Heart of Stone: Chapter IV

"Hello, Raven," came a familiar voice. It had been years, but that wasn't long enough for Raven.

"Garnet…" She practically growled, getting up to turn around to face her old rival, but she had already flung a knife at her, which she only had time to block with her lower arm. "What the hell do you want!"

Garnet approached her with a malicious glint in her eyes. "You know, you shouldn't treat me like that after I helped one of your own," she said as she grabbed Raven's arm where the knife had hit. The wound began to heal.

"What the hell did you get out of it? I know you wouldn't do it otherwise."

"Raven, always so suspicious…" she said evilly, the began to caress the side of her face, which caught Raven off guard completely.

"What the fuck are you-!" Raven began but stopped as she felt her skin split open as Garnet's index finger traced down the side of her face. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Garnet was thrown back, although she didn't seen to care too much. The wound wasn't so bad, but it was the fact that she, a healer, was able to do it, but then it hit her how she was capable of it.

"Trust me, we'll be meeting again soon," Garnet said then disappeared.

Raven stormed in, looking rather ticked off. "YOU!" she yelled, pointing in the direction of Beast Boy and Terra.

"What'd I do this time?" Terra asked cluelessly.

"Not you, Fluff-Ball Boy next to you!"

"What's I do this time?" he asked, about just as clueless as Terra was just a couple seconds ago. "And 'fluff-ball boy'? What!"

"Just got a visitor, I believe you know her," Raven said with sarcasm. "I think I have some idea of what sort of deal you made with her, but let me clue you in on why she wanted it so bad: whatever it was, it also gave her some of your powers. So now she's able to transform her own powers from healing to destruction."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Beast Boy asked, confused.

"Garnet," Raven said simply.

"Who?" Terra asked, completely confused.

"No one," Raven said, afraid to offend her since Garnet had at least healed her.

"But- what- how?" Beast Boy continued, ignoring the last two lines.

"We shouldn't discuss this now," Raven said to Beast Boy and he nodded in response. Raven exited, leaving the two alone again, but instead of continuing where they had left off, Beast Boy was silent.

"What wrong?" asked Terra, concern obvious in her voice.

"Nothing," he answered dishonestly.

"Something's wrong, you're normally not like this, and even Raven doesn't get that angry- or at least she tries not to show it."

Not wanting to talk about it, Beast Boy transformed into a kitten as an excuse not to, and to his luck, Terra didn't inquire any further, but just scratched him behind his ear so that he let out an affectionate purr.

What seemed like hours went on like this and Beast Boy couldn't go on, he had to tell her. Transforming back, he said to her, "You're right. I should probably tell you… You remember when you were brought back?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, that girl was Garnet," he said. "But the thing was, in return I had to-"

He was interrupted by their communicators.

Starfire was lying motionless on the ground and Robin was bleeding heavily from wounds allover his body, although he was still fighting Garnet, but it was useless because nothing he did took much effect on her. Cyborg, Raven, Beast Boy and Terra finally showed up.

"I can take care of this, just get Star!" Robin ordered. Terra immediately went to pick her up and Cyborg followed but Beast Boy and Raven stayed to help Robin since they didn't really believe he could handle her.

"What the hell do you want?" Raven asked impatiently.

"Just to get even," was Garnet's curtailed response.

"For what! Honestly, you're just psychotic," said Raven, irritated.

Garnet ignored her and turned to Beast Boy and said, "Why don't you help me destroy her?" Beast Boy just stood there, not obeying. "Boy! I own your soul, so you will do as I say!" Beast Boy just looked down regrettably. He knew he had no choice. From the moment he gave his soul over to her, he had to do as she said.

Not too far, Terra, who was helping Cyborg tend to Starfire, heard what was going on and felt her blood run cold. She couldn't turn her back on a friend who had helped her when she herself was being controlled by Slade.

"You can handle this, right?" she said to Cyborg, but not waiting for an answer. She ran to the fight scene but was held back by Robin.

"Fighting her is pointless! You can't win as long as she can regenerate!" he said so Terra, but she got free of his grip.

"Ok, bitch, you're trying to control Beast Boy, you've gotta deal with me first!" She said to her. "I'll challenge you for it if I have to!"

"Ok," Garnet agreed calmly. "Third blood. You win, he gets his soul back, but if I win, I'll return you to the way you were before, along with him."

"Agreed."

"Terra! No! It's impossible to-" Beast Boy protested, but Terra wasn't going to pay attention.

Terra sent a series of jagged rocks in Garnet's direction, all of them missing her, except for one which hit her right arm. Garnet grasped it in pain.

"First blood," Terra said, smiling, but Garnet removed her hand to reveal… nothing- no blood, gashes or nothing. "Cheater…" she muttered under her breath, but it was useless. As long as they never saw the blood in the first place, there was no way to judge it. Garnet lunged at her, grabbing Terra's wrist which began to bleed.

"One. Nothing," she said cockily. She then threw a knife at her opponent who dodged it via levitating rock. She pelted Garnet with more rocks, but just like the previous time, it was healed before she could even see any blood.

Garnet picked the knife back up and threw it at her again, and it hit her in her left shoulder. "Second blood."

Terra pulled it out, cursing under her breath. She couldn't stop fighting since forfeiting now would affect Beast Boy and Raven far more. She was bleeding heavily from her wrist, and although she knew it wasn't that bad, she had to end this soon. She made the ground to shake beneath Garnet's feet, causing her lose her balance as concrete exploded beneath her. Terra, still holding the knife, walked towards her. She made a motion to stab her, but Garnet blocked and threw her back. Thankfully, the fall didn't scrape her since even one scratch would end this.

Garnet got up and walked towards Terra, who was getting up. She kicked her back down and put a hand on Terra's forehead, holding her there, as she raised the knife. "This one will end it."