Chapter 3

Starfire paced back and forth. Cyborg and Beast Boy were playing videogames as they usually do.

"Ha, take that grass stain! I so beat ya!" Cyborg screamed victoriously.

"Grrr, I'll win next game robojerk."

Starfire stopped and looked at the two.

"May we see if friend Raven is feeling better? Perhaps Robin is with her."

"No way Star, Raven's playing both sides of Psycho Street now. If Robin's in her room with her, it's his funeral." Beast Boy piped in.

"Besides Raven said she wanted to be left alone, and Robin can handle himself."

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Jump dodge, jump dodge. Robin had to stay one step ahead of this weird rock monster until he could develop a plan to eliminate it. Of course it was not easy, this thing was pretty quick.

"Hey eight eyes! Heeeyaaa!" An all too familiar voice sounded. Out of no were Raven jumped towards the monster.

"Raven wait!" Robin tried to warn. She had been acting quiet weird since he got to this place. In her current state he wasn't sure if she should be fighting, he didn't want her to get hurt.

His fears seemed to be groundless; she easily kicked the thing to the ground and smashed it to pieces.

"Booyah! High five!" Raven shouted turned to Robin. "Ah heck, victory hug!" She darted towards Robin and gave him a hard squeeze.

"Raven-" Robin gasped out, and pried himself out of her grip. "Raven, I think you need some help."

She stepped back and looked at him oddly. "Did you hit your head handsome?"

"Raven, you have to admit you've been having some mood swings. Look, I'd like to help."

Suddenly, another Raven in a pink cloak appeared. "Of course you would cutie! Cause you love Raven!"

Yet another Raven, this one wearing a grey cloak appeared as well. "No, we've messed things up. Now he hates Raven."

Robin simply froze in shock. Three Ravens, three. At any other time this might be a dream come true. Think clean thoughts Robin, this is serious.

"Wait…I think I understand now. Happy, depressed, courageous." He thought out loud.

Happy Raven leaned forward and pointed at him. "You forgot yourself! Hunky!"

"I'm in Raven's brain!"

A dark blur landed in front of him. It was Raven, the real Raven. He knew it had to be the real Raven, only the real Raven could look that mad.

"And I want you out!" The three other Ravens vanished. "The mirror you found is for meditation, it's a portal into my mind. NOT A TOY!"

Robin took a step back, he'd seen Raven mad many time before but not this mad.

"Raven I-I-I'm sorry." He managed to stutter out. He really hated the fact he was back on Raven's bad side, he thought maybe she did have feelings for him. Maybe I was wrong; maybe her emotions are just acting nuts.

"Sorry? I should kill you!" Suddenly, the sound of birds cawing sounded out. Raven suddenly looked very worried. "You have to go, NOW!"

"What is happening Raven?"

"Last night something broke out something bad."

"What was it?" Robin asked.

"Look, I can handle this myself." Raven clearly didn't want to talk. But he was not about to let this go.

"Raven, for once don't argue. I've been learning a lot about you today, and you're not the invincible. unfeeling rock you want everyone to believe."

Raven appeared surprised by his outburst. She sighed in defeat. "Okay-" But before she could continue a loud roar shook the very ground they stood on. A large swirl mass of unknown material appeared, and then began to form in to a large ferocious looking demon.

The red skinned creature had long white hair, and wore no clothes except for silver boots and arm bands and a loin cloth.

"Hatred will rule!" It shouted.

"Raven is that-"

"Yes, let's just say I have some father issues." Raven answered. The creature approached them.

"Raven lets move!" Robin ordered. But she remained still. "Raven!" The beast shot a large energy beam out of its eyes. Robin thought fast and jumped, pushing Raven to the side.

Robin took the blunt of the attack, his arm and some of his torso were slightly burned. Raven quickly got up.

"Robin!" She helped him to his feat. The creature attacked with his eye lasers again. But this time Raven put up a shield to protect Robin and herself.

"I could have avoided that my self!"

"Sorry, I saw you in danger, and I just reacted, I didn't want to see you hurt." Robin cradled his burned arm.

Raven put most of her concentration on keeping the force field up, and the creature did not cease in its attacks. But she couldn't help but give a slight smile when she heard what Robin said.

"I'll distract him, you get out!" She quickly reached under her cloak and pulled out Robin's utility belt and tossed it to him. "And you should leave that lying around."

Robin quickly put it on. "I won't leave you here alone Raven."

"It's my problem I'll deal with it!" She said desperately. "If I lose you'll be stuck in here forever!"

"I guess I'll just have to take that risk then." Robin shout back. The shield was finally destroyed by the creature.

"I won't let you! Now go!" She used her powers to push Robin towards the gate and she jumped forward to attack the creature head on.

Robin caught his grounding and charged back towards Raven. Raven had put up the best fight she could, but her dark energy bolts proved useless against the thing. It grabbed her and raised her to his mouth.

"Rage will consume you."

"Hey! I real gentleman would know when a lady doesn't want to hold hands!" Robin shouted. He threw a bunch of his exploding disks at the creature's stomach. The creature stumbled back painfully, and dropped Raven right before he fell off the ledge, to the nothingness below.

Robin hooked his bird-a-rang to a near by floating rock, and held on tight as he jumped towards Raven. He caught her before she could hit the ground and lowered her gently.

He hid the fact the whole things was hurting his already wounded arm.

"Robin, I thought you left."

"I couldn't leave you here I lo-, uh I mean, I care about, a lot." He managed to get out. He wanted to tell her how deeply he cared, but simply couldn't get it out.

But Raven knew, at that moment she figure it out.

"Robin…" Suddenly they both saw the creature was back, trying to pull himself to the surface once again.

"Raven, lets talk about this later. Right now we've got something really tall and really ugly to deal with."

To be continued

AN: Okay guys, next chapter should be the last. Then I might add thanks page, later.