Disclaimer: Don't own anything Teen Titan related, but I do own the name Rorex, and the characters Francesca, Sirus, Malthenor
A/N: Alright people, hope you make yourselves comfortable cause this is a long one.
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Chapter 16: Go For Broke
The ground shook unsuspectingly and Rorex stumbled to the grass clumsily Raven hovered in the air and looked to the Palace that was only a few yards away. A cold chill snaked up her spine and she suppressed a shuddered, "He's close to finding the opening."
"Well that's swell," Rorex growled and jumped to his feet and disappeared without a second thought already bounding for the entrance, Raven caught up with a calm air around her, even when on the inside she was shaking like a leaf.
Malthenor was calling forth the demon lords, her father included. Through him she knew who the other lords were and they each got nastier on down the line. Although none of them were like her father, he was the calculative, ruthless, silent ruler. Every step Raven knew he took meant something bigger in return.
She hadn't an inkling of a doubt that her father was just letting Malthenor control him to be free. Raven may not have seen Malthenor face to face, but through his brother she knew he wasn't strong enough to be a Hell Raiser. Maybe strong enough to take her down without a second thought, but not strong enough to Raise and control pure blooded demons.
Truth be told that devils are naturally stronger then demons, having been born from the darker more sinister and deadlier parts of hell, but demons were smarter spawns of Hellions. Hellions were tricksters and mischief-makers, leaning more towards sorcery and manipulating other things to do their dirty work. Raven knew, her father had done it more times than she cared to remember, including that time with Slade. Slade didn't know the definition of evil until her father sprung out and nearly took over the world.
Now it seemed as if history was repeating itself.
That, Raven knew could not, should not, and will not happen while she still lived to her last dieing breathe.
Touching down next to Rorex as they neared the palace, Rorex crouched down and like a stalking cat quickly hustled through the tall grass, grabbing Raven's wrist and pulling her in a strange pattern of twists and turns. She found herself having to jog in the thick grass in order to keep up with the fast paced devil. Not that she was complaining, but the shoes she was wearing weren't exactly comfortable to maneuver the way he was weaving in and out of the grass.
Like playing a game of whip Raven thought her arm was about to snap when he suddenly tugged hard and yanked her out and up against the stonewall her head hit and she growled in irritation, "You know, that was un –"
SLAP!
Raven swore under the hand that made her face red, glaring up at Rorex that had pulled her closer to the wall looking up at one of the arche gothic windows. An angelic guard with concealment dropped and his wings wrapped loosely around his shoulder passed by and glanced out the window. Once gone Raven harshly slapped his hand away and glared up at him he returned the look and noticed Raven looked ready to throttle him. He opened his mouth to scold her, but thought better about it and turned grabbing her wrist again and yanking her around the palace muttering, "This is the reason why good is dumb."
Raven pulled her hand away from him as if it had been burnt, but continued to follow him, "If good's so dumb then why do we always triumph over evil?"
Rorex scoffed and in a hush relied, "You don't triumph, just get lucky. Every movie and book has the tale where the hero just suddenly pulls a miracle out of their ass and everything's fine. Bullshit to me. I go for the dark side of things," he stopped and turned to give her a sly grin, "after all it's much more fun. "
Raven crossed her arms over her chest and gave him a challenging look, "More fun? You call sleeping with a gun under your pillow wondering if this'll be the day you go down, or get taken to prison fun? I hate to know what your idea of ecstatic is."
"Isn't it the same as being a hero?" Rorex countered, "Sleeping with a prayer in your head and gun under your pillow wondering if this'll be the day you get taken down or this'll be your last adventure."
"So says the devil that has stood on the thin gray line claiming to have seen it all."
Rorex grinned and kicked open a weak portion of the palace stone crawling in and checking around before signaling for Raven to follow. Crawling through she unconsciously took his offered hand and found her self effortlessly hauled to her feet, "Not everything has to be black and white sugar."
He winked and Raven pulled away from him, he didn't protest and looked around, "Stay here and when I tell you, call out to your leader."
Raven shook her head, "I still think leaving Robin unprotected is a very bad idea."
"Me to, but we got no other way to coax Malthenor out of the rooms," Rorex gave her a sincere look, "I know I may not show it, but I do care for Robin's safety, he's family after all."
"So is Malthenor through Robin, but you seem content to just go along with this plan." Raven fired back without meaning, her mouth kind of just started to move without her permission.
Rorex blinked and sighed with a sad look, asked rhetorically, never looking for a direct answer, "You really don't trust me do you?"
Raven was stumped, what should she say? It didn't matter for the moment, cause before she knew it he had taken off down the crumbling hall and snuck round the corner. Leaving her to lean against the wall and close her eyes, putting a hand to her forehead feeling a strange sort of buzz going through her body. A cold sweat started to come as she took a deep breath from her suddenly breathless chest. Her head was beginning to swim again, and the baseball bats were flying at her head once more threatening to knock her into next year.
A hard shiver controlled her body and she shook like she was having a convulsion, something like a spaz attack. Her legs began to shake and the strength to hold her self up was becoming too much of a burden. It got worse as she slid to the ground. Clutching her chest she began to cough, breathing was becoming labored and she called out, but no sound came out.
Yet the strangest thing, there was no pain.
All she felt was light-headed with a major headache, nausea, and the feeling of an asthmatic attack with the tightening of her chest. On the floor she brought her knees to her chest and clung to it, bowing her head she kept her eyes close not wanting to see the world as she was feeling it. Spinning wildly in her head, Raven slowed her breathing and calmed down.
In chocked breaths she fought back and coughed air. A wave of sudden exhaustion hit her, but the will to finish and save the world was stronger. She needed to do this; she couldn't let whatever it was stop her now. After this is through then she'll worry about her health, what's one life worth billons right?
Raven gasped having found her breath once again and the strength to at least stand up with the support of the wall. Shaking her head she gulped and put a hand to her head trying to stop the world from tilting as the baseball bats vanished leaving her exhausted and suddenly so tired she wanted to sleep. Which struck her as odd, she was usually never one for laziness, and so it was cause for some concern.
However when Rorex popped his head from around the corner to her and nodded the okay to call for Robin. He never knew a thing that had almost accrued when he was gone. Raven levitated in the air up to the wall and with a short chant she was engulfed in her soul-self and plastered like an emblem on the wall. Sinking through to show the world outside the giant raven, Robin no doubt saw it and took off for his part.
Raven came back to the ground and swayed a bit, Whoa, that took more power then it should have, she thought strangely and jogged down the hall to Rorex. Turning the corner she gave a yelp when she was suddenly yanked into a hidden passage way.
Wavering on her feet she planted her self firmly and glared at Rorex, "You don't have to keep doing that. A simple 'over here' would suffice."
He scoffed, "Just stick with the pro, alright, I know what I'm doing."
Raven rolled her eyes and looked around to notice they were in a tunnel up against the wall. How she knew was because though the wall she heard the outside, it was wide and big enough for a … Raven gaped at her realization. It was big enough for a dragon to sink in and out of, Malchior, was the first thing that came to mind as she followed Rorex down the tunnel with faint torches lighting up a dim walk way.
Admiring the massive structure, Raven looked to the far wall and blinked when she thought she heard something. Glancing at Rorex to see if he heard the same, Raven found that even if he did he was probably not showing it. So ignoring that fact she continued on, but a sick feeling of dread came over her from behind. Running up and down her spine, Raven acted before she knew what she was doing, "GET DOWN!"
She lunged for Rorex and tackled him to the ground then rolled them to the side just as massive swinging axe barely missed them. The wind of the swing blowing passed them as the momentum brought it back. Raven looked at it, then down at Rorex who was under her giving the axe a look of disbelief.
"You know what you're doing huh?" Raven mocked as she got off him and stayed clear from the swinging axe as Rorex growled and snorted. Continuing on the way, without giving a second thought to a second trap while he ranted and raved.
"Well that's a new trick, I've been down here before and nothing like that as ever –" Rorex was silenced when Raven jerked back on his shirt like before he stumbled and fell to the floor, "What the hell was that for?"
Raven gave him a dry look, "You sure you know what you're doing?" pointing at the forever dropping hole on the ground, Rorex stood up and furrowed his brows in confusion completely ignoring Raven's mockery as he titled his head in thought.
"Malthenor has all the money he needs to create new and improved traps of modern science. What's with the old school junk?"
"Catch us off guard, apparently he's been expecting us."
"You're rather persistent for a half-breed, still breathing?" both Raven and Rorex turned around to see a giant dragon open it's mouth and roar at them. They took steps back, but stopped and wavered when their heels almost brought them down to the fiery pit.
They looked at each other in wonder as they looked back down at the hole and saw the flames bursting up and the heat bellowing forth. Screams of agony and anguish echoed through the walls as the ground shook, Raven quickly took to the air and grabbed Rorex flying then over the hole that made itself larger with the rocks crumbling into the pit.
Hellfire, was the first thing that came to Raven's mind as she gulped and set Rorex down far on the other side. Where Malthenor in his dragon form of deep dark coal black shiny scales shimmering in the faint light that flooded though the holes in the ground. He lifted his massive clawed right front hand and let it drip with acidic poison that dropped into the pit, more screams erupted and the ground shook once more. With a roar he jerked his arm back and with a flick flung the acid to Raven and Rorex.
Not sure if her power could with stand such a thing, Raven grabbed Rorex's wrist and quickly maneuvered them out of harms way. Splashes of the green liquid clung to the walls and melted what was left it. All around them the castle began to shiver and waver under the disappearing foundation. Malthenor turned his head to the side and with his glowing candy green eyes glared at Raven, "Why aren't you dead yet? That poison should have killed you days ago. Has my dearest brother failed at annihilating a mere half-breed?"
Raven glared back, levitating in the air to meet him eye to eye hers glowing a deadly white with her hands glowing black she made no comment only waved her hands round and chanted, "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!"
Throwing her hands in the air and then fisting them she clutched the top of the castle and in one fluid motion brought it down piling on the dragon. Leaning away, Malthenor roared and quickly brought his wings around to protect him as the rest of the castle around them fell. Raven swooped down to Rorex and did just the same. Engulfing them in pitch-black darkness she felt the weight of her attack strain on her both mentally and physically.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up tiredly to a worried Rorex, "Raven are you alright?"
Brushing his hand from her shoulder she nodded weakly and grunted as she felt the last of the bricks hit the weakening barrier. Letting it drop she breathed in a sigh of relief from the loosened power. Looking around she saw the castle had successfully came down with only a few walls here and there, those being the walls that had the gothic arches that acted as windows. Then she paled, not because out of the rubble burst Malthenor flying in the air, but because the book, "Rorex … the book I –"
"Don't worry about it," Rorex cut in as he glared up at Malthenor, "if it's trapped in the rubble then fine, Malthenor won't be able to complete the spell."
"Like it'll matter!" Raven glared and huffed, putting a hand to her head trying to shake the tiredness from it, "Rorex, if you know my father as well as I then you should know that it doesn't take much to get him to power through the gates! The other demon lords are the same!"
Rorex gave her a dry look, "You really don't trust me do you?"
Raven couldn't believe this! Of all the times for him to be weird it had to be now, "Rorex!"
He shook his head, "Forget it … go help Robin."
"No! Not until – "
"I said GO!" Rorex roared at her, his markings glowing blood red with is eyes … but there was something else. His fangs were even longer then before, his eyes more narrowed and his growl was fiercer. Raven didn't know whether to go against him again or listen, but then she glanced at the far side to see Robin having trouble with a few angels her mind was made up.
Reaching her had out to touch him to cup his face with it, she stopped and curled her fingers and her arm back entirely, whispering faintly she took off for Robin, "Please be careful."
Malthenor watched the scene with great interest, and once Raven was gone with a final glancing to glare his way he chuckled and looked down at Rorex dropping himself to the ground once more he snorted as the devil sunk into a fighting stance, "This amuses me Rorex … you do know she's right. It doesn't matter what happens, you're to late, the first lord is about to awaken and he's a cranky one. Heard he was the one that was defeated by his very own blood. Heh, his fault for siring a half-demon."
Rorex snorted, and gave Malthenor a mocking smirk, "Melthenor, you like to talk shit."
With a roar Malthenor reared his head back and opened his mouth wide the flames of his inner fire producing and when the pressure built up just right he fired down on the devil who ran for it. Leaving a trail of smoke and blown up debris in his wake as he followed Rorex, Rorex jumped, tucked, and rolled behind a large portion of stone and covered his head from the explosion that rocked the earth. Or was it hell's opening? The reason he thought that was because the eternally damned screams were getting louder, the wind was harder and the day had just turned black by the clouds.
"Come for me then, let's see how good you are since I like to bluff." Rorex growled at the mocking dragon, A giant fucking lizard, how the hell am I gonna' beat that while trying to find that damned book! Come on! Think stupid! Before he knew it, thinking time was over as the boulder he had been hiding behind was suddenly blown to bits throwing him across the air, instinct had him correct his flight pattern and he landed soundly on his feet. Staying close to the ground he dodged more of Malthenor's flames and rolled just before the dragon could lift a claw to swipe at him. Acid and all, Rorex gritted his teeth and mimicked flight as he took to the air and darted behind the dragon.
Malthenor chuckled and swiped his large tail at the devil, swatting him away as if he were nothing but a mere fly, this time Rorex didn't have time to correct his landing and ended up plowing through one of the last standing structures of the palace, "Give it up Rorex, your performance is pathetic. I'm beginning to feel sorry for you."
There was no response, no movement on Rorex behalf, in fact as Malthenor titled his head concentrating for a life force. What he got was … weakness …weakness of a dieing creature. A smirk came to his dragon's features and in a puff of smoke he transformed into his human form and walked out of the smoke. In graceful strides he crossed the rubble to the spot where Rorex was buried, "My, my, my why haven't I thought of that sooner? I never knew sending you to hell would be this easy … you are nothing but a common thief."
"And proud of it!"
Malthenor spun around gaped at the grinning Rorex that help up a mean looking steel pipe and without even a second thought swung it and connected it to the side of his head. The angel went spinning as he saw an explosion of stars in his view and dropped to the ground hitting the stone with a sick THUD. He snarled in outrage as the side of his head began to bleed, on the ground Malthenor concentrated on transforming, but Rorex came at him with another swing of the steel pipe.
Catching it before it hit, Rorex let the pipe go and spun around delivering a hard round kick to his face. Malthenor was thrown back to the ground, tumbling like a sack of nothing before stopping on his hands and knees. Shaking he tried to eliminate the black splotches in his head as he looked up and saw Rorex coming for him ready to just slaughter him.
Quickly up on his feet he jumped from Rorex dive to drive his claws to kill him, Malthenor flipped and landed on his feet a few or so yards from the devil. They glared at one another, sizing each other up, but no one made a move. Especially when the Earth shook for the final time and the ground began to crack.
Holding their ground Rorex got a sick feeling in his gut when all the wind suddenly swirled up to the sky and the pebbles along with a few good-sized rocks flew up along with them. Between him and Malthenor a huge craves started to cave in on them, Malthenor unfolded his wings and took off, forcing Rorex to jump back and run for all his worth from the falling ground. Nipping at his heels, Rorex dared not look back from the disaster he knew was going to happen.
"ROREX!" looking up back and up Rorex saw Robin swooping down with his hand stretched out for him, without a second thought Rorex grabbed at his wrist and with a hard jerk he was air born and carried off just as the ground below him gave way. Gulping he looked down and gaped, So that's what hell looks?
Just like in every story, movie, book you've ever read on the hellfire flames of hell and all it's eternally damned souls. What Rorex saw was something he never could have comprehended … the dead, the evil, the sinners, Satan's Angels, they were all there … and crawling out to the surface. Fight each other to be the first to walk on the Earth they have so abandoned to live in their fiery damnation.
Robin set him down on a ledge and Rorex tore his eyes from the hellish scene to notice Robin suddenly drop to his knees and hold his throat as if he was chocking. Opening his mouth to ask the matter other then the scratches and his injuries from the earlier plan. Rorex was silenced when he saw Starfire drop to her knees next to him, also looking tired and exhausted. She put a hand to her friend's chest and sighed shakily, "Friend … what ails you?"
"He's a half angel right?" Rorex looked up to see Speedy sigh and sway in his stance, behind him were the other Titans and Rorex faintly wondered when the all showed up.
"Yeah," Rorex nodded, feeling suddenly numb from all that was going on.
"Well … it's hell's pull, weak angels struggle with its wickedness and tainted air. Robin's strong; he can live since he's also a half devil, but that doesn't mean his other side isn't affected … a reason why angel's hate our kind so much. Their very weakness is our origins, the place they wanted to conquer."
"Dude," Beast Boy shook his head as he stared in disbelief, "dude … we just … this isn't … aw man."
Cyborg put a hand on his shoulder, "Relax BB, everything's … we'll be alright."
Rorex scoffed, "Keep liein' to yourself Cy, this is literally hell on Earth … the gates been – wait a minute," a rush of panic suddenly surged through his body as he looked among the other Titans and found one missing, "Where's Raven?"
As if he brought up an interesting point, Bumble Bee and every one else including Robin all looked up and around for their friend, "She was right behind me when we flew off to this ledge … well I thought she was …"
Rorex shook his head as he looked over the edge down to the craves and then looked down to Robin, "Hell's open … Trigon's not here … and Raven's missing …"
Starfire gasped, "The Trigon? Is he not the one that almost –"
"Yeah Star," Robin took a deep breath and struggled to his feet wavering a bit he walked up to Rorex and turned to bark his orders. Rorex had to admit he was impressed by his strong spirit, "No one stops us, I want everyone to stay here that is an order, not a request."
"Robin," Starfire stood up and glared defiantly at him, "Robin I will not let you go out there, if what Speedy says is true then you will surely not … come back to us …"
"Star, just stay okay? I don't doubt anyone of you for a second that you cannot handle yourself out there … but … this is personal."
A moment passed and not a second more did Starfire waste as she clung to him and with a small tear she reached up from his newfound height and planted a soft chaste kiss on his cheek. Never knowing the sudden calm that rushed over Robin as she held him, "Please return safely … and be sure Raven is with you both."
Robin nodded and backed out of her embrace, took a deep breath and turned to Rorex, "You know what we're doing?"
Rorex shrugged, trying not to show he was shaking like a leaf for Raven's safety, "Not a clue."
"I'll take that as a plan," Robin spreading his wings wide he found that he was really starting to get the hang of this flight thing as he flew up and turned to grab Rorex who shook his head.
"Stay on the surface, no need to have you diein' on me before he even get there … where ever there is." Rorex sighed and looked back to Starfire's worried face then to the other somber expressions of the other Titans.
For a moment Rorex wished his sister was there, just so he could see her for one last time if this seriously could spiral down hill from here. But then, as he turned and jumped over the ledge and skidded down with perfect balance to the large craves, he leapt up and mimicked flight right before he plunged to his doom. Robin followed respecting Rorex's advice.
Speedy was right, the air, the heavily tainted aura around him was seriously bring him down. Instinctually he climbed higher to get way from it, but stayed close enough to see Rorex's blurred figure running, jumping and skipping as if it was all just skipping stones to him. In a way, Robin not only felt weakened, but also stronger. It was strange … maybe it was his devil side powering him this time, cause his angelic side was afraid to get even closer than he already was.
With Rorex being a full devil, how did it feel to him as he skipped around looking for Raven …
Raven …
… Where are you …?
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Raven was slammed to the rocky walls, then before she could drop down to the lava pit she was grabbed and thrown to ground, crying out it pain as a rock stabbed at her spine nearly braking it. She rolled to her side and got to her hands and knees coughing and trying to catch her breath as stars swirled around her head, "Do you have any idea the humiliation you caused me when you sent me back to hell? You worthless piece of nothing! –" Her father stopped and in rage picked her up by her collar and pushed her against the wall. His glowing red eyes boring into her violet orbs, both pulsing with hate and suppressed rage, " – I should have killed you when I had the chance."
Raven spat in his face and in return she received a harsh back hand spinning her to oblivion and dropping her to the ground, shaking her head and glaring at the ground she fisted her hands into the hot dirt and growled, "But you didn't … did you? You couldn't …" jerking up and snarling up at her father's human form, without the horns, but with the twin red eyes. His skin was the same gray as hers while his hair stayed long silky snow white. He was in this form she knew because he wasn't strong enough to up hold his demon form and she knew that pissed him off, "You couldn't even get rid of my friends, so who's the worthless nothing now father? I overestimated you, you sad, sad little –"
Not being able to finish her sentence as he slapped her down then threw her to hard to the far wall. This time making a deep indent and knocking her head to the point where she couldn't even scream properly. However, when she opened her eyes and looked to the right she saw the alter to which the book sat innocently enough with an evil swirl of dark energy all around it. She had to get to it … but not yet, not now.
"You think you can really destroy me girl? Then stand up and show your worth, entertain me with your 'power', through me you'd have none of it."
"My power is my own!" with her aura flaring up her eyes glowed white and without hesitation attacked with various thrown items to distract him as she flew up and tackled her father to the ground.
Showing him her style of fighting as she sent a punch that would have cracked even Robin's jaw, but to Trigon it just caught him by surprise. Since when did his daughter suddenly grow some backbone to do this? "Now you listen to me, Trigon if you even so much as think about stepping foot on Earth again I won't hesitate to slaughter you and make sure you never see the throne again."
"And what gives you the right to say all this? What gives you the authority?" effortlessly he shoved her off of him and Raven just hovered to her feet eyes still glowing white.
"I'm your heir, meaning I could very well lead a revolt against you and take you down with out so much as a threat," Raven growled, as Trigon sneered causing Raven to snarl, "You think I'm joking? Honestly Trigon, who would want to be under the command of a demon lord who's weak enough to have a half-breed beat you in battle?"
"You forget Raven," Trigon snorted, "Not many demons would even want to be under the command of a half-breed, even if you have … gotten the best of me."
Raven scoffed, "Gotten the best of you? You're more pathetic then I had perceived earlier."
Trigon snarled and before he could act on attacking the book's dark energy whipped around and lashed out at Raven. Pushing her to the side as it went for Trigon, like being hit with a crane Trigon was sent flying, but was stopped by the book as it seeped all it's energy into him. Clutching his fists and gritting his teeth Trigon roared out in agony as he fought against the spell. Raven found this all to be bitter sweet as she ran to the book to save her father.
"AZARATH METRION ALDRUON SOLA ZINTHOUS NOR!"
Her white magic collided with the dark book and forced the spell back, gritting her teeth she put more power into it and closed her eyes concentrating and chanting the words over and over again in her head. Raven gave out a scream and walked closer to the book, thinking that maybe, if she were able to touch it this all would be easier … however to her dismay the power of Malchior's spell was to strong.
With one effortless burst of energy, Raven felt her own power forced back upon her until she couldn't hold it any more and was blown away. Knocked to the wall, Raven slide to the ground and held her head, "Damn it!"
She cursed under her breath as she looked up to her father seeing that he was still fighting against the book. Raven growled, "This is ridiculous, it's just a damn book!"
Getting to her feet she glared at the book, then at her father and marched to the book with a look of pure determination, "Half-breed this, half-breed that, well I'll show you "half-breed"."
Standing as close as she could, Raven took a breath and charged into the barrier fighting against it as she reached out for the white tormenter. The barrier pushed harder against her, shocked her into moving, but Raven held her stance and screamed never giving up, that thing was in her hands whether it liked it or not, Malthenor will not get the better this time. She had worked her ass off to keeping hell from Earth and no way was she going to let some asshole screw her over.
With her earlier power having weakened it a bit, she put more pressure and with one final thrust she nabbed the book and shut it closed. It sparked and fought against her, but Raven wasn't letting go, even if it burned to just hold it, she wasn't going to let it go. Her father dropped to the ground spent from the exerted energy, but was strong enough to watch his daughter struggle to tame the book and stop Malthenor form completing the spell.
Damn you accused bitch! Let it go! Raven growled when she felt Malthenor enter her mind and demand her to release the book.
You can … kiss the fattest part of my ass Malthenor … she clenched down on her teeth so hard she was sure they'd crack if she put any more pressure, but she was not losing this, … this book, is MINE!
You dare test my strength?
What strength is that? I told you already, this book is mine and I'm not going to let you use it again.
Damn you!
No damn you! Raven held on and dropped to the ground feeling Malthenor's power decrease until he just let it go. Leaving Raven to pant heavily as she clutched the book to her chest and looked up to her father who was just staring at her with – she could have given a look of shock, but he was staring at her with calculating curious violet orbs.
She sighed and bowed her head, feeling another power surge through the book, but this was a flash of white and a soft white glow engulfed her as everything disappeared. In a moment she was kneeling in the middle of an open grassy field with ruins of the castle surrounding her. The sky was bright, the sun was hot, the wind was blowing a cool breeze, and with the book still in her hands she closed her eyes and sighed tiredly.
I'll never forget this day for as long as I live, she thought somberly as she gingerly got to her feet and swayed from side to side, her head was pounding and the book seemed heavier than usual.
"Raven!"
Her name … turning around slowly she smiled when she saw Rorex bounding towards her waving with a large smile on his face. Robin was in the sky also waving with a proud look. But as if everything went in slow motion, from behind her swooped a dark shadow, Rorex saw it and paled, "Raven! Move!"
She frowned and turned to look at what he was point at and with a small gasp, the book slowly dropped to her feet as she fell back from Malthenor's angelic form coming down on her. Claws bared she closed her eyes and waited for her death to come …
"Stop."
Suddenly, from the command of the strong voice time froze …
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I am evil aren't I? How you like that for a cliffy? Well just to leave you hangin' here, this chapter was long and I had a fun time writing it. I just hope some parts weren't too cheesy, accept for the booby trap scene with X and Raven, that I meant to be cheesy.
Besides that drop me a review and I'll have the next one up for you. Cool that rhymed!