A/N: Young Justice is cancelled. If you want to help bring Young Justice back the links will be on my profile. Also a portrait of Lilith and her mask is on my profile. Remember to review. Be critical or a troll if you want. I'm a DigiPen art student. I'm learning animation from the people that worked on Beauty and the Beast and other Disney movies so I'm used to it. As a treat for people that actually read this I have thumbnails of some Disney stuff on my profile.
(Edited 3/19/2013, trying to add more detail as suggested by reviewer)
The door opened hitting wind chimes above. Before the door closed a brown-ash cat was weaving figure eights between her legs, meowing for attention. "Hazeal." Greta giggled, scratching the cat's head and tuffed ears. "Where's Dahlia?" Hazeal trotted from the door to the counter where her master was scribbling with a red and black pencil. Greta watched as the cashier repeated the same swirling motion mixed with some jagged ones. After a few minutes, she could only see red lines and black shapes. "Hi Dahlia!" The cashier's chair wobbled as her head jerked up. Hazel eyes dialated to focus on the young girl in front of her. It took awhile for her eyes to uncross and Greta giggled, "Working on Halloween again?"
"Yeah," Dahlia smiled back. She rotated her shoulders back and several loud cracks alined her spine. "I think Abel won't mind if I close shop early though." Dahlia gestured to the magic shop. It was empty of both customers and items. Leaving only a few costumes and props scattered throughout the shelves. Greta turned to see a mischievous smile on the older women, "I might do some trick or treating."
"Aren't you a little old for that?" Greta raised a brow with a slight frown, "Billy keeps telling me I'm getting too old."
"That's why adults are boring." The older women gave a short laugh. Greta rolled her eyes. When she looked back Dahlia was handing her a packaged white costume. "But I doubt he'll say no."
"Thank you so much!" Greta smiled, taking the costume from her. She twirled in circles, taking a while to realize someone was knocking on the window. They both looked and saw Billy who waved. Greta gave a quick hug to Dahlia over the counter. She pet the lynx looking cat and ran for the door. "I'll see you tomorrow!"
Dahlia gave no responds, simply smiling and waving. Hazeal meowed, its stubbed tail waving slowly. When the door closed and the wind chimes settled Dahlia glanced back at her drawing. Red claws crushed the lost black sheep. A three pointed silhouette loomed over, with a grin of pure glee and chaos. With a yowl claws sliced his face and the scene floated to the floor. Dahlia gave the feline a rewarding scratch between its fury bow ties.
The man frowned. He looked at the women. She was short, but she had a body. He knew as a junior in collage. But like a child she wore a ram like skull, hiding her top face while leaving her wide canine grin in the light. Her cloths a casual jacket and pants. When she still held up the bag for candy he sighed, "Who are you supposed to be?"
"Lilith." The grin widened and the hazel glow in the hollow eyes of the skull brightened a bit.
"Aren't you too old to be trick or treating?"
"I'm ageless."
"Right." The man rolled his eyes and cross his arms. "Didn't your mom or dad take you trick or treating when you were a kid."
At this Lilith's smile fell from amusement to bitter, "My mom died during child birth." He could tell from the chills tingling his spine. The man took a sharp breath, rubbing the back of his neck. Then he noticed his breath was visible and cold spots against his arms. He turned to see snow drifting down his chimney. "Next time, don't be so chilly to a stranger." He looked back at the door but the trick or treater was gone.
Lilith was far down the street of the man's house. Next to her legs the hazel-ashy cat walked with a meow. "I thought it would be a lot more fun." Lilith said as if replying to the feline. She felt the cat walk on her bare feet. Without a though she just watched as Hazeal trotted to the side. Then her hair suck to her neck and cloths stuck to the body of a young adult. Lilith stopped walking and stood in the puddle. Eyes targeted the car with a trickester half way out the window with a bucket still dripping water.
"Grow up geek!" The car only slowed so the trickster could yell.
"Oh please." With a roll of her wrist the water followed into a ball, leaving her as dry as her cat. "If your gonna trick," the ball dropped and flew through the car window with a kick. Her smile returned as screams brusted from the car. "Do it right." With a snap of her fingers the water exploded, the torrent bursting open doors and the grown boys in the car tumbled to the pavement. Hazel eyes faded to black as Lilith looked at the feline. Hazeal licked her paw as if finishing dinner. "You could have warned me."
"Meow."
"I'm out of practice?" Lilith crossed her arms and squated in front of the cat. "Do you want Carmine and Vera to find us?" Hazeal's large eyes blinked and a soft mew was her reply. "Well, if they do I'm throwing you to the wolves." Lilith shook her head, scoping the household lynx into her arms. With a stepped forward, mist wrapped her foot. They hardened into skates and Lilith rolled down the street. With a smirk she approached the group of tricksters still stumbling in the puddle. When she passed the puddle froze, leaving the men stuck to the ground.
Lilith weaved between a couple on the sidewalk. Wheels leaving an icy trail. With a quick turn she was rollling down the pavement backwards and the couple slipped on the ice. The cat in her arms mewed. "Please, this will barely attract attention." Lilith adjusted her hold. A hand now glided against the buildings leaving trails of ice that sprinkled out like vines. She heard gasp from children their parents.
"Mom! Look." A child gasped, and Lilith smirked. Her bright hazel orbs looked at the child bouncing across the street. She winked under the mask, and with a quick turn and push off the pavement she was rolling up the building. "It's Jack Frost!" Lilith rolled her eyes while the Hazeal hissed in shutters as if laughing.
"Shut up kitty." Lilith tossed the car across the street. She followed her cat, pushing off the wall and jumping across the street, spinning all the while. From her hands snow fluttered out. Hazeal's yowls of distress became louder as she came closer to the wall of the building. Then she was in Lilith's arms again. Her fur stood up and hiss poured out like colorful words. Lilith's wheels hit the wall again and they rolled towards the sidewalk. Hazeal gave a ferocious hiss. Lilith only laughed. "Okay that was uncalled for. I'm sorry." She gave a scratch between her tufted ears. Hazeal settled back into her arms but yowled angrily. "When does the Raise of the Guardians come out? I should dress up as Jack Frost and do some magic."
An angrier yowl came out. Lilith looked down. On the ashy-brown fur, soulful blue markings appeared. Hazeal meowed again and Lilith turned to the roof of the building, pushing off her skates with haste. "What do you mean you don't know who died?" The cat faded like a mist and reformed already running to the next rooftop before Lilith could land on the current building. "It's our- was our job to know and escort them. We needed to know-"
"Meow." Hazeal didn't attempt to jump over the gap between buildings. She vanished in a mist and reformed on the next building.
"Don't tell me to shut up." Lilith easily hopped over the allyway, following the evaporating feline. "If it's not an angel then Vera or Carmine is gonna shepard them to hell." She skid to a stop as the cat re-evaporated, sitting at the edge of the roof. A blinking light caught Lilith's eye and she turned. Her glowing eyes nearly filled the skull's eyesockets at the flickering sign of the magic store. Over the edge of the building she saw Greta, laying in the white costume while Billy dig a hole.
She shot forward, then back, slammed against the rooftop with mind numbing thud. The hazel-ash cat stood on her chest with a hiss. "I know..." Lilith sighed. Bright orbs disappeared as she closed her eyes, "Killing him will definately bring Vera and Carmine."
Lilith's hollow eyes watched the orange sky darken. Though it didn't fade to black as the sunset. They inked together into red claws. With a jolt her hazel eyes returned and the claws faded into the night sky. She exhaled and rolled over. Hazeal yowled in surprise and stared over the edge, her master was rolling down the wall like it was the sidewalk again. The wheels lifted from the surface and disappeared. Her bare feet hit the ground and Lilith was walking to the makeshift grave.
Her cat evaporated onto the wooden board that was supposedly Greta's tombstone. She hissed at the plans in her masters's head. Lilith paid no mind and continued. With a twist of wrist her finger trips left a blue circle in the air. Lilith pushed the circle, growing it large as ancient symbols appeared. The markings on Hazeal appeared on Lilith. Shinning through her clothes as she lowered her hands. The pentagram followed, sinking into the ground with Greta's grave in the center.
Hazeal hissed, both claws and fangs barred. She leaped but was gently caught before claws met flesh. "Your right. That was stupid. Now let's evaporate before an angel or my sisters comes." Hazeal hissed, but evaporated both of them from the grave.
With a gasp the spirit sat up, eyes immediately finding the familiar sign across the street. "Secret..." She pulled the rest of her body from her grave as she stood.
From her place on a random rooftop Lilith could see the explosion. Hazeal's ear twitched at the sound but her body settled back into her master's stomach. Lilith only looked back at the floating crystal ball like it was a movie. The ball showed Zatanna and Artemis fighting Billy. "The girls are cute." Soon the heroines were on the retreat, following Greta's ghost.
"A bit too young for you don't you think?" The smoke and fire in the orb shifted, and lunched through the glass. Hazeal yowled and quickly vanished. Lilith rolled across the rooftop, missing the magical talons as it striked the cement. She was on her feet and then lifted from them by a matching talon. Her hands lifted to pry the claws but it only shifted to an ankh, locking her hands in place. From the crystal ball her loving sister Vera evaporated in. She smirked, arms crossed. "I like the mask. You looked too much like mom." Lilith scowled, fighting against the hold. She was only slammed to the ground with a thought from Vera. Lilith clenched her jaws, trying her best to drew a small circle hidden from Vera's view. "Nothing to say before I take you to stand trial for soul stealing?"
"You take too long." With a spread of her fingers the circle widened around the ankh, pentagrams drawing itself into the air as it grew. With a snap of her fingers the pentagram glowed, shattering the solid energy the ankh was made of. The majority of the shards hovered for a second, then logged itself in Vera's blue eyes. The rest cut deep into Lilith. Lilith watched her sister crumble to the ground holding her eyes. Blood seeped through her fingers and paused. It flowed back behind her hands as the Deathling's magic reconstructed her eyes. Vera removed her hands from her face just in time to see Lilith's body turn into a light mist blowing away in the wind.