Chapter 5 - Teen Titans: Christmas Special

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
Titans Tower
8:15 am
Raven's eyes open and her pupils dilate from demonic snake-like slits to round human circles. She is floating above her bed and slowly lowers down before sitting up and floating toward the door. The tower is cold and she can feel how empty it is. Raven travels out from the hall down into the large living room/kitchen area. Cyborg needed to go see his father at STAR Labs, Robin went to Gotham and Beast Boy and Starfire planned a huge Christmas celebration with the Titans East. being half-demon meant that celebrating the birth of Christ was sort of...painful. Literally. Or so she claimed, the truth was that she just wanted to be alone and so she lied to her friends and even yelled at them saying her only Christmas wish was to be left alone.

She made herself some hot chocolate and lowered her hood. It was nice to finally be alone and have the peace and quiet she always asked for. But nothing is ever what it seems and it was not long before she found herself feeling slightly insulted that no one said goodbye. Knowing that they were all leaving and where they were going didn't change how she felt. No one knocked on her door or activated her comms device. Though, it made sense...She specifically told them not to, but why did they actually listen? They never listen. And she secretly enjoyed their attempts at trying to connect with her. Raven's not allowed to let her emotions run free, and not because happiness or joy were a problem, but because of the darker emotions tied to them. If she giggled because her marshmallows were yummy, she'd find herself becoming angry if there weren't any.Feelings like anger were deadly.

Her powers could explode, if left unchecked and kill everyone. It felt like living in a separate body from her body. She had to enjoy things from afar. The Titans' optimism was one of those things. It was under this context that she found herself lurking around the tower with her mug. She went to Robin's room, and felt his mask. The smell of his testosterone in his sweat, mixed with his cologne was sweet. He smiled like cherry sherbert or maybe some kind of East coast Gellato. Then she traveled to Starfire's room. Starfire had recently had sex with Robin in the tower. It was loud and Raven could not help but to watch. Starfire was far too open to have a voyeurism fetish, because to be a voyeur, one has to be aware of societal norms. Star doesn't feel a difference having loud public sex or doing it alone. Raven, on the other hand never knew what "normal" was and always watched people do everything. Books don't teach everything and she couldn't----

Her thoughts were dispersed by the sound of the T-car downstairs. She opened a portal to the garage and appeared in the doorway above the stairs. Strange. The lights were off, and the car was gone. There was no way she missed it. The tower grew even colder, Raven felt very strange and could see her breath. Someone was in the tower, she could feel them. It didn't feel like an evil presence, nor did it feel mischievous, so she didn't press the lockdown switch.

"W-Who's there?!" Raven's eyes began to glow with the black energy that typically erupts from within her.

"Me." Arella was standing behind Raven in the hall.

"Mother!" Raven hugged Arella and then looked confused. "But why are you here? Is...Oh no! Azarath! Has father...?"

"No. Home is safe for now. Well, as safe as it can be. It was you who restored it, daughter." Arella smiled. "But that is why I am here. You have lied to your friends, suppressed too many positive emotions and broken connections with them one too many times. Each of them thought to leave you to your own devices, and because their energy is no longer with you, the magical protection it created is gone. Forces of the AEther will likely come for you. Forces that Robin protected you from, forces that Starfire protected you from, forces that Beast Boy protected you from."

"What about Cyborg?" Raven, still confused was starting to understand.

"Being the oldest of the group, he has understood you on a level better...well...different... than any of the others. Last year he bought you that bookcase if you remember?" Arella put her hand on Raven's face.

"Yes, mother, I remember." Raven smiled.

"That understanding is what summoned me. His sadness with your continual rejection of the holidays and of the team caused your psychic tether to snap. I felt this and had to come immediately to warn you of what awaits."

"Then I will fix things now. Why wait for any demons or spirits to attack me? I'll go make amends with my team immediately!" Raven was determined to right her wrongs.

"You know better than anyone, child, that there are forces at play that need to play out in full. You may understand your mistake, but you still need to face the consequences of snapping all of the psychic tethers of your closest friends. This is not something that you want to keep doing. Either choose to have no friends in your life and never do this again, or be very careful of how you treat those who actually care for you."

"What will these forces want?" Raven asked.

"Each manifestation's presence will cause you to subconsciously reconstruct your psychic tether. If you were to go find your friends without facing these forces, your bonds would not form correctly and that would create a very dark scenario for you and for them."

With that Arella disappeared into a blinding flash of white light.

Raven looked back at the garage and could remember herself standing beside Cyborg, helping to fix the T-car. She explained that he put a bit of his soul in each piece of tech that made the car run, and she could relate because she did the same with her spells. The connection they had summoned her mother of all people. Raven could only wonder who the others would summon.

-Noon-

Raven had prepared tons of magic spells. Her room now looked like an old library with the amount of texts she had opened and the countless spells she had ready for whomever would come her way. But she didn't quite understand how the psychic tethers worked. They were formed by the bonds of friendship and therefore, the enemies of those friendships or the friendships formed by them equally had a chance of appearing. It was entirely random and up to the will of the universe. Unfortunately for Raven, the next being to visit her was a spirit and so all of her spells and all of her planning could do nothing to truly keep her safe.

"It is time, child." A familiar voice taunted. Raven couldn't quite remember who it was, but remembered that the voice was one that was also in her darkest nightmares. Her cloak instantly caught fire and she had to take it off. Next, an unseen force ripped at her sleeves and cuffs. Something pushed her over and burning arms came up from the ground and held her down.

"Azarath Metrio-----!!!" Before she could finish her famous incantation, her mouth was covered by one of the hands. And her back was slashed by the unseen force. The way her clothes were ripped was familiar, she knew who was appearing.

"Say my name, child." Slade's voice echoed through the room. The arms hold her down got tighter and forced her head to look toward the center of the room. A screaming skeleton appeared in the middle of the room. Pieces of sinew, veins and skin began to form around the bones and the old rotten flesh bled a black substance. The black liquid began to take form over the screaming corpse as shredded and burned clothing. In the skull, only one eye formed before meat and sinew filled the rest of the hole. Finally, the mask formed. She refused to say the name and the arms separated her legs while hugging her to the floor.

"I can not hurt you. My master will not allow it. But the connection you had with Robin had been keeping me away. Your psychic bond was built upon friendship, understanding and also a complete hatred of me. It made my spirit unable to attack you again. But your past has a way of coming back to you....Doesn't it Raven?"

The hands on the ground began finger fucking her. No time was wasted and there were fingers in her pussy and up her ass. It was forceful, but gentle enough to be considered pleasurable. Slade was bound by unearthly rules to be unable of hurting her. So he knew the only way to get around it was to pleasure her in a way she wouldn't want.

Her eyes began to glow white and she tried her hardest to pull away from the hands, but Slade slowly walked over. He unzipped his pants revealing a rotten, smelly cock missing tendons. One his balls was completely missing, with ripped meat and hanging veins in it's place. He began to masturbate inches away from her face. The fingers in her pussy molded together and became a fist, fisting her. The fingers in her ass became a long tentacle-like tongue. Her body was wet, but she would not let herself feel anything positive from it.

"All you have to do is say my name. Remember your past. Remember who I am and what I've done to you and the other Titans. Say my name and this will all end."

She remembered Trigon's attempts to destroy the world through Slade. She remembered the pain he caused Beast Boy with Terra and how he obsessed over Robin. It wasn't that she could not name him, it was that they had all sworn never to invoke him ever again. That by even saying his name, it meant he had an impact on their lives. They had all agreed that the best way to truly move on was to move past his reach. To outgrow his crimes and heal from his scars. She refused to be a victim.

And because of her stubbornness, he came on her face. A vile explosion of puss, cum, maggots, and blood. She screamed, but her mouth was muffled by one of the hands from hell. Her emotions were suddenly went out of wack and she could no longer control herself. The fist pumping activated her G spot and the tentacle in her ass was the coup de gras that made her not only cum but hit orgasms. The black spiritual energy whipped around her like a chain and all of the hands exploded.

"SLAAAAAAADEEEEE!!!!!!" She screamed in frustration, but her voice was like some powerful Thu'um and sent Slade flying across the room and into the corner where the wall met the ceiling.

"You will never escape your past. It has made you who you are in your present and shapes your future!" Slade cryptically laughed before the hands from hell dragged him through the wall and out of the Earth realm.

Raven was left covered in sweat. Slade's ejaculation was gone as if it was never there. The torture wasn't about actually doing anything to her, he knew the idea of it was enough to make her feel dirty and violated.

-5pm-

Since protection spells and prepared text did nothing to keep her safe from the last manifestation, Raven did nothing but wait for the next. She only washed up and changed clothes and then sat in the living room and meditated. And as the clock hit 5pm, a black portal appeared in the middle of the room. Raven expected monsters, demons or more enemies but instead....she stepped out! Raven..except small and entirely enveloped in her hoodie. It looked like some kind of cartoon version of herself.

"Oh great. It's you." The strange cartoon Raven said.

"Are you supposed to be me?" Raven asked.

"Something like that. Look, there must be some kind of time/space distortion brought on by you ditching your friends on Christmas and breaking your psychic tethers." She said.

"How did you know that?" Raven once again asked, confused.

"Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Hey....Does that say "Raven once again asked?" Look, this is going to get confusing. For the sake of the readers let's call me 'Raven Go!' Or Lady Legasus. In fact, don't choose. Just go with Legasus." Lady Legasus said, yelling into thin air.

"Who are you talking to?" Raven asked. "What do you want?"

"To go home and sip a latte." Lady Legasus said, eyes half closed.

"Are you joking...? At a time like this? Today is not the day, what punishment do you want to put me through? Can you just do what you've gotta do and leave?!"

"Raven, I'm not hear to punish you. Even though we look different and I might have one too many jokes or silly segments, I represent you. I am going through the exact same thing, albeit in a more G-rated iteration, but it's the same scenario. So if your experience was anything even loosely similar to mine, the last person that appeared kept talking about the past, right? So let's go visit the others now..in the present." Lady Legasus stood beside Raven and appeared to be genuine.

"Fine. We should probably go in astral form so that we don't cause an even crazier situation to happen." Raven suggested.

"I was going to say the same thing." Lady Legasus smiled.

And so they went back to Raven's room and began chanting the all too familiar mantra, before going into their astral forms. They decided to check on Cyborg first, since he was the closest. He and his dad were having Christmas Eve dinner. Cyborg never really talked a lot about his family or his former life. It was like he wasn't able to cope with what happened to him and so putting everything he had into being a Teen Titan was his way of overcoming the loss of his physical form. But seeing him so happy with his father meant that he was getting over his past.

"Slade was wrong. I CAN escape my past. Trigon doesn't control me and I am not Slade's victim. Good things and bad things happen in our lives and it's up to ME how I face them. I could cower away from what I've done, or be willing to start fresh and new and not worry about what could have been." Raven felt very hopeful.

"And you won't have to worry because that new fresh start will keep your hands full and mean brand new options and clear possibilities for us....er...well...You, I mean." Lady Legasus looked away blushing.

"Hey, let's go check out how the others are doing." Raven began flying out of the complex. Lady Legasus followed and they flew to Titans Tower East where Starfire, Beast Boy, Mas y Menos and Speedy. Aqualad and Bumblebee were with their families. As Raven and Lady Legasus dropped through the rooftops and into the room, Beast Boy was giving a speech.

"Right? So before I go on too long, I just wanted to say that it's good to know that some people know who they really are. We're not just a network of random heroes, we're all family. At times like this, we become part of the whole of what we have. And if some people would rather pretend to be ungrateful, than trade a small token of appreciation, than I hope they have fun alone. But me? I love you guys. Cheers, you guys!!" Beast Boy shouted holding up his glass. The others raised their glasses, shouting cheers back before drinking.

"So if Cyborg must have summoned mother and Robin unwittingly summoned Slade, Beast Boy must have summoned.." Raven began.

"Me." Lady Legasus put her head down, depressed. "Beast Boy is right. I never should have ditched them. Gifts I don't necessarily want and bad music is not such a punishment afterall. I should have learned to embrace the meaning behind the holiday instead of pushing everyone away. Err...Sorry Raven, this was supposed to be your time to shine."

"Hey, it's okay..." Raven put her hand on Lady Legasus' astral shoulder, "..You're going through the same thing in your timeline, right? We're both learning. Which is why the universe picked you. And since we both just learned our lesson, that means you get to go home and I know now what's waiting for me."

They opened their eyes and warped back to the west coast tower, back to their bodies.

"What did you mean what's waiting for you?" Lady Legasus asked, as she began to fade away.

"I've faced what I did. Which stems from always running from my PAST. How I don't need to run to truly escape it in my PRESENT. And now I will be shown the darkness that awaits in my FUTURE, if I continue to act like this. I get it." Raven saluted her alternative self. Lady Legasus gave a thumbs up and disappeared back to her world.

-10pm-

Raven was in bed by the time the room began to shake. Argent and Jinx were at the foot of her bed fighting. Raven looked at them, but then rolled back over. She closed her eyes, but then jumped up immediately.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!!!" Raven shouted, enveloping both Argent and Jinx. "What are you two doing here?!"

"That's a good question, isn't it Jinx!?" Argent asked, folding her arms.

"Yes, because that's the one thing a fugitive wants, it to be teleported to a vigilante's house. Look, Raven, let me go! I was minding my own business. I didn't hurt anyone and I was just teleported here."

Raven dropped her hands and her eyes stopped glowing. Argent and Jinx both fell out of the air and then looked up to Raven for more answers. Raven, however, walked toward her window and did something she hadn't done in a long time, she pulled back the shades. Of course it was night time and so only moon light shone into the room, but it was still strange. Even for Argent and Jinx whom had never been there before.

"Is everything okay?" Argent asked.

"You are both my future. Argent, you represent someone of whom I will likely have many adventures with. And Jinx, you are a villain that I will have to stop again and again." Raven sounded almost sad to say those words. Jinx and Argent looked at each other. "I could take you in, Jinx. Argent and I would look like heroes." 

"Were it so easy, Titan!!" Jinx said, jumping up, her hands beginning to glow with hexing power.

"Or...I could let her go, and you would be mad at me, Argent." Raven didn't look at Argent, but Argent nodded and folded her arms again. "...but there's a third option. If today has taught me anything. It's about being true to myself and how I feel and not about being who anyone else wants me to be or holding myself back. I need to just be who I am."

With that, Raven used her powers to rip off Jinx and Argent's clothing. She lifted them and put them on her bed. Her eyes began to glow red and she shot up in height, lifted by the shadows from underneath her cloak.

"I have long craved the two of you." Raven's voice sounded distorted and evil. But it wasn't the evil taking control, it was simply Raven allowing herself an outburst of emotion. Trigon having been defeated not all that long ago, there was no risk of Raven bringing on the apocalypse. "This is my Christmas gift: the two of you."

Raven's tentacles were writhing under her cloak and then suddenly shot out into them. They were, of course scared, and both tried to get away, but were pulled back by Raven. Soon, they stopped fighting and decided that since Raven wasn't killing them, they'd go along with it. As they both had secret feelings for Raven as well. Had they not been heroes and villains, these three characters would be friends. They admire each other's styles and like the same things. It was another set of connections and psychic tethers that could have been formed in another place and another time.

Jinx ate Argent out as Raven formed a penis out of her dark energy and began fucking them. She would go faster and harder until another row of red eyes appeared on her head, at which point, she'd force them into another position to make the eyes disappear. So as not to go into a full demon mode.

"Oooohh, Raven, fuck me...fuck me.." Argent was shouting, by the end. Raven's tentacles had fully blanketed them. Their nipples were being rubbed, their breasts fully grabbed, their legs held open. Tentacles were wrapped around and down Jinx's throat. There were even tentacles going into her ears, skull fucking her. Raven fully explored their bodies until they disappeared. The universe was satisfied with Raven and she had reconstructed the psychic tethers to her friends. It was time to make amends...

Thursday, December 25th, 2014
Titans Tower East
9:30 am

Cyborg woke up beside his dad. They were clearly not at S.T.A.R. Labs anymore. They were in some kind of guest room. As they walked out into the hall, they ran into the titans east, Starfire and Beast Boy. Cyborg and the others were worried that there might be villains that teleported them there. And were worried when they saw Jinx walk into the hallway, but Argent was right behind. They explained that a pleasant surprise was awaiting them.

When they walked out into the main room, they found tons of presents around the tree and Raven was in the kitchen cooking pancakes, with Arella, for everyone.

"Don't worry. I've also invited Bumblebee, Aqualad, Robin and anyone else who wanted to spread some cheer. I get it now. The holiday isn't about dumb music and brightly colored gimmicks. It's about staying true to yourself and your friends and whomever you consider family. I don't have to pretend to be a saint, but also don't have to run from my half-demon side. I am who I am, and if you guys are proud of and respect that person, then I need to respect you guys!! Merry Christmas!!"

"Oh, Raven, My Glorthubs are pulsating with Tamaranian schlubulant!!"

"(Star...Ew...) Oh Raven!! I'm so happy you came!!" Beast Boy shouted.

Cyborg gave a nod to Raven from across the room. She nodded back, smiled, pressed her lips together and tossed him an upside down gangsta peace sign. He simply shook his head and mouthed "fucking stupid". They both laughed.

~Happy Holidays~