Chpt 8.- Rain and Robin unite.

(Im trying to catch up on all the updating i missed. Besides when i get ideas, i have to type them as soon as possible, else i forget them. And there is a reference to Devil May Cry (Devil Trigger) in this chapter, and maybe through out the rest of the story, not sure how ima use it.)

Rain slowly sat up, and observed his surroundings. He stood up, before notcing a slight bit of tension from his wrists. Shackles. His wrists, ankles, and neck all were shackled to the floor. Rain struggled against the chains, trying to break them.

"Don't try too hard," Lightning began, "You may hurt yourself, and besides, you wouldnt want to hurt your precious girlfriend would you?" Lightning pointed across the room, where Raven was shackled to a wall.

"What? What do you mean hurt her!? How the hell did u capture her!?" Rain yelled. Struggling even harder now to break the chains.

"These shackles are made of a special plasma generating metal, which when heated, sends electrical shocks throught the chains. Your chains are connected to hers under the ground here" Lightning bragged to Rain. Rain instantly stopped struggling.

"You flamboyant bastard! Blow-pop sucking ass-hole!" Rain insulted Lightning, whom was actually very flamboyant, almost to the point of seeming gay. He didnt struggle this time, but clenched his fists tightly. He looked over at Raven, then back at his adversary, who was slowly walking toward her. Lightning placed his hands under Ravens chin, she looked at him in surprise.

"I must say, You do have good taste in women..... and lucky for you, your not a playboy, like that ignorant father of ours." Lightning began to caress Ravens face. Rain looked on, in strange curiosity, as well as anger.

"Im not going to hurt her Rain......" Lightning moved in slowly, kissing her softly on the cheek. Raven began to blush furiously, but didnt try to move away. Lightning's lips met Ravens, and Rain could hear the same gentle sigh of pleasure he heard when he kissed her. Rain was infuriated.

"YOU BASTARD! GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!!" Rain's voice was beginning to break alittle bit. He heard another sigh of passion from Raven, as if she were enjoying the kiss, Rain fell to his knees, he felt betrayed, and alone again. He fought off tears, trying to stay strong, but the heart break was too much for him. "Raven........ how could you........you tretcherous bitch........"

Because of the stress he was under, Rain's body began to go through a slight change. His small dreds, klumped and spiked downward, changing from the orginal black color, to white. His teeth grew out alittle bit, becomeing much sharper. His fingernails grew out, sharpening. His peaceful aura and nature seemed to slowly fade out of him. He was becoming more and more violent by the second. Lightning looked up from the kiss, looking at Rains transformation and broke the kiss instantly.

"Ah finally, Rain, welcome to the awesome power, known as Devil Trigger. Unlocking the demonic powers you never knew you had!" Lightning taunted Rain. Rain stood straight, then with a flick of his wrists, snapped the shackles on his wrists. His eyes were full of hatred, and anger. He snapped his anklelets, then the last shackle around his neck, snatching it off like a tight necklace. He dropped it to his side.

"You've taken everything from me but my sanity and my life. Im not stronger then you, but I'll not go down without a fight." Rain steadily dropped himself in a fighting stance.

"Now, things get interesting!" Lightning laughed and taunted Rain even more, he too steadily moving into a fighting stance. They stood in a stand-off. Neither daring to make a move, before the other did. Raven, still shackled to the wall, began to laugh franticly. Her body threw into a violent spazism, before her head suddenly exploded. Rain watched in horror as the electrically charged body slumped to the ground. Rain growled furiously. He now had an even better drive to defeat Lightning. He rushed at Lightning, claws and arm extended fully, he was sure he would catch lightning. But lightning side stepped him as he had done Raven earlier. Rain slid alittle on the ground, before finally getting his footing and rushing once more at Lightning. Lightning simply jumped in the air, and dropped his elbow in the small of Rain's spine, a strike that could paralyze a human. Rain struggled to his feet, barely standing halfway up, before Lightning buried his foot in Rain's ribcage, sending him flying across the room.

Lightning slowly, menacingly walked across the room to where he had knocked Rain. He grabbed a handful of hair and lifted Rain's face off the floor.

"I forgot to mention, since you're fighting in DT, so will I." Lightning smiled, and blew Rain a kiss. He then dropped Rains head, and walked to the other side of the room. "Rain, as long as you fight by yourself, you'll never beat me. It'll take you and a small army." Lightning laughted all the way to his seat. Rain struggled still to stand up. His ribcage was shattered, he could feel it, he knew if he was hit another time in the ribs, he'd be done for. He looked around, hoping to find a window, or a door, so that he could make a run to recooperate. He spotted a gothic looking window, but it was close to Lightning, he would need a distraction so that he could make his run, but nothing he could do would be a good enough distraction, lightning still moved much faster then he did. But he relized it was his only chance.

"Damnit, I hope this Devil Trigger thing comes with miracles." Rain whispered to himself.

Just as Rain finished his statement, Rain heard what sounded like foot steps headed from the window. Suddenly, with a loud crash, a foot shattered the window, sending shards of broken glass all over the room. Rain had to dodge the glass, but wasnt cut, whereas, Lightning was cut by 2 shards. A figure jumped throught the window, very acrobaticly, and landed near Rain. It was Robin.

"You wanted a miracle right?" Robin smiled at Rain. "Oh and Raven wants to know why she's a tretcherous bitch........" Robin laughed.

"She....... she's alive?" Rain was in disbelief. "But her body is right over there!?" He pointed to the rotting, decayed body. Robin analyzed it, then shrugged. He pulled out an energy disc and threw it at Lightning, which was the exact kind of distraction Rain had wanted. Lightning turned his head, trying to avoid the disc, and the disc whizzed past his pointed nose, mere millimeters away from it, then exploded, blinding Lightning. Rain and Robin used this time to run. They lept out of the window, and hit the ground, running for there very lives.

"You're lucky, I dont usually do search and rescue missions!" Robin joked.

"......I doubt I needed your help...." Rain said, the arrogance of his new demonic form began to shine.

Robin scoffed, "Please! I could hear every breath you made! You got your ass beat in there." Both were still running, heading towards the tower. "That disc shouldn't wear off too soon, and If it does, we're fucked."

"I figure........." Rain sarcasticly replied. He shook his head as if something had hit him in the eye. "Im sry, this damn Devil Trigger is changing me, I dont know how to end it."

"We're almost to the tower, we'll find out up there."

The two continued to run for the tower, Rain hoped that Lightning wouldn't retalilate too quickly, so that he'd have time to recover and heal, and to spend with Raven. He knew the final fight was approaching........