Here is chapter four. You can all thank the anonymous reviewer 'random girl' for getting me to update. So, you can thank my guilty conscience for this story being updated. You can also thank the fact that I was sick a day and a half, and was working on this. I have part of the next chapter done too, but I think I might make it a long one.
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The elevator was moving as fast as the time, and time felt like it had stopped. The arrow above the doors that pointed to which floor you were on seemed to be stuck on the second, and refused to move to first.
I slouched back against the wall. It was Tuesday again. It had been for the last twelve minutes.
Tuesday was the day that Terra had disappeared. Why did bad things always need to happen on a Tuesday? What was so special about it?
I was surprised when I heard the annoying ding of the elevator. I was on the first floor.
"Raven?" Robin was standing at the entrance of the door. So much for me getting out of talking to him.
I still looked down at the floor. I could feel him looking at me, "Robin?"
"Yes?" Was Robin's reply.
"I-" I cut myself off mid-sentence.
"Yes?" Robin repeated, this time with a bit more concern and curiousity mixed into his voice.
"Have you ever heard of Evil's Desire?" I bluntly asked.
Robin seemed to have been expecting me to say something else. "No..."
I continued on, trying to avoid his eyes on me, even though I could not see them. "Evil's Desire is the child of a demon and a human. His father is sometimes referred to as the devil. His mother was raped by the devil, and she gave birth to him. From the moment he was born he was judged because of a prophecy that said he would help his father to destroy every existing galaxy that there was.
"He was taught to be good, and he was self-disciplined, but one day his father sent someone to tell him that it was time - that he had to destroy his world, and the few friends that he had.
"Evil's Desire obeyed his orders, not listening to his friends speeches of hope, and options. Instead, he destroyed the world."
Robin's stare felt like it was intensifying, and as I looked up, I could see that he was staring at me. He was not looking angry though, or confused, like I thought he would be. Instead, he looked concerned.
"Raven, why are you telling me this?" Robin asked it so gently, so carefully, as if the question itself was fragile.
"I just thought that you would want to know." I said, standing up and walking out the elevator door. I brushed his hand off my shoulder as I walked by.
The door to the roof swung open in a haste. Robin rushed out onto the roof. He was panting.
I lowered myself down onto the ground from my meditative stance. I really do not know why I was meditating right now, it did not do anything anymore.
I did not wait for Robin to calm down before I spoke. "Beast Boy's gone," I droned out.
Robin stopped his heavy breathing instantly as I told him this.
He looked up at me slowly, chest back to panting insanely, but he was no longer gasping. "Why didn't you come down and tell me this? We don't have time for me to be running up stairs to talk to you!" Robin raspily yelled out. "We should be out there looking for him!"
I was still sitting cross-legged in the traditional meditative style, only on the ground. I did not bother to get up from my position. There was no time to do anything, so we should not bother. "It won't matter soon anymore."
Robin was shocked, appalled by what I had said. I had only told him the truth. "Raven, we have two titans out there, and we don't know where either of them are!"
"We only have one titan out there. Terra is not out there." I knew Robin was going to ask me to explain what I meant, so I continued on: "She's not coming back. Beast Boy's not going to find her. She's dead, in hell." I was blunt about it. The explanation may not have been the greatest.
"I can't believe you, Raven! You and Terra were acting like friends last week!" Robin yelled.
We were friends last week.
Robin turned away, fuming. He did not believe me. He started making his way towards the door.
"Trigon's coming." Robin stopped.
"Who?" Robin said, still not facing me.
I did not say anything. I did not want to have to talk about Terra, and I really did not want to talk about myself. It was hard enough before telling the prophecy.
Robin stood there, staring at me; waiting for me.
The silence seemed to consume me. Maybe if I had never stopped talking, I could have told him - but since I had hushed myself, I could not seem to start again. We both sat there, waiting. Finally, Robin broke the silience:
"Do you mean Evil's Desire?" He said it gently, slowly - he seemed to know that it meant something to me. He just did not know what.
"No, Robin, I don't." I took a small breath, but did not let myself stop. If I stopped again then dead air would come back and mute me again. "I mean the demon. The father."
Robin then asked me the one thing I did not want to say. "Raven, who is Evil's Desire?"
I could tell from the way he asked me, the way that he had said my name and the word 'is', that he knew who it was. He just needed confirmation from me.
"Trigon's daughter," I took a slight pause before actually answering his question, "Me."
"It's your prophecy then, isn't it?" Robin took a few steps towards me, closing the distance so that in only two more steps he would be touching me.
"Yes, my prophecy." I could not release any more than that. It is not like he needed anymore to understand, anyway.
"Why should I believe you?" It was more the fact that he wanted proof, than the fact that he did not believe me. Robin was just that type of person, he felt that everything was like a crime scene investigation.
"Because," I said, looking out over the rooftop at the red sun that was in mid-sunset, "The sun, it follows him - and it has been slowly rising for the last three hours."
