Fan Fiction ❯ Promise ❯ Revelations ( Chapter 4 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

By: DavCube

Chapter 4 - Disruption

“My father's behind this whole mess, huh? I was wondering why these two egomaniacs would allow themselves to be controlled by anyone.” Raven said sternly, barely holding back her strong desire thrust herself right at the floating symbol of evil.

“Witty and defiant to the end, I see.” Trigon bellowed from the void. “But enough with the sentimentality. My chance to cross over to your world is finally at hand, and you're going to be the sacrifice I need.” He declared.

“Not a chance in hell, you monster!” Raven yelled as she charged forward, enveloping her arm in black energy to use it as a makeshift sword, her attempt at quenching her rage failed. However, before she could take even a second step toward the embodiment of fire, its two lackeys teleported once again and stopped her in her tracks, again somehow causing pain just through normal physical contact. The sorceress screamed out of agony and went limp. Blood and X released her again, letting her fall to the floor like a rag doll. Raven picked herself back up on all fours, breathing heavily from her ordeal. She looked about her body for signs of what might have caused her pain, but what she did find was even more mysterious. Where she had been touched, blood-red marks began to form. They seemed to symbolize something, but she couldn't make them out.

“What is this…?” she asked herself in terror. “It is your incomplete demon form. Your demon form is the only thing on this planet that can open the portal that stands before you. I cannot control your current form, but there is something that can bring it out.” Raven's head turned toward the zynothium sitting behind her. As she put two and two together, her eyes began to widen as she pictured what would take place. “If you're going to use that zynothium on my body, I might die, you know that? I thought you wanted me to rule with you. Besides, if I do die, you won't be able to control me anyway.” Raven explained, a smile beginning to creep across her face.

“I can control any matter, dead or living. I just need your body to use a portal spell on this accursed symbol. In any case…” Trigon's fire became brighter as Brother Blood then took Raven by the collar and shoved her against the wall.

“It's a chance I have to take.” Trigon finished.

“X, fetch me my needle, will you?” He said with little emotion in his voice.

`Damn… he really got to them. And what did he mean by… demon form…' Raven thought through her pain. She lifted one eye open to see Red X putting pure zynothium liquid into a rather large hypodermic needle. He then teleported back to Blood's side, where he placed it in the headmaster's free hand. “Don't worry, you're not going to feel a thing…” he said in his normal voice, until he reached back, preparing to plunge the needle into Raven's arm. “…because you'll be dead!” he yelled, thrusting it forward. In a normal situation, Raven would have been able to easily deflect the otherwise-harmless needle, but this was certainly an exception.

The needle hit its mark, and Blood, convinced that his task was complete, let go of Raven, allowing himself the pleasure of seeing her squirm on the floor. Raven bled on the rocky surface, but barely, as through her evident pain she tore out the needle and applied sufficient pressure to the wound's entry. The marks that covered her body from being held by Trigon's minions began to glow brightly, and something began to form from them. The fiery symbol that was Trigon laughed evilly.

“Yes… perfect! It looks like zynothium is not fatal to your system, but I can feel the control of your demon self slipping away… come out…” The fire crept closer toward the agonizing sorceress to get a closer look at its newest tool. However, it stopped after only a couple feet for reasons yet unknown to the dark magus.

“What! What is this!” Trigon bellowed.

Raven's eyes were tightly shut from the intense pain shocking through her system, so she could not see what was happening to her body. The marks began to change; the color was not red, but now a pearly white. Raven was fighting off the foreign substance in her system, and she could feel it leaving her body in a physical form. `Now what's going on! I don't know what's going to come out of me, but it better be good!' She thought.

“Look's like your plan didn't work, FATHER!” she screamed, throwing her arms out wide. In doing so the light from her body dispersed, the converged between herself and Trigon. `OK…' Raven thought quickly. `Who are we dealing with here?'

Raven's fatigue from this ordeal was beginning to take over, but she needed to see what she had created before succumbing to it. The figure wore a very peculiar garment, a black and white tunic loosely worn with a gem on the chest. He wore black gloves, which were now enveloped not in black, but white energy. Around his neck he draped a long black scarf, covering the lower half of his face, and much of it was flowing in the wind behind him along with his long white hair. Raven gasped.

`It can't be… Malchoir!' Raven gasped in her mind before sleep overcame her.

Trigon was not pleased with this new development, as the fire around the symbol increased their fervor exponentially. “I don't know who you are, but you won't leave here alive! Blood, X! Attack!” Trigon yelled out his orders.

The minions obeyed, but the figure believed to be Malchoir of Nol tossed the two aside before they even had a chance to charge, rendering them unconscious. He then looked around the room, first at Trigon, then at his fallen minions, Terra's statue, and finally at Raven, who he focused on for a good while. His hands again became covered in white energy as he closed his eyes, preparing a spell of his own design.

“Necronom, Hezbarek, Mortyx!”

The white light spread across the tomb, first hitting the fire that was Trigon. When it hit him, he screamed in pain for less than a second, it took that short a time for the spell to dissolve the fire from whence it came. Next, it hit Brother Blood and Red X, disintegrating the symbols that were on their heads, and the zynothium sitting beside them. Next was Raven, where the marks on her body soon disappeared as well as the zynothium inside it. Lastly was Terra, the stone around her dissolving as well, revealing the blond-haired girl in all her glory, clad in the uniform Slade once forced her to wear. She fell to the floor, still in hibernation from being kept in stone.

Then, the light dimmed, and Malchior let down his arms. His focus was no longer on the sorceress, but the entrance to the tomb, where four figures could be seen running in. The Titans looked slightly ravaged, but that was now the least of their worries as they entered the room. The group collectively gasped as they viewed the scene. Beast Boy was shocked to see Terra free from her prison, and ran over to her sleeping form, ignoring the mysterious figure in the room. Cyborg nodded to Robin and Starfire, telling them that he would stay with Beast Boy.

Robin and Starfire ran over to the figure bending down toward the sorceress, checking for any sign that his magic did what it was supposed to. After a moment, he turned back to the duo. Starfire almost jumped glee to see Raven mostly unharmed, but Robin held her back; he did not trust the man standing before him yet.

“Who are you?” He asked.

“…a friend.” The man said.

He then began to glow brightly, turning into a dust-like substance, moving toward the gem on Raven's forehead, which began to absorb the glowing material that once saved her. Robin was again dumbfounded from this new development, allowing Starfire to go to Raven's side without even realizing it.

“Raven, are you all right?” She pleaded with the unconscious girl, shaking her gently to no avail. She checked for a pulse and to see if she was breathing, both were present. “Raven… why will you not awaken…?” the Tameranian asked her again as she picked her up off the ground, looking back toward Robin, who now looked a little more defiant.

“We'll get the police down here to get these guys; let's get Raven and Terra back to the tower for now before we ask what happened.” Robin stated, Starfire nodding at the request, taking off with Raven in her arms. He then looked toward Beast Boy, who was carrying Terra out of the room, Cyborg following close behind. The metal man looked back for a moment, giving a `thumbs up' signal, showing that his examination of Terra showed no negative signs. Robin returned the signal with a `thumbs up' of his own, but not about Raven, but the situation in general.

`Now what's happening?'