It's a sad day.My grandfather died and I just came back from the funeral.I wrote this two days ago but I couldn't upload it,but here it is now and I hope you will like it and that you will review.In response to Slade's Icy Apprentice:I really didn't notice that.Thank you.I think it's because in my language we read and write the same way so y is j .The brain is a strange thing.Anyway,R&R!

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Chapter22:

Triumph

Raven opened her eyes and whimpered.She was back in the dungeon where she was imprisoned when she was a child.For a moment she actually thought that the last ten years were just a dream,and that she never left the cell.She began to cry and scream while trying to break the shackles.She heard laughter.The voice was cold and somehow soft at the same time.The cell disappeared and she found herself in a desert,with a boy standing next to her.

''Didn't it hurt wonderfuly?'' He asked.

Raven screamed and curled into a ball.She knew who he was.

''Pathetic.I expected a little more dignity from you.Get up.'' He waved his hand and her body reacted on her own.

''That's better.Who am I,Raven?'' His eyes were pitch black.

''You're Satan.'' Raven replied through tears.

''And what does that mean sweetie?'' He smiled again,It was a beautiful smile,and he was beautiful,but he was the greatest evil that ever existed.He was evil incarnate.

''You…you are my Master…'' Raven said through sobs.

''So nice of you to accept the truth,demon.Say my name.'' He commanded.

''No!'' Raven screamed and gathered power.She shot a blast at him,but it just scattered before it hit him.Suddenly she found herself powerless in his arms,floating in total darkness.

''Say my name.'' He looked her in the eyes and she began to shake.She couldn't stand his look and she began to speak.

''Samael…it's Samael.''

''Yes servant!That is my name…and I am the new God.Behold the world!'' Random images of destruction and pain filled her mind.She felt the stench of rotting corpses and she almost fainted,but his strong grip jerked her back to conciousness.

He stroked her hair.He smelled like lilys and graves.

''You know why I need you,Raven.Will you bare my child?'' He asked with love.The scenery changed to a mock version of Eden,where every flower was poisoned and every rose had thornes.

She looked him in the eyes…

''No.''

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''So…this world is doomed.I couldn't care less.But…my sister and Raven…'' She looked at the black bird that looked worried.

''You!You're Ravens pet!Take me to her.'' She took the bird in her hands.

'Pet?' He chirped but she couldn't understand him.

''I know you can do it…and I know you understand me.Who did this?What kind of creature has this kind of power?'' She asked him.He wiggled in her hands and she relesed him.He started to write strange symbols on the ground with his beak.

''I can't read them.'' Blackfire concluded after examining them.The bird seemed angry,but then he calmed down and drew another symbol.

Blackfire frowned.

''Yes it's a cross.I know earthlings worship a man that died on it.But I thought he was going to save the world or something like that…'' The bird nooded.Then he lowered his beak and drew another symbol.An upside-down cross.

Blackfire thought about this for a second.

''So another man who is not the one who died at the cross is his opposite.Or did he die on a cross too?Is he responsible for this?'' The bird nooded yes and no.

He drew a five pointed star.

''I know this one!It was on many Ravens books.She said it means balance between man and his god.That it means good!''

The bird drew another symbol,similar to the star,but this one was standing on only one shank.Blackfire quickly realized.

''So…I'm fighting Evil.Thats alright.It's OK.I'm a warrior.It's what warriors do…or what they are supposed to do.'' She smiled.Her confidence was high for no reason.Or maybe she just wanted to die.

She lighted a cig and took the sword in her hand.It was suprisingly light and it fitted her fist perfectly.A weapon suited for someone of noble blood like her.

She looked at the bird and nooded while exhailing smoke.

''Take me to her.'' She commanded,and the raven weakly chirped.

He looked towards the caves depths.He felt weak,even in the cave it was getting hotter and hotter,and the air was turning into poison.He could smell it,but the girl couldn't.He never used this kind of magic so he failed a few times,but finally the portal opened.Blackfire looked at the tear in the fabric of reality,and went in.

The portal closed and the raven was…worried.The girl was unable to read the runes!How can she stand up to Evil?He used the cross and the pentagram to explain who is her enemy…even if he didn't understand those symbols;they came from Ravens mind.The air was slowly poisoning him,and he felt fear.It wasn't fear in human sense.He was an animal,and he knew only the will to live,a instinct.He cleaned his feathers for some time before reaching a decision.He did all he could for his sister and the strange girl.It was time to take care about himself.He went outside the cave,and the sun blinded him,his feathers began to smoulder.He started to sing…he tried to imitate his long dead masters voice.He sang the destruction song,and succeeded.His small fragile body exploded,started to grow to obscene,monstrous proportions.His eyes became blood red and feathers black as death.He spread his wings,and started to fly.His body was so big that it blocked the sun,and the shadow he casted was lethal to those who found themselves under it.He started to fight the demons.The great Leviathan,the sea serpent,was killed by this nameless raven.He catched him in his claws and dragged him to dry ground.Leviathan,the master of seas and Abyss,over 500 meters long,felt the iron beak crush his skull.The raven ate his brain and eyes,as many of his little brothers and sisters gathered in milions around him,eating the demons flesh.With him as their leader,they clensed the land of demons,defending those few people who were still alive and faithful.

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Raven screamed and screamed,squirmed as the flames devoured her body.It stopped without warning,and she knew her body was unharmed.He tortured her in all possible ways.But he didn't kill her,or allow her to get damaged.She looked him with defiance.

Samael thought this would be easier.She obviously hated the world…and God.But there was this little spark in her,and it just wouldn't dissapear.Every time he thought she surrendered to him completely it would grow bigger,and denie him what was his.Oh…he could rape her,but it wouldn't solve anything.She has to accept him,and bare his child with her own free will.Only so the blood he so foolishly spilled a millenia ago would lose it's power.Oh how he hated that man –god!He died on the cross like a worm and still,somehow he defeated him…those few moments of delight,when he felt his pain were transformed into his own…but never again.Raven will give birth to his son,the Antichrist.This world was too…narrow for him,and the body he inhabited will soon turn to dust.Only his son can continue his work.

''Raven…why are you hurting yourself?I feel your pain like it is mine.I feel the godhate you spawned and I know how much you hate the people…they scarred you many times.Let me protect you Raven…I'll give you your own personal paradise,your own world…just do this for me.'' Samael talked and Raven listened.

''No.'' She managed to speak and Samael looked at her sadly.

''Very well.I'm leaving now…but when you die,you'll come back to me.'' He started to fade away,and Raven watched in disbelief how the world started to recover.The skies were normal again,and the Evil that infested everything was dissipating.She was alone.

She quickly opened a portal and reapeared near the cave.She saw Blackfire and somehow managed to run.She laughed and cried at the same time.She spread her arms to hug her lover,when she saw the stars.Blackfire slapped her.

''W-what?'' She muttered.

''You bitch!'' Blackfire growled ''You left me here without a decent excuse and now when you need me you come running back!''

''No…I…I didn't want to see you hurt…Starfire…Starfire is dead…'' Raven spoke with pain while rubbing her red cheek.

''Finally!I hoped someone would kill that whore!And you…we have a score to settle…'' Blackfire looked disgusted.

''I don't understand…Blackfire why are you doing this?I love you!'' Raven felt tears forming in her eyes.

''You…love me?Oh,really?Is that why you allowed those sick fucks to tear me open?Did your love need someone even more miserable than yourself?And you are a lousy lover…I gave you everything I had and you just ignored my needs.It's all just about you,the poor little Raven,isn't it?You make me sick!'' Blackfire pushed her to the ground and kicked her.

''It's not true!I…I…'' Raven bursted into tears.In one collosal moment she lost something she never had.

Samael watched the girl cry and moan in pain.The illusion was perfect,and he could feel the little sparkle of light in Raven slowly flickering and fading.He grinned.

''I was right.I always am.''

He was seconds away from triumph.

R&R.It means alot.