Summary: Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust; the Seven Deadly sins which causes damnation on one's soul. Dealing with attacks and dealing with inner battles, are no easy tasks when alone.

Pairing: Robin/Raven, Cyborg/Bumblebee, ?/Starfire, whoever pops up/whoever shows up

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titan's for if I did…my mother would say…"You child are perverted

A/N: important: Unbetted Chapter; however if you want to do it, email me at newchild24 () gmail . com

Chapter 9

Inner Strength

A wave rose from the Jump Bay, before crashing onto a lone street of the city, making its way towards the downtown area, four stories high, the wave moved with enough force that sent cars crashing into buildings before being swept away. In the crown of the wave, controlling its force with ease swam Aqualad.

Reaching the city's center in seconds flat, seeing his enemies attack random buildings, Aqualad propelled himself forward and breaking free of the wall of water. The sea prince landed on the street and without haste, his arms flew about in a wide motion, and the bay water curved around itself into a tight funnel before slamming into the nearest villain.

Mammoth was enjoying his stolen breakfast, which consisted of donuts, strudels; sausages, orange juice, and coffee, it easy picking after the owner ran off, abandoning his cart. Mammoth couldn't just let good food go to waste, so he saw it as his civic duty to take care of the food left behind.

It was when the giant teen was partaking in the most important meal of the day when he was attacked. He was slammed into the nearest building by the whirlpool with the force of a freight train, and it was his pure size, strength and power that kept him from breaking in half. However the blasting water surrounded him before retreating caused him to choke on water and left him sliding down the brick wall barely conscious.

Aqualad jumped when a bus covered in black aura crashed in his just abandoned area, he landed with a spin. The titan stood up straight as his faced his opponents; Gizmo sat on a lamppost, underneath, a dozen of Billy's surrounded a car, all with crowbars in hand, Kidd Wykkyd was floating in air, and See-more and his giant removable eye, which was stretched out in the air. Mammoth was shaking off his hit.

"You guys really have bad timing." The titan growled as water remains from his first attack rose up behind him, forming a wave. "But then again, I needed a stress reliever."

"Tsk, blow it out your blowhole, fish-for-brains." Gizmo said standing up, his aluminum arms stretched out. "Think you can handle all of us by yourself, fish bait."

" 'Cause there's only one of you, and a whole lota of us." All of the Billy's unison bellowed the air.

"Let's find out losers." Aqualad grinned as the sun-illuminated sky darkened over the area, the sixteen teammates looked up as a larger wave rose over the first wall of water.

The H.I.V.E F.I.V.E had just enough time to blink before it crashed down.

Starfire was upset, she was upset and confused, Starfire was upset, confused and angry, and these negative emotions were both hindering and strengthening her powers. Since Tamaranean powers derived from their emotions, the more powerful the feelings they felt the more powerful their powers were.

Starfire however was feeling so many different emotions at the same time that her powers itself was being hindered. Her powers were in the same effect as her feelings, out of control. Her thoughts were back to Eve's words

"Thy friends hast betrayed thee, they joined into union as lovers partake. Their bodies becoming one until they relish in climax"

Images shot through her mind, before she could push them away

Robin close in one Raven's hand, taking her thumb in his mouth, sucking on her blood.

She sighed as her hand dropped to her side, the communicator still in hand from her finished conversation with Bumblebee, she looked up. She could see the building linings of Jump City over the treetops, but with her powers inoperative flying was out of the question. She already crashed out of the sky from over seventy feet in the air, the only reason why she could walk was because she managed to grasp onto some remaining control of her powers slowing her descent.

She mumbled a curse in her native language as she leaned against the highway railing, she looked behind her hoping for someone to come traveling down the road in hopes of hitching a hike, as she believed the statement was.

She was never too sure with about Earthling terms, but that was at the very bottom of her list of things to worry about. No one was in view, and she wasn't that surprised seeing as the sun was just barely coming up, and the road she was on was rarely used anyway, with the new thruway functional, even Cyborg wouldn't be heading back this way to Jump.

She stood up again and started walking towards the city, standing around was getting her nowhere.

She looked down at her communicator before placing it in her pocket, Bumble Bee said that the F.I.V.E was attacking the city and only Aqualad was the only one there currently to protect it. She was needed and going against that Team was dangerous especially in current predicament.

How could her powers pick this time of all times to start acting out, she could just scream.

Her brisk walk turned into a run as she hoped to reach the city soon, however a sudden thought caused her to fault and miss a step sending her crashing into the deserted street.

Her gasping breaths for air turned into sobs as her thoughts brought her to the one she would normally turn to when she had a problem.

"Robin," she cried as she managed to sit up with her legs bent back behind her.

She wanted to be with him, to talk and laugh with, to hold and kiss. But now she was left with a betrayed feeling that was caused by the thought of Robin doing all of those things with Raven. It was then that guilt would stir because she knew that it was not at fault of their own, but of that Evil woman, Eve and even Raven sacrificed herself to save her.

Starfire pushed her thoughts away from the two unable to handle processing them, and immediately Beast Boy was brought forward and she buried her face in her hands as fresh tears escaped her reddening eyes. Her whole body shook at the friend she lost only a couple hours ago. Her arms wrapped around her body as she was lost in her sorrow, rocking back and forth, without a sense of time which passed with the rising sun.

"Where the hell are you guys? I need help here." Aqualad's voice crackled through the communicator, followed by a serious of yelling and explosions.

Starfire froze and her tears momentarily stopping.

"Sorry, I got hold up, there was a car accident on the Thruway outside Jump, couple cars got turned over, I'll be there when I'm finished here. Starfire should be there. Where are you Star?

Starfire fumbled for her communicator, rushing to answer Bumblebee. She cleared her throat, "I am sorry Aqualad, I too had trouble where I am, I am on my way now."

Starfire replaced her communicator and stood up. How could she forget that she was still needed to help her friends, this was not the time to be lost in sorrow and despair.

The Tamaranean closed her eyes as the words from her mentor from her home planet Tamaran, Kri'tahe, rang in her mind.

"Glogig k dalkfj tirkcorblog, kcvikh, upgiygh tngup, floug vepe gorg".

At the time it was spoken to her, she did not understand the meaning behind his words. Now she understood, rather than concentrate on all her many different emotions, find the essence of original emotion.

She sorted through her emotions, being so in tune with them, it wasn't long before a single emotion struck out.

"Fear," Starfire breathed out as she felt the familiar surge of power run freely through her veins.

She was scared of what was going to become of her friends, what if Raven and Robin will never return to her side as her friend and boyfriend. She was scared that she was going to lose another friend. She was scared to admit that she felt everything was her fault, if she hadn't gone after Robin when Eve attacked him the way she did, then Raven would not have sacrificed herself to save her.

She was, however, more scared of standing idly by and not helping, letting another casualty take place because she could not control emotions to be of aide

Starfire would not let that happen, and with new determination, Starfire shot up in the sky.

Aqualad jumped away just in time to avoid a lamppost that was attempting to swipe him out like a baseball. However he miscalculated how quick the overgrown mammoth could be, so he hadn't expected the second swipe the second he landed, and was hit in his side launching him into the same wall he knocked Mammoth into.

"Ha, consider that payback." Mammoth grinned hold the tall twelve feet metal pole like a baseball bat, over his shoulder.

Aqualad squinted through the pain clutching his side, he eyed out the rest of the H.I.V.E. F.I.V.E. They were getting up from the assault he gave them. It was unfortunately that while he was preoccupied with them, Mammoth who he thought was out, wasn't.

His eyes focused back to Mammoth who was prepping his twelve foot long metal bat for another swing. The giant stepped forward in a puddle, and the sea titan acted.

With the flick of his wrist, the puddle swiped out to the right, taking Mammoth's foot with it. The result was a split that any Olympic god winner gymnast would be proud to claim. However it left Mammoth in tears as his body was built to take punches, not splits.

Aqualad would have laughed at him, had he not been in pain, he would have at least chuckled if he didn't have to avoid a laser aimed at him.

Aqualad rolled away from the wall he fell against, and landed on his feet, expertly dodging the lasers from the mini-Cyclops and the loud mouth shrimp.

The sea prince needed a plan...well…he had one; he just needed a better one. The young marine altered his direction as he steps ahead of him were now being fired at. He made up his mind, since he wasn't going to get the chance to come up with a better one, his out-dated plan was just going to have to do.

Once more he altered his step, but had to sidestep himself to avoid being hit, and then he dashed forward. Lasers and bombs fell around him as he ran around and through them.

Hopefully these idiots are concentrating more on me, than where I'm going, the thought etched across his mind as he ran swiftly ahead. With frozen water on his soles as skates, the young teen shot forward.

Gliding along the street, Aqualad gritted his teeth as he saw his target ahead, Mammoth, and he was getting up. Oh this is going to be beautiful, he thought as he puddles in the street arose around him, vaporizing, creating a wall of mist, to hopefully hide his actions.

Just a bit further, just a bit further, he repeated to himself. Aqualad smirked as his eyes met Mammoth's whose widened comically.

Mammoth knew what the young sea lad was planning, but it was too late, Aqualad dove forward, he was already upon him. And the mist around them turned into a deep fog.

Billy Numerous eyes widened as he saw the Titan loser collide with his evil teammate, just before the fog and the smoke from the explosions that his own teammates created set in, incasing the scene. And his teammates were still firing.

He and six others copies of himself went into action, "Whoa, whoa there par'ners." They screamed over the explosions and they split up to stop the three.

Two reached Gizmo first and clutched his hand, "we's reckonin' that one of our own might be down there in that there mist." When Gizmo opened his mouth to argue that it didn't matter, Billy sought reason, " 'sides, you just may be shooting at nothing but ole' Mammoth, and wasting bullets."

Gizmo growled but set aside his Mega Seismic Cannon, and lowering himself to his feet, retracting his metal arms into his backpack. Barely noticing Kid Wykkyd and See-More also stopped their firing and joined them, on the roof.

"Hey See-More, what do you see?"

See-more, eyes glowed as they searched through the thick fog, "Uh…I see…there's Mammoth, and he's moving." See-more head tilted to the side on what he was seeing, slightly confused.

"Well, what about waterlog boy."

See-more ignored the impatient question, and peered deeper into the mist, strange movement, he thought, is Mammoth…dancing? He blinked and peered even deeper, no…he's not dancing; he's being…moved-

"Aqualad is..." See-more was too late, a large bulk shot forward toward them in a flash, followed by hardening water, hail. See-more had barely enough time to register it as Mammoth, who collided with him, sending him flying off the roof of the three story building. His body hit the pavement beneath, and when the force of the hard two hundred pound body landed on him, his world went black.

Aqualad shot forward with a yell toward the closest H.I.V.E he could get to. Using the strong power of the small wave, he created; Aqualad slammed his fist into a Billy, which popped away. Without losing his momentum, he attacked the next Billy, then the next, and then the next.

It was an ongoing battle of Billy's and he was tiring, he needed to find the real Billy, in order to take the rest out, he long lost count after Billy number twenty-seven.

"Is that the best you got," the Billy's shouted in unison, "you gotta be quicker than that."

Aqualad sneered as he was punched by a Billy and shot by a cannon, which grazed his arm. He avoided a kick, but couldn't miss the tackle against his back which sent him flying forward.

"Dammit," he growled as he was grabbed by a black hand and lifted into the air, he looked back to see Kid Wykkyd was controlling the hand. He was thrown into a light post and landed hard on his back.

"Wow, Fish-bait." Gizmo taunted as he metallic arms carried him over to Aqualad, who tried to struggle to stand up, but was immediately held down by Wykkyd's power. "You really suck."

Aqualad was beyond his limit and didn't know how much more he could take by himself "Go fuck yourself."

Gizmo grinned and chuckled, waving a finger at the teen, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, no need for fowl language, Shark breath. A missile produced from his back pack and landed into his arms, "Now Say Bye-bye."

Aqualad looked up fear etched across his face for a second, before his eyes faulted to the side a full second before landing back on the electronic teen. He smirked, his eyes filled with gleam.

"Bye-Bye."

Gizmo chuckled as his missile came alive with a whirl. "See ya, loser, NOT!" he laughed out loud, then he was grabbed from behind and thrown into Wykkyd.

"Sorry, I am late, Aqualad." Starfire said, helping the fallen teen hero to his feet.

Aqualad merely waved off the apology and cracked his neck, "Better late than never." He grinned.

"You should rest, let me handle it." Starfire said placing a hand on Aqualad's shoulder, he shook his head,

"What she means is," A voice came from above, and the two barely blinked as Bumblebee landed beside them. "Let us handle it."

Aqualad chucked and cracked his knuckles, "When have you ever known me to just sit by?" he questioned.

"Never," Bee said, and turned her attention to the H.I.V.E., who was readying for another attack. "They picked the wrong day,"

"Indeed they did," Starfire said her hands glowing angry green.

"Ready," Aqualad said rolling his shoulders, the girls nodded, "Titan's GO!" They shot forward.

"This is all very interesting indeed." Slade said as he leaned back against the balcony facing the two former Titans; Robin and Raven. His eyes slid across the side to Jinx who was standing in a corner trying to seem indiscernible.

"And what exactly is it, do you want of me?" he said returning his attention to the two birds.

Raven sighed as she walked forward until she was next to him and then lifted herself on the balcony. "I thought that much was obvious. We need sacrifices, and only you can get them to us without alerting the Titans."

"It's not something we could trust to the H.I.V.E., they're merely a poor distraction." Robin added leaning on the balcony on the other side of Slade overlooking the city, he could see the signs of the battle and chuckled. Really, they were completely useless unless distracting his Titans.

"How many sacrifices," Slade asked looking forward into the well lit room they just left.

"Two hundred or so," Raven answered easily, "after all, my father is a powerful Daemon. He managed to survive my attack on him in the past." She stood on the rail and looked down at the two males before her, and walked until she was in front of the first. She let her hands raise to his shoulders and carefully turned him around to her. She knelt down and her hand rose to caress the cheek Slade's mask.

"I was weak then," Raven said, he lips ghosting across the coolness of the metal mask, she lingered over the slits feeling his every breath. Her eyes rose to meet his. "I'm stronger now, much stronger; to kill him for good, and to take over his thrown."

Slade let loose a light chuckle, his hands resting on the metal rail on either side of the young girl. "And then what, plan to follow in Daddies footsteps, bring Hell to Earth."

Raven smirked as her hands caressed the top of Slade's mask before wrapping them loosely around his shoulders. "No…now why would I do that, this world is already Hell." Raven's hands traveled down Slade's broad shoulders, finding pleasure with every strong muscle, her eyes following their movement.

"Then what?"

This time it was Robin who laughed lightly, her turned his head sideways and pulled off the sunglasses he was wearing, "We will destroy this city," he said his voice full of calmness, "and then the next, one by one, this humanity will fall." He looked back toward the rising sun against the sky-liner; it oddly symbolized the world on fire to him. He sighed "It will be a lot of work, but with the power that Raven will possess from taking Trigon's power-"

Raven turned Slade chin to face her, leaning towards him, closing her eyes and the mask coolness as her cheek came in contact with the mask. She whispered her next words.

"This world will suffer much pain, by our hands, and then we will, rest."

A/N:: So, I'm back, from death it seems, anyway I don't have much to say, but a couple of things I'll point out in this chapter, which killed me. I suck at writing fighting scenes, they are my weakness and I was stuck for ages on ages at Aqualad's scene. I don't really care for that plan, but I had nothing else.

This scene at the end, it's a small window into what raven is planning. There are two things I want to explain,

#1: its not turning into a slade/raven thing, it's not, this is me proving that she will give into all temptations, she has nothing to stop her, shes running on pure emotions and the strongest one in her at the time is lust, and slade is hot. So there will be times when raven will be against someone and times robin will be on someone, and yes jealousy will rear its head soon, but still they're main attention will be each other simply because of the bond, that holds them together

#2 if it seems like raven's calling the shots she is, robin is merely going along because of that bond, I want to explain more, but it will have to wait for in later chapters.

Until then, I'll assume u have read, so what's left is review, I would love to know what everyone think.