Beast Boy's body was totally shattered, but his face was perfectly shown in the stone….except….the pain and betrayal that shone on it rendered it a horrid sight.. Tears falling from her eyes she bent to pick up what remained of his façade, not caring about the lines of power emanating from her body. The ground was etched more and more deeply with highlighting darkness, a dark power flew up from below as she screamed his name into the bitter solitude of her own mind. Ragged chunks of concrete, rock and earth were torn from around her as she wept over Beast Boy's shattered form. She grieved the others in small ways, but it was the thought of Beast Boy's horrid demise that sent her into the darkness of her unforgiving mind, blasting things around her apart. In her bedroom Raven's body became outlined with the dark power that coursed through her veins, then lashed out and slashed the walls, her bed, the floor, destroying as it went. Terrified and losing control of her the figure of the man tried to touch more of her, putting his hands on her forehead in hope of controlling her, but he failed. A wave of her power slashed out and destroyed the man's secondary figure, cleaving it in half as though it was made out of paper. Though the strangers powers over her were terminated the dream continued to grow in intensity and strength. He'd set off her hatred, released her emotions and there was no controlling her now. Her powers lashed out and destroyed the room, slower than before, but still powerful and totally out of control. Beast Boy! she screamed out in the blood red gloom of her tormented inner world, Forgive me!

Beast Boy lay in bed struggling with his dreams, struggling against a foe pushing to control his mind. He felt his mind bending to the pressure, breaking wide open for the foe's examination. He saw before his eyes a female figure form, wrapped in metal with an S glinting malevolently on her chest. Terra, he said to himself in disbelief, how can she be here? His thoughts were interrupted rudely as he heard a harsh laugh crack out into the unformed darkness around him, she was laughing at him, his love, his weakness.

"It seems like everyone who is loved by someone turns out to be evil BB, you and me, Raven and Malchior, it's all the same. Love leads to pain. It's an inescapable fact buddy and I know that you still love me……so let the pain begin!" she screamed as she lunged at him, a sword of rock in her hand. He dodged dizzily, still recovering from the shock of seeing her again.

"Love doesn't always lead to pain Terra. If you hadn't been twisted by Slade we would've worked out just fine. I know in the end you were good, you were never evil, just taken over and in by Slade's lies. In the end your love saved us all, your love for me and your love for good!" He yelled as he dodged more of her blows. He smiled as he realized the truth. "I loved you and that love purchased the lives of our friends Terra. The real Terra that I loved is gone, lost in the stone depths below us. You're a fake, and I know that because I have a secret, a secret even mind reading can't yield!" he screamed has he pushed her back, then he whispered a phrase that blew Terra apart, destroying the lies being pulled over his eyes and showing him the truth. Beast Boy sat up in his bed breaking the contact with the secondary figure, severing the link with him. Seeing his enemy before him he changed into a guerrilla with a shout of rage and bashed him into the wall, disintegrating him. What the heck is going on here, he asked himself as he ran from his room, Robin's room is closest, I'll go their first, he thought as he ran, desperate for some answers.

A/N: If you liked that please review, if you didn't, please review! I want feedback, and the more I get either way the sooner I'll get the conclusion out. It won't be long after I get this first chapter posted that I get started on the second part. I already knew the ending before I knew the beginning! Thanks, I hope you enjoyed.

CrimsonBlade117