lostmoonchild: Yay! Me gots a review! There will be more action, thorn0013, I promise you that much and even some more pain. I don't know if this chapter will meet your request but I haven't started on the next chapter so I'm thinking that'll be filled with more pain *winks* and maybe the beginning of something else.
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Chapter Seven
Blood covered Raven's face and hands as snarls left her bloodstained lips, amethyst eyes focused on the three people that stood across the room. She wanted to kill them and to feel their flesh tearing beneath her fingers as her teeth tore through the neck muscles and their blood coated her chin. If these chains weren't on her then she would have been able to have her way. "Demon spawn." One of them, a man from his voice and scent, snarled coldly.
"I'll kill you." Raven snarled. "I'll kill you slowly and I'll savor every moment."
She lashed out at the three people only to be pulled back by the chains that held her. "From what we've gathered, she's powerful for a half breed so this should last at least another two days." A woman said with a small smirk on her face. "If we unleash her on the city then the other half breeds will gather to stop her at all costs."
The sane part of her gasped in horror at the realization of their plans. If they could destroy her then they'd happily do it but they were depending on using the others like her to destroy her. Frantically pulling on the chains another snarl left her lips as she tried to gnaw through them. None of them had mentioned her brother or her friends. What had happened to them? Were they safe?
She watched as the three humans left and let out a furious scream. The minute she broke free she swore she was going to kill them. They'd be shown a suffering that no human alive could bare to stand alone.
Robin listened as Cyborg explained what the intruders had looked like and what their plans were. "Meys, do you recognize anybody that Cyborg described?" Robin asked.
Meys looked thoughtful for a moment before answering, "The lady."
"Who is she?"
"Alynn got into a fight with her once. She got hurt really bad but she took me away from the lady and said that the lady was one of the people that pushed us away from home." Meys frowned slightly in concentration. "It happened with they were really little but they remember the lady's face cause they killed her brother. Matya says that it's easy to remember the pain on someone's face when you kill someone they love."
"So the woman had a grudge against Raven. That doesn't help us determine who the others were." Robin said with a frown. "Or even where they could have taken her."
Meys started sucking on his thumb and held onto Beast Boy, his eyes flickering to each of their faces. They each looked so worried and even a little scared but grownups didn't get scared. They were big so they couldn't get scared… could they? "Maybe they took her to a cave." Meys suggested.
The four teenagers looked at him. "A cave?" Starfire repeated with a questioning look.
Slowly the boy nodded. "Mahi said that when Noka and Nierki went through their own change… they were put in a special cave and chained there for a while." Meys said slowly, managing to talk around his thumb. "They used to say that Raven and Alynn would be put there but Alynn…"
Tears gathered in his eyes as he started crying at the memory of his deceased sister. "Meys, what can you tell us about what's going on with Raven?" Robin asked.
The sound of sucking was evident as the boy stared at them with tears flowing down his cheeks. "She already told you." Meys whispered.
"We know, but maybe there's something she didn't tell us that you might know about."
Robin looked at the boy and saw him sucking softly on his thumb as his eyes reflected his concentration. "They usually die." Meys said softly.
"We know that."
"I know, but there's nothing else. Matya's gonna die if we don't help her! They'll either kill her themselves or they'll do something that'll make it okay for everybody to kill everybody else!" Tears streamed down his face. "That's what happened in the old lullaby."
"The old lullaby?"
Meys nodded. "They always change the ending cause it doesn't always happen the same way all the time. In the old lullaby, Mahi said that that the humans took one of the half demons and used them to hurt the humans so they could say that it's okay to kill everybody."
Beast Boy hugged the boy and stroked his dark hair softly. Everything would be okay but he wasn't sure how to make everything okay for the boy. Whenever he turned around it seemed like one of his brothers or sisters was dying and there was nothing he could do about it. If the boy grew up not completely messed up then it would be a miracle in itself. "Hey, we'll find her." Beast Boy said soothingly. "Then we'll bring her back, okay?"
The boy nodded again and stared at the group of teenagers with large, sorrowful eyes. It was clear that he wanted his sister desperately but what wasn't clear was how exactly he could stand without her. Earth was a foreign planet to him and he barely understood the rules that kept it stable. He understood Azarath's rules without any problems because he had grown up with them but now he couldn't determine the best way to live his life.
The group turned the large television on for the boy to watch a movie and stared when they saw the man that had been preaching about how all inhuman creatures should leave Earth on the screen. "Hello, Jump City." The man said with a cruel smile. "A new dawn will break upon this planet shortly-" "Find out where he's transmitting from!" Robin ordered.
"Behold one of your heroes!" The screen flickered to a teenage girl with short hair and amethyst eyes. "You're all familiar with her lies and heroics, saving the human race from itself. Behold her true form."
Snarls were leaving Raven's lips as she lashed out at the one human that dared stand only a few feet away from her. "Demon spawn. That's this wretch's true identity. Her mother raped by a demon monster and from that unholy communion came this unsacred monstrosity." The man continued.
"He's broadcasting from outside of the city." Cyborg reported.
"And there's more of them living amongst us. Unnaturally beautiful beings that seek to destroy the human race. Our souls are their meals and our children are their prey. Some even look as normal as your beloved Raven."
Meys whimpered in fear as he looked at his sister, seeing some traces of sanity in her eyes. "She's getting over it." Meys whispered with a fearful look. "She's coming back."
The camera focused back on the man. "As you can all see, she's a demon that's come from a dark and unnatural world to destroy all mankind. That brother of hers," the screen flickered to the images from the mall when they had taken Meys there, "is also like her! A demon with the face of an innocent child!"
Beast Boy covered the boy's ears, his green eyes darkening slightly in anger. How dare they start trying to cause trouble for people they didn't even know. It wasn't their fault that they were half demons! "Titans, let's go!" Robin said as they turned off the television. "Meys, you too."
The boy nodded slightly and followed them out of the Tower and to the T-car. As they sped down the road, they continued to listen to the man talking. "That's bullshit!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "He's making everybody that's either not human or not completely human to be murderous monsters!"
"Cool it. This guy has Raven and we need to get her back. Any issues we might have with him will have to wait until Raven's safe."
He knew that their issues would have to wait until Raven was safe but that didn't mean that he didn't want to take care of them now. He wanted to make the guy see that it wasn't okay to hurt anybody just because they were different. All that really mattered about a person was their personality so what did it matter that they were different? Differences were good for crying out loud! Sure not everybody understood the ones that were different but the point of the matter was that being different helped other people understand each other.
Beast Boy glanced at the smaller boy and saw the apprehension in his eyes. He was afraid of what would happen but maybe they could do what Alynn had once done when Raven was in danger. Maybe they could make Raven see some sense if she saw her little brother? After all, Meys did say that Raven was starting to regain some of her sanity.
In the end though, Beast Boy knew that the damage had already been done and that every single half demon on Earth might end up running away in fear of being killed for something that was beyond their control.
lostmoonchild: Okay, chapter done! I promise there'll be more suffering and gore and all the fun stuff in the next chapter. I'm feeling kinda not so civil at the moment so I'll be more than happy to write gore and stuff. Ja ne for now!
