Teen Titans Fan Fiction ❯ Realm Quest ❯ Chp. 5 Relations ( Chapter 5 )

Chp. 5 Relations

 

 

Raven and Charlene stared off for the longest of times. Mentally sizing each other up, trying to predict the others first move. While on the sidelines Uncle Cyrus was silently, laughing hysterically. A scary sight indeed.

 

 

“Cyborg, switch spots with me.” Beastboy, who sat closest to the off balance demon, pleaded.

 

 

 

“Nah. I'm good.” Cyborg answered quickly not bothering to look in the changeling's direction.

 

 

 

“He's freaking me out, dude.” He whispered frantically.

 

 

 

“Oh it's only just begun, little mutant.” Uncle Cyrus whispered from his new position on side of Beastboy.

 

 

 

“I am not a mutant!” Beastboy snapped as he got angry.

 

 

 

“You are whatever the hell I say you are! Got it, mutant?” with a monotone expression, Uncle Cyrus looked at him with a look that promised pain.

 

 

 

“Yes sir.” Beastboy answered shakily.

 

 

 

“GOOD! Now shut it, mutant, AND WATCH THE SHOW!” going back to his chair, Uncle Cyrus watched the two girls giddily.

 

 

 

“Beastboy?” Starfire called out timidly, as they stared worriedly at the pale, rigid Beastboy.

 

 

 

“Hold me, Star.” Was his weak reply as he collapsed into Starfire's embrace, where he immediately began to rock.

 

 

 

“Uh…BB?” Robin said reaching out a hand.

 

 

 

“No,” Cyborg said with a shake of his head as he put Robin's arm down, “there's nothing you can do for him now.”

 

 

 

“Hey!” Uncle Cyrus called out, making Beastboy flinch as the rest turned his way. Without taking his eyes off the girls in front of him, Uncle Cyrus smiled wickedly. “Want to see something cool?”

 

 

 

“NO!” all three replied instantly.

 

 

 

“Too bad freaks, I do.” Holding his hand out, which was glowing red, he blew his power out over the field where the girls were currently standing. The red haze settled over the girls and they immediately began to act strange. They seemed to be trying to fight something as they body went under violent convulsions.

 

 

 

 

“What are you doing to them?” Cyborg yelled as the girls were completely hidden by Uncle Cyrus's power.

 

 

 

 

“Shhh!” Cyrus told him. “Keep your tone down, and don't make any sudden moves.”

 

 

 

 

“What did you do?” Robin whispered fearfully.

 

 

 

 

While keeping his head turned towards the girls, Uncle Cyrus grinned widely and cut his eyes at them.

 

 

 

From where they sat, the titans could hear activity from the battleground.

 

 

 

“Oops!” Uncle Cyrus laughed suddenly. Standing up, he hoisted his chair onto his back and walked away. He didn't stop until he was a few yards away. There he put his chair down and sat back in it, smiling broadly.

 

 

 

 

The titans didn't spare a second thought before getting up and following suit.

 

 

 

 

“You learn quick!” Uncle Cyrus laughed, as he held his hand out towards the field. With a series of wiping motions, he banished the red haze, giving the titans a full view of what had taken place, and with a start, they gasped in fright. For all they could see, Raven and Charlene were gone, replaced by two monsters, sexy looking monsters, but monsters none the less.

 

 

Replacing Charlene was a bulky, golden scaled, humanoid, with Charlene's face. Her face was covered in scales, her eyes glowed golden, and her mouth was riddled with sharp, white teeth, and as she opened it and hissed, they could see a pink, forked tongue. Her nose was reduced to nothing but two slits. Her ears were fin like, resting just under the horns protruding from her head. Along her back, in between the powerful, yet thin wings, golden brown spines ran from the top of her head to the tip of her tail. Her obvious dragon feet, were huge and she stood on the balls of her clawed toes. Her armor was gone, and since they couldn't see it any where, they assumed it had become part of her.

 

 

“Charlene?” Cyborg called out uncertainly.

 

 

 

“No, no, no, no! Don't do that.” Uncle Cyrus whispered urgently, smiling nonetheless, as he appeared behind Cyborg and threw a hand over his mouth. “Don't draw attention.”

 

 

 

“But…”

 

 

 

 

“Shhh! Raven's smiling.” Uncle Cyrus warned him, looking out at the battlefield.

 

 

 

The titans hushed. In there shock of seeing Charlene, they had forgotten about Raven, but now as her name was mentioned, and smiling, they slowly turned there attention to the other occupant of the field.

 

 

 

She was older. That, they noticed off back. Older and taller with long flowing beautiful violet hair that fell to her lower back. Her body had bulked out with body builder like muscles, but it didn't take away from her femininity like most female body builders. Her skin had become a shiny scarlet, although all four of her eyes shown darker with an obvious blood lust. Smiling she showed them a perfect set of sparkly white, and extremely razor-sharp, fangs. Opening her mouth she licked them ominously with her black tongue. Her longs legs and feet were bare, and she wore a black, two piece loin cloth like clothes. Ones like they had seen on her father.

 

 

“Oh my God!” Robin breathed out unbelievably.

 

 

 

“Dude their hot!” Beastboy blurted out with a smile as he came out of his stupor, but retreated right back into when everyone, including Charlene and Raven, turned angry gazes onto him.

 

 

 

“I'm not above eating Raven's friends.” Uncle Cyrus threatened with a sadistic smile.

 

 

 

The two combatants forgot each other for the moment as they eyed the potential prey, but as they both took steps towards it; they caught sight of the other. Charlene snarled, Raven smiled viciously and they both faced off once again.

 

 

 

 

“Start already!” Uncle Cyrus yelled from the sidelines and with a snarl and a growl they charged each other.

 

 

 

A stalemate.

 

 

They met each other in the middle, strength for strength, toe to toe, claw to whatever you would call Raven's deformed hand now. The two attempted to overpower each other, but in this fashion, they were equally fitted.

 

 

Snarling, Charlene stopped pushing and fell into Raven's embrace, where she could better access to her shoulder.

 

 

 

For what she was worth, Raven didn't scream, growl, or give off any reaction when Charlene bit her, trying to dislodge a chunk a flesh in the process, but she did grimace.

 

 

Flexing the muscles in her shoulder, she would have broken Charlene's jaw if not the dragon had released her in time. Ignoring the wound in her shoulder, Raven slammed her hand onto Charlene's neck with such force that the Dragon princess rose into the air.

 

 

 

Grabbing the base of her tail, Raven hoisted Charlene high into the air and brought her back crashing down on her knee. Charlene did scream, or roared if you want to be technical.

 

 

Raven never stopped smiling, making the resemblance between her and Cyrus stand out more obliviously, and she didn't even stop when Charlene's tailed cut off her wind pipe, but she did stop when she ate dirt.

 

 

 

Growling in irritation, Raven pushed herself up from where Charlene had thrown her and opened her eyes wide as they dilated from the sudden light. The light being, the rush of fire that was suddenly heading her way.

 

 

She growled to herself before it consumed her.

 

 

 

The titans stared in horror as their friend was annihilated by the flames.

 

 

 

She was gone. Nothing remained but the flames that had taken her away, that was steadily spreading across the dry grass of the field, the flames that were feeding off her flesh.

 

 

They seemed to be staring into the pits of hell themselves. Fire everywhere. Bright, hot, tall, pillars of red, orange and yellow. And flying above the pits flew a hell spawn.

 

 

They were frozen.

 

 

 

They couldn't scream her name, they never would again.

 

 

 

They couldn't breathe; their ability to take breaths vanished the moment she disappeared.

 

 

 

Their hearts stopped beating; if she died she was taking them all with her.

 

 

 

They heard a snicker, and with haunted eyes they turned to look at Uncle Cyrus. And was startled to find the devil himself sitting next to them.

 

 

 

Cyrus sat on the edge of his seat, watching the scene intently. His mouth was parted wide with his sadistic smile, showing them his sparkly white fangs. His hands gripped his seat with a ferocious intensity that cracked the wood beneath his fingers. The glow from the fire was giving him a devilish sheen and his hair and clothes billowed in the waves of heat the fire emitted.

 

 

Feeling their gazes on him, Cyrus slowly turned their way, and if they hadn't of already been frozen in horror, they would have been by the look he gaze them.

 

 

 

It was a look of plain, sadistic, pleasure. That…and his eyes. They were glowing an ominous yellow.

 

 

 

The titans weren't sure how long Cyrus held their gaze. What they knew was that the man was still crazy as ever.

 

 

 

Why did they come to this conclusion again, you ask? Because as they stared at him a song played in their heads.

 

 

 

`I've been alone with you inside my mind

 

 

And in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times

 

 

I sometimes see you pass outside my door

 

 

Hello, is it me you're looking for?'

 

 

 

Not giving him a reaction, besides a hollow eyed stare, they, including Cyrus, turned back towards the pits of hell. AKA the battlefield.

 

 

 

Charlene flew overhead with her nose in the flames. She could smell the burnt flesh, she could smell the burnt hair, but she didn't smell bone. The smell of bone should have filled her nostrils, but it never did.

 

 

 

Unless.

 

 

 

 

Unless, the fire disintegrated them. Yes, that must be it. Why else wouldn't she smell them?

 

 

 

 

There weren't any.

 

 

 

 

She had won, now it was time to eat those nosy creatures on the sideline.

 

 

 

 

 

She hitched her wings to fly towards the group when something caught her eye. A disturbance below. The bitch wouldn't die.

 

 

 

 

She readied another breath of fire. This one would do the trick. This one would be hotter. This one would be bigger.

 

 

 

 

This time she would win. This time she'd hear her scream. This time she would smell bone. This time she would smell death.

 

 

 

She blasted the fatal flame down towards the ground, where it joined with the other flames.

 

 

 

That was enough.

 

 

 

The flames suddenly turned black and died out, revealing a blackened skin Raven, smiling up at Charlene and smoking. “Was it good for you?” Raven asked in a voice that struck lust desire and arousal in those all those around yet it also filled them with terror and foreboding.

 

 

 

Charlene growled in rage and began a rapid 90º dive towards her opponent. Raven stood there and waited. Waited with a smile. Charlene was thinking with her head, but Raven was thinking with her brain.

 

 

There it was, the moment she had been waiting for. Charlene was in the right position.

 

 

Jumping into the air, Raven delivered an uppercut to Charlene's chin, which sent the dragon princess spiraling out of control back into the air.

 

 

Settling back onto the ground, Raven turned her head to look at the group and winked at them before her body crumbled to the ground as her soul self left it. Turning into the familiar bird her friends were use to seeing, it flew off into the air.

 

 

By the time Charlene had gotten back into control of her body, it was too late to fend off the soul raven and she was shrouded in darkness as the raven consumed her and they disappeared from sight.

 

 

In the shadow realm, or Raven's mind, or wherever the hell they were, Charlene was getting the living hell beat out of her.

 

 

 

Everywhere she looked was darkness. The darkness was Raven. It beat, clawed, bit, and whipped her. The darkness was vast yet minuscule at the same time.

 

 

 

Four red eyes gleamed at her from every which way she looked, yet she could never see it directly, always from the corner of her eye.

 

 

 

She was burning up hot, yet cold to the bone.

 

 

 

The most malevolent, horrid things flashed before her eyes, in her head, all around her. She couldn't shut them out.

 

 

 

She felt something, somethings, someone, watching her, yet she saw nothing. She felt the presence of thousands of others, yet she was alone.

 

 

 

The silence was deafening yet it screamed at her. And she knew that if she had not been in her dragon form, she would have gone insane…would have split her head from the intensity. Yet she still was in no good shape.

 

 

 

Laughter. Something was laughing at her.

 

 

 

She couldn't take it anymore, she wanted out. She screamed, she roared, she rampaged, she lost control, yet the laughter continued on and she was no closer to being free of the evil abyss.

 

 

She felt herself losing consciousness, but she couldn't escape even to that. That dark wouldn't let her pass out, it wouldn't let her go. She was trapped forever.

 

 

 

Forever!

 

 

 

There was no escape!

 

 

 

Just as she felt her mind caving in, the darkness let up and she found herself in the clearing once again, on the ground in the feeble position and rocking.

 

 

 

Raven stood over her smiling, and she cringed. She was the one to put her into that hell. That hell she would never enter again.

 

 

 

She was beaten and Raven knew it. She would be no more of a problem. So she faced the group…now they would be fun to play with. She licked her lips in anticipation.

 

 

Charlene was finally relieved to see the demon walk away and towards the onlookers. Good, let her eat them and leave her alone. She didn't know them so it was no big deal to her. But then she looked their way and saw a big humanoid rock man, and her heart soared.

 

 

Cyborg.

 

 

She remembered now, she had picked the fight with that demon because she wanted her Cyborg. And still wanted him apparently. She stopped shaking at the thought. That demon wanted her Cyborg. She wanted to eat, send him to that hell she just escaped, or worse…have sex with him.

 

 

 

She wouldn't allow it. She wanted to marry that rock and she couldn't do it while he was in the demon's belly or in the black hell, or even…

 

 

 

 

“NOOOOOOOOOO!” Charlene screamed in rage and she shifted into a dragon once more and charged the demon that wanted her fiancée.

 

 

 

 

Raven froze and looked up as a dragon's head appeared over her with it maw opened wide ready to bite off her head. She smiled as her tendrils of darkness erupted around her body, ready to pierce the dragon through the heart, head, and abdomen.

 

 

 

“Enough!” Cyrus called out as he forced the two combatants apart with his power.

 

 

 

As the two floated in his red haze, they returned to their teenage forms and yelled at him at the same time.

 

 

 

“But Uncle Cyrus/But Grandpa…she started it.” After hearing the other, both girls' eyes widened as what they said sunk in.

 

 

 

 

“Uh Oh, the cat's out of the bag!” Uncle Cyrus yelled with a laugh as he bounded over to the girls.

 

 

 

 

“What going on grandpa?” Charlene asked in a wavering voice.

 

 

 

 

“What did she mean by `grandpa'?” Raven asked with a little more control.

 

 

 

 

“EXACTLY WHAT YOU THINK!” Cyrus yelled as he grabbed each of their heads with one hand and bonked them together…hard. “YOU'RE COUSINS! 2nd cousins, but cousins nonetheless. IT'S AN UNOFFICIAL FAMILY REUNION!”

 

 

 

 

“Dude…” Beastboy said to his companions. “…this thing just keeps getting weirder and weirder.”

 

 

 

 

“You're right about that, you mutant freak!” Uncle Cyrus commented from behind Beastboy, making the poor changeling jump at his sudden appearance.

 

 

 

 

“Now…MY KIN…come on over so good Ol' Cyrus can explain the family connection!” waving his hands flamboyantly, Cyrus floated his kin over to where the titans were before setting them down gently, or just letting the fall whatever you want to call it.

 

 

 

“NOW LISTEN, because I'm only going to say it over and over again until you get it. Now my dear, sweet, niece with the bad complexion. Do you remember those long years ago when I accident blew up a cauldron, creating an unknown portal that I was going to fling you into so I could see if it was dangerous or not?”

 

 

 

“You have to be more specific, that happened 12 times.” Raven answered in her monotone voice.

 

 

 

 

“He slings you too? I thought I was the only one!” Charlene gasped in wonder.

 

 

 

 

Uncle Cyrus suddenly pulled a gun from his pocket and shot Charlene in the knee.

 

 

 

“What did I tell you about interrupting?” Cyrus scolded over her screams as he put the gun away, ignoring the horrified looks the titan gave him.

 

 

 

“WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU NEVER TOLD ME ANYTHING!” Charlene yelled as she cried, screamed, roared, cradled her knee, and rolled on the ground in pain all at once.

 

 

 

“Really? Are you sure I haven't told you anything?”

 

 

 

 

“YES! ESPECIALLY IF I KNEW I WAS GOING TO GET SHOT…I hate you so much sometimes!”

 

 

 

 

“Oh…well here's your first lesson…never interrupt grandpa or he will shoot you. Got it?”

 

 

 

 

“YES, damn you, yes!”

 

 

 

 

“Right. So where was I…oh yes…do you remember the time it happened and my daughter tried to stop me!”

 

 

 

 

“Yes, Jasine tried to stop you and you shot her and then sent her into the portal yourself, before sending me into the one you created later…you know the one…with the carnivorous grass and trees, and the 14 feet tall rabbits…which were also carnivorous.”

 

 

 

“Yeah, that was funny.” Uncle Cyrus sighed in happy remembrance. “But that's getting off the subject. That portal I sent my only legitimate child into just so happened to be this one. I grounded her here for 8 years, where she met and fell in love with the dragon king, AND GOT BUSY, and had my dear, sweet, RUDE, grandbaby who is currently rolling on the ground in pain…AND THAT'S HOW YOU'RE RELATED! Good times.”

 

 

 

Raven didn't say anything as she studied Charlene's face more closely finally noticing the resemblance.

 

 

 

“Okay…now that the fun's over, I'm going to leave you freaks, mutants, and hybrids alone so that you can finish your quest and provide me with one hell of a video. Ciou!” he saluted before disappearing in a spinning vortex, leaving only his laughter behind.

 

 

 

Sighing, Raven kneeled down next to Charlene, who had stopped screaming and rocking and was just merely sitting and sniffling. “Here.” Raven offered as she pushed Charlene hands away and healed her knee.

 

 

 

Surveying her knee, Charlene offered Raven a weak smile. “Thanks…cuz.”

 

 

 

Raven gave her a small smile in return.

 

 

 

“You know…just because we're kin, doesn't mean you can have my man.”