A/N: Thank you for all of the lovely reviews! This was originally going to be a short sequel one shot and then it grew to two chapters. I seem to be unable to resist two shots. Takes place after episode 8 in season 1 and I will post the second chapter next week. Enjoy!
Bold= demon hybrid talking in Raven's head
Italics= Raven responding
Okay, she would admit it; Aqualad was of kind hot. He had the whole tall, dark, and mysterious thing going for him and he had saved them all from being crushed to death under a couple hundred miles of seawater. And it was kind of cute how he and Beastboy bickered. So yeah, Raven had a bit of a crush on him. Then he left. And Starfire wouldn't stop talking about him. And then he came back to visit. Then the warm tingly feeling that Raven felt when she had a crush turned into the warm tingly feeling she felt when she wanted to gouge someone's eyes out.
"Aqualad swims so fast. He is like a glorflefin!"
His mother's a glorflefin. The demon grumbled.
The Titans had decided that a relaxing day on the beach was needed after a particularly nasty encounter with a slime monster. It had started off wonderfully. Cyborg and Beastboy were playing volleyball and weren't trying to bury Raven in the sand. Robin was lying under an umbrella reading a new mystery novel that daddy Bats had sent. Raven got to show Starfire how to build a sand fortress. Their hands kept "accidently" touching reaching for the shovel or bucket and Starfire kept blushing and smiling and biting her lower lip and looking away and... yeah. Starfire was just being adorable. They were just starting to build the invading army of mini Slades when Aqualad showed up.
No, his mother is probably perfect and prissy just like her pretty boy son. Raven hissed back.
The little shit.
Aqualad had started talking to Starfire about what it was like adjusting to human culture and in her haste to get up to talk to him Starfire stepped on the fortresses' rocket launch pad. Then Aqualad found out that Starfire didn't know how to swim so of course he had to show her how. Raven felt her wonderful day imploding as she watched Aqualad and Starfire wade into the water together.
"Um, thank you Starfire." Aqualad replied. He was unsure if being compared to a glorflefin was a complement.
Well at least there's one thing Mr. Fantastic doesn't know.
You don't know what a glorfleflin is either.
Not the point.
Aqualad stopped once the water came up to his waist. "Lean back into the water and bring your legs up so your body is floating on the surface of the water."
Starfire looked down into the dark blue ocean nervously. "Aqualad, I think you have mistaken me for a life vest for I can not float."
"Are you denser than a human?"
Starfire started to look annoyed. "Are you using one of those human sayings to ask if I am fat?"
Aqualad laughed and Starfire blushed a little.
Fucking Atlantian dick. Raven and her demon thought at the same time.
"No, I mean it literally. The ocean is denser than humans so they can float on the surface of it. Are you denser than a human?"
"No."
"Then you'll float." Aqualad said. Starfire still looked a little nervous so Aqualad wrapped his arm around her shoulders and smiled again.
I hope his teeth rot out.
"Don't worry," Aqualad said. "I'll have my arms under you so if you start to sink I'll catch you."
A pity he won't drown if we held his head under water.
We would just need to find his gills and cover them up.
He'd drown if we shoved his head into a tub of wet cement.
Or a tub of hydrochloric acid.
Starfire was floating on the waves, smiling and moving her arms in circles to stay in the same spot. Raven was briefly distracted from her rage by the drops of water shining on Starfire's stomach. Starfire's bikini brought out her hips and waist in a very good way. Her red hair fanned out around her in a halo and seeing Starfire's face in profile unfairly showed off how cute her chin and nose and eyes and cheeks were. Raven only looked at Starfire's lips briefly before she jerked her eyes away; this was neither the time nor the place to start fantasizing about those lips. And nope, not looking at Starfire's breasts. Definitely not looking. Nope. Even if they looked soft and small enough to fit in her hands and perfect. Raven was definitely no looking at them.
Wait, where is Aquadick's right hand?
Raven was jolted out of her fantasies and stared at the Atlantian. She could see his left hand up by Starfire's shoulders. But where was-
Is he touching her ass?
Raven stared at his left arm and where she lost sight of it where it went under Starfire's hips.
I think he is.
Oh that's it. He dies.
Cyborg interrupted Raven before she could act on her homicidal impulses.
"Hey, Raven, uh what are you building?" Cyborg asked nervously.
Raven looked down to the scene that she had been constructing unconsciously when she was glaring at Aqualad. "... I was building a Medieval torture room."
"Oh." Cyborg paled and laughed nervously.
About ten minutes ago he, Beastboy, and Robin had felt an aura of death and doom emanating from Raven. It wasn't as strong as the waves of fury that sometimes came off Raven when she had to deal with Beastboy for an extended period of time so they ignored it. And then a spike of killing intent came off of Raven that was so strong it gave a couple of gulls that were flying overhead heart attacks. After the dead birds fell onto Robin's umbrella they played one of the most intense games of ro-sham-bo in Titan history to see who had to go confront Raven. Cyborg lost. So here he was, talking to the pissed off demon and trying to ignore the sand figurine that was being castrated to the left of her foot.
"Ah, that's uh, that's really... creative." The last word came out as a squeak. Raven said nothing and went back to thinking of ways to kill Aqualad. She put the final touches on a doll made out of seaweed and twigs inside a sand gibbet. She made a little sand crow to pluck the doll's eyes out.
"Yup. Really creative. So uh, Raven. What's up?" Cyborg said.
"The sky." She replied tersely.
"That's not what I meant." He replied.
"The rest of the solar system."
"Okay, this is not working." Cyborg thought. Maybe a more direct approach would work. He tried again. "Why are you so pissed?" He asked.
Raven slowly looked up from the sand and stared at Cyborg. When her eyes met his, Cyborg felt ice drip down his spine. He started shaking as the ice spread out along his rib cage and pushed into his chest. He couldn't break his gaze away from Raven's but the longer she stared at him the closer the ice got to his heart. Just as he was starting to think that Robin and Beastboy had better get him an awesome headstone, something burst out of the ocean. Cyborg heard Robin shout, "Titans go!" but he was too busy trying to breath again to respond.
Raven was testing the Raven Glare of Death© on Cyborg when Trident burst out of the ocean.
"You fools! You thought you could beat me? You can't beat perfection!"
He bellowed.
Robin, who somehow had changed into his suit and cape without anyone noticing, smirked up at mutant fish narcissist. "Really? That's funny because I seem to remember that perfection was pretty easy to beat last time."
Trident did the fish equivalent of glowering. "Last time doesn't count! As none of the clones were me, none of them were perfect like myself!"
"But if they are clones then they are exactly like you so if they are imperfect does that not mean that you are imperfect?" Starfire said, puzzled.
"Yes. So fish head the all knowing just insulted himself." Raven muttered.
"Enough! I finished conversing with you peons. Nereus activate!" Trident yelled. A small whirlpool appeared under Trident feet.
"Titans go!" Robin yelled.
Robin launched several bird-a-rangs at Trident as Beastboy shifted into a shark and swam at Trident, jaws gnashing. Starfire flew out of the ocean and threw starbolt after starbolt at Trident. Trident smirked. He raised his hand and a wall of water surrounded him blocking their attacks As the whirlpool sucked up water Trident started to grow taller and larger.
"Azarath, metrion, zinthos!" Raven grabbed a bolder and smashed it into Trident's head. It went through his head like it was water and dropped into the ocean. Water surged up from his neck and reformed into his grinning face. Aqualad made a large scythe out of water and swung it at Trident's legs but instead of hurting him, he simply absorbed the scythe. Laughing, Trident grew to the height of a two-story house. Well shit.
"Raven, Cyborg, use the stranglehold!" Robin shouted.
Raven held her arm toward Trident and a large black hand shot out from it. The hand grabbed Trident and expanded to form a body length cuff immobilizing him. Cyborg fired both of his sonic cannons into Trident's chest. When the blasts ripped his chest apart Beastboy shifted into a whale and used his tail to flip Aqualad up to the height of Trident's head. The Atlantian spun in the air, slamming his foot into his head, and finally Starfire blasted both of Trident's leg into pieces. The whirlpool disappeared. Everyone backed up and held their breaths.
A pause.
Then the whirlpool started sucking up water even faster than before. The shattered pieces of Trident's body reformed into a Trident that was now at least ten stories tall.
"Fools," his voice boomed out of his overly large mouth, "you are all doomed fools."
"Is a relaxing day on the beach too much to ask for?" Robin grumbled.
"Apparently." Cyborg replied.
"On the plus side, at least Raven didn't get the chance to kill Cyborg." Quipped Beastboy.
Everyone gave a sigh of irritation and threw themselves back into the fight. Beastboy quickly shifted into a pterodactyl and clawed at Trident's head, keeping him too distracted to flood the beach where Cyborg and Robin were or hit Aqualad in the water. Raven tried to immobilize Trident but whenever she held down his arms or legs more watery limbs sprouted from his back. Trident growled when Beastboy clawed his eyes then a whip like limb grew from his neck and lashed out, hitting Beastboy. Beastboy flew threw the air and smashed into the beach. When a cloud of sand rose up from Beastboy's impact, Aqualad roared. He raised his arms and a tidal wave rose up behind him. He waved his arms forward and on command the wave ran forward and bowled over Trident.
Trident merely stood up and laughed.
"Aim for his belt!" Starfire yelled. There was a brief pause as everyone looked up at Starfire hovering in the air.
"The hell are you talking about?" Cyborg said.
"Trident's belt! Look, there is an odd jewel on his belt! Every time he has grown it glowed!" She yelled back.
Trident shifted a bit uncomfortably as everyone started to stare at his waist. He was wearing a black bell on it was a black gem with very faint grey swirls in it. It was barely visible against the belt.
"That is the Jewel of Nereus!" Aqualad shouted.
"The jewel of what?" Cyborg replied.
"The Jewel of Nereus. It is a legendary stone that-"
"It has a fancy name, it glows, it's bad." Raven interrupted. "Smash it. Azarath, metrion, zinthos!"
Raven bound Trident's legs together. He started thrashing and Raven flew down to the ground, sweat running down her face. "Move it guys! I can't hold him for much longer."
Beastboy stood up and limped out of the small crater he had made. He shifted into a hawk and dove for the belt. Starfire flew over to Robin and carried him over to Trident. With Starfire's help, Robin alternated between attacking Trident's head with his bo staff and throwing explosives at him. Aqualad attacked Trident's arms and Cyborg shot any extra limbs that started to grow. The fight was going well and Beastboy was so close to grabbing the gem. Then Trident attacked Starfire.
A limb had grown out of Trident's arm without Cyborg noticing. As Starfire flew by with Robin, the limb formed into a club and smacked Starfire down into the ocean. Aqualad grabbed Robin and Beastboy tried to catch Starfire but Trident swung the clubbed limb at Beastboy. Beastboy swerved and a wave dragged Starfire under the surface of the water. Everything seemed to freeze.
Raven ran to the water and dove in. She used her telekinesis to propel herself forward until she reached Starfire. She pulled the alien girl to her and held Starfire to her chest. Raven shot straight out of the water and flew to the beach. She held her ear over Starfire's mouth; the alien wasn't breathing. Raven pressed her mouth to Starfire's, pinched the other girl's nose shut, and blew air into Starfire's mouth. After several breaths Raven turned Starfire on her side and hit her on the back. Starfire coughed out the seawater and vomited. Starfire was breathing again but she didn't open her eyes. Her orange skin was bruising dark red on her left side and her elbow was bent backwards against the joint and had started swelling. Her left shoulder looked dislocated.
Raven stood up and slowly walked towards Trident. When she dove after Starfire, she had stopped restraining Trident's legs. The mutant fish made the most of his mobility and trying to crush Aqualad, Robin, and Cyborg under his feet. Raven drew up to Cyborg and Robin on the edge of the water.
"Take care of Starfire." She said.
"What?" Robin said, distracted.
"I'll take care of Trident. Keep Starfire safe."
Robin and Cyborg turned to argue with Raven and promptly shut their mouths. Raven had two sets of eyes and they were both glowing red.
"Uh, Titans withdraw!" Robin's voice was a bit shaky when he gave the order. Beastboy and Aqualad were confused until they saw the fuming demon. Everyone with the exception of Trident took a cautious step away from Raven.
"What? Giving up so easily?" Trident laughed. "Have you mongrels accepted your inferiority and bow to my perfection?"
"You were originally just an annoyance," Raven said casually, ignoring what Trident said.
"Like a gnat. Frustrating but not something worth worrying over. Not something worth exterminating. But then you made a mistake." As she walked towards Trident she shoved the ocean out of her way, holding the water back with black walls. As the water moved to the side, Triton hastily retreated to stay in the ocean.
"Starfire is under my protection and you hurt her. Now you're a threat. And all threats will be exterminated." Suddenly black tentacles shot out of Raven's back and wrapped around Trident cocooning him. They constricted cutting through Trident's body. Water poured off of him as the tentacles cut deeper. Raven calmly stopped in front of Trident. When he had shrunk back to his normal size, she reached forward and ripped the jewel off his belt. She smiled slowly and started to crush it in her hand.
"No, stop!" Titan yelled. "You fool what are you doing?"
With a final crunch the jewel crumbled into powder.
"What am I doing?" She purred. "Why I told you earlier. I'm exterminating a threat."
The tentacles started constricting again.
"What- aaahhhh!" Trident screamed. There was a crack and Raven's smile grew.
"Raven, that's enough!" Robin yelled from the shore.
"Oh I think that was a rib." A crunch. "Two ribs! I wonder what will kill you first: your ribs stabbing through your lungs or your internal organs rupturing."
"Raven stop! Starfire's safe, the jewels been destroyed, and Trident isn't going to be doing any more damage." Robin yelled again.
Trident screamed again. Raven grabbed his face and forced him to look into her eyes. "If you can still think with the pain you're in, remember that you would have lived if you hadn't hurt Starfire. Now give us another nice scream."
Splash! The tentacles disappeared and the second set of eyes closed and melted back into Raven's skin. She stared at Beastboy with shocked violet eyes, water dripping from her hair. Beastboy held an empty bucket and looked at her nervously. She walked with him silently back to the rest of the group. Once they were beyond the ocean, the black walls holding the water collapsed. Raven disappeared.