Chapter 17: Eyes of Despair
A/n** Someone put that I had too many flashbacks for my story? Yeah. for 14 and 15, it's supposed to be that way since it's like, they're remembering
what happened before the bad things happened. Yeah, like Raven's death, Starfire's and Robin's get together, you know? Lol... yeah. :D Well, from
here on end, I don't plan to put too many flashbacks.
And thank God** I had printed out 17 and 18 before my disk broke down. I got this back from friend, Joy-chan, who reads it before I publicize it.
A/N** oh yeah. if you have any comments on my stories you can IM me on
greYSnoWBall :D
Jerikai watched Starfire and Robin together later that night. Starfire kept whirling her fingers around on the table as Robin sat there, depressed. He was by the window but cloaked in black to match the nighttime sky. Rain beat down upon his shoulders, making another help of disguise. He grimaced at the site of Robin.
"You. How can you just dump her like that, even if she's dead? I killed her to make you suffer! Did you not think that I would suffer as well!? I love her, fool!" Jerikai scowled. He flew down to the chamber Raven was locked up in. He placed a hand on the window. "If Slade... didn't make me kill you, then you would've been with me on Azarath, my wife. He said he would destroy our planet if I didn't kill you. that Bastard! Erg. Why did you leave me for this place? Earth is such filth. How can you like it? Is it because of that Robin man?" Jerikai sighed. "You're still my wife, believe it or not, you are. I love you."
He opened a portal to go inside and teleported himself to her death domain. With a few punch-ins of the key, the glass container unlocked and let out mist and a build up pressure of air. After it was all cleared away, he touched Raven's face. She was cold.
"You'll probably rot soon" he whispered. He held her close to his chest, her cape falling behind her. He snuggled against her. A voice slowly whispered in his head.
"Jerikai."
"Who's here?! Where?" he jumped. He looked around.
"It's me Slade," his icy voice slithered.
"How'd you get here?" He looked around, trying to find him.
"Telekinesis, you fool. Kill her body, now! Kill her now!" Slade ordered.
"I. can't." Jerikai released his anger. "How can you ask me to kill her if she's already a corpse?!"
"To make sure she's dead!" his voice echoed in Jerikai's mind.
"I can't!" he screamed out.
Robin heard a quiet screech traveling through the halls from the fourth floor. Somewhere near the medical center. 'Raven!' he thought.
"RAVEN!" he shouted out loud. Starfire stood up with him and followed him to the medical room where they found Jerikai holding Raven's body. "Jerikai!? Let go of Raven! Now!"
"Get out! Get out of my head!" Jerikai now loosened his grip on Raven with one hand and placed it over his ear. "I won't destroy her body!"
"Oh!" Starfire gasped. Robin was confused. Wasn't Jerikai out to kill Raven? And now he didn't want to hurt her body?
Robin looked to his right a Beastboy and Cyborg entered.
'Erg... I have to protect her this time!' Robin thought. It angered him that he couldn't do anything to save her from death the other time.
"Stop! Just let go of her and leave!" Robin ran towards Jerikai and punched him in the stomach. Jerikai leaned over and almost dropped Raven. Robin dropped down and caught her, folding her legs over the crevices of his elbows and her head fell back wards as her arms swung. His arms were supporting her weight under her upper back. He stood up and looked down at the serene body. He placed it in the coffin and turned back to Jerikai.
"I have to! Azarath . would . BE DESTROYED!" he scowled. "I have . to . my family!"
"Oh no you ain't!" Cyborg yelled out.
"Don't even think about touching her!" Beastboy implied. He turned into an eagle and started to claw at Jerikai's protecting arm. While Jerikai tried pushing him away, Cyborg blasted him with the cannon. The spouse of Raven only had a few burnt skin peeling off and little holes in his clothes. He stood up from his fall and looked at them.
"I surrender," he looked at them one by one. They were too shocked to do anything. He slowly walked over to Raven and kissed her. Robin growled out of jealousy and moved up to stop him, but Jerikai already teleported out. He tried to stick his hand out to where Jerikai was but he hadn't felt a single solid, invisible object. He sighed and walked over to Raven. He assorted her body to the correct position and locked the glass container.
Robin wanted to make sure that he was the last one to touch her before they buried her body.
The next day, the rain had overcome the weather and let itself pour endlessly. Robin stayed by the corpse and watched her through the night. He inspected her face. Her serene features showed closed eye-lids, destroyed reams hidden behind them, soft lips that wanted to be kissed by a certain someone, a nose waiting to smell the scent of someone special and her ears waiting to hear the words 'I love you.' Her cheeks were a rosy complexion. Raven's hair flared out on the satin pillow under her head. Her right hand was over her heart, waiting for a beat to pound in her chest.
Robin held his hand above her hand, wishing to hold it. His thoughts on Raven were disturbed as Cyborg entered the room.
"We have to bury her now." Cyborg announced. "The priest is going to be here in a few minutes and we have to prepare her on the island."
"I'll do it." Robin volunteered alone.
"Man! Your puny white ass can't even lift her up. You need someone strong!" Cyborg protested. Robin just stared at Raven's face. He sighed. "Ok, Ok... just tell me when you need help, alright?"
"I'll be fine," Robin assured. Cyborg shrugged and left the room, leaving the door open. The boy wonder took a hold of a handle at the head of the coffin and dragged it to the door.
With little struggle, Robin had it centered 2 yards away from the front doors of the tower. As the rain soaked into his skin, he watched the rain water slide down from the round top of Raven's glass coffin.
20 minutes later the Priest arrived with a suitcase, they found Robin still staring at Raven. His suit was dirty from the mud while her was digging a hold fit for the coffin. In his arms was a wooden stick. Walking over to the head of the burial site, he plunged it into the soft earth at the head of the square hole.
Robin then walked inside of the tower and walked out with very dark roses.
"Yo! Aren't those rare!? It's really hard finding them, huh?" Beastboy quizzed. Robin kept silent. Beastboy only watched. Cyborg stepped up and placed a hand on his shoulders.
"Come Robin, we must help the priest bless Raven." Starfire took Robin away from Cyborg's grip and held his hand. He just relaxed his hand as her hand wrapped around his. Robin felt as if he were betraying Raven and jerked his hand away. Starfire held again and this time he didn't do anything.
As the priest kept saying his vows, Jerikai watched in despair. He wanted to be right next to Raven, being there when she was blessed. He watched them hold out their hands to bless her to Heaven and watched them bow their heads.
"You have to kill them now!" Slade ordered. He slithered besides him in vapors. From then on he turned into a physical being, standing on the roof top with him.
"Why?"
"You want to know everything? Curious aren't you? There is one thing you should know then, Raven doesn't love you anymore," Slade injected into his mind. Jerikai only built up anger.
"I don't care! Why did you even make me kill her?!"
"Hasty, aren't you?" If you kill them, I'll see what I can do to made Raven come back to life again."
"Even if she's alive again, she'll try to return to the arms of him," Jerikai added, pointing down to Robin. "I can find a way to make sure she'll go back to you," Slade smiled. Jerikai clenched his fists and closed his eyes.
"No!"
"Kill them now!"
"I can't."
"And why not?" Slade asked.
"Because they're Raven's friends. If she will be brought back to life, she'd hate me. She'll hate me and she'll curse the day I was born!" Jerikai wept out loud.
Down below thy heard someone shout.
"Who could ruin this sad day?" Starfire gasped.
"Robin, doesn't that guy rem-" Beastboy started.
"Jerikai!" Robin growled. "And. that's Slade? How did he get out of prison?" Even if he was depressed from Raven's death, he still wanted revenge on Slade. With that, Starfire grabbed his hand and she carried him to the top of the roof.
"We must preserve the peace of Raven's body! Let us fight together as one, Robin!" Starfire cheered as Robin let go and landed on the roof. He was confronting the real Slade. Starfire tried to fight Jerikai again, but he didn't do anything.
"Arg! Help me fight the Teen Titans, fool!" Slade yelled at the telekinetic boy.
"If you killed Raven, then why won't you fight us?" Starfire asked while standing there, watching Jerikai look at the rain that was falling into his eyes.
"I don't want to fight," Jerikai answered.
"What?! I hired you to kill Raven! Now kill the other ones!"
"Huh!? Why did you want to kill Raven?" Robin asked with trying to dodge all punches and kicks. "First you wanted to control her!"
"I wanted her to be on my team, Robin, but her power was too strong to handle. So then I wanted her dead. She was getting in the way of me defeating you!" Slade replied aggressively. He punched Robin in the face and ran inside the tower.
"Where.? ARG!" Robin ran inside after him. The others followed too.
They found him in Raven's room, clutching a mirror.
"Dude, that's." Beastboy pointed at it, reminding Cyborg.
"Sorry man, but we can't let you go around ordering people to kill and break Raven's super freaky mirror, right Beastboy?" Cyborg said powering up his laser canon.
"You are so right! Let's go!"
"What about you, depressed one?" Cyborg asked. Robin nodded and put on a serious face.
"Ready for the sonic? I got the boom," Robin smiled. Cyborg was confused but agreed.
Robin grabbed three of his disks as Cyborg powered up to the max.
"Wait! If you do that, he'll reflect it on us and destroy Raven's mirror!" Jerikai foretold. He used his telekinesis and took a hold of Raven's mirror. "It's my turn to show Raven that I still love her!"
Cyborg's and Beastboy's eyebrows went up.
"Loved."
"Her?" Beastboy finished Cyborg's statement. They looked at each other and stuck out their tongues in disgust.
"That's right, you weren't awake when he was talking to us," Robin recalled.
"Uh. right," Cyborg said. They watched as Slade battled Jerikai. N several occasions, Robin tried to help but Jerikai warded him off.
"Don't worry! I got this one!" Jerikai told. He gave a couple of blasts from his hand and shot Slade down. Slade was paralyzed for a few minutes as Jerikai took him and broke through Raven's window to the middle of the river.
"Evacuate the people on the bridge now! Teen Titans, go!" Robin ordered. In 20 minutes they had everyone off the bridge and kept people from wandering onto there.
While the priest prayed that everything will go well on the fight, the rain still kept on. He ventured inside and watched the fight.
"You haven't defeated me yet!" Slade grinned as Jerikai held Slade by the wrist, willing to drop him anytime. Jerikai looked confused.
'Friend of Raven, I'll be gone forever. Just give Raven a proper funeral. Send my love to her,' Jerikai used his telepathy to talk to Robin. Robin's heart twinge at Jerikai's love for Raven. He saw Starfire standing on the bridge, watching the fight.
"Gone forever?" Robin asked himself. A large glowing orb enveloped Jerikai's body. Just then, a large transparent sphere of black over shadowed them all. Everything grew quiet as it enlarged. Seconds later, with a high whistle it all came back to the source: Jerikai.
"He going to commit suicide?!" Robin shouted to them all, half asking-half telling.
"Looks like it!" Cyborg notified. "It's probably to kill Slade!"
"This is not good!" Beastboy interjected slamming a palm to his forehead. Starfire nodded as they all approached the middle of the bridge, all of them staring up ahead. They all covered their faces as a bright explosion made the river tide up and flooded the edge of the city. Every corner was wet. On the bridge, Robin was holding onto Starfire from being swept into the river. Cyborg held onto the wires as Beastboy flew up.
When the water cleared, save for the little flood that reached their knees, Robin sputtered some river water out as Starfire coughed.
"Raven! Her coffin might've been washed down!" Robin cried out, reaching towards the Tower.
"I shall help you get over there!" Starfire proclaimed, shutting her eyes.
As he jumped down, he sighed in relief. Raven's coffin and body were glued to the exact spot, but her burial hole was filled with water.
"I'll get that," Beastboy said jumping after he released Cyborg by his shoulders. He turned into an elephant and sucked the water out. After that, the priest came out, drying himself with paper towels.
"Let's us proceed on this dreadful night," the priest fixed his glasses and opened the book. He placed a hand on her coffin and said a few prayers to bless her to heaven once more. "Please continue the funeral by each throwing in a handful of earth."
Robin volunteered first and threw in a scoop of dirt and one rose form his bouquet. Raven's eyes looked like they blinked but the rain had spread the mud around so he couldn't see it clearly. He bent down on one knee and squinted. Just as the rain had washed her away, he noticed her eyes were closed. He sighed but kept staring as her face. It was Cyborg's turn to throw in the dirt.
Her eyes did blink.
A/n** Someone put that I had too many flashbacks for my story? Yeah. for 14 and 15, it's supposed to be that way since it's like, they're remembering
what happened before the bad things happened. Yeah, like Raven's death, Starfire's and Robin's get together, you know? Lol... yeah. :D Well, from
here on end, I don't plan to put too many flashbacks.
And thank God** I had printed out 17 and 18 before my disk broke down. I got this back from friend, Joy-chan, who reads it before I publicize it.
A/N** oh yeah. if you have any comments on my stories you can IM me on
greYSnoWBall :D
Jerikai watched Starfire and Robin together later that night. Starfire kept whirling her fingers around on the table as Robin sat there, depressed. He was by the window but cloaked in black to match the nighttime sky. Rain beat down upon his shoulders, making another help of disguise. He grimaced at the site of Robin.
"You. How can you just dump her like that, even if she's dead? I killed her to make you suffer! Did you not think that I would suffer as well!? I love her, fool!" Jerikai scowled. He flew down to the chamber Raven was locked up in. He placed a hand on the window. "If Slade... didn't make me kill you, then you would've been with me on Azarath, my wife. He said he would destroy our planet if I didn't kill you. that Bastard! Erg. Why did you leave me for this place? Earth is such filth. How can you like it? Is it because of that Robin man?" Jerikai sighed. "You're still my wife, believe it or not, you are. I love you."
He opened a portal to go inside and teleported himself to her death domain. With a few punch-ins of the key, the glass container unlocked and let out mist and a build up pressure of air. After it was all cleared away, he touched Raven's face. She was cold.
"You'll probably rot soon" he whispered. He held her close to his chest, her cape falling behind her. He snuggled against her. A voice slowly whispered in his head.
"Jerikai."
"Who's here?! Where?" he jumped. He looked around.
"It's me Slade," his icy voice slithered.
"How'd you get here?" He looked around, trying to find him.
"Telekinesis, you fool. Kill her body, now! Kill her now!" Slade ordered.
"I. can't." Jerikai released his anger. "How can you ask me to kill her if she's already a corpse?!"
"To make sure she's dead!" his voice echoed in Jerikai's mind.
"I can't!" he screamed out.
Robin heard a quiet screech traveling through the halls from the fourth floor. Somewhere near the medical center. 'Raven!' he thought.
"RAVEN!" he shouted out loud. Starfire stood up with him and followed him to the medical room where they found Jerikai holding Raven's body. "Jerikai!? Let go of Raven! Now!"
"Get out! Get out of my head!" Jerikai now loosened his grip on Raven with one hand and placed it over his ear. "I won't destroy her body!"
"Oh!" Starfire gasped. Robin was confused. Wasn't Jerikai out to kill Raven? And now he didn't want to hurt her body?
Robin looked to his right a Beastboy and Cyborg entered.
'Erg... I have to protect her this time!' Robin thought. It angered him that he couldn't do anything to save her from death the other time.
"Stop! Just let go of her and leave!" Robin ran towards Jerikai and punched him in the stomach. Jerikai leaned over and almost dropped Raven. Robin dropped down and caught her, folding her legs over the crevices of his elbows and her head fell back wards as her arms swung. His arms were supporting her weight under her upper back. He stood up and looked down at the serene body. He placed it in the coffin and turned back to Jerikai.
"I have to! Azarath . would . BE DESTROYED!" he scowled. "I have . to . my family!"
"Oh no you ain't!" Cyborg yelled out.
"Don't even think about touching her!" Beastboy implied. He turned into an eagle and started to claw at Jerikai's protecting arm. While Jerikai tried pushing him away, Cyborg blasted him with the cannon. The spouse of Raven only had a few burnt skin peeling off and little holes in his clothes. He stood up from his fall and looked at them.
"I surrender," he looked at them one by one. They were too shocked to do anything. He slowly walked over to Raven and kissed her. Robin growled out of jealousy and moved up to stop him, but Jerikai already teleported out. He tried to stick his hand out to where Jerikai was but he hadn't felt a single solid, invisible object. He sighed and walked over to Raven. He assorted her body to the correct position and locked the glass container.
Robin wanted to make sure that he was the last one to touch her before they buried her body.
The next day, the rain had overcome the weather and let itself pour endlessly. Robin stayed by the corpse and watched her through the night. He inspected her face. Her serene features showed closed eye-lids, destroyed reams hidden behind them, soft lips that wanted to be kissed by a certain someone, a nose waiting to smell the scent of someone special and her ears waiting to hear the words 'I love you.' Her cheeks were a rosy complexion. Raven's hair flared out on the satin pillow under her head. Her right hand was over her heart, waiting for a beat to pound in her chest.
Robin held his hand above her hand, wishing to hold it. His thoughts on Raven were disturbed as Cyborg entered the room.
"We have to bury her now." Cyborg announced. "The priest is going to be here in a few minutes and we have to prepare her on the island."
"I'll do it." Robin volunteered alone.
"Man! Your puny white ass can't even lift her up. You need someone strong!" Cyborg protested. Robin just stared at Raven's face. He sighed. "Ok, Ok... just tell me when you need help, alright?"
"I'll be fine," Robin assured. Cyborg shrugged and left the room, leaving the door open. The boy wonder took a hold of a handle at the head of the coffin and dragged it to the door.
With little struggle, Robin had it centered 2 yards away from the front doors of the tower. As the rain soaked into his skin, he watched the rain water slide down from the round top of Raven's glass coffin.
20 minutes later the Priest arrived with a suitcase, they found Robin still staring at Raven. His suit was dirty from the mud while her was digging a hold fit for the coffin. In his arms was a wooden stick. Walking over to the head of the burial site, he plunged it into the soft earth at the head of the square hole.
Robin then walked inside of the tower and walked out with very dark roses.
"Yo! Aren't those rare!? It's really hard finding them, huh?" Beastboy quizzed. Robin kept silent. Beastboy only watched. Cyborg stepped up and placed a hand on his shoulders.
"Come Robin, we must help the priest bless Raven." Starfire took Robin away from Cyborg's grip and held his hand. He just relaxed his hand as her hand wrapped around his. Robin felt as if he were betraying Raven and jerked his hand away. Starfire held again and this time he didn't do anything.
As the priest kept saying his vows, Jerikai watched in despair. He wanted to be right next to Raven, being there when she was blessed. He watched them hold out their hands to bless her to Heaven and watched them bow their heads.
"You have to kill them now!" Slade ordered. He slithered besides him in vapors. From then on he turned into a physical being, standing on the roof top with him.
"Why?"
"You want to know everything? Curious aren't you? There is one thing you should know then, Raven doesn't love you anymore," Slade injected into his mind. Jerikai only built up anger.
"I don't care! Why did you even make me kill her?!"
"Hasty, aren't you?" If you kill them, I'll see what I can do to made Raven come back to life again."
"Even if she's alive again, she'll try to return to the arms of him," Jerikai added, pointing down to Robin. "I can find a way to make sure she'll go back to you," Slade smiled. Jerikai clenched his fists and closed his eyes.
"No!"
"Kill them now!"
"I can't."
"And why not?" Slade asked.
"Because they're Raven's friends. If she will be brought back to life, she'd hate me. She'll hate me and she'll curse the day I was born!" Jerikai wept out loud.
Down below thy heard someone shout.
"Who could ruin this sad day?" Starfire gasped.
"Robin, doesn't that guy rem-" Beastboy started.
"Jerikai!" Robin growled. "And. that's Slade? How did he get out of prison?" Even if he was depressed from Raven's death, he still wanted revenge on Slade. With that, Starfire grabbed his hand and she carried him to the top of the roof.
"We must preserve the peace of Raven's body! Let us fight together as one, Robin!" Starfire cheered as Robin let go and landed on the roof. He was confronting the real Slade. Starfire tried to fight Jerikai again, but he didn't do anything.
"Arg! Help me fight the Teen Titans, fool!" Slade yelled at the telekinetic boy.
"If you killed Raven, then why won't you fight us?" Starfire asked while standing there, watching Jerikai look at the rain that was falling into his eyes.
"I don't want to fight," Jerikai answered.
"What?! I hired you to kill Raven! Now kill the other ones!"
"Huh!? Why did you want to kill Raven?" Robin asked with trying to dodge all punches and kicks. "First you wanted to control her!"
"I wanted her to be on my team, Robin, but her power was too strong to handle. So then I wanted her dead. She was getting in the way of me defeating you!" Slade replied aggressively. He punched Robin in the face and ran inside the tower.
"Where.? ARG!" Robin ran inside after him. The others followed too.
They found him in Raven's room, clutching a mirror.
"Dude, that's." Beastboy pointed at it, reminding Cyborg.
"Sorry man, but we can't let you go around ordering people to kill and break Raven's super freaky mirror, right Beastboy?" Cyborg said powering up his laser canon.
"You are so right! Let's go!"
"What about you, depressed one?" Cyborg asked. Robin nodded and put on a serious face.
"Ready for the sonic? I got the boom," Robin smiled. Cyborg was confused but agreed.
Robin grabbed three of his disks as Cyborg powered up to the max.
"Wait! If you do that, he'll reflect it on us and destroy Raven's mirror!" Jerikai foretold. He used his telekinesis and took a hold of Raven's mirror. "It's my turn to show Raven that I still love her!"
Cyborg's and Beastboy's eyebrows went up.
"Loved."
"Her?" Beastboy finished Cyborg's statement. They looked at each other and stuck out their tongues in disgust.
"That's right, you weren't awake when he was talking to us," Robin recalled.
"Uh. right," Cyborg said. They watched as Slade battled Jerikai. N several occasions, Robin tried to help but Jerikai warded him off.
"Don't worry! I got this one!" Jerikai told. He gave a couple of blasts from his hand and shot Slade down. Slade was paralyzed for a few minutes as Jerikai took him and broke through Raven's window to the middle of the river.
"Evacuate the people on the bridge now! Teen Titans, go!" Robin ordered. In 20 minutes they had everyone off the bridge and kept people from wandering onto there.
While the priest prayed that everything will go well on the fight, the rain still kept on. He ventured inside and watched the fight.
"You haven't defeated me yet!" Slade grinned as Jerikai held Slade by the wrist, willing to drop him anytime. Jerikai looked confused.
'Friend of Raven, I'll be gone forever. Just give Raven a proper funeral. Send my love to her,' Jerikai used his telepathy to talk to Robin. Robin's heart twinge at Jerikai's love for Raven. He saw Starfire standing on the bridge, watching the fight.
"Gone forever?" Robin asked himself. A large glowing orb enveloped Jerikai's body. Just then, a large transparent sphere of black over shadowed them all. Everything grew quiet as it enlarged. Seconds later, with a high whistle it all came back to the source: Jerikai.
"He going to commit suicide?!" Robin shouted to them all, half asking-half telling.
"Looks like it!" Cyborg notified. "It's probably to kill Slade!"
"This is not good!" Beastboy interjected slamming a palm to his forehead. Starfire nodded as they all approached the middle of the bridge, all of them staring up ahead. They all covered their faces as a bright explosion made the river tide up and flooded the edge of the city. Every corner was wet. On the bridge, Robin was holding onto Starfire from being swept into the river. Cyborg held onto the wires as Beastboy flew up.
When the water cleared, save for the little flood that reached their knees, Robin sputtered some river water out as Starfire coughed.
"Raven! Her coffin might've been washed down!" Robin cried out, reaching towards the Tower.
"I shall help you get over there!" Starfire proclaimed, shutting her eyes.
As he jumped down, he sighed in relief. Raven's coffin and body were glued to the exact spot, but her burial hole was filled with water.
"I'll get that," Beastboy said jumping after he released Cyborg by his shoulders. He turned into an elephant and sucked the water out. After that, the priest came out, drying himself with paper towels.
"Let's us proceed on this dreadful night," the priest fixed his glasses and opened the book. He placed a hand on her coffin and said a few prayers to bless her to heaven once more. "Please continue the funeral by each throwing in a handful of earth."
Robin volunteered first and threw in a scoop of dirt and one rose form his bouquet. Raven's eyes looked like they blinked but the rain had spread the mud around so he couldn't see it clearly. He bent down on one knee and squinted. Just as the rain had washed her away, he noticed her eyes were closed. He sighed but kept staring as her face. It was Cyborg's turn to throw in the dirt.
Her eyes did blink.