Fan Fiction ❯ Teen Titans: Shadows Inside Us ❯ Surrender ( Chapter 4 )

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Teen Titans: Shadows Inside Us

Part 4: Surrender

By Saint Raven

“Raven, you naughty girl…” Brother Blood said mockingly, “You should know by now that you cannot escape me. No matter where you Titans go, I'll always be there to give you nightmares.”

“Funny,” Raven coughed, picking herself off the ground to face Blood. “I thought you were more original than to start copying Slade.”

Blood's eyes narrowed. “You Titans have always been in my way. First my school, then my underwater academy, then the East Tower; damn it, I can't get you away from me!”

“I'll make you a deal,” Raven countered. “You stop breaking the laws and we'll stop kicking your ass!”

“INSOLENT CHILD!!!” Brother Blood screamed. “I'll make you respect me!” With that, the mad professor attacked Raven with a blast of red plasma. The plasma struck the mage in the chest, lifted her off her feet and threw her back into Starfire. Raven touched the Tamaranian's chains and activated the defenses again, throwing the dark mage forward. Brother Blood grinned as he punched Raven in the face, knocking her to the ground.

“Foolish girl…” the madman laughed. “I shall enjoy making you cry.”

Blood raised his right hand, enveloped it in plasma, and threw his fist at Raven's head. The mage turned her head at the last second, so that the plasma fist shattered the ground next to her. Raven raised a leg and sent her foot deep into Blood's stomach.

The former headmaster stumbled backwards. Raven levitated herself off the ground then flew towards the still-open door that led back to the frontal lobe.

The mage hurtled down the corridor, quickly being swallowed up by the darkness within. Behind her, she heard Brother Blood scream in anger as he burst into the stone passageway.

“I'm almost there,” Raven thought frantically as light from the electric discharges in the lobe began filtering down into the corridor. Behind her, Raven could hear scraping noises as Brother Blood chased her down the corridor.

“Almost there, almost there-wait, no!”

The trapdoor slammed shut just as Raven reached the opening. She pounded on the door with her fists before whirling around as Brother Blood seized one of her arms and swung her into the stone walls surrounding them.

The mage gasped as she struck the wall and felt her nose break. The red liquid her attacker was named for began cascading down her face to stain her blue cloak.

Brother Blood snarled and seized her again. The headmaster hurled Raven backwards into the opposite wall. The mage's head snapped against the rock painfully.

Again and again, Blood whipped Raven into the stone walls on either side of the corridor. The mage could feel the bones in her face shatter upon impact. The blood that had started with her nose now covered her face, dripping onto her cloak, staining the blue that it touched into a deep wine color.

The Brother dragged Raven back to the holding room, leaving a trail of blood behind them. Brother Blood snarled as he threw Raven into the room. The dark mage fell next to Jinx, spitting up teeth as she hit the floor.

“I'VE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH!” the deranged headmaster screamed at the mage. “I WANT YOU OUT OF MY STUDENT RIGHT NOW!”

“She's not your student anymore!” Raven cursed, sitting up again. “She can make her own decisions.”

Brother Blood snarled again and blasted Raven into the wall. The dark mage hit the wall hard and slid down it to rest on the floor, shaking her head.

“Ouch…” Raven thought. “I can't go on; it all hurts so much…” Pressing her hand to the back of her head, Raven felt blood spurting from a deep gash in her skull.

Brother Blood cackled in victory as he raised his glowing red hands to Raven's face-

-when the door behind them suddenly burst open. Blood spun to see a brown, green, and black blur tornado into the room. The blur slowed to reveal an emotion that Raven had spoken to earlier riding another emotion around the room.

Vanity leap off of a brown creature's shoulders, calling back over her shoulder; “Thanks Confusion!”

The brown creature continued to stagger drunkenly around the room. “Taz head hurt. Taz dizzy…”

Vanity threw herself at Brother Blood, her hands covered in what looked to Raven to be green, flaming plasma. The emotion struck Blood in the face, knocking him away from Raven and through another wall. From her place chained to the wall, Jinx screamed in agony as she writhed on the floor.

“Don't break anything!” Raven screamed at Vanity. “That'll just fuck her up even more!”

Grinning sheepishly, Vanity turned only to get blasted by Brother Blood. The headmaster stood up and began advancing on Vanity. The green and black emotion raised herself to on knee.

“Come on, old man, show me what you've g-“

“Vanity, HIT THE DECK!”

Neither Raven nor Brother Blood recognized the voice, but Vanity did indeed duck under Blood's red plasma-powered punch and lie on the floor as what seemed to be an absolute hailstorm of blue laser bullets flew through the air and impacted on Brother Blood's chest. The headmaster was thrown back through the hole in Jinx's lobe wall.

The blue haired girl with the metallic clothing stepped through the door to the outside corridor, bringing with her a thin boy with very pale skin, red markings on his face and very pale blue hair. He wore the robes of a Wavemaster, a long-lost sect of mystical spellcasters from a neighboring dimension that had visited Earth during the Renaissance. He carried a quarterstaff with an oversized ankh on one end in one hand, and what appeared to be a rolled-up piece of parchment in the other.

Despair, the gray-hued emotion who called herself Willow, appeared from behind the Wavemaster and hurried over to Raven, helping the mage to her feet.

“Intelligence thought you needed help,” she said, nodding at the Wavemaster. “So we got him and Inspiration and came after you. Looks like he was right.”

Brother Blood was screaming. Vanity had him in a bearhug, leaving him unable to block Inspiration's machine gun blasts. Intelligence raised his left hand, the one with the parchment, and cried; “Rolling Rocks!”

The parchment disappeared in a flash of light, causing a large group of boulders of varying sized to come crashing down onto Brother Blood's head. Vanity used his body to shield hers.

“Uh, guys?” Vanity panted. “Uh, he's kinda breaking loose!”

Inspiration loaded another magazine into the machine gun. “Let us end this now, friends!”

Despair stood and began waving her hands in Brother Blood's direction. “Shultis Hexalon MORTIX!!” she shouted at the headmaster.

Red lightning began shooting up around the headmaster, forcing Vanity to let go. Seeing that Blood would break free, Raven raised herself up and chanted; “Azareth, Metrion, ZINTHOS!!”

Cables encased in Raven's black magic rose out of the floor and wrapped themselves around the headmaster's body.

Raven heard the sound of metal being broken, and turned to see Vanity rip the last of Starfire's restraints apart, freeing her from the wall. The Tamaranian's eyes blazed with righteous fury.

“It is the time in which Brother Blood shall be defeated once and for all!” Starfire proclaimed.

“Um, yeah…what she said.” Vanity muttered, charging up her plasma.

Starfire began creating an enormous Starbolt: one so large that she needed both hands to hold on to it.

Inspiration primed her machine gun and trained it on the headmaster.

Intelligence began swinging his staff in circles. Raven gasped as the ghostly form of the Grim Reaper began to materialize in front of the emotion.

“Brother Blood,” Intelligence said, his high-pitched voice ringing loudly in the still air. “It's time you were evicted.”

“YOU CANNOT STOP YOUR FATE!!” Blood screamed, his eyes darting around wildly. “I'M JUST A PAWN IN HIS PLAN! IF YOU DESTROY ME, IT WILL CONTINUE!!”

“Stop trying to trick us!” Raven yelled, completely fed up with everything. “Do it! Do it now!”

Starfire threw up the huge Starbolt and used her beam eyes to shoot it towards the headmaster.

Vanity blasted her charged up plasma at Blood.

Inspiration opened up with her machine gun as Intelligence stopped twirling his quarterstaff and pointed it directly at Brother Blood. “REPH MORTEN!!”

“NO!!” Brother Blood screamed as the Grim Reaper image shot towards him and connected along with the other attacks. The headmaster continued to scream, even as his body broke up into it's individual molecules and disappeared forever.

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“So…you're not Starfire?” Raven asked.

“Oh no, ally Raven,” `Starfire' said, smiling at the dark mage. “I am Jinx's emotion of Happiness. I was based off of your friend Starfire, but that is all.”

“Well she did a good job on you,” Raven replied. “You look, talk, sound, and act just like Starfire.”

Happiness giggled. “Why thank you ally Raven, Jinx would be most glad to hear that.”

“Where is the little bad luck charm, anyway?” the mage asked.

“I believe that she has gone to the bladder, to free Love, whom Brother Blood trapped in there.”

Raven grimaced. “That's gotta suck.”

Happiness paused in thought. “Um, actually ally Raven, I believe that it would stink more than it would suck.”

Raven shook her head as the door burst open and a small robot with a silver body and large blue eyes ran into the room, looking around crazily.

“Hey everybody! Who wants to watch the Scary Monkey Show??”

“There's no TV underground, stupid.” Vanity snapped at him.

The little robot stared at her before screaming; “IT WAS ME! I WAS THE FAT CHICK HIDING IN THE BUSHES!!!”

As Vanity started throwing plasma at the little robot, Raven turned to Happiness and asked; “What the hell is that?”

Happiness looked down, almost as if she was embarrassed. “Well, shortly after Brother Blood took over Jinx, he,” at this, Happiness gestured to the robot, who was currently pounding his head into the wall and giggling, “appeared. We're not totally sure, but we think that he's a representative of Jinx's insanity.”

Suddenly, the robot ran over to them and grabbed Raven by the front of her cloak. “Who wants to play Smoke the Piggy? Do you? DO YOU!?!?”

“Psychosis, get out!” a yell sounded from the doorway. Jinx, now clothed in a long black dress, stood with her arms crossed over her chest. “Go play on the ribs or something, but leave.”

Immediately the robot's eyes changed from blue to red and he suddenly became completely serious and sane. Leaping to Jinx, he saluted. “Yes, my mistress. I will carry out your commands without any deviating from them.”

As he finished speaking, his eyes changed back to blue. “I'M GONNA GO PLAY WITH MY PIGGY NOW! I'M COMING PIGGY!!!” he screamed as he knocked Jinx to the side and raced down the corridor.

Before Jinx could pick herself up properly, she was knocked over again by something coming from the opposite direction. The something shot into the room, flew in a circle on the ceiling, and finally landed right next to Raven.

The dark mage could only gasp as she was fiercely hugged by herself. “Ravy!” Love yelled as she hugged Raven even tighter, “I knew I'd meet you eventually!”

The dark mage gaped as she watched herself, clad in a magenta-colored cloak, sit down next to her. “Why would Jinx make you Love???”

“Well, “ Jinx said shyly as she sat down next to Happiness. “I always thought you looked like you needed a hug.”

Raven stared at the bad luck charm until she looked away shyly. “Um, okay. Does that mean that you have some deep seated feelings for me or something?”

Jinx muttered, “Maybe…”

Raven shook her head. “I'm sorry, Jinx, but it cannot work, no matter what.”

“Yeah, I know,” Jinx muttered. “You're not a fag and I am, I'm sorry it even came up…”

“No, Jinx,” Raven interrupted, scooting closer to the pink haired witch, neither noticing that Happiness and Love had gotten up and were standing a ways behind them. “I can't be allowed to feel anything. There's a dormant evil that resides in my soul. If I start to feel anything, from love to hate, it can use that emotion to grow stronger, and would take over my body and destroy all that I care about. It's not you, Jinx, it's not you at all.”

Only now that Raven had finished speaking did she realize that Jinx was staring wide-eyed at her, or that her hand had cupped the witches and was caressing the soft skin of her palm. The mage quickly pulled her hand away, but she knew that the damage had been done.

Raven stood up. “I really should go. We could talk more on the outside.”

Jinx nodded, standing as well.

“Hey,” Raven said, “I have a question. Who's she supposed to be?” The mage pointed at Despair, who was sitting along in a corner staring at her hands. “She said her name was Willow, but emotions don't give themselves actual names.”

“She's not an ordinary emotion.” Jinx replied. “In life, she was my half-sister, Willow. She was a witch, a real one, not a bad luck charm like me. She hung out with this generations' Vampire Slayer, they were friends.” Jinx's eyes began to grow misty as she looked at the emotion. “She died fighting someone she once trusted; one of the vampires named Angel, he-“

“Angelus??” Raven interrupted, staring at Jinx. “She fought Angelus???”

“Yeah, I think that was his full name.” Jinx nodded. “Anyway, she's the one who took care of me when I arrived in the United States from India. When she died, I didn't know what to do, so I channeled her spirit and brought her into me, because I didn't know what to do without her. About a year later, Brother Blood found me, put me under his spell, and brought me to the HIVE. I've been there ever since.”

The pair stood together for a moment, not really looking at anything, before Raven spoke up. “Um, I really should get going.”

Jinx nodded. Raven closed her eyes and was beginning to chant when she felt a small hand clasp her shoulder. She opened her eyes to see Jinx smiling at her.

“See you soon,” the pink-haired witch said before letting go and stepping backwards a few paces.

The dark mage let a very small grin escape her lips before closing her eyes again and concentrating. “Azareth, Metrion, Zinthos… Azareth, Metrion, Zinthos…”

Raven felt herself lift from Jinx's subconscious and begin the journey back to her own body.

To Be Concluded…

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Author's Note: Thanks for reading this far. This is chapter four out of five for the prologue (yes, SIU is just the PROLOGUE for Symphony Of The Darkness (SOTD)) This part of the story ends next chapter, before I begin SOTD fully.

Unanswered Questions: What did Brother Blood mean when he said that he (Blood) was just a pawn? Who was Brother Blood working for? Was it Slade? Or perhaps a new enemy? Will Raven ever be able to feel? Will Jinx's feelings ever be returned by Raven? What the hell have the other Titans been doing all this time? Will anyone ever be able to defeat Albert Wesker's AWESOME hair? What the fuck happened to Rebecca after Resident Evil 1? Will Ozzy Osborne ever put out an album that could rival No More Tears? Will Ozzy ever put out another album period? Will Invader ZIM ever get put back on the air? Who the hell did Diamond Rio mean when they wrote `You're Gone'? All these questions and more will be answered (maybe) in the next exciting episode of “Teen Titans: Shadows Inside Us”.

Also, here's a list of Jinx's emotions, just in case you missed one during the last two chapters:

Vanity = Shego (Kim Possible)

Curiosity = Dr. Drakken/Drew Lipsky (Kim Possible)

Silliness = Yakko, Wakko, and Dot (Animaniacs)

Despair = Willow (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)

Inspiration = Vela (Jet Force Gemini)

Intelligence = Elk (.hack//Infection, Mutation, Outbreak, and Quarantine)

Happiness = Starfire

Love = Raven

Insanity = GIR (Invader ZIM)

Finally, many of you have sent me emails with questions about the story. Here's a thought, please leave these questions in REVIEWS!!!