FLASH!

I snarl and fling a wave of red energy at Nightwing.

Nightwing holds his breath and dives across the ruins of Titan's Tower. He jumps up to his feet and raises his bo-staff.

"Heh heh heh…..," I grin with fanged teeth. Four red eyes pulse across my brow as I flex my wrists and shoot another burst of crimson towards the Titans' Leader. "RAAAUGH!"

Nightwing backflips from the blasts and knocks away all residual energy with his twirling staff. He comes down and perches on a piece of smoking rubble. He pants, sweating all over. The red-colored sky and smoking City burns behind his dark figure.

"Trigon!" Nightwing shouts. "Let go of Raven already!"

"Foolish mortal…..," I stomp towards him. Fiercely thorned legs move lithely around a tattered, crimson gown colored with skull-like patterns. Red clouds flap away in the shape of cawing, four-eyed birds and melt into the skyline. "I AM Raven! Heh heh heh heh!"

"That's not true!" Nightwing shudders, gripping his weapon tighter. "You're using her! You've been using her all this time! Well I'm going to chase you out, Trigon!" Nightwing growls and twirls his staff. Th-Th-Thwish! "If it's the last thing I do!"

"That….can be arrrrranged….," I grin again. My teeth glisten and my long, jagged fingernails thirst for the vigilante's fragile neck.

I play with him.

"I've waited a long time for this…..Nightwing….."

"Tell me what you've done to Beast Boy and Starfire!"

"Pleeeeease, Nightwing….," I lean my glowing head to the side and smile. "You are far too optimistic for your own, futile good. Heh heh heh……what makes you think that there is any piece of Beast Boy left to find?"

Nightwing's jaw dropped. "Y-You wouldn't…"

I hiss and stretch an arm out. "Watch me do it again!"

FL-FLASH!

Nightwing leaps over the fiery discharge. He runs towards me. He hops over rubble and pieces of the smoldering Tower and eventually dodges two more fiery chunks of my attack before sailing at me with a heavy swing of his staff. "RAAAAUGH!"

GRIP! I clutch him around the waist. I dig my nails into him, grinning.

"AAA-AAA-AAAUGH!" Nightwing twitches in my grasp.

I snarl and fling him against a metal pylon.

SWOOOSH-SMACK!

He falls to the ground and quivers all over. Coughing up blood.

I stomp towards him.

I billow fire out of my upper limbs and lean over, leering.

"What's wrong, Nightwing? Don't tell me you didn't have ample enough warrrrning? Heh heh heh heh. Slade was right. It's 'always the quiet ones'. I'm tired of being a closed door to endless…boundless POWER, Nightwing. All my father did was open my eyes. This world is mine for the taking. And you're in my way……"

"Y-Your father….," Nightwing wheezes, fighting to stand up. "….is a demon. You're Raven underneath that fiery exterior. Reach into yourself! You are the child of Azarath! SAVE yourself, Raven! Win back what your father stole from you! Don't make me h-hurt you…"

"You jest. Your reign over this world has ended, mortal. The Fated Child of Trigon shall now operate this puny satellite called 'Earth'."

Nightwing stood up, frowning. "Then if there's nothing that can be done for Raven…there's no holding me back…."

"Is that so?" I grin. My four red eyes narrow. "Oh Nightwiiiiiiing….."

"……?" he raises an eyebrow. "What?"

I lick my fanged teeth and grin. "Starfire tasted ssssssucculentttttt….."

"……," Nightwing's eyemask widens.

"Heh heh heh heh heh……"

Nightwing shakes all over.

"HAH HAH HAH HAH!"

"Nnnngrraaaugh!" Nightwing charges at me, his bo-staff swung high. "DAMN YOUUUUU!"

"HAAAH!"

SWOOOOSH-SLICE!

Nightwing gasps. He quivers, his body skewered by the claws of my left hand. Tears fall and join the blood gurgling from his mouth as I lift him effortlessly up to my fanged face.

"Why…….don't you join herrrr……?"

"Snkkt…n-no….Raven….p-please….."

"Mmmmm……," and my four optics roll back as I open my demon jaws up, and close them around Nightwing's jugular.

CLAMP!