Disclaimer: I don't own anything here, well maybe the idea of the story and the Red Sea Sapphire, but besides all that I don't own anything, buti do own Malchior's new look – oops did I give that away?
A/N: Okay … here's my first shot at a Malchior kind a story … dragons have always been my all time obsession so of course it was bound to happen that I'd make a story staring Malchior and his rival the wizard Rorek. However, in the Teen Titans Raven had always been my favorite character and second was Red X so of course they're the main ones in this story too.
But I know that's not something you guys want to know, well at least those of you who are wondering what the hell is going on with my other stories. Well my friends just give me a few because this story has been distracting me for a while. But don't worry those other ones WILL be finished. I just have to get my obsession quenched or I'm gonna pop. I'm a dragon freak, and I just have to see how far I'll go with this story.
Summary: Here it comes, to drench, to pour, to drown all … and yet I just ignore. I ignore the fact I'm standing here, I ignore the fact that either way I turn I can never win. The rain is my punishment, the rain is my friend, the rain always washes away the façade every time I pretend. Being something that I'm not, trying to predict when the next time I'll fall, forgetting what it's like to just forget it all.
It started with a heist, a heist gone terribly wrong and from then on it just gets worse and worse and worse, then just as the situation seems bleak. Everything just blows up in the face when you throw in a snooping Raven, a powerful Spell Casting Dragon, a cursed Prince with half a heart, and a thief that doesn't have a single idea what the hell is going on. Yet as the story is written they all come to realize just what part they play in a book of terror that was found in the Library of Horrors.
Because in the wet rainy seasons, the best thing anyone can do to pass the time is to pull up a comfy seat sit down and read a good book, because when it rains … it pours.
So without further ado, I bring to you the first chapter of "When It Rains It Pours" hope you enjoy and please review, I need your reviews they are my life savers!
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Here Comes the Rain
The rain.
Made by gases in the clouds and the lighting that thunders down, basically creating a giant hydrogen bomb in the sky showering the world with it's chaos. Drenching and drowning the land in water and in the mist of all the chaos comes life. It's a cycle … a long … eternal … precise cycle. But … that's the science of it all … what is the rain associate with in the human psyche?
No body knows because it's the way people see things … just as fire; rain can be determined as good and bad. Helpful and destructive, romantic and tragic, calming and chaotic … it actually all depends on the way you see it. Some like the rain … some don't … some wish it to come for whatever reason they desire … some wish it to never come because it'll ruin whatever plans they have made for the day/night/evening.
It doesn't matter …
Nothing ever does …
However … all this is beside the point.
The point is … it's raining.
That's it … in Jump City it was raining and standing in the middle of the rain (clichéd and all) was a dark figure. Dressed in nothing more than a pair of dark charcoal gray cargo pants with a chain hanging on the side, a black wife-beater on the inside of a dark gray flannel shirt, collar popped yet sagging due to the weight of the rain. This young man with black, iron cuffs on either wrist appearing to be ripped out because of the heavy chains that still hung on the ends lifted up a hand.
Nails: long, neat, and sharp with a threatening point moved a strand of hair that got in his eyes from the heavy down pour of rain in the middle of the night. The ebony, thigh length long mane of his, tangled in a heaping mess with his bangs covering over his dark, void, yet shining metallic black eyes. The emotions that shone in it were … none. Emotionless, soaked, and observant, the male that stood in the middle of the rain a top the long extension bridge glared at the traveling cars that never took notice of his presents.
Who would even notice?
He was dressed in clothes that matched the gray, gloomy night sky and up so high that even the rain would obscure anyone's vision to the skies. So to say that he was safe from any ground danger was an understatement, everyone was clueless … and yet … his reasons for being there. In Jump City, standing in the middle of a downpour, a top the long extension bridge was unknown.
Only he knew why he was there … and with a tilt of his head as if listening to something … he was gone.
No … not gone … just relocating, racing through the city using the slippery ground to help speed things along he made it to his final destination in no time. To the docks he slipped to the shadows and still as silent as ever glared at another dark figure that snuck through the warehouse, cape whishing and dripping with rain water. Dark black metallic eyes glared critically at the human that dared to take his game.
The Red Sea Sapphire, now everyone knew that sapphires only come in any color with the exception of red. So why call his Sapphire the Red Sea Sapphire? Because it was the only giant fist sized sapphire to have a speck of red in the center, hardly seen through the human eye. It had to be placed under a microscope … however that wasn't the case. The case was the value.
The Red Sea Sapphire was priceless!
So to see another trying to take what was rightfully his was infuriating.
Out of the shadows and dripping wet he let his presents be known in a caramel smooth, liquid hypnotic tone, "I don't like to share so … move."
A direct demand, the one decked in black with a red X on his chest and a white skull mask, with another red X over his right eye, whirled around and metallic black eyes knew him to be a rival to Robin Boy Wonder, and mastermind international jewel thief. Red X in his distorted voice stood tall and sneered under the mask, "Funny, hardly know you and we already share a few things in common. Unfortunately my friend, this here sapphire was mine from the start. So shoo."
"It was not a request."
"Yeah? Well neither was mine, now get out of here before the guards catch us, I got work to do amateur." Before Red X knew it he was dodging a gutz attack from the unknown thief and flipping over the glass pedestal that held the prize, "What the fuck, you crazy? You could have set off the motion sensors!"
Not listening the chained black-eyed male balled his clawed hands into a fist and without hesitation shattered the glass that set off loud, blaring alarms. Red X watched in disbelief, "Just who the fuck do you think you are?"
Sirens, police, cops, reinforced armed weaponry set up around the premises came up and it was only a matter of time before either of them were caught. X knew when he was cornered and force was needed and this was one of those nights. Where he just had to run into another idiotic hotshot of a criminal that thought he could withstand the Titans that (X timed it all in his plans of the worst case scenario) would be coming in 3 minutes. And yet … the "idiot" that tripped the alarm was staring and admiring – no, scanning – the jewel for damages.
Un-freakin-believable!
"FREEZE!"
"DON'T MOVE!"
"YOU'RE UNDERARREST!"
"PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR!"
"DROP THE RED SEA SAPPHIRE! DO IT NOW!"
Red X tensed and the glared heatedly at the damp criminal who just stuffed the sapphire in his pocket and eyed the policemen that surrounded the premises, "Now you've gone and done it, how you gonna' get us out of this one stranger?"
Then, the worse case scenario came true and the Titans came flying in, busting the glass roof and literally dropping in on the crime posing. Red X under his mask rolled his eyes and propped an elbow on the busted pedestal resting his chin under it as well as Robin glared at him, "Drop the … sapph … ire … X?"
"Not this time kid," X pointed at the longhaired metallic black-eyed criminal who blinked and raised a brow, "all his doing I just … kinda showed up … thanks for dropping in though."
Beast Boy leaned to Cyborg whispering, "Yo, who's pretty boy?"
Cyborg whispered back, "My guess is as good as yours."
Starfire hovering just above the scene looked over to Raven who in turn shrugged yet stared at the new-guy … he seemed familiar some how. Shaking her head, Raven stayed focused and readied her attack.
Robin turned his attention to the real criminal and glared, "I don't care who has the sapphire just as long as you hand it over and come with us without any hostilities."
"Well my friend," the drenched criminal tilted his head in a way that got even X to back up and away in fear, especially with the evil gleam in his eyes and the fangs that jutted out over his lower lip. It just sent shivers down everyone's spine, "I'm afraid there's a problem with your demands … it's a no deal on my end."
Robin tensed and addressed his team, "Ready Titans, he's not human," then shifting his response to the non-human thief, responded, "What do you want with the sapphire?"
"That isn't something you need to know."
"Yeah," X snickered, "and this place isn't somewhere I need to be."
"Titans! –"
X stopped his slinking and huffed exasperatingly, "Here it comes."
" – GO!"
Sending a dry look to the calm criminal X gestured to the charging hero's, "You gonna get that or should I?"
The nonhuman spared X a passing glance and crouched then leapt into the air to meet the more powerful of the 5, the alien princess. Starfire, surprised that he would interrupt her flight so suddenly without so much as hesitation or a chance to study her moves gasped and reared back too late. A swift spin kick to her temple shot her down to Robin, but the nonhuman clutched her heel and swung over to Beast Boy. Claws out and sharp, Beast Boy barely had any time to dodge as he felt his back grazed.
Back into human form and scared senseless, Beast Boy gasped and checked his back to see if it was bleeding … but only barely, "Dude! Were you actually trying to kill me!"
"Is that not the point?" the nonhuman flashed him a fang grin as Starfire and Robin tried to untangle each other's limbs to continue the fight. Raven, in the dark chanted quietly to herself and lifted various items in the warehouse – in the process blocking off all of X's exits. The dark sorceress shot the items at the nonhuman, smashing everything that could possibly to injure him.
Instead he leapt up high and flipped, coming down on Robin with a drop kick, Robin blocked with his staff and caught him off balance when he grabbed his ankle and swung him to the ground. Slammed, the nonhuman shot back up and attacked furiously, "You humans are all the same, slow –" Robin swiped his staff, but the nonhuman vanished and reappeared behind him. However anticipating the attack, Robin flowed in step and whirled his staff around to connect to the temple, but it was caught and he was jerked closer to stare down into black metallic eyes, that mockingly grinned down at him, " – weak, –" suddenly pain filled Robin's sense as a fist collided to the center of his forehead, releasing his staff, his opponent grasped it and with a simple twirl, swung it around. Cyborg who approached from behind had the center of his metal body stabbed and short-circuit his system. The nonhuman then spun all the way around and nailed Robin on the side of his head.
Around the world the leader of the Titans went down with his lights flickering out, the challenger grinning all the while, " – and so totally helpless."
"Not if I got anything to say about it!" Beast Boy roared, transforming into a rapter and charging the challenger, he turned to Beast Boy and brought up the staff to block the green changeling's large mouth wide open and ready to chomp down on his head. The weight and pressure of the beast snapped the staff, but not before the challenger flipped him overhead and slammed into Starfire who was occupying herself with X.
Coincidently X was just about to throw the alien a red tape to strap her down, but just as the adhesive was sent flying it wrapped itself around both the Titans and down they went. Starfire completely knocked senseless, as she was both knocked down to the ground head rattling, but it bounced back to Beast Boy's hard scales and to the ground again. X looked over to the stranger to thank him for the help, but saw Raven coming up from behind and warned, "Uh … you might wanna turn around."
The stranger turned just in time to dodge and roll to the side as a large portion of the warehouse was ripped out and thrown at him. Raven did not hesitate to throw a few more things, but he evaded every shot and even jumped over a few items to help launch himself up to the sorceress. Aiming to grab her and take her down, she shot up a black barrier and pushed him down, intending to smash him good.
Red X, leaning against a beam with his arms crossed cringed, "Ooo, why you gotta' be so cruel?'
Ignored X was, and Raven cracked the ground to stop the creature once and for all, but somehow, strangely he protected himself and shot up to Raven to try and knock her out of the air again. She – again – shot up a barrier, but this time it was different.
"Counthous Speltrex," he growled and from his right hand he produced a white-hot energy orb, where once close enough to the barrier he released and it was shattered completely! Even hitting Raven, and throwing her against the far wall she dropped, dazed from the hit. The stranger scoffed and flipped to his feet.
On the side Red X blinked, and blinked again, "Dude … who are you?"
"Dude" igrored X and stomped up to Raven who was recovering from her position and looked up to see the sorcerer coming at her. Eyes glowing and hands ready to attack, black-metallic eyes glared and waved his hand muttering, "Silensou."
Her mouth moved, but no sound came out, shocked and bewildered she scrambled to her feet and tried to get away from the sorcerer. However the cape was snagged and she was yanked back. A scream wanted to come out, but she was silenced. She could not speak or make a sound as she fell into his grasp, an arm wrapped around her waist and another ground around her neck, but never to chock her. No … in fact … it felt more like he was embracing her and before she knew it the mysterious challenger was whispering to her ear and the enigma was gone, "You still smell so sweet Raven."
No … way … she thought suddenly going still and paling whiter than she already was. The one holding her grinned and kissed her on the cheek, "Yes, little Raven, you remember me don't you? I'd hope you did … but I cannot stay and chat for too long sweet, I just thought you'd like to know: I'm back … for good."
With a spin he released her and put a sleeping spell on her, staring amusingly at the damage done to the area, X followed his example and shrugged, "So now what man? You and me gonna' go at it? You know, you still have my sapphire and I'm not leaving with out it. Not after I took out all those cops and armory, and there will be reinforcements soon. So what?"
"It's not a sapphire," Malchior sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose to keep a raising headache at bay, "it's a holding cell that can trap anything and any one in it for all eternity and right now I need it for special purposes."
X snorted, "Look man, I don't give a rat's ass if Queen Mab herself is in that thing, the point here is that it's worth more than your life and I want it. So hand it over or there'll be some consequences."
Malchior chuckled and shook his head, "If the hero's of Jump City cannot take me, what makes you so different?"
X got ready for confrontation, "Do I look like a Teen Titan?"
"Well you do wear a costume, do you not?"
"Enough smart jokes, last warning, give up the sapphire or you're as good as dead."
"You do not have the courage to kill, you're a cowardice thief."
The international phantom sneered, "I may not know magic, but I know crazy and I'm gonna go all psycho on your Houdini ass if you don't quit the fake British Accent. It's starting to bug the hell outta me."
"Do your worst, peasant." Malchior scoffed.
X reared his head back and looked almost insulted – note: almost, "Peasant huh? Well then Prince John, look out cause here comes Robin Hood."
Sending out numerous X bombs, Malchior dodged them all and went straight for the thief wasting no time in disposing him, "Tembel Murcrous!"
Powerful blast of energy came at X, and it looked dead set on target, but as the smoke cleared from the explosion, Malchior reared back when there was no body. Instead from above X reappeared on top pf one of the beams and jumped down. Harsh kick to the back and a ruthless punch to the head X jumped off and kicked the dragon – not that he knew who Malchior was – in the gut hard enough to send him rolling on the hard ground. The thief followed and stomped on his chest with his heel and kicked his face.
No doubt Malchior felt the pain, but X didn't care as he reached to the pocket he saw the dragon put the gem, however a clawed hand grabbed his wrist and X found himself at the receiving end of pain. Especially when he was thrown across the room and slammed into a beam that supported the structures form. The place rattled and groaned, creaking under all the pressure. However it was wasted upon deaf ears, plus the pounding rain didn't help.
"Robin Hood," Malchior growled, and spat out blood onto the ground as he stalked to the grunting thief that struggled to get on his feet, "how cute. So tell me where's Little John and Friar Tuck, and while I'm asking where's Maid Miriam?"
"Up your ass around the corner and three blocks down from here," X gritted his teeth and dove for the ground when Malchior sent another power bomb at him, however he dove far enough to where he was at Malchior's feet and took the opportunity to tackle him to the ground. Using his pick-pocketing skills X snagged the sapphire and before Malchior could turn the tables he got up with the sapphire in hand.
"Looks like I got the rock looser, now what'cha gonna' do about it?"
"Rip you're arm right out of it's socket!"
With that said Malchior leapt for X, but the thief had already pressed his teleportation button, however Malchior was fast enough to grasp the teen by the wrist that held the sapphire. Knocking it out of his hand in mid-teleportation, the Sapphire vanished with them all right … but not quite as we'd all would like to think.
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