Fan Fiction ❯ A Raven's Cry ❯ Dark Rituals ( Chapter 16 )
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By: Strausse 
Damien begins his plans for Raven and Beastboy...
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Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.04.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 345 | Status: Completed
Damien begins his plans for Raven and Beastboy...
Please R&R
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.04.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 345 | Status: Completed
A Raven's Cry
Chapter 16
Raven watched Damian's lithe, almost human form as he walked around the room, lighting candles and drawing runes. "Do you really think this is going to work, Damian? You've tried to hold me like this before." She pulled experimentally at her chains before probing the power blocking spell. "You were never strong enough to stop me from breaking free."
"Well, my dear, I have learned from my mistakes."
Raven gathered all of her power and threw it at the spell stopping her from using her powers in the real world. When she came to she was still hanging by her wrists, the spell was still intact. She struggled to her feet, pain shooting through her whole body as she shook off the effects of the spell. "What was that?"
"I changed my spell a little. Every time you do that the pain will be worse. Eventually it will put you into a coma, but it will not kill you."
"What are you going to do to him?"
"I have a special plan for him. You are going to kill him."
Raven's eyes widened at his bold proclamation, "Never."
"My dear Raven, do not speak to soon." A black circle opened in space next to him. He dipped his hand into and pulled out a dagger and a vial of blood. "You will understand soon why you must kill him, why you will have no other choice." Finally a book appeared in front of him. He opened it and started scanning down through the words on the page. "Here it is, the curse of the night shade."
Raven's mind worked furiously, trying to remember what this curse was. "Vampire. You're going to turn him into a vampire."
"A master vampire to be precise. Then I will release him on your precious city. You will have a choice, kill him or watch your city fall."
"Please, don't do this." Raven felt as though everything was crashing down around her. She already knew that the spell holding her powers in check would not break under her power. All she could do was watch as Damian began to chant.
As he chanted, Damian laid the vial of blood on a small stone pedestal. He lifted the dagger high, and with inhuman strength brought it down in the center of Beastboy's chest, breaking his breastbone and driving the blade in up to the hilt. Beastboy woke with a choked scream.
When Raven saw Damien plunge the dagger into Beastboy's chest, when she heard his cry, everything seemed to slow down. She found herself in her mind, a solid stone wall in front of her, utterly impenetrable. Swirling around her was white mist, she realized that it was her emotions, no longer in their human forms. Foremost in them was her rage, not the demonic rage that she fought to control, but her own human rage at seeing the one that she loved hurt. As she focused on her rage, her mother's words came back to her, emotions have a power all their own. She lifted her hand and watched as the swirling mists coalesced around it, seeming to harden around her hand. With a flick of her wrist, her rage was sent at the wall, shattering it instantly.
Raven stood, fully in control of her powers. "Damien, you are a fool."
Damien looked back at her and saw her standing behind him, her eyes glowing almost blinding white. The chains binding her were engulfed in her dark power and shattered. Damien lifted his hands and brought up a shield as Raven's hand came up and calmly sliced downward. A long stream of energy flowed from her fingertips, obliterating his hastily erected shield. She brought her hand back up slicing Damien from navel to chin, cutting him into two halves that quickly dissolved into black smoke.
Raven's eyes returned to normal as she ran to Beastboy's unmoving form. She laid a hand on his stomach and felt its almost frantic rise and fall as he tried to draw breath through a damaged esophagus. Raven pulled the knife from him and was shocked by the sudden rush of blood. She laid a hand over his open wound and focused her healing powers, taking his pain as though it were her own she gave him the strength necessary to knit together the damaged muscle and bone, she poured all the energy that she dared into him, almost losing consciousness herself.
When she was done Raven saw that he was not even close to being healed. When she saw the blood still seeping from the wound, she knew that she would not be able to help him herself. She undid the straps holding his unconscious form to the table and half picked him up, holding him tightly as she dared and teleported, sacrificing the last of her power to take them back to the tower.
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Robin leaned back in his seat, his feet up on the coffee table, flipping idly through the channels. He could here Starfire pacing behind him, "Friend Robin, when are Raven and Beastboy returning to us?"
"They're not supposed to get here until tomorrow at the earliest, Star. Don't worry abou..." He was cut off by the familiar sound of Raven's teleport, then Starfire's gasp. He stood and turned, letting out his own gasp when he saw Raven and Beastboy covered in blood. As soon as the portal closed behind them, Raven collapsed taking Beastboy to the floor with her.
Robin ran to the couple and lifted Raven easily, "Star, get Beastboy, and hurry." They ran to the infirmary in silence. As soon as they were there Robin laid Raven's still form on one of the beds and grabbed his communicator, "Cy, get to the infirmary now!"
The reply was immediate, "On my way, man."
By the time Cyborg arrived, Robin had the various monitoring systems going on both of them. "What happened?"
"Beastboy's been stabbed, Raven's just out of energy, I think. It's Beastboy that needs help right now."
Cyborg studied the readouts over Beastboy's bed. "There's not much we can do for him, he needs some blood and needs the wound stitched up, but it looks like he's mostly healed."
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Raven woke in the darkened infirmary. She sat up suddenly, waking Robin who was sitting in a chair placed between her bed and Beastboy's. "Raven, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, how's Beastboy?"
"He's going to be fine. What happened?"
Raven stood on shaky legs, and made her way to Beastboy's bedside. Immediately Robin stood and slid his chair over to Raven, allowing her to sit. "We were attacked. On our way back to the city, a bunch of magic users jumped us." She put her hand in Beastboy's, squeezing it gently. "We found out that they were basically puppets for Trigon, he knows now, Trigon knows about the wedding." Raven blinked back unbidden tears, "We teleported back, we were afraid he had already attacked here, but we were intercepted by a demon. He tried to curse Beastboy."
By now Raven was crying openly, and Robin was shifting his feet uncomfortably, "What do you mean?"
"He tried to turn Beastboy into a vampire, he wanted to make me kill him."
"Well it's okay now, Beastboy's not a vampire or anything, right?"
"I don't know. I don't know if I stopped it in time." Raven stood by Beastboy, leaning over him. She ran her hand down his cool cheek, fighting back her tears. "I can't. Robin, if he becomes a vampire," Raven lost the ability to speak at this point, sobs racking her body. Finally she calmed down enough to speak, "I can't kill him, Robin, I just can't."
Robin looked solemnly at Beastboy's unmoving form. "I will. Just tell me what to do."
Raven stared down at Beastboy, hoping that it would not be her last time. "When the sun rises, open the blinds." She leaned down and kissed Beastboy gently, "I'm sorry." She managed before running from the room.
Robin turned to his friend, pain etched into his face. He sat in the chair and glanced at the clock, "Twenty minutes." He leaned back, ready to sit by his friend for these twenty minutes, however it turned out.
Soon the twenty minutes were over. Robin walked to the windows at one end of the room, and looked out careful not to let any light spill into the room. Outside he saw a clear sky with a bright sun just clearing the horizon. He gripped the pull string and yanked hard, eliciting a cry of pain from Beastboy's formerly still body.
Chapter 16
Raven watched Damian's lithe, almost human form as he walked around the room, lighting candles and drawing runes. "Do you really think this is going to work, Damian? You've tried to hold me like this before." She pulled experimentally at her chains before probing the power blocking spell. "You were never strong enough to stop me from breaking free."
"Well, my dear, I have learned from my mistakes."
Raven gathered all of her power and threw it at the spell stopping her from using her powers in the real world. When she came to she was still hanging by her wrists, the spell was still intact. She struggled to her feet, pain shooting through her whole body as she shook off the effects of the spell. "What was that?"
"I changed my spell a little. Every time you do that the pain will be worse. Eventually it will put you into a coma, but it will not kill you."
"What are you going to do to him?"
"I have a special plan for him. You are going to kill him."
Raven's eyes widened at his bold proclamation, "Never."
"My dear Raven, do not speak to soon." A black circle opened in space next to him. He dipped his hand into and pulled out a dagger and a vial of blood. "You will understand soon why you must kill him, why you will have no other choice." Finally a book appeared in front of him. He opened it and started scanning down through the words on the page. "Here it is, the curse of the night shade."
Raven's mind worked furiously, trying to remember what this curse was. "Vampire. You're going to turn him into a vampire."
"A master vampire to be precise. Then I will release him on your precious city. You will have a choice, kill him or watch your city fall."
"Please, don't do this." Raven felt as though everything was crashing down around her. She already knew that the spell holding her powers in check would not break under her power. All she could do was watch as Damian began to chant.
As he chanted, Damian laid the vial of blood on a small stone pedestal. He lifted the dagger high, and with inhuman strength brought it down in the center of Beastboy's chest, breaking his breastbone and driving the blade in up to the hilt. Beastboy woke with a choked scream.
When Raven saw Damien plunge the dagger into Beastboy's chest, when she heard his cry, everything seemed to slow down. She found herself in her mind, a solid stone wall in front of her, utterly impenetrable. Swirling around her was white mist, she realized that it was her emotions, no longer in their human forms. Foremost in them was her rage, not the demonic rage that she fought to control, but her own human rage at seeing the one that she loved hurt. As she focused on her rage, her mother's words came back to her, emotions have a power all their own. She lifted her hand and watched as the swirling mists coalesced around it, seeming to harden around her hand. With a flick of her wrist, her rage was sent at the wall, shattering it instantly.
Raven stood, fully in control of her powers. "Damien, you are a fool."
Damien looked back at her and saw her standing behind him, her eyes glowing almost blinding white. The chains binding her were engulfed in her dark power and shattered. Damien lifted his hands and brought up a shield as Raven's hand came up and calmly sliced downward. A long stream of energy flowed from her fingertips, obliterating his hastily erected shield. She brought her hand back up slicing Damien from navel to chin, cutting him into two halves that quickly dissolved into black smoke.
Raven's eyes returned to normal as she ran to Beastboy's unmoving form. She laid a hand on his stomach and felt its almost frantic rise and fall as he tried to draw breath through a damaged esophagus. Raven pulled the knife from him and was shocked by the sudden rush of blood. She laid a hand over his open wound and focused her healing powers, taking his pain as though it were her own she gave him the strength necessary to knit together the damaged muscle and bone, she poured all the energy that she dared into him, almost losing consciousness herself.
When she was done Raven saw that he was not even close to being healed. When she saw the blood still seeping from the wound, she knew that she would not be able to help him herself. She undid the straps holding his unconscious form to the table and half picked him up, holding him tightly as she dared and teleported, sacrificing the last of her power to take them back to the tower.
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Robin leaned back in his seat, his feet up on the coffee table, flipping idly through the channels. He could here Starfire pacing behind him, "Friend Robin, when are Raven and Beastboy returning to us?"
"They're not supposed to get here until tomorrow at the earliest, Star. Don't worry abou..." He was cut off by the familiar sound of Raven's teleport, then Starfire's gasp. He stood and turned, letting out his own gasp when he saw Raven and Beastboy covered in blood. As soon as the portal closed behind them, Raven collapsed taking Beastboy to the floor with her.
Robin ran to the couple and lifted Raven easily, "Star, get Beastboy, and hurry." They ran to the infirmary in silence. As soon as they were there Robin laid Raven's still form on one of the beds and grabbed his communicator, "Cy, get to the infirmary now!"
The reply was immediate, "On my way, man."
By the time Cyborg arrived, Robin had the various monitoring systems going on both of them. "What happened?"
"Beastboy's been stabbed, Raven's just out of energy, I think. It's Beastboy that needs help right now."
Cyborg studied the readouts over Beastboy's bed. "There's not much we can do for him, he needs some blood and needs the wound stitched up, but it looks like he's mostly healed."
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Raven woke in the darkened infirmary. She sat up suddenly, waking Robin who was sitting in a chair placed between her bed and Beastboy's. "Raven, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, how's Beastboy?"
"He's going to be fine. What happened?"
Raven stood on shaky legs, and made her way to Beastboy's bedside. Immediately Robin stood and slid his chair over to Raven, allowing her to sit. "We were attacked. On our way back to the city, a bunch of magic users jumped us." She put her hand in Beastboy's, squeezing it gently. "We found out that they were basically puppets for Trigon, he knows now, Trigon knows about the wedding." Raven blinked back unbidden tears, "We teleported back, we were afraid he had already attacked here, but we were intercepted by a demon. He tried to curse Beastboy."
By now Raven was crying openly, and Robin was shifting his feet uncomfortably, "What do you mean?"
"He tried to turn Beastboy into a vampire, he wanted to make me kill him."
"Well it's okay now, Beastboy's not a vampire or anything, right?"
"I don't know. I don't know if I stopped it in time." Raven stood by Beastboy, leaning over him. She ran her hand down his cool cheek, fighting back her tears. "I can't. Robin, if he becomes a vampire," Raven lost the ability to speak at this point, sobs racking her body. Finally she calmed down enough to speak, "I can't kill him, Robin, I just can't."
Robin looked solemnly at Beastboy's unmoving form. "I will. Just tell me what to do."
Raven stared down at Beastboy, hoping that it would not be her last time. "When the sun rises, open the blinds." She leaned down and kissed Beastboy gently, "I'm sorry." She managed before running from the room.
Robin turned to his friend, pain etched into his face. He sat in the chair and glanced at the clock, "Twenty minutes." He leaned back, ready to sit by his friend for these twenty minutes, however it turned out.
Soon the twenty minutes were over. Robin walked to the windows at one end of the room, and looked out careful not to let any light spill into the room. Outside he saw a clear sky with a bright sun just clearing the horizon. He gripped the pull string and yanked hard, eliciting a cry of pain from Beastboy's formerly still body.