All right! My favorite part of the story is here! We are at the climax! Sort of. Sorry for the wait. Explained down at the bottom. Hopefully the length of this will make you wonderful readers happy and excited for more!
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Guest: Rage might be demonic, but she's still a part of Raven. I hate seeing people make her out to be all evil. One of the reasons I liked writerzero's work. Thank goodness for those emoticlones. If only she'd listen to what they had to say more often. Being that Trigon has been in her mind before, I thought that he'd have a mental copy of it just in case he needed it later. Thus, the reason I put him back in. And for that last part, you'll have to read to find out. (Gives a cookie and a hug)
Santoramon: Trigon always has to ruin her happiness. He's her demonic father for crying out loud! I go by a belief that Rage isn't all evil. It's only because of Trigon's influence from before that she majorly rebelled inside of Raven's mind. And maybe, before this story ends, I might just write a scene for that. (Gives a cookie and a brohug)
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Updated: 9:50 P.M. May 2, 2016
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Chapter Ten: Wake up
"Why hello daughter. I believe we have much to discuss."
Raven was glaring at her father. Of course, Trigon hadn't been destroyed. She'd already known he wasn't going to be killed that easily. He was Lucifer's second lieutenant in hell for a reason. He was almost as powerful as a god.
But to be hiding in her own teammate. Heck, the one guy whom she had found love for. And who genuinely loved her back.
To be that close to her for months without her realizing it. Studying both her and him in the background. And now that he was taking control of his mind this very instant. Likely to destroy it forever when he had taken him over.
Raven had always hated her father. His very existence making her unable to feel without destroying anything around her. To force her to hide from her emotions. To force her to not heed them until it was too late.
But now, deep inside, her Rage was seething at him. Wanting to make an appearance. To punish him in ways that were inhumanely possible for a normal human to describe. To make him feel endless pain and misery for eternity for wanting to destroy her beloved. To make him feel weak and worthless. Like he had always done to her.
In short. Trigon had managed to piss Raven off. To levels not even Beast Boy had ever seen before. Which in itself was quite an accomplishment.
Her eyes turned blood red. And then split in two. Her cloak and leotard turned into a harsh red color. And dark red energy surrounded the palms of her hands. As a very evil glare settled onto her pale face.
Rage was now in control.
"There is nothing to discuss here, father!" Saying the last part as if it sickened her. Which it might indeed have, knowing her. "Unless it involves tearing you out of my Garfield's body!" Her voice was filled with all the pains and evil souls of hell. All of which was directed at Trigon.
Trigon, in Beast Boy's demon form, simply smirked. He was from hell, so he encountered stuff like that on a daily basis. "My dear child. Are you, perhaps, a little angry at me for something? All I'm doing is taking over this pathetic weakling's mind." He said in a mocking tone.
Rage screamed out in, well, rage. A red wave of energy came from her soul self and hurtled at Trigon. Before it hit him, he simply changed into an eagle. Flying over it like it was nothing. He landed back on the ground right afterwards before changing back. He was still smirking.
"I must admit. I have never had the power before to change into so many different forms. The feeling from it is so exhilarating. All the raw power that each new form is capable of providing me. To have a mere taste gives me such a sweet sensation."
"That power doesn't belong to you!" Rage screamed out. Sending a dark red ethereal fist towards Trigon's face. He simply smiled, before he changed into a fly and flew around it. Changing back into himself again. The smile gone. Replaced by a thinking look.
"I must admit. It feels weird not having my laser eyes on hand anymore. That I can't seem to phase shift anymore. And it's a little weird seeing out of only two eyes instead of four. But I think the expansive uses of this body will more than make up for it."
Pause to dodge another red fist. "It'll be quite amusing having a hero destroy the world he worked so hard to protect. To watch the people who looked up to him back away in fear."
Rage sent forth another attack. This time, forming a red sphere of energy around him. Squeezing and compressing it in the hope to crush her demonic father inside. At first, it seemed to be working.
But then the sphere started to grow again. Getting bigger and bigger. Until it started to form a crack, and finally broke. Revealing a big, white, black spotted wooly mammoth. Trigon again morphed back into his normal form. The mocking look from before back on his face. As he seemed to realize that his daughter was in no state of mind to fight logically against him.
"Dear daughter. Why are you so angry with me at the moment? You can't possibly have any feelings for this pathetic excuse for skin and bones over there. I thought those monks of yours at least raised you better."
His words were met by another ethereal red fist. Followed by a pair of hands that came out of the ground to try and trap him. He simply morphed into a Stegosaurus and hit the first fist away. Followed by a mouse to avoid the hands.
He morphed back into himself as he looked to be yawning out of boredom.
"Please tell me daughter. Did you actually think that he could have loved you? That he actually cared about you? Knowing that you were my daughter? A half-demon incapable of producing any kids because of your genetic code. "
Rage stopped attacking. Breathing in heavily from all the energy she had released. But also because of the shock she was feeling from what he had said. Was he right? Was it impossible for her to have any future kids because of her biology?
She didn't say anything. But the look in her four eyes said it all. Trigon's smirk seemed to grow in size.
"My dear daughter. You didn't know. Half breeds like you are mainly infertile. Mainly since there isn't a single person out there with the same genetic code as you."
"Shut up! You're lying!" Rage was starting to split control between herself and Raven. Both of them, along with all the other emoticlones quite shocked at what Trigon had just dropped on them. To have one of her future dreams ripped away from her just like that. "Even if you're telling the truth, I know Garfield still loves me! Even if I can't carry any of his kids!"
Trigon started to make a tsk tsk face. "My dear daughter. How many times have I had to tell you before. No one loves you. Not your mom. Not the monks that raised you. Nor any of your so called friends. They merely tolerated your petty existence as you dwelled among them."
Rage took full control again as she screamed in anger. Claws grew out of her hands, lengthening to black, foot long blades on each of her fingers. As she flew towards Trigon in a blind fit of Rage. Intent on killing her father.
He merely moved whatever part of his body that was needed to avoid each of her strikes. Speaking while he did so. Angering her further with each sentence he spoke.
'You know in your heart that he doesn't truly love you Raven."
Ducks swipe "I inhabit his mind."
Leans back "I can see he only wants you for that body of yours."
Moves head to side "All he sees you for is a slut to do with as he pleases."
Pulls gut back "He lusts for you daughter, but he doesn't truly love you."
"AAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" That last one had been a little too far for her. As Rage rushed forward. Intent on slicing him in half at the waist with her sharp claws before he could react.
She almost did it too.
Right as her claws were about to connect. Trigon's body seemed to blur in the air in front of her. Before he had morphed into an amoeba. Rid the gust of wind that came from her claws slicing through the air. And morphed back to himself. Suddenly to the side of her.
He brought his two arms down on the blunt part of the claws. Right as he morphed back. Breaking them into many little pieces.
Before she could register the pain she felt from losing her claws, Trigon gave her a hard punch to her chest. Making her fly back and hit the ground. Rolling back onto Beast Boy's body. As soon as she stopped moving, she jumped back up. Sending another wave of intense red energy back at Trigon. Her Rage still not fully spent.
Trigon jumped over it in normal form. Landing on all fours as he transformed into a sleek white cheetah. Already running forward towards Raven. Even in animal form, he continued to speak as he approached. Hoping to unbalance her so he could take care of her easily.
"You're nothing but a mere portal! Your very existence was merely to bring me to this world! Who could have possibly loved you when you harbored such an evil destiny your entire life!"
Rage, in an act that was truly unlike her, raised a shield around herself. The white black spotted cheetah bouncing right off in surprise. Sending him back about feet in the air before he landed back on the ground on all fours.
He was expecting another outrageous attack as he landed. But was surprised when he felt no surge of energy coming off her. And so he looked up to see Rage acting… calm? Well, at least as calm as she could be for herself. Her head was lowered and her fists were clenched. The claws on them gone from his previous counter attack.
She started to speak. Still in a tone full of evil. But laced with something unique. "You say my very existence was to merely serve as a portal for you to this world father? That not one of my friends cared about me? That I was just an object in Garfield's eyes?"
She said the last part pointing down at Beast Boy. Her hand clenching again. As she looked up. Her eyes were a mixture of red and purple. All four of them. Which was quite an odd sight in his eyes.
"I may have brought you to this world father. But I was also the one that destroyed you afterwards!" Red/Purple energy surrounded her palm. It was quite bizarre for Trigon to see.
She started to speak louder. Her words carrying like the beat of a drum. "You said my friends didn't care about me! When they helped me to get rid of you! Even going as far as hell and back to make me realize you could be beat!" The weirdly colored energy moved up her arms. As her claws started to regrow on her fingers again. Only this time, they weren't black.
They were white.
"You say Garfield doesn't love me! That he only lusts for my body!" The two energy colors mixed together. Making white, with a touch of purple tone to it. As it surrounded her cloaked body. Changing the color of her cloak to the same as the energy.
Raven was in her pure form. As her eyes became purple. As Rage, Love, and all the other emoticlones in her body joined forces inside her. The now white energy surrounding her palms.
"You're right to say that he lusts for me! But it isn't because of my body alone! It's because he knows what I truly am! And loves me for it!" Her eyes narrowed as she focused herself on the now stunned Trigon. The last time he'd seen her in that form, things hadn't ended well for him.
"And you know what, I lust for him as well! Not because of his body! But because I know, I love him!"
With that, Raven sent a narrow beam of white energy at Trigon. Who had been standing there in his cheetah form the whole time.
He quickly moved to dodge to the right. Hoping to outmaneuver the energy. And ran right into a wall of energy that had appeared there. He was still dazed from that when the beam of energy hit him right in the chest. Launching him onto his back. Raven smirked at her father. Who quickly got up to counterattack.
"My little girl does know how to fight after all!" He shouted as he brushed himself off.
Raven merely grinned an evil grin at this. 'All he's trying to do is make me lose control. Well let's give him a taste of his own medicine.'
"What's the matter old man? Did all that old age finally start to catch up to you?" She taunted as she launched rocks covered in white energy from off the ground at him.
Trigon changed into an elephant. All the rocks merely bouncing off his thick skin. "I have lived thousands of years longer than you dear child. Trust me when I say age is not a factor when I battle." He said before charging forward.
Right before impact though, Raven phase shifted into the ground. And came up behind with her claws shining. She got two quick slashes on his behind.
Trigon let out a roar of pain and anger.
Trigon quickly turned around. Ready to charge Raven in his humungous form.
Only she wasn't there. Another swipe dug into his side. These were merely scratches compared to the first ones. But they still caused him pain.
Apparently, that was the downside to his new body. Unlike his other immortal one, this one could easily be wounded. And his healing ability didn't seem to be working as well since his behind was still bleeding freely behind him.
It wasn't even necessarily the main body yet that he was controlling. That one still laid on the ground in front of the portal. Trigon was only in possession of the dark side of Beast Boy's body. And it was like controlling a wild bull. With it being in such close proximity to Raven.
Before, Trigon had just been ready to fully take over Beast Boy's body when the idiot had shielded himself with his memories of Raven. Making the body he was inhabiting act up. Making all the hard work of putting an old copy of Raven's Nevermore. Along with copies of her emoticlones. Go to freaking waste! It had been hard enough getting him to kill her! And now with the delay, his control over his dark side had slowly been slipping.
Trigon was tired of his plans being delayed or ruined. First, the monks of Azarath had tricked him into a prison dimension many years ago. Delaying him from his conquest of the universe.
Then, Raven, his portal, had destroyed his main body with the pure part of her soul. Again, another sort of minor inconvenience since part of his soul had attached itself to Beast Boy. A weak minded fool who had more potential power in himself than he had yet to realize.
But now Beast Boy, whom he had thought as the weakest minded individual on the team. Was still somehow resisting his attempts to give up control of his body. His own dark side fighting back against Trigon. Even though he had studied the boy for months. Learned what his deepest fears had been. How to leave him so emotionally scarred that he'd give up without a fight. Or so he had thought.
But he was fighting. And he was fighting back hard. Just as Raven was at the moment. In the form he feared above everything else.
It was actually draining him of more and more of his powers at the moment. As he was trying to take control of Beast Boy's whole body. While keeping control of the part he already had. So between fighting Beast Boy mentally, for control of Beast Boy's dark side, and Raven physically while he was in control,
Trigon was really starting to lose his patience. And possibly his sanity.
For the fifth time, Raven dug her claws into his side. Disappearing into the ground before he could turn. But he didn't turn to find her this time. Instead, he waited to feel where she would appear next. Thinking that he would finally outsmart his daughter.
That was, until she reappeared. Standing right on one of his tusks. Shocking him from the unexpected move.
"Did you honestly think it was going to be that easy?" She said to the white elephants face. Before he could reply, she back flipped off of him. And a fist of white energy came out of nowhere. Uppercutting Trigon in his big elephant face. The hit sent the five ton elephant ten feet into the air. Where a second white fist came and hit it like a bat. Launching him far back into the red barrier of energy.
Seeing she had a slight reprieve. Raven ran over to Beast Boy.
He was almost to the point now where he had little flecks of green showing in his skin. The rest being a very pale gray like hers. His hair was almost completely white.
Trigon seemed to almost be in full control.
Raven knew if he were to gain full control. He would destroy Beast Boy's mind. Making sure it would never come back to take over his body again.
That was one of the few things about demonic possession she had learned from Azar. If a demon wants to control someone's body. And keep control of it for later use. It would have to kill the host's mind to keep it from coming back to reclaim what it had lost. Although, for some reason, he hadn't managed to do that to Beast Boy's dark counterpart.
Still, she couldn't allow Trigon to take control now.
She couldn't allow her father to win this time.
From behind her, Trigon slowly pushed himself from off the ground. Still slightly dazed from the hits he had received. He felt a spike of mental pain, and held his head as his body unwillingly transformed. Beast Boy's dark counterpart taking back a little bit of control.
Raven heard an angry roar behind her. And instinctively knew that Trigon had recovered from the blows she had delivered.
Sure enough. She turned around and saw the same Beast she saw in the memory from before. Charging forward on all fours. It's red eyes gleaming. Yet, it seemed like it was having an internal battle. She got in a battle stance over Beast Boy's body. Ready to defend it from the creature.
'Raven! You need to make him mad!'
Raven paused for a second. As the angry white Beast came nearer and nearer. A little shocked to hear his voice after all this time. Until she suddenly recognized it.
'Knowledge? Is that you?'
His reply was quick. 'Yes! And I'm very stressed at the moment so listen quick! I need you to make Trigon there absolutely enraged! Do you think you could do that?!'
Raven phased into the ground. Dodging Trigon/dark Beast as he jumped for her. Making him crash into the portal behind her. Trigon's control slipped a little more on it.
'I already thought he was enraged.' She replied in a monotone thought.
Knowledge seemed to sigh in exasperation on the mental link. 'He's frustrated and angered! But he isn't quite in a blind Rage just yet!'
Raven flew up into the air. Dodging Trigon/dark Beast as he tried to make a grab for her again. She wanted to reply with a question as to what he was planning. When she saw the state of Beast Boy's body on the ground. She couldn't even tell if there was any green left on him.
'I hope you know what you're doing Knowledge.'
The dark Beast came up to grab her again. This time, instead of dodging, Raven sent a glowing white ethereal fist at it.
It curved its body mid-air. Dodging the fist. But sent it off course. Missing Raven up in the air by several feet.
The barely Trigon controlled Beast landed on the ground. Picking up a small boulder in it's claws and chucking it seconds after it had landed. Hurtling at Raven in speeds that very well could have rivaled that of Kid Flash.
Raven barely raised her white barrier in time. The boulder turning to tiny dust particles as it made contact against her pure soul shield. And dropping it.
Right as the barrier fell, the Beast leaped right through where it had been. Jaw open wide to catch its victim off guard. Only, it snapped shut on thin air.
Before it could contemplate what had happened to it's prey, a foot, covered in energy, came out of the dust above it. Hitting down hard on it's temple. Trigon howled in pain inside it's mind. Losing just a little more control. Barely keeping a string's worth on its mind. As he tried to fight back against its anger.
The Beast howled in pain and anger as the force of the hit knocked him towards the ground below. Before it impacted, Raven herself appeared out of the dust cloud. Smirking widely at the success of her blow. She just needed one last parting shot to Trigon. As she pulled out her right hand from her cloak.
Showing the universal finger to the Beast. And Trigon lost the last bit of control he had over it. Blinding rage filling up it's mind and casting him to the outside of it.
Another cloud of dust appeared as it hit the ground. As Raven hovered up in the air. 'Did that do the trick Knowledge?'
'Well…'
A very loud howl came up from the center of the dust. Before the Beast leapt right out of it. The intelligent glint that had been in its eyes before now gone. Completely replaced by a blinding red rage.
'I think you did your job a little too well.' Raven heard as she quickly flew out of the way. Barely missing it's outstretched claws by inches.
She quickly responded by sending a narrow beam of white energy at it's back. It barely missed as it curved in the air. It's feet landing on a cliff face as it pushed off it back towards Raven. She sent another beam in its face. Landing a hit that did almost nothing. Her pure self would be of no good since Trigon was no longer in control now.
'So he's officially pissed off. What now?'
She portaled out of the Beast's way. Seeming to realize that her attacks wouldn't really do much against it anymore. Barely getting away in time as it seemed like the Beast was speeding up while in the air.
'Just make sure to keep it mad. That'll help to keep that old bastard from regaining control while the rest of us do our work.'
Before she could question him. The enraged Beast appeared again in front of her. Distracting her for a moment as she raised a barrier of powerful white energy in it's path. Making it slam headlong right into it.
Knowledge's presence left her mind. Disappearing before she could ask what he had meant. She had wanted to ask him how he even got here in the first place. And what he had meant when he and the others had work to do.
All further thought was drowned out by the roar of the Beast as it smashed through the barrier. Putting her on the move once again. "I hope you know what you're doing Knowledge." She said as she phase shifted into the ground.
Beast Boy was floating weightless in nothing. His eyes blankly open. Numb to every feeling that was all around him in this cold heart of space.
That was at least what it looked like to him. A great, endless black void. Filled with thousands of white stars all around him. Stars that had been close to himself before to help warm his soul self. No nebulas. No black holes. Just plain, average, shining stars all around him.
Yet now, they were getting farther… and farther away. Making it feel progressively colder to him by the second. As one after another faded away from his view. Each one bringing a deeper cold to his soul.
As those stars got farther away and faded though. So to, did all his thoughts about her. The dark angel that almost seemed like merely a dream to him now. A dream that would never become reality.
Her face. That had seemed so beautiful and vivid to him before. Like a masterpiece in a museum. But was now only a shady pale blur, mixed between gray and purple inside his own mind.
The name to her slipping away from his mind's grasp. As she slowly faded away from inside his mind. Getting farther and farther away as more and more time passed. To the point where she was just a forgotten dream.
All of his thoughts, all his memories about this mysterious girl, slowly disappeared. Disappearing one after the other. Just like those stars in the distance. Making her forget all he'd ever known about her.
The only thing that didn't seem to fade at first, was her voice. In one instance. That seemed to never fade from his mind.
It had only been one word.
'Why?'
Repeated, over and over, again.
Spoken in such a way, that it shattered something inside his chest. More and more each time. This was the only pain that seemed to register in his mind. Although he didn't know why it hurt so much there.
The memory of her angelic broken voice came over… and over… and over. Into his mind. Like a broken record player. Sometimes being replaced by the sound of near silent sobbing. That only served to deepen the pain he felt. The pain that he wanted to escape. Although he couldn't remember why.
There was nothing left in this broken changeling. Besides the pieces of his broken heart. And the pain that came from it. A broken heart that he'd never understand again.
At times, he'd almost manage to recall what he had done to this mysterious woman. Whatever it had been though, he just couldn't get himself to remember. Or to get himself to care to remember.
With each passing minute, the want for the answer seemed to fly farther and farther away from his mind. Out into the endless black void all around him. The sound of her broken voice growing farther and farther away.
With each passing minute that passed. Beast Boy's skin grew colder. His mind and thoughts slowed down. He became more numb to his surroundings. And to his own broken heart.
His open eyes saw his once green hand float in front of his face. Now a pale gray, with just a slight tinge of green. His claws were as black as the void he was in.
Somewhere, in the part of his mind that was still working, he found it strange how his hand seemed so pale to him now. When it had seemed so alive and vibrant to him before. And wondered why his gloves weren't on. To hide those hideous claws from the outside world.
But in seconds, that too, left his mind. As that part of his mind, became numb. No more thoughts coming out of it.
The thousands of distant lights around him had shrunk to a few hundred.
Then, to a few dozen.
His soul and mind became number with each second. As one individual light after another disappeared. Darkening his vision of the endless black void. Like a sun setting on the horizon. With no intention of ever coming back again.
Another brief thought crossed his mind. That maybe, just maybe, he was dying. That his life was ending. And that there could be people that'd miss him.
But as this thought came. It vanished. Having no more affect on him than if a fly had buzzed by his ear. He had lost the will to care.
There were only a couple lights left. Taking longer to vanish than the others. But vanishing, nonetheless. The cold taking over the pain from his chest at last. Eradicating any more pain from reaching his numb mind.
He could barely see an outline of the girls face now. He couldn't even tell if it had been a girl or a boy. Or what he/she had sounded like. The voice he had heard over and over again earlier having long gone by now. Along with the memory of it. And all his other memories related to the girl/boy.
The only evidence of its existence, being the shards that seemed to fill his chest. The shards that wouldn't disappear. The shards that hinted at some deep sadness. To what it could have been though, he doubted he'd ever know.
One last light remained. Almost seeming to be right in front of his face. The only source, besides him, that existed in this endless black realm he was floating in.
His mind was numb.
His skin was numb.
His broken heart was numb.
Everything was numb.
The light in front of him dulled in his vision. Darkness seeming to be ready to take him now. The light dulled a little more. And his pale green eyes closed. Ready to be taken away by the darkness.
And then, the light grew in size. And in intensity. Drowning away the darkness from all around him. Beating back the cold that had been so willing to take him.
Beast Boy blinked his eyes back open at the sudden blindness. Was that last light coming closer. Or was it just him. As his will to care slowly came back.
The light kept on growing in size. Seeming to be getting closer and closer to the floating changeling. Who did nothing. Could do nothing. As he was floating on air. As it came closer and closer to him.
The light seemed to engulf his vision. The heat from it driving the chill out from his body. His hand appeared through the brightness into his vision again. Slowly regaining its natural green color as the paleness was driven back. And as his claws seemed to fade from black to a pure white.
Feeling was slowly starting to return to his body. But the memories were staying away for now. Along with the pain inside his chest.
Finally, the light surrounded him. Almost seeming to be protecting him from the harsh outside environment. The black void that had seemed so willing to leave him to die.
His skin was back to a full green again. His mind was slowly starting to think again. As he tried to move parts of his body. Although he was still floating in the air. Only serving to make him flip or sway side to side in the spot he floated in.
Beast Boy heard heavy footfalls in the air around him. He tried to turn his body towards where he thought he was hearing the sound. Having to work on keeping himself from flipping over and over in the air again.
A figure came out of the light in front of him. Standing tall and proud. It's mane flowing wildly behind him as if a breeze was blowing through it. Great intelligent white eyes were staring back at the changeling.
It was the Beast. Or at least, what looked to be it. As his memory slowly came back to him. The Beast did not look like what it did inside his own head.
It had a wide variety of different colors on his fur. Looking as if a rainbow had decided to puke on it's fur. It also seemed to have a wide variety of facial expressions that crossed it's face. A smile, a frown, a glare, and more. He had only ever seen it with a permanent growling expression on it's face. Thanks to Cyborg's security film. But there was no doubt, that it was the Beast who was in front of him.
"Beast?... Is that you?" Beast Boy finally found himself able to speak. Flinching at the way his voice sounded so broken. And so dry to him. Like he hadn't had any water in days.
The Beast shook his head. Confusing Beast Boy a little. "If you aren't Beast? Then who… or what are you?"
The Beast gave a small smile. The first facial expression that had stayed on it's face for more than a second. And then a small yellow light came out of it. Floating in the air in front of Beast Boy. Confusing him to the importance of the light as the smile went off the Beast's face. Along with the yellow coloring.
The light vanished. Revealing… himself? Now that was a weird thing for him.
The copy of himself looked almost exactly like him. Besides the fact that he was wearing glasses. Wore a yellow version of his uniform. Actually had an intelligent glint to his eyes (LOL). And had the exact same smile on his face that had been on the Beast's.
The Beast was standing still behind the clone. Almost seeming to be waiting for something to happen.
Beast Boy, as if on instinct, reached his hand out towards himself. The clone doing the same thing as him. Beast Boy didn't understand why he needed to. But for some reason, he felt it was necessary for something to happen. As indeed, it very well could be. And so he followed the unspoken command.
As their hands touched, Beast Boy's head fell back as white hot pain filled him. Starting first in his head. And spreading to other parts of his body as their complaints finally registered inside his mind. From muscle cramps for staying still to long. To hunger for not eating in a while. Among various other things.
His clone was still standing in front of him. Gripping onto Beast Boy's hand. Almost seeming to be unable to let go of it.
More different colored lights came out of the Beast. Making it lose it's unique rainbow coloring.
More clones of himself stepped out of the light. Moving forward to touch Beast Boy as well. All on different parts of his body. Increasing his pain tenfold each time as different feelings washed back into him.
His vision started to blur. Ringing filled his ears. The taste of iron filled his mouth. The light around him was too bright. He felt like he was dying all over again.
And the pain, oh, the pain. It was almost enough to make him black out again. To make him wish that he had died.
And in the midst of all this pain, the memories started coming back.
The girl's face reappeared from the outline. Purple hair surrounding her round face in an A-Cut. A red gem was in the middle of her forehead. Amethyst eyes that seemed to stare through his soul. And pale gray lips, in the form of a small smile. The bay glistening behind her.
'Raven…'
As if a dam had burst from the name, and the image of her. All the memories that had disappeared from before came back to his mind.
The time he had first gotten a smile out of her. By the beach in front of Titan's Tower.
The time she had selflessly healed him for the first time. Showing just a little bit more about herself to him.
The time he had learned how truly different she was from him. Why she had to try so hard to keep control of her emotions in the real world.
The time he had visited Terra for the last time. And told her he couldn't give up on Raven.
The time he had comforted her when her heart had been broken.
And the time she had comforted him. When his dark side had revealed itself for the first time.
The time she had seemed to die in front of his eyes. Becoming a portal for her father.
The time he had been so relieved when she was still alive. And stood up to her father. Destroying him with the pure part of her soul that he had seen a couple times before.
Then the time he pushed her away. To angry with himself and taking it out on the one person who didn't deserve it.
The times he had tried to get her forgiveness. Followed with when he thought he learned she hated him.
All of this, and so much more in between, came rushing back into his aching mind.
The good times they'd had together.
The bad times they'd shared.
Ending with what he had thought he had done to her. Inside of her mind.
A series of voices filled his head. Ones that almost sounded like his. But weren't his. Which was kind of odd to him.
'Garfield… what you saw before was a dream... That wasn't real... We have seen her... She is still alive… I sprayed her as a skunk...'
That last one was a little weird. Slightly shocking him out of his pain for a moment. But he still couldn't reply to the voices. The pain he was feeling in his head and heart was so bad. From all the grief he felt. They could say it was a dream all they wanted. It had felt so real to him. And even if it hadn't, he knew she hated him.
One last light came out of the Beast. One that was pure white. Unlike the others. The Beast slumped down. No longer having anyone inside of it.
A hand came out of that light. Touching the center of Beast Boy's forehead.
And just like that, the pain stopped.
A feeling of warmth filled him up to the brim. Drowning away all his grief. The pieces in his chest knit back together. As a warm feeling centered on one person fixed every single problem he had been suffering from. The other voices disappeared. Making room for this soft, warm voice.
'Do you really want to give up on her Gar? After all that you've done for her? She has ventured into your very mind. Taken risks to get herself to where you are. She has given up her sense of control, the thing she values most, in the hope that it would help you. Do you want to give up now? When she is fighting to save your life at this very moment?'
He shook his head in answer. Somehow, the way he heard himself speak, he knew that he wasn't lying to him. That what everything he'd said had been true. That somehow, Raven was still alive. And that she was fighting for him to live at this moment. He knew, if she was still alive, that he couldn't give up yet. No, he wasn't going to push her away this time.
The light surrounding the emoticlone completely vanished then. Showing a white, smiling uniformed version of himself. The others backing off a little from his presence.
"What do I need to do?" Beast Boy asked.
The emoticlones around him started to fade from his vision. The light around him growing ever brighter. Until he could only see the warm smile in front of him. Seeming to reassure him that everything would be alright.
A warm smile. That he had once seen on Raven. When her barriers had been down. When she allowed the world to see what she felt. It was that smile that Beast Boy would fight to the death for.
'Wake up.' Love said to Beast Boy. As he and the others were absorbed back into his mind.
And so, he did.
Another boulder exploded on the ground. As Raven dodged yet another massive punch from the dark Beast. She had no idea just how many of them had been destroyed. Between her using them as projectiles, or the dark Beast missing her and hitting them instead.
All she really knew for sure was that the stone pathways would have plenty of small stones to last a long time after this fight. If they still existed that is.
She had managed to lead the dark Beast to the opposite side of the portal archway. Away from Beast Boy's still body. She had mainly done this to keep both her, and the dark Beast from harming him accidentally.
Not that it wouldn't have been an accident on the dark Beast's part. If he had decided to hurt his original master. As he was totally enraged at the moment. Thanks to her.
Knowledge still hadn't shown up. No miracle had happened. No green knight in shining armor had appeared to save her and bring himself back under control. It was almost as if he had abandoned her to this furious monstrosity. Purposely putting her in a position that would end with her being killed.
The dark Beast had become relentless. With Trigon's steady control over it now long gone. It had completely reverted to the dark side of it's primal desires.
It had black foot and a half long claws sticking out of it's fingers and toes. Claws so massive that it should have unbalanced him at least. But did no such thing. As it was still very fast, and very agile.
It kept shaking off her strongest hits like they were nothing. An evil gleam with no intelligence in it filled his blood red eyes. As the thing moved at speeds that the normal human eye couldn't follow. But her special demon modified eyes could. It was raving mad. And looking for blood with each hit it sent at her.
All it wanted was to fulfil an urge his master had never allowed him to do. To sink his teeth into living flesh. To watch as the life drained from his victim.
In short. It wanted to kill.
And unfortunately for Raven, she was the only target available.
Under normal circumstances, the Beast would never harm Raven. Let alone, kill her. It thought of her as his mate. Which Beast Boy would plead the fifth on to avoid being seriously maimed by Raven.
But because of Trigon's influence. The absence of all of Beast Boy's different emoticlones. And the fact that it was finally free to act on its darkest desires. It was fair game to it. And Raven was no exception.
Raven phased into the ground again. Barely dodging the Dark Beast's sharp claws. Only to have to put up another white shield as she came out of the ground again to avoid being tackled by the behemoth. Even though she had moved a good hundred feet away.
After it hit against it, she shot a spear of energy out from the center of her shield right into it's massive chest.
Again, the dark Beast merely grunted as it brought its fist down on the now weakened shield. Shattering it into many pieces as it charged forward.
Raven was already moving to phase shift into the ground. Knowing her shield would be broken since she had weakened it to attack. Even though she knew it would hardly do anything. At the least, it'd keep the dark Beast distracted while she hoped Knowledge would come back. If he ever did.
A fist appeared right in front of her eyes. Uppercutting her up high into the air before she could phase into the ground.
Before she could get over the shock of getting hit point blank, the dark Beast seemed to appear out of thin air above her. Like it did with Adonis long before when the Beast fought him. And did a nice double fist smash on her abdomen. Knocking the breath out of her lungs as she careened back towards the ground.
She was about to open a portal for herself on the ground. To one, avoid the smashing hit she'd receive. And two, avoid getting hit again by the dark Beast.
When the dark Beast was suddenly on the ground beneath her. Punching her right in the chest with another fist. It's claws retracted for now.
Raven tried to get a breathe in as she flew through the air to replace all the air she had lost. When the Beast appeared behind her. Hitting her back up into the air again with a strong kick to her behind.
All of those hits occured in the space of five seconds.
And so this continued for another two minutes (ouch). Raven being hit around like a bag doll. While the dark Beast kept on moving from spot to spot. Getting easy heavy hits on the dark empath. As she struggled to bring up some small form of resistance.
Finally, as she was flying through the air again. The dark Beast did one last hit. Us. As it did the exact same hit to Raven as she had done to him earlier. Hitting her with his heavy foot right on her forehead. She let out a scream of pain as her chakra dug into her skull.
As she flew down through the air. Back over the other side of the hooded portal. Landing on the ground hard next to Beast Boy. She tried to take a breath in again. But her chest felt so much pain from the simple action. As she tried to force a little air into her lungs.
The dark Beast vaulted over the portal. Landing on the ground in front of her. An evil grin plastered onto it's face.
Raven tried to get back up. But fell back down as pain and lack of oxygen coursed through her bruised and battered body. She was beaten. And Knowledge hadn't come back to save her.
The dark Beast picked her up by the end of her hood. Having her dangle in the air in front of him.
Her head was down. Hiding the defeated look and tear tracks that had settled upon her face. Unable to use her hood to hide it from the creature standing in all of its evil glory in front of her.
It slightly brought out its claws again. Only letting out a good two inches. One of it's claws rested underneath her chin. Making her look up at it in it's blood red eyes. Unable to fight through the pain to hide her emotions from her face.
In it's eyes. She could see Trigon fighting to take back control of the body he was inhabiting. Despite all that he'd done, he didn't want to kill his own daughter. At least, not like this, where he wouldn't get the pleasure of torturing her for eternities on end. For the loss of his immortal body.
But apparently, Trigon had underestimated the strength inside of Beast Boy's demon. And now he was trapped inside of it. Unknown as to whether or not he'd ever be free again. Raven took some small comfort in the fact that her father wouldn't be able to hurt anyone ever again. Despite the fact that she was going to die by the person she loved.
The dark Beast smirked. Knowing it had won. As it moved it's claw away from her face.
A claw sliced half an inch down into her left arm. Making her scream at the unexpected pain.
Another one stabbed into her leg. Barely missing the major arteries. Followed by another that cut along her skull. Removing locks of purple hair with it. As another one cut open her leotard at the stomach.
Slowly, the Beast stabbed, sliced, and maimed Raven's body with one hand. The other still holding her up in the air. Each mark earning more screams of pain than the last. As the marks teared at both her skin, and her clothing.
When it got bored of this, it sank it's teeth down on her neck. Not enough to make her bleed a lot. But it definitely left a rather large mark there.
Under normal circumstances, it would be the symbol that she was now his lifelong mate. To be the mother of his children. The one love that he would protect forever.
Left in such a way though, it called her his demonic slut. To do with as he saw fit. And right now, he wasn't thinking about keeping her around for long. As it set her down harshly onto the ground. The lust clear in its eyes.
Her throat was raw from screaming. She had all but given up hope of being rescued. The pain seeming to be the only thing she could feel.
Her body was so drained, to the point where it couldn't heal itself of the marks the Beast left. Knowledge was nowhere to be found with a plan to help her out.
And now, with the look the dark Beast was giving her, she was only so glad that she'd pass out from blood loss. So at least she wouldn't feel the pain when the dark Beast had its one time with her. Before it would kill her soul self for good.
She briefly wondered what would happen to her body if her soul self died. It had never happened before in Azarathian history.
Her eyes were starting to close. As the Beast started to tear off what remained of her clothing. Getting ready to claim her for it's one and only time.
When she heard a primal yell.
Then the weight of the dark Beast disappearing from off of her.
The sound of a fight.
And then darkness claimed her mind.
Author's Notes:
Well, never really wrote something like that before. Seems a little to dark, even for me. Still T rated at least!
Oh well, sorry for the late update. Last three weeks of school are coming so that means finals finals FINALS! Plus, a mock UN project that I'm having to do all by myself! Class of over fifty seniors and none of them wanted to work with me on it! So I'm having to do the work of four people on it! I'm not very loved by my classmates. I get to do Saudi Arabia though. Since I've always found it to be an interesting country so not a total loss.
I don't know the next time I'm updating any story really. I might catch a break in the next couple weeks. Or I might be forced to wait till May 17th when I'm done with school! So I might disappear for a little while. Hopefully I don't though since writing is one of my only ways of relieving stress! And you wouldn't like me when I'm stressed!
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Till Next Time
Allen