Fan Fiction ❯ Hell Hath No Fury ❯ Raven Versus Beast Boy ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 7: Raven Versus Beast Boy?

 

Robin ran as fast as his muscular legs could take him, not wanting to waste any time getting to his destination. Unlike the other remaining Titans, Robin knew exactly where he should go. He alone knew where the Reaper's sickle was. For a brief moment, Robin had thought of purposely strafing away from the room where he hid the sickle, but almost immediately dismissed the idea. The chances of the Reaper finding it at the speeds he could possibly search were too great. He had to be there to stop the Reaper, even if he had to stop him for good.

 

Robin made a sharp turn, almost sending him toppling over but he managed to find his balance before an unpleasant fall occurred. Already he had run down six flights of stairs, opting not to take the elevator to conserve time, and he was currently on his second hallway. The effects of exhaustion began to seep in, but Robin ignored them. Using every once of willpower he had, the boy wonder pressed onward faster each time he thought of slowing. He had to get there fast. He had to get there first. Everything relied on it. Everyone left counted on it.

 

Robin was close now. All he had to do was descend one final flight of stairs, and he would be there, and he would be able to put his plan into motion. Skidding to a halt, Robin impatiently waited for the doors to the tower garage to open. As soon as they did, he was off again. Not bothering with the stairs, Robin leapt over the railing and fell almost an entire story to the ground. Pain shot through Robin's ankles as soon as his feet connected with the ground, but as soon as he looked up, he knew that it was worth it.

 

The Reaper's sickle was still exactly where he had left it, safely leaning against his parked R-Cycle. Wasting no time, Robin ran to his personal motorcycle, and jumped into the seat. Taking the sickle in hand, Robin started the engine, and pressed the button to open the garage doors exiting the tower. The doors opened slowly, a lot slower than Robin wanted them too. Any moment he knew that the Reaper could catch up to him, and he needed to get as far away as he could fast. If he was lucky, he would be able to escape unnoticed, leaving the Reaper never to know where he was.

 

Robin's conscience kicked in as the doors fully opened, granting him a clear pathway. If he left, he would be leaving Starfire and Cyborg at the mercy of the Reaper. Sure, he would have successfully stripped him of his main attack, but Robin knew that that would not stop him. He could not just leave them… leave Starfire to the Reaper's mercy. He had to make a choice. Unfortunately, that choice was made for him.

 

In a flash of light, the Reaper appeared in front of Robin's R-Cycle, but he was not alone. With his left arm, he held the unconscious form of Starfire on her feet. However, in his other hand was a knife positioned along the young girl's throat. The reaper's eyes glowed red, but also were overflowing with remorse. Yet, he had to do this. His sister's fate rested on how well he obeyed his master.

 

“You're not going anywhere, mate,” the Reaper said coldly as he glared at Robin. “Not by a long shot.”

 

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Raven stood looking on in horror as the Body of Beast Boy, not property of Trigon, stared back at her with four glowing red eyes which resembled the ones that she grew whenever an emotion got too out of hand. Yet, this was not her. It was Beast Boy or Trigon more accurately. Raven just stood there as it happened. She could do nothing to stop it. She was powerless. Her father had somehow fused himself with the soulless body of Beast Boy. Without the essence of Beast Boy in the body, Trigon was free to control the body however he pleased, a luxury Raven never allowed her father to achieve with her. She always fought, and she always won. However, without a soul, Beast Boy could not fight back.

 

Trigon looked at the distraught Raven from the safety of his new body, and laughed maniacally. “I should thank you, Raven, or I should at least thank your hatred for me. If it were not for your utter despise of me and all that I am, you would not have provided me with this perfect vessel. It was your resilience that has brought me much grievance, but it has now played right into my hands. Now, my servant can free me from this retched dimension. Now that I am `human,' nothing is left to bind me here. In other words, Raven,” Trigon narrowed his four eyes at his daughter, “you are no longer needed.”

 

“I am now fully capable of freeing myself without your forced assistance. Thus, you now have become a problem that needs to be dealt with before I am freed. I cannot allow you to even attempt to resist the destruction that I will bring to your universe. Of course, there would be nothing that you could do to stop me. You can to nothing, and you have no hope of even delaying me more than I will allow. Your attacks did nothing when I was in my original form, and I am even more powerful in this one.” A section of the stone ground was enveloped in a red aura and raised to eye level with Trigon. However, it shattered as Trigon shot four yellow beams of power from his eyes aimed at the stone. “I have retained all of my powers and strength, as well as gained that of this vessel's.”

 

Trigon went through transformation after transformation in Beast Boy's body. Some were normal animals of Earth that Beast Boy had changed into before, but some were not even of this universe. Trigon's mind supplied Beast Boy's body with hundreds of animals and demonic creatures for it to use in transformations. None of which Raven could have ever dreamed existed. With his point well proven, Trigon returned Beast Boy's body back to its original form, and laughed once again at Raven.

 

“Thanks to you, Raven,” Trigon laughed evilly, “I am more powerful than I was before, I am free from relying on you, and I can leave this dimension with a simple command to my minion. Yet, why should I rush things? I have all the time in the world. Your universe will soon serve me, Raven. It is inevitable. But first, you must be punished for your pitiful rebellions against my control.”

 

With a wicked smile across his face, Trigon swiftly lunged at Raven pushing the Body of Beast Boy well beyond its limits.

 

Unable to act, Raven just stood there wide eyed. She could not believe it. She did not want to believe it. Yet, it was all true. Everything that she had fought for up until now was fighting back against her. Everything that she wanted to save apparently did not want to be saved.

 

Trigon gripped Raven by the throat and held his daughter's feet off of the rocky ground. The demon inside the body of a beast glared at Raven with a look of pure rage in his four eyes. Yet, as his eyes met Raven's, he could see nothing within them.

 

Raven could feel Trigon's grip around her neck. She knew she had to fight back. She knew she had to get free. Yet, a part of her would not let her. After all, if she did strike back, she would only be harming Beast Boy. `Is this what Trigon had planned? He took Beast Boy's body so that I would be powerless to stop him?'

 

“Raven,” Trigon laughed upon hearing the dark teen's thoughts, “what makes you think you ever had a chance against me at all. Did you not see as every attack that you launched at me did nothing? You even had your rage behind you and you did not even make a scratch. The only time that you ever had the upper hand was inside your mind, Raven. Even then, that was only you emotion in my guise, and you had help. You are alone now, Raven. I will make you suffer, and I will kill you. However, just as you are about to die, I want you to think of this. The changeling's soul is next.”

 

A thick wave of black energy appeared in between Raven and her father, sending the demon possessed body of Beast Boy flying into the nearby stone wall. Needless to say, Trigon was not expecting that. He had honestly expected Raven just to stay still and accept her death. It was useless to resist, after all. Yet, she did, and it seemed that she wasn't about to hold anything back.

 

Trigon pulled himself to his feet while wincing at the pain Beast Boy's body ad been experienced. “So, you do not care for the changeling as I had -” Trigon stopped when he saw the look Raven was giving him from the exact same spot she had been when she threw him off of her.

 

Raven glared at her father as her eyes burned brightly with vengeance. “Get out of his body so I can kill you, you sadistic bastard!”

 

“Do you really think that I'm just going to give up my only means of escape?” Trigon laughed genuinely amused. “Being surrounded by humans has not only made you weak but stupid as well.”

 

“Either get out now,” Raven spat coldly as her hands began to glow black, “or I will force you out. I will not let you hurt him, and I will stop you no matter what.”

 

“Raven, Raven, Raven,” Trigon shook his head and laughed, now knowing without a doubt that he was right about her feelings toward the changeling. “Did you forget that if you ever lay a hand on this vessel, that you will only accomplish doing harm upon it? Would you really willingly do harm upon the one who means the most to you? Are you really that cruel?”

 

“Wounds I can heal, Trigon,” Raven said coldly. “Besides, Beast Boy will not be able to feel the pain I inflict upon his body. You will, and it will hurt. You may have gained Beast Boy's abilities when you merged with his body, but you also gained his weaknesses. Despite Beast Boy's appearance, he is still human, and has all the faults of one. My attacks may have done little against you, but in your current form, you have made yourself very vulnerable. So, unless you want to learn just how weak you have made yourself first hand, I suggest you leave that body before I really get angry.”

 

Trigon narrowed his eyes at Raven hatefully. “I will kill you before you can even get near this vessel.” There was no come back from Raven. There was no more banter. There were no more words. There was only silence until Raven struck.

 

“Azerath Metrion Zinthos,” Raven cried as fast as she could, lifting another large section of the rocky floor from its resting place.

Putting all of her willpower behind the large stone, Raven hurled it towards her father.

 

Trigon laughed at his daughter's feeble attempt at an attack. With a quick mental command, four yellow beams of energy shot forth from his red eyes and collided with the stone encumbered in Raven's black aura, shattering it to where all that remained was a dense cloud of dust. To Trigon's surprise, however, Raven emerged from the dust cloud flying straight towards him as fast as she could fly. There was no time for Trigon to react. Raven came too fast, and she successfully rammed her shoulder into his stomach sending him flying backwards several feet.

 

In spite of being knocked backwards, Trigon managed to twist Beast Boy's body to land on his feet at the last moment. Throughout his entire existence, no one had ever attacked him like that and succeeded. Yet, one thing was for certain. Trigon was not about to let anyone ever do that again. He would make sure of that.

 

Trigon shot Raven a quick smirk before using the hollow body of Beast Boy to transform into a green cheetah. Faster than Raven had ever seen the changeling's cheetah form run, Trigon charged at Raven hell bent on ending the young empath's life. The demon was closing on Raven fast, and she had very little time to react. Out of sheer reflex, Raven mentally conjured up a black barrio if front of her to halt Trigon's advances, but they did nothing. Trigon saw them with plenty of time to react. Transforming into a falcon, the evil demon swiftly avoided Raven's barriers of darkness by simply flying over them. With the obstacles behind him, Trigon abandoned his current falcon for and morphed into a green wolf while still advancing on Raven rapidly.

 

Raven took to the air. Beast Boy… Trigon had the advantage on the ground. There were too many things he could change into. There were too many ways that he could avoid her attacks. And, by the looks of the green wolf's salivating mouth, Trigon was not about to hold anything back as the real Beast Boy would. Trigon had no quarrel with killing someone. Raven could not just stay in one place waiting for Trigon to come to her. A moving target is harder to hit, and she could not afford to get hit. Too much was riding on this battle for her to loose.

 

`Wake up!'

 

`…'

 

Levitating high up into the air, Raven launched attack after attack of her dark energy at her father, never letting up to see if she had hit him. Unfortunately, she never did connect with Trigon. As soon as he saw Raven's attacks heading toward him, he discarded his wolf form and transformed into a mere fly. Due to its insignificant size, the green fly was able dodge the beams of dark energy being hurled towards his previous position by flying between each attack. Raven never saw Trigon approaching, and could do nothing to stop what was to come next.

 

`Beast Boy, get up!'

 

`Mmph. Five more minutes.'

 

When Trigon was at a close enough range, he quickly flew behind Raven preparing for his assault. Transforming into a gorilla, Trigon brought both of his large, green fists down on the back of the empath, sending Raven falling while screaming in agony. The hit Trigon had delivered was not strong enough to do serious damage, but it was enough to cause enough pain for Raven to be left unable to regain her concentration. Thus, the real attack occurred. Raven landed on the rocky ground below hard. Unfortunately, she landed on her right leg, breaking her femur in two.

 

`Garfield!'

 

Beast Boy's soul's eyes began to slowly open.

 

`Whoa! Dude, there's no reason to use my real name. I'm awake. I'm up.'

 

Raven cursed loudly as the pain shot through her entire body. Normally, she would have simply called upon her healing powers to repair most of the damage done to her leg. However, this was no time for a distraction from the battle. Raven looked up to see Trigon reverting back to human form and slowly levitate down towards her, smirking evilly.

 

`Do you not see what is occurring? It will be too late soon. You must get free.'

 

Even though his soul's eyes were open, Beast Boy could not see much. He could not even lift his head to get a better look at whatever the voice was talking about. It felt as if all of the energy in his body had been drained. He was powerless to do anything.

 

`I'm sorry. All I see is brown, but even that is blurry. I don't have the strength to look. Just let me sleep for now.'

 

Raven did her best to crawl backwards away from the impending doom that Trigon would bring if he caught up to her, but it was no use. With only one leg, she moved too slow, and Trigon was too fast. He was gaining, and it would be only a matter of time before he caught her.

 

Trigon continued his slow descent. Victory was his, but it came all too soon. He wanted to feel the pleasure of killing his opponent in battle. Now, his opponent was injured and helpless. Killing raven now would not be pleasurable, but it would be fun. To prolong his fun, he levitated towards his target slowly, watching as the look of fear rose within his daughter's eyes. It was only the very moment when Raven would realize that any further resistance was inevitable that he would finish her.

 

`No, Beast Boy. You must look. If no, then listen. She is going to die if you do not do something.'

 

`Why do you care? Aren't you always telling me to kill? Why do you care if this one person, whoever it is, dies?'

 

`If it were anyone else, I would enjoy witnessing their death. However, I am you, in a sense. You would not want to see her die. You care. Thus, I am bound to protect her, whether I want to or not.'

 

There was no response from Beast Boy, and the voice screamed profanities in rage. Using ever ounce of influence he held over Beast Boy, the voice forced, with much difficulty, the head of Beast Boy's soul up in the direction of Trigon.

 

`…Is that… me?'

 

Raven fired wave after wave of dark energy in a final attempt to stop Trigon, but the demon merely laughed as he conjured up a red barrier around him which none of Raven's attacks could penetrate.

 

“Why, Raven?” Trigon asked laughing as another of Raven's attacks ricocheted off of his barrier. “Why do continue to fight? You are injured. You are weak. Your attacks cannot harm me. I will kill you. It is inevitable. Yet, you continue to fight why?”

 

“I won't let you win,” Raven shot back. “I will not allow you to harm anyone else. I won't let you hurt him.”

 

“Is that it Raven?” Trigon laughed. “You are willing to die just because you love the changeling. How pathetic.”

 

`She… loves me?'

 

“Fear not, Raven,” Trigon continued. “As I said before, after I kill you, I will kill him too. You will see each other in the afterlife, if there is one for you.” Trigon smiled a wicked smile and his eyes began to glow yellow as he was preparing for his final attack. Yet, his concentration was shattered.

 

“G-G-Get… Get away from her!” Beast Boy's soul yelled at the top of his lungs.