Our Bindings
Titan's Tower
The group of Ravens sat outside as they took in the freedoms without cages. Anger sat under a dark shade from an umbrella as she watched John who splashed around in the ocean, seeming to prove the bigger man against Beast Boy. Love watched them curiously as she admired the guys in the water. Happy joined them and enjoyed the summer time weather. Wisdom tried explaining to Rude what kindness and order was. Sloth laughed as Wisdom tried in all seriousness to explain the subjects. And, like Anger, Raven sat in shade next to a tree as she watched John. With a smile, she sighed as she thought of how to capture her emoticlones before they could escape.
A thought burst in her mind as she eyed Anger curiously. 'Anger was only a small fraction of Rage,' she thought, nearly aloud, 'but the effects of Rage were reversed into John, but how?' Anger caught her gaze and gave a threatening look. With a quick turn, she looked back to John, who was holding a laughing Beast Boy and threw him into the water. He rose from the ocean laughing as he gave John a playful punch on the arm. Suddenly, the sunny sky turned to clouds of grey as they spiraled above John. With a loud demonic laugh, a figure fell from the sky and landed hard on the beach, sending sand and the Ravens flying.
"I have returned," the voice from the figure echoed, "the Demon has arrived."
Shocked, John turned to eye the doppelganger with anger in his eye.
He gritted his teeth as he started with a run at the figure. With a swift dodge, John moved bellow the figure's fist and gave a sharp upper cut to the chin. Flying back, it regained its balance and returned with a powerful blow to John's stomach. Coughing in pain, John stumbled to his feet as he focused all his anger into his left arm; powering his weapon of choice. With a quick smirk, John lifted his arm and shot a powerful beam of energy which was caught halfway by a beam of red energy coming from the figure's right hand.
The Ravens, at this point, had dug themselves out of the sand and brushed the sand away. They watched curiously as John fought the demon in a stalemate with their energies. John felt weaker as he tried to hold his ground. His arm began to shake with pain and weakness as he slowly fell to one knee, keeping his arm up. The stalemate began to break as the red beam approached John dangerously. Raven caught her breath as she watched John losing the battle. She tried to run to him, but he stopped her with a hand motioning for her to stay away. She stopped in her tracks as the demon eyed her with an evil grin.
The stalemate was now only inches away from John as he began to sweat from the heat radiating from the beams. He gritted his teeth from the pain as he gasped for breath. As quickly as the fight started, John shot his head up for breath and found he numb from the deadly blast from his opposite and flying high in the air backwards and into Titan's Tower. He was covered with a thick cloud of dust as he moaned in pain upon the crashed control panel. He rubbed his aching head as he opened his eyes to see the other Titans with curious looks on their faces. "Weird, huh?"
With a loud slam, the opposite John jumped from the beach to the floor John and the others stood. In his arms, a struggling blue/indigo Raven in his arms grip as he stood eyeing John. "You and I," he began, "are not so much different. We strive for a single girl, we have unimaginable powers, and we both have dangerous paths we must follow." With a battle cry, John lunged at him. Landing a blow to his face, the demon stumbled back with Raven in his arms and fell out of the window.
Raven quickly began to float and flew next to John who stood on the edge, watching the clone hit the ground hard with a thud. A confused look on his face, the demon faded into a black mist that came to John. After a moment, it collided with John and hit his chest hard. Catching his breath, John watched as the other Ravens began to fade into a mist the color of their cloaks and floated into one to form a white cloud of mist that slowly entered Raven similarly to John and the black mist. He smiled at Raven as she looked to him. "It's all over, huh?"
"Ya, it's over." She replied. They shared a smile as they filled each other's arms with a hug and a quick kiss.
"Okay," Beast Boy cut in, "can we have waffles now or later?" Cyborg chuckled as he slapped him on the back. "We can have some now!" Cyborg and Beast Boy ran to the kitchen quickly and pulled out ingredients for waffles. Robin and Starfire walked calmly to the kitchen table to wait. John and Raven stood at the edge for a moment holding hands as they eyed each other with compassion. They both then turned and walked to the kitchen to wait as well. John's arm around Raven's neck, walking away from the sun set that gleamed through the broken window as the couple seemed to grow stronger.
Somewhere in a Hellish Dimension…
"Hmm…" Trigon hummed as he studied a symbol on a wall in front of him. He rested upon a stone carved into the shape of a chair. The demon of John had carved it into the wall earlier that day, but for an unknown reason. It was a star with its tips overlapped by a circle. He had said not a word about it to Trigon, nor anyone he encountered. The giant red demon stood and felt the carving. With an evil grin, he realized what it was for.
"You fool," Trigon spoke aloud as he chuckled loudly and demonically, "you have given me the perfect way to destroy Earth."
Suddenly, a part of the lower wall flashed brightly as two people ran into Trigon's domain. One was a male who was 6"1' with dark brown hair and green eyes. The other was a female that was 5"6' with dark brown hair and blue eyes. The man sighed loudly as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Elizabeth," he began, eyeing Trigon, "how did you think of this place?"
She shrugged her shoulders as she eyed him with her beautiful, yet deadly eyes. "You wanted away from the Handyman, didn't you Booker?" She wore a white school shirt with a blue dress. He wore a black undershirt with a jean material-like jacket without sleeves. His pants were black with white stripes running down. He held in his right hand a shotgun and in his left, flames burst from his fingertips.
"But, who are… What are you doing here?" Trigon questioned them in a confused manner as he kneeled down to eye them closer. The man, Booker, bushed the girl, Elizabeth, behind him as she stared in fear of the demon. Booker took two steps forward, only a foot away from Trigon's face.
"Just escaping Songbird, and you?" Booker asked him. Trigon's face sank as he tried to comprehend what was going on. "Trigon the terrible, destroyer of worlds, this is my domain." With a sigh, Booker looked back at Elizabeth who eyed him back. "You brought us to a demon's realm. Now I can say I have been everywhere. I mean, what time is this anyway?"
"2005 on Earth," Trigon told him, "but you aren't in Hell."
"Thank God," Elizabeth sighed, "I think they may know about you, 'The False Shepherd'." Booker sighed as he gave Trigon an innocent smile. "Well our stay has been… brief, but we have to go now." With a quick turn he walked to Elizabeth and gave her a nod; "Take us to Earth, but in this time. Hopefully Columbia is Songbird free." With a giggle, Elizabeth turned and opened another portal with her mind and let Booker go first to inspect it.
"Thank you for your time!" she called to Trigon as she waved at the demon. He gave an unsure wave back as she skipped into the portal with a bright closing. "Wow," Trigon mumbled to himself, "and I thought my life was weird." He sighed as he buried his face in his hands trying to understand what just happened.
After Notes:
After writing this to carry the "Death of the Brave" story further, I seem to run into the fact that people don't just want some other new character to like one of the iconic characters, and I understand this. That is why I am turning to a BBRae story next. Yes, I believe in BBRae. I know there is a large crowd who look into this subject, and I see opportunity.
Did the ending leave you baffled? Did it make you have to read it twice? I didn't plan when I first thought of the story to add this crossover into the story, but I have been researching BIOSHOCK for the longest time to write a Teen Titans-BIOSHOCK crossover. No, there is not a huge "market" for this subject, but it has potential if written right. So I added this to the ending to keep you, the reader, confused.
I have noticed that my story does seem to make Raven's emotions easier to "open up". I will keep this in mind when I write my BBRae. And now to the new story: I am unsure of how to create the plot, though in one of "Demon of the Night's" stories, the two are isolated from the team by Robin and Starfire in an attempt to make them settle their differences, though they find much more.
Unlike some authors, I would like to dedicate this story to a person who inspired me to write this. Though there isn't really anyone to thank, I would like to thank the episode "Nevermore" from the animated series and "Pieces of Me"; the comic.
I hope for positive feedback on my BBRae idea and crossover thoughts. If you would like to know more, leave a comment or message me. I believe you can send me a message over , but I am not exactly sure.
This is ClasslessToast rapping up another story, I hope you have a great day!