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Chapter 30
They went into hand to hand combat and hand to claw combat.
Beastboy using his animalistic gifts.
Slade using his super human attributes.
They battled it out in the now empty café. It was a fight to the death for the fair maiden.
The fair maiden with amethyst eyes had awaked. The sight of the two men fighting was not what she wanted to awake to. To see each man throwing punches at each other and to hear the sickening cracks of the successful ones was a lot for the empath to handle.
She watched a little dazed and still weak as. She was somewhat helpless at the moment. Still she wasn't going to let him hurt him. Yet, she was powerless at the moment.
Slade and Beastboy kept on fighting both hitting the other with all their strength. You could not see the outcome. They were both fighting for the thing they wanted most. A small half demon beauty who sat quietly watching.
"You are weak and will never be able to have her," Slade hissed while he punched Beastboy." you are nothing. You can't protect her. You lost her a multitude of times. What makes you think you will not lose her again!"
Beastboy hit the bar, crashing and being cut into and by the cups and glasses.
"What have you done to keep her!" Beastboy yelled at the masked maniac.
Beastboy turned into a tiger and pounced on the man. He slashed at his chest.
Slade cursed in pain. The damn boy cut pretty deep into his chest.
"Its time I ended this and got my prize," he hissed.
Raven was trying to get up to help her man beat the psychopath. Her healing had kicked in and she was gaining strength. She was going to help him.
Slade pulled out a gun.
Time stopped for the empath.
Beastboy was in a clear shot to get hit.
Time began to move slowly for her.
Slade brought his two fingers clutching the trigger back.
The bullet shot out.
There was no time for him to dodge.
There was time for her to stop it.
She floated to the path of the bullet at an amazing speed.
"Azarath mentrion zinthos," she cried attempting a shield.
The bullet was stopped and Beastboy was saved.
"No," Beastboy cried.
Raven fell to the floor with a thump.
The shield wasn't strong enough to save her.
Slade stared dumbfounded but made a hasty retreat. He had finally lost.
Beastboy ran to her side. He needed to see if she was okay.
Her breathing was staggered. The bullet lodged into her left breast. The blood creating a waterfall on her pale bruised body.
"You can't go raven, wake up," he cried trying to stop the bleeding.
As much as the shape shifter did not want to admit. The masked maniac slade was right. He could never save or protect his love. He swore to protect her from him. Now here she was bleeding from a hole in her chest. She wasn't going to overcome this.
"Please," he said tears flowing down his now pale green cheek. "You can't leave me. I just found you again."
A pale hand reached for his cheek and an amethyst and violet eye opened.
You could tell that the life in the petite vessel was fleeting. She caressed his tear speckled cheek.
"Rae please says you will be okay?" he asked grabbing the pale hand.
She gave him a sad smile; she knew there would have to be a miracle to save her.
Her eyes no longer glistened with life but where dull facing death a second time. Her oaken skin was paler. Her hands shook with fear of her upcoming fate.
The sun began to rise in the desolate town.
Nature's first green is gold
She was a gift to mankind in Gars eyes.
Her hardest hue to hold
It was hard to find someone as dedicated and beautiful as the rare half demon bird.
Her early leafs a flower
A beautiful bird that never had a chance.
But only so an hour
A gift taken too soon and too often.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
And now the birds' wings are clipped and so the bird withers down to die.
So Eden sank to grief
The world was losing a great person.
So dawn goes down to day
The sunshine filled the somber shop.
And her pale completion became paler.
Her gold shining soul became weaker.
So as dawn turns into day.
Nothing gold can stay
Her soul is slowly silently slipping away.
"This is my fault," he cried.
"No it isn't," she said. "Of all the people I think protected me. You did the best."
"Raven," he whimpered. "If we could start this all over ….I would…..I would have never left you lying there alone. I would have made sure you got into the t-car. I would have made sure slade would have never gotten to you."
She gave him another week smile.
"Would've could've should've," he cried grasping her pale hand and kissing it. "Say it one more time Rae, azar..."
"Azarath," she said. "Mentrion, zinthos."
The world suddenly started to spin.
Beastboy became suddenly dizzy.
All the while a Mexican beauty watched from afar.
….
had blinded Beastboy in the form of a python. He fell to the side to regain his vision.
"What the hell?" he said. "Why am I here, where is?"
Still blinded he did not comprehend what was happening. One moment he was with a dying raven and now them where back to the beginning.
'Was it all a dream,' he thought.
"Light you idiot!" he heard his demon love yelling.
He could see again, and there she was. Alive and well.
"Huh? Oh, I see you've awakened, but you are still no match for the great Dr. Light" the slow-witted villain gloats.
"Light, don't you ever learn? Azarath Metro-"
Raven is cut short when a boulder encased in a yellow aura flies into the scene, sending Dr. Light into dreamland.
"Uggghhhh," is all the normally verbose villain can manage.
A few seconds later the rest of the team wakes up.
He was starting to understand what was happening.
"Hmmm, hey, good job Rae," comments Nightwing as he stands up.
"That wasn't me," she replies.
'This is my chance, I can save her,' he thought.
"Sup titans," they all heard the voice of terra say. "Just wanted to lend a hand."
She went over to a confused Raven and helped her up. She then turned to Beastboy and winked and told him to come over.
"are you okay," she asked the empath."
"Raven," Beastboy yelled running over the injured bird.
"Wow girl you took a hit," CY said pointing at her wound.
"Let's get to the tower so we can help and so Terra can explain why she is here," Beastboy suggested.
Everyone nodded.
….
Slade sat injured.
The woman he paid to give terra back her memories had just beat him to a pulp and was beginning to alter his memories as well.
"Sorry slade," she said to the distraught man. "But I do not want anyone's worlds to crumble in your hands."
"I have no idea what you are talking about," he hissed.
"No, you don't," she smiled.
…
After all the healing and explanations where taken care of, Raven went to her room.
She meditated quietly in her room, she just didn't feel right.
A knock came to her door. She went to open and a green man stood at the foot of her door.
"Can I come in," he asked.
"Sure," she blushed. "But I thought you would rather be with terra."
It was clear to Beastboy that she had no recollection of what had happened. Terra did and she was happy to let him go to raven. She had someone else. Although they didn't know it yet.
"Nah I wanna be her with you," he said sitting next to her.
"Why?" she asked.
"Raven I had a ….a nightmare the other day," he said.
"Want to talk about it," she asked.
He nodded.
"In my dream I had lost something really important, but I didn't realize it until it was too late."
She twiddled her fingers.
He grabbed her hand.
She blushed.
He came really close to her face.
"Beastboy," she said a little confused.
"In the dream I kept losing this important thing. I would have it then I would foolishly lose it.
He cupped her face.
"It wasn't until I realized I could lose her forever that I realized I loved her."
"What are you?" she tried to say.
"I got a chance to start over," he said closing the space between them. "I love you."
Lips met.
And loves flames ignited.
…..
There you go the ending might make a sequel might not depend….