The second to last chapter of "Her hidden Child"

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Chapter 12: Rage

The first thing Raven was aware of was someone shaking her and frantically whispering for her to wake up. Thinking it was just Farah having a rough night Raven groaned for her to go back to bed.

"Mommy wake up," If Raven was more alert she would notice the terror in the young shape shifters voice, "where are we? Where's uncle James?"

James? The name seemed to stir something in her mind, like a pot full of color that Was being whisked with a spoon, until the spoon stopped allowing Raven to see the color take shape and a memory form.

She sat down . . . . took a sip of tea . . . . heard James call her by her real name . . . . then nothing.

Her eyes flung open just as they went over some bump rocking the metal container they were riding in. Frantically she searched her surroundings, the pain in her skull being replaced with adrenaline. Farah was beside her, clinging to her mother with her hands, which were tied with white zip ties, PCCs around her and Farahs necks. She was cowering from the menacing looking figures Raven recognized as professor Chang's men, each with their glowing red goggles looking down at them.

"I see someone is awake." The raspy voice of the aged scientist got Ravens attention. Instinctively she threw her arms around Farah, keeping her close.

"Mommy," the frightened toddler whispered, "I'm scared. Where's daddy? And uncle James?"

Ravens blood began to boil at the sound of his name, "I don't know sweetie, do you remember what happened?"

Farah blinked a few times. "Uncle James said you were coming back, he gave me some juice, and I got really sleepy, now I'm here."

Raven felt her anger bubble again as a sickening realization came to her. She and her three and a half year old daughter, were drugged, by a man she trusted and caref for.

Then the van came to a stop.

The doors slid open and the men pried Farah from her mothers iron grip, the little girl screaming and thrashing as one of them threw her over his shoulder, then they hoisted the wriggling empath from the van.

"She's very lovely miss Raven," Chang said looking over the little girl, "you must be proud."

Farah's frightened expression vanished to one of animalistic savagry, and with a snarl Farah bit into the mans hand as it passed her face producing a scream to erupt from his throat, her "unnaturally" sharp teeth digging into his flesh through muscle and grinding against bone. After a minute or longer of screaming he wrenched his hand from her mouth, Farah growling and slurping on his blood. Normally this behavior would have horrified Raven, but when the pathetic whimpering man cradled his hand all she could do was smirk.

"That's my girl."

Chang growled as one of his man began to bandage his hand. "Get them inside!" His men followed orders, but were much more wary of the little girl, her adorable face that was now covered in Chang's blood.

"What is this Chang?" Raven hissed, she to was thrown over one of his men's shoulders.

The wounded man still held his hand in agony. "For the moment I have you two, but I still need the BIG fish."

Raven scoffed, assuming he was talking about Beast Boy. "Pfft go ahead, he doesn't care about us."

Chang chuckled to himself, him and his goons bringing them into a large room with a large running fan leading up a smoke stake and then outside. "Whether he does or not is of little concern to me, but I DO know animals, and a papa bear will ALWAYS come when he senses his cub is in danger." The men carrying Farah took her to the smoke stack, Raven squirming violently in her captors grasp.

"You stay away from her!" She growled.

"Or you'll what?" Chang sneered.

Raven continued to struggle and growl, but his goons grip was too strong. Chang removed a knife making the little girl whimper, then scream when he grabbed her hand. "LET GO OF HER!" Raven shrieked, but she was promptly ignored.

Chang brought the knife to the girls little hand. "Consider this payback you brat." And he sliced her hand open.

Farah let out a blood curdling scream that ripped into the ears of their captors, but any power that may have triggered was snuffed out because of the collar. Raven watched in horror as her daughter cried and squirmed in pain, then was taken to the center of the smoke stack, the fan blowing beneath a platform. Chang smirked to himself throwing the bloody knife into the blades of the fan, Raven glaring with pure hatred at the mad scientist.

"When I'm through with you, you will BEG for death."

Chang continued his smug smiling. "But until then you two are mine." Raven continued to snarl as her daughters cries and the scent of her blood floated up the smoke stack and into the air.

The power.

The fury.

The freedom.

These were the feelings that pulsed through his veins as he pounded across the concrete jungle, ignoring the gasps of fear by the two legged animals when he ran passed them. He didn't have time for them, HE was needed. When the dark one with the red eyes said that his mate and cub were taken, he HAD to push his partners mind away. His partner was needed to care, to love, and to hold his family, but they needed HIM, now they needed the monster, they needed the Beast.

His claws dug into the ground, bringing him to a stop. His snout lifting into the air taking deep thoughtful breaths, hoping to catch a familiar scent.

...

...

There it was. The familiar scent of his cub. The smell of herbal tea, like her mother, sugar cookies, and crayons, and . . . . blood.

The beast let out a howl of pure blinding fury, and tore off in the direction of his cub, his incredible hearing also picking up the sounds of her screams of terror and pain. They had harmed his pup, harmed his mate, now whoever was responsible was going to pay, and pay DEARLY. Red replaced his vision, and rage that helped him burst though the walls of the hidden compound, even when the pathetic creatures with their thunder sticks open fire, he didn't notice, his NEED for blood fueling his hunger.

Farah continued to sniffle and wince as Raven gently bandaged her hand with a torn off piece of her skirt.

"At least let me heal her!" Raven shouted to the guards outside the clear glass door, but they ignored her, or didn't hear her. Raven huffed and continued wrapping her daughters injury, which was much easier once they removed the ties from their hands and anckles.

"M-mommy, I-it hurts." Farah cried.

Raven sweetly looked to her daughter, well as sweetly as her anger would let her. "I know sweetie, but I need you to be brave for me for just a little bit longer, ok?"

Farah wiped her eyes with her free hand. "How m-much longer? I wanna go home. I want daddy." Farah's crying started to intensify, and got worse when Raven had to since the bandage tight.

"I know," Raven pulled her daughter close, "It's going to be okay." Suddenly the walls of their cell shook, the guards placed outside their cell tembling at the sounds of a god awful howl that ripped into the compound. Raven eyes snapped upwards as if she could see through the floors towards the upper levels, a small smile spreading across her lips.

Farah too, pried her tear filled eyes away from her mothers chest. "Mommy what's that?"

Raven said one, comforting, word.

"Daddy."

With a single swipe of his powerful claws, the beast swatted away the pathetic pack of men in white, the sounds of breaking bones drawning out any cries of pain or howling. With fangs dripping with hunger and fury he charged the at the pack of weaklings that cowered behind their toys, their thunder sticks shooting at him in an attempt to bring him down, but each attack was shrugged off like it was static from a the carpet. More members of the pathetic pack charged shooting the beast with red sludge in an attempt to at least SLOW the creature down, but once again with it's incedible strength, burst out of it's confinement and attacked again, knocking more of them away with his claws.

The dwindling pack began to cower and run from the green monstrosity, only a few standing their ground in an attempt to bring the raging creature down. "DON'T JUST STAND THERE!" The Beast heard the sound of the pack leader shouting his orders. "BRING IT DOWN! BUT I NEED IT ALIVE!"

The beast let out another roar of fury at the pack leader who DARED harm his cub and mate. Chang cowered behind his men just as they opened fire, pumping the beast with tranquilizer darts. The beast didn't have time for this, he could smell and hear his mate and cub, and they were close. With a powerful backhand, he slashed away the pack that was filling his powerful body with needles . . . but he felt his senses being dulled, and his mind beginning to spin.

But he pushed past it pounding in the direction of his family until he came to a large metal door. Even with his senses fading, he could still smell his cubs blood, and his mates sweet scent. He dug his claws into the metal door ripping it off of it's hinges and tossed it aside, there inside he saw the fearful shape of his family in a glass box.

"DADDY!" Farah and her mother were horrified to see the shape the beast was in. Burnt hair, darts pertruding from his back, blood dripping from his fangs and claws (blood that wasn't his mind you), his breathing ragged as he swayed from side to side on his feet. Farah leapt from her mothers grasp, placing her hands on the glass window, the beast slowly making his way towards her . . .

. . . only to wince in pain and more tranquilizer darts pierced his body. He collapsed onto the ground with a thud, slowly changing back to the smaller form of his partner.

"DADDY!" Farah shrieked again, "GET UP, PLEASE!" Raven came up behind her forcing Farah's face into her shoulder so she didn't see her father in the state he was in.

Raven watched as they cuffed, collared and threw him into the cell next to theirs. "You son of a bitch." Raven hissed at Chang, who looked as if he had just shit himself. "How can you let a child see that happen to her own father?"

Chang shrugged. "Don't care. That's how." He stepped aside as one of his goons with a video camera started recording Farah and Raven, then Chang spoke into the camera. "As you can see I have recently aquired the Teen Titans, Beast Boy, and the newly discovered, Raven, and though they are currently my guests, their daughter is on the market. She has the ability to shape shift into animals, like her father, and may have some latent empathic abilities. The bidding will start at one hundred thousand, and will begin . . . . . now, and will close in half an hour after we begin. Happy bidding."

Raven looked to Chang with disgust. "Your trying to SELL my daughter like some antique at a yard sale?! What is wrong with you!?"

"Do you want that question answered in alphabetical order, or just in general? You are nothing more then meta-humans, with a couple thousand just like you, and replaceable. Don't worry, when I take you and your not-husbands DNA, I'll fashion a new child for you, of course It'll do MY bidding and I'll build an army to sell to the highest bidder, but still, you wont even realize she's gone."

Raven pulled Farah as close to her as humanly possible, the little girl crying in horror. "Your SICK!"

"So they say, now if you'll excuse me I have an auction to prepare for." Chang and his men vanished, leaving the young family alone.

"Mommy. . . " Farah's sad and frightened voice got Raven's attention, "you wont let them take me will you?"

Raven looked into her daughters tear stained eyes, rubbing the falling moisture away. "I SWEAR to you, I will not let them take you from me. You are my child and mine alone!"

"And . . . . mine . . . "

The weak and exhausted voice of Beast Boy sounded from the other glass cell. Farah scurried to the glass wall, looking down at the tired from of her father. "Daddy are you okay?''

Beast Boy chuckled. "Of course Princess. They can't beat your dad." He coughed a bit after that statement which didn't settle well with Raven, or Farah.

"Daddy, I wanna go home."

Beast Boy scooted closer to the glass wall so he could put his hand on the glass on the other side of Farah's. "I know sweetheart, I know. We just need to sit tight. I'm sure uncle Cy, Nightwing, and Aunty Star are on their way as we speak."

"What about mister Drake? Or miss Kole?"

"All of them sweetie. We'll be home in time for dinner. How's mac and cheese and hot dogs sound?"

"That sounds yummy!" Farah squeaked. Raven smiled, leave it to Beast Boy to be able to spin a horrible situation into something positive. She just hoped he was right. Raven scooted closer to the cell wall, leaning against the glass, Beast Boy looking at the empath with regret.

"Raven, I-"

"No, me first. I'm sorry I ran away four years ago Beast Boy." His emerald eyes widened, he wasn't expecting that at all. "I was . . . scared. It didn't matter that you were with Terra, I was convinced that no one would ever love me and that our night together was just a fluke. Then when I got pregnant all I could think was that no one could ever love me, or my child, so I left to handle everything on my own, because that's what I do. I run away when I'm scared. I told myself you'd be a lousy father, a lousy boyfriend, or husband or whatever, I told myself I was better off without you, but Beast Boy I was wrong. Beast Boy I was so wrong." Raven hadn't realized it, but she had been sobbing this entire time. "I am so sorry I robbed you of the diaper changes, the midnight tantrums, the walking, the first words, the first steps, I took all if that from you." Raven reached into a pocket on her skirt revealing the onsie with the pawprint. Beast Boy's eyes conveyed his broken heart. "I'm . . . . so . . . "

"Raven, I'm just as much to blame as anyone. I was young and stupid, and some lovesick idiot filled with rosey dreams about Terra, and whatever. But at the end of the day I was filled with so much guilt and shame and pain that I was incapable of knowing what real love was," Beast Boy put his hand on the glass by Raven's cheek, "But I let it go, I've let it all go and now I realize something. Raven, I love you."

Raven's mouth fell open, "Y-You what?"

Once again Beast Boy felt a weight lift off of his shoulders, a good kind. "I love you Raven, and I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn your love in return if that's what I have to do-"

"You don't have to Beast Boy, because I already love you." Raven met his hand with her own on the other side of the glass, both of them crying tears of pure joy.

"On the bright side, you have a PCC on so your powers can't get out of control."

Raven rolled her eyes with a laugh, "Leave it to you Beast Boy."

"Soooooo, does this mean I have a daddy now?"

Beast Boy and Raven had almost forgotten that Farah was with them. "You've always had a daddy," said Raven, "He's just not going anywhere now."

"Titans report!" Nightwing shouted into his comm device.

"Got nothing on the scanners for the city 'Wing."

"I've called all the other Titans to let them know what's going on, but the best they can do is keep their eyes open. I'm sorry."

"It's alright Kole. Starfire?"

"My search has come up empty as well."

"Drake?"

It was quiet for a moment before he responded. "I think I caught a faint whif of Farah's scent in the air."

"This is the good news right?" The alien princess wondered.

"I doubt it, it seems like an obvious trail to me."

"Almost like they were luring someone?" Nightwing deduced.

"Exactly."

"Probably getting our green friend to come bounding right into a trap." Landon added.

"I still can't believe you TOLD him what James said." Cyborg shouted.

"I can't believe your SURPRISED by that?" Drake stated with a roll of his eyes.

"And your not?"

"Nothing surprises me about him anymore."

"You know I'm still here right?"

"Enough, Drake where does the trail lead you." Nightwing asked.

"Some sort of compound on the edge of town."

"Uh, guys," Cyborg said getting everyone's attention, "I've been monitering some deep web sites, in case Raven, or Farah pops up, and I just got a hit. Chang is selling Farah as we speak, and the auction is over in ten minutes."

The comms went dead for a moment, before Nightwing spoke again. "Drake are you CERTAIN Farah is there?"

"Positive-"

"But the place is warded against demons. I wont be getting in to rescue the damsels. Apparently your villains are learning."

"I'll handle it." Drake growled.

"NO Drake stand down and wait for us to get there."

"Sorry Night-shhhhhhh-your breaking-shhhhhhhh-up." Drake's comm cut out.

"Ha, that's my boy." shouted a proud Landon, then his comm also cut out.

"Argh! Kole get your boyfriend back on the comm and tell him to stand down!" Nightwing ordered.

"Sorry Nightwing," Kole responded, "your cutting out, I can't hear you." Kole was more then okay with NOT telling Drake to calm down this time.

"Hello everyone!" Chang's men, the one's still alive and in relative one piece, faced the hole the beast had created where how the young dragon knight stood. "I was going to burst in all dramtic like, but someone already did that for me," he pointed to the newly made entrance behind him, "so any chance we can do this peacefully? I have a girlfriend who dosen't like my nasty side." The sparking and twitching of their weapons was his answer. "I was hoping you'd say that."

The necklace he wore shinned a bright teal, showing him in it's wramth and causing Chang's goons to back away, but it was when the light faded that they realized how screwed they were. There standing where the young man once was, was a seven foot tall black scaled dragon, with a silver scaled underbelly. Atop it's head, down it's neck to the tip of it's tail, on his chest, forearms, and upper thighs were thick plates of light blue armor, enormous wings spread at their maximum width, and a horse-like head that swung from side to side staring down the goons with black slitted hazel eyes.

It took Chang's men a second to register what they were looking at, but that became clear when the dragon's underbelly began to glow a red-orange, and in a deeper voice told them, "You should be running." Then let loose a stream of fire.

Beast Boy and Farah's ears twitched, "What is it?" Raven asked.

"I think it's-"

"Mister Drake!" Farah shouted happily, "and he's mad."

Beast Boy and Raven laughed, "I told you they'd come for us princess."

Just then the doors to the containment cells flew open, an irritated Chang stepping inside. "Since when do you kids have DRAGON's on your team. I knew about the demon, but DRAGONS?!" Beast Boy and Raven just smirked at the scientist.

"He's going to kick your butt, just like he did the vampires." Farah sneered.

"Vampires?"

"Oops," Farah looked up to her mother, "I mean . . . oops."

"Whatever, get the brat." Chang ordered, but his men hesitated, clearly still remembering the fact that Farah had mean bite. "Fine I'll do it myself!" He grabbed one of the electric cattle prods, and something that looked like a bit to gag the girl so she couldn't bite him again, and opened the door. Raven instantly got between Farah and Chang, but one zap with the prod took her to the ground.

"MOMMY!" Farah ran to her mother, but Chang intercepted her, shoving the bit into her mouth and lifting her into the air.

"LET HER GO!" Beast Boy roared. "GET AWAY FROM HER!"

"Say good-bye to daddy, your never seeing him again." Chang sneered as Farah squirmed in his arms. Beast Boy pounded on the glass door, but then his expression of anger and fury changed to one of shock and fear. "That's right cower before Professor Chang!" But his foot hit something as he was backing away and looking down he nearly lost his lunch. There at his feet were his men, each with their throats slit from ear to ear. In his terror he dropped the little girl, just in time for a knife to go threw his throat.

Raven was slowly coming too, just in time for Farah to run into her arms. Raven removed the bit from her mouth as her daughter buried her face into her chest. "Beast Boy wheres Chang?" Her question was answered when she heard the slump of his body, and the clatter of a large butcher knife being tossed beside his body. Raven clung to her child for dear life, looking into the pure milky white eyes of the one that had just killed Chang and his men.

Carnus Valogneus, the demon who killed four of their Titan friends, and who wanted to kill Raven, stood over the massacre, a smug smile on his aged face, and his hands shoved into his coat pockets. He looked down at the dead professor, and in an icy cold voice informed him, "No one kills these kids . . . but me."

He looked back up to the little family, stunned being to light of a word to discribe what they were looking at. Carnus looked them both over before turning to leave. "Congradulations on the child by the way." He casually stepped over the bodies, whistling to himself as he did so.

Beast Boy and Raven stared blankly at the door then at each other for what felt like forever until,

"Beast Boy! Raven!" Nightwing ran into the holding cells, nearly slipping on the blood that now covered the floor. He looked around the massacre in horror before looking at his teammates. "What the hell happened here?"

Beast Boy just shook his head. "You wouldn't believe us if we told you."

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