Hi everybody,
Well i am back with the second chapter of this fic.
It is a longer than the first one, but not too long.
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Chapter Two
Deep in the dank dark ruins of a long forgotten castle, screams of pain and sadness echo threw the corridors. In the center of the once illustrious Grand Hall two small candles dimly burn. The amount of light given off by the tiny flames is amplified by the darkness of the room. In the edge of the light is the source of the cries, a small huddled mass of blue and black. Here lay Raven a once powerful champion for justice, now a broken and defeated shadow of a girl.
She had done this to herself, by letting her emotions loose. She had allowed the anger to control and the hatred to consume her. But she couldn't stop it, not this time. As she lifted her head she looked up at the enormous throne that stood before her. Upon it rested a pair of glowing red eyes that penetrated threw her body and deep into her very soul. If she didn't know better she would swear they belonged to the Devil himself. She tried to stand but quickly retreated back to the floor as a fireball shot from the throne, igniting a pile of rubble behind her. This new light gave her a much clearer view of the rising dark figure to whom those horrid eyes belong. Malchior, the fierce dragon who had tricked her into releasing him from the ancient book which had imprisoned him, now stood over her small weakened form.
"Sweet Raven you have stopped crying; now we can not have that." With this his mouth lit up and poured flames down upon her. Her body reflexed with the searing pain and heat of the flames. She screamed as if it was her last but her body did not burn or blister, even as this torture drove her mad. "Oh yes dear, your screams are like music to my ears. And I shall make you sing for me forever, my sweet Raven." Reclaiming his throne he let out menacingly evil laugh that only helped to add to her torment. Just as she thought she could take no more unless she would surely go insane, a roar was heard from the sky above the castle.
The roars became increasingly louder as the unseen creature neared the Great Hall. The now bright flames from the blazing rubble revealed a dark green dragon as it appeared from the shadow of the sky. The ground shook as the beast landed between Raven and Malchior. Was this behemoth an ally of the other dragon? Come to watch or assist in Ravens eternal suffering. She cringed at the thought and lowering her head she began to wish, no pray, for deaths release. Another roar came from the new reptile, this time in a more threatening tone, causing her to look up from her trance. The dragon rose up on his haunches, now towering over the seated Malchior, and shot a stream of blood red fire directly at him. Quickly lifting his wing, Malchior easily blocked the inferno. Raven set on her knees in awe as the two beasts of legend began to fiercely battle. She barely had the energy to move but had to, for at the moment she no longer wished for death.
The battle seemed to last much longer than it actually did. They exchanged blows from each others talons and neither seemed to be fazed. With each strike the chamber echoed with the growls of the combatants. Columns of stone were destroyed as Malchior knocked the challenger back with his fierce power. He approached the fallen dragon, ready to strike the final blow but was hit with an intense molten orb square in the chest. This however would not finish the evil being but it did cause him to loose his advantage. Using this momentary lapse in stance, the green one attacked with incredible speed and aggression. Malchior was pummeled to the stone floor by a whip of the others tail. Raven did not know if the dragon was friend or foe but she could not help smile at the beating that he was giving her captor. Then before he could react, Malchior was lifted by an ever tightening grip around his throat. Finally words were exchanged between the two adversaries. "Who are you?" Malchior mumbled to his obvious better. It seemed that the emerald dragon smiled as he replied. "I'm your worst nightmare, dude. And now you're toast." He tossed the loser into the lava, which was encircling the castle, with such force that he had no chance of escape. A final roar of defeat and hatred was heard as the dread dragon Malchior did meet his end.
Raven rose as the victor approached her. She slowly walked to meet him in the center of the crumbling chamber. Smiling she began to collapse from exhaustion and whispered, "Beast Boy." With his incredible speed, the dragon rushed to her, becoming the green titan at the last second. "Raven I've got you." He said as she fell into his secure arms. "Thank You, Beast Boy," she mumbled laying in his care on the floor of the castle. They both looked at each other, smiling as the last embers of the fire faded away.
Raven awoke much calmer than most would after a dream as vivid as the one she had just experienced. "Whoa what a dream," she said half relieved yet half disappointed that it had ended so soon. Looking toward her door she thought she saw a spider scurry under it. Dismissing it she crawled from under her covers, after deciding she needed some soothing tea to help relax her nerves. Grabbing her robe off a trunk at the foot of her bed, she made her way to her door. As she reached it she heard a yell not far outside her room. Quickly she opened the door and barely caught a glimpse of a green boy in rather funny pajamas hurry down the hall toward his room. She laughed to herself at the humorous scene that she had just witnessed. Wait why was she laughing at Beast Boy, a better question is why he was yelling in the hall outside her room? Well it was obvious that nothing major was wrong, maybe he was sleepwalking and woke up near her door. "Yeah that must have been it," she thought. So she made her way into the kitchen and began to prepare her tea. "Wait! Was I laughing at something Beast Boy did?" she said as the water started to boil.
Beast Boy quickly and quietly shut the door behind him after he had entered his room. He couldn't believe he had gone in her room. And then screaming in the hallway! "What a moron," he thought. He started to bang his head on his door but thought about the noise that would make and decided it was a bad idea. Pacing around his room he kept replaying the scene of Raven asleep in her bed and how beautiful she looked. These feelings were so new to him, what was he going to do? He yawned, deciding it was time to go to sleep. But first he needed something to drink. A glass of warm soy milk should do the trick. So he left his room and headed for the kitchen.
A high pitched whistle echoed off the walls of the large kitchen/living room, as the water finished boiling on the stove. Raven quickly enclosed it in a bubble of black energy and lifted it off the burner to silence the noise. "This room has great acoustics when no one is fighting, laughing or watching TV in it." She said in her normal monotone while dunking the tea bag in and out of her cup. Her tea was almost finished but she hadn't noticed because her mind was focused on something else. What a night first that dream, then the commotion in the hall, and now she had Beast Boy, of all people, on her mind.
Just then the door to the room opened and in he walked, yawning with his eyes closed. With out thinking about it she was behind the counter in a flash. "What am I doing?" She asked herself. "How do I explain this when he sees me?" Beast Boy walked to the frig and saw her hiding. "Hey Raven, what you doin'?" She jumped at the question. "Just grabbing a tea bag." Luckily they were in the cabinet near her. Taking one from the box, she quickly put it in her cup and started for the door. Before she could make it out, he called to her. "Uh Raven, is everything okay?" He asked, with more concern than he thought possible this late at night. Smiling she replied, "Yes. Everything is fine. I just needed some tea." She quickly turned, almost running back to her room. "OKAY! That was really frickin' weird," he said. "Hold on a second, either I'm seeing things or Raven just smiled at me. Nope I must be going insane." He shrugged and started to fix his glass of soy milk.
The End Just Kidding
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Hopefully it will not take me as long to write the next chapter.
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