First, before I answer reviews, I owe all of you an apology. I'm so sorry for not updating, it's going to take me a little bit longer, so please forgive me. Some… things have come up in life and I have to take this before personal hobbies ((no matter how much I enjoy them.)) I've done some stupid things and my friends all like to talk to me about it. I have more excuses but that's the only one I'll put. Again, I'm really, really sorry and I hope you can forgive me!
Sillymail: Thank you!
Maedhros: Wow, thanks. So I'm uberly cool right? Right? I'm better now. I love your word by the way, superb!
Xlife: Haha thank you. I had fun with that one. That's just how I picture it, even if the show states otherwise. He is a dumb traffic light! I'm sorry for not updating soon, I'll try harder I really will! NOOOOOOOOOOO I MISSED THE NEW EPISODES! Curses.
Zoicytes-Shadow: I failed with Liltih. I did the impossible with her in this chapter, I hope you don't like her too much… Haha, very Robin, which is kind of sad. This is after birthmark. Sorry for the confusion, I'll try and clarify that one.
Samael Archon: Oh dear. DON'T HURT MEE! Curse you. And your Nightwish shirt! Hmmph. Lucky duck. A bit more. Heh heh heh. Anyways…. NO! YOUR WRONG WRONG WRONG! Everything is all better now. I will explain more about Lilith in CHAPTERS TO COME! Lilith is freaky-deaky. I'll put it that way. Yes, BB Star. Of course! I may do an disney ending on this. Maybe. We've been watching some movies in school with sappy endings, also known as Disney. I hope that doesn't kill this. You'll see hehehehe….
Raven walked down the hallway, leaving her cheery friends behind. She didn't want to talk to anyone at the moment.
"Raven, wait." Robin said. Raven turned to face the traffic light.
"What?"She said coldly to the boy wonder.
"Why did you leave so quickly?"
"You need to know…"
"Because you're my teammate, if something is wrong I should know!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGH!" A piercing scream broke through the air, the two birds realized it was Lilith who cried out.
"ROBIN LEAVE RAVEN ALONE! I'm going out to the mall, I'll be back later." Cyborg called out, obviously not hearing Lilith's scream.
"Come on." Raven said, leading Robin to Lilith's room. "Lilith?" Raven asked, knocking on the door. No answer.
Robin punched in the code, making the door slide open with a sigh.
Lilith sat in a corner, a dark figure stood over her, watching her. Raven stared in shock, slowly, Lilith's wings were receeding.
"What is going on?" Robin demanded.
"You're a fake." Raven said. "Why?"
"I- I knew there was a disturbance amongst the f-forbidden creatures, I wanted to understand what it was."
"What are you?" Robin asked, if he was afraid he showed nothing.
"She," the figure chuckled and turned to face the two teens, "Is an Erratic."
"What?" Raven said. "What are you doing here?"
"Ah, forgive me. You see me as your fear. I was an experiment for Trigon, a little fun and games. My name is Samael. Not who you are thinking, named after the great, a tribute to Him."
"Slade! It's Slade!" Robin screamed, getting into a fighting stance.
"Robin, don't. It's not."
"Raven, look at him, what do you see?"
"A demon." Raven didn't go into details, though Robin could sense it was something more. "Why are you here? What do you want with Lilith, and how is she an Erratic?"
"Erratics are not what you think they are! That whole book is a lie, a human got hands on a real book and changed everything! Many creatures were misinterperted. Erratics are changelings, much like your friend Beast Boy."
"You lied." Raven said.
"I- I just wanted to help."
"With what?"
"With everything! We are underrated, I wanted difference. I wanted to see things. Our world is separate, our world is underground on an unknown planet. I can sense things, and I knew something was happening, I changed and I came to meet you."
"You will DIE for this!"
"You wouldn't kill your own type!" Lilith snapped.
"Sameal are you both Erratics?"
"Yes. I'm in human form at the moment, Lilith should be as well." Sameal shot Lilith a look. Her wings dissapeared and she had a humanoid appearance.
Sameal pulled out a silver knife and turned to face Lilith.
"Fuck you." Lilith said. "Just fuck you!"
"DON'T SAY THAT! THOSE HORRID WORDS YOU PICKED UP HERE!"
"Stab me then!"
"YOU ARE A FOOL! YOU TRY TO BE FALLEN YOU TRY TO BE PURE YOU DESERVE YOUR DEATH! YOU WERE NONE OF THOSE! TRICKS OF YOUR MIND! IT ENDS NOW!"
"NO!" Raven cried out, the window shattered. It was stunning what happened, Sameal lifted the knife and stabbed Lilith's heart, dragging the knife through the skin, tearing everything the blade touched. The cord that held up Lilith's life was cut, after a few twitching moves, Lilith fell to the ground, her blood soaking the floor.
"Get out." Raven spoke after a moment of silence.
"What? I just saved you from a fake, and you want me to leave? I did you a favor!"
"Get the hell out of here!" Raven said.
"Raven don't, he might he-"
"He won't. AZARATH, METRION, ZINTHOS!" Raven encircled Sameal in a sphere of her black aurora. "You are a demon! You lie. You killed Lilith because she was a threat to you. She knew too much. If I find out what that is…" Raven trailed off. Concentraiting she teleported Sameal to the location of a star she knew of. Raven doubted he would die, it did feel good to be rid of him for now. Sighing she cleaned up the bloody mess that was Lilith.
"I'm going to meditate. I will answer your questions later. Just leave. Me. Alone."
Raven stalked off to her room. Robin glared at the now spotless floor, wondering what had happened. Everything had passed him so quickly. Robin was dumbfounded, he felt like he was in a carwreck on the side of the highway, not quite believing it happened, but knowing it did, and for the mean time he would have to face everything alone.
Silently, the forboding grey clouds had crept in around Jump City. The clouds bore no innocent look, and with a cry of thunder let their presence known. Robin hadn't even seen the lightning. The wind lashed out at the windows of the tower, dancing across the city and carrying peoples umbrellas around with it. Robin looked at the disaster before him, the wind howling and the lightning made the car wreck on the street across the bay look worse than it actually was. Oddly enough Robin didn't want to help. He wanted to do something for himself, answer the quesitons he had for Raven. How had Sameal gotten in? What relation did he have to Lilith? Why had he gone as far as killing Lilith?
The though of bruce flashed through Robin's mind, like the lightning outside it was gone before he could give it a second thought. Robin didn't need to resort to the dark knight, Batman probably had enough on his mind already.
But what was he going to do with himself with all these questions screaming at him, alone with the one person who could answer them but wouldn't? How could he just sit here?
Robin decided to train. After beating the living hell out of his punching bag, he felt no better. Panting Robin decided to go up to the roof. Maybe the rain would calm him…
Raven sat in her room, on her bed with one eye opened. She had sworn she had heard something. I must be worked up from this afternoon. Maybe I should go on the roof, that always settles my emotions. Raven teleported the roof. She sat behind the doorway and relaxed against the wall around the door.
The door creaked open and Robin appeared. Raven had to keep herself from jumping. Robin sighed to himself and glared out at jump city, the rain Raven hadn't even noticed soaking him.
"Raven… you've got me so stirred up I don't even know what to do. Why can't you be around to answer the questions I have? What the hell is going on! GOD DAMN IT I WISH YOU COULD HEAR ME RAVEN!" Robin was panting.
"I can." Raven stood up and glared at him.
"Raven? I had no idea that you were- I didn't mean that I-"
"Save it."
"Right. Well, can you answer me?"
"Yes. You want to know more about what happened this afternoon…" Raven paused.
"Yes, I do."
She nodded and countinued, "I don't know much about Lilith, I'm not even sure what Sameal was here for. I'm sure it was something more."
Robin nodded. "You don't know do you?"
"No." Raven said. "You recall Slade… and my… birthday?"
"Yes." Robin looked down. "I do."
"The phrophecy will have to be countinued. I'm sorry to say that could be soon."
Meanwhile in a back alley Sameal stood. Another dark figure stood with him, talking in a smooth voice, tempting Sameal to do whatever asked of him.
"… I of course want something with them. You and I both agree on the titans, they seem to always be in the way. You need a job and I need an apprintice."
"Yes."
"Do you agree to be my apprintice?"
"Of course, Master."
"Your first job, kill the male Titans. Starfire can… stay with me, and Raven will be most helpful."
The Titans arrived home, all as happy as ever. Raen and Robin stood in the kitchen, both in new uniforms. Raven was making tea and Robin was digging through the fridge for something to eat.
"There isn't anything in here. Team, let's order pizza how ab-" The alarm interuptted Robin.
"It's raining! Who atttacks anything in the rain?" Beast Boy whined.
"It's cardiac. Titans, GO!"
The Titans arrived at the park downtown, where cardiac was tormenting a swing set.
"It's an iditot…" Raven muttered to herself. She hovered above the ground glaring at the machine. Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg climbed out of the T-Car, and Robin hopped off of his motercycle. Starfire had wanted to ride with Beast Boy, instead of her usual method of flying.
"Cardiac, your under arrest!" Robin said.
"You've used that before." Raven remarked.
"It's a good line. No time for that Raven, TITANS GO!"
Between Bird-A-Rangs, A blast from Cyborg's sonic cannon, and Raven's dark magic, Cardiac was already weakened without much effort from the Titans.
Starfire started to charge up her starbolts to finish the job, and found that she couldn't. "My- My starbolts, they aren't… working is it?" Starfire said.
"What!" Robin whirled around.
Cyborg finished the job with a final blast of blue.
"Back to the tower, now. EVERYONE GO!" Robin urged everyone. Beast Boy was dashing to the car, helping Starfire. Raven flew back at top speed, she managed to stay ahead of Robin by barely a harpin.
In the living room everyone looked worridly at Starfire.
"I do not know what happened friends!"
"We're aware of this- oh Azarath no." Raven froze. "Did Slade, did he do anything to you?" Raven asked.
"He did do… what he said was a custom on earth between male and females. I did not wish for such an unheard of activity!"
"He raped you of your innocence." Raven said. She stared blankly in front of her. "We will need to train you again… you will need to train yourself to get past this fact. You are registering yourself as impure unconciously…"
"Raven what are you talking about?" Beast Boy asked.
"Yeah Rae, you're making no sense." Cyborg said, giving Raven a worried look.
"You better not mean what I think you mean Raven." Robin said.
"Friend Raven I am rather confused, what are you discussing?"
"Slade raped her! Don't you get it? Once deprived of this purity Starfire cannot use her powers. She needs to consider herself pure."
"Oh- oh my. I believe I need to go to my room friends!" Starfire screeched and ran off. Beast Boy immediately stood up and followed.
"This is going to be really hard isn't it Raven?" Cyborg asked.
Raven faced Robin and Cyborg. "Yes it is."
Augh. I'm done. I need ADVICE! Please? HELP ME!