Seven Deadly Sons
The Seven Sons shall come to reign, and usurp their father in his domain. Though their power grows within, nothing shall come to pass without the Original Sin.
The fire burned hellishly in the depths of what was once Trigon's dimension. As molten rock flowed all around him, he languished in his defeat against the Teen Titans and his daughter, Raven. He was in a deep, sleep-like state as his energy had been drained, thus rendering him virtually powerless.
"Do you all remember the plan?" A young, male voice asked out loud, but in a slight whisper as to not wake up the sleeping demon.
"Yes, for the hundredth time," another voice answered back in a rather annoyed tone.
"Don't make me regret including you, Jack." The first voice snarled.
"Whatever, let's just get this over with. The sooner we can lounge around, the better."
"No!" The first voice erupted, but tried to regain composure. "We are not going to 'lounge around' after this, or anytime soon for that matter. I've told you time and time again; after we deal with him, andthen we must go off in search of our last brother."
There was momentary silence amongst the voices.
"Then can we lounge around?"
"Hush up! Just don't speak, I don't want to hear another word from you! Let's just get this over with before I leave you down here to rot with him!" The voice snapped.
As the mighty Trigon lay dormant, six figures emerged from the nearby shadows. First there was a young, African-American boy. He wore an oversized parka with the hood covering his face. The next figure was a tall and tan boy with a muscled chest and shoulder-length, pitch black hair. He wore a white muscle shirt underneath an unbuttoned red flannel. The figure that followed him was similar in build and appearance, except his hair was short and spiked and his skin was lighter. He wore a blue speed suit with a light blue zigzag going down the chest area as well as down his legs. The next was a scrawny, lanky, unshaven and unkept boy. His hair was long and shaggy and dangled in his face and he wore clothes with holes in them. An obese boy in baggy clothes then emerged after him followed by a decent looking young man who wore a dark green business suit.
They all approached the sleeping Trigon with caution and formed a semi-circle around him. The first boy, the one in the parka, placed his open palm onto the forehead of the slumbering giant. The Mark of Scath that had been inscribed on Trigon's forehead began to glow as he began to twitch and wake up. The boy stood back as the weak Trigon began to stagger to his feet.
"Who dares to awaken me in my slumber?" He bellowed as his voice carried on for what seemed like miles.
"It is I, Jared, your devoted follower and your devoted son." The boy said as he looked up and removed his hood revealing four, glowing red eyes. The others also bore similar eyes at this point.
Trigon let out a furious roar. "How dare you wake me, you insolent child! How did you find this place?"
"I am your son, I am you."
The enormous demon began to laugh. "Fool, you are one of many. I do not care for the monsters that I sire."
"Clearly," the boy in the speed suit quipped to the others.
"Please, father, I come here only as to present you with a gift."
"And what might a mortal like you be able to offer a god like me?"
"Life," Jared said calmly. "You were defeated at the hands of a girl and her friends, and we have come to give you the life force, the power, the energy that you need to extract your revenge against her and the entire world!"
Trigon became silent. "How can you grant such a wish? You are nothing more than a boy!"
"As I have said, father, I am you." Jared continued. "All we ask is that you provide us with the power to open the portal that will allow you to find the girl."
"Ha! You mortals never learn! Trying to come to me so that I may grant you my power?" He bellowed in anger once more.
"Please, Trigon. We only wish to serve you." He said as he then bowed along with the other boys.
Trigon thought for a moment before agreeing to give the boys what little power he had left so that they could open the portal.
"You shall open the portal and I will spare you all from my wrath," he said. A smirk then crossed Jared's face as he then looked up to his towering father.
"But of course," he said as he stepped back in line. "Give us your power and we will give you the world," he continued after he and the others took hands.
Trigon then summoned the rest of his powers and shot an immense fireball at the boys. They winced in pain as it began to surge and flow through them each.
"Can you feel the power, brothers?" Jared asked aloud.
"Woo-hoo!" The boy in the speed suit shouted.
"This is amazing!" The boy in the muscle shirt shouted as well.
Within moments the fireball ceased, but the boys could feel the awesome power flowing through their veins at that very second.
"Now, open the portal!" Trigon demanded.
"As you wish, father," Jared smiled devilishly. "Hexion, sina, borendium, portus!" He chanted and just as he said that a dark hole began to appear from behind Trigon.
"What is this?" Trigon asked once he saw that the portal that had been summoned was actually the portal to a destroyed dimension.
"I believe it's your portal. We have taken your powers and will conquer this world and all others in the name of pure evil!" He exclaimed.
"You dare betray me? You deceitful monstrosity!" He cursed him angrily as the portal began sucking him in. "You have proven yourselves as true offspring of evil, and I can only be humbled with your devout will." Trigon said before allowing himself to be sucked into the portal as it then closed and vanished.
"Was it just me, or did he seem proud of us for betraying him?" The speed suit boy asked the others.
"What does it matter now, Jacob? We have what we've come for, now it's time to go off and find our brother. We must find the son of pride."
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The sun had not yet risen on the coast of Jump City and the sky was still as dark as could be. As all the other titans slept, Raven winced and twitched in her bed as she dreamed of events that were purged of the world, but still haunted her dreams. She opened her eyes and found herself staring up at the tower that housed Titans East. It was still very dark as she made her way to their living room, not a soul in sight. She looked around and wondered why she was there and why it felt almost as if it was no dream at all. Then she heard the doors slide open from behind her as Aqualad walked in, but instead of greeting her as a friend all he seemed to see was an enemy.
"You again?" He gasped at the sight of her. "This is the last time we're ever gonna have to deal with you!" He shouted as he advanced on her.
"Aqualad, it's me! It's Raven!" She objected, but to no avail. Pipes burst from the walls and the water rushed towards him. "Don't make me have to hurt you!" She warned with her defenses raised.
"This'll teach you to mess with the Teen Titans!" He shouted as the water now rushed to Raven.
She could feel her body frozen with fear, but she didn't know why. She knew the words and knew how to defend herself, but her muscles weren't allowing her to move at all. Just as the tidal wave of water was close enough to overcome her, she was able to reconnect and deflect it. Just as the water was moved, however, Aqualad attacked and pinned her against the wall.
"Now I'm gonna finish you!" He sneered.
Raven could feel his hand around her neck as if it were really happening. As he tightened his grip she could feel her lungs gasping inside of her, begging for oxygen.
"Do it," a deep and familiar voice called to her, but Aqualad didn't seem to notice as he kept trying to choke her. "Do it, Raven." It egged her on.
"No!" She coughed up. "I won't kill him!"
"Then he will kill you," the voice continued. "Just three little words, Raven, and it'll all go away."
She struggled under the grip of Aqualad, and with her last ounces of breath she muttered, "Azarath, metrion, ZINTHOS!" Within the blink of an eye her dark energy surrounded everything but her, including Aqualad.
She fell to her knees and gasped and coughed for air.
"Finish him, or he will kill you!" The voice demanded.
Without anymore hesitation, Raven got to her feet, her eyes now glowing white, and held her hand out to Aqualad's chest.
"Azarath, metrion, ZINTHOS!" She called out again, and in a flurry of darkness Aqualad was reanimated and flung back through the doors that led to the living room.
She massaged her neck as she walked to the window that overlooked the bay. She smiled as the sun began to rise, but something was off.
"Well done, Raven. Well done." The voice congratulated her. "I must say that even I find your powers more than impressive. They're almost a testament to your father's." It began to chuckle.
She spun on her heels to see if there was someone behind her, but nothing. "I have no father! He's gone!" She shouted into the room.
"Oh, but is he really?" The voice asked. It was now coming from directly behind her.
She slowly turned to see if what she was seeing was real. Beyond the window was no glistening ocean under the rising rays of the sun, but an ocean of lava underneath a blood red sky.
"No!" She exclaimed as the voice of Trigon began laughing.
In a fit of terror she jumped up and found herself still in bed. Her breathing was deep and heavy. She looked out the window and saw a rising sun over a sparkling blue ocean. She sighed and realized that it was all just a terrible nightmare.
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She walked into the living room as the breakfast-y smell of eggs and waffles hit her nose. She saw Cyborg flipping the waffles while Robin prepared the eggs and Starfire set the table, she even noticed that there was a spot made for Silkie.
"C'mon, dude! You know I only eat my kind of waffles! I can't eat your stuff!" Beast Boy pestered as he tried to get his tofu waffles onto the stove.
"For the last time, you ain't getting those nasty tofu waffle things near this stove until I'm done making the real food!"
"Tofu waffles are 'real food'!" Beast Boy argued. "Can you make those eggs smell a little less like eggs, Robin?" He demanded.
"Nope." Robin answered as he then held out a cooked egg to Beast Boy on the spatula. Beast Boy looked like he was going to be sick.
"What's going on?" Raven asked Starfire as she hovered from the fridge with a pitcher of orange juice.
"Do not worry, friend. We are just coming together to enjoy the company of one another over 'the breakfast'." She said with a smile.
"The waffles are finished!" Cyborg exclaimed. "Who's hungry?" He sported a grin from ear to ear as he made his way to the table with a gigantic stack of waffles.
"Eggs are done, too!" Robin announced as he followed Cyborg.
They all sat down at the table as Beast Boy began cooking his tofu waffles. Cyborg and Robin were just about to dig in when Starfire stopped them.
"Since we are going to be enjoying the company of each other, I find it only fitting that we wait on Beast Boy." They both let out a groan along with Silkie who seemed ready to eat the waffle on his plate.
"It would've been much quicker if Cyborg would have let me used the stove earlier." He teased.
They waited for a good while until Beast Boy finally announced his waffles were finished. He walked to the table with his plate in hand, but just as they were all about to start eating a message arrived.
"Just get it when we're done eating," Cyborg begged.
"Can't, it's urgent," Robin objected as he walked to the front control panel. "It's a message from Titans East." He announced. The mentioning of them made Raven uncomfortable as she remembered her dream.
"Titans," Robin began reading the message, "we are sending this message for Raven." The others turned to her. "We are requesting her help here at the tower. Aqualad has been seriously injured and we believe that we are dealing with an enemy that we now feel the Titans West would have more experience with."
"What kind of enemy would only we have experience with?" Starfire asked.
"Please, if you can, fly out to our tower as soon as possible. Bumblebee." Robin finished.
"Whoa," Beast Boy said as he shoveled a piece of tofu waffle into his mouth. "Sounds bad."
"I know," Cyborg added with a mouthful as well, "just terrible."
"What are we to do, Robin?" Starfire asked.
"Well, they say they really need Raven, but I think we should all go." He decided as he walked back to the table.
"Do you think it's really necessary?" Raven asked, garnering confused looks from everyone. "I mean, what makes them think I, or any of us, can actually help them? Maybe it's just Slade and they really only need you." She said as she sunk into her seat.
"If they just needed me then they would have said me, but they said you." He pointed out. "We're going, so Cyborg get the T-Ship ready."
"I'm on it!" He said as he continued to eat and walked away with a plateful of eggs and waffles.
As the others walked away to get ready, Raven put her head down on the table. A quick flash of her throwing Aqualad in her dream forced her to jolt up. She looked around to make sure no one was there to see as she then left the table as well. With no one in the room any longer, Silkie flopped onto the table and began devouring the rest of the food.
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The team made their way to Titans East with Raven still unsure about what was going on. In her mind she knew that Trigon was gone, he had to be, but that didn't stop her from feeling his presence. Even though she kept a kind of connection to him just to monitor him she knew that was not what she was feeling as their connection had also been interrupted last night.
"We're here," Robin announced as they approached the tower.
Just then Raven felt a sharp chill run down her spine. It was like they had just crossed over into a whole other world, and that wasn't a good sign. She felt something powerful and definitely something of the supernatural nature.
"Are you certain she is the one, Jared?" The voice that belonged to the boy in the speed suit asked as they watched the Titans arrive.
"I'm certain, Jacob."
"Why didn't we have the others come with us?" The boy in the muscle shirt asked as he looked on with boredom.
"Because, Jesse, they would have gotten in the way when all that's need is the three of us." Jared explained.
"And what if the plan fails? How will we reach the others?"
"The others are no longer needed...at all." Jared said as he turned away.
"What do you mean?" Jesse asked. "I thought we needed all their powers to help with the plan?"
"We do need their powers, but we do not need them." Jared said as he then produced a small, black box from inside of his parka. "I took their powers. They now belong to us and once we get the girl to show us the whereabouts of Pride, then we'll have all seven."
"And what of the other three? Were they not able to keep hold of Trigon's powers?" Jacob asked.
"They were, but I took that as well. I'll give it to the seventh once we find him. The others have been rendered powerless and their memories have been wiped clean. They know nothing." He smirked as he tucked the box back into the parka.
"Can you do that?" Jacob asked.
Jared turned to him with the smirk still plastered across his lips. "Never underestimate the power of Wrath."
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"I found him this morning," Bumblebee said as she led Robin and the others to the infirmary-like room where an unconscious Aqualad was being kept.
"And you have no leads as to who could have done this?" Robin asked.
"None. We had it pretty easy since the brawl with the Brotherhood." She explained. "Although we have been experiencing some weird things happening."
"Like what?"
"It started a little over a week ago. We all saw...well, shadows."
"Shadows?" Beast Boy asked. "Like the things that trail behind you when you walk?" His sarcasm was made clear.
"No," she sassed back. "They're like figures, but it's usually out of the corner of your eye kind of thing. Anyway, we didn't think anything of it, until things became hostile." She said as they then continued back to the living room where the other Titans East members were. "We all kind of started finding reasons to get at each other's throat."
"Well you guys do work and live together, happens to us all the time." Cyborg said. "Like this morning when I wouldn't let BB put his fake waffles next to my real ones."
"For the last time, tofu is not fake!" Beast Boy exclaimed.
"Could've fooled me," Cyborg countered.
"Trust me, I know what you mean, Sparky." She said. "But this wasn't like that. They were like intervals. We'd be fighting one second then making up the next. That's the way it's been."
"I still don't see why you need us or Raven." Robin said with a flat tone.
"A few days ago Más y Menos had a woman come in and 'bless' the whole place." Speedy said from behind them at the table. "She ran out of here screaming something in Spanish, something they translated as 'Scath'." He finished.
"Trigon," Robin gritted his teeth. The mentioning of the name turned Raven's stomach upside down.
"Right," Bumblebee continued, "so we did our research and we found out that you guys have had the pleasure of meeting the demon monster."
"Yes, but even so we vanquished the Trigon, or at least Raven did." Starfire answered them as they all turned to Raven.
"You know anything about this?" Robin asked.
"Well, I..." she trailed off, but before she could finish the lights began to flicker just before going out.
"Um, OK," Cyborg muttered as he flicked on his shoulder light.
"What's going on?" Robin asked.
"It's probably just the power. It's been a while since we retooled the generator," Bumblebee answered.
"It better be just the generator and not another one of your freaky house of horrors!" Beast Boy snapped at Raven.
"It isn't me,"
"Look, all we need to do is go fix up the generator." Cyborg pointed out. "The backups should be going on any minute anyway."
"Great. Cyborg you take Bumblebee with you to get to the generator. Starfire and I will stay here with Speedy and Más y Menos while Raven goes with Beast Boy to check on Aqualad. Raven is the only one who can take care of him if the generators take too long." Robin instructed.
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"So do you have any idea what's going on?" Beast Boy asked Raven as the two made their way down dark corridors to get to Aqualad.
"Not a clue."
"Not even about what Speedy said about Trigon?"
"He didn't say Trigon, he said Scath."
"Is there a difference?"
"Yes."
"Well, are you gonna tell me?"
"Is it gonna make you stop talking?"
"Maybe, but I'm not making any promises."
She was silent for a moment. "Scath is not a person or an object, it's a mark. It's given to those who have something to do with Trigon's return or when someone tries to summon him." She explained. "The woman who felt the presence of it didn't feel the presence of Trigon, but of someone who bears the mark."
Beast Boy let this all soak in. "So someone here is gonna act as Trigon's portal or something?"
"I don't know." Her serious tone wavered as she thought about it.
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"You guys have lived in this building for how long? And you still don't know the way to your own generator?" Cyborg asked Bumblebee as they made their way deeper and deeper into the tower.
"Didn't I just say that we haven't messed with it since?" She asked him. "Besides, you built this place!"
"I may have fixed it up, but the power system was installed beforehand, so I don't know where it is at all."
"Some mechanic," she scoffed. "And why haven't the backups kicked in yet?"
"You tell me!"
"How am I supposed to know?" She shouted. "I never dealt with any kind of power system or generator!"
"That doesn't mean you can't familiarize yourself with things! If anything happens to Aqualad then it'll be your fault as a leader!" The sudden outburst made Bumblebee stop in her tracks.
"That was a low blow, Sparky," she responded as her stingers began to spark up.
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"I wonder what could be taking our friends so long," Starfire said aloud.
"Tal vez se hayan perdido," Menos said as he and Más swooned over Starfire.
"Umm," she looked confused as she tried to make out what the two were doing.
"He says that they might be taking so long because they probably got lost," Speedy translated. Both Robin and Starfire give him odd looks. "What? You live with these guys long enough and you find yourself understanding every word." He said as he continued to polish his bow.
"Sí, cada palabra," Más y Menos repeated in unison.
"Maybe we should go look for Cyborg and Bumblebee," Robin suggested to Starfire.
"I agree,"
"Speedy, you stay here with Más y Menos while Starfire and I try to find Cyborg and Bumblebee and get this place up and running."
"Gotcha, 'cap," he said unenthusiastically as he then saluted Robin, and with that he and Starfire went on their way.
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"What about Speedy? He seems like he could be a double agent," Beast Boy said as he and Raven continued to the infirmary.
"How I envy Aqualad right about now," Raven groaned. "I wonder what's taking the generators so long," she thought out loud.
The two then came up to the window that looked into the room where Aqualad was, but when they peered in they saw nothing and no one; Aqualad was gone.
"Where is he?" Raven seemed to panic as they both rushed into the room.
"Relax, Raven. He probably just woke up and went to find us after the power went out." Beast Boy did his best to calm her.
"You relax!" She snapped at him. "You're relaxed enough as it is!" She began to advance on him furiously.
"Raven, OK! Calm down!"
"You wanna see calm? I am calm, Beast Boy! Why don't you do something different for once and take things seriously?"
"I would, but it seems like you do that enough for everyone as it is!" He fired back.
"If I didn't then we'd probably all end up like you! Not caring and not listening and never taking responsibility for anything! Don't you get it? You are no good!" She said as her powers began to surround her in a field of dark energy.
At that moment Beast Boy morphed into a gorilla and banged his chest as they both charged each other at full speed.
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"I hope everything is fine with Aqualad," Robin said out loud as he and Starfire continued their search for Cyborg and Beast Boy.
"I agree, but I know our friends are doing everything they can to keep him safe." Starfire added with a slight pause. "Robin?" Her voice was soft.
"Yeah?"
"Do you ever think of the possibility that you could ever consider me more than just your good friend?" Her question stopped him in his tracks and she could tell that she may not like what he had to say.
"Well, you know, Star. I, uh..."
"Yes?"
"I've always wanted to tell you this, and I guess now is as good as I can get, but..."
"Yes?" She could feel herself becoming more and more eager.
"I care about you a lot," he cleared his throat. "I mean more than a lot... I love you, Starfire."
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Yellow and blue beams of light shot through the air as Bumblebee and Cyborg dueled it out.
"Take it back!" She demanded of him as she continued shooting beams from her stingers at him.
"No! You're the team leader, you should be on top of things!" He shouted and fired back as he hid around the corner to avoid her attacks.
However, her stinger beams had ceased and he looked back with caution, but she wasn't there. He turned back around only to see her morph from microscopic size to full size and deliver a blowing kick to his face.
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"You never think about anyone but yourself!" Raven declared as she hurled a crate at the green T-Rex that stood before her.
It crumbled to pieces with a quick swing of its large tail. "Me? What about you? Always locked up in your creepy room! You lock everyone out! Even me!"
"What do you mean? You always make me the brunt of your jokes! You always leave me out of things!" She continued.
"Leave you out of things? You leave yourself out of things! You never wanna have fun with us or anything! I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't even like any of us!"
Her eyes flared as did her powers. "Well you're wrong! I do like you! You're just too distracted to ever notice anything! I don't let you in because you can't understand the things you'd see!"
"How do you know if you never let me at least try to understand?"
She became quiet for a moment as her powers settled. "Because you will never be as good as I need you to be,"
It was clear that he had become hurt. He looked away as he tried to hold his tears back, but then turned to her once more with anger in his eyes. "So I'm not good enough, huh? Well maybe I'm not, but that doesn't mean that I'll stop trying!" He morphed back into his T-Rex form, and with a swish of his tail sent a table zooming right towards her.
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"Uno!" Más shouted as he threw down his last card and high-fived Menos.
"I hate this game," Speedy groaned.
Just then the floor before them began to crack as a gigantic beam of blue light shot through it. Bumblebee was then sent flying straight through it and crashed against the ceiling.
"Come on, insect girl!" Cyborg shouted as he jumped through the hole in the floor. "Is that all you got?"
At that moment Starfire and Robin walked into the room hand-in-hand.
"No!" Más y Menos cried together at the sight.
"Friends!" Starfire said as she saw Cyborg and Bumblebee. "Was your mission to restore the power a success?" The both fired a beam of yellow and blue energy at her, causing Robin to quickly pull her to the side and out of harm's way. "Perhaps that is a no?"
"Guys!" Robin called to them as they continued to engage each other. "What's going on?" Just then a gigantic, green dinosaur was sent crashing into the room, breaking down the doors and forcing Robin to maneuver out of the way.
"You have no consideration for anyone else's feelings!" Raven continued firing bolts of dark energy at him.
"You have no consideration for anyone, period!" Beast Boy shouted back as he morphed from dinosaur to hummingbird.
"Everyone!" Robin tried to get them all to stop fighting each other. "Stop fighting!" He said just as he dodged a beam from Bumblebee's stinger.
"ENOUGH!" Starfire shouted getting everyone to finally calm down.
"Uh, thanks, Star," Robin said a little surprised. He was just about to begin talking when the deep sound of a laugh could be heard from within the room
"What's that?" Speedy asked aloud.
"El poltergeist," Menos suggested.
"Look at all the little children play, Jared." The voice that belonged to Jesse snickered.
Raven fell to her knees in agony. "Raven? What's wrong?" Beast Boy rushed to her side.
"The Seven Sons shall come to reign, and usurp their father in his domain." She began as her eyes started glowing red. "Though their power grows within, nothing shall come to pass without the Original Sin."
"What's she talking about?" Bumblebee asked.
"It sounds as if it's some kind of-"
"Prophecy," the voice of Jared said. Everyone turned back to the front of the room where the window now displayed a fire, red scenery, as if it were on fire. The three figures then stepped fourth. "That's precisely what it is, and it's our prophecy!"
"Who are you?" Robin demanded.
"Why don't you ask her," Jared said as he motioned to Raven.
"What do you want with her?" Beast Boy demanded.
"We need her to tell us where to find our final brother,"
"Your final brother?" Robin asked.
"Yes, and with him we shall rule the cosmos! So stay out of the way, mortals!"
"If you think we're just gonna let that happen, then you're out of your mind!" Robin shouted. "Titans! Get ready!"
"Jesse, Jacob, take care of them. I'll deal with the girl." Jared instructed.
"Right,"
"Whatever you say,"
"Titans, go!" Robin shouted as Jared vanished.
"Jacob? Maybe you should take this one first," Jesse suggested.
"Of course," Jacob agreed. "No one can withstand the power of lust!" His eyes then changed from a deep gray to four red eyes. His hypnotic stare seemed to overcome the titans as they fell under his control. "Now, fight for my affection!" He growled in a much deeper tone and with that the others began fighting each other over who loved him the most.
"Now, Raven, is it?" Jared asked as he appeared before her.
She fell out of her trance and to the ground, "What's going on? Who are you?"
"We are the Sons of Trigon and we have come looking for our brother,"
"So then what do you need with us?" She snapped at him.
"You're the only one who can locate him as you have some of Trigon's power."
"You're out of your mind," she struggled to her feet. "I have no idea who or what you're talking about."
"Don't play coy," he began to get angry and impatient. "The prophecy speaks of seven sons with the last being the final key to our dominion over the cosmos! Where is he?"
"So you must be wrath," Raven snickered.
"Clever girl,"
"And by the looks of things, I'd say you invited lust with you,"
"And envy," Jesse said as he appeared from behind her.
"Well you may be looking for a son, but Trigon didn't sire pride into a male," she grumbled. "I am the original!" She exclaimed as four red eyes now appeared from under her hood. She began producing winds that began blowing everything.
"She lies!" Jared hissed. "Jesse, get her!" Jesse then leaped for Raven, but a tentacle of dark energy protruded from underneath her cloak and slapped him away causing him to smash into the wall.
"You were a fool to come after me!" Raven hissed. "To think that I, the gem who defeated Trigon, would help you!"
"I am the Son of Wrath! I have come to you to make you help me, whether you like it or not!" He exclaimed as he too began morphing into a different creature.
His parka split down the middle as spikes then popped out from his back. His mouth turned into a rat-like snout as his body began thin and bony. His hands turned into claws and his feet turned into talons, both lined with sharp nails.
"Tell me where my brother is and I shall contemplate on sparing your life!" Jared roared in fury as he charged her.
As the two blasted one another to the roof, the other titans continued to engage one another out of their affection for Jacob.
"Would you like to join me, Jesse?" Jacob asked.
"Nothing would please me more," he hissed as a green aura then surrounded him. He teleported to Beast Boy and Robin, who were not fighting each other at the time, and touched them both allowing the aura to rub off and onto them.
They both stopped engaging Speedy and Cyborg and turned to one another.
"You don't deserve her," Beast Boy sneered to him.
"At least she loves me back," Robin snapped as he readied himself.
"Raven does love me!"
"Raven loves no one!" He shouted as he rushed Beast Boy, who morphed into a gorilla, with his staff at the ready.
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Beams of dark energy and fire exploded against each other on the top of the tower as Raven fought Jared.
"Tell me where he is!"
"You should have never come here!"
"It was much too easy to find you! And it'll be even easier to destroy you!" He said as a beam of fire caught Raven off guard and sent her flying to the ground.
"You're making a mistake," she huffed as he walked towards her.
"No, you are the one making the mistake," he said calmly as he stood over her. With a swift grab he picked her up by her neck and dangled her in the air. "I shall let you live, sister, if you help me."
"I can't," she choked.
"Your choice," he said as he squeezed harder, but then he let up. "No, this is too easy." He snickered.
The ground began to shake as the roof then collapsed in and the remaining titans levitated upwards. A deep, red aura surrounded them as they floated mid-air, paralyzed.
"I'll make you watch as your friends perish, one by one."
She looked on as they struggled in agony under the influence of Jared. She was unable to save them for sure if she didn't help Jared, but she might have a small chance if she did help him.
"Fine," she spit out. "I'll help."
"Good," he smiled.
Raven then got to her feet. "Azarath, metrion, ZINTHOS!" She chanted as a nearby portal opened. "Through there is where you'll find him...the seventh," she said with sadness in her eyes.
"Very well done," he sounded impressed as he then flung the titans to the ground. They were weak and injured from battling one another.
"Jacob," Jared called to him, "check it."
"Why me?"
"Do it!" Jared demanded. Jacob walked to the portal and Jared looked back to Raven. "Such a weak, girl. Trying to get me to believe that you could be the original sin,"
As Jacob peered into the portal, a giant, red hand emerged and pulled him into it. He let out a scream before he disappeared.
"Jacob!" Jesse called to him.
"What happened?" Jared asked.
"I don't know. One second he was there and the next he was gone," Jesse explained, but as he did a red beam of light shot out from the portal and zapped him. He, too, was gone.
"Where are they?" He demanded from Raven.
"How dare you try to trick me," Trigon's voice rumbled from beyond the portal. "How dare you try to overthrow my power. In your honor, shall you dwell with me!" He said as winds began sucking Jared into the portal as well.
Raven tried to get away, but he grabbed onto her cloak. "No! If I'm going, then you shall join me!" He demanded.
"No! Let go of me!" But his grip was much too powerful and she was too weak, as they both then began hurdling into the portal.
But in a split second, a green tentacle wrapped around her wrist and pulled her back out as Jared fell into Trigon's dimension. Beast Boy cradled her in his chest, telling her it was all over.
"You saved me," she whispered to him.
"Yeah, I guess I did, he said as he looked down at her, "but you would've done the same for me." A slight smile creased over her lips. "I'm sorry for saying all those things,"
"Don't worry about it...in a few minutes, we won't even remember getting out of bed."
"Then maybe we should make this last moment last," he said as they moved closer to one another, their lips just inches apart.