Alrighty then! I bet you guys are super excited, so I won't bore you with a long opening note! I don't own Teen Titans, and away we go! Into the darkness, my duckies! Mwahahahaha–! (cough cough cough… splutter… (completely ruins evil laugh))

Raven's Game 3: Final Shadow

Part 14 – Main Street Brawl

"Here we go…" Cyborg whispered. He, Beast Boy, and Starfire had reached the edge of the ghostlike appendages that were attached to Dark Fall. Little thread-like things were everywhere in the city. And, on the other end of them was the spirit of someone Dark Fall had destroyed and consumed. Its own private army of thousands.

Beast Boy took a deep breath, shivering in the rain that had found them only moments ago. "I hope Raven comes soon. She'd make that a whole lot easier…"

"We will have to survive until she arrives…" Starfire whispered, her eyes still seething with raw anger. They kept walking forward and none of the glowing, red spirits seemed to take any notice… until suddenly they did. Every single one suddenly turned and stared at all three Titans. They froze in place, until Cyborg's sonic cannon sprang free. There was a long silence. "Why… why are they not attacking us?" Starfire shivered hard. Those eyes… all those horrible, empty eyes. Red spirits with eyes like black ink… "W-what are they waiting for?"

"Orders." Beast Boy said, looking up and over the crowd towards the main body of evil. Dark Fall. "It's waiting for us to get scared. Scared… so we'll make a mistake." Beast Boy's head tilted downward slightly, until his eyes were shadowed under his eyebrows. Only faint glints of light from the lightning could be seen that told they were even still there. "I… I got one thing to say to all you zombies… and you too, Dark Fall."

FLASHBACK – The beginning of THIS story when Beast Boy awoke from the nightmare

"Sorry…" Beast Boy whispered in a cracked voice, climbing into bed next to her again. Raven felt him trembling uncontrollably, though. She held his head to her breast, stroking his hair comfortingly. He took a deep breath through his nose, held it, then let it out. Her intoxicating scent clouded his mind into a peaceful sort of lust. Not the kind that would pounce on a girl without a word… but the kind that would wrap her in a wordless embrace of warmth and love. Beast Boy's arms hooked around her, and he nuzzled against her for reassurance.

"It's gone, Gar…" Raven whispered, stroking his hair. "I trapped it in space, you trapped it in time, and we beat it together at the end." She pulled him up to her eye level, halfway on top of him. They could feel the heat from each other's breath. She nibbled at his neck, coaxing a soft moan from his throat. "You've gotta face what you're afraid of…" she whispered.

END OF FLASHBACK

It all seemed to echo in Beast Boy's mind. Over and over and over again. Raven's coaching to help him get over something as simple as a nightmare. But, he was living a nightmare. Even so… her words spread courage in his heart like a wildfire. His eyes were ablaze and his teeth clenched. His love's voice grew louder and resonated with his very soul.

"You've gotta face what you're afraid of…"

"Face what you're afraid of…"

"What you're afraid of…"

"Afraid of…"

"I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU!" Beast Boy's voice echoed over the storm and throughout the city! He turned into a T-rex, throwing Cyborg on his back Starfire took to the skies. Dark Fall's eyes narrowed in anger at the green teen's defiance.

Roaring a battle cry to match the king of beasts, Beast Boy swung his tail in a full circle, scattering the first wave. Cyborg blasted out a streetlight, and the red spirits actually parted to not get hit. "They're solid!" He shouted over the rain. "They hafta dodge stuff to not get hit!"

"Let them try to dodge me!" Starfire went full auto with her starbolts, right into the thick of them. They mostly skattered, but she got a few of them. They flew backward at the impact just like any normal person did, and lay still. Starfire did a slow circle above them to admire her handiwork. Six or seven of them lay out flat…

…and now they were getting up like nothing had happened.

Starfire almost fell out of the air with shock. Even the one's Beast Boy had thwacked in his T-rex form. Cyborg, with his quick mind and problem-solving, quickly figured it out. "I bet if I…" he aimed carefully to a random specter in the crowd. His sonic cannon blasted and severed the red, glowing thread that connected it to Dark Fall. The spirit fell and dissipated, gone for good. "Yes! It's the threads! Cut them off and they die!" jumping off of Beast Boy's back he charged into the crowd like a linebacker! It was then that it got serious.

The specter slash zombies slash whatever one would call them were ordered to attack. Every single one of them drew a weapon, spell or some form of weaponry. Timeless anger bordered their eyes, and the battle began. Beast Boy turned into a raptor as ghostly arrows whistled through the air to claim him. Smaller, he darted among the crowd, chewing through the crowd with his razor-sharp teeth. Starfire gave him cover with countless starbolts, flying through the frenzy of projectiles and flying blades!

Cyborg twisted about and fired a stream as an ancient knight raised his sword to kill him. The thread gone, he vanished. A sorceress conjured a ball of flame and he threw himself to one side as it sizzled past his ear. Rolling forward and ripping a streetlight out of the ground, he swung it broadside to clear a space! Instantly they pressed in around him again. Throwing his arms open as though to hug a very large person, missiles sprouted all over his body from little hidden compartments. His red eye flashed a few times and the barrage launched! Hissing flashes of smoke were left in their trail and the side of a building was blown away, burying dozens of them in the rubble. Magic threads snapped, and more and more of them were gone. But then again, more and more of them kept coming.

Beast Boy the green raptor dashed through the violence, never standing still. Never getting hit. His eyes were narrowed into slits of hereditary rage. The raptor was more in control than he was. Kill, he urged it on. Kill them all. This isn't the time to be a hero. This is the time to survive. The raptor tore through specter after specter, severing thread after thread. He hissed in pain when a viking clipped his side with a sword, making him veer off course into a trashcan. Turning human again he threw himself to his feet, somersaulted forward and became a ram! Slamming headlong into the armored zombie he got his thread of life tangled in his horns and snapped it. The man fell, turned into smoke and disappeared. Just like all the others. Becoming a rabbit he raced between all sorts of legs, he traveled under a parked car and became a gorilla. Lifting the car as he grew he almost saw the arrows too late! He slammed the car down on its side to make a shield for himself, then slammed his shoulder against it. The car rolled spectacularly, crushing opponents as it went and snapping their red threads.

Starfire quickly learned that being up high was not good. So many of their dead enemies had arrows, throwing stars, and magic projectiles she was better off on the ground. Using her fantastic strength she listed one of them and pitched him like a bowling ball. Red threads got tangled everywhere and she blasted the knot with her starbolts. A whole group of them vanished into a smokey haze, gone from the battlefield. Spinning about like a top, she threw green blasts of energy in every direction. "Ha! Hah! Hah!" she cried out with each one, blasting to chip away at the numbers of the enemy.

And so the battle went on. They were mostly too slow to be much of a threat. There was a scrape, here, a lucky hit there, but for the most part their numbers were their strength. The green boy had been hit the most. Beast Boy returned to his human form often now, looking ragged and angry. He would skid on his shoes in the wet street, only to take off running again. They were determined to star together. All in a group. One of their group was already dead though. He was somewhere in the city, as though they'd get that far… The metal man blasted wave after shining blue wave of energy, as though by magic. But, it was not magic. Whatever it was, it severed the life threads like a lance of light. The orange-skinned girl was powerful too yes, yes, but she would wear down the fastest. She was fighting with her passions for her dead love, Robin, and she would be the first to fall. And when she did, she would join the ranks of the army of Dark Fall…

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Raven saw tons of them before she even got three-quarters of the way across the bay. Red, spectral soldiers from all across the ages. "Dark Fall's victims…" Raven was suddenly blinded by a white fog, and came to a screeching halt in midair! A presence. She felt a presence. Who was it? Who was there, shrouded in this… white fog?

It was… it was a lot of people. People she didn't recognize. The gothic girl was surrounded by fog on all sides. And, she was surrounded by… white ghosts. These weren't like the ones that the others were no doubt fighting. These seemed… peaceful.

"Woe-laden child…" one of them stepped forward, or rather, hovered since they were in midair. It was a name in Templar armor, one of the most legendary knights in all of earth's history. A knight of the Templar. "Listen well, if you would hope to defeat darkness once and for all…" Raven didn't think she had much of a choice. More and more white ghosts were coming. The funny thing was… they looked kind of like the spirits that Dark Fall had been using. Only… they were on the right side now. The white-clad girl decided to listen.

And that's all for now! I'm writing at a furious pace so I can let the world know what happens next! Please be kind and leave a review for me if you would. Thankies, and I'll be back with the next part soon! Buh-bye!