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Chapter 2: Raven Tells
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Beastboy was walking into the kitchen, ready for a veggie burger. "I'm starving," he said patting his stomach. As he went over to the counter he noticed a letter on it. "What's this?" he asked himself as he picked it up. "To the Teen Titans. Must be fan mail." He put the letter down and walked behind the counter to get his burger.
"Oh fuck," he said quietly as he looked down into a pool of blood, with Raven's lifeless body in the middle of it. He saw the knives on the floor and guessed what had happened. "Titans help! He screamed. "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK HELP! GET IN HERE! RAVEN IS IN TROUBLE!"
"What is it?" Robin asked as he burst in through the door followed by the other Titans.
"Raven," he said weakly pointing to the pool of blood. Starfire let out gasp, Cyborg stood there with his mouth open, and Robin ran over to her body and began wrapping her wrists.
"I think she might still be alive," Robin said. "Get her to the medical wing right away."
"I'm on it," Cyborg said as he picked up her body and hurried out the door.
"What's that?" Robin asked pointing to the letter on the table.
"I think it's fan mail," Beastboy said weakly. "But who cares we got to go help Raven."
"Wait," Robin said. "I'm not so sure that it is fan mail. Did you read it?"
"No," Beastboy responded. Robin went over to the letter and picked it up.
"This isn't fan mail," he said. "Look at it." The two boys leaned in closer to read the letter and let out a gasp, as the words hit them:
Dear Robin, Cyborg, Beastboy, and Starfire,
If you're reading this, then I am no more. I can't really say if you think this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I know it is a good thing. As for the events that happened he day that man was killed, I'm truly sorry for that. I wasn't the one who killed him, but I won't explain what I mean by that so I don't expect you to believe it either. Just know that there is nothing in this world I regret more then that, other then being born. I leave my best wishes and blessings with all of you.
Robin, you were the best leader I ever had. You always knew what to do and what to say at the exact right time, and if you knew what I was planning to do as I wrote this maybe you would even be able to stop me. That's exactly why you cannot find out no matter what. Keep leading the team as well as you have the entire time I've known you.
Beastboy, I'm sorry I never let myself laugh at your jokes. They were pretty funny, and if you knew why I couldn't laugh, then you wouldn't want me to. You've been a great friend to me, and even when I've tried to shut you out you were persistent and kept trying to make me laugh. I'll miss you very much, but maybe we can meet again someday. The team will need you to make them laugh once they discover this letter. Don't let them down, like I did.
Cyborg, you were like an older brother to me. You have always been there as an ear willing to listen no matter how long I talked. I'm sorry you can't listen to why I must do what I'm about to do. Maybe in the next life I'll be able to tell you. Thank you for everything, and good-bye.
Starfire, I know you will be sad because of this, but don't be. It's for the best. Keep learning about Earth, and never be discouraged no matter who says you can't do something. I know you're set up to have a wonderful life.
Remember to always be true to yourselves and never fall into a pattern of gloom like I did. Have a happy life.
Sincerely,
Raven Roth
"Oh my god," Beastboy said.
"How were we so blind?" Robin asked. "We should have known. What did she mean by she didn't kill the man. We watched her do it, it was right in front of us."
"Maybe it was like, an evil twin or something," Beastboy suggested.
"No," Robin said. "She would have told us if it was like any regular enemy. It's something different, something special."
Several hours later and after much worry Cyborg finally walked into the living room and said, "She's waking up."
Everyone hurried into the room where Raven was stirring. She opened her eyes slowly, and saw the Titans looking at her. "No!" she shouted quickly and darted under the covers. "Why did you do this? I told you in the letter there was a good reason!"
"I'd be very interested to find out what it is," Robin said. "Why did you do it? There's nothing on this planet we can't fight Raven, you know that."
"Leave me alone," Raven said as she rolled over. "You can't stop me from doing it again, and again and again. Eventually I'll get it right, so save yourself the effort and bring me a knife."
"Yes, we can stop you," Cyborg said. "We're going to get you some help Raven, no matter how much you don't want us to."
"You think I'm just another nut job," Raven said sadly. "Well I've got news for you, this isn't just another teen suicide. I'm not sad because no one asked me to the prom or whatever reason most people kill themselves about. This is different, and if you knew what was going to happen then you wouldn't hesitate to ice me yourselves."
"Is this about the man you killed," Robin said.
"I didn't kill him," Raven said looking away.
"Then who did?" Robin asked.
"I can't tell you," Raven said. "So go on and think it was me, I don't care anymore think I'm a murderer if you want. It'd be easier for you to say good-bye if you knew I was."
"We don't know anything," Robin said. "We need you to give us answers."
Raven thought about things for several minutes and said, "You have a lie detector in here don't you."
"Yes," Robin said, knowing Raven was also a lie detector, for she could read minds.
"Then you know that at least I think I'm telling the truth, regardless of what really happened," Raven said.
"Yea," Cyborg said. "And I believe you, so why can't you tell us."
"I just can't," Raven said. The lie detector on Cyborg's arm started beeping.
"Even you know that that's a lie," Cyborg said. Raven began to consider things carefully.
"I won't try to kill myself again," she said. "That's the truth I swear I think there's a different approach to this situation."
"Like telling us?" Starfire asked hopefully.
"No," Raven said. "Look, you know I'm not going to try to do it again, I went up against a lie detector. Just don't worry about it. Now am I allowed out of this bed?"
"It can't hurt," Cyborg said looking towards his leader.
"Fine," Robin said. "Raven I hope you'll change your mind later on."
Raven got out of the bed and quickly floated to her room. "They have no idea," Raven said." She felt the little voice inside her laugh. 'Try as you can to escape me Raven, it will never work. We both know you're an immortal as long as I want you to be. All you've done was make yourself feel the pain I want you to feel. Out of all the demons I've sent to different worlds, you're one of the very few who have resisted a seat of eternal power by my side.'
"Then maybe I'll be the only one to end this," Raven said to herself as she began shuffling through her books. The demonic voice only laughed more. 'Maybe you should meet one of my followers, just to let you know hat you're talking about foolish child.'
As the last word echoed out of her mind, the alarm went off. "Jump City coordinates (20,75)," Robin's voice shouted through the halls as the leapt up to battle.
Raven flew through the air next to all of the Titans (Starfire can fly, Beastboy was a bird, Cyborg got a jetpack built into his system, and Robin was gliding). "There," Starfire said as she pointed towards a warehouse.
"A break in?" Robin asked to himself.
"No" Raven said quietly as she remembered her father's words. As they flew into the warehouse nothing seemed out of the ordinary. A few boxes here and there, a couple coils of rope, nothing suspicious.
"Emoclew," a voice said out of the dark.
"A chant!" Cyborg shouted. "They're going to use magic on us."
"My foolish friend," said a terrifying voice, still concealed by shadows. "Despite all your computation devices you fail to realize the meaning in that one word. It is nothing but 'welcome' spelled backwards. I can see you're getting paranoid in my absence. And edgy too, Robin your nerves look shot."
"Slade," Robin said in a low huff.
Slade seemed to ignore the comment, which was meant to say more then just his name. "I believe you all have something that belongs to a friend of mine."
"Robin does not belong to you, or your wicked friend!" Starfire shouted, her eyes green with rage.
"I wasn't talking about that," Slade said through the shadows that concealed him. "Oh, has the little bitch not told you yet. I'm sorry I didn't realize. This must be very awkward for you."
The Titans immediately turned to Raven. "If you tell them, I'll kill you." Raven said in a dark and menacing voice. "Or did your little chum forget to tell you what would happen if you fought me. I don't think you would win."
"It's not about killing you Raven. It's about taking your life."
"I don't understand you!" Starfire shouted in frustration. "Raven what does he mean?"
"Go back," Raven said to the Titans. But she already knew they would stay where they were.
"I guess I'm going to have to punish you," Slade said. Throughout the shadows a red mark could be seen. It began glowing, brighter and brighter until the entire room was filled with a demonic glow.
"NO!" Raven shouted desperately, her eyes filling with tears.
"I guess I better put my shots where they will hurt most Raven!" Slade shouted triumphantly. "Maybe I can't kill you, but I can teach you to never speak to me like that again!" Wind started blowing in the room, it didn't start slowly. It began at about fifty mph according to Cyborg's arm.
"STOP!" Raven shrieked. "DON"T DO THIS!"
"Raven calm down!" Robin shouted over the winds.
"RUN!" she shouted to the Titan's. You don't understand, I'll explain back at the tower! He can't kill me! He'll rip you apart though! I swear I'll explain everything at the tower!"
"Too late to beg for mercy Raven!" Slade shouted. Many other symbols began appearing around the original, until they formed the shape of Slade's body.
"Fire of the undead mind! Slade shouted. An enormous blast of flame erupted out of his palm, lighting up the entire room in red. The blast ripped through boxes, narrowly missing the Titans. The warehouse was now on fire. Parts of the building were coming down. "A little prequel of coming attractions," Slade said as he laughed. "Beautiful isn't it."
More fire was erupting from his palm. He blew a hole straight through a side of the wall. He became so preoccupied with attempting to scare the Titans he didn't even notice the shape of a large black Raven fly through the wall at an amazingly quick pace. Raven concentrated on getting them out as quickly as possible.
Slade stopped firing as he realized what happened. "Well, mission accomplished," he said to himself. "Now her petty little friends won't refuse no for an answer and they'll either isolate her and leave her on her own or join in the fight and thus offer themselves to Trigon. Either way there is no need to pursue them now. I should cause some havoc in the city, with everyone knowing about Raven murdering that other fool, plus the Titans not able to stop the distress I'll cause it'll be sure to give them some bad attention."
Slade flew out of the warehouse and began smashing through the city, not to destroy it or knock down buildings, but to kill a few people here and there so that no area goes unaffected.
Meanwhile back at Titans Tower, what looked like a giant bird landed on the roof and disappeared to reveal five teenagers.
"What in the fuck is going on?" Beastboy asked immediately.
"What's going on here Raven, you've been keeping secrets from us for too long," Robin said. "We have to learn about what's going on, and it has to be right now."
"I think we should go to the living room," Raven said in her usual calm, monotone voice. "I'll tell you everything you want to know, and we can decide what to do from there."
The rest of the Titans were surprised, they didn't expect Raven to give in that quickly. Whatever she needed to tell them must have been serious.
"Get comfy," Raven said as they pulled a lever on the wall that flipped the couch around to a conference table with five seats. The table was designed to look exactly like the outside of the Titan's communicator.
"Well, here it goes," Raven said once they were all seated. "I'll start off with a story of long ago. As you know, there are many gods, angels, good spirits, whatever you may call them. They're there and they are real, only surpassed by the one mysterious God who has never yet shown displayed himself in any way."
"What does that have to do with anything," Beastboy asked.
"I'm getting there," Raven said. "One of these gods thought himself superior to the others, and only slightly below the one God. He was right in some ways; he was stronger faster and cleverer then the rest of them. He decided to break off, for whatever reason. He started his own kingdom of Fire, hell. People think that all demons and this evil ex-god, Trigon, suffer in hell forever. That is not the case."
"Then what is the case?" Starfire asked with wide eyes, for she had never heard of any Earth religion before.
"The case is evil souls of humans, and any other race in our universe go there to suffer. They are on the first layer of hell and burn there for eternity. However there are lower layers where Trigon and his demon horde reside. They are not suffering, they are not in comfort. They simply exist there. Trigon has a habit of destroying other worlds, for what reason no one knows."
"Why would he do such a thing!" Starfire screamed as she banged her hand on the table.
"Let me finish," Raven said. "So to destroy world, he rapes a woman of the planet he has his eye on, has his seed sacrifice their life for him to make sort of a portal into the world. He then goes to the planet, destroys it, and takes the entire world and drags it into hell to increase his territory. His spawn either joins him willingly, and gets a seat of honor, or struggles in vain, dies, and gets sent to the first layer of hell to suffer forever."
"Not a sweet deal," Beastboy said.
"Exactly," Raven said. "Trigon is said to have only one son that is not dead, but no one knows what happened to him or where he resides."
"So how does this relate to us?" Cyborg said, fearing the answer he would get.
"I'll be straightforward with you," Raven said. "The reason I killed that man, the reason I tried to kill myself, the reason I am the way that I am, the reason I exist at all is because I am the spawn of Satin himself, and I'm going to be the one who leads to the destruction of this planet, and of all of you."
The response was met by total shock. The entire room stared at her with large eyes of disbelief.
"How?" Cyborg asked in a low whisper. "Why?"
"Because I am cursed," Raven said. "But I won't try killing myself again, you might think it's selfish of me, but it isn't as I'm about to demonstrate."
"What do you mean?" Robin asked. Suddenly his eyes widened in terror. Raven was holding a gun in her hand. She placed it to her temple. "Raven no!" Robin shouted as he leapt up to stop her. Too late.
BANG!
"Ahhhhhh!" Starfire shrieked as Raven's crumpled body fell out of her chair. "Raven!"
"Yes," Raven replied as she sat up in her chair.
"What the fuck!" Cyborg said. "They were blanks!"
"Wrong," Raven said holding up a bloody bullet that pierced through her skill. "I can't get out of being Trigon's daughter, I can't die. I'm not welcome in Heaven, and Trigon won't accept me in Hell until I complete my task. So until then, I'm an immortal."
Everyone continued to stare at her in shock. "Watch," she said as she stood up. She picked up a grenade, took off the top, dropped it on the ground, and created a circle of black energy around her and the explosive. It blew up, there was no way Raven could have survived that…unless she couldn't die.
And there Raven was, standing there on the slightly scorched black floor, without a scratch on her. "I'm confused," Beastboy said.
"This is new news how?" Raven asked.
"No, I mean why did you try suicide if you knew you couldn't die?"
"Because I needed to try, I didn't know if it was just a myth he made up."
"But you didn't know if it was your body that healed itself, or us!" Beastboy shouted. "You might have shot yourself dead right in front of us!"
"True," Raven said. "Now, what do we do about this ugly situation?"
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