Crow Ending - Part1-Doomsday
"Trigon you can go back to hell" The words seemed to echo in the area though he hadn't yelled it in fact it'd been barely above a whisper. but it was loud enough to anger Trigon.
Blackfire stood there sating at him in utter amazement he was a fool, a powerful fool granted but a fool nonetheless. "Crow...why? why choose extermination?" She asked him before Trigon could do anything he seemed to stop as if he himself were curious what the answer was.
"Because everyone and everything will die if I didn't and I may hate the way people treat this planet I may not like alot of things and I may be an asshole by some standards but I'm not about to let another planet much less a universe fall to Trigon even I care too much about certain people here."
He replied glaring at her. She caught the hidden meaning there he was saying she was heartless and cared for no one a statement that was pretty much true now that she thought about it she'd become a person she never thought she would be but it was much too late to dwel on things like that now. Far too late.
"I see..." was al she said to him.
"Fool" Trigon muttered raising a hand margical energy began to build up in his palm visibly causing the air around it to swirl.
Crow waited for the very last possible moment before moving and dodging the blast of energy that came at him Trigon ran at him but he phased through the solid rock wall and out through the otherside he had to get back to the tower, he had to tell the others.
Trigon growled angrily "Stay here and greet them when they come back. I must see to my gem..." He said to Blackfire and vanished leaving her all alone to face the fury of the Titans when they came.
She sat on a rock with her head in her hands. 'How did I get into this?' she wondered it was all so seemingly perfect in the beginning now the illusions were falling apart and the hell that had slowly surrounded her was revealing itself.
"to hell with this...I'm getting out of here Trigon can't stop me from leaving this planet." She said to herself standing and starting to leave but no sooner had she gotten airborne had she been stopped.
Something redish whizzed by her head and embedded itself into the rock.
"Going somewhere?" it was Robin and the rest of the team was behind him though she noted Neither Crow or Raven were here.
"You sure took forever...I was getting bored so I was going to leave." She said faking a grin she did NOT want to do this she knew she couldn't win maybe if it were one on one with each of them she'd have had a chance but as things were she was screwed and she knew it.
"So where's the other bird?" she asked crossing her arms mildly amused.
"you mean me? Raven isn't feeling well so I'm stepping in." the voice came from the shadows behind her. 'shit' was all she could think She knew instantly it was Crow and as she started to turn to face him she was hit by a large rock hurled by Crow it hit her in the side and sent her flying skidding along the ground to a stop.
"Owwww..." she groaned slowly picking herself up "HEY! that wasn't very gentlemen like ya know!" She yelled at him. then realised he wasn't there anymore she looked around franticly
"Lose something?" she whirled around to see him hovering above her another rock already heading for her.
She grunted mustering what strength she could and punched it shattering it.
the resulting dust cloud however caused her to lose him again.
"Can't you even face me!" She yelled though she regretted it when not even a moment later he appeared before her holding his sword of pure darkness. he was about to run her through when a truck hit him hard from the side.
He burst from underneath it with a large burst of energy and his eyes flared "WHO DID THAT!" He yelled then he saw her. Raven. but she was different. her hair was long and her face was covered in the marks of Trigon.
"R...Raven?" his voice shook and for once Crow was afraid. Raven had been taken by Trigon which meant he was likely either already here somewhere or he was controlling her directly.
"Crow I do not wish to kill you but if you force me to I will." She warned him
"Raven...what happened?" Crow asked taking a step toward her she tensed and he stopped in mid step backing off sensing she would attack if he approached any closer.
"Well...long story short after you all left Trigon decided it was time to make an appearance and awakened me." her explaination only raised more questions though.
"Awakened?" Everyone minus blackfire said at the same time.
"Yes. you see the Raven you all knew was a fake a false personality created to hide my true nature to ensure I lived to see this day. The day father comes and puts an end to this miserable universe I have existed in many other forms and bodies though my name has always been the same and Father and I destroy the universes as we see fit." She told them
"y...you can't be serious...w..what about our Raven then? what about all the memories? the experiences!" Crow asked
"Don't worry they're all still there I know all of you I remember quite clearly which is why I'm simply asking you to stay out of the way and you shall be spared though I know you won't do that..." she turned to robin then back to Crow "though maybe you will."
"Me?" Crow asked "and what makes you think that?"
"I know it. Because you love me." She answered walking towards him. He didn't move didn't speak didn't do anything but stand there as she approached him. As she walked he noticed other things about her that had changed her hair despite the obvious fact that it was long now had light blue at the tips and the occasional strand of it would be entierly blue. Her cloak had turned black save for a bit of blue that remained outlining it. the marks that now encompassed most of her skin formed Symmetrical patterns along her face and arms and he swore her skin had more color to it than it had before. Simply put she looked better then than she ever had.
"You do still want to be with me don't you?" She asked standing barely even an inch from him. her words pierced his daydream he'd wandered into after analyzing all the changes.
"I..." He began
"don't know?" She finished for him with a smirk the way she seemed to know what to do was as if this had all happened before.
He nodded "how did you...?" again he didn't get to finish.
"I don't expect you to remember but we've been through all of this before...countless times actually...you see in each universe the two of us are reborn we live whatever lives we like untill father is ready. Then one of us will be awakened. Obviously this time it's me." she said with a light laugh
"awakened.?...one of us? what..." it seemed talking was pointless because again she interrupted
"What am I saying right?" she sighed "What I'm saying is that both of us have been directly responsible for the end of countless universes. Sometimes we side together sometimes we fight against one another but we've done that the last...oh 500 times...I'd really like for us to be together again Crow...I miss you." She told him.
Everyone simply stood silent taking in all the news even Robin who was usually oh so demanding was speechless.
"I...I can't believe this...I spend my whole life trying to get you and now you offer yourself to me on a platter...the catch being the universe has to die." He said looking skyward. with a puff
"you don't believe me do you? you think Trigon messed with my head or some junk don't you?" She muttered
"Of course I do." He replied looking at her.
"then would you like me to show you our memories then? Perhaps you will remember too." She offered
"Heh...why not...if anything I'll probably prove they're lies." He replied and they vanished in a flash.
"H...Hey! where'd they go!" Blackfire yelled unintentionally drawing attention to herself again.
"You should be worrying about where you are gonna go" Robin told her narrowing his eyes
Raven and Crow were standing in what seemed to be the middle of nothingness
"where are we?" He asked looking to her.
"A place between dimensions that records everything." She told him.
"The nexus?" He said questionigly
She gave a nod "correct"
"I didn't think it was possible for mortal beings to get here..." He muttered
"it isn't" She replied simply
"what're you saying that we're immortals?" He asked
"yes..and no...we're not exaclty immortal because we do die but we always come back in another body though for the last 100 reincarnations or so we've both been exactly the same I don't know if that means anything or not I'll have to ask father later..." She replied.
She raised a hand and bits of pieces of thier former lives came into view. it all seemed to familiar yet so distant like it all happened a very long time ago.
something seemed to click in Crow's mind and the mark appeared on his forehead.
"wait...I remember...you and I...we were...married in our last life?"
She smiled "yes...we were...we got to be pretty old in comparison in that one before father came." She told him.
"We were both 30...weren't we?...why am I only rememebring this now?" he asked
"because untill one of us awakens neither of us is allowed memories of the past lives. though I can tell you one constant is that we've felt for each other since the beginning. Side with me this time Crow...Please" She pleaded
He concetrated mostly concerned on recovering the past memories.
"I was the one who was awakening before...that why we kept winding up fighting isn't it?" He asked
"yes...I always had someone to protect but you were always the loner so you never had any reason not to come with me though you did always have that little moral issue of wiping everyone out." she paused recalling something "Except in the beginning though...back then you were pretty ruthless I think oyu honestly hated everyone except me." She told him.
it was all flooding back to him now and he remembered one thing of particular interest. Where his powers came from.
"I remember...I was...suppsoed to be your guardian...Trigon...made me." He whispered the last part.
"Yes..that's true...you were created as another insurance I would live to maturation and see the development of my powers in the new universes though when we became lovers...well daddy didn't like that...so he put you in the endless loop right along with me hoping we'd forget how we felt...obviously it didnt work." She said turning and walking up to him waiting expectantly for something.
"So are you with me? or do we have to fight to the death?
"Well..then...let's get to work." he replied pulling her into a deep kiss
She blushed against her will "You never cease to surprise me." She told him referring to the kiss, He smiled somewhat sheepishly and they appeared back where they had been and were just in time to see Blackfire go flying by and into a pile of rubble. Starfire flew past shortly after she stopped the instant she saw them and gasped. In fact everyone stopped with everyone wondering what had happened and whether Crow was freind of foe.
Blackfire dug herself out of the rubble and made her way ever so slowly over to them.
Starfire approached cautiously "crow..?"
Crow just stood there eyes closed for a while but suddenly his eyes opened and the marks flared out from him giving him a slight orangish glow.
Blackfire's eyes lit up as she relaised what that meant.
"Starfire get out of there!" Robin yelled a lttle too late as a bolt stuck Starfire in the chest sending her skidding backwards.
It didn't take long for her to get up but she was still so shocked she didn't know what to do Crow was now the enemy.
"no...Crow please do not do-" she was cut off by another bolt this one from Blackfire.
"Shut up dear sister." She said with a glare Starfire's speeches disgusted her to no end.
Nevertheless Starfire picked herself up yet again at this point Robin and the others were about to move in.
"No..." Starfire said feeling their want. "do not attack them it is fruitless to fight a battle against our freinds..."She said
"Smart choice" Raven said and lifted into the air Crow and Blackfire close behind.
"Starfire..." Robin began.
"What we want...is to send Trigon back to where ever he came from fighting our freinds only lessens the chance of ever getting them back." Starfire interupted explaining what she was thinking.
"Let's do it...but first...we'll need a little back up." Robin said pulling out his communicator.
Crow and Raven seperated for a moment Raven went to speak with Trigon and Crow said he had something to what that something was Raven had some idea but she wasn't sure. But she had no time to worry about that now currently she was walking down the long hall towards what was now Trigon's throne. For some reason he'd decided to revert to his smaller form again perhaps there was still something he was waiting for before absolute destruction of the universe. She'd have to ask him about that while she was here.
She entered through a pair of large doors that were obviously new compared to the rest of the building which was mostly damaged this part of it was like brand new as if nothing at all had happened. Trigon down at her from his throne and waved away his demon servents.
"What do you want little one?" His voice boomed through the room the large space giving plenty of room for echos at his volume of speech.
"I came here for two reasons...one...Blackfire has proven loyal and is still allied with us I'm curious as to what we will do with her." She stated
"mm..." Trigon thought for a moment. "I thought surely she did not have a heart black enough to be worthy of us however maybe I was wrong we will keep her...for now...and where is Crow?" Trigon asked slightly agitated that his daughters guardian had not come with her.
"He is with Blackfire currently." Raven replied in a simple monotone an almost robotic like reply.
"I see...So Crow awakened as well...good good...now what was the second thing you wanted to know?" he inquiered.
"ah...I wanted to know why we haven't begun erasing this universe yet. Are you...waiting for something?" Raven finally asked
"Ah yes first I await for the defenders of this realm to challenge us it's been too long since we last had a chance to fight a battle much less one all together so call it...me having fun...there is one other thing here I wish to find somewhere in this universe lies a very porwerful magical stone with it we may be able to skip the reincarnation process and I can simply insert you and Crow into the next Dimensions as you are and as such you'll never have to relearn your powers again and become infinitely more powerful as we travel the multiverse. Also allowing us to progress much more quickly as opposed to waiting many years for a suitable point to insert you and even more for you to age enough to be able to do anything significant in the next world." He told her
"I see...that does sound..."she paused for a moment. "Appealing." was the word she finally chose.
"good. I belive this stone to be here on this planet as it was this planet that sat at the heart of the seal on this universe and such a powerful seal could not have been maintained without a source...the stone must be here. your next task is to search for it find it and bring it to me. Crow and Blackfire are to assist you in any way they can." Trigon ordered
"yes father" Raven replied with a slight bow of her head and turned to leave.
Crow was sitting with Blackfire on the roof of some half destroyed building. "Blackfire...what is it that makes you so...determind? so loyal?" Cros asked suddenly as they watched the sun set on the now burning city. It was a scene that might have been oddly romantic were it not for screams coming from below however those were slowly dwindling as demons razed everything.
"Loyal? hah I'm not loyal to anyone...except myself...and..."she trailed off looking down at the flames.
"And?" Crow questioned turning to look at her.
"and you...you're the only person who's really trusted or cared what happened to me...well aside from Starfire but we all know that story..." She raised her head to the sky and the smoke billowing upwards refusing to look at Crow. "man...I really messed my life up didn't I? and...come to think of it alot of others now hell almost all the others...and most of them will never even know I was responsible."
"Blackfire...this isn't your fault it's our's we're the ones who exist to release Trigon upon the worlds and while you may have played some part in it this time I assure you it would have happened eventually even if you didn't. Everything eventually must end, nothing is eternal not even us, not the soul, nothing...everything has to die,everything can be destroyed and when there's nothing to destroy destruction itself will come to an end." Crows words stuck Blackfire as strangely beautiful although morbid it was the truth everything did end and while the existence of demons like trigon proved there was an afterlife yet in turn the fact that demons could be killed and evil spirits also proved the soul was not immortal either. Everything could die. Even gods.
Finally she looked at him just a long gaze in his eyes with no words to say for a long time "that was..." she started but found she could think of no word to describe it in all the languages she knew.
"I have a gift for you..." he said suddenly. causing her to quirk an eyebrow. "close your eyes..." he said softly and she did so. though she felt a little silly. He leaned in and kissed her and to his surprise she kissed back almost immediately but this kiss served a special purpose. Crows body began to glow and power went from him into her. after which he broke the kiss.
"wow...that was...some kiss." Was all Blackfire could say feeling new strength growing in her.
"I gave you some power...you'll need it if you're going to stay with us...Trigon won't allow any weaklings to leave this universe not even loyal ones." He told her.
"I see...but...you'll protect me right?" Blackfire asked leaning against him.
Crow smirked "sure"
"s'cuse me if you're done we have orders." Raven's voice came from behind them both whirled around to see her hovering slightyl above and obviously agitated.
"Oh Raven...what're our orders?" Crow asked without even bothering to speak on the situation or how things looked.
"We are to search out a gem stone and a particularly powerful one at that. with it Crow and I will no longer have to reincarnate." She explained.Then added "The problem is we don't know anything about the stone except that it's powerful and it has to be on this planet. Fortunately we happen to have an experienced Jewel thief who's also somewhat versed in magic..or at least magical items." Raven said narrowing her eyes at Blackfire. Making her feel most uncomfortable.
"uh..right...but without anything to go on even I can't help you much especially with the amount of damage already done here...it may take us years to even get a clue as to where on earth this thing is." Blackfire
"well Trigon said it was of significant power right? we should be able to scry for it then." Crow suggested.
Raven looked at him "Scry? yes...thats a perfect idea lets begin as soon as possible." Raven agreed.
"Alright everyone got the plan?" Robin asked to over the communicator one last time.
Various confirmations came back over the comm.
"Alright then...Let's do this" Robin said looking up at the tower.
End Part 1
Yes yes Instead of doing multiple endings I've decided instead on one multi-PART ending as the reason for the multiple endings was simply going to be different end pairings and perhaps a little bit of differences in who lived and died but I had far too many ideas and following with that would have wound up with like 50 alternate endings sooooo instead you get this one absolute ending that'll be 2 maybe 3 parts long (yes I'm dragging it out...) and depending on reviews maybe I'll write a sequel since I've already got some idea how i want things to end.