'Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't
mean they don't love you with all they have' - Author Unknown
Disclaimer: *mumbles* Don't own em. But I do own...MY TRIPLE DECK CHOCOLATE FUDGE CHOCOLATE BLOCK! *Flyingpiggies comes and takes it away* CC: Ok, no more chocolate...sniff, sniff
Following Shadows-Chapter 15: Failing Demons
Jumping down from the building roof, Robin landed lightly in a puddle of water. Running down the alleyway, he leapt over anything in his way. He had to find her. Driven by something he didn't know what to name, he kept on going.
Turning a sharp corner, his communicator started beeping.
"What?" He hissed, coming to a stop.
"Robin, whoa, calm down!" Cyborg insisted. "Look, you're gonna have to pull back. We've se-"
"I'm not stopping" Robin interjected coldly. "Not until I find her"
He could hear Cyborg sigh. "Robin, you've been searching all day. We've been searching all day. You've gotta rest, man"
"I'm not stopping"
"We can do this the easy way," Hearing something behind him, Robin turned, and came face to bumper with the T-Ford. "Or, we could do this the hard way"
"What are you going to do?" He asked sarcastically. "Run me over?"
"No, I'm taking you home. You can't win the race if you're running on empty"
The sensible part of Robin whispered treacherously, 'You need to rest. Raven can look after herself'
But what if it was Starfire? Would he have stopped?
'You don't feel that way about Raven. She's just another teammate, another face'
"Come on Wonder Boy," He hadn't even been aware that Cyborg had managed to shepherd him into the T-car.
"But, Raven's still-"
"You won't be able to help her if you drop from exhaustion. Give it a break, I'll take over if you're that worried"
When Cyborg didn't receive a reply after a while, he glanced over at the Boy Wonder. Head dropping, his breathing light, Robin had fallen asleep.
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Raven shuddered. She was locked in some type of dark void, unsure whether it was a trap of her minds', or reality. Darkness had never disturbed her, she was a creature of it. But there was a feeling in this darkness, something that felt wrong, something that teared at the fabric of her mind and screamed for her to run.
'Why?' Asked a cool, confident voice. 'Why run? You've learned to control the Beast within you. Face your destiny'
She responded telepathically, not finding the voice that talked straight into her mind strange. *It isn't about fighting destiny. It's about now. By controlling who I am, I control the events that are happening around me*
'Wise answer for someone so young'
*In Body maybe. My soul is another matter*
'You are a demon. Why do demons need faith in souls?'
That was a hard one. True, no matter how much she ignored it, Trigon's blood still ran through her veins. For years, she had thought that she was evil. But since she had meet Eclipse, she had seen that your genes didn't determine who you were. *What runs in your blood has nothing to do with your faith*
'Are you trying to tell me you believe in God?' The voice was amused. 'I would not expect that of you, Raven of Azareth'
*My belief of a Soul does not mean I have a belief in one God*
'What do you believe in then?'
What did she believe in? Darkness. Loneliness. But then there was friendship. The kind that made Cyborg stick with Beast Boy, despite the younger boy's Tofu preference. And love. Like the endless kind Starfire showed. The kind that Raven had never felt. Misery. Fear. They could make or break you. *Emotion *
The voice laughed. It wasn't cruel, but it wasn't friendly either. 'Ironic, don't you think? A girl who contains her feelings in fear of her heritage, believing in emotions. Why is that?'
*I cannot explain. It is just a faith, something that carries you through*
'Your friends have a faith in you, yet you disregard their beliefs. You speak of faith, yet you have none'
*No! I do have faith in them. Great faith*
'Then why do they not have your trust? Is that not a form of faith?'
*It is not a matter of trust. I do not wish for them to become entangled in my problems. They do not deserve that*
'But by not telling them, you are taking away their choice because you believe that they will not make the right one. That is a lack of trust'
Raven, growing angry with what the voice was saying, shouted, "Enough! What is the point of this!"
Her shout echoing around her, the voice replied, 'This is what will happen to you once you wake. These are the things that you will need to ask yourself. The wrong answers could lead to your demise'
*Why are you helping me?*
There was a tense silence as Raven waited. His presence fading, he replied, 'Because once, long ago, we knew the answers to those questions'
Then he was gone, and she fell deeper into the void.
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Opening his eyes, Robin blinked groggily. Why was he in his room? Last thing he remembered was Cyborg in the T-Car, talking about Raven...
Pulling himself up from his bed, he clenched his fists angrily. He would find her. He had too. Getting up, he went straight to the computer in the corner of the room, turning it on and waiting for it to warm up.
Those twins who taken her, they had been the ones who had helped them at the H.I.V.E academy. Hacking into the H.I.V.E student files, Robin typed in their names.
He read through their profiles, frowning.
Student Id no.: 005503
Name: Parie Bolle Grade/Age: 16, level A, Class k-9 Profile: A average student, uses her psychic powers to best determine how to undermind the enemy
Student Id no.: 005504
Name: Paris Bolle Grade/Age: 16, level A, Class k-9 Profile: A average student, uses his psychic powers to best determine how to undermind the enemy
'So that's how they knew how to help us' He mused. This made the situation much more difficult. Throwing the wool over a psychic's eyes would be hard enough as it was, but two of them?
Great fun.
He was half way through his shower when a thought occurred to him. Why had they taken Raven? She was powerful, but what would a pair of sixteen-year- old twins want with a sorceress? The question plagued him all the way into the kitchen, where Cyborg and Beast Boy were eating their breakfast quietly.
Sitting down with a bowl of Coco-Pops, Robin fiddled with the spoon. What had marked Raven as an asset to the twins? Her powers? Her knowledge of the Titans databases? Her-
"Robin!" Starfire flew in then, giddy with excitement. "Robin, I have the most exciting discovery to share with you!" She stood beside him, tugging at his sleeves. "Please, you must come immediately!"
"Star," He muttered, "Not now. I'm trying to think"
Starfire stopped her tugging, looking down at him with sad eyes, "But Robin, there is a-"
"Star, we really need to find out where the twins have taken Raven. Can't it wait for a while?" Beast Boy asked.
She stared at them for a moment, then began to shout, her eyes glowing green. "No! This cannot wait!" Green light glowing around her hands, she managed to bully the boys into the lounge room.
"Star? What is this about?" Robin demanded.
"Please don't let this be about mustard" Cyborg muttered under his breath.
Starfire was about to answer when a male voice cut her off.
"My name is Kirkor," The boys stared as a gothic styled boy materialized in front of them. "But you might know me as Wayne"
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Sitting down in the kitchen, Kirkor ("Call me Wayne if you want, it's easier than Kirkor anyway") explained what he knew to the other Titans. "Raven's been kidnapped, right?"
The Titans nodded.
"By a pair of psychic twins?"
They nodded again, and Kirkor sighed. "And let me guess, you have no idea why?"
"What's your point?" Snapped Robin. Kirkor eyed him and shook his head in disbelief. "I have no idea what she sees in you," He muttered. Speaking louder he said, "Raven's being taken to another dimension, in order for Trigon to over take the human in her and use her as his embassy for Earth" He looked at them with emotionless eyes. "You humans believe in evil don't you? Shadows, anger? Trigon is more. He isn't the nightmare, he's the creator"
"What does he want with Raven?" Robin asked, not noticing how the others were silent. Kirkor just watched him, amused. "You're the only one who doesn't know, aren't you?"
"Doesn't know what?" Wonder Boy hissed. He faced the others, his glare deadly. "What don't I know?"
Cyborg glanced at Beast Boy who in turn, darted a quick look at Starfire, biting her lip.
"What don't I know?"
Starfire, with a nudge from Beast Boy, stammered, "W-we were under the impression t-that you knew..."
"Knew what?"
Kirkor, undaunted by the murderous tone in the Boy Wonder's voice, stated in a bored voice, "Trigon is Raven's father"
Robin stared at him. "No, that's not true. If it was, that would make Raven a-"
"Demon? Only by half. Her mother was human"
Only half hearing what Kirkor was saying, Robin turned back to the others. "Did you guys know?"
Hanging their heads, they muttered different excuses.
The Boy Wonder looked back at the stranger, everything he had believed about Raven slowly fading. She hadn't trusted him enough to tell him about her father, who he guessed was behind all the recent attacks. He could have helped! Robin didn't care about her heritage, or who her parents were. He cared about...
Dejectedly, he sat down, his eyes looking beyond Kirkor, and out the windows. She didn't trust him.
"Boss man, you never asked her" Cyborg said, "I mean, the only reason BB and I knew was because we went into her mirror"
He looked to Starfire, who held out her hand in comfort. "We were having a bonding experience, in which we shared conferdental information" Ignoring her hand, Robin pulled himself up and glared down at Kirkor. "Wayne, Kirkor, whatever you're name is, tell me one thing. How do we save Raven?" He was still upset with her lack of trust, but they were teammates, nothing more. Yes, he told himself firmly, just teammates.
The other boy just looked at him, his face impassive. "You kill her"
AN: hahahahahahaha...I think you get the point...
Disclaimer: *mumbles* Don't own em. But I do own...MY TRIPLE DECK CHOCOLATE FUDGE CHOCOLATE BLOCK! *Flyingpiggies comes and takes it away* CC: Ok, no more chocolate...sniff, sniff
Following Shadows-Chapter 15: Failing Demons
Jumping down from the building roof, Robin landed lightly in a puddle of water. Running down the alleyway, he leapt over anything in his way. He had to find her. Driven by something he didn't know what to name, he kept on going.
Turning a sharp corner, his communicator started beeping.
"What?" He hissed, coming to a stop.
"Robin, whoa, calm down!" Cyborg insisted. "Look, you're gonna have to pull back. We've se-"
"I'm not stopping" Robin interjected coldly. "Not until I find her"
He could hear Cyborg sigh. "Robin, you've been searching all day. We've been searching all day. You've gotta rest, man"
"I'm not stopping"
"We can do this the easy way," Hearing something behind him, Robin turned, and came face to bumper with the T-Ford. "Or, we could do this the hard way"
"What are you going to do?" He asked sarcastically. "Run me over?"
"No, I'm taking you home. You can't win the race if you're running on empty"
The sensible part of Robin whispered treacherously, 'You need to rest. Raven can look after herself'
But what if it was Starfire? Would he have stopped?
'You don't feel that way about Raven. She's just another teammate, another face'
"Come on Wonder Boy," He hadn't even been aware that Cyborg had managed to shepherd him into the T-car.
"But, Raven's still-"
"You won't be able to help her if you drop from exhaustion. Give it a break, I'll take over if you're that worried"
When Cyborg didn't receive a reply after a while, he glanced over at the Boy Wonder. Head dropping, his breathing light, Robin had fallen asleep.
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Raven shuddered. She was locked in some type of dark void, unsure whether it was a trap of her minds', or reality. Darkness had never disturbed her, she was a creature of it. But there was a feeling in this darkness, something that felt wrong, something that teared at the fabric of her mind and screamed for her to run.
'Why?' Asked a cool, confident voice. 'Why run? You've learned to control the Beast within you. Face your destiny'
She responded telepathically, not finding the voice that talked straight into her mind strange. *It isn't about fighting destiny. It's about now. By controlling who I am, I control the events that are happening around me*
'Wise answer for someone so young'
*In Body maybe. My soul is another matter*
'You are a demon. Why do demons need faith in souls?'
That was a hard one. True, no matter how much she ignored it, Trigon's blood still ran through her veins. For years, she had thought that she was evil. But since she had meet Eclipse, she had seen that your genes didn't determine who you were. *What runs in your blood has nothing to do with your faith*
'Are you trying to tell me you believe in God?' The voice was amused. 'I would not expect that of you, Raven of Azareth'
*My belief of a Soul does not mean I have a belief in one God*
'What do you believe in then?'
What did she believe in? Darkness. Loneliness. But then there was friendship. The kind that made Cyborg stick with Beast Boy, despite the younger boy's Tofu preference. And love. Like the endless kind Starfire showed. The kind that Raven had never felt. Misery. Fear. They could make or break you. *Emotion *
The voice laughed. It wasn't cruel, but it wasn't friendly either. 'Ironic, don't you think? A girl who contains her feelings in fear of her heritage, believing in emotions. Why is that?'
*I cannot explain. It is just a faith, something that carries you through*
'Your friends have a faith in you, yet you disregard their beliefs. You speak of faith, yet you have none'
*No! I do have faith in them. Great faith*
'Then why do they not have your trust? Is that not a form of faith?'
*It is not a matter of trust. I do not wish for them to become entangled in my problems. They do not deserve that*
'But by not telling them, you are taking away their choice because you believe that they will not make the right one. That is a lack of trust'
Raven, growing angry with what the voice was saying, shouted, "Enough! What is the point of this!"
Her shout echoing around her, the voice replied, 'This is what will happen to you once you wake. These are the things that you will need to ask yourself. The wrong answers could lead to your demise'
*Why are you helping me?*
There was a tense silence as Raven waited. His presence fading, he replied, 'Because once, long ago, we knew the answers to those questions'
Then he was gone, and she fell deeper into the void.
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Opening his eyes, Robin blinked groggily. Why was he in his room? Last thing he remembered was Cyborg in the T-Car, talking about Raven...
Pulling himself up from his bed, he clenched his fists angrily. He would find her. He had too. Getting up, he went straight to the computer in the corner of the room, turning it on and waiting for it to warm up.
Those twins who taken her, they had been the ones who had helped them at the H.I.V.E academy. Hacking into the H.I.V.E student files, Robin typed in their names.
He read through their profiles, frowning.
Student Id no.: 005503
Name: Parie Bolle Grade/Age: 16, level A, Class k-9 Profile: A average student, uses her psychic powers to best determine how to undermind the enemy
Student Id no.: 005504
Name: Paris Bolle Grade/Age: 16, level A, Class k-9 Profile: A average student, uses his psychic powers to best determine how to undermind the enemy
'So that's how they knew how to help us' He mused. This made the situation much more difficult. Throwing the wool over a psychic's eyes would be hard enough as it was, but two of them?
Great fun.
He was half way through his shower when a thought occurred to him. Why had they taken Raven? She was powerful, but what would a pair of sixteen-year- old twins want with a sorceress? The question plagued him all the way into the kitchen, where Cyborg and Beast Boy were eating their breakfast quietly.
Sitting down with a bowl of Coco-Pops, Robin fiddled with the spoon. What had marked Raven as an asset to the twins? Her powers? Her knowledge of the Titans databases? Her-
"Robin!" Starfire flew in then, giddy with excitement. "Robin, I have the most exciting discovery to share with you!" She stood beside him, tugging at his sleeves. "Please, you must come immediately!"
"Star," He muttered, "Not now. I'm trying to think"
Starfire stopped her tugging, looking down at him with sad eyes, "But Robin, there is a-"
"Star, we really need to find out where the twins have taken Raven. Can't it wait for a while?" Beast Boy asked.
She stared at them for a moment, then began to shout, her eyes glowing green. "No! This cannot wait!" Green light glowing around her hands, she managed to bully the boys into the lounge room.
"Star? What is this about?" Robin demanded.
"Please don't let this be about mustard" Cyborg muttered under his breath.
Starfire was about to answer when a male voice cut her off.
"My name is Kirkor," The boys stared as a gothic styled boy materialized in front of them. "But you might know me as Wayne"
***********************
Sitting down in the kitchen, Kirkor ("Call me Wayne if you want, it's easier than Kirkor anyway") explained what he knew to the other Titans. "Raven's been kidnapped, right?"
The Titans nodded.
"By a pair of psychic twins?"
They nodded again, and Kirkor sighed. "And let me guess, you have no idea why?"
"What's your point?" Snapped Robin. Kirkor eyed him and shook his head in disbelief. "I have no idea what she sees in you," He muttered. Speaking louder he said, "Raven's being taken to another dimension, in order for Trigon to over take the human in her and use her as his embassy for Earth" He looked at them with emotionless eyes. "You humans believe in evil don't you? Shadows, anger? Trigon is more. He isn't the nightmare, he's the creator"
"What does he want with Raven?" Robin asked, not noticing how the others were silent. Kirkor just watched him, amused. "You're the only one who doesn't know, aren't you?"
"Doesn't know what?" Wonder Boy hissed. He faced the others, his glare deadly. "What don't I know?"
Cyborg glanced at Beast Boy who in turn, darted a quick look at Starfire, biting her lip.
"What don't I know?"
Starfire, with a nudge from Beast Boy, stammered, "W-we were under the impression t-that you knew..."
"Knew what?"
Kirkor, undaunted by the murderous tone in the Boy Wonder's voice, stated in a bored voice, "Trigon is Raven's father"
Robin stared at him. "No, that's not true. If it was, that would make Raven a-"
"Demon? Only by half. Her mother was human"
Only half hearing what Kirkor was saying, Robin turned back to the others. "Did you guys know?"
Hanging their heads, they muttered different excuses.
The Boy Wonder looked back at the stranger, everything he had believed about Raven slowly fading. She hadn't trusted him enough to tell him about her father, who he guessed was behind all the recent attacks. He could have helped! Robin didn't care about her heritage, or who her parents were. He cared about...
Dejectedly, he sat down, his eyes looking beyond Kirkor, and out the windows. She didn't trust him.
"Boss man, you never asked her" Cyborg said, "I mean, the only reason BB and I knew was because we went into her mirror"
He looked to Starfire, who held out her hand in comfort. "We were having a bonding experience, in which we shared conferdental information" Ignoring her hand, Robin pulled himself up and glared down at Kirkor. "Wayne, Kirkor, whatever you're name is, tell me one thing. How do we save Raven?" He was still upset with her lack of trust, but they were teammates, nothing more. Yes, he told himself firmly, just teammates.
The other boy just looked at him, his face impassive. "You kill her"
AN: hahahahahahaha...I think you get the point...