Chapter 3-Devil Games

When Raven woke up, she was lying on the couch thinking she just had a dream where Robin had returned calling himself Nightwing, and had basically for the lack of better words asked her out on a date. Of course, such a thing was all a dream, and the chance of Nightwing asking her on a date were slimmer then Beast Boy using his brain to solve a College Trigonometry test.

"Wake up my sleeping beauty," said Nightwing leaning on the couch resting on its back with his own making Raven turn her head towards him and she realized that what she experienced earlier wasn't a dream.

It was real.

"Nightwing?" said Raven sitting up in what she realized was their U shaped sofa.

"Yeeesss," said Nightwing leaning down closer while wiggling his eyebrows at her.

SMACK!

"YOU JERK! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF?" yelled a pissed off Raven having smacked him across the face for not only making her faint, but worrying her sick over what had happened, and not choking him for it sooner.

"What? No tongue?" said Nightwing rubbing his face while laughing at Raven's shocked and blushing face in anger mixed with embarrassment before she jumped at him trying to wrap her fingers around his neck to strangle him.

"Tongue? I'll give you tongue. Just let me choke you so when I see it, I can rip it out of your mouth, and then I'll shove it down your throat again!" said Raven, as she tried to strangle him while Nightwing held her back with sufficient ease, and simply smiled at her releasing a chuckle in the process.

"Don't be like that Rae. If you ripped out my tongue, how am I supposed to interact with yours when we kiss, and make out on our dates?" said Nightwing making Raven blush further and she increased her attempts to crush his wind pipe.

"It's hard to kiss a dead man," said Raven finding her fingers were just out of reach of his muscular neck.

"Really? Well then, let me make it less difficult for you, and kiss you for your troubles Rae," said Nightwing moving her hands away from his neck area and kissed her right on the lips making Raven's eyes go wide at the sensation now running through her body.

'Oh my God! He's kissing me! Nightwing is actually kissing ME!' thought Raven her mind so lost in the sensation that her mouth had opened slightly, which Nightwing had noticed, and exploited by sticking his tongue into it playing with her own.

She couldn't help, but involuntarily moan at the way his tongue was moving around hers, as she closed her eyes, and enjoyed the way he danced within her mouth.

Of course that was before Raven realized what he was doing, with him now on top of her, and she used her powers to push him off though not enough to send him into the wall. It's not like she didn't want to send him into the wall many many times for the kiss, which Raven only admitted to herself mentally she enjoyed, but the shock she received from the reality of him kissing her prevented the girl from giving it her all.

She just had to settle for Nightwing landing on his back lightly, with him now getting off the floor seconds later with that exact same smile on his face from before only now it was wider, and a bit more mischievous.

"Damn! And here I thought from the way you enjoyed my kissing, I could get to second base with you Rae," said Nightwing snapping his fingers before letting out a chuckle at Raven's still red in the face expression of embarrassment.

"Kill! Kill! KILL!" said Raven her more demonic side coming out ready to unleash a great deal of pain upon Nightwing's form.

"What? All ready?! I thought you would wait for at least until say...the third date?" said Nightwing laughing even further before leaping out of the way of Raven magic tentacles that she launched at him before he began running out of the room with the gothic half-demon princess right on his heels.

"I'm going to make you feel unimaginable PAIN!" said Raven her eyes now four red ones continuing her pursuit of half-devil trying to hit him at least once with her magical tendrils of magic.

"I didn't know you were into the whole kinky stuff Rae. Shows what you can learn about someone in one day you didn't know the next," said Nightwing laughing, as Raven let out a demonic growl at his words, and chased him further throughout the tower.

They ran into an unfortunate Beast Boy on the third floor, who Nightwing quickly leapt over while Raven just plowed over in her pursuit of the silver haired hero, and Nightwing couldn't help himself at laughing at Beast Boy's ghost white appearance in the aftermath. It was about the time they reached the roof that Raven finally had Nightwing cornered with her face now having a demonic smile written on her face, meaning that when she got her hands on him there would be hell to pay, and Nightwing was the one that was going to pay it.

"Now Rae I know you're angry, but you can't deny you didn't mind my kiss, and from the way you were moaning when I added my tongue, it meant you also liked it too," said Nightwing dodging a magic tendril of energy forcing back towards the ledge of the roof.

"How do you want your body eaten? Raw? Or cooked?" said Raven licking her lips in a sinisterly evil way as she backed him into a corner.

'Starfire and Cyborg just had to go out to get pizza to celebrate my return. Thanks guys,' thought Nightwing wondering just how he was going to get out of this.

"Any last words before I burn you at the stake?" said Raven now moving in closer until she could easily strike him no problem.

"Um...your underwear's showing?" said Nightwing pointing, which made the demonic Raven of course look since he was pointing, and for some reason believed him before she looked up to see he had jumped off the roof.

"No! Come back here damn it!" said Raven seeing him use his grappling hook connect under the T before lowering himself safely to the ground and looking up at her.

"Not until you calm down and act like a lady," said Nightwing, as he thought he heard a growl coming from Raven even if she was still way up there, and saw her float down to him only looking like her casual calm self.

"Okay. I'm calm now so out with it," said Raven her eyebrow twitching under her hood and it took a great deal of her will power in not changing back and giving him the ass end of an ass whipping.

"What?" said Nightwing raising an eyebrow while Raven let out a growl at his sudden denseness.

"You know what! I'm talking about you leaving, coming back, then flirting with me, and you just...you...," said Raven unable to say the last part out of anger, embarrassment, or possibly something else she wasn't sure.

"Kissed you?" said Nightwing making Raven glare at him for finishing it for her.

"Yes! Don't you think it's wrong? What about Starfire?" said Raven not wanting to hurt her friend's feelings.

"What do you want me to say Rae? Starfire is a great girl and all, but she's too nice, too naïve, and a little dense when it comes to understanding things even if she has made a bit of progress. You on the other hand are smart, understanding, sharp as a sword, and you have the body many women would kill for," said Nightwing wiggling his eyebrows at the last part making Raven's face become red again.

"So you're not an item with Starfire?" said Raven just so she had things cleared up with him.

"Do you see me flirting or making out with Starfire right now?" said Nightwing raising an eyebrow at Raven, who silently admitted the man had a point, and that IF he was in a relationship he would being doing those things with the alien girl.

"No. Still, you didn't have to be so flirtatious, giving hidden innuendos, or kissing me...," said Raven only for Nightwing to interrupt her with a grin on his face.

"Or groping your breast," said Nightwing grinning further.

"Or groping my breast. Wait! What?" said Raven her face with shock, embarrassment, and anger with her demonic side starting to come out again with her trying to hit him with her dark magic tendrils.

"Joking! Joking!" said Nightwing leaping back, but his laughing didn't stop seeing her slowly return to normal again, and she glared at him wishing it had the power to make him explode into a thousand little pieces.

"So how did you become...this?!" said Raven seeing his uniform with jacket and forced herself not to blush again at seeing his impressive muscled physic enhanced by his choice of clothing.

"Not here Rae. First, we have our little date, then you can ask your many many questions, and then afterwards...who knows?!" said Nightwing being his flirtatious self once again.

"I'm not going to regret this am I?" said Raven raising an eyebrow at him suspiciously.

"You? Regret being with me? Such blasphemy you speak Rae, it would make the Pope faint," said Nightwing grinning at her with a normal grin this time, which Raven found that while his joke was a little somewhat corny, it was also funny in its own way hence her giggling before she stopped, and glaring at him for it.

"Tell anyone I just giggled and I'll blast you to the lowest plain of hell," said Raven, as she had an image to maintain, and it would be shattered if anyone found out about it.

"Really? The lowest plain of hell? I didn't know you loved me so much," said Nightwing with his wolf like grin returning and Raven's blush on her face not far behind it.

"Shut up," said Raven punching him in the shoulder in a friendly yet hard fashion hoping it would leave some kind of bruise.

"Please. While were out on the town call me...Vergil," said Nightwing smiling mentally to himself at the choice of a name and wondered if a certain someone would be pissed off if he used it.

(Hive Academy)

Brother Blood was not pleased. Why? Because his master was not pleased. While the Demon King Mundus had expected this suddenly arisen half-devil, the dark being had expected Brother Blood to make progress in hunting down the boy himself to capture, and since there had been no capture it meant that someone was going to be punished.

Namely him, the Headmaster of Hive Academy.

"I wanted results Blood. You have yet to give them to me," said Mundus through the portal window glaring at the half-man half-machine Headmaster.

"I-I just need more time my master. The Hive team that I have assembled to go retrieve Nightwing is already set to go and is ready to be deployed at a moments notice," said Brother Blood kneeling before the presence of the demonic King.

"Then deploy them. I want this boy found and as undamaged as inhumanly possible. He must be prime condition or else my wrath will be swift upon you along with the rest of your...students," said Mundus before closing the portal while Brother Blood was now breathing heavily after his master's sight left him.

"Gizmo!" said Brother Blood getting the tiny techno genius to appear in his office.

"Yes sir," said Gizmo knowing it was better to be polite to the man, then insult him due to his psychic powers, and possibly be obliterated by them.

"Get your team together and track down Nightwing. My ally has informed me that he is back in Jump City and I want the boy captured," said Brother Blood his voice sounding serious indicating that screwing up was not an option.

"On it. That scum sucking dirt licker won't know what hit him," said Gizmo, as he went to rally the others to hunt the target down, and make the Headmaster proud.

"He better not Gizmo because if you fail me, I'll use my powers to do something to you that will be most...unpleasant," said Brother Blood his eyes real and cybernetic glowing red with psychic energy.

(In Jump City)

"So...Vergil how did you become this way?" said Raven walking with the man down the street to their usual hang out at the Pizza joint.

"Going right for the jugular I see. Though to be honest that doesn't surprise me since you always did have a mean streak for ruthless precision and before you scowl at me, I mean that in a good way," said Nightwing slinging his arm over her shoulder pressing her close to him like they had been a loving couple for years.

"Thanks. I think," said Raven finding it difficult to keep her blush down, as the closeness of them together let her feel Nightwing's muscles, and it was making several of her less moral emotions go crazy.

"No problem. Anyway, the story starts about...a week and a half after I left since I finally reached by destination, and my sword was basically guiding me the whole time," said Nightwing, as he began his tale of just who he met when thanks to his sword Yamato.

(Flashback-3 Months Ago)

"So this is the place. Looks a little run down," said Nightwing walking up to the shop that said "Devil May Cry" on the top and opening the door hearing the bell ring signifying his entrance to the shop.

Aside from the jukebox, the pool table, the spinning fan, and a way outdated TV set the place looked like your everyday bar except without customers. Needless to say the young warrior looked disappointed in the place his sword had guided him to and wondered if his sword had taken up a poor sense of humor.

"So you're finally here," said the male voice from a person on the second story looking down at Nightwing with a smirk on his face.

"You were expecting me? Funny, I didn't think I called or sent you a letter telling you I was coming," said Nightwing throwing his duffle bag of clothes and whatnot onto a nearby couch.

"Well considering I'm the one that gave you that sword your holding in your left hand I think I would expect you to find your way here for some answers," said Dante walking down the steps drinking a soda before throwing the can into the trash when he finished.

"It's not like I'm ungrateful to you pal, but you kind of gave me something without the instruction manual, and considering you are the guy who gave me this you are going to have to teach me how to use it properly," said Nightwing, as he didn't know how to use the sword to its fullest potential, and add to the fact the sword was not normal also played a part too.

"Are you sure he's the one? He's much smarter then you were at his age," said a woman from the second story where Dante just came from with blonde hair and great figure.

"Insulting yet complimenting at the same time Trish. So why do I like you again?" said Dante pointing casually at her.

"Because of my charming personality, which keeps you on your toes, and makes your life exciting when without it would be boring," said Trish smirking at him since aside from Lady he had very few friends and even fewer female friends he could trust.

"Oh. In that case, I need to see other women like Lady, and ask her out on a date," said Dante seeing Trish have a tick mark appear on her face before taking her gun out and tried to shoot him only to have her bullet deflected his own.

"Jerk!" said Trish with her face now sporting a sneer while Dante's held a smirk.

"Says you with your all so the 'charming personality' Trish," said Dante with his smirk growing before summoning his sword and walked over to an eyebrow raised Nightwing.

"Trouble in paradise comes often here doesn't it?" said Nightwing looking back up Trish, who seemed to be contemplating shooting at Dante again.

"Yeah pretty much. Though personally, I think she actually likes it," said Dante letting out a laugh, as they walk out the door with the son of Sparda hearing Trish growl, and take another shot at him again missing his arm by about an inch.

"Maybe you should rethink that," said Nightwing seeing the bullet hole in the door.

"Nah. If she hated it, Trish would have successfully hit my arm, or at least hit something else to get her point across," said Dante, as the two headed towards a secluded destination were the two of them could talk in private, and help Nightwing learn more about his new powers.

(End Flashback)

"You actually met Dante? His family is a legend among the demonic and magic worlds," said Raven having heard the stories of the devil swordsman Sparda from her days under the tutelage from the Azarath monks back home.

"Well it gets better. It seems I'm related to the guy on my Mother's side of the family," said Nightwing making Raven's jaw drop along with all her emotions inside of her following that news.

"You're his cousin?!" said Raven, as they were now sitting down waiting for the waitress to arrive to ask for their order.

"Yep! You see at the time he gave me his blood, Dante didn't know we were related until we talked, and I learned that my Mother had an older sister named Eva Grayson. He only knew that I had the same blood type as his Mother, which was the same blood type as my Mother, and since his devil blood was accepted into my body it immediately turned me into a half-devil like him," said Nightwing smiling at Raven while he leaned back on his chair when a waitress came over blushing at the sight of Dante and took their orders.

"I'm sorry," said Raven looking down at the table after the waitress walked away.

"For what?" said Nightwing raising an eyebrow at Raven.

"For hesitating when Slade was going to shoot me, for making you push me out of the way thus making you get shot in the first place, and for being a weak dirty half-breed that couldn't save you from falling after the shooting," said Raven finding herself crying in front of him and ruining their date.

"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Slow down for a sec Rae. Don't cry. I never once thought it was your fault at all. No one knew Slade was going to pull a gun on you or that the bullets he was packing in them were designed especially to handle your powers. If Slade had gotten a successful hit on you, it would have been your body that fell into the streets below, and possibly your body that hit the car that my body did. Can you honestly say that had the outcome been different that it would have been for the better? Raven what happened was the lesser of two evils and I would do all again to protect you from dying at the hands of anyone we fight together," said Nightwing grabbing her hand on the table surprising her and he gave it a gentle squeeze to show that he meant it.

"Thanks Vergil," said Raven giving him a smile seeing how he meant every word he just spoke.

"Your welcome. Also about what you said about being a weak dirty half-breed? Never ever say that type of thing about yourself again Rae. You are NOT weak anyway and you are certainly NOT dirty in any sense of the word. To me, you are more human then most humans in this world. I mean come on I'm a half-devil so I'm in the same boat as you in that whole 'being a half-breed' thing. I may not have been one as long as you Rae, but that doesn't mean I'm not able to understand, or that it changes how I feel about you," said Nightwing giving her a gentle smile with Raven returning it.

"Here's your order," said the waitress bring them their cheese pizza before walking away wishing she was Raven right now with that young and handsome masked man.

"How did Starfire take your return after I...faint?" said Raven blushing in embarrassment, as she couldn't believe she did that, and made a mental note with Intelligence to make a couple specific emotions pay for causing it.

"Oh the usual. The squeal of delight, the rushing to hug me, and let's not forget the bone crushing hug that nearly kills someone within a span of 2-3 minutes if she holds onto the person long enough," said Nightwing grinning at the last part while Raven let out a small laugh at the joke since it was basically true.

"We were all worried about you after you escaped in that toga you made out of the bed sheet," said Raven smirking at the whole incident and looking back at how funny it kind of was despite the seriousness at the time.

"Yeah well it beats trying to fit into clothing that no longer fits you. Besides I don't hear you complaining about what you saw then or what I'm wearing now," said Nightwing giving a smirk of his own making Raven blush again in embarrassment since the man was currently flexing his muscles under his current outfit and it was making her heartbeat go several times faster.

"This was not how I exactly imagine how our first date would go," said Raven giving him a soft almost shy smile, which the man returned, but with a more confident one.

"Really? How did you expect it to go? Somewhere private perhaps?" said Nightwing letting a chuckle at Raven's reddened face and the young Titans hoped this wouldn't be a constant occurrence with the two of them.

"No! Its just...I never really pictured us dating at all. I mean you had Starfire, Beast Boy had Terra before...that, Cyborg has whoever he's interested in, and poor depressing me gets no one," said Raven looking somewhat depressed again.

"Is that how you saw things? Oh Raven, I had no idea that was the way you saw things, and if I had known I would have certainly done more to help you see things better in the perspective they should have been," said Nightwing moving closer to the female Titan making Raven fidget at how close he was to her personal space.

"Thanks again...Vergil. That name is going to take some getting used to if I'm going to call you that in public," said Raven smiling up at him before moving closer and pressing her head on his chest feeling the warmth that seemed to come off it.

"Anytime Rae. I completely understand. Say, why don't we finish up this pizza, and go back to the tower where we can have a duo mediation together," said Nightwing knowing that mediation was one of the things Raven liked to do even if it was a requirement in her life, but it didn't mean she couldn't do it alone by herself.

"Sure. I haven't been meditating as long as I feel I should be and it would be nice to have someone along for it," said Raven, as she wrapped her arms around his waist getting lost in the moment.

(Not too far away)

"Found him! Looks like he's on some date with that gothic chick from the Titans," said Mammoth looking at the two from the binoculars in his hand.

"Really? Him and Raven? I thought he was with that alien cutie of a redhead?" said Billy Numerous scratching his head in confusion with his duplicates doing the same.

"What does it matter? The Headmaster ordered us to take him alive so let's get work and the mission over with before he uses his psychic powers to turn all our minds into moldy cheese," said Gizmo knowing that Brother Blood's wrath should not be taken lightly.

"What do we do about other bird?" said Billy Numerous or one of his duplicates anyway.

"Will figure that out when we complete the mission. Maybe the Headmaster can use her for one of his experiments or something," said Gizmo not really caring about anything except the mission.

Capturing Nightwing was the only thing that mattered.

(Back with Nightwing and Raven)

Nightwing and Raven walked out of the pizza place holding onto each other like a loving couple when a white light appeared in front of them. When the light cleared, both Titans saw various members of the Justice League, including the Batman in front of them, and by the looks of things this wasn't a social call.

"O-kay. Um...not to be rude or anything, but you are so ruining my date right now with Raven, and if you could just ever so kindly leave a message for message machine in my head I'll get back to you later," said Nightwing making Flash snicker at the joke since no one would expect it from the adopted son of Batman, but the said Dark Knight glared at the man, who shut up instantly, and tried to stay focused on the task at hand.

"You're coming with us Nightwing," said Batman his voice never sounding so serious in all of Nightwing's memory.

"Why? And by the way, who told you I was in town?" said Nightwing knowing it wasn't Raven since he was with her all day.

"Starfire answered our call kid. She was so happy to have you back she basically blabbed it to Batman when he spoke to her and that you were with Raven on a date," said Green Arrow hoping the kid wasn't as violent as Batman made him out to be.

"I originally told Raven to report your return to me, but apparently she chose to disregard my orders, and instead went on a date with you," said Batman in a disapproving voice at the young woman, who turned her head away from Nightwing in shame, and was quite surprised that he was holding onto her even tighter.

"First off, the Titans don't answer to the League. We do it out of curtsey to further help bring justice to the world. Second, Raven did have time to tell you anything because she was with me all day, and didn't have time to contact you even IF she wanted to. Third, if you don't leave us alone right now, I am going to kick every single person's butt that is in my way of spending time with Raven," said Nightwing getting annoyed right now since this was his and Raven's time together, which he preferred didn't end in this manner, and possibly go the way of possibly having another date in the near future.

"Then it appears we have come to a crossroads then," said Batman with the others behind him readying themselves to attack.

"So it would seem. Sorry Rae. It appears we'll have to cut our date short. Don't worry I'll make it up to you later," said Nightwing winking at Rae, who was surprised that he didn't hold this situation against her, and flattered he still wanted to go on another date with her.

"We'll talk later," said Raven giving him a kiss on the cheek before the slowly moved away a few steps before both got into fight positions against the members of the Justice League.

"Don't do this Nightwing. You know I don't like to fight a good friend of a friend," said Zatanna hoping she could be the voice of reason in this mess.

"Sorry Flash, but you know it's not in my nature to simply roll with the punches, and I have no intention of doing that right now," said Nightwing motioning with his hand for the group to come get him.

"Zatanna. Flash. I want you two to take care of Raven. Green Arrow and I will take care of Nightwing," said Batman seeing Nightwing smirk at him like this was some kind of game to him.

"Okay it's a fight you want? It's a fight you'll get. But before you fight me Pops I want to ask you one simple question I have wanted to ask you for some time now, yet I never got the chance," said Nightwing his grin growing with each second making Green Arrow nervous while Flash and Zatanna were looking at him every few seconds.

"What's the question?" said Batman seeing the grin on Nightwing look vaguely familiar to a very recently deceased individual.

"Why so serious?" said Nightwing in a demonic voice quickly drawing his sword ready to fight even though he had no intention of killing them, but rather disable them in his own way, and then help Raven if she needed it.

Let the games begin.

(YAY! I updated. Hope it was good. Tell me what you think. Until next time...PEACE!!)