(DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT WON BEAST BOY, SHIMMER OR ANY OTHER DC CHARACTER/NAMESAKES.)
Chapter Eight- Return to the Temple
Beast and his partner Shimmer were sleeping on the League of Assassin's personal jet plane as they decided to get some rest before they returned to the League of Assassins Temple; the small jet started it's decent onto the runway that was masterfully formed out of the side of the mountain. The pilot looked back after she landed the jet and took notice that the green assassin had a goofy smile on his face which she found very cute and the female assassin had her arms around her partner's chest as they were forced to sleep together in the small area that this specific model offered the passengers. The pilot turned her decisive eyes back out the cockpit window and saw that their Mistress and the Mistress's son standing at attention at the end of the runway.
'I should probably wake them up before I open the hatch; I'm sure that neither Mistress Talia nor young Damian would like it if they found these two sleeping on the job.' The pilot thought as the jet plan came to a complete stop and the plane jerked as it stopped moving.
"WHAT!?" Beast shouted as the jerking of the plane shook him from his dread filled nightmare and extended his claws as he looked around to take in the details of the plane. "What's going on?"
"We are landing, Beast." The pilot informed the assassin as she took in the sight of his muscular. 'Lucky bitch.'
"Cool, dude." Beast replied as he sat up before shaking his head. "I-I m-mean cool, dudette."
'Dudette.' The pilot mentally giggled at the word.
"Looks like our first step in training will begin." Shimmer commented as she got off her partner's chest and looked down at him. "Nervous, yet?"
"The Training, no." Beast replied with a chuckle. "Talia, yes."
"Afraid of the Mistress?" Shimmer asked with a smirk. 'Not that I can blame him. She is very…intimidating.'
"After the last time we've fought, I swear I felt my arm cracking a little. I hope she doesn't kill us." Beast replied nervously as he gets up as he and the red head walked out the plane. "We didn't exactly handle ourselves against, Slade."
As the two assassins walked off the plane they were greeted by the sight of the ever attractive Talia al' Ghul and the cold and silent Damian al' Ghul; they walked towards the mother and son pair and quickly bowed in a sign of respect. The pair returned the bow as the mother turned to her apprentience. "How was the assignment?"
"I'd say it went pretty well….. Well until we ran into Slade and someone named Rose." Beast answered as a low growl escaped his throat.
"But we're alive and that's all that matters." Shimmer commented as she placed her hands on her hips. "So when's training?" She asked the older woman.
"You encountered, Wilson?" Talia asked as she placed her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at her pupils. "Report! Now!"
Beast flinched under his mentor's tone and nervously looked her in her eyes and he reported to her his and his partner encounter with the one eyed mercenary and his one eyed daughter. "Sorry for failing you, Mistress Talia." He apologized as he and his partner showed their respect by bowing to the woman who was at least fifteen years their senior.
"No reason to apologize Beast, Shimmer." Talia assured the two young adults. "Neither of you have the proper training as of yet to defeat or even fight on even ground with a man like Deathstroke the Terminator."
"Mistress?" Shimmer started.
"As of yet?" Beast finished.
"You're training will be intensified by tenfold before you start your final test and take your pledge to my father." Talia informed as she turned to walk away. "Follow!" She ordered as she snapped her finger. "No rest, you train now!"
/
"You could've lied." Shimmer grunted as she was forced to spar with her partner who nearly broke her arm with a strong right kick.
"To be per-fectly honest I have never been good with lying. And besides we have to tell the truth unless ordered to." Beast grunted in return as he dropped to the ground to dodge the return kick and kicked his partner's legs from under her and went for the killing strike when she kicked him his genitals and dropped to his knees with a silent scream of pain.
"Then I'd just teach you how to lie." Shimmer suggested as she kicked her partner in the face which sent him onto his back and then viciously placed her foot on his neck. "Yeild."
Beast smirked before flawlessly turning into a fly and turning back into his base form before holding his partner into a choke hold. "Yield."
The red headed girl sighed in annoyance before grabbing a twig from the ground and used her powers to turn it into a dagger before sticking it into her partner's shoulder.
"AAH!" Beast snarled as he was kicked back and the blade was yanked from his shoulder.
"This isn't over yet, Beast." Shimmer told the greenette with a victorious smirk playing on her lips as she held the dagger in her hands and got into a fighting stance as her partner got onto his feet. "I can still continue; can you?"
"I can still continue." Beast assured as the various wounds he sustained from the slightly more nimble Shimmer and bared his fangs against her. "I won't quit until you are on the ground."
The red head didn't respond as she allowed the green assassin to charge at her before she turned her dagger into set of brass knuckles and was able to punch her sparring partner, but he was able to land a pretty solid kick to her stomach and they both staggered back. Beast swiped the blood from his lips and Shimmer smirked in satisfaction at the sight before she ran toward him and kicked him in the shin before kneeing him in the face. The changeling saw this coming and caught the knee and then flipped the woman onto her back before he set his claws on the woman's throat with a superiority surrounding him and he held his victory in his hands.
"That is enough!" Talia's voice rang out the air. "It appears that you two are too evenly matched. Sara! Nyssa!" She called out as the two lovers came out, Sara with her bo-staff and Nyssa with her bow and arrows. "Sara you will spar with Shimmer, dear sister you with Beast."
"With pleasure." Nyssa replied with a ghost of an evil smile.
'Shit.' Beast cursed to himself as he backed away in slight panic.
As the training began, Nyssa showed no mercy as she loved using her opponent or more like using Beast for target practice. The changeling dodged every arrow, avoiding the arrows aiming towards him, and mostly aimed at his nether region. The second child of the Demon is basically still furious about the humiliation she endured in her dual to the death with the green teenager and she wanted to make him suffer. Of course that was all her fault.
'She's still pissed off about the Agni Kai thing, isn't she!?' Beast thought as he dodged another volley of arrows.
Watching the training was Ra's Al Ghul, and his grandson Damian, as they observed Beast's and Shimmer's training and take note that it will be long until they are both ready for their final trials and to be put out into the world to do as their Master had ordered.
"Both have potential, do they not, grandfather?" Damian asked his grandfather.
"Yes. Talia was right in choosing Garfield to join our cause." Ra's states as they watched the green man dodging the arrows like they were made of lava.
"Nyssa does know how to hold a grudge." Damian commented as she admired her aunt. "Beast, better stop his foolishness. Nyssa isn't the type to let go of a grudge."
"I only hope that Logan survive long enough for my plans to come into its final stages." Ra's replied as the changeling wasn't as lucky and got an arrow through his right arm. "Potential. And yet it is unrefined."
"What did the demon see in him?" Damian asked his grandfather.
"A source of mine says that he made her laugh." Ra's informed as they watched as his second daughter ran out of arrows. "Now it is hand to hand."
"We barely has one arm as it is." He noted as the green teenager struggled to keep up with the older woman. "We won't make it." Damian suggested the over six hundred year old man. "Grandfather, may I suggest that they go into the cave?"
"That is a great idea, Damian." Ra's agreed as his eyes grew cold. "Send them in after this training here. Inform your mother."
"At once, grandfather." Damian disappeared into the shadows.
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"Die!" Nyssa roared as she used her bow as a weapon against the changeling. "Your disrespect will not be tolerated!"
"I apologized like five times already!" Beast yelled in a panic as he dodged the bow and cut the woman's arms with his claws.
Nyssa winced from the scratches on her arms and she glared at the changeling. The woman growled as she was able to hit her opponent in his head with her bow and she smirked at his dazed expression before she placed his neck between the bow and the string of the bow and stared to choke him as she struggled for breath and couldn't focus enough to free himself.
"Enough!" Ra's Al Ghul shouted as he stepped forward. "I believe it is time for the next level of your training, Mr. Logan, and Ms. Flanders."
"Thank goodness!" Beast shouted as he felt his neck is free and the woman he was fighting was looking down at him like a giant onto an ant; he took an arrow out of his kneecap as he growled at her. "Fuck."
"What's the next training?" Shimmer asked as she stepped towards her partner and helped him up.
"You two shall go into the cave." Ra's told them to the shock of his daughters, and Sara.
"Father...are you sure that it is wise to send them in so soon?" Talia asked as she felt that her apprentience won't ready for the nightmare that lies in wait for them in the cave. "Usually apprentience are allowed a year to prepare themselves for such a thing." Even though her son informed her she still couldn't believe that her father would do such a thing so soon.
"I believe that Mr. Logan and Ms. Flanders are in fact ready for such a challenge, Talia. And don't argue with me on the subject; they will go in the cave right now." Ra's told his first daughter as a quick harsh look silenced her next argument.
"You want them to go in at night?" Nyssa questioned her father as she snuck a peek at the changeling. "That is a fantastic idea, father."
"I don't like the sound of this cave." Garfield commented as he gulped, but then grew curious. "But I am curious."
"Whatever this cave is, it sounds like a piece of cake." Shimmer replied as she crossed her arms.
'If Nyssa thinks it is a good idea then it must be something that will cause me quite the bit of suffering.' Beast whines in his head as he kept up his normal physical expressions. "Shimmer and I can do this with our hands tied behind out backs."
/
The blond girl opened her eyes as she felt a ringing noise coming out of her head. Once she opened her eyes, she is met face to face with Lady Shiva, and a group of several ninjas; who were all cloaked in black armor and various weapons.
"Now where am I?!" Terra demanded as she looked at the woman before her and noticed that she was in a different room than before. "Who the fuck are you!?"
Lady Shiva smacked the blond in the face, which the blond girl found herself bound to a wall with her wrists chained to said wall. "You will not talk like that to your mistress." She stated as she cracked her knuckles.
"W-Wha-at a-are you go-o-oing to do?" Terra whimpered as she feared that the Asian woman before her would rape her like Shimmer did. "P-Please do-on't h-hur-rt me."
"Don't worry I won't." Lady Shiva assured as she calmly walked over and she unchained the blond girl from the floor and smirked. "Fighting a chained opponent has no value or honor." She stated to the shock of the blond girl. "I'll enjoy beating you to the brink of death and then dragging you back."
"N-N-No-o! I do-on't k-kno-o-ow-w how t-to fi-ight!" Terra cried as she dropped to her knees and cried. "I'l-ll d-do an-nythi-ing!"
"Then stand." Shiva replied.
Terra stood up in one slow motion and found herself against the wall with a foot pressed against her throat. The blond struggled to remove the foot but she found that she couldn't out muscle the female assassin just gave up in the hopes of surviving just a little longer. "P-Ple-ease d-d-do-on't hur-rt me." She whimpered as she found the foot removed from her throat and then brought across her cheek which sent her crashing.
"Trained by Deathstroke, and yet you're easily broken. I'm disappointed." Lady Shiva states with a wicked grin on her face. "I'll enjoy crippling you until Beast gets a turn."
"B-B-Beast?" Terra whimpered as she cried silent tears in agony. "B-Beast-t Bo-oy w-will sa-ave me!"
"Believe that if you will." Shiva replied as she knocked the girl into the wall again with her foot crashing into her temple. "I have use for her." She stated as she walked out and the ninjas stayed in the room with the frightened blond girl.
/
"Take this and walk into the cave." Damian instructed the two partners as he handed them both a small bowl with steam coming out of it. "Inhale and then continue."
Shimmer and Beast shared a look and didn't exactly feel comfortable taking orders from a seven year old kid but snce they knew he was the grandson of their master and future master once he ascended the thrown they did as they were told.
"Bottoms up." Beast deadpanned as he and his partner took in the aroma and the toxin in the steam.
"Let's go." Shimmer stated as they both walked into the dark entrance of the cave.
He watched until the two vanished frm his sights and sighed in annoyance before dumping the consent of the two bowls onto the ground. "This might take a day or two."
/
"I hope those two have better luck in there than I did." Sara commented to her lover and friend.
"So do I. You did have a bad experience in the cave." Talia agreed with a nod. "If anybody can do it, it's Beast and Shimmer. What little training I have given, I have given well."
"I do find it odd that father would send them in so soon." Nyssa responded to her sister, but she still relished in the thought of the young man possibly losing his mind.
"You know father, he always have a motive to anything." Talia replied as she hoped that Beast and Shimmer would go through with what's in store for the cave and come out the same.
/
"Shimmer, are you there?" Beast asked as he turns around to look for his companion. He and Shimmer somehow got lost and separated in the cave as he looked around for the girl, but no such luck in finding her. "Where are you?" The assassin looked around to see just a thick fog that appeared to have come out of nowhere. "Hello? Shimmer?" He called out again but was once again met with a deathly silence. "Where did she go?" He asked himself.
"I'M RIGHT HERE!" Shimmer shouted as she jumped out from a rock and scarred her partner.
"What the hell!" Beast yelled as he tried to calm his fastly beating heart. "I almost killed you!"
"You wish." Shimmer dismissed her partner before they heard a creaking sound from behind them. "What was that?" The red head asked.
"Probably just some tentacle monster, like from those anime porn." Beast joked which earned him a smack from the girl.
"Shut it! If it is a tentacle monster then you'll be the one getting fucked!" Shimmer growled at the changeling. "While I run for it. Be a gentleman and take one for the team."
"Relax I was just joking." Beast whispered to his partner as he tuned in his ears for that creaking sound. "I apologize and stuff but for now let's just focus on whatever this place is."
"F-Fine. Lead the way, Beast." Shimmer agreed as she picked up a rock from the ground and turned it into a katana. "I'll provide the rear."
'That's what she said.' Beast mentally joked and he stifled a laugh.
The two stood in their guard as they prepared for the inevitable. It was then Beast sense something in the cave as he sniffed out a familiar scent. It smells like steel and gears as he looks around and saw the black and orange masked man that he had always hated and most likely will for the rest of his life.
"Slade!" Beast growled as he charged at Slade.
"Where?" Shimmer asked as she doesn't see Slade anywhere. But instead she saw another person in front of her. It was the same woman who experimented on her and her brother. "Dr. Jace." Shimmer whispered before her rage compelled her to charge at the doctor who experimented on her.
Unknown to them, this was part of the test.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" A scream broke through the air as the two figures disappeared before either assassin reached their target and they almost covered their ears at how loud the screaming was.
"Rae!/Baran!" Shimmer and Beast screamed as they ran off in separate directions to follow the screams of their own relatively loved ones.
