Chapter 5
Raven took a sharp intake of breath, but remained calm.
"Spirit, are you Beast Boy? Rap once for yes, twice for no." Raven asked shakily.
KNOCK… KNOCK
"Do we know you?" Raven knew it wasn't very likely, but…
KNOCK
"Spirit… are you Terra?"
KNOCK
Everyone at the table gasped, but did their best to remain calm. Raven fought a lump in her throat.
"Terra, we called for Beast Boy. You have come instead. We want to know why. Please, come into my body so we might speak to you," Raven invited. The other Titans looked at her with wide eyes. They hadn't expected Raven to invite a spirit to possess her, especially if the spirit wasn't Beast Boy.
Raven sat still, eyes closed, waiting to lose control of her body. Suddenly her body jerked forward a bit and her mind went blank.
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"Raven!" Starfire gasped.
"No, not Raven right now. Terra." The ghost replied in a voice that was even more monotone than usual. Raven's deep purple eyes were glassed over, to an unseeing, foggy lilac with no pupils.
"Okay," replied Robin. "Then we want to question you."
"Go ahead." The ghost replied.
"Why are you here, instead of BB?" Cyborg asked first.
"Beast Boy didn't want to talk." The ghost replied simply.
"Why not?" Starfire asked sadly.
"He's gone. Why would he want to talk to you?" the possessed empath replied, looking at them with unseeing eyes.
"B-because he is our friend," stammered Starfire.
"A friend? He doesn't need your friendship. He's dead." The ghost sneered, voice still void of emotion.
"Are you really Terra?" Robin asked suspiciously. "She wouldn't say things like this."
"Death changes you," was her cryptic response.
"Then our next question is, does B miss us?" asked Cyborg, almost pleadingly.
"No." the ghost replied. Cyborg frowned. He wasn't sure if he should believe that, but Terra had said that death changed people. He still didn't want to believe it.
Raven's thumb began to twitch a bit, but no one really noticed.
"Is he happy?" asked Starfire with concern.
"Yes. Happier than he was here." Raven's whole hand had begun to shake.
"Has Beast Boy said anything about us since… you know…" asked Robin.
"Only that he's glad to be away from you."
Suddenly Raven's whole arm shook and jerked around. Starfire gasped.
"Spirit, leave in peace!" The alien girl commanded, letting go of Robin and Raven's hands and turning on the light.
Raven's body jerked forward once more and the empath slumped over on the table. She was breathing heavily, and her eyes were red with anger. Squeezing her eyes shut, she took deep breaths and opened her eyes again.
When she straightened in her seat, her friends were relieved to see that her eyes were back to normal.
"I couldn't control it," Raven explained to her friends. "I could hear everything the ghost said, and I got angry."
"At Beast Boy?" Starfire asked carefully.
"At Beast Boy, at the ghost, at the idiot driver who killed Beast Boy… just… angry," Raven replied, looking down at the table. Without saying anything else, Raven stood up and went back to her room.
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Beast Boy was livid. It was unusual for him to be so angry, but he had good reason to be.
He had sat, watching the séance. When Raven had begun chanting, asking for him to come, he had felt an almost irresistible urge to step forward and let them see him. But he hadn't, and because of that another ghost had come.
Raven had repeated her chant for the third time when Beast Boy had been about to step forward, but another ghost had appeared, standing in the middle of the table. It hadn't been Terra.
Beast Boy didn't recognize the ghost, but knew why it was there. It wanted to have some fun, playing pranks on foolish humans. Beast Boy knew because the ghost had looked over and winked at Beast Boy before floating into Raven's body.
Then it had proceeded with lying to his friends.
Beast Boy stomped down the tower's halls, brooding over the horrible things the ghost had said. Beast Boy's only consolation was that if he completed the tasks, he could tell his friends that everything the ghost had said was a lie.
Beast Boy reached Raven's room and casually passed through the door. Raven was sitting on her bed, clutching a pillow to her chest. As usual of late, she had her lights turned on to stop the darkness of the night.
Raven was mumbling to herself, and Beast Boy walked a bit closer to try and hear what she was saying.
"He doesn't miss us," Raven muttered, holding the pillow tightly. "He's happy with death. He didn't even want to speak to us!" Suddenly Raven stood up. Her nails dug into the pillow so hard that her knuckles turned white.
"He doesn't even respect us enough to stop by and say goodbye properly!" Raven snarled. The pillowcase began to rip as she clawed it angrily. "It's a good thing he can't come back! He obviously doesn't care about us!"
Her pillow disappeared from her hands in an explosion of feathers, as her powers slipped from her control momentarily.
Beast Boy sighed, looking down at the floor. Was that really what Raven thought? Limply, Beast Boy turned around and floated out of her room.
There you go, you wonderful people, the fifth chapter! I hope you enjoyed it. I haven't been getting as much time to write it, what with school, and babysitting, and trying to have a social life...
Anyway, big news! I've got a new story coming out soon. It's anx-mas fic, and I'm going to update it every day, since I already havemost of it written.I'm so proud if it! Expect it to be up around the12th.
Next update on this story should be soon.
-Tammy Tamborine
