"Humanist Approach"
The Titans and Xremisis headed to the hangar. Xremisis understood what was going on, he was no stranger when it came to war. Albeit, this was not a glorious charge into a pit of burning Wyraa, he no would not take it anyway, this was his pride, and maybe he could cleanly demonstrate his heroic tributes to this Titans. He followed them down the stairwell. This he was not used to, normally he would just jump or blink to the site at hand, but he did not know where they were going, plus he would need their help, he certainly knew he was weaker than he ever has been before, and these stairs were not helping.
"Akeuria of the Nine! How many more stairs do you have!" The Nurian shouted his disapproval, he noticed the lack of Robin as well.
"Suck it up! Shouldn't have skipped leg day!" Beast Boy said, Xremisis was actually offended, despite the term coming from the Second Realm, it was very well a concept of insult in the Nurian Empire, it meant that a Nurian couldn't land his or her feet.
"ya Vis! I can land perfectly!" Xremisis proclaimed his legs were actually fine and well proportioned if he was in his Nurian form.
"Would you two stop bickering around. We got one more plight to go!" Cyborg asked for Beast Boy and Xremisis to knock it off. The last thing he wanted was Beast Boy annoying a supposed Celestial Being from a different Realm. The team made it to the garage in which, the elevator door opened, to reveal not just Robin, but Starfire, and Raven all standing in disappointment.. The boys looked at each other neutrally and turned their heads back to them.
"YOU SKIPPED LEG DAY!" The three boys shouted to them to redeem their honour, or rather to justify it.
"Would you stop your justification just because you did not see the elevator to the LEFT of you." Raven mocked them.
"Just get in the car." Robin said after he placed his helmet on. He clicked his communicator and his R-cycle came out of the hangar.
"Wow, horses have evolved here..." Xremisis noted as he saw a resemblance to a horse, however he saw it. Cyborg clicked his communicator and he saw the white and blue T-car emerge from his garage. Again, Xremisis was impressed again by these metal horses. He had rode some when the time called for some, knowing no better he jumped, expending some precious onto the top the car. He pointed forwards.
"TO VICTORY! URRRRAAAA!" Xremisis formed a black whip and cracked it, shattering all the windows on the T-car.
"MY BABY!" Cyborg screamed as he fell to his knees.
"Oh...my." Raven was sympathetic to Cyborg's misfortune, but could not help to chuckle. Beast boy felt embarrassed.
"Umm, Nurian Xremisis you enter the vehicle, you do not ride on top of it. I made the same mistake before during trips." Starfire calmly explained to the confused Nurian as she showed him how enter the car.
"Interesting..." The Nurian noted as he entered the car normally. Robin just held up a hand to the devastated Cyborg, bewildered he entered the defiled vehicle.
"Don't worry! I can fix it! Glass is very easy to meld, we can..." Xremisis was cut off by the roar of the engine and flinging back into his seat. Starfire almost vomited with the sudden G-force, but due the acceleration it simply stopped it.
"Mi madre!" Beast Boy gasped as he never felt Cyborg drive this fast. Even Raven was taken aback by the road fury Cyborg had. They launched down the tunnel with Robin following them. He was surprised at Cyborg's speed, he hoped that he was not too angry.
"LEFT!" Beast Boy said pointing at the GPS.
"I KNOW!" Cyborg slid the car to the left exiting out the exit gate that lead on to the main coastal road. Cyborg gunned the car, everyone but him was screaming and being blown by wind. Cyborg then made sharp turn right and bolted down the main drive. Due to his machine brain, he managed to dodge all obstacles in his way, but Robin was sure that they were going to get a few tickets tonight. The two vehicles arrived to the site, the Bank of Perez in record time. He brought the car to a grinding halt.
"Let's go" Cyborg said charging his sonic cannon. Everyone else was dizzy, even Xremisis had not felt so much force sitting in one place. He opened his door almost falling out; Starfire drizzly exited from his side as well. Robin's R-cycle arrived on scene as soon as Beast Boy finally exited from the care.
"Dudes, we have to take that to Tampa, Florida and onto the track!" Beast boy was amazed.
"No time for silly talk, Slade is in there with two others." Robin said.
"So what's the plan?" Cyborg said patiently.
"Cyborg and Star you have the front gate, Slade probably has his bots guarding the front so we need to show them the meaning of 'superior fire-power." Robin ordered Cyborg and Starfire to take positions in front of the gate. They both nodded and flanked the two sides of the entrances.
"Beastie, you're with me." Raven said almost dreadfully.
"Aww right!" Beast Boy tried to cheer Raven up.
"You have back exits, side exits, and air cover, don't let them escape. Xremisis, you with me, we are going to sneak in. Hope you're stealthy." Robin said as Raven and Beast Boy disappeared in cloud of dark magic. Xremisis nodded and followed Robin into an alleyway surrounded the building. But, before they got the alleyway, Robin threw something at Xremisis, and he caught it with his regular hand.
"Communicator, press it, and we all can hear you speak. Don't lose it." Robin said as the entered the alleyway.
"I am detecting a lot of heat sources in the vault room, you two can set up to ambush them once they come out." Cyborg informed the team on the enemy whereabouts.
"Got it Cyborg. Raptor, we need to get on the second floor, think you can figure it out." Robin gave Xremisis the codename of "Raptor" because of his true reptilian-like self and because he needed a break from saying his true name all the time. Xremisis understood what Robin meant by "Raptor" as well, he looked at the second floor and saw some shadows. He smirked and grabbed Robin's arm and the fell into the shadowed wall behind, and reappeared on the second floor. This was his nightly version of blinking and far less disruptive.
"Nicely done, but warn me next time you use your powers. Keep quiet. Star and Cyborg, we're in, if you see Slade and his minions, don't hesitate to attack, but until you do, do not engage until my mark." Robin said as he and Xremisis crouched through the hallways.
"Looks like it's just them, the civvies must have evacuated after Slade busted in." Cyborg informed.
"Robin, I finally managed to set some welcome gifts if they try to escape, I am right under them with Beast Boy as a smelly T-Rex, don't resign me to this Hell."
"Roger that...hold until my mark." Robin continued, Xremisis was silent. The approached an inconspicuous office room. Robin stopped his crouching and began to lay explosive disks in a circle. Xremisis scanned the area, something below them was extremely powerful, but locked.
"I think they are not just here for the gold."
"What ever they are here for, we aren't letting them getting it. Are you going to fight with your fists?" Robin mocked Raptor at the end of his statement. He laughed quietly and summoned his spear, it was incredibly draining so it would not last longer than five minutes. It was not the spear he used to fight the Wyraa, it was actually human-rated sized.
"We got five minutes before with this thing before I become to weak to use it. You ready?" Xremisis said as he stepped in the circle
"Always have been. Titans GO!" Robin said and he clicked the detonator R button on his costume. The disks exploded under them and sent them falling into the vault. The roof crushed a robot, Robin threw his birdarangs at an unsuspecting henchmen. Raptor jumped off the off the fallen ceiling landed on his spear on a henchmen, and impaled another henchmen to the ground with his spear. He sucked the shadows to reveal more henchmen, he bolted twirled his spear, taking out all three of them, and left a bright white line of energy in their place. The bodies fell to the ground. He saw a giant beast emerge from the ground, a giant green beast with mouth filled with razor sharp teeth. The creature just gave him a silly wink before clearing the room henchmen. The front door, however was blasted by a greenish bluish energy. The dust settled and saw two green eyes and one red eye.
"BOOYAH! I love it when a plan comes together!" Cyborg said while high fiving Starfire with is non-handcannon. However, Raptor saw Robin having trouble with another mercenary. He advanced towards him ready to strike before a dark bird swept the henchmen away. His strike barely missed Robin and instead struck an ambush robot. He pulled the spear out the machine. He then helped Robin up.
"Always have each others back." Raptor said as he saw that mercenary fly back with several others from a dark corridor into a wall. The shadows revealed Raven, Xremisis saw another two henchmen come for her, he ready to blink but before Beast Boy rammed his head into one and Raven simply looked at the other one before using dark magic to cause a pile of gold bars to barrage the poor man in a golden shower. Xremisis saw a enormous man ready to strike him with an sledgehammer. He blocked with his spear, dodge to the left using a blink before he saw a green flash send the figure into a rack of gold bars.
"I think that is all of them." Starfire said in a victorious manner.
"Slade is still here. He has to be."
"I got his two little, apprentices...pathetic of Slade." Raven said as she held two little kids.
"Decoys..." Robin said kicking in a gun in frustration. Slade had vanished in the ensuing chaos.
"Raven, did you traps catch anything." Raptor asked, Raven shook her head.
"Yes, but they were all regular henchmen. Slade must have knew that I would set up traps there." Raven answered in a bitter tone. Suddenly, they heard a bloodcurdling scream of women coming from the other side of unlit vault. It shook everyone to the bone, except Raptor. The sound morphed into sobbing and weeping.
"What is that?" Beast Boy asked as he turned into a cheetah. Robin began to headway towards to the sound. Raptor immediately grabbed him.
"No..."
"There is someone screaming..." Robin informed Xremisis. Xremisis knew what it was, or who exactly was. He began to drag Robin back like a child.
"Go, GO! Get out of the vault NOW!"
"But, Raptor, there is..." Starfire interjected as another scream silenced her.
"NOW, LET'S GO!" Xremisis said, finally the heeded his advice, Xremisis still dragging Robin. Raven teleported with Beast Boy to the front of Bank. Starfire was floating backwards. She was being a Vanguard for whatever came out of the shadows, mostly to protect Robin. Her vision caught a glimpse of the being in the shadows and she flew out of the bank with Cyborg, Robin, and Raptor. The landed behind the T-car, Cyborg armed himself.
"By X'hal! WHAT WAS THAT! WHAT IS THAT! KOLIF GRUMIFA X'HAL!" Starfire was completely driven insane by the creature she just looked at. She began to ramble in Tamaranean about it, but even Cyborg could not understand it.
"Raptor, what is it! What's is it!" Cyborg demanded an answer. Xremisis voice was cold. Raven and Beast Boy joined up with them behind the car. Raven managed to calm down Starfire's insanity.
"It's not what it is...it is who it is." Xremisis heard the screams of all of the remaining henchmen left in the vault, with one loud groan coming from it.
"It...was...pale...K'noeurgne..." The Tamaranean tried to explain. The screams halted after a while, and Xremisis took a huge breath as if he was underwater, drowning. He continued to take several large breathes.
"She is gone. May Akeuria have mercy on those poor souls." Xremisis said as he stood up.
"Answer me, now. What and who was that, what did do to Starfire." Raven said. The Nurian nodded.
"Like, I said, there are three Celestial Species, Nurians...Demons...and...Angels." The Nurian began explaining.
"Was that an ANGEL? Dude, are you serious!?" Beast boy eyes lit up. Xremisis nodded his head in approval.
"But, it was not just any normal Angel...she was Adriel, the Archangel of Despair...the Grey Angel. A terrible Angel that was once the Archangel of Hope, she was the last of the Messites, a group of Angels that saw the Nephilim, Nicholas as the next Messiah of their kind, and Adriel was his personal love and Queen. The Nephilim died by my hand after he lead a united attack on the Gates of Nuria and ports of the Infera, after she realized everything she loved for was gone; she went mad and began to slaughter every Nurian, Inferian, Angel, Demon, and Mortal for her own subsistence violating even the most draconian of angelic law. Suffice to say we put her down, and imprisoned her in one of the Second Realm's many dimensions...it just so happens to be this is the realm where she was imprisoned. What happened to Starfire is that she looked into the aspect of Despair itself, her vital essence, nearly torn from her, if it were not Luna Doctrine and Raven's quick aide. My, mission has changed, she needs to be destroyed above all else."
"So if you killed her husband...why did not she attack you!?" Raven demanded an explanation, desperately trying to keep Starfire from falling to despair, which would be lethal to the Tamaranean. Xremisis simply grabbed Starfire's hand.
"What is Hope?" Xremisis said in the universal language, it was one of his theories he knew by heart. Raven and Xremisis could feeling Starfire starting to return back to regular life signs. Starfire however was unconscious.
"She'll live, now to answer your question..."
"Just...leave. You brought us nothing but trouble, this mission of yours is up to you, now, I am finished with you." Robin said to the Nurian with an accusatory finger. He was holding Starfire's hand, it confirmed to him how much the Tamaranean mattered to him. He nodded his head and began to leave.
"Wait, wait, wait if we would have responded WITHOUT Raptor, we would have been dead! Slade had the literal PERFECT trap, only Raptor could have known that. Robin...get yourself together!" Cyborg said grabbing Xremisis arm as the Nurian began to leave.
"I don't care." Robin said coldly. Raven eyes grew red with anger, even she knew that was pitiful for Robin, there leader to say. She decided to him the truth, painfully.
"Robin, without him, Starfire would have been DEAD! GONE! TORN FROM EXISTENCE! YOU ARE SPITTING IN THE HAND THAT JUST SAVED YOUR GIRLFRIEND! Our fate is now intertwined with his, we need him." Raven filled with righteous anger spewed towards Robin. It made Robin dismayed, he never saw Raven act this way towards him. He did not even know that Raven knew that secret of Robin.
"Yeah, umm, all I have to say is. Raven and Cyborg are totally right...I saw that thing and was freaked out!" Beast Boy admitted to have seeing the Archangel. Xremisis eyes immediately locked onto him.
"Are you saying you looked, Despair right the face?"
"Well, yeah..."
"Robin...Nurian Xremisis...he is a good friend, don't cast him aside, he showed the light, when I all I could see was darkness." Starfire awoken from her blackout, only to be hugged by Robin, who had the evidence of tears coming down his mask. Angry that he could not save her.
"FINE! Raptor stays with us, until we find this Adriel, then he is gone."
"Dude, man up. Just thank him, he had no reason to warn us or save Star, so I suggest you swallow your pride. Especially after you said you did not trust him." Beast boy lied the truth down onto Robin. Hearing that from Beast Boy especially knocked some sense into Robin. He always wanted to be an adult, perfect, crime fighter, but he realized that he betraying not only a teammate but who saved not only himself, but his entire team from a fate that should have been sealed.
"My apologies...I...am sorry that I busted out like that. Raptor, I owe you in more ways than one."
"We are a team, Robin. I knew something was powerful down there, but I had no idea it would Adriel until after that scream. This, Slade must a cut different from the usual human."
"Is it still in there?"
"She's not in there, she feasted upon the souls in that vault. She's weak and cannot take physical form for long, thus she needs to feed on Akrisas, great souls to restore her physical form, my guess is that she will dwell in the cathedrals. Sucking on the hopes and dreams of the worshipers."
"Are you telling me that she eats souls?" Raven said, she wanted to confirm this, she had no idea Angels were even allowed to harm humans."
"All angels possess that ability, why do you think there are so many references to angels in your temples? The feed off the dead believers that pass into the First Realm to power them. All Adriel is to them is that she's a poacher and a criminal, not the instigator of the Apocalypse that needs to be dealt with immediately." Xremisis said, Raven was literally horrified that Angels were no better than Demons.
"Okay, I think that's enough on the Biblical stuff." Cyborg said as he was unsettled by the revelation that Xremisis said.
"You...do you?" Beast boy asked with wide eyes.
"No, Nurians don't do that...we are not monsters were are theorists, we prove faith through theory. Now, Robin I need you to get Starfire back to the Tower, bunker if you have too. " Xremisis pressed his finger on Robin's heart.
"What are you doing?" Robin asked as he cocked his head.
"I am going hunting...anyone want to go with?" The Nurian reformed his spear and had a confident look.
"Chasing an Archangel, who's is Despair incarnate, in city that has high unemployment rate...and simply knocked out our heavy hitter with a stare...sure." Raven said clenching her fist, she wanted revenge, badly.
"Oh yeah! Let's do this Rae-Rae! Cyborg you with us?" Beast boy said.
"What are you guys waiting for? GET MAH CAR! WE GOING SACK THIS ONE!" Cyborg said enthusiastically and entered the car.
"Please do be careful..." Starfire said as Robin helped her to his R-Cycle. The rest of the Titans entered the T-Car, Xremisis was in the front while Beast Boy and Raven were in the back for better or for worse.
"Raptor, all right, Jump City has a few million people, hundreds of square miles of buildings, and a sewer system that spans thousands of miles, not including the subway system tunnels. Where are we supposed to look?" Cyborg asked Raptor where the Archangel could be. He still could not believe he was doing this, but even so, the City is in danger so long as that thing is out there.
"Head to the largest cathedral in this city." Raptor answered Cyborg, he stepped on the gas to head into the inner city.
"Al Templo de Madre Santa y Cielo Arriba!" Beast Boy cried out the name of the temple, Raven plugged her ears, his Spanish was terrible. The headed for the cathedral, while Robin and Starfire headed back to the Tower. But left behind in the Vault was only the mask that belong to a man, illuminated by the hole Robin and Raptor busted through, and it's only discernible feature was black and orange with traces of blood on it, whoever the mask belong to, must have received a terrible fate.
"Do you feel it Raven?" Raptor calmly said as Cyborg approached the cathedral. The empath raised her head, and felt a faint but yet discernible feeling of pure dread, as if her time had come. She shook her head, yes. Raptor turned to face the cathedral that Beast Boy told them to go. Cyborg parked far away from it.
"The Crow is roosting in her nest. I will handle this...alone. If I don't come out in 10 minutes, flee." Raptor said to his fellow teammates, Cyborg gave him a look he would never forget. He opened his door hurriedly and slammed it shut. Raven got out of the car.
"I haven't rode with that little rut all the way here, just to sit with him longer. Whatever happens, happens, but we are doing this together." Raven said as Beast Boy and Cyborg emerged from the car. He looked back at the Cathedral, it was a massive complex, reaching at least 50 meters tall not including it's steeple, the place seemed to be spotless of color, Gothic in appearance despite being Spanish in origin. Raptor prayed that his teammates would not have the courage to follow him in. But they were stalwart even to the gates, except Beast Boy, he almost ran back before Raven looked him in the eyes. Raptor and Cyborg scanned the place of worship, but only Raptor saw something, something, destitute, decaying, and living memory that would always haunt him. He hoped the weaken Archangel had not gained enough power greater than him. He took to the door and opened it. Raven followed him next, Cyborg and Beast Boy came in. The door forcibly shut, freaking Beast Boy out. Only Raptor heard a voice, an old, child-like, stricken, androgynous voice.
"Welcome...murder, betrayer, my most heinous Emperor Xremisis. I will gladly entertain you and your guests, just as I did with you, 200 years ago." The angel said, the Nurian grunted when she brought that up. He stopped and signal everyone else to stop before the entered the main chamber. Cyborg gave him glance of concern.
"You're just as weak as me, Adriel, your simple tricks and mirrors, do not affect me as does the mortals." Raptor responded in Nurian. Adriel's laugh could be heard by all members. Cyborg armed his sonic cannon, Changeling morphed into a tiger, and Raven's hands began to glow black.
"Is this your pitiful crusade?" Adriel announced in a mortal tongue. She laughed despicably, the Nurian readied his spear.
"Close your eyes, and what ever you do...don't open them, until I say so."
"Especially you, my dear Gem." The Archangel said directly to Raven, though Raptor heard it. What could she mean by "Gem"? Raven's face was horrified by the fact she had reveal her true purpose. Not only it did it anger her, it shook her very bones.
"WHERE ARE YOU!?" Raven burst out in shock, but not rage. Only child-like laughter was heard through the Cathedral.
"Why don't you come pray to my altar...I am sure I can answer your confessions. Come to me, Xremisis, see your past, present, and fate." The angel "offered" to the team. The Nurian gripped his spear and right hand was drenched with his Nightly powers.
"You should have stayed dead. Titans hold until my mark." Raptor said and blinked into the sanctuary. He was now his Nurian self, he raised his spear against Despair. The angel was simply sitting in the air, over the Cross, legs crossed, draped in a silver leathery gown fit for a queen, silver boots, wore a silver corset to accent her bodily curves, two massive silver wings flanked her body and were only half opened with the longest feathers touching the ground, her face was fair and was silver eyed maiden, with waist length silver hair. On her back was a huge golden longbow and a quiver of arrows. The maiden simply gave a sinister look of mischievousness to the abdicated Emperor. Raptor certainly knew that this was facade of her actual self, the Archangel only trying to remind him who he cast down. The Nurian flapped his wings, and lunged his spear towards the Angel, surprisingly the angel simply took the blow, content on being impaled. The two celestial beings landed on the west side of the altar, Xremisis landed on his foot talons. The Nurian had no idea why the Archangel did not defend herself, or even shifted into her dreadful form.
"Surprised aren't you? Me too." Adriel said with red blood oozing from her midsection. Raptor, however, knew one could attack the body of an angel for eternity and it would stand, it's wings were her halo that was her critical part, that she lacked.
"Where is you're halo?!" Raptor roared at the Archangel, she laughed and with a single tap, Raptor launched into the dome of the cathedral. He shook his head, and saw his spear fly to him. He slew it done before he caught it with his left hand and dislodged himself from dome's wall. He looked back down and saw Adriel back where she was, he blinked back down and almost slashed her. Though she simply blocked it and punched him with her free hand. Raptor flew into a pillar, destroyed it, and landed on bench.
"You thought I would that weak." Adriel taunted Raptor, as she drew her bow, carefully. But before she released, she felt a sonic blast threw her off her aim and her arrow bounced off of Raptor's chest, his eye being her intended target.
"I ain't coming to church to pray! But watch this miracle!" Cyborg ambushed Adriel, his eyes were closed, but since he was half robot, Adriel could not tell what he was, she was technological as blind as Raptor. She simply fluttered her wings to float towards the interesting mortal. Only to be blasted back his sonic cannons onto the floor.
"Surprised? I brought friends this time." Raptor said, as he recovered from the punch he took. He flapped his wings to get across the altar, Adriel was about to do the same before she felt some dark energy rose up from the ground and locked her arms. Raptor struck a flying roundhouse kick to her face do her immobility. He could not help but think him and Adriel were fighting as if they were old decrepit mortals.
"Is a little angel afraid of the dark?" Raven taunted the Archangel, Adriel simply yelled at her. She lashed out a strike to Raptor, he dodged effortlessly as Raven was strategically blocking Adriel's physical strikes, Cyborg continued to lay down the firepower, she tried to block it her wings. The Archangel felt she was at maximum power, as if she could end this realm, yet when she saw a green Rhino charge into her sending her out the stained glass window, she realized that was not case. The four landed in front of her.
"WHY?! This isn't right, you are all supposed to flee in terror!" Adriel said as she got up from the road. Civilians walking and driving past didn't even care, she could not even commandeer their souls. Even her actual form was locked off. She was dazed and confused by all the light and sounds, and the fact that it was night.
"Welcome to the Second Realm!" Beast Boy grunted as he returned into his regular humanoid self. Raptor was shocked as well, how easy that was, or that she was not faking, her power levels had dropped considerably after he scanned her. But he also knew what the cause was.
"This is what happens when you let the Wyraa infest this realm. That in which you partook to create, will not give you it's power now." Raptor said as he withered away back to his human form. The Akeuria Doctrine did not even call that spar a fight, but more as pushing and shoving to get in front of the line. Thus he was not punished for his actions.
"I guess, even Angels are affected just as much as the Nurians."
"Quiet you fowl betrayer!" Adriel said in a rather normal human voice, even her wings felt insanely heavy to her frame. Raven laughed, picked her up, and slapped her unconscious. Everyone but her was surprised, especially Raptor. Either Raven was more powerful than he thought, or Adriel had suffered some critical mistake with her innate power. He assumed both and even thought the Second Realm empowered the Wyraa, and underpowered the Nurians and Angels. Even Adriel being the Aspect of Despair did even affect Raven.
"Can we open our eyes?" Beast Boy said
"Yes, boy." Raven said as her eyes were opened and did not effect her.
"I don't get it...she nearly killed Star, now she can barely lift herself up. Raptor? Rae just smolder her like a Defensive in." Cyborg asked. Raptor head went up.
"Of course..." Raptor figured it out.
"What?" Raven questioned Raptor's statement. He simply smiled.
"You are an empath, Adriel is the Aspect of Despair, despair is a emotion. That means you're basically sucking her power just by standing there. Incredible! Who would have thought a single empath could fell an Archangel!" Raptor theorized, but he was not satisfied, she would have be an empath of unknown proportions to have achieve that.
"Raven, Bane of Archangels!" Beast boy shouted with the voice of tiger. The blue cloaked women, simply shook her head. Cyborg gave her a pack on the back.
"Good job sis...I knew you had it in you. Raptor what are we going to do with her."
"I have no clue, we've never managed this before...it's unprecedented. It's clear that Raven has her in check, she does not have a halo, so I can't slay her. Imprisoning her far away would only make her stronger...this is unique and pretty hilarious." Raptor began to chuckle, he could not help himself that one of his greatest adversaries and the most powerful Angel to ever exist was at his feet, humiliated by a Wyraa by just standing the vicinity of her.
"Are you saying that we have to BRING HER WITH US?!" Beast boy exclaimed with his waving around in the air. Raptor sighed.
"Here's the problem, we got to her before she could get any stronger, right now she can't even lift herself, we have no way of banishing it, and Robin would disband the team on a flick of tail if we brought her to the tower. Now, I am Nurian, but can't reliably be a Nurian, so what would a human do?"
"Lock her butt up. Throw the key away." Beast boy gave an answer.
"Is that, the thing?" A boy on motorcycle, a red motorcycle pulled up to the four titans. It was Robin, he had located the team. He climbed off to the vehicle and approached Raptor.
"This is what almost gave Starfire's a heart attack? It can barely lift itself?!" Robin was bewildered, all the drama he had cause, and yet he was staring at a being far more ancient than him.
"Well, yes, but no, but yes, but really no. This appearance she has taken was before she Despair...but she still is Despair, but this facade seems to be actual, and Raven seems to depower her considerably. I am long for answers as well." Raptor shrugged his shoulders, he was not the expert on dealing with the clean up, or the plans, or really other than commanding an army and fighting decently, that's what technically the Emperor is, just a military commander.
"YOU ARE EMPEROR, YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO!" Robin yelled him shaking his fist.
"An Emperor is just a Nurian who was lucky enough to be related to someone who died and happened to be in favor of eight Archnurians. I do not know what to do because this has not happen before! I am just as clueless as you human." Raptor explained, it seemed to calm Robin down, even though he was still angry at him.
"Guys, looks like an Angel just lost its wings." Beast boy remarked and pointed at the Archangel now lack of wings. This shocked the Nurian and Raven. Raptor was shocked by how far Raven could depower her and Raven was shocked as well as she could clip an Angel's wings, no less an Archangel.
"I mean, it's no Seraphim, but damn...No Halo, no Wings...she has to be mortal now." Raptor examined this new Adriel, apparently this one was differently, since an Angel losing its wings meant it was reborn, had Despair left Adriel? She became extremely younger looking as well, no older than 20 in appearance. Most importantly for Raptor, her halo reappeared, a faint silver glow from behind her head.
"Who are you people, where am I? Why is it night?" Adriel said with a pleasant, feminine, and invigorating voice as she rose up. Raptor was dumbfounded, apparently Raven sucked the Despair out of Adriel, and Raven was unchanged, he registered no trace of the power within her, it was simply gone.
"Xremisis? I feel your presence but you are not here? What is going on?"
"Umm..." Xremisis said.
"Are you a soul-sucking maniac that wants to farm this place?" Beast Boy interjected. This new Adriel face was appalled, why would he say such a thing to her?
"What? XREMISIS, ARE YOU STILL PERPUATING THAT LIE, THAT WAS, BY CHRIST, THOSE ARE THE OLD TESTMANT ANGELS, I AM A NEW ONE! I am different from those psychopaths, Emperor, you should be ashamed of yourself!" Adriel voice was burning with passion, strength, and hope. Raven noticed it.
"Hold on! YOU WERE DIFFERENT! THAT DAMN NEPHILIM YOU HELPED! HE TURNED YOU BACK INTO AN OLD ONE, BECAUSE YOU TRUSTED HIM!" Xremisis yelled back at her. Adriel's face was confused, Nephilim? She was not familiar with the term, but it popped back into her head.
"What...Nephil...ooooh, I was coming to you, because I distrusted him but then I saw him and then darkness...wait...how long have I been here?"
"RAPTOR!" Robin finally managed to collect his word. His mouth agape.
"Who's raptor? Who are these Infera? What happened to Burin? Oh my god! I am in HELL there's a demon right next to me!" Adriel collapsed sobbing, not know . Raven gave her a friendly slap.
"OW! That hurt!" Adriel rubbed her cheek, her skin color began to return to a regular flesh toned
"Get a grip. You're in the Second Realm, my name Raven, this is Cyborg, that's Beast Boy, and that is Robin, we are the Teen Titans, except we are missing one." Raven applied her "therapy" to the angel.
"Oh, Akeuria, Adriel you've have been lost for 200 years...come with us, Archangel of Hope...we have a lot to explain." Xremisis said as he finally met an lost old friend again. Robin face-palmed, he thought Raven was hard to understand, he was getting to know Raptor, but now this event has reset everything again.
"Welcome to Jump City, werido!" Beast Boy gave his response to the Archangel with a toothy smile.
"Who would have thought, an Archnurian, a Demon, and Archangel would ever be in the same place." Raven retorted.
"What, have you not heard of the Senate?" Adriel asked Raven.
"Let's just go." Robin and Cyborg announced.