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Sorry it took me so long...my dad needed the computer and I was just lazy...I'm sorry don't hurt me please

Chapter 6 : Fiery Darkness

Raven couldn't believe what she just saw. A stupid robot had gotten smart and killed a potential teammate...She glanced over at the others and noticed their shock too, but before any words can be spoken or any actions taken a strange bird like screech fills the air. A large phoenix made entirely out of red, orange, and yellow fire burns through the billboard where Cri had stood a few moments before. Its wingspan was roughly 5 feet across. Its head and body was about 3 feet, 6 feet if you included the tail.

The phoenix took flight and dove at the robot who had dropped the billboard on Cri. It quickly dodged the lasers that were fired at it and dug its talons into the robots back. The bird then wrapped its wings around the entire upper half of the robot and wound its tail around its legs causing the robot to just combust and melt into little more than a puddle of molten metal.

The phoenix landed on the billboard in the same spot it had appeared in. It slowly turns its head toward the Titans, Its solid ice blue eyes seem to look right into their very souls. It suddenly dawns on Raven that she knows exactly what's going on. "Cri has a soul-self!!!" She quickly shouts to the others. "The phoenix over there is Cri's soul-self!!! Similar to mine but it's a phoenix..."

Raven then realized something had to be wrong. 'Elves don't have soul-selves,' she thought to herself. 'Only dark creatures do, and never an animal as pure and majestic as a phoenix. They are always dark or even evil creatures out of someone's worst nightmare, aren't they?' Raven concluded that Cri was definitely a lot more than was she pretending to be.

Cri's soul-self spread its wings and, in a beautiful display of fire and sparks, changed back. Raven once again glanced her with pointed ears but she didn't seem to care about it at the moment, nor did anyone else. What caught Raven's and all the other Titan's attention was the huge gash in her left shoulder and how pale she was from the loss of blood. Cri just stood there clutching her shoulder with her right hand panting. "Ok that's it." She growled between her teeth. "Now I'm mad."

Cri took her hand off of her injury and held it out to her side. Her arm starded to glow red and black swirls moved around it, suddenly the energy shot out into a 3 foot long energy sword attached to her arm. "Alright boys and girls, its time to meet the Dragon Buster." She touched the tip of the wraith blade to her wound, completely hiding it from view. When she moved it away she was completely healed. "Slade? I know you can hear me you cowardly worm. I do hope those robots have a warranty on them."

Cri laughs out loud making the other Titans shrink in fear. She turns towards the first robot, her eyes glowing the same ice blue color as they did when she was a phoenix, and she starts hacking it to pieces. The other robots move in to attack her but Cri was ready for them. She pointed the Dragon buster at them, and with extraordinary precession, shoots bolts of red energy at them, making large chunks of them melt.

Suddenly a few robots come out of nowhere and grab her. "Hi there, let me ask you something...can you swim?" Cri swings her body around and sends the robots flying into the river a good 50 feet away. "I guess not."

Cri's wraith blade retracts until only her arm is glowing with energy and she pulls out her bow and arrow set. "Target practice." She notches 3 arrows and lets the Dragon buster feed them with energy before firing them. The arrows hit the last 3 robots and explode on contact.

Cri put her bow and arrows back into her bag which hadn't been there a second ago. "That was so much fun!" The Titans just stared at her, their eyes as big as saucers. Cri looked around for what they were staring at and realized it was her. "What? Did I do something wrong?"

Soon after they all found themselves in the T-Car with Cyborg driving. It was strangely quiet throughout the entire drive to Titans Tower Cri had tried to start a conversation with Raven, whom she was sitting next to, and failed. She quickly gave up talking and just enjoyed the silence.

After the Titans finished cleaning up, Cri made them all a wonderful dinner, and soon after one by one, the Teen Titans went to bed. Soon the only 2 who were still up were Raven and Cri. Raven quickly decided to take advantage of the current situation and find out what was going on.

Cri noticed Raven stalking towards her and shrank into the couch. "Alright, SPILL!!!" Shouted Raven. "Who and what are you...really." Cri knew she couldn't lie to the dark sorceress. She sighed and let her head drop. "Fine I will tell you only if you promise to keep it a secret because if anyone else knew I would be hated..." Raven agreed only because she felt the same way about herself. "Well I'm very similar too you. And even if you didn't keep my secret I would keep yours." Raven stood there shocked that Cri knew she was half demon. Cri sighed deeply and continued. "Like you I'm half human but unlike your demon half my half requires a lot more self control than yours. For you see I'm a..."

I'm so evil!!! You probably won't find out what she is until a lot later in the story so tough luck ha ha!