Right: this is a bb/rae one shot for Eternal Loss. Eternal Loss wrote the story line, I wrote the story and then Eternal Loss did a spelling/grammar check, which I've just gone back on, because it was in American grammar and I'm English :p. Hope you enjoy it!
Raven clamped her hands over her ears, desperately trying to keep out the
incessant whisper seeping through her ears and into her brain like sickly honey.
The voice pounded at her weak defences until she lowered her hands and
surrendered to the poison trickling into her thoughts.
'Raven' it called, and she tried her hardest to ignore it, but still it carried
on.
'Raven let me out, Raven'
Amethyst eyes squeezed tightly shut against the threatening flow of salty tears,
hands balled into fist, the darkest Titan threw up walls against the emotion
spreading throughout her mind. But she knew that it was no use, he would break
through, just as he did last time, and she would become but a pawn in his plans
again.
Trapped inside his papery prison, Malchior grinned as he listened to the sounds
of her struggle with her own feelings. He could not let her escape this time,
not now that he had worked so hard to get her under his thumb. He called to her
constantly, wearing her down until she couldn't take it anymore. He was waiting
for her to loose control, to let him out in her desperation.
The battle of wills continued long into the night, each call of her name wearing
down the darkest titan until she was exhausted and desperate for the sleep that
would not come to her.
Unknown by the two warriors, a second battle was being fought outside the door.
Beast Boy leaned against the door, afraid to enter Ravens domain, but wanting to
help her in every way he could. Sliding down to the floor he weighed out the
options and outcomes in his head. Not particularly fond of being thrown out of
the window, it wasn't until he heard sobbing coming from behind the steel door
that he decided, Ravens room or not, he was going in to help her.
Sliding open the door, he stepped cautiously inside, not knowing what sight
would greet him. What he saw was not what he expected. Raven was curled up on
the floor, the chest containing Malchiors book within reach of her fingertips
and the fight in her mind being played out upon her face.
Raven looked up to the boy standing over her and prayed in her head to him, not
trusting her voice. 'Help me'. She said. Bare green arms reached down to her and
she was enveloped in a warm embrace, turning into her rescuer and sobbing into
the muscles on his chest.
Beast Boy could feel her hot tears running down his bare chest and it made him
ache with a longing to help her, do anything to stop her crying, because this
wasn't Raven. Not his Raven, because his Raven would never cry. Shout and
scream, sometimes, but never cry.
Relaxing into the arms that held her, Raven looked up to the person holding her
to see Beast Boys worried face gazing back down at her. The voice having
stopped calling her, admitting its defeat, Raven let all else go and smiled.
The surprise at her action was evident on the older boys face, but he returned
the movement and then shifted to pull her onto his lap so he could keep his arms
around her in a more comfortable position. Both teens blushed and looked away
from each other, unsure of what to say next.
It was Raven who decided what would happen next by falling asleep against the
warmth of Beast Boys body. BB relaxed and looked down at the girl in his arms.
She was really quite beautiful, when he could look at her this way; at peace.
He lifted her up carefully and put her onto her Queen sized bed, pulling the
lavender sheets over her. He watched as she moved into a more comfortable
position, still deep in slumber and before he could help himself, he felt his
head tilt down and he placed his lips smoothly on top of hers before turning and
running out of the room.
Unfortunately for them all, that tiny gesture was all that was needed. Though
the girl herself was fast asleep; her emotions were wide awake and going
haywire. Black energy reached out to every object that it could and began its
destruction of her belongings. Books shredded themselves and objects were
tossed into the air. In the middle of the frenzy, Malchiors chest had
splintered and the book was being mercilessly torn apart page by page by the
emotionally disturbed teen's unchecked powers. As the storm died down, the books
cover fell to the floor, but her unconscious desire had spread its contents
across the room, irreparable.
Raven slept still, exhausted from her emotions and battle, and did not notice
the figure that stood in the corner of her room cackling quietly to itself.
White hair streaming down his back, Malchior stood in all his human form glory
laughing at his freedom.
'Who would have though, that all that was needed was to destroy the book?'
Arrogant as always, Malchior began to plot inside his head. 'Of course, a girl
as small and stupid as her could not really defeat me' he thought to himself.
'It's just because she had home advantage. Well, not this time, this time I
choose the battle grounds!' And with that in mind, he melted into a swirl of
magic, cautious of capture before he could lay out his plans.
Choosing his grounds carefully, Malchior reared up into his dragon shape and
began to destroy everything in his path in the cliché monster way, choosing the
city as his playground and the buildings as his toys.
Raven awoke to the sound of beeping and reached groggily for her communicator to
see what the problem was. What she saw almost made her scream. Robin had
loaded up a video link to the scene of whatever was happening and she could
clearly see the black dragon swinging his tail like a baseball bat at the
skyscrapers in the city. Desperate to prove herself wrong, she sat up and
looked for Malchiors prison, but was nearly reduced to tears at the destruction
that had taken her room, the dragons prison shredded.
Pounding sounded at her door and the team burst through and charged at her.
"Raven!" Robin screamed "Why did you let him lose?"
"I didn't." she protested.
Robin regarded her before his expression softened and Beast Boy pulled her to
her feet.
It doesn't matter how he got out, but he is, and we need to stop him. He said
wisely, shocking the rest of the team into silence before Robin recovered and
yelled.
"Titans, Go!"
Raven flew towards that dragon, trying to quell the turmoil her heart was in.
It was beginning to affect her powers. Leaping into action she reached out with
black energy in and attempt to bury the dragon under a mound of city buses and
lamp posts. But Malchior was ready for this attack plan, and he simply batted
away the objects as if they were having a mild game of baseball. Still
exhausted and with emotions running amok, Raven began to find that her powers
were dwindling and she sank to the ground panting. Malchior took advantage of
this momentary lapse in concentration to hoist her into the air in one gigantic
claw. Raven struggled but couldn't seem to find the strength to pry the claw
from around her. Malchior began to laugh, rumbling cackles sounding through out
the city as he watching Raven become paler and weaker.
"You're pathetic." He crowed. You've got no book to lock me in now have you? You
couldn't stop me last time without it and you wont now!" And with that he launched
Raven into the air, and she, unable to coax up the power needed for levitation.
Plummeted to the ground and landed with a crack audible to the other Titans who
had been launching futile attempts at getting the dragon to let her down.
Beast Boy watched Raven fall with horror etched across his face, an unending
scream voicing her name. Seeing her crash into the pavement became the last
straw and he reared into dragon form and began attacking Malchior with a fury
rarely seen in the skinny jokester. However, Malchior had the advantage of
being a real dragon with magical strength. Beast Boy soon began to tire and he
tried again and again to crush the dragon into the road.
Raven watched from where she had landed, her healing powers already kicking in,
mending her body. She looked on in pain, unable to do anything until she could
heal the ribs she knew to be broken. She knew that Beast Boy was tiring; she
could see the perspiration trickling down his face. Yet Malchior seemed to have
infinite amounts of energy continued to cackle through out the fight. This only
served to anger the jade Titan more. Finally, the pressure became too much for
Beast Boy and Machior sent him sailing into the buildings with a blow that Raven
knew could well be fatal.
Anger rose inside Raven like she hadn't felt since the day she fought her father.
Rising up in black swirls, she drew on all her energy reserves, power dripping
in black streams from her hands.
Suddenly, Malchior knew he was in trouble. The Titans were strewn about, knocked
back with swipes from his massive arms. And this seemed all that was needed to
anger the dark demoness.
Raven screamed in anger, thinking of Beast Boy lying in the rubble as she faced
the dragon. She reached out and blasted him with a volley of shots of black
magic. Malchior was knocked onto his back on the pavement. Raven was now
breathing heavily, but this didn't deter Raven. Raising her arms, she screamed
to the heavens,
"AZERATH METRION ZINTHOS!"
The amount of energy emanating from her began to cause lightning to fire
randomly into the sky. Raising her arms at Malchior, she formed a portal behind
him with one final scream flung him into it. Her anger now began to subside and
she collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.
When Raven awoke she found herself in her room, the familiar comfortable aura
hanging around it. Someone had cleared it up. Clearing out the strewn paper and
righting the furniture. That same someone was sat beside her; watching her
carefully as she opened her eyes and looked around.
Turning her eyes onto him, Ravens eyes filled with questioning and she threw
caution to the wind and flung her arms around him. "I thought you were dead!" She
gasped into a green skinned neck.
Beast Boy chuckled lightly. "So that's it, we wondered what got you so angry
Anyway, I came to say thank you. Cyborg had us in med rooms next to each other.
Then he came in the other day and I was healed. Poof! Internal bleeding;
ruptured lung, all gone! There was only one person it could have been." He said
smiling down at her as he lowered her back to the pillows. Raven batted his
arms away impatiently and scrambled to get up, despite his protests that she
should rest.
Getting straight up, Raven wobbled a bit and accepted his offer of an arm to
lean on as she walked down to the main room. She was met by cheers of
happiness. Starfire flew to her and enveloped her in a hug.
"Oh, my friend! I am so pleased you are well, I will go make the pudding of
happiness!" Then letting go of the chocking girl Starfire flew to the kitchen.
Robin and Cyborg started forward with their concerns about her welfare. But
stopped in surprise as they saw the position of Beast Boys arms; which were
wrapped around Ravens waist; and instead of trying to kill him she was smiling!
Raven leaned happily into Beast Boy, smirking at the gob smacked looks on the
other two boys faces. Beastboy ever the joker, tested just how much they could
make the other boys squirm and said casually to Raven, "Hey Raven, you wanna go
catch a movie?" Raven nodded and the two began to leave; laughing at the expression on Cyborg and Robins faces, who both looked like they were going to have some sort
of seizure.
Raven smiled, wincing as she heard something nearby explode, but Beast Boy shook
his head at her. "Don't worry about it; I think we can exchange a few broken light
Bulbs for you being happy." Then he casually leaned forward to kiss her. This
seemed to snap Cyborg out of his reverie and he snatched Beast Boy away
shouting,
"Right! Before you go anywhere with my little sister, we have a few thing to sort
out. Number one, you hurt her and Ill hurt you! Got it? Number two…"
Raven shook her head at the action and settled back to watch as Cyborg
described, in great detail to the young changeling exactly what he would do to
him if he ever so much as made her frown, let alone cry. Raven smiled, she had
a feeling that all of this really wasn't necessary. Beast Boy really wanted to
make her happy, and that in itself made her the happiest she had ever been.