A/N: NO MORE SCHOOL! does the funky chicken I AM FREEEEEEEEEEE! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Sorry about the late update but you can be happy with the fact that I have nothing but time to devout to my writing now that school is over. I would have updated sooner but I had to prepare for final exams shudders Evillll. But, now I don't have to look at another school until September, yay for me!

So here's that update!

Sorry guys, I don't have the time to respond to reviews for the last chapter…please forgive me but I thank you all just the same.

Hell's Fury: The Beginning

Chapter 11: Accidentally Broken

By: Amber Myst

Seems like just yesterday
You were a part of me
I used to stand so tall
I used to be so strong
Your arms around me tight
Everything, it felt so right
Unbreakable, like nothin' could go wrong
Now I can't breathe
No, I can't sleep
I'm barely hanging on
–Kelly Clarkson

Robin walked through the slowly darkening halls of the tower, thoughtfully as he looked for Starfire. He really needed to set things straight again. His mind tracing the past few days, he realized that his behavior was unacceptable and he desperately needed to apologize now that he had a level head. He reasoned that he acted the way he did from lack of sleep and stress but still…it really wasn't a valid excuse. Usually he was so protective of the naïve alien. Starfire, above all people, looked up to him and he felt lower than dirt because he had let her down. He didn't understand why Starfire acted the way she did but he could at least give her a chance to explain herself right? He had been led astray plenty of times before but Starfire always believed in him so he would bestow the same courtesy on her.

His feet soon lead him down the corridor leading to Star's room where he saw the alien princess and Beast Boy talking quietly, a few sniffles escaping Starfire every now and then.

Robin cleared his throat noisily, making his presence known to the two oblivious teens. "Hey Beast Boy…could I have a second with Starfire?"

Beast Boy's face darkened as he realized their interloper was Robin. He didn't care what it was that Starfire did, Robin had no excuse for acting the way he did, especially with Starfire. He realized his position on the matter might have been a bit bias, especially when his feelings were taken into account, but he really didn't care. His jaw tightened somewhat, teeth almost grinding as he thought of saying 'go fuck off', but Starfire's hand on his shoulder deterred any hasty actions. "Please excuse us, Friend Beast Boy."

Beast Boy gave her a look of uncertainty and she nodded her head. He glared at Robin as he passed him, their shoulders colliding hard as he passed him. Robin stumbled back a step and watched incredulously as Beast Boy walked away.

"What the hell is his problem?" Robin asked once the angry green changeling was out of earshot, resisting the urge to rub the offended shoulder. Somehow he had managed to piss off/upset everyone except Cyborg. 'Good going Boy Wonder.' He thought dejectedly. He didn't know how he would fix things with Raven and he didn't even know why BB was upset in the first place. But he had to start somewhere right? That first place would be Starfire.

Starfire shook her head. "What is it that you wish to converse with me?" She placed a hand on his forearm, momentarily brining his focus back from Beast Boy.

"Oh, that…" He started, although still a bit distracted. "I wanted to apologize for the way I've been acting, I have no excuse. I just don't know what came over me and I shouldn't have lashed out, especially at you Star. I'm not asking for your forgiveness, I just needed you to know that I'm really sorry."

Starfire smiled tearfully. "Oh Robin!"

She sniffed. "You have be given my forgiveness!" At that Starfire threw her arms around Robin's neck. Robin hesitantly wrapped his arms loosely around the alien's back as she hugged him. He honestly didn't know what to do with them and couldn't put them anywhere else comfortably.

Starfire was beginning to cry and Robin patted her back awkwardly. "Uh, Starfire…are you okay?"

Robin thought she cried tears of sadness but really they were tears of joy! Finally, her boy, had come back to her. She could feel her heart lifting and had the sudden urge to concoct the pudding of extreme happiness! Starfire opened her eyes as she sighed happily and pulled back. She could hear light footsteps approaching and knew exactly who it was. There weren't heavy enough to be Cyborg and she was sure Beast Boy had exited in the opposite direction from whence the footsteps were coming. Oh, she knew exactly who it was.

An evil smirk twisted itself onto her beautiful face as she prepared to make her move. After all, it was to be revealed later, why wait? She had to protect what she saw as hers. Starfire pulled back fully to look into Robin's masked eyes and as the footsteps grew louder, she leaned forward and kissed him with all she had.

After a several seconds, she pulled back long enough to see Raven's stricken expression and her retreating figure as she whirled around and ran from the devastating scene.

Robin was too stunned to actually react to Starfire's haphazard kiss for the first few seconds, but he could feel his rage bubbling forth. 'I tried to apologize and she pulls this?'

Then Starfire pulled back and Robin noticed an odd expression on her face as she looked over his shoulder. His curiosity sparked beneath his anger and he turned slightly and noticed the flicker of a dark blue cloth escaping around the corner. His mind went completely blank as he forgot about his anger, Starfire and the kiss. Only one thing was screaming through his mind, 'Raven.' He could hear his heart pounding loudly in his ears as the blood drained from his face. What had he done?

No, what had Starfire done? He jerked himself from Starfire's grasp as he turned to pursue Raven.

"Robin wait!" Starfire called out almost pleadingly as she grabbed his arm and restrained him. "It is best that she is informed about us. Do you not agree?"

It took every strength Robin possessed for him not to turn around and violently attack Starfire. He could feel himself shaking as he realized that Starfire knew Raven had been there all along. The fury he felt burgeoning forth, was all consuming, making him burn with the need to punish someone.

"What in the hell are you talking about?" His voice was a dark, quiet whisper, but the fury blatantly echoing through the hallway was something Starfire could not in good health ignore. She stepped back impulsively as she suddenly grew afraid. Robin did not forgive her as a testament to his love for her?

"There is no us, never was and never will be. I'm not even sure if I can call you a friend at the moment." He wrenched his arm away from the alien and stepped away as quickly as he could. He was mad enough to take his anger out on Starfire and that was something he was trying desperately not to do. If Starfire had ruined any chances he had with Raven…he would never forgive her. Never.

Starfire's lips trembled as Robin spoke and she knew that he knew that he just delivered a terrible blow to her. She valued friendship more than almost anything else and the friends that she had acquired here on earth meant more to her than anything. In the past few days, that simple moral had deserted her along the way, transforming her into she something she was not. A sob escaped her. She was so focused on getting Robin as her boyfriend and her jealousy that she didn't notice what it was doing to their friendship until it was too late. She took another step back, as she stood trembling. His anger was overwhelming, but it was justified. "I'm sorry, Robin…I'm so sorry."

"No, you're not. But if I lose Raven over this, you will be." The glare he sent her was unmistakable. It was a promise to make her life miserable if he lost Raven. After all, misery loved company. He took two steps when a blinding burst of pain exploded in his head and he stumbled, crumbling to the ground, oblivious to everything around him as the floor rushed up to meet him.

"This stupid dishwasher!" The mechanical Teen Titan growled as he contemplated blowing the damned thing to kingdom come with his sonic cannon. He had been trying to fix the thing for awhile now and none of his efforts brought his goal any closer to fruition. He could hack into top secret government files, build a car from scratch, develop the most high tech security in the whole damned city, if not the state and this piece of crap managed to stump him. Oh the irony.

The team didn't even use the dishwasher, hell, he didn't even know they had one but it was still the principal of the matter. He, Cyborg, master of all things mechanical, was not about to let a stupid machine get the best of him.

He gave it a hefty kick and suddenly it gurgled to life, spraying water and soap all over him. As he sputtered indignantly, he could have sworn he had laughter that sounded like it was coming from the dishwasher. He was losing it. 'Correction, lost it.' He thought to himself dryly.

After glancing around the room to make sure he had no audience, he lifted the thing up and heaved it out the closed window. "HOW DO YA LIKE ME NOW?" He screamed after the falling appliance, smugly as he watched it smash against the rocks at the bottom and the waves pull it into the sea.

He gave a satisfied smirk and added, get a new dishwasher, to his things to do list. He quickly grabbed the broom and began to sweep up the pieces of broken glass and machinery that covered the checkered, linoleum floor.

As the monotonous job of sweeping did nothing to occupy his thoughts, they wondered towards the broken team. What in the hell was going on? They were simply falling apart and there was nothing he could do about them. He could fell them slipping through his fingers like grains of sand through an hour glass. And as cliché as that sounded it was true. He sighed heavily, his heart ponderous. Starfire was depressed. Those two words didn't even belong in the same sentence. Beast Boy was pissed at Robin for a reason Cyborg couldn't possibly even begin to fathom. Robin couldn't seem to tear himself from Raven for three freakin' seconds and Raven… She was a whole different matter altogether.

Cyborg didn't lift his head as someone shuffled silently into the kitchen. He automatically assumed it was Robin. "So how did it go…"

He broke off as he heard a sniffle. His head shot up hastily, and he winced slightly. "I think I just gave myself whiplash." He muttered to himself as he rubbed the back of his neck gingerly.

"What's up BB?" Cyborg questioned, worriedly as the green changeling walked into the room, head down.

Beast Boy's green headed shot up even more quickly than Cyborg's as wide, shimmering green eyes look at him in shock. "I didn't know anyone was in here." Beast Boy sighed and turned around. "I'll leave you alone."

"Wait a second! There something you wanna talk about?"

Beast Boy paused for a second and then shook his head.

"I bet I know what the problem is." Cyborg claimed, a knowing twinkle in his eye.

Beast Boy missed it as he snorted. "Riiight."

"No, I'm serious. If I guess it, you have to talk to me about it and I'll help you in anyway I can, promise!" Cyborg held up a mechanical hand, using the other one to cross his heart.

Beast Boy scrutinized his robotic friend closely, 'He's up to something.' "And if you don't guess right on your first try?"

Cyborg kept his face straight but he knew he couldn't possibly get it wrong. "I won't bother you about it again, I swear it."

Beast Boy sighed, if it was the only way to get him to leave him alone. He wanted to wallow in his depression and self pity by himself. Knowing Starfire, she still felt deeply for Robin, and no matter what he did or who Robin chose, he had a feeling he would never have Star's full heart, or even a part of it.

"Hmm…does it have anything to do with…" Cyborg paused as he thought of his answer. He had only one chance to get it right. At first he thought it might have been Robin…but he couldn't see BB crying over Robin. Maybe Raven? But he didn't know anymore about Raven's condition than Starfire. Besides, him and Robin were the only ones who knew much of anything. It had to be Starfire. Maybe he cared for Starfire more than he let out. He saw the wistful looks he passed the gentle alien's way when he thought no one was looking. He had thought maybe it was all a trick of his imagination, after all he thought the green changeling might have liked Raven. But maybe it was just brotherly love that Beast Boy felt. Maybe his heart belonged to Starfire. The more he thought about it, the more he was sure. It made perfect sense. The two were so similar it was scary.

Maybe Robin going to talk to Starfire made him think that the two were getting together? Cyborg nodded. That had to be it. If it wasn't he would eat tofu. And that was worst thing he could think of doing.

"Starfire."

Beast Boy's eyes widened as he heard the name come from Cyborg's mouth. How in the hell had he known? His mouth opened and he faulted, before closing it again. He grunted in disbelief and discomfort and flopped down in a kitchen chair, resigned to his lost. He could always lie and say that wasn't the problem, but his reaction told Cyborg more than words ever could. He had always been intuitive, the only one more so was probably Raven and Robin had his own 'detective' senses with which he could usually spot something unusual from a mile away.

He mumbled something undiscernibly and sighed, "What do you want to know?"

Raven barely made it to her room before she collapsed on her bed wearily, her headache growing steadily worse. Raven sighed, burying her face in her pillow as she hugged it to herself desperately. She felt tears spring into her eyes. It still smelled faintly of the enticing, sensual smell that was Robin. Tears welled up in her eyes, threatening to overrun. She willed them not to fall, biting down on her bottom lip, hoping to herself that the pain would block out the anguish. It didn't work, the physical pain only augmented the emotional agony.

She tried her hardest to choke back the sob that threatened to break free but she failed and it echoed eerily loud in her quiet, dark room. As she thought back to the argument she had with Robin, and the kiss he shared with Starfire she couldn't help but wonder where it went wrong. Was it so wrong of her to not want to go to the movies? Did Robin hate her now? He didn't come after her…was that why he was kissing Starfire? She was so unsure of herself and everything going on around her. She felt vulnerable. She hated to feel vulnerable or helpless. The tears blurring her eyes finally fell, trailing her pale, waxen cheeks.

Another sob broke free at the thought of Robin hating her…she couldn't live with Robin hating her. He didn't have to love her, fine, she could deal with that, but he couldn't hate her. Her chest felt heavy, breathing constricted as if a steel grip was squeezing her heart painfully.

She was alone again in the dark. God, she hated the dark. HE lurked there. It was no longer her sanctuary, her place where she could hide from the scrutinizing eyes of the world that feared her. Even her control over it was apparently slipping away through her fingers. She was shivering violently as the dark of the room seemed to throb as if it lived. She squeezed her eyes shut, not like it helped. It was perhaps even darker behind her eyelids, but it better than the pulsing darkness outside of them. Far better than darkness that seemed to reach out for her, with grasping, suffocating fingers. He never attacked while she was in the light. Robin had been her light, flickering with a steadiness and brightness she could feel warm her dark soul. But the flames was dashed, destroyed as quickly as they had been given life, leaving her alone and cold once more. All she felt was Sorrow from the loss, her Rage inexplicably absent. It would not be so dark if she could rage and scream and rant and throw things. She wouldn't be so cold if she were burning with the need to punish Robin and Starfire or destroy something.

Part of her, blamed it all on Starfire. Starfire brought it up, and Starfire was the reason her and Robin had been fighting. And then the way he barked at her when she told Starfire to shut up. A pang of guilt swept through her, barely felt through the grief, pain and heartache. Ok, so shouldn't have talked like that to Starfire but you just can't interrupt an blazing argument and not expect to get burned. At the thought of Starfire and Robin her heart lurched wildly …did he still like her? She saw, no, felt that he had wanted to go after Starfire and that made her all the more insecure. Everyone could tell the Boy Wonder and the Tamarian had like each other for awhile, but hadn't had the courage to act on it. The two were supposedly 'fated' to be. And to see them kissing right after their fight…she was so confused! The thoughts stopped for a moment; the pain in her head was spiking wildly, each time more vicious than the last.

She felt her heart clench painfully. She loved Robin so much it hurt, and she wasn't sure if love was worth the pain. Yes, she had decided that she loved him with all her heart. No one had made her feel the way he did. Every time he smiled her heart fluttered wildly and when he looked at her, she always felt a lump in her throat, and when he touched her…it felt like something from her wildest dreams.

The thought of him with anyone else made her physically and mentally ill. It may have seemed selfish of her, but Robin was the only thing she ever really desired with a passion as intense as this but pain seemed to follow her unceasingly. Nothing good ever lasted when it pertained to her. She hated feeling this way. To feel as if she was never destined to be happy, to feel joy.

She was tired of it all. She did not need the emotional roller-coaster she was wildly careening out of control on. Maybe it would be better if she felt nothing, nothing at all…despite what people may have thought, it wasn't that bad. Nothing would be a blessing compared to what she was feeling now. There would be no pain, no fear, no sorrow.

Different voices were now whispering to her: one spouting dark and seductive pleas that sounded her worst fears and the other, soft echoes of encouragement and love.

'He doesn't love you…how could he? You are demon spawn.'

'He does! You are also human…never forget.'

'You will never be good enough…'

'You are more than enough!'

'Your father shall not be denied…'

'Fight him Raven…he will only bring hate and destruction.'

'You do not belong here where your kind is not accepted...your friends think you are a hideous monster.''

'Yes, you do, no one has turned you away…your friends love you as do I. And you love them.'

'Let me stop the pain…'

The last voice appealed to her…she wanted the pain to end, so very bad.

She didn't want to feel anymore…she didn't want any of it anymore. She wasn't a quitter but enough was enough. One could only take so much before they broke completely and she was beyond that point. White hot pain was exploding in her head, it felt as if someone was tearing it apart. She couldn't see anymore, the pain was so intense her eyes blurred. She dimly realized that she was whimpering and her powers were lashing out, albeit harmlessly. She couldn't summon enough strength to care though.

Her mind began to shut down, to protect itself from the onslaught of such anguish and so many negative emotions. Her eyes fluttered open slowly as she stared into the pulsing darkness. She could feel herself descending into shadows; it was suffocating and cold but slightly comforting, bringing a peacefulness she had never known before. It was sucking the lifefrom her but also her pain and grief. She would embrace it, like a lover's caress and nothing would ever hurt again. Her dull eyes looked blankly ahead, not seeing, as she took in a ragged, painful breath. And as she released her last breath, she let it all go.

The sun set in a fiery blaze of effulgence, giving way to the horrible, suffocating dark of night.

Deep within the recesses of Raven's mind, her emotions, beaten, bloodied, and weary, gathered around the last figment of life. Solemn, dull eyes watched in agony as the small square yard of foliage they were standing around went up in flames that greedily consumed all. The sky became darker with every second that past and a loud scream of denial ripped through the air. As the emotions became fainter, almost transparent, the final drop of crystal water from the once magnificent waterfall fell, evaporating before it touched the ground. With a final sigh of life and exhaustion, they all blinked out of existence.
A/N: VERY IMPORTANT! I had originally planned for this to be a prequel to another story, hence Hell's Fury: The Beginning, but I don't know anymore if I still want to do that. So I'm going to ask you guys if you still want me to make a sequel. There are some ramifications you guys should know though. If I continue it, I will leave a lot of questions in this fic unanswered so you guys would have to wait a while before I get the answers out. I also have a lot of other ideas on my mind for new fics so the sequel for this would be the absolute last thing on mind and wouldn't come out for months. Not to mention my other Teen Titans fic I have out, Emotions. You guys probably would no long be interestedin this when the sequel comes out anyway. SO on that note, I would rather not continue this with a sequel, but it is up to you and I'll go with majority rule. So vote yay or nay, every vote counts!

Chapter 11 people, I hope you enjoyed and I'll get the next chapter up pronto, now go review!

Spread your wings and fly…Butterfly