Chapter 4
"Booyah!' a voice rang through the silent air. The voice and explosion obviously belonged to Cyborg and his canon as him and the others exited the T car. My form stayed mounted to the ground as I stared up at the dark sky.
I wasn't exactly sure what was wrong with me, just that something was wrong and the fact that I'm scared frightened me. Mentally, I checked over myself, nothing but a couple of cuts and bruises that could be healed easily. Sitting up, the bones in my back popped as I placed a hand on the back of my throbbing head, and the other touched the piece of tape that covered my mouth. When I caught the sight of my leotard I froze, the usual violet color uniform was now a deep grey. Everything, my leo, the cape, my boots, it was all grey.
"Hey Rae, you okay?" My eyes peered upwards as the robotic man stood over me, his sonic canon changing into his normal hand. It was hard to miss the noticeable pause in his step when he caught sight of me and the state I was in. The terror spread through my body when I saw his reaction, his dark skin managed to pale slightly. "Oh god." he whispered, and kneeled down in front of me.
"Hey Cy, we need your-" Beast Boy began as he walked over then paused when he too caught the sight of me. "Oh my god." he whispered, with his eyes wide. Tears started to rim on my eyes at the reaction I was getting.
Why am I so sad- and scared?
"BB go." Cyborg said, switching his feet and blocking my view from Beat Boy, whose feet I heard quickly retreat.
What wrong with me? Was I worse now then before?
"Raven?" Cyborg asked, gaining my attention again. My wet eyes looked up at his deep brown eyes, there was a flash or fear before hope that did nothing to reassure me. "I'm going to take the tape off now, okay." I managed a small nod, that made my brain rattle. His large hand raised up towards my face, which made me flinch in fear as he grabbed the edge of the tape and slowly ripped it off my mouth. Before I could stop it, a tear fell over the edge of my eye and down my cheek which made Cyborg freeze, as I looked up at him.
"I'm scared." my voice cracked as it left my mouth.
"What happened?!" Robin cried. Following a strong urge I hid myself behind Cyborg as he got to his feet to face the worried leader. "Where's Raven?"
"Hey man, give her some room." Cyborg said, putting a hand to hold back the concerned leader. Robin looked down at the metal mans hand in shock.
"Give her room?" he scoffed. "What the hell happened to her?" I cringed at the roughness in his voice and unconsciously grabbed Cyborg arm in fear.
"Lower your voice, your scaring Rae." Cyborg said, while casting a worried look down at me. Peeking out behind him I looked at Robin who's annoyed look turned to worry when he saw me.
"Raven?" he whispered. Letting go of Cyborgs arm I stepped out from my protector.
"We need to take her to the tower, run some tests. But something tells me it might be her emotions." Cyborg analyzed. Robin's eyes continued to look at me, taking in every detail that was written on me. "Robin," Cyborg said, to seize the leaders attention. The domino masked eyes flicked from me to his robotic friend. "Go tell the others and follow us home." he commanded, almost in a leader way.
I know he wasn't trying to have authority over Robin but when it came to medical attention, Cyborg knew what he was doing. The bright traffic cone ran from us and over to the concerned changeling and alien. I felt Cyborgs soft touch on my elbow as he directed me towards the T Car that was covered in red goo. "We're just going to take you home, okay Rae?" he asked, while opening the passenger door. I gave a small nod of the head and buckled myself in safely. Once he was in he pressed the power button letting the engine hum as he pulled away from the scene. "Can you let me in on what happened before we showed up?"
"Red X just wanted a fight." I explained, and looked out the window blankly. "Then Robin was stuck and next thing I knew Red was on top of me." My voice trailed off as the words he said swarmed through my head.
"Did he say something?" he asked. I didn't respond while tears swarmed my eyes, then I gave a small, sad nod.
"Mean things." I croaked, and fumbled with my fingers.
"I won't push it, tell me when you're ready." he sighed and drove down the bridge.
"...No one on this planet, or in their right mind would waste their time to love a piece of pathetic trash like you," echoed through my mind, making me bite back a whimper.
To distract myself I decided to focus on the problem at hand, my emotions. From what I could tell Nevermore was empty, very vacant. Where can my emotions have possibly gone? Maybe they're hiding or in the cave, something like that. They can't be gone- they are me after all. But why am I so scared, I'm terrified of everything and so sad? I'm very timid, and it might explain the color of my cloak. Was I Timid at the moment?
What about the cuts I have, why haven't they healed, along with bruises that were forming. The only reason that could be happening would be if my power is restricted. The thought made my blood run cold. My emotions and powers gone, how the hell could that happen? I know my emotions are a strong factor in my powers but it never occurred to me that I would need both. The sound of the engine cutting off brought me back down to reality.
"Do you want to grab anything from your room before heading to the med bay?" Cyborg asked as I shut the car door. "Maybe a change of clothes?" he opted. I looked down at the ripped grey leotard I was wearing. Then there was a roar of another engine as Robin flew in on his bike.
"Um yeah." I replied, while watching Robin take off his helmet and walked over. I tried my best not to flinch at the quick movements he made. "If you don't mind." I added in a small voice.
"Not at all Rae." Cyborg said. "I'll head up to the med bay and Robin will go with you to your room okay?" Looking at my grey boots I gave a nod and we loaded into the elevator. The silence dragged on till the elevator stopped at the floor where Robin and I exited off. Making sure to keep at least of foot in between, us we made our way down the hall to my room.
"Do you mind if I come in?" Robin asked, as I entered the dark, gothic room. Looking over my shoulder I saw him stand in the doorway his feet outside if my room.
"Oh." I sighed. "Yeah, you can come in." I watched his steel toed boot cautiously step its way into my room while I turned my dresser. Pulling open the oak wood dresser I stared wide eyes at all of the grey cloaks and leotards, every single one was grey.
"Everything okay?" Robin asked, making me jump slightly, at the sudden closeness of his voice. My sense of awareness was gone, just another problem to the list.
"Yeah." I mumbled and opened my bottom drawer where lazy day clothes were. Grabbing a black wife beater and pair of grey cotton shorts I placed them on the dresser and turned to my bookshelf. I scanned over the shelves looking for spell books that could possibly help, then placed the four books on the dresser before turning to my bed. My mirror sat unmoved on my bed, from earlier when everything made sense. Grabbing the mirror I stacked all of my things and scooped them into my arms.
"I can grab those." he offered, before I could protest the small amount of stuff was taken from my arms. Then silently, I followed Robin out of my dark, depressing room and back into the hallway. While we loaded the elevator I racked through my brain for explanations of what could possibly be happening, or what had happened to me. When we both arrived, Cyborg had a bed all ready for me, machines beeping and my medical history on a computer monitor next to the bed.
"You can go change." Cyborg said, while I silently looked at all of the machines, that were about to be hooked up to me. Grabbing my clothes I slipped into the bathroom and changed, I froze when I caught myself in the reflection. The girl looked nothing like the girl I saw earlier this morning. Her skin was more pale, almost a deadly grey, dark circles hung under her sad eyes and the violet hair fell limply. How can I be this girl? Changing into my clothes I turned to leave but paused when I heard Robin's voice leak through the door.
"Is it her emotions or powers?" he asked, I carefully pressed my ear to the cool metal door.
"I don't know man. But I've never seen Raven his scared before." Cyborg replied. "Whatever Red said to her, obviously made something snap."
"What do you remember about Nevermore?" he asked, and I heard the squeak of his shoes as he was probably pacing.
"All of the different Raven's I saw, there were so many, each representing one of her emotions. And this Raven right now, looks like Timid." he explained, and I heard the beeping of more machines. With a sigh I pushed open the door to reveal myself to the two worried teammates. "How you feeling, Rae?" Cyborg asked, while Robin stared at me. I walked across the room and climbed onto the bed, where I sat Indian style in the middle.
"Tired." I answered, which was true; I felt exhausted.
"Okay, we'll just run a couple of test, make sure everything is fine and you can sleep." Cyborg said, and grabbed my arm gently before inserting an IV drip, then attaching two sticky pads to my chest. Reaching over I grabbed my mirror and one of the large spell books next to it. Flipping through the pages I tried to find something about the emoticlones, the monks of Azarath didn't fill me in a whole lot about them, just to control them. And judging by what happened today, I guess I lost control. My eyebrow raised at the thought, the monks of Azarath. I should ask them. Flipping through the pages I found the spell for a portal to Azarath. I looked up at Robin and Cyborg who were staring intently at the screen of my test results. Closing my eyes I pictured Azarath in my head, the bright sky and empty streets, my mother flying around.
"Arella." I whispered, then paused. "Please, I need your help." Another pause and I felt it, the sudden race in my heart beat, and the warmth I felt in the back of my skull.
"Raven?" Cyborg asked, when the beeping of the monitor increased. Closing my eyes tighter the beeping and heat increased until finally, I collapsed onto the bed. Unconscious.
HI EVERYONE! As usual I want to thanks you for all of the great reviews and follow/favorites, it means the world to me that you guys are enjoying it so much since I love t write it, and its all basically made up on the dot because I have this habit that if I plan out story when I start writing it I wont finish it because its all ready done in my head, ya know? Soo anywhooo i hoped you enjoyed please comment! I reply and give virtual hugsss
: it seriously took all of my power not to not to do a RaexRobxRedX triangle, i think my next story might be a Rae and RedX one, I'm such a sucker for bad buys hehe thanks for the lovely comment! hope you return!
CARDS: haha i wish I could write everyday and give you more i'm just busy all the time, hope you enjoyed the chapter!
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