Teen Titans: Fairytale of Souls and Swords?

By: Pakkrat

Chapter 3: The Hero of Birds

Disclaimer: Teen Titans, Inuyasha, Soul Calibur, Tekken, Spawn, Zelda, it's all to somebody else! Keep it up for the most part, remember I don't own something unless it's name is BOLD and italic first time we read them! This chapter has two parts, but with good reason.

Cervantes stood eyeing little Raven mockingly, "You been growing child." He tapped her jaw, "Nicely I might add."

Raven fluttered away from him, he chuckled at the outburst. Beast Boy snarled out, "You keep your filthy hands off of her!"

Cervantes crossed the swords across his chest, now glaring with his chin down, "Make me ya scurvy dog!"

Beast Boy ran through the group turning to a wolf. He jumped out to simply have Cervantes toss up Soul Edge letting it twirl than grabbing Beast Boy by the throat in mid air. Beast Boy snarled and snapped as Cervantes laughed, "Hope you can dog-paddle!" He flung Beast Boy off to the side far into the ocean. Cervantes opened his hand out grabbing Soul Edge and spreading his legs. Cervantes stood with Soul Edge at his front vertical, Nirvana to his back with his stance vertical from his other blade. "Alright, let's go!"

Robin ran forward past Raven, she and Beast Boy had been in the middle of the group. Cervantes realizing the disadvantage of two sided attack leapt up from Robin's to disappear in some sparks of crimson lightning. Robin looked up dumbfounded as to what happened. To the front of the group was Mitsurugi, he stood with his sword at his side still sheathed. Cervantes grinned in the air above the samurai, his sword charged with red bolts he fell raising the sword far behind his back with the preparation of a vertical strike. Mitsurugi felt the force hit him as Cervantes landed, the strike made a wave of energy that took with it Mitsurugi to the other end of the large group. Mitsurugi fell on the ground rolling with his armor's back ripped open. Seung Mina turned with rage in her eyes at the ordeal. She had left her broom to get her trade weapon, a pole arm with a blade on the end like a spear-blade. Seung Mina plowed out trying to impale Cervantes but he grabbed the spear between his two swords to twirl her around. Seung Mina was swung with her back to Cervantes, he laughed wickedly as he grabbed her sides with his sword to hold her in the air under her arms than dropping her into a strong knee of her bottom flinging her onto Mitsurugi.

Cervantes was dodging slashes of Yoshimitsu, though Yoshi acts somewhat innocent and simple he was a skilled warrior. Yoshimitsu tagged blade to blade with Cervantes, Cervantes altered his strikes between Soul Edge and Nirvana. Yoshimitsu leapt back yet while in air he sprawled his feet and hands onto the hilt of his sword. Yoshi sprung from the ground using his sword like a pogo-stick catching all but Cervantes in surprise. Cervantes gave a daring stare as Yoshimitsu sprung overhead bearing the blade down on Cervantes. Cervantes twirled up the point of Soul Edge and balanced Yoshimitsu's tip on the end. Yoshi was stunned, "What?"

"That ain't nothing yet!" Cervantes snickered as he struck Yoshimitsu's blade with Nirvana making the thief twirl now like a top. "Round and round he goes," Cervantes pushed off from his Soul Edge launching Yoshimitsu into the air still spinning, "Where he stops, I sure as hell know!"

Robin growled flying out with his staff. Cervantes tagged his swords to the staff pushing off with his blades vertical, and Robin's staff horizontal. "Back off boy! You're way out of your league!"

Robin snapped, "Shut up and fight!" he pulled off and swung for Cervantes's legs, Cervantes went to slice but Robin in his roll of the staff propped it on his shoulder to block the sword from his head. Cervantes smirked, "Ye got gall, but no brains!"

Cyborg watched the two charging his cannon, he needed one good shot. "Look out below!" Cyborg looked up screaming as Yoshimitsu struck Cyborg drilling him into the ground like a screw. Cyborg twitched and snarled "Oh come on!" Cyborg screams out "This is not funny!"

Yoshimitsu looked at Cyborg with twirls in his eyes, "I agree… hurl!"

Cyborg snaps "You better look the other way man!"

Yoshimitsu rolled to the side of the harbor vomiting. Starfire flew in with her bolts flailing. Cervantes kicked Robin back and began twirling the blades at their hilts bouncing each bolt off to the distance. Starfire glared in green anger flying full force to plow Cervantes. Cervantes turned on his heels allowing her to fly past than smacking her down with Soul Edge. Starfire slammed into the ground head first, her legs in the air Cervantes looked at her skirt, "What!" Cervantes slapped her legs down, "That was an interesting sight."

Robin glared, "Why you!" Robin swung horizontally; Cervantes tagged swords again, swiping down on Robin's attacks making them bounce off from his sword and the staff to the ground. Cervantes backed Robin away from the others smirking, "Got ya!" He flung both blades into the ground making red bolts charge into the earth and back to Robin. Robin spasms from the energy before collapsing on the ground with some spark still sizzling. Cervantes lays the blades on his shoulders, "This been the most fun in years!"

Talim grabs Cyborg's head trying to raise him out of the pit. Cervantes views the others. Talim turns to him and sneers, "I will get him!"

Cyborg screams "Hold on! Don't do it!"

Talim twirls her two blades and gets into a bouncing stance with her feet much like a boxer would, Cervantes smiles at this strategy. "Try it lass!"

Talim swerves slashes and swings with her movements, than she twirled her right sword to lunge it forward like a stab. Cervantes falters back on his one heel clanging his Soul Edge to this sword. Cervantes leaps off of his heel and twirls in the air before landing on his one knee.

Talim taps her nose blowing than jabbing twice. Cervantes growls in slight pleasure, "Not bad Priestess." Cervantes twirls Nirvana and sheaths it on his side, than he sheaths Soul Edge on his back "Show me what ye got!" he was now in a boxing stance moving his weight between his two feet.

Talim runs in making hooks that were actually swipes she was going for cutting his stomach while he leapt off his heels away from them. Talim snarled as she ran forward to tag her fist with Cervantes. Cervantes laughs grabbing her wrist and twirling her around to the side. She fell to her knees so he runs forward and plows his foot into the base of her skull. Talim's eyes dilate as her head smashes into the pavement fast. Cervantes turns to Raven, "Me and ye finally." Heihachi takes a step forward smiling, "Actually, you still have me."

Cervantes readies into his stance with his fists, "Alright!" Heihachi starts charging his arms with energy, "Oh really now?" Cervantes chuckles as his eyes flare with red bolts that spread to his arms in similar fashion wrapping them like Heihachi. "Yes really!"

Heihachi gives a glare of glee at Raven, "He's mine!" he runs out to tag forearms to Cervantes. Cervantes grabs Heihachi's wrist after a block and pulls it under his weight. Heihachi staggers forward from the pull and feels Cervantes forcing his other arm into the shoulder, now twisting the arm behind Heihachi's back. Cervantes starts bending the arm making Heihachi's eye twitch. Heihachi charges his free arm as it shakes to then launch his elbow behind his back tagging Cervantes in the face. Cervantes lets go falling back. Cervantes raises his leg to a spinning kick to his ribs after staggering. Cervantes kicks off the leg making Heihachi spin until Cervantes plows his fist into Heihachi's stomach when he turned around. Cervantes than crouched and flung up in a jumping uppercut Heihachi fell on the ground. He shook as he was getting up from his back. Heihachi was slammed head first into the ground, Cervantes plowed his heel into Heihachi's face screaming "K.O!"

Cervantes looked to the ground, seeing his hat had fallen off, "Blast!" he grabs his hat to shake it off, "I hate when that happens."

Cervantes looked to the Raven in a fighting stance; he bowed with his hat under his ribs, "Now where were we?"

Raven growled out lowly "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!"

Cervantes watches as rubble breaks from the harbor stone road, "Ah, now I remember!" he pulls out Nirvana and in a spin turns to his back at a piece of rubble. Cervantes fires the Nirvana at his hip, than he begins spinning to fling the gun over his shoulder firing another piece behind him. Raven continues this tossing attack as he fires. When she began using more pieces Cervantes unsheathed Soul Edge and slashed pieces that got too close. Cervantes cackles as he crumbles the last large piece with his two swords together in a slice. "What else ya got?"

Raven looks fearful, she channels her power as a large raven claw that she used to grab Cervantes and push him back. Cervantes grabs the arm between his hands with the swords chuckling. Cervantes raises Soul Edge up and slashes to shatter the shadow arm. Raven grabs he wrist as the attack jolted her arm down hard. Raven looks up while Cervantes makes a small stroll over. "Anything else?"

The water splashes up, a green dolphin rises over head turning to a human sprawling in front of Raven narrowing his eyes, "Me!"

Cervantes sighs, the grin of pleasure still apparent he shifts his weight to his one leg shaking his head, "You don't learn do you?"

Beast Boy runs forward punching but Cervantes out maneuvers the smaller fighter. Cervantes plows his fist holding Soul Edge into Beast Boy's stomach making him toss back grabbing at the spot crouched on his knees. Cervantes smiles as Beast Boy shakily stands wheezing, "Ye got heart I'll give yah that."

Beast Boy turns to a monkey and tosses something from behind. The brown mush hit Cervantes in the left eye; his right eye twitches "Did you just?" Cervantes's arm shakes with a fist "You filthy little monkey!"

Beast Boy claps his hands squealing as he grabs more mud to toss, Cervantes leaves out a pant of relief "I thought that be something else."

The mud knocks off the hat, Cervantes slams his foot, "Blasted little sea urchin!"

Beast Boy runs forward grabbing the hat and taking it off. Cervantes growls "Get back here!"

Raven watches in amazement, Beast Boy was going through all of that for her. She shook her head and flew after "Hold it!"

Cervantes turns, she is no longer afraid, "Aye!" He channels his energy.

Beast Boy turns human, "Raven!" He rips the hat, "Look what I did Girl-Pantes! I ripped your hat!"

Cervantes pays no heed, "I can always get a new one."

Beast Boy is going to attack when someone grabs his shoulder whispering in his ear. Beast Boy smirks while saying "Cool! I'll do it!"

Beast Boy dives into the water as the shadow disappears. Cervantes is closing in; Raven smirks as she chants her power to the stone below him. Cervantes is lifted up with a large mass of earth to the sky where it is flipped and flung down again with him under it. Raven pauses, waiting to see something. The ground behind her breaks open and Cervantes flings his two swords down on her. She flies past and phases into the ground in her shadow form. Cervantes looks around, "You got some nerve back nice to see it finally!"

Raven phases out in front blasting him with a large blast of energy, "You never should have harmed my friends!"

Cervantes was blocking the beam with his swords, "Than I would have never seen all this energy! What fun would that be?"

Cervantes pushed his blades apart forcing Raven's beam to break. She was shocked as he glared on her growling, "Let me show you what I've got!" Cervantes twirled Nirvana to fire but Raven blocked with her shield. The energy ricocheted causing Raven to falter back; the soul energy was immense in power. She fell on the ground breathing as Cervantes ran at her. Raven began making her shields with her hands blocking each of his swords against them. Cervantes struck down with his swords to her shield hands smiling, "I knew it Soul Edge told me you'd be the one!"

Raven was confused, "What one?" She moved her hands to her sides blocking both blades from separate sides. Cervantes placed his face next to hers, and whispered into her ears "My equal." He kicked her back laughing as she fell sprawling on her back. Large green tentacles gripped Cervantes tossing him into the ocean. Beast Boy was a giant squid. Raven looked as he turned to Cervantes, stretching something across his back from the top of the buildings next to the harbor, "What is… is that a giant?"

Red X who was the shadow chuckled, "Yeah, I figured it might work for something."

Cervantes flew up in rage, eyeing Beast Boy he flew out with bolts behind him in the air. Beast Boy dove suddenly as Cervantes was inching in to have him spring off the center of a large Red X! This flung Cervantes off to the ship he owned, on board he stood up slowly grinning, "Okay, now let's see what they do with this!"

Cervantes clanged his swords, making them shake with a pitched hum. The skeleton crew began shaking with the ringing hum falling to parts and swirling about Cervantes. The first mate let out a moan as it had just gone over the railing to have its body torn into the mass.

Raven asked with surprise, "What are you doing here?"

Red X shrugged, "Whatever." He saw Starfire stirring, "Starfire?" he ran over as she sat on her legs still dazed. Starfire blinked at Red X, "Friend Red X! You have come back!" Starfire hugged him on the neck and he reluctantly hugged her back. Raven gave a glare, "Oh is that it?"

Red X let go moving slowly from the group, "Shut up."

Starfire blinked in confusion as Heihachi who was awake and up was rotating his shoulder, "What a mess."

Beast Boy stood hugging Raven, "I'm glad you're okay!"

Raven smiled at his affection, weakly though as the memory of Nobunaga re-entered. "I know we better go before…"

"Too blasted late!" screams Cervantes, the others look as large gushes of water had risen from the sea. They all look in horror as some large immense creature rose up with one hand coming to grip the harbor. Mitsurugi had awoken though his right arm was limp he managed to grab Seung Mina and dodge the large hand in a run.

A second hand came from the water; the shadow loomed on Cyborg, "Yo! Over here!"

Heihachi ran over and magnetized his hands; he grabbed Cyborg and pulled to have the veins in his arms pop. Heihachi strained with Cyborg as the hand was readying to come down. Red X came over and placed a blinking X wedged behind Cyborg and the ground. "Screw it go!"

Heihachi ran with Red X when the explosive fired to flail Cyborg out of the pit and out of the way. Beast Boy had turned to a hoarse taking Robin and Talim on his back when Raven flung them on him. The group looked back as something pushed itself out of the water and roared a loud scream at the group. Yoshimitsu had dove into the water when he finally realized what the heck was happening. Beast Boy dropped the others saying in a human form, "Dude that is so not fair."

This immense monster was made of bones, formed around each other to make a slouched monster with no neck but a large mouth and red eyes. The arms and legs were formed with four fingers and toes. It growled again as on top of its head, Cervantes stood with the Soul Edge and Nirvana in the head like some kind of crane controls. Cervantes laughed to himself lowly, "Now let's see what this will do." He pushed the Soul Edge forward making the monster swing its right arm down on the heroes. They scrambled madly as Cervantes buckled on his knees laughing, "Perfect! Perfect my pretty!"

Beast Boy screamed out, "Wizard of Oz loony! Why don't you wear slippers or something?"

Cervantes turned on Beast Boy surging his red bolts made the monster turn on Beast Boy and snarl after him. Beast Boy ran in the form of a hoarse again while the cumbersome beast followed. Raven looked at Beast Boy and saw him trip, "No!" she flew forward and created a dome as the foot came down on Beast Boy. He looked up as she was falling to her one knee; the beast barred its whole weight on its one foot. Cervantes smiled, "I hate to think this is the end, but if it be so."

"Rin-Cin-Min-Hin-Sin-Tin-Rae!" a blue beam struck the monster in the back, Cervantes growled back knowing the voice, "Taki!"

Taki stood with her fingers laced, her indexes touching, and a beam of blue channeling from her hands to the monster. The monster began to crumble and Cervantes undid his swords. The second his swords broke from the monster he jumped off screaming "You ninjitsu wretch!"

Taki narrowed her eyes, not something she liked being called. She wore a red outfit tightly fitting her body except for the arms. The feet fitted in this suit Taki had leather guards on the front of her legs connected to knee bracers of metal. Her left leg had a purple design on the upper thigh and hip. On her arms she had armor guards that bent for optimum movement. The lower piece connected to a round plate on her hands which was part of her glove. The other piece was rounded for her shoulders. Her hair was fitted into a black tail with a band to hold it; she had long black bangs that fell over her brown eyes. She had a strong face, defiant yet true in her duty Taki was known to hold to her faith in the job of facing demons. The other trait, the one that had Beast Boy drooling along with all the other males but Cervantes who despised the girl, was her outfit fit so tightly that her immense chest down right did not belong in it. (Think I'm exaggerating? Just look her up; game designers have some serious things about big chest women!)

Cervantes looked at the titans, than he looked to Raven and Beast Boy, moving over his skeleton men he sighed out, "I have little patience with you."

Cervantes flung Soul Edge down and laid his feet on it. He twirled Nirvana to sheath it and floated with the Soul Edge like a board over to his ship, "I wasted too much soul energy any how. I need to go torch some ships for souls."

Taki seemed slightly relieved, he was still far beyond her but a threat from all heroes would tax him beyond his current supply of souls. Taki turned to the others. "Which of you is the one called "Raven"."

Raven blinked, "I am." Taki looked her over and nodded, "Good, we must begin training immediately."

Raven went to ask what training but Taki moved on, "Mitsurugi, do you have the book?"

Mitsurugi nodded, "Yes I do I grabbed it during that monster."

Taki turned to Yoshimitsu, "You still have a den around here don't you?"

Yoshimitsu nodded, "Yes I do why?"

Taki said, "We must go there immediately, it is one of the few places we can safely guard from attack."

Yoshimitsu nodded, "I see."

Robin who was use to being leader was awake, he asked, "Who made you the leader?"

Taki turned and smiled, "Trust me as I know what I'm doing."

Raven asked "What does this have to do with me?"

"Simply put." Taki glared on Raven, "You have the power to finish this battle."

In the Titan world, Deadweight walked slowly to the target. He was in an underground cave. The gray stone and stalagmites bothered him slightly. "What a place." He looked at his target, "Must be worse for you huh?"

Before him was a stone statue, arms out, legs spread, the girls face somewhat sad with long hair falling back. Deadweight read the words on her tome, "Terra A Teen Titan, A True Friend."

Deadweight chuckled, as this was his orders to come here and revive Terra for Nobunaga by order of Astaroth. What reason, he had not yet to know.

On the other part of the world almost, more the area of London, we find Link walking with Kagome in chitter-chatter while Kouga walked with Xianghua and Kalik. They were displeased that they left without defeating Nightmare. Kagome and Link kept talking until they heard screaming, Kouga and Link's ears twitched tracking the sound. Kouga smiled running past, "I got it!"

Link ran following, "So do I!"

Not know to them, so did other ears behind them, Inuyasha smiled, "I heard a scream." He sped up, 'I hope it's not Kagome.'

Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara followed as fast as they could. Kouga looked over the hill, there he found two women running. One was younger, 19 perhaps. She had white ankle shoes with a blue collar. Her legs were in black stalking with a sleeveless vest and skirt with blue falling down the front of the white clothing. At her neck, there was a neck collar falling on her shoulders with a pink sash at her neck's dimple. On this woman's biceps were metal guards held on by pink ribbons sewn to her long white finger gloves. On her left arm there was a blue shield with a golden harp decoration with a diamond gold symbol over it. The other hand had a sword with a blue handle and shinning blade. The girl had blonde hair that had a white hair brace for her short hair to be held. The other woman screams in anger, "Sister! Why did you have to challenge this beast?"

Cassandra snaps back, "I thought together we could take it Sophitia!"

Sophitia was like her sister with blonde hair and blue eyes also wore a short skirt but this one had blue designs on the edge with the white fabric. Her shoes were sandals that strapped up her thigh. Sophitia had a blue fabric set in two straps over the front of her chest divided along her appendages. The straps were laced with black string to keep from an embarrassing event with such an outfit, somehow. On her shoulders Sophitia had metal guards with white fabric to the padding. Her hair fell back as a long loose collective only tied at the bottom by a bow. Sophitia turns skyward, "This is surely not what I had in mind in helping you."

Cassandra hisses, "You're a mother! You shouldn't be out fighting this sword!"

"You have yet to become a mother; you should as well not face such perils!"

Kouga turns skyward and pales, "What the hell is that?"

In the sky, a large eye with an orange blob like flesh body floats above, swirling around this mass were many fragments of some kind like a comet they trailed and swirled as the tail. The monster moans like a whale, and as the eye sparks with red bolts the fragments crash in front of the girls. They stop screaming to each other in an embrace. The eye floats to the masses and outstretches orange tentacles that wrap them and hold them. Kagome looks at the sight and asks, "What is it doing?"

Link grins, slightly drooling he says, "Oh I know what I would do if I had tentacles…"

The others look at him oddly. Link sweats whipping away the drool, "Uh, nothing like what you're thinking." He points his pinkies in the dimple of his cheeks, "Maybe…"

Kouga shudders, "What an odd ball."

Kalik looks on, "Whatever it is we must help them!"

The monster sent more tentacles, these ones rubbed the girls before retracting with two fragments one from each. The creature pleased with its acquisition tossed the two girls away. The fragments melted with the eye, and the fragments of stone or other metals perhaps began to swirl. The creature spewed its orange flesh through the stone fragments forming a body around its fleshy small twig like frame. The girls viewed as the legs formed first, one long claw for the toes that curve like the claw of a raptor. The foot a back claw that curved up to the air longer than the frontal claw. The legs bent up and at its knee, a smaller claw barely came out from the back of the knee downward. At the pelvic region the plasmid masses did not touch the main eye, now as the eye surged with purple energy the plasma was holding the fragments together as the limbs for the beast. The arms had large curved fragments on the left shoulder, but smaller ones that came away from the body as a point on the right. The arms had long arms with huge hands, the hands were like a skeletons in how the bone fingers were the fragment pieces stretching with sharp edges on the final digit. The head was like a helmet, having three slits one at the mouth and two at the spots eyes would be but all connected like a twisted Y formation. There was a crown of spikes in the back of the head making a tip of edged bits. Sophitia looked at the monster and recognized a name, "Charade…"

"Huh?" Cassandra blinked, "What is that?"

"Charade," Sophitia narrowed her eyes on Charade who now looked onto its form with the eye excitedly, "It is a fragment of Soul Edge that came alive, from the blood of a man left for dead the monster took his blood and formed a new being. That beast is what came, a new entity separate from Soul Edge but still possessed in the power of its original self."

Charade turned on the two girls and the eye flashed in energy. From its right hand a sword formed which was a red sword made to mimic the one Sophitia had, and the left hand formed a shield similar to Cassandra's but red in color. They sweat as it screamed out in battle. Charade ran forward to attack but Cassandra raised her shield which omitted a strange glow causing the beast to fall back in pain. Sophitia smiles, "The power of Hephaestus still looms in the weapons! Give me the sword and shield!"

Cassandra hissed. "Hades no! If he's scared of these than I want them!"

Sophitia looked over as Charade began a second charge. Cassandra raised the shield but that power was not released. Sophitia gasps, "It will not work for you still have no faith in the gods!"

Cassandra swings her sword making the monster let her go. She runs flailing her arms crying, "I don't care about the gods! If their so special why don't they come in and stop Soul Edge!"

Sophitia shakes her head, "Sister, that is not the way of the gods!"

Charade turns on Sophitia. Sophitia readies her shield and deflects the sword to plow her sword into the eye. The eye closes to deflect the blade off of its being. Sophitia steps away when the eye opens in a snarl on her. Sophitia snaps out, "This sword and shield were forged by my husband," she holds them tightly, "They are meant for me to save my children from the wicked essence of the sword. I will not allow you to defeat me!"

Charade sneers on Sophitia but her shield and sword begin glowing. Sophitia runs forth catching Charade in shock, she strikes to shatter its sword. Charade looks at the sword bits and growls lowly. The sword bits float and reform only to shatter again. Charade growls dropping the sword and now turning to Cassandra it mimics her blade. Charade strikes with Sophitia's blade and now the aura of dark energy mimicking Cassandra's blade matched the one Sophitia had. Cassandra is on her knees in tears, she has never fought before and this was too much. "I just… I just wanted her to stay home!" Cassandra cried seeing Sophitia defend herself from another strike with her shield. "Why didn't she stay home like she should have with her children?"

Charade clangs swords with Sophitia making her lose it, Charade than taps her shield tossing it to the side. Cassandra screams "Sophitia!" before running forward to strike with her sword. This sword strikes the monster's sword causing it to shatter again. Charade growls loudly now twirling on its waist tossing the two girls apart. It looks at the hilt and tosses it, knowing it would be impossible to mimic the blades here again! It turns to the distance, it hears stomping, feet? Inuyasha skids in and sees the monster. "What in the world?"

Charade looks at Inuyasha; it sees his sword on his side and flashes its eye. Charade tosses its shield as a sheath and sword forms on its waist. Charade unsheathes a simple rusted sword before it grows into a large sword with many eyes opening and closing at random, at its hilt the guard is formed by curved up spikes. Inuyasha twitches, it seemed similar to Tetseiga but forged in evil!

Charade screams as it claps the sword down, causing a powerful wind of black energy flowing out on Sophitia and Cassandra. As they scream Kouga runs by grabbing them from the winds and to a far distance. Kouga screams, "Way to go dog-brain! Now you let him take Tetseiga as his weapon!"

Inuyasha growls, "I didn't know it could do that!"

Kagome smiles widely, "Inuyasha!"

Inuyasha looks on Kagome, he grins as he runs for her, "Kagome!"

Kagome grabs her scarf, "Inuyasha…"

Inuyasha stops to her, he heaves his shoulders out of breath from continuous running, "Kagome…"

Kagome grabs Inuyasha in a full hug, "Inuyasha." She says in sobs.

Inuyasha wraps her in his arms, tears forming on his eyes, "Kagome."

Link blinks at this, "They sure like to say each other's names a lot."

Miroku hears the remark and sighs, "That they certainly do."

Sango grins at Miroku, "People in love often mention the others name Miroku."

Miroku rolled his eyes, "Come now, what would make you say such a thing Sango?"

Shippo who was on Miroku's shoulder blinks, "You say Sango's name a lot, does that mean you love her?"

Miroku and Sango stare in embarrassment before turning away. "Of course not…" said Miroku turning to the monster. Sango nods, "Just a coincidence."

Charade stares on all the fighters, flashing its eye with growls. It had to see its enemies just once to mimic an attack. But if the sword it used broke which they did after some strain, it could not mimic the blade again unlike its counterpart Soul Edge. Charade raised the Soul copy of Tetseiga and ran out to tag with Inuyasha who also had his blade ready. The two clashed together for several hits before leaping in mid air in a stand off. Charade kicks off and lands to create another weapon off of its back, Hiraikotsu? Sango screams "It's my Hiraikotsu!"

Charade tosses the boomerang weapon at Inuyasha which makes him topple on his side. Inuyasha looks up as Charade called the Soul Tetseiga into its being to create a large staff with fanged ends, this was Kalik's weapon. The Soul Hiraikotsu flung back inside of Charade who ran to swing on Inuyasha. Inuyasha blocks snarling, "Why do these things happen to me?" He struggled to push off the monster. Inuyasha started to get away until he was being pulled off of the ground; he turns and screams as Charade's eye was creating a vortex, a Soul Kazanna like Miroku's? Inuyasha dug his sword down holding down for all life, literally! Charade cackles in moan filled growls as it believes Inuyasha could not win now.

Miroku runs out to the other side, he opens his palm screaming "Kazanna!" and the two forces equal out making Inuyasha float in the air being tugged by either side. Charade snarls before letting the Soul Kazanna to end. Miroku quickly wraps his hand asking, "Are you okay Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha screams with flames in his eyes, "Do I look okay? You are a real lunatic!"

Miroku sweats a little, "Now Inuyasha, I merely was trying to help."

Kagome runs over asking, "Are you okay Inuyasha?" Inuyasha stands up to brush his sides. "Did you get taller?"

Before he could react Charade was forging a new weapon. This time a sword weapon with a string at its end similar to Xianghua's blade. Inuyasha pulls Tetseiga out and blocks a swing to push off Charade, "Get back! He's still trying to fight."

Miroku nods dragging Kagome away, she looks back worriedly as Inuyasha is tagging energies with the monster. "I can help him, I know it!" she pulls away readying her bow and arrow, "I have to make this shot!" Kagome aims for the eye and charges the sacred energy. As the arrow burns Charade looks over and growls. It tags a swing from Inuyasha and twirled its staff to trip Inuyasha over. Charade collapsed his staff to make the bow and arrow set as well. Charade charges an arrow with power and fires at the same time Kagome fires. The two arrows connect and fizzle in a deadlock. Charade chuckles before Kagome's arrow burst through. Charade dodges barely the spirit arrow; it now narrows its eye on her in slight irritation. The monster breaks its fragments from the main body and begins flying off like before, the fragments behind its eye. Inuyasha looks as the beat runs, Kagome looks at the ground, "I'm sorry I thought I could get him."

Inuyasha smiles, "Eh, we'll get him sooner or later."

Kagome looks up and smiles, "Yeah you are probably right." Inuyasha turns to her with a serious face, "I was afraid I would never see you again Kagome."

Kagome flushes as Inuyasha seems to be leaning into her. Kagome closes her eyes leaning up to him in expectation. Shippo jumps on Inuyasha screaming, "Oh Kagome! I'm so happy to see you are okay!"

Inuyasha growls, "Shippo!" He swats the fox creature to quickly be yelled at by Kagome, "Inuyasha! How can hurt Shippo like that?"

Inuyasha snaps out "Like this!" he swats the fox again giving it two lumps. Kagome huffs before yelling, "Sit boy!"

Inuyasha faults into the ground with immense force twitching his legs in the air. Link and Kouga give looks and snickers. Kalik walks to Sophitia, "What exactly happened here?"

Sophitia smiles, "I was following my sister in hopes of convincing her to return home and to allow me to go to destroy the Soul Edge. That did not occur as she insisted my duty was with my family at home."

Cassandra narrows her eyes, "I still think this was a bad idea for you to leave and come here. I can fight this Soul Edge myself."

A British feminine voice came laughing to these others. Everyone looked to a very attractive woman coming at the group. Her legs had golden buckles on her shoes but purple boots came up her legs to the upper calf half way as a purple strap connecting to her main suit. On her body was a tight suit of purple leather with black netting at the abdominals and tightly fitted cups on her appendages. (God they made her freaking kinky) Her long heel boots clacked as she strutted with her wiggle of her hips. Her left arm was clamed with golden armor with sharp tips on her gauntlet hand. Her right hand was in a long purple leather glove which she used to brush her hair back while she walked. Her hair was short parted on the right side, having the left wave fall over her face covering her other eye. Her face was beautiful yet in a way demonic in seductive essence. Her blue eyes glimmered as she strolled over and rolled her fingertips on Kalik's chest, "Well, well if it isn't the monk."

Kalik narrows his eyes, "If it isn't the witch that worked for Nightmare."

I'm helping the good guys."

Xianghua growls out to Ivy, "We don't need that help!"

Ivy turns her covered eye on Xianghua, "Oh, the mistress of Soul Calibur." Ivy caressed Xianghua's cheek, "I would love to see what real power you have."

Ivy turns over to Sophitia, "You on the other hand, I was watching and I must say your maternal energy for protecting your children is quite interesting."

Sophitia did not know Ivy, "Yes I do love my children."

Ivy nods as she pulls out a note from the crevice in her chests tightly held cups. "Taki has a message for you. I can take you to her if you wish."

Sophitia, Cassandra, Kalik, and Xianghua all looked in awe, "Taki?"

Ivy rolled her eyes, "Yes you morons the one and only."

Miroku is noticing the women here, "What a great collection." Sango growls lowly behind him but he ignores. Miroku walks over to Ivy and smiles, "May I ask you a question?"

Ivy turns and feels the monk groping her backside, which was not in leather as the suit left her cheeks oddly free from fitting. "Would you perhaps do me the honor of bearing my children?"

Ivy gave her seductive stare, "How nice, but I honestly have better interests." Something wraps Miroku and flung him upside down, "So do me a favor and get the blood to flow to your other head!"

Miroku blushed at the fact she tossed him around and now dropped him. Her sword had moved on its own, a living sword what could break into a whip of linked magic metal. That really was interesting. Inuyasha asks with irritation "Who are you? Some kind of witch?"

"No, I'm a half demon like you." Ivy flipped her hair making her eyes bolt with red energy, "However, thanks to Taki I was able to tame my evil for my own desires."

Inuyasha gives a stern look, "Half witch, half demon you still smell weird." Inuyasha turns to the sword at her side, "Or maybe it's your sword?" Inuyasha goes to sniff the sword but it unhinges to its whip form shaking at him with the sound of a rattle-snake. "Ah!"

The sword wraps around Ivy's armored arm, "You scared it." Ivy says caressing the tip, "My sword was given life by my blood, and alchemy. I gave it my own soul and being but fractured. It and I have one mission, the destruction of Soul Edge and all those who are tainted by it."

Inuyasha sighs, "Well that's just great but I have one question." He screams "How do we get to the Titans?"

Ivy smiles, "Simple." She pulls a strange potion from her side, "This will take me to Taki. She will obviously be with those Titans by now."

"And us?" Miroku asks with some concern. "It will take us all monk." Ivy tosses the potion up and smashes the container with her whip. The elixir lands to make a mist sweeping around the group and taking them away with its cloud of purple mist.

The group with the Titans had arrived at Yoshimitsu's den. This was a costal cave with a small dock for ships, and many bit of treasure collected on the sides of the cave in piles. The brown colored walls of stone had some algae from the damp surroundings. Many other rooms branched from the central one, tunnels for escape and storage. One ship was already docked this was the ship called "Ryuku Kenshiki" or "Ryuku Pride" once owned by a pirate of noble upbringing. This pirate was Maxi, Yoshimitsu had made dealings with the pirate at times before and as he first made his wish to find and destroy "The Giant One" as they referred to it, Maxi left the ship in his hands. Yoshimitsu leapt skillfully to the ship and over its sides to reach the nets holding her sails. Yoshi climbed to the crow's nest and smiled down on his friends, "Enjoy your stay! This place has been sealed by magi so not even the Soul Edge could see within by its evil power. Let this be our haven!"

Taki has moved to the center of the area, "Good let us prepare for your training Raven."

Raven is still confused why is she so important? What could she possibly do? "Okay I guess."

Beast Boy grabs her hand, "Raven you will be okay right?" Raven looks confused and Beast Boy seems sad as he moves his toe into the ground, "You seem sad and kind of detacher from us. Is there anything I can do to help?"

Raven shrugs, "I don't really know if you can at the moment. Thank you for trying."

Beast Boy smiles and nods, "Hey, it's what a boyfriend does… I think."

Surprising the others a purple mist falls on the ground from the entrance of the ships. The mist dissipates allowing Inuyasha and his crew to appear. The many heroes begin a large mixing of emotions. One in particular is interesting. Taki sees Ivy and turns away in a blush, Ivy who has had a somewhat unattached outer shell now turns in a similar blush. Ivy speaks, "I am glad to see you are safe Taki."

Taki nods, "Likewise." Taki walks to another room saying, "Raven, when you are ready come with me for your training."

Raven noticed the looks, "What was that about?" Ivy hears and stares angrily, "Nothing that concerns you." Ivy looks over Raven, "You truly believe you can kill the Soul Edge?"

Raven shrugs, "I don't know. If I can I will though."

Ivy turns with a "Tch." Sound, "I highly doubt you understand the monsters it creates. Especially the one they call Cervantes."

"Cervantes." Raven thinks on him again, "Why is he so powerful?"

"Soul Edge is a weapon that takes its host over so it can survive. However, with the fragments of the original Female Edge he has his humanity collected and wields the blades without trouble." Ivy seems more distasteful with Cervantes than Raven. "His humanity is more twisted than the demon inside Soul Edge. His thirst for power caused by Soul Edge is absolute and drives him to insanity. That man is beyond what he may have once been"

Inuyasha slaps Raven on the back, "Figures you would be the hero again. Last time that trick you pulled turning all white even made me scared. I figured you would have beat Trigonamu easily but you still had some trouble."

Raven blushed; in the other world tapping into her other power gave her an advantage in the fight. However when it came down to it the power was so taxing she honestly could not keep the pace to the demon. Raven was not able to harness the new energy completely but if Taki was going to train her perhaps it was so she would have that power. Raven turned to the tunnel Taki took, "I have to train I might be able to use that power again if Taki trains me."

Inuyasha smiles, "Hey sounds good. With the monster I saw called Charade we might need it."

Kouga laughs, "Please! That Nightmare guy is in his own way scarier!"

Mitsurugi stomps his feet, "Fools! It is Cervantes that holds the true power of Soul Edge! He alone knows how to wield it with a human soul, giving it more power than those simple drones of a demon."

"What of Trigon?" asks Starfire slowly floating in, "He is Raven's father and he also gives great threat? His own wishes for the sword must be very dark in origin."

Red X comes in agreeing, "Starfire is right, but Nobunaga and Astaroth are his minions. They seem to have the power Trigon searches for in his eyes. I have no idea how powerful those two really are with Trigon's help." He sadly could only guess he had no idea how powerful Trigon really was.

"You are all wrong!" The teams see the dark hero of damnation, Spawn appear with his chains lowering him from the cavern heights. "They are all just as bad. Nightmare, Charade, Cervantes all are deadly and sinister by the Soul Edge. That power alone is enough to give them the effortless forces of souls and darkness. Trigon is also a demonic force fractured to this world through Soul Edge in some manner, allowing him to take Nobunaga as a general, and Astaroth as a soldier." He steps on the ground strolling to the group, "I also must say Malebolgia wanted me to take the sword to him for his own dark power." Spawn laughs, "But I honestly give less a damn about Malebolgia as I do evil. I only want to piss that devil off as much as possible."

Raven nods to the newcomer, "Sure but right now I have to get this training done." She floats off to see Taki. Ivy sighs going to sit by her, "Taki is right, that girl is my double, hard to except her emotions, a half demon." Ivy looked onto the seas, "And a possessive demon father who lives to try and use us."

Beast Boy is sitting alone, he thinks on Raven and how she has been. She seems sad, upset, and depressed. Shippo finally able to see his friend frowns on the sad face, "Beast Boy? What happened?"

Beast Boy looks at his little friend. "Well I'm just worried Raven is getting bogged down. I wish I could do something to help her."

Shippo crosses his legs, now he taps his head thinking, "I would guess you could do something special for her. The question is what?"

Cyborg is sitting by hearing this, "Hey I know. Why not make her a card or some flowers!"

Yoshimitsu drops down from above surprising the three. "A song!" they look confused so he explains. "Women love to be serenaded. If you sing to her a song one that she will find true to her heart and you. Then you and she will finally come together on that song."

Beast Boy smirks, "That is actually a good idea. What song though? What do I want to tell her and have she understand about me?"

The three start brainstorming. Kalik and Xianghua walk the ship. "Maxi." Spoke Kalik softly, "He was killed by…"

"We don't know that." Xianghua smiles sweetly, "He was a strong man I doubt the golem Astaroth killed him."

Kalik seemed less certain, "We can never be too sure. The monster was remarkably powerful."

Xianghua frowned to such words, "Kalik why are you so cold? Why can you not just look on the good?"

Kalik shakes his head, "I am sorry, I lost much sense of kindness in the years. You know what the Soul Edge did when it created the Evil Seed. It caused me to kill all the people of my village as all who were touched were forced in madness."

Xianghua nodded, "I know Kalik but you have the power to absorb and destroy evil from the same event." She watches him shift oddly, "I am sorry I did not mean to look at it like that."

"No you are right." Kalik laughs, "Yet again you see the silver lining in the storm."

Xianghua smiles on his remark, "I am the innocent princess, and you're the strong warrior! Why would I not find such good?"

Robin looks on these two, "They seem really familiar. How?"

Starfire looks and blinks as she recognizes this scene swell. "What of you and I Robin?" Robin looks at her blushing. "We have that similarity you find the pain, yet I find the joy. Do you not seem to believe?"

Robin looks in her eyes and sighs, "Yes your right. I spend a lot of time finding the bad but for all the bad you always find the good to bring me back." He smiles on her "Thank you Starfire."

Starfire nods and smiles, "You are most welcome beloved Robin." He blushes by that remark. "That is what you are to me Robin, my beloved."

Robin seems delighted until Red X comes over, "Hey you two. What is going on exactly?"

Robin gives him a glare, "I don't know."

Red X sighs, "I have been in this deal too long. I wish I never stole the fragment in the first place."

Starfire taps him on the shoulder, "Do not worry friend Red X we will find a way to bring you home."

Red X chuckles, "From you I believe it."

Robin glares with his teeth grinding as he flares up in flames. Ivy smirks on the childish behavior "What a bunch of fools. This war and none see the danger."

Spawn steps to her, "They see it." Spawn looks on all the heroes. "They do not falter to it however. They say all evil needs to flourish are for good souls to do nothing. It is this or give in." Spawn glares on Ivy, "I know all too well never give in even if you're damned from the beginning."

"There is no reward and yet you struggle to stop evil? Why?"

Spawn growls in minor annoyance, "I have chosen that path. I fight the darkness even if no matter what hell awaits my return." He laughs "I may as well make it as much a pain for hell to take me back as I can."

Ivy shakes her head, "Still you fight for no final resolve damnation is all that waits. What is the point to an existence of evil?"

Heihachi laughs, "You are some work. I'm evil to a degree… well I own an evil organization." Heihachi sits down on his one leg while bending the other to lay his arm on it, "I hold my warrior values high, and it is who and what I am."

Link also intervenes, "You know! I'm actually a good guy! The rest of you are just evil people who follow a good path!"

The three villains look onto Link with a scowl. Link sweats as he is struck by three raging figures. Miroku has entered on Cyborg's conversation, "So a gift for Raven! That will be magnificent. What song is it you have chosen?"

Beast Boy crosses his arms, "Uh… I don't know."

Kagome who was with Inuyasha and Kouga says "Use something romantic! I would love to have a man sing me a romantic song."

Kouga's ears twitch. "Really?" He crouches on his one knee and begins singing but Inuyasha growls "Stop that! She is trying to help the guy not get some idiot to give her a headache!"

Kouga snaps out, "What was that dog-breath?"

Inuyasha snarls his lips, "You heard me Wolf!"

Kagome screams Sit and so Inuyasha slams. He watches as she explains how it was sweet of Kouga to sing but she was more worried on Beast Boy. Inuyasha glares with his eye twitching, "Why does she do that…"

Mitsurugi has taken off his armor. His chest bare he sadly assesses the damage. Seung Mina has watched for sometime blushing at his bare body, marked in many scars mostly bullet wounds. "Mitsurugi?" he looks to her, she turns her face down asking "Why have you declared the new weapons as evil."

Mitsurugi shakes his head, "I do not see the weapons evil. I see Nobunaga evil for how he has altered the wars. No longer will the battles be on the lives lost, but the numbers lost. Man kind is going to forget the fact war is lives not statistics."

Seung Mina smiles, he was so noble. "Mitsurugi I admire your values."

Mitsurugi laughs, "I am just a samurai I fight for what I believe no matter what it is I am told." He scowls to the ground, "Even if this new rifle technique may cause more victories it still seems so in-human to me."

Raven has come to a room which Taki sat in a meditative stance. Raven soon does the same, it occurs to her it must be a meditative training needed to see her own self to search and find her power. Taki instructs Raven on breathing, concentration, and the common needs of meditation of this kind. The time came and Raven felt her self becoming distant and awakening in… Nevermore?

Taki nods to the confusion, "To find your own power Raven you must find what it is that hides it, what it is you are using to keep it from yourself."

Raven is confused, "I'm not hiding it. I am trying to find the power."

"Are you?" Taki narrows her eyes. "Are you truly looking?"

Raven stands up and searches the scorched earth, small craters and furnaces of flame appear at random. What is it she was supposed to find? On cue it appears, her emotions all appear and begin to attack her!

The underground rock is rock, green liquid births around a single platform. The immense beast, Astaroth stands in the center. He turns on Necrid, "Well? What do I do Trigon?"

Trigon does not answer at first but agrees, "He must have humanity or else it is no more than a mindless drone. Give him humanity Astaroth."

Astaroth nods, "The chance will be evident his humanity will cause difficulties."

Trigon laughs, "Remember, as long as the main goal is an option I care not what other plans are affected."

Astaroth nods and places his hand on Necrid's head. The green bolts jolt from Astaroth and energize Necrid making the creature look around puzzled afterwards. "Necrid!" Necrid looks at Astaroth and bows on its knee. A good sign the warrior was still accepting the role as servant. "You are to assist in my plans. To the underground cave and assist Voldo. He slowly stalks the children."

That was true, Voldo does stalk the titans in simple assumption it was his master's wish. If he could for his master he would kill but at the current he was vastly outnumbered by the various heroes. He scaled the roof making sure not to displace any of the ceiling compounds. If he did, sound would carry and sure enough he could be discovered. Voldo now only waits to hear of the plan his master will deliver.

Raven is in a battle like no other, her own emotions turned on her! Courage with its green variation uses combos and kicks, Raven can use her shield energy to keep from any real hits. She was confused as her emotions also had power; perhaps in Nevermore since she was here they were sharing the energy. "What are you doing? Why are you attacking me?"

Courage smiles, "Cause we gotta knock some sense in your thick head!"

Raven hears energy crackle behind, her gray cloaked version of Shy came in, and after the blast she hides to the corner in apology. The golden cloaked intellect tosses boulders at perfect angles to Raven's back, she has been pinned to now force her way through Courage. Raven roars in slight rage as she now begins dueling with her Courage. Courage is able to contend in hand to hand, but in magic Raven easily outdoes her with her blasts. Courage falters on the ground as Intellect channels her shield over them both. Raven glares on Shy, she could not honestly help except for some speaking on how wrong this was. Another emotion appeared, in an orange cloak it smirks before turning and flipping its cape up, "Super Burrito Attack!" the orange raven lets loose a burst of stench from its behind, a fart really, Raven cringes at the stench knowing this was "Gross!"

Gross grins, "I think that one was a wee bit wet." She shakes her leg saying "I can feel it going down my leg."

Another raven in pink screams "Weee! That was so funny, you are all totally funny!" this was Happy the air-headed care-free Raven.

The next Raven was the worst, Anger was in a deep red cloak, "There you are you witch!" she is flying in a punch connecting with Raven's shield she lands more wild punches. He anger blinding her as she simply attacks again and again, "Stop hiding and come out! Fight me you loser!"

Raven is still confused, her emotions are not supposed to attack her all at once. One may get out of control but in the end she could depend on the others. "What is it that has you all so out of shape?"

Anger plows her feet into the shield, "Love! You little snot nosed punk! You lock us all up and now you make Love!"

Raven backs away, "What is wrong with Love?"

Anger was going to attack but Courage grabs her, "Love and Fear are at ends! They can't seem to co-exist! We don't have any way of fighting them."

Raven turns to the distance, "Where are they?" as on cue a large clap of energy is heard. "Never mind." She flies to the energy in hopes she can calm these two. The other emotions make their move in follow as Taki sits and waits. Raven enters the area of battle; two forces one brown beam of energy and the other purple seem to bounce in the center of the two. Raven knew instantly purple was Love so Fear was brown. Fear stops blasting as so does Love, the two look onto Raven each sharing a similar distaste. Love floats over and in a gentle tone says, "This one you call Fear has been trying to keep me from acting. Why does it not care for my being?"

Fear snaps out, "I can't! She's going to cause more trouble than she is worth get rid of her now!"

Raven looks between them and finally say "Look we can't do this. We need to stop fighting."

Fear turns her back and so does Love. Raven asks Fear "Why do you want to keep Love from being?"

"Because…" Fear seems scared, not for her name but her answer. She finally has help from Courage who taps her on the shoulder, "I fear the pain again, and the pain of being loved and than found hurt by another. That is why we ignored her for so long; after HE had come into our lives you promised Love would never cause us pain!" Fear screams to Raven "You swore it would never happen and look what has come! Love of Beast Boy has put us in a war for a demonic blade, where your father is hiding in every corner, and some undead pirate called Cervantes wants to try and play sick games with us! How do we keep going like this?"

Raven looks to Love, "Does she not make us feel good?" Fear is slightly off from the response, "Love has given us a good safe feeling. We are with Beast Boy and even if we fear pain we can always keep our hopes up."

Fear seems still frustrated, "I can not do that! I am fear; I fear the pain of losing another person for Love."

Raven nods, "I understand I really do." She sighs, this was her fear being hurt by Beast Boy so yes she did understand "We can't fight we need to concentrate Fear even if you hate the idea."

Anger still angry growls out, "This is all idiocy! I order you to find something so we can beat it down like a dog!"

Taki has been watching she cringes as a shadow flies by to stop and turn on her with four eyes, "They are here?" Taki nods, "They are not going to go easily."

It laughs, "All the emotions are confused, and Love has caused that confusion. I am actually able to take control and together with Trigon I will be the embodiment of power!"

"Why is it always power?" Taki muses to herself, the shadow chuckles, "Because that is all that matters."

The shadow moves on, with its prey just ahead.

The ship creaks; Cervantes speaks "That girl be a pain in my arse! I don't need no dilly-dawdling! Find them there children!"

The skeletons can not comply, the kids are gone. Cervantes growls and strikes the head of his first mate but it does not roll off of the ship, a black caddied boot had stopped the skull and held it for the first mate. The first mate's body basses the boot and falls to the ocean, the skull moans then screams as the holder tossed it in shrugging. The man that had appeared was Nobunaga. Nobunaga walked over to Cervantes who had a cigar puffing in his lips. Cervantes look to Nobunaga, "I told ye before, I tell ye again, I'm not working fer some demon called Trigon."

Nobunaga smiles "Do not worry. Trigon has given up on convincing you. We instead want to know if you would consider doing us a favor." He bends in and whisper in Cervantes's ear, Cervantes smiles, "Sure, sound like it'll be fun. Where is the lass?"

Nobunaga turns, here is Deadweight holding the statue of Terra, "That her?" Cervantes walks over and smirks she was kind of cute. "So you saying this the critter?"

Nobunaga nods, "This is her, you can do it correct?"

Cervantes laughs, as if it was slightly an insult, "I be turning people to stone." He charges the blades and fires on Terra, "Bringing them back be the easy part!"

Terra's form is charged by the red bolts and as her own body resonates with them the bolts become golden. She is now shining gold as her body changes from arms outstretched to arms crossed on her chest, and now on her side she seems to tremble before becoming still. There was Terra, golden hair, her blue eyes closed, her hands in metal gauntlets along with feet in boots. Her body wrapped in gauze now slightly torn at other points. Her chest in a metal vest with an S in the center, Terra was flesh and bone, but unconscious. Nobunaga raises a brow as Cervantes laughs, "She be alive, now you take her and have fun."

Nobunaga bows, "Thank you." He slams a dagger into a map, "That's where the kids are hiding by the way."

Cervantes looks at the map, it was an old cove he had once long ago, "Well now ain't that a kick in the jewels?"

Beast Boy has sung the song several times, he cringes in the choice though it expressed his wish to be there for her, and for her to let him love her. That and he was basically what the title said! Cyborg was organizing the event, having Robin with a home-made guitar, and Red X had the Piano needed for the song, why them? Because Beast Boy knew Robin could use a guitar, and Red X was the only one who could do the piano part of the song. Starfire watched them play the song to its end for a final time cheering "Robin! That was magnificent!" She turns to Red X "Well played Red X!"

The two share glances, it was obvious they both wanted to impress her during the song.

The others are sharing comments as Voldo who was in a crevice was holding his ears, he did not like the song… it was too good in heart.

Raven was glad the emotions had come to a conclusion. This was short lived, as something screamed in a deep voice towards them. Raven turns and is swung up into the air by a blackened tentacle, it then flings her down so she skids to the emotions. The one who attacked was not really an emotion but an actual entity that classed the emotions, Evil. Evil was in a black hood, her eyes of four and glowing red. This was the soulless entity Raven would see in the eyes of the monster Cervantes, Evil. When Raven ignored her emotions, like she did with Anger and Fear, Evil would take them as her own and twist their power to change Raven. Raven long ago choose to try and fight her evil side, the destiny of evil. She was in reality fighting this. Evil grins under its hood, the tentacles wretched from her cape's inside as she screamed "Time to surrender Raven!"

Raven made her field, Evil was wrapping the field starting make it crack. Raven could not face this power alone, she needed her other emotions. "Hurry up and help me!"

The others look in mixed fashions, Raven looks onto them in a plea "Please! I need your help!"

The emotions are startled as Raven was not one to call on them. The others were going as Anger yells "Are you idiots! You know as soon as the fight is over she'll disband us and all is gone! She never needs us until a fight. She doesn't care what kind of a place this is!"

Raven is on one knee, she realizes how true that is. Only as she needs them it was when she called on them. "What am I supposed to do? Ignore the fact we blow things up when one is over the others!"

Love blinks, "That is not the only reason. You try to lock up the emotions and the power, not embrace it. You are trying to ignore the negative emotions and the positive when in all honesty it is all the emotions that make you human."

Raven laughs, the tentacles become tighter, "You think you know it all don't you? I guess if I accepted all my emotions that I could…" Raven gasps, "Oh my Azerath…"

The others feel it; Raven has let all the barriers down. All her emotions are apparent! They grin swirling into Raven even anger who loves (for her that was odd) the idea! Evil is now feeling the barrier expand snapping her tentacles, Evil is now gripped in white tentacles and the white Raven stands more powerful than ever before. "What about the breaking! The explosions! Are you mad?"

The white Raven laughs, "Yeah, I'm mad, sad, glad, every one you can think of." She floats over tightening Evil as she says, "I'm me."

Evil is crushed and also absorbed; Raven turns to normal still controlling the emotions as they disperse to the land of Nevermore. All the emotions are in Nevermore, Raven smiles, and then she frowns, "This is going to be one crowded mind."

Taki has been watching, "I did not expect you to deal so much power so quickly. I doubt you will be able to use it fully at first but you have in place the necessary essentials."

Raven is confused, so she asks "Why did you bring me here to unlock all my emotions, they are so dangerous."

"Ha!" Taki rolls her eyes, "All people are in danger of their own emotions. The thing is ignoring them is more dangerous. The way we feel makes us stronger, and now that you are willing to allow the emotions you hid to flourish so shall you."

Nevermore was not as barren as before, it had become slightly vegetated. Anger growls, "I hate this in so many ways."

Raven and Taki return, Raven hears none of her emotions, "They will not talk to you like before, they will come and go but it will be your duty to control them still."

"Trigon will take advantage." Raven countered, the realization of all those emotions to drive her to him was evident. Taki shook her head, "Not really. The one emotion you call Love is one he can not conquer. That is why he wishes to destroy it." Raven raises a brow and Taki laughs, "Love is powerful even if you think my words childish. With it Trigon can not fully take you. Your emotions will bring you strength and yet you shall not be affected. You will still be gothic Raven."

"How do you know all that? I may change."

Taki shakes her head, "No you will not. Ivy has the same problem of her sanity for the emotions torturing her soul and she is still a gothic person."

"Um, she loves someone?" Raven raises a brow, "Taki is that someone…"

Taki gives Raven a stare, a playful one, "Am I that obvious?" Raven shifts slightly to hide herself in her cape. Taki laughs, "I do not care for all women. I only came to her for…" a memory appears in Raven's mind.

Ivy had been in her lab, researching the Soul Edge. Her parents that adopted her died leaving the father's death wish to find Soul Edge to her, and her mother the words she was not originally a Valentine but actually daughter of another, a demon. She forged the sword in alchemy calling upon a strange being that gave it life with her blood and her soul. Ivy later joined with Nightmare, only to find the sword she searched to destroy for its evil was Soul Edge, and was the sword Nightmare had all along. Ivy was left in madness by that and also the revelation of who her birth father was. That was my doing; I told her who it was.

"Who was it?" Raven asks. Taki looks away, "I can not tell you. It is up to Ivy."

The memories go a new. Taki reminisces I decided to assist Ivy and give her the power to control her energy. Ivy was not a total evil; she had good intentions but had been tricked by the Soul Edge as many others were before. Ivy with my help conquered the emotions she too fell to and even the demonic blood in her. In the end, our battle together brought us closer. After that, you can see where it went.

Raven looks uneasily, not for their relationship but the similarity to her and Beast Boy. He was always there; he always did what he could to help. Raven nodded and realized she had to tell him she kissed Nobunaga. "Thank you Taki you have helped greatly."

Taki nods, "I know, be careful as even with Love Trigon will continue to try and totter your emotions to confusion." Taki stands to give a serious glare. "Each time you are lost in your own self without some anchor to this world Evil could rule you and Trigon with her."

The two are entering the main room, Heihachi begins snickering as Beast Boy coughs in worry, "Go on green one, this will be most amusing."

Beast Boy nods, and clears his throat. Cyborg is acting as a sort of stereo amplifying the sounds in his back. The stage was on the end of the boat, Cyborg was knelt with his back to Beast Boy planning to use himself as the stereo. It was difficult, but he finagled the sonic cannon as a sort of relay for the sounds behind him. He aimed his arm as Raven and Taki enter. "This is going to be so cool!"

Beast Boy grabs the microphone, and licks his lips. He could back down, but when he saw her eyes on him he smiled getting the nerve back. (First: I dislike the singer but the song, it is good for romance in some ways plus it ties into the two chapters. Second: It's Beast Boy, I see him as a real sweet heart.)

Beast Boy whispers into the microphone "Let me be your hero…" (Song: Hero by Enrique Inglesias)

"Would you dance, if I asked you to dance?" Raven gives a look at him in confusion.

"Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? Would you save my soul tonight?"

Raven is looking in surprise, some horror. Her newly free emotions all chime in laughter and screams of joy. Anger however with its alternate emotions gives mixed shrugs and grumbles.

"Would you tremble, if I touched your lips?" Beast Boy puts out his hand pretending touch Raven's lips "Would you laugh, oh please tell me this." He smiles as she is turning red and causing several rocks to break on the ground, candles flaring in the corners.

"Now would you die for the one you love? Hold me in your arms… tonight."

Beast Boy now performs truly, pacing the deck he screams in passion, "I can be your hero baby! I can kiss away the pain!"

Beast Boy stops in the center and grabs the mic firmly in his hands. "I will stand by you forever! You can take my breath away!"

Inuyasha smiles as he taps Kagome, she turns to his hand and they dance together to the song slowly. "Would you swear that you'll always be here? Would you lie, or would you run away?" Beast Boy closes his eyes in the passion, "Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind? I don't care," he smiles to the admiring Raven "You're here… tonight."

"I can be your hero baby! I can kiss away the pain!" Beast Boy blows a kiss and a wink. "I will stand by you forever! You can take my breath away!"

Seung Mina sees Mitsurugi smiling at her, he bows as she blushed. The two begin a dance, "I just want to hold you." Seung Mina lies her head on his shoulders, "Oh, I just want to hold you."

"Am I in too deep? Have I lost my mind?" Taki feels Ivy next to her, smiling as they both listen to the song, "Well I don't care… you're here… tonight."

Xianghua and Kalik are dancing, as so are Miroku and Sango. "I can be your hero baby!" Xianghua blinks as she slaps Kalik in anger. "I can kiss away the pain!" Kalik looks confused as Miroku sees Sango's stare. "I will stand by you forever." Kalik swings his rod on Miroku and they continue dancing, "You can take my breath away."

"I can be your hero baby!" Yoshi is dancing with Starfire. "I can kiss away the pain!" Heihachi, Spawn, and Link just bob heads and such to the beat. "I will stand… by… you… forever!" Raven is looking in pain, "You can take my breath away." Raven looks on the ground with a tear falling.

"Yes you can take my breath away…"

"Let me be your hero…"

There is applause as Beast Boy finished, he takes a bow and looks to Raven "Did you like it Raven?"

Raven speaks in a whisper; Cyborg turns up to Beast Boy to ask what she said, "I kissed Nobunaga…" the voice had transmitted through Cyborg. Raven looked up in pain at the way her voice carried. Cyborg had stopped dead; he closed his arm and let it hang. Raven in total shame flew off to the tunnels. Beast Boy looked down, his ears twitched and his eyes dulled over before he realized she was hurting. "Raven!" he ran after her in hopes he could find her. The others look in some disarray, what the heck just happened?

Raven runs through the tunnels, falling into her legs she begins to cry. Unlocking the emotions meant she felt them, and right now she felt shame so terribly she broke down. She kind of wondered how humans deal with emotion like this. Raven slowly calms herself; gaining composure she stands tears still in her face. Raven noticed nothing exploded, that was a good sign. Beast Boy was heard panting near by, she flew to a crevice where she hid. Beast Boy stopped feeling she was near. "Raven! Let's talk about this please!"

Raven dared not reply, he sort of seemed upset but he spoke in a kind voice, "I know you and if you really kissed him it does not mean you love him." Raven turns slightly to duck around again. "You love me not that guy. Even if you kissed him, granted I hope I'm better than he was, I know you didn't do it for love. That is the difference you kiss me in love, and when you kissed him it was confusion." Beast Boy smiles as he hears movement, "You see we love each other and that is all that really matters."

The movement revealed as not Raven, but a watery eyed Terra. Beast Boy is stunned; he could not believe she was here! "Terra?"

Raven turns on the two. Deadlocked she cringes as all her emotions are wailing in her head. Nobunaga has appeared behind her, he smiles as he says "You can't go to him as deep down he feels no true feeling for you. Only she could make him happy." He lays his hand on her shoulder, "Come with me, and we shall build a new world together my Nightingale."

Beast Boy looks at Terra with such happiness, she has him in a hug and when she retracted she leaned for a kiss. Raven is tempted to turn while her eyes are watering at the sight and several formations of stone shook. Where Terra almost kissed Beast Boy, he turned his face away and said "I can't."

Nobunaga looks up, 'What! What did that little troll just speak?'

Beast Boy pushes on her lips with his hand, and smiles at Terra, "Don't get me wrong, at one time I wanted to kiss you." He propped his ears up, "I then found out something Terra I love Raven. I love her movement, her attitude her little remarks. I'm sorry, but I can't kiss you because I love her. I know she loves me too, and that is why I will do anything for her. You understand don't you?"

Raven is now smiling, that was so sweet. Happy awes with her are Love in adoration of the little Beast Boy. Courage sighs at the sight, as Shy feels bashful on this one. Fear starts to realize he was not one to take from fear and Anger, Anger is going nuts trying to motivate the crew to beat up Terra for trying to take their man! Terra had lowered her head, Beast Boy thought she was crying but she looked up in this unattached look, "No." she plows an open palm into his gut launching him across the room. Raven is about to help when Nobunaga sees the large hand grab her neck and grip to bring her unconscious. Astaroth chuckles saying "This is how I planned it."

Nobunaga glares, "You planed? You mean you knew that little freak would ruin my plan!"

"Of course, so I devised a better one on your mistake."

Nobunaga looks away, than he smiles, "Not bad for a muscle bound monster."

Beast Boy is on his stomach. "What was that for? Why did you do that?"

Terra puts her arms behind her back, "Poor little boy, can't quite grasp what is happening can you?"

Beast Boy glares, her walk, her voice's tilt. He pops his eyes in horror, "No… you're dead! We killed you again! You died twice!"

Terra smiled, "Third times a charm."

Beast Boy snarls out, "Why, why are you going to take Raven from me like you took Terra!"

Terra now known not as Terra chuckled, "Oh please, why are you so childish? I never took Terra, she choose to die trying to kill me. As for Raven, she was never yours she belonged to Trigon all along." Terra's back suddenly extended, Terra was crying in pain as something was ripping from her own being as a separate entity. Beast Boy gagged in seeing the man after all this time alive in some unholy fashion. The black suit of skin material, armor padding of gray at shoulders, forearms, legs, and boots. The neck of metal and a belt of large pouches. The metallic mask, one side of black, the other of orange. One eye lamely looking on him form the left orange side. Resurrected by the connection from Terra before her stone death was him, the mad man, Slade.

Note: So bet you never saw it coming! Well not Slade, he's Baaaaaack! This is where we end part one. Part two is The Hero of Beasts which both are chapters for the Beast Boy X Raven couple. I think this song got to me… grrgh on my emotions. Will work hard on the next chapter, keep you hopes up. We will be getting to an end sooner than you think!