Shellshocked

Chapter 12 "shellshocked"

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"Titans, go!" Robin ordered, and all Titans charged forward.

Every Titan broke up into groups of two. Robin and Starfire worked together against the green, yellow and purple cloaked emotions. Cyborg and Beast Boy faced the pink, orange, and gray cloaked emotions. Raven and Love partnered against the red, black, and green cloaked ones.

However, Terra did not stay with the emotions to fight. She did not want to hurt the other Titans, so she remained in the shadows unless Anger really needed her aid. Until then she was going to have to watch the battle from a safe distance.

Starfire and Robin both worked defensively at first, the three emotions immediately began to attack them with everything they had. At first Robin used his cape to shield himself and Starfire, but eventually his cape couldn't last very long. He tossed a small explosive at the emotions to catch them off guard and to hold their attacks. His plan failed by a roundhouse kick to the back of his head. He fell down hard with his ears ringing and his vision spinning.

"Robin!" Starfire squealed before her eyes quickly glowed green and she threw a star bolt to the green emotion, sending it back.

Robin quickly got up and tossed two birdarangs at the yellow and purple emotions, but they evaded his attack and sent two black beams of power towards him. He jumped out of the way and pulled out another metal staff and extended it. The three emotions grinned, their double pairs of eyes glowing a fascinating color of crimson. Starfire shouted in anger and threw multiple star bolts at them, and even had her eyes to help. Her attack caused a lot of dirt to rise up and cover the emotions and while they waited for the dirt to lower, Robin saw an incoming black hand heading for Starfire and he quickly pushed her out of the way, leaving a small bomb on the hand as he passed by it.

The hand exploded and desinigrated until the emotions came back. Robin growled under his breath and quickly thought of what to do. The green emotion jumped in front of him and both engaged in a hand to hand battle. Starfire took on the two emotions with lack of progress; both their powers cancelled each others. Robin wasn't having any better luck for he and the green cloaked Raven were evenly matched and both couldn't get a punch or kick threw their defense. Robin just hoped the other Titans were having better luck than he and Starfire.

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Cyborg and Beast Boy weren't have that much progress as well, Beast Boy's attacks rendered useless and Cyborg would have made a good opponent, but he was easily outnumbered.

The pink emotion, Happy, took on Beast Boy, a wicked sinister smile always on her face and every time she empowered a shield on herself to reflect Beast Boy's attacks her laugh sent chills up the green Titans spine.

Cyborg was at a constant beam contest with the two remainder emotions, Timid and Gross. If he managed to strike one emotion, the other took advantage of his low defense and struck him back with an attack of their own.

Both Titans backed up and quickly thought of a plan. All of their attacks and tricks had been reflected off by the emotions.

"Man, its like they know about our fighting strategy and weaknesses." Cyborg frowned and blasted away several waves of power rushing towards him and his comrade.

"Hello, dude we're in Raven's mind." Beast Boy declared.

"Tell me something I don't know, B.B." Cyborg hissed angrily as he backed up, keeping his cannon steady.

Suddenly his arm beeped and on the small screen Robins face appeared.

"Titans, regroup." Robin ordered.

Beast Boy and Cyborg nodded and hastily ran towards their other team mates not too far away, all while ducking and deflecting attacks from the persistent emotions.

Once upon reaching the others all the emotions began to engage on them.

"There's too many of them." Cyborg declared a hint of fear in his voice.

"What do we do?" Beast Boy asked.

Robin's eyes narrowed. Everything they were throwing at the emotions wasn't helping, only Raven and her Love emotion appeared to be the only ones making any progress.

"Titans." Robin called. "We have to fight them all, beat them down one by one by all of us attacking."

Everyone nodded, including Raven and Love, and they all stood in a straight line at either side of Robin.

"Oh…looky here." Happy chuckled and elbowed Sorrow in the rib. "They think they can win if they 'work together'."

Each emotion laughed, including Anger.

"Anger will consume you." Anger hissed evilly, glaring its four red eyes at Raven. It was so close to taking full control of Raven, and it would have succeeded if it weren't for Love and her friends.

Hands thrust forward, Anger chanted out foreign words, its hands glowing black and red. Soon, the other emotions followed their leader.

"No." Raven whispered, eyes widened.

"What are they doing?" Robin asked, his eyes narrowed and sweat dripping down his face.

"Black magic." Raven warned. "This isn't good."

"What do we do?" Beast Boy shouted, gripping his green hair.

Cyborg grinned and pointed his cannon at Anger and shot it. The blast connected witch Anger, but it didn't even budge , it was still chanting words and its whole body was beginning to glow black, as well as the other emotions behind it.

"That spell will kill us." Raven gulped. "Get out of my mind, now!"

Starfire's eyes widened and watered, but she shook her head. Beast Boy just kept staring at both Raven and the emotions with his eyes wide in terror. Cyborg kept blasting the emotions until he finally figured it was no use and gave up. Robin continued to glare at the emotions, his eyes formed as narrow slits.

"We're not leaving you." Robin said simply.

Starfire nodded her head, a small smile on her face. "Agreed."

"But the spell will kill you all!" Raven exclaimed. Her eyes glowed white, hands black, she was prepared to throw the Titans to the other side of her mind and into the Forbidden Door, but suddenly they all were engulfed in a black blanket, or so it felt.

Looking back to the emotions Raven noticed her yellow cloaked emotion was using its power to create a cage like entrapment to keep everyone from running away.

"No!" Raven shouted, anger flowing through her. Her yellow emotion grinned and chuckled, knowing Smart would be the first one to think of a back up plan to keep them from escaping.

Beast Boy and Starfire yelped. Robin and Cyborg tried attacking the black cage, but their attempts failed.

"We're trapped." Beast Boy whimpered. A desperate idea struck him, and he transformed into a gopher. He dug into the ground and tried to dig under the cage, but once he was directly under it he couldn't dig any more. He tried grabbing at the dirt, but none of it would move aside. The cage was formed like a circle, they were completely trapped.

Fully energized with black magic, Anger pointed its hands towards the group of teenagers, other emotions doing the same, and together they all released a large beam. The beam at first was black and circular, its diameter about five feet. The beam was concentrated in pure black magic, it disintegrated anything within inches from itself, the ground below it crumbled and tunnel like craters formed under it as it charged towards the super hero's.

The Titans were stunned, even Raven, never have they seen such an attack, and its power. The beam was moving too fast for them to move, and even if they could dodge it, they wouldn't be able to gather enough distance from it, the beam was too large. Then, as the beam couldn't get any more intimidating, its shape turned to resemble a large black raven.

Raven cursed and turned to look at Love. "Use your power to break a hole in the cage, NOW!"

Love's face, for once, showed seriousness and it nodded. It quickly summoned its telekinesis and formed it into a large arrow. Pointing it towards the cage, it used its power to push its arrow and attempted to break the shield. Its first attempt failed, but Raven ordered it to keep trying. The second hit caused the cage to crack, just a few more hits. The third hit cracked it some more, but the beam was getting too close to them.

"Titans, help!" Robin ordered. He dug into his belt and pulled out several bombs and threw them at the cage. Cyborg pointed his cannon at the cracked spot and shot. Starfire, full of adrenaline, threw as many starbolts as she could, she even excreted more power from her eyes to assist. Beast Boy, on the other hand, would help as well , but since he was a close range attacker he wouldn't be able to help without getting caught in the fire. And finally, Raven used some of her power to assist Love. On the sixth hit, the side of the cage completely shattered.

"RUN!" Beast Boy shouted, being the first to run out in the form of a cheetah.

That was until he crashed into another black wall. Stunned, the Titans stared at the newer wall that Smart created.

"Damn you!" Raven hissed at her emotion. More anger flew through her, the beam was within ten feet away in just a few seconds all her friends were going to die. She was too, but that was the last thing on her mind. She couldn't be the one to kill her friends, she just couldn't. She would never forgive herself.

Tears flowing down her cheeks and eyes turning red, Raven's fists turned black and she engulfed her friends in her power and with every ounce of strength she could muster she threw her friends out through the shield and all and threw them as far away as her power would allow her.

As Raven directly her friends towards the Forbidden Door, she could feel the beam inches away from her. She closed her eyes and prepared for her death, but soon nothing came and no pain followed. Opening her eyes, her heart pulsed twice as fast s it was before. A new emotion swept through her as she stared at Love. The tiny emotion was standing in front of her, its arms stretched forward, palm face up, and a large shield around the emotion and Raven. She felt as if she could grab the tiny emotion and hug it, maybe even kiss it.

An innocent smile crept on the emotions face as it turned to look at Raven while still shielding them from the continuous beam.

"Your welcome." Its squeaky voice said.

Raven smiled before looking up at the emotions, she had to do something about them before–

Suddenly a rock came rushing at them and joined the anger manipulated emotions trying to break through the shield. Only one person could be using rocks.

Raven directed her sight towards the left of her and eventually she noticed Terra standing beside a tree, her eyes and hands glowing yellow.

"Raven!"

Frowning, the dark Titan saw her friends running towards her. Then her heart began to sink, they were still inside her mind, she needed them out before Anger took control of her.

"Protect them." She ordered Love. The pink emotion nodded and lowered its shield, it had been several moments since the beam stopped. The emotions were working on another spell, but Raven knew of a way to get them to stop.

She fell into a run while enchanting the familiar foreign words that would summon dark magic. Once the short chant was over, black energy began to pour out of her mouth and eyes, the same spell she used against Cardiac before she found out Malchior was teaching her dark magic.

The black energy crawled towards Anger and the rest of her emotions and soon began to engulf them in it. They all tried to put up a shield or use their power to halt the energy, but none of their attempts were successful.

Once they were all surrounded in the black energy, Raven was able to move them. With her hand, she threw them all towards where Terra was located. As soon as she moved them she saw a series of hurling rocks rushing towards her. With a flick of her wrist, she moved all of her emotions in between herself and the rocks, using them as a shield. Her move was unexpected and Terra couldn't do anything to drop the rocks so suddenly. Her eyes grew wide in worry and shock as she saw all of her boulders smack into the emotions violently.

After the rocky rain subsided, Raven heard her voice being called again. Turning, she smiled weakly at her friends. They were all standing a good ten feet away with a shield still around them powered by Love.

"Look out!" Robin screamed as he pounded on the shield.

His warning took too much time to fully function in Ravens head. By the time she turned back at her opponents she received a magical punch from a large black hand empowered by Anger.

The impact threw her back and crashing onto the floor. Then, before she could get up again, the rock underneath her started to vibrate for a millisecond before it violently jerked upwards in a spear like shape and stabbed Raven through her abdomen.

"No!" Starfire's voice screamed. Then she turned towards Love and begged it to lower its shield.

Don't lower the shield, keep them safe.

Raven let out a pained cry as the rock spear grew out of the surface even more and the tip exited through her back. Then as quickly as it came the spear lowered itself back into the ground and sent Raven hurling towards the floor with a loud thud.

"Well done." Anger whispered to Terra. "Control is ours for the taking."

Terra smiled almost evilly and nodded to the red emotion. She waited a long time for this, and she finally succeeded. She almost wanted to laugh as she watched Raven desperately trying to get on her feet.

"Terra!" Beast Boy roared.

The blonde teenager gasped, she completely forgot they were present. All her evil thoughts were instantly erased from her mind as she thought about the guilt. If the Titans knew she was the one to kill Raven, they wouldn't take her in with open arms.

Turning, she almost whimpered in fear. She stared at the Titans, and never have they expressed such anger and hatred. Their expressions now were ten times deadlier and terrifying compared to the time they battled shortly after she and Slade had taken control of Gotham City. But the person she stared at the most was Beast Boy. His face was concentrated in anger and his eyes flared with hatred. Terra tore her eyes away from them and stared at the floor. Of all times for her to gain a conscious, it had to be now when she was so close to getting what she wanted.

"Finish her." Anger ordered.

Terra suddenly felt all evil thoughts corrupting her again. She raised her hand and forced out another spear like shaped rock from under Raven the size of a blade and slowly inched it upwards to Raven's throat. Raven still tried to push herself up, and if she tripped then she would surely fall throat first onto the rock.

"Terra." Raven whispered. She kept herself steady in a push up position and she lifted her head up to face her deadly burden. She was dying, and at Terra's hands. Her worst fear had come true. She had always feared of losing her friends, her only family, but her first fear was the evil inside of her. She was the daughter to a great demon, it was in her blood to be evil and merciless. And now Terra helped her evil surface.

The area around her began to sizzle with black fire, the earth under her slowly melted upon her touch, even the small rock dagger in front of her throat succumbed to her power as emotions swept through her.

So many emotions were running through her mind, her fear of turning evil, her anger toward Terra, happiness for her friends showing up to help her, and sorrowful for the mess she'll bring up for her friends. But the most powerful emotion in her was her anger, twice she helped and befriended Terra, and twice she betrayed her.

Her hands tightened into fists and she closed her eyes tightly, her heart began to beat faster, which made more blood pour out from her abdomen.

"Anger has consumed you." Anger smiled in victory. Raven finally succumbed to it, and now it was time to take control.

The red emotion slowly began to materialize itself into a red, slim light. Then it rose into the air and headed for Raven.

"Stop it!" Cyborg yelled at Love and directed his sonic cannon at the shield and shot it. "We can't just sit around and watch!"

All Love did was shake its head no and continued to empower the shield around them.

Raven only had a second to realize what was going on, and by the time she did Anger had already entered her. Quickly afterwards the rest of her manipulated emotions swept through her. Her vision swam, her veins pumped blood even faster, in which made her wound pour out with more blood, and within time she could feel her sanity leaving. Her conscious, her thoughts, everything left. All that remained in her head were pictures and voices of those who betrayed her, Malchior, Terra, countless people she's run into in her life and have ended up using her or tried to kill her. And within her evil thoughts, she couldn't remember the Titans, who they were, and how precious they were to her.

"Raven!" Every Titans shouted in unison. They had no idea what was going on, but seeing their friends emotions go into her looked bad enough, and seeing her on the floor practically bleeding to death put them beyond worry.

Then Starfire gasped while the guys whispered "no", Raven finally stood up on her feet. However there were multiple things that changed. Her cloak had turned crimson, another set of eyes grew above her own, her chakra crystal appeared to have disappeared, strange red glowing markings appeared on her forehead and arms, and when she looked at the Titans and smiled evilly, fangs were exposed.

"No..." Starfire whispered sadly.

"Dude." Beast Boy cried in awe, he never knew Raven could look so...creepy, even more than she already looked and acted. "What is she now?"

"She transformed." Robin answered.

"Into?" Beast Boy asked.

"A demon." Robin sighed. As leader he had to be the most positive out of everyone and always try to think of a back up plan. But he's never thought of making a plan to fight against Raven if she were to ever give into her demon side.

Robin was well aware of Raven's dark secret, her fear of the demon blood coursing through her veins. And ever since that day, Raven's birthday, Robin and Raven took the time to sit down and talk. Raven spilled her fear to him and she made him promise her that if she ever gave into her demon side, that he and the other Titans would not hesitate to kill her.

And Robin promised her he would, and he never went back on his promises...

A/N: So sorry I took almost two weeks to update! Its been hell with homework and studies, I haven't had the time to start on the chapter. And once again I had the full chapter for this planned out but it was becoming way too long so I broke it up again.