Raven couldn't turn away from the blackest of rocks. She felt herself tumble into it's power.
The guttural voice spoke to her again. "Now let's see what you fear."
Raven watched as the first of many horrible visions appeared.
Starfire lay in the middle of the street. Her left arm lay at an impossible angle. Her legs were bent under her limp body. A gash on her forehead sent crimson trails of blood down her face obscuring the look of terror that resided on it. Raven backed up in horror. "Starfire, what happened to you? Who did this?" The image disappeared into the darkness.
The blackness of the world started to close around her. Raven nearly lost the contents of her stomach at what she saw next.
Cyborg was leaning against a building. Cracks and open spaces appeared all over his armor plated body. A mixture of blood and various other fluids ran from the fissures in his massive hide. One arm was mostly gone. It ended in a mass of dangling shards of metal. Sparks erupted from several exposed circuits. One landed just right to set the liquids pooling around him on fire. As the flames consumed his body, Raven was unable to avoid looking at his face. His arm was shoved through the front of his head, and wires trailed from where it had exited the back of his skull.
Raven closed her eyes as tight as she could. She didn't want to see any more.
It didn't help.
The images came anyway. Armstrong lay bleeding from the stumps where his arms had been. The two severed limbs lay crossed across his chest in a sick mockery of resting in peace. Raven turned her gaze to his face. The hatred in his face was clear. So was the fact that he was still breathing. A slithering black tendril made it's way into the picture. It shot forward and ripped into the middle of his chest. It pulled back out holding a bloody muscle.
Raven's eyes opened in horror. "No, please stop it."
Yet another vision joined the incessant parade of death. Robin stood among the carnage, the Robin of ten years ago. His uniform was in tatters. His left arm hung broken at his side. His pain was obvious, as were his bruises and cuts. "How could you do this? I'm going to make you pay. I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" He rushed at something hidden in the shadows. A thin black substance shot forward and wrapped around his neck. You could hear him choking for breath. The tendril yanked back abruptly.
Within seconds Robin's head was facing in the wrong direction.
Raven slid into the picture. She was twice as tall as she normally was. Black tentacles trailed from underneath her robes and four red eyes glowed as the darkness took the vision.
The true Raven dropped to her knees. "No, no, it's not real. It's not."
"So, you fear that you're as bad as your father. That even though you've had control for the last ten years, that you'll destroy those fools. Pathetic."
"Shut up, what do you know? I have a monster, a demon inside that wants to kill my friends. Do you know how that feels?"
"Feh, Trigon's no longer around to feed it, no longer around to make you lose control of your own power. You're just scared of what you can do. You won't let you're full power show. Because you are weak. But you already know this. You faced this fear. So let's see what else is in here."
Raven tried to block him. She tried to prevent him from entering further into her mind, but it was to no avail. He slipped in anyway.
She found herself being drawn into the vision this time.
Her arms clasped around the figure. She pulled him closer to her. Their lips met in a passionate kiss. He pulled back so that he was in complete view. The gentle caring eyes of Beastboy stared back into hers.
"I love you Raven. I have for a long time. I just wish I'd realized it sooner." He stared at her for a moment before starting to cough. He dropped onto his knees with a look of pain contorting his face into an almost demonic look. He gave a sudden lurch and Raven watched blood start pouring from his mouth. He turned his face to her. The look on it was heartbreaking. "Goodbye."
With one last shudder he died.
"No, NO!. Beastboy, come on, wake up. Don't leave, not now. Don't leave me." Raven burst into tears as she scooted closer to him. She fell to her knees and pulled him to her. "I love you. I'm sorry, I'm sorry about how I treated you. I'm so sorry Beastboy. Please forgive me." She threw her head back. "NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
The vision shattered around her until she was leaning on her knees. She gazed up into the face of Feral. "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!"
The street beneath Feral began to rumble and lifted into the air. It flew high into the sky with him still on it. The piece of the street started to fall. He held onto it and jumped onto the street before it hit.
He turned to look at Raven. "How dare you. How dare you do that to me! I loved him. He was the one person who made me feel special. YOU AREN'T EVEN HALF THE MAN HE WAS!" Raven sent a spike of energy in his direction. He barely dodged it. The power cut through his cloak like a hot knife through butter.
The look in his eye was a look that hadn't graced his face since the worst month of his life. A look of caring that was quickly replaced by pure fury.
He surged forward and grabbed her arms in a death grip. "If you loved me so much. Why did you leave me to be tortured?"
"I couldn't find him. And the man I loved is dead. You aren't him. You said so yourself." She formed a shield between his hands and her wrists. They started to expand before growing too strong for him to hold on.
As he tumbled backwards a pure black blade formed around Raven's hand.
Feral looked at her for a minute before darting into a dark alley.