AN: No, I still don't bloody own Teen Titans so everyone stop asking me! (just kidding)
Chapter 10
The team got Terra home first before they could do anything else. She had been screaming and threatening them, so it was better to just get rid of her. Beast Boy couldn't believe he had been tricked. He couldn't believe Raven had been taken to Hell. He couldn't believe all of this was real and not some horrible nightmare.
"Please, is there no way to repair the belt?" asked Starfire.
"No, it's shattered," Cyborg sighed.
"We have to get her back," said Robin pacing back and forth.
"Yeah, well, can you think of a way to go to Hell without death being involved?" asked Cyborg shortly. "Cuz I sure can't!"
"Cyborg is correct," said Starfire. "Our souls do not allow us to travel back and forth between the world of the mortals and the world of the immortals. It is not possible."
"Well then we have to get her back somehow without us having to go to Hell," said Robin, thinking as hard as he could. "Her soul can still travel back and forth."
"And what are we gonna do if we do get her back?" asked Cyborg. "That demon can come right back and take her again!"
"Give me a break, Cyborg!" yelled Robin. "I'm doing my best."
"Please, everyone must calm down," said Starfire, who was in no way calm. "Yelling at each other will not help Raven."
Cyborg and Robin sighed, knowing she was right. They just couldn't believe this had happened. An hour ago they were getting ready to celebrate Terra's return. Now they were trying to find a way to get Raven out of Hell!
"Hey, where's Beast Boy?" asked Robin. All three looked around the room and found him no where. "Find him," Robin growled and the three split up.
Beast Boy threw another book to the ground and moved onto the next one. He was going through her entire library, trying to find some sort of answer. He looked through it and found nothing, so he tossed it over his shoulder like the others. He had to get her back. He had to tell her he was sorry.
Robin was just running past when he noticed that Ravens door was open. He looked in and saw Beast Boy just tossing another book over his shoulder. "Beast Boy, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" he spat. "I'm trying to find a way to get Raven back."
"How could you be so stupid?" Robin said sternly. "How could you give a complete stranger Ravens belt without even asking for her permission?"
"He tricked me!" Beast Boy yelled and threw another book aside. "He promised to give me Terra and I stupidly chose her instead of Raven."
"What do you mean, you chose?" asked Robin.
"You wouldn't understand," said Beast Boy flipping through the pages of another ancient book.
"I don't care," said Robin, crossing his arms. "Start explaining."
"Fine," growled Beast Boy slamming a book to the ground and grabbing another. "I was having trouble getting over Terra and about two months ago Raven volunteered to help me get over her. Over that time we realized that we liked each other, and I mean like liked each other. And so I thought I was over Terra. And then that Figaro guy showed up and said he could give me Terra and all I had to do was let him borrow Ravens belt. So I had to choose between Terra and Raven. I chose Terra. I chose wrong!"
He threw another book aside and started on the next shelf down. Just then Cyborg and Starfire found them and entered the room.
"Man, what are you doin?" asked Cyborg.
"I'm trying to get Raven back!" Beast Boy yelled angrily. He wasn't angry at them at all, he was furious and disgusted with himself. "I have to get her back. I just have to."
They decided to leave him alone while they searched for other ways to get Raven back. It was clear that if they attempted to talk to him he would bite their heads off. They just hoped he would look carefully and come up with something.
Hours passed and still Beast Boy could find nothing. He felt like he was going to have a nervous breakdown. He couldn't find anything that would help him in saving Raven in any of her books.
"There's got to be something in here," said Beast Boy, starting to search through her room. He went under her bed and overturned just about every piece of furniture in the room. But he still couldn't find anything. He couldn't even find her meditation mirror. He figured that even that would help him at this point.
"Okay, I've checked her shelves," he said, checking off a list in his head. "I went under her bed and I looked through her bureau, which I have to make sure Raven never finds out about. What's left!"
Then he looked into the corner of her room and found something that had been hiding in the shadows; a trunk. He quickly went over to it and found that it was locked. Raven only locked up things that her friends were truly never meant to see. Maybe that was why she attempted to lock her door so often. There had to be something in there.
He turned into a beetle and crawled into the lock on the trunk. After a little bit of maneuvering about it clicked and opened. He quickly crawled out and turned back into himself. He ripped the lock off and opened the lid of the trunk, which was surprisingly heavy.
Inside he found a few different bottles of potions, a few scrolls, her meditation mirror and about five books. He quickly emptied contents of the trunk and began thoroughly inspecting everything. He put the potions back in after he read their labels, or tried to read them, and found he couldn't understand a word of it. He decided to go through the books. He opened one and began to read about a dragon named… yeah, he knew which book that was. He quickly threw that book back in the trunk.
"Okay, one of these books or scrolls has to be it," he said to himself.
He was about to grab one of the books when he noticed that another book looked like it had numerous tags sticking out of it. He quickly decided to check that one out first. He opened it up and found it was called Demonology. He flipped to the first tag and read what it was marking. It was a chapter titled Half-breeds. He scanned through the pages and noticed that various sentences and paragraphs were underlined, not to mention Raven had put footnotes all over the place.
He sped read the chapter and looked for anything that would help. He quickly stopped when he saw the word belt. He went to the beginning of that section and began to read carefully.
"The Anti-Scath Belt: The belt prevents half blooded demons from entering Hell. Only one belt is known to exist and is being kept by the monks of Azarath and is protected by Azar herself…"
Beast Boy saw an arrow that Raven had written and footnote.
"Belt now belongs to me."
He skipped down to the next highlighted section of the chapter.
"…each jewel consists 1/12 of a mortal soul. The six jewels together make up for the half soul that the wearer lacks…"
Another footnote.
"Souls from Azar, Arella…" Beast Boy found the next part odd. It looked like she had written down the names of four others, but they were crossed out. Below the names she wrote four new ones.
"…Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, and Beast Boy."
"She had part of our souls?" he asked. "How'd she do that?" He quickly turned the page and went to the next underlined section.
"…the souls are chosen by the wearer to make sure they are pure. The soul donor does not have to be deceased to donate their soul, nor do they need to know…"
Another footnote from Raven.
"Never let the others know."
"Why wouldn't she want us to know?" he asked. "It's not like we wouldn't let her. I mean, if we didn't… this could happen." He then saw a section that made his heart race for her saw the words when belt is destroyed….
"…when belt is destroyed or lost the wearer's soul is now open to being claimed by the demons of Hell. Because they are half mortal and half immortal it is possible for the soul to return from Hell, but to stay in the land of mortals they must replace their half demon soul with the half of another mortal."
"Okay, I get all that," said Beast Boy, frustrated. "But I have to get her back from Hell first! How do I do that?"
He flipped through the pages and hoped to see something that would help him with this problem. He went through what seemed a dozen pages until he finally found a section titled To Be Saved from Hell.
"Finally!" he said. "Now we might be getting somewhere."
"A half-breed demon can only be saved from Hell by another half-breed demon. To see how to stay in the land of mortals refer too page 153. It should be noted that no half-breed demon that has been claimed for Hell has ever returned..."
Beast Boy noticed that Raven had underlined that part. "No wonder she got so upset when she found her belt gone," he said sadly. "Okay, so all I gotta do is find another half demon half something else and they can get Raven." Then he thought about it. "Where am I gonna find someone who's half and half? I barely know what the heck Starfire is." He thought a little more and then sighed. "Guess there's only one thing I can do. Become half demon myself. Now how do I do that?"
He flipped through the book and found a chapter titled To Become Demonic. He guessed that this should help him.
"Warning: Once process of demonization is complete there is no reversal. Please consider this before reading on and performing the demonizing act."
"I deserve to be a demon after what I did to Raven," said Beast Boy sadly. "So, let's get on with it." And he began to read the process of how to sell your soul and become demonic.
The other three Titans were in the computer lab researching all that they could on demons and demon captures. It goes without saying that they weren't getting very far. But it wasn't their fault. Mortals just didn't have the kind of the knowledge or resources for handling a situation like this.
Suddenly a huge BOOM shook the tower, causing the three Titans to scream and hang on for dear life. They then remember Beast Boy and that he was in Ravens unstable room. They quickly made their way to her room, despite the fact that the tower was still shaking and loud explosions of all sorts could be heard. But as they got closer to Ravens rooms the blasts became louder and the rumbles more violent. They reached her door and found it closed and locked.
"Beast Boy!" shouted Robin. "Beast Boy, open up!"
"Please, what is happening?" cried Starfire.
"Stand back!" yelled Cyborg. He charged up his laser canon and blasted the door in. They were met with a lovely blanket of black, hot smoke that stung their eyes and burned their lungs. They quickly dropped to the ground and covered their heads as the explosions continued.
And then, all at once, it stopped. The smoke retracted back into the room and the tower stood still. The three Titans uncovered their heads and looked up. Ravens door was still down, but the black smoke had disappeared. They each got to their feet and peered in.
Beast Boy slowly stood up, his fists clenched and not a bit of him looking phased by the events that had taken place within the room. He turned to his friends and saw them looking at him with question.
"Beast Boy, what happened?" asked Robin.
"I'm half demon now," said Beast Boy plainly. "I gave up half of my soul. Now I can go get Raven."
"You did what!" Cyborg practically shouted.
"Friend, how could you do that?" asked Starfire, almost in tears. "There must be another way…"
"There isn't," said Beast Boy firmly. Then he looked at the ground and a circle of fire formed beneath him. "Don't worry, I'm not leaving without her." And with that he dissolved into the portal below him and was gone.