Ch.3: Keepers of Secrets: The Moon, The Night-Sky, and the Soul
Wind spun in a mysterious frenzy, dancing across the slowly darkening sky. Soon the moon would be up, glowing at full fury. And the moon would shine directly above the cabin of the Empowered Ones, as the Moon had chosen seven teens. Now they were together, and their energies would re-combine.
(Continuing from timeframe of Ch.2) Kori Anders said, "Yes, we are your friends. All seven of us must stick together, in this place our friend Garfield called the "Swoosh"." "And hey," Garfield said flippantly, "It's not really the end anyways. It's just a new beginning."
"At Maine, they think I'm dead. That's what the disguise name was from," Carrie said. "It's okay. If you don't want people to know who you really are, we won't give your secret away," Garfield said. "But you can talk about it with us if you want, ya know." Robin looked outside at the moon.
"The moon is beautiful tonight. It's staring right at us," Terra said. All seven teens looked up at the pale silver moon. It's glow was almost paranormal. Robin knew just looking at it that it was trying to tell them something. "Come 'on, Terra," Garfield said, "It's a moon. It can't possibly be staring at us." But Raven whispered, into the dark sky, "Yes, it can." And Raven stared into the dark night sky and summoned the moon. "Azarath metrion zinthos" Raven said calmly, her hands reaching towards the moon. A black force reached up and grabbed the moon, pulling strands of silver moonlight towards the ground. And for a couple of minutes, the whole sky was silver and lighter than ever possible. "Beautiful," Carrie whispered. "Yes," Garfield said, "It is."
"Wow, Raven," Cyborg said, "You never told us you had powers. What can you do?" "Well…" Raven said, "A lot of things, I guess. Move things with my mind, read minds, even see into the future and past. And make light. Ever since I left from the control of my father Trigon, I could create silver light from the moon. Only when the moon agrees. I can talk to objects, that are alive even though we don't know it. They keep everyone's secret. I can talk to the night sky, and the moon, and the trees, and the clouds, and the raindrops, and God. I also can heal things." (they already knew that Carrie is telekinetic, from chapter 2). Garfield said, "No fair! So two of us have powers! No fair! I want powers…" Raven ignored Garfield's whining. Raven said to Carrie, "I'll teach you how to expand your powers, make them stronger. Eventually you'll be able to do everything I can." And the two girls looked into each others' eyes, and they saw truth, and the secrets of the moon.
Garfield always liked to imitate animals. So looking up at the now normal again moon, he howled into the night sky like a wolf-dog. Not a wolf, because wolfs are dangerous. Wolf-dogs, less dangerous. Robin looked at Garfield, "Garfield….you're….you…you turned into….some kind of huge dog." Garfield said teasingly, "Ah, Robin, I'm only pretending. Get off it." "No," Robin said, "Look at your hands." And Garfield saw, that he had transformed into a wolf-dog. He wondered if he could transfer into anything. So he thought robin, and turned into a robin, and flew onto Robin's shoulder. "Hey..." Garfield said, changing back into human-form, "I can turn into animals! Yay me; I do have powers! I know…from now on, call me…..Beast Boy!"
Raven said, "It's called shape-shifting. You are a shape-shifter." Now the seven teens thought that, maybe, they were brought together for a reason. Maybe that was what they were brought together for. To tell them that they were family…and each one of them had their own power….
Terra found out that, she too, was telekinetic, most strongly when moving rock, but not only. Starfire found out that she could shoot star bolts. Robin and Cyborg both had super-strength, and Robin was a really agile-fighter. At first Robin was upset that he didn't have any real power, but then he realized that he did-the power of the soul. He realized that he could see all people as who they were when they were born; he could see and feel their soul and heart in its purest form. He had the power of healing, also. Not like Raven and possibly Terra and Carrie. No, Robin had the power of emotional and spiritual healing.
The seven teens knew it was getting late, and knew that it was time for each to go home. There was only one problem. Carrie didn't have anyplace to stay. So Raven called her mother Arella and asked if Carrie could stay with them for a while. She said that it was important and that she would explain later. Arella agreed, because she trusted her daughter.
So the seven teens walked home together. The first to leave was Garfield, then Kori Anders, then Cyborg, and then Terra. Now left was the trio of Robin, Raven, and Carrie. Robin's house was the furthest, but as they past Raven's dark but somehow glowing house, they didn't stop, because they understood each other, and would never leave one stranded, alone in the dark. Soon the three stood alone at Robin's house. The moon was looking at them again, as if smiling. And Robin waved as he entered his house, entering his private world.
For, all of them had each their own three worlds: the world of school: hidden selves, prosaic but realistic and thwarting boundaries; the world of each other, their mysterious, woven, secret friendship that they knew would never die (the moon had whispered it so); and their own secret world, where no one hears their soul but themselves, the world of the truths that they keep for themselves and the moon-for everyone must have their secrets that no one must know.
Now it was Raven and Carrie, coming home to Arrella's house. And somehow they knew, soon they would be sisters.