Fan Fiction ❯ The Act of Shadows (Part 1) ❯ Emergence ( Chapter 2 )

Sunlight.

It's been a lazy week for the Titans, nothing has happened for about eight long days. There was, however, a burglary at a bank. But it turned out to be a false alarm. Boredom can change a person in many ways. For them, it was turning them against one another for the most petty things.

Starfire, with nothing better to do, is glued to the TV set along with Beast Boy. Beast Boy, with a look of death on his face due to boredom, flips the TV set to anything remotely of interest, but the constant reruns and the boring soaps prove too much for him and he falls dead asleep on the couch. Starfire soon follows. Cyborg walks in, scoots Beast Boy's near-comatose body and grabs the remote and switches it to the news.

"In today's news, A security scare at One William's Skyscraper, a financial firm owned by Wayne Enterprises, had city police searching for a theif early this morning. A janitor claimed it was due to a malfunction in security. The janitor was not available for comment."

"And now for traffic, a fog that hit the city last night caused some...<CLICK>

Cyborg let out a sigh, "Theres is absolutly nothing to do."

Robin just nodded, leaning against the wall, impatiently tapping his feet. This rythmatic tapping was starting to get to Cyborg. each tap seemed to get more and more louder. More unbearable by the second. To the point in which he just couldn't take it.

Cyborg quickly got up and said "WOULD YOU STOP THAT!!"

"WHAT?! WHAT AM I DOING?!" Robin screamed back.

Beast Boy sits up with the same death look "What's going on guys?"

"MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!" Both yelled at Beast Boy.

Beast Boy blinked and fell back into a vegitative state without hesitation. Starfire, still on the floor, remained unphased.

While this drama played out day by day, Raven seemed to be non-existant. Staying in her room for days on end. This, however was nothing new to the Titan's. But with the new found freedom, she found more time for herself. The rest decided not to bother (Because God help the poor idiot who stumbles in her room). For days she's been in a meditative state, chanting incantations and mantras. While in this Nirvanic state, she becomes one in the essence of all living things. She can sense the growing tension going on outside her room and whats going on in the city. This is truly bliss for her.

As she kept in that state she sensed something, something different. She sensed a presence with strong emotions, she sensed a conflict inside the mind of someone that seemed familiar. She saw a man in her vision, wearing a black trenchcoat, holding a rifle, aiming at her head.

"I'm sorry"

A shot was fired and the glass in her room shattered to the floor

As Dimitri looked through his scope he saw Raven laying on the floor, a bullet hole smoking at the other end of her room, a shocked look on her face.

5 more shots were fired.

"AZERATH METRION ZINTHOS!"

"What the hell?"

The bullets hit a black shield encircling Raven, the bullets stopped inches from her face and tumbled to the ground.

As Dimitri looks on through his scope he sees other members burst into her room, they signal at each other and point at him.

"Damn, my cover has been comprimised." said Dimitri

"Quickly, get out of there." said the General

Dimitri threw down his rifle and drawn his pistol as he bolted to the other side to the building, but the security guard was waiting for him.

"I knew it, you were a terrorist all along. Put your weapon down or I'll shoot!"

Dimitri ran up to him and took off the slide of his gun, threw it off the side, and knocked him down, the security guard got up and ran screaming.

"Now I gotta get out of here." said Dimitri but as he looked up he saw the weirdest thing. 2 green orbs coming at him with intense velocity. Before he could do anything they hit ground and exploded at his feet, knocking him back next to the side of the building. He got up and saw Starfire.

"You!" said Dimitri, "You are the alien?"

"You tried to hurt my friend!" said Starfire.

"I don't hurt my friends."

As he said this he jumped off the side of the building and fired a rappel gun at a nearby steam pipe. He latched on and swung himself into a glass window, busting into an empty office.

As he ran to the door, he heard a voice.

"Dimitri?"

Dimitri looked back to see Raven, floating outside of the window, her face filled with shock.

"ATTACK HER! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" Said the General.

Suddenly, Dimitri pulled out a pistol and fired shots at Raven, but to no avail. She just simply floated out of the way of the oncoming bullets

"AZERATH METRION ZINTHOS!"

The large bookcase in the room started to move. Before he could do anything, Dimitri was painfully smashed between a wall.

Raven looked at it cautiously to see if she knocked him out. But then the bookcase was knocked over, startling Raven. Dimitri saw his chance and grabbed Raven by the neck and slammed her against the wall, he put his other hand over her mouth, the only way he knew how to stop the incantations.

"Raven is in here, I am sure" said a light female voice. Dimitri realized he didn't have much time.

She kicked him furiously but he basically ignored it as he inched forward on Raven and whispered into her ear.

"Meet me in the alleyway by this building at 10:00 tonight. We shall finish this."

Suddenly a green gorrila busted down the door and the rest of the Titans flooded the room. Dimitri let go of Raven. She falls to her knees, struggling for a breath as he jumped out of the building.

Cyborg fired a few shots out of the building but all were in vain. He missed Dimitri as he plummeted to the ground and landed on a trash pile. He then ran away, moments before the police showed up.

Robin walked over to Raven and asked her "What Happened? but Raven barked "Stay Away!" She rose up and floated out of the window quickly with her head down, not saying a word.

"Who was that guy?" Robin said as he looked out onto the police encircling the area.

The sky was getting darker.