A/N: Greetings and welcome to my world! This story has taken over my mind and transported me to a place of magic, evil and suspense; I really hope it can do the same for you! This is merely the first chapter, so please don't be angry that the Teen Titans haven't even shown up yet. They'll be here in the next chapter and it'll be so exciting you'll be gripping the computer table and screaming in pain as the next chapter concludes (not because its bad, but because its so good, or so I hope!). As a side note I don't own Teen Titans. So, with all that crap out of the way please remember how much time of my life I've taken to write this and please take the time to review it! If you've liked this then please check out my other stories and tell me how you feel about them! I hope you enjoy my stories,
CrimsonBlade117.
Prophesy Revealed
The chamber in which the creature slept was kept dark, almost dark to a point of being a palpable agent that strove to choke life away. The darkness of the room made no change as a shape suddenly emerged from nothingness within its veiled depths. Slowly this newcomer approached the bed on which lay the creature who was no longer man but not entirely of the Dark. If it were entirely from the Dark it would never need to sleep, but what little humanity that remained within forced it to rest.
"Greetings Mistress, what is the reason for you gracing me with your presence?" inquired the creature that had awoken the moment its mistress approached. Shade's haltingly green eyes opened and locked immediately with Mistress Shadow's blue ones that held a glacial freeze, yet had melted the hearts of many men. Had Shade not been converted by the Dark he would have never been awoken by her completely silent approach, but those times had been left behind long ago.
"The time is nearing Shade; my plan is almost ready to become reality. Have you yet found The Dark One's prophecy?" Mistress Shadow asked, her voice purring out in a sultry tone as she mentioned the singular being that she had lusted after for the past millennia. Shade knew the lust that flowed from her voice like blood from an open wound was just as crimson as that blood, because that lust was for blood, doom, suffering and destruction.
"I have, Mistress. Would you like to behold it?" Shade asked as he rose from the bed, showing pleasure and devotion in his voice and face at seeing his mistress's face light up at his offer.
"Very well, Mistress. Many men died defending this, their tenacity assures me of its validity." he said as he proceeded to cross the room. As he walked to the far wall he took a moment to admire the supple form of his mistress, clad only in a dark black suit that held to her like her own skin and a cape which added only the slightest degree of modesty to her dress. With effort he pulled his gaze from her luscious body and waved his hand at the wall as he approached it, creating a streak of dark energy that emanated from his hand and washed over the wall, revealing that a portion of the wall was false as it melted away. A crimson heartbeat of light shone though this new doorway and caught both the master and servant's attention quickly and completely.
"Its more beautiful than I could ever imagine….." Mistress Shadow said breathlessly as she stepped toward the gap in the wall where the chamber opened to show a heavily decorated stone at the far end, about 20 feet away from the doorway in the wall. Complex patterns were deeply engraved all about the face of the stone, augmented by jewels that shone with sadistic brilliance.
Their attention was drawn to a dagger that gleamed embedded in the upper part of the stone, even in the darkness it shone the shade of crimson that it thirsted for. Shining from within the twisted and unspeakably sharp dagger blood red light illuminated the carved ancient text surrounding it. Both Shade and Mistress Shadow entered bent low in reverence of the evil emanating from the depths of huge stone that towered before them. "Are you sure of its purity Shade? After so many generations with those cursed monks of the Light it could have possibly been tampered with." she said as they approached the stone, looking up hungrily at the inscriptions upon its weathered exterior.
"Just touch it my Mistress and you shall be assured of its power as I was." Shade said as he too looked up at its worn surface with awe. Shade watched as his beautiful and deadly mistress reached out her arm and gasped slightly as she placed her hand on the stones sacred surface. Her face which had seduced many men and destroyed entire worlds bright with the crimson light as it changed from hungry expectation to one of blissful rapture instantly as her hand made contact with the stone.
"The power……I can feel its unholy power!" She gasped breathlessly as her arm began to tremble and become rigid as if held to the face of the stone by an unbreakable electrical current. Calling it an electric current would be appropriate, because she could feel waves of power, evil and dark power coursing up her arm and through her body. She as a creature of the Dark had been fed hatred, suffering and evil power when she was young as the young from earth were fed breast milk. Having supped and been restored by the evil force within the stone Mistress Shadow regretfully and with effort withdrew her hand from its weathered exterior, feeling powerful and supercharged after mere seconds of contact.
A small voice began to speak very softly as the ancient text which covered the outside of the stone began to glow with a pulsing and dark power, as though thirsting to carry out the prophesy which was being uttered by that small and growing voice.
"The Dark One's power has been sealed away……" the small voice whispered, "by the monks of the Light millennia ago into one whose fate will either be the life or death of all." the voice said as both Shade and Mistress Shadow listened with reverent silence.
"Within one swift fall of the Dagger of Doctur the fate of all existence shall be decided. Love's death and unforgivable betrayal shall submerge all existence into the Dark for all eternity; all that has been forged in this world shall be torn asunder and destroyed. The two realities shall become one and all will be consumed by the Dark. So shall come to pass the fall of Mid-World into the Dark…." the small voiced traced off, becoming silent as the light being shown through the text on the stone grew dark once more.
"Final victory is assured Shade! This is a glorious day for the Dark; we shall be remembered forever and praised as gods!" Mistress Shadow said excitedly, charged by both the contact with her home dimension through the stone and by the assurance of victory that the prophecy provided. Shade looked to his Mistress at that moment and knew he would die for her if the day would come when that would be called of him, he would do it. He also knew that he was one of thousands of men she used as toys to do her bidding but he didn't care at all; he would carry out her orders until his very last breath.
"Mistress, there is more that I need to tell you…" Shade said as he looked long and deep into her seductive face, feeling her power work over him even when she didn't consciously want it to.
"Yes Shade, what do you need to tell me?" she said, still breathless from her previous excitement.
"I believe that this isn't the whole prophesy, I suspect that the monks of the Light removed a portion of the prophesy that went here," he said as he indicated an unusually smooth part of the stone that contrasted heavily with the rest of it, "while not altering the part that you and I heard just now. I don't know how significant that part of the prophesy was, but either way there is almost no chance of finding anyone or anything that could tell us the rest, in the raid that yielded this stone almost all monks of the Light who had access to that information were killed. I suggest we go forward with your plans because the other part of the prophesy could be of no consequence, but on the other hand it could change the overall context of what we heard as well." He said, shrugging his shoulders to show that he had very little opinion in the matter.
"Yes…yes, we should proceed with my plan and not let this sabotage entirely ruin it." Mistress Shadow said as she carefully thought the situation over.
"The pieces are poised upon the board Shade, let's set them in motion, yes?" she asked, looking to Shade, her beautiful eyes pulling him closer as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him, giving him the prize after which he hungered, submersing him into herself as she had so many before him.
A/N: Thank you so much for reading! Please take a moment to write a review for me. Thank you once again and if you like this and would like to see more of my work please check my other stories out and review those! And hey if you hated this, please review and check out my others and tell me how bad they are and how I can improve them! I really hope you enjoyed the first chapter,
CrimsonBlade117.