Hello! Here you go Kiko!
Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans.
This chapter is dedicated to beautifully-evil and Kiko. (especially Kiko, this time, b/c she's the reason I'm finishing this right now)
Enjoy!
Chapter Seventeen: Crying Out In Love
"Hmm..." Amy sat in a small cave, Starfire laying in front of her. "I'm not so sure I can save her completely, but I can delay her destruction."
Robin hung his head sadly. "That's... that's all you can do?"
"'Fraid so. If you want her to live, you're gonna have to hope that your friends deal with this master person before Christmas... For now I'll just make sure she can stay sane that long..."
Robin nodded slowly. "Um.. thankyou."
Amy shrugged. "Don't mention it, kid." Robin chose to ignore being called 'kid'. The alchemist then seemed to pull supplies from the very shadows. In no time, all sorts of different magical ingredients were in piles around her. She took a metal pot and set it on the ground, a few feet in front of her. "The brewing pot, I call it," she said. Amy then took a small green bottle from the mess, and opened it, putting a few drops in the brewing pot. Those few drops seemed to expand right before Robin's watching eyes, and filled the pot halfway. "For some magic," Amy explained, though her explanations, Robin suspected, wouldn't explain much.
"RARR!" Starfire suddenly screamed.
"Star!" Robin hurried to where she was positioned in the small cave. He quickly wrapped her tighter in his grappling hook cables, hating every second of it. "We'll get you better Starfire.. I promise.." He said, fighting back tears.
"Dragon dung, for some flavor," Amy said. Robin didn't look.
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Fire continued to swirl around the dark girl. Screams called to her, trying to drag away her very existance. But she resisted them all. She took a hesitant step forward, trying to stay balanced on the shifting ground. She knew why she was here, instead of heaven. She knew.
"Trigon!" Raven called, seeming to call out to her surroundings, but actually calling to the demon witin herself. "Come out and face me now, if you dare!" Her voice quivered slightly, but she held steady.
Slowly the demon drew himself from the depths of the girl's mind, eager to be set free.
"Too long, daughter. Too long have you kept me locked away. And now you call me out?"
"Come and face me now Father!"
"Very well..." The demon Trigon slowly exited the girl's mind. Raven could almost feel the joy running through the demon's body. It was sickening, but Raven ignored it. In an instant, the huge four-eyed demon stood before her, stretching. "It feels good to be free!" He shouted, throwing flames this way and that, each time doing no damage to the already burning surroundings. "Now why the hurry to face me?" He began laughing, an evil laugh, of course. Can't have a demon without an evil laugh these days.. Raven thought, surprised that she could have a sense of humor at a time like this. In fact, she was surprised to even have a sense of humor. "You cannot possibly defeat me!" Trigon roared.
Go time. "HAH!" Raven threw herself into the air, landing a firm kick on the demon's face. Trigon cried out in surprise. Already Raven was preparing another attack. "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" She threw out her arms and a large dark energy shockwave flew towards the demon. It hit him with devastating force, knocking him down to the ever shifting ground.
"You have.. gotten stronger.." Trigon said, getting to his feet. But his voice was not scared, in fact there wasn't even the slightest hint of fear inside and outside of the beast. He would enjoy this battle.
"Yes father." Raven snapped. She was levitating infront of Trigon's face, eyes shining with white light. "Before you faced me in my mind, and you were still within me. But now I can unleash my anger, without fear of you being let out!" Before Trigon even realized it, his great body was knocked to the ground, hit by another shockwave that was full of anger. "MY ANGER WILL DEFEAT YOU, TRIGON!" Raven screamed, "AND I HAVE PLENTY OF IT!" With tears streaming down her face, she unleashed an even more devastating shockwave. "DAMN YOU SILVER! I LOVE YOU AND YOU LEFT ME JUST LIKE THAT! YOU STILL LOVE ME BUT INSTEAD YOU'RE OFF WITH THAT BITCH! DAMN IT!" She let go of another great shockwave that shook the ground. Why Silver? She thought frantically. Why couldn't you see it? It was all about you, it is all about you... it always has been.. ever since that day you joined us. I love you Silver... I still do, even though I shouldn't. I still love you. The power cut through Trigon, and left him lying on the burning ground, body cut in two.
The demon coughed up blood, struggling for air. "Heh... heh ..."
"What's so funny Father?" Raven snapped.
"We're in hell, you can't kill me here..." He slowly began to fade away. "I'll be back.."
Raven dropped to the ground sobbing uncontrollably. In a flash of light, she was out of hell, and her soul was finally free from demons.
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It had been an hour now, one hour. Elken was a lot stronger now. He had been fighting the three titans for an hour, but he seemed to finally be wearing down.
"FIRON ZEERRA KLARRAN!" Foxfire let out a huge jet of energy that merged with Silver's magic. Where the miming demon had stood, only ash remained. The three titans collapsed.
"Finally..." Silver muttered, gasping for breath.
"Good timing too..." Cyborg said as magical mime coils that were around him vanished.
"Oh, get up Wolfy, we're just getting started." It was Poacher.
"Poacher..." Silver stood slowly, facing his nemesis, the demon Poacher.
"Face it kid, you're too weak now to defeat me. I'm going to kill you three, then carve out a nice portriat of myself on Raven's face." The demon flicked a knife menacingly.
"AAAH!" Silver let out a wave of energy that knocked Poacher back at least fifty feet. "You won't touch her!" He leaped forward, magic claws ready to slice through Poacher's flesh.
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"Good news," Amy said from her place on the floor. She was still surrounded by all sorts of strange ingredients.
"What is it?" Robin asked excitedly.
"The potions affected her a bit more than I expected. It looks like she'll be ok, regardless of what happens, as long as this Master dies, which as I understand, happens on Christmas, regardless of your friend's fates.
Robin practically melted with relief.
"In the meantime we just have to hope that she doesn't destroy too much in her evil state." Robin's eyes grew wide.
Amy ignored his reaction and went to busying herself with cleanup. All her bottles and bags seemed to vanish into the shadows, just like the way they had appeared. Finally only a single bottle remained.
"This is-" Amy began, but Robin cut her off.
"It's ok, you.. don't.. have to tell me, really."
"Oh don't be so grossed out, this is a root beer, have one." She materialized another bottle and tossed it to Robin.
"Thanks, Amy... Thanks for everything."
"No problem kid, no problem."
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The fighters, like Raven, were driven by anger, controlled anger. In no time the three had worked Poacher down. He was now just a bloody mess on the ground. Fiona and Sakarade however, were drained almost completely of magic.
In a last attempt to save himself, Poacher threw up a powerful energy shield that damaged all it touched, and advanced.
"Cyborg," Silver nodded. Cyborg nodded back. The robotic being extended his arm, sonic cannon ready to fire. Foxfire placed her hand on the cannon, her powers flowing into the blast. Silver lay his hand on it as well, the silver of his magic and the electric blue of the Shiroken technique joining the mix.
"Booya," Cyborg whispered, and fired.
First the magical power of Shiroken shattered the energy shield, then fire, magic, and sound finished off the annoying animal hunting demon once and for all.
There was no time left for celebration though.
The Master began to laugh. His long evil laugh filled the air, and it was all the titans could do not to cover their ears. Finally the horrid sound stopped, and in a flash the huge dragon creature stood before the three exhausted titans, who could hardly even stand, much less send out a blast of energy to combat this hellish creature that prepared to strike them down.
"What the-" Silver said, eyes wide. The Master had moved so fast...
"NO!" That was.. Raven! Silver thought with excitement.Raven suddenly materialized infront of the fiery beast, her arms spread wide. "You will not hurt my friends!"
"Heh heh heh... AHAHA!" The Master shrieked.
Silver grit his teeth, the wolf part of him growling.
"You die on Christmas, right?" Raven asked, her arms still extended protectively. "Well, MERRY CHRISTMAS!" She let all of her rage go, and screamed, crying out in love. Suddenly the world went black.
Silver was nothing. He was surrounded by nothingness, and the nothingness consumed him. He could feel the nothing moving around him, at speeds faster than imagineable. Well he could feel them with his mind. Physically he could feel nothing, he was nothing. Then, just as quickly as it had happened, it stopped. He felt his body again, and he became more aware than he had been in the nothing. Then land slowly formed around him, and then, he was back, where he had stood when Raven came to the rescue.
The Master was there. Yes, he was there, dead on the ground, a Christmas wreath floating above him. "Raven.." Silver said, starting slowly and akwardly forward.
"Merry Christmas Silver," she said, her voice small. She turned towards him as she said it, and he saw that she had tears in her eyes. Is she angry? Silver wondered. But she's also sad... He put that out of his mind. "How did you.."
"It's Christmas, when the Master dies." Raven said simply.
"I thought that there..." Silver was speachless.
"Yo Rae, mind explaining?" Cyborg asked.
Dak appeared behind them all. "All in good time," he said with a smile. "All is well, thanks to you, little girl," And Dak took them all home.
RAVEN'S WOLF
I hope you all liked it! Next is probably the last chapter, the long awaited Christmas party chapter! WOOT! (long awaited for me anyway)
Wow this has been fun, and there might be a sequel if u guys want one, i do have some ideas for it...