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16

Raven hung limply from the wall. Her arms ached. The shackles holding her up were too tight, cutting off the circulation in her hands.

The guards had removed her chakra, and even her sapphire pendant. Raven was powerless without her chakra, so she hung, thinking.

If I go through with this ritual, Trigon will be brought to life, and I'll die. My friends will never be able to defeat him without me. Not to mention Earth is as good as gone.

My Father will without a doubt have put a curse on Aldurah. He cant lie, Trigon wouldn't allow that. So he cant hurt my friends, nor can he let Slade or the shadow demons harm them. There aren't any loop-holes in that oath, I think.

My friends haven't turned to stone yet, so when I die during this ritual, I'll have to just trust them to win the fight.

Raven looked outside. It was night, which wasn't much darker then it was at day, but it was certainly colder. There was an icy mist seeping in through the small rectangular window cut into the side of the temple for oxygen.

Raven heard a grinding noise beside her head. She twisted her neck slightly to see what was happening.
A brick was being pushed out the wall. She knew on the other side of that wall her friends were sleeping in their cell.

The brick fell to the floor. She heard a buzzing sound as a little green fly flew through the hole in the wall into the cell. Beast Boy transformed back into a human and sat down infront of Raven.

"How's it hanging?" he smiled.

"Are you expecting a reply?'' Raven smirked.

These were probably going to be her last moments with her best friend, she may as well try to be nice to him.

"Where's your little red jewel thingy?'' he asked.

"The guards took it, I cant use any magic to escape,"

"So, I can bash through these walls easy, then we can escape," he boasted.

"And when we've escaped, what then? There's nowhere to go and I need my powers to get us out of here,"

Beast Boy frowned, then looked at Raven hanging on the wall.

She must feel powerless enough without her powers, let alone chained to a wall.

"Don't move" he said.

"What is it?'' asked Raven, thinking it was an insect or something of the sort.

Beast Boy turned into a fly and flew into the keyhole of Raven's right shackle. It clicked open and he flew to the next one, which un-locked aswell.

Raven fell to the floor, exhausted. Beast Boy, once again a human, raised her into a sitting position against the wall.

"Back there, why did you give up? You might have beaten tall, dark and ugly," he said.

Raven breathed heavily.

"Remember back in the medical ward when you said I had a nightmare?" she asked him.

Beast Boy nodded.

"I had a vision, you were all stone. What was happening back there, it was just like my vision,"

Beast Boy sat down next to her and put his hand on her shoulder.

"So, what's going to happen? To you, I mean,"

"I'm probably going to die at dawn, that's when the ritual has to take place,"

"But...I don't want you to die,"

Raven looked at him, caught in his emerald eyes.

"BB, death is just another stage. When life is over, there's another one just around the corner, better then this one. Life is just a stage, a large lesson. When you have learned your lesson, you can move on. You deserve to go to a better place," she explained.

"How do know that's true?" Beast Boy asked.

"I don't, but I can hope. I can believe my own philosophy. Besides, to die during this ritual is apparently my purpose. When you have served your purpose, you die. Then you are reborn in another life,"

"How do you know that? You have never died,"

"Because if the purpose of life was to end, what was the point of existing in the first place?"

Beast Boy shook his head, then grabbed her and pulled her into a tearful hug.

"It's not fair," he weeped.

"I know, but maybe I'm better off dead?"

"Don't say that. You cant die, because then I have no reason to live,"

Raven hadn't forgotten his scrapbook. It reminded her of the fact that if she did die, he would live. There were some things more important then your own life. Like the life of the one you loved.

The two crying teenagers heard footsteps coming down the corridor outside the dungeon rooms.

"Go," whispered Raven.

Beast Boy looked at her. He didn't want to leave, but he had to.

He transformed into a fly and buzzed back into his cell.

Raven struggled to her feet and slotted the brick back into place. She locked the shackles, with difficulty, back around her wrists as David opened her cell door.

"Time to get ready. It's almost sun up,"