Yay... I mean, I better not jinx myself by saying I don't have writer's block. So R & R, not much I can say besides stuff I want to mention in the last chapters...
Through the dismal hall and up the masonry steps, Beast Boy allowed himself to be shoved and pulled up to the surface of the island. Trigon towed the boy up the stairs and propelled him before him unexpectedly. Beast Boy's voice squeaked as the brute demon glared as if he wanted him to open the door for him. Beast Boy wasn't in the situation to disobey and like an obedient dog, pushed the double doors open. Trigon grabbed the back of his shirt and pushed him outside. Around this time, the elegant sun had vanished beyond the ocean's stretch leaving the looming black sky of night to freely lay over head. Beast Boy grumbled and slouched but regained his posture when the oppressive monstrosity towered above him. Trigon drew his attention to the sky to inspect for the person he knew was getting closer to the island. She was still not seen but he could sense her movement.
" She will be here soon," Trigon articulated " And my plan for domination will fall into place."
" Why can't you just leave her alone? Don't you hate her? Why would you want her to stick around?" Beast Boy shot questions out like a machine gun
" All part of my plan, boy... She'll have to obey me. She cannot turn back now, she is as good as under my command."
" She's not going to listen to you, dude." Beast Boy simply stated
" Perhaps, but if she wants to live, she will. And if she still refuses, you can be of even more use."
Beast Boy kept silent from that point. Beast Boy was too busy looking for the perfect way to get away from Trigon and warn Raven before the being of hatred could wreak more havoc on her teenage life. The 'big red guy' kept his eye to the sky with anticipation like a child waiting for Christmas morning, except Trigon's present would give him rulership of the Earth. Beast Boy decided to make a run, or fly in his case, for it while the demon's attention was diverted to the horizon. He held his breath, slapped his face, patted his feet... Kept doing weird stuff to get his courage to rise, and finally leapt into the air and morphed into a malignant falcon. The green avian flapped as hard as he could and would have gotten away if Trigon didn't possess telekinetic powers...
The satanic being lifted his hand into the air and a familiar aura of black energy engulfed Beast Boy while in flight. He closed his palm and tugged his hand back which sent the bird crashing into the ground. Seeing the boy was no longer airborne, Trigon approached the green teen as he shifted back to his human state. The shadow of the demon over him make a chill go up Beast Boy's spine.
" If you want to stay alive for the next while... I'd advise you to stay still!" Trigon snarled
" Uh...Uh..." Beast Boy almost had a heart attack
" No mercy for the weak... Perhaps a simple spell will remind you not to escape?"
" Trigon!"
At the same time, the two on the ground looked to the sky to see Raven land on the earth nearby. Trigon cracked a cynical grin while Beast Boy sighed deeper than someone who had just gotten out of a locked, empty room after hours of trying to escape.
" At last, you've arrived. Any longer and your friend here would have met his demise." Trigon informed
" Let him go, he doesn't have to get caught in the middle of this." She replied
" But then you wouldn't have come out of hiding! And I'm pretty sure you know why I had to lure you out."
" Your amulet... Sorry Trigon, but I'm not helping you scar this planet."
" You deny? So be it. Looks like I'll get to have human for dinner." He howled as he gestured Beast Boy
" Fath– Trigon, just let him go!"
" What's that? Did you almost call me father?"
" No... I..."
" Relax, child. I already informed him of your heritage."
" ...You..." She gasped, fearing Beast Boy now hated her
" Come, we must go get my amulet's other piece. There is no time for idle conversation."
" Let him go."
" Sure, here."
Trigon levitated the boy unexpectedly and hurled him across the landscape. Raven managed to catch the flying changeling, but quickly put him back on the ground. She still believed that her father would be right about everyone hating her because she was part demon. She frowned and resumed her conversation with Trigon while Beast Boy stood beside her still watching the event unfold.
" Now that your little friend is safe and sound," he mocked " It's time you said goodbye and come with me!"
" We don't have to go anywhere."
" What? You still refuse to come with me!"
" Actually, I don't have to."
Raven reached down her collar and hooked a chain that was concealed under her cloak. She pulled it out revealing the other half of the amulet hanging around her neck.
" Where did you get that?" The cardinal demon
" I payed a visit to the cathedral it was being held in."
" And how did you know where it was being kept?"
" I got homesick and came back, and I learned a little about the reason you were after me."
" ...Surely you don't think that will work on you?" Trigon blurted with a hint of uncertainty
" But it will. We share the same blood, therefore, we share the same powers." She smirked
" Dude! You just got served." Beast Boy chuckled
" Silence!" Trigon bellowed " You impetuous child! You cannot defeat me... No. I am stronger, amulet or not!"
" Let's just see what your powers can do, for me and you."
Raven quickly sent Beast Boy away from the soon to be battle zone with her dark energy. Beast Boy could only allow himself to be pushed away, for he couldn't help. Once again he felt under the weather for being too powerless to do any good.
Trigon faded into a misty state and recollected behind Raven. The demon shot his clawed hand down at her but she evaded it like she had a surplus of time to ponder her next move. With a burst of black energy, she leapt into the air and kicked him in his temple. To his surprise, he staggered back. Raven then formed streaks of darkness around herself until it took the form of a bird, and with Trigon glaring intensely, she bolted at him. The attack hit him in his upper body region making him growl in exasperation. He looked at his tingling chest and saw a few scratch marks stretching across it. He was going to need to fight for real, the same way he fought a real demon of equal strength.
" Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She half screamed
The attack created through those words was much stronger than before. Now it was a thick black surrounded in the dark aura of sparks. Trigon toppled over helplessly when the fierce blast collided with the back of his head. He managed to shake it off and spring back onto his feet, shaking the ground when he did. He was beginning to change from calm and collected into malicious and vengeful. He couldn't let his own hybrid child defeat him or else his title of being a barbarous demon lord would be quickly wiped away like a wave washes away footprints in the sand.
He quickly swiped his claw before him creating a wave of fire. He then lifted his clenched hands above his head and slammed them into the Earth. The result of this was a scorching wall of fire that shot through the earth and air at godspeed. Raven couldn't deflect and got hit by the hell bound power. She merely was knocked further into the air where she noted the bottom of her cape was charred. Trigon sprung into the air and lurched his claw once again. Raven side stepped while still in the air as Trigon returned to the ground. The half demon lifted her hand causing the rock under Trigon's feet to give away and deepen. The rock and stones began to bury him until he was forced to fall down into the lively earth. Raven took a nose dive down to where he had stumbled and brought her hands back in fists making ebony energy burn around them. She would have directly punched him but seconds before her fists impacted with Trigon, the mighty demon uncovered his arm from the rubble and grabbed Raven by her head. He stood up with his daughter still in grip and sneered mockingly.
" Child, you are far too assailable to even fight. And now that my amulet is out of that damned holy place, I can just tighten my grip on you and kill you— And the amulet will be mine!"
" Dude, you gotta lay off on the way you reveal all your plans!" Beast Boy shouted out of sight
Trigon ignored the boy, wherever he was, and felt that sense of power and superiority to be so close to the maximum potential of his demon powers. The two amulets began to react to each other and glow with a tainted red ambience. The demon could no longer wait to have his power back and prepared to deliver the death blow to Raven, but his plan was intervened.
Beast Boy, in pterodactyl form, swooped in and sunk his teeth into Trigon's hand causing him to release Raven. Trigon was not happy that a green prehistoric bird had just delayed his domination.
" You stupid human..." He vocalized, almost disgusted to say human " Don't get in my way or else you'll be extinct!"
Trigon swatted the green teen away like a bothersome fly. Beast Boy managed to morph back into human form before impact with the ground and striking it he began to roll until coming to a stop. If Raven wasn't PO'd before, then now she was.
Raven wasted no time releasing all her bottled up hatred into something that would mortify her father. A dark atmosphere surrounded her as she moved her hands around in the air to cast another attack. The cloaked girl was bent on harming her parent– To let him see what it's like to feel real pain. Obscurity soon took form and swirled into one radiant sphere of dark energy. With a demonic growl, Raven gave momentum to the blast just as the target turned to get hit full force. But when Raven looked up, four red eyes could be seen beneath her hood.
Trigon rumbled with fury as he was struck down with the engulfing darkness. He collapsed onto the ground forcing up dust around him. The dark energy nearly crushed his rib cage on impact causing him a great surge of pain. He could almost taste his own blood in his mouth. There he was, lying on the ground with mild throbbing pain while his opponent, his own half breed daughter, was looming nearby with little to no damage. The demon could not tolerate such unbalance. There had to be some kind of way to gain the upper hand and keep it. But what was that emotion he sensed? Anger? Hatred? It wreaked of his own fury... Trigon looked up and saw a red aura around Raven fade away as she recovered. A side effect to her usage of the amulet– His raw hatred was flowing through her as was his power. Maybe, just maybe, there was something he could to turn the table.
" You've managed to knock me over... Bravo." He aggravated her " But really, my darling daughter, I still live. And as long as I live, I will make your life hell. "
" Not unless I kill you." Raven stated
" With your puny powers? Spare me the breath wasted in telling you that you cannot defeat me. For you are a mouse, and I am a cat— No matter where you run or hide, I will eventually get you. "
" Not anymore. I will kill you and end your trail of chaos."
" Okay... Then kill me. Hit me with everything you've got!" He gestured
" My pleasure."
Raven flew at an abnormal speed for her power and prepared a punch that would tear right through Trigon and murder him. Her fist was squeezed tight as it flowed with the dark energy channelled from her chakra. She lifted her shimmering fist back and kept imagining how her attack would kill her worst enemy at long last. Trigon however had a cynical smile plastered on his faceThe kind filled with deceit and lies. Beast Boy from afar could see the grin and knew in his heart that something bad was bound to happen.
" Raven! Stop!" He ran into the range of battle " It's a trick!"
Raven heard Beast Boy's cry and just seconds before she was suppose to attack, she saw a glint of corruption in Trigon eyes. Because of this, she recoiled and came to an abrupt stop in front of him. She was about to make a hast getaway when he placed his hands on her shoulders. In fear, she struggled to get free but he kept his grip and his maniacal smirk.
" Grrrr... Let go!" She shouted at him
" ...Hatred shall consume you." He muttered
As he said that, crimson energy started to radiate from his own body and swirl along the air like an exotic mist. Raven tugged and pulled to get from his grip but she couldn't. The energy circling in the air smelt of corruption. Whatever it was, it wasn't friendly. Suddenly it began to seep into her own body unwillingly. She groaned as it began to consume her mind. All that was in front of her began to fade to black again...
And she blinked her eyes and the familiar setting of the apocalyptic city returned to her. Trigon already had emerged from the fog and shadows as her green companion was knocked across the blood-filled streets by his other accomplice. Still, they remained in the shadows. Raven started to feel like she was in serious pain. Her head was spinning wildly but she managed to retain the imagery before her. And just then, the second shadow emerged from the darkness. Their face could now be seen, and she recognised the person immediately. Then, with one last gasp, her mind went blank.
Raven was limp in Trigon's grasp as he barred his teeth with glee. He released her and she crashed to the ground without movement. Her father stood above her boldly and without sympathy for her.
Beast Boy was just staring at what had just happened. Did he just kill her? The changeling refused to believe it was true as he snapped out of his blank stare and quickly ran to her side. Trigon didn't seem to care if the boy approached. Beast Boy shook her a little to see if she was alive.
" Raven! Raven! Dude, you can't be dead!" He exasperated
Then the lifeless girl suddenly awoke as if nothing had happened. She sat up without looking to Beast Boy and then climbed to her feet. Beast Boy stood beside her happy to see she was ok.
" Alright, you're ok!"
Just as he put his hand on her shoulder to get her attention, she turned around with glowing red eyes. Dark energy emerged from her hand and struck him directly. He fell to the ground with a thud and looked up to her with a highly confused look.
" What are you doing? Raven, we're friends, remember?" He chuckled lightly
" I have no friends." She replied bitterly. " My only friend is Master Trigon."
" What...? But... Trigon! What did you do to her?"
" Hahahahahaha! Fool! She serves me now! The corruption flowing in the amulet make her an easy target for brainwash!"
It was true. Raven glared daggers at the young changeling as her father went off into laughter. Because she used his amulet, his corruption leaked into her allowing Trigon to easily overtake her mind.
The second shadow, the other servant of Trigon seen in Raven's dream, was Raven herself.
Muahahahahahaha... I hope you enjoy this chapter. And now that it's complete, I have to go study for my cursed Math test... Who has a Math test on the last day of school before Easter Break? So while I suffer a massive headache trying to study the evil stuff, R & R.