Too Much Red

by Pakkrat

Raven finds herself torn between RedX and Robin. That is not the worst part, Slade wants her, villains need her, and one demon aside from dad wants her to suffer! The world is sometimes too much, but who knew it has Too Much Red? Sequel is up and ready!

13. Chapter 13: Too Much

Too Much Red

By: Pakkrat

Chapter 13: Too Much…

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, or DC characters, or other figures that have copyrighted crap to them, which may take some looks to the points of person… ah…

Note: Music of choice (Don't worry about looking these babies up if you don't have them, mainly an optional thing for some scenes like usual.) "Duel Of Fates" Star wars Phantom Menace (I know, it's odd but honestly it has a great feel in a fight) "Going Under" and "Bring Me To Life"-by Evanescence (Booyah!).

Note: It's over… or so, only the beginning. I decided to do a sequel, but it will not be an immediate thing. I have other stories, I will leave a note on this fic when the sequel begins. Till then, enjoy this story, and its conclusion. This took quite some time I hope you are as pleased as I am.

…The Roof… (Music: "Duel Of Fates")

The streets look up to the roof tops from below. Officers all try to see what is happening. Biggs blinks, something is falling from the roof… "Ah! Move!" the officers scramble as debris clamors on top of the men but luckily they dodged. Wedge walks over to the ruble and looks up, "It must be… getting rough." Sparks flare through the cloud with thunderous screams.

Akaige moves back, dodging the large green dinosaur wishing for revenge after its death. Akaige chuckles about to strike but Beast Boy is save from Mammoth launching a wire around Akaige's neck then choking violently. Akaige rears his head, tugging on the wire he screams as a burning flame hits his abdomen, Raven unleashes her powers into the soul well of his ribs. Akaige now with his muscles bulging flings his head forward swinging Mammoth over his head with the wire like a flail onto Raven placing her on the roof under Mammoth. Akaige pulls apart the wire and turns to Nightwing being launched in a swing by Starfire and Cyborg. Robin pushes out his foot, striking hard over Akaige's face. Akaige topples back but quickly turns to the attackers. He glares his eyes, "Nice try." He shifts to a shadow and disappears into the roof. Mumbo and Larry now fired a powerful beam but Akaige had dodged. The two snap their fingers, it almost worked.

Akaige forms out of the shadows from the other side of the building. He screams as he kicks up his leg launching Jinx who had her back turned out like a doll rolling as she falls. Akaige turns to Bumble Bee flying in an attack then dodges the sparse beams. He is struck in the skull from behind; Slade has vaulted from his staff to the head in a dual kick. Akaige falls forward and Bumble Bee barely dodges the large fiend on her. Akaige shakes his head and stands, he has a ball of gold at his face, and Gizmo has a gun and grins as the ball explodes as a beam plowing the villain back into the railing. Akaige goes through it and off the roof. The titans look over the railing, he is gone. The clouds rip apart; Akaige with cape wings flies overhead like a bullet and hovers to an abrupt stop.

Akaige raises his right arm high, sparks crackle on his outstretched finger as he hovers in place. Akaige gathers these sparks to a simple small orb of red that he then tosses down off his finger. The orb hits the roof and beams out in many directions. The heroes strafe and dodge the beams until they stop. Akaige lands on the roof snarling, "Such little brats!" Akaige thrusts out his arms as punches his target being Cyborg. Cyborg is able to dodge the first few but soon he is caught then tossed unconscious. Akaige turns about and feels the string, Killer Moth tries casing Akaige in the string but Akaige rips it off his back to toss it to the ground then kick forcefully to his attacker. Killer Moth is flung off into the railing; he buckles the railing and peels off his wings tearing. Killer Moth groans but hears thunderous thumps. Killer Moth views the claw over his head, he is being held over the side of the railing with fear in his eyes. Akaige slinks his eyes then let's go. Killer moth screams but a shadow flares past Akaige and down the side. Katerpillar Moth screams as she grabs her father and pulls him back up. She looks up to the three fingers charging with red bolts from the fingers, readying the power to strike them down. Akaige screams, his left knee buckles and he plops on it loosing his beam that now barely misses the two. Mammoth snorts then jumps up to grab Akaige by the horns then pull back on them, plowing his large feet into Akaige's back. Pushing off Akaige screams before elbowing fast into Mammoth three times. The third time Mammoth is launched back again. This puts the large fellow down slowly pushing up in a weakened state. Akaige roars as his mouth leaks purple mists; Akaige clamps his claw onto the roof and holds off from his feet and claw, before a beam of powerful force screams out of his mouth. Mammoth watches the purple light cast over his features like a deer in traffic. He is grabbed by Speedy, who with a grappling arrow in the side of the building launches off with Mammoth to evade the beam. They dangle as the beam passes over them and the wire. The wire snaps, Speedy screams until Raven phases in grabbing them both then phasing them to the roof. Speedy drops Mammoth who lays on the ground tired.

Raven looks on Akaige; he simply flexes his claw several times raising his chin slightly. "Why…" her eyes fill with tears, "Why must you do this?"

Akaige glares with his hellish eyes before simply snorting then letting his claw hang slightly.

(Music: Ends)

"Haven't we gone through with this?" Akaige raises his brow, "Was that not discussed previously? I do this because I can. Because I have the power and the right to do what I want as I want."

Raven shakes her head, "Power does not give you that kind of right Akaige!" Raven clenches her fists, "I know I have amazing if not unholy power. Yet," she glares to the ones with her behind her in this battle, "It is nothing compared to their power, the power to keep fighting. Even if I have all the power they still fight. That's real power." She turns in a defiant if not cocky smile, "That's why you can't win."

Akaige has his claw picking dirt from his human nails, "…." He looks up and stops, "Oh, were you talking to me?" Akaige gets into the stance he often does before a blitz, left leg and arm forward, right leg and arm backwards, "Honestly I am tuning you kids out, you just keep talking all I just want to do is kill somebody!"

The battle resumes temporarily as Akaige launches out in an attack but quickly he is flung with a large chunk of the roof ripping from below then smashing him back. Raven then calls out, "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" and around the heroes a large dome of white covers them. Beast Boy, looking over himself sighs, "Raven… you really have surprised me. I thought I was a goner."

Gizmo shrugs, "Yeah I would have been fine." He winces from the smack of Jinx "Ow! What was that for?"

"You little!" Jinx turns away angrily, "I can't believe you did that!" Gizmo blushes, "Hey it just happened… sorry. You're my friend and uh…" he now taps a small pebble of rubble, "I just didn't want you crying is all…"

Cyborg is still unconscious, and Mammoth seems not very powerful at the moment. Raven turns to them slightly, "Get them close to me. I can heal their injuries while I hold up the barrier."

Robin blinks, "Raven are you sure? That seems like a lot of energy shouldn't you save it?"

"I have this Robin…" she smiles, "I can feel this… this new power. It's stronger now because I know I have to fight." Robin raises a brow, but smiles, "Yeah, like I said you are the most hopeful person I know." She shrugs, "You think? I find you pretty hopeful too."

Robin blushes until Robert walks up to talk to Raven. Robin turns away; shame hits him as he remembers what Akaige said. 'I can't believe… Raven is pregnant.' He looks over, is that where all that power is coming from? Worse, why does Akaige want the child? Robin looks out seeing Akaige idly walking around the barrier like some kind of tiger in a cage, but instead of wanting out of one he wants in one. 'He's so evil, I mean yes Trigon had an evil part to him but some how he seems more calculated, devious, like he is ready to loose because it only leads to winning. If only… if only we could kill it!' Robin stomps his foot in rage, Starfire now lays her hand on his shoulder and he turns, "Starfire…" he blushes as she hugs him with her head tucking into his shoulder, she whispers, "Robin… I am so afraid." He blinks, "It seems very difficult, so difficult. Why can't we win? How can we win?"

Robin in a lapse of needed comfort raises his hands to her back, holding her he sweetly says "We will do it. We have too much at stake to loose."

Gizmo looks at the monster still outside, "Can he hear us?" Raven looks slightly, "No, he's been shut off from here. All he can do is read our lips."

Akaige taps his chin, "A lead on chips? Blast… I wish I learned how to read lips!"

Gizmo grins, "Oh, cool!" he turns and pulls his pants down, "Eh! Akaige! Looky here!" Akaige barrels his claw into the shield, making Raven buckle in on her legs before pushing back, and Gizmo jumping with his pants up, "I thought he couldn't here me!" Raven screams "How much hearing do you need for that?"

Akaige takes a step back, clicking his claw he walks around like a tiger again circling the cage… his rage grows as he tries to find an easy way in. Robin is still holding Starfire as an unsavory voice says, "Like before Robin, trapped in a struggle over who will live and who will die." Robin turns to Slade, who simply eyes Akaige as he trails around them, "He sees us as slabs of meat. Nothing special, primed only to be carved then served under explicit means. Akaige, he is truly a piece of work."

Robin turns away with a snort, "You sound like you admire him…" Robin glares hatefully to the monster, Akaige not Slade, "You probably do."

"Evil knows evil Robin." Slade simply stares on Akaige as he was turning and marching the other way, "Evil… knows to respect greater evil."

"I thought we were here to kill him, not give him a memoir!" Killer Moth growls lowly not too pleased with his recent near death experience. Kitten holds her father tightly crying as she thought the old man nearly gone. At times like this Killer Moth was normally happy having his daughter hugs him but not now. "Listen, we need a plan! Some means to win this!"

Slade nods, "I have a plan." He turns to Raven screaming "Give that thing her!"

The titans scrambled to Raven and so did Titans east, the villains turned to Slade, he kept screaming "You heard him! He only wants Raven! We give him her and this is all over?"

"He wants my child!" Robert screams out, Raven blinks, "Child? What child?"

Robert takes a step back, "Um… Raven…" he is sweating, more than that day he tried to kiss her. "You know… that time… and… um…" Raven smirks, "I'm not pregnant I would have felt…" she becomes wide eyed the new power and need to fight. "Oh boy…"

Slade has his fists shaking and ready, "You see what I mean? That child is the only thing standing between us and survival! Give him the child and we can all live happily ever after!"

Robin screams "Slade that is not going to happen! I knew teaming with you was a mistake." Slade screams out as he storms on Robin, the two start the patented hand to hand push off trying to show dominance. Akaige sits down watching "Gee, looks like their having team management issues." He chuckles to himself as Slade and Robin press onto each other with force. Slade screams "Listen, Apprentice!" Robin scolds his nose at those words, "We have little to no chance of survival. So why don't we give the big super devil his kid then go on with our heated battle! You know you want them gone." Slade whispers to only Robin, "You want Akaige and that kid gone…"

Robin screams pushing off Slade, "We will unmask a way to beat him Slade! Just give it some time!"

Robert grabs his chin, "Unmask…" he looks at Akaige who is sadly standing up, he liked the quarrel kind of. "That's it! Why didn't we try it sooner?" He looks to Raven, "That mask! It has to be his mask! That is his weak point!"

To this Beast Boy rolls his eyes, "Please! That is the most used and dumbest thing ever! Like, so overused every B-movie I ever watched used the mask thing." Robert glares, "Did it work?" Beast Boy blinks, and with a finger to his chin he says with a little bit of self indulgence "Yeah, actually they kind of did."

Robin smiles, "It is worth a try!" He pushes back and raises his hand, "All for my plan of breaking that mask and seeing if it kills this thing." He raises his hand and tallies the votes. Slade narrows his eyes, "All for giving up that child to Akaige!" he raises his hand… and only his hand as no one voted with him, "Bah… should have known." Slade nods to Robin, "Let's give it a try… though I doubt it will work! Seeing as how everything up till now we threw at his mask did nothing to break it."

Robin turns back and sighs, "He's right even when I kicked him nothing stopped the guy."

Raven thinks back to the events, "You know… he has been trying to keep me away maybe it was because he was worried about me." Raven hears Robert punch his fist to his palm "Of course, it was you Raven! Why else is he all obsessed with her not just our kid but her! She has the most power probably the only one that can break that mask is her!"

Slade nods, "Well sounds like a worth while shot. We still need…" he looks to Starfire who is at his side "Something of a distraction…" he quickly elbows Starfire knocking her back and out of the barrier. Robin gasps, "Slade!" he runs out after her. Slade rolls his eyes saying "Pick… pick… pick."

Akaige has leapt up and tries his luck on Starfire but she moves past his claw as it tries to impale her. Robin with his staff puts himself between the two. Raven drops her shields and charges her right fist, "One punch… please, just one." She flies up as Akaige is distracted with the twirling staff of Robin as he blocks off the attacks on him and Star. Akaige then hears the crackle of energy and turns to Raven. Raven swings her right fist like Thor's hammer, strong and true it makes the mark and hits Akaige over the face then reeling on back with his head falling far before his body in a backwards plummet. Akaige lies on the roof for a few moments before pushing up off his side and grabbing at the spot with his claw, Raven watches and notices three small objects fall onto the ground to shatter more into nothing. Akaige looks out in rage, he moves his claw showing a patch where his mask has broken slightly and somehow there is this swirling purple mist below the mask leaking out slowly, Akaige's eyes grow huge as he then scrambles up grabbing the spot again but tossing his head and neck back he screams the most deafening scream ever heard, so great it actually breaks open the clouds overhead and makes them with their force sparkle lightning. Akaige slowly lowers his head, his eyes twitching as the mist continues seeping out he roars, "That REALLY hurt! Ow!" Akaige shakes his head a couple times removing the simple shock of being in pain, something he seldom really has.

Raven smiles, the others share similar kinds of grins and chuckles, "Okay… let's do it."

Akaige sees the heroes charging him; it strikes quick what they are up to, "… Oh? Is that how it will be? Then let us make this more entertaining!"

Akaige's back, arms, legs, and cheeks pour out with tentacles like living shadows they whirl about mad trying to latch onto any that got close. Aqualad leaps off of Speedy's back with something, he swings around Akaige's neck with the metal wire from Mammoth and tries to pry it onto the monster's neck to land behind then try and pull him back. Akaige ignores this one because Aqualad didn't have the size to pull him. Akaige roars out as Raven was coming in to attack so he turns to Mas y Menos flying past his side. Akaige latches his tentacles and uses them like shields. Raven tries to get past them but she can't. One tentacle flies up and grabs Raven's ankle to swing her to the ground then drag her along like a dog on a leash. Speak, with his daggers tosses one to cut off the tentacle releasing Raven. Akaige turns to Speak and swipes him with his arm and tentacles. Starfire screams with eyes flaming, then tossing bolts she sees Akaige turn attention to her. Slade, running from behind Akaige then sliding between his legs lands a device to his ankle, Akaige looks down but the explosive fires and he falls on his knee. Raven bolts up, her hands glowing she flies up and tosses a punch.

Akaige pitches his neck making her miss the punch but she turns back and charges her foot. Raven kicks and Akaige is blindsided, he thrashes around as his mask cracks mist filters through the cracks on his opposite cheek but nothing broke off. Raven swings about charging her hands she tosses an orb of energy. Akaige still in pain misses this orb and it hits the top of his head, breaking off the upper rim of his mask, and his left horn shatters half to the base. Akaige roars as he stands tall grabbing his face. Raven got too cocky and tries another attack but Akaige in rage sees her then thrashes all his tentacles on her lashing her across the roof tops. Akaige with a scold of hell itself bore on her, lashes his claw forward and the well of soul's rips open, quickly purple skeletons swirl from inside his chest to the unconscious sorceress. Robert leaps in and with his saws tries to fend off the mass less spirits. Akaige laughs to himself as this happens. The spirits overpower Robert and several turn on Raven. The spirits hover over her but her eyes open, in a flash of light they disappear then she returns to the fight. Akaige takes steps back as Raven unleashes more strikes and all he can do is block. Robin tosses in his birdarangs with titanium lines; they wrap Akaige and his human arm twice before going to the other side where Cyborg grabs onto them. Akaige tries to break free but Robin, now having Starfire, Jinx, Speedy, and Slade's help take to pulling. Cyborg, Mammoth, Killer Moth, Katerpillar Moth, and Mas y Menos pull on the other end of the wire. Akaige screams like he is crazed, his demonic claw starts to charge with energy as this happens so he can fire. Mumbo and Larry use their powers to grab this claw in magic, then thrashing it to the ground where Akaige is trapped to one spot. Akaige looks up, his eye slinks in hate to Raven who levitates in one place holding her two hands in light, and she smiles as she forges two long blades and swings down.

The blades slice through the eyes and Akaige screams as she lets loose more slashes, the mask crackles and chips off until all pieces seem to be gone. Akaige is knelt down as it seems defeated, he snarls, and Raven screams, "Why did you have to do this?" She can still not understand, there is no prophecy about "Akaige the Shadow God" or stories about his evil meaning he was meant to harm them. They had no connection to the girl he hates, Tsuchi, and he certainly was not meant to be here. He forced his influence and struck at them. "What did we ever do to you? What was the reason you had for hurting these people, and ruining these lives?"

……

Akaige's mist filled face looks on Raven, her face in tears she sees something… a face looking at her through the mist, "…Pleasure…" the face smiles and Raven in a fit of disgust launches a final punch to shatter the mists and finally Akaige seems to disappear in a large sweltering burst of blackened mists and smokes he was gone… he was gone…

……

Raven awakes slowly, yawning; she lets herself stand in her red sweater, and long black dress. She blinks, "What… I was…" she looks around and sees a living room and things of the sort. Nicely kept and cleaned the white walls seemed riddled with her, a man she recognized as Robert, and yes… a young girl? "…?" she walks up the stairs to voices, the walls along the stairs have her and Robert, the titans, and wedding… wedding photos? She blushes, she was married… and she was 30 something? Maybe still in her twenties… she couldn't remember, why couldn't she remember? Raven made her way on up the stairs finding Robert in a room with a young girl sleeping, the girl was of pale skin, purple hair, but she could sense very powerful for her age. That was her child… and her husband. "So, your mother broke Akaige the Evil Shadow Monster and sent him away forever-and-ever! Then, we all had a nice party… after Slade escaped…" Robert growls, "And after kissing your mother… we never did find him sadly. He pops up now and again but nothing too worrisome." The girl rolls over in sleep, Robert smiles, "And they lived happily ever after." He stands to see Raven, a tear on her face he asks "What's wrong?"

She slowly trails over wrapping her arms around his neck, her face in his chest she cries, "Its normal… so normal, and perfect. It's exactly what I always dreamed."

Robert smiles as he hugs her with his eyes closed, "I know…" his eyes, of purple glower out, "It's exactly how I planned…"

…The Roof…

Robert runs out screaming "Raven! Raven where are you?" no answer, she disappeared in the mists. She was there, laying the last hit but then she disappeared and so did Akaige. Robert is afraid, what if he took her! "Give her back!" Robert screams with his fists shaking "Give her back to me right now!"

"Bossy aren't we?" Robert turns to have a forceful grip around his throat, Akaige stands again but different. "Thank you so much for breaking that mask. It helped me so much as it solidified my presence here." Akaige chuckles, "Now I'm able to use my true form, much more fitting than those bothersome alterations from my previous existence in Trigonamu's service." Akaige tosses Robert back to the others who also have been readied into a stance. Slade growls lowly, "Great, now we not only gave him a stronger form, but Raven AND our heads on a silver platter! Are you pleased Robin?"

Robin growls, "No… you're not dead yet." Akaige chuckles, that kind of was funny. Robin glares to Starfire, "Starfire…" he blinks, she along with Jinx, Kitten, and Bumble Bee are blushing at… Akaige? "Hey what's wrong with you two?" Robin takes the time to look at Akaige now.

Akaige seems to have the same muscular physique as last time, the well of souls has the bone like structures more so covering as bracers on his abdomens, which were more formed as flesh shadow this time around. His claw arm was covered in gauze just as usual and his cape fluttered behind his back ever so slightly like before but seems more riddled with tears and rips, like a sail from a ghost ship it had the eerie power to move even with all these tears. Robin notices something else, hair, Akaige had hair in his last form but this time it is silver. Like dead, if not the definition of dead pale silver the hairs fall back down and across the cape along his back even peeking through the cape tears. The face holding these long hairs shows as a gray too, almost the same as Raven his pale gray visage deems human qualities of a nose, eyes, lips, and brows. The brows are slightly trimmed having form but pricking at the centers devilishly perfect. His eyes, no longer soulless or nothingness but with substance the shadow like mists swirl inside his eyes letting the glass like gloss of hypnotizing lenses to simple perfect eyes caress the onlookers with simple stares. His mouth is something at the current a matchless whimsy to his enemies, a slight self-assured smirk as his left crest of his lip quirks up in his continued attitude. The nose was also the same kind of well put appendage, not long or stubby it was narrow and firmly tensed in his stare showing a sort of cockiness to the heroes. Akaige has a marking, a flaming X about the size of Raven's gem right on his forehead even in the same place as her. Akaige also has another trait sticking to the minds of the heroes, ears, ears that fanned back as elfish like ears with not too much span while they tucked his long strands of his hairs behind them and seemed to pitch up in a breath from Starfire, Akaige grins, "I see, so you are impressed." Akaige, with a flick of his large claw over his hair, batting it with a thrust of his hair the girl's sort of step back, Starfire gasps with the strands grazing across the air slowly fluttering in place behind his back, "Yes, this form has given me much pleasure over the years. I must admit, I love the hair."

Robin, with his staff growls with a hint of jealousy, "Hair or no hair we will defeat you."

Akaige's smile now fades replacing a stark raving mad grin; his mouth stretches over his face showing the three rows of fangs stretching over his jaw. His eyes droop into his nose slightly as he scrunches the muscles on his nose with his lustful blood hunt, "Without your little girlfriend Robin, I highly doubt that!" Robin hears Robert say "Raven is my girlfriend!" Akaige, still looking on Robin who senses the cynical pleasure Akaige had from something he knew… no one else did, "Sure… if you say so."

…Raven?...

Raven sits next to her daughter on the bed. She smiles; a normal life was always what she wanted. Without the fights, the terrible battles. Her father seems to not be here tempting her or her daughter. Raven sighs deeply, it was everything she ever wanted. What she dreamed it would be. "Robert… it's so beautiful." Raven caresses the cheek of the girl, "She's so beautiful."

Robert nods a smile on his face, "Yes it sure is Raven. We have done pretty well for ourselves." He walks over and grabs her shoulders, a smile creeps up on her face, "What?"

Raven looks around, she is crying, "This… isn't real…" Robert narrows his eyes, "It's all so perfect it has to be fake."

Robert snarls, but in a false voice of love he says "Now don't be foolish. Of course this is all real." He kneels down and whispers, "It's as real as you wish it to be!"

Raven, now in full swing pushes Robert back, and runs out the door. "Why!" she screams making to the front door, "Why did you put me here! Why did you have to show me this? My dreams… just so they were nothing."

Raven grabs the doorknob to the front and then she jumps, it is red hot. Raven looks back, Robert stands with his hand out, "Raven. Don't you love me?" those purple eyes look at her in rage, Raven smirks, "Yes Robert I love you." She opens the door being turned to her teenage white form, and now she stands in the midst of lava pits and moving boulders in the sky. It was the realm of Trigon… the thing that frightens her was not him, sitting right before her but upon Trigon's right shoulder sits, playfully bobbing her legs, another Raven…

…Rooftops…

Akaige bellows in laughter, turning to the stars he sighs, "Priceless reaction. I told her, I have been to many worlds with her and not in all of them have I met resistance." Akaige looks to Starfire in his claw hand dangling as he slams her into the roof again. Tossing her aside, he looks to the heroes nearly broken and beaten. "Without Raven you all seem very… taxed?" he nods, "Yes, in this form I have much the advantage." Slade tries a swipe of his staff behind Akaige, but Akaige squats below the staff sprying up as it passed by him. Akaige latches onto the shoulder of Slade, and then kicks the back-knee of Slade making him topple over on his back. Akaige then kicks Slade in the ribs with such force it vaults Slade in the air where Akaige simply pushes him off to the others making him roll to their feet squirming, "Ah… I certainly have the advantage."

Robin looks to the others, most were still badly beaten… he had to do something. Robin nods then swings his staff, "I won't loose hope! I'm going to keep fighting to my last breath!" Akaige, turning to Robin glowers his eyes, "Good. I would hate to have unworthy entertainment. Show me," Akaige stretches his arms out, like a preacher in reverence to heaven… or hell, "The mindless resolve you mortals call… faith."

(Music: Evanescence "Bring Me To Life")

Robin screams as he leaps up with his bow staff coming down in a strike. Akaige does not move, he merely holds out his arms with his eyes closed, "Mindless fodder." Akaige lets the staff hit his shoulder, snapping into two Robin grabs the other broken half and like nunchuca he begins striking all over Akaige with wild flurries. The flurries spark across the flesh of Akaige, making no welts or marks Akaige stays to his stance of reverence. "Yes… so foolish, like children."

Akaige now merely lowers his arms and thrusts out his open palm on Robin. Robin is tossed back skidding off from his heels with his teeth gritting the brute force. Akaige smiles, a twisted hellish grin as Robin stands shakily to twirl the two staff pieces in his fingers. "How amusing. Simply a glutton for punishment." Akaige rolls out his claw, letting it brush back his cape and hairs he then raises the human hand saying, "7 hits, I'll end this in 7 hits."

Robin screams out as he now clashes his two rods with Akaige. Akaige dodges and strafes the attacks not allowing them to touch them, and then as Robin came forward he twists past Robin to swing his large claw knuckles back into Robin's shoulder, Robin's eyes bulge to the pain and soon he is flying forward on his face. "One…" Akaige is flexing his claw idly at his side, Robin is staring back to fight again. Robin tries twirls and stabs with the broken jagged ends. Akaige merely grins to the attempts, a game to him he now plunges his human open palm into Robin's face making Robin falter back. Akaige then launches a punch of his claw to Robin's gullet, and as a final strike a backwards hop then forward kick straight to Robin's collarbone launching the warrior back over his head several rolls across the ground. Robin stops the strange rolls straight on his back with his chest breathing heavily. His left eye swollen over slightly, Robin recalls the force of each attack and his hands have slightly loosened on his weapons. "Two, three, and I believe four… yes?" Akaige has his chin tilted up, mocking Robin with a grin of self assurance, "Oh, don't give up now. I have three more strikes to go!"

Robin, his eyes snarling in hate stands slowly to glare on the monster. Akaige simply holds his claw on his waist, "Remarkable the human spirit. I always pleasure myself in breaking it."

Robin runs out screaming in full force, he strikes a forward jab of his weapons to which Akaige lets them strike. Akaige grins, then knees Robin up from the plunge and in the air, "Five," Akaige kicks back his heel and waits for Robin to come back to his level, unleashing a powerful kick to Robin's ribs he roars, "Then six!" Robin screams as a loud cracking sound rips the air. Akaige smiles wider as Robin flops onto the roof then around he rolls grabbing at the broken ribs. Akaige sighs, "So weak. So utterly pointless." Akaige raises his claw arm, "Now, the coop de grace, number seven!" Akaige's fingers glow in red bolts as he sparks energy through the gaps between each of his fingers. Robin turns about and snarls, "No… I won't…" he grabs a staff piece at his side and on one knee he holds it with both hands. The ball fires and Robin swings, the ball is struck by the staff and is stuck in place against the swung staff, Robin looks with his muscles tensing against the force of the orb trying all he can to plunge the orb away. Robin, in his strained effort screams causing the suit to initiate fully so he can now plow the orb out to the distance. Robin sighs in deep breaths of air as he falters onto his hands breathing with his head sagging between his shoulders. Akaige, not too upset simply shrugs, "Okay… eight hits then!" he charges his fingers once more but is halted by the green bolts of Starfire. She floats down with green fires in her eyes. "Your distraction gave us time to ready to battle Robin." Robin looks up to her stare, Speak, Robert, Jinx, Speedy, Cyborg, and Larry all stand determined to fight. Robin smiles, "Don't loose… hope…"

Akaige turns up, his face a scowl he screams "Hope! There is no hope! Look at you, I am victor here! What hope can you truly have left?"

Starfire glares defiantly, "Hope, in our friends and those we love!" she screams in a powerful punch, Akaige rolls his eyes, "Just give it time kids give it time."

(Music: Ends)

…Raven…

"No… it can't be." Raven is looking at the other her. This other Raven looks like her but older, a fully grown woman. She has no cloak, instead a large scarf wrapped around her neck and falling on the left shoulder blade behind her. This other Raven does also have a leotard like Raven, but her feet are in long high heeled leather boots and she has a cruel smile upon her lips. The other Raven, does a little bow as she lands to the White Raven, then says in a monotone voice only more endured to our Raven, "Hey, the name's… oh, actually it is Raven… um…" she grabs her chin, "Gee, what the hell should I go by? I mean, I'm not you… rather a Raven Akaige effectively called to the side of evil…" The other Raven thinks, then smiles, "Call me Roth, sounds fitting for now."

Raven, looking at the taller, semi-muscular Roth asks, "What are you again?"

"I am a Raven that Akaige brought to her more demonic side. His tutelage had awoken me to the power, the magnificence of this greatness." Roth winks, "Not to mention, he's not half bad where it counts."

Raven raises a brow, "Oh… you don't mean…" Roth smirks and snidely walks past Raven, "Does it matter anything else? In my eyes it shouldn't." Roth turns with four eyes of red, "All four of them that is…"

"Are you under Trigon's influence?" Raven makes a flutter away from this wicked Roth. Roth simply shakes her head looking up to Trigon, "No, I don't talk to my dad anymore. I became too powerful; he knows not to mess with me anymore!" Roth points in a whisper at Trigon, "Tell you what we could kill him if you want?"

Raven glares to her much more evil self, "No." Raven looks around for weapons, debris and such, "I think I'd rather get out of here."

"Oh, but you just got here!" Roth growls lowly, "I just want to play a little bit… come on what do you say?" Roth starts to channel her powers, Raven grimaces as she readies to a stance, "Do I have any choice?"

Roth giggles sinisterly, "Nah, but won't this be fun? I haven't had a good fight since I killed everyone in my dimension."

Raven gives a disgusted glare, "You killed them all?"

"Yeah, it was lots of fun." Roth flies up screaming "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!"

Raven raises her shields blocking several masses of burning stone on the surface. Roth laughs as she now calls up the lave, like streams to swirl out onto the shield covering it in solid magma rock. Roth grins widely until the magma begins to crack, and then blast out in bits. Several bits roll off the black shield of Roth, Roth snorts as Raven flies up above her. "Oh, trying to run away!"

The two Ravens fight, Trigon watches with a smile, "Akaige was correct, this is most amusing." Trigon chuckles to himself as Roth flies up over Raven to then slam down her heel on his daughter's cheek "Truly I am going to enjoy watching you destroy one another."

Raven turns up and blasts her hands with white energy like electricity it wraps around Roth making her wince under the hold. Roth then grins, "Ooh, that feels so good…" she rips her arms through the hold and turns on Raven, "Try mine on for size!" she charges blackened bolts that surge across Raven, Raven screams in pain as the bolts rip across her body. Roth glares with red eyes happily seeing the younger her in pain.

Raven is let go and falls to the ground plummeting head first. She slams onto a stone formation. Raven gets up slowly but her form is being slammed by a heel grinding kick to the back. Roth grinds her high heels into the shoulder of Raven snidely wrenching her lip to her weaker childish self, "You're so pathetic! If you only dropped your pesky emotions like that love junk." Roth snorts, "It only brought me pain anyway."

Raven looks up, "What do you mean?" Roth, her eyes shaking screams "Shut it!" she kicks Raven over the face launching her a mile across the horizon. Roth holds the side of her head, her eyes shaking harder, "I… I…" she closed her eyes and slowly breathes taking the composure of the four eyed demoness, "There we go, all better!" Roth flies full speed after Raven.

Raven looks at Roth, 'I can't kill her… I can't even really hurt her. However, maybe there is another way…' Raven flies up, and asks Roth, "What's wrong with love?" Roth snarls as she launches a punch Raven barely dodges, "It can free your soul, make you stronger, and it can…" Roth grips Raven by the throat. Roth with tears in her eyes screams "its hell! Love is hell! I know I was brought nothing but pain by it!" Roth tosses Raven into one of the flying rocks collapsing it then making it flatten on the grounds below, "It… it hurt so much… when he… he…" Roth grabs her hair; tugging it she screams "What… what did I… I…" Roth starts shaking, but as she smiles the tears stop and pulling ceases, "Whoops… had one of my moments again."

Raven looks around; her body feels relatively weak already. Each touch by Roth was draining, like she was draining her soul some how. Raven realizes it was nothing special but she has to stop the fight… "Roth! Who hurt you?"

Roth looks on Raven, her hands flaring in energy she sneers, "No more tricks! Time to die!" she readies to fire but Raven asks "Was it him, Akaige?" Roth laughs, Raven takes a gamble… "Was it… Robin?"

Roth stops the attack, her eyes shake again "Robin…" she slowly drops to her knees with more tears, "My Azerath… what did… I do… to Robin…" her eyes are human now, filled by tears she seems like this lost child. Raven blinks, projections… mental projections from Roth.

…

The younger, Teenage Raven walks up the halls to Robin's room, knocking she asks "Robin? Can we talk?" Robin exits and smiles, "Sure."

The scene changes with a flash, Robin is kissing Raven's neck, telling her his love for her, the reasons he was leaving Starfire for Raven. Raven smiles, she was happy…

Another scene change, Robin pulls out a ring to Starfire, Starfire giggles and hugs Robin in the way she does, Raven looks on and cries from the shadows…

Another flash, Raven is on her bed in tears, the dark room is her oasis. The corner of the room has a flaming X with eyes watching…

Another flash, Raven stands on the edge of the tower, she looks to the rocks on this side, jagged glass like her heart. She prepares the dive…

Another flash, Raven feels her legs being grabbed; a three fingered arm holds her from jumping. Raven falls on her back as the claw shows a face, masked skull with a single flame…

Another flash, Robin and the titans face against Roth and Akaige, Akaige with his superior power grips Starfire's neck, twists, and Starfire's neck breaks. Roth smiles, and sees Robin…

Final flash, Robin holds Starfire, his eyes in tears. Roth snarls, "Why… why couldn't you love me?"

"I did… but you kept pushing me away." Robin glares to Raven, Roth, and screams "I wanted to be with you but you ignored me! You couldn't love me! Damn it, you kept saying it was hopeless but I held the hope! I even bought this!" he pulls out the ring, shaped like a Raven he screams "I broke up with Starfire, she wished us luck! She said it was perfect! Why, why did you do all of this?"

Roth is wide eyed, her face in shock Akaige snarls to press his claw to her back. Raven's eyes glow red, she knows not what happens… only that she has Robin's mask in her hands moments later and his blood… his blood all over her form…

…

Roth is on her knees, looking at her hands, "I killed them… killed them all… he tricked… me… why…" Roth falls into her legs like a fetus position, "What did I ever do to him…"

Raven looks away. Finally, Raven was starting to realize what kind of monster she was up against. Raven hears the snarling scream; Trigon swings down on his daughter who barely escapes, "Ha! While you were here I have been draining your powers! Now daughter," Trigon fires his four beams into Raven tossing her to the distance, "Time to revive our prophecy!"

Raven is up against the fire stone walls, her eyes glazing from the force used on her. Trigon smiles, his tusks protruding as he grabs the unconscious sorceress "No one will deny me! I am Trigon the Terrible! I am a god of fire and pain! Akaige, he has proven useful and kept his part of our deal. Now, Raven, we are one forever and your child will become his for the rebirth of…"

Trigon screams, his head pitching back he drops Raven. Roth teleports in grabbing Raven, then teleports away. Trigon looks around; his eyes narrow, "… Akaige, we have a minor problem."

…Roofs…

Akaige looks back to the sky, holding up his claw the heroes charging him are tossed like dolls, "… just great, I actually did not see this coming!" Akaige smirks, "Oh well, not much difference will her assistance make..." Akaige looks over to the titans, thinking mentally he snarls, "Blast, two Ravens'… might actually get tricky. Slade it's time for the next part of the plan!" Akaige grabs his cloak then wraps himself into it. The cloak swallows him up disappearing soon into nothingness. The heroes look over to Slade who is standing and cracking his knuckles, "Oh come on did you really think I was going to be fooled twice? That would have been just idiotic on my part."

Robin is standing again, though he is injured he manages a laugh, "I figured you were setting us up. Old habits do die hard."

Slade smiles under his mask, a small army of fire demons come from nowhere, "They certainly do, don't they?" Slade chuckles, "Of course, it is nothing compared to the next trick up my sleeve. Akaige gave me the low down on this plan as I began to show signs of impatience to his own self-confidence. Akaige sees me as a take-charge kind of person, a trait he finds resembling his own."

Gizmo snorts, "Gee, like this was a compliment?" Robin nods, "For Slade it would be!"

Slade sighs; waving his index he mumbles "Sticks and Stones, sticks and stones…" Slade looks to his demons; they now begin attacking the titans "I know it may seem wrong turning my back on this world again. However, I live for myself and I don't honestly see you winning this fight. Sure, you could delay the inevitable, but by what Akaige told me…" Slade's eye slinks to Robin now smashing several of the demons to now catch with Slade, "You honestly already lost."

Robin screams "That's not true! Akaige is not going to win! You backed the wrong side again Slade!"

Robin lunges out with his one broken staff piece striking Slade over the face knocking away his mask. Robin looks as Slade turns on him; Robin gasps before four red beams strike him over to Beast Boy. Beast Boy looks up and screams "Dude!"

The mask, and now helmet being ripped off, Slade has a different face than what was expected. Four red eyes, long white hairs, Trigon's face smiles on the titans and with both Slade and Trigon's voice laughter is heard. "This time…" they say in unison, "We mutually needed each other. Consider this, the end once and for all!"

…

Raven's eyes shake, closed tightly they now open slowly to blackness all around. She sits up and sees her home, jump city is destroyed. "No…" covered in darkness, blackness, the many four eyed devil ravens fly the skies of lightning and thunder. Raven stands, her eyes in tears, "Am I too late?"

"No…" Roth sits in a collected position with her arms around her legs, "This is my world… I did all of this…" she looks at Raven, "I healed you, and passed my knowledge to you. You are as strong…" Roth shakes her head, "You are stronger than me now." She smiles weakly up to Raven showing the damp trails on her cheeks, "I… I did all of this… because I…" Roth shakes her head, "Why does he hate us so much? Our own father and now that thing hate us so much."

Raven looks at Roth, frightened and alone. Then she looks at the scenery around them, "You did all of this?" Raven looks seeing the city basically void of life except Roth's raven creatures. Then she looks out in space, the worlds they visited, even Tameran… all empty, except for the black birds. "My… my Azerath… all of that was… me?"

Roth shifts her back to Raven, "Yeah, just make me feel so much better why don't you?"

Raven looks back, "I'm sorry… I never knew I could do so much." Raven takes a step towards Roth but she raises a shield raven around her, "GO!" Raven narrows her eyes, "Listen, and if you know what you did is wrong there is still hope for you. You can set this all right, stop Akaige! He caused this, he made you do all of this." Raven sees how Roth now starts sobbing, Raven looks away, "You… did this willingly?"

"Exactly." The two bolt to the knee cocked form of Akaige, admiring the scenery on a leaning rubble building he breathes deep, fumes of destruction and long ago lost life. "I must admit, Roth is something of an artist." Akaige leaps off the mass making it topple over behind him, now the dust rises and Akaige trails through the clouds nothing more worried over their rolling up his frame. Raven looks at his new face, Akaige brightly gleams his teeth, asking, "Handsome, no?"

Raven with little taste for his new face, except a slight tint on her cheeks, says, "Like flaming bags of crap, the outside hides the intentions of the insides!"

Akaige looses his demeanor, turning to a spiteful blank look he says, "Ah, I see…" Akaige looks right to Roth asking, "After all I did for you, why would you betray me?" Roth looks to Akaige, tears now streaming she asks, "Did for me? You made me kill the one I loved!"

Akaige grins, his left lip quirks to her words, "Made you? I made you do nothing. The evil I called on was yours. I did not force you to act I merely gave you the capability… and you made the choice." Akaige's eyes slink as Roth holds her shoulders, shaking her head like he lied… but she knew better, "I do not force, I influence. I influence realms, souls, and yes you. I make no one commit evil," Akaige clenches his claw at his side, like a proud clasp of power, "I only offer them evil. You were evil, all of you are Raven." Akaige looks to Raven, her arms out at her sides and legs spread she glares ragingly at Akaige, "You see this land, these worlds? I didn't do all of this alone, you chose this path. I merely offered it, and Raven, you can be swayed as well. Think about it, worlds all to your own with you as their master! You can destroy, create, and perfect these mindless mortal realms!" Akaige holds his arms out, his cape shifts behind him and waves like the flags to hell for war to begin, "Raven! This is your destiny; this is your BIRTH RIGHT! We are demons; we are rulers of lives and worlds! They live only to die, to suffer! Come, take my offer! Take this offer! Take the chance of being," The skies burst in lightning as he roars, "Perfect!"

Raven looks at him no different than as he began the rant, "Akaige… you're lost in your shadows! This is nothing to perfection! This is just destruction no rule or reason just murder! This…" Raven looks to the crumbling debris around her, "This… this is just too much…"

"Too Much What?" Raven glares back to him, "Just… Too Much…"

Akaige growls lowly, his eyes scrunching up his nose he releases his voice, "Pity… I hoped in this you would realize the brilliance of your design. Like me, we were designed to be special. We have such power, and so we must use it to its fullest." Akaige flips his cape fully behind him, bending in on his chest he holds his large claw under his crouched form, and his human arm lower to his legs, "I'll finish this now, no more games!" Akaige flings off his feet and rushes on Raven with a charge. His feet kicking up the dust a long trail holds behind his digging heels.

Raven's eyes shook, but stiffen as she raises her hands. A blinding light forges around her and Akaige is struck from the dome force. The power strikes all his form, he screams and flaps about as the bubble expands before popping and then tossing him out to the horizon. The bubble had grown over the land far and wide, leaving a crater behind where its base was only allowing two figures where rubble once was, Raven and Roth. Raven looks at her hands with tears, and fear nipping at her mind s that was more power than she ever used before. Roth grins, "My gift… all your powers Raven are there. The fullest extent, all is there and you must use it wisely. Even," Roth looks to her side in shame, "More wisely than I did." Roth looks to the horizon; a sparkling red light appears "He's coming! Go, I can fend him off for so long! Your friends need you they, they are what give you the power Akaige truly fears."

Raven looks at Roth, and nods to disappear into the portal of light she made. Raven asks, "How do you plan on winning?" Roth, with a tear and smile says, "I plan on stalling… not winning." She looks up with kind eyes, human eyes, "Know Robin… he was always the perfect friend, and so much more." The portal closes and Roth looks up, Akaige screams as he is in view of the events, "Running! I will follow her ti-." A sparse beam of black hits his shoulder, Akaige looks to his attacker Roth with a hint of smoke on her fingertips, "Only after you finish what you started with me!"

Akaige smirks, "I started nothing with you. You are my mistress!" he shrugs like nothing has occurred, "Roth, must you face the only one that ever loved you?"

Roth shakes her head, a snarl she screams "You know not what love is! You only know deceit! Nothing on Love but physical did you show me?" Roth glares to the rubble now floating around her, entire buildings uprooted and dragged to the inner circle crater arena she glares hatefully, "The ones that loved me, were my friends… my family…" She shakes a fist, "I may have killed them… and you only helped, but in many ways the only thing I know they would want right now is not revenge, only for me to do what is right. The right thing," Roth tosses the rubble, her arms out with eyes a blaze, "Is stopping a monster like you!"

Akaige closes his eyes and raises a single claw, the black shadows on the buildings seep out to his finger and into his body, "Silly girl, you lived too long in the shadows and nothing of light remains. You have no power, fighting me would only be a waste of time!"

Roth is one her knees, Akaige lands to give out his claw, "I can forgive this lapse of judgment. After all, I know you are simply upset over their foolish mortal lives. That Robin and other titans are gone, nothing is left of them." Roth holds her face down; her shoulders stiffen as she looks up through her hair in hate, "You're wrong. Their memories and ideals… their dreams, their smiles and faces, are with me…" Roth's eyes glow white, the leotard and scarf with boots become white, Akaige blinks twice as Roth screams launching a punch, "Their last stand, and mine, is with my life!" Akaige raises his claw arm and grips hold of her fist, wrenching it he smiles, "So there is a faint luster in you. Good, that means killing you," Akaige flings his arm out with her being launched off, "Won't be completely boring."

…Roofs…

Trigon holds up Robert with little worry as his other arm holds Robin. "The two of you have proven the most problematic." Trigon sneers of Robert, "You freed my daughter's heart," Trigon then turns to Robin, "As you merely taught her hope." Trigon wrenches his nails into their necks, "Humans, I save nothing but the most horrific pains for you both!"

Trigon then feels something, he turns seeing green eyes that soon follow green fists. Starfire launches flurries of punches on the demon king before he is able to blast some fire from his eyes, "Wretched mortals! Know your place!"

Mumbo Jumbo screams, "Hold on a second!" he flips his hat to the demons around him and it vacuums them up. "I think we're making a mistake here!" he flips his wand to the pipes exposed from a previous fight, the pipes burst with water that Aqualad smirks as he jumps over and with his aquatic he makes blasts to sizzle out the demons. Trigon screams to then create a large orb of fire. He swings and the ball explodes on Aqualad making him fling back into a horde of fire demons. They snarl and growl but Larry jumps in poking up his finger to cover them in ice. Larry huffs his cheeks and makes a charge to Trigon, "You big bully!" he launches his fingers like a scissors poke but Trigon smirks raising his hand vertical to block it. Larry grins and his magic finger opens at the tip to launch four small hands of his own that each poke Trigon's four eyes, he screams stomping back.

Robin takes to the metal pipes, with a yank and turn he swings the long water pipes and uses one now like his staff to sweep out the legs of Trigon. Trigon screams, his minions come around him and hiss away the titans. They all begin a backwards march as Trigon stands up with the help of his monsters, "You seem to be mistaken! I am not going to fail again this time! I am a god, forged in fire!"

Robin now screams "You are a monster and we fight monsters like you every day!" Robin swings forth with his staff busting the forms of fire monsters, "Titans, GO!"

Beast Boy swings out a spiked Stegosaurus tail before turning human and asking "Dude, how many times is Robin going to say that?" Cyborg with both arms opened as blasters releases his attacks on the fire demons that circled him making them puff in smoke, "I don't know, but I'm going to hear it till he stops!" Cyborg forms his right arm into a fist and smashes it through five demons tossing them back, "Booya!"

Jinx leaps over several demons and in mid air she twirls in place, splashing upon the brutes her hexes that cause the beasts to sizzle up then die. "How sweat, my boyfriend has the whole groove thing going!" a demon leaps behind her to have a blast from a gun, Gizmo floats in with his boosters, "God, stop ogling him and fight!" Jinx turns and with a playful smirk says "Jealous much?" Gizmo rolls his eyes, "You're never going to let me live this down are you?" Jinx plucks her finger at her lips, "Hm… should I?" Gizmo snorts as he flies overhead dropping small grenades that blow small charges shattering some fire monsters. "Women…"

Mammoth grabs a fire demon and tosses it into two others shattering them. One screams behind with its arms forging scythes. Mammoth squeals as the beast strikes down, but a sizzling acid hits the monster. Killer Moth leaps in and smiles, "Can't have my daughter upset now can we?" Mammoth blinks but grins, "Thanks… dad!" Killer Moth snarls, "Don't push it…" they hear Kitten scream and turn seeing her held by two demons. They both snarl and scream at the now whimpering demons with two behemoth men after them.

Bumble Bee is flying high up firing her stingers until a demon flies up and slashes her wings, "Ah!" she falls to the ground and looks as the demon makes a U turn and screams on her with claws ready. A green gorilla jumps in its way and screams to its face before punching its head clean off and it dissipates. Beast Boy turns human and raises her with a free hand. Bumble Bee smiles as she is now to his level, "Thanks Beast Boy." He shrugs with a blush, "Well, you know…" he blushes madly with a kiss to his cheeks then she flies off. Beast Boy holds his cheek, awing he says like in a daze, "I'll never wash this cheek again." Mas y Menos grin saying "Usted significa quiere siempre?" Beast Boy blinks, "You mean like always… HEY!" the two teens snicker as they flurry around a demon making it as they move away without flames. The demon grabs to cover its flameless skeleton body before it falls over defeated. The two teens click their fingers, "Olay!"

Starfire tosses her bolts, and sparsely fires her eyes as demons now surrounded her. Two were on her when they seem to split into halves. Speak, twirling his knives runs to her back. She smiles saying "You have assisted me many times today, may I ask why?" Speak looks to her with one eye on the demons, "Yor hair… my… Mothrs…" Starfire blinks but makes sense of his words, "Oh, I see." He smirks, "Also, beutfl…" he swings out on several rushing demons as Starfire looks wide eyed, "Oh… thank you." She turns to a demon snarling on her face which she slaps it away, "Thank you very much." Her cheeks now quite blushed on his words.

Aqualad punches a demon making it fall into another. His eyes darting he screams "What I would give for a water hydrant right now!" Speedy, smirking says "Poor fish-boy, needs water to fight!" he raises his bow and has it snapped by a demon, "No! The Bat-Bow!" Aqualad smirks as he high kicks the demon, "You know that makes it all worth while!" Speedy whimpers as he grabs a second bow, "Oh man…"

Mumbo Jumbo floats high with his wand sparking on demons with magic making them fly away. "Oh! What the heck?" he looks over to Larry who is making anvils, tables, and other cartoon like things such as pianos fall on some demons, "Hm…" Mumbo smirks as he waves his wand causing a kitchen sink fall, "Heh… I'm a genius!" The demons start charging and Mumbo gulps, "Well not a total genius!" he flies off with Larry looking at him, "Hey, where are you going?" Larry sees a small airborne group of demons and screams now bolting with Mumbo to escape.

Robin swings his staff shattering several demons, "Slade!" he has Trigon with four human eyes look back, "Robin… what is it now?" Robin runs out with the pipe staff in a massive swing, Slade with a simple glare raises his hand out to the side forging a long pole of flame that he now thwacks to Robin's pipe slashing the pipe in half. Slade twirls the flame staff in his fingertips chuckling, "Kid, this is not even a game. I am two monsters for the price of one! You can't take me all alone." Slade swishes back with his staff's burning end inches from Robin's horrified face when another staff, titanium clacks the flame staff. Slade pulls back and narrows his eyes, Robert holds his staff before giving it to Robin, "Good, because we're two heroes," Robin looks up and smiles with staff in hand, "For the price of none!"

Robert charges the blades on his hands and charges with Robin at his side. Slade laughs, then red eyes glow as they fire four flames. The flames bend and move as the two men leapt over, hurdled, and rolled under each pass. Trigon and Slade growl hatefully as the two now closed in and jumped in the air, their forms twirled for a moment as they then struck out their feet in strong aerial-kicks launching the fire master Trigon and psychotic puppet master Slade both across the roof and to the railing. Robin lands then runs in a battle cry. Slade looks out and rolls along the railing from a vertical swing of the staff. Robin goes to swipe Slade's side but Slade ducks to then run up and launch a punch to Robin's jaw. Robin falls back and Slade grins his left tusk. Slade holds the fire staff up but he has a stinging sensation up his back. Slade snarls as he looks back to Robert with his saws spinning.

Slade swings out but Robert pulls back and sparks his blades on the staff knocking it off the railing. Slade snarls as she staff then falls over the edge of the railing, "Little brat!" Slade's eyes turn red and Trigon growls, "Filthy mortal!" Trigon charges his hands in fire and starts swinging to Robert's blades. The two forces spark and flare each time one bounces from the other. Trigon smirks as he screams and a fire stream blows out of his mouth onto the spinning blades now like some sort of last minute shields. Robert looks up after the flame stops to see Trigon was gone; he hears a loud thump behind him and sees Trigon has leapt over to his back. Trigon turns around and punches Robert on the jaw making his stumble. Trigon unleashes punches like wild to the face, chest, and ribs of Robert who is dazed by the demon strength. Trigon then takes a step back holding his open palm out so a ball of fire grows up to blast off. Robert glares as he swings up his left arm he clenches his fist shooting the left spinning blade on Trigon who simply cracks his neck to miss the blade. Trigon glares his eyes but notices Robert's smile. Trigon turns back and tosses the fire orb at the returning blade. Trigon's eyes become human like, Slade says evilly, "Enough of this. I have an army, and like any army they need," Trigon growls, "A ruler," Slade scoffs, "A general," and then both say "and Lieutenants!" The roof breaks up and Cinderblock, Overload, and Plasmus come up standing behind Slade. Slade chuckles, his arms crossed on his chest he raises his chin, "What's the matter? Your hope seems to be fading."

The heroes are now being corralled and Robert sighs, "Guess we just rip through till we get a good hit on the red troll!"

The sky then flickers with light, all look as a hole opens up. Raven, slowly levitating to the group of friends looks aggressively to her father, "Am I too late?"

Robin smirks, "Nope, we saved plenty just for you!" the heroes make another strike out and Trigon, snarling, screams with Slade "Strike!" the three monsters scream out in battle as Raven turns to her father, this time he was not getting the pleasure of hurting her friends.

…Roth and Akaige…

The black skies spark and flare up with loud thunderous slaps. A red comet comes flaring out of several clouds streaking to the ground. The red comet strikes to then show, in the crevice it made was Akaige slowly standing with a smile to brush off some debris. A white comet now streaks down after Akaige, Roth screams with her right arm cocked in a powerful punch. Akaige looks up and sighs as he ducks under the punch. Roth continues to turn back with a kick but Akaige grabs her ankle to toss her into the ground. Akaige, with a sneer, kicks Roth's ribs then launches his fist into her sides making her scream as she was rolling across the debris ridden terrain. Akaige lets his claw at his side, "What a waste. Even with your power my skills as a warrior outweigh your force."

Roth turns up on her hands and knees, "Shut up!" she pushes off and leaps into the battle again. Akaige simply chuckles as she tries landing punches that he with arms crossed, and levitating, merely moves back from her knuckles with inches of distance in each strike. Roth snarls as she launches out her palm with a blast of energy, the white energy hits Akaige in the chest making him limply follow on the blast into a building. The building holds against the blow, but Akaige merely raises his chin with a snide snarl. Akaige pulls up his arms and legs from the building to then slam them against the building making it crumble. Akaige throws himself out with arms cocked into his sides. Roth with eyes shaking feels fear, but her mind seems to recall her friends. Feeling they were there she gives a confident look to Akaige flaring up after him. Akaige blinks from the sudden change long enough for her to come in close and land a punch to his chin. Akaige is buckled from his flight and tossed nearly into the ground. Akaige swings inches off the surface to have a pair of white boots on his chest. Akaige slams to the ground up heaving an expanse of dirt. Roth grabs Akaige by the foot and twirls him around to toss him into a building collapsing it on top of Akaige. Roth holds her hands up over her head and like Starfire tosses bolts off towards the building. Roth screams as she continues the barrage. A dirt path is ripping up from the ground making its way to Roth. Roth does not notice as the tunnel mound makes to her back then out of it rips the three fingered claw. Roth turns back slowly and the claws dig into her chest. Roth squirms, and the claws lay in tighter with her panicked whimper. Akaige pushes off the rubble with his human hand and grins as she was caught.

Roth grabs at the appendage using her strength left to pull it out. Falling on her side, and laying in fetal position she whimpers and gags as her eyes stream with tears. Akaige strolls over, his arm coming back to him to lay at his back with confident strides. Akaige sighs as he squats down on his knee then brushing her hair back. Roth squirms away from him; Akaige shrugs his shoulders "Roth do you have to be so picky? I mean," he grabs her waist with his claw pulling her over to him, "I have held you many times before." Roth closes her eyes tightly trying to ignore his words, "I loved… Robin…"

"Like you said I did not love you." Akaige smiles, "What was the point in all of this? I mean you just got yourself killed for nothing. Your friends are dead what were you fighting for?"

Roth smiles, a warm sensation covers her body with the smiling and laughing faces glowing in her memories, "I was… fighting… for good." Akaige frowns; flinging his claw over her form he now stood and flung his crimson claws making an X, then snaps his fingers. "Another soul marked by me." The X catches flame and Akaige looks to the sky, and smiling he closes himself in his cape disappearing as the sky starts dropping black birds.

…Roof…

The titans had taken on the demons and minions of Slade, Raven took on the Trigon/Slade cross control. Trigon instantly realized the fact Raven was stronger than before, "Wretched girl! What is this power?" Raven simply narrowed her eyes as she phased through his flame stones, "This is MY power, father!" Slade, taking control back flips from her downward punch that left quite the impression… on the roof, "Still denying the fact Raven, you have no real power over me!" Slade makes a dash on Raven which she simply smirks as she plows her hand into his chest, ripples of energy where her hand and Slade's body became one. "I guess you're right, but the power you have isn't yours either." Raven slowly pulls out her hand from Slade, his eyes huge as he stumbles back, "This is the power of my father, not you!"

Slade looks to Raven, his eyes now become blank as his body begins sagging, and as he gags on his grabs of his weakening hands with the connection severed. His strength being lost, Slade topples on his knees giving a last insane snarl of his nose without his mask. The red skin turns peach, his four eyes become one, and one large scar forms on his other eye. Slade rolls onto his face, grabbing at the mask on the ground he slowly hides his identity so none knew. The demons only here through the connection of Trigon to Slade disappear and Slade's minions Plasmus and Overload knowing it was useless to fight run off sliding down the building's sides. Cinderblock looks to the remains of Slade and makes a mad dash scooping them up it leaps over the edge and towards the roadside below. Plasmus and Overload have the police distracted and with a smile runs off with his weakened master. Slade, looking up to Cinderblock chuckles, "Raven's stronger… that means I have to work on more elaborate means of fighting the titans…" his eye shows the joy, "Interesting… challenge…"

Raven leaves go a deep breath; Cyborg raises a finger with his jaw slightly open for a moment before asking "Why couldn't you do that sooner?"

Raven, shrugging she smiles, "Didn't know I had it in me!"

Raven's ear is being pulled, she gasps from Robert tugging her over to him, "That's twice you disappeared on me! You know how freaking worried I was?" Raven twiddles her fingers looking away from him, "Er… sorry…" she then gags in a human bear-love hug, Robert just tells her never do it again, Raven, with her attitude gasps out, "Or… you'll… suffocate… me?"

Robert with a blush drops Raven and shifty eyed he says "Actually, probably."

Beast Boy was doing a small dance, "Oh yeah, Trigon is gone, Slade made a retreat, demons been maintained, and Akaige has left the building! We so need a waffle celebration!"

Raven sighs, "Beast Boy, Akaige is not gone. He is still coming." The titans and others give looks. Robin nods, "Okay, this time we need to strike hard, fast, and…" Raven raises her hands, "Actually, I have a plan." Robin looks at her, "I got it… from a friend." Raven smiles as she thinks to what Roth said. "This will work, I know it."

Akaige phases through out of his cape. The roof is… empty? "…?" he instantly knew this was a bad sign. Suddenly he hears a powerful blast, leaping over it he sees the white beams hit where he stood moments earlier. "Raven, nice try but…" Akaige turns mid air to his attacker, his eyes shaking, but smiling.

Starfire, her clothes of white, and smiling with eyes a blaze with white aura floats. Soon the other heroes and fighters with whitened auras and apparel reveal themselves surrounding Akaige. Raven floats down with her arms crossed, "You are afraid of this aren't you? We all are opened, our hearts in bloom. That is the power Roth mentioned you feared. That's why you fought to break them all apart." Raven nods with her smile, "We have the upper hand, not you Akaige."

Akaige should have been shaking, his knees should have been clacking together, and he should have urinated himself merely by the amassed power here… but he wasn't. Akaige, with a flex of his claw and glare of his teeth says, "About time, now I can take things much more seriously."

Robert gives the first strike a chance. Making a move he tries his saws to slice Akaige but Akaige is able to duck the attacks. Robert tries a swipe of his un-bladed arm which Akaige dodges but the real bladed arm swings behind this arm to catch the human arm deep. Akaige pulls back and grabs his arm on the upper bicep, seeing a nice sized slice he glares to the purple meaty innards to then the heroes. The wound sizzles with purple mists as it begins healing, but on Akaige's face it was apparent something about the injury was different it was taking a serious effort to heal. Raven smiles, if Akaige heals enough wounds he will lose his stamina which means they can win! He retreats, and they win right?

Akaige smirks as the heroes make their attack, his elbows swung into his hips Akaige roars.

(Music: "Going Under"-By Evanescence)

Akaige waits as Mammoth launches a fist, Akaige wedges his arm under the punch pushing it up and over, now landing his human palm into Mammoth's chest he surges a blast that now pushes the large teen back. Robin with his staff leaps over and makes dashing stabs of the poles ends. Akaige snarls as he uses his back-arms as shields, the pole welts Akaige's arms leaving sizzling trails of smoke. Akaige finally grabs the staff at the end with his claw then forcefully plows the staff's ends back into Robin's chest several times then striking the center with his human arm Akaige twirls the staff into Robin's jaw and lets the staff fly out. Robin stumbles back letting Mas y Menos go, running they begin to spiral around then artfully leaping off the same feet they fly out like an aerial torpedo. Akaige is blindsided as he makes a dodge having his right shoulder struck in the torpedo. Akaige screams grabbing at the now bubbling burns. Akaige falls on his knee, his eyes shaking and teeth bearing hard he viewed up as Gizmo charges his two guns screaming "Hooha!"

Akaige opens his mouth; the teeth rows flatten back in his jaw as a new beam, a beam of skulls made from mist spew out bustling the two light blasts apart then speeding between them to hit Giz's shocked face. Gizmo is plowed out on the other end of the building barely being stopped from the nearly buckling railing. Akaige stands up letting go of his shoulder smiling with fangs placed. Gizmo's white clothes turn green as he was unconscious. Raven swings in with her two hands glowing but Akaige lurched back to grab one wrist then twirl her about. Grabbing the other wrist around her form, crossing her arms as he now held her in an embrace close to his taller, muscular form Akaige slyly whispers, "Fools…"

Robert plows his foot onto the face rubbed to Raven's cheek, Robert with hate bore a careful grab and turn of Raven moving her away from Akaige. Robert now goes to use his saw but Akaige grabs down with his claw on top of the spinning blade now making its X ends bend over the sides of the fist and the front. Robert screams as the metal ends were bent too tightly scrunching his fist. Akaige then grabs Robert by the scruff with his human hand tossing him up like a simple glider making the man fly up and into the arms of Aqualad. Speak not happy his brother was hurt now lunges from behind of Akaige to raise two daggers high over his shoulders in his falling plunge. Akaige turns about to have the two glowing daggers plow into his shoulders, but just as they plow his shoulders his claw wraps around Speak's neck. Akaige wrenches the neck of his latest attacker quickly pulling the smoking blades from his shoulders with his free hand. Akaige launches away Speak with slight fatigue on his face, his left leg seems to sink in on itself before with a gleam of his fangs, Akaige pushes back up and swings out his claw arm swishing the cape and hairs of his back far behind himself, almost renewed in his recent fight.

(Music: Ends)

Akaige's ears then flick, "..." suddenly he's being bombarded by tons of missiles. The heroes look over to the bat-plane unleashing millions of missiles on Akaige. Batman smirks; this was still a responsible matter he took to finishing. The missiles stopped and Batman hovered next to the building. The smoke clears up and shows the large hole in the roof, Batman then has his bat-plane wavering in the air "What?" he looks to his monitors, something had hit his wing, "…!" Batman pulls the plane off and tries to find a place to land, Robin screams Batman's name as this happens. Batman looks back seeing Robin's eyes he simply smirks, this was nothing. The Joker and his friends are in the back unconscious. Batman slams into the roof of a building to exit and check his plane.

The heroes on the roof now hear cracking. The roof, where the hole and many other stressed attacks on the surface finally caused it to start collapsing. Everyone screamed as the roof breaks into the building making even the walls collapse in. Finally the roof falls in two levels, the room they are in is the room with pillars which earlier they fought Joker and his other self.

Raven walks out across the now rubble cluttered room, with half erect pillars sticking from the room's floors. Robert looks to behind her; some shadow rolls out on her back, "Raven!" Raven turns and sidesteps the slash of Akaige who now strides past her in a run, turning on his left leg he flips back showing his many burns and marks, his face scuffed yet still wickedly handsome Akaige just grins, "Hey, I had to try it!" he chuckles turning to the heroes completely.

The heroes are all ready to fight, Akaige shows a little standoffish until clicking his claw. With that he screams and lunges forward. Akaige dodges right past the punch of Cyborg singling out Jinx. Jinx tosses white hexes but not stopping as they strike and scar across bare chest Akaige strikes his claw into her stomach, then quickly swinging his human arm with the forearm over her head. Jinx falls on her knees, Akaige grabs her shoulders and rolls over to her back, holding, he swings her over his head right on Speedy making an arrow Speedy readied fire. Akaige bends on his legs flattening his form to the floor like a limbo letting the arrow strike and net Cyborg. Cyborg screams as Beast Boy goes to help. Akaige grins a side grin before running off to the pillars. Swirling up a pillar with his claw scratching the surface and making winding marks up Akaige winds up to the top of one pillar half broken. Akaige laughs as Bumble Bee flies on his spot. Akaige waits as she strikes his crouched form, his face scrunches with each hit but he waits. She comes close and launches a rolling kick but Akaige leaps up, Bumble Bee watches in horror as he was over her attack, giving a wink before thrusting both legs down and plowing her under him and through the pillar that crumbles. Her arms fall weakly and let go of her stingers as she is unconscious.

The titans charge up, Akaige leers on them as Killer Moth, Speak, and Aqualad try to hit him. Akaige ducks back under a left hook from Killer Moth, than to the side he dodges past a vertical slash of Speak, finally leaping over a low sweep kick of Aqualad. Akaige snarls as he swings legs high up and coming back over Aqualad he kicks Aqualad over the back. Akaige raises both forearms blocking the backwards strikes of Killer Moth and Speak to then push off their hits and swing his knuckles into their ribs making them stumble away. Aqualad is turning around trying to punch but Akaige's arm has detached like the serpent flinging Aqualad back and into a wall. Akaige constricts Aqualad till he was unconscious. Akaige lets his arm return and turns back as Speak and Killer Moth are followed with Mas y Menos. The twins try their torpedo but Akaige backhands them this time with his claw headfirst to Speak and Moth. Akaige raises his claw to his view, more burns sizzle from the twins that now lie unconscious with Moth; Speak is pushing off a twin with a snarl on his face.

Akaige makes several long backwards strides as he finds Mammoth doing a shoulder charge. Akaige raises his two arms as an X over his face, but with a smile he does not block he instead pulls down his arms creating a red X where his arms were that shoots off and slams against Mammoth. Mammoth is screaming as his whole body now is jolted in the red X before it disappears and leaves an unconscious Mammoth smoldering on his knees. Akaige turns, his glare frightens the remaining heroes… hope, is finally dying. Robin, eyes seeing the others in fear, bolts out screaming. He has Akaige's arm stretch and grabs his entire chest in its clasp, but quickly Robin tosses the staff into the chest of Akaige making it spark a surge over the pectorals so Akaige looses grip. Robin, squatting on the floor, grabs his staff and then charges once more. Robin swings his staff but Akaige hops from the horizontal swing then launches as Robin was moving. With some finagling Akaige pushes Robin so he has Robin's back to his chest, then grabbing both ends of the staff Akaige tries choking Robin, smoke trailing under his grip of the staff Akaige groans on Robin's neck with the pain. Starfire screams, tossing white bolts Akaige is struck on the back, he releases Robin snarling, but turns up to Starfire who is tossing the bolts.

Akaige swipes the bolts away; his claw sparks against their power and the final one he grabs firmly in his claw, clasping it tighter and tighter till the bolt sizzles off and his claw boils on the skin. Akaige pants, his chest moves up and down heavily, he was very stretched on his power but still, he was having way too much fun to quit yet! "What's next? Come now, leave me not in suspense!"

Asking, Akaige receives by two whistles, looking up over his shoulder Mumbo and Larry charge finger and wand with all their power. The two surge forth a collected beam that strikes all of Akaige, enveloping him in a slanted pillar of light from their two pointed attacks. The two look on as their white auras are gone, that was a one shot deal. The light disappears showing, standing with his chin tilted up and a smile was Akaige… before his legs buckled and he fell on his front swinging his human arm under his chest and grasping up on his claw against the ground. Akaige, hunched over starts coughing. Raven looks somewhat relieved.

Akaige looks with his left eye slightly swollen over but still half open; his right eye shows full aggression. Shifting his right knee forward then pushing up off it and straight, Akaige clicks his claw saying "Don't get all happy yet. This old demon still has a fair share of fight left!"

Beast Boy has his jaw hanging before quickly thrashing his head around, removing his shock, "Dude, he's impossible! We can't win!"

Raven glares onto Akaige, her eyes and hands a glow she snarls "Yes we can, and we will!"

Raven, Robin, Robert, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg make a charge. Akaige clenches his human fist as his left nostril scrunches up a little. Raven swings her right fist and Akaige is able to block with his left. Robert swings under Raven's punch to hit Akaige in the ribs making him stumble back. Robin snarls vaulting over the others with his staff with an outstretched kick to the chest of Akaige. Akaige stumbles back again, Cyborg screams as he opens up his two arms as cannons, the cannons fire on the chest of Akaige making Akaige falter back yet again, Star uses her eye beams over Akaige's face as Beast Boy turns to a rhino plowing his horn into Akaige launching the demon god of red shadow straight into a pillar making it crumble up and over him. The six stand or float looking on the debris and with shock see small bits of rubble roll up as a claw pushes up shakily. Akaige wriggles from the rubble with his shoulders first then arms clasping the top to rip his feet and legs out. Akaige stands, shakes a second, and with some sizzling he simply smiles as he flexes his claw. Robert screams with a charging arm thrust, Akaige grabs the fist with his human hand then flings Robert over head with the claw into another pillar. Akaige runs out screaming, he leaps up over a sonic blast coming at an arc on Robin. Robin twirls his staff as Akaige lands with vicious claw slashes. Akaige taps away the staff roundhouse kicking Robin while the staff is still moving in air to the side. Starfire flies up swinging her fists, Akaige ducks and bobs as the fists miss, making a grappled of her two wrists Akaige pulls her arms out to the sides before planting a strong forward kick to her abs, making her fall back and cringing Akaige now runs forward and kicks up his leg to toss her back away. Raven launches an orb of energy, Akaige ducks and turns around releasing his hissing claw as it pushes her back. Letting Raven go, the claw swishes over on Beast Boy where it wraps the now green triceratops over the neck constricting the throat to put it a sleep. Akaige turns as Cyborg is charging his cannons, Akaige calls back his claw and charges both hands with blood crimson sparks. The two fire off dual blasts from their hands, the beams push against each other but Cyborg looses with a scream. Being hit Cyborg is tossed back skipping over the ground unconscious. Akaige turns around with a deep huff, and a grin.

Raven looks in shock, "How? We… we have to win!"

"Not really." Akaige gleefully shows his teeth, "You can loose like anyone else. The heroes don't always have to win." Akaige chuckles until he has a white blade pierce his back, turning he sees Robin with two birdarangs into a sword. The sword rips through the back and out the chest, smoke spurts from the blade's protrusion in the chest. Akaige swings back elbowing Robin to the ground, Raven narrows her eyes charging her energy to fire on the demon. Akaige turns and fires a beam, but he had no way of countering her power so she pushes the demon back while he dug his heels into the ground then fell on his knees, "Little… witch…" Akaige's arm stretches to his back and pulls out the sword with great pain on his face. Small fires flickered under the blade and flesh as friction and heat caused sparks under the removal of the blade. Akaige pulls out the sword and tosses it to the side; Akaige stands again with such hate he snarls "You can't win!"

Robert, with a bloody lip runs up and grabs Raven's necklace, with a red X strip over his two fingers he pulls them back like a slingshot, "Raven! X marks the spot!" Raven watches as Robert fires the two and the sticky X wraps over the wound, Akaige looks down confused and Raven smiles as she realizes something, "We can…" she charges her energy, firing she screams "We just did!"

The energy of hers strikes over the sticky X and the necklace. The necklace's jewels and silver start to sparkle like a disco light. Akaige's eyes bulge as he now grabs at the wound, the light crackles over and over, inside the flesh it starts more fires that Akaige can't put out. Akaige's skin starts to catch flame with white energy; skin crackles and breaks apart with the light that surges inside his being. Akaige clasps at his arms, legs, ribs, every inch his form begins to freaking burn. Akaige frantically tries making the fires stop. With heated growls and moans Akaige seems to show more pain than the other times. With a large swoosh his body is engulfed by fire Akaige's robotic shell drops to its knees and lies with several small flames over its metallic form. Raven looks at the events, sort of suspicious she walks over and taps the robotic form with her foot. She does this several times when Robin, holding his sword slams it into the back of its head, twisting it deeper into the head he seems to pant and huff before looking up waiting for her to say if it was done.

Raven looks at the droid, nothing is left of the shadows. She looks up wearily, "I think… it's over."

Beast Boy is slowly waking up, "What? No hell fire, demons circling around dragging him back to hell? I mean, sure he was bad ass and all but that seems a little melodramatic."

Raven smiles and shrugs, "Oh well." She looks to the robot, "I don't really care all I know is he's gone. Finally…"

"For how long?" the titans turn to the floating Pakkurath, a blackened trench with one arm, his ears pointed, tusks protruding, and fingers long and sharp, "Akaige will return. He still wants something from you all. He wants mortal flesh from you."

Raven turns with hands glowing, the other Pakkurath, one in a gray trench and with the human qualities steps in around his floating counterpart, "Hold it! Raven!" Raven looks to this one, "It's okay… kind of. He's not evil… well, sort of…" this other one looks kind of perplexed, "He and I came to an agreement and he has sort of turned his back on the Kagejin."

Raven glares to the one Pakkurath, "So he's good?" Pakkurath snarls lowly saying "I am neither good nor evil! I am balance, I am perfection." The other one sweats a little, "He is… dossal for the most part."

Pakkurath growls lowly floating back, "Impudent witch… took my arm." He looks to his stub, "If it was not for the fact she made Akaige retreat I would have…"

Raven looks up, "He retreated?" she looks to the other one, "I thought I destroyed him!" the other figure sighs, "No, Akaige is an immortal. He can never truly be killed merely beaten so badly he must retreat. However, he can not re-enter your world less called upon by another. As are the rules for the demonic kin, and especially Kagejin."

Pakkurath snorts, "That rhymed Pakkarath." Pakkarath turns and grins, "So it did brother."

Raven looks out at the sky, saddened from this news she feels some how, some day Akaige would return. 'If he does,' Raven narrows her eyes strongly, 'I'll stop him.' She looks to her friends all talking still, and smiles, 'We'll stop him.'

Pakkurath turns, "I wish to leave! I find their mortal stench very… unpleasant."

Pakkarath sighs, "So much like your father, such a shame." Pakkarath cringes as Pakkurath screams "Silence you dog!"

"Wait!" Raven floats over, "We're going to have a nice big celebration!" the others look at each other blankly, "I mean, we deserve one don't we?"

Pakkurath looks at his brother, snarling he says "Very well! Let a celebration be in our future." Pakkarath grins, "Perfect! Let us… wait, where are we to celebrate?"

Raven turns to the tower, "Titans Tower, of course."

…Hours later, all the heroes are healed and awake…

Music plays in the background, the heroes are all laughing, playing, partying after one great ordeal. Mumbo does magic tricks with his little assistant Larry. Kitten and Mammoth dance on the floor making all stare in slight awe the energy they had. Killer Moth sighs and complains on this couple to the boy Gizmo, who he wanted his daughter to go with for sake of evil-science. Speedy and Aqualad are dancing in a sort of dance-duel with Mas y Menos, which… they are so totally loosing to the little twins. Bumble Bee and Beast Boy are talking about things, like a relationship. Starfire drags poor bruised Robin to the dance floor showing her wild style of dance. Cyborg and Jinx are playing a videogame on the big screen TV… and Cy is getting his butt tore up. Pakkarath and Pakkurath stand to the corners watching and making remarks on the others, simply egotistical fun.

Robert was really worried when Raven started to leave she came up with the idea of partying. He follows her to the roof, where he grabs her from behind startling her. Raven was in black and purple garbs, not the white ones. "Raven? What's wrong?"

Raven looks up to Robert, his eyes so full of concern she sighs, "I can feel it." She looks out to the still darkened skies, "Akaige, he's going to return. If we couldn't destroy him now then what chance is there later, what hope is…" Robert presses his finger to her lips, shushing her he smiles, "Raven, hope is always there. It shines in all darkness, even the greatest of it." He shrugs, "I know, he's powerful and pretty damn evil. Still, we stood up to him and I bet if we had to we would have won. Right now," Robert turns her to the skies ahead and grins, "Let's just try and make the best of our lives." He holds her tightly making her smile her one smile, "Let's just try to be happy."

…

"…," the shadow closes, in the realm of Kagejin Akaige stands with his claw closing the small portal he viewed from, "Mortals." Now in their realm his wounds are sealing over and healing quickly. Akaige stands with his claw flexing at his hip now before hearing movement, Gaikotsu simply does a kneel and bow of his head, "My lord you've returned sooner than expected." Akaige nods, "I would suppose all did not go as planned?"

Akaige smirks, "You're wrong. Though not all to one plan, my plans still have followed some progress." Akaige flips his claw under his cape striding to his throne, "Any news since I was gone?" Gaikotsu gulps, this makes Akaige turn with a narrowed glance, "Karage… she uh…" Gaikotsu is now being suspended under a vice grip of the claw, stretching across the room and up the stone walls, "She saw you fight and getting hurt! I'm sorry my lord!" Akaige drops Gaikotsu with a loud thud before storming down the paths to a specific room, the room of Karage.

While winding these stone paths like tunnels Akaige remembers the ordeal… the accursed ordeal that makes him fight Raven, her friends, and plan to have a weapon of excellent power.

(This is a history on Akaige I never wrote in Teen Titans: A Feudal Fairytale because it was part of a spin-off story supposed to show his transition as a demon lord. Though I have not written that story, I do plan on doing it sometime. Right now, I hope most will understand.)

It was a normal ritual creating Kagejin but sometimes with human assistance Kagejin could be made with spiritual energy. Those are reincarnated souls, forged by shadow with the same spiritual powers of those souls. Karage was such a Kagejin, formed with a fraction of the half-demon priestess Karasu, Akaige's sister, this Kagejin would have remarkable powers but a dark immortal flesh like Akaige under certain conditions. Akaige made a deal with a powerful necromancer from Japan, called Ketsueki, or Blood. The necromancer would lure a part of Karasu's spirit to the ritual in return for his services the destruction of the Teen Titans. Tsuchi, being the strongest of the titans of their world was the main reason Akaige wanted the weapon. Alone he had not the power to destroy Tsuchi but with the cooperated power of this new Kagejin Akaige felt he had the battle won. However, Tsuchi thanks to her connection with her mother Karasu's spirit got involved, and tainted the ritual with her pure soul! Akaige snarls, remembering as the urn used to form the soul of Karasu and flesh of Karage together was blown apart by Tsuchi's spiritual powers… the girl that walked out and collapsed at his feet… his dreams of the perfect weapon ruined…

Karage still had that amazing power, and immortal flesh, but the problem lies in the pure energy in her soul making her quite innocent, if not child like. Akaige stops at a door of purple stone. Akaige opens the door with a wave of his claw, the stone slab moves into the stone wall and soon he walks in to see the large bed with red satin drapes with its overhang, the room looks like a mortal room with a balcony leading to the outside reaches of the caves, the misted world of shadows with large stones floating about. That was the outside, endless void that none could travel really. Akaige looks around the room with a black armoire with skull like emblems as the handles, and the desk with a beauty mirror. Akaige designed the room for comfort, so the young Karage could enjoy herself. Akaige takes several small steps before he has this figure latch onto his waist, hugging him tightly with sobs in his chest. Akaige's right eye twitches, his claw pets her long lavender hairs as he asks, mainly so she would stop, "What is the matter?"

Karage pulls off her face from his chest. Karage's face would by all means match Raven except for her lips were not as pouted, more like Terra they were flat and more plain. Having another trait like Raven was a chakra but it was black on her forehead, showing powerful mental powers but absolutely dark. Her clothing is of a scarlet corset with sleeves, the sleeves skin tight scarlet that had minor rounded shoulders, the legs are under a red skirt that falls over the legs and to the ground allowing her to look like she floats under it, which often she did so she barely touches the ground with the matching scarlet dress. Black frill is under the sleeves and around the edges of the dress, also black cloth is crossed on the backs of the palms to the middle finger with each sleeve. Her hair is strange, falling back behind the ears far past the shoulders several other hairs fall over the fronts of the ears a little past the shoulders. Her hair held with a black headpiece, divides the bangs hanging slightly over the eyes and above the brows from the rest of the flowing hair. Trapped in the body of a young teen Karage certainly was beautiful but her beauty is overlooked from Akaige, he merely tells her what she wants so one day she will help him destroy Tsuchi. It is somehow sad, she deeply was fond of Akaige for his kindness to her but in all honesty kindness was not the word, it was a form of bribery and he sooner would kill her if it served his purpose… but at times, Akaige did seem to worry over her and made strange errors in judgment against his nature. He never gave it much mind, but in his dark heart these miniscule mistakes could be seen as the first signs of affection. (Karage voiced by Melissa Charles, "Gaz from Invader Zim" or "Rika from Digimon Season 3")

Karage slowly pulls back, and cups her hands at her chest, "My lord…" she sniffles slightly, "I feared you were… in danger."

Akaige laughs as he moves past her, she blushes as he slightly brushed against her side to him it meant nothing, to her it meant everything, "Karage, though those children proved resourceful I have not yet begun to play with them! I will return to that world one day, and next time wipe them all out!" he pleasingly sits on her bed, her hands tightly gripped she asks, with little worry, "Why must we hurt them?" Akaige frowns; she turns away from him hiding herself in her long hair, "I am sorry… I still find it difficult to understand these matters."

Akaige nods, he stands and grabs her chin, tilting her face to his he looks to the blood red eyes of Karage, "Do not fret child, in time I will find mortal flesh for your new form. A form more mature than the one you were cursed with by that accursed Tsuchi." Akaige snarls to his nemesis being mentioned, the mortal flesh he must use to give Karasu a new body had to be bodies with similar spiritual powers as Karasu or her children, which meant other realities with similar beings… like Raven. His plans to torture Raven were more a personal vendetta, but using her or her children to form a new body for this Kagejin Karasu would ensure his hold over the weapon. Karasu has remarkable power, but her innocent nature makes her somewhat not as evil as he, making it difficult to use her in a fight. "I am tired Karage, I will see you soon enough. Keep well and rest my little Karage…" Akaige lets her chin fall as he leaves, "These wounds will not heal themselves."

Akaige leaves through the door, Karage turns to it with her eyes shaking, "Someday… I will prove my love to you…" she now prepares for rest. Akaige also heads to his throne to rest, with a slight annoyance of the fact even with his plan to give Karage a more mature body, would her mind really mature? Or would her mind be as childish and pure as it is now? If so… "If so, I will simply have to kill her." He shrugs; Akaige was not one to allow himself to worry, in time he would get what he wanted or simply remove the obstacles. Yet, somehow destroying Karage did not seem to please him like others, he shakes his mind free of these thoughts and moves on to his regeneration. While waiting for another chance to strike Raven and Robert, Akaige would try to infect other realities and use their worlds to his goals. One Raven, or one child of hers, was all it needs to be! What world would be next, where will Akaige appear again?

(Story by Z. Brite has Akaige, it is rated M for sexual situations and language, called "In Heat" pretty much a story of Raven being in heat and how it affects other demons I love it even with the more mature content, pretty funny too!)

…Titans Tower…

Raven and Robert stood on the rooftops through most the party just sort of standing and watching the night sky. Sun would rise soon; the two would like to see a sunrise now. Raven blinks, "My necklace!" she looks at Robert, "I forgot it!"

Robert looks to his pockets retrieving a melted metal scrap, "I found it… kind of."

Raven holds her hand out and he gives her the metal. She sighs to the sign of her memento, "Great…" the small glimmering light now hits her eyes from elsewhere, Pakkarath and Pakkurath stand to the side, Pakkarath dangles a necklace from his hands, the exact same as hers once was! She floats over and takes it, Robert smirks, "Hey, they look exactly identical!"

Pakkarath smirks, "Of course, we ma…" Pakkurath narrows his brows before elbowing his brother, "Silence dog."

Pakkarath blushes, and bows, "We made sure to buy one if something happened!" he chuckles nervously, Pakkurath grins as he turns to the stars, "We must be leaving. The time has come for us to find more in the dimensions. Perhaps, we can find ways of enjoying ourselves in other worlds."

Pakkarath nods, "Yes that will be a most enjoyable search." Raven looks at the two, "Thank you…" she glares at Pakkurath "Somewhat," then back to Pakkarath she smiles, "Please, if there is anything we could do for you."

Pakkurath grins, "Oh one day we will return to train your children." Pakkarath nods, "It is a fair deal; your children will prove very powerful in the future."

Raven blinks, "Children? What do you mean, children?"

Robert's eyes are now twitching, Pakkurath grins as he says "Poor girl, she knows not about the twins." Robert now falls back in a faint; Raven is simply blankly looking on the two. Pakkarath shrugs, "Do not fret, the day is only upon you. Why, it is your birthday soon is it not? 18, marriage would be very fruitful!" Pakkurath shrugs, "Whatever you say, let us go brother! I find continued existence with mortals annoying!"

Pakkarath nods, "I know, I know!" Pakkarath looks to Raven and Robert, Robert has been awoken by Raven. Pakkarath thinks for a moment and smiles, "Do you know what makes my brother and I so different? He is one of the magi," Pakkarath raises his right arm, it molds to a machine like device, firing it shot several orbs into the sky, "I hold more to the scientific! Good bye friends!"

Raven blinks until she hears sparkling in the air, turning the two see a massive collective of fireworks. The others down below in the tower exit to see the bonanza and such. Moth whispers, "Time to go…" the other villains look at him and grin as they get an "Out of Jail Free" card deal. They take Mumbo Jumbo's hat as an escape route, Jinx looks to Cyborg who looks at her, she winks with a blown kiss as she disappears, he grabs it and smiles to his little witch girlfriend. The skies are brightly colored as Speak looks at the envelope he found at the door, it reads "Final Will and Testament: Rasco Xavier" Speak looks around and shrugs as he takes and puts it in his pocket. Speak then gets wide eyed… "…!" he runs up to Robert and shoves the envelope into his chest, Robert blinks as he reads it, "Robert… Son, I obtained this place some time back. You know how busy I am at the club, and when you turn 21 I figure you need a more, substantial job than that whole thing… you know what I mean X-boy! Any-who, making up with this whole will is if something was to happen between now and then, so yeah, a nice little club I bought close by called "Red Xtreme"! Sorry I never made it to your opening, kid. Also, yeah, I had the mailing address changed to your girlfriends." Robert blushes as Raven turns away a little ashamed, "Yeah, figured you would be with her not me if something went wrong! Keep it up kid, don't forget what I said."

Robert folds up the letter and looks over the documents, "My own club? Wow, I need a bartender…" Robert looks to Speak; he was a year older… "Hey, Tommy!" Tommy blinks, "How are you at mixing drinks?"

Tommy blinks, but smiles as if saying he was good at it. Robert grins slyly, "Hell, women will flock for him." Raven glares, "Really?" Robert sweats as he says "Aw, you know you're the only one that I care about love!" Raven shrugs as she gives her cocky grin. Robert glares, "Evil…" she nods, "And don't you forget it!" Raven lays back into Robert as the others laugh and such.

Robin feels Starfire, he smiles as he wraps his arm around her waist, "Hey Star," she looks at him, "I love you." Starfire blushes, "Yes… thank you."

Robin grabs Starfire tighter as he sees Raven in the side of his eyes, 'I love you too… but, I think I need to remember.' Starfire kisses Robin's cheek making him smile wider, 'I need to take things as they come and love while I can. We all deserve to be happy with all these times we save the day.'

Beast Boy has Bumble Bee with his grin, she kind of grins as he lays his chin on her shoulder, "Gee, you are sweet." Beast Boy shrugs, "Yeah, just my loving nature."

Bumble Bee looks up and points, "That firework looks weird!" Beast Boy looks seeing a firework explode showing what he swore was Terra's face, smiling, 'Terra…' Beast Boy sighs as he holds Bumble Bee "I'm happy… I really am."

Cyborg sits on the side of the roof with a feeling Jinx was with him, in heart. 'I'll see you again my little witch-girl.' Cyborg smirks, 'One day, we'll be together babe.'

A big firework explodes Raven smiles up at the fireworks with a yawn soon escaping her mouth. Robert blinks, "Raven?" she looks at him, "Is this Too Much for you?"

Raven looks to the titans, and her friends; to Robert and the fireworks as they brighten over her face. Raven smiles, and with a sincerest smile she nuzzles back into his arms, "No… this is just right…"

Robert nods and smiles, "Same here Raven." The fireworks continue as a new day and new life begins for the heroes. Futures of being people, of choices that is the greatest thing of mortality, life is full of choice. The choice to love or hate, give or take, to show your soul or consume it. What is it, that you do… or, is it Too Much… to ask?

(Thank you to all the reviewers, you made it most possible. Also thanks to the creators of Teen Titans, Batman, and other such things like Inuyasha and movies used throughout this story. A thankyou to the voice talents called upon, such as George Castanza, Tim Curry, Johnny Depp, Vin Diesel, Melissa Charles, and others who I may have forgotten, but were mentioned. A thank you to Shekron Kaizar who thanks to his stories only kept me sane through the long work… god, I needed good fics to read with this. Thanks to both Shekron and Z. Brite for their use of characters (Original Characters) in their stories! Thank you to all you out there who have read this story and either reviewed, or made it a favorite, you all must like it either way! Thank you to this site for allowing me to post this story! Thank you to those musicians who I called upon for the sound of scenes mainly to help me keep action fast and paced! Thank You to all of you, any of you, who I may have forgot to mention! I will make a credits page to properly thank you but for now, I am tired, and I need a small recess from writing! May you all go forth and read, write, and love the things of your soul! BOOYAH!)(Pakkrat raises his glass of soda, "All must take pride, where the soul shall ride!"-By Pakkrat-)

DreamFox Windwolf: Thank you for your support, now that it is over, I hope to see you in other fics of mine. Well, only if you want, but I'd like that anyway! Akaige does strike some cords, he's evil yet so charismatic as a character I think that is why I love him so much.

NightwingLuver: Raven is going to be 18 soon, and married, so no big deal… just a little young when the conception occurred. But it was love, no big deal if it's real love! Not fake love, I mean real love!

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Darkangel: Yes, I do know those songs, I used one a matter of fact! I am glad you enjoyed this story, and thanks for saying I have few grammar mistakes, that is very hard to work on fixing.

Destro-1990: Thank you for saying I rock. I am working on explaining Akaige, I hope if you liked his character you will read these chapters.

Tigerlilly1234: Why Pakkurath and Pakkarath turned out to be… well, not totally evil. You must be happy now. Even hinted to the fact they planned on going against Akaige earlier, but very subtle. Also, the necklace…

Jason: I worked hard on this chapter, sorry it took so long to do. Keep reading my stuff if you can.

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Arizona Goddess: Thank you for your long reviews. How do you feel about Akaige and Karage? Their story will be explained in the sequel and other stories. I liked the idea of giving a love interest to this heartless villain, but he does not seem to love her she loves him only, but he may seem to warm up to her in the sequel… we'll see.

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Tokyogurl1: This is the final chapter of the story, all that is left is a credits chapter which will be up in a day or so. Thank you, to you, and all who have read. Thank you, you were my inspiration to keep writing the best story I freaking could. (bows to the readers) you made it all so very possible!