Chapter 5: Bonding?

I sat quietly in the window and stared out at the burning landscape outside. This was at least better than the first hell universe he had brought me too… But it changed nothing. I was still here with him and my friends had turned on me and tried to kill me. I guess Damien would join them one day too… I sighed but suddenly got goosebumps as I felt how father used his magic and then the felling just vanished. He vanished. I rose from the window and looked around me, using my own magic to try to locate him. He wasn't here anymore…! What did he go to do?!

-Damien's POV-
I and Diana fought well and hard to get the queen to change her mind, and all she changed her mind into was to let those who wanted to join us join us. We got like ten amazons who wanted to follow Diana, the rest wanted to help their tribe. I sighed deep. I guess that's better than nothing… Suddenly father came running.

"We got a problem!" He said. Was that panic I heard…?

"What kind of problem?"
"Trigon." Everyone stopped and he turned to Cyborg. "Show them." A huge image of Trigon standing in the sea not far from a US city appeared. At first he just stood still and then he started to walk and the military attacked. He didn't get a scratch thought and couldn't care less. As he walked up on land, he stopped again.

"I know you will watch this, Teen Titans. Justice League. Amazons. So I will tell you all about this right now: Within fourth-eight hours your wretched world will be in the state it deserves with the rulers it deserves! Everything you humans have built will fall and from the ashes of it, I will build a new world! A better one! So be prepared, humans and aliens! Because your world is about to end!" And with that, he shot out a laser beam and started to attack the city. I looked away as I heard screams and buildings started to collapse and within just one or two minutes, there was nothing left of that city and he started to walk towards the next one and right when Cyborg was about to end it, I stopped him.

"Wait, go back seven seconds and raise the volume. He lifted his head as if he heard something just seconds after he started to walk again."
"Alright." Cyborg said and did as I had asked of him.

"Father!" It was Raven!

"Keep on playing!" He nodded and we all watched it. He had stopped and suddenly sent out a bunch of minions and disappeared. That left me there standing and gaping like an idiot. "She called for him and he came to her…"

"They grew that close in that short amount of time?" I shook my head.

"Raven hates him for what he did to her mother and Azarath and she captured him in a shard twice. No way would they go all buddy buddy in this short amount of time. But… They are getting closer and I think he have gotten a soft spot for her."

"What makes you think that?"
"If you hate someone because they locked you away twice, would you leave the fun to the minions and go to that person's side? Because let's face it, he enjoys destroying worlds."

"True. But now what? We know he got a soft spot for her but last time, she was the only one who could lay a hand on him. We were like bugs to him! And we don't know where he's keeping her or if it's even in this world." Damien sighed heavily and looked at the tracker systems display.

"She is probably not in this world. I can't reach the tracer."

"Wait, you got a tracer on her? What if he changed clothes on her?" Beastboy asked.

"The tracker would still be there in her old ones unless he or she burnt them." They nodded.

"So what do we do?"

"We take care of Trigon's minions and the Teen Titans will look for a way to locate Raven." Father suddenly cut in. I gave him and Superman a suspicious glare.

"And what will you do when we find her?"

"We will leave that decision to you. We made the wrong one before, you know her and this situation better than us. The decision is up to you now." I blinked surprised and nodded.

"I will remember that. Titans, let's go!"

-Raven's POV-
As father appeared in front of me by the throne I ran over to him.

"What did you do?!" I shouted and hit his chest. "You smell of smoke, blood and death! What did you do?!" I shouted and he grabbed my arms, holding me in place.

"Calm down, child."

"No! You have killed people, haven't you?!" I felt tears in my eyes again and eventually gave up on fighting him and placed my forehead against his chest. "You are killing, ain't you?" I whispered and he released me with a sigh and hesitantly placed a hand on the back of my head.

"That's what I do, Raven. I'm a demon of destruction and this world and the humans in it don't deserve anything better than this. They ruin it, they ruin each other, they kill and fight just for the rush and because their opinions don't match. Sure, there are good people here but you saw how quick even the closest of friends can turn on each other."

"That doesn't make it okay!" He sighed and didn't say another word, he just lifted me up and I gasped surprised.

"Come. I will show you something."

All of the sudden we, or yeah he with me in his arms, stood in some sort of pond. I looked down in the water and gasped as it suddenly glowed and the surface moved and changed from our reflections to what I would guess was a future to come. The earth was on fire and not one person was seen in it. Just wasteland. I covered my mouth in chock but then held my breath as I saw myself. I had long hair like I often got when my father's powers activated in me, and I was dressed in a long black dress and I had four eyes… This was my demon form. Father didn't say a word, he just watched me as I watched was what unfolding before me. The vision me sat down by something and as the vision zoomed in, I saw that it was a little sprout that had caught my attention.

"The earth is recovering…" I mumbled to myself and gasped as it suddenly moved forward a hundred years and the wasteland was now filled with green grass, trees and flowers and birds sang happy. "What's this…?"

"This is what Earth will look like in a few hundred years. After I evened the human civilization to the ground and cleaned the Earth from the humans. The Earth recovers, it's the humans and their works that won't recover and that it can't recover from right now." I looked surprised at him. "This is my long term goal, Raven. I'm not just killing for the killings sake. Not this time. This is your home now. I lost you when I ruined Azarath. I won't do the same mistake twice. On this new Earth, you will be free. Free from fear, humans and their wretched ways." I bite my lip and looked down at the future Earth. It was beautiful… And it would be done all for me… Or was this just his way of tricking me? And what about all of the innocent humans?

"Why did you bring me to this pond?"

"Because I don't have the power to predict this planets fate so accurately or a hundred years forward. This is the truth, Raven. This is the destiny I'm walking this world towards right now. Are you with me?" I looked at him and felt a tiny nudge on my mind and frowned a bit but as I looked back at the reflection, I let that nudging feeling into my mind. The humans had caused this themselves... They ruined this planet on their own and they were the ones who had granted father access to this world to clean it up. To help it start over.

"Yes." I whispered and he grinned wide.

"Excellent. Now, let it go." The reflection returned to normal and in it, I saw how my face changed and my four demon eyes appeared along with the red skin from my father. I let everything go and gasped as I felt his magic wake up and stir in me and it shoot out around us, scaring the animals but my father placed his forehead against mine. "Well done child. Now, let's get to work and free this world once and for all."

Hello everyone!
I'm so sorry for the lack of updates but I have been so busy since I compete in cosplay (costume play) and I got very sick in the beginning of the summer and damaged a rib thanks to it. I'm so happy over all the feedback and please remember to tell me what you think of this chapter! =D 3