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Scarlet Embrace	By : Darkmoon01 Category: DC Verse Cartoons - Teen Titans > Het- Male/Female > Raven/Robin Views: 10536 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
- 1-Scarlet Embrace
- 2-Requiem of Shadow
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Disclaimer: I don’t own or claim any rights to Teen Titans. They are the rightful property of Cartoon Network and DC Comics. Rightful, and only claim, is to the plot and the following OCs: Sin.

A/N: Thank you people who reviewed. I’m glad to see this new version is already getting positive responses. For those of you that are still in the dark. Read the Author’s Note in the first chapter for clarification. So everyone knows I’ll be using elements from the comic book: Teen Titans! Go! If no one has read them, that’s fine. I’ll clear up anything you wish to know if you let me know.
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Requiem of Shadow

Everything happened too fast for Raven to really recall. One moment she was imprisoning the H.I.V.E. villains in an energy field for the police; one that not even Kyd Wykkyd could teleport out of. The next moment, she nearly was slashed to death had she not caught the hint of blue light from the corner of her eye. She had enough time to levitate out of the blade’s path and look at the new black Drone that nearly got her. She tried to warn her teammates, but she was too distracted with dodging the advancing black Drone to shout out one.
Luckily, Cyborg had detected them on his sensors, alerting them of their approach as hordes of black Drones filed into the room. “Guys! New ball game! Go full-out!”

Instantly all the Titans switched to full offence. Beast Boy changed into an Ankylosaurus and charged at the Drones, flattening them under its feet and spinning to a halt and swinging his clubbed tail to smash a few more. Cyborg himself switched his Sonic Cannon’s energy output to maximum and began blasting Drones to smithereens. Starfire allowed her alien fury to grow to its full extent and unleashed powerful starbolts on the Drones, or moved in to close enough to rip the Drones with her bare hands.

As for Raven…she merely stood stationary and waited for the Drones to come to her. When the Drones moved close to her to take advantage of her passiveness, they quickly found themselves stuck to the ground. Had they been given more intelligence, they would have noticed the pool of dark energy bleeding out from under Raven’s cloak.
When enough of them were stopped, she whispered in a raspy, monotone voice. “...Azarath, Metrion…Zinthos.”

Upon the last word of her chant, all the black Drones that were caught by her energy were suddenly dragged down into it, vanishing into the deepest parts of her soulself. The energy retracted into her cloak and she moved calmly to the next enemy, like death itself. As she got near enough, she opened her cloak briefly enough for tendrils of dark matter to whip out and wrap around more Drones, and then drag them inside her cloak to vanish within as did their cybernetic comrades.

It took mere moments before the Titans had dismantled all the supposed deadly Drones.
Cyborg picked up one of the ruined remains of scraps and examined it closer. “This is odd. They look like Slade’s drones…but they’ve got the Brotherhood’s marks all over them,” informed his teammates.

Beast Boy morphed back into his human form. “Who cares? We totaled them with no problems.”
Cyborg glared at Beast Boy out of the corner of his human eye. “The problem, Beast Boy, is that if these are a result of Slade and the Brotherhood joining forces. Just imagine what else they could do.” He picked up one of the Drones arms, showing the green changeling its deactivated wrist-blade. “These were made to fight, nothing more. From the looks of it, these were just prototypes. Just imagine how deadly their improved models will act.”
As they were talking, Starfire looked around for Robin. “Has anyone seen where Robin had gone?”

“He went after Madame Rouge,” replied Raven emptily.
Starfire gasped and floated up off the ground. “Then we best go find him! He will need our help to subdue her!”

Raven turned her back to everyone and started walking away. “He’s a big boy, Starfire. He can take care of….AH!!!”

Pain exploded in Raven’s body. An unbelievable amount of it drilled into various parts of her body. Her vision went white from the searing pain and she nearly blacked out. She couldn’t make sense of anything or why she was in such agony. That is until she realized that it wasn’t her pain she was experiencing. No, this pain was someone else’s, someone close and dear to her…and she felt fear grip her heart.

“No…” whispered Raven fearfully, immediately reaching out to the source the pain was coming from, hoping that her fears were not real…

She was sadly greeted with even more pain when she opened her bond. The bond she formed with Robin since that night she entered his mind to help him fight his delusions. To this day that bond had remained strong, if not grown stronger since he opened more to her since her recent hardship. Now that same bond between her and Robin was letting her know that he was in terrible agony. As she tried to make sense of why he was in pain, she felt hands grabbing her. At first she started to fight them but the hands were stronger than normal hands and felt hard and smooth. When she reached the brim of her cloak up enough, she found that she had at some time collapsed to the floor. Above her was Cyborg, who was trying to help her sit up and looking very concerned for her.

“Raven, what’s wrong?” asked Cyborg worriedly.

She soon stopped fighting him and let him help her up, leaning into his massive frame for support as she tried to understand what had happened. She closed her eyes and focused on her bond with Robin, fighting through the unbearable pain to reach out to him. Her mental prowess proved stronger than the pain and she began to understand why Robin was in such pain. As she opened the bond wider, she saw flashes of what happened to Robin. Through his mind she saw his confrontation with Slade, then the black Drones swarming around him, and finally his defeat at the hands of Madame Rouge. From that point on, everything was hazy, and then darkness blocked everything after that. But one thing she could make out of all that chaos was that Robin was in serious danger…

“Oh Azar…” murmured Raven in fear, clinging herself closer to Cyborg.

“What?! What’s wrong, Raven?” repeated Cyborg with more urgency.

Raven slowly raised a fingerless, elbow-length black gloved hand, with a red gem on the back of it from under her cloak and pulled her hood off. Like Starfire, she had matured into a prime example of a woman. Except where’s Starfire had an exotic beauty, Raven’s was more dark. Her once lavender hair had darkened to near black, giving her hair the illusion of her namesake’s feathers. Her grey skin had remained the same shade, as did the color of her eyes, which had grown even more blank of emotion over the years. But as Cyborg looked into her revealed face, he found that those normally cold, emotionless eyes were now flooding with tears and pain, and her chakra gem blazing.

“Robin! He’s…He’s dying!” cried Raven.

Starfire nearly went into shock. “D-Dying!? We must get to him now! Where is he, Raven?”
Raven told them that he was in a nearby hanger. She led them to there just in time to see Madame Rogue storm out of the hanger.

“Rouge!” roared Starfire, charging like a comet at the psycho shifter.

Madame Rouge twisted her torso out of Starfire’s way, smiled just as twisted at her. “You’re too late, you redheaded bitch! Your little birdie is long gone from here! Au revoir!” She then leapt up high above the hanger and started running away.

Raven began chanting her words to encase the psychotic woman, but then she caught Slade walking calmly out if the hanger. Forgetting the psychotic woman, she directed her anger on their oldest nemesis. “Slade! What have you done to Robin?”

The one-eyed mastermind glared at all the Titans. “…Nothing.”

Beast Boy morphed into a tiger and growled threateningly at the villain. “Don’t lie to us, Slade! Where is Robin?”

Slade widened his eye slightly in awe. “So you now talk while in an animal form now? Hmm, that’s quite…unimpressive.”

Beast Boy growled even louder, snapping his jaws slightly in irritation. “Just tell us before we make you!”

Slade shrugged. “I don’t know.”

Starfire floated down right in front of him with blazing emerald eyes. “Tell us the truth!”

“Do you really want to know, Starfire?” mused Slade, crossing his arms behind him in that arrogant pose he always assumed. “All right. I’ll tell you…He’s gone.”

Starfire roared in rage and charged a starbolt in her fist and readied to fire it right in Slade’s face.

“Wait, Starfire!” warned Raven, walking right up to her. “He’s right…Robin’s gone. I…I don’t sense him anywhere near here anymore.”

Starfire whipped her head to her friend with a stream of tears evaporating from her glowing eyes. “Gone!? He can’t be gone! You said he was here!”

Raven raised one hand up for Starfire to calm down. “He’s still alive, Starfire. I didn’t say he was gone gone. I mean, he’s not in the hanger anymore.”

Starfire returned her furious gaze back on Slade. “What have you done with him?”

Slade shrugged more, infuriating Starfire more as well as the rest of the Titans.

“Don’t play games with us now, Slade,” cautioned Cyborg, clinching his fists. “Tell us what we want to know.”

“As much as I make it a habit to never tell you Titans anything…I will…” It was true. He was about to tell them about the stranger that supposedly saved Robin and took him away, when he suddenly noticed Raven had fallen to her knees again, shaking badly.

Cyborg was immediately by her side, as was Beast Boy, but he looked too unsure if he should hold her or not.

Cyborg’s glare warned him to just stay away, and then pulled Raven into his massive arms. “Raven, what’s wrong? Tell us what you’re feeling.”

“…Cold…so very cold,” whimpered Raven hauntingly. “…But I’m burning too. It feels like my bloods on fire…I…I know where Robin is!” She looked up at Cyborg. “He’s back…at Titans Tower.” She quickly pushed frantically for Cyborg to get off her, who let her, and dived, into her soulself. “NO! Robin, don’t leave…!”

She soared into the sky and soared toward Titans Island.

“Raven, wait for us!” cried Starfire, who flew after her.

Cyborg growled in frustration. “Damn it! Slade, if I…” He pointed at the spot Slade was standing, but when he turned his head to glare at the villain, he found he was gone. “What the…? Beast Boy! Why didn’t you tell me he left!?”

Beast Boy, who had been looking up as well, looked down and saw Slade was gone. “What? Ah, crap!” He started sniffing him out but cursed inwardly as his nose picked up a chemical agent that had masked out all other scents around them. “….Son of…That bastard hid his scent! I can’t track him!”

Cyborg nearly yelled in anger. “Damn! I don’t know what’s going on! Ah!” He forced himself to calm down, rubbing his bald head once. “Okay! Beast Boy, you and I are heading back! The MP’s can handle the H.I.V.E. Five, we got to go make sure Robin is all right!”
As quickly as they could, the two headed as fast as they could back to Titans Tower, hoping that they could get there in time…

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Me…

That was the last word Raven had said to herself when she changed into her soulself. She soared in desperation to get back to the tower, hoping she would make it in time to save Robin. But as each second she neared the tower, she more she felt Robin slip away from her. Pushing all her will into it, she flew faster until the tower was finally in sight. As she neared, she sensed that someone else was there with Robin…someone dangerous. She could easily sense that through her bond with Robin. Whatever he was doing to him, he was invading their bond, letting her feel all the agony he was putting Robin through. Her soulself eye’s blazed white in anger, knowing full well the dangers of letting that happen. Already she could feel…that part…take control of her, fueling her anger and whispering encouraging words to sate its hunger for pain. Immediately she suppressed ‘that’ and focused her emotions back into the safeguards she installed in her mind. Now wasn’t the best time to let that side of her take control…no matter how tempting she was to unleash it on whoever was hurting Robin…

Finally she reached the tower and landed on the roof and returned to her physical form. It was then, when her foot landed on the rooftop, did she nearly lose control of those safeguards she put up. For her fear was thrashing wildly around inside them, causing her pulse to speed up and nearly making her pass out from the sight that lay before her.
Blood lay all around on the rooftop, and unfortunately, the spot that she had landed on in haste was thick with blood. She could feel the thick, warm substance soak into the bottom of her boots, leaving her greatly ill. She started stepping back to get out of the puddle of blood but stopped, already feeling her feet begin to slide under the blood. Had she continued moving, she would have no doubt have fallen down and gotten more blood all over her. She looked down and found that it would have been impossible to get out of the puddle of blood, anyway…

It was only then did her mind begin to finally think. How could there be so much blood? Wait…this much blood? Oh, Azar…Robin! Is this all his blood?

She instantly was distracted when her ears picked up maniacal laughter. Slowly, she turned her head to the source and her eyes finally registered the two lying in the center of all the blood. It was then that she saw the stranger, and terror seized her…he was looking right at her.

She quickly took note of his figures and his attire, more notably, the blood still oozing out of his chest. He smirked at her when she spotted his morbid state. Awkwardly, he got to his feet, stumbling slightly as he did and clutching his head as if dizzy.

“…Whoa, I didn’t think it would be that rough,” chuckled the stranger, looking down at his bloody state, rising a finger to his bloody holes and actually running a finger around one of them as it began healing rapidly, leaving only scarred reminders of the wounds. He glazed up at Raven and grinned at her. “Evening!”

Raven was totally in shock. She could do nothing but stare at the blood covered stranger as he acted as if he wasn’t standing in a pool of blood.

“W-Who the hell are you?” stammered Raven, her eyes glowing threateningly. “And what have you done to Robin!”

The stranger glanced down at Robin and his grin grew wider, wide enough for her to see his fangs. “I saved him from true death.” He looked back up at her and two red dots glowed from his sunglasses. “And you’re asking the wrong question.”

“…What are you?” said Raven fearfully.

“That… is the correct question,” replied the stranger, bowing his head to her.

“…You’re not human, that’s much been made care,” surmised Raven, glaring at the stranger.

“Go on,” encouraged the stranger.

“I can’t….because it can’t be true,” said Raven, looking at him in disbelief. “Vampires don’t exist…”

The stranger chuckled more. “Whether you believe they do or don’t is of little consequence. I assure you that what I am is very real…and now…so is….GAHH!” He was stopped when Starfire dropped out of the air and slammed him down into the ground, her eyes blazing in fury.

“What have you done to Robin?” demanded an enraged Starfire, grabbing the stranger by the throat in a vice-like grip. “Answer me!”

She had seen the blood on the rooftop, and she saw Robin lying in the middle of if all next to the stranger, who too was covered in blood. It didn’t take her much time to deduce that he was the one responsible for this state.

The stranger continued to grin at her, even if she was slowly crushing his wind-pipe. “My, my… someone has a temper!”

Starfire’s response was a tighter grip. “Answer me!”

The stranger began laughing, and then looked directly into her emerald-glowing eyes. “I saved him.”

“Saved him?!” stuttered Starfire, quickly looking at Robin’s motionless body, then back to all the blood under them. “This looks more like you massacred him!”

He actually managed to shrug under her death-grip. His callous reaction enraged the redhead further. She raised a fist over her head, charging it with a starbolt, but before she could bring the fist down; the stranger grabbed the side of her hand on his throat and twisted it, forcing her to let go of him. With his long right leg, he kneed her in the middle of her back, forcing her off him. Starfire landed ungracefully on her face, and slid to a halt on the bloody rooftop. She snarled in rage, wiping the blood off her face, her eyes burning off what got in them, and was just getting up when she found the stranger already up on his feet and kneeling down beside Robin.

“Get away from him!” roared Starfire, eyes blazing with emerald fury.
The stranger ignored her and examined Robin. Raven was about to stop him when she saw his grin suddenly frown down.

“This is not good…” whispered the stranger as he reached for his jacket.
Raven stared at him questionably, and then looked down at Robin. “…What do you…Oh Azar!” She cried as she saw why the stranger was frowning now.

Where Robin’s right eye once was behind his ripped mask was now an empty eye socket. The stranger quickly ripped off a strip of leather from his jacket and used it to wrap it around to cover the exposed horror.

“That should have been replaced…” murmured the stranger thoughtfully.

“It was? B-But why didn’t it?” wondered Raven, watching the stranger tighten and knot the leather strip.

“Not sure. Usually when one turns, all their past or new injuries heal back to their original state,” replied the stranger, carefully cradling Robin’s head in his hand, staring at him thoughtfully. After a few moments, his devilish grin began to replace the frown he had on. “…Hmm, just maybe.”

“Maybe what?” asked Raven in hope.

The stranger looked up at her, and to her surprise, he handed Robin to her. He swung his bloody, ripped jacket over his shoulder and picked up his long sword. He gazed down at her and smiled wider, exposing his fangs once more to her.

“He’ll make a full recovery…at some point,” replied the stranger. “But for now, he needs rest...He’s in for a rough time until he awakes, even if he looks dead to the world.”
Raven pulled Robin close to her, not caring she was staining her cloak with blood. “Will he...be the same?”

The stranger nodded. “More or less. Believe what you may have heard, but he won’t be some mindless, hungry monster. But I should warn you…he will have a different nature: a nature that will make him seem like he really is a monster.” His devilish looks turned serious as he gazed down at Raven. “Will you still see him as the one you always knew? Or will you abandon him when he needs someone the most?”

“I…” Raven didn’t dare say anything more. Instead, she cradled Robin closer to her and stared at him.

Starfire had floated up to the air and moved in to grab the stranger. “You will tell me what you did to Robin!”

She reached out to grab him…but just as her hand was about to, he turned to face her, and as he did, his sunglasses dipped down the rim of his nose and her eyes were instantly locked on a pair of crimson ones with slit pupils. The moment their eyes met, Starfire instantly felt her body freeze, as if some force had gripped her.

“What about you? Will you still see him as the one you always knew? Or will you abandon him when he needs someone the most?” repeated the stranger sternly.

“…O-Of course!” declared Starfire, trying to move her body. “He is everything to me!”
The stranger stared at her more with those spellbinding eyes. “…You might be surprised how you act when your conviction is tested.”

“I will! Who are you to question that?” challenged Starfire.

The stranger grinned evilly. “Someone with much more experience in the matters of the heart, Princess. As to whom I am…” He looked away and when he did, Starfire felt her body back under her control. He readjusted his sunglasses to cover his red eyes. “…That is for another time. I need to leave to regain my strength. I used too much of it on Robin.” He then began walking to the edge of the roof.

“Wait!” cried Raven.

The stranger stopped and glanced over his shoulder. “Yes?”

“You’re just gonna leave Robin like this?!” growled Raven, her eyes glowing white under her hood.

The stranger chuckled and continued on walking. “I’ll be back tomorrow night for Robin. I just thought it only be right that his friends look after him for the day. But have someone keep an eye on him….If he awakes before nightfall, then you might have a serious problem.” He looked away and then stopped as he recalled something else. “Oh, most importantly…do not, and I stress this, do not let him be exposed to sunlight…or you will lose him forever!”
“Lose him forever…?” uttered Starfire in fear.

The man chuckled evilly and continued on toward the edge of the roof, then stopped once more and looked at the two stunned Titans. “See you tonight…” And he fell backwards off the tower.
Starfire gasped and zoomed over to catch the crazy stranger. But when she flew to the edge, there was no sign of the stranger…nothing.

“Where’d he go?” wondered Starfire.

Raven didn’t hear Starfire. She really didn’t even care. If what that stranger said was really true, then they had more important things to be concerned with than where he went.
“Starfire, help me get Robin to my room,” said Raven.

The redhead whipped around to face her. “What? Why take Robin to your room, Raven?”
“Because my room has thicker curtains to keep the sun out, plus at least he’ll have a bed to rest on,” replied Raven calmly.

“Why would your curtains be thicker than the ones in Robin’s room matter?” snapped Starfire.
Raven glared at her friend. “There’s a good reason, Starfire! If what that stranger said was true then any exposure to sunlight will kill him!”

Starfire was rendered speechless by Raven’s outburst. It was rare for her friend to unleash her emotions as she did…at least until after she calmed down from her breakup with Beast Boy. But she still wasn’t sure what putting Robin in her room would accomplish. She started to open her mouth…but Raven’s eye glowed faintly red.

“Okay! I’ll help you!” quivered Starfire, smiling nervously. She landed next to them and picked up Robin, forgetting or not caring that she was getting more blood all over her.
Raven and herself quickly entered the tower and down to the Living Quarters. Starfire carried Robin to Raven’s door, but as she was about to open it, Raven suddenly pulled Robin out of her arms with her powers and opened the door herself.

“Raven? What are you doing?” asked a confused Starfire.

“…I’ll handle it from here,” replied Raven simply and levitated Robin into her room. “I need to check something before anyone else sees Robin.”

“But, Raven…!”

Raven slammed the door closed on her redheaded friend. She had no fear of Starfire breaking in…she knew that would spell her doom if she so much as dented her door…again. She quickly moved Robin to her bed, taking off her blood-stained cloak, revealing a black leotard with fish-netting connecting to her gloves, and her thigh-high black boots, and her yellow, red gem belt. It was when she threw her cloak in the wash-bin that she remembered the blood all over Robin. Leaving him floating in the air, she went to her private bathroom and retrieved a few wet wash-clothes. She then removed Robin’s clothes, trying to keep from blushing as she did; thankfully, the boxers he wore underneath weren’t soaked in blood. She inspected the clothes and found them beyond repair and threw them in her trash-bin. Next, she used her telekinesis to use all her wet wash-clothes to clean the blood off his body, only looking at him out of the corner of her eye to make sure she got it all. Once he was cleaned, she laid him on the bed and covered him up with her sheets.

It was then that she spotted that she hadn’t gotten all the blood off him. There was still a spot on his face that she missed when she was cleaning him. She got another wet wash-cloth and returned to Robin, sitting down next to him as she wiped the wash-cloth on Robin’s face. As she did, she brushed a stray lock of long black hair off his face, admiring secretly how handsome he looked with long hair. Her moment was instantly switched to depression…

“…I’m sorry, Robin,” whispered Raven to him. “I should have gone with you when you chased after Madame Rouge.” She bent down and cupped his cheek in her right hand. “Please…whatever you’re going through; please come back to us…” She gazed back to her door where she left Starfire at, then returned them back down to her leader, her secret savior. “…to me.”

She stroked his cheek softly and sat back up, moving her hand to his chest, feeling for his heart-beat…but there was none. She kept it there for a few more moments, praying and soon enough, she felt a faint beat. She waited for a few more moments and felt another beat, just as faint. She sighed in relief and tucked the sheets up to his neck. She reached out with her mind, probing Robin’s for any sign of his soul still intact. What she found was a dark glow, like the soft glow of a candle…it felt like Robin’s soul, but it felt different…faint and distant, though, at the same time…comforting. So it was true what the stranger said…Robin had changed. She quickly made up her mind on what to do.

“Whatever happens, Robin…I’ll be here for you, like you were all those times for me,” vowed Raven, sitting up from the bed. Sighing, she left Robin to rest. Better go and tell Starfire he’ll be fine or she’ll be a wreck all day…

She retrieved a clean cloak and went to her door, quickly exiting and setting the locks before Starfire could storm in and see Robin. As she left the room, a pair of red eyes opened from a shadow in the corner of her room. The shadow slowly pulled away from the corner and moved to the bed. It hovered over Robin and a Cheshire white smile formed just under the red eyes. A slender tendril appeared from the shadow and formed into an arm and ended with a normal-looking hand. Soon enough, the shadow faded and the stranger appeared sitting on the bed.

“…Be strong my child,” said the stranger, placing a hand on Robin’s chest, a spark of dark light flashed under his palm and entered Robin and smiled. “You will be in for a hard trail, Robin…Be strong.” He ran a finger gently over the make-shift eye-patch he made for Robin, and then he disappeared slowly into the shadows as he had entered, anxiously waiting for tomorrow night to approach.

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A/N: I hope everyone liked this newer installment. Please, review and let me know your thoughts. Tell then…later.
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