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Chapter Six: The Truth

Cyborg didn't wait for the door to open, instead blasting it off of its hinges. He and Star raced inside to see Raven kneeling on the floor, her face twisted in pain and screaming. "Raven!" Cyborg yelled, grabbing her shoulder, but she didn't react. He instantly started scanning her, and the results made his heart sink. "Star, we need to get her to the med wing. Something's wrong!"

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Robin and Beastboy were just about to start their way back when Robin's communicator beeped. Whoever was on the other side didn't even wait for Robin to answer before he started speaking. "Raven's in trouble! Get back here now!" And with that, Cyborg cut the connection. Robin and Beastboy exchanged glances, and instantly took off. Beastboy changed into a pterodactyl and grabbed on to Robin's wrists. They were back at the tower in less than ten minutes. They followed the sounds of raised voices to the medical bay, where they found an awful scene.

Raven was thrashing around on a bed, moaning and gasping like she was being choked. Starfire was trying to calm her down, but had been forced to restrain her. Meanwhile, Cyborg was running from machine to machine, muttering to himself and yelling out questions and instructions to Star.

"What happened?" Robin asked, walking quickly over to help Star hold Raven down.

"I don't know," Cyborg said a little frantically. "We heard her scream, and when we got to her room she started freaking out! Her body's under extreme stress, and she's in a lot of pain. It's like she's having a fit or something but I can't tell what's wrong!"

"What can we do?" Beastboy asked seriously, moving to stand by Raven's head and looking down worriedly at his friend.

"Just make sure she doesn't hurt herself," Cyborg said. "I'm going to get a sedative. I just hope that nothing bad happens because of it."

"What do you mean?" Robin asked worriedly.

"She's half demon," Star gasped as Raven continued to thrash around. "We do not know what affects man-made substances and medicines might have on her system."

"Then is there any way that we can avoid it?" the Boy Wonder asked.

"No," Cy said, moving over to inject the sedative into an IV attached to Raven's arm. "She's going to do some serious damage to us or herself, and her body's under too much pressure. She needs to calm down or she'll have a heart attack or something." Raven's struggles subsided and her breathing slowed, though she was still gasping. "There."

The four titans watched silently as their friend stopped moving entirely. She was so pale, and there were dark circles under her eyes. If not for the heart monitor, which showed her steadying pulse, they might have thought she was dead.

"Did you have any luck?" Cy asked Robin after a moment.

"Not really," he sighed. "Slade sent a robot to tell us that we're all going to die. Not much else. How about you?"

"Nothing. The scan will be done soon, but I wouldn't get too hopeful if I were you."

"I have found something," Star said hesitantly. "But it is by no means a good thing."

At the others' encouragement, the alien went to her room and found the storybook that she had been looking at before. She opened to the chapter about the enchantress. "Isn't this just a storybook?" Cyborg asked, casting his eye over the elaborate pictures. "I mean, it's not like I can read it or anything, but the chapter before it looks like it's warning you against trusting strangers."

"That is what I thought when I first read it," Star said. "Until I saw this." She flipped the page over to reveal a picture of the enchantress. While the figure was completely black, a glowing red jewel was set in the middle of her forehead. The enchantress was dressed in a cloak as well, and the setting… it looked like an old interpretation of Jump City. Except, there were a lot more broken buildings, and dead people on the streets.

"That," Beastboy said after a moment. "Does not look good."

"We won't let this happen!" Robin said, determination ringing in his voice. "Raven will be able to stop this. We can help her do it."

Cyborg, Beastboy, and Starfire all nodded in agreement. No matter what, they would help their friend, whether she liked it or not. However, that could only start after she woke up. Until then, there wasn't much that anyone could do. Cyborg started teaching the others about how he thought Raven's body might react to various substances, and so showed them what to give her in different situations. This was important as, if she ended up in the medical bay again one way or another, the half-robot wouldn't be able to watch her at all times.

Once the lesson in medicine was done, Robin and Cyborg started working on some computer programs that might help them in days to come. Starfire went back to her room to look through the rest of her books. Beastboy was left alone to watch Raven.

"Hey, Raven," he said once the others had gone. "I know you can hear me. Well, you probably can't, which is why I'm going to be telling you this stuff. I like you, Raven, as in a lot. I know that you think I love Terra, but I've never felt this was about anyone other than you. I'd die if anything happened to you. When the other prophecy happened, and we all thought you were dead, I didn't know what to do. It felt like I couldn't breathe. Then, when we were all facing ourselves, the other me kept going on about Terra. It made me so mad, not because of what he said about her, but that he didn't say anything about you. I love you, Raven, so don't you dare go anywhere without me."

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