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Chapter 16
No one ever told Raven that she would have to face herself in a battle to the death. But that was what she was doing in nevermore at that very moment. Lust had contorted into something sinister and demonic and yet she still held a resembelance to Raven. There was something going on here but Raven had yet to see it. She was stronger than she was with Bravery and half of Anger inside her and yet somehow Lust was still stronger. Where was lust getting all this power?
Raven knew Lust was drawing more power from somewhere other than Anger and yet she didn't know from where if her emotions had always been under her control. She had always kept an eye on her emotions. Lust had only been at the back of her mind but she was still always there. So how was it possible for Lust to find a source of power?
'Raven!' Robin's voice echoed faintly through nevermore.
"Raven, watch out!" Intellagence cried out before I was taken down to the ground by Lust once more.
"You're too late my dear Raven. Once I have you out of the way, I will unleash all the power that was gifted to you. Since you were too cowardly to take your place as the superior being of this planet, then I will." Lust growled and sunk her claws into Raven's shoulders.
"Never! As long as I breath, you won't be able to do anything" Raven declared as she tried to pry Lust off of her.
"We all die if she dies, Lust!" Intelligence cried out over the chaos all around them.
"That is where you are wrong my dear Intelligence. I have found a way to survive without her. All I I have to do is be the portal for our great father and he has promised me life." Lust roared triumphantly
"You idiot! He won't give you the time of day. He is only using you to get to this world. Don't you see?" Raven tried to reason with Lust
"I am not as weak as you and I will get what I want. I don't need any of you!" Lust bellowed as she threw Raven into the other emotions that were huddled together.
"She is getting her power from our demonic power. Pretty soon she will consume us all as she did anger. I don't know what will happen if she kills me but I do know that it won't be good." Raven told Intelligence as she put up a shield around herself and her emotions against Lust.
"There is a way to beat her Raven. You must select a Anchor and then we will all be brought together. Lust won't be an exception and she will be pulled in as well." Intelligence explained as Lust began to crack the shield they were under.
"Who in the world will I get?" Raven asked in exhaustion as she tried to summon more strength to keep the shield up.
"Robin, Raven, he is the answer. You have to hurry. We will give you some time." Intelligence said as she and the remaining six emotions stood infront of Raven. They began to take each other's hands and a multicolored shield formed around them.
"NO!" Lust bellowed like a beast from hell itself
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"You got some good moves kid" Red X comented smoothly as Robin and him clashed bo staffs once more.
They had been going at this for an hour now with neither getting the upper hand. Both were evenly matched in hand to hand combat it seemed.
"What do you want with Raven?" Robin asked as he tried to think of a way to get the better of this guy.
"You will find out soon enough" Red X said in a sinister voice.
Without warning he pushed against Robin's bo staff and both back flipped away from each other. Robin landed in a fighting stance, ready for another attack but found that Red X was standing at the hole in the wall.
"For now I will bid you good bye and we will be taking our leave." Red X said and shot a grappling hook out the hole but didn't leave.
"We?" Robin asked as he got ready to chase after Red X.
"Yes, come along Micheal" Red X said as he held out his hand.
"What?" Robin looked around and saw Micheal with Raven in his arms.
Robin made to lunge for Micheal but he drew out a dagger and held it to her throat stopping Robin dead.
"We will set her free" Micheal said as he moved to stand beside Red X
"Don't worry Robin we will take REAL GOOD care of her" Red X said as he took Raven and jumped out of the building.
Micheal pulled out another grappling hook while Robin ran at Micheal with nothing but rage in his body. Before Micheal could shot the grappling hook at a nearby building, Robin's body collided with his and both boys fell towards the ground.
"You lunatic now we will both die!" Micheal yelled in panic as he tried to shot the grappling hook.
Robin took hold of Micheal's hand and tried to take the grappling hook. While still fallin both boys fought over the grappling hook.
The ground was quickly rushing up to the boys and the impending doom dawned on them both. In their struggle they had let go of the grappling hook and where now waiting for the impact. Suddenly Robin remembered he had a grappling hook of his own which he had forgotten in his blinding rage. Without another thought he shot it up to the building closest to them and took hold of the back of Micheal's shirt.
"This doesn't change anything" Micheal declared indignantly as Robin slowly let him touch ground but still didn't let go of his shirt.
"You are going to tell me where Red X took Raven or I will forget I am a Hero" Robin said in a deadly serious tone.
Before Micheal could give a response a shadow of a raven appeared behind Robin. Robin saw the look on Micheal's face so he let go of Micheal's shirt and turned around. A shadow claw came out of the raven and took hold of Robin. Micheal heard a gasp come from Robin before he was pulled into the raven and the raven disappeared.
"Raven?" Micheal whispered to the spot where the raven had appeared. Why would Rraven's soul self come and take Robin? Was she still being brain washed by that guy?
"Micheal, come in Micheal" Red X's voice came from a walkey talkey Micheal had in his pocket.
'Really? Are we five?' Micheal thought as he took the walkey talkey out
"Yeah I'm here" Micheal answered
"Hurry and get your ass over here. We need to get this ceremony done with before sundown." Red X said in an irritated voice.
"I'm on my way but something just happened that might make a mess of our plans. I'll tell you once I get to the underground wearhouse." Micheal said before he turned and began his walk towards the location where Red X was keeping Raven.
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Raven flew as fast as she could away from Lust so she could be safe to do what she had to. If she was right then she could start the ceremony of the Anchor from Nevermore but she would have to have Robin here. He would have to get to her body and finish the ceremony by himself afterwards since she was still stuck in Nevermore.
"Let's hope this doesn't end badly." Raven whispered to herself as she sat lotus style and began to levitate. First she had to contact Robin and tell him what was going on.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos" As soon as her mantra left her lips, her soulself left her and went in search of Robin's signiture soul. It took a little while since it seemed that her body was being moved in the outside world. This could pose a problem later on if Robin had to get her body back.
After a couple of minutes Raven found Robin and without hesitation she brought him into her inner world. It was a little difficult without her mirror but she managed to do it. Raven's soulself deposited Robin before Raven.
"I hope I didn't scare you" Raven commented as she saw Robin look around in confusion and suspion. Then his eyes landed on Raven and instantly filled with relief and worry at the same time.
"Raven! I'm so glad you're ok" Robin said as he rushed over to Raven and enveloped her in a tight embrace.
"I'm relatively ok" Raven said as she laid her head on his shoulder in a brief moment of comfort.
"I am tempted to lock you in a safe for the rest of time if you keep getting taken away from me." Robin said in an effort to try and hide his panic
"Robin..." Raven pulled back from the embrace and looked Robin in the eyes, there was nothing but love and devotion in his eyes.
"Robin, I need to tell you what's going on" Raven finally said as she tried to decide how to tell him what was going on.
"Your emotions have revolted and caused you to go into a coma like state and now you have two options. Either defeat your emotions and risk them revolting again or you can get an Anchor. I am willing to bet you brought me here to help you with this predicament you are in. I am willing to do anything you need me to." Robin finished with a serious demeanor as he left Raven shell shocked.
"How did you...?" Raven tried to ask
"I read your book" Robin said with a slight smirk on his face
"...I didn't know you knew how magic books worked" Raven said
"I'm just full of surprises" Robin gave Raven his shit eating grin
"You got a paper cut didn't you?" Raven asked with a knowing teasing smirk on her lips
"We don't have time to ponder on my amazing ability to find out these things" Robin said as he tried to hide the slight blush that breath "I have to ask something of you" Raven started
"Raven," Robin took Raven's hands in his and looked into her eyes with trust and love "I know you need someone to be your Anchor and I am willing to be that for you. I want to be anything you need me to be. As long as you are safe and happy I don't care what I have to do." Robin confessed as he gave Raven's hands a squeeze.
"Why?" Raven asked in a small voice that gave away her slight doubt.
"Why not?" Robin asked back as he took Raven's face in between his hands and pulled her close.
"But you don't know-" Raven was interrupted by Robin's lips on hers
Robin pulled back and pressed his forehead against Raven's
"I don't have to know much about you to be falling in love with who you are" Robin said softly to Raven causing her to blush.
"Its going to...to hurt" Raven warned a little reluctantly
"I think I can handle it don't worry" Robin said confidently
"We are going to need somethings in order to perform the ceremony" Raven said as she went over the list of things in her head
"We have another problem as well," Robin told Raven "Red X...has kidnapped you and I don't know what he is planning but I know its something to do with your powers."
Raven paused and started to think of how they were going to do this. She could leave to get the things and Robin would have his full attention in getting her body back from Red X.
"Get cyborg and the others to help but we need to hurry and do this before sundown. Once the moon is in the sky we must declare out bond to the full moon. If we haven't done it yet then we will have to wait until the next full moon to do the ceremony." Raven explained
"Alright well last time I checked it was maybe two hours until sundown. We really need to hurry" Robin said as he began to mess with his watch to countdown their remaining time.
"I'll send you back and you will need this to get the things for the ceremony" Raven told Robin as she handed him a sheet of old partchment.
"What will you do in the mean time?" Robin asked in a worried tone after he pocketed the partchment.
"I have to go back and battle my rouge emotion. But that doesn't matter now, you need to get the things to my body then start the ceremony. When you start the ceremony you won't need directions on the rest because the know how will already be given to you." Raven told Robin as she summoned her soulself and it wrapped its claw around Robin's midsection carefully.
"You know I think it likes me" Robin smiled and petted the raven's claw making Raven smile
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos" Raven chanted and sent Robin back to the real world.
There was an explosion from the direction where Raven's emotions were. Raven put her hood up and readied herself for the battle with Lust.
"We end this now" Raven declared as she rose in the air and flew at top speed towards Lust.
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Cyborg was still inspecting the hole in the wall of Raven's medical room. Starfire was flying just outside the hole looking down for any sign of Robin or Raven. Beastboy was sniffing around the bed in the form of a bloodhound.
"Where could they be?" Cyborg asked outloud to no one in perticular
"Dude, what I want to know, is how did no one notice what made that big ass hole?" Beastboy asked after he turned back into his normal form.
Before Cyborg could answer, a black raven came out of the floor and out stepped Robin looking as cool and collected as always.
"Thank you" Robin said to the raven and then watched as it disappeared
"Rob, man, where did you come from?" Cy asked after he got over his inicial shock.
"No time to explain. I'm glad you guys are here, I need your help." Robin said as he pulled out the sheet of partchment he had in his pocket.
"What is going on?" Cy asked in a serious tone
"Raven is in trouble and needs our help," Robin paused to see everyone nod their heads in agreement "I need you guys to go and find these things." Robin handed the partchment to Cyborg.
"A pheonix feather, two rain drops straight from the cloud, one pure white orchid, a jade vine...Dude where do you get a black butterfly?" Beastboy asked as he looked over Cy's shoulder to see the list.
"What will you be doing while we go in search of these things, friend Robin?" Starfire asked as she saw Robin go to the hole in the wall.
"I have to go find Red X and get my girlfriend back" Robin said as he shot out a grappling hook. Robin jumped and cleared his mind of everything but finding Raven.
'I'm on my way Raven' Robin thought in his mind as he swung onto a building.
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"You're late" Red X's voice filled the dark room of the underground wearhouse
"I know but it's that stupid traffic light's fault" Micheal growled out as he stepped forward and lit a candle
"Did you deal with him?" Red X asked as the candles around the room began to light themselves. The light revealed a sort of sarifice chamber where Raven laid still unconcious on a stone alter.
"No, Raven's soulself got to him before I could. But that doesn't matter-"
"You idiot!" Red X yelled as he slammed his fist on a nearby table filled with the things they needed for the ceremony.
"W...What did I do wrong?" Micheal asked with fear in his voice as he cringed and backed away from Red X.
Red X sighed and calmed himself before he turned to face Micheal.
"Did you forget that we need a sample from Raven's soulself to complete the ceremony?" Red X asked in a sickly sweet tone as he advanced on Micheal.
"We...We do?" Micheal asked while he shrunk away from Red X
"Yes and don't forget that Robin also wants to do the ceremony so Raven is bound to him and he can use her. We have to save her and she is still under his control if she sent her soulself to him. We must get rid of him if Raven is to be safe." Red X told Micheal as he placed a hand on Micheal's shoulder.
"But I can't fight. How will we do that?" Micheal asked as he looked up at Red X
"That's What I'm here for," Red X took off his mask and Micheal looked into a face identical to his "little brother"
A/N: Dun Dun Dun! If you guys love this then give thanks to my sister who gave me the idea. I will try to update soon. Don't forget to review :)