Chapter 5: Broken Seal
The wind streaked through her hair, causing each strand to flail around in a vicious storm, as she flew towards her lonely fate. It wasn't long before she spotted the cave near the shore below her and began her descent towards its entrance. The bars that sealed off the cave had been torn down from the inside, Raven noticed as she floated past the twisted metal and into the cave's gaping void.
She didn't get far before the darkness of the cave was broken by multiple glowing red eyes in front of her. The shadows receded enough for her to make out the images of Blood's golden robots that mimicked Cyborg in appearance. "I don't have time to waste on useless toys." She growled with a look of pure determination on her face. The robots moved in for the attack, but hadn't even gotten close to their target when their limbs were torn apart by blades of black aura that an angered Raven slashed and swiped in their direction. It wasn't long before you couldn't even tell that the parts on the ground had once made up a group of robots.
She continued on down the even cave floor, coming to a small pit, that she gently floated to the bottom of, then stepped past a destroyed steel door that still bared the impression of mammoth's tusks on their sides. She proceeded through a second door and came at last to the chamber with a cooled lava floor and a stone statue in the center. 'Terra.' She thought to herself.
"Quite a nice decoration she makes. Wouldn't you agree Raven?" Slade's voice echoed as he appeared out of nowhere in front of the living monument. Raven had no words for him, just clenched fists and a look of pure hatred. Slade turned sideways and faced the statue, bringing his hand up to his chin. "Though she could have chosen a better expression to be immortalized in stone." he said, pausing for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders. "Only one way to rid yourself of bad art." With that he lifted a flaming fist and smashed it into the statue of the former Titan, causing it to crumble to pieces. Turning back towards Raven, the crumbled remains behind and his one eye gleaming with a sense of pleasure. "Problem solved."
Without hesitation Raven launched herself towards Slade, her eyes starting to glow red. But a blast hit her back and sent her crashing hard onto the ground. Blood emerged from the shadows behind her, hands and eyes glowing red, with a twisted smirk on his face. When Raven opened her eyes she was suspended in the air, her legs touching together, pointing straight down, and her arms extended straight outwards towards each side as though she was on a cross. "Wake up my dear sweet Raven." A familiar voice commanded. She raised her head in shock to see Malchior, and in front of him stood Slade and Brother Blood. Raven glared at the dark dragon. "How did you get out of that book?" A grin spread across his face. "It seems that Brother Blood here has a very magically inclined student. And while you and the other Titans were away from your Tower facing these two and Ternion, she paid a visit to your room and retrieved the book I was bound to as well as this." Malchior pointed to Blood, who held up Raven's meditation mirror.
Slade stepped forward and walked up to Raven. "Being the stubborn little girl that you are, I doubt you're going to fulfill your purpose without any fuss. So I'm thinking we're going to have to pay a visit to your Tower." Raven's eyes glowed red with hatred once more as Slade continued on. "I think I'll start by finishing the job I started on your little green friend Beast Boy." Raven's body began to be surrounded by her black aura. Slade's eye lit up with a sick sense of anticipation. "Oh don't worry Raven; I wouldn't let you miss it. You'd have a front row seat as I slowly beat the remaining life out of him until there's nothing left but a slight twitching." The ruins on Raven's body burned red as she listened to Slade's continued threats. "And then after that, I'll make sure he stops twitching with this." He pulled out a small katana sword from a sheath at his side, his eye gleaming. The last threat and the sight of Slade's sword broke down the last restraint Raven had in her mind. Her two glowing red eyes split into four as she screamed in anger.
What ever had bound her was broken as her power lashed out in her rage. As the cave began to shake Blood held up the mirror to face Raven, revealing four red demonic eyes in the reflection. The ruins on Raven radiated and a brilliant red beam shot out of her chakra and went straight into her mirror, causing it to erupt into a gigantic red and black vortex. Deep demonic laughter could be heard resonating out of the long hallway like vortex as the four glowing eyes that were in the reflection appeared at the far end and began to move steadily closer to the entrance, until the hulking red demon known as Trigon emerged from his imprisonment at last.
As soon as he exited the vortex the cooled lava at the bottom of the pit that circled the chamber began to heat up and liquefy into glowing hot churning magma once more. The vortex had now closed and Raven had fallen to her knees, the ruins fading from her body as she once again regained control of herself, only to find that her worst fears had come true. That her father was now loose upon this world.
A/N: Uh oh! He's loose. Stay tuned for a nice action packed chapter in the next installment. PLEASE R&R!