"Trigon?" Robin inquired after the shocked silence that followed her exclamation. Raven nodded tersely and Robin growled, before he could question her any further a blaring alarm rang through the Tower,
"Gotta go Robin, we will talk about this later." Before he could say anything Raven ended the connection. Quickly Raven pulled up the main screen and inserted the coordinates in her communicator. She spun around and faced the team, "Let's go kick some butt." She growled, teleporting them to the coordinates.
A large caw rang through the street and a massive black crow screamed as it transformed into Raven, she opened her cloak and Speedy, Aqualad and Mas y Menos came tumbling out. Aqualad stared at her, shivers running down his spin, "So dark…" she heard him mutter and smirked. She heard Speedy suddenly shout a warning, too late she ducked and she was swatted aside by giant hand that was basically light. Raven fell with an 'oof'. Raven fell toward the ground but was caught as Speedy slid under her and she fell into his arms. He set her down and ran off. Raven turned back and saw what looked like a giant light bulb with strands of lights streaming out forming weapons.
She frowned as the twins began running circles around the thing but a quick flash and they went flying in opposite directions. Raven grimaced at their screams and she turned back, "Lights out!" she screamed grabbing its attention from the two boys then she frowned, she was turning into Robin. "
Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" she chanted her mantra and surrounded the light bulb with darkness. The light bulb made a weird noise…it laughed…the light bulb laughed!
"Foolish girl, light is stronger than darkness." It boomed Raven sneered,
"That's what you think!" she screamed and forced the darkness to compress in on the light. It laughed again and with a flicker it shined brighter and her power was rendered useless. The light followed the darkness up to her hands and struck them. Trembling Raven fell to her knees and cradled her hands where the light had scorched her, she turned and snarled at it.
"Aqualad now!" Speedy shouted and Raven turned and watched as Aqualad brought a wave of water up and crashed it over the light, with precise aim Speedy shot a freeze arrow into the water until the light was incased inside of it, frozen. Raven turned and inspected the ice encasement, suddenly another piecing arrow flew through the air and struck the light bulb, blowing up on impact. Raven brought up a shield as ice rained from the sky.
Suddenly a deafening roar rang through the air, Raven turned toward the sound with her hands raised in a defensive position. A massive crowd of people suddenly came in and surrounded the heroes, she relaxed her powers, embarrassed, hoping no one noticed her jumpiness. Raven watched, drawing up her hood, as Fan girls surrounded the boys. Raven watched irritated as one brunette flung herself at Speedy and clung onto his arm. Since no one really noticed Raven, they really never do, she sat on the curb and waited until the boys were done.
Thoughts of murder ran through her mind, no one would notice if that brunette disappeared…right? By the time the crowd was starting to thin out Raven had come up with three hundred and seventy two ways to kill the girl…and that was just with a leaf. Aqualad plopped down beside her and sighed with content. Raven glanced over at him and almost smiled, he had lipstick stains all over his face a several pieces of paper jammed in his hand with phone numbers on them,
"I have a date tonight!" he announced cheerfully. Raven would have congratulated him if it weren't for earlier, when he told the Titans that Raven was sleeping with Speedy. Raven just scowled at him. He wasn't paying attention though, he was off in wonderland doing who knows what. Raven turned as Mas y Menos suddenly appeared in front of her. They rapidly spoke to her in a jumble of Spanish which she translated to be something about going to an arcade tonight. Raven smiled slightly and nodded her head and the boys cheered before running off in the direction of what she presumed was the arcade.
Raven turned suddenly inpatient to where Speedy was still signing auto-graphs to fan girls, "Aqualad you go back to the tower and get ready for your date, I'll wait for Speedy." With a grin, he nodded,
"Thanks Raven!" he shouted while running off toward the ocean where he would just swim back. Raven turned back and watched Speedy deal with the hoard of fan girls still surrounding him. Raven frowned and walked forward slipping through the crowd to get to Speedy. She reached forward and tried to grab his hand suddenly a blond appeared in front of her and slapped her, "Get away you weirdo. Speedy is ours." Inside her emotions screamed at her to kill these girls. Eyes flashing Raven just took a deep breath and pushed through the girls and latched onto Speedy's hand and tugged, a sharp pain shot up her arm where her burn rubbed against Speedy's hand.
Speedy whirled around to see who touched his hand and saw Raven who was scowling at the girls. Suddenly Raven was yanked forward and she collided with Speedy's chest she looked up and met Speedy's smirking face she blushed and looked down. She heard a gasp from the crowd when Raven suddenly spun and raised her arms, her hood falling and with a crow call the two disappeared leaving the hoard of Fan-girls.
A portal appeared and Raven landed gracefully out of it, unfortunately for Speedy who was not used to teleporting he fell on the ground with a grunt. Raven couldn't help it she pressed her knuckles to her lips to hide the smile snaking across her face. Aqualad suddenly bounded into the room looking quite attractive in a dark blue t-shirt and blue jeans with his hair slicked back. Raven just watched as he walked up to Speedy who was now off the ground.
"Dude! Look at all the phone numbers I got!" Aqualad sighed dreamily holding up three or four pieces of papers, "I have dates for the rest of the week!" Raven scowled when Speedy just smirked and held up eleven or twelve phone numbers,
"All these girls want to go on dates with me, all I have to do is call and it's a whole night of fun." Inside rage started growling, crouching down as if to attack. Lust was boiling over. Love was sobbing with Timid. Overwhelmed with all these emotions Raven began to twitch. Speedy and Aqualad where staring at her like she was crazy and black energy suddenly formed around the numbers in Speedy's hand and the disintegrated into a pile of ashes.
Speedy's face fell and looked crestfallen. Raven frowned and tugged her hood back up and stalked out of the room. When the door shut Raven could hear Aqualad burst into a fit of laughter and this angered her further. Raven stomped into her room and slammed the door shut with a loud bang and grabbed her mirror from the dresser, willing herself into her mind.
With a swirl of dark magic Raven appeared in Nevermore Love, Wisdom, Happy, Anger, Timid, Lust and Brave where all in front of her, "Well?" She snapped impatiently at her emotions. Timid shrunk bank in response to her anger. Happy, Wisdom and Brave all shrugged at her while Anger, Love and Lust glared at the demon-ness. Anger took a step forward, arms folded,
"Well what? You expect us to just stand by while he goes off and sucks faces with random chicks?" She growled at her. Raven glared back at her emoticlones but before she could respond Love spoke up,
"Raven, we love him. You can't us not to react upon the situation calmly." She declared keeping her voice cold and unhappy. Raven glared at all her emotions, effectively shutting them up,
"So what? I thought we were going to keep this a secret. That little act you guys just put on is defiantly hiding our jealousy." Wisdom raised her hand,
"Hold on guys, Raven is right. We don't know if he loves us back. We don't even know if he likes us that way, we have no right to claim him." Timid began crying after Wisdom's speech. Anger was tugging at her hair as if she wanted to pull it all out. Happy was frowning, Brave was staring sullenly at the ground, Lust was growling and Love looked like she was about to join Timid in creating a river. Raven just stared at her stunned,
"I need space!" she suddenly declared and left with a flash.
Reappearing back in her room Raven's powers instantly went haywire. Stuff began flying across the room, the window opened, her bathroom door flung open and the water began running, the lights flickered, "Stop, Stop, Stop!" she screamed but her emotions wouldn't listen. Pieces of the mirror fell apart and started flying dangerously everywhere a few pieces connected with her leotard and ripped it along with her skin. Her cloak tore away and was flung somewhere across the room, "Azarath, Mentrion, Zenthos!" she chanted her eyes glowing white and everything suddenly stopped moving and falling with a loud thud where the stood.
Her room was a disaster Raven groaned and buried her hands in her face. A knock suddenly echoed through the room, "Raven?" the concerned voice of Speedy sounded through the door. Raven looked up wearily and couldn't make herself move toward the door. Raven drew up her knees and rested her forearms on them, then buried her head in them,
"Go away!" she called out, her voice muffled and shaky. A pause came from the other side of the door but she didn't hear footsteps retreating down the hallway, instead she heard,
"Raven I'm coming in." Raven closed her eyes tight,
"Don't." she called out weakly, pressing a shirt to one of her wounds and flinching against the pain. Either Speedy didn't hear her or didn't listen to her wish to be alone because the door suddenly slid open followed by a startled gasp,
"Raven! What happened?" Aqualad suddenly sounded from behind Speedy who was gaping at the scene in front of him. Raven didn't bother raising her head or answering. She just shakily stood up, she needed to go to the bathroom and clean her cuts before they got infected.
The amount of power Raven had used when she calmed her emotions, along with the fight with the light bulb right beforehand had drained her completely and she swooned. Right before she collided with the floor she felt Speedy's arms wrap around her waist and shoulders, picking her up bridal style. Her head fell against his chest and she felt darkness creeping over him and heard Speedy begin barking commands at Aqualad. The last thing she remembered before falling unconscious was staring into the whites of Speedy's mask as he stared down at her, mouthing words she couldn't understand.