Chapter 11: A Last Goodbye
"What about her?"Robin was worried.
"What is wrong with her is she not okay?"
"Umm guys"
Robin already knew, judging that she was onlt 7 months old he knew she didn't have a big chance of surviving.
Beast Boy continued.
"She isn't with us anymore"
"Where is she?"
"Star she's right here but"Raven said softly.
"She's dead"Beast Boy said so softly they could barley hear him.
"DEAD!"Starfire jumped 3 feet into the air.
She landed. "But how?"
"She was a premi Star"
"Please what is a premi?"
"It's when a baby is born early Star and since their born early they haven't fully developed lungs so they wind up dying unless they have intensive care"
"I'm so sorry Raven"Robin said bowing his head in grief.
"It's okay Robin"Raven brought her bundle closer. "It's not your fault"
"Lets go home titans"Robin said.
He turned to Raven and Beast Boy.
"So what are you gonna do with her?"
"I don't know Robin were not sure"
"Take your time"
"We will"They walked out slowly. Robin on one side of Raven. Beast Boy was on her other side.
"Don't worry you two everything will be okay"
"It didn't work Trigon"
"Calm down Slade the delivery wasn't the part of my plan to kill Raven"
"It wasn't"
"No I knew that she would get through that with ease but she could not take the unbearable grief that her first daughter was dead"
"You're an evil genius Trigon"
"No you are"
"Thank you"
Raven and Beast Boy were in her room. Raven upset more then ever in her life laid in her bed drowning her sheets in tears.
"Rae were gonna have to do something about her"
"It's so hard realizing that she's dead"
"Raven I know but all good parents have to do something like this eventually I mean she is out daughter"
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
"Who is it?"
"It is I Starfire"
"Come in"
The metal door slide open. She was upset by what she saw. She would asked Robin about it later. She was a pool of blood under Raven. Where it was stood Raven with her wrist sliced open. A swiss army knife was on a table a few inches away.
"Raven I may have a solution to your problem"
Raven looked at Starfire. Raven had mascara running down her face. Starfire thought quickly she is a wreck.
"Well you are wondering what to do with Twilight correct?"
"Yeah"
"Well on Tameran when such casualties happen we would burn them with rose petals and important object of each parent"
"Well um"Beast Boy looked at Raven.
"Hold on Star"
Raven and Beast Boy went over to another side of the room.
"Beast Boy"
"Yeah"
"I think Star's offer is a good one"
"I was thinking the same thing"
Raven turned around slowly. The moonlight reflecting off her face.
"Starfire we have decided that your offer is perfect"
"Glorious I will fetch the rose petals while you choose your important objects"
Starfire left the room.
"What are you going to burn?"
"My favorite book"
"The one full of poems by Edgar Allen Poe?"
"Thats the one...what are you going to do?"
Beast Boy placed his hand on the top of Raven's head and pulled out a lock of her hair.
"Your hair"
"My hair...why?"
"Well the most important thing to me is you and I am not burning you"
"So you'll burn a symbol of me"
"Yeah"
The clock chimed 6:00 when Starfire returned to the tower. She had a jar full of deep red rose petals.
"Hey Star what are you doing?"Robins said.
"Raven and Beast Boy are preforming a ceremony for their lost baby Twilight"
Robin noticed that Starfire's face was the same color as the rose petals.
"Robin I must ask you a question"
"Okay go ahead"
"Well when I was in Raven's room she was sitting on her bed with a puddle of blood below her, her wrist was cut, and there was a swiss army knife on a table a few inches away that was covered in blood...what does that mean?"
"It means that Raven cut her self"
"Oh but I do it all the time"
"No you cut yourself on accident, Raven did it on purpose"
"But why Robin?"
"Well, when bad things like this happen, people don't know how to cope with their emotions...so Raven was sorry that Twilight died and she cut her wrist"
"But why?"
"Some people thinks that it feels good and takes the pain away but in the end it winds up destroying them"
"Oh then we must help Raven"
"Yeah"
"Well Robin I must go Raven and Beast Boy are waiting for these"
"Okay"
Robin gave her a kiss on the cheek and walked away. Starfire never had that happen blushed like crazy as she floated down the hallway.
Starfire walked down the hall back into Raven's room.
"I have the petals"
"Good were ready then"
The ritual started. Blue flames rose under Raven's command.
"Now the petals"
A hand realsed a fist full of petals. The petals fell down like pink snow in June. The fire which was once blue now sprouted up a fiery pink.
"Now the objects"
Beast Boy put down Raven's hair and her book in the fire. It roared up like it was about to attack. The flames changed from pink to black.
"Now...Twilight"
"I guess this is goodbye"
"When she is burned Beast Boy her spirit will be gone"
"Then lets talk to her before she goes"
"I was hoping that you would say that"
Raven sat in the middle of the room.
"Powers of Azarath power me, so that I may speak with the ones that live beyond this world...Azarath Metrione Zynthos!"
The room faded in black. A color was emitted from each person in the room. The color represented their soul. Beast Boy's was green, Starfire's was a yellowish orange, Raven's was blue and Twilight's was a faint violet.
"Twilight this is your mother Raven, can you hear me?"
"Mommy"
"Twilight I wish that I could bring you back but..."
"Why did I die? I wanted to be there with you and daddy"
"You weren't completely developed your lungs weren't properly formed...you couldn't breathe"
"I wish I was still alive, can I speak with daddy?"
"Of course"
Raven signaled Beast Boy to come over. The portal was so big and was flashing all these lights.
"Talk to her"
""Hey Twilight"
"Daddy?"
"Yep thats me"
"You have green skin...are you an alien?"
"No I"
"He's a morpher he can turn into different animals"
"Would I be able to?"
"Maybe"
"I wish that we could talk forever"
"Me too but we have to go and so do you"
"Okay mom but before I go I have advice that I must give you"
"Go ahead"
"Well you both seem like really nice people maybe you should try again"
Raven looked at Beast Boy who grabbed her hand. His eyes were full of care and compassion.
"Maybe we will"
"Bye mommy, daddy"
The portal closed.
"Lets get started"
They placed her body in the middle of the fire. It glowed purple(purple as in Twilights soul). Eventually the purple died into nothing. All that lay there now was a pile of ashes, Twilights ashes, the ashes of her book, her hair and the rose petals.
"Well Beast Boy she's gone"
Raven put the ashes in the box.
"No she's not"
She walked into the lobby. On a shelf she placed the box. It read "Twilight an everlasting life be with us"
"She'll always be with us"
The End