Okay here's the next one, sorry if it's not up to par, but i kinda had a lot on my mind when i typed this but well.....you know the routine so on with the story.

disclaimer i don't own this

Chapter 8

Raven

I didn't know what to do, either I let the world come to an end to save the one I love, or I sacrifice the one I love to save the world.

"You're making the wrong choice" wisdom said inside my head

"She knows what she's doing" I heard love say right back as she turned to look at the yellow clad emotion

"Raven knows exactly what she'd doing" she said with conviction turning back around.

As I focused on the box I felt a web of magical locks that I'd placed all over, I knew exactly how to undo them even with my magic blocked off, so with a grunt of effort I pushed one over and felt the connections break like overstretched string.

"All you have to do now is unlock the physical lock on the box, the key is around my neck," I said as I turned to look at beast Boy who was still unconscious

I heard slade walk over and grab the chain, without any effort he broke the heavy platinum chain that held the key that would open the box.

"We had a deal slade, now let me and beast Boy go" I said shouting it out so he could hear me

He turned to me and looked at me coldly before saying

"Do you know why I made this place my lair?" he asked giving me a pointed look

"It's because back in the early 90's they made several experimental drills into the earth and this one right here" he said hitting the ground with his foot, so a hollow boom echoed throughout the cave

"This one right here is the longest one to date, up to 5 miles straight down" he said as he unlocked beast boy's shackles and dragged him into the center of it, he walked over to me and whispered into my ear

"Let's see how fast you can fly" he whispered into my ear as he removed the ring and unlocked the shackle that was holding me in place. He took a little remote out of his pocket and pushed the center button. Almost immediately there was a sound of grounding gears and pounding pistons. I tried to fly to Beast Boy but I was still weak and low on my magic so I ran to him and as he fell into the shaft I jumped up and launched my self straight in and angled my self so that I would drop next to him, my cape fluttering and flapping around so badly that it got torn off, as I caught up to him I grabbed him and brought him close to me and whispered

"At least we can die together" into his ear before I closed my eyes waiting for the end, but before it came I heard a screech and the sound of beating wings, I opened my eyes and looked up expecting nothing but what I saw surprised me there was a big, green pterodactyl fly down.

It screeched at me and stuck it's leg out with it's talon open, it snatched me around the middle and as gently as it could grabbed me around the waist, as it flew us to the top again I had so many questions flying around my head, that naturally the first thing that I did when we reached the top was to move as far as I can away and check over Beast Boy for any problems,

"Raven it's us" I heard Robin say as he got closer and squatted down next to me. I heard running footsteps and as I looked up I saw a beast boy that looked more real than the one I held in my arms, I felt Beast Boys arms slip around my body and I felt something in my body break as I felt my arms act on their own and rap themselves around Beast Boy, we just stood there until I heard starfire's scream of happiness as she flew over and grabbed both me and beast boy.

"Starfire I think they need to breathe a little" I heard cyborg say as he walked over to the Beast Boy on the floor and looked at it

"that's a robot you know" I heard cyborg say as he gave it a good kick to show us, as his foot connected to the body some of the synthetic skin fell off exposing cold metal underneath.

"Where's slade?" robin asked me as he stood up and dusted himself off

"He ran off when he got what he wanted" I said softly

"What'd he want?" asked Beast Boy putting a hand on my shoulder

"He wanted me to release someone" I said

"He wanted me to release Malchior from his prison"

"Who is this Malchior?" starfire asked as she inched over to Robin

"He was a powerful sorcerer who turned evil, and trapped him in a book; slade wants him to create a portal for someone much worser, to come through"

"Who?" cyborg asked

"My father, Trigon"

When I said that name I saw a shudder pass through everyone and knowing that no one would survive an encounter with Trigon I said

"I don't want your help with this one, I have to do this myself, it's the only way" I said distancing myself from everybody

"Sorry Raven, but you know us and you know that even if the chances of living are impossible" Beast Boy started saying looking into my eyes

"and the odds are against us" cyborg started saying picking up where Beast Boy left off

"and we are outnumbered by thousands of opponents" starfire started saying, a smile forming on her face

"No titan shall never face a problem by themselves" Robin finished holding his hand out, almost immediately cyborg put his hand on top of robins, then starfire put her hand on his and Beast Boy put his green hand on her's, until I was the last one, I looked at them and felt a smile form and tears fall as I thanked the gods for the friends I had, I walked over and put my hand on top of Beast Boy's, feeling the warmth spread my to my hand

I looked at my friends all gathered together and willing to go to war just to help me and couldn't help but smile and whispered

"Thank you"

"Now let's go and see if we can't stop my Father's planned arrival" I said turning around and walking outside and getting ready for the battle of my life.