GAH I'm so sorry! many thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter and had enough patience to wait for this! READ THE AUTHORS NOTE AT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!

IMPORTANT: Everything in Raven's point of view is her dream and it's corresponding to reality.

Robin's feet met soggy ground as a green pterodactyl morphed into a green boy beside him. The other two landed in front of him as he knelt and laid a sleeping Raven down on the soaking grass.

"Well, now what?" Beast Boy broke the silence with an uncharacteristic solemn voice. "The Tempest dude is gone, it's pouring, the city is most likely flooded, and we're wetter than a fish." The others stared at their usually blunt and reckless friend with disbelief. Mistaking their expressions for confusion, he continued. "I should know, I've been one." Robin blinked a few times. "Well I HAVE!" Beast Boy insisted.

The black haired boy shook his head a bit before speaking. "Well I guess the best thing to do now would be to go back to the Tower." He said thoughtfully. "We can dry off, eat, sleep, and decide what to do in the morning."

Starfire yawned. "Yes friends, I am most tired. The day has been quite exhausting, yes?" She yawned again. Beast Boy nodded in agreement while Robin looked lost in thought. Cyborg glanced at his smaller friend.

'More exhausting for some than others.' Cyborg had taken note of the looks Robin had been giving Raven the whole day, and now was no different. His brow was furrowed and a tiny scowl was on his face as he gazed at Raven's placid face. Robin took a long breath and silently let it out. "Robin?" Cyborg ventured. Robin looked up at Cyborg. "What's up man?" Robin remained quiet, pulling his thoughts together and gathering his composure.

"I don't get it. Tempest just left! He had us all in a vulnerable position, and he disappears." Anger was creeping into Robin's already frustrated voice. "He could have killed us all in one lightning strike to the water, but he didn't. He seemed so bent on eliminating us and when he finally puts us into a weak position, he isn't there! I just don't get it!" Robin's outburst left him a little red in the face and very flustered as he gazed down at Raven again. "We should get back to the tower. Raven needs to get to the medical room and we're all tired." He sighed, seeming as if he was letting the matter of Tempest rest for the moment. Cyborg knew better.

The young hero did not like it when he didn't know what was going on in his enemies' minds, and Tempest's unusual pattern of action had really offset him. The boy took pride in being the sharpest detective in Jump and he could quickly recognize thought and action patters, especially in villains. But Tempest was like Slade: A mind he couldn't see, a plan he couldn't penetrate. Tempest's decision not to kill them when he could, what he would do next, and especially the marks on Raven that wouldn't heal, all a mystery to a frustrated boy wonder.

Raven started to twitch and mumble incoherently in her unconscious state, sending the others into panic and puzzlement.

"What's she doing?" Beast Boy voiced aloud. He was immediately hushed by their leader who wore a scared expression.

"Robin?" Cyborg risked. When the boy did not respond, Cyborg followed his gaze to Raven's left wrist where the skin was burnt. For the first time Cyborg noticed the word 'Tempest' engraved in Raven's arm below the ripped fabric of her leotard. "When did this happen?" Cyborg roared. Robin made no reply. More was about to be said from the cyborg, but the letters started to fade on Raven's arm and something else started to surface.

Raven struggled to keep her head above the frothing water as she felt the fierce wind whip past her face. The water threw her over a small fall to a calm pool of still black water.

The mirror surface of the pool was broken as Raven silently swam towards the edge of the water and the black lightened to a murky blue. Soft sand rose beneath her feet and she began to walk through the gradually lightning water to a shore of soft white and lush green.

Reaching her destination, Raven pulled herself onto the sand and lay there, trying to ignore the pain of many bruises and bleeding cuts all over her body. Her journey had been a rough one, the dangerous water hurtling her down a river unlike any she had ever seen, reality or not. As she lay on the sand, her flight from the trees resurfaced in her mind. The tall sentries of leaves and wood behind her blocked out the sun as she shivered in the shadow and unsuccessfully tried to push away the memory of flight.

Raven was wandering through a dark, lush jungle, pushing her way through the dense undergrowth of thorns. It felt as if she was being watched and Raven was constantly glancing over her shoulder. A few times she imagined she saw a shadow ducking behind a tree, but she credited it to dancing shadows playing in the moonlight.

The unmistakable sound of a twig snapping heightened Raven's senses. She spun around, facing the direction where the sound had come from, heart pounding and adrenalin rushing. Branches rustled in the wind and an eerie quiet settled over the bowl. No birds chirped, no animals sounded. The only noise was the whispering wind as it blew through the valley. Raven's eyes searched the still shadows for a clue, but none came. About to continue her search for a path out, a sudden, almost invisible movement caught her eye.

Raven immediately crouched down, muscles tensed as her piercing amethyst eyes cut through the tangible silence that shrouded the area. Her eyes narrowed and she glanced around for whatever was there. The feeling that eyes were watching once again surfaced. A slight rustle echoed behind her and Raven whirled around. Just a few feet in front of her, watching with black eyes, was…

a monkey.

Raven's shoulders sagged as she watched the curious creature stare at her in confusion. Sighing loudly, she turned to continue her search for an exit. She got one step.

A tall black shadow stood a little less than five yards away. All breath left Raven's lungs whilst she started into the hard, stony, silver eyes of the figure. A dark hand materialized and separated itself from the body and reached behind itself for something. Raven never found out what. She was already running.

Trees were on either side of her as Raven entered a flat out sprint and weaved through the dense jungle, whipping around trees and leaping over bushes as she desperately tried to find an exit. Her foot suddenly caught on a root and Raven skidded to a stop as she crashed headfirst into a tree. Stars danced in front of her eyes while she shakily stood and leaned against the tree. Sounds of footsteps a ways off alerted her of the oncoming attacker and once again Raven found herself hurtling through the trees. Then she saw the light.

Through the bleak black and green of the jungle, a small patch of light shone through off to Raven's right. She skidded to a halt and turning sharply to the right, pressed on towards the growing beacon of light. Her breath came in short gasps as she ran harder and faster. No presence could be sensed around her, but Raven dared not slow down.

She slid to a stop in front of a jagged gray rock. The 'light' had just been rays of moonlight reflecting off the tall, light grey cliff in front of her. Taking a backwards glance to the black abyss behind her, Raven decided her best bet was up.

She clambered onto a ledge about 11 feet off the ground. The cliff was a high one, and a difficult climb. The rock went straight up with an occasional ledge jutting out a few feet and some sparse vegetation such as vines. Raven's shelf came out about three feet from the face of the rock. A cool wind chilled the sweat on her face as it blew by. Taking a last look down at the hole in the tree line from where she had come, Raven locked eyes with the dark figure. She stared at it for a few long seconds, being unable to tear her eyes away. The shadow broke the stare, trailing a look to the top of the cliff before disappearing into the shadows of the trees again.

Raven sighed in relief. Turning once more to the task before her, she began her ascent up towards the starry sky.

Robin was running as fast as he could towards Cyborg's car. Raven was sweating and felt cold. She continued to mumble in her sleep, twitching and kicking out at times. Robin slipped on the slick grass and turned quickly in his fall so that Raven was on top of him. Her cloak slid away from her body and an arm fell from its position across her stomach.

"Break and Eliminate"

The chilling message stretched down the length of Raven's arm. But even more disturbing was the fact that it perfectly answered Robin's previous ponderings about Tempest not killing them.

"He's going to break the team before he kills us." Robin said hoarsely.

"What?" Cyborg knelt down and studied the message on Raven's arm. "Man I don't think that's gonna work. You can't just break the Titans." Cyborg commented. But the scent of fear still cloaked the Titans. Not only because of the cryptic message, but because they could not wake Raven, no matter how hard they tried, and she was still twitching and mumbling.

Robin stood up and he and Cyborg ran to the car. Cyborg opened the door and Robin slid into the back seat with Raven on his lap. Cyborg jumped behind the wheel.

"Floor it!" Robin shouted over the roar of the engine as it started. Raven was breathing hard in her sleep and she was sweating profusely.

"Raven!" Robin shouted over and over. Cyborg zipped through traffic and tore down alleys, trying to find the shortest route back to the Tower.

With a sudden gasp, Raven's breath stopped and she grew cold.

Raven was halfway up the face of the cliff when she slipped.

A light rain had begun to fall and the rock had become slippery. It grew harder to find hand holds in the rock and the ledges grew fewer and farther apart. Raven was almost to the ledge that marked halfway up. Three feet away from her resting point, the rock became smooth. No hand holds were available and the only visible plants were out of reach. Raven looked up with an air of determination and stretched as far as she could. Her hand stretched closer and closer to the shelf.

"Little more, little more…" Raven murmured. Her hand fell mere centimeters short of her goal. Moaning in desperation, Raven tried again only to get the same result. She let out a frustrated sigh and looked down.

She immediately regretted it.

At least seventy feet into the air, the jungle below her was a sea of darkness and danger. The closest ledge below her was a bigger one, maybe six feet wide. 'And ten down…' Raven swallowed hard and looked back up.

She drew a deep breath, trying to calm herself before putting her plan into action. Taking another breath, she jumped. Reaching with both hands, Raven grabbed the lip of the rock and hung there. Then her hands started to slide back off the slick ledge.

In a fit of panic, Raven clawed at the rock, desperately trying to pull herself up. Her hand brushed against a vine of some sorts and she grabbed it. Pulling on it with one hand, the vine came with her. Thinking it wasn't attached and she grabbed the rock again, but her left hand slipped.

Raven's left hand fell from the cliff. Then Raven felt herself slide all the way off. In a last attempt to save her self from a fall, she lashed out to try and grab the rock again, but she met air.

Wind whipped past her face as she tumbled ten feet down to the ledge below her. Raven tried to land on her feet but her knees buckled from exhaustion and she rolled towards the edge.

She threw an arm out in an attempt to stop the momentum. The rolling stopped and Raven's eyes opened to find she had managed to halt her roll right before the ledge ended. Dizzily standing, Raven looked back up at the mocking rock. But she was firm in her goal to get up there before morning broke. Stepping to the wall, she once again set off.

Same shelf, same dilemma, easier solution. The vine Raven had grabbed earlier was attached to the rock. It dangled over the upper shelf and Raven easily reached it and pulled, hard. It held fast. Before she took any second thoughts, Raven entrusted her life to the puny piece of green and pulled herself up and onto the shelf.

The moon was beginning to set when Raven finally dragged herself up to the top of the cliff. Lying on her back, she breathed heavily. As the first rays of sunlight shot out over the trees, Raven again set off in search of a way out of wherever she was.

The cliff top ended abruptly at a dark river of flowing water. Trees and other things flew down the waterway at breakneck speeds. A thick tree trunk lay across the river a few yards away, providing an "easy" way across. Quickly crossing the distance, Raven threw caution to the winds and clambered onto the makeshift bridge.

The tree rolled a bit on her first step but then settled down. Raven crept across the tree as the river boiled beneath her. Then, out of nowhere, a huge log came rumbling down the river straight towards her. Raven couldn't coax her muscles into moving, it was like being caught like a deer in headlights.

The log slammed into her bridge, and for a moment, it seemed it would hold. Raven's teeth ceased to rattle and she lifted her head from where she was lying facedown, clinging to the tree. That's when it started tipping.

The tree began to roll down stream and Raven was thrown from it into the freezing rapids. She slammed into rocks and other river clutter before the water finally calmed. It still moved swiftly, but it was a flat and smooth surface, void of rocks and rapids. Raven took the chance to gulp down air and cough up water.

Thunder echoed around her and a dense fog appeared a ways off. As Raven grew closer to the fog, the river moved faster and the thunder got louder.

"What the…" Raven said aloud. Then, she felt no water around her. She was falling through the air. Over a one hundred foot waterfall.

She landed in moving water and was immediately whisked away over a smaller fall when the movement ceased and she pulled herself out of the dark pool to where she was now on the sand.

Raven was breathing again, but it still wasn't normal. She would take deep gasping breaths and then choke, as if she was drowning. After about a minute, to Robin an eternity, the worried horror ended and Raven's breath slowed to deep, gentle breathing.

"Cyborg, what the hell is going on?" Robin asked helplessly. "How can Tempest change the marks on Raven's arm? And what was up with her breathing?"

"Well, maybe there's more to Tempest's powers than we thought. That could explain the marks." Cyborg said after a long pause. "As for Raven, maybe her breath is corresponding with a dream she's having right now. Wouldn't be the first time either. It's a subconscious thing. People react to their dreams while their asleep. Like kicking out in the middle of the night, sleepwalking, or in this case, sleep talking and abnormal breathing." Robin said nothing, just brushed a piece of damp lavender hair from Raven's face.

Cyborg slammed the break on as the car skidded to a stop in the Titan's Tower garage. Robin leapt out the door and sprinted up to the medical room just as the younger members of the team landed dripping wet in the garage. Cyborg exchanged glances with them before they all followed Robin up to the medical room.

IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE READ IF YOU CARE ABOUT THIS STORY!

Ok guys I am soooo sorry I haven't done anything with this for so long! I sent it to a friend to edit but she never sent it back. And on this story I'm thinking about just stopping it. I'm out of ideas for it and I have two other fics that have claimed my attention for the moment. So I have to finish those, especially the fic im writing for Dusty that is from my poem 'Crazy.' But I know I can't leave you guys out here without the rest of this story unless you don't really care, but as soon as I finish the other two, and I don't know how long that is going to take, I promise I'll start back up on this and hopefully get the creative juices flowing again for this. I really did enjoy making Tempest and I don't want him to go to waste. The ending to this might be rushed, depending on how much im dedicated to it. But for everyone who was still waiting for this after all this time, this chapter and rest of story is dedicated to you and loyal reviewers who still check in on my stuff to see if I've updated. So please review, I'm still deciding if I am going to continue this or just stop it. Much love, Ash