Teen Titans; Shadows And Creatures Of The Day
Chapter 24: Nearing The End
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"It's going to wreck the city!" She cried over the wind and rain.
He began to show his strength in a swift motion of his wrist. Kind of like...
~No no...not him...~ She thought to herself. Not the time. Her power made the waves die down a bit. They needed more power. Aqua Lad was as responsible for saving the city as she was as his ally.
"Not...enough...power...!" surely Raven guessed it were only a phase. Something that did not mean to defeat the rise and pull of the sea. She wanted to save and protect the one thing she treasured most. The dragon king found his way to her past the walls she'd carelessly been leaving on autopilot...not smart.
The plague of flame burst through her like tiny lights going out one by one. Her body was unconscious, something had left her as her cloak shouldered the color white. She'd lost her shadow as she fell into the sea.
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Wake up!-
The already free Calumon was unbound and had separated guardian form and cute fuzz butt to find Rob, and to watch over the Team across states.
Verra was sure that as Robin cradled his skull that his eyes were NOT red and with black irises. "He's not...going to let me go..." croaked the teen. He was not Roku's double this time. He was Grayson!
Cal only whimpered as the shifting one came to sneak up behind them. Rob was still half lost in shock, barely conscious. His fuzzy pal was able to use his crest in the middle of his forehead to blast out at the demon spirit. It's power had come from his other world in this body the guardian had been chosen to keep. The gods were careless. He needed to be stronger. Strong enough to beat his insecurities as a-
"Watch out!" Verra's wolf form shouted through mind spoken tongue. It was true. The shadow of his charge was going berserk. It looked like a mad wraith! Spinning and moaning above poor Richard!
"Kid thinks there is losses...in his future? No?" Shadow chuckled and continued to go all out with the shifter against the fox and wolf.
No! Veravakumu fought when his eyes turned a deadly red. WE WILL TRAIN HIM! THEE SHALL NOT BELONG HERE! YOUR RATH IS OVEER!" With a final exhaust of power energy he flew and shoved Shadow into the dark of his messy open portal. Pitch black with not a color to its face.
The wolf was mad. Made to be the ultimate weapon against the gods. Verra was not really a bad guy, just cursed and before knowing little Rokuro! That player Vee was always in India with family in the spirit world. But Kay ruled over a portion after Verra's mother grew ill from a mysterious cursed sickness. The priestesses' only thought the best would be to banish her, Vera's father's replacement stepped in whom he'd never met till that day. Who was he? Was he European? East Asian? Who was this intruding man of mysterious fate? Young teen Verra left to train in the mountain of his birthplace. But that is another story.
Later he encountered Roku the masked beggar at a procession, was cursed with prophetic codes, and turned demon spirit only to be shown mercy by Tara. Goddess mother of all.
"He's more than a student..he's a kid pal! I can do this!" Vee collapsed back into his human form Takahara.
Kay was not present. How could he be?
Cal only showed as soon as he was to help Rob. His eyes still did remain blood red.
"What a-
"Shush...we'll fix it..." Disgruntled Calumon only climbed over onto Robin's lap. "I'm sorry..." whispered Dick.
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Veronica just had to show! Only, in the wrong room?A co worker was flirting with another. It was king dragon himself in suit and tie. He was nonchalant as his spell stuck to her, steeling a wisp of life between teeth.
She froze with each thought of destruction. ~No,no! He'll ruin my big chance-
"Miss Ferguson! So nice to finally see a familiar, em...face around."
"Too cooped up?" She wondered with a small cringe of a grin. "What of Pippie!" She hissed now as she pulled him to her ear. Still his chuckle made her brush him off, pushing him away.
"I heard of an escaping Red. He's not been a good little thief...in fact...he harbors my son's Rokou...as of last night...
"Oh." She blinked at the set info. Clearing her throat she nodded back.
"Follow me, do not attract attention. Bruce Wayne could be-
"Takahara? Mister Shoji!" Very swiftly the demon king left her side. There was a new guest...in his wake of the afternoon on this, world.
His assistant or rather Takahara's had come from the lab and later from the meeting hall."Mister Takahara! You should be, resting...?"
He'd taken the look of the Scientist when she'd not been looking. "Show off..." thought Ronnie with a grunt.
Candace from Shoji's division in America gulped. She looked at his leg that had needed possibly stitches. When in fact it had...
"You...
"I healed up. Must run in the family! Don't we have a presentation to be..." he trailed off then to the assistant. Her jaw was from her mouth to the floor. "Hello? Candace? Are we ready to go?-
Ronnie could see her negative doubt of energy vibrating from Roku's alarming amount of energy. She was a goner. She and that kitten.
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Bebeep!
The alarming ring from Bb's communication device woke him up and left Tara grunting from the fall onto the grass.
"How, long wass I asleeep?" he rubbed his eyes not noticing Tara had been brushing off her pants. Her boots were put back on each foot. The city was not quiet. Her senses fumed. The old friends had been lying in the shade under an old tree that Tara prized as a good feeling of happiness. The park patrons were all standing as if...an earthquake!-
"Beast Boy! Gar? Get up!" Her voice went through one ear until her words boomed in past his eardrums.
"I'M UP!" She was looking pretty distraught as the sky began to clear. "No..." She grumbled to herself.
"What's up...Wha?" The ground shook. It was...an earthquake? He placed his feet back onto the grassy floor.
"Was that-
"Trouble." She's already strapped on her goggles. It was time to defend the city. Tara was gonna fight!
BEEP!
"The communicator?" Beast Boy heard it to. The ring was silenced when the device snapped to life.
"Hey, what's up?-
"Get back to Titans' tower pronto. We have a code red situation. A major melt down in the bay is being taken care of. Thank goodness for Aqua Lad.." Cy sighed at this only barely.
"I have to bring Tara, she's better and she wants to help-
"It's true. Wiz Greg's been teaching me! I have my powers back." She bit her lip waiting for an answer.
Kay nod to Cyborg who came back to full screen. "Make sure that everyone's safe. Then get here as soon as possible." Cy was worried. There must have been a wave of pressure over the matter. But helping the others was more than a job. It was a responsibility. They could do it.
"Cyborg, Out."
The screen went blank. The two teens at least were still connected for the moment.
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"What if Nina isn't going to wake up? She wasn't doing anything wrong!"Kay planted his fist into a metallic table of the investigations room. The large computer did not respond. Yet he was there with another. To think only a few months ago he had been the one to be interrogated by goddess mother Isis! How strange that he'd been left to see to Priscilla Dear Heart away.
"Who are you really, Miss P.D? You'd better be ready to talk after-
She sung away her troubles in a hum. Dulling out the sounds, she then spoke."Why are you so tense? The girl is purely science not, magical in any way. I was inside the mind of her creator. Maya hasn't told you the half of this. True True." She chirped to the guardian under watch by the gods.
The fox guardian half prince only shook his head with a no.
"She's more human than any figuration I have ever witnessed!" His tone was smooth and a bit quick. Here was the spirit of woodland fairy tales. And here was the gods' one worry against them. Besides, Legendary Malchior, Veravakumu and Prince Rokuro as the past life of Richard's.
"I would gladly hand her over to you..."she faced the guardian with a wicked grin over her face. "But that would be against the rules..."
"What are your rules?" He questioned the flora and fauna spirit of the wood. "Why will you not do as we ask? She must tell us the truth; not you!"
She seethed and looked in the direction of her floating fingertips. Unbeknownst to the few the computer wasn't stupid. It was still a big part of Ronnie's viral payback. She watched as the girl in the soft fluffy dress and the boy in the white jacket disagreed on every thing. Everything was set into motion. Set to the right temperature and ready to go into the fire.
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Raven could not speak or stand as she'd been bed ridden for almost two days! Now she knew what a target must have felt like all over again. Robin's vision of the room around him inhabited her dreams. Their link was a never ending chain of thoughts, memories, and hopes and dreams. Who would want to go after-
The dream world stopped processing throughout her mind. A memory came into view. He was in some populated area and it looked like a lot of fun for...
"Dick?" This was his past she'd never contacted, through him to reach before! She stood in the outer conscious as the subconscious took hold. It was possibly after the circus act on the high wire. The Flying Graysons were out and enjoying the night air.
A terribly cute, strong young Grayson boy was jumping up and down to get a chance to show his parents around. But then he was lost in a crowd. After his mother had gone to talk to one of the performers with her husband watching Little Richard, the growing sounds began to block his connection to the two.
~Come, away~ A voice was calling him through telepathy towards a tent in the middle of the grounds. "A fortune teller?" The seven year old was curious but cautioned against it. The woman's voice called again. She was grwing louder with each sound.
As if projecting the sound all around him now.
His eyes grew frightened, she was right across from the ticket booth! Why not just tell her?-
~Come AWAY!~
His heart. Raven could feel her sweat boil, it was a timeless paranoia. He was in danger.
"I-I-
"AWAYYY! HEEEHEEHEEE!" Everything went into a void. A trap.
"Dick!" Raven tried to grasp his arm, t did little to save him from the cursed world. He was engulfed in misery all over again...but it wasn't the woman across from him. It was something else. She saw, a spirit.
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"Huh!" She gasped to quiet and to wake with sweat rolling down her cheek. Roku was messing with her, toying with fake memories. That had to be it. But it was so real...
She hugged her arms to her chest. As she tried to get out of bed, her inner voice spoke.
~FALL~
And she took to the floor just from that thought. Her back ached as she tried to climb up onto the bed once she cried softly;
"What's going-
CRASH! As the bed toppled off onto its side she fell back into shock. Someone tipped her hospital bed!
"Raven?"
It was Cyborg in the flesh. Starfire also, yet she seemed to be clearly clean in aura. Cyborg had blue around his with a hint of an orange ring.
"What has happened? Are you alright friend Raven? We heard the calamitous racket outside."
"Just..."she gasped in better air. Just, catching my fall." She gasped and then sighed to her friends. "It tipped." She pointed to the bed as Star helped her up. "I was only trying to stand and then this happened. Only no one was here but me.
Cy was busy checking for defects over the bottom of the bed's main structure. Everything's clean and rust no where to be found. A bolt was loose but the bed, tipped. That was very suspicious.
"Do not worry, you are safe now"; star smiled though a fear of it perhaps being Rokuro's darker side. That worry soon flourished and made her leave the room moments later after the debilitating incident.
"Where is Robin..."she groaned. "Friend Richard would know who to punish for their misdoings!-
"What?" The dragon son coughed on her level. Why did his breath look like smoke?
"You know his name? How? He isn't allowed to have his own-
Connections..."he grunted after being pounded into the wall. "This iiss a bad time...I'll call back later-
"NO! YOU WILL NOT TELL THEM!" She knew Richard was in a far place across time so. This wouldn't work if she remembered...he thought to himself in deep contemplation; "Rokou has Robbie, where is dragon lady-
"HNAAA!" She fired a bolt in to his face but he was quick to dodge the passing star laser tazer.
"You know right? So just forget him! Find someone better... The freakish double that looked as an older Richard Grayson might, smirked. She held her hand ready into a fist and fired almost too close this time! Boy, was she fast.
Heh...besides, that kid is nothing but a-
"DONT SAY ANYTHING! Release him from the spell, we want our Robin back-
The dragon son only cleared his throat and continued.
"Don't you mean, your bird? He quizzed. "He's had too much freedom. Not enough divine punishment...he's done this to himself. And look where it got him. Karma...
"What? Why would-
"Shh...he's long gone OK? The demon doppelganger only hissed through his lips. He couldn't deal with her now, too much to plot. Too many people to subdue into darkness. Starfire lowered her hands off of the delinquent's shoulders. She wiped her face to stop her emotions from tumbling forth. It hadn't helped. "Why are you-
"Sheesh! Ever heard of breaking up? It's too easy...wha? You crying, girlie?" this was too easy.
"Monster! Y-you do not sympathize with heroes...you are a - a monster!" she wept bitter as crushed brown and falling tree leaves. As if she'd stuck them into her mouth to chew. He stood by the door way to the room across from her own.
Sorry I can't stay. Hope you consider my offer, I've seen em all. Guy's minds are easy to-
"Huh? NONO!" The doppelganger had a secret, he could transform between sexes as if they were one and the same. She felt the clothing around her grow heavier. And her mask still very much was useful but...this body! Starfire's mouth fell open with a snap. Her eyes shut hardest and she let out a scream!
Backing into a corner she tried to fly but had trouble standing."You- you are a-
"EEEEEEEEEE!"
"Rokuuuuuuu!" she glared at the sky. This was a new form of petty Rokou, not just light and dark but male and...
"GAAAHH!" She kicked over a waste basket and stomped away down to the dragon's portal.
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this is short to add in a new story! so, dun-dun-dadaa! Chapter 24 will be my last to end this one! See the rest on the same place! Review!