A/N: Hope you guys liked the last chapter. I don't own the Teen Titans. Read and enjoy.
Chapter Two
Raven walked through the streets of the old town. She looked around and saw a couple of townspeople give her strange looks. Those looks made her shiver but no one could see it under her cloak. She walked a little bit further until a group of people surrounded her. " Who are you and what are those strange cloths you are wearing?" One of the people asked as he walked up to her.
" My name is unimportant as are the cloths I'm wearing." Raven said. " So, if you please I must be going." She said as she pushed past him. One of the people, a women, threw a rock at her. Raven sensed it and used her dark magic to stop it. Bad idea!
" That girl is a witch!" The women who threw the rock exclaimed. There was a murmuring of agreement. The people started to advance toward Raven. She turned around and frowned.
" It's true I am a witch and if you try to hurt me you'll all be sorry." She said rising into the air. The people looked up at her in horror. The usual witches that they burned had never done anything like this. " Azarath metrion zinthos." Raven chanted. A large wagon flew at the group. She did her best to not seriously injure them. Some escaped the path of the wagon but some were not so lucky. She floated away from the town and went into the woods. She found a clearing and sat on a fallen log. She pulled out her book and tried to find a way back to the present.
Present
" Have you seen a girl wearing a blue cloak pass by here?" Robin asked an old women as she was sweeping up her store.
" Afraid not young man but I'll tell you if I see her." The women said.
" Thank you, here's a way to contact me if you see her." Robin said handing her the number of the boarding house. The women took it and as soon as Robin had left, she ripped it up. She knew where Raven was, but she wasn't about to tell him.
The Past: The clearing
Raven read over countless pages, learning about the Lords of Salem and their history. But She found nothing that could help her get back. She did find the spell that sent her here but if she used it again it would probably send her back to the age of the dinosaurs. " How do things like this always happen to me?" Raven asked herself.
Later that night...
Raven woke to the sound of chanting. She walked out of the bed of leaves she had made for herself and went back to the clearing. She ducked behind a tree and looked out at where the chanting was coming from. A woman was tied to a pole. She was screaming very loudly. There were people in black cloaks surrounding her. Then the group of cloaked people parted and a man in a red cloak, who Raven assumed was their leader, stepped forward and placed his hand over the woman's mouth. " Shhhh." The man put his index finger over his lips. " Be quiet my child." He said taking his hand off the woman's mouth.
" Please don't hurt me please." The woman cried out in horror. Tears were streaming down her face like rivers. The fierce look of terror that was in her eyes frightened Raven. The cloaked people said nothing as they drew closer to her. The red cloaked man pulled out a knife with the same symbol on it as Raven's book. These people are the Lords of Salem. She realized.
" This woman's blood shall be the catalyst of our power. After tonight we will become more powerful than we have ever been." The red cloaked man said. There was a cheer and the woman screamed. The red man took the knife and began to skin the woman alive.
" Stop please no!" the woman shouted as the skin on her left arm plopped sickeningly into a bowl that one of the people had set under her arm. Raven stood behind the tree transfixed by the sene before her. Suddenly the man in the red cloak stopped his work and turned toward the area where Raven was hiding.
" It would appear that we have a visitor to these festivities. Come on out Raven I know you are there." He said. She didn't want to come out but she felt as if she were being pulled into the open. " Ah, there's our guest. Please have a seat and enjoy the show." The man said returning to his bloody task. The woman screamed again as he skinned her right arm. More skin fell into the bowl.
" Our leader said to take a seat Raven." One of the witches said placing a hand on Raven's shoulder. Raven sat down on the same log that she had sat on earlier that day. Screams filled the air as the knife cut through the woman's stomach. " Do not judge us for this Raven, we must do this to retain our power." the witch said sitting down beside her. " My name is Leila by the way."
" How do you know my name?" Raven asked still staring at the now bloody figure still screaming in agony.
" We know everything about you Raven, your father, your mother , and your friends the Teen Titans." Leila said.
" How?" Raven asked.
" Our leader sent a spy into your time period with the book you have." Leila said. " She was watching you for a very long time. Even before you joined the titans."
" Why?" Raven asked.
" Because of your father. We knew that you would have a grand destiny."
" You worship Trigon don't you?" Raven asked starting to see this clearly.
" Yes we used the book to look into our lord's future and we saw you." Leila said. " We wanted you to be our new leader but we couldn't find a way to reach you until lord Terik came to us with the book." Leila explained. The woman stopped her screaming and succumbed to death. The man in the red cloak ,who Raven now knew was Terik, Took the skin of the woman and threw it into the fire. Then he poured the blood into a large cup and took a sip of it.
" To lord Trigon." He said passing the cup to another warlock. The warlock took a sip and passed it to a witch. This continued until the cup came to Leila.
" I have a new toast to make." She said as she stood up. She took a sip and raised the glass. " To our new leader, lady Raven the daughter of lord Trigon!" She shouted and the others nodded in agreement. How do I get out of this? Raven thought as she placed her face into her hands.
A/N: I hope you guys liked this chapter and don't worry there is more action to come. Please review.
