A/N: I have decided that it will take two chapters to destroy this mother f-ing world. :3 haha

Well, there are merely 3 chapters left of this story so I'm happy of the results.

Continue to read, these last three chapters will probably three of the most intense I hope if I can convey the thoughts in my head onto the document before me. Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Raven, Slade, or Trigon.

Chapter 21: The End PT. 1

"It's time," Raven whispered as she looked out onto the city from the outskirts of Gotham, perched upon a high tower with Wilson beside her. The wind blew her cloak around her body gently and her hood concealed her face. She was everything but ready.

But no more time could be wasted.

Without hesitating she jumped off of the rooftop, followed by Wilson, and the two landed on the ground in crouched positions. Slowly she stood and surveyed the area, people walking here and there, shops were open, and people were both happy and in despair.

It was just another regular afternoon in Gotham, but if only the people knew that was all about to change.

Raven quickly forced herself to walk forward down the middle of the road, Wilson slightly trailing behind, her cloak whipping back behind and causing people to stop and stare at the oddly dressed two. Cars stopped as to avoid the duo, parking and swerving past as they stopped to glance. Raven's gaze was straight ahead though, eyes sharp, and hood up. And as she made her way towards the center of the city, she felt that familiar surge of her Father's presence within her. That compelling urge and knowledge that her darkest and most deceitful side was closer to coming out than anything else.

The thought chilled her, the feeling not as much as a thrill as it used to be.

"Raven…?"

"Yes?" she murmured without glancing to Wilson or stopping.

"What if he tries to stop us?"

A pause. "Who?"

"NightWing."

As Wilson side glanced at her while they walked he saw her clench her fist. She almost halted – almost faltered. But she continued to walk forward.

"Anyone who interferes with our mission will be stopped. No exceptions," she hissed out. "But no one will dare."

Wilson left it at that as they finally appeared in the large center of town at an intersection, Raven glancing up to the streetlights. With a flash of her eyes, crackling black energy surrounded them and they began to blink rapidly, changing colors. Immediately cars screeched to a halt and Raven's eyes flashed back to the street before her, watching as the veichiles crashed into eachother and made their way towards Wilson and herself. She drew down her hood simply and threw her arms out at her sides, a wind picking up around her and power surrounding them, causing an invisible force to throw the cars all far enough away.

It had been such a long time since Raven had seen people go into such a state of panic before. She looked up at the dark and clouding sky. The people were running from her, rushing to get away and flee in hopes to be spared. Raven felt the familiar rush through her body.

"Wilson, now."

Without asking anything further he revealed the three gems from his utility belt and held them in his palm, looking at her. She nodded and levitated into her lotus position at the center of the intersection, lamppost lights and streetlights blinking all around and car alarms sounding from the mass panic and destruction that was just beginning to unfold. Raven shut her eyes and began to focus.

Wilson watched her for a moment before walking away from her and placing the Aquatic Shenteli Sapphire first about thirty feet in front of Raven, smiling to himself as it floated in place above the ground just as she did. He positioned the other two so that they formed a triangle around her and slowly stepped away, eyes locked onto her.

"The hour is near," Wilson whispered, looking up to the sky and watching as an edge of the sun was darkened out. The eclipse was coming; he grinned.

Raven's eyes stayed shut tight for quite some time. Her father's voice rang through her head, instructing her, only adding to her tension and rage.

"The time has come, the prophecy shall be fulfilled… the portal will be opened. Finally I shall be free of this firey prison… and the Earth shall be mine."

"I will see to it," Raven thought back to him, regret almost evident in her voice.

Without waiting further Raven's eyes opened and they glowed a bright white, the mark of Scath appearing along her body. She murmured an incantation beneath her breath and the ground beneath the intersection shook; people that had stayed to see what was going on beginning to scream and run once again. Just then where Raven floated above began to sink lower before cracking completely. Cars fell inside as the asphalt disappeared below and buildings shook. The dim light from Raven's marks began to glow an even brighter red as the entire center of the road was collapsed, and the only thing that could be seen down in its' depths was a long spiral staircase and a massive hand directly beneath Raven now. She levitated down to stand upon it.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos," she hissed and raised her arms up towards the sky, causing hooded, skeleton like statues to rise from inside the fallen intersection below and surround her on both sides. Raven's eyes faded from their glow as she glanced at Wilson's grinning face and then up to the sky.

It was a total eclipse.

'I've known my whole life this day was going to come…' Raven thought, looking down at her palms and her eyes saddening. 'I'd never tried to control the dark side of me, never tried to do good things… to fight evil and make up for the horrible thing I'm destined to do. Before I saw this as defining in my life, what I wanted. But now…why?' Raven's eyes grew watery and she held back tears that threatened to spill over.

"Richard," Raven whispered and clenched her fists close to her chest.

Inner flashback

"I'm not about to let that happen – we aren't about to. You can –"

"Do nothing to stop this Richard. What's stated shall be done; what I am to become was Trigon's goal in life. Nothing but a mere monster in the end…"

"I don't believe that's the only way."

"Well you better start believing it, because humanity has no more than a day."

"And you're fine with this?"

"I was before," she muttered. "When we first met, I was as prepared as ever. And now… now you've fucked me up."

"Then stop this, it isn't written in stone."

End flashback

"If only that were true," Raven whispered as she was pulled out of her thoughts at the sound of Wilson's voice.

"Raven, it's time!"

She nodded and deeply sighed, levitating back into her lotus position as the wind picked up around her and kept her cloak fanned about her. She drew her hood back up and then held her legs, gripping them tight as she shut her eyes, and began to chant.

"The Gem was born of evil's fire; the Gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim, he comes to sire…" Raven hesitated as her eyes began to glow a deep red and she looked up towards the sky again, a single tear trailing down her cheek. "The end of all things mortal."

Raven clenched her eyes shut again and screamed out, her body being consumed by a glow that was along the three gems that surrounded her as well. The giant claw beneath her began to crumble and in it a small, circular light came from her, the portal opening beneath her. That grew to size of the entire intersection and Raven gasped out, looking down at herself in shock. The gems had worked. Just then from beneath her in the newly formed portal she heard a demonic growl and her eyes widened, quickly flying from the middle to the side of the road and rolling onto what was left of the sidewalk. Wilson was beside her in a second, helping her sit up slightly.

Around them people were still running and pushing past, trying to evacuate buildings and try to escape what was to come. But Raven knew their running was futile. This day was written in her destiny, she had known it since the day of her birth.

"Raven…" Slade murmured, looking at her with both shock and wonder. She glanced down at herself to see her long locks of hair suddenly chopped shorter to above shoulder length and her cloak gone. Her leotard was stripped across her stomach and arms, leaving only areas that should be covered where it stayed on. She clenched her fists and stayed staring at the ground.

The prophecy had been fulfilled.

Even as Slade got up to retrieve her gems before it was too late, she still did not look up. All her senses seemed to zone out, everything seeming like it was a nightmare, a terrible horrible nightmare that she had created single handedly. The roar of her Father's voice simply heightened the sensation as he came free and cackled in mockery, the red demon towering over the city.

"The Earth is mine!"

With that a large, dark light encased the city and began to spread, Raven knowing well enough that it would continue till it touched all corners of the globe. Till every human being was obliterated. Fire demons emerged from the statues that had once encased them. All Hell was breaking loose. She didn't dare get up off the ground from where she sat, head bowed and hands clenched against the ground. The only thing on her mind was long gone she knew – he hadn't come.

And it was far too late.

Raven looked up finally, eyes filled with sorrow. She dug her nails into her palms and hoped somehow Richard could know what she felt and hear her. In a soft voice, she whispered two simple words as the world she had come to know began to crumble.

"Forgive me."

End Chapter

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