She awoke in her room. She felt a heavy padding on her stomach. She lifted the covers and saw it was a bandage. Her grey skin was sickly white around her patch. She sat up. She wasn't hurting and there was no discomfort when she moved. Her bandage was clean and no blood was present or stained. She was tempted to tear off the bandage, but she stopped. The bandage was there for a reason.
Ah, damn, she thought. At least I'm alive. How long have I been out? I need to find out! Beast Boy could be in danger. At the thought of Beast Boy, her knees became weak and she fell back down on her bed. What if he's already dead? No, I'm bringing him back whether or not he's alive. He's strong. He'll be alive.
Raven started to worry herself and she started to feel hopeless. She wanted to stay strong, but ever since she started to date Beast Boy, she felt more emotional and more likely to express them. She felt tears touch her eyes and she tried to blink them out. It was too late as a tear became a stream and a stream became a river. She refused to cry out, but rather sobbed silently. She gave a small intake of the cold air and she couldn't stop herself from full out sobbing.
She buried her head in her pillow and tried not to make a sound. She laid there and cried herself to sleep. The next time she woke up, she cursed herself. She was wasting time. She got up and fell on the floor. Either she was about to come in or Raven must have fell hard, because Starfire entered in an instant.
"Are you in the pains?"
"No. I need to go."
"I'm sorry Raven, but I cannot allow you to proceed to the underworld."
"You can't stop me Starfire."
"Please… just talk with the rest of us before you go. We can help."
"No, you can't."
"Let us try."
"I don't want to lose anymore of you!" Raven yelled. Her anger rippled so powerful that her windows shattered and her walls were laced with cracks. Starfire didn't look the slightest fazed. She looked even more determined to help Raven through her problems.
"I'm not going to let your emotions make Beast Boy's chances of living impossible."
"I'm not letting my emotions get in the wa-"
"Then stop acting like you don't fucking need us!" Starfire yelled.
Raven was surprised by her fluent English and her sudden outburst. She nearly backwards she was so shocked. Starfire had green orbs in her hands and her eyes were glowing bright green. She was undoubtedly angry. Raven let black orbs form over her hand. She grew her extra eyes and they were dark red, but they glowed. There was about to be a fight between princesses.
"I don't want to fight you, but I will not let you destroy Beast Boy."
"I will do it without you."
"Then I guess this will be a battle to decide that."
"I guess it is."
Starfire flew at Raven and hit his in the jaw. Raven hit her the face with an orb. Starfire slammed through the wall. She got up as quick as she could. Raven summoned a giant hand to swat Starfire down to the ground again. Starfire threw a ball of green light and it missed Raven's leg by an inch. She felt the heat of the energy.
Raven kicked Starfire in the face before following up with a giant push with her energy hand. She put Starfire in the sky. She was close behind. Before she could land another hit, Starfire spun around and engulfed Raven in a blinding light. All she saw was a bright neon green. It wasn't meant to hurt her, just to blind temporary. Raven swung out with black claws the size of gasoline trucks. It hit Starfire across the face and caused her to bleed over her eyebrow.
Starfire put her hand over her eye. She looked at her hand and saw the blood. Starfire looked back at Raven. She shot a ball of green light. Raven intercepted it in mid air with a black light of her own. The balls collided and blew up. Raven flew behind her ball of coldness. She had a black orb clichednin her fist. Zooming through the smoke from the collision, she gave Starfire a solid punch to the gut. Without meaning too, Raven some emotion behind the blow. Her fist punctured a half an inch into Starfire.
Starfire's eyes returned to normal. They were full of fear. Then they began to close as she fell in a downwards spiral towards the roof of the Titan Tower. What have I done? Raven thought as she raced to catch Starfire. She caught her at the very last second. Her feet touched the ground not even a second later. Raven returned to her normal form. She held Starfire in her arms. Robin and Cyborg burst onto the roof. Raven dropped Starfire and brushed past them. Robin attempted to attack her with his staff.
Raven gave him a shove with her hand. He fell down. She used her hand to pick up Starfire and hang her over the edge of the roof. Robin leaped over the edge as Raven dropped her. When Raven turned back, Cyborg was the only one in the way. They stood across from each other for a long minute. He stepped aside. Raven walked down to her room and retrieved the glass ball containing the pink gas.
When she created the portal, Cyborg stood off to the side. Raven looked at him for any words of advice. "Bring my boy home."
Raven nodded and they hugged. Then Raven walked into the portal and closed it behind her. She only saw darkness surrounding her, except for the rocky path she stood on. This was her birthplace. The underworld where demons, souls, and Trigon dwelled.