Shangri-la
Gothic: I am SOOO scared Veral. Relax, haven't you been reading? RAVEN GOT RESCUED!!! Anyhow, keep an eye out for mentions of Zuthion and mentions of 'The 5 Children of Trigon.' Oh, and I should mention, there is swearing in this fic, just in case you didn't notice anyway.
Kitty: Oh for god's sake, why do I always have to do this?!?!
Gothic: Just say it cat.
Draygion: Oh I'll say it: Gothic….does…not…own…anything….you….do…not….sue….her.
Gothic: Thank you Draygion. Now, on with the ficcie!
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As the three Titans who had been hunting returned to the Tower, another shadow was making its way around the building. This was Zuthion, attempting a stealthy entrance. Sadly, she wasn't quick enough to hide from Cyborg's brilliant robotic eye. He spotted her shadow slipping away into the darkness, and threw a shot from his cannon at her.
"Hey! Get back here!" Cyborg shouted into the gloom.
"Quickly! Titans, get them, whoever they are!" Robin shouted his orders, and then gave chase. For a minute, it was no more than a game of 'follow the leader', as Zuthion led them around the Tower and back again. Finally, Robin lunged for a nearby shadow at the West of the Tower, and crashed landed, with Zuthion squirming underneath him. Gathering that the chase was up, Robin pinned the demon for a minute, long enough for the other two to reach them, until she blasted him off her with an aura of deep sea blue and white. (Like Raven's, only replace the black with the deep sea blue.)
"Ow…." Came the faint response from Robin, who had crashed into the side of the Tower.
"Well, that certainly settles a few problems, - doesn't it?" There was sarcasm in the demon's voice, as she brushed off her outfit.
"Who are you? And what are you doing hanging around Titans Tower?" Cy looked confused and worried.
"Fine then." She glared at the tall Titan, sarcasm lining her voice. "My name is Zuthion, from the planet Azarath. I am the 5th Child of Trigon."
"Hey! That was the freaky dude in Raven's head, when Beast Boy and I got sucked in there one time!" Everyone stared at Cyborg's outburst, watching a sweatdrop gradually creep its way onto Cy's forehead.
"'That freaky dude' as you describe him, is my father. Don't you ever slag him off, or I will personally see to it that you die. And how do you know my sister?" Her voice showed dangerous emotion, several rocks uprooting themselves from the rough surface of the island.
"Um, that's all very well and all, but what's this 5th Child of Trigon and all? And you're Raven's sister?" Robin returned from the side of the tower, rubbing his back in pain.
"Oh I cannot be bothered to explain the trivia of my existence to mere humans right now!" She turned away in disgust, her lip curling in anger.
"Maybe if you were to come with us, you might wish to explain to us what it is that you are so angry about?" Starfire floated down, curiously eyeing the other girl.
"Will you take me to my brother and sister? I know Draygion's here too."
"Okay." Robin sighed. "But our latest evil is holding Draygion captive along with his guardian, whoever she is, and we're still working on getting them back."
"And Raven got seriously injured getting away herself." Cyborg put in.
"Fine then." The calmer demon followed the two up to the tower, casting glances around her as she went.
"Hey, wait a minute." Zuthion stopped where she was, glancing at the two ahead of her. "What does Arella have to do with all of this?"
"Um….." Robin hesitated, sweatdropping. "Um, we don't really know." He confessed, causing the demon to raise her eyebrow in disgust at him.
"Oh lets just go already! The others will be wonderin' what's happened to us." Cyborg intervened, before the now angry demon lunged for Robin's throat again.
Up in the tower, just as the four came to the entrance, Raven was tapping at the keys of the keyboard, Beast Boy star gazing, or at least pretending, so he could look for the others at the same time. He happened to see the ruckus outside, and the many shadows flittering about.
"Uh Raven, I think there's a disturbance outside the tower." He looked at his friend, who was quickly hunting outside the tower on the monitor. He wandered over, curious to see what she found, and strangely enough, a sort of half longing to be in her company.
Dude, what is wrong with me? Raven usually doesn't even appreciate me cooking breakfast. He thought, reaching when Raven had the local outside conditions.
"Robin, Cyborg, Starfire and a new arrival in the area." Raven responded to his presence next to her. "I think it might be….." Her voice died in her throat as she recognised the name the mainframe computer gave her. "Zuthion." She at last managed to say.
"Um, who's Zuthion?" Beast Boy ventured to ask.
"My sister." Came Raven's short reply.
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Slade was, whilst this commotion went on, busy replanning on how to complete his scheme. All attempts had failed, and quite frankly, he was
pissed off with the whole affair.
"Come on! There has to be a way to defeat those annoying Titans! I guess though, Erathi did say there was another way to release Trigon……"
Storming over in the direction of Draygion, he muttered evil words beneath his breath; a plan began to form in his mind. Reaching the still chained demon, he raised the creature from the filthy ground. He hissed in a scathing voice, his hands crushing the demon's pale form.
"Tell me Draygion. How else
can I use your sister to release the greatness of your father? I know there's
another way than killing her."
"Uh…. well, you have to expose her to a huge amount of evil, and it will draw her demonic side out. She will fall under her father's influence, and he will use her body to create a portal into this realm." Draygion stopped for breath, looking with fright into Slade's angry eyes.
"Don't…..do…it." The woman across from Draygion croaked. "Trigon….will….kill….you…if….you….kill….any…of….his...children…."
"Silence woman! I will deal with him myself." Slade dropped Draygion, and stalked away into the gloom, ever muttering.
The woman sighed, the wounds on her body ever visible. "Draygion." She whispered.
"Yes Arella?"
"If I…do...not…get…out…of...here soon, I…fear…i..will…die."
"I just hope Raven comes back as quickly as she can. She was very badly injured."
"I….know." Arella's head fell forwards, all signs of life and movement lost. She was still breathing, - but only just.
"Oh, sister. Come soon. Your mother needs you."
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In Titans Tower, four very confused Titans, and two equally confused and fed up demons, took up residence. The four who had returned were tired, Beast Boy and Raven still adjusting to the raised level of voices.
"Will someone please explain to me what this '5th Child of Trigon' stuff is? And who is Arella?!" Robin's angry, yet patient requests fell on almost deaf ears, ones that were still working on replies. Raven and Zuthion were currently talking quietly in a corner, the sadness once in both of their eyes slightly lifted by the sight of each other. Eventually, sighing as Robin complained yet again, she answered him.
"Oh fine, I'll explain. You know Trigon, or have at least heard of him. He is one of the most powerful demons in the 13th Dimension, and is father to 5 of us children." Raven stopped for a minute, watching the faces of the others.
"The 13th Dimension is where most demons come from by the way." Chimed in Zuthion.
"And we are from the planet Azarath. Now, as Trigon is so evil and powerful, it was expected that his children would follow his example. Sadly, as me and Zuthion here are half demons, we actually have morals and respect for innocent beings. The entire story would take too long to explain, but, in general, our human sides, the side you all see on the outside is always the more dominant. Because of this, us two refused to participate in the destruction of realms that had done nothing. For this, he sought to release out demonic sides when we were old enough." Raven stopped for a breather, the faces of the others shocked and amazed.
"So, basically, there are two sides, right? One human one demon. And if the demonic side gets loose, you go all evil and stuff?" Robin queried.
"But how are you half demons? That's the part that's confusin' me." Cy groaned.
"Because, Arella, Draygion's guardian, is my mother. Zuthion's mother too. She was taken by Trigon as his wife, then abandoned on Azarath after mating with her. Two months after I was born, he returned and mated with her again. Zuthion was born, and we looked so alike, that everyone thought we were twins."
"And as there's not much between us in age, we decided that it wasn't worth denying it. We're twins and we're not, if that makes sense." Zuthion added again.
"So, anyway, it was discovered later that Draygion was born a month after me, as Trigon had been off two timing with other demons before taking Arella. Firgu, our older brother is the first born, by Draygion's mother as well, so he is called the 1st Child of Trigon. Sifria, also born by Draygion and Firgu's mother is the second born and called the 2nd Child of Trigon. I was born next, so I'm the 3rd Child of Trigon." She stopped again, breathing deeply. "Beginning to see a pattern yet?" She asked.
"So that is what you meant when you said you were the 5th Child! You were born last!" Starfire exclaimed, looking at Zuthion.
"Uh, yeah, I'm the youngest. Draygion is the 4th Child of Trigon."
"So, we were all called the 5 Children of Trigon. Arella is Draygion's guardian because Trigon exiled him for aiding in a certain escape of mine…" Raven trailed off with a mysterious half grin.
"Yeah, you escaped from Azarath to Earth to escape from Dad, so that you wouldn't be influenced by his evil, and would go all evil as well, and then destroy worlds with him, and…Uh….." Zuthion sweatdropped as she glanced around, and noticed the stares from all around her.
"And Draygion got exiled for helping me. Arella went with him, so that she could protect him from anymore attacks off Dad." Raven added.
"Now that explains a lot. So why was Arella taken by our resident evil of Slade?" Cy asked.
"Because it was believed
that she could release Trigon into this world, - when it's actually Metrion
here that can release him."
Everyone looked confused at this, and Raven blushed ever so slightly.
"Um…." Robin trailed off, unable to say anymore.
"Metrion is my actual demon name. It means Raven in Azarathian, surprisingly enough. When I learnt English on Azarath, I decided to take an earthly name from it."
Well that's not surprising. But why can't I shake off these new feelings about Raven? Maybe,….maybe….. Oh God. No….it can't be…..I'm not falling for her or something…. Beast Boy's stomach lurched at these thoughts, and he angrily shook them away.
"But Raven, there is something else." Starfire looked both guilty and confused. "You betrayed your father, didn't you?" She looked down, sadness in her eyes.
"Holy shit….." Raven was practically speechless. "Starfire, what do you know? How the heck did you found out?" Her tone changed abruptly, going from shocked to angry.
"I…I went into your room when Slade had kidnapped you to find out more about Trigon. I discovered everything you have just told us, except for one bit." She looked sorry and afraid, hoping silently that Raven wouldn't kill her just yet. "I am sorry, but please tell, what did you do?"
"You went into her room? Do you have any idea what you've done? And if you've read any of those books….." Zuthion turned away in anger.
"Zuthion is right. Some of those books contain very powerful stuff. I may as well tell you what I did now, there's no point hiding it." Raven was still angry, and Starfire shielded away like a frightened animal.
"Um, might I just ask, when did you exactly find this out Star?" Robin had moved forward as well to comfort Starfire.
"When Beast Boy and Cyborg were out hunting, and you were hunting on the electrickal thingy, so I went to Raven's room and read all these books, but there were so many languages and…" Starfire stopped for breath, and saw Raven's angered expression.
For at least 5 minutes, there wasn't a single sound from any of the Titans, as they stood or sat in silence.
"Okay, this is getting freaky. Someone other than me say something!" Beast Boy shuddered for a few seconds, then sank into the woodwork again.
"If you must know Star, I threw a pretty nasty hit to Trigon. He wanted me to destroy worlds with him, and come to destroy the Servgra Galaxy. He demanded that I go, or else he would….I'm not gonna say what he threatened to do. Anyhow, I refused, and he attacked me, attempting to force me into going." Raven's sudden breaking of the silence causing everyone to jump.
"And what you threw back practically scarred the guy for life." Zuthion grinned. "He didn't even know you could be that vicious."
"Uh oh…." Cyborg added.
"I practically ripped the gem out of his forehead. As well as leaving him with violently bleeding wounds over his body. I didn't get very far though. He attacked back, and," Raven pulled back her right sleeve, to reveal a black scar, spreading from her elbow to her wrist. "left me scarred for life as well."
"Whoa. Now that musta taken some doin'." Cyborg commented.
"He only slashed a ritual dagger across it. I've seen a lot worse."
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Trigon, in the 17th dimension, was very angry. Zuthion had lied to him. She had deliberately said that Metrion was here, just to keep him out of the way. Well, she wasn't going to get away with it, he was going to make sure of that.
"Now, " he chuckled, "it's time to make you pay. And what's more dear daughter, I'll be summoned again soon enough."
Trigon smashed several rocks with his heat eye beams, then turned towards the dimensional portal he had ripped open in anger.
"And then you will pay dearly for your betrayal."
With a menacing laugh, the rocked the surface of the planet Trugia, Trigon hurtled towards the portal, and raced back through worlds, times, dimensions and galaxies, back to the 13th Dimension. Here, he landed on the surface of the planet Azarath with an almighty roar, destroying everything that got in his way as he stormed back to the cave where he knew Zuthion would be.
"Come out you little rat! You shall pay for your betrayal to Trigon the Terrible! OUT!" His thunderous cries echoed thought the entire village there, spreading for miles. People, demons, creatures of the night ran for cover, hiding and shielding away from the terror of demon who had come.
Reaching down, Trigon stretched the cave open. Looking inside, he could see no sign of life.
"Hehe. Hiding away are we? You know you cannot escape my wrath girl." Upon finding no one, Trigon grew more and more enraged. In his fury, he shot at the cave. Pieces of rock and brick flew everywhere, mixed with the few belongings left in the cave.
"WHERE IS SHE?!?! TELL ME YOU PUNY COWARDS! OR I WILL DESTROY YOU ALL!" Trigon's words forced the scared inhabitants of the village there to emerge in fright, some deathly pale in fear.
"She is not in this dimension. She told no one where she was going, she just went. We had no idea she had betrayed your trust my Lordship, else we would of stopped her." The thin and pale demon who had bravely stepped forward spoke in a quiet, yet audible voice, bowing before the great demon.
"Your words are of great help demon. You may go. If she is spotted again in this dimension, you are to capture and hold her, then spread the word that she is caught. I have great trust in you. Do not break it." Trigon watched the demon scurry away, then tore open a portal, and threw himself into it.
Next time Zuthion, next time. You will pay, just like your sister, for what you have done. His murderous thoughts stayed with him thought his journey, and by the time he got to the 9th Dimension, he was manically laughing.
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Gothic: Uh…..how many words guys?
Raven: 2,873 words. Stop
writing so much!
Draygion: Rescue us!
Kitty: Shut up! Reviews please!
Robin: We're working on it Draygion! Give us a few chapters!
Gothic: *shakes head* Somebody save me from this……so just review. I thought I'd leave another hint….
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