Authors note. Sorry for the delay, when I first typed it out it just didn't feel right and after rereading it a dozen times I scrapped it. So here is my second attempt at raven. Also the next chapter will be delayed as I will be rewriting Danny's chapter. I feel like I messed it up. This chapter is unbetaed but someone has offered to beta and the next chapter will hopefully be betaed.
'Italic' thoughts
"normal" conversations.
Raven gets the news.
In a dark and slightly gloomy room, sat a young teen floating in the middle of a circle of incense, seemingly in a trance. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos, Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos." The girl repeated, a steaming cup of tea floated up to meet her lips when suddenly red lights began flashing as a high pitched whine tore through he room.
Ravens POV.
My eyes snapped open as my cup clattered to the floor spilling my tea. I felt a brief flash of rage and silently vowed to banish whoever interrupted my mediation to another dimension. I could feel my emoticlones agreeing with me.
I quickly made my way to the common room of the tower to see most of my team already waiting. There was Starfire, an alien warrior princess who has become a sister to me. Cyborg, the half metal genius who is the older brother in our little family. And Robin the first prodigee of Batman, our leader, and the controlling middle brother.
"Sorry I'm late, I was sleeping!" came the loud voice of Beastboy, the annoying but endearing younger brother. 'Of course he was the last one.'
I turned to the moniter to see what was happening and saw live footage of Cinderblock, Plasmus, and Overload attacking the city. The last time all three were together was when Slade and Terra laid siege to jump. I didn't need to be an empath to feel the anger radiating from Robin, knowing he was thing the same thing.
Without missing a beat Robin gave out his orders. "Beastboy you and Cyborg will take Cinderblock at the construction sight, Starfire and i will take Plasmus at the sewage treatment center. Raven you take Overload in down town."
"Here take this." Cyborg handed me a small capsule. "It's filled with a non conductive foam. All you need to do is encase his chip in the foam and he'll be powerless." i nod my head before muttering a quiet thanks.
I began mentally counting down till Robin said the battle cry. '3, 2, 1.' "Titans Go!" he shouted before i teleported out of the tower and began to fly downtown. I could see Beastboy carrying Cyborg in his Pterodactyl form as Starfire carried Robin.
It took two minutes o reach downtown and i could see Overload draining power from the city grid and he was growing. 'Great, he got a power boost.'
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" I shouted as a car was encased in my black magic and hurled at Overloads chip. He shrunk down to dodge before sshooting a bolt of lightning at me, I dove down to avoid the lightning before ripping a light post out and impaling his electric body into the ground. He shrunk to half his original size before he escaped the lamp post. I tore 4 firehigrents out of the ground and flung them at him as he dodged only to find himself trapped as the water surrounded him.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" I shouted again as the 4 streams of water began to swirl around Overload, dowsing his and short circuiting his chip.
I approached cautiously before encasing his chip in my magic, pulling it towards me. I opened the capsule and covered Overload in the foam as police and firefighters appeared on scene. As i floated above them i saw somestrange men in a uniform arguing with the emergency responders especially the Special Threat Response Unit, who handles the transport of meta criminals to the Jump supermax prison.
I floated down to find out what the problem was. "What's the problem here." i said. 'We just thought that.' i heard rude say in my mind before she was tackled by brave.
A man stepped forward, obviously the leader. He wore an all black Swat suit with a similarly black Kevlar vest. He and his men were armed with what looked like energy weapons and i prepared myself to intervene if they proved to be a threat.
"Raven of the Titans I assume?" I nodded my head cautiously as I held Overloads encased chip closer. "I'm al Special agent Smith of the Advanced Threat Response and Containment Division or the ATRCD. Im here to retrieve Overload and all other meta and powered criminals for transport to the new supermax prison Belle Reve."
I had heard of Belle Reve, a prison made by the Justice League to hold the most powerful of the villains, built to hold superman, the place radiated magic and from what Cyborg tells me it has the most advanced tech both on earth and from her allies. I know Starfire and Cyborg were asked to help with the technological part since Starfire is the crown princess of Tamaran and the Guardian needed her permission share their tech.
"I've never heard of you before today, I'll call Robin to confirm." I opened my communicator and waited in awkward silence as I waited for him to pick up. When he did I saw that he was covered in sludge with a frozen Plasmus being carted off by more of the ATRCD. "I see you are also dealing with the ATRCD? I'm guessing it's safe to hand over Overload to them?"
"Yes, their papers check out and they have already began clearing out every super prison in America. Their orders come straight from the president. Me and Starfire were on our way back to the tower, Cyborg and Beastboy have already taken down Cinderblock so once you hand over Overload we can all go home and rest." He said.
Feeling rude take over for a second she said "And shower." Robin looked shock before i closed my communicator in embarrassment. Not that it showed.
"I'll need to see your papers but it seems like everything's in order."
After confirming that they were a legitimate agency and they had the correct papers I handed over the chip and headed back towards the tower. Despite rude's comment being meant for Robin i decided that i needed a shower as well. Overloads lightning isn't exactly cold and i did work up sweat dodging him.
After my shower I decided to read one of my books in the common room. After a second to use my magic to clean up my spilt tea and teleporting it to the bottom of the sea, I decided to read Des fantômes et des spectres. It was in french but i could read it. Being a sorceress I needed to be fluent in many languages as you never know if a spell calls for a cat's tail or Cattail, ones a plant the other is the severed tail of a cat. Making mistakes based on mistranslations have lead to the deaths of many magic users in the past.
Opening the book to page one I discovered it was an encyclopedia on souls and the different forms they take when bound to certain plains of existence. Sitting down to read I subconsciously tuned out beastboy and cyborgs whining as they were killed again in Doomed. I heard Robin give a shout as Chaos blew him up again. I said a small spell that i had learned that would brew my tea for me. I don't usually do this since it always tastes better without magic but Sloth was influencing me right now.
After Trigons defeat I no longer had to repress my emotions and now, slowly we were merging into one being, the one we were ment to be. While this weakened my emoticlones, it allowed them more influence than ever before.
An hour past before i knew it and i had begun reading on the different realms that deal with souls. There were chapters on heaven, hell, valhalla, tarturis, and what I was currently reading, the infinite realms.
As I began reading about the realms I felt a shiver and a strong jolt of fear shoot up my spine. The lights exploded and the main window shattered. Another massive shiver went down my spine as I heard beastboy whimper in primal fear.
Something powerful, something ancient, just entered jump and shattered my protective barriers. I had set them up after Trigons invasion to make sure nothing like that happened again but whatever just broke them did so with little effort. I could feel its cold presence smothering the city.
I felt Robin shacking me before i snapped back to reality, beastboy was currently a kangaroo mouse and was hiding under the couch, Cyborg was trying to get him to come out.
"What's wrong Friend Raven?" Starfire's worry was so strong that she stopped flying, showing that she couldn't think happy thoughts right now.
I tried to stop my shaking as I cleared my throat. "S-something just shattered my b-barriers." i tried to stop my stuttering, looking at my emoticlones for support, only to feel them shacking too, even rage was terrified.
Suddenly the alarm blared, there was an incident at the Pizza Corner. Whatever broke my barrier was attacking our pizza joint. Despite my fear, I prepared for the inevitable confrontation. Whatever it was, it rivaled Trigon in sheer presence.
"Trouble at the Pizza Corner, Titans Go!"
Downtown Jump. Pizza Corner. Ravens POV.
It was a short trip in the T-Car to the Pizza Corner, Cyborg activated hovercar mode to speed it up and avoid the traffic thou there seemed to be none, I tried looking down but found myself afraid of what I'd see.
When we got there I chocked on my breath, Starfire gasped in shock as beastboy whimpered again. Rage radiated from Robin as Cyborg began scanning everthing, fear radiating off him in waves.
Bodies, bodies were everywhere.
They lined the streets, cars had crashed but no noise was heard. All the vehicals had simply died, I saw dead birds all over the ground, but worst of all were the dead people, some of whom I had saved just hours ago. I saw a a stroller left inattended, what i guessed was the mother laying beside it. I rushed to check on the baby only to recoil in shock, I felt bile rise in my throat. 'Not even the baby was spared.'
"W-what, what could do this?" I heard Robin ask. His rage having melted into sorrow. I'm thankful for the lack of blood otherwise i don't know if I could have kept myself from vomiting.
"I don't k-know, but whatever did this is inside the Pizza corner." I replied as I stealed my nerves. I floated towards my once favorite restaurant, doubtful I could ever even look at it again. I could sense my team following me as beastboy rapidly looked around. "D-dudes, don't you think we s-should ask these guys what's g-going on?" We all jumped at beastboy suggestion.
"Beastboy this is no time for jokes! There is no one here, except the monster who did this!" Beastboy whimpered at the scolding before i felt it. It wasn't just the Pizza Corner radiating the cold power, standing over every corpse was a small source of that same power. It covered all of jump and when I extend my senses I couldn't feel anyone, all of Jump was silent.
I focused on my soul self before gasping, I knew what we were dealing with. "Reapers" i wispered. "Hundreds of them." I now knew what was inside.
"I know what's inside, I know who's inside." I swallowed the lump in my throat. "It's Death."
Their reactions were instantaneous. Beastboy turned into a turtle before retreating into his shell. Cyborg looked like he was gonna have a stroke. Starfire stopped floating as fear once again took her. And Robin looked reasy to call the League. With this revelation, we entered the Pizza corner.
Inside the pizza corner.
Upon entering I did a sweep with both my eyes and my mind, trying to locate Death, it didn't take long as he was just sitting there, eating a deep dish pizza. I could see his waitress on the ground. I felt my rage spike as she roared 'That prick killed Jenny.' Jenny was the waitress you usually served us. But I wasn't the only one to have felt my rage as Death looked up and simply stared. I heard several this before i twisted around only to cry in horror.
"N-no, no, no, no, No!" 'Not them, please bot them.' My cries of shock was mimicked by my emoticlones, I felt years stream down my face.
My team was dead.
My magic didn't protect them, like it didn't protect jump. I could feel the bile rising again.
I heard beastboy gasp before he crawled away from the corpses of our friends. Whimpering in fear all the while.
"So it seems the Red choose you as its avatar, little changeling." I heard Death speak and i finally got a good look at him, He's an old man in a black suite. His pale skin hanging off his bones and is sunken eyes looked bored, like the death of my friends was meaningless to him, it probably was.
I finally found my voice. "W-why, Why did you do this? Why are you here? Why did you kill my friends?" I felt my voice rise with my rage as my eyes spilt into four and began to glow red. Nevermind the fact that he was stronger than me, ignoring that he just wiped out jump city, I felt my rage grow as I prepared to fight.
That all faded as I felt my heart stop for a second, he looked at me again and i felt myself collapse, beastboy broke out of his fear and rushed to me, transforming into the Beast as he began snarling at Death.
I heard the Beast yelp before he was thrown out the window. "Sit. Stay." I turned my head to see the Beast down across the block. He wasn't getting up.
I felt my rage and fear rising before he spoke again.
"No that the mutt of yours is put of the we can talk. Sit." Seeing no other option I sat across from him. "Eat." He commanded again and i felt myself pick up a slice of pizza, it was a meatlovers.
Swallowing the last of my slice I opened my mouth to talk again. "Don't speak just listen." I nodded my head as my voice froze in my throat, I knew it was no magic that compelled me, just his sheer presence.
"I'll make this quick, I quite busy you see. I'm here to congratulate you." He paused to take another bite.
"Congradulate me for what?" I asked having found my voice again.
"Oh, you haven't been told? Well that just won't do. Then again, your little bubble was strong enough to keep the weaker demons out so I shouldn't be surprised you haven't been told yet. I'll be frank, with Trigon dead, his realm need a ruler and that job falls to you. Now usually you wpuld have a choice in the matter but an ancient deal your father made prevents that. 'll let those annoying little demons fill in the details but to summarize, Trigon made a deal with one of the few beings to rival him in power and ambition to end a terrible war. Now that war threatens to break out again and destroy eons of work myself and other representatives of death have built in regards to souls. Now personally I don't care either way if this war breaks out again but since I know I'll have too clean up the mess when its over ill say this once." He took a sip of his drink before continuing. "You are in the unique position to stop your brothers from restarting that war and plunging all of creation into ruin. So you are going to be crowned princess of hell and you are going to control or kill your siblings. Now that you are aware of what's happening, I'll leave you with a warning. Every supernatural being, every diety, every beast both holy and unholy will try to either gain your favor or your position. From this moment on until the contract is fulfilled, every being with the slightest inclination to magic will want to kill you control you."
I could feel my mind shutting down as it tried to process this information. Death got up to leave.
"Wait!" I shouted right as he was about to leave. "What about Jump, what about my friends?"
He stared at me before speaking. "I don't usually revive the dead but consider this an early wedding present." 'A what present!?' I flicked as knowledge shrieked.
Death taped his cane and like that he was gone. I heard the gasps as people came back too life and emotions flooded the city. I felt pain, joy, sorrow and so much more suddle poor out of the freshly revived citizens of jump. This was the second time everyone died because u couldn't protect them.
I passed out just as the Beast crashed through what's left of the window, the sudden flood of emotions overwhelming me. The last thing I saw Beastboy changing back trying to keep me awake, panic in his eyes.
Unknown location. No ones POV.
"Was that really necessary Death?"
"You can see the future clockwork, you tell me." Death said to the now identified clockwork. "You asked me to deliver the news but you never specified how I should go about it." Death faded away.
"Stupid skeleton."
Authors note. Sorry for the delay again but the first version was just terrible. So i deceided to scrap it and start over. Dont worry next chapter will be pary two of ravens knews as she gets the full this chapter got kinda dark, defiantly darker then I wanted, but i was rewatching supernatural and thought, that's the best Death I've ever seen and i just had to write about it. And this is the result. I've decided this won't be as happy as I originally intended. After all a marriage between two of the most powerful afterlives, both of whom tried to conquer creation, will not go unnoticed or be appreciated by the rest of the supernatural. I've also decided to go beyond just the titans and team phantom for POVs. Expect gods, heros, villains , demons, sorcerers and Constantines to make their appearance in varying shades of violence. Well, see yay next time.
