"I have been called many things, monster, demon, evil bitch, witch, bastard child, hero, Teen titan, Raven, That goth, savior, and friend. Those days are behind me now they just call me Queen. The loss of my friends broke my spirit but the loss of my first love had broke my heart. The monsters that caused that tragedy now serve under my iron fist. "
Raven picked up a cup of tea beside her reading her copy of 'The art of War' and took a small sip, the echo of glass connecting when she placed the china back onto it's saucer resonated through out the vast hall of her throne room. The silence was calming to her, her generals had not disturbed her in a few hours and it was relaxing. She leaned back into the warm pelts that lined her perch and let out a satisfied moan.
Suddenly one of the doors opened slowly to reveal the red cloaked general, they walked quickly up to the steps before their queen and knelt down. "I bring the report from your old place of residence My queen." The red cloaked general said quickly. It had been six weeks since the attack on the tower and the titans defeat, Raven had seemed to warm up to the power of being the Lich queen quite quickly.
"What is it Olwen, I just got relaxed and you had shown me pictures of my former friends demise." Raven said coldly making the girl in front of her shiver slightly.
"The city has begun to forget all about what you have done for them, I am sorry to correct you but …" Olwen started but was interrupted by a tentacle of black power wrapping around her and slamming her to the floor.
"If you are so sorry to correct me… Don't." Raven ordered getting a gasping nod from her general. "The only reason I wanted you to keep me informed about that hell hole of a city was if they had found Beast boy and nothing else. Do you understand?"
Olwen nodded weakly once again earning a reward of the black energy not ripping her in half. She picked herself up and knelt to her queen once again. The door ways opened again for two more generals Superbia and Gula, or as Olwen called them Pride and Gluttony. The two marched up to the throne and bowed. "Our armies are ready for the attacks on our southern front."
With this Raven groaned and stood up from her spot. Straightening the wrinkles from her cloak, lifting the new hood covering her face in shadow and fixing her armour she walked towards the three in front of her. The three shirked back from her slightly, that only brought a smile to her lips. "Let us go and see what our armies do to the cowards in that infernal tower." Raven said engulfing the group into a obsidian portal.
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The four stepped out of the portal and into the frozen wasteland of the arctic tundra, The banners of the seven armies that her generals command dotted the landscape, The armies themselves knelt down as soon as Raven stepped onto the ice flow. The sight of over a thousand skeletal soldiers and various demons and created abominations would have terrified most but Raven smiled at her legions before her. Olwen smiled as she looked at the familiar landscape she elbowed the larger man in the ribs.
"It would suck for you to lose twice in this spot." Olwen giggled getting a growl from Pride.
"You caught me off guard with your last trick." Pride said crossing his arms across his massive chest.
"Oh yea right, I beat you without any tricks." Olwen said getting another growl from Pride.
"Enough you two." Raven silenced the two with a wave of her hand. "My armies, You shall go into battle this day to stop a force that will be a thorn in our sides when we start our plan. Better to stop them now when they are least suspecting us. Also whoever brings me their heads gets a reward!" Raven shouted to the crowd before her getting a deafening response of cheers from the soldiers. "Where are the shades? I need the information of our enemies positions."
As if summoned by the dark woman four ghost-like creatures appeared, a black mist surrounded their forms the human remains inside were barely visible through the thick smoke. Raven looked to each and nodded. "We need you four in the area at all times, it will be chaos in there and we need your eyes. Now go." Raven said motioning them away, the spirits disappeared as they had appeared quickly and silently just fading away.
"Pride you lead the charge, the rest will follow your lead." Raven ordered the large man.
"Yes Milady." Pride said bowing and heading into the horde.
"This will be the battle that decides the battles to come." Raven said turning her back to the masses.
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Robin paced back and forth in front of Kole, Gnarrk, Red star and a few other meta humans and a screen with the rest of the titans appearing. The leader of the West Titans had come to the arctic circle to inform the other titans and allies that Raven, Beast boy and their new member Olwen were missing and to start searches over this area. The communications were still down at the Western tower Cyborg was only working under half capacity from his scrape with death. Robin stopped and turned to the titans in front of him physically and on screen.
"We were attacked by a group of individuals that destroyed most of our tower and took three of our team mates, I want you all to look for the group and to be on red alert, they may attack your towers or teams. I warn you all these people are incredibly dangerous, we believe we had taken down three of them but with this time we were recuperating and trying to get a hold of everyone, they could be back at full strength." Robin said standing as strong to the Titans. "Cyborg was nearly killed, Starfire was badly beaten and I was stabbed when unconscious, we do not know what happened to Beast boy, Raven and Olwen."
A red light flashed bathing the teenagers in the room in a red glow. Kole was typing quickly to see the disturbance, the pink haired girl brought up a screen and said famous words in times of shock. "Oh my god."
"What in the hell is that?" Robin said looking over her shoulder.
"That my comrade is a army." Red star said getting glares from the titans in the room.
"Titans Emergency code 10697, All Titans report to North Tower for assistance in major attack." Robin ordered to the screen, various teens nodded and their screens blanked out. "We are going to have one hell of a fight get ready everyone. Go!"
The titans and honorary members bolted out of the room and began to prepare for a attack, while Kole and Robin stayed in the common room to coordinate everyone. Robin looked at the pink haired girl. "What kind of defences does this tower have?" He asked.
"We have two laser cannons at out entrance and a energy shield that gives off a electrical feedback when hit." Kole said bringing up the defences on screen.
"Good we are going to need them, I wish we had a few more offensive weapons but those will have to do." Robin said nodding. "Whoever we are fighting they mean business."
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Pride road in front of the masses on his monstrous creature, it's flesh was beginning to rot but it's shape was that of a male lion. Lifting the massive axe from his back and into the air the horde began to roar in excitement, banging on their shields and other means of making noise the battalions raised into a frenzy.
"Let us make our Queen proud! Charge you cadavers." Pride roared turning towards the tower and charging towards it, the masses followed closely.
The horde got a half a mile from the tower's perimeter when the blasts from meta humans and laser cannons began ripping through their ranks, the monsters didn't slow they charged into the energy wall most of the demons and abominations were the only ones effected as the skeletons passed through with relative ease the water in their bones long since dried up.
The mass of bones charged at the doors of the tower crashing into the entrance way. The crowd ran into some more powered up meta humans, the massive numbers of the skeletons pushed the teens back. The screams of the fallen only encouraged the monsters as they swarmed the tower.
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"We need to break that barrier. Any ideas?" Raven said turning to her remaining generals. Gluttony shook his head as Olwen began to pace.
"Maybe we could overload it." Olwen said getting a smirk from the other two.
"Let us cause a blizzard, the snow and wind would effect the shield and may overload it." Gluttony said turning to Olwen. "Ira, you can control the ice for our experiment."
"Alright but I will need help with all that ice, lend me a couple of your acolytes and sorceresses." Olwen said turning to the fat general.
"I shall take them from the front, they are no help with that shield active." Gluttony said raising a radio to his mouth.
As he issued the orders Olwen placed her fingers to her lips and blew a high pitched whistle. The undead girl waited a few seconds until a giant skeletal horse adorned in Olwen's red and black armour. The undead girl leapt onto her steed and charged towards the tower but turned to the west and made a sweep around to the west of the main attack, quickly she dismounted and began writing a summoning circle into the snow. No sooner than she finished her circle ten skeletal mages appeared and bowed to the girl before them.
"We need to summon up and storm to break this cursed shield for the rest of our forces, let us cause so much chaos that it will break under the pressure." Olwen smiled as the mages surrounded the array on the floor.
The array glowed with energy as Olwen stepped into the circle a pale blue energy coursed into the ice and snow around them Olwen raised her arms as the energy leapt into her hands as she brought her palms together, a wicked smile spread across her face. Olwen slammed her palms into the ice and snow below her a wave of energy blasted from her, as she stood a rumbling was heard nearby a quick push from her hand a wall of snow and ice moved amazingly fast towards the tower in the distance.
"That should cause the barrier to break." Olwen smiled as a tsunami of ice and snow moved quickly towards it's target.
The wave of snow and ice crashed into the energy shield, the coursing energy pulsed against the onslaught the energy arced and sprayed sparks across the tundra, with it's defence the shield fell the tower's lights turned dark. .The hordes outside charged once again and into the tower to assist their allies.
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Robin and Kole were inside the common room as the wave hit, the force of the blow shook the tower to it's very foundation. Robin stood up slowly his head pounding and looked around the darkened room cables from the ceiling had come loose and were sparking all around him the computers were useless blasted with feedback from the shield overloading. The leader looked franticly for his friend that was beside him when the attack hit, he heard a weak moan from nearby the computers lifting a chunk of fallen ceiling from his friend he looked at the pink haired girl in front of him and gasped.
Kole lay on her back her arm was broken in a couple different places from the collapsed ceiling, what shocked Robin the most was the open burns and shards of glass that were imbedded on her face. Robin knelt beside his fallen friend and tried to think of a way to move her when Red Star and Gnarrk burst into the room and slammed the doors shut, they were wounded but not as bad as Kole.
Robin rushed over to them but their faces told him that they had see something very horrible. "We need to get out of here. You all need medical attention, especially Kole."
Red star looked at Robin shocked. "As do you comrade, did you not notice the gash on your forehead?" Slowly Robin raised his hand to his forehead and rubbed his head and looked at his glove, blood dripped from his fingers.
"I don't care my friends come first." Robin said getting weak smiles from the two boys. "But we have to get out of here. Where are the others?"
"There are no others… those beasts took them." Red Star shook his head sadly. "I know of a way out of here though gather together my ship has a teleporter." Robin nodded and let Gnarrk pick up Kole as they gathered near the Russian hero a white energy surrounded them and vanished in a flash of light.
The horde burst through the doors soon after destroying everything in their wake.
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Raven and Gluttony sat back and watched as their hordes ravaged the tower, The dark queen let out a surprising laugh as smoke began to drift out of the shattered windows
"Our legions have done well, let us see who they have for prisoners, and any information that they have." Raven said to the general, Gluttony nodded and called their beasts, a giant boar and demonic looking horse.
The pair met back up with Olwen and Pride, the four figures rode up to their soldiers, the monsters cheered their leader getting a wave from Raven and her generals.
"You have done well my soldiers, you have done so much today now rest." Raven commanded her troops getting cheers from the hordes, Raven looked up at the crippled tower. "But before you rest, destroy it." She ordered before turning away from the building.
"After this is done return to your original posts." Pride ordered getting cheers from the mobs. The four vanished into a black portal leaving the masses to their destruction of the only symbol of peace and justice in this area.
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Robin watched as his friends tower fell into the control of the monsters from Red Star's ship a few miles above the surface of the earth. Gnarrk sat nearby scared from the whole ordeal, Red Star entered the room from the medical quarters a grim look on his face. Robin turned to him a look of concern with his could be seen even with the mask.
"She will pull through but she will have many scars." Red Star said walking over to the window. "We have lost many good people today yet we do not know anything about these enemies."
"Your wrong, we learned not to underestimate their ruthlessness and power." Robin said turning to the window. "Let's not let our allies lives be lost in vain. We have to regroup and strike them fast and hard. Do you have trackers on this ship?"
"Yes, you want me to send a few out?" Red Star asked, Robin nodded the Russian turned to a screen and typed in a code. "They will follow the soldiers to their home bases."
"Good now is the time to wait and gather information. So we don't rush in and lose more friends." Robin said crossing his arms. "Let's go to my tower we can prepare there Cyborg probably has everything set up by now."
Red Star nodded and manned the controls of his ship traveling south to the original Titans Tower. Robin sat down beside Gnarrk and pulled a bandage from his belt and began wrapping it around the wound in his head. Gnarrk let out a moan making robin turn towards the cave man, patting the larger man on the back Robin gave him a small smile.
"It will be all right man, we will get these bastards for what they have done to everyone." Robin's words gave the larger man a small ray of hope as the ship streaked across the sky.