Satan's Child

Castles: Pain…Pain…Ow… In case you're wondering, I got assaulted at skool, and ended up with a spilt lip, from being punched in the mouth twice, and a VERY poorly finger, which means that I am unable to type very well, so updates have been slow, I know.

Kitty Castles does not own the Teen Titans. She only puts claims to Shinta, Deathstroke, Rubinis, and anyone else strange sounding that we haven't mentioned!!!

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Ocdsugar: When I say 'baby-making' I generally mean sex, regardless of whether a child is the result of that night of lurve... Therefore, Robin and Starfire could have a baby from their baby making, and they could not, but it is still called baby making. Confused? You should be!

Change-Of-Heart2: Ow…pain to my poorly lip…I may have been punched in the face, but I can still write! Don't worry, more is on the way! But I'll have to find my plot-planning book first, so that I know what to write!!

Scribs: I never said Robin was going to die. And if you want to know about my extensive knowledge of baby-making scenes, go find HyperSonicAdam2 on Adultfanfiction.net. Read the few short stories he has, and you'll know soon enough as to how I know!!! But be patient, it tends to kick you off when there's too many people online. UU

Byebyebb18: Since when did Robin sleep with Raven? But as we have no idea who actually did sleep with Raven on her one-night-stand, so it could (emphasis on could) be Speedy. And I ain't telling which chapter you will find out who the father is, you'll have to find out for yourself!

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Castles: silently laughing as she contemplates chapter Ow…hurts poorly finger Little do they know what is going to happen. Okay, I have a little poll for you all:

Who do you think the father of Raven's unborn child is?

Speedy

Beast Boy

Somebody unknown because Castles hasn't mentioned them.

Other. (please specify)

No biggie, just want to know what you all think about it.

Kitty: We're going to turn this into a bit of a song-fic chapter. It will feature the song 'In The Shadows' by The Rasmus. With that out of the way, on with the ficcie!!!

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= No sleep.

No sleep until I'm done finding the answer.

Won't stop.

Won't stop before I find the cure for this cancer

Sometimes, I feel like going down, I'm so disconnected.

Somehow, I know that I am haunted to be wanted..=

As Trigon began to make his presence known to the dwellers below, the Titans were racing in a battle against time to save the Earth, and Raven. A distraction, by the means of Rubinis rushing out with his gun however, delayed their progress, and both Beast Boy and Cyborg were becoming increasingly worried.

"Stop! Stop or I'll shoot down every single fucking one of you!" Rubinis shouted, his almost regal robes flowing in the mud below him. He had a mad glint in his eye, the torn and tattered hem of the robe fluttering on the light breeze.

"Get out of the way." Beast Boy grimly replied.

"Fuck you! Fuck off all of you! Prepare to die!!" The cult leader screamed, firing randomly. Thankfully, his aim was poor, and nobody was hit.

"Fuck off yourself." Kiya casually added, throwing the gun out of his hand with one flick of her wrist. Smiling with pride as he looked around, wide-eyed with terror, she picked him up with her telekinesis powers, and chucked him leftwards. He crashed with the metal pole in the stairwell in front of them, slumping unconscious for a few precious seconds.

"Come on." The young changeling added, nodding towards the stairs. "We've got a world to save."

For the next ten minutes, nobody said a word, as they dashed up stairwell after stairwell. It was only when the heard the cries from above, and saw two familiar black silhouettes falling past, both seeming to be in a struggle to get away from the other, that they realised that Robin had pretty much failed in getting past Deathstroke.

"Robin!" Starfire cried, running to the side of the balcony. "We must save him!" She numbly reminded them.

"We'll go back. BB, Kiya, go on." Cyborg said, turning with the remainder of the party following him. Starfire practically flew after his path downwards, desperation lining her voice. Beast Boy and his daughter merely sighed, turning to run on.

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Robin didn't know how far it was to the ground, but he felt somehow that he was going to die. He would hit the muddy plain below, and he was going die there, along with Deathstroke. Both had been engaged in a battle going down, a battle to separate from the other. This hadn't worked, as each one tried to push the opponent away, and holding onto the other's clothes in order to push them away wasn't getting either anywhere.

"Let go! Get off me!" Deathstroke shouted, as they plummeted towards the earth.

"Let go of me! I'm not landing beneath you!" Robin cried, trying to disentangle himself. The rain had begun to fall again, and he knew that he didn't have much time left before they crash landed. In a last ditch attempt, Robin pushed Deathstroke beneath him, mere seconds before impact came.

With a sharp thud, Robin and Deathstroke made contact with the hardening muddy ground.

= I've been watching, I've been waiting.

In the shadows, of my time.

I've been searching, I've been living.

For tomorrow's, all my life.=

"Robin! Robin where are you?!" Starfire miserably looked around, still looking for her lost lover. They had found Deathstroke, his body lying wet with the rain. The villain was seemingly dead, but nobody had bothered to look for a pulse, so whether he was still alive or not was unknown. But there was no sign of Robin, even if he was dead, they couldn't trace his body.

"Star…give it up…You'll never find him…He's gone.." Cyborg gently tried to help her accept the loss, but the alien refused to accept it.

"No! I won't give up until I at least see his body! But I'm sure he's alive, and I WILL find him!!" She stifled a sob, going back to look where Deathstroke's body was.

"Brother, look…" Lightning pointed to inches from where Starfire was, to the main foundations of the tower. There, only just visible, was a small ripped piece of Robin's jacket. "Maybe…maybe Robin is alive…"

Starfire, having seen where her old friend was pointing to, carefully stooped down, the moonlight unable to get to that area, therefore giving her no light. Illuminating a fist, she held it in front of a gap in the building works.

"Robin! You are alive!"

For there, just inside the small gap, Robin lay curled up, several huge cuts across his left cheek, shoulder, arm and thigh. It was obvious that he had crawled in on his right side, for there was no blood on the ground. The only other wound that looked bad was the huge sword slash across his back. Although not dead, and most certainly not unconscious, he was most certainly in a bad way. Starfire looked rather nervously down upon him, tears beginning to form in the corner of her eyes.

"St…Starfire?" He managed to croak, his eyes shining dimly in the darkness. He reached his fingers forward slightly, trying to reach his girlfriend, his breath coming ragged and panting. She reached forwards, fingertips gently touching. For a few moments, a feeling of hope, and relief flowed through both of them, a feeling which was only shattered when Robin coughed harshly, his chest heaving with the effort.

"He is alive friend? I thought he would surely die falling from that height." Thunder asked.

"Deathstroke…He…he broke…my…fall…Dead I think…but…saved my…life…" Robin managed to stammer from his space in the frameworks of the tower. "He was…Slade's…..adopted son…" He finished.

"Adopted?" Cyborg echoed. "Now there's an improvement."

= They say, that I must learn to kill before I can feel safe,

But I, I'd rather kill myself than turn into their slave.

Sometimes, I feel that I should go and play with the thunder,

Somehow, I just don't wanna stay and wait for a wonder. =

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"Uh…help?" Raven desperately called from her position at the top of the tower. Despite trying her hardest to hang on, she knew that she was dying, and so was her unborn child. Her breathing was heavy, her throat feeling as if it was closing up. Trigon was still unable to pass over to the physical plain, the demon already knew that was because she wasn't dead. He was still trying, trying to break through, trying not to prolong her death in his impatience to pass over.

Not that he would get very far when he did. For below, hidden in the many tunnels, passageways and secret caves around the gorge they were in, many hundreds of dark witches lay in waiting for when he entered the world for real. The demon was completely aware of their presence, her leg had been cut by one of the dark witches athames. But when Trigon came, those witches were going to cast in their hundreds a controlling spell, a spell meant to force him under their rule, so that Rubinis and Deathstroke would be able to take over the world.

Okay so Deathstroke was probably dead along with Robin, but Raven had a certain feeling that Robin was still alive. She was beginning to feel dizzy, a sense of feeling that she couldn't quite place. The world was beginning to spin around her, fading slightly, everything becoming darker than before.

"Could…use some help right about now…" She gasped, nearly collapsing from her pain.

"Oh I'd be happy to help you." Rubinis answered as he strode up behind her. "I'd love to kill you off a bit quicker." He smiled with his evil grin again, as she raised her head to snarl in anger at him.

"Leave me alone. If I'm gonna die, I want to do it without you gloating over my dead body." She snapped back at the cult leader.

"How about we remove the madman for you then?" Kiya sarcastically remarked from the archway where she and her father stood, ready to fight the enemy.

"That would be appreciated…If you could just untie me then, things might go a bit more smoothly…" She called back, taking two rather deep breaths, swallowing back tears as a fresh streak of pain shot through her chest.

"You'll never take her back alive…" Rubinis hissed, drawing a gun in one hand, and a small, lithe dagger in the other. "Not unless you want to risk dying yourselves…" He stood like a wild animal in front of Raven, skin deathly pale, eyes like twin diamonds, buried inside the sunken folds of skin that covered over them. He was about to run forward, brandishing his weapons, when he suddenly tripped, falling forwards to crash onto the metal below as Raven suddenly kicked him with no apparent warning, her aim at his calf throwing his balance off guard.

"You'll pay for that…" He snarled through gritted teeth. Lifting himself back upright, the angry enemy ran forwards at the two in front of him, ambushing them in a sudden shock. His tactics worked well, Beast Boy was slung against a pole in the archway's foundations, and Kiya was sent tumbling forwards, sprawling out in front of Rubinis almost as if she was bowing in prayer.

"Yes, bow before me as you shall soon call me master!" He laughed suddenly, his bellows slightly angering the still trapped Trigon within the demonic portal. But he wasn't laughing for long:

For two swift seconds when he was too busy laughing, Kiya lifted a fist upwards, - and nailed him in the balls.

= I've been watching, I've been waiting,

In the shadows, of my time.

I've been searching, I've been living,

For tomorrows, all my life. =

The cult leader stiffened, as Kiya raised an eyebrow in questioning, whilst Raven just smiled and burst out laughing behind them. Beast Boy merely widened his eyes, a grin beginning to creep across his face.

"You were saying?" Kiya asked rhetorically, whilst Rubinis slump over onto the floor, hands holding onto his painful crotch, his face screwed up with the soreness. Still laughing, she stepped over him, running to her mother. "Are you okay Mum?" She asked.

"Do me a favour, and get rid of these damned cuffs on my wrist first please. At least then I can use my powers." The demon answered. Her condition was worse than they had thought, Kiya could see that. But she determinedly refused to let it show, as she worked on the cuffs, using her telekinesis to silently unlock them.

Within 10 minutes, they had dropped to the floor, Raven flexing her wrists as best as she could with her bonds still there. "Much better" Raven remarked.

"Not for long…" Rubinis growled from behind as he staggered to his feet, his gun pointed directly at Beast Boy behind them. "Make another move, and lover boy here is dead." He laughed, a merciless, maniac laugh. Rubinis was insane, crazy enough to kill the changeling in order to raise Trigon, who had barely moved any further forward since anybody had last looked.

He was stopped by Kiya, who jumped him from behind. This had a reverse affect, as Rubinis dragged her off his back, swinging around to toss her like a rag doll into the air, watching as she fell to the floor, losing her balance and toppling off the walkway.

"Kiya!" Beast Boy and Raven shouted in unison.

The young changeling already knew she would be okay. About halfway down, she transformed into a little robin bird, taking to the skies again, and flying to the nearest gap in the building works in order to reach safety. Breathing heavily with relief, she turned to relax for a minute on the

staircases, her eyes suddenly following the trial of blood on the staircase she spotted. She then noticed the metal staff of Robin's, soaked in blood, lying abandoned next to one of the many walls.

Her eyes finally found the dead body of Slade, lying against the stone cold pole in front of her. Why she hadn't seen the body before, when she and her dad had woken up, she didn't know.

Shrugging, Kiya turned and jumped down the remaining stairs that led to the blood stained battle field below.

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"Kiya? What are you doing back down here?" Cyborg asked, whilst the young changeling brushed herself off.

"Got chucked off the tower. Not too bad, I managed to turn into a bird halfway down." She replied, cocking her head slightly to one side as she noticed Starfire. "What's up? Why is Star just sitting there?"

"Let us just say that our friend is alive, but is also currently inside that building. She is trying to get him out." Thunder sighed as more thunderous roars echoed from above. "Is he ever going to shut up? At this rate, we will all get headaches."

"He won't shut up until he gets revenge. And that is precisely what we are going to stop, - if we actually get that far. Robin is a slightly bigger priority right now." Cyborg grimly reminded them, sitting back down on the rock he had been perched on before. "Just let Star work her magic."

"Hey uh, has anyone got some paracetamol? I already have a killer headache." Kiya said with a groan.

=Lately I've been walking, walking in circles,

Watching, waiting for something.

Feel me, touch me, heal me,

Come take me higher…=

"Robin? Robin can you move in there?" Starfire's big green eyes began to well up with tears, as she reached out and shook the barely conscious Robin. The boy wonder could move a little, and most certainly make small noises, but he was unable to crawl out of the little gap he had gotten himself into, for his injuries were too great.

"Please Robin, please try and get out of that little hole. I will help you." Starfire's pleas were answered in a way as the boy wonder carefully managed to stretch out an arm, but physically unable to do anything else.

"Maybe I can help. Robin doesn't appear to be moving out of there anytime soon, so I might be able to move him by telekinesis. I may not be able to move him far, but out of there would be a good start." Kiya carefully knelt beside the distressed Starfire, silently seeking permission from Robin. "Do you mind Robin? It seems to be the only way to get you out of there."

"Raven…might be…able…to do better…but out…of…here is…a start…Go ahead.." He took a deep breath to recuperate, before nodding slightly as well.

"Here goes nothing…" The young changeling muttered, wordlessly concentrating on her demonic powers, before she surrounded Robin with her own black/white aura, carefully lifting his curled up little form from the ground a few inches. Pausing for a few seconds, she took an intake of breath, and began to move Robin towards her. It was taking huge amounts of concentration and energy, as she moved him a few inches at a time, but it was indefinitely working.

" Cyborg look.…That portal is slowly getting bigger I swear. And all the time, we can see a few more horns poking up, and definitely a few more eyes. Maybe this whole thing is going quicker than we thought." Lightning muttered to the hybrid, pointing at the large red space floating above them.

"Maybe, but I trust BB. He might have his doubts at the moment, but he loves Raven more than anything. Sure they do fight a lot, but you can bet they'll make up within a few hours. That's how their relationship works in a way." Cyborg whispered his reply as Robin was ¾ out of the little cove, Kiya's body beginning to take the effects of it all.

"Kiy, are you sure you can keep this up? You're wearing yourself out. " Cyborg gently whispered, trying not to break her concentration. With Robin practically out of the gap, she slowly lowered his weight to the floor, releasing her hold, - before flopping sideways and collapsing from exhaustion.

"Kiya!" Starfire exclaimed, turning the girl over to check her pulse and breathing. Gathering that the young changeling was only conked out from overwhelming tiredness, the alien turned her attention to Robin, who, with a bit of shifting on the allies part, was re-arranged so that he was officially out of the tower.

"Well, Robin's safe. I only hope we can say the same for Raven." Cyborg declared, glancing up at the scene unfolding in front of them.

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=I've been watching, I've been waiting,

In the shadows, of my time.

I've been searching, I've been living,

For tomorrow's, all my life. =

Raven and Beast Boy weren't any better off. Despite Beast Boy's attempts at stopping Rubinis, the cult leader was determined to rid himself of the green skinned male as he had done with Kiya. Raven was really struggling, the still proceeding ritual taking a real toll on her as it slowly drained away her life force to further open the portal.

"Die you little annoying shape shifter!" Gun shots echoed into the night as Beast Boy jumped, shifted, twisted, and did everything else possible to avoid the bullets that flew his way. Raven would have helped him out, but she was too busy attempting to release her own bonds, which were tightly bound, and used up more energy to release. Beast Boy probably would have been hit numerous times had it not been for his quick actions in transforming into a ram, and charging at the cult leader, catching him by surprise, as the ram shifted into a tiger, rearing and growling as the changeling grew in size, his anger pouring out, Rubinis aiming closer and closer to the edge.

"No! You'll never defeat me! I am invincible!" Rubinis cried into the night as the tiger took a swipe at his left arm, - cleanly ripping the arm from it's socket, blood dripping everywhere. Sinking his fangs into nearby flesh on the aged leader's shoulder, Beast Boy ripped, tore, bit and did all he possibly do to Rubinis, practically mutilating him.

Raven merely watched and gasped as she saw her lover fight for everything that had ever meant anything to him, the disfigured body of Rubinis, the crazed cult leader of Brother Blood, falling to the floor, her body going into shock as she saw the tiger sniff the dead man, before pushing it off the edge, the blood shining like rubies in the air. It was then that a sharp, almost fatal feeling pain spread across the demon's body, causing her to cry out in pain.

"Raven?" Beast Boy, in human form, ran back to her, gently embracing the one he loved, before setting to work on her bonds. In the distance, a clock chimed 3.00am, as a bellow of anger stretched up from the portal which was growing at a very steadily rate. Raven already knew that she was close to death, her natural instinct telling her that she was going to die, but also telling her that Trigon was never going to pass into their world with her death.

"Beast Boy, give it up…I'm going to die…" Raven tried to plead, but he wouldn't have any of it, continually working on the bindings that tied her to the metal posts. Within minutes, he had them undone, carefully taking hold of her as she fell forward from exhaustion. For what seemed like mere seconds, a kind of peace came over the two lovers, as the world seemed to disappear, and they only knew each other.

The first shakes of the unsteady tower brought them back to reality.

"What's happening?" Raven slowly lifted her head, as a deep, violent shake took hold of the poorly built construction.

=I've been watching…=

" The tower….It's collapsing! We have to move now!" Beast Boy would have got up and helped Raven, but the strain of the ritual, which was still in progress, not yet completed, and the weight of her swollen belly restricted her, and she fell back like a child.

"Raven please! We'll die if we stay!" The changeling was desperate, trying to lift her, but failing as she pushed him away.

=I've been waiting…=

"I can't…I'm dying anyway. Save yourself. Even if I could get down, the ritual would still kill me." But Beast Boy was adamant, refusing to leave her side as the tower began to wobble without warning, both unknowingly sliding further and further towards the edge where Raven had been bound minutes ago.

"I won't leave you…" He reminded the demon, who, in desperation, actually pushed him away, not letting him get closer.

=I've been searching…=

"For fucks sake forget about how much you love me and go! If both of us die, Kiya will have no one! And one of us is going to die! Now go!" She begged him, tears spilling as the shakes began to uproot the tower, crumbling the foundations.

But Beast Boy never had a chance to go. For with one absolute shake, the entire construction collapsed, falling to the ground with crashes as the poles, bars and stairs caved in, toppling like a giant mass of dominoes to the far away ground below.

=I've been living, for tomorrow…=

Beast Boy fell forwards, his hand releasing Raven's as he fell with the tower, turning into a falcon and flapping back upwards to try and reach Raven.

=In The Shadows…=

He never reached her. Raven fell downwards, straight into the waiting portal below that glowed a blinding red as she vanished forever into the deep red underworld…

= I've been waiting…=

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Castles: ::hides from mob of angry readers:: Don't kill me! Raven's already dead, it wouldn't do for me to join her in the demon underworld, then I won't be able to update! Next chapter is the last! Yes, the END OF THE STORY!!! Hopefully, everyone will get their questions answered in the next chapter, but some may go unanswered…

Kitty: Did ya like this song fic/chapter? We thought it went perfectly, for some unknown reason. Next chapter is last, and if Scribs is lucky, there MIGHT be a baby making scene… If not, there'll be one soon!