Summary: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust; the Seven Deadly sins which causes damnation on one's soul. Robin and Raven take control with vengeance in their minds. Beast Boy stands up
Disclaimer: Don't own the Teen Titans, for if I did, all Robin/Starfire fans would hate me so….
Important: this story is unbetted, so don't beat my chops too much about little mistakes, although I try to catch them
Chapter 4
Fighting Fate
Eve was angry, no…she was past angry and was flying full speed at livid. Her whole body screamed livid, her fist curled to the point of drawing blood, her body rigid, her eyes narrowed into two slits, and her forehead wrinkled.
Everything she worked for ruined in the matter of moments. Don't people understand how long it takes to harness enough power, the research she had to do to find what can further her powers, the damn sacrifices she had to make. For the past ten years she worked hard for this, and now those two, those damn Titans, ruined it all in five minutes. She wanted VENGENCE!!
"My Children, bringth to me thy heads," Eve shouted into the night, pointing toward those damn teenaged birds.
Her followers all turned to the two birds who seemed to be preoccupied with themselves.
"What are we to do?" Starfire questioned in a light voice, her gaze rose to Cyborg who was watching Raven and Robin turn their attention to Eve's disciples rush towards them.
"…that's a stupid question…" Beast Boy grunted as he forced himself to stand, "we help them, there are too many for Rob and Rae to take on…" Although he felt he was about to collapse and every movement took needed strength from him, he would fight on to protect his loved ones. "We have to bring them home, Star...we have too." However his speech was short lived when he fell to his knees again, having the orange alien come to his side.
"What is she doing…" Cyborg whispered to himself, his eyes narrowing. The other two titans looked at each other before turning to Raven and Robin. Robin had stepped back as if leaving Raven to take them on…but the dark bird only smirked and raised her hands out in front of her, her eyes two slits of white light.
"She's performing a spell, correct?" Starfire questioned. She didn't receive an answer but she let out a gasp as her black power flooded out of her fingertips and through the disciples that were stopping in their tracks.
Beast Boy fell down again, when not only he and the other two titans, but also Eve realized what was being done.
"NO…" Eve screamed as she felt her power decrease.
Her power heightened when her followers increase, when they decrease so does her power. It was that simple, and now she could only stand and watch as Raven turn her disciples into her own.
One by one each of the disciples, who were once controlled by her, turned to her, standing there with those faceless masks.
"Ex-mistress of mine…" Raven's voice bellowed out with sarcasm filled amusement, "but I don't think they're listening to you."
Eve backed up, as those who were once under her power now surrounded her, and frowned. "Insolent fools art thou," Eve palms glowed and two giant fist rose from her own and side swiped all those who approached her. "Be thy so daring to raise thy hand against mine? I, Eve who shall reign as Goddess in this world? Do not thinkith of me so little."
Eve walked forward, giant mass of power formed into massive red glowing fists pushing forward as she made her way to the two birds. "Thou shalt not be forgiven."
Each hand wrapped around the birds, with the fierceness of a claw capturing its prey, snapping them to Eve who eyes blazed with the intensity of the fury from hell.
Robin grinned and Raven raised an eye brow, "What threat do you think you can hold over us?" Raven asked, her eyes glowed white before she easily stepped out of the red arms, Robin did the same.
"Thy make good to remember that, twas I who made thee this way, and tis I who shalt undo it." Her giant hands dissipated and she the pendants on her palms bright red. Her hands rose as a small tornado began…
"I'd think twice if I were you." Robin grinned widened with a crazed appeal, he stalked to her before slamming his hands over hers, momentarily surprising the woman out of her concentration, the tornado evaporating with seconds. "Don't think we'd give you the chance,"
Robin dug into her wrist before tossing harshly aside like a rag, he chuckled as he watched Eve fail to brace herself and tumble down the hill. He pulled out a sharp bird-a-rang from his belt and flipped it open. Eve groaned as she turned over on her back watching with wide eyes as he raised his weapon
"I won't give you time to do anything more than plead for your life," he threw the sharp object at her, Eve shrieked and rolled away the object grazed her arm drawing blood just before standing at the place she once been.
"I missed…" Robin said highly amused, he turned to Raven who rolled her eyes, but a smile on her face. "Don't worry," Robin said producing another slick bird-a-rang with a button in it, he turned to Eve and smiled brightly. "I won't miss again."
Robin's thumb pressed the button, a beeping sound beating in his ear. His eyes found Eve's who was slowly and clumsily backing away from him on all fours. If possible his smile stretched insanely as he brought the makeshift bomb over his opposite shoulder before launching it to the woman who was now frozen in fear.
Eve screamed covering her face with her arm, she felt a tug seconds before the explosion hit. Arms encircled her and she felt herself being thrown backward, but she was pulled tight and whoever took most of the landing.
"Are you alright?" a soft voice said from behind her.
Eve opened her eyes, registering that she was still in one peace and a pair of orange arms was holding her close. Eve roughly pulled away from the alien titan before quickly moving to her feet. "Keep thy hands to thyself." She muttered to the alien although said alien didn't hear it., before stumbling to her feet.
Eve turned back to Robin who was looking more pissed off, his smile was gone, and he stood rigid. The half man half robot stood in front of Robin, breathing heavily, his cannon arm smoking softly.
"You made me miss." Robin said angrily the sockets of his black and white mask flashed a heated red before turning white again.
Cyborg recharged his cannon, pointing it at the wayward boy wonder, who smirked before pulling out his Bo staff. "Rob, man, I think you should rethink that, we don't need to do this…do not make me hurt you." Robin smiled sadistically, "Care to try…"
Robin jumped at Cyborg his staff flying…
Raven watched the fight between Robin and Cyborg before growing bored and turning to Eve. "Making me do all the work," Raven muttered to herself as she contemplated over sending Eve's own puppets to take care of their ex mistress. They were just standing still like statues waiting for their next order.
Raven sighed before choosing not to, she'd rather end the life of the one who honestly believed they could take over her mind with such pathetic powers. Did Eve really suspect her to be so weak? How insulting…
Raven took one more look toward Robin who was back flipping away from Cyborg's cannon blast. The boy blunder had wanted to be the one to take care of Eve but he was currently busy, playing with the robot, he'd get over it.
Raven eyed the way his boy wonder suit hugged his body in ways that left little to her imagination, she licked her top lip… if not he could think of ways to punish her. She smirked to herself before turning back Eve who noticed her gaze and took a step back.
A roll of thunder roared in the sky, Raven looked up noting the dark rain clouds that were covering the moon, leaving little light to their already darkened night. The rain should start soon.
"Care to play with me, Mistress." Raven asked mockingly, taking a tread to Eve, whose eyes widened in terror. "Although I can't promise any pain, I can promise one of us will have fun…" Raven said raising her black shadowed hand toward the brown haired, black eyed woman.
"Raven, please do not." Starfire begged, she put herself in front of Eve, emerald and amethyst met, and grey lips curved at one end into a smirk.
"Starfire, can't wait your turn?" Raven eyes flashed white and a black shadow claw snapped out, grabbing the orange alien by her neck squeezing tightly. Starfire cried as her vision was becoming blurry, she could only claw in vain at the claw that relentlessly choked her life away, Suddenly Starfire was released and she fell to her knees in a coughing fit.
Raven was caught off guard when something fell against her back, and didn't let go.
"DON'T RAE!" Beast Boy yelled from behind the dark bird, his forehead just below her neck on her back "You can't do this, snap out of it and come back to us. Don't do anything you'll regret Rae."
"You won't have to worry about that," Raven growled as she attempted to pull from the green arms that only held her tighter.
"Come back to us Raven, fight whatever is happening to you. We can help you." Beast Boy offered. He felt Raven relax in his arms; her head bowed slightly her hands at her sides. He took the chance to lighten up his hold, but didn't let go.
The two stood there for what seemed like hours, but only a few minutes. Beast Boy heard Raven mutter something, but didn't catch it.
"What was that, Rae?" Beast Boy asked lifting his head and angling to see her face, her eyes were closed and she looked calm.
Raven opened her eyes, her eyes focusing on nothing particular, she felt a few drops of water and the predicted shower started. She heard Beast Boy's question and she raised her head slightly to the side, to eye him. His two green eyes met her four red stilts. She answered her voice only a fraction louder, but she knew he heard it.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos,"
A black shadow crept up the green Titan's body, and he was wrenched to the floor. "Ra-Raven…" he choked out before his head was surrounded in the blackness of her powers.
Raven smirked as she watched the small boy before her wither and shake on the ground, clawing at his neck as he soundlessly grasped for air.
A green bolt shot toward her, but met with a black shield that protected the Azarthian from harm. Raven's head turned ever so slightly, "wait your turn," before turning back to watch the green boy bang his head again the ground trying to get air in his body.
"Raven let him it, stop it, stop it! You're killing…" Starfire yelled as she let out a stream of green star bolts towards the Raven, but she couldn't get past her shield.
Raven growled in annoyance, as with a flick of her wrist, all of the humans who stood like statues, ran towards the red haired alien, throwing themselves at her, only to get thrown aside.
Raven smirked slightly in amusement as the shadowed Beast Boy turned to different animals hoping to get free, but never getting the desperate air he needed.
"Do you know Beast Boy," Raven said ignoring Starfire shouts that was a merged between English and Tamaranean, "about the Rule of Three; Three weeks without food, Three days without water and three minutes without air. How long will you last?"
Beast Boy tried to scream but nothing came out, he couldn't breathe everything in him seemed to burn and hurt. His vision was getting darker, all he could see was a darkening Raven, he held out one hand to her, pleading for help.
"I'm pretty sure with all that thrashing your doing, it'll take less than three minutes," Raven said tilting her head to the side at the hand that was reaching out for her.
Starfire used all her strength to bypass the humans that kept jumping on her, forcing her to the floor. She landed on her stomach for the third time; she looked up as Beast Boy's movements start to grow idle. Tears and rain pooled from her eyes as she whimpered his name. Her eyes grew in worry as a large boulder the size of a truck, wedged itself from the sky and hovered over Beast Boy's tiring body.
Starfire forced herself up, throwing back the fifteen disciples that were climbing on top of her. She rose in the air, her hands glowing in green fury; she shot firebolts nonstop at Raven but her shield.
Starfire dove forward toward her female companion, with the will to fight. She was knocked out of the sky by a black hammer that came from the abyss. The orange Tamaran skidded across the sky hitting the ground with a painful thud and a crack from where in her body, pain lightened up her arm, and she screamed.
Cyborg faulted his punch when he heard Starfire scream, it gave Robin enough time to side step said punch, grab his arm and throw him off to the side. Robin looked towards Raven and chuckled at the withering green annoyance on the ground. He picked up something powering up, and jumped out of the way of the blue electric beam that Cyborg fired at him.
Cyborg growled when Robin jumped out of the way. His was livid, not only was he wasting power which was killing his battery life, but he couldn't seem to get more than a few punches off the boy wonder. He knew he could do better than that; he was trained to take down his leader if needed be. Why was he failing?
Cyborg risked an eye toward Starfire who was soaked from the rain and nursing a bruised arm, and struggling to get up, her eyes toward something off to his right. Cyborg turned that way and he cursed, when his eyes landed on the slowly jerking Beast Boy.
His mind left the boy wonder, toward the dark girl, to his little sister, his arm cocked and now pointing her way.
"RAVEN, LET HIM GO NOW!"
Raven didn't seem to hear him, as she felt pleasure in the life leaving out of Beast Boy, who had tears leaking from his eyes. His body felt like it weighed a ton, and could no longer support movement, his throat desperately trying to heave in unavailable air. He stared up at the boulder that was only feet away from him.
The word DIE echoed throughout his mind in a monotone feminine voice.
The next occurrence happened in slow motion.
Starfire screamed in agony
Beast Boy gasping in one gulp of fresh air, before the boulder fell
Raven was jerked by her arm, twirling her in circles, her eyes met up with whiteness.
The beam at its highest strength soared over the place that was once occupied by said Raven, only meeting nothing so it continued in its path of destruction to the unknown.
Robin ran towards Raven
Cyborg's human eye leaking tears and rain leaked from his robotic eye in tear fashion as he let the shot fire on extreme.
"BEAST BOY"
Starfire shot up ignoring all pain; she ran to the boulder tossing it aside like a leaf. She let out a gasped at the sight of her injured friend who was unconscious and heavily bleeding. She collapsed at his side, seconds later she was joined by Cyborg.
Raven looked up at Robin still twirling in his arms before they skidded to a stop. Both were thoroughly soaked and clutching the other.
"Robin,"
He was breathing hard, his eyes flashed crimson and titian, his arms curved up along her body. "Had…to save you…" his voice came out husky causing Raven to tilt her head to the side and her eyes to shutter close after flashing the same crimson color. "…can't lose you…before tasting you…"
Robin lips lingered over hers; her eyes met his in a hazy fashion. "…so fucking hot…we can finish them off later…now…I fucking need…"
Raven hands ran up along Robin's covered chest and hissed when she was pulled against his need.
Raven eyes looked to the side and all of Eve's puppets now to be hers, melted into the ground by her will only. She gave one last look toward the bothersome Titans before herself and Robin too escaped into the ground.
"They have left," Starfire said as he picked up Beast Boy's broken and bloody body in her arms.
"We can't worry about them now," Cyborg said as he pressed a button on his arm, seconds later the head lights of his car were heading towards him. "Take him to the car, I'll get Eve."
Starfire nodded as she flew off the blue electronic car. Cyborg growled and turned to the bane of his current existence. Eve who fell to her knees during the last couple minutes, turned to look up at Cyborg who was making his way to her. In seconds she shot up and made a run for it, but was grabbed by her arm and threw heavily on the ground.
"I don't think so bitch." Cyborg growled as he stood over her. In a very uncaring fashion, he yanked her up roughly held her tight by hair and shoved her toward his car. "First I'm going to take you to jail, and then tend to my friend, and then I'm coming after you bitch. I just can't wait till I get to your ass…"
"Unhand me." Eve growled her head angled back due to the pull of Cyborg's hand, she tried to jerk away, but the movement caused her pain and also caused him to yank her harder.
"It's your fault that this shit happened, your fault Raven and Robin went killer on us…your damn fault-" Cyborg was pulled from his heated ramblings by Starfire's frantic call.
"Cyborg, I can't get Beast Boy to breathe and his heart has stopped…"
A/N: Hey although it's later in the week I did manage to get in the week I promised…so go me… I know its short…but there a reason for that…so just to give heads up…next one is short too... I may try to put it up on Monday or Tuesday, but we'll see on what I can do tomorrow.
Anyway For the mini trivia the question was….
Ch. 3: What is the first sign of Robin and Raven's betrayal of Eve
The answer is: in the first: their hoods were down and each had a white faceless mask that was placed on top of their heads rather than over their face.
It's confusing I know that's why I said it was subtle. When Raven and Robin entered the jewel museum they weren't wearing their mask over their face, if they were completely under Eve's control those mask would have been on their face.
Unfortunately no one answered it right but Poison's Ivy was close. So this time I'll be lenient and call her the winner of this challenge simple because Raven was the first to voice their betrayal.
So cootos to Poison's Ivy, if you remember the prize: you can ask me to put something in my story that you wish to see, or you can ask me anything of my story (as long as the storyline won't change). You can email me your request at (newchild24) at (gmail) (.com) -- hope you get that
Oh and Avita. I'll work on Nameless God when I finish with this since my mind won't let me process any other story until then.
WestSide Love, you don't have to worry about this story being discontinued, I can't seem to write anything but this story for the time being…so stick aboard IOW and I won't let you down.
SIDE NOTE: fans of my stories, don't worry I haven't given up on Learn to Trust, I'm currently working on it, so just give me time please….
BYE BYE…until next chapter…
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