Now it was just the place for teens to make out. The walls of the cavern were covered with graffiti. But the statue in the center remained untouched.
"You betrayed me and you saved me. They left me to be tortured and degraded. To have everything taken from me. They let it happen. They let me be taken and never came for me. Would you have let it happen? I doubt it. You got me out of the way of Slade's attack. Too bad he didn't finish it then, it would've saved me a lot of pain."
"Do you really mean that?" The soft voice echoed through the chamber.
His lips formed the name and gave life to it with his voice. "Raven. I thought I made it clear, I have nothing to say to you people. This is my home and I expect you to stay away."
"We're not your enemies."
"Wrong, the people who left me to be tortured are very much my enemies. Now leave."
"We didn't leave you. We looked for you everywhere. Every lead we had, turned out to be a lie. There was nothing we could do."
"It doesn't matter. You don't know anything about what they did. Your mind would tear itself apart if you knew half. Trust me on that, It's happened."
"We tried to find you Beastboy, we really tried."
"Stop that." The icy tones his voice took were enough to send a chill down her spine. "Beastboy was a fool, I'm a lot wiser than he ever was. He died during that ordeal. He's gone, now and forever. He was useless. He was always the weakest of the Titans. Always right there getting into trouble. But no matter what, he was there for you. And none of you were there when he needed it."
"We let you go because we thought you'd deal with it. We were wrong. We should have went after you. We should have tried to help."
"Thank whatever god you pray to, that you didn't. I was ready to kill all of you. Now get out of my home."
"But..."
"This is your last chance. You don't realize this but you're trespassing. I bought this land and I have the right to protect it from all intruders. Leave now."
"You know where to find us if you want to talk. We're always ready."
Feral remained sitting as she cloaked her body in shadows. Her form swiftly reappeared within her room. She dropped without word onto her bed. "What happened to you? What did they do to you?"
A knock startled her out of her reverie.
"Go away."
A voice from the other side of the door actually answered back. "Raven, I really need to talk to you. It's important."
Raven slowly lifted herself and moved toward the door. She slid it gently open. "What do you want?"
"Answers. The others won't talk to me. You have no files on what happened and he seems to have singled me out."
"Because you weren't part of the Titans back then." Raven gestured toward a chair sitting against the wall. It flew over and landed near her bed. "Take a seat."
Both moved over to her bed.
Armstrong sat down on the chair and Raven sat on the edge of her bed. "What do you want to know?"
"What happened? I was a kid when Beastboy quit the team. I didn't really pay any attention to it. But he said you left him to be tortured."
"I, understand why they didn't want to tell you. It's hard. It's not something we want to remember."
"I lost my best friend that day. He was the only other person who knew what it was like to have a monster inside. It was something we both understood."
"Ten years ago we were fighting Plasmus, and we were losing. He just kept coming. Nothing we did worked, and I mean nothing. He just kept getting back up for another round. We were fighting him for hours. Beastboy finally turned into a creature he'd only seen once on Tamaran. He was able to keep him distracted while I prepared to finish him off. I sent a bunch of my energy into him and caused it to explode. Right before that Beastboy was knocked out."
"What happened then?"
"We were exhausted and fell asleep right there in the street. The cops woke us after they had Plasmus secure. Beastboy was gone. We looked for a month but we couldn't find anything. Then one night, an alarm sounded telling us there was an intruder on the island. We went to check it out. It was him. He was really tore up. His clothes were like rags and everywhere you looked you could see he'd been hurt. We got him to the infirmary. We didn't even know if he would survive."
Raven continued talking as her mind went back to that night.