A/N: Alright, let me get this straight to you. This chapter will only be Jinx and whatever is in Raven's mind, save an occasional break to Raven in the outside world. There will be violence. There will be sexual material. There will be foul language. There will also be terrible singing.

I don't own rights to the Teen Titans, neither do I to the songs Jinx will sing.

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There were many things that Jinx had a very hard time absorbing. One of them was how Raven managed to have so many different aspects inside her head without showing any real signs of them. Knowledge was probably the most prominent, considering that Raven would study and meditate so often. It also explained the bitchiness that would sometimes rear its ugly head when her concentration was ever interrupted. She did not, however, express any sort of love for the color pink-

Wait. Did she? Jinx giggled inside at the thought, wondering just what it was exactly that inspired that sort of thing. Raven probably had been fond of the color long before her and Jinx had ever met, but there was still a sort of satisfaction Jinx drew from how she could have only made Raven's affection to pink grow even deeper.

Her train of thought was broken when Knowledge snapped her fingers in Jinx's face. "Listen up. We don't have much time to fill you in on everything, so we can't have you wandering off." Jinx nodded and planted her hands in her lap, sitting on the ground cross-legged.

Knowledge planted a hand on her hip and began pacing in front of her, along with many others doing several things befitting their personalities. Rage glowered at Jinx, while Timid cowered in an opposite corner, afraid to look squarely at anyone at the moment. Bravery and Happiness were talking back and forth, the flamingo-colored one's mouth pattering almost endlessly, only occasionally allowing Bravery to sneak in a word or two. Laziness sat on the ground with her legs spread-eagled, and loosed a belch of epically disgusting proportions.

None of them were as distracting as Lust, however. She was smoking what looked like a fat, hand-rolled cigarette through a quellazaire, the trumpet-like accessory only adding to the seductive air about her. Jinx only half-listened to Knowledge's droning, drinking in the aura of sexiness that radiated from the demonic aspect. The heavy smoke billowed into a haze about her as she lay between a pair of boulders that contoured her body perfectly. The smoke was very pungent, but not bad-smelling; more, it was as though Lust was smoking a cigar stuffed with incense rather than tobacco. Saffron, by the whiff Jinx managed to inhale without choking on it. Even the smoke was sensual in its own way, and it drew her attention even further from what Knowledge was saying.

"Are you even listening?"

Knowledge waved an open palm about an inch from Jinx's face. "If she gets to you like that, I'm surprised you haven't tried to pin every single one of us to the ground."

Jinx looked up. "Hey, if you weren't such a nag, maybe I would. I like bright colors, y'know."

Happiness giggled coyly.

Knowledge sighed, planting fingertips on her forehead. "Since I'm never going to get you to listen long enough, the gist of it is Raven is in one of the darker corners of this place, and she's fighting that Tamaranean spirit that moved in just a little bit ago. As far as we can tell, she's getting her ass handed to her. You need to go and make sure she wins. Am I clear?"

"Crystal."

"Alright. Now get your ass up and out of here," Knowledge snapped, pointing a finger to… well, when there's no sense of north or south, up or down, one tends to get a little confused. The only definite thing about what she did was that she pointed away from the group. Mostly to Jinx's left, considering where she'd walked in from.

Before she could get moving though, everybody but Rage, Timid and Knowledge rushed toward her to wish her some sort of good fortune, letting Jinx know how much she would be missed, and to try not to die, etcetera etcetera. Happiness hugged her painfully around the waist, Laziness waved, Bravery delivered a friendly punch in the shoulder, and Lust batted her eyelashes after blowing a kiss. "Alright, I get the point. Now, you gonna let me get to saving you or what?"

Once the rest of them let her breathe, Jinx headed off herself, following the trail that Knowledge had pointed to. Now that Jinx thought about it, the path hadn't been there where she'd arrived. She shrugged. Raven's insides must have been a lot more random than she was outside, so she ignored it, sure that the same phenomenon would either get her lost or make some sort of huge beastie pop up out of nowhere.

Watching her leave, Rage wondered aloud to Knowledge, "She's not exactly someone you'd rely on, is she?"

"No, not really. Something tells me she'll get it done, though. I have absolutely no idea how in the world Raven puts up with her."

Happiness peeped and raised her hand, accompanied by Lust's hand as well. "Hmph. Makes sense at least. You find a random hero that doesn't succeed somehow."

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Back in the infirmary, Cyborg noticed the sound of the bedsheets rustling. Looking over, he saw Raven with her shoulders and neck tightening, her brow furrowed. Her breathing was steady, but it looked like she was in a mild amount of pain. Nothing too serious yet, but it was hard to tell whether or not that could be taken as a good sign. At that, he continued monitoring her status, looking for any signs that she was going to lose what was left of her stability.

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The minutes ticked away like they were made of corn syrup and peanut butter blended together. Jinx didn't have too much of a problem with the passage of time, but it was more the fact at how boring and monotonous the place was, and how fast it became so. Even in how serious the situation may have been, how dire the circumstances and the innate danger of merely being there, Jinx knew she required a thing or two to keep her mind off of just how bad the whole scenario was. With nothing repeating in one's head save the likelihood of complete failure and what it would entail, she doubted she would be in any sort of shape to help Raven, even if she got to… wherever Raven could be.

Now that she thought about it, Jinx considered just what Raven and Moonshadow would be doing when she got there. If they were… oooh, she didn't even want to think of what they could be doing. What she envisioned made her internal time bomb begin to tick.

Recomposing herself, Jinx began to flip through her metaphorical jukebox to find something that she could sing out loud. Finally, after a few lengthy moments, she settled on a song by The Offspring.

"I'm seein' this girl, and she just might be out of her mind.

Well she's got baggage and it's all the emotional kind!

She talks about closure, and that validation bit.

I don't mean to be insensitive, but I really hate that shit!

Jinx's shoulders began to sway back and forth as she made her way to the chorus.

And I say 'Yeah, hey, yeah hey,'

Oh man she's got issues and I'm gonna pay!

Yeah, hey, yeah, hey,

She thinks she's the victim, yeah!"

Jinx was interrupted by a very short bump from the rock. "Hey, it fits. Kinda." She shrugged at the idea.

Putting her thumb and forefinger to her chin in thought, Jinx continued to shuffle through what songs she knew by heart. After about a minute, Jinx snapped her fingers, settling on one that she knew would work. Taking a deep breath, Jinx then jumped recklessly into another song, one she was sure that Raven would like.

"Tonight, I'm gonna have myself a real good time,

I feel ali-i-i-ive!

And the world, I turn it inside out, yeah,

I'm floatin' around in ecstasy,

So don't stop me now. Don't stop me,

'Cause I'm havin' a good time, havin' a-"

Another short murmur of the earth, though this time it sounded like a cough, to interrupt without being too rude. Jinx stopped, put a hand on her hip and huffed. "Fine. Everybody's a critic."

A whine echoed through the darkness around her. "Oh no, I'm not doing anymore songs. You said no to Queen. Ain't no way, no how that I'm singing for a hater of the greatest gods of rock 'n roll."

A very loud, harsh shaking started, and Jinx turned around to see the bridge of rock start to collapse and fall into the void. "Aw shit," she cursed out loud before bolting for the next landmass as fast as she could.

The disintegrating stone pathway was catching up to her, slowly and steadily closing distance between the end and Jinx's feet. She ran like she'd never ran before, sprinting like a cat that was being chased by a German shepherd with rabies. "Shit, shit shit shit!"

Just as the ground would have given way under her and dropped her to her doom, Jinx leapt and shot through the air and barely managed to land on the next island, stumbling forward and falling on her stomach once she touched ground. Rolling to sit and prop herself up on one arm while her other hand gripped her heart, she panted, "Christ, Raven, you don't have to be such a bitch about it. Hoo, boy…"

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Robin had joined the rest of the group to make sure that everything was going alright, and that he could help if needed. Raven's shoulders and torso had settled and she was relaxed again, but there was something strange with the neural readings. She'd already been established to have spastic and random patterns in her brain's activity, but it had changed very sharply from swirling emotions to a conundrum of consistent irritation, not to mention some sort of suppressed urge. He distinctly hoped it wasn't sexual frustration that would end in Raven disintegrating half of the Tower.

The part that frightened him was that she had the power to annihilate ninety percent of the world if she liked and put some elbow grease into it, but it was out of the goodness in her heart that she did otherwise. Or, now that Robin thought of it, it was more out of defiance to her father. Who was now dead. This also meant that she had no reason to continue to uphold the law and stand for justice. Perhaps it was merely force of habit that kept her working for the sake of the betterment of the world and prevention of criminals having their way with the place. If every supervillain got what they wanted, the world would be changing dictators faster than one could change their underwear. Robin considered himself and the entire planet lucky that Raven didn't succumb to her demonic side.

What had his undivided attention for the next moment was utterly puzzling, and also had to do with Raven. Rather than being some odd readings from some machine, it was what his ears were telling him. Raven was humming, and whatever it was happened to be vaguely familiar…

Cyborg turned to the others. "Am I hearin' what I think I am?"

Beast Boy raised a brow. "…Queen?"

Leaning in closer to get a better listen, Starfire nodded. "Yes, it is a song I find most familiar. I believe it is called 'Don't Stop Me Now', is it not?"

Starfire suddenly jerked away as if she'd just been told Raven was a rampant leper, and the rest of the group paled wherever possible. Raven did not sing, let alone sing Queen. Perhaps she chanted something other than her mantra occasionally, but if she did, nobody ever heard. Whatever Jinx and the spirit were doing inside was really messing with the demoness' head, and none of them liked it one bit.

Only a heartbeat later and Raven gasped sharply, her torso flexing and stretching, back arching as far as her body would allow. It was a mere two or three seconds before she flopped back down to the medical bed, her eyes half-open, and she groaned. "Why… why did you let Jennifer… in my head?" she said wearily, sounding more irritated than weakened.

Robin answered, "Well apparently, Gar and Vic here have already been in your head once, and we figured that, from your… ahem, past experiences with Jinx, you'd be the most comfortable with that."

"Rrgh," Raven growled, "I was handling it by myself just fine."

In all honesty, no she was not. As a matter of fact, she was doing a horrible job in defending her mind and soul from Moonshadow, who had invaded her very core immediately. Holding a hand to her forehead, Raven desperately hoped that Jinx wouldn't mess things up any more than they already were. "I need to go to my room, now."

Raven pulled all of the various wires and electrodes and everything else from her body, and stood up rather shakily. She took a deep breath, and was soon able to walk just fine, but as she tried to step out, Starfire blocked her path. "You are certain that you are in health sufficient enough to make it to your room?" the alien inquired.

Raven nodded. "Yeah. Now let me through, there's something I need to get." At those words, Starfire moved from Raven's path, allowing her to leave.

Although Raven could walk through the halls just fine, it was the stairs that she had a problem with. Her knees gave out when she tried to make the next step, and she fell to all fours. Using her powers was… inadvisable, or at least she thought. Having an entity with that grade of willpower made using abilities that focused on mental efforts a very bad idea in her eyes. Sighing, she gave into her assumptions, and began to crawl up the stairs.

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Beast Boy had taken note of the fact that Raven's step had been almost painfully slow as she had left the infirmary, and so, awhile after she had gone the green one decided to follow as something inconspicuous, a small, olive-colored beetle. He scuttled along the floor, the hard, stiff bristles of the carpet making it somewhat difficult to make progress without falling over himself. It was the sort of cheap crap that one found in office buildings, even harder on one's feet than Astroturf. Luckily, the chitinous legs of the beetle kept him from hurting himself as he scrambled over the plastic threads.

Rounding the corner and making it to the foot of the stairwell, Beast Boy gasped through his spiracles- or at least he came as close as a beetle could to doing so. Even with those scarab's weak compound eyes, he could still make out what was in front of him. Swaying back and forth, blurry as it was, was Raven's rotund backside, moving in concert with her legs. He had a hard time deciding whether he should appreciate or resent the inabilities that he had while in the insect's form; difficult as it was to see properly, he was thankful that he didn't have so many ways to get noticed from all of the various noises he'd have made. Well, he was certain that she was doing just fine, since it didn't seem like she was in in any pain.

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As it turned out, Beast Boy had been deluding himself, thinking too idealistically. On one wide, isolated platform of perfectly flat basalt stood Moonshadow and Raven, poised for battle. While Raven held a standard, all-purpose stance, Moonshadow stood with her right shoulder facing Raven, looking rather idle. While Raven was in her usual black leotard, Moonshadow was nude, just as she'd been when Raven had seen her last. The psychic winds that howled about the place were the only things that made any noise at all as they stared one another down, neither of them willing to give even an inch of leeway to the other. The seconds slowly ticked away, Moonshadow's brilliant white hair fluttering while the blue cloak Raven had about her shoulders billowed in time with the winds. One could have thought they were to continue the staring contest for the rest of eternity, unforgivingly vigilant and adamant.

Fast as lightning, Raven sprung from her spot and launched herself at Moonshadow, delivering a series of punches and kicks that would have given Robin a run for his money, her hands and feet covered in the black energy to add that extra bit of 'oomph' to her blows.

Alas, it was all for naught. Stepping slowly backwards as Raven advanced, each and every single strike was parried or fended off with one hand. Knocking away a roundhouse that Raven aimed for her face, Moonshadow finally delivered her own attack, her left palm smashing into Raven's upper chest, just above her breast. Raven skidded over the ground, and she thanked the gods that the ground wasn't as rough as the rest of her mental terrain. The blow hurt, but it was nowhere near as damaging as she thought it would be, even if she was currently a mental projection.

Growling, Raven was on her feet again in no time flat, and made another charge, this time interrupted before she could even take a swing. Moonshadow's fist was driven into Raven's right shoulder, and while Raven was in recoil from it Moonshadow spun and smashed her heel into Raven's side; it felt like her ribs had cracked. She fell, and her recovery was much slower, but instead of making another charge Raven stepped back, her arms spread wide. Black tendrils burst from her hands in a massive, writhing spray, reaching out to the void. Although Moonshadow did not see what was being grabbed at, she suspected it to be something large. She was proven right, as two gigantic spears of rock, flat sides facing towards her, moved in to crush her like a bug.

Raven was disappointed yet again, as Moonshadow held the both of them away with her hands, arms outstretched. Her hands had buried into the stone upon impact, and the black rock had begun to crumble at the points of entry, cracking and chipping. Though it was obvious that Moonshadow was showing some strain, the Tamaranean warrior still grinned at Raven, showing that she was far from her full potential. Moonshadow's eyes glared a vivid lime green, and with a burst of energy the hunks of stone were obliterated, falling to the floor as fine dust and gravel. Raven gasped at the display of power.

Upping the ante, Moonshadow leapt at Raven instead of following their established pattern, darting over the floor with supernatural speed and agility. With one last leap, Moonshadow held her hand out and unleashed a great blast of a starbolt that hit Raven in the face, throwing her to the ground. Moonshadow called out to her, her voice stone cold, "Thou cannot defeat me. I am thy master now, and there be nothing thou canst do to prove otherwise."

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After her brush with death, Jinx had set off once again to venture ever deeper into the enigma of Nevermore. As before, it was a bland wasteland, a sharp wind being her only company. This was only a temporary setting though- but Jinx wasn't exactly sure that she would be grateful when the change came- it was soon altered, and abruptly so.

From a distance it was invisible, but before she could even compute what was going on the bleakness was replaced with a widespread forest, filled with dark and gnarled trees, the branches twisted to look like they were wracked with pain. A humongous, gold moon hung in the sky, just barely shining bright enough to cast sufficient light through the branches. Though at first startled, Jinx adjusted quickly, now aware that whatever this was, it was just an illusion, by the looks of it. She followed a narrow path that led further into the woods, which steadily grew thicker.

Flashing in front of her was a shadow, darting at a diagonal across the path. Jinx had jumped at first sight, but soon became wary of its movement pattern, and was able to follow behind it quickly. Her own speed had increased to a full-boar run before she even realized it, and soon she was sprinting with her metahuman speed, making quick, graceful leaps over the tangles of roots that riddled the dirt road.

As time passed, Jinx began to see a clearing up ahead, and she stopped at the border where the trees were suddenly cut off, showing a great stone tower that stretched to what seemed like infinite heights. Jinx's eyes trailed up the structure in awe, and it was only at the soft noise of leather soles touching the packed earth. Looking in the noise's direction, Jinx could only see what was a black cloak, one that dragged along the ground as the figure underneath began to step forward, the great oaken door of the tower opening of its own accord, as though it was welcoming the figure inside.

Jinx was at a loss. Turning back was not an option; she utterly refused to do that. But what of the tower? What wretched, foul things laid in wait, just to snatch her up and eat her like a cherry tomato in a salad? Or maybe a piece of cucumber… mmm, a salad sounded great to Jinx at the time. Tossed with some olive oil and vinegar, maybe a little bleu cheese on top-

No. Now was not the time to be fantasizing about salads. Steeling herself, Jinx stepped to the door, and it only opened wider. The inside was composed of nothing but blackness, but Jinx didn't hesitate, and she walked into the unknown.

As soon as she passed into the darkness, it melted away to become the gray and orange of Jump city at night, streetlights dotting the roads. Jinx had little time to wonder at why she would suddenly be there, for she spied the black-cloaked figure again. She jogged in its direction and reached for its shoulder, but before she could touch it the thing whipped its head around. There was nothing to see of a face except four red eyes, squinting at her judgingly. Jinx flinched backwards, suddenly very afraid and regretting that she'd entered, because she knew what those red eyes entailed. It was never good to see Raven with red eyes, nothing good ever came from it. The only inconsistency that Jinx could find with the eerie incarnation was that there was no face, just the slits. After a moment of stillness, the black 'Raven' began to walk again, disappearing into an alleyway. Jinx followed, considering it a very unwise decision, but she did it anyway. It wasn't as though she had any other options.

Going down the narrow alleyway, Jinx saw something that sparked a memory, a chunk of brick having been knocked from the wall of one of the buildings. Her and Raven had once fought here, and that was where Raven had missed one of her punches. Along the walls of the alley were scuffs, chips and cracks, all caused by blows from the two of them. Jinx remembered that fight clearly, for there weren't many quite as ferocious as that one. They'd both come out of it with notable wounds; she even remembered the first time she'd seen Raven naked, and there was a scar on Raven's shoulder blade from where she'd collided with a very rough portion of the brick. That had been before the 'touchy-feely' incident. Jinx could only wonder at why she was here, but she had little time to do so as the shadow-Raven suddenly appeared by her side. It circled her slowly, the red eyes glaring menacingly before it shot backwards into the darkness at the end of the alley. Jinx promptly followed.

Again she was momentarily enveloped by darkness, and appeared in another scenario that was much more familiar at first sight than the last. She recognized it immediately as Chili's, her Chili's. Thinking back, Jinx remembered that she had taken Raven here on their first date, even if they had to keep silent about it. It was also the first place they'd had a food fight, although it wasn't with one another as much as it was with Mammoth and Gizmo, who'd found them out by complete and utter chance. She saw plates, salads and barbecue sauce flying through the air; one of the skillets had been lodged into the wall. Raven had barely managed to dodge that one.

When they had finished, all of them, Mammoth, Gizmo and herself, were laughing hysterically. Even Raven had to stifle a snort.

That damned shadow appeared from behind Jinx again and loosed a rasping breath, one that made Jinx's spine feel like it had been replaced with an icicle. She began to get the sneaking suspicion that it was far from done using such dirty tactics, and so she continued to follow it as it went around the corner that led to the bathroom stalls. Rather than the lampshades was that disconcerting shadow yet again, and she stepped into it without hesitation.

They were next in Jinx's apartment, just a week after she'd moved in so long ago. She and the shadow were in the kitchen, which had little to no obstruction between it and the futon she slept on for months before she could earn herself a bed proper. While Jinx and Shadow-Raven stood silently to the side, the front door burst open, the Jinx and Raven from that time in their lives wrestling and groping each other, Raven panting and Jinx giggling like a little schoolgirl. They flopped onto the futon, the both of them blushing drunkenly, almost stuporous with intoxication. It was after a long moment of staring that they clasped their mouths together, swelling with passion to the point that one could conclude they were fixing to burst.

For this one, Jinx had to turn away. It was the first time they had even had mutually arousing thoughts, let alone being the first time that they had sex. It was hot, dirty, sweaty and shameful, and guilt wracked Jinx for days afterward at getting Raven drunk like that and taking advantage of it. Granted, she was drunk herself, but that rectified nothing. Her voice was cracking when she pleaded softly, "Please, I've had enough. I don't wanna see anymore."

But the shadow did nothing of the sort. Instead she grabbed Jinx by the chin and said in an unearthly hiss of a rattle, "Watch," and then forcefully turned Jinx in the direction of the scene, gripping her jaw and cheeks a little too tightly. The feeling of the shadow was as though she'd touched an oily liquid that left no residue, an ethereal and chilling sensation.

Tears welled up as Jinx watched the scene play out in front of her. She saw herself pulling the top off of an uncertain Raven, hesitant to go any further, but her past-self shushed and comforted Raven as they continued to strip down. By the time she was allowed to look away, the droplets were running, streaming down her face. She wasn't given the time to say anything to the shade before it jettisoned backwards through the window like an octopus escaping from a predator, trailing its dark energy. Just outside the window was the familiar blackness that signaled another area, another memory to visit. At this one, Jinx leaped into the shadowy realm, diving haphazardly. She secretly hoped that it would land her back on the less familiar paths of Nevermore, but such was not her luck. Rather than be granted some sort of mercy, Jinx fell and rolled to the ground, finding herself in the rain. She felt the drops, although they didn't get her wet. It was a dark evening, the clouds casting a greyish-blue over everything. Looking about, she saw herself and Raven again, outside their favorite coffee shop, the both of them soaked to the skin and yelling back and forth at each other. Jinx looked on in horror, seeing the argument that had caused them to separate. She was thankful that she wasn't able to be seen by anyone but the shadow as she began to weep audibly, shuddering and hiccoughing while the crying barged its way out of her.

Jinx didn't listen to the heated argument, but she heard Raven bark, "Fine! We're through!" and stomp away. Angry tears mixed with the torrential rainfall, and Raven's eyes had swollen and discolored. In the heat of the moment, Jinx had never realized just how sad that Raven was; she'd assumed that the sequential shattering of entire rows of streetlights was out of anger, not anguish. Thankfully, the shadow did not want to linger here for very long either, and yanked Jinx back into another bit of darkness before things got too difficult to handle.

The pair was now in Raven's room, dimly lit and reeking of myrrh. Raven lay on her bed, wearing naught but her panties. She was sprawled over the bed and her eyes were barely open, glittering with wetness. Slowly, her hands crept towards her valley, fingers toying with the thin cloth, and she sighed as she began to touch herself through her panties. Soon, she was reaching down her underwear, nothing inhibiting herself from being penetrated, and the fiercer her jerking got the faster teardrops poured from her indigo eyes. In moments she was bucking in pleasure and grimacing in the intense melancholy, sobbing and moaning simultaneously. One last gasp for air, and Raven then flopped back down to her sheets, completely spent. Through her panting, her unknown visitors could hear her whisper, "Jinx… why…?"

By then Jinx's head was in her hands. She was bawling her eyes out; Raven still loved her, even after their violent break up. Jinx had longed for Raven herself, but she'd always thought that Raven had locked away her feelings, meditated them from her system. She didn't think Raven would have such a problem with getting over it. Lowering her hands to reveal her large, pink eyes, now a bloodshot red that almost made her irises blend in to the rest of the eye. She sniffed and then dropped her hands altogether, and looked at the shadow. "You wanted to show she doesn't just love me, but that she's still in love with me?" she asked, to which Shadow-Raven nodded.

"Knowing it will make you win," she shadow said in its trademark rattle.

Jinx then stood, and wiped her tears away. "If you were trying to get me motivated, you sure did a good job. Now get me outta here, I got some saving to do," said the metahuman. Shadow-Raven conceded, and in a whirl of black wind, Jinx found herself standing on the basalt pathway she'd been on before she encountered the shadow.

Jinx rallied herself for the defeat of Moonshadow, and continued down the pathway.

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Raven was beaten. Thoroughly, completely, utterly beaten. Her sides hurt from both the exhaustion and the shattering blows she'd taken. All over her body hurt, throbbing relentlessly in pain and fatigue. Standing over her, wiping a small leak of blood from her lips, Moonshadow was breathing heavily. "Thou canst never defeat me. Mine will is too resilient, too overpowering for thy weak mind."

She pointed a finger at Raven accusingly. "Submit and I shalt grant thee mercy in oblivion, or thou shalt discover the true meaning of agony."

Raven looked up at Moonshadow, her eyes glaring with pure malice, and she spat, "Never." She followed it with a wad of phlegm at Moonshadow's feet.

Moonshadow huffed and delivered Raven a kick in the ribs, sending her rolling across the stone platform. "Resistance doth be futile," she called out to the demoness.

Meanwhile, outside Nevermore, Raven had crawled to her room, but had barely managed to do so. She was spitting blood, breathing was nigh impossible without great pain, and nearly every muscle in her body was threatening to convulse her arms right from under her. Before she could reach her bed they did just that, and she collapsed to the floor as her muscles tightened painfully, making her writhe like some sort of eel that had been pulled from the water and was left to rot in the sun. She could make no noises save a light cracking sound that came from the back of her throat, the sort one gets when all the breath is sucked from them and they aren't able to draw it back in.

Raven had to admit it to herself, she was defeated. She could at least take pride in the fact that she didn't go down without a fight, and that she fought to the bitter end. Flopping to the floor with little left to live for, all that she could hope for was that Moonshadow would make it quick.

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Just as Moonshadow was going to deliver the final blow to Raven, she found that she had been interrupted by a horrendous shriek of outrage and a flash of flamingo pink energy. The concussive blast threw Moonshadow to the ground and skidded her along the platform. By the time she was able to sit herself up another wave struck her in the face, keeping her down.

Jinx saw Raven on the ground, barely clinging to life from Moonshadow's relentless assault, and all it served to do was anger her further; she had to protect Raven at all costs, and would do so even if were to cost her life. She refused to have Raven's blood on her hands and her conscience, and was about to prove that point. "Leave her alone, ya crazy bitch!"

Moonshadow kicked herself to her feet from the ground and shook herself off. "Bitch, thou sayeth? Soon 'twill be Mistress," she replied.

At that Moonshadow shot at Jinx directly and as fast as she could. Jinx was narrowly able to sidestep the attack and retaliated with a wave of hex followed by a flying roundhouse. Though the hex landed, Moonshadow was able to shrug it off and catch Jinx by the leg. She swung Jinx over her head and smashed her to the floor with a resounding crunch, and then slung her to the other side of the field.

Jinx was back on her feet immediately, amazed that she hadn't been flattened by the force of the blow. Rather than ponder on it though, Jinx simply appreciated whatever it was that made her more durable out here, and then made another leap for Moonshadow. She did a mid-air flip and landed short of Moonshadow by a few yards, her leg outstretched on the ground and a sharp burst of her pink energy shooting up from the ground like a shark bursting through the rock. It hit Moonshadow square in the chest and sent her flying.

Keeping with the flow, Jinx gave Moonshadow no time to recover and was on her like stink on shit in no time, delivering a flurry of kicks and punches that were even more dextrous and furious than Raven's had been. Finally, Jinx got an opening and flung her heel into Moonshadow's stomach. It floored the Tamaranean warrior, who had to back off to give herself a chance to catch her breath. Jinx was fighting more ferociously than she could ever remember, even more than when she'd faced off against the Brotherhood of Evil. She was defending the one that she loved, the one who loved her in return, and those around them. It was more than just a classic hero-versus-villain scenario; it was a fight for survival. It was a fight that Jinx refused to lose.

Again Jinx charged at Moonshadow, who was growing concerned. She was the one who should be rushing her adversary, she was the one that should be wiping the floor with her opponent. Given, she had already had some wearing down from Raven, but to be beaten by a lesser being than her last opponent? The idea was laughably preposterous, but here it was, taking place right before her very eyes. A flying knee made contact with her forehead, and laid her out once again. Before she could get up the toe of Jinx's shoe smashed into her face. She felt her jaw pop and a spray of blood was cast over the floor as her head whipped to one side. Moonshadow found herself dazed and helpless as Jinx stood over her, arms raised and sparking with the vivid rose of her power. Moonshadow wondered offhandedly just how badly it would hurt to be blown to pieces. No more than the torture of having her soul ripped from her body and locked into a jewel, but she didn't doubt that it would hurt for at least a moment.

The blast of energy was released, and Moonshadow disappeared in a swirling blend of white smoke and pink sparks. Jinx was at first skeptical that the Tamaranean was gone, but when nothing happened for a few moments, she left her battle pose and dashed to Raven's side, the fight itself practically forgotten on the spot. She grabbed Raven by the shoulders and rustled her gently, trying to get her conscious again. "Raven! Wake up, Raven!" she said, her voice beginning to become a whine again as tears began to well in her eyes afresh.

Though Raven stirred, she said nothing as her eyes opened to tiny slivers, unable to focus on anything. Jinx shook her a little harder, and said, "Please, don't die on me. You can't do this to me, you just can't!"

Raven's breath began to steady, and her eyes were able to see more clearly. "…Jennifer?" she whispered.

Jinx gasped and hugged Raven close. "Rae!" she cried, unwilling to hold back her feelings any longer. "Thank God, you're alive!"

Raven's arms weakly managed to hang themselves on Jinx's shoulders, and they shook as Jinx shuddered with her crying, rocking her back and forth. Their tight embrace lasted for a few minutes, the time passing by unnoticed. Finally, Jinx broke from the hug and sat on her knees, looking down at her weary and nearly dead friend. "You came for me," Raven said tiredly, looking up at Jinx with both relief and lethargy.

Jinx nodded. Picking her up in the fashion a groom would his bride, Jinx stood with Raven in her arms. "C'mon, let's get outta here," she said determinedly, willing to walk from Jump to Gotham and back if it meant that Raven would come out okay.

Before she could even take three steps however, she found herself surrounded by a circle of colorful robes, and identified them as the other Ravens that she'd met at the beginning of her journey into Nevermore. All but Knowledge were silent, who floated forward. She wore a soft, small smile, and bowed her head thankfully. "Thank you, Jennifer. We wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for you, and you've nothing but our gratitude. We'll show you out, you deserve more than to have to walk all the way back," she offered, and Jinx graciously accepted. In a flash of black, Jinx was suddenly face to face with the portal that led out of the realm. As she stepped in, Jinx could hear the chirp of Happiness call out to her, "We'll see you later!"

Jinx didn't want to know when she would see them, nor in what way. Pushing that thought from her mind, Jinx stepped onto the portal, Raven in tow, and disappeared into the blackened haze.

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A/N: There's the latest chapter for you. Sorry about taking so long, but I was in a slump and couldn't write much more than a paragraph or two at a time, and that was when I was RPing, which at least gives you the opportunity to write with more than yourself. At least I got it out now, and I hope you enjoyed it.