It somehow all makes sense,

The way life works,

So simple and elegant,

Its beauty far beyond human's tiny concepts.

The randomness of events,

The rush of adrenaline as you experience it,

All seems to climax to one big truth,

That life is a gift.

We ponder to make lessen the complications of living this gift,

And it only makes it more complicated,

Life is about fulfilling your dreams and desires,

As time marches forth.

Do not fear what is beyond,

But only embrace its unknown qualities,

For a far better future lies ahead.

By: xThe-Unkwnx

Nightwing dodged the angry attacks of the teen, and with each time he didn't get hit, he grew more exhausted. There was no way that Slade, Raven, or Starfire could intervene, and the feud was kept ablaze on its own. Rhiannon seemed to become more disoriented. Her attacks weren't on track anymore, and she was clearly getting angrier. An energy globe clipped Nightwing's shoulder and he stumbled backwards, very close to loosing his balance. With only destroying the attacker, and the enemy, on his mind, Nightwing stuck back with his Bo staff and hit her in the face. Rhiannon took the hit, but seemed to shake it off as if someone had just slapped her lightly. She was to angry to feel pain, and to feel that her powers were slowly barreling out of control.

"Stop, Rhiannon," Nightwing cried, "I don't want to hurt you!"

"It's to late for that now, bastard. You think you can trash talk me and get away with it? Well, two can play that same game. You see Starfire…over there? Yeah, well she only married and slept with you because she kept on taking huge sums of money. She told me it was for good looks too. And as far as the looks of your child? She will truly look like an alien. Hell, she might even end up like me," Rhiannon teased.

"This is childish, just stop!"

"Why? So you can continue to ruin my family? Continue to destroy what my birth parents keep on trying to build?"

"No! Rhiannon please… just--" Rhiannon pushed an energy field as long and wide as a kitchen table into Nightwing, and he flung into the glass window, and a slight cracking noise was made.

"Nightwing!" Starfire cried, running to her lover. Rhiannon put up a shield and pushed her away with it too.

"Don't even think about it…or the both of you are dead."

"Calm down, Rhiannon. Just relax. Once you settle down, we can discuss the official break up of this team!" Raven coaxed, trying to get her daughter to listen.

"This is the only time I will defy you mother, and it won't be in vein…."

Rhiannon went over to the completely startled Nightwing and punched him several time in the face and stomach. Soon her dark powers entered the beating and Nightwing was struggling to keep a strong composure.

"How do you like feeling weak and defenseless? No, I don't like it that much either," Rhiannon sighed, answering her own question. Nightwing stood up and placed his hands on her shoulders and threateningly pushed her backwards.

"Don't think you can defeat me," Nightwing said, pushing her again, "because you can't. Your powers can't last my superior fighting skills." Nightwing pushed her harder each time, but to his disadvantage her anger towards him only grew, and so did her power.

"Oh really? With my power alone I can destroy this tower, never mind what I can do to one block of your precious city. I can easily walk down to the streets and blow a chunk to smithereens. So keep on talking tough, and it will be the innocent who get the wrath in the end," Rhiannon said, walking back towards Nightwing.

"You disgust me."

"I can't be that bad. I'm only half of Slade," Rhiannon said a fist of dark magic landing on his lower stomach, scarily close to his groin. The fighting got more and more deliberate, the sly comments worsening. Punch after punch, hit after hit…the quarrel seemed it would never end.

Nightwing grabbed Rhiannon's wrist and threw her across the room, and ran to her as she was on the floor and struck her many times, trying to weaken her. He laid his Bo-staff over her neck to keep her down. Rhiannon struggled greatly, and tried to fend him off.

"What are you doing!" Raven shrilled, seeing that Nightwing was appearing to be choking her.

"She's out of control every other way!" Nightwing defended.

"…must not loose…have to…have…win…have to…win," Rhiannon struggled to say. Slade slowly walked over to the scene, only to intimidate Nightwing, and to make sure that nothing would happen to Rhiannon.

"Rhiannon calm down…please, baby…calm down!" Raven cried tears filling her eyes. She was very fearful of what was going to happen if she didn't.

"She's getting harder to hold down!" Nightwing warned.

"Fuck you…fuck you!" Rhiannon repeatedly cursed, showing no signs of giving up.

"Move, chickadee," Slade said addressing Nightwing, "she's only getting more angry because she sees you. Let me hold her down." Nightwing nodded in agreement, and Slade came over and held the bar down. "Hold on to her to her feet. Try and keep her as stable as possible."

"Is she having a seizure?" Changeling innocently asked.

"No, Changeling. Her anger is causing her to have a fit, and her powers…they may not be able to be controlled," Cyborg explained with a heavy heart.

"Slade talk to her! Reassure her everything is okay, or something!" Raven cried.

"Rhiannon look at me…god damn it look at me! Nightwing is dead. Rhiannon! Nightwing passed away. He's done for…. Oh thank god she stopped resisting," Slade said, his voice steady and soothing. Rhiannon's white glowing eyes didn't go back to her natural color, but instead they were turning black.

"Raven…," Slade said worriedly.

"…help…me…," Rhiannon struggled to say. Raven looked into her daughter's eyes, and a heavy flow of tears poured out of her eyes.

"Everyone…get out. She's…going to blow the tower!" Raven said.

"Raven I can sa--" With her black magic she through her husband against the wall, but he still kept on trying to speak.

"I can save her, Raven! Just give me a --"

"Slade! You'll die!"

"I can't die! I'm--"

"Slade, please!"

"Just shut up and listen! I can saver her if you--"

"Her powers are uncontrollable…she's going to…," Raven couldn't even finish what she was going to say, and looked down at her daughter, who seemed completely lost in heavy thought. Raven stroked her hair, and tears poured out of her eyes.

"Why do you have to go like this? Please come back, Rhiannon…please! I love you, baby. Why do the innocent always die young?" Raven cried.

"…I--I love you too. P-Please forg--forgive me. Love you much…," Rhiannon struggled to say. As she stuttered, her father, the cold heartless man everyone made him out to be, shed a few tears of his own, and held Raven close, as she with great effort, tried to keep herself together. With one loud cry, all the powers her mother gave her, that caused her death, were released. The energy ripped through the walls and glass of the tower, only taking a chunk out of the "T". The explosion was heard throughout the city, and the curious spectators watched in wonder as their protector's home blew as the sun was setting.

Raven buried her head deeper into Slade's chest and cried, careful of controlling her own power. Raven had put a protection shield so the explosion would not harm them. It was the hardest thing she ever had to do…to save her own life, and know that her daughter's was being taken away.

-xXx

The four Titans dashed out of the room, all sub-consciously knowing what was going to happen. They were all in disbelief that it had to end this way.

"So, she's really…?" Changeling said, while running down the stairs.

"We don't know until--"

A loud booming sound roared, and the hard vibrations knocked all of them forward. Rolling down the stairs, they shouted in pain, trying to stop the downward roll. Once they reached the bottom of that stairwell, Starfire broke down into violent cry. She couldn't control the tears that flowed out of her dainty green eyes. Nightwing went to hold her close, and she pushed him away, hard.

"You shouldn't have taken her! She is dead because of you! Dead!"

-xXx

Raven slowly turned her head from Slade's chest, and saw her daughter lie lifeless. Her mind was playing her for a fool, trying to make Rhiannon look like she was blinking, and coming back to life. Weak and heartbroken Raven crawled over to the body, and collapsed over it, crying even more.

"Come on, Raven. It isn't going to make it any easier--"

"She's dead Slade, and all you can do is get up and walk away?" Raven questioned, looking at him fiercely with bloodshot eyes and a tear stained face.

"That's all you can do besides let her live on in your memory," Slade said, halfheartedly. As much as he kept his grief inside, he still expressed it through his tone of voice.

"You have killed to many people to feel death! I can save everyone else, but not my own daughter…."

"I could have…should have saved her…but you wouldn't listen to me. Raven, I'm immortal! I can not die!" Raven sat and looked up at him, her mouth agape.

"…you are…immortal? I…," Raven couldn't finish her thoughts without breaking into tears.

"Let's go…come on Raven. Raven! Please, don't do this. I know you'll miss her--"

"She missed so much of her life," Raven said through sniffles and a broken heart, "she could have lived so much more."

"She should have Raven, but that's for fate to decide. Not us," Slade said lifting her, cradling her in his arms.

-xXx

"If that stupid bitch didn't go fuck him, than there wouldn't be a brat to steal, now would there?" Nightwing yelled in Star's face.

"That wasn't your choice. It was your choice to steal Rhiannon. And look at what you have done!" Starfire blurted. During the next couple minutes of silence, the four teammates heard footsteps, and all stood up to greet whoever was coming down.

"I'm sorry," whispered Changeling, as Slade walked past, who was holding a seemed to be spaced out Raven. He nodded, to acknowledge his apology.

"The Titan's are done--"

"You think?" Cyborg stated.

-xXx

The phone rang loudly on the hook of Derek and Grace Harris' home. Grace rushed to answer it.

"Hello?" she asked cheerfully.

"Mrs. Harris? This is the Jump City Police Department. We are calling to grant you our condolences. Rhiannon has passed away this morning in an explosion at Titans tower. The Titans want you and your husband to meet them at the funeral home on Boulevard Street in the city. Once again, I am terribly sorry," the officer said on the other line, hanging up.

Grace dropped the phone, and tears filled her eyes, trying to comprehend the information that she was just given. The shock didn't hit her, until she had to attend the funeral.

-xXx

Raven saw a grieving couple, and recognized them as the people who raised Rhiannon. She walked over to meet them.

"Mr. and Mrs. Harris? Hi, I'm Raven Wilson, Rhiannon's birth mother. This is my husband, and Rhiannon's father Slade," Raven introduced herself.

"As in the villain Slade?" Grace eagerly asked.

"Oh, no," Raven said trying to act convincing.

"How did…she…die?" Grace asked.

"A glitch within the tower. Something electronicly created we assume," Slade casually answered.

"Will it happen again?"

"No one is going to be in there for it to happen again. The team has decided to break apart for the betterment of everyone," Raven sighed, tears filling her eyes.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Derek said sympathetically, "why did you let Robin, or who is now…was…Nightwing, take Rhiannon away?"

"At the time she was born, Jump City was not very safe. Nor was Raven or I able to care for Rhiannon at that particular time in our lives. Nightwing noticed it, and took her away to a safe location. It was for all the right reasons," Slade lied.

"Oh. Well, we are glad that she was given to us. She was truly a gift," Derek complimented.

The gathering for Rhiannon's burial took place, and everyone was there. From her friends, including Justin, to her teachers an array of people showed up. None of them knew the secret of Rhiannon's birth parents, and they never would. So all the condolences were given to Mr. and Mrs. Harris. Everyone looked gloomily at the casket, lost in the memories that everyone had shared with her.

On her tombstone it read:

Rhiannon Harris

Born: April 25, 1989

Died: March 7, 2006

A friend and a companion who will never be forgotten

…hiding the imperfections of her life with the Titans.

A/N: This is once again, not the end my dearest readers! Sorry about the "lateness" of the chapter…but I have been so busy!