Chapter 4: Rejuvenation

" " = Character talking

Italics = Thoughts

:: = Narration/Actions

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Introduction: Robin had sacrificed his well being for Raven despite the conflicting feelings towards each other. Robin had absorbed the full force and impact of the attack from Jinx causing him to fall to the ground looking lifeless. All Titans are horrified at the sight, especially Raven. Raven's emotions were becoming rampant, feeling shock, despair, and rage all at once. Her instability mixed with her growing fury causes her to lose complete control which transforms her into the thing she had tried to avoid being all her life.

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:: Ravens eyes were crimson red and her frightening facial expression foreshadowed the oncoming disarray that will would brought upon everyone. Her cape increased in size dramatically and became spawn-like. The blue material of her costume began to flow wildly in every direction. The darkness underneath that material was darker then coal and deep enough to cause physical and mental anguish to even the courageous of people. Ravens size grew taller and taller as the bottom half of her was surrounded by an ocean of wavy darkness. Windows, lights, cars, anything breakable were being thrown in the air and destroyed in response to Ravens instability. Raven had become the one person she had dreaded to be. She was taken over by angry vengeance and lost her ability of good judgment and was fueled by her emotions alone. She had become the sinister demon she had tried hard to circumvent.  She had let go of Robins body and began her rampage.::

Raven: ::Growls Viciously:: "ALL WHO IS RESPONSIBLE WILL PAY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. I WILL RIP YOU ALL APART ONE…BY… ONE… AND MAKE YOU FEEL THE UTMOST POSSIBLE PAIN. THERE WILL BE NO MERCY FOR ANYONE."

::Ravens voice once again changed into the evil tone it had once been.  All eyes of Team Slade were wide open in abhorrence and their pupils were as small as 2 tiny marbles. The fight between the Titans and Team Slade had been halted ever since the collision between Robin and the energy blast. All were terrified and shaking watching Ravens gruel transformation. The Titans and Dr. Light were all too familiar with Ravens horrendous state. Memories of the last encounter with evil Raven rushed in Dr. Lights mind.

Dr. Light: NO!, IT CAN NOT BE.. NOT AGAIN! The evil witch who brings darkness and isolation is reincarnated.

::Flashback::


Raven: "Don't come any closer…"

Dr. Light: "What's the matter? Afraid of the light?

Raven: "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGG!"


::Raven's physical state develops into a large octopus like fiend. She grabs Dr. Light and pulls him toward the darkness::

Dr. Light: "NO, NO, my suit. What are you—STOP, YOU WIN, I SURRENDER!"

Raven: "What's the matter? Afraid of the DARK?"

::End of Flashback::

::Dr. Light's remembrance of his last encounter with Raven sent ice cold chills up his spine.::

Dr. Light: "OH NO, I AM NOT GOING THROUGH THIS ONCE MORE."

:: Dr. Light then quickly decides to sprint hastily away from the dark sorceress as quickly as possible to avoid being a victim of her wrath.::

Dr. Light: "Jinx! You fool, you have no idea of what you have just awakened. I'll meet with the rest of you at the H.Q."

::Raven instantaneously took notice of Dr. Lights attempt to flee and expanded her shadowy reach to restrain him before he could escape.::

Dr. Light: "NOOO! Release me PLEASE!!!"

::Raven looks at him with her beady ruby eyes. Her lips curled into a demonic smirk as she pulled Dr. Light closer and closer to her.::

Raven: "Nuh Uh Uh, no one will escape my wrath. Those who try to will suffer even more. Since you have decided to miss the party, you will be first to DIE."

::Raven then begins to jerk Dr. Lights body around back and forth slamming him against the cement continuously. His suit had already been destroyed and had been malfunctioning since she had grabbed him rendering him harmless. But with pure vehemence controlling her, she battered him over and over again. For a brief moment the Titans' concern over Robin was temporarily put off in attention to Ravens actions.::


Starfire: "RAVEN, PLEASE STOP! We are on the side of goodness and we do not punish our enemies with such harshness. PLEASE, we are share the violent grief for our dear Robin but we cannot exhaust our feelings in such a way."

::Starfire tried  to get Ravens attention but she was too busy beating the crap out of Dr. Light to stop what she was doing. Starfire flew up to her and touched her shoulder for her attention.::

Raven: "WHAT?  DO YOU NOT CARE FOR WHAT THESE BAGS OF WASTED LIFE FORCE HAVE DONE TO ROBIN? "

Starfire: "Of course I care Raven. How can you ask such a question. We all do. But we cannot do this to these villains even though they have taken away our  beloved leader, our beloved friend."

Raven: "NONSENSE, THEY ARE THE REASON ROBIN IS NOT ALIVE. THE REASON HE IS NOT HERE. THE REASON THAT HE CANNOT HELP US FIGHT AGAINST THESE IDIOTS…

::Deep inside, buried waaaaay beneath all the acrimony, vengeance, and asperity controlling her,  the innocent Raven the Titans know and love consciously adds…::

Raven: the reason he shall never know of my feelings…

Raven: "AND IF YOU ARE NOT WITH ME, THEN YOU ARE AGAINST ME."

::Raven then takes hold of Starfire and throws her against a building causing it to demolish and Star to be unconscious. Meanwhile Gizmo, Mamooth, Plasmus, Jinx, and Blackfire hesitate to begin an assault against the rogue Titan.::

Blackfire: "Dr. Light is getting creamed. We need to break him free and return to base to live to fight another day."

Gizmo: "Are you crazy. Can't you see what that witch has turned into? Forget him lets just get outta here."

Jinx: "He's right, if we try to free him she will turn her attention towards us. Especially ME. I don't know about you but I'm getting out of here before she focuses her attention on who launched that energy blast in the first place. Besides, we weren't suppose to kill Robin, Slade will not be happy."

Plasmus: "GrAhhhhh Ahahhsh BlahhH blahh ArgGgggg"

Blackfire: "Cowards, but you are right, Robin is suppose to be alive, we need to go back and talk about this."

::Team Slade decide to try to escape Ravens turbulence but failed to do so as she tackles them all to the ground.::

Raven: "Trying to escape? Hahaha, There is no abidance from my will to destroy you all. AND NOW YOU SHALL ALL DIE!"

::Ravens darkness within her cape protracts and divides into tentacles of confinement and snatches them all one by one. She grabs on to Blackfire and begins to constrict her against a wall. She also seizes Gizmo and Mamooth and materializes a claw with her dark energy and suffocating them while smothering Plasmus with a huge blanket of dusk to imprison him. Team Slade was in her hands and were ready to be inflicted with pain and suffering.::

Raven: "What shall I do with the likes of you all. I could pound you as I am doing to Light here or maybe smother you leaving you cold and helpless. Either way, you will all pay."

::After checking on Starfire and bringing her to safety, Beast Boy and Cyborg try to calm Raven down but have no luck at all at success::

BeastBoy: "RAVE, PLEASE STOP! What you're doing isn't right, it isn't us. We are the Teen Titans, we don't kill."

Raven: "IT DOES NOT MATTER. THEY DESERVE TO SUFFER FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. IF YOU STAND IN MY WAY YOU WILL SUFFER THE SAME FATE AS STARFIRE. "

Cyborg: "COME ON RAVEN, THIS ISN"T YOU. DON'T LET THE ANGER CONTROL YOU. YOU"RE NOT ALONE IN THIS RAVEN, WE ALL ARE FEELING THAT SAME FEELINGS YOU ARE."

Raven: "If you did, you would join me and avenge Robins death."

::Raven resumes her castigation of each of the members of Team Slade.::

Cyborg: "We need to calm her down or else who knows how far she will go. She's also going to take out the whole city if we don't stop her. "

BeastBoy: "What do you suppose we do, if you haven't notice, she's pissed off and her powers are too strong to overcome."

Cyborg: "I have a plan, distract her while I try to get a clean shot of her, maybe I can stop her temporarily from destroying them."

BeastBoy: "Alright, I'll try.. and Cy, try to not hurt her too bad."


:: Cyborg nods in agreement and Beast Boy turns into a Falcon and flies up top to a menacing Raven and tries to come up with a plan to distract her.::

BeastBoy: "RAVEN, OVER HERE,  YOO HOO!"

::Beast Boy begins to soar in every which way around Raven.::

Raven: "Insolent fool, You cannot subdue me."

Beast Boy: "I know you Raven. Deep down inside, there's the real Raven who doesn't go AWOL and starts killing people. Raven, you're not alone in this. We all loved Robin. But we don't go around killing whoever just for revenge even though it hurts badly. Remember, we all are friends, we love you Raven…. I love—

::Just before Beast Boy was about to finish his sentence, Cyborg sends a proton beam behind Raven causing her to release her grip on the villains and be rammed into Power Lines causing a enormous explosion.. Power lines were scattered everywhere and were short-circuiting because of the heavy rain. ::

Cyborg: "Bulls eye."

::Cyborg holds his thumb up and nodding in satisfaction::

BeastBoy: "Great shot Cy…"

::Beast Boy recovers himself from his sensitive state trying to forget what he was about to say right before Cy shot at Raven. Despite colliding against power lines, Raven was protected by her cape and the darkness within::

Raven: "FOOLS, NOW I SEE YOU'RE AGAINST ME. YOU ALL SHALL ALL SUFFER THE SAME FATE."

::Raven smacks Cyborg against a wall ready to take him into the grim darkness beneath her.::

Cyborg: "RAVEN NO, DON"T DO IT"

::Meanwhile the scattered power cables were spread out everywhere with sparks and electricity coming in contact with the water.. Robin's body was drenched in rain water because of the showers and was completely drenched. His body came in contact with a cable  causing an invigorating current to surge through his body causing him to jolt in a erratic manner.::

Raven: "There's no escape you waste of metal and circuits. Its time to-"

:: Someone calls out to Raven and she stops abruptly to see who it was.::

Robin: "Raven…"

To be continued---

Author: Please R & R this chapter, thanks to all whom reviewed the past chapters, I appreciate it a lot ^_^. I've got finals soon so it will take me a while to update, but no more then a week, maybe less if I find time.