Playing Charades

Chapter Four- Scattered

Every candle on the floor flickered out and she screamed unsure of everything occurring.

"Beastboy!"


"…Beastboy…" A voice echoed through the tower. Beastboy's heart wrenched inside his chest at the sound of his name. "Raven!" He whispered with urgency. Quickly, the changeling hopped up from his seat on the horse-shoe shaped couch. He ran as fast as his feet could take him, hoping he wasn't too late to help Raven.

As Beastboy approached Raven's room, he could feel a strange vibrations coming through the doorway. "Whoa…" This is a big deal. Beastboy realized. Something extremely odd was going on.

"But what…?" Then, Beastboy realized, where were the other Titans? Didn't they hear Raven's cry for help? But that didn't matter anymore, because without a second thought (or common sense), Beastboy entered Raven's room.

Instantly, the hero had to cover his eyes from the blinding light shooting from Raven's body. Beastboy was squinting from the light's intensity, but he managed to walk in a little further. Gingerly, Beastboy closed his eyes and extended his hands to feel for Raven. Aha! Beastboy wrapped both arms around Raven's body and yanked her from the midair position.

The girl's screaming had halted- for now, but Beastboy tucked her into her dark colored bed sheets. He felt a tear of worry fall down his cheek. He wished she was ok, he wished that he could've told her how he felt before she…

No! Raven was NOT dead! It wasn't possible.

Besides, her body was still glowing and moved in an upward/downward motion. This provided the fact that she was alive and breathing. Beastboy smiled gently, she was still alive for the time being. Slowly, eyes never leaving Raven, Beastboy backed out of the room. After five minutes of extremely drawn out leaving, Beastboy closed the door and went to search for Cyborg and tell him what happened.

Ten minutes later he found Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin all adding a few new personal features to the T-car in the garage. The garage was under ground which explained why none of them could hear Raven's screams.

In one breath, Beastboy hurriedly explained every detail of what had just happened to Raven. At first, everyone stared back at the green titan, motionless, and blankly.

"So… you're saying Raven was screaming and when you found her, she was in midair and a shiny white glow was coming out of her chest?" Cyborg asked, starting to understand what was going on.

"Uh, yeah dude. Isn't it obvious?" Cyborg was about to reply with something witty but Robin stopped him.

"Well, BB, is she okay?" "Um…" "Yes friend, is the friend Raven alright? I wouldn't want her to not be around for next Blorthog. For if she does, I'll be sadder than a hydrinks living in flarthgawks."

Nobody even bothered to ask what the hell that had meant.

"Just fallow me!" Beastboy finally said, breaking the most awkward silence ever. The entire team (minus Raven, duh.) went after Beastboy, prepared for the worst.

At last, they'd arrived at Raven's "Lair of Darkness", which is what they called it behind her back. Fearfully, the Titans peeked into the room.

Everyone gawked at the sight before them, Raven's body was still glowing, but now, it had been incased inside a large, white bubble. As if trying to show off for the teens, the bubble began to rise into midair above their heads.

"Oh crap…" Beastboy whispered and he hoped the team couldn't hear his heart beat doing double-time against his rib cage.

The bubble turned a soft lilac and began to jiggle. The whole room and perhaps the tower shook too.

"Raven!"

Everything turned a blinding white and five souls flickered out.


"Jinx, Bee, one at a time please…" Cyborg jolted up, and shook his head around rapidly. "Where am I?" He asked, not remembering anything. The hybrid scanned the room, finding his teammates out cold and scattered about.

Beastboy was on the bed, a pained look upon his usually happy features. His mouth seemed to be trying to form a word, but Cyborg was too tired to attempt at deciphering it.

Starfire was in a fetal position, except for her arm which hung loosely on Robin's chest.

Cyborg made a false "Awww, how sweet" type of sound. He snickered as he gently pressed them into a sleeping hug.

And last came Raven. She appeared to be okay. Her cloak was a light lavender color as opposed to its normal navy or the white the Malchior gave her the ability to wear. "Wonder what that means." Cyborg mumbled in curiosity to himself. He noticed Starfire stir and moan in her sleep. Against better judgement, he decided to let everyone awaken on their own time.

Hope yall are okay. Cause if yall ain't, who am I gonna hang with?


Notes: I wanted to make this longer but I thought that if I did, there wouldn't be a good cliffhanger, would there? (Sorry Darkest Midnight!) Eventually, I hope to make longer chapters, but I had to stop here! Oh, anyone wanna Beta for me? I need one desperately, somebody's gotta make this terrible story look good. If anyone has an idea of what they want to happen, please add it in your review. And Beta-ers, please email me, (or at least leave it in your review!) Now review! Please…