Tearing the vines which bind him down, Raven lounges at Lilith. Rolling on the ground. Raven slams her head against the floor. "Bastard!" Getting kicked into the air, hundreds of branches wrap around Raven. Suspended in the air, his entire body is covered.
"I gave you a chance Raven! Now suffer the consequences!"
Black roses bloom on the vines, tightening their grasp on Raven. Lilith sighs, only to see her breath come out as fog. Snapping her head back to the cacoon of vines. She sees frost slowly creep up on it.
"Can't you just die?!" Now fully covered in ice, the cacoon explodes in hundreds of small shards. RasingFalling to the ground on his knees, Raven stares at Lilith.
Frozen blood on his face, his eyes stay unwavering. "A.L.I.C.E! Get him!" Lilith screams as vines fly at Raven.
Jumping over one, he pulls on the second causing it to rip off. Extending his arm to the side. Water forms into a sword. Freezing it, Raven cuts the branches and vines alike.
Seeing Raven get ever so closer, Lilith's palm melts into a dark inky liquid. Forming a blade, she jumps at him.
Cutting away the last branch. Ravne sees a dark blade fly at him. Bringing his blade up, he braces for the strike.
*Clash!* The cold intensifies causing everything to slowly freeze, but the dark blade stays intact. Pushing the cold and Raven away. A smile spreads on Lilith's face.
"Running out of steam?!" Instead of a response, she gets a mouth full of spit in her eyes.
Closing her eyes, she feels her sword gets pushed to the side.
Not good!
Opening her eyes, terror fills her heart as frost creeps into her tears and spit. Like a thousand small blades, they stab at her eyes. Screaming in pain, her focus wavers and her blade turns back into a dark liquid.
Raven raised his sword ready to strike Lilith down, but vines suddenly wrapped around his blade pulling it out of his grip.
"Ra~ven~" The severed head calls out, causing Ravne to grab his chest. Turning away from the abomination that's using Alice's body as its home, he focuses back on Lilith.
That's right, she's just a copy built from her remains. She's not the real Alice nor is her body real, it's all just an imitation by the flower.
Vines soar at Raven but with a wave of his hand, they freeze in the air. Falling to the ground as nothing more than statues. Lilith finally regains her vision. Seeing the vines freeze with a flick of his wrist, she yells.
"Aren't you just a mere Yesod Sephirah? How can you stand in front of me as an equal!"
Clothes and skin frozen alike, Raven extends his hand. He tries to call forth another weapon, but his fatigue seeps through. His fingers shake while his breaths are short and shallow.
Starting to see Raven struggle. Lilith's determination to fight gets refilled, but a sudden vibration on her wrist brings a frown to her face. "Time's up.... For me at least, better luck next time, Ra~ven~."
Mocking him, by imitating the severed head. She sees Raven sprinting at her with everything he has. Waving him off, her body starts to deform into a dark liquid. Before Ravne could reach her. The dark liquid is long gone beneath the concrete.
Leaving nothing more than a dark spot. Punching the concrete ground over and over, his fingers crack but he doesn't stop, slamming his hands against it, small cracks start to form on the concrete.
Stopping only when a vine wraps around his hand. "Raven~" Now saying his name almost flawlessly, Raven would fall to the ground, but the sudden soft vines held him up.
"Why? Why don't you kill me?" Looking into the dark eyes of the severed head, he prepared for the worst but... Placing their severed hand around his head and resting the severed head on his shoulder.
The head begins to hum. It might sound like an incoherent mess of sounds, but Raven's eyes go wide. "The Beauty of Night... how do you know this....."
Not getting a response, Raven's mind tries to go through all the possibilities but stops at a single one. The flower also knew my name. Lilith could have told her, but even she didn't seem to expect that.
"Do you.... perhaps..... remember?" Getting a nod from the head, tears began to flow down his cheeks. Moving across his bloodied and frozen skin, Raven closed his eyes.
His mangled arms hold the head, and the thought that she might be a copy disappears.
"Raven...." Saying his name without a flaw, Raven tightens his grip on her. "Why.... Why did she do this?" Not getting a response, he just smiles. Opening his eyes, for a bit he could see the flower wither before his eyes. No longer rooter anywhere, her giant body withers away.
Resting his head on Alice's soft hair. Raven's eyes start to be unfocused, even though he's not closing them, the lack of blood makes his world go dark.
"I love you."
*Splurt* Vines pierced his stomach. Spitting out a bit of blood, he hugged her tightly. Now blind and losing his senses, he smiles. He's no longer hugging a black rose, he's hugging his one and only beautiful rose.
"I love you too, Raven."
Reunited at last, Raven's heart pumps his blood once, twice, and comes to a stop.