Okay, so you don't like the cliffhanger. That's fine, just don't say that I didn't warn ya . . . there'll probably be more to come. And I'm very sorry to my "loyal fans" who've read this story and actually reviewed. I was in CA for a few days, and that's why I couldn't update.
Sorry!
P.S. Slayergirl1362: What does your "dead baby" thing mean? I'm just confused . . .
Heehee . . . Anyway, on with the story. (forewarning, this one's short)
Ch. 7
"Beast Boy?" Raven's voice was barely a whisper.
He was . . . gone. Gone for the people that they hardly knew, gone for the stinky cavemen: for Gigrin, for Shitiu, even for Sheemu!
And, because of her.
With that thought, all sorts of emotions welled up inside of her. Despair, frustration, rage, and hopelessness all whirled around in her head.
She fell to her knees, and let her head fall. There was no need to have pride anymore. Beast Boy was gone, because of her.
"It's all my fault. It's my . . .fault." Tears now fell freely down her face. She didn't try to stop them. There was no purpose for her to live now.
--Goooooooood. Just what I've been wanting to hear.--
The voice in her head was unmistakable. Her father had gained power. --What do you want?--
--The same thing you do . . . but now I don't have to wait.-- A huge wave of pain coursed through Raven's skull, making her feel like her entire head was being torn apart.
--This is what I feel being cooped up in you head, DAUGHTER. Now, you can be rid of me, and I of you!!--
"No!"
Her back arched in pain, a sudden explosion of energy erupted, as Raven's head now faced to sky.
Her eyes and mouth now pulsed with a new energy, red with hatred and rage. This energy forced a beam out of her mouth, and a dark mass appeared out of it.
"What's going on?!" Gigrin's shaky voice shouted through all the din of the energy. The mass now began to take shape. Blood red skin, four stories high, snow white hair, and four yellow eyes.
"My father." Raven's voice was full of hatred, spitting out the words. "Trigon."
"My, my. You really do feel the rage, don't you?" Trigon leaned down, seeing all the cowering cavemen behind her.
"Ah, you've got friends. Let me see. I already know, since I see everything that you have seen. I know how much that little green blob means to you, and now he's dead." He turned away, facing the great expanses of the canyon, and beyond it the great plains where the mammoths could just barely be seen migrating across the frozen tundra.
"Pity. I would have enjoyed torturing him. You'll also have to deal with the fact that the entire course of history, and the death of the green one . . . what was his name? Ah, 'Beast Boy.'"
He turned around again. "You'll have to face that, and your guilt from your failure."
Something snapped.
Raven's mind, confused, fearful, enraged, and all around chaos suddenly cleared. Only one thing was left: Rage.
What she had been so careful to avoid becoming in fear of her father, was now taking control of her. Her eyes turned red, and with inhuman speed, she rose from the battered girl lying in the snow, to inches away from his surprised face, and a punch hitting his jaw in a side punch that she remembered Robin showing her.
He was catapulted sideways, reeling into the opposite side of the canyon. Anger burned in his yellow eyes. "You dare defy your father?!"
"I dare defy a demon." Raven rose into the air, Trigon following. (a/n can he fly? Let's just say he can . . .)
The demons clashed in the skies, Raven's black energy blasting through the streams of red that Trigon sent to scorch her.
Like the war of the Titans to begin the world, the two forces clashed with incredible force.
Raven flew around him tauntingly. "Is that the best you can do, father? I thought that a full blood demon would be far more difficult."
The back side of his fist suddenly entered her path. She veered, but his hand grabbed around her, imprisoning her in a cage of muscle.
"On the contrary. I was just seeing if you were worth the trouble to try to control. Obviously not, for you seem to have forgotten that I CAN READ YOUR MIND! I can predict every move before you make it!!"
She broke free of his grip, and shot a blast of energy. He easily blocked, and shot on of his own. This continued a few times, each time he got closer to hitting her.
Until, a hit.
The red energy sent her wheeling, landing in a broken clump in the snow. Her father picked her up in a gigantic hand.
"And now, your mind is blank, except for a little goodbye to the green one. How sweet of you."
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--I'm sorry BB. I'll see you soon enough.--
Cold. White. Where am I?
Memories hit the green man gradually. He couldn't move, the snow around him had compacted, and solidified.
--I'm just so sorry . . .--
"Raven?" He was bewildered. Surely if he was surrounded in white, shouldn't he be dead? Or was he?
The cold was definitely getting to him, and for some reason it was feeling stuffy where he was.
--I never got to tell you . . .--
"What?" His mind was whirling. The sound of laughter reached his ears, one that he could only recognize from Raven's mind . . .
In heaven? No. Not with that guy. --I'm still alive, but how?--
Looking at his surroundings, the dinosaur shaped area spelled T. Rex everywhere. He must have shifted back in his unconsciousness. Wait. If Trigon's here, then that means that Raven is still here, and in danger.
--I was always too afraid to tell you BB . . .--
"Tell me what?" He asked stupidly.
--I love you. But that doesn't matter now . . .--
BB's past flew back in his face quickly. Fire, fear, anger, love, his parents, the villagers, everything. Love for a monster. They had died because of him . . . but not this time.
His eyes went white, as his fingers focused into claws. Wings sprouted from his back, his face changing shape.
A tail shot out behind him, and he grew. He grew, and grew and grew.
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"Any last words, daughter?"
"No. Just kill me. You've won, and I have no reason to live now."
"As you wish." He brought his hand back, holding a ball of smoldering red energy. "Farewell."
Raven braced, and braced . . . . but nothing came. Opening her eyes, her father's face was one of complete speechlessness.
--BB, meet ugly. Ugly, meet the new and improved Beast Boy!!!!-- BB's voice bellowed in their heads.
"Is that the best punchline you can come up with?" Trigon smirked.
Raven turned towards the thundering footsteps. What had he turned into now? A T. rex? A triceratops? Her complete joy for him being alive was swiftly taken from her. He wouldn't survive.
But he would. What now stood before her was a green, scaly, bigger-than-Trigon, dragon.
A dragon?!
--I let my actions speak.-- BB released a small fireball, which narrowly missed the giant demon's head.
In Trigon's complete surprise, he loosened his grip. Raven took the opportunity, and wriggled free. She flew besides Beast Boy. "You're alive!"
--Something he's not going to be for long . . .--
BB opened his jaws, and a glowing orange light revealed itself.
"NO!!" Trigon screamed, and tried to run away, but Raven grabbed his feet with her powers.
"Dragons are dead! I killed every last one of them . . . !"
The blast was released, and it hit Trigon full in the chest. "You can't do this to me! I am the mighty-- ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"
In a flash of white, black, and orange light, Trigon was no more.
BB was now in normal form, and panting in the snow. He looked at Raven, who was panting just as much. She saw his gaze, and smiled.
She smiled, for her life was now free to be lived, instead of merely existed in.
She leapt on him uncharacteristically, and hugged him. He fell backwards with her, and both landed in the snow.
Her eyes opened abruptly. "Uh . . ." Raven began to move to get off, but BB grabbed her wrist, and ran a hand across her cheek. Tears welled in both sets of eyes.
"I heard what you said." BB smiled more, if possible.
Raven's tears began to flow down her face.
"And I feel the same." By instinct, both of their heads tilted, and they met together in a passionate embrace that no one had ever achieved before, nor will ever achieve again.
The whoops and cheers made by the cavemen died down as Gigrin nodded slowly. "They know who they are now. There is nothing more for us to teach them. It is time for them to get home." He motioned with his hand, and the tribe moved on. They moved on through the paths of time, leaving their mark in history's pages.
BB and Raven left their embrace shortly, long enough so that they could both see the sparkles in each other's eyes.
They were both in heaven, and they had it all to themselves. The sun set in the distance, and they would see the prehistoric sun no more.
Raven could feel now, and love now had the ability to send them home.
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Whew! That one kept me up all night. wipes tear from eyes those two make me so proud . . . sniff
I'm not sure whether I'm going to continue or not. I was considering re-writing the chapters, you know so that they're more readable and make more sense, but I don't really know where to go with this one if I continue.
Send reviews, of course, and I'll consider posting up some more chapters. Otherwise, I have another story that I think I could get to work.
R&R, and we'll see what happens.