A/N: Okay, this is my Christmas gift to all of you guys. Hope you'll like it. :) LUV to AnimationWickedRaven, Firenze2000, RoseMage, dark-spirit, WhiteWitch and Denepelia (who are the nicest and smartest people here:)))

Disclaimer: Same as in Chapter 3.

Chapter 4

The boys immediately rushed into the room. It seemed to be more of a bedroom, than an infirmary, where not so long ago a girl was dying. The air was fresh, without the scent of blood, the sheets were also stainless, no sign of the blood. Starfire was sleeping peacefully on the bed. Robin ran to her.

"Star! Can you hear me?" he whispered into her ear, while gently caressing the girl's long red hair. The Tamaranian slowly opened her eyes and as she saw the boy she smiled weakly.

"Robin…" Starfire said, pulled him closer and kissed him. Beast Boy and Zenith went out of the room.

"Wow. I don't know who you are, but thanks. We thought she'd die." Beast Boy thanked her.

"She almost did. If I hadn't come when I did she wouldn't have survived." Zenith answered.

"Umm…who, or what are you anyway? I mean we didn't really get a chance to talk."

"I'm an…agent, of someone who doesn't like the idea of Earth's destruction. He would rather like to see this world intact if possible. I guess the word that could be used for someone like is angel." Zenith said. Beast Boy couldn't say anything for a long while.

"Y-You're an angel?" he finally asked after a minute.

"Well, not exactly. I'm something like a half-angel, partly angel, partly human. It is a necessary disguise, because this way I can get close to demons without them sensing me." Zenith explained.

"Oh. So you're after Shade, right?" Beast Boy asked. Zenith looked at the ground, as if she was ashamed of something.

"No. I've come to kill Raven." the angel said. BB was shocked to the core of his soul.

"What? But why her? Shade is the evil one, not Raven! She has nothing to do with this!" the changeling yelled at her.

"Hmm, so she hadn't told you?" Zenith asked curiously.

"Told me what?" Beast Boy shouted angrily.

"She's the reason why the moon is going to crash into the Earth. She had combined her powers with Shade's and Terra's and together they've changed the moon's trajectory. After that Shade killed Terra to ensure that she wouldn't stop it and now he had allied with Raven to destroy this world and keep humanity from surviving. After wiping out all the life on Earth he plans to open several gates to Hell from which he could call forth his armada and take over the dead world." Zenith explained.

"NO! I don't believe you! You're lying!" Beast Boy shook his head, yelling at the angel. Zenith just stood there, unaffected by the green Titan's accusations. She knew how he felt about Raven, but the reality couldn't be changed.

"I'm sorry Beast Boy, but this is the truth." Zenith said with a compassionate voice. Beast Boy sat down and leaned against the wall.

"No…it can't be…she wouldn't have done this! Not Raven! She…just couldn't." he tried to deny the painful truth. First Terra and now Raven. It seemed that everyone who he had loved had turned against him. Zenith put her hand on his shoulder.

"I know it hurts." she said. Beast Boy looked at her with teary eyes.

"You know nothing! How could you know how does it feel like to be betrayed by the one you love more than your own life?" he shouted at her.

"I know, because the same has happened to me." she said quietly. Beast Boy looked at her with disbelief.

"What do you mean?" he asked her. Zenith sighed and sat down next to him. It seemed as if her glow would be gone.

"Well, it's a long and complicated story. As I said I'm not a true angel. I'm half-human, so I have emotions and free will, just like everyone else. That's why demons can't detect me until it's too late. My angelic part gives me all my strength, even the ability to heal." Zenith said and looked at the closed door of the infirmary. Beast Boy knew that she was thinking of Starfire and Robin, who were still inside, probably in each other's embrace, Robin saying how sorry he is for not protecting her from Shade and Starfire trying to comfort him, telling that it wasn't his fault.

"Well, as I said, I have feelings and desires just as other people. I was assigned to protect a city, because 'we' have sensed demons within it. I had to track down the source of that danger and eliminate it. I was one of the youngest angels, only two millennia old. In this world I have a body of a teen girl. Anyway, I've infiltrated almost every place where the demon could've hidden, but I found nothing. Soon the demonic presence disappeared and we thought that maybe the demon left. Their aims are difficult to understand, so I decided to stay and search for more clues. But…I've met him. His name was Jake. A boy who was studying at the same school as me. And the worst thing happened. I've fallen in love with him. He was my first love just as I was his first love. We loved each other so much, I even thought about giving up my powers, so I could live with him. But it was too good to last. After some time I've noticed that he had become…darker, closed to others. I thought that maybe he had some problems with his parents, or just seasonal depression, but as time passed he became sadder." Zenith was telling the story and Beast Boy listened quietly. Zenith stopped a bit and sighed, sad memories came back.

"So, what happened next?" Beast Boy asked, careful not to hurt the feelings of the girl.

"Shade. I've met him during a flight through the town. I couldn't sense him, which meant that he was half-demon, like I am half-angel. Someone had willingly accepted a demon's powers and was transformed into this servant. We fought. We fought many times and neither of us could win. We were evenly matched, neither of us strong enough to defeat the other one. But during one of our fights I saw his face. You see, both of us wore armor and hoods, so that the average people wouldn't recognize our true identities. And during that fight I managed to tear down his hood. It was Jake. Or at least what was left of his former self. His eyes were completely black, his skin pale. I was so shocked I couldn't stop him tearing of my hood as well. That was when he stopped. We stood there for minutes, just looking at each other. His orders were to kill me, and I was supposed to kill him. But…we just couldn't do it. Our love didn't allow it." Zenith continued.

"After that battle we stopped seeing each other. Even in school we tried to avoid contact, because my angelic and his demon side hated each other so much. Heaven branded me an outcast and he was given one last chance to kill me. So we had to fight again. I tried to convince him to come back to me, to try and live a normal life as before. But he didn't listen. His demon side had consumed him completely and the boy I once loved was gone. Jake was gone and Shade was born, the Shade you now know. So I had no choice and I killed him." Zenith said with a sad voice.

"But how is he still alive?" Beast Boy asked.

"Well, his body hadn't gone through the complete change and that was his luck. It kept him alive for some days. He was hiding in alleys, eating rats. After he had regained most of his strength he left the town and wandered the world. He was running from his demon master. He feared his punishment for failing to kill me. And when his master had found him instead of being killed he was given another task: to destroy Earth. And so he has found Raven. She was already a perfect way gate for unleashing the armies of Hell. After Trigon's defeat she had thought that her powers were less dangerous and thus she had allowed herself to feel love. She loved you, but she thought that you didn't love her back. She loved you so much and for such a long time she decided to revive Terra. However during the reviving ritual Shade intervened, which resulted in his rebirth to this world, with more power than ever, while Raven was stripped of some of her powers. Shade has created subconscious bonds with both Terra and Raven, who slowly became corrupted by his dark soul. And you know the rest." Zenith finally finished. Beast Boy just sat there. It was too much to understand, too much to believe.

"So, what has happened to Raven?" the green Titan asked after a long while.

"I'm afraid she's fallen under Shade's influence. If so, we have no hope of turning her back. If we kill her I might be able to drain her powers and avert this catastrophe." Zenith said her plan.

"Is there no other way? Can't we save her?" Beast Boy asked desperately.

"I'm sorry Beast Boy, but I don't believe that she could be saved. I feel that she has already accepted part of his powers and this way she has become a demon as well. She's no longer the girl you loved. There's nothing we can do for her now." the angel answered. Beast Boy just stood up and walked away, back to his room. Zenith also stood up.

"Well, it's time to prepare for the coming battle." she said. With this long, brightly glowing silvery streams of light crawled out from her back. Ten long streams, the angel's wings, moved as if they were white ribbons in the wind. Zenith walked to the window, opened it, jumped out and flew away from the Tower.

It was dawning. Just five days left.

A/N: Okay, that's all. I'll try to update soon. I finally got back some of my inspiration, so I'll be able to write more. Merry Christmas everyone! Oh, and please, be so kind and review. You know, as a x-mas gift. :)