All Across the Island, Sunday Morning through Afternoon

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The time for a final strike had finally arrived. The prisoners of detention had been freed, powers and abilities had been returned, and all that remained was Umbridge, and her still-faithful Loyalists.

It was time to pick a side, and bring Umbridge's reign to an end.

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Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Momoko could understand and sympathize with the 'trapped in madness' by magic part.

"Being human doesn't mean you're weak. That you think it, worries me."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"I was born to be my father's heir," Raven said, flexing her fingers and letting red power crackle between them. "To join my power with his and open the pathways between worlds so that they might fall before him. For years I was kept from my destiny, foolishly believing I should fight it. But now I am free, and ironically I have Umbridge to thank for that." And, well, the Hulk, since his rage had given her enough power to break the bonds of the Imperio.

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Impressive, that red crackle. Really impressive, and Momoko reached for her compact. She took a second to transform, letting the White Light crackle and surround her longer than usual so that Raven could actually see it.

"You were born to be Raven," Blossom replied. "To be your own person. What you do as Raven, that's your responsibility. Your choice. You can't blame anyone but yourself for your choices."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

That demonstration of power got Raven's attention; she was still injured and healing, and she didn't want to underestimate Momoko and get herself in trouble before she could get off this forsaken island.

"I am my father's daughter," she said. "That is my choice. That is what I want."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Blossom folded her arms, floating only enough to maintain eye-contact. "If that's what you want, then why did it take you this long to become..." she waved a hand at Raven. "this...?"

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"Because Umbridge's spell prevented me from embracing my true power," Raven said. "But her puny magics cannot affect me now, if she still lives after all this." She gestured about them to the noises of fighting in the distance.

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

"So Umbridge is stronger than you? Than your 'true powers'?"

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

Raven's eyes flashed red. "No," she snapped. "My human blood made me weak. It struggled to bind me even in its madness. It aided Umbridge in keeping me prisoner. And that will never happen again."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Momoko thought about that for a moment, so very confused. Her own be-spelling had been against her will and she hadn't been able to struggle in either direction. "So you wanted to be stopped? To not be who you are now? You wanted that so bad you stayed spelled?!"

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

The demon had chafed against her chains, but she'd had to fight herself as well, and it wasn't a battle she'd been able to win until absorbing the Hulk's rage. The fact it had been such a struggle caused no small amount of humiliation for one who was supposed to be Pride.

"I did not want it," she seethed. "The fragments of my soul hindered me. But that is no longer a concern."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Blossom paced in the air, still confused. "But you just said you tried to bind yourself. So some part of you doesn't want to be you."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"I said that part of me is gone," Raven snarled, denying that anything could be left of her former self to herself as much as to Blossom. "I am truly the daughter of Trigon the Terrible now. The Earth will submit to us, and hundreds of worlds after it."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

"You can't just get rid of a part of you. People don't work like that." In Momoko's world, that was how monsters were created actually, by the Black Light bringing out the bad stuff.

Which, was it possible that was a similar case here? That something had made Raven this way? "And you and your father taking over the Earth is not going to happen."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

Raven laughed. "I am not people," she said. "I am a demon. I have shed my human shell as a snake sheds its skin. And nothing can stop me now, not you, not anyone."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Blossom didn't laugh. "No matter what you look like, you can't be a demon if you have human inside you. You're half-demon, at best. I've fought a true demon before. And won."

... with a team and lots of science and tech help and almost dying, but they'd won!

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"Not a demon like me," Raven warned. She didn't want a fight yet; she was still healing and becoming accustomed to her new form. But her Pride wouldn't let her back down, either.

"My human half is dead, destroyed by the pain and suffering Umbridge inflicted upon her. There is nothing of it left."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

That... that...

"She's not dead!!!!" It hurt like nothing else ever, but it didn't kill you. That was the worst part. "She's not!! She... she may be broken and need lots of time to heal, but not dead."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"There will be no healing," Raven said. She would make certain of it. If any spark of humanity remained within her, she would drench it in blood and violence until it was quenched. "That part of my life is over, and my destiny now awaits."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

"You can't stop it." Blossom took a breath, trying to calm herself back down. "It's what humans do. We heal. It hurts and hurts and we want to die to make it stop, but all we do is heal."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"You have an over-abundance of faith," Raven sneered, though Momoko's words worried her a little bit, not that she'd let it show. If her human soul wasn't destroyed, she'd make damn sure it wouldn't hinder her in the future. She refused to let it make her weak. She was Trigon's daughter and meant for destruction and conquest.

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

"I have to have faith. I spent a long time under Umbridge's spells as well. We have that in common."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"They why are you not fighting her now?" Raven said, studying Momoko. "Do you not desire vengeance? To make her pay for everything she did to you and those you care for? For all the suffering she caused?"

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, Raven. Ask the hard questions.

"Desire it? No. What good... Will it change what I've done, what she's done?"

...

"Will it bring them back?" Blossom paled and shook her head. "I fight to save people. Right now, everyone is fighting to end-- I was a part of this, I don't belong in this fight."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[broken-empath.livejournal.com]

"It will not change anything," Raven admitted, since she didn't have any idea what was going on to change things back.

She closed her eyes for a minute, breathing in the tendrils of hatred and vengeance that were spinning around the island. "But it is so satisfying. There is so much rage here now. So much pain. It is a feast for me."

Re: Fighting and General Mayhem - Town

[cursedtosmile.livejournal.com]

Blossom, on the other hand, simply felt cold. "It's been there all the time. It always has been." She cocked her head to the side, considering again the aura she could sense around Raven now. "But then, I think you always knew that. That's how powerful you were."