Teen Titans – Video Games Are Fun!
13. Chapter 12: Two For One Special
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BB's POV
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The final puzzle before reaching the boss has always been the most annoying in my opinion. I mean, it's not very complicated, it just takes a really long time, and all of Raven's little sounds of annoyance when she didn't get what she wanted weren't helping either. I can only thank the goddesses that whatever that ReDead had done to me was done doing… stuff.
Back to the point at hand. We had to use these weird outcroppings from the wall to spin the wall around as to hit switches in the right order to open a gate blocking the boss door. It took us nearly fifty-two tries to get through the little brain buster and we couldn't've been more relieved when the load of shit was finished. But, then the dread set in.
We just stood there, staring up at the door to the final chamber, marked on Raven's map with nothing more than a skull where the door marker should've been. I don't really know why we didn't just go in, but we just couldn't. But finally, I pulled out the key and jammed it into the lock. I had some slight difficulty turning it in the socket, but ultimately, it worked… and the door opened on its own… and we were off…
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Raven's POV
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I figured that it was about time I took the lead, so… well… I did. I scaled the winding stairwell to the platform above. Before continuing on, I felt a massive quantity of black magic begin to envelope the chamber… nothing compared to my father, but still quite unnerving. But, being the little trooper that I apparently am, I pressed forth.
I walked across the chamber and stopped on the now quite familiar mark, known as the TriForce and turned to examine the room. All around me were paintings. These paintings were all identical, containing a path leading deep into the woods in a nighttime setting.
"I'm gonna be pretty useless for the first part" Beast Boy said, pulling me from my revelry. "You're gonna have to shoot it as it comes out of the painting."
"It?" I asked, due to the fact that there was no "it" to speak of.
"Don't worry, it's coming." Nice thought. I sighed in annoyance and went as if to leave but was quickly blocked off by a spiked fence blocking our only escape. "Told ya' so."
I turned back to see something quite a distance from what I had been expecting. There was a tall man with dark skin, mounted on the back of a massive black stallion. And, for the most surprising part, Beast Boy was glaring the man down! Suddenly, the man seemed to grab his hair and he pulled it, revealing the fact that the already scary face was only a mask hiding something oddly less horrifying. The fact that a human could look so terrifying was traumatizing, but the fact that it was really only a demon in a mask… a really good mask, just made it a little more plausible.
Suddenly, the horse rose into the air and seemed to run into one of the paintings, and what Beast Boy had said earlier flew back into my mind and I drew my bow and cocked an arrow immediately.
"He's not gonna come out the same one he went in!" Beast Boy almost shouted in my ear.
"Thanks for the info" I began, but quickly realized just how sincere it had appeared. "And thanks for the…" but my sarcastic response was cut off as I heard a loud pulsating vrooming sound. I immediately aimed my bow and an arrow towards the sound and fired. The time from hearing the sound, aiming, cocking, and shooting had been no more than a second and a half. Damn, I'm good!
The horseman seemed to turn around without even fully breeching the paintings magical surface and galloped back into the forest. I repeated the process with absolutely no difficulty twice more finally felling the horse, and leaving the horseman to put up an actual fight.
"My turn!" shouted Beast Boy, appearing quite excited to be able to kill something. For a vegan, he's pretty damned violent.
But, he just stood there as the demon charged up a ball of energy. And, he just stood there as it flew at him. And, he just stood there, until I flew at him, knocking him away from the attack, placing myself in its path.
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BB's POV
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Okay, this part was always hard when I played the game, but I'm apparently better with a sword than I am with a controller… dude! Awesome! What I had to do was wait for him to shoot a ball of energy at me, then deflect it back at him, hopefully causing it to collide and stun him. So, I prepared myself for the attack. I watched as he prepared the energy ball, and readied myself as it came at me. Oh, shit! I suck at baseball!
I was just about to knock the energy ball back at its owner when I felt something collide with my side knocking me nearly across the room. I turned back just in time to see Raven being struck by the attack, and to hear her scream. All I could do was watch as she just laid there limp.
Suddenly returning to my senses, I stood and ran to her side, the demon seemingly stunned at how easily its foe had fallen. But, just as I reached her, I felt heat radiating from her body. It was so great that I had to back away. She stood, revealing that rage was making another appearance, but it was different. Yes, her eyes were split into four glowing red ones, but there were no tentacles of darkness, no blackened aura, nothing of the sort. All there was was a massive red flaming aura surrounding her entire being. She raised her hands and opened her palms to reveal a concentration of flame so extreme that it was seen as nothing more than distorted air. Then, there was a burst of that distorted air which collided with the still shocked demon facing her. What she said as the heat collided with the demon sent a shiver up my spine. It wasn't what she said exactly, but the way she had said it. Her voice was no longer the throaty monotone, but the double toned demonic boom that could've made Trigon wet himself. "Nobody harms my Beast Boy! Not you, not anybody, not EVER!" The last word seemed to echo throughout the entire chamber as the heat engulfed the dark spirit, completely removing it from existence.
I ran forward as Raven fell, finally out of energy, to the ground in a heap. I had just been able to capture her head, preventing it from striking the hard stone floor. Then, the booming voice that I had expected to hear began to… well… boom.
"I see that I may have to be a bit more careful around the two of you. It matters not. For, you will not defeat anymore of my demons. You shall see, what you have just gone through is nothing compared to what is to come!" And, the voice seemed to fade, and a bluish portal appeared in the center of the chamber, directly upon the TriForce symbol.
I dragged Raven over to the portal, and felt a blue light envelope the both of us as we were lifted to meet the first of the six sages. The last thing I saw before the blue light temporarily blinded me was Raven's eyes flickering open and closing again quickly due to the bright light.
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Raven's POV
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I opened my eyes to find that the light was finally fading. I felt thin yet oddly powerful arms wrapped around myself. I looked around at my surroundings. I was in a small chamber that seemed to be sitting in the middle of a black abyss. The floor of the chamber was pure blue water with colored platforms placed at equal intervals around the room. I couldn't tell exactly how many there were at this point due to the fact that one half of the room was blocked off by the person who was holding me.
Suddenly, I realized who it was and shot up into a standing position. But, the quick increase in altitude caused my head to feel light and my vision to blur temporarily, and I fell back into the arms of… Beast Boy.
I allowed him to help me stand up, and nodded shortly in thanks. It was at this point that I noted that we were standing upon a raised TriForce symbol in the very center of the room, and from my new angle, I could see that there were six of the colored platforms. The platforms were yellow, green, red, blue, orange, and violet. Slightly apprehensive, I entered a slightly defensive pose.
After a few seconds of just standing in complete silence, another bluish light appeared on the green platform, and a girl dressed entirely in green with hair to match rose from seemingly inside the platform. When she saw us, she just stared in confusion. Then, she spoke. "Where's LinK?"
I didn't know how to answer. God, I hate being out of my atmosphere! "He's dead" Beast Boy replied in an even tone that slightly startled me.
"I see… then it seems that you two saved me and awoke me as a sage." Beast Boy nodded, but the girl couldn't have seen it due to the fact that she was just staring off into space. "It's hard to believe… but… " Her distant expression was replaced by a determined one. "… it is as it is. There is nothing that I can do to change it." She nodded as if finally making up her mind. "All I can do is accept my destiny as the Sage of Forest." She held her hands over her head and a green light shot from them to a point above us, too high for me to see in the shadows. A second went by and a small, circular, green object began to fall from the point that the green light had apparently hit.
Rather than gaining momentum like most falling objects are supposed to, this object fell at a constant rate, until it hovered in front of Beast Boy and myself. I was almost afraid to touch it, and was slightly glad to see Beast Boy grab it. We both absently examined it while the girl continued to speak.
"I hope that you can win this fight. Link failed, and he was the Hero of Time. Although I do not believe that you can ever compare to him, I can only hope that you are still enough." She sighed and shook her head. "I have to go. Be safe." The blue light appeared on her platform once more, and she sank back down into it.
"That's weird" said Beast Boy as he scratched the back of his head.
"What is?" I asked.
"Usually, when the sage leaves, we're sent back so we can continue on with everything."
"Normally, that would be the case, but I have not had a chance to speak to you as of yet." Beast Boy and I turned abruptly to see who had been speaking. "I see that you were able to awaken Saria, the Sage of Forest. Very good job. But, as you can probably guess, that is nowhere near how difficult things will become. There are still four more sages to awaken. But, that is for Sheik to discuss."
We just stared at him. He was a large man, apparently not starving in the dark times that this country was experiencing. He was bald, but made up for it with his facial hair. He was wearing a long flowing golden robe, making it so that all we could see was that plump face and that beard. I've had nightmares about beards like that one. "Who are you?" I asked in my blunt monotone that usually seems to get me results.
The man seemed to laugh slightly at that one. "You do not recognize me? I guess that is to be expected. I am Rauru, the Sage of Light" he replied as he scratched that freakish beard. "Now, back to what I was just saying, there are many trials still ahead of you. But, you shall be receiving some assistance from an old… friend… of yours. I cannot say any more. But, this question will have an answer… soon." His smile immediately faded. "Now, you must receive my power, in the form of a medallion as you have with Saria." He held his arms over his head, as the girl… Saria… had just a short time before, and fired off his own light (this one yellow)towards the shadowed ceiling. Another circular object began to descend until it hovered slightly before us. I took this one and began to examine it. "Good, now that each of you has one, I can send you back."
The blue light was suddenly enveloping the two of us and we had to cover our eyes as not to be blinded. When the light faded and we felt our feet on solid ground once again, we were in the middle of a field taken up mostly by a massive tree with what seemed to be an elderly face. I stared at it in confusion. Why are we in front of the first temple of the game? I then noticed that Beast Boy was no longer next to me. I turned and found him examining a small plant sprout.
I walked up next to him to take a quick peak as to see what's soo interesting about. Suddenly, something rather large flew up from the ground causing me to fly back in surprise. It seemed to be a miniature version of the massive tree that characterized this clearing. It was the most sickeningly adorable thing that I've ever seen. I honestly thought that I was going to vomit.
"HI! I'm the Deku Tree Sprout!" it said in a voice that made the new-fu leader sound masculine. "Thanks to you two, I can now grow, flourish, and… stuff! To thank you, I'm gonna give you a basic summary as to why the hell you're here!" I shuddered at the thought of hearing an entire story… in… that… voice!
"Oh god, no" I muttered quietly to myself, but quickly reserved myself to my fate. The phrase "resistance is futile" comes to mind.
"Okay, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long ago, a great war was waged between this land and another with great magical power. This war was purely due to a misunderstanding between the leaders. Although it was very violent, it was quickly resolved by a peace treaty. You're probably wondering what this other world was."
I sighed and decided to humor the little freak. "What was this other world?"
"I'm glad you asked!" It did something like a plant version of clearing its throat and continued. "The other world was Azarath."
That immediately caught my attention. "What?"
"Yes, the other world was Azarath. When a demon had abducted and raped the princess of Hyrule, we just assumed that he was Azarathian. When we discovered that he was just as much of a problem for Azarath as he was for Hyrule, we immediately ceased the war."
"Wait!" I shouted. I had to know one thing. "What was this princess' name and how long ago was she… attacked?"
The sprout seemed to beem in its odd tree-like way. "She was abducted nineteen years ago, and her name was…" I held my breath. Nineteen years ago? I'm nineteen! Please, don't let it be what I think it is! "Arella."
"No…" I almost moaned. Then, I'm even less human than I thought.
"She was Princess Zelda's elder sister by eighteen years. The king did not expect to require another child as Arella showed great promise as heir to the throne. But, after the attack, and the treaty was signed, it was decided that Arella should remain in Azarath as they knew far more about demonic pregnancies."
Throughout all of this, Beast Boy just stared back and forth between the sprout and myself. "Wait!" he exclaimed, apparently having enough of being in the dark. "I-isn't your mother's name…?"
"Yes, Beast Boy. My mother was Arella."
"The same Arella?"
"Arella was never a very popular name Beast Boy" I replied resorting to my sarcasm as to keep my emotions back. "It seems quite likely."
"Not just likely, Princess Arella gave her daughter the name Raven, which also isn't very popular, as you put it."
"Ferschizzle…" was all that Beast Boy could say… not even really tryingk to sound gangster, more like just slipping it out. I sighed in exasperation and began to stomp away. It was getting dark quickly, and I wanted to get some adequate sleep and meditation before we had to go onto the next temple. It's not everyday that one finds out that they're not only half demon, but half video game character!
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I wasn't entirely surprised when Raven just walked away. I mean, it's not everyday that you find out that you're not only half demon, but half video game character, too. I waved to the little tree, which I even found irritating to be in the presence of and ran after Raven as quickly as I could. I highly doubt that she can still fight with all of her emotional stress.
When I caught up to her, I was just about to put my hand on her shoulder to comfort her or something, when my communicator went off. We both stopped in our tracks."Damn, that's some range!"
A/N: Yeah, that's the chapter. Sorry for the shortness, and unnecessary amount of dialogue. I just hope that the fight scene beforehand makes up for it somewhat. I also wanna apologize for not doing the daily updating thing like I had said I would. I just hope that y'all can settle for me returning to my regular rate of one update every two to three days. Oh, and please review. I really need the feedback to keep from losing my steam. I'm not kidding when I say that reviews keep me going!