Well, here's the ninth chapter.

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Chapter Nine: Overload

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Robin woke up. He had a bad headache, and his new emotional barriers were trying to reconstruct themselves, which he wouldnt allow. He got out of bed and headed for the shower. The memorys of the day before came flooding back. As he showered he couldnt help smiling when he thought of the picture that geeky kid had taken. It was rude of him to do that, but he had taken it at a good angle, so he had to give the kid his props. While dressing in his uniform, a thought struck him. He didnt know why, but his mind wondered to the time when Star had come back from the future, she had told him about his future self, Nightwing. For some odd reason, he coudnt get that name out of his head, It just kepts reminding him of Raven in some way. He pushed that thought aside. After he finished dressing, he went to the kitchen to get something to drink. He was alittle surprised to find her not there. Guess she slept in. After he finished making her her herbal tea, and grabbing a few doughnuts from the fridge, he walked down the hall to her room, thinking it nice to wake her up for once. So, armed with a mug of tea and plate of doughnuts, he marched to her room.

When he got there he balanced the plate ontop of the mug and went to knock on her door. He knocked once, no answer, he knocked again, no answer, so he knocked a third time, this time alittle more forcefull. Bad move. As he knocked, his hand opened a black portal for him in which he fell through the door and he toppled in. Right into Raven's arms. They both fell, Robin landing onto Ravens clothed body, or atleast, it was wrapped in a towel, her body still wet from her recent shower. The mug went flying aswell as the plate, but Robin caught them with his power's unwittingly. Raven let out alittle gasp as she hit the soft floor, more from surprise then anything else. Robin sat up scratching his head, till he noticed that he was sitting on a blushing Raven.

"O MY GOD! I am soooooo sorry." Robin turned hastly to the door, but bumpend into the wall, which made him fall against a stature, which inturn fell onto Ravens bed, scattering her piles of books allover the place. Roin sat there on the floor, rubbing his lower back. "Ow" was all he could say as he grimced over the pain. That statue was marble, and was edged, so it hurt quite alot. Raven could only giggle.

"Here." she said calmly, as she walked over to Robin and guided him to her bed, where she moved some books over to make room for them to sit down. She then lifted that back of his shirt to find a nasty bruise forming. Robin winced. Raven's hand pulsed with dark blue healing energy, as she ran her hand up and down Robin's lower back. At firsed he grimced, then sighed, then closed his eyes in pleasure. She was really good with her hands when he thought about it. They were so soft. So smooth. Wonder what...THE HELL AM I THINKING? Robin turned quickly to face her, only to notice that she was still in her towel. "Ummm...uhhh...dont you think you should...ummm...get dressed...or something?"

Raven looked down at her towel, that was now dropping down to show some major cleavage. She blushed royally and nodded, trying to cover up her blush. She walked to the bathroom, only to find that she had forgotten to get her leotard, she turned around to go get it to see Robin had already gotten it for her and was waiting by the doorway holding it out for her. She smiled gently then closed the door as she dressed. He was such a gentleman. Once Raven was done she walked back into her room, only to notice Robin staring up at the ceiling. She looked up. The mug and plate were floating on the ceiling. Robin was trying to bring his power's under control, but to no avail. Robin sighed, then looked over to Raven, a look for help on his face. She smirked, then brought her power's to bear, bring the items to the floor. Robin sighed again.

"And here I wanted to bring you breakfeast." Raven looked at his face, he was pouting. She smiled. She never thought about it before, but it felt so good to smile.

"Well, its the thought that counts.'

Later that day Robin and Raven were sitting in the main room hoding hands and watching TV. Just then the alarm started blaring and a map appeared on the screen. A red circle had appeared over the abandond apartment building complex downtown. Raven looked at Robin, who was staring at his hands, then he clenched them into fists and black mist appeared around them. "Lets do it" was all he said as he put on his mask and headed for the garage for his cycle.

When they got downtown, they were surprised that this was apart of the city they hadnt seen before. It was about four blocks of nothing but old and decaying buildings. As they wandered the streets, they heard a ruckus coming from the center of the 'war zone.' When they got there they saw Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth, they seemed to be trying to drill a hole into the underlaying sewer system. Robin looked at his communicator to see where the sewer system led, and he found that it ended right beneath the bank. Ofcourse, always a bank. Why didnt the rob something else for a change? Like a market? Or a library? Why does it always have to be money. Robin and Raven walked right up to the working trio.

"You know, wouldnt it be easier if you used the manhole? Sure would take less time then drilling right into the ground." Raven said.

The trio spun around, then stared, then smirked.

"This is going to be easier then I thought." bellowed Mammoth.

Robin narrowed his eyes, staring at the small group infront of them. If only they knew the world of hurt they were about to enter. Mammoth was the first to charge, being the dumb one of of the group, and headed strait for Robin. Robin smirked, then lifted his had, and let dark mist flow from it to Mammoth. Raven just stayed behind, she had to see the extent of his new found power. Mammoth looked surprised, but that only lasted a second, before he went flying through the next three buildings behind him. Jinx and Gizmo's eyes followed the flying Mammoth, then back to Robin, with alook of surprise, shock, and, just a dash of fear. But that was soon replaced by anger as they both charged. Jinx headed strait for Raven, while Gizmo went at Robin. Gizmo kept trying to pound at Robin with his tech, but Robin kept dodging or putting up shields similer to Ravens. At one point, he got tired of blocking, so as Gizmo tried to swipe at him with his spider like legs, Robin caught them in his mist, stuck him to the ground, and litterly tore them off his back. Raven realized that his power stopped him from flying, but it gave him increased streanght, speed, and stamina. Guess the demon power affects males diffrently then females.

While Robin was tearing Gizmo apart, litterly, Raven was doing her best to defend againt Jinx's hexes. After a few moments of defending herself, Raven went on the offense. She started throwing black balls of energy, along with the occasional lampost, mail box, and trashcan, all aimed at Jinx. She managed to dodge a few of the projectiles, but in the end, they overwhelmed her. When all the objects that Raven had throw at her piled up ontop of her, she encased it all in a black fields, then let it constrict abit, just for good measure, then threw it all at the nearest building. When the dust cleared, Jinx was knocked out flat, unconcious. Raven turned her attintion back to Robin, who had just finished up with Gizmo, tearing all of his tech away from him, then slamming him in the head with a nearby trash can. Then he picked up the unconscious boy and tossed him on Jinx. Raven started to head for Robin's side, when a powerfull fist smashed into her back. Raven screamed out in pain as she went flying into a nearby lampost, feeling her back slam into it. If the angle had been off by just a hair, her back would have been broken.

Robin saw this, and to Raven's shock, she could see some type of light start to shine from around his mask. Finally, that light burned right through the mask, leaving her and Mammoth staring at to eyes of blood red. At this time Jinx and Gizmo were finally waking up, only to be smashed back into a building by Robin's outstreached hand. What shocked Raven even more was that the mist that had been Robin's power had changed. The onyx black was still there, but there was also a red glow coming from inside it, from his hands. For a second, Raven noticed that the red was warm, inviting red, but that quickly changed to a deep blood red, one that could chill even the warmest of souls. The red started to pulse then started to outline the black mist, slowly engulfing Robin's arms in a black and red fog.

"You...have...hurt...her...for...the...last...time..." Robin said, slowly and delebretly. Then Robin pulled both of his arms up, and clapped his hand's in the direction of Mammoth. Instantly, a beam of black and red mist shot toward Mammoth. Raven could feel the power that that beam contaned, but she couldnt stop it. She watched as the beam slammed into Mammoth, then through him, slamming into a nearby apartment building. Mammoth roared in pain, but couldnt do anything as the beam kept coming. After about thirty second, the beam died. Raven looked over a Mammoth, only to see him unconscious. Surprisenly, there wasnt a smoldering hole in his chest like she thought there would be. There was only a burning mark on his chest. She assumed that the beam had pasted threw him, burning his skin, flesh, and organs. She could tell by his breathing that it was very, very painful, but not life threatining. When she looked past him, she saw a hole that tunnled through the building, past another, and finished in the third. Raven whisled, then looked back at Robin, expecting him to cool down, only to have that hope smashed when she saw that the mist had compleatly engulfed him, his eyes still glowed red, if not redder, and any item around them that wasnt bolted down started exploding.

"Robin...are you ok? Robin? Robin...Robin!" yelled Raven, as she tried to make her way closer to Robin, aswell as trying to evade that black sparks that were starting to appear around Robin. Robin turned his head to her, and for a moment, it seemed things had died down, but then suddunly it all begane again. But this time, instead of things blowing up, they started to circle him. Exept Raven, she noticed that she was unaffected. She looked back to see if the three unconcsious people behind her were affected, but she noticed that they wernt. She guessed that he didnt want anybody to get hurt. When she turned back around she saw that the energy that was being released by him was growing, and growing fast. As she looked around she could see that whatever the energy hit, it melted like butter. She turned back just in time to see a small spark of energy, no larger then her fist, fly strait at her, through her, then into the pavment behind her, where it melted a hole a foot wide. Raven carefully walked up to Robin, avoiding the flying debre that was still circling him. She then noticed that Robin's eyes were closed.

She hadnt felt it before, but now she noticed that everything that was circling around was starting to be drawn inward, toward Robin. She could see him contracting into a fetal position, as well as a misty shell surrond him. Finally, after about fifteen seconds of contracting power, time slowed down to almost nothing. All she could hear was her hearbeat. Raven looked around to see that she was the only thing with control. Thump. She looked at the area around her. Warzone. Thump. Jinx. Scared. Thump. Gizmo. Shocked. Thump. Mammoth. Agony. Thump. Herself. Afraid. Thump...thump...thump. Time stopped. She ran over to the black ball Robin was in. She could barly make out his form, but what she could see was his eyes. Thump...imploring...thump...fear...thump...anger...thump...pain...thump...love. Suddunly, it happend. With a sudden roar of power, the ball exploaded. All the pent up energy released in a deafining boom. Four square blocks of abandoned apartment buildings were wiped from the face of the earth in a second. A large crater formed from the release of this energy. Everything that was circling the ball was either shattered or smashed into anything around them. When the explosin died down, Raven looked up to see that Robin was still in the air, but the energy sphere was gone, to be replaced by the energy at his hands. His head was down, he seemed tired. Then the power that held him in the air let him go, but not before sending him into the nearest wall, which wasnt much of a wall anymore.

As the dust settled, Raven made her way over to her fallen bird. When she got to his side, she could she him rubbing the back of his head in pain, but he was alive nonetheless. She knelt down and wraped her arm around him. He looked up at her. "Did you get the number of the truck that ran me over?" Raven smiled. If he had enough streanght to complain, then he was alright.

"Are you...you know...feeling better?" asked Raven slowly. There was always the chance that he could have a relapse.

Robin thought about it for a second, then slowly nodded. "I believe so. I just hope I wont be charged with terrorism."

Raven chuckled grimly. The once dirty but peacfull blocks of buildings had been wiped clean, to be replaced by a deep crater in the earth filled with junk. If she didnt know anybetter, she would have thought that this was a junkyard.

Raven helped Robin to his feet, then headed for the crubled entrance, using her body as a crutch for Robin. When they got there, it was surrounded by cops. Raven walked up to the cheif, along with Robin. "Youll find the three in the back. There hurt, so do what you can."

"Sorry about the building's. If you want, you can put it on my tab." Robin said grimly.

The chief nodded, to dumbstruck by the damage that two teens had caused in a few minutes. Raven helped Robin over to where he had parked his cycle. When they got there they found that it was trashed. Robin sighed. "Dont worry, we can build another one." Robin nodded, letting a small smile play across his lips. As they headed home on foot, wanting to just enjoy the day alittle, something hit. Not physicly, but mentally. They both sensed it. A kind of pulling, draging, calling them to a certain spot. Robin looked at Raven, abit confused, but she only shrugged and suggested they follow whatever was calling them.

When they reached the spot there seemed to drag them, it was ontop of the hill where they had spent there first date together, just a few days before. They both stood there, looking around, trying to see what had called them so despreatly. Then it it. The vision.

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The gem was born of evil's fire.

Fire, misery, suffering, death. The world around them was dyeing. It was withering into itself. Where there was once vast oceans, now there was just lava. Where there was large forest's, now there were raging inferno's. Where there was once magestice mountain's, there was now blowing valcanos. Wide meadows turned into lakes from hell. Proud city's overrun with fire creatures. Quant villages and town's. Smoldering piles of ash.

The gem shall be his portal.

A figure stood in a lone clearing, floating a few feet abouve the ground, strange markings on its body. Its eyes shown with emptyness, a look of knowing on its face.

He comes to claim,

The figure dissapered in a flash of light, leaving a large portal, with a another figure coming through, arm outstreached, triumph on his face.

He comes to sire,

The figure erupted from the portal, laughing at his conquest, as he stared around the chared landscape, untill he started destroying what was left.

The end of all things mortal,

The demon could be seen creating another portal in space, not far about the chared earth, as he left, followed by his fire slaves. Just a second after he left with the portal closing behind him, the unthinkable happend. The earth, in all its terrable glory, died. In one last stand to live, the planet contracted unto itself, trying to draw in whatever it could to remain alive, but it was not enough, and in one last gasp, the planet erupted. Smoloring chunks of rock flew in every direction, as the core of the earth finally gave out, and in one enourmous blast, detonated. The earth, was gone.

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This chapter was abit hard to write, but I finally finished it, and am proud.

I hope you enjoyed it.

And like I promised, this chapter was even longer then the last.

Like I said in the last chapter, im almost done with this story, about two, maybe three, more chapter's left.

And im sorry to say, but this story wont end happily.

It wont be terrable, but it wont be one of those live-happily-ever-after stories.

Dont hate me.

Youll find out what it's like in the final chapter, I promise.

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