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17

Raven stood on the center of the strange marking, crawling with goosebumps. She was cold, terrified, worried for her friends. But she wasn't going to cower, she wasn't giving anyone the satisfaction of watching her beg for her life.

Raven had been forced into the ceremonial dress, a black, revealing leotard. She was wearing chains, which were wound around her arms, like a snake spiraling up a tree. Slade had burned satanic marks into her body. It had taken all her will-power not to scream from the pain.

At the bottom of the temple, an army of one thousand shadow demons and vampires waited. They waited for the rise of Trigon the Terrible, the war they would soon have with Earth.

Shadow demons were once ruthless creatures, with few things on their bloodthirsty minds.

Carnage, death, destruction.

The cheap thrill of chasing an innocent, marking it as prey. Watching it scream as it was killed in an unfair fight.

Shadow demons used to have an entire dimension to themselves, where they fed on each other, on other monsters, until Trigon came. He raged war on the Shadowlands. When he rised victorious, he captured as many shadow demons as he could, and bred them as weapons of war. They were trained to be smart, agile and ruthless in battle.

They couldn't wait to hunt the pathetic inhabitants of Earth.

Aldurah's eyes flashed, and two vampires flew to the top of the temple with a small wooden chest. As they opened it, Raven saw it was filled with powders of many different colors, powders that she had never used. They were only for extremely dark magic. They were used for rituals of dark preformances, very dark prefomances, like this one.

One vampires held the chest open as the other sprinkled it on the marking, eventually covering the whole thing in powder.

The marking started to glow. The vampires took off ito the air and flew back down to the bottom of the temple.

Raven felt her heart beat in her mouth, she heard nothing, she saw nothing. Light beamed from her eyes and mouth.

This is it. I die now, and Trigon will rise, immortal. My friends will never win this fight.

Fire erupted from the marking. It started to crack along the powdered lines. Raven started to float up, into the air.

The surface on which the marking had been drawn on fell into a firey vortex. There was a rumbling sound, and the noise of a wall being smashed. Green darts of light flew everywhere, as did blue beams of light.

But then, a large red figure overshadowed them all.

Someone shouted "Dude!"

Raven felt her life start to leave her, but before it left her entirely, she felt something hit her side, a green something.

Raven and Beast Boy hit the ground hard, and rolled.

"You OK?" asked Beast Boy.

Raven rose to her feet. This was to be her final fight, the fight that would determine the fate of almost all humanity, she had going to win it.

"I'm not dead, he's not immortal. We have to beat him,"

"Wha?" said Beast Boy, "Immortal?"

Raven flew up to Trigon and flung darkbolts at him.

Beast Boy watched the brave girl in awe. She couldn't win this fight alone, and she knew that, but she was still going to try. You couldn't get a bigger hero then that.

Beast Boy was thrown off his feet as Aldurah sent a white beam of light at him. He had jumped out the way in time to see it hit a weed growing out a crack in the temple. It was turned to stone.

He transformed into a rhino and rammed into Aldurah. If demons couldn't tell lies, then Aldurah couldn't harm him.

Raven smashed into the sacrificial block, back first. It smashed into pieces.

I cant beat him. I need a miracle. Arella, help me. she prayed.

A figure seemed to appear next to her. Raven turned her head to see it. But there was nothing there.

Raven felt something touch her ankle. She picked up a small, pale blue scarf. It was Arella's old one, she remembered using it as a cuddle blanket as a child. Something was bundled inside it. Raven unravelled it and a small, saphire raven pendant and chain fell onto her lap. It seemed to be glowing, slightly.

Raven smiled, it was a miracle.

She put the chain around her neck. She felt an un-natural energy pulse through her.

Time to save the world.

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