Hey everyone! I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. Anyone who can tell me who Thanatos is in mythology gets a cookie! *Waves cookie around* It's chocolate chip.
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*Revised as of June 13th*
Raven felt goosebumps rise and a shiver go through her when she looked into Thanatos's eyes. There were black and soulless, and stirred something within her she didn't know. Raven looked at him carefully, her amethyst eyes scouring him for any sign of familiarity.
As he left Raven immediately took off, without a word to her teammates. She had to catch Thanatos, she just had to, to see what he meant.
"Raven!"
"Whats wrong Rae?"
The cries of her teammates followed her and rang in her ears, but they simply passed through the other ear. She had to find him, she knew that the others would follow behind in the T-car till they caught him.
It wasn't that hard to catch up to him, he wasn't even moving all that fast. Thanatos roared with laughter and launched himself forward with another quick beat of his dark-angel wings. He's toying with us! Raven suddenly realized, anger filling her, too prominent for her to push aside easily.
Raven flew as quickly as she could and threw bolts of dark magic at him. Thanatos dodged them with ease, even waiting till the last moment and they almost hit them to dodge out of the way. She was so busy following him, she didn't even noticed her communicator fall out and drop to the ground.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted, unleashing her emotions. The rage fueled her mantra and she hit one of his shadowy wings with her magic. Thanatos screeched with rage and started to plummet. Raven followed his decent.
"You foolish girl, you truly have what's left of his power!" Raven heard him mutter.
"Who's he!" Yelled Raven, giving him no time to answer, letting her rage fuel her entire body, she used her magic to smash him into the buildings he himself burned and piled cars on top of him. An onlooker would notice her eyes were no longer a pretty violet but glowing red. She abused him all she could and did all sorts of things to unleash her anger.
When she was done, she collapsed on the ground panting. An evil laughter made her look up. Thanatos tossed aside the rubble with his incredible strength. He gripped his blade and looked at her with a pleased look in his eyes. The demoness felt her blood run cold, he didn't even seem fazed by the attack.
"By the way Raven, your daddy says hi." Something in Raven snapped. She grew ten times her size and dark tentacles of energy grew out from under her cloak. She gained a second pair of red eyes and her teeth sharpened. Her dark tentacles gripped Thanatos's arms, legs and even his neck, choking him while he stared at her helplessly. She brought him closer to her, determined to bring her into his worst nightmares.
"Well!" Raven spoke in a now deep, guttural voice. One that only demons would use. "My father is gone! I destroyed him myself!" Thanatos looked at her carefully, and Raven could see that he wasn't panicking at all, even though she had her tentacles crushing his neck.
"Not yet, you only thought you did. My my, young Raven. You had inherited more of his power than I thought," Thanatos choked out, emphasizing the word 'his'. Raven dared to look into his eyes and reached out with her mind.
Screams filled her ears and misery washed through her. She felt like she would drown in liquid fire and rage that screamed to be let out filled up inside her. She heard Thanatos's voice clear and dark through their mental link.
"I am Trigon's servant, he must regain his true form," Thanatos continued. Time froze in their mental link and he said every word slowly. "You took too much of his power when you stopped his physical form."
"I…Took his power?" Raven thought in reply, confused.
"Power is like energy, neither created nor destroyed, only transferred. When you destroyed his physical form that power had to go somewhere…" He broke off to let the words sink in, and Raven knew what had happened.
"So I gained it…" She remembered that moment so clearly now. When she destroyed Trigon she felt herself recharge, gained back the energy she need exhausting her magic at him. She thought that the power from her emotions being in sync was the cause of that. But that was the untamed demonic energy entering her body.
That was why she still seemed linked to him. She still had his power, what he had owned. She must have missed it due to its similarity to her rage. But hadn't rage ever told her? "And you think I know?" Raven heard Rage growl faintly in her head.
Raven withdrew her mind from Thanatos's and thought silently about what she just learned, she felt dread overcome her when she noticed she was still choking Thanatos and still held him tightly. He was just stuck there choking, but not dying. Was Thanatos actually immortal? Raven hoped it wasn't true, because that meant no matter how much he was abused, she couldn't kill him. No one could.
"Raven…" Gasped a horrified voice behind her, and Raven turned around. Beast Boy was standing there with his eyes wide. Around him stood the rest of the team with the same expressions on their faces. Guilt and shame filled her, from her teammates seeing her like this. The tentacles receded back beneath her cloak, and she lost a pair of eyes while the remaining pair lost their crimson.
Thanatos observed her carefully. He had seen what she was made of and knew his mission was a success. He could only hope that Trigon had seen him and was pleased. He was a strong being, Thanatos knew that he was. But that Raven had that kind of power in her, only Trigon himself could overpower him and yet Raven had as well.
A fierce cackling escaped Thanatos's lips. He shook his injured wing and felt a small twinge of pain. He decided to ignore it and hovered unsteadily on his wings. "This is not over, princess," Thanatos sneered as he rose up.
After Raven took off the others just stood there for a second, too shocked to follow. Then Robin came to his senses
"We have to help her," Robin simply said. The other titans snapped out of their shock and nodded. Beast Boy shifted into a hawk and took off, Starfire took off behind him. Cyborg and Robin head towards the T-car. They had to get there as soon as possible.
Maybe this is the guy that I have been looking for. Thought Robin. He didn't recall ever seeing Thanatos's face on his list of villains. Which meant now they had a new enemy that was focusing on Raven.
"Why do all the creepy guys go after Raven?" Cyborg muttered aloud. Robin looked at him strangely and Cyborg just shrugged. "You have to admit it's true, after all just count them all up. Slade, Mumbo Jumbo, Trigon and this Thanatos guy"
Under normal circumstances Robin would laugh and agree but it didn't seem right, this was serious. Raven wouldn't have gotten so angry and taken off if it wasn't serious. Robin noticed that Raven had been temperamental recently, she seemed to have more difficultly controlling her emotions than usual.
"Raven…Raven you there?" Robin said into the communicator. He started out quiet, but started raising his voice. No one answered. "Raven!" This time he shouted in.
"Yo, is everything alright Robin?" Asked Cyborg. Robin wanted to sarcastically comment. Yea, everything's fine, Raven just finished tying up the villain and we can take him to prison now.
But instead told him, "No, Raven isn't answering." His dark voice said everything and Cyborg didn't say another word, they just sat there in grim silence.
It wasn't long before they saw a dark not-far-off shape plummeting to the ground from the sky. Something else followed it. Is that Raven and Thanatos? Wondered Robin. And if it was, which one was Raven and which one was Thanatos?
When they finally got there, they thought they saw what appeared to be two monsters, Thanatos and a dark shadowy creature that resembled something from Hell.
But then they realized…It was Raven…
"Raven…" gasped Beast Boy, shifting back into a human while Robin and Cyborg got out of his car. Starfire had landed as well. They all stared at their friend as she released what must have been Thanatos while she transformed into her normal self.
That…Was Raven?
Thanatos meanwhile left, but not without snarling revenge to Raven and took off on his dark wings, or what was left of them anyway.
