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Invader Johnny: You're right. Raven's emotions crumbling wouldn't do any good in a situation. (Gives a cookie)

RPGPersona: Yep, she is now in his nightmare realm. Wouldn't you be freaked out seeing yourself die? In someone else's head? That question is answered at the end of this chapter. And yes, I will have much fun writing out Knowledge's idea in detail when the time comes. (Gives a cookie and brohug)

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Updated: Updated April 21, 2016 10:33 P.M.

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Chapter Nine: Shattered Part Two

Back to Raven

Raven had no clue which realm she was in now. After floating through what had used to be Happy's realm, the second archway had acted a bit differently. Collapsing way before she had come to pass it. No demon marks were visible where the pillars had used to be. Leaving Raven to assume she had just been seeing things earlier.

Halfway to the next archway, there was another floating speck of light. Not really having a color scheme to it. Just a slightly darker looking light. Dancing happily at about eye level. She moved to the right of it.

Knowing whatever memory that would be in there would likely not be a happy sight. She knew after Happy, there was Timid's realm. If it followed the course of her mind. And she didn't want to see what had happened to her. Which was likely what the memory was going to show. Nor did she want to see the realm itself. Since it was supposed to keep the center of her mind secure. She didn't want to see her greatest defense in pieces.

Raven had continued from there. Passing under another archway that collapsed shortly after she had walked under it. The debris falling into the dark abyss behind her.

Then again, since she didn't appear in the center of her mind after Timid, she had no clue which realm she was in now. The light in the one after what she assumed was Timid's realm hadn't even had a tint or background color to it. Leaving her with no clue as to whose realm she was in.

It had been three archways since Happy's realm. Avoiding the floating light that signified the memory within.

Raven had been floating down the pathway. The floating light in the center of the realm again. She made to pass it by, but then she got closer. And realized there was a color scheme to it. It wasn't white like the last three, but looked rather closer to a dark red. Like all the stars around her.

Raven knew somehow that this memory would involve Rage. But she had to keep on going. She had to save Beast Boy.

But damn it, Curiosity was wanting to be satisfied inside Nevermore. Now of all the times from before. Granted she had no clue what order the realms were in. And the fact that Raven had Rage's realm disconnected from the other's realms until after Trigon had been destroyed. When Rage was no longer under his influence. So how could it be connected now?

'It could be a trap.' Knowledge said to her from Nevermore. Trying to get her to think logically, and pull Curiosity out of the way. But nope, Curiosity was far louder, and stronger, than her logical side at the moment.

And Raven's arm reached out and touched the floating orb of red colored light.

The air around her heated slightly. Making Raven sweat a little and open up her cloak. Ashes were floating in the air all around her. But not enough to obscure her field of vision.

She was, indeed, in Rage's Nevermore. Raven was standing in the middle of what should have been an active volcano. The rocky outcropping she was standing on should have been in the middle of a field of lava. Which explained the lack of ashes that was supposed to fill the air. All the lava had disappeared. Which also explained why she wasn't sweating heavily at the moment.

She looked to the right and saw an obsidian pillar, rising up into the sky like the pillars from Minecraft. But instead of an ender crystal at the top, a metal chain was attached to it about halfway up. The chain was slack.

When Raven looked to her left, she found the other pillar. Broken into many pieces. Some sticking out of the area where the lava should have been. The chain that would have been attached to it was lying limply on the ground. Beside what looked to be an emoticlone in a deep red cloak.

Rage.

If the pillar hadn't been broken. And if lava would have been in the pit around her. It would have looked the way it was before she destroyed her father. Now without her father's influence, Raven had taken away the pillars in Rage's realm. The chains along with them. Ever since then, Rage was allowed to mingle with her other emoticlones. Her realm being allowed to reconnect to Nevermore and her central mind once again.

Surprisingly, Rage's presence wasn't as demonic anymore as it was human. Some of the time, she could even be considered just plain Anger. And then there were times where she did truly show her Rage on something.

Like the poor training dummies from the gym after the incident that caused this whole mess.

But the pillars were here now. And to Raven, it looked like it was Rage that was huddled on the ground beside the destroyed one. Even though she knew it was just a memory of her old Rage. The one filled to the brim with all of Trigon's influence. But yet, only a memory of it. She was still reluctant to try and approach her.

She turned around for one last quick look, and saw Beast Boy appear before her eyes behind her. She gasped, not out of shock from him appearing. She knew it was his memory. And that he'd likely be in it.

But what shocked her was his appearance. Beast Boy looked like he had seen his loved one die. Repeatedly. And he himself was dying on the inside with each one. There wasn't even a single trace of the happy go lucky jokester in his form. And it looked like he was just holding a great weight on his shoulders. Raven knew she had skipped the previous two memories. And she had only seen Happy die. But to see his transformation from the first memory to now…

'Beast Boy…'

Beast Boy saw Rage lying on the ground. The incarnation of everything evil about her. And he didn't even cringe away as he approached. Whether it was because he didn't fear her, or he was to emotionally numb to feel it. Raven wasn't sure. But Raven turned and walked with him. Wanting so badly to comfort him. To show that she was really okay. That this wasn't real.

But the hand she raised to do so only passed through his back. Reminding her that she was only in a memory. That whatever would happen now, was to late to change it.

As they approached. Raven saw a large puddle of blood that Rage was lying in. It would have been a miracle if she was still alive at this point.

It came as no shock then. When Raven, and all the emoticlones in her mind, gasped in shock at what they saw. Rage looked far, far worse than Happy had. Deep, red claw marks appearing all over her body. On her legs, arms, and torso. Far more than what Happy had suffered from. Along with a deep bleeding cut along her throat and eyes. It was a surprise she was even still alive. The only hint being that she was shaking.

Although she couldn't speak, Raven could tell she was silently weeping as well. Which could be why she was shaking. But the main thing giving it away was the tears. Mingling with the blood that fell from her damaged eyes.

Beast Boy held the embodiment of her evil. As if he was cradling a small child. Gathering her head onto his lap as he sat down to the side of her. At his touch, she seemed to relax a little. He started to whisper things to her. Things Raven couldn't make out.

And as Rage died. Despite all the pain she was in. Despite the fact that she was supposed to be demonic to the core.

There was a small smile showing on her face. As if, as she was dying, she had finally gotten the one thing she wanted. Rage hadn't said anything because of her cut throat… yet at the same time, she had shown everything. Despite being the embodiment of evil, she to had known love.

And then Rage, and the realm she was in. Faded away from view. Leaving an even more gaunt looking Beast Boy behind.

'What's doing this to her? Who would injure her emoticlones so badly and just leave them to die?'

The memory ended, leaving Raven by the dancing red speck of light again. She took a look around herself, seeming to see Rage's destroyed realm still. Even though it was gone. Despite all the shock she had gone through watching it.

She still saw it in her mind's eye. How everything had been destroyed in some way. The claw marks everywhere, the sight of the fight. So much blood, as if she had been hunted…

Raven's eyes opened wide. 'Knowledge, could it possibly be that the Beast is behind all this!'

A very confused reply came back. 'It could be, but if I recall, it only came out to protect us before. So why would it be killing copies of us in here now? Why the sudden mood change?'

Sigh 'Azar, I wish I knew Knowledge. But what other creature do you know of in here that's capable of taking on Rage. And even winning for that matter.'

Raven received silence to her reply at first. 'To be honest, I'm not even certain if Garfield's Beast could face a demon. At least without suffering any injuries.'

'Fine, ask Rage about it then. But for now, I need to find Beast Boy before whatever it is finds us. If it is the Beast, and if it has turned, I won't be able to face it on my own and win. If you're right.'

No more thoughts came to her mind. Raven figured her emoticlones would be consulting together inside her mind without her. She pushed it out of the way though, as she continued to float down the stone pathway. Leaving the floating red star behind her. Deeper into this Nevermore that she knew for certain was a tampered copy of her own.

Inside Raven's mind

"Rage, are you all right?" Knowledge asked her fellow stunned emoticlone. All the others having gone off somewhere else to give them the room to talk. Or fight if it came to that.

"It's not often you see yourself die before your eyes Knowledge. If you were to see yourself die, how would you react." She asked in a snappy voice. Full of Raven's signature sarcasm.

Knowledge carefully raised her hands up. Showing she hadn't meant any offense. Rage let out a sigh. "It was… disturbing, to say the least." Rage finally admitted.

Knowledge nodded her head. "I'm fairly certain I'd be feeling the same way as you if I saw myself die." She considered how to ask her next question. "Raven and me saw that the copy we saw of you was crying as she died. Yet, when she recognized it was Garfield with her, she seemed to relax. And even had a smile on her face. Pause: If it was truly a copy of you Rage. Could you think of anything that would have made you react like that back then?"

Rage snapped her head up. Glaring at Knowledge with her four eyes. She thought maybe she had been a little blunt with her question. That is, until Rage started to speak. "I would never cry! Even if I was dying a very slow and painful death, in the pits of hell, underneath Trigon's scaly red feet, as he treated me like one of his many demoness concubines! I would never give my own enemy the satisfaction of seeing my tears! Or that I was even suffering in the first place! You hear me! NOTHING!"

Knowledge didn't shrink back. Unlike Beast Boy's Knowledge, she didn't lack a back bone when it came to being faced with Raven's Rage. She had done so for years now. Although she still wanted to avoid a possible confrontation with her. Now wouldn't be the time for Raven's powers to go on the fritz.

"Rage, you saw the same thing I did back there. The same thing Raven saw. The same thing every single one of us saw. And if the Rage we saw was truly from before Trigon's defeat, only you would be able to tell us what it was like for you back then." Knowledge said in a calm voice to her fellow emoticlone.

"And I'm telling you. That their is absolutely, positively, no way that I would cry over anything!" Rage turned around, seeming to want to walk away.

"Rage, this information could be vital to keeping Raven out of danger. What are you afraid to admit to?" Knowledge said to her back.

That was when Knowledge finally thought something. It shocked her, but yet, it was something believable as well. Mainly because if explained a lot.

"What if the person who hurt you that badly... had been Beast Boy?" She asked in a calm voice.

Rage stopped. Seeming to stiffen up like a board. She didn't say anything, but Knowledge knew now that she had guessed it right. "You might be demonic, Rage. But I think that like Raven, you fell for him too. Back then, as the rest of us did."

Rage still stood still, but was slowly turning her head around to look at Knowledge. "Once, I would have gladly burned this world to ashes. Feasting on the cries and screams of all the tortured weaklings that lived on this planet. My throne would have been the corpse of our dead father. And I would have purged Outer Perdition of his influence."

She sighed. Knowledge stayed silent. Not wanting to interrupt her from a rare moment of opening herself up to her fellow sister. "But that day, when Beast Boy came to Nevermore on accident. When Trigon had been using me to take control. In the brief time that our father's influence had finally left me. And before Raven sent me back to my realm. I had a look at him. I saw all the potential of who he was, and who he would eventually become… and…"

"You found you liked him." Knowledge finished for her.

She shook her head. "I didn't like him specifically. Rather, I liked the Beast that was lurking inside him... I had thought it would be just as savage and bloodthirsty as me. That it would want to rule at my side. That it would help me to rule the universe... That was, until the day he had finally transformed into it."

Knowledge was now a little confused. "What happened that day that was so special to you? That could have changed how you looked at him?"

"After he had transformed. When he fought his own friends to protect me. He could have easily killed them all with his size, brute strength, speed, fangs, or claws…" She said in an almost disappointed voice.

"But he didn't -" Knowledge tried to say.

"I know!" Rage interrupted.

"I know… I saw it all from Raven's view. I could see all the raw power that coursed through his veins after that day. How it yearned to be unleashed. To want to go out into the world. But it wasn't to kill all those before him. To torture endless lines of victims for it's amusement. As I had imagined... All it wanted, was a safe place to protect her. To protect me. To protect all of us inside Raven from harm. To raise a family with her. To grow old with her." She said in a melancholy voice.

Knowledge was starting to piece the puzzle together now. But was still missing a few crucial pieces. "Why is this important Rage? How does this help determine how you would feel?"

Sigh "After that day, when his Beast showed up. I came to realize that the Beast was so much more, yet less, than what I had originally seen it for. What I had imagined it to be. It cared for all those beneath him, those he called his friends or pack members. His mate. It didn't seek out the blood of anyone, unless they were trying to harm Raven. And even then, it didn't kill them. Everything it did, was in Garfield's best interest."

Pause "That day, on the shoreline. When Raven went to comfort Garfield. I was able to see all the way to it's heart through her empathy. At its heart, there wasn't hate, malice, evil… rage. Rather, it had b-b-been…" Rage started to choke up. As she hid her face away again. It seemed like a tear was falling down her cheek.

"Love." Knowledge said. Knowing that had to be the answer.

Rage nodded. Not daring to look back. "I had never seen such a powerful being before. That had such a strong connection to love, rather than to evil. As our father. And that love, had been centered on all of us. And despite me being demonic, it had me included included in it's heart. Because it accepted everything about Raven. And… I guess you could see what happened from there." She ended. Not quite sounding as demonic, as she had been before.

Knowledge thought it all over in her mind. Seeming to come to the conclusion she needed. "Thank you, Rage. I can understand why this would be hard for you to divulge. Knowing how you try to act all tough and evil for the others. Yet, feeling enough love for someone that it changed you. Making you rethink what you desired in life."

Rage didn't turn around. But her voice was clearly audible back, menacing tone included. "You can tell Raven it would take his Beast to get that reaction out of me. But if you divulge anything else to her, or any of the other emoticlones... I will destroy you." It sounded menacing all right. Yet at the same time, it looked like she was finally relieved to have told someone this.

And then Rage teleported away. Most likely back to her own realm in Nevermore. To clear the emotions she was feeling from her own mind. Just as Raven would do sometimes to stay in control.

Knowledge had a small smile on her face. 'So Rage was part of the reason Affection evolved after all. I'm glad to know that like us, she is finally turning her back on the evil inside… although it troubles me that Garfield's Beast would just turn on Raven. If what she was telling me is right. But there has to be something we're missing here…'

Knowledge tried to think hard on it. But couldn't think of what it could be. It was like an intricate puzzle, with the most important piece missing. If she could just find the one though, she'd be able to solve this once and for all.

'I'll wait to tell Raven what I've figured out. She already assumes it's the Beast anyways. For now, I'll just try and find out what I'm missing.'

Pause 'I just hope it really isn't his Beast.'

Back to Raven

Raven was floating past another collapsed archway. After Rage, she had found all the archways after her realm were already destroyed. Still allowing passage along the stone path, but making it almost impossible to tell when she passed from one realm to the next. Her only clue being the floating stars of light located in the center of what would have been the emoticlone's different realms.

Raven had seen Happiness when she died. And recently, she had seen Rage die. And due to the way Beast Boy had looked during his memory. She was almost certain the same thing happened to all the other emoticlones from before. And after seeing the way Rage had looked in the memory. She definitely didn't want to see any of the other memories associated with it.

So she kept floating on. Keeping an eye out for the Beast. Her own personal bodyguard as Beast Boy had called it for her once. How ironic that her own personal bodyguard apparently killed copies of herself inside his mind.

Another collapsed archway appeared. Another white star appeared in the distance. Raven again passed it. Continuing on to the next collapsed archway that appeared in the distance. If one of her emoticlones died in each one of these specks of light. Then Raven didn't want to see herself dying over and over again. But she also didn't want to see Beast Boy's progression as he watched her die repeatedly.

Another collapsed archway. Another star. Continual ignorance as she passed it by. Other than making sure no part of her body or cloak touched it.

Floating silently onward. Trying to get to the center of this Nevermore. Where she had no doubts that Beast Boy would be waiting. And possibly the Beast as well.

'Maybe that's what happened. The Beast brought him here. And killed all the copies of myself. Leaving them as a trail to something. Maybe a trap for him?'

Something still seemed off to Raven about that thought. But she just shrugged as she continued on. Floating onward along the lonely stone path.

She finally came across a standing archway. And as she passed under it, Raven felt a slight change in her surroundings. The air still feeling a little warm. As if sunlight was still shining down on the faded realm. And she could have sworn she was feeling a soft, ocean breeze blowing against her from the side. She would have continued on from there, if something else hadn't caught her attention. The archway behind her was still standing. Even though she had passed underneath it. It was as if it was waiting for something.

She looked ahead, and saw the floating star in the distance. Signifying the memory of the realm before. Like Rage's, and Happy's, but unlike most of the others. The color tone of it was different. Being a nice, deep dark purple. And as she approached, it looked to be slightly larger than the others.

'I'm guessing since pink was Happy. And Red was Rage. That purple means Affection.'

Raven floated forward. Intent on passing it. She floated high above it. And she continued on. Intent on getting to the last archway.

That is, she would have continued on. If she hadn't heard something from the flame itself.

"JUST STOP HURTING RAVEN!"

Raven stopped. Right above the flame. Being caught off guard from the statement that had brought her there in the first place. Her concentration broke, and she fell towards the ground. And as she fell, the back part of her cloak touched the outer edge of the memory.

She felt a pull. And the dark abyss around her changed.

She was standing on a beach front. The soft ocean breeze from before was now a reality to her. The air warmed up again from the light of a sunset in the distance. Most of the beach she was standing on, however, was destroyed.

And that was when she saw a purple cloaked emotion, the first one she had seen not dying, flying around a white and black spotted thing on the ground. She couldn't recognize what it was from this distance. Affection, as Raven knew her as, was firing purple bolts of energy at the Beast on the ground. At least, that's what she assumed it was.

Whatever it was though, it was merely shrugging off the hits Affection launched at him like they were nothing. As it moved forward at inhuman speeds, trying to grab Affection from up in the air. Raven reached out with her senses, trying to identify what it was. It felt familiar, but it's very presence felt evil to Raven. And she could sense just what it wanted to do to her.

'Affection!' Raven thought to herself. Out of shock in what she had seen flowing through this thing's evil mind. If this was the Beast that Beast Boy and the others had told her about. Then they had been either delusional, or the Beast had been hiding it's true nature. From inside her mind, she could feel the shock, and the disgust of some of her other emotions. Along with a build up of Rage.

Affection looked her way, and let out a gasp of shock. Raven thought for a second that Affection had seen her. But then looked behind her and saw Beast Boy. His face, could only be described as haggard. But a faint trace of hope was finally on it. 'Wait, could this be the first time he saw an emoticlone that wasn't dying? Did all the others really… die in those memories like I thought?'

Raven heard a savage roar behind her. And turned to see that the evil Beast on the ground had taken advantage of Affection's distraction, and had finally managed to grab her out of the air. He crashed her into the ground. Already in the process of trying to claw up her body with his claws.

And then Raven saw Beast Boy, still in his human form, run through where she was standing. His course clear as day to the stunned empath. As he crashed headlong into the big white and black Beast with all the strength he had. Anger clearly seen in his eyes, along with something that looked like desperation. The Beast hardly budged from the hit, but it did take it by surprise for enough time for the purple cloaked emoticlone to fly out of its clutches. Blood dripping from several different cuts on her arms and legs where the creature had managed to hit her.

The Beast turned to Beast Boy, a smirk on it's face. As Raven got closer and finally got a good look at it.

She had vague memories of the Beast from before. But she definitely knew that it's skin wasn't supposed to be... pale. She had thought that it had looked strange from a distance, but it's skin was clearly a pale color up close. With black dots running all along its body. Nor was it supposed to have a pair of blood red eyes…

'Raven!'

'Not now Knowledge!' She thought back as the fight unfolded.

She watched as Beast Boy dodged the creature's blows. Not even morphing into something else to try and dodge the attacks. As he used what Raven saw as every acrobatic exercise Robin had ever taught him. To dodge all the different attacks the Beast sent his way. Barely avoiding being clawed, bit, among other things by the Beast that was trying to kill him.

At first, he seemed to be doing okay. And Raven marveled at how fast he was moving in just his human form. And then, Raven realized that he was being on the defensive all the time. Not even landing a hit on the creature. And the creature wasn't slowing down it's attacks. But seemed to be speeding up. Becoming to fast for her to follow.

His luck was only able to hold up for so long. And Raven saw the Beast finally land a scratch that traveled up his left arm. Quickly followed by one on his right hand and one on his left shoulder right after that.

Raven could only stand and watch as this Beast beat and clawed Beast Boy to a bloody mess. As time went on, he suffered injuries that made Raven a little scared for his safety. She had to get out of this memory now. Some of those wounds looked fatal enough to kill him.

Finally, Beast Boy ended up making a mistake. He rolled away from another swipe and got back on his feet, only to lose his balance. And he started to fall forward. Raven saw the smile the Beast had on it's evil looking face. That looked so familiar in a horrifying way to her. As Beast Boy fell right into an uppercut that sent him flying through the air. Landing just at the edge of the shoreline.

Affection let out a scream, as she landed right by him. She gently cradled his head in her arms. From what Raven could see, she was clawed up, but not to badly. In fact, Beast Boy looked a hell of a lot worse than she did right now. Almost looking as bad as Happy had, but at least not even close to what Rage had suffered.

Raven saw him try to sit up, but Affection wouldn't let him. She was looking at him with warmth brimming in her eyes. And a soft smile on her face. 'Wait, if this is a copy of my mind from before Trigon. Why is Affection acting so… affectionate to Beast Boy? I thought that wasn't until after Trigon.'

It seemed like Knowledge tried to say something again. But as the thought came, Raven saw Affection look back up. The warmth in her face being replaced with fear as she tried to stand back up. With Beast Boy still in her arms. And try to drag Beast Boy back into the lapping waves of the seashore.

Beast Boy also tried to get up, but he was still weak from the hard hit from earlier. Along with the fact that Affection had a vice grip on him, and refused to let him go.

Raven saw his face look up. As Affection tried to drag them both closer to the water. And then his eyes widened, as if he realized something.

She turned to where the Beast had been before. The evil Beast who killed the copies of her emoticlones inside his mind.

And saw that it was no longer a Beast.

In fact, what she saw was a person. A white skinned person in a black and gray doom patrol suit. The same fang poking out of the evil grin on his mouth. The same pointy ears adorning the sides of his metallic colored hair. Only, it was red eyes that gazed lazily back at Beast Boy. Red eyes that looked very familiar…

'Wait. Pale skin… blackened clothing… red eyes… a copy of my own Nevermore… the mark of Scath-'

'Raven, it's him! It's his influence at work!' Knowledge finally got herself heard.

Raven suddenly realized the cold hard truth of what she was seeing. There wasn't the Beast lurking around down here deep in Beast Boy's subconsciousness. No, it was something far, far, worse than that. Something that she had thought unique to her and her only. But was standing right there in front of her in all of it's evil glory. The same grin she had seen in her nightmares.

It wasn't Beast Boy standing there in front of her. It was a demon. A demon she knew all to well.

Raven let out a scream of anger, seeing him interfere with her life again and again. Something inside her snapped. As if some imaginary line in her mind had finally been crossed.

And to think, all this time, Beast Boy had this demon hiding inside him. And they hadn't known it. She, the half-demon, hadn't sensed it.

Raven was full of anger now. But it wasn't just a burning Rage, it had a touch of something else to it. Something that looked to be a deep purple. Just like the cowering emoticlone in front of her.

And like that, a burst of power flew from Raven. And the memory she was seeing, shattered. Like fine glass around her.

The memory her cloak had touched sputtered out. The warmth in the air disappeared. The faint breeze from before disappeared. And the archway behind Raven finally collapsed. The Mark of Scath again visible on both sides where the pillars had been the moment before. And instead of fading, the marks grew in size. And started to appear along the stone path running towards Raven. The stone path falling into the abyss as it moved towards Raven.

But she didn't care about that. It was simply a distraction from the imminent danger she was in. Now her mission had taken on a greater urgency than before. As she finally realized what had been happening all along. How hoodwinked she had been.

Beast Boy's nightmare, falling into a coma while inside his mind, having emoticlones and a Nevermore of his own, burying himself inside a shield of memories when faced with the repeated death of the person he loved.

They were all the symptoms of demonic possession. And she hadn't even realized it. Despite all her knowledge of demons. Despite the fact that she was part demon!

When the marks were halfway to her, Raven flew forward. Flying at near supersonic speeds up the stone pathway. In response, the markings behind her sped up. Starting to slowly gain on the fleeing empath.

The last part of the stone pathway seemed to stretch on forever to her. The danger behind her continually gaining. 'Beast Boy, oh Azar, please hang on for me!'

Finally, the archway was only a few hundred feet in front of her. She was going to make it!

But as she approached the last archway, it started to crumble. The debris from it falling directly into her path. More pieces of rock seeming to fall out of the air above it. Breaking the stone path underneath it and kicking up dust.

Without even thinking, Raven darted right through it. Barely missing being hit by the falling rocks. To impatient to wait for them to stop falling and simply float to the other side.

After a couple seconds, that felt like an eternity, Raven made it through. A harsh red barrier appeared behind her. Failing though, to have her trapped inside of it. Raven turned to see what was in front of her. Hoping it wasn't another path to somewhere else.

But to her relief. There wasn't a path. Rather, she was now on a floating island again. The hooded doorway stood in the center, directly in front of her.

And laying on the ground beneath it, was a pale looking Beast Boy. His skin barely having a tint of green to it.

Raven rushed forward. Out of relief, worry, fear, happiness, she didn't know. All she knew was that she had started to shake him. Trying in vain to get him to wake up. "Beast Boy, you need to snap out of it! We need to get out of here!"

Beast Boy didn't even move. Raven felt a thought go through her mind. 'She isn't real. I saw her disappear. Just ignore it and maybe it'll go away…'

Recognizing the thought wasn't hers. Raven tried even harder. Resorting to slapping him across the face. "Beast Boy! Wake the hell up right now!" She shouted in his face.

Another thought. 'What's a little pain. Without her in my life. Everything is pointless.'

Tears were falling down her face. 'No! This can't be happening now! Not when I finally found him! Not when my trip through his mind made me realize my feelings for him! And that he...!'

"Garfield, please… I lo-"

A deep evil laugh interrupted her. Something she had only heard in her nightmares before. A laugh that only came when he was truly pleased and happy beyond compare. Which normally took about a million sacrifices to achieve this. Or a certain half demon daughter walking right into his clutches.

Raven hid the fact that she'd been crying. It would only please him even more. She turned around. Already knowing what was behind her. Getting in a fighting stance over the one who had stolen her heart.

And there stood a version of her father. In the form of Beast Boy's evil self. Weakened by the loss of his original body. But still very much evil, with only one pair of red eyes glaring at her.

The great, weakened, yet all powerful.

Trigon the Terrible.

He stopped laughing. An evil grin spreading across his face.

"Why hello daughter. I believe we have much to discuss."

Author's Notes:

Finally, we're getting somewhere! More memories thrown in, some edited stuff from Chapter Four thrown in, and Rage showing a bit of her human side!

And the demon's true self being shown as well! Just how will Raven be able to face her father this time around?! Will she be able to save herself and Beast Boy from her father?!

What was she going to say?

Till Next Time

Allen