Shroud Of Darkness 04_03
Chapter Title: All The Things Up Until *Spoilers*
Raven, once again, awoke in the medical bay, but this time it was not Robin and Cyborg waiting by the bed, it was Starfire.
"My Dear Raven! You are awake!"
She flew over and gave Raven one of her signature bone crushing hugs.
"Star! Air!"
"Oh sorry"
Star let go and floated away a bit,
"Umm, Star, what's happened?"
"Well, about twenty days ago..."
"Wait, has it been eight days since I was last awake?"
"Yes, Robin came and told me you had woken but has fallen asleep again. I came back and have waited by your side since. One reason I wanted to know why you did and said the things you did?"
"My consciousness lost control of my mind. Starfire, what did I say? What did I do?"
Starfire takes a deep breath in, holding for a second before letting it go.
"You assaulted me and Robin, you said I should have seen, and that she was stealing me from 'her' that she would pay and then your little one would be happy. Then you stop, then you fell asleep"
"Star" Raven started but was silenced by said Titans fingers,
"It is alright Raven, we understand you we're not in the right state of mind, we, I, do not blame you for the actions, I simply wish to know why your body acted in such a way, filmhonordig and..."
"Wait what?"
"Hmm, oh yes, filmhonordig, it is a word from my homeworld, it means when the body does the minds bidding, but not what, or when, it should, and the doer rarely knows why it's doing such, almost like your worlds 'instinct' but with more, umm"
"Civility"
Star stares for a moment.
"Umm, yes? But moving on from that, I want to know why your body directed itself at me, and the anger you have towards..."
Raven cut star off again,
"Look, I was just a personal thing, it's not going to be a problem again, I'm getting over it though, I just haven't completely gotten it yet"
'Well that's a lie and a half' a voice said in her mind.
"My Dear Raven, are you alright? You have just paled very much"
"Star, you remember when we had our bodies swapped? I told you I was the last of my kind"
"Yes, I remember the time"
"I'm not entirely sure that's true now, and I'm about to faint again"
INSIDE RAVENS MIND
On one of many floating island like structures, Logic, Knowledge, Memory, Happy, Anger and Raven stood talking with each other.
"It isn't possible, Logic, Memory and I all know that he was killed" Knowledge stated,
"He had a Southern Zithonoan accent, the voice was Australian, therefore it could not, and was not him"
Logic says in her usual monotone voice,
Memory had her eyes closed, deep in thought. Sadness rises from the ground behind Memory, walking over and gripping her shoulder.
Still with eyes closed, Memory stutters out,
"W-w-w-w-we w-w-watched him d-d-die, he, Trigon showed us how he torn him up..."
She break into tears and fell to her knees, Sadness and Happy go to comfort her.
Anger takes over,
"He said he 'Painted the walls of his own room with his blood, that he thought we were safe and free from the prophesy, that his efforts had not been in vain, and that I ' Trigon that is ' enjoyed watching his face fall and his will break when I proved to him you ' us' were still connected'"
Happy looks up from Memorys' side,
"But the call means T was lying, that he is still alive"
"Then Why Hasn't He Contacted Us!" Raven snaps towards everyone.
"IFF, meaning if and only if, Trigon lied about his death, then he may not have know WE were alive" Logic replies calmly.
Raven sighs,
"Right, next thing"
She turns to Anger,
"Why did we attack Star and Robin?"
"Who's Star? And I don't know what your talking about, when'd we attack the bitch?"
Everyone states until Logic breaks the silence,
"Hmm, I think I know why we haven't seen Love recently, she's too caught up in herself and Star to hear anything else"
Knowledge speaks up this time,
"And it time for you to wake up, the alarms are going"
(Anger Doesn't Know Who Starfire Is Because Raven Holds No Anger Towards Her)
TITAN TOWER MED BAY
Sure enough Raven suddenly becomes aware of the loud blearing alarms stating that the Tower was under attack.
She quickly springs to action, teleporting to outside the tower.
OUTSIDE THE TOWER
Nurse Light was firing many different light beams at the four other Titan girls, she cackled manically, closing her eyes and tilting her head back.
"Ec hem"
Nurse Light stops laughing, her face turning to a fearful frown.
She peaks one eye open, being met with the sight of Ravens face.
She faints on the spot.
"Hey Rae! Your all better!" Beast girl exclaims turning back to her human form.
"Good to see you up Raven and thanks for scaring Light, she's a lot easier to handle when she doesn't have a few hundred volts running thru her suit"
"It was nothing, umm, listen once we've cleaned this up, I need to borrow the computer"
"Umm, ok, what are you going to do?"
Raven took a deep breath in,
"IthinkmybrothermaystillbealiveandIneedtousethecom putertoacesstheJusticeLeaguesdeepspacesatalitesyte mtosearchforhimandmakehimeinvisibletothemsohecanco metoEarthwithouthavingtogothroughtheJL'ssecurity"
Everyone stared at her for a few moments, then they all talked at once (The Order Below Is Robin, Star,Cy Then Beast Girl)
"Hack the Justice League! Are you crazy!"
"My Dear Raven, You have a brother! Oh this is delightful news!"
"Girl, you do know you can just go vouch for him up on the WT, right?"
"I'm sorry I lost you at 'think'"
Raven holds up a hand,
"Ok, Robin, maybe. Star, yes, I do, but don't celebrate just yet, I need to find him first. Cyborg, I don't like it up there and Batman wouldn't let him through that easily. Beast Girl, I don't care"
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Everyone was back to staring.
Robins 'master' communicator starts going of.
"Hold on a sec, I gotta answer this"
She walks a bit away from them.
"So Rea, care to tell us more 'bout this brother of yours?" Cyborg asks,
"I'm not sure how to describe him. He was smart, but not so much intellectual so, he, he was kinda like a con-man, only he wasn't commuting crime, even by earths standards. He was a great fighter, well, he is when he hasn't been able to talk his opponents down, he was good at talking, resolving issues, although sometimes he'd just confuse everyone and we'd all forget what we were fighting about. And he fought for me, put his life on the line to free me from the prophecy"
"He didn't do that very well"
"BG! That's rude and insensitive. You should know better girl, sorry Rea, please go on" Cy says with a smile,
"Well their isn't much left to tell. I thought he had succeeded in separating me, until Trigon made a show of control. When he found me, he told me that he'd kill my brother, that that incident was why he had his influence known"
Before anyone else could comment Robin comes back,
"Raven, it seems like we don't need to commit treachery to find your brother, he beat us to the Watch Tower. We got three minutes till they take us up"