Disturbing Past
Summary: Raven wasn't always on the good side…
Disclaimer: Let this disclaimer stand for the entire story: I DON'T OWN TEEN TITANS!! I do own X'eltaroth, the Dark.
Raven was once on the run in her home of Azarath. She was the Midnight Murderer, dubbed that title as she and her partner X'eltaroth, only struck between midnight and one in the morning. Raven, being a dark telepathic, telekinetic prodigy, used her black telekinetic energy and ripped bodily organs out of the bodies of her victims, keeping the ones that appealed to her as souvenirs. X'eltaroth, being pyrokinetic, hydrokinetic and electrokinetic used her powers and burned, froze or electrocuted her victims, prior to Raven's bodily lobotomy. She was notoriously known as the Evil Elementalist.
The two made a team to be reckoned with. They were armed, X'eltaroth being a highly trained samurai and owning a priceless collection of katanas, daikatanas and elemental shurikens (Wind katana, Fire katana etc.) and Raven, her mind being the greatest weapon in most of Azarath.
"Who shall we kill today, dearest friend?" X'eltaroth asked her partner in crime.
Raven broke from her meditation to answer her. "We're going to Metrion, X'eltaroth. We are going to kill the King."
X'eltaroth nodded slowly in agreement. "We are going to kill my father? Do you think I am ready? My father taught me almost everything I know. He would predict my every move…" X'eltaroth's face began to contort into relative worry.
"But he did not teach you everything. You taught yourself and I taught you as best I could. We are formidable opponents, if I do say so myself."
Raven ceased from her meditation and entered the mind of her closest and only friend. All X'eltaroth was thinking about was their impending failure.
"X'eltaroth, you have no reason to worry. We will not go in there and start killing everyone; we'll save the best for last. We shall play on your father's emotions. He hasn't seen you in 14 years. He would want to see his princess after losing her to Azarathian forces, namely my father. You pretend to be happy and kill him in the best way you see fit. By the way, how do you want to end his wrathful, useless life?"
X'eltaroth paused for a moment. "I…I don't know yet. I have to think about this. He is my father and he abandoned me…left me to be killed by your father's army. I met you, the only good thing about it. He should die slowly and painfully. I think I'll use my Ashura (fire katana), and burn him. Maybe you could drain him of all of his bodily fluids and then boil him in it. I need some time to think about this."
Raven nodded in mild understanding at her. She had just popped the idea, and X'eltaroth had taken quickly to the idea of committing the murder of her father and her king.
"Mentor Raven," X'eltaroth said meekly, her voice slightly cracking. "I am afraid. Afraid of what Metronians may do to me. They may kill me…or worse, destroy my soul and leave me as a powerless ghost unable to rest in peace…or-"
Raven's familiar black energy encircled her companion's small mouth in order to quieten her. It worked.
"You can't be afraid. This is the moment where you get to prove to your father that he should have never thrown away his daughter." X'eltaroth cut her off.
"But he taught me almost everything I know…well, not teach me but transferred the abilities from him to me…He would be able to predict my every move and use a counter attack!"
Raven grimaced at her sole companion's one track mind. "The operative word is almost taught you everything. I have taught you as much as I could, and you have developed yourself into a force to be reckoned with. You left your father long before you became an assassin. He left you when you were five years old. You are able to beat him. I know you can. I don't think that you have trained yourself this hard to do nothing with your skills."
X'eltaroth absorbed Raven's short speech and agreed. She did want to exact her revenge on her father for all that he had done to her. It was the one wish she knew that had to come true. She had no idea that she would be an assassin or a samurai or whatever, or that she could control her elemental powers. But with the help of her mentor, they would kill every single person that took residence in the Metronian castle.
"Won't he think it strange that I have finally decided to return to him after all of this time?"
Raven took no time in figuring out how to deal with the situation.
"We can play on his emotions. He won't have the slightest clue of what hit him."
The two teenagers started off for Metrion in the sole mode of transportation they owned- an airship that Raven stole from her father when she ran away from home.
It was almost midnight, and the two were almost at the Metrion castle. The moon was almost totally covered by black clouds. The large castle slowly loomed into their view. X'eltaroth sighed heavily as Raven silently and effortlessly landed the ship. Raven ignored her sadness, and carried on, determined in her mission.
"Raven…" X'eltaroth muttered, "What do you have against my useless father?"
Raven bit her lower lip as a sharp wind blew, ruffling their clothes and hair. She shrugged. "He killed my mother. He sliced her head clean off her body and fed the rest of her to his dragons. It was my first memory."
X'eltaroth inwardly shivered at this new found knowledge. "I am sorry." she finally managed to choke out.
Raven waved it off. She was used to reliving the death of her first friend over and over in her mind.
The two alighted from the ship and approached the castle gates, which was being minimally guarded by two large, hostile-looking guards.
"I shall take them," X'eltaroth whispered as she approached them, her katana drawn and held stiffly at her side. Her black hair blew wildly in the wind, her blood-red lips curving upward, aware of the pleasure she would get from the kill.
The guards noticed her. With two quick slashes, she killed them; a single slash diagonally made on their chest, their blood splattering on her as she bent down and examined her victims. She pulled at the gems centered in their chest-plates.
"Tare stones." she said quietly to herself, pocketing them in a small black sack and stuffing them deep into her cloak. She laid her katana on both of their throats at the same time and pressed until their heads were sliced clean off. All of her hands were blood covered, and her katana black with the massive amount of blood issuing from their necks. She then sliced a hole in the fence and walked through, Raven following, proud of X'eltaroth.
The castle was not very well protected, as those were the only two guards they saw. Maybe others were hiding in the immense vegetation, but if they knew what was best for them, they would stay there, and run as far and as fast as they could if the opportunity arose.
"It is rather…well lit…" said Raven dryly as her black energy washed over all the lights until the entire hallway was as black and cold as her heart.
"The king should be in his sleeping chambers at this hour." X'eltaroth said, making some quick mental calculations.
"Then that is where we shall go, unless you have an objection."
X'eltaroth shook her head, as she mentally readied herself for one of the best kills she would ever do.
"Wake up, you indolent, good for nothing sloth." Raven ordered, her voice harsh, cold and demanding.
X'eltaroth stood on the other side of his bed. "So much for playing with his emotions."
Raven remained impassive. "Have fun." She turned and exited the room, off to kill everyone else in the castle.
"X'ell…X'eltaroth!? What are you doing here? I thought Trigon killed you!"
A smile graced the face of the princess. "You apparently thought wrong, father,"
A fire slowly appeared in a corner of the room and then quickly raged around her. The already blood-stained katana was effortlessly and speedily drawn.
"Goodbye father." X'eltaroth said silently, as the fire consumed him, and her katana finished him off, as she pierced his skull with it and sliced his entire body in half.
The two left Metrion, feeling as if they had accomplished something. Out of a grand total of approximately 250 people in the entire castle, not one of them was alive. But the two were going to get their just desserts.
The two went to Zinthos and had a blitzkrieg of students at their Alma Mater to kill. They thought they deserved to be killed. The students were degrading the name of Zinthos Academy. The students were angered and cursed them with a barrage of spells and hexes, some more damaging than some.
That was the first time that either of them got hurt in a killing. A hex put on X'eltaroth eventually killed her, and Raven doomed, never to love again. X'eltaroth was dead…or so Raven had thought. So Raven had no choice but to flee from Azarath. She mourned her friend for only a short period of time, as it was her nature. She had no choice. She went to Earth, the only other planet she had been to in her entire life.
"Titans, there's been a crash landing near Downtown! It may be dangerous." Robin said as he examined the picture on the screen.
The Titans exited the tower, on their way to the near empty streets of Downtown in Cyborg's car.
"It looks like they have taken no time in evacuating the area," Starfire said, observing the obvious.
As expected, a ship had crashed…or made a very heavy landing in the middle of the street.
Raven blinked. She was having a feeling that she had seen that ship before. She ruled that thought out of her mind and concentrated on defeating the force inside the ship.
"Don't go near it," Raven instructed her teammates.
The ship's grand door opened, and a girl about their age exited.
She was unnaturally pale, yet beautiful, prettier than Starfire if you looked hard enough. The girl had long, flowing, uncombed black hair, bottomless black eyes; a pale grey skin tone that matched the dreariness of the ship's interior, from what the Titans could see. She was also abnormally thin, like she had not eaten since birth. Plainly put, she looked dead.
She floated limply out of the ship. Raven's eyes widened.
The girl went directly in front of Raven.
"Hi."
"Xelle…X'eltaroth…I…I…I thought you…I thought you were dead!" she stuttered, dumbfounded, awestruck and whatever fell in between.
X'eltaroth gave a wry smile, basking in the irony of the entire situation.
"I am."
There you have it! The first chapter of my story! Please review, I need HELP!!! I can't write serious stories, I'm strictly humour!
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