Ok good news I have one more chapter left to write.

The bad news is that the next chapter will be the last one. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Big thanks to everyone who has left a review, THANK YOU.

I borrowed some lines from The Matrix: Revolutions. Enjoy

Chapter 31

Helping your friends and painful choices

Nightwing prepared to deliver the final blow to Nightmare until he was suddenly sent crashing through a building by powerful black beam of energy. Everyone looked around them in shock, trying to see where the mysterious blast came from.

"Finally prophecy has come to pass" hissed an evil voice from everywhere as Nightwing stood back up.

"What was that?" asked Nightwing as he held his arm and looked over at Nightmare. He was answered by another beam of black energy that slammed him through several more walls.

"Evil has finally come to this pathetic planet" hissed the evil voice as a black robed figure appeared beside Nightmare and looked over at Nightwing. Thunder was heard as rain started to fall from the heavens.

"No" gasped Genesis as she watched the figure lower it's hand and walk towards the place Nightwing lay.

"What is it?" asked Beast Boy as he looked at the terrified goddess.

"The evil" replied Genesis as she turned and looked at Beast boy,. her fear could be seen in her amber eyes.

"So you are the one destined to stop me are you?" hissed the figure as he picked up Nightwing and held him several feet above the ground. Nightwing gasped for air as the figure tightened his grip, cutting off his air supply. The figure just smiled as he threw Nightwing aside, slamming his body into another wall. The figure continued smiling as he walked over to where Nightmare lay.

"And you where meant to be my avatar?" it sneered as it kicked Nightmare down the street into the wreckage of a destroyed car. Nightmare groaned in pain as his head smashed off the car. Nightwing managed to stand back up and summoned a sword to his hands. He roared as he launched himself at the figure and plunged his sword into the figure's back.

"Booya!" cheered Cyborg as he watched Nightwing plunge his white sword into the figure's back. His good mood was short lived as the figure blasted Nightwing away and pulled the sword free from it's back.

"Did you think that would stop me?" asked the figure as it dropped the sword to the ground and ran at Nightwing. Before Nightwing knew it the figure was standing in front of him and rammed his fist into his stomach. Nightwing coughed once as the air rushed from his body.

"I can't be stopped" hissed the figure as it held it's pointed it's finger at Nightwing and blasted him down the street, "No mortal being can stop me!" it laughed as it watched Nightwing smash into the side of a car, leaving the car in pieces. The figure was then suddenly struck from behind by several blasts of green, blue, black and golden energy. It turned and saw Raven, Cyborg, Starfire and Genesis combine their powers into a beam of multi coloured energy.

"Stop interfering!" roared the figure as it batted the beam away and sent a beam of it's own black energy at the group of heroes, knocking them aside in a huge explosion.

"You have to help them" pleaded a voice inside Nightmare's head making the demon stir among the wreckage of the car.

"Who said that?" groaned Nightmare as he opened his eyes and saw Onyx standing in front of him, "How can you be here?"

"Not important but helping our friends is" smiled Onyx as he knelt down and looked Nightmare in the eyes.

"How can I help, I am their enemy" sighed Nightmare as he looked up at Onyx.

"No your still me and I'm their friend now will you help them or will you just let this thing beat you?" asked Onyx as he held his hand out to Nightmare.

"I don't lose, you should know that" smiled Nightmare as he took Onyx's hand and stood back up.

"Time to die little girl" hissed the figure as it stood over a defenceless Raven. It was suddenly sent flying down the street into a wall by a bolt of crimson lightning.

"Leave my friends alone" growled Nightmare as he looked at the figure stand back up and look at him.

"How dare you defy your master!" roared the figure as it glared at Nightmare in rage.

"I have no master" smiled Nightmare as he charged at the figure. Nightmare appeared in front of the figure and attacked it with a series of powerful kicks and punches. The figure didn't even try and block the attacks and just allowed Nightmare to pummel him into the ground.

"Is it my turn yet?" asked the figure as it grabbed Nightmare's leg and smiled at him. That smiled froze Nightmare's blood as the figure spun Nightmare around his head and slammed him onto the ground with incredible force. Nightmare coughed up some blood and held his ribs as he tried to stand back up.

"You don't know when to quit do you?" smiled the figure as it grabbed Nightmare by the throat and lifted him off the ground, "Good" it smiled as it started to ram it's knee's into Nightmare's stomach making him roar in pain.

"Come on Dick get up" coughed Nightwing as he tried to stand back up but he had no strength left in his body.

"I thought I never gave up?" smiled Robin as he appeared in front of Nightwing. Nightwing just smiled, he was about to have a conversation with himself.

"I don't" replied Nightwing as he smiled up at robin.

"Then come on onyx needs our help" smiled Robin as he pointed at Nightmare being pummelled into nothing.

"Why is he helping us?" asked Nightwing as he watched Nightmare roar in pain as the figure continued to knee him in the ribs.

"Because he is still your, sorry our friend" smiled Robin as he held his hand out to Nightwing, "And do you let your friends down?"

"No" replied Nightwing as he took Robins hand and stood back up, "Hold on Onyx help is on it's way" he said as he ran over to the figure.

"Tell me when I should start hitting hard?" laughed the figure as it rammed it's fist into Nightmare's gut, making the demon cough in pain.

"How about you pick on someone your won size" smiled Nightwing as he stood behind the figure.

"Well look who decided to stand back up" smiled the figure as it dropped Nightmare and looked at Nightwing.

"I swear over my own life that I will stop you" hissed Nightwing as he entered his fighting stance.

"Good cause I intend to take your life away" smiled the figure as it launched itself at Nightwing.

Nightwing ducked the first punch and managed to hit the figure in the ribs with a punch of his won. The figure growled in anger and grabbed Nightwing by the arm and threw him down the street. The figure then sent a beam of black energy after Nightwing as he flew down the street at great speed. Nightwing acted quickly and channelled his own power into a beam of white energy and sent smashing into the figure's beam, both of the energies neutralised each other causing a huge explosion that destroyed nearly all the reaming buildings in the street.

"Nicely done" smiled the figure as it appeared behind Nightwing and sent him crashing into the road below. Nightwing manage to slow his descent by spreading his wings again and landed on his feet. He didn't have long to rest as the figure came crashing down on top of him smashing him into the ground.

"Had enough?" asked the figure as it stood over Nightwing's immobile body. It was shocked as Nightwing slowly stirred and tried to stand back up under his own strength.

"Why Dick?" asked the figure as Nightwing knelt in front of it and gasped for air.

"Why, why, why?" it asked as Nightwing coughed and wiped the sweat off his forehead.," Why do you do it?"

"Why? Why get up?" it asked as Nightwing held his ribs and tried to stand back up, "Why keep fighting?".

"Do you believe you are fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know?" it demanded as Nightwing stood back up but collapsed back down to his knees.

"Is it freedom or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love?" asked the figure as Nightwing took a deep breath and tried once again to stand back up.

"Illusions Dick. Vagaries of perception. Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose!" said the figure as it watched Nightwing stand back up.

"You must be able to see it, Dick. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting!" the figure said as Nightwing stood in front of it , his legs where unsteady but he was still standing.

"Why, Dick, why? Why do you persist?" demanded the figure as Nightwing looked at it, he was covered in his won blood but he wasn't giving up the fight.

"Because I choose to" replied Nightwing softly as he smiled weakly at the figure. The figure growled in anger and tried to punch Nightwing in the face. Nightwing managed to block the attack and caught the figure with a punch of his own. The figure reeled back as Nightwing continued to punch it in the face until he finally landed a huge uppercut and sent the figure flying out of the crater onto the road above them.

"He is doing it" smiled Genesis weakly as she watched Nightwing climbed out of the crater and hit the figure with a huge roundhouse kick to the chest.

"Doing what?" asked Beast Boy as he stood beside Genesis, holding his arm and ribs.

"Fighting for life" smiled raven as she stood beside Beast Boy and watched Nightwing land another kick to the figure's chest. Cyborg and Starfire appeared beside her and joined her in watching Nightwing battle against the evil that threatened all life. They where now merely spectators to the greatest battle of all time.

Nightwing punched the figure again, this time he hit it in the chest and sent it skidding down the street.

"Impossible" coughed the figure as it looked at Nightwing walking towards it, "How can a mere mortal beat me"

"I will beat you because I have to" replied Nightwing as he kicked the figure in the ribs, making it cough as the air rushed from it's lungs.

"Wrong I'll beat you!" yelled the figure as it glared at Nightwing and captured in an invisible force. The figure laughed evilly as it stood back up and watched Nightwing struggle to break free.

"Now to have some fun" it smiled as it pointed over at Nightmare's body and captured him in the same invisible force. The figure turned and looked at the horrified titan's as he held Nightwing and Nightmare above his head.

"Choose now mortal. Choose which one of these warriors lives and which one dies" laughed the figure as it pointed at Raven.

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Ok once again you all have a decision to make. Will Raven pick Nightwing to live or will she pick Nightmare to live? The choice is now yours. I hope you enjoyed that chapter and hopefully will have the next chapter written soon, depends on how long it takes people to vote on who lives really. Remember to please leave a review. Later days and stay safe.