Chapter: 17

There's how many?

Sweat began to dribble down the side of her face as her harsh labored breaths caused her chest to pulsate rapidly. She felt a strong burning sensation erupt through her body as she tried to dodge his blows. They were both tiring however he was still much stronger than her. She was having trouble understanding how these people were able to make a beast boy replica, for it was impossible for him to be so strong and have such high endurance.

Her breath continued to steadily become shallower. She was drenched in sweat and her arms and legs felt bound to the ground. She tried to dodge his raged hitting but found it to be too difficult. He hit her constantly in the head causing her to fly across to the wall on the opposite side of the stadium. The wall crumbled over her and she couldn't move. She was too weak to remove the large pieces of cement from her body. She lay there slowly suffocating from the weight on her chest. She closed her eyes accepting her fate when she felt the large mass being removed form her.

She opened one eye coughing and slowly sitting up. She looked up to see what lessened her burden of rocks. She was staring into a green face. She smiled genuinely at him as his chest was raising up and down quickly form the strain. He was down on his knees looking deep into her eyes with confusion. She broke into a coughing fit as the dust form her crash slowly settled onto the ground. He slowly reached his hand out and rubbed her back slowly in circles. He smiled at her and her head slowly lifted to meet his gaze.

She looked at him awkwardly then smiled again still gasping for air. He smiled then his grin fell and his hand flew from her back as if he put his hand on a hot stove. He stared at his hands as if they betrayed him and he stood up. He looked himself over confused then looked at her with almost a spark of fear in his eye. She looked at him strangely and cocked her head.

"I, my programming, I cant do it..." Beast boy said quietly to himself. His eyes showed a glimmer of realization as he looked at her.

"I cant do it Raven." Said Beast boy. He slowly sat down next to her in the pile of rubble; he leaned in next to her, his head next to hers.

"You need to eliminate me." He whispered in her ear. "For there is something in me that will not allow me to kill you. And if I did it would surely be by accident. I would be guilt ridden the rest of my existence and I could never forgive myself." He said slowly to her with a melancholy tone in his voice. She turned her head to look at him and he was already standing up.

The bruises were just beginning to settle in and sting relentlessly. She lifted her hood over her head and closed both of her eyes smiling sadly. "Ill do it for you Beast boy." She said slowly trying to stand up. She winced and stood up leaning on the wall. "You need to stand still, and don't struggle." She said quietly raising both hands into the air high above her head.

He stepped in front of her and stood still. The announcer went wild trying to figure out why Beast boy stood defenseless in front of her. She focused all of her energy she had left into a large ball of black electric energy in-between her hands. She limped up close to him. "This may sting a little, i'm sorry." She said as she pressed her hands onto his chest, the black ball slowly pushing into him through the pores in his skin sending electric shivers over his body.

He winced but stood still trying not to struggle against the great force ripping him apart inside. He could feel his bones shattering into thousands of pieces, his veins ripping, ligaments shredding. He was only able to stand because Raven was holding him up. Her hands left his chest and he fell to the ground with a thud. Gasping in a pile on the ground he smiled slowly. "Thank...you." He said slowly.

Raven fell to her knees, shaking. A small man ran up, much like the man she knew earlier. He bowed to her and checked the pulse of Beast boy. He made a hand motion to the announcer and a trumpet sounded. A bunch of men came out and they picked up Beast boy removing him from the arena.

She was alone in the stadium then trumpets sounded once more. Five doors opened and out each one-stepped a man clad in black with a purple stripe down the middle. She was shocked to see five more beast boys step from the shadows. They all walked towards her surrounding her in a circle. Her jaw dropped as she looked to all five of them, horrified.

At the tower

It had been several hours since the flash and the disappearance of Raven and Beast boy was pacing like wild. There was practically a hole in the ground. They were back at the tower, Cinder block in a pile of rubble rotting in jail. Every one was trying to help Beast boy but he wouldn't listen.

"Beast boy, its not your fault, I scanned the dust left from the blast and found it was a tear in the space time continuum." Robin tried to comfort him.

"Yes, as Robin has stated she is only tore by the space time continuiumnium..." Starfire said unable to pronounce continuum. Beast boy looked at her upset. Robin looked at star his head in his hands.

"Star that doesn't help." He whispered to her.

"Beast boy, what she means is..." Robin started until Cyborg interrupted him.

"Beast boy, raven is fine, go to sleep, you'll feel better in the morning and i'm sure she will come back by then." He said leading Beast boy to his room.

"Alright, but if she comes wake me up!" Beast boy said urgently while yawning.

"We will!" They said all together. Beast boy slowly walked to his bed and lay down, though he couldn't sleep for the life of him. He was so worried, then suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his heart and he had a vision of Raven, beaten and bruised but sadly smiling. He sat up quickly breathing hard and realized it was a dream.

Back to Raven

She was panting and sweating on the ground staring at five Beast boys standing around her. They all transformed into tigers and stepped as close as they could to her. She lay down unable to even move. She had used all her energy on killing the last beast boy. They opened their mouths and their sharp teeth began to rip her flesh form her battered bones. She groaned her voice full of pain. Their teeth were like thousands of daggers digging into her flesh and tearing her limb from limb.

Her blood dripped out of every vein and artery spilling onto the floor and soaking into her clothes and the ground. She cried out in pain as the vicious carnivorous animals ripped at her but no matter how loud or pain filled her screams were, they would not stop. Raven could feel life slipping through her fingers and frantically tried to cling to her last moments of life.

She knew the end was near, any minute now either the loss of blood would kill her or they would reach her vital organs. She didn't like the idea of either but had no strength stamina or will power to stop them. The last Beast boy had a heart that these replicas seemed to live with out. She sadly closed her eyes and smiled. One lone tear, misery abundant enough to fill a galaxy swirling in it, gently spilled over her eyelids and down her pale and reddened cheek; landing on the soft upturned ground beneath her. And with that, she was gone.

Beast boy

Beast boy lay in his bed lost in a restless sleep dreaming of Raven. Just hours ago, was when she had disappeared. Almost evaporated into thin air, leaving a confused beast boy behind. They had searched the island three times over before it had gotten late. Robin Starfire and Cyborg had to drag Beast boy off of that hunk of dirt and back to the tower. For about two hours he had been pacing, just waiting for her to come home. They told him to get some sleep but they didn't know how bad it actually was for him.

Beast boy walked in a white emptiness fog clouding his every sense. He could not see nor hear or feel. He was cold and empty inside wandering helplessly in a cloud of white. He soon found himself stumbling. He had tripped over something and began to slip then fall down a slope. The slope soon cut off into a cliff in which he fell hitting the sides and bruises and cuts forming quickly. He felt a concussion coming on and just wanted it to end, the feeling of being lost and hopeless the endless pain and confusion, he wanted it all to stop.

"Follow me." He heard. He looked around and found he was floating still in the air above the ground, or at least what he thought was the ground. He reached his foot out and began to walk on the stable surface. He looked around and found everything was the same whit foggy mess.

"Follow me." Came the voice again.

"Were are you?" He asked agitated his voice rough and raspy.

"Follow me." It said once again sounding faint. He could tell it was moving so he ran in the direction he thought was right.

"Follow me." Came the voice from behind him.

"How did it get over there? It was over here." He said confused but ran after it.

"Follow me." It said again to the left of him.

"I am but you keep moving." Beast boy said on the brink of insanity.

"No you are not. Follow me." It said again. Beast boy ran towards the voice. He listened for any sound and heard nothing.

"Follow me." Came the voice from all sides.

"But I don't know were you are." Came a small scared Beast boy. He fell to his knees exhausted bleeding and decrepit.

"Yes you do." Came the voice again sounding like it was everywhere.

"If you would clear this smog I could see you. Then I would know but I can not see and I can not tell from which direction your voice is coming." Beast by said unable to move. He fell into a lying position and listened with his eyes closed.

"Concentrate and you will know." Said the surrounding voice.

"Concentrate my ass," he said slowly to himself. He listened closely and loosened up. He lay there for a few minutes and the answer was clear to him. He stood up and walked to the left. The fog soon cleared and he saw a stadium. He slowly walked in and from behind the shadows he saw himself, crushed and injured and Raven lying next to his body breathing hard and severely injured. He ran to help her but was sucked into the body of himself.

"This may sting a little, i'm sorry." raven said as she held her clasped hands onto his chest driving black electric energy into his body. He could feel himself burning inside. He was being torn apart and combusting on the inside. He could feel pain surging through every inch of his body. He couldn't help but whimper and cry out "why are you doing this?" But not a noise was heard.

Her hands held him up but he fell once they were removed. He tried to stop the fall but all he could do was hit the ground. Though he had no power to say anything before he found himself talking. He wasn't saying anything, but his body was.

"Thank...you." He had said. The last thought that flowed through his mind was 'why...?'

He jumped up his breaths labored. He slowly slipped off his bed and found himself on the floor his limbs motionless. His eyes were empty and he could not move. He coughed and sat up shaking his head.

"RAVEN!" He shrieked in horror. The door quickly slid open to reveal Robin standing in the doorway.

"Beast boy! Are you alright?" He asked in a rushed voice. Beast boy looked at him his eyes still partially empty. Robin looked almost afraid when he saw his lifeless eyes penetrating his soul.

"She, she killed me." Beast boy said rubbing his arms. Robin shook his head.

"Beast boy you're alive. But who killed you?" Robin asked curiously.

"Raven, she killed me." He said slowly. Robin put his hand on Beast boy's shoulder.

"It was just a dream Beast boy, just a dream." Robin said standing up and walking to the door. He turned t look at Beast boy sitting still on the floor.

"Will you be alright?" He asked. Beast boy nodded his head subconsciously. Robin left his room and beast boy listened to his retreating footsteps. He climbed back in his bed.

"She's gone. I know it. She's...gone," he said slowly.

A/N: I'm back! Thank you every one for being so supportive. This story is nearing its end. Oh and sorry for this gloomy chapter. See you later.