1Disclaimer: Read previous. I'm freakin tired of writing this.

A/N: Sorry for the bad mood I was in last chapter. I'm going thru some kinda rough times right now, so if I seem depressed, or if I update slower, that's why. Sorry. And sorry I haven't updated in like, two weeks. I got banned from cuz I put up a poll. Heh, my bad. . .

To let you know, I have combined both the characters of Madame Giry and Meg together in Star. I saw no reason to have them both. And besides, it helps with Robin and Star moments!

And now, drum roll please...the Graveyard scene!

Chapter Nine

Raven couldn't sleep. After what had happened the night before, who would? Her ex-love had just revealed himself to not only be alive, but also to be the masked fugitive everyone believed he was. And her current boyfriend, Robin, hadn't been seen since then.

Raven tossed and turned, but no sleep came. She checked the clock...5:00 a.m. She got up. She would have to go to school today anyway, so she might as well get up now. But she couldn't concentrate on school. Her mind was elsewhere.

It was on Garfield. The boy she had loved so much...was now the thing that kept her awake at night. She was afraid he would return for her, to take her, or kidnap her. Or worse. It didn't help that she slept in the same building he haunted. The Opera house.

'That's it!' Raven exclaimed in her mind, growing angry. 'I have to solve this once and for all. I have to find out if Garfield really is my Angel. Or if he is just my ghost...like Robin said.'

With new resolve, Raven picked up a scarf and prepared for the cold morning. There was still snow on the ground, so she would have to be ready. Looking down, Raven noticed a cloak on the ground. It was one that Star had bought her recently. It resembled a blue cape, with a hood on it. Raven grinned. Perfect.

Dropping the scarf, Raven quickly tied the blue cloak. It fit like it was made for her! Raven grinned slightly. Star always knew exactly what to buy for her. Feeling the warmth of the cloak already, Raven placed up the hood. She didn't want to be seen skipping school. Heck, she didn't want to be seen, period!

Raven walked out he door, her cloak billowing behind her. Opening and locking the doors of the Opera house with her private set of keys, she quickly left the building itself, locking the grand doors behind her. She walked out to the street, and hailed over a cab.

She walked over to the yellow and black car and immediately halted as she saw the person behind the wheel.

"Johnny?" she asked, recognizing the boy driving. Johnny Rancid, odor and all, opened the door and got out. His long black hair fell to his shoulders, and his dirty black coat smelt of cigarettes. He lit one up as he looked over at her.

"Sup, Raven?" he said, leaning against the window of the taxi.

"YOU'RE the taxi driver?" she asked, her eyebrow raised.

"Got a problem?" Rancid breathed, smoke coming from his mouth. He coughed a hocked a loogie onto the street. "You gettin' in or what?"

"Um...right," Raven said, opening the door and getting in the very smelly car. She had no idea Johnny had a job. Especially one that dealt with people.

"Nice cloak by the way," Rancid commented. He turned the keys,blooked down as the engine sputtered and seemingly died. "Ah, shit..." he said, putting out his cigarette. "I gotta go check this. Crappy car does this every day."

"Whatever," Raven said as Johnny got out of the car. She just stared out the side window as Johnny went to check on the engine.

"Piece of crud..." Johnny said, opening the engine up. Everything appeared fine. Puzzled, the addict headed back to the back of the car. Maybe something was clogging up the exhaust. And he was right. Except it wasn't something...it was someone.

"The hell..." Rancid said as he looked back to see a snake in the exhaust pipe. The serpent quickly slithered out and, before Johnny could do anything at all, bit him on the heel. Johnny fell over, pained and confused about what had just happened.

"Sucker," Garfield said, morphing back to his human form. He knelt down and stared Johnny in the eye. The teenager was panting and clutching his heel. His eyes were already dilating.

"Blue Coral Snake," Garfield said, pointing out his animal of choice. "Poison's already in the bloodstream. Spreads rather quickly, too. In fact..." Garfield checked the watch on his wrist. "...you should be dead in, say, twenty minutes. Might as well smoke yourself silly."

Garfield stood up and headed towards the car as Rancid fell unconscious behind him. He adjusted the mask on his face and entered the driver's seat in the car. Changing his voice, he spoke to Raven. "Where to?" he asked in an exact replica of Johnny's voice.

"Graveyard, and don't ask why," Raven commanded, not even turning to face him.

"As you wish," Garfield said, grinning. He started the car and drove off, leaving Rancid behind. He wasn't even aware another person entirely was following him. He never saw the teenage boy swinging from building to building with his grappling hook.

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"Graveyard," Gar said, his voice still perfectly hidden.

"Thanks," Raven said, handing him the appropriate money. Gar accepted it without even turning around. "And thanks for not smoking either."

"No prob," Gar said, still not turning around.

Raven exited the cab and head into the gated graveyard. As she entered the cemetery, the car sped off behind her. She didn't even look back. She walked right into the graveyard.

'Roth, Roth,' she scanned the gravestones, looking for her family. Her family had lived in Jump City for generations, they were all buried here. And she was looking for one in particular. She was looking for anyone named Garfield. Garfield Roth.

She knew it was a long shot, but she was willing to look. Her mother had said she would send her the Angel of Music, the guardian of their family. And if she had an ancestor named Garfield...it would prove it forever. It would prove that Garfield was her guardian angel, her mentor...her destined love.

She scanned them, finding nothing even close to Garfield. She quickly found the Roth family and began to read off their names."Malchior, no...Sebastian, no...Rachel, no..." After finding her family, she still couldn't find anyone named Garfield! "Can't I ever catch a break!" Raven breathed. Then she noticed a stone she had missed.

Raven walked over to it and read off. Her eyes grew wide with fear as she read it. She gasped. It felt like her heart had just been ripped out of her chest. The stone read:

Arella Roth

Forgotten by all, but still loved

May she be remembered in death

(June 3rd, 1973 - December 24th, 2005)

Raven felt like crying. Her mother...was dead. The only family Raven had ever known...was gone forever, never to be seen or met again. The last Raven had heard, Arella had been in the hospital. She had gotten no call, no notice of her mother's death.

Because of the house, Raven realized. She had moved to the Opera house, and thus received no word of her mother's death. But it didn't make Raven feel any better. Her mother was dead, gone forever. And she hadn't even got to say goodbye!

Raven felt herself grown sad. But she stopped herself. She could feel nothing, no tears. Raven took up a vow. Right then and there. She couldn't feel anymore.

For fifteen years, Raven had been tortured by her emotions. Her father, Robin leaving, Garfield, and now this! Raven couldn't stand it anymore. Her emotions caused nothing but pain! And thus, she felt no emotion for her mother. She cried not a single tear at her mother's grave.

"Why...?" Raven asked, feeling the sadness well up in her. "Why must this keep happening to me? Am I doomed to torture? That must be it..."

"Never believe that," came the voice behind her. Raven didn't even have to look around to sense who it was. Garfield.

"The taxi, right?" Raven asked, her voice hard and cold.

"Of course,"Garfield said, jumping down from the statue he had been standing on. "Did you really think I had left you? I am always with you, Raven. I never left."

"I realize that now," Raven said, finally turning to see him. Her eyes were filed with anger, sadness, and everything else she had been keeping bottled up. "You never did leave. You followed me everywhere, plotting, didn't you?"

"Of course," Garfield said, smiling gently. "I love you Raven, and I will always be there for you. Whether you want me there or not. I am your Angel of Music. As you are mine."

"My...Angel of Music..." Raven breathed, looking up at him, her hood still covering her face. "Tell me...who are you? What are you!"

"I am everything I said I was," Garfield said, smiling underneath his mask. He walked ever closer to her, taking in her beauty. "I am your Angel of Music. And I will always be here..."

Garfield leaned in, ready to kiss her. She just stood immobilized, not sure what to do. Fear welled up inside her, her purple eyes shaking slightly. As Garfield leaned, she could feel her eyes close. Her heart had made her decision for her. . .

But the kiss never came. Before either of them could react, a birdarang shot through the air, striking Garfield between the eyes. The shape shifter stumbled back, clasping a hand to his face. The mask he had been wearing was now cracked in the center.

"Aargh!" he cried, covering his masked face. Blood could be seen gently falling from the crack in the mask. He looked up to see Robin, costume and all, standing before him, a birdarang in his hands.

"Stay away from her!" Robin cried, pulling out a bo staff. He struck the Beat in the chest, driving him back. Garfield stumbled back, his hands grasping his stomach. "This boy is not your family's angel! He's nothing but a stalker! He means nothing to you!" With that, he struck the Beast in the chest yet again.

"Idiot!" Garfield cried, still holding his chest. "What was that for!"

"That was for Raven!" Robin cried, grabbing the Beast by his collar. Robin pulled the boy into the air and threw him against a tall gravestone nearby. He pulled back his fist, ready to strike. "But this one's on the house!"

With that, Robin punched Gar, the green teen's head smacking against he tombstone. Gar groaned as Robin pulled his fist back again, ready to punch a second. However, as Robin threw his fist forward, the Beast's body shivered and changed. Soon, a cobra was seen, snaking up Robin's arm.

As the green cobra struck, Robin threw his bo staff in its way. The cobra's jaws were trapped over the bo staff, unable to bite him. Behind them both, Raven shrunk back, afraid for both of them, not yet sure who she wanted to win.

Robin threw the cobra onto the ground, and Gar immediately changed shape again, this time into that of a velociraptor. The raptor ran at Robin, claws and jaws ready to tear him apart. Robin whacked it with his bo staff, as Gar attempted to bite him. The raptor succeeded in slashing Robin again the chest.

As Robin cried out in pain, he threw a disc at the Beast. The raptor shrieked as its body was covered in freezing ice. The blue crystals covered Gar, freezing him where he stood. Robin let out a sigh of relief.

It was short lived, however. Gar immediately transformed into a much larger creature to escape the ice dungeon. As Robin's eyes narrowed, he looked at a giant elephant in front of him. The green elephant let out a deadly roar and charged at Robin, its tusks dangerously close.

Across the graveyard, Raven watched all this with worry. She really didn't know who she wanted to win. She didn't was Garfield to die, but she definitely didn't want to lose Robin either. She had never been forced to make such a tough decision before.

Back in ehfight, Robin was throwing birdarang after birdarang at the Beast, striking him several times. Finally, Garfield changed shape until he was back in his normal human form. He threw himself at Robin, ready to defeat him in his human self. He pulled a knife out from his pocket.

"Yah!" Robin cried, throwing him back. Gar dropped the knife and changed shape again, this time into that of the Were-Beast. Unable to control himself, the Were-Beast threw itself at Robin in blind fury. It punched him and slashed at him, ripping he poor boy apart.

"Get...offa me!" Robin cried, drawing a final birdarang. He pushed the button, making along, golden blade shoot out of the birdarang. He now had a sword. Slashing in diagonally, he succeeded in catching the Were-Beast off guard.

Garfield cried out as he reverted back to his human form. His eyes were dilated, and his clothes were ripped in several places. He clutched his bleeding chest, trying to stop the blood that was spilling out of his body onto the snow. Red and white were mixing on the ground as Gar lay panting for his life.

Robin approached, throwing off his now useless cape. He drew he sword again, ready to finish the job. Garfield shut his eyes and turned away, prepared for what was to come. He was going to die, alone, without anyone to love. And he welcomed it.

As Garfield felt himself begin to cry onto his own blood on the ground, Robin lifted up the golden blade. "The legacy of the Beast ends today," Robin said. He lifted the blade up, no expression in his voice or face whatsoever.

"NO!" Raven cried, jumping in front of him. Robin's eyes widened behind his own mask and he stopped the sword from coming down. Raven was right in the middle, between him and the Beast. And he was crying ever so slightly.

"I won't let you hurt him..." she said, her amethyst eyes tearing slightly. "Not here...not like this..." She looked behind her to see Garfield looking up at her with tears in his own eyes.. He looked...scared. And sad in so many ways.

"As you wish," Robin said, sheathing the blade. He grabbed Raven by the arm and lead her away, out of the graveyard. His face was stern, and he looked worried for her.

Raven didn't know what to think. Both were alive, and both were still here. But she didn't know which one she loves. She was so confused. And the only person that understood that...was lying on the ground, bleeding behind her.

Raven looked back once, just once. Her amethyst eyes turned and sparkled as she looked back for Garfield. But she saw him not. All she saw behind her was a large red spot on the ground, where the snow was soaking up the blood. And in the center of that red spot...was a single rose.

A green rose.

A/N: I think I'm getting good this. Well, next chapter will come...whenever. And it will be the big play, Don Juan Triumphant. So be prepared for big twists, lots of suspense. And a chandelier. A HUGE chandelier!

Next time...the Beast...unmasked!

Review or else I'll wait to update. Although it may be a while either way...just review. I know you want to. . .

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