BIG NOTE
I changed it slightly, wisdom is now in the dialogue, nothing major just thought you might want to know
You seriously have no idea how long this one took me.I am almost to tired to do a disclaimer, which is why I will get gus from Recess to do it for me(I dont own Recess either)
I dedicate this chapter to Regrem Erutaerc, who's review gave me this idea at 1 in the morning and then made me change it.
Gus: Errr, gee, I havent ever had to do one of these before. Er, gee, where to I begin. I know, It all started here, with one of Astrid's stories, the thing was she doesnt own teen titans, or any of the characters associated with it. So, er, I guess that means it wasnt to be. Huh did I do it right?
Me:Yah
Anyways, On with the story. I was a bit foggy on the cloak colours of some of the emotions, but cloak colours shmoke colours. Have fun! (Review replies at the bottom and an extra explanasion)
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InTheCreepyForestInRavensDream
Happy squealed in delight, the day was beautiful, the sun streamed through the trees, casting a dappled light on the forest floor, it was warm and happy could hear birds singing. But Happy knew that wasn't what Raven was seeing, Raven would be cold and wet, she would see an increasing darkness and hear evil noises. But what Raven didn't know was that she was creating it herself, all the bad things, everything, it was all her own doing. Happy clapped her hands
(This is going perfectly, but I don't know how I am going to get her to visualize a hero, she isn't looking for happiness, she is looking for kindness and affection. I am neither of these things)
Happy thought hard about how this was going to work, when suddenly she got an idea.
"Brilliant" she whispered to herself, but she needn't have whispered, Raven couldn't hear her. Happy closed her eyes concentrating on the task ahead, she had a dopey smile on her face as she drifted into a different part of Ravens mind.
AnotherCreepyPlaceInRavensMind
Happy arrived in an open plan area, a courtyard almost. The small square was created by a crumbling stone wall, which at one point was probably very striking, but now it was a meagre ruin. Black grass seeped through the stone slabs littering the floor, the sky was red and gnarled trees were scattered around the outside of the square with small strange bird perched on top of them. The square would have been empty had it not been for the small group of figures, no more than nine or so, huddled in a corner, deep in conversation.
"Hullo!" Happy called, her cry reaching the lone group in the far corner who all turned to look at her. "I am back and I need your help with something."
Many different reactions received this sentence. The girl in the centre of the group just growled and struggled in her chains, but the growl was rather pathetic and no one took any real attention of her.
"Happy what have you done?" Bravery was the first to speak up, her green cloak billowed in the wind "Rage is so quiet, what have you done to Raven?" Her boldly spoken words made the girl she was standing over quiver slightly.
"It is ok fear, don't worry. I'll look after you" Affection said softly, pulling her lilac cloak around the black cloak of fears to keep her warm and shield her from her invisible demons.
Happy still had her dopey smile on her face and she was practically jumping on the spot with excitement at her news
"I have a plan to get Raven to show us who she has a crush on!" Happy squealed excitedly, her words a rush to get the news out.
"I understand how that should affect Rage so much. Not that I am complaining, but it is quite striking. However, is it right to take this information unwillingly? Only Affection, Wisdom and I know the identity of this person, we have been trying to convince her ever since we knew of him. What makes you think you can make her realize her feelings towards him?" Knowledge replied, adjusting her glasses and shifting her yellow cloak so it sat more comfortably on her shoulders, one of her eyebrows raised in anticipation to Happy's answer.
Happy's smile never faltered but her voice trembled a bit "Well, you silly billy. I thought about it and what fun it would be to find out. So, I kinda had to make her scared"
"S-S-Scared? I mean, w-wont she g-g-get c-cr-cross with us?" trembled timid, wrapping her grey cloak around her in a futile attempt to hide.
Wisdom who had been keeping quiet through all of the commotion that had been going on around her suddenly spoke
"I do not believe that hurting us will be her prime objective when Happy's plan works through. The events to follow will be too great and will, I suppose, help her forget about us and our dealings" Her statement was more to herself than to anyone else, she had said it with her head low and she was fiddling with her brown cloak.
"Oh shut up Timid and Wisdom you stupid fools, Happy has something worthwhile to say for once. Carry on Happy" Rude snapped back at Timid and Wisdom and then turned and gave a mock bow towards happy.
"Yeah, anyway, I made her scared and I thought that if we gave her a hero, but who didn't look like anyone, she could pretend it was whoever she wanted it to be, all we have to do is make shell for her imagination to print on. Geddit?"
"GrrGrrr Shuddup, stupid happy!" Whispered Rage maliciously. Happy cocked her head to look at Rage, Rage was a lot smaller than she normally was, her breathing was shallow, almost like she was asleep, and her eyes were barely a slither of red as Rage struggled to stay awake.
"Err, what is wrong with Rage?" Happy asked innocently a little smile still playing on her lips.
"Well, from what you have told me, I would say that Raven is so scared that she has no power to be angry. Therefore she is affecting Rage in this way." Wisdom answered in reply to Happy's question.
"Oh" most of the emotions replied in unison all apart from Fear and Timid.
"It was rather mean of you to make Raven scared like that. The poor thing must be frightened out of her wits, and just to tell you. No. I don't get it. Could you please explain again?" Affections voice broke the silence that had been left after the small "Oh".
Happy grinned widely, "Maybe knowledge could explain it better. You get it don't you knowledge?"
"Yes," Replied Knowledge in a matter of fact tone of voice
"Raven is very scared at the moment, she want someone to protect her. Happy's plan is that if we create a figure of a person, Ravens imagination will turn it into the person she wants to protect her, this person will be the one she cares about in that way, if you get my meaning. But I do not understand where we are going to get this 'shell' of Happy's"
"She probably doesn't even know herself, dopey loser" Rude shot in Happy's direction who only stuck her tongue out in return.
"Yes actually, that was my plan!" smiled happy rather smugly "I thought that affection might be the shell, it would be easier for Raven to turn affection into her crush wouldn't it? But the thing is I have no idea who it is." After Happy had finished explaining her plan all of the emotions eyebrows went up, all of those except Affection's who just nodded in reply.
"Isn't it obvious?" asked Wisdom kindly, "Raven has spent so long alone she doesn't understand her feelings towards her crush, this type of shock might help her understand herself better. But I think there is some sort of subconscious awareness that she likes beast boy, it would explain why she treats him differently"
"What! It's Beast boy? Really, him? That's fantastic, what are we waiting for? We need to make Raven see that she likes him. NOW!" Said Bravery suddenly, jumping up and down "Let's go!"
Wisdom nodded knowingly and allowed herself a small smile "How did I know you were going to say that?"
InTheCreepyForestInRavensDream
"Uh-oh!" Said timid quietly
"What troubles you my grey cloaked chum?" Happy asked merrily as they all warped into a forest clearing in a convenient circle shape.
"W-well I don't want to bother y-you-"started timidly worriedly
"Oh hurry up with it stupid, we don't have all night" Scowled Rude making Timid sniffle slightly.
"Err, is everything ok outside? I mean in the real world, surely all of this emotion can't be good for Raven. I mean I was just wondering, you don't have to bother if you don't want, it really wasn't my place to say. I shouldn't have said anything; I am really sor-" Timid went on rambling not listening to the hustle and bustle that was going on around her.
"Oops! Forgot about that!" said knowledge worriedly turning to look at the emotions. Bravery jumped quickly and stood in a superman stance, flexing her muscles "I'll go! I will have to wake Raven up for a second, but hopefully it will be so quick that she just goes back to sleep."
All of the emotions nodded in return, all except Rage who just grunted half-heartedly and struggled in her bonds.
"Be careful Bravery," warned Wisdom "We don't know what trouble Raven may have caused, be prepared for every situation."
"Yeah yeah yeah"
bravely confidently knocked aside wisdoms warning.
Bravery closed her eyes and concentrated, after a few moments she sat in Ravens normal meditating position, legs folded and arms relaxed, she soon started floating in mid air a dark green energy blob surrounding her. As her brow furrowed all of the emotions were silent, even Rage and Rude were waiting for Bravery's return. Bravery let out a small sigh, suddenly the trees flitted and went out of focus, and the whole area disappeared for less than a second and was back. It would have seemed only like a bad television signal to the anyone else, but the emotions knew that it was Raven waking up and then going back to sleep in a split moment. They all turned to look at their surroundings and saw Raven still stumbling about the forest.
Suddenly they heard a big thud; they all turned around quickly to see Bravery standing up off the floor, dusting her behind, grinning widely.
"You'll never guess what" Said Bravery confidently
"What?" Asked Rude nastily
Bravery smirked and had an evil smile playing on her lips.
"No," she said teasingly "I said guess" she shook her finger in mock anger and shook her head, a small smile playing on her face.
"Grrr-Grrrr….GRRRRRR JUST GET ON WITH IT!" Rage's voice echoed around the wood, surprised by Rage's sudden loudness they all turned to look at Raven who seemed not to have noticed, fear thought she heard her say something, but was too scared to try and listen to hear what she was saying.
"Bravery please, we have to be getting on. Please bravery?" Affection made doe eyes at bravery who smiled in return and gave in
"Oh alright then. Well, I woke Raven up for like, a second; I think we might have kinda trashed the place a little bit, loads of stuff is smashed up"
"Oh no!" interrupted Timid quietly "They wont like us anymore, they will kill us, we will get thrown out, we will be homeless. What will we do then, what will we do-"
"S-S-Stop it y-y-you are s-sc-scaring m-me" Fear whispered from under her cloak which she was hiding under.
"Was that it?" Asked knowledge, her hands on her hips leaning to one side, her eyebrow raised. She was obviously unimpressed.
"No, someone was there"
All of the emotions eyes widened, even timid and fears, both of whom had managed to poke their head out from their hiding places to hear this extraordinary piece of information. Wisdom smiled, waiting to see the reactions of her fellow emotions, she already had an inkling of who it might be but she decided to let Bravery have the joy of telling the rest of the group.
"Who?"
Asked Rude snidely, scowling at Bravery for being slow, Rude was very impatient and she didn't mind showing her anticipation.
Bravery smiled knowing that she had all of the emotions on edge, waiting for her reply, she paused and looked at wisdom, she had her hood over her face but she could still see a small smile and then she saw Wisdom mouth something that looked like "Go on". She took a very long drawn out breath, exasperating the wait "Well, It was very dangerous what I did, I mean, not every Tom, Dick and Harry could do it." Rude rolled her eyes listening to Bravery's bragging.
"Well, it may have been dangerous, but I saw someone very special indeed." She paused waiting for the effect to sink in.
"Beast boy"
All of the emotions except wisdom gasped and suddenly Bravery was bombarded with questions
"Was he alone? What was he doing?" Knowledge shouted out above the rest of the clambering emotions causing timid and fear to squeal in distress at this loud noise, they were soon calmed by affection who hugged them both and made soft cooing noises.
"Yes, He was alone. What was he doing? Well, He seemed pretty freaked out by Raven that was obvious"
"W-what was h-he d-d-doing in our Room?" asked fear from under her brown cloak, all of the emotions except rage nodded at this sensible question but Fear only stifled a sob as she burrowed back into her cloak.
"Yes indeed," Knowledge said frowning "What was beast boy doing in our room?"
"That's just it, He wasn't in our room. We were in the kitchen!" Bravery said, she didn't understand what Raven was doing in the kitchen and nor did any other of the emotions by the look on their faces. They all stood still, thinking about why this might have happened.
"Well," Said Knowledge sighing slightly, all of the emotions turned to look at her, each one as interested as the next to listen to Knowledges theory. "It would appear that every movement Raven makes in the dream she also makes in the waking world. I think that would also be the case for her verbal actions as well as physical."
"I would have to agree with that idea" said wisdom quietly "It sounds worrying but I am sure no harm will come of this. An answer will come sooner or later; we just have to hope that nothing drastic happens. We must have faith in Raven"
"So what you are saying is," started affection slowly "That anything Raven does in here, she does out there, without realizing it?"
It was like a tennis match, all emotions would turn to look at the one talking and then back to the one who was going to reply, Happy found it quite entertaining and started giggling, Rude scowled at her and rolled her eyes, "loser" she whispered under her breath.
"Well, yes, that is how I presume she has made her way to the kitchen." Said Knowledge taken aback at how quickly affection and wisdom had taken on to her hypothesis.
"But that's brilliant!" Cried Affection startling timid and fear who both started whimpering,
"Don't you see, we can really work this!" Affection squealed excitedly, none of the other emotions had ever seen her so vibrant, she had always seemed to be the quiet caring one, not the loud excitable emotion that she had now turned into.
"And how did you figure that one out mastermind?" Rude snapped back at affection, knowledge nodded her head and added "I too would like to understand your reasoning behind your behaviour"
Affection smiled warmly at Rude who was scowling at her and she took a deep breath and did her best to explain.
"Ok. I could put Raven in a semi state of awareness, this would mean that I, the 'shell' for Raven to see Beast boy as her hero, would be able to see beast boy and have a kind of 'bond' with him. Do you follow so far?" She asked kindly to the group who were all listening intensively, her question was replied when all members of the group, excluding Rage nodded vigorously.
"Then, I would be able to act out every movement beast boy makes, so say he moves to the left, I move to the left and so on. If you guys would mind helping, I could tune into the reality and become a part of beast boy. I am affection; I am so closely related to Beast boy it will be easiest for me to be the 'shell'."
All of the emotions were lost in thought about Affections reply. They all had questions but didn't know weather they were worth asking or if they would only confuse them any more.
"One more time? Just for verification of course." Asked Knowledge, frowning slightly with concentration.
"I will become a shadow of beast boy," said affection kindly, and smiling at knowledge patiently "but Raven will only see me as beast boy when she accepts it herself. Before that I will only seem to be a body without features, she has to want beast boy, she has to accept it herself"
"That's going to be tricky." Replied wisdom frowning slightly
"Really?" asked Rude sarcastically "Ya think?" Wisdom promptly ignored rude and turned to bravery who had started talking.
"Why didn't we do this semi state of awareness thingy when I went to see what the situation was in the real world?" Bravery asked boldly, puffing her chest out.
"It is quite risky-"started affection
"R-R-Risky? What d-does that m-mean? We are all g-going to d-die aren't we?" Fears voice wobbled trying to hide back tears,
"No, no, not that kind of risk, the worst that she could happen is wake up, but we would miss out big time if we let this opportunity pass us by. So do you think we should do it?" affection asked.
All emotions nodded in reply, all that is except Rage who growled menacingly "Beast boy"
All of the emotions looked at Rage surprised at her choice of words
"Who invited her to talk" asked rude looking down at Rage with pure disgust, no body said anything for a short while,
"It would make sense that if we all cared about beast boy, which we do. That Rage would too, no matter how much she is an angry emotion there is still something inside her that attaches her to him, like we are all attached to him in some way. But affections bond with beast boy is the strongest that is why she is the ideal candidate for the 'shell'. As for your question affection, yes I think we should and I think we should hurry." All of the emotions nodded in reply, united for a moment on the one thing they all had in common, Beast boy.
"Ok then, this is how we do it."
ALittleWhileLater
Raven thought she heard whispering, she shook her head, and she didn't want to speak in case she alerted the creatures that were surrounding her to her presence. The wood was so dark now that she couldn't see her hand if she stretched it out in front of her.
(Not scared, not scared, not scared.) She kept repeating the sentence over and over in her head,
(Don't talk, don't talk, don't talk) it calmed her slightly to try and put some order into her thoughts. Raven stood on something sharp,
"Ow" she quickly clamped her hand over her mouth, she stood perfectly still, only her eyes were flitting about the place; trying to spot something in the darkness. Suddenly, like someone had turned on a light she was in a room and beast boy was in front of her frowning but then as quick as it had come she was back in the forest again, cold and wet.
"Beast boy" she whispered, she wanted him here so badly. She didn't care if he told one of his bad jokes or tried to make her play a game, just as long as he was here. She drifted off thinking about how nice it would be to snuggle up to his nice warm bo-
(Raven. STOP!) Raven shook her head,
"Ew" she whispered to herself, she didn't mean it, but it felt like she was trying to persuade herself that she didn't like him.
(But you do) a small voice sighed in her head. Raven stopped, shaking her head attempting to rid her mind of such thought. Day dreaming wasn't going to help her now, she was lost in a place she didn't know, it was getting increasingly dark and she was scared.
(No I am not) Raven nodded in reply to her thoughts, she had to be strong, she wasn't afraid. The only bit of light that was left dimmed even more. Raven jumped and looked around, her cloak snagged on something, she gasped and closed her eyes, and she was petrified of what might have her cloak. She turned around slowly; her breath came in short gasps as she struggled to regain control
(I am not scared) A small voice called rather fiercely for such a high tone. Just then all light flooded out of the forest and Raven was plunged into utter darkness. She swallowed hard choking back a sob; her hand was frozen in mid air where she had been going to free her cloak.
"Who w-who is there?" Raven called into the darkness, it was the kind of black where you don't know whether you actually exist, you can't see yourself to convince yourself other wise and you have to touch your face to know you are there.
"Stop it now!" she cried, a single tear escaping her eye and falling slowly down her cheek. She was becoming more and more hysterical, her knees shaking so badly that she found it hard to stand. Raven heard a shuffle somewhere near by, she stood as still as possible, her fear paralysing her to the spot.
"I-Its d-dark and I c-cant see. Please, s-someone help me." She pleaded into the darkness hoping that someone could hear her, her knees buckled and she fell to the floor, her hood covering her face, but not the tears that fell to the ground and although her sobs were silent they rocked her whole body.
"Please, please, please, someone, please?" she trailed off, hugging her self on the forest floor, leaves and twigs stuck to her clothes; she shivered with cold and fear. Suddenly a large light enveloped her, like a spot light from a prison movie, the light only made a circle and illuminated nothing outside of it. Raven swallowed hard, trying to get rid of the lump in her throat. Suddenly a figure stepped into the light, it was the weirdest thing Raven had ever seen, it looked like a man, but it had no real shape, it was filled out stick man, with no features at all. It had only one defining thing about it; it was a rich emerald green.
"NO!" She screamed, it approached her cautiously, she cowered away from it but then it spoke.
"It's only me Raven, don't worry. It's ok"
"Are you from the darkness? What do you want? Who are you?"
She asked tentatively, she was embarrassed at her situation and quickly dried her tears so that the stranger couldn't see that she had been crying, Raven wasn't even sure it could see. She didn't feel that the stranger was dangerous, it didn't seem threatening but Raven knew that seeming and being were two different things.
"Darkness. There." Raven replied pointing into the blackness that surrounded the circle. As she pointed something growled loudly, Raven screamed jumping to her feet and backed away from the sound, bumping into the stranger, he seemed shorter now, and he also had hair.
"What? What is it?" He asked her, she couldn't place his voice it sounded familiar and comforting, the green stick man was touching her shoulder, she turned into him and looked up at his face where a pair of eyes where staring back at her. The noise grew louder as whatever it was came closer, Ravens knees nearly gave way again but the stranger caught her under the arms and dragged her up.
"Cant you hear it? It's in the darkness, so close. Its coming, it's going to hurt me. Don't let it hurt me!" she cried burying her face into the strangers' chest, her arms wrapped around her neck. The stranger was a bit stiff at first but after a small shrug it returned her hug.
"Sssssh, Its ok Raven, I'm here. It's me Beast boy"
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Ok, if you found that a bit confusing I dont blame you. Basically "AFFECTION" is acting as an interpreter, anything BB does/says in the real world "affection" acts out in Ravens dream. So anything Raven says/does in the dream it also acts out in the Real world. Gettit?
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hyperactive-frogchild: This made me smile, Thankyou, I know, I am truely mean. I took the story a bit further this time, the next chapter will carry on from the end of chapter 3 ahahahahahha. ISH EBILL
ShadowRoth: I am trying, it takes so damned long though! Dont worry, I wasn never intending to shoot her, she ish mah fav super hero eva!hugs Raven
PrincessofDiamonds: I guess you found this chapter confusing as well? Guih, sorry about that, I will try and make it a bit simplier, all the mind bending stuff is gone now, hopefully.
Grey Rain: Thankies :D, It only gets like that because I go back and keep adding stuff in. This is my longest chap by far. scary stuff.
Darth Cruel: You wanted emotions, You got them...bet you wished you hadnt asked for them now :P. The next chap is mainly bb, dont worry, he will shine!
Regrem Erutaerc: What can I say? You were the one who put this crazy idea in my head. I just changed wisdom for fear, if you dont mind. Confusing? Yes. Have fun figuring this one out.
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