I'm back! Wow, I haven't updated in a really long time! Sorry, things have been kinda strange around here….

Chapter 7: The Dreams Begin

The purple-haired half-demon froze in mid-air, staring at the gun that was pointed at her. As the hand squeezed the trigger, a defiant shriek filled her ears. With a flash of emerald, a green falcon flew up in between the girl and the bullet.

A shot rang through the air, and the bird dropped like a stone, blood flowing freely from his head…

"Friend Raven!"

Raven woke with a start, and looked wildly around at her surroundings. Half-expecting to be on a battlefield, she found herself in the T-car, with Starfire peering at her.

"Friend Raven, we have arrived at our destination," said the alien happily before flying out of the side-door. Pushing the dream out of her mind, Raven got out after her, and immediately wanted to get back in.

After the cool, air-conditioned T-car, the air here felt like hell. It was hot, for one. Raven already felt beads of sweat form on her neck event though she was just standing there. It was humid, for another. The heaviness of it pressed down on her and made her feel claustrophobic. The dark girl felt as if she was breathing through a straw.

Or a sponge. A hot, wet sponge.

"Please tell me that the pool isn't heated," she said.

The other Titans didn't seem to hear her, for they were all looking up at the beach-house.

Which, Raven thought, didn't look that bad. It was a grayish-brown in color, and it looked like it was made with driftwood, giving it an aquatic aura. The deck started at the bottom and wound up and around the house like a snake.

"Come on, dudes!" Beast Boy yelled. "Let's go explore!" With that, he, Cyborg, and Starfire ran up the deck.

Raven stayed where she was, with a slightly annoyed Robin standing next to her.

"Uh, guys? Shouldn't we unpack first…?" He stopped when the other three Titans ran into the house, not hearing a word he said.

Muttering to himself, the Boy Wonder followed them inside, with Raven smirking and floating behind him.

In Da House…

Raven walked slowly through the halls of the beach-house, sometimes passing a fellow Titan along the way. The walls were a light tan color, with a seashell border. Every few feet there would be a painting or photograph of aquatic life.

Floating into each of the rooms, Raven tried to push the dream from her head, but it always came back.

It doesn't mean anything, she thought. It's not a vision. Just a dream, nothing more.

'But what if it is?' asked a voice inside her mind.

It's not, she urged, trying to reassure herself. Visions didn't come often, and she couldn't remember a time when one came in her dreams.

'Just because it has never happened before, doesn't mean it won't,' said the voice.

Go away…

'I can't go away, I'm your mind, remember? You're just talking to yourself…'

"Shut up!"

Raven didn't realize she had said that out loud until she heard another voice behind her.

"You okay, Rae?"

She turned around to find Cyborg standing in the doorway, worry plastered on his face. Raven put her hood over her head and brushed past him. "I'm fine, and don't call me 'Rae'."

Cyborg stared after her as she walked down the hall, and then shook his head. "Weird…"


"Hey, did you guys know that a chicken once lived with its head cut off for over a year?" asked Beast Boy.

The Titans were sitting in the living room, eating pizza and watching TV.

"Really? Man, that's so disgusting but that's so cool at the same time!" laughed Cyborg.

Robin didn't really look amused. "Just the thought of that makes me sick."

Raven picked up a small knife from her plate and looked at Beast Boy. "It lived for over a year?"

"Yep."

Raven looked at the knife again, and snapped her fingers in mock disappointment. "Darn, I guess my plan won't work after all…"

All the Titans stared at her for a moment. The silence was broken when Robin and Cyborg rolled on the ground, howling with laughter.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" Beast Boy backed a few feet away from Raven, but strangely, he didn't look all that offended.

Robin and Cyborg had finally stopped laughing, but they were still holding their sides. "That was priceless, Rae!" Cyborg forced out before collapsing to the ground again.

Raven narrowed her eyes. "How many times do I have to tell you to not call me that? It's not that hard."

Cyborg grew suddenly serious. "Speaking of which, what was with you earlier? You sounded like you were talking to someone."

Everyone's eyes were on Raven, waiting for her to speak. Robin had an eyebrow raised, Starfire looked curious, and Beast Boy…looked worried? Raven tensed.

"I-it was nothing…" she said hastily, taking her plate to the kitchen and then phasing through the floor before anyone could respond.


Raven found herself surrounded by rock and sand. Boulders jutted out from the ground, and rock ledges towered above her.

Walking forward, the empath entered a clearing. On the far side, a long crack snaked through the ground, as if the earth had been split apart. A few yards from that was a red spot on the dirt. Blood that had dried long ago.

"Raven…"

The half-demon felt the earth slightly tremble beneath her as someone spoke from behind. Turning around, she came face-to-face with a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

"…Terra?"

Terra smirked. She was soaking wet, even though it wasn't raining, and mud caked some parts of her body. "Yes Raven, it's me. I bet you thought you would never see my face again." Her voice dripped with anger and hate, and the ground trembled more violently than before. "Actually, you probably hoped that you would never see me again, otherwise you wouldn't have done this to me!"

Terra lifted up some of her shirt, revealing her side. Raven stared. Her skin and tissue was ripped to her ribs, and blood flowed slowly out of it like a red river.

"You killed me, Raven! You just revived me so you could kill me yourself!" The ground was quaking uncontrollably now. Raven fell to the ground as Terra's hands glowed yellow and she ripped a hunk of earth from underneath her feet.

"Terra, listen!" Raven pleaded, trying to back away from the angry geomancer, who was hovering in the air above her. "You've got to understand…"

"Shut up Raven!" She pointed to her side. "I understand this; I understand Beast Boy's broken heart, that's all I need to understand!"

Terra ripped up more rock and shaped it into a sharp point, and aimed it at Raven's chest.

"You killed me, Raven." The rock-dagger flew towards Raven at full-speed. "And now I'm returning the favor!"

Raven sat straight up in bed, breathing heavily and looked wildly around her room.

"It was just a dream," she gasped, feeling her heart thud uncontrollably in her chest. The empath took a few deep breaths to calm herself, and looked at her clock.

4:40 A.M.

Raven sighed. Putting on her cloak, she floated silently out of the room, trying to forget what Terra had said.

You just revived me so you could kill me yourself…


Ooh, freaky…anyways, I've been kinda busy, cause school started on Thursday and other stuff's been happening, but I'll try to update my fics at least once a week. Here is some stuff to expect in the next few weeks:

Updates for Never Meant To Be,

Updates for Out Of The Night,

Possibly more poems,

And, a complete revision of Earthshine. I was reading it one day and I really wasn't happy with it, so it's gonna be completely redone. Stuff will be taken out, stuff will be put in, and it's going to be edited to death! Yay!

Sayonara!