Chapter 89: Meeting Death, Leaving Death
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"So, What are we gonna do Rae?" Beastboy asked. "Terra has to know about everything that's gone on since we left." She rubbed her shoulder as if it itched by a hardly-there pain. "Please." Starfire pleaded the guardian sorcerer. "Can her memory of us not be returned to her?" Her eyes shone with desperation. Robin was a goner if she could not be there to make the badness go away. Oh, if only there were a way…
Wizardmon sighed as he left from next to Malchior. "What is it?" Mal wondered aloud. Picking up his staff, the shortest wizard to ever set foot began to spell.
Since they could not keep a note of him even having a mouth since it was always covered like Robin's mask, they waited as patiently a possible for a result to occur. Holding out a palm each, the team went into a trance like state. And something far from the ordinary began to take place….
"Alice, come."
"Robin!"
"Nothing's gonna –Whoa!"
"Terra won't be hurt by anyone, anymore!"
"She's a monster."
"Slade…"
"YOU!"
'Yaah!"
"Then you got it!"
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Everyone hit a side of either a wall or the floor as the group awoke to a new realization effect. "What was that!" Beastboy gaped with awe and terror. Starfire clutched her sides, painfully wincing from the fall backwards into a wall.
"Wh- What, just happened?" Raven asked the others of the group. She rubbed her temples until she groaned from too much bunched-up pressure. "Where's Alice and Terra?" Turning over to her side, Beastboy was aimlessly trying to find both girls.
"Gasp! Slade must have come back for them!" Starfire held her hand over her mouth. Kayu shook his head slowly. "No, don't make that conclusion, be prepared for anything. And I mean everything." Verra nodded but cracked his neck in the process. "Ow…" he said rubbing his own. Verra tensed. "How did you lose it Wiz?" He asked his pal who'd been hit slightly in the chest. Getting up, he spoke.
"This spell, showed past results of colossal damage done as soon as Slade and Roku returned." He sighed a breath away. "AND, there was a minor factor that lead to blow up in front of our faces." He concluded. Starfire blinked in front of her friends. "What would that be?" she asked. Raven sighed.
"Robin." she said aloud.
Starfire sank. "Oh." Beastboy lowered his ears. "My animals can't smell them…" His ears now went up a bit to look at Raven with dignity. "But we'll find them together, right?" His hopes were higher than anyone else's to this point. Malchior fell to the floor in a coughing fit, Raven ran to him. "Get the others ready, this place is full of smoke."
Pointing to a leak in the wall's lights it was obvious that there was going to be a fire. "You mean we're gonna die?!" Verra looked both ways in a rapid, pacing way. Cyborg helped pick up Mal into his arms and over his shoulder. "That should keep him from choking for a while."
"Please. We must find the girls before leaving this awful place." Starfire worried that as long as the two were in the building, no one was safe.
"Ok, team, this way." They hung low to the ground, also trying to drive out the fires already starting to spew gusts of flame. "Oh…can't we just contact them by Raven??" Asked a nervous Beastboy. Raven glared at him. "I'm not a tool you know."
"Stay close kids, we might be in more danger than we realize…" Kayu was right on that part. Fire was spreading quickly, and the team hadn't found the others yet. A wall crumbled in front of Starfire who almost screamed out. Thankfully it wasn't much damage done to the floor. Having the ability to fly gave her courage enough.
Coughing out their lungs the team broke down a door, to find both girls holding one another and unconscious in each other's arms. The fire had come for them and death himself was overlooking the two with loose eye sockets. Starfire rushed by as her fiery fury took flight. "Stay away monster!" She shot at a wall as it crash around them and she was able to fight on her own.
The brat will be for another day, I want these two in return!
"Yah!" Coming down on the creature of dark surprise she was able to close in on the girls. "Do not be alarmed! I have come to rescue you."
"Star! Get back over here." It was Verra. He needed her help. Death was coming their way. And Verra's form was TOO strong for this maniac to match. Cyborg was with a heavy burden to carry and raven was coughing too badly. Beastboy looked at Kayu who became a timid Calumon. "Ohh…" it whined. Beastboy was all alone for maybe now, but here he was never. Ever, alone. He became a monster from Starfire's planet and was able not to melt. It roared loudly and the death eater went crazy with its scythe. The monster was able to grapple it mainly by its hilt and then was going to eat it for good. But Raven told him otherwise.
"NO!" she called out among the flames. "Don't try it." She said back. The monster spit out the weapon as best he could, covering the monster he was fighting with slime and spit.
Ugh! You shall pay for this…
With a wave of his stick, he was gone. As were the flames.