Disclaimer: C'mon, If I owned the Titans, Terra would be back already.

NOTE: Last update for a while! probably until next thursday. to tell you the truth, I need to take at least a week break from writing, cause I am so burned out...but then again, I am getting a new laptop Thursday, so I might write more over the weekend. hope y'all like this.

Chapter 11

The Battle for Nightmare

Raven took her fighting stance, ready for anything. "I hope I don't have to fight all of his emotions. I wouldn't be able to take them all at once." Raven thought to herself.

"You will not have to fight my emotions, Raven. All my emotions are within me. All in one body or spirit form, as I call it. Ready yourself for battle." Nightmare said, as he calmly walked towards Raven.

Raven didn't need a second warning, as she chanted her signature words, "Azerath Metrion ZENTHOS!" Raven shouted, engulfing Nightmare in a fist-like grip of her power. Nightmare shakes his head and powers out of Raven's grip.

"I think now. You'll find that your powers will do you no good here. This is my mind, not yours. I have the power, you have just a small, teeny little bit of the power I have."

Nightmare said mockingly, as Raven took a step back.

"Great. No what am I going to do? I'm no fighter, that would be more Robin's style."

Nightmare charged Raven, jumping high into the air and driving back down to the ground where Raven was standing. Raven blocks the attack with her own power, surprised at how weak it has become.

"Do you wonder why I showed you my past, Psychic? The inside of my mind drains your power and feeds it to me. You rely on your power too much, Girl. You should focus on training your body as well as your powers." Nightmare told a speechless Raven.

Once again, Nightmare charges Raven, this time leading with a jump kick. Raven dives out of the way and lands hard on her left side. Getting up quickly, Raven barely has time to dodge Nightmare's powerful punch, which left him open for attack. Raven punches Nightmare solidly in the stomach. Nightmare takes a step back.

"Have you forgotten already Raven? This armor protects me from any physical attack."

Nightmare says, laughing.

"Now what are you going to do, Psychic? Your powers are useless and you cannot hurt him physically. What to do, what to do?" Raven hears Brother Blood taunts.

Raven stares at Blood angrily, realizing that he was right. Then, something hit her. Anger. That was the answer. Raven was sure that she would be more powerful then Nightmare if she let her rage take over.

Nightmare turns and stares at Brother Blood as well. "You are right, my master. She has no advantages." Nightmare says, as he presses a hidden button on his suit. The top part of his suit unhooks and falls to the ground with an audible thump. The, the lower part unhooks and falls off, leaving Nightmare in nothing more then black tight pants, his mask and bare muscular chest.

"NIGHTMARE! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Brother Blood shouted.

"I want a fair fight master. This will give her a chance, at least." Nightmare replies.

Raven stands there, watching in rising anger. They were calling her weak, and powerless. Her anger rising to what she knew was extremely dangerous levels. Nightmare turns towards Raven, feeling her power rise.

"What the hell...?" was all he could manage to say. Raven grew larger; four large, yellow eyes stared back at Nightmare from beneath her hooded face. Tentacles grew out from under her cloak, stringing out and catching Nightmare within their grasp, one grabbing his left arm, another his right, and the same went for both of his legs. One, last tentacle slowly wormed its way out from under her cloak and wrapped itself around Nightmare's neck.

"Fight Nightmare! FIGHT!" Brother Blood yells, aware that he was about to lost one of his favorite "Students."

Raven turns her head and stares at Brother Blood, her power starting to cover him. Brother Blood works quickly and summons his own power, clearing Raven's off of his mental body.

"Do not think that you'll be able to get rid of me so easily this time, Psychic." Blood taunts.

"SHUT-UP!!" You will be destroyed. I will get rid of you! My friends will be avenged!" Raven shouts. Raven once again engulfs Brother Blood in her power, this time using as much power as she can. Brother Blood struggles, trying to counter her power again, but to no avail. Raven begins to tighten her power on Brother Blood, squeezing him tighter and tighter.

Nightmare watches as Raven crushes Brother Blood in the grasp of her power, and starts to struggle harder, but failing to break any of the tentacles holding him. Raven tightens her grip over Blood even more, her power cutting through Brother Blood's spirit form, expelling him from Nightmare's mind. Raven turns her attention to Nightmare, who has stopped struggling and lay limp in her tentacles. Raven feels her anger start to leave her; the tentacles retract back to her, her four eyes formed back into two, and Nightmare is dropped onto the ground of his mind.

Raven walks over to the limp form of Nightmare and checks to see if he was ok. Before she could get within five feet of him, she falls through a black hole that suddenly appears under her. Raven falls throughout Nightmare's mind, seeing everything he showed her, and then some. Raven turns her body and watches where she was falling, seeing the ground rushing up at her, she closes her eyes and braces herself for impact. But the impact never came; she opens her eyes and sees that she has fallen through the ground, and out of Nightmare's mind. She was back on the streets of Jump City. Looking in front of her, she spies Nightmare, lying on the ground, seemingly lifeless. Raven runs over to Nightmare and checks to see if he was breathing.

Nightmare opens his eyes, the deep black holes he calls eyes stare back at Raven, startling her. Slowly getting to his feet, Nightmare faces Raven.

"Raven..."

"Don't. Don't even say it. My friends are all dead because of you and...and them!" Raven shouts.

"Raven...your friends are not dead. Can you not feel it?" Nightmare replies, his voice reassuring. "Come with me."

Nightmare turns and starts to walk towards what was left of Titan's Tower. Raven finds herself believing him, and follows. Upon reaching the tower, Raven sees that it is nothing more then rubble, smoke slowly rising from what was left.

"How can anything still be alive in that?" Raven asks, tears forming in her eyes, and a nearby tree melting from her powers.

"You still do not feel it? They are still alive. I sense that three of the four are badly injured though. We must be quick." Nightmare tells her. "Can you get us over there?"

Raven nods and uses her powers to teleport them to Titan Island. Nightmare walks over the rubble and tosses some seemingly random rocks from different piles, finally unearthing the limp form of Starfire. Carrying her down to Raven, he lays her down in the soft mud. Raven immediately goes to healing what she could of her injured friend.

Over the next hour, Nightmare unearths Cyborg and Robin, and takes them to where Starfire was.

"Have you had any luck with Starfire?" asks Nightmare.

"I've healed her injuries, but she won't wake up. It seems like she is in a coma or something." Raven replied. "Where's Beastboy?"

"Heal the others. I will find him." Nightmare says as he turns and walks back onto the pile of rubble.

Raven turns to Robin and begins to heal him. Hearing a noise behind her, Raven turns and sees a pile of rubble moving, then being hurled into the air. Raven brings a shield up and over her and the limp forms of her friends. When the dust clears, Raven sees Beastboy changing back to human form from a gorilla.

"Raven!" Beastboy shouts, running towards her. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine Beastboy. These three however..." Raven nods to the three fallen Titans. "I healed Starfire and Robin and what I could of Cyborg, but most of his damage is on his robotic parts, and I can't heal those. Are you ok?"

"Yeah. I was unconscious for a while, but I woke up when I heard something moving the rubble around." Beastboy replied.

"That was me. Glad you got yourself out. I don't think I would have found you." Says a voice from behind Beastboy.

Beastboy turns around and immediately changes into a Tyrannosaurus.

"Whoa, easy Beastboy, I'm on your side!" Nightmare says, putting his hands up.

"It's true Beastboy, don't attack him." Raven says.

Beastboy turns back to his human form. "Can we trust him?"

"Yes. I've been inside his mind. I've seen everything there is to know about him. We can trust him." Raven replied. "But right now, we need to get them to a safer place." Raven says, referring to the fallen Titans.

"I know just the place." Nightmare tells her, his pitch black eyes seeming to light up.

Nightmare's Place

Raven, Beastboy and Nightmare arrive at Nightmare's hiding place, each of them carrying a titan.

"Where are we?" Beastboy asks.

"This is an old abandoned warehouse, where I first stayed when arrived in Jump City. They'll be safe here. I was looking at Cyborg's damage to his mainframe, and I believe I can restore him to something close to normal. It will take me a few hours to do, in which you two should get some rest. There's some extra cots in the room over there." Nightmare says, pointing to room across the on the other side of the warehouse.

"Thanks." Raven says before she walks towards the room.

"I think I'll stay up a while, and watch you. If you don't mind, that is." Beastboy said.

Nightmare turns to Beastboy. "I know you still don't trust me yet, but I wish you would get some rest. I'm not going to hurt Cyborg. You have my word."

"I still don't trust you. I'm going to be watching you." Beastboy said.

"As you wish." Nightmare replies, turning back to Cyborg. "While you are watching, would you mind putting Robin and Starfire on the tables over there?"

"Fine." Beastboy picks up his friends and puts them side by side on the tables.

Over the next three hours, Nightmare tweaks things and turns things on Cyborg's robotic form, eventually getting his system rebooted. Cyborg slowly sits up and faces Nightmare and Beastboy.

"YOU!" Cyborg yells out, transforming his hand into the sonic cannon.

"Sorry Cyborg. I wasn't able to fix that." Nightmare tells him.

"He's supposedly on our side now, Cy. I don't know what happened, but he and Raven went through something. I haven't had a chance to talk to her about it yet." Beastboy says.

Raven walks out of the room, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "Good to see you are awake Cyborg. I take it Robin and Starfire haven't woken up yet?" Raven asked.

"Not yet. They probably won't wake up for a few more hours. I checked them a while ago, they got hit pretty hard in the head. I wouldn't be surprised if they were out for a few days." Nightmare replied.

Cyborg gets up from the table and walks towards Nightmare. "BB doesn't trust you, and neither do I. so watch yourself man."

"You should repair yourself in the short time we have left, Cyborg. Slade will be after us, and so will Brother Blood. And then there's also Terra to deal with." Nightmare said.

Beastboy quickly turned to Nightmare. "Terra's mine to take down, not yours."

"I never said I was going to take her down. In fact, I have told Raven that we can bring her back. Ask her for the whole story. I'm going to get some sleep." Nightmare said as he walked to the room which Raven had come out of.

Beastboy looks at Raven questioningly.

"Ok Beastboy. And Cyborg, since you're awake too, come listen. And repair yourself. You are a wreck." Raven said as she took a seat on the table that Cyborg had just gotten off.

The two other Titans listen long into the night about what had happened to Raven and Nightmare.