Here we are again! I'm surprised so many people have already shown up for this story. Tee hee! That just makes me wanna write more and update faster! Thanks for all the reviews, ya'll! Okay, this chapter is going to be a little angsty, so please bear with me. It's gotta be done to progress the story, and pull the other three Titans up to date as to how bad things really are. Prepare for the verbal smackdown! I don't own Teen Titans!

Raven's Game 3: Final Shadow

Part 2: Icy Princess

It wasn't long before the demonic eyes had vanished from the waters, leaving the Titans feeling very unnerved. Their eyes strayed back to the game board, save Raven's. Her face was buried in Beast Boy's shoulder, having a rather vulnerable moment. There was a long silence.

"Well…" Robin mumbled, trying to figure out the right leader-like thing to say. "I guess we can relax now that the bugs are gone."

"It'll only get worse." Beast Boy said softly, leading Raven to the love seat. She sat there, rocking back and forth slightly, trying to regain herself. "It's only just begun."

"How bad could it be?" Robin said, putting up his hands. That struck a nerve right away.

"Bad!" Beast Boy snapped at him angrily. "The three of you have no idea what's happening!" He pointed to Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin. Starfire looked shocked, though Cyborg remained neutral as he could.

"Listen, we'll just get through this like any other villain and –!" Robin was interrupted when Beast Boy took him by the collar.

"Dark Fall isn't a villain!" The green teen shouted in his face. "It isn't Slade or Brother Blood or even Trigon!" Raven flinched visibly at the sound of her father's name. "Dark Fall is a different kind of evil!"

"Let me go." Robin said icily, prying at Beast Boy's fingers. Raven stood, having collected herself at last. "I know we can handle it."

"Could you handle running through a room that's on fire, searching for something smaller than a baseball?" Beast Boy demanded. "Could you handle not knowing if you'll live or die at the turn of the corner? Could you fucking handle a soul-sucking monster all by yourself?"

"Could you handle a rape attempt?" Raven put in softly, drawing near and putting a hand on Beast Boy's shoulder. "Let him go. Ignorance could be useful at this point." He stared at her, then let go of Robin.

"Please! No more mean words!" Starfire pleaded, coming close and interlocking her fingers at her breast. "Surely we could defeat this darkness again if we worked together?" Always the diplomat, the level of tension in the room lowered because of her.

"She's got a point…" Cyborg said thoughtfully. "We're all in the game this time. Not just one of us."

"But this game looks like the real world to me." Raven took out her communicator and flipped it open. It cackled and fuzzed at her, not even displaying a signal. "Nope… we're in the game alright. This isn't the real world."

"When did it suck us in?" Beast Boy wanted to know. "I mean, the last two times were pretty obvious." There was a long silence of thinking. Surely they would've remembered being sucked into a dark portal or something… "Maybe… when the game pieces went to their starting spots?"

"Likely." Raven agreed.

"Well… how are we going to get out of here?" Robin wanted to know. "It looks like the tower, but its not?" Raven and Beast Boy nodded.

"We play the game." Raven said gravely, pulling her hood back. Her eyes said she was seeing something far in the past. She glanced at the love seat, where the fake Beast Boy had tried to rape her. She shuddered, not speaking of it. Only Beast Boy knew about that and his eyes portrayed sympathy, knowing what she was thinking about. She quickly collected herself and spoke again. "We play by its rules, and stay alive if we can. You don't get extra lives in this game. Its play or die."

The others nodded, and there was another long silence as they gathered around the game board again. The dice lay innocently to one side, in one of the 'doors' of the game's box. Starfire boldly reached and picked them up. "I shall do the rolling next." She said softly. Raven licked her dry lips, looking around as though something were ready to jump out at her. Which, there probably was. Briefly rattling them in her hand as she'd seen Beast Boy do, she dropped them on the board. The dice landed on two. A 1 and a 1. The yellow game piece nudged forward two spaces, and she frowned. "I did not advance very far…" Starfire mumbled, looking disappointed.

Bubbly, misty letters started to take shape in the black glass at the center of the board. Everyone leaned forward, but they were angled to where Starfire could read them. She opened her mouth and spoke slowly as the words took shape:

WONDER, WONDER WHAT YOU'LL SAY,

WHEN ALL YOUR COLOR DRAINS AWAY.

They all looked at each other. These two lines of warning were even weirder than the last two. "I do not understand." Starfire said softly. Everyone leaned forward for a better look. Sure enough, that's what it said. "Raven? Beast Boy?" She asked the two of them, as though their experiences would provide an answer. They both shrugged.

"Starfire your hands!" Robin cried suddenly. "Look at your hands!" The redhead held them out for all to see, and found them to be paper-white. Everyone gasped, and she stood with a startled yelp.

"It's cold…" she whispered in surprise. He entire body started shaking. "Its cold!" She sounded a little more desperate that time. The paleness was working its way up her orange-skinned arms. She staggered suddenly, shaking hard. The team rushed to steady her, but she fell near the board, shaking convulsively. "Friend R-R-Robin…" she whimpered. "It's cold… s-s-so… c-cold……" Robin touched her and recoiled with a cry!

"She's like ice!"

"Somebody roll the dice!" Beast Boy shouted suddenly. "If we start another turn, this one might stop!"

"Starfire rolled doubles!" Raven said aloud. "She has to roll again!"

"It could get worse if she rolls again!" Robin roared angrily. Starfire's legs were fading to the same pale white. Raven looked on in silent horror, and Cyborg suddenly checked his arm for life-signs.

"She's freezing over, man! Her body temperature is droppin' like a rock!" He said desperately. "Her heart is slowing down!"

"Starfire, stay with us!" Robin cried, shaking her. She looked as though she were having some sort of spasmic attack, thrashing about and arching her back! Her quick, wheezing breaths were making her lips turn blue. Froth was escaping her mouth and her eyes were rolling into her head. "Oh God!" Robin didn't know what to do, tears streaming out of his eyes. "Starfire!"

"She's dying!" Cyorg cried. "She's starting to flatline!" The lines on Cyborg's arm that told of her condition were getting flatter and flatter. Her temperature kept dropping! "Her heart's gonna freeze over!"

The color was leaving Starfire's hair, leaving it white like an old lady's. Her pupils went tiny as the color in her stomach and face vanished. That left only specks on her chest–! Raven suddenly rushed forward, pulling the game along with her on the floor. Taking Starfire's icy white hand, she forced the dice into the girl's grip and then turned it upside down.

Clatter. A five.

Slowly, all the colorwas comingback to Starfire's body. Her skin tinted orange again and her clothes soon followed. Her hair exploded with fiery color as her pupils dilated again. She coughed heavily, curling to one side and trembling. There was a group-sized sigh of relief, though Robin was still almost beside himself with grief. He pulled her up into his lap, letting her bury her face in his chest. They rocked back and forth, quietly weeping.

Giving them a private moment, Cyborg spoke to Beast Boy. "What does it say, man?" Raven and Beast Boy were leaned over the game, and he knelt to see as well.

I WILL EVENTUALLY KILL YOU ALL,

I AM THE SHADOW CALLED DARK FALL.

Beast Boy finished reading it, and met Raven's eyes for only split second. "I think its just taunting us with this one." He swallowed, thankful they had a few moments to recover from what had just happened. Starfire was weeping hysterically, crying salty tears into Robin's shirt. He held her silently, then looked over her shoulder at Beast Boy. Is it always this bad, his eyes seemed to ask.

"It'll only get worse." Raven said softly. "We've gotta be ready." Starfire finally got a hold of herself, sniffing and nodding quickly.

"I… I must be ready for battle at all times." She whispered, still thoroughly shaken. She finally stood on shaky legs with Robin's support, her tear-streaked eyes looking at them all again. She forced up a very fake-looking smile, "I am ready to continue… I think…" She looked at the game board with haunted eyes. It had almost killed her on her first turn, right at the very beginning.

The whole team sat there for a long time, staring at Jumanji. It almost killed her… what else would it do before it was all over? Would they even live to see the end? Similar questions were in all of their heads, and they took a short time to rest and readjust. Raven looked around at Robin, Starfire and Cyborg. They seemed to finally be grasping how deep the shadows went. She looked at Beast Boy, who seemed to be in a rather depressed and sober mood. She sat next to him, resting a hand on his. He looked at her with softened eyes. Eyes that needed reassurance. She ran her thumb back and forth across the heavily gloved hand. The others still didn't know about the scars… but he could till feel her warmth inside them…

It was Robin who reached for the dice next. "Okay… I'll go next." Swallowing and picking them up, he rattled them in his hand. Everyone held their breath, and he dropped them.

Eleven!

A 5 and a 6! A grin actually found Robin's face as his little red game piece advanced along its path, eleven spaces forward. "Not bad…" he mumbled, looking at his team.

"More spaces probably means worse consequences." Raven stood, her hands turning black with magical energy. Beast Boy did the same, ready to turn into any animal to fight with. Cyborg sprang to his feet, his sonic cannon deploying.

"Read it, friend Robin." Starfire said softly, gesturing to the middle of the game board with her eyes. "Perhaps it will not be so bad…" she cupped her hands and breathed on them, trying to chase the last of the cold away. It didn't seem to help, but she offered a weak smile.

Robin's eyes slowly fell to the board, and letters started swimming into view a few at a time. His brow furrowed as his team stood poised for battle. He read them to himself when it was done forming.

EVERY MONTH AT THE QUARTER MOON,

THERE'LL BE A MONSOON IN YOUR LAGOON.

"A monsoon?" He'd finished reading it aloud for the others, tilting his head. Starfire actually smiled at this, and he followed her line of thinking. "Well, at least we're inside, right?" Raven didn't look so sure about that statement, and Cyborg looked wary. The room very suddenly began turning dark, and Starfire let out a little whimper.

"Yeah right, man." Beast Boy actually made a show of retreating into Raven's cloak with her. She extended it by magic, keeping them both inside.

There was a brilliant flash of lightning, thunder only a split second later!

Robin slowly tilted his head back, looking up at the high ceiling. Dark, black cloud were rolling and boiling angrily there. It was as though the ceiling wasn't there at all. Lightning played within the clouds for a few more seconds... and it began! Rain began pouring down so hard Raven was almost knocked off her feet! Beast Boy supported her, feeling the rain pound on her cloak heavily. Afraid, like the others, she couldn't use her powers very well at the moment anymore. "Well… A little rain never hurt anybody…" Cyborg said hopefully, looking at his teammates.

Beast Boy went pale and escaped from Raven's cloak to point! "But a lot can kill you!" He screamed. The elevator came open on it's own and a massive rush of water escaped it! The Titans screamed as a group as they were hit in the gut with a wave of water.

The air was forced from Raven's lungs in the blow. She hadn't had time to take a breath. She couldn't find the surface to get one! There was no air anywhere in the room. Her brain was getting fuzzy within a few seconds. God…… it… it hurt so much… Raven clutched at her throat, her eyes squeezed shut. Where the others were, she didn't know. She couldn't… breathe… ahhh…

Beast Boy……
And that's the cliffie for today, folks! I hope you enjoyed the latest chappie! I worked hard on it, I'll have you lot know! Now, I must say this. If anyone had any rhymes for me to use as threats from DARK FALL, please please please post them in your reviews! I don't wanna just use the ones from the movie! Think up something scary, and I'll put it into the ficcy! YAY! Until next time, horror fans!