Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Forget Me ❯ “I’m not What You Think I Am” - Part 3 : The Crow of The Murder ( Chapter 15 )

Chapter 15

“I'm not What You Think I Am”

 

Part 3 - The Crow of The Murder

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Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, or anyone else who appears in the television show. Everyone else is mine, and you can't use them, or I will not end this chapter.

 

Note: This is the end. Second, a Murder is a flock of crows. Just thought you should know.

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“That was good,” Raven laughs and looks at Crow, and he is not smiling… in fact he is crying… “What is wrong?”

 

The crying continues, and then fades into maniacal laughing. He smiles as tears flow down his face, and he stands up and faces Raven. He looks pale, and his eyes baggy and dark.

 

“I'm not what you think I am…” He laughs in tears.

 

Raven pauses in fear and confusion. She then opens her mouth and whispers, “Who are you…?”

 

Crow gets up and still laughing walks up to her, arms open, as if he is going to give her a hug. “No, no. I am Crow, the same Crow that you have known and loved since you were a child… but I'm not WHAT you think I am.” His eyes look somewhat evil, and dark. His top hat appears, and his eyes glow evilly.

 

“Okay then, what are you?” She says, slowly pushing herself further from him, but he keeps walking forward. Soon, she is backed up against a wall, and he draws closer.

 

“We are alone… it is perfect isn't it? No more a beautiful a place to end it exists.”

 

“End what?” She looks up at her love in fear, and he looks down upon her. He smiles manically.

 

“Azarath Metreon Zinthi,” he mutters, and a large spiral thing (like the bridge in The Night Before Christmas) arises, and pushes her up, and then goes back into he ground. Crow's smile disappears, and he looks serious. He throws his hat to the side, and stops moving. He looks at Raven, and turns.

 

“A long time ago… Your birthday… Do you remember why you left?” he says in a deep serious voice.

 

“Yes.”

 

“Then why do you still love me? I am the reason you left, isn't that correct?” he says turning to her, and looks into her eyes. She looks at him with her eyes wide. “You don't remember, do you?” he pushes her into the wall. “I made you leave… I read your diary aloud that day, and you ran home crying, and the next day, you had left!”

 

“But that's n-“

 

“SHUT THE FUCK UP!” he punches her in the face, and she falls over. “I'm sorry… just let me finish…” he says, as a tear falls from his eye. “I told you that I was then a hero a few months after you left correct?”

 

“Yes…” she says. A trickle of blood falls from her mouth, and she is in light tears.

 

“Well, I was depressed all that time. The being a hero helped, but it never filled the gap in my heart… nothing did… and I was the cause of my own suffering. I made you leave, and I knew you hated me for it,” He begins to cry.

 

“But-” she tries to interrupt in tears, but he continues.

 

“All my stories took place within a year of your leaving. That is true. But there is a lie…” He looks at her. “The 11th anniversary of your birth, 365 days after you left… I fell into a depression I never would get out of. I'm still in it… The pain of having lost you was too much, and I went insane.” He turns away, and takes off his shirt his back is scarred a lot, and looks like he has been in many battles, which he has. “I…” a drop of blood hits the floor in front of him, and he puts his arms out, and stands in a cross position. Blood rains onto the floor in front of him. “I tried to make you forgive me the only way I could from so far away…” he starts to cry hysterically, and he turns around to face her.

 

His neck has stretch marks, and his skin is a sickly wan greenish pale color, and she screams as she sees his chest. He is bleeding from his wrists, and chest… He screams as she sees his chest has a word carved in it, and is gushing blood from the wound.

 

He screams three words in tears, and she starts to cry in horror:

 

“I KILLED MYSELF!”

 

He screams in tears, which mix with the blood on his chest, which falls to the ground. He is crying hysterically, and so is she. The tears stop falling from his face, as his wounds heal, and the word `RAVEN' is scarred in his chest.

 

His clothes appear on and then begin to shift. His body begins to grow and become more muscular, and his clothes change to a brown battle armor, and his face begins to rot and three flaps of skin, which stretch when he opens his mouth, connect his lips. His eyes become a glowing white, and his hair gets larger. His cloak becomes a cape. Finally, a large stone-carved scythe appears, and he holds it with both hands. In an evil, deep voice he moans. He then says in the new voice, “I am no longer `Crow,' I am now…” he takes in a deep breath and screams “THE MURDER!” he raises the scythe above his head, and plunges it down at Raven, and she dodges it barely, just ripping her cape off. She gets up, and phases through the wall.

 

“Shit! SHIT!” She screams as he picks through the wall, and confronts her.

 

“What's wrong beautiful?” he asks in his evil, ghastly voice, “Afraid of a little zombie?”

 

“You're not little!” she says, throwing bricks at him, which do nothing.

 

“Oh, did I mention I am to kill you? I will reunite with you in heaven, and we shall plunge into an eternity of love!” he slams on his scythe, and she stabs him with her arm, which she has turned into a blade.

 

“Heh. Not gonna' work!” he begins to regenerate over her arm, and pull her in, “The only way I wouldn't be able to regenerate would be if you used the Zinthi spell!”

 

“FUCK!” she screams, and she throws pieces of pavement at him. He is not affected at all. “AZARATH METREON ZINTHOS!” she screams, and her arm blasts out of him, and she is blown back five yards.

 

“OH, RAVEN! COME DIE!” he says as he chases her, but isn't too fast.

 

“GAK!” she screams, and starts to run. She notices he will never catch up, so keeps running. Then she notices he screams, and turns into a murder of a million crows, and each dives at her. “THAT MUST BE WHY HE IS CALLED MURDER NOW!” she says as the crows miss, and then fly up, and dive again. This time, about 12 feet away from her, they merge and become The Murder again, and he raises his scythe above his head as he dives through the air, in a sword slash with his scythe, and plunges it into the ground.

 

Raven screams and by the impact of his landing, she falls to the ground. The Murder pulls his scythe up, and goes after her again. She stands up, and notices a sharp pain in her leg. She looks down, and sees that he didn't miss with the lunge… he impaled her leg with it.

 

Raven screams in pain as the blood runs down her leg, and she limps back into the warehouse. She is in the center, so she will be able to get him incase he tries to break in through any side.

 

The murder goes to the nearest wall, and screams “AZARATH METREON ZINTHI!” and the whole building collapses. He laughs, as there is no movement.

 

Just as he is about to transform back, when Raven phases through the rubble, and stands on it. She has cuts all over, and her clothes are torn like what Slade did in “Birthmark.” She is scratched all over, her face is bloody, and she can't use her right leg or her left arm.

 

Raven limps forward, and falls. She begins to cry, and The Murder walks up to her.

 

“Your blood is so beautiful…” he says, as he kicks her. “You will not have any when we are in heaven together, so I just want us to see as much of yours as possible!” eh picks her up by the neck, and she tries to use the Azarath Metreon Zenthos, but before she can finish, she is thrown through three buildings, and falls face down in a dark alley.

 

She can feel her life slipping… the darkness is consuming her life, and she can barely breathe. Her eyesight dulls, and her eyes close. She tries to reach to pull herself up, with the hole in the wall that she made but as her hand is about to grab it, it falls limp.

 

The Murder laughs. “I can't believe it is over. 2 years of searching… and it is finally over. I can finally say I am done. I don't need this evil form anymore,” he says as he turns back into the handsome (and not decayed) Crow.

 

Crow walks over to his lifeless love, and checks her pulse. Nothing. He chuckles. He then turns his arm into a blade, and reaches to stab himself through the heart, so they may be reunited. Just then she begins to levitate.

 

Raven's wounds regenerate, and she is empowered with her magic, which surrounds her. Her aura is stronger than his, and he gasps as he pulse returns. She isn't returning as a zombie, because this doesn't happen when you do. It is like her life has an auxiliary life force, and it is now being used. Raven stands up, and looks down at Crow, who then tries to turn into The Murder. She hits him before he can.

 

He flies across the alley, so he can see the street. Raven picks him up.

 

“Bastard…” she says, “AZARATHE METREON ZINTHOS!” she screams, and she turns her arm into a weapon, and stabs him through the heart with it.

 

“Ouch…” he says as she nails him to a wall, “I love you so much… Why don't you love me enough to just die?!” He screams and blasts her into a wall through his wound. “Only my spell can kill me… and you can't use it… it was not seen in your future like it was in mine! Your was changed- I got that power!”

 

Just as he blasts her, the other titans reach them. Robin looks at him in anger. “I told you… he is a zombie!” he says as Crow regenerates.

“Yes I am…” he says as he morphs back into The Murder. Both Cyborg and Starfire blast him, as Robin uses discs to freeze his arm. Raven stabs him through the chest, and he turns. “NO I AM ONLY TO KILL HER!” The Murder raises his scythe at her, as he stands back to the wall.

 

“AZARATH METREON-“ Raven screams at the top of her lungs, and The Murder is astonished as he gets stabbed through the heart, and transforms back to Crow. He falls and she nails him to the wall. His eyes are pale, and he looks down.

 

The blade is black… but it's outline is gray… not white… he then hears the end of the spell:

 

“-ZINTHI!”

 

He stares at his love in astonishment, as she holds the powerful blade in his heart, which is on the verge of exploding.

 

“Y-you used it!” he says in tears.

 

“I'm sorry, Crow,” she says. Tears fall down her face, and the moonlight makes them glow. The blade disappears, and she falls to her knees.

 

Crow stares blankly at her and then says, “I'm sorry about that… I… just wanted to make up for the time we lost…” he pauses, “I wasn't the reason you left was I?”

 

“I tried to tell you…” she says in tears.

 

“I- I killed myself for nothing?”

 

Raven nods.

 

“I love you.” He coughs, and she starts to cry harder.

 

“I'm going to…”

 

“Yes,” She responds, knowing his question, “You will die.”

 

“I'm going to go to…”

 

“Yes,” She responds, knowing his question yet again.

 

“And when you die naturally, we'll…”

 

“Yes,” She responds, “We will plunge into everlasting love.”

 

“Good. Then I've somewhat accomplished my purpose.” He closes his eyes, “Goodbye, Raven. Never more…” he starts to deteriorate into dust which then disappears.

 

“Good-“ she says and notices he is gone. “-Bye.” She shivers from the cold.

 

“Lets get back to the tower…” Robin says, throwing his cape over Raven's shivering body.

 

“Lets go Raven,” Beats Boy says, taking her by the hand, and turning into a stallion to carry her away.

 

“Goodbye…” Raven says, and she falls asleep on his back.

 

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That night, Raven lies in her bed, looking at her ceiling. She takes up her diary, and writes 2 words: The End.

 

She puts it down, and locks it in the trunk with Malcheor. And looks up at the ceiling again.

 

“I guess, your story finally ended, Crow.” She closes her eyes and repeats these words until she drifts to sleep “It finally ended…”

 

 

 

In the infinite confines of the universe, Crow sits and whispers the words:

“Yes…

 

 

 

 

The end.”