OK, so to top it all of I'll explain the situation to those who aren't able to clarify for themselves;
One: Slade shows up, but it's him in the body of a child him about 12 years old or over, haven't a clue Roko was an evil side to the prince Richard/ Roku, his mother called him Richard and his counterpart evil dad's been calling him either. He was supposed to be one; a bad influence on the kids.
And lastly: Becoming a helper of Lord Roku as an evil catalyst, he was a light catalyst to help his friends he met on his journey. That was how he met the guardians and was turned. Easier said than done right? Uh uh.
Arianna, Ravenna and the guardians, Alice and her old counterpart Arisu were all once allied or against the king or his son and family. Ok, so enjoy the story some more!
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Chapter 10: The Struggle Resides, Loosing Faith And A Head Turning Fate.
The portal would never close without them.
"He will be home, finally be home..." Starfire knew that she should receive him with open arms. She knew that they were...they were...
"and if we were to be these, lovers?..." As if she were unable to control her words she asked herself what had already been asked. Asked of them. Two lovers, friends as well, why had such an unwanted thing happened. The princess just wanted him home...
"Star?" Beast boy and she turned the corner, he'd caught up alright!
"You don't look so hot. Is everything..." he paused for a second. Robin and her, were best friends. Nothing would ever change unless they broke off. Was she...upset about that?
"Star about the proph-
"I am well, weak from the shock from the rat swarm...you have no need to worry about me Beast boy, we have worries as well as you..." She inched back from his gazing sad eyes. "I must leave now! He-h-he will also be worried!" swaying from the wall she left the beast teen thinking of the awful separation ever since the fight with the leader. His bud and brother almost...yet, a fist curled up at his side. The prophecy was still not as clear to them, only guardian and god alike knew what was going to happen.
He shook with a chill running up and down his spine. That was terrible! Why would they be kept from the secret if that was meant to be the thing they needed now most of all? In order to stop the Roku guy! Who was he, what was he? In fact...B'd never seen the real guy since the dragon attack at the temple! And why was Rob so important in all this!
He shook his head freely. "Uh uh, I gotta ask the Wiz, Vee, anyone!" Wanting to know that day was tedious enough that he'd pick up one of the spell books while searching accidentally.
"What are you doing in my room?-
Raven froze, Beast boy's face was covered in green fuzzy fur. Eyes placed in a position of the hunter.
"Rae...help...me...!" he growled as if in physical pain.
She stepped up to him...
"B...beast...boy?" She squeaked. Is that you?"
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"Agh!" She got up. "Looks like a tornado again..."
She was in a new place to rest her head. The medical room. How'd she get he-
Gasping she watched the figure worm its way out of the sheets. "Starfire? What is going-
Starfire feverishly made a sound that was almost a grunt. "I cannot sleep..."she whispered to the empath. Raven looked up to the ceiling and then down to her legs. She was also wrapped in sheets.
"Why-
I didn't get to heal myself, I just came to." Starfire peered up at the girl next to her bed. "Nor was I, incidentally. Beast boy and I were brou-
The dream? Raven slipped onto the floor as the sheets fell to her feet. "I'm going to check on the other-
No! You must not leave this room! There is a beast-
That was Beast boy, what I thought I was dreaming of was actually his needing our help."
"Oh! I'd just remembered, he was not well. His energy was weakness. And...he was unsure of my well being!"
Raven raised he eyes. "So. Why didn't you run to tell us? Huh? Demon..."
The obvious liar Starfire backed into the frame of the bed. With a frown she sat up. The world around them was different from the med bay area. Her hair became amber brown in a bob hairstyle. Her eyes green with envy, evil pulsed through her possession. And the face behind it...
"Where is Starfire!"
Raven held up her powerful arm as if to handle a difficult spell. Her hand was flat and facing the girl. Her face was paler than the moon, her lip bitten and eyes...were they her true self? The girl brought a pair of glasses to her eyes, they were not worn but crushed. As rainbow vision now disabled her from the cold cloud of light it placed over her. The rainbow turned to the shade of her eyes, unknowing and uncaring- there would be a battle between a mage and a sorceress empath.
And as if a voice told her to do so, she used a seamless whip to attack.
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The girl swirled the whip in hand until Raven drove herself to watch for its tip. The girl was quite special, for wielding it-
Raven paused again, this time with eyes opened. ~Your...ribbon!~
"That's right..."sneered the child with the hair ribbon as an elongated whip. "I am an A class summoner, from the nether worlds!
"But...how did you get past the guardians? Isis, she would have-
I am a messenger from the world of spirit, the true king tells you that he is home..." She held her skull with a few rather ragged 'pants' to soon follow. A flash of light made her shudder, Raven knew that this girl was indeed demon material, yet...was Roku really on the run since they'd left the kingdom of spirit?
"What has he been up to you ask? You'll see us at home in your world, soon enough...!" Raven could bear no more of the firepower, so she redirected. Going far from her self she invaded space, this girl was just another Alice-
The child fell to her knees as Raven covered her shadow. From below the little Piper Pipette began to curse under her breath, the spell didn't work. "You'll have to try better than that sorceress!" The girl's whip almost confused them both as Raven tumbled over. When she awoke after few seconds of unconsciousness she gasped, "Starfire...!"
A part of Piper was foggy especially in the mind, possession was well-
A showy shadow danced across the walls of the med lab room. It had to be her...pow!
A great shock made the shadow come to form. It wasn't poor Piper, she'd delivered most of her mission out to the heroes. It was Alice. What she had summoned up this time made Raven wonder if she too had been under the influence of her old teacher. Slade was in hiding, he wasn't gone- he was...alive...
"Why aren't you hiding?" asked the ex princess. "They will find us... if we do not-
"Why are you here, where is Verra?" Raven dusted herself off and got up. If this looked like a bomb shelter they could not be turned away..."Something had come out of the portal, we all came to greet the leader Robin and my brother as well...even you were able to attend." She was stargazing again.
"And?" The teen looked to the princess magic user once again. "What time was it that you-
"Not of what but when..you see...the clock played a twist of fate in this arrival..." Sighing the girl waved a hand to the wall. "You may shield yourself no longer friend. Come out."
A ball of white and a red symbol inside the light cast its glow onto the girls. Calumon had appeared scared and alone with Alice.
"What about Verra!" He exclaimed in a huff. "We left him behind...i wanna go fight-
"We cannot, Raven wants to know what you saw, please, your eyes are largest in this unmasking of the perpetrator.
The little guy brought out his chest, eyes closed and face front. "It was...it was..."
"No time, we have to free the others." Raven brought her power to its fullest and began transportation by spell casting.
"But-
Alice's arm was brought into the orb of dark. Even Raven couldn't wait for the answers to happen clearly. Within a while they would know for sure...
Calumon, spoke loud enough for the girls to cover their ears. "ABEAST! ATERRIBLETERRIBLE MONSTER!
Loud enough for ya!" he giggled with a mood change, Raven scowled at the ringing sensation she could make little of. "Ow..." Alice groaned.
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Cyborg was watching the news, in the tower, only it looked all psychedelic! "Hey, what! Where are the sports on this thing! Oh! There's one- great, one more commercial break!" He didn't seem to notice the portal that came in the back of his sofa. "Are, gulp...is he alright?" Alice brought a hand to cup her mouth. Here the Titan was on the way to boredom in the tower. "How..."Raven raised her brow.
"How long, has that thing been on?" She guessed that this was a trap and Cy was the lab mouse on this roller-coaster. There was a clock, just as Alice had predicted. A portal and time machine alike. "Should we wake him Raven?" Alice whispered to her partner now that they could shake away the shock.
"No-
"GOAL!"
"The game is on isn't it?" She frowned. "As is customary"; Alice interjected. "We must wake him up...before-
I know!" As she said those words the lights shut down and Cy fell into a deep slumber.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos...!" The world became night. And the day would rise later soon.
Now, the others...
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X wasn't too...sleepy; drowsy whatever. He was lax. "That's right...this is all a dream and when I wake up I'll be in Jump's system all over again...!" sighing gruffly he slapped himself into a wall and slid down till his feet were parallel to him. "Acute was it...I dunno..."~Yawn!~ His mask-less eyes shut with lids relaxed , close to him there was a rat, an ornery thing with a red gleam in its eyes...
"They call you good guys here..." he grunted. "But, yawn!- in our... world we have the tech to rid...our...selves...of,you..." His head fell to meet his chest and at the moment soon as he'd closed his eyes Roku stepped towards him. Ex villain X was dosing from a spell to keep him without a memory, it wasn't working. The rat was not only a messenger who was from the underworld of Hecate- it was a spy. A mangy rat from the bowels of hells below...
Huffing off the pest and the troubles the king could face he smirked at the young man. With a snap his fingers awoke the child once more. "Get up. I have a job for you..." They both stood like soldiers. One the lieutenant the other his superior. "You could only guess as you sat here X..." the great evil lord waved his hand to the side. The rat fell to its little knees in a ball of strange orange flames.
"…...Wha? Why did you -
"AAAAGH!"
"Hsari! Dear ally, please do not interrupt!" The staff of precious gems that the lord panther man held shocked the poor teen as he felt dizzy and waves of pain befell his body. "You...you...cat! Don't think you can get away with thi-
AAAAGH...!"
"Far, from interesting recall my boy-
I'M NOT YOUR STINKIN` BO-
Another crack at his skin as the blade flew into X's direction from the hold of the king dragon's belt. After the blow of the child began to do something no one even would have though X possible of, or was he...
The bloody knife was laced with an ancient piece. A magical blade similar to the lasso of truth from Wonder Woman's beginning- it was forged with bad spells and wicked, controversial with horrid intent. To kill or kick butt. Whichever stuck first. Ex villain fell. He'd sleep in until it was time to take him out of this place for a bit. He'd stretch his legs, maybe go for a run. Nah. He was a servant till death or tragic misfortune, like that would ever come to pass.
"Roku...you only use that, when..." Around the corner a woman from the days and perhaps not the last of the teen leader's within the kingdom of spirit Angela spell wove another shield around herself. Her waiting son in the real world of earth was with a few traitors having afternoon tea...stealing plans from one of the guardians...
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Vera was Takahara Shoji. In the science industry of England, Japan and, beyond but for now remaining in England in the city, he and Alice were happy. Along with Calumon as Kayu they were never anyone else, nor with the desire to be any place else!
Alice had even made friends with a boy named Aaron- though she hadn't guessed it yet but he wasn't all jock, rock and roll. He was no more than a school boy of the city's finest academy in London for middle school, tenth graders and up. Getting to school was always a pleasure for them both. He and Alice both had a lot of work but managed to squeeze time into seeing one another. After school she would invite him over to her penthouse in the city, it was large, spacy, and great for a scientific mind to wander.
She loved books, down to the very first one ever published in her home world- though she was forbidden from speaking about that...As much as he had waited for her to hurry from the kitchen, she was as coy as ever still around him. She was a lady, she would also be a warrior had it not been for her slump of a training from silly old Wiz Greg. He only came to see her briefly on the com unit, he...could never understand her life...
"Ready? I'm sure you were fine with the tray of- oh! Here, let me grab it...nono!-
"Oops..."Alice had spilled some onto the wood floors. "I'll help." Aaron told her in a very cool tone. ~ Here he seems to like me no matter what I do...why's-
"All finished. Now can we eat?"
Sure!" knowing that he was ok with a measly spill and slip up from a girl made Alice regret the fact that he was sooo...nice! Her smile brightened as they both got started on a school paper. Ten times harder than her spells and history books! It was all like the ancient stories of her people. A powerful word system that even the gods translated as simply, Ancient.
The moment they'd finished he slapped a fist to his chest. He beamed. "There! That wasn't so tough was it, Alice?"
She let out a sad hollow sigh. "Maybe..."she replied wearily. What was Verra doing? He needed to be supervising the princess no matter what, in case the daemons decided to over take them...like, Arisu from her dream and real experiences. The version of strong and seamless Alice was nothing compared to the bratty Arisu. Their names were the same, just from different places in time.
Arisu was a powerful evil spell caster. Alice was...the good witch to the story. But they were as inseparable as day or night. Children of the same evil dragon god and a mysterious woman as the mommy. She was in both of the boy Richard and girl Alice's dreams. Those were actually the visions of a long thought to be dead past.
~I only recall the fresh mountain air and the calls of warriors as they'd celebrate a few days before returning to the village of the mountain folk...~ For a moment she pondered the events of having once been a true princess to those people. Now, they were without a care as she was forgotten by many due to that frightening time...
Flashback:
The mountain demons that had tricked her were only the beginning, after she had been saved, and had returned to her few villagers the war had become legendary. To her as to find the world she once knew pillaged and plundered Alice did not weep. When she found the grave of many of her noble heroes she then burst into sadness, and desperation soon followed. The man cloaked in mystery did the right thing by bringing her here, yet...why could it have not been later than sooner!
"Why did this happen?" little Alice turned to the older man and savior. He was unmoved by the events of villagers running out of food or calming their little ones with soothing words of wisdom.
That man, was destined as the dragon lord Roku.
End of flashback.
But why had he saved a savage girl with no memories of her real life! It wasn't fair...why did the worlds have to bicker so...so...-
"Allie?" Aaron waved a hand in front of her frozen facial expression face. " You awake? Hello-
I….need to...i'm sorry..." The fifteen year old classmate smiled shrugging. "S'key I do that sometimes too." He grinned she was nervous now. "Umm...may I ask you something? Aaron?"
He was frozen stiff by her remark. "Y-yeah? What's the matter?" His grin vanished to one of low self assurance and confidence. "I...I want to know what you think of me! That my fa-father is never home and with all due respect..i think you are nice and that this is-
He stood up and reached out a hand to her. "C'mon, lets get out a bit, I'll lead the way." Alice blushed madly and tuned out his words to protect herself...from Arisu?
"I, it's late! We won't-
Do you trust me?" He asked her, his mouth wording out something that even Alice found overwhelming. Pressure of the peers, as the Wiz had discovered its concept. To engage others in ways never deemed real...
Swallowing hard Alice decided it was worth nothing more to her than finding more out about this earth boy-
"Then let's go!" He pulled her along as she reached for her coat and almost heard the door slam behind them both.
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As the flashback ended a dazed Alice peered up into the eyes of the purple clad sorceress.
"So, he wanted to take you out...lucky you-
He...he is not at all what he appears to seem! He's-
No time...we should go too-
Alice became anxious all of a sudden. "Go? And leave him- um, Cyborg? He'll be wiped clean, bone dry if we do-
Raven shook her head. That would never come to pass while she still stood wary.
"No way! Calumon chirped. "I wouldn't abandon anyone or Titan!
" But this, vision of Beast boy in pain lead me here..." Rae rasped in whisper to the ex princess. Bringing Alice away from the place with the guardians and into a dark hall she waited as they lay silently scrunched and looking over to Cy from the next room.
Allie poked the empath's shoulder. "Sorry..could you repeat that, a vision?
Is Roku really here in this domain from his keep? That's preposterous in all manners of the word." Crossing her arms over her chest Alice looked away from the target.
Raven frowned at the other sorceress. "I'm sure it's probably happened in you- realm, Alice?
Hello..are you home?" Calumon did not get to finish, Allie was sure as she pointed at a ghostly figure in the dark; something they never believed now would happen!
"Oh no. Run.."
The specter also could reach and seal away the essential part of the thing it touched by saving it inside a white crystal!
The crystal had begun to form over their heads as the stumbled away in shock. Kayu/Calumon were captured!
"Duck!" Raven grappled the princess to the ground. "Ducks? Where- ooff!" Alice was crawling on the carpets over miasma inside of the empath's magic barrier. Like the warriors that crawl in camp after camp to regain stamina, she thought. Raven wants nothing more than to save our behinds!
The evil creature appeared in front of poor Cyborg. Suspecting none the less a storm brewing in the west.
~AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!~
Alice helped to, she'd summoned some wind to draw out the ghost and push it backwards.
The wailing specter flew above their heads and shrieked like a banshee.
Azara-
Coughing a figure inside the crystal fought to crack the glass, it was Starfire!
"X'XAAL! I am free!" she sighed with a smile and danced as she float up and and let her fear subside. She was with her real friends. "The ghost glorka had imprisoned me earlier. He is working with the evil of the spirit world!"
"Roku, I presume?"
"Hehehhee...,the specter chuckled. "What goes around..."
"Huh?" The specter turned to the door. A child was waiting in the light.
"That..that is!-
Raven hushed them all with her new power, a sword made of energy forced out from her hand, her palm thanked her.
Piper stood ready to fight to, they were never finished until, well...
Alice squinted at the girl... "She looks like a messenger in that outfit." Verra would have thought the same if he were here again, sniff...
"Oh?" A brave boy stepped out from behind Piper. The next guest was a surprise to them all, especially poor Alice!
It was Aaron.
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