Chapter 75: Daemons and Ends
A/
"Oh man…" Cyborg had been frowning as Star's scream had died down within the walls of the chamber. The skeleton was left with little remains, no bones to hold it together, just a cold half eaten face. It was gruesome indeed as little Richard's weeping alerted the others of an intruder. Slade...
"Run, this way!" Verra and Kayu were first to scoop up poor Robin from the way of the villain's wrath. "Give him to me!" His voice now sounded like the dragon itself! How odd…Right?
Raven's eyes glew as she turned around to fire at the attacker. "Stand back." She directed the friends she held dear to leave her to this monster. Only to be surrounded by smoky clouds of gray from Angra's cloak and bodily powers. "Ahh!" She slapped at the air in vain trying to get the smoke to clear up.
Cyborg and Starfire shot at the two evil creatures as Alice soon was getting up in the next room. "Wha-…where am I?" she shook her head and looked down towards the hide away in the wall. Maybe this would help…
Robin was looking back over the shoulder of the warrior fox god, Kayu. His eyes were clearer now and his way of thinking, childishly simple. Wizardmon looked up as tears began to fall to the ground from above him. Verra did too. "Kid…" Feeling power around the area, Robin began to shrink some more until his height was that of Verra's own. "Four years of age. That's bad…" Verra stopped in front of his cousin to make him do the same. The god stopped on his heels and listened intently. "We've got to use the rabbit, it may cure him." Greg slid in front of the two as he reached into his pack. The rabbit would have almost fallen out all on its own if it had not been for the hero's quickness. Holding the animal up to the face of the young one the guardians waited for results. "Nothing!" Verra held up his paws. "You have to wait for the glowy stuff, don't ya? And then he starts to change, right?"
Kayu sighed as he put down Robin who got to his feet in seconds. 'He needs that rabbit since it is a spirit of the goddess, yes —
Don't you be like that bro. He's the only one who can get us home, portals won't work for squat!" Verra retorted. "And nothing is gonna make me change my —
MIND?" The cat froze as he yelped from surprise. Little Robin made out one word that turned bitter in their hearts.
"Do-ggie!" He clapped his hands as the wolf came forth.
B/
"I see you've got a child nearby…I adore them so much." Verra barked at the white demon. "No. Freaking. Way." He growled. Kayu took out his blade and slid in front of young Richard.
"The young master summoned me here. Is there a problem, gentlemen?" his voice was just some cheap knock-off of a lying scoundrel. "Heed warning daemon, we are well armed." Kayu heard the little wizard remind his foe. "He's not going back to that hellhole of a home!"
"You go Wizzy!" cheered Verra earnestly. "ENOUGH!" the wolf went straight for the young boy behind the warrior god. "Mine!!" grinned the wide-eyed daemon. Starfire blasted with a friend or two behind her. "YAH!" she called as she flew into his body with a forceful blow. "Starfire!" Cyborg ran after the two who fought as never before seen.
The thing snarled as it landed on its feet within milliseconds. Starfire did in suite. The monster began to back into her with a hit, as if suicidal. Instead he'd rammed her into a wall of sharp stone. That was until someone else showed up to ruin the party…
Alice went in through the stone pathway, being cautious in not letting anyone hear her. She could feel their magics in strong waves. "He must be close…fighting a Titan or guardian…," She said softly to herself. "Must not lose my control…" Slowly she descended towards the steps…
As the two battled Wizardmon noticed a blue glow coming from inside his sack. "It is! Aha! We've done it!" He held up the rabbit without noticing Hsari coming from a new door through the wall. "Too bad for you." He was holding a staff of cool precious metals. Baby Robin was now cowering in fear of the two. Cat and dog.
C/
"This temple ground, has not been used in many years." Hsari stared blankly at the guardians and boy. Robin cocked his head to the side in confusion and misunderstanding of the situation. "As children often will say help is needed to nurture." The white wolf concluded.
"And you will NOT be the ones to nurture such a cause!" Starfire clenched up her fists and went for the dog until Hsari intervened. He whacked at her with his staff; getting up she sniffled some air in and out.
"You can't do that mister!" Richard rebuked. The teen began to reemerge from the body and mind of the youngster. His hair was not long anymore and his body no longer covered with the mark of the beast. Slade watched from the doorway; Alice was being held tightly by the arm. Raven groaned as she got up only to find a loop around her arms, holding them stiflingly still. "Let…Me, go!" She began to pull hard on the binds that held her in the hand of the man and monster dragon pawn. "Not until this ends." He said in return, tightening her bonds. Raven was not permitted to show emotion, but the speechlessness made her tear. "Robin!" With that call she was freed. "Just needed a test subject." Slade replied. Alice was the next to contact young Roku from within, but Slade made her head ache from the inside out. Hsari bowed before his lead, as so did the wolf.
Robin wanted to run away from here, but could not leave his friends to fight alone. Again. Angra within seconds constricted poor Robin till he was in binds as well on the floor. The others; all but Greg met the same fate. Beastboy tried to bite free and succeeded but was caught by the tail while the embodiment of a mouse.
Angra did nothing but chuckle ever so softly to its prey. Going somewhere? Classic evil lines. "Well it could be worse, right?" Verra coughed from the binds round his stomach, small and defenseless. "Ow…"
"Biting free, how mundane…well for a child's cause that may seem, but not my own." The wolf paused for a moment; having thought their leader was not yet satisfied till things were set to play correctly. "Master," it said. "How does he do it?" Slade now crossed his arms still hanging onto the two girls. "I…I suppose we just let him, Have. It."
His eyes bore red and in demonic fashion of an old yet new generation. As open as they were to deciding the son's outcome there were still some folk to be dealt with in time. In time, the Titans would have to go. Forever.
D/
"Whatever you're gonna do, it won't work…" Cyborg directed his arm and its brand of power at the enemy he'd never once fought alone. Robin had been the only one besides the others. And once himself actually, during prophetic times in time. But this depended on time alone. Not Robin, just Cyborg. For now. "Get ready to burn baby!" Verra smirked under the dirt he lay on top of. It wouldn't have failed had Hsari not been trying to make trouble at the least.
"Hey! What'd you!…Ah!" Sadly, Cyborg was whacked with that staff till he began to crackle with broken down energy of a sort. He fell in a dark wave of sadness. I'll find him, and beat him for good…
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Beastboy groaned as her tried to move in his spot. It was to his intent that there would be pain, for the hurt of baby Rob and all of his friends as well as the little girl herself from the sands. To his surprise, he could not move. "Wha?"
Starfire groaned and mumbled something in Tamaranean. Then got a look around and gasped. "X'al! Robin, where has he taken us?" she whispered short of breath.
"Towards fate, babe." It was Red X in their home, well again. Only here he was; standing in front of the team, bearing down guilt and displeasure. It was a wall of stone and concrete almost impossible to break since it was protected by a force field of light and dark energies. They were chained to the wall in binds. In their own T Tower or perhaps a new one as it had little tech to work with. Now they were clear to see it all; this was their home, but someone had broken in and changed it to seem old as time in structure and design.
"Our home! What have you done to it?" Starfire asked angrily. X only took off its mask. Beastboy and his friends knew nothing of the face but the actions…seemed suspicious enough. "Who are you…?" Bb wondered under breath.
"A friend, enemy, and the new deal hon." He clicked his tongue at Star and Bb. The two weren't impressed. He dropped his pointed fingers in the shape of pistols to his sides. "Oh well, guess I tried. Good luck at the stadium, kids." He waved as he left. Turning around slowly. "Wha?! But…. That, …That means—
A battle." Star concluded.
Raven was cast in a magic bubble just as she and her friends had been in the sacrificial chamber. When Rokuro had emerged just in time to lose to a new power of his son's. Was the dragon's power real? Or was Slade trying to fool them in to believing it was…NO. It was real. Raven had seen the damage it had done to her friends. Starfire and Robin, Wizardmon and Kayumon. And Verra and Beastboy and Cyborg! "They all had a part in this, didn't they…Slade…"
"Very perceptive Raven, I suppose someone needs to put the Titans in their place."
Raven smirked. "And your way was any better? Riiight." She rolled her head frowning. "When do you plan to get rid of us?" she asked. Her face told everything along with words. Slade only smiled cautiously. "Why my dear, are you still concerned with your so- called friends?"
"Because I CARE, Slade! Unlike you of all people!" Slade crossed his arms. Raven tried to move hers' but binds sprung up from all around as the bubble broke and she'd become exposed to a dark presence. He chuckled. "Why? WHY?
YOU my dear…have right as a demoness as your fa-
SHUT UP ABOUT TRIGON!" Her emotions flared in all abundance but without a hook and sinker to drag her back down. Not a place she wanted to go. Fiery emotion swung back and forth as she waited for words to come from behind the mask. "Where, are my friends…" She panted. Slade held his chin in his fingers and thought with his head to the side. "WELL?"
Calm yourself my dear. There is no reason to 'go off' like that. He mocked. She was at wits end with this fun he'd been toying with. "TELL ME!" Raven grasped the ends of the earth and tossed it without control in mind right at Slade like never before; she had formed her own earth and rock from air! "Gasp…"
Looking at her hands then up at Slade he spoke in works of words as she had only yet imagined he would. "Impressive don't you agree? How a mind can shape and fold and bend to one's own standards." Raven was left without a remark to say or do. Blank and out of energy. His eyes narrowed. "But you Raven, well. This is a first I believe that I've met you at your true standards." When he said Raven's name, his eyes got wide and scarier than before. She would have jumped had it not been for something else. Intrigue.
"What…pant …What are you saying?" she asked eager to hear him peak of true power and purpose. Slade sighed sadly. "If I put it into simple terms you may as well 'get' the question in the beginning." Raven looked up. "Huh?"
"It all began with a word and then an action. And spirits combined into special forces. They met until all of the forces before them were whole. Some of these were known as first creations, by many of the first forces to ever walk the universe." Slade was not through.
"These were claimed as counterparts of the greatest one after it's own creators and creator…" Raven paused a moment. Then stopped looking up at him blankly. "S.G.U…" she whispered. Slade nodded. "So you do know of the great creator's creation. Good, it will make my story easier for you to hear. Since we need to under stand this thoroughly your friends will get a chance to listen as well, so yes you'll see them. For a short time." He instated. "BUT. Robin is mine."