Chapter 6: Trigon's World

Trigon took Raven to his planet. They floated down from the red sky. Everything looked so different from Earth. The houses were in rows, right next to each other and all the buildings looked the same. They were all simple, square structures. There was one door at the front of each building and two windows on either side of it. Many shouts from the people could be heard. They were saying, "All hail Trigon!" or "All hail the master!" The women and little girls were all wearing simple dresses, while all the men and little boys wore plain, brown shirts and pants. Raven had stopped crying. As soon as they reached the ground, Trigon presented her to his subjects. She could sense all the fear within every one of them.

"This is my daughter, Raven!" Trigon told the people. "She will rule by my side! If you annoy her even in the slightest, consider your life forfeit." He narrowed his eyes as he looked among them. 'Great!' thought Raven sarcastically. 'I'm getting away from here ASAP!' Then, Trigon forcefully pushed Raven forward and they both went to his castle.


Back at the tower, the Titans were talking and thinking things over. Starfire still refused to completely abandon Raven.

"Raven is our friend."

"But she forced us away from our homes," Robin argued. It was Cyborg's turn to take Raven's side.

"She needed help."

"Would she care if we got hurt?" asked Beast Boy.

"Of course!"

"How can you be sure?"

Starfire folded her arms and looked at the team leader. "Her father said those things."

"She didn't protest."

"Robin!"


The castle was definitely impressive. Raven wondered how many people it took to construct it. It was hard for her to guess how many rooms could be inside.

"I'll show you around the castle," Trigon offered. They stepped into the Main Hallway. There were columns on both sides of the room and three separate stairways leading to different parts of the castle. Everything was kept very clean. The floor was made of some sort of marble. When Raven looked down, she could see her own reflection. Trigon headed for the staircase to the left. Raven had no choice but to follow him. The staircase headed down.

"I won't take you everywhere, only the important places," he told her. "Feel free to explore the castle whenever you choose. You may go inside any room if it is not locked. This passageway," he pointed at the hallway in front of them, "leads to the dungeons." That hallway led to a series of wide hallways where the prisoners or the "criminals" were kept. All of their pains reached Raven instantly. She could feel their starvation and their illnesses and their wounds. Strangely shaped objects were hung by each cell. They provided just enough light to see inside each cell. Raven couldn't bear to look at the prisoners. Feeling every ounce of their pain was more than enough. Their clothes were worn and ripped. And they were so thin that you would almost be able to see their bones. In the cells holding reptilians, scales were strewn across the floor, leaving the creatures with no form of protection around their bodies. Some of the prisoners were aliens from other planets that Raven had never seen before. She grabbed Trigon's arm to stop him and gestured to one of the creatures inside the cells.

"Why do you treat them like this?" she inquired.

"They are an example for all of those who even think of disobeying my command. Don't worry, they are all fed once a week," an evil smile swept across his face, "if I remember. Let us go somewhere else." He turned around and headed in the other direction. 'In other words,' thought Raven. 'You feed them enough to barely keep them alive.' She walked after him.


Starfire was shouting with fury. "Robin, we must save Raven!" Robin didn't hear her. He was heading for his room so that he could do some serious thinking without interruptions. He kept pacing around. 'She could've made us become a team. Who knows what her powers can do? Was she working with Slade at all? No, he pursued her on her birthday. Was it a set up? No. Why go through all that trouble?'

He sat down on his bed. 'They wouldn't. If Raven was working with Slade and Trigon, why go through all the trouble of making us a team? They wouldn't. So, she came to us for protection? But just yesterday, she talked about destroying him…because he'd come after our dimension.' Robin's eyes widened and he smacked his forehead. He quickly walked out into the hallway, toward the Living Room. "We have to get her back," he said aloud.


The next place Trigon took Raven was the Weaponry Room. It was a large circular area with a dome for a roof. Stepping into that room was like stepping through a time portal into the future. Outside the castle, Trigon's planet looked fairly behind in technology compared to Earth. But inside of this room, Trigon was ahead. He kept all of his advanced technology from his people, even tools that they could use to speed up building projects. Trigon didn't care about time. He obviously enjoyed making people suffer. There were many different types of guns, bombs, war-suits and other things Raven had never seen before on the shelves along the walls. In the middle of the room were a chair and a machine. Two men were watching the room to make sure that nobody could steal anything.

Trigon headed for the machine and motioned for Raven to come closer. He didn't bother to sit down. He was looking into a screen that gave him a view of outer space. He flipped a few switches up and down.

"Each time I flipped a switch, I am given a certain view of outer space," he told her. "I have several nuclear guns out there with cameras attached to them, so that I can operate them from in here." Finally he found the view he wanted. Trigon began turning a wheel to aim his giant gun. He focused on his target, Xintha, and fired. The blast didn't destroy the planet, but it left a gash in the surface.

"Trigon, stop!" Raven exclaimed. "Did they even do anything?" Clearly, Trigon found pleasure in this. He kept his eyes on the screen.

"They were not giving enough sacrifices," he said distractedly. He turned the wheel slightly, pushed a lever forward a little and fired again. The result on the planet was worse than it was the first time. "That's enough for now." He left the room and Raven followed.

"Mortals are all like flies compared to us. Why not just put an end to their worthless lives?" he asked Raven.

"I'm not evil!" Raven protested.

"You were born from evil. Everyone knows what lurks inside you. That is why, no matter what, everyone you ever care for will turn against you."

'You'll get out of here soon enough,' she told herself. "What was the point of bringing me here?" she demanded. "You already torment everyone who lives in the city!" 'Good,' she thought. 'Pretend to be oblivious and stupid.'

"I wanted you away from your friends. It will be much easier for you to destroy the earth if they aren't around you," he explained. Raven flew up so that she could look her father in the eye.

"You promised that if I came with you, you'd leave the earth alone!"

"I never promised you anything!" he bellowed. "One of your 'friends' interrupted me before I could even think of agreeing to your terms."

"Then, I'm going home! I don't have to stay here." She lowered herself back to the ground and disappeared. When she came back up, she was still in the castle. She tried again. This time, she appeared somewhere in the city. 'Why isn't it working?' Raven teleported back to her father.

"You can't leave," he told her. "I'll have one of my slaves show you to your room." 'The time is very near.'


Raven examined her new room. Trigon seemed to like circles. Her room was circular as was her bed, her pillows, her window and other things. She walked over to the dresser beside her door. There was a mirror (which was round) above it and several glass bottles sitting on the side. Some had liquid in them while others were empty. Raven picked up one of the bottles. 'It's probably perfume,' she thought and set the bottle back down. 'I've never liked wearing it.' Her closet was on the wall opposite her bed and beside it was a bookcase with plenty of books.

"There's got to be a way off of this planet," Raven said to herself. "Time to explore." She stepped out of her room and headed down the hallway. She had no idea what she was looking for, but she figured she would know it when she saw it.

Raven spent a lot of her free time exploring the castle. Trigon said she could. She would leave her room and go down a new hallway each time, opening every door that she could – especially the locked ones. She just had to use her powers and work it out. The imprisoned teen did not care that she was forbidden to open them. One, there was probably something important behind every locked door. Two, if she got caught, Trigon would not hurt her; he needed her. There was something that she wasn't aware of though: she was being followed at all times, wherever she went. It was his job to make sure she didn't see anything she wasn't supposed to.

All the doors were marked with symbols that Raven couldn't read; she didn't recognize any of them. Some had pictures on them as well. After a while, she just ignored the signs and pictures altogether. One day, she opened a door that showed her something particularly disturbing. When Raven saw what was inside, she cried out in disgust and quickly shut the door. Her hand clutched her stomach and she leaned against the wall. She felt like she was about to throw up. In that room, there were heads in glass containers, sitting on shelves. Apparently, Trigon kept trophies from his battles. The heads were in some sort of green liquid that preserved them.

"Mental Note: Avoid the door with…" Raven said aloud. She paused to look up at the sign. It would be easy to remember this one, "the picture of a bloody head."


Author's Note: Okay, sorry that there wasn't, like, any action in this chapter at all! I hope you weren't too bored with all the descriptions and everything. Don't worry, it'll get better!