Innocence pulled Helion along behind her quickly, an ever present smile on her face. She moved quickly for such a small girl and was actually much stronger then she looked. Helion was a little surprised by all of this and found himself unable to stop the girl from dragging him along. So eventually he just fell into step behind her with small amused smirk on his face. He thought back to what she had told him a few minutes ago, about how all the other emotions grew up. Why didn't she grow up, why did she remain the same? After all, innocence does not last very long, especially in this world. He look at the girl with a small questioning look, but dismissed the feeling when he felt the tug on his hand stop. He looked up to see the stone arena still had not moved much closer, and to see that 10 feet in front of them was an arch way.

"Is something wrong?" Helion asked the girl as he saw an indecisive look come over her face.

"I don't remember this being here." Innocence said slowly, a look of confusion in her eyes. "But it is the only pass to where we want to go, so lets go."

Once again the girl pulled him forward. Helion smiled inwardly and thought 'Innocence is always inauspicious'. She just does things without wondering what could happen. It reminded him of Terra when she was younger, and he felt odd. He figured it was because he had lost his innocence over the years, and Raven's was bringing back old memories. But she did bring about a sort of brotherly caring from him that he could not ignore.

As he stepped forward he now realized what Innocence was talking about. They had stepped through a portal into a world of white. It was bright and very loud, no wonder it was confusing to such a small child, especially one such as innocence. As his eyes and ears adjusted to the new light and sound, he looked around. Dang those guys in the movie's got it right. Everywhere he looked he saw bubbles, bubbles everywhere and anywhere. They were just floating lazily around bumping into each other. Inside the bubbles he could see figures and colors, and after closer inspection he could look at them as if watching a video of Raven's past.

"These are Raven's memories." Helion whispered in awe at the fact.

Helion felt Innocence pull away from him, but it barely registered. He was not a very nosy person, but if you were given a chance to look at someones memories no one would pass it up, no matter how good you believe yourself to be. He took several steps forward and looked into a bubble. It was a dark and stormy as he saw from Raven's, the Titans sitting on the cough and Beast boy saying something. as he stood in front of the TV with a box in his hand. Helion could not hear what Beast boy was saying, but he noticed the box in his hand had the words "Wicked Scary" printed in big letters on the cover. Helion smirked. That movie was, what, 6 or 7 years old by now but it was still a good one at the time. As Helion watched, he began to get a bit nervous. The mind embellishes things over time, and what was going on in this memory was not very happy. This sort of memory, combined with Raven's mind set, was now completely warped way out of proportion. The memory was beyond scary and would bring a chill to ones bones, as he watched it he began to sweat slightly. But at the end it cleaned up well, he liked the twist ending with Raven being the cause. Maybe he could get it published as a graphic novel, or maybe give it to the producers of the new "Teen Titans" animated show that's coming out soon. Helion smirked. He would, of course, ask Raven if he was going to do anything like that.

Helion felt a tug on his shirt and he turned around. Innocence was behind him with a curious look in her eye. She was holding a bubble in her hands and looking at it intently, one could tell she had no idea what was going on inside the memory. She looked up at Helion and held up the bubble.

"Whats going on?" She asked, almost bluntly.

Helion looked into the bubble and almost laughed. Raven sat at a table that had a white table cloth on it, Beast Boy sat across from her. He had a very nervous look and Raven just looked so utterly bored and uninterested. He looked at innocence and chuckled.

"It looks like a date gone wrong." Helion said.

"Oh" was all the girl said.

She still looked confused, but that look vanished instantly. She let out a loud "EEP" when the bubble in her hands popped suddenly. He eyes were wide with shock and her mouth was open slightly with the same emotion playing across her lips as in her eyes. Helion groaned and got onto one knee. He placed both hands on innocence's shoulders and looked her right in the eye.

"What memory was that?" Helion asked. She just gave him a blank stare.

"I don't remember." Innocence said, Helion sighed.

"What did I tell you it was?" Helion asked, hoping that she would remember this new memory.

"um..." She paused for a while as she tried to remember. "You told me it was a date gone wrong."

At that moment the bubble containing the memory of the date seemed to pop back into existence, though it did look very grainy compared to what it looked like originally. Both of them let out a sigh of relief. Helion stood up and looked down at Innocence who had a very sheepish look on her face. But then that same curious look came over her again and Helion almost groaned again. But this time she had enough sense to point it out and not touch it. Helion followed the trail of her finger and his eyes came to rest on a bubble that showed Raven sleeping. A small grin played across Raven's lips and Helion saw just how cute she looked when she smiled. He resolved to see that grin, maybe even a full blown smile, on her face again before he left the tower. He didn't realize that small grin set into motion something far greater. But then it was his turn to let out and even greater "EEP" then innocence had. He hand shot out and covered the small girl's eyes as the memory seemed to slip into Raven's dream, And what a dream it was. Who knew that Raven had such "happy" dreams. Especially with her kind of attitude.

Keeping his hand over Innocence's eyes, he steered her away from that particular bubble. He kept it up till they apparently reached the end of memory lane and the world around them once again became that dark stone universe it was before. Helion let out a small sigh and looked up. Before them was the stone arena that had seemed so far away before. Helion laughed and once again felt the tug of Innocence pulling on his hand.

"Come on, I'm pretty sure bravery is in the arena. She spend so much of her time here." Innocence said as she dragged Helion along behind her.

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Helion chuckled again to himself. This girl was just way to innocent, the way the emotion should be. It gave Helion a small amount of amusement, and the amusement would last for a long time. He still had to make sure he would keep his promise to come back and play with her. But first came waking Raven. Innocence pulled him into the arena, which they entered through one of many doors from the outside that lead right to the main floor. The first thing Helion noticed when they entered the arena floor was the size. From the outside the entire stadium look big, but on the inside, the arena looked hundreds of time bigger. In his head he cursed, the physics in this world was controlled by Raven so really anything could happen. The arena was circular, and the outside sections seemed to be seats that were sectioned off by large flat inclines. Since she wasn't there to man the controls it meant that the physics in her mind could go nuts. He looked back down when he heard Innocence let out a small cry and let go of his hand.

He watched as the small girl ran forward toward the center of the arena. Then he saw what she was yelling about. 2 figures, one dressed in a dark green robe and the other in a dark purple one, lay sprawled out on the arena floor. He paused only for a moment to let this register.

"Bravery! Raven! wake up!" Innocence yelled. She did not know what was going on but she could see that something bad had happened. There was not much in Nevermore, and none of it could take down bravery...well almost none of it.

Helion walked towards Innocence slowly. He was thinking, and none of his ideas gave him any comfort. He knew very little about the world of Nevermore, but he did know was that no one should be able to be beaten inside their own mind. Then from behind him he heard the slight brush of fabric against stone and the slight whistling sound of something big flying through the air. It was quiet in Nevermore, he was shocked that he could hear it at all. But as soon as he did, he charged forward. He had just reached Innocence and, much to her surprise, picked her up in his arms when something very heavy and very big slammed into his back. Hard. This impact sent him flying through the air. The force behind the blow was great and Helion managed to turn his body to face his assailant as he flew, involuntarily, across the ground. He managed to get close enough to the stone floor to place both his feet and one hand on it as the other hand and arm kept Innocence tight to him. He did not want to think about what would've happened had he not gotten in the way of what ever it was that hit him. Innocence, the small yet strong girl that she is, could have been crushed. His fingers curled slightly, leaving long deep grooves in the rock of the arena floor as his body still held all the momentum from the monstrous blow. The force behind him was so great that it actually threw Helion off balance backwards, even though he was basically hugging the ground. He fell onto his back, still sliding along the ground. As his body finally came to a stop, he used the last bit of momentum to help him back flip up onto his feet. Then out of sheer instinct, he jumped backwards. None to soon to as the area he was just standing seemed to explode, sending bits of rocks and sand flying in all directing. The force of Helion's jump sent him flying into the stand. He landed and slid up the incline that separated the many sections of seats.

Helion quickly jumped down into the stadium seats and hid behind a large stone wall. He got down on one knee and put Innocence back on her feet and looked at her. Her face was pale with fear and her eyes somewhat vacant at what had just happened. She had never really been attacked in her life until know, and being the type of emotion that she is, she had no idea how to react. Helion didn't give her time though, he quickly patted her cheek, snapping her out of what ever trance she seemed to be in at the time. Though the vacant look in her eyes vanished, her face was still very pale as she looked at Helion. He needed to do something.

"In innocence there is no strength against evil, but there is strength in it for good." Helion said quickly, knowing that if he had to protect Innocence he could not win this fight no matter how strong he was.. "Try and sneak around to Raven and Bravery. I will try and distract what ever is attacking us. Don't move till I get to the arena floor, then head down and around and make sure you are not seen."

She nodded vacantly. He could see she understood what she had to do, but he wasn't sure she would actually do it.

"Hey." He said, gently tapping her cheek once again. "Remember, You promised to play with me next time I come back."

Innocence's face seemed to brighten slightly and she nodded again. Helion smiled and stood back up. He patted her head then lept back up onto the inclined divider that he had jumped on to previously. He ran down it and back onto the arena floor. He stood up straight and look around. Standing in a small crater at the spot where Helion had jumped from was a figure that also looked like Raven, only she wore a deep red cloak.

"I really must thank you mortal." a sinister male voice sounded from the red cloaked figure. "What ever you did to my dear daughter has helped me greatly, it made he weak. And I have been waiting for her to weaken so I may finally get out of this wretched prison."

The red cloaked figure became shrouded in black as Raven's powers covered him. After a few second the blackness grew, then receded back into the shadow of nothingness from where they came. Where the red cloaked figure had been stood an exceedingly tall man, just shy of 8 feet tall. He had red skin, 4 red eyes, and looked very much like the commercial incarnations of Lucifer, except he had no tail and what looked like something that could have been horns had been cut off by an unknown tool. Helion's fists clenched tightly.

"And you are?" Helion asked in a calm voice, though he most certainly was not.

He knew who Raven's father was, and even though he may only be 1/1000th his original strength it would be nearly impossible to beat him. The best way to fight him would be to have Raven do it. It was her mind after all, and she makes the rules of Nevermore. But Helion suspected that was not the case now. What ever he did to Raven got her weak enough for her father to force his way, though very little, out of his prison in Raven's mind. Trig on was immortal after all, even if he is destroyed he will still come back in one form or another. But apparently Raven locked him away after his defeat had striped him of his power. But now he was stronger then Raven, and he was going to take control.

Helion did not get an answer. He was hoping he could stall Trig on long enough with talking for innocence to get to Raven from behind but he was apparently dead wrong. Dead being the key word in where. Trig on just seemed to teleport right in front of Helion before he could even blink, a large fist slammed into Helion's stomach without warning. The force was great enough to cause him exhale sharply causing him to not be able to utter a single sound, and he would have vomited had he had anything in his stomach. Luckily for him he had not eaten since he came to Nevermore. He flew high into the air and landed on his back on the ground, cracking it and leaving a small indent in the stone. He rolled onto his side, clutching his stomach as the pain was so great. He rolled over more and pushed himself onto his hands and knees as he coughed heavily, little bits of blood coming out as he did so.

He did not get much time to rest. He screamed out in pain when Trig on landed on his back, forcing him once again into the ground, causing the cracks he had made previously to grow bigger. Trigon stood with one foot on Helion's back and started to laugh.

"You puny mortal thought you would stop me." Trig on laughed deeply. "But this is my world now. Raven had fallen back into her own mind when you attacked her. And I was waiting. She is unconscious in he own mind, and I am the ruler now."

Helion coughed and managed. "If your the ruler, then why not kill her?"

Trig on laughed. "She is still the portal I need to get into your world."

"Then why not kill the other emotion?" Helion said as he tried to pouch himself, straining against Trig on's leg.

At this Trig on got angry, Helion was asking a question he did not want answered. He lifted his leg slightly and slammed it back down into Helion's back and ground it in. "Your tiny mind can not understand the reasons of one such as me."

Despite the pain in his back he grinned. Did he strike a cord? He did, and Trig on didn't realize this. For some reason he could not kill any of Raven's emotions without something happening that he did not want. Helion almost laughed. Trig on, interdimentional demonic god, pissed off. He couldn't laugh, but he did manage to make a little 'ahhag' sound.

"Well" Helion said from his little hole in the ground. "Then I guess I will have to show you that my mind is not as puny as you think."

Trig on laughed and ground his foot in more, eliciting another cry of pain from Helion. "You?" Trig on laughed. "You are right where you should be. Beneath my foot, eating the dirt that I step on."

Trig on again lifted his foot and brought it down into Helion's back. But this time Helion was ready. The ground around him turned red and gave of an intense heat. He seemed to disappear into the ground, and as Trig on's foot came into contact with the red hot stone he cried out from the searing burn and stumbled back a step or two. Trig on was nowhere close to even 1/4th his true power, and that was a big help for Helion. He slid back up out of the ground behind Trig on, and before he could turn around Helion elbowed him in the spine with as much force as he could. Trig on grunted and fell forwards, sliding along the ground a short distance. His body much to heavy to fly through the air like Helion's did. He jumped after Trig on in hopes of getting him unconscious as fast as possible. But Trig on was faster then he looked and his hand shot up from an odd angle and grabbed Helion by the head as he flew towards him. Trig on then threw him back. Helion flipped in the air and righted himself as he flew. He turned his body and he leaned forward as he flew backwards, placing his hands and feet on the stone ground, leaving deep gouges in the stone as his feet and hands scraped it away. He slowed quickly, but before he stopped his feet began to glow red. His did not slow down any more but maintained as steady speed. He turned his body and began to take long steps, sliding his feet along the ground. He looked like he was Ice skating, and he left behind him a thin, hot, shining trail where ever his feet touched. He was using heat to melt the stone beneath him into a glass like substance that he would slid along. He twisted his body again to face Trig on who was running after him, causing the glassy surface beneath him to make an odd twist in it's trail. As he slid backwards, Helion pressed his palms together the pulled them apart. A red bar of flickering energy appeared in his hands. As Trig on jumped into the air, he stopped the heat in his feet and he came to skidding halt. Trig on brought both of his fists down with him and collided with the red bar as Helion lifted it up to defend himself. The force of the blow forced the ground beneath Helion to crumble and collapse inwards. It also sent Trig on flying backwards. Helion jumped after Trig on this time and landed on his chest. Helion quickly grasped the sides of Trig on's head and screamed as he forced as much power into his hands as possible. He did this in hopes of overloading the demons mind, at least for a short while. Trig on cried out as black imprints of Helion's hands were burned into the sides of his head along with the effect Helion hoped for coming true.

Trig on lay on the ground unmoving and Helion stood over him breathing heavily. He kicked Trig on in the side of the one last time and then ran over to where Raven and Bravery lay. He got down on a knee next to Raven just as Innocence emerged from the entrance he had told her to come from. He was not surprised, it looked like a lone way to go if you wanted to stay unnoticed. He looked own at Raven as she lay face up on the ground. He bent down further and placed his ear over Raven's heart. It was still beating, stead and regular but the spaces in between each beat were great. Nearly 4 whole seconds between beats. Innocence stood across from him with a scared and worried look on her face. Helion placed a hand on Raven's cheek and felt her skin, It was cold as ice and nearly the same color. He was so busy in making sure Raven was alright he did not notice what was going on behind him, but Innocence did.

Trig on opened his eyes in anger and sat up quickly. He looked around and spotted Helion crouched near his daughter. His eyes began to glow, and then fired a powerful energy beam at the unsuspecting Helion.

Innocence saw all of this while Helion had his back turned to Trig on. Without thinking the small girl rushed forward, and pushed Helion to the side. The energy beam slammed into her.

Helion was surprised when Innocence pushed him to the side. He looked up and watched in horror as a red beam passed through the small child. It tore a hole through he chest and stomach, a wound that no one could heal from, nearly 1/3 of her body was ripped away from her. He watched in horror as she then fell to the ground, her face white as snow, and her body shook for a second before becoming still. There was a pause and complete silence. Even Trig on was surprised, then he was angry. He had killed one of Raven emotions, not something he wanted to do.

Helion placed a hand on Innocence's neck, look for a pulse. No need, her heart wasn't there anymore. He watched for the rise and fall of her chest to signal breathing. No need, her chest wasn't there at all. He reached down and slid his hands over her eyes, shutting them. It was then when Raven's eyes opened. They shot open, and she screamed. She screamed at the pain having an emotion die. She felt all the pain of the death of her Innocence, and she cried for it. Helion ignored Trig on for the moment. He grabbed Raven by the shoulders and looked at her. She had her arms pulled in close to her chest and tears flowed freely from her eyes. Helion began to cry as well and Raven's empathic powers began to work in reverse. He did care somewhat for the little girl, but now Raven's emotions were governing his own. She was god in this world, and it was true that what she says goes. Without thinking, he pulled the crying Raven into an embrace and hugged her as she cried.

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Raven was floating and surrounded by darkness and silence. She could not see, she could not hear. There was no light, there was no sound. It seemed to go on for an eternity. Then she felt it. She felt as if her whole chest was ripped out of her and she screamed, piercing the soundless void around her. All of a sudden she felt a tugging around her naval, as if there was a hook on her and it pulled her down through the blackness at amazing speed. She fell and then she seemed to enter Nevermore from above, all the time crying. She fell towards an arena and saw her body on the ground. She slammed into her body and everything went dark and silent again.

It was then when Raven's eyes opened. They shot open, and she screamed. She screamed at the pain having an emotion die. She felt all the pain of the death of her Innocence, and she cried for it. Someone grabbed Raven by the shoulders and looked at her, but she didn't look at him. She pulled her arms in close to her chest and tears flowed freely from her eyes. She heard someone begin to cry as well as Raven's empathic powers began to work in reverse, she had no idea who it was or what it was or what was going on. Without warning, that person pulled the crying Raven into an embrace and hugged her as she cried. She did not care, deep down she needed it. She needed to cry and be held at that moment, and there was someone here now that would do it. And she allowed it, crying into the shoulder of this unknown person for god only knows how long.

Then she saw the body and she stopped crying. She wanted to cry still, but now fear was greater then her pain and her eyes rose higher still. She gasped as she saw he father and her fear grew. Her eyes again drifted to the side and she looked at Helion who was holding her. She recognized him as the man who attacked her inside the tower. She wanted to be scared more, but it just didn't come. He was the one holding her at the moment she wanted to be held, he was crying with her and she could tell it was for the girl who was a part of herself. She looked in his eyes and saw the tears, she saw the ever changing color of his red eyes, she saw the pentagrams on his irises, and she now saw anger begin to rise in the depths of them. She was unsure of what to do now and everything was silent except for her now quiet, tiny, sobs. She felt his grip tighten gently and then he let he go as he stood up.

"Give me strength." She heard him whisper gently, and she did. She wished he would defeat her father, she wished he would send him back into his prison, she wished he would hold her again. Though that last bit was unknown even to her.

And it came true. Raven was the master of Nevermore, and what she wanted would happen.

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Helion let go of Raven and stood up to face Trig on. He felt himself fill with power, more then he ever remembered having at one time. His anger could be seen in his eyes. If you were close enough to look into them at that moment, you could see the pentagrams in Helion's eyes spin. And Raven was close enough to see, and she saw, and it surprised her.

"Trig on..." And that was all Helion could say.

He ran forward faster then even Trig on's eyes could follow. Helion's fist slammed into trigon's face with as much force as Helion could muster. Trig on's head was thrown into the stone floor bounced slightly. Helion lifted both hands above his head and clasped them together. He brought them down into Trig on's chest and was rewarded with a satisfying crunch. He jumped into the air a short distance and pointed his hands at Trig on. He let out a barbaric roar and a huge tongue for flame erupted from his hand and slammed into the ground where Trig on lay. For a full minute, the fore of the fire leaving Helion kept him in the air as it slammed into the now charred ground where Trig on lay. Finally it ended and Helion landed on his feet next to a girl who looked just like Raven except for a red cloak. Thunder sounded over heard and a large black lightning bolt came down and slammed into the Red cloaked girl. When the flash vanished, she was gone and Helion turned to see Raven with her hand outstretched, surrounded by her black energy.

He walked over to Raven and got down on one knee beside her. He placed a hand on Raven's shoulder and looked into her still sad eyes.

"I'm sorry." Helion said as he help her stand.

Raven was still in to much shock and pain to respond. She just looked down at the ground, at the body of the little girl that was her innocence. She watched Helion walked over and lifted her off the ground.

"She can't stay here." Helion said, and she knew that he was right.

Raven then looked to her left and saw the Green cloaked girl next to her was now getting up. She had a look of fire in her eyes as she stood up, but that faded the instant she saw Helion holding Innocence's body and she was silent.

"Lets go." Helion said as he began to walk out of the Arena, followed by Raven and Bravery.

All 3 of them stopped when Innocence began to glow. It happened instantly, one moment nothing and the next she is glowing a bright white light, Helion nearly dropped her. He felt he change in his arms, but it was not until the light died down till he knew what had happened. When the light went away, they all gasped. The girl in Helion's arms was no longer the young 8 year old in the light blue cloak that he first met. This girl looked exactly like Raven at her current of 20 something years old in a deep red cloak. The new girl in Helion's arm slowly opened her eyes and blinked a few times. She looked around from her position in Helion's arms, first at Raven then at Bravery. Her eyes came to rest when she looked up at the person carrying her and she locked eyes with Helion. Without any warning to Helion, this new girl reached up and grabbed the sides of his head and pulled him down towards her and she kissed him and they both fell to the floor where she didn't stop. Much to Helion's surprise yet utter enjoyment. A deep passionate kiss that was a complete surprise to everyone there. Raven and Bravery looked at the new girl kissing a now struggling Helion, unsure of what to feel.

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"Are you sure you can't stay?" Passion, the new girl in the deep red cloak, said to Helion.

"Yes. I need to wake Raven up, she is still in a coma out there." Helion said to Passion as she drew ever nearer.

Raven and Bravery were just a few feet away and they looked on with utter awe at what was happening. Bravery because it was very new to her. Raven because now that Passion was in love with Helion, Raven was feeling emotions she had not felt before growing in the pit of her stomach. Feeling she had not felt for anyone in her life until now, and it was the reason she could not take her eyes off Helion.

In Nevermore it had been 3 day since Helion fought and Raven re-imprisoned Trigon. 3 days since Innocence died, only to be replaced by Passion. It's true what they say, Innocence dies eventually. But in the outside world, it was only about Half a second. Since Helion had forced his way into Nevermore without a portal, the flow of time did not follow him and they were moving at the speed of thought.

Passion sighed with a sad look in her face and suddenly closed the gap between them. Helion was slightly taller then Passion and it didn't help him at. She stood on her toes with her lips incredibly close to Helion's ear and her body pressed up against his. "Just remember. You promised to come back and play with me." She said in a seductive voice, sending and empathic image into Helion's mind that caused him to take a step back and blush. She may have the small girl's memories, but she in now way was innocent.