A/N: Well, here I am again. Sorry that it took such a long time, but you know, writer's block and depression. Anyway, enjoy the new chappie.
Disclaimer: Same as in Chapter 4.
Chapter 5
Robin slowly opened his eyes. Sunlight hit his eyes and he had to cover them. It was already morning. He looked around, not really remembering what'd happened. He was still in the infirmary, sitting on a chair. He looked at the Tamaranian girl lying on the bed next to him. For a while he got scared as he remembered the girl's injury from the fight last night, but he sighed with relief as he saw her chest moving up and down slowly and steadily. She was still asleep. As soon as he calmed down a bit he started admiring the girl's beauty. As she lay on the snow-white sheets of the bed the morning sun lit her sleeping form, her soft skin, her long red hair. Her lips. He leaned close to her and kissed her softly. She opened her eyes and smiled at him. She obviously liked this kind of waking. She put her hand around his neck and pulled him back on her lips.
Same time, Beast Boy's room"How could she do this? How could she betray us? Why? Did I do something wrong? Did she love me at all?" Beast Boy's thoughts kept running around in his mind. He'd been awake the whole night, the fact of Raven's betrayal didn't let him rest. He hadn't even noticed that it was already morning. The curtains blocked all sunlight from getting into his room, creating a gloomy feeling inside, like Raven's room.
"If I only knew! I could've saved her!" Beast Boy whispered to himself.
"No." a voice said, coming from one of the shadows of his room. Beast Boy immediately jumped up and looked in the direction of the sound. Despite his highly evolved senses he couldn't tell who was it, but the voice was familiar.
"Who…who are you?" he asked the shadowy figure. It didn't move.
"You can't save me. I'll save you." the figure said. Beast Boy tried hard to see who it was, but no luck. He thought it might be her…
"Rae? Is that you?" he asked the figure. It just sighed. BB took it as a 'yes'. He went closer.
"Rae, are you okay? What's happened…" he tried to ask while coming even closer, but the figure moved away from him and signaled him to stop.
"No! Please, Beast Boy, don't come closer!" BB recognized the voice. It was Raven's, yet somehow… different. As if it was colder. Beast Boy stopped and became really worried.
"Why? What's wrong?" he asked her. He was now close enough to see the girl turn away from him and look at the floor, as if she was ashamed.
"Beast Boy, I-I'm not who you once knew. I'm different. Worse." she said slowly in a sad voice. Beast Boy took a small step closer to her, carefully so she wouldn't notice.
"Worse? What do you mean Rae?" he asked quietly.
"Understand, I didn't know how this would end! I-I just wanted to be with you! Forever." Raven said. Beast Boy heard that she was fighting to hold back tears. He came even closer.
"Raven, please, calm down. I don't know what you did, but I'm here for you. I'll stand by you, no matter what you did!" BB said. Raven turned her head and looked in his eyes. Beast Boy gasped as the little light in his room made her pure black eyes visible. She was just like Shade.
"You said the same to her." Raven replied.
"Who?" Beast Boy didn't understand.
"TO TERRA! YOU TOLD HER YOU'D STAND BY HER, NO MATTER WHAT COMES AND THEN YOU ABANDONED HER!" Raven shouted at him, her voice made the green changeling shake with fear.
"And now you'll abandon me as well. I know you will." Raven's voice was once again calm, but very quiet and sad. BB shook his head and quickly thought of an answer.
"No! I won't! I love you Rae!" he tried to convince her and took more steps towards the girl. The shadows around Raven's body seemed to get darker and larger. He tried to grab her hand, but his hand went right through hers, as if she was just air.
"I'm sorry Beast Boy. I know you hate me. I'll leave you now." Raven said and the shadowy cloud covered her body.
"NO!" Beast Boy screamed and ran into the dark cloud.
Beast Boy's room"NO!" Beast Boy screamed and sat up. He quickly looked around his room. It was morning, the sunlight shined through his windows strongly. His whole body was wet with his sweat, his mouth dry. He was panting as if he'd run for hours. He lay down back on his bed.
"It was just a dream. No. It was more like a nightmare." he whispered to himself and sighed. He felt absolutely tired, although he's been asleep all night. But something felt strange, as if something in his room was different. He looked around. Most of his personal belongings lay on the floor in messy piles. Nothing unusual. And as he was looking at the walls he noticed something. All of his windows were open. And he remembered that he rarely opened any of his windows, especially when he went to sleep.
"What the hell?" he thought as he got up from his bed and looked out at the city. Suddenly that dream seemed to be almost too real. He shook his head and decided to think about it later. It was time to eat something.
In an old, dark churchRaven opened her eyes. The place she rested was cold, shadows everywhere, much like her room used to be back in the Titans Tower. But at least she had a bed there. Sleeping on the cold floor wasn't really her idea of relaxing. But it didn't matter too much, after all in a couple of days all of this will be destroyed. She stood up and brushed the dirt off of her cloak. She looked around, trying to find Shade. He wasn't there. He wasn't even hidden in one of the shadows, she couldn't feel his presence anywhere near her. She yawned.
"Guess I won't have my cup of tea today." she whispered to herself. As she finished the sentence her memories of Beast Boy returned. Memories of his lame jokes, his happiness, caring, memories of tofu. Memories of love. Her mood almost instantly changed to sad. She sat down on one of the chairs and looked at the dusty paintings on the walls. Paintings of knights, saints, angels, all of them praying. She was kinda puzzled. It seemed weird for a demon to hide in a church. But then again no one would think of looking for a demon in a place like this, so it served its purpose quite well. As she continued to observe the paintings and sculptures she felt cold fear arising within her. He was coming back. Raven stood up and looked in the direction of the heavy doors of the cathedral. In the next moment they opened loudly and a darkling entered. As he got close to Raven he just looked at the door and it closed all by itself. Then he looked at Raven again, his black eyes looking deep into hers.
"Did you succeed?" Shade asked her. Raven just nodded. The demon smiled and moved to the altar.
"Good. Very good. I see I was right about you. You have a lot greater potential within you then Terra ever had. The destruction of the main computer will blind them from seeing the danger. From seeing our army." Shade said to himself, while looking at a crucifix in front of him.
"Where have you been?" Raven asked coldly. Since they parted last night on the island before the attack he was gone. Shade turned around and smiled a bit.
"Just had a meeting with someone I thought I'd never see again. A… girlfriend from times long past." Shade admitted. Raven was absolutely surprised. She didn't think someone like Shade could ever love. The darkling felt her surprise and smiled even more.
"Oh she's just an old friend now. We have decided to walk different paths. We will never be together again. But I must admit that her appearance when we are so close to completing our plan does complicate our situation. I'm afraid you're in danger, my dear Raven." Shade explained. His smiled disappeared.
"What do you mean? Who is she? And why would I be in danger?" Raven asked.
"Her name's Zenith. She's… well, something like an angel, although I don't know who does she work for. Anyway, she's here to save the world, of that I'm sure. It's almost bred into her, it's her destiny to defend this world against beings like us." Shade said, strongly emphasizing the word 'us'. Raven understood where was the tale heading.
"So, with all this wiping out of life stuff going on she's decided to prevent this. And she believes that you're her greatest enemy. She can't kill me, just as I can't kill her. We're matched. But she can kill you. And I promise you that she'll do everything in her powers destroy you." Shade continued, his voice stripped of any emotions.
"But what will she achieve by doing that? It won't stop the destruction." Raven asked.
"Well, she hopes to use your powers from your escaping soul to stop this." the demon finished.
"Well, we'll have to stop her. She can't fight the two of us alone."
"Raven, she isn't alone. Last night after the battle she's allied with your former teammates. They've agreed to help her hunt you down… and kill you." Shade looked at the dark girl. It was difficult to tell what did she feel exactly. It was a mix of surprise, fear, anger, sorrow and love.
"What about…" Raven wanted to ask.
"Beast Boy? He was the first one to agree. He felt betrayed by you and constantly screamed about killing you. He hates you Raven!" Shade said. Of course he was lying, but Raven didn't know what'd happened. And he needed to severe her bonds with her team. He felt that she still cared about them. Now the girl just sat down on the cold marble ground.
"So I was. He lied to me!" she thought as she recalled her visit in Beast Boy's room from that morning.
A/N: Okay, that's all for today. Reviews please. Thanks. :)
