Teen Titans New Generations Arc Restart New Destinations

by Inkblot24

After the recap of Aiden's team being whisked through a portal to the world of the Teen's allies, only two Titans are sent to help an overwhelmed Princess Ava Marie, to face the imposter Fenrir from dividing her kingdom forever. With not one of our seniors to aid our Chosen few, the group goes on a mission to save Ava's name, even if that means losing more along the way.

10. Chapter 10

Teen Titans; New Destinations; New Generations; Arc- Restart; Chapter 10: Sky Divers; Something Missing; S.O.S -Aneiu's Spirit Circle of Allies.

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The cat's tragic fall with Greg clinging on for dear life , had the two partners barreling forth into the wild- world of the north.

Just, not with a parachute this time.

Sky diving had been risky during the guardians' past with the original chosen- Shoji was growing white hairs just trying not to lose his nine lives then!

~At least it's not the desert!~ The cat whipped right through the cloud cover, calling for another snow shower on Mount-

"Dog! You have that power!~ Greg's speak bounced back and forth from his Spirit world's dialect being VERY direct. He was also splitting hairs for their rescue mission to be a success!

Gregory's arms flailed out round his silver and white cape. The sorcerer was powerful, yet he held dminion as an official not to the original , Spirit World any longer-

~Ya dope! This is the...ETERRRNAAL!~ The bouncy pup in his heroic form , irritated Greg by how they were going to end up icy flat -cakes once!-

"Power..oh yeah!" Shoji...was remembering the ability to warp the clouds? He was not as clever today as Kay, as Greggory shot his partner a growl of disapproval.

"HIT THE BRREEAKS!" Greg shouted while his slacker assistant was FINALLY using his magic to save their sorry keasters!

~Bind this wind...channeling...now!..Hah!~ The guardian dog formed a last second floating masterpiece..yet...

"Haaa-...Just drop the !-

~Oomph!*~

The thud* of both sorcery experts hitting the earth meant that it had been closer a call that Greg had expected of his old friend.

"My timing was rusty at best. Working a desk job -

"No..." Greg sighed while letting his rage disappear with that solemn emotion called..being pissed through this disappointment of a fox!. "You are weaker than before. I was not at all impressed-

"And you I guess were a cloud - weilder in your last life, dummy representative?" Vee sniffed as if Greg had all of the answers.

"Kay is certainly a better shot than you. Ronald is...well, we haven't time to debate at leisure-

"Your'e sure as hell we don't! Why even bring that up now?" Vee rubbed the back of his neck with a frown, before turning around to view the mountains on high right before the lost, spirit duo.

"Where to begin...if Ava is lost by the enemy's ability to divide her realm from this one,(crystal prison of the barrens, previous chapter), why not locate an ally to the Barrens and invade from there?"

Greg's eyes were full of the idea that this would be easiest with a full plan of attack. Veravakumu might have..agreed..had his skull not . ...been loosened during their drop off..ugh..

"Agh...! ..W..wait...Not fair!" The dog wailed as he'd realised what could occur by his spirit being halved and returning as a full entity(his uncle was also wandering around in spirit form halved with the current chosen.) Now, the main body was here to claim it's original contracted.

Yet the dog had an opposite effect occur from within his own form of a guardian was being spirited to where Verra was to merge back into one entity!

"Damn, Verra! Have you ..oh gods! Don't press on!" Greg held his friend from turning to smoke and starlight before him. The daemon Verra was dragging the main body to merge- rather than Veravakumu calling the shots! He had been a very, lazy hound indeed!

"Concentrate a-

"Too late?" The mutt was flung in the farthest direction as an astral body attracted to it's split aspect.

Greg started to wish he could panic! The dog- trickster had lost out! Now the stout sorcerer had to brave icy trenches to catch up without his useless partner's sense of direction!

"If only they had paired me with a bleeding cheetah! I ..sigh...ugh! Verrra!" He groaned and cussed the luck of being lost before a forecast of falling flakes. The pup would be given quite a wallop once they were together with the heroes...if only the white wolf had-

"Aye! Yes!" Greg gasped and realised that all was not lost from the start.

"The white wolf Aneiu...I should send an s.o.s immediately!"

/

Not really recognising if this were Siberia of the past or Scandinavian lands of that same era, the sorcerer clad in light had to try his hand within the 'shamanistic' route.

He tugged his staff from a pocket in space by his ability to summon it. The stout being sat then with his form willing to receive whatever messages came. The wolf was a phantom and lived within the astral worlds. It sent others to seek it out for answers...she would never bow to the student. It was not the way of a protector figure of the great void of all creation.

The winds bit past the magical official as he did not move- Greg was channeling his thoughts and the speak to breach that realm hidden through layers of drifting mist ..

The trembling feeling below the spirit's sight had Greg's eyes pop right open. The one having heard his call, was Aneius of the Wolf Mother's tribe. The Second chief of the Snowy Front's main forces had received the s.o.s without a glance back.

~Then, you are an ally as the chosen children have spoken?~Anieus was curious as he, Small Paw and and extra set of jaws took the sorcerer to meet with his teammates .

~Yes sir, I represent the peaceable nature of the Celestial courts. The chosen are my charges, as well as a certain black cat's ..~ He frowned by recalling Verra having beaten the scarecrow to their goal- plane.

~The chatty animal makes my jaw ache.~ Aneius nod in understanding of this officials's explaination.

~He is wise, yet reckless by that knowledge...I know of this exact daemon and his latter aspect. We, are not fond of unloyal foxes. The very kind whom take the shape of numerous others are not to be taken lightly.~

Aneius, hated Kitsune then? Verra was no such animal as Kay and Sayumon's Youbi forms. He did have his strong points when he was in full control. It..just waivered without practice as a human - form holder. Takahara was not neccessarily to blame..Veravakumu had decided to save a human to blend into it's world. He had made a vast fortune, caused a lot of controversy. And in the end, he had more enemies lost tan allies gained. Great come back for a half- fox to play the part of a fleshy mortal..

~He has a strange power. Not that outsiders should know. Soon we will be arriving. Aneiu will be greatful for another mind with the ability of a tactician, Sir Gregory.~

Greg nod and tried not to seem anything but modest, for he hated the extra attention. The drawbacks which came with such an unbecoming attitude as 'pride', could only be understood by deity whom toyed with their creations far too often. Aneiu was no such spirit. She was more wise and noble than even the gods could comprehend of their own majesty. In a way, Greg respected her too well. That was also not a sincere fashion to hold before spectre and her clan's eyes. Mentally punching had not been invented yet. That was too soon a wait for the discouraged sorcerer who his anxiety from the wolf pack second in command.

~She is much milder to bring unneccessary conversation to the table..~ Greg thought through his own, private speak. The mind was a wide array of that which had the power; as Raku of the past, to Lord 'Roku' (who had the ability to manifest a vast empire of crazed killers) Not to mention..Aiden's power was just of the influence's remaining energy. He had fought it's tug far better than his father had as the boy wonder. That was commendable for the hero to know once they met again.

The three wolves and single sorcerer of Digitalis head past pines towering as wide as the pre- history of the true north. The very one untouched by human hands till the present day.

~Heey!~ A bright, cheerful yell of a certain ebony princess had Greg realize where the veil had been lifted, yet to reveal...a warm sight of old friends fighting the odds.

~Hey, old timer! ~Vee as the spook stooges up to the startled Greg with a quick leap past his friend's side. Greg had almost let his hat fall off by the panic in his chest. Butterflies or anteloupe..dear gods the tming was not at all rude!

The original Veravakumu was sitting beside a crow spirit hybrid, grinning by his silly victory. The crow woman had a human face and was eyeing the heroes readily. The monolithic crow clan was large, ancient,and helped to balance law and order where the Raven held no power. It was closer to the bones of humans and spirit, the under- realms and beyond the void, creator's caw.

~He is not as our guests.~ She stared over to the magician boy Henry- who was in sheer shock over his childhood hero...showing up without an invitation?

~Sir..S-Sir! Greggory of thee unknown and unfound realm of Digitalis! Dear gods! You..are just as the other students preach!~

A fan boy..Ami had to giggle as her sides hurt through a holler of a laugh. He was one, funny bunny!

Ann was talking politics with that flame-headed brother of her's nodding to his sister's opinions. He did not want to turn into a live- marshmallow if he did shake his head..once to disagree.

Glen was in a discussion over land and sea..sort of an excavator's example.( If anything from climate views havingchanged/ forestry, etc. Disturbances,imbalances, he is a protector and needed intel badly when the group had been fresh out . He is an outdoorsman and that realm of Aneiu's is pre- historic, much older than Frost Giant territory. Glen is also part faire folk - Henry is cursed as a faire and remains with a 'familiar's body of a..heh..talking rabbit. He had a witch partner who died fighting with his pride torn asunder. So, Henry thinks that helping the new gen is a way to atone for the loss of his original contractor.)

~Do you know this person?~ Greg asked Ami as she nod eagerly to speak up.

~You bet! He saved poor lil' me from kicking the bucket!~ She beamed by how near-death had her fiercer than before? Was that even a proper attitude to have? Greg did not know how to add to that sentence. This was the chosen's quest. He was just an observer. Guardian or not, if worst came down to the sorcerer raising a finger, Greg would have to break that oath to save his charges...unless they could prove him wrong and save themselves.

~She..Amelia! ~ Damian shot back by how that was not 'cute ' to undermine a life almost lost. ~Don't be an idiot! You should be lucky that you are standing here today! It's rude! Henry used his power to bring us to the..underworld! We had to crawl against walls, ride on carrier boats- do think that was-

~Pish posh little boy! I was dying to get to the end of this-

~Sure giveaway..~ Sighed Vee as he grinned secretly over the hint*. Ami was a shrewd cookie. The teens would find juust how much she had learnt by her abilities from Amaterasu as an 'imaginative miko'.

Ami pout and crossed her long, fur lined arms as she tossed her head aside in a huff. ~You make this waay too complicated!~ Dami grunt and didn't bother to reply. She was goading for a rea-

Ann hint over to Aiden that she wanted to speak with Kaien as a few glares shot out from both Greg and Zan's directions.

Anna signed back as the angry cluster had the three move further away from the scuffle. ~ In private.~ She added before her brother and Kaien took the notice seriously, leaving for a small encampment set up by their team's strategy specialist.

The three sat away from the reunited heroes and guardians, finally. Ann had a sense of dread as great as Aiden's own fear for Ava's immediate, safety mission.

Kaien raised a mutt's brow towards the moping twins. His own eyes were as the fire of the fox's lone nature. He had protected his charges thus far. How long would it hold for the dark doggie and his creed once they faced the true enemy once again?

Ann started the conversation with the speak under her breath.

~I hope that these beings have the ability to find wherever Ava was taken to...but...~ She then stopped to see a similar expression on her brother's face. He was puzzling over whether or not Ava would remember a thing...was she still brainwashed? And if that were the case , was that how she had sought out her keeper..by being controlled during their journey?

~The spell ya saw her under hasn't a time limit?~ Kaien wisened up and brought to the table his questions.

Aiden shrugged. He would not know until the siblings would meet- against the odds in a zero temp setting ...

~How much of an army are we, to go into the mountains without being ready enough?~ Aiden asked. Ann held her words back to make way for Kaien's wise- words of a sea- farer.

~Boya, ya have a chance while her heart is still full of those old, memories. ~ The fox twirled it's flame sized tail and bared a friendly grin.

Aiden was still uncertain if a pep talk would work on his bad day. He tried to appreciate some of his team's enthusiasm. He could only look away with his hands holding his weary skull in disappointment.

~Don't freak, Aide...we need you...~ Hanna tried to coax her brother with something much better to cry about. Or onto than his blister- worn wrists.

Her arms held him just as the time when Ava had created her flux - when the youngest Grayson and Aiden with Ann had gotten ill by her backlash's effect of power..(Part two first few chapters of the new gen had a power which helped to prevent the dragon of golden light's release. Yep, a seal until was time tofight back.)This was just too much tension as Aiden wept over his sister's false love of her old classmate..That she refused to trust her instincts and went along...to be hurt again by the enemy so easily , to hurt her own real family instead..

That he had not fought and clawed up to the council Ava owed, just to have her stay on Earth.. Ava's home was not in the desolate wastes! She had to make up her mind, and fast.

~I...have to try..one more time!~ The blonde broke off from his weeping to say aloud to his emerald- eyed twin.

~I don't want Ava to turn into ..something else.~

Her expression was partially of shock by how well her brother had come out of his fit. She sat and dumbly could not reply back in time, all before a wolf official had the three to gather. The wolf clan member bade the heroes to tag along back to the meeting spot. Right now, it was time to meet the Snowy Front's regal guardian spirit.

All sat , stood, levitated, or roosted before four large boulders. Behind the rocky cliff ledges of those tall structures, an aurora borealis shone brightly with a portal as the great rift between all else. Stepping past the shifts and shades of prismatic majesty, the white wolf herself came to life as a protector to her fellow beings of another void.

Ann and Ami had to had their breath. Dami, was now realising why the wolf had come to him by a near- death experience. Zan held onto her heart as it beat wildly to see the traverse opening at such a brilliant rate. Aiden tried not to frown, yet had to seem less that excited from the fact that Ava's ally was now -

~Step forth! Child of the Dragon of the Golden Dawn!~ The blonde blinked with a gasp, not yet ready meet the wolves in his state. Shock, confusion...why was chosen the first they'd picked?

~Our leader is calling for the Chosen of the Fire- bird. Do not be shy. ~Aneius allowed Small Paw to coax the youth up to the platform (or closer to them) with a much, lighter response.

~I...I'm not-

~Aneiu! My la-

The white wolf..was much larger than Aneius by her great coat of a thousand ice ages. She must have lived before all others of this great divide...

Aiden gulped by his own cowardly nature. Some 'Leo' to the rescue he was..

Ann tried to step over to bring her brother from his biggest mistake yet, though Veravakumu and Kaien would not let her by to aid the chosen boy.

She tried to see past their guardian's backs. Hmm.. just what were the wolves after in her brother?..

Ami snuck by with a switch of her wrist. Accidentally, she had learned teleportation in a jiffy!

Dami tried to grab her as the whole council ignore or abhored their human compatriots.

Zan used her whispered spell to drag a cord around the twelve year old's waist. ~Quiet!~ She hissed and held onto Amelia, who put her hands up in defeat. Politics , bah!

Ann calmed down and saw that a pause had been left to run between the two groups. Aiden was quiet. He had chosen to stay as their candidate and representitive of Earth's, very , fragile existance. Yet was he strong enough to defy fate? Or would this wolf pursue a separate action in defending it's world and earth?

~Child of the sun,a blessed being shines onto this world for it's brother's contracted. ~ Aneiu uttered these words as if weaving a spell round her allies. Those blue, breath taking orbs watched everything as time continued to flow across the windy tundra.

~I..don't know about him.~ Aiden wasn't lying. The youngster that had been Shiro had brought up the name several times.A sun..a god...Still he refused to believe a word until Isis had come to meet the heroes again. Isa would be glad to have Ava safe..since she had participated in turning Ava into a royal 'ruler of the waste lands..'

Aneius huffed and turned his head. He sat a few feet from his mate and just watched, waiting for the hero to act out from his mortal desires. Human was the boy, yet his spirit held the answer to that question if he strong as the spirit guiding HIM..

~We finally meet, yet you do not know where your quest truly lies. For it is not of the princess you seek. Yet there is another. A greater ally to fulfill all you have come to desire...that is the light in your heart alone. I only say to you, Aiden..If that very light is lost to dark forces , you will be forced to choose. Without a map to guide your chosen party home, the way shall be far more than simply 'hidden' from your view. I ask that you consider my advice well The creature throbbing beside your very flesh and bone, is none other than a deity, not though of these very cliffs.~

The group of spirit and guardian gasped. Greg hid under his hat and tried to puzzle over this.

~Horus. And the gods of this earth believe the sun as his relic. Your sister is to these winters only as her creator, Priestess Reia Wulfsmund. You are not to belong to our world. The child is still facing her enemy by her ancestor's rites. He will trick, bewitch, all of that as a plan to break her . The power is not of the moon. It is of the lights of winter. All that is frozen is still...your Ava Marie is in fact a catalyst in this, current enemy's hands. ~ Aneiu had Aiden look into her eyes with that fear causing his heart to pound faster.

~She isn't weak..she wants me to believe in her...how can I even trust my, sister...when she wasn't supposed to be anything like us?~

Aneiu saw Aneius become aggitated by the boy's temper -tantrum. So arrogant! he dared to appear that way to a wise protector? The white wolf glared back and eased her mate and followers of the wood, to still their impatience a while longer.

~She holds a heart of a protector spirit , just as your guardians. They are not on any one's other side, yet to the chosen.~She explained that as if it had to be true...Ava..had been protecting the heroes? Her siblings who had to fend of magic and the occult on a daily basis? Was that even...

~Then maybe..it's time I spoke in another voice...~

/

Ami slipped away and allowed Amaterasu to come forth from her whole soul . The deity was of the blue and black to a violet of winter frost. She respected the guardians to act accordingly as she had not worn blood red to this festival 'scene.'

~I do not possess this child unfaithfully against her will. ~She began, trying not to harden the tension in Ami's siblings.
~She has loved me as a , friend afar. I have aided in protecting her. Her power has blossomed, yet this dimmest sun is not as the stories shall fore- tell.~

Ann did not know how to act, respond...her sister was a host to a solar goddess!

Amaterasu ushered her power to bring the dragonling forth from Aiden's chest. It popped out as the stag in white as the horned thing looked the priestess in the eye..

Aneiu immediately knew to use her low howl to break the power over the cursed creature. Her instincts saw past the facade that was the young youth's false guise, perhaps shared with the original.

Instead of a cursed swan, the creature revealed itself as the one lost throughout the day. The bearded brother of olden Norse came through, and stood before the wolven and spirit - as the wise Wodin in the flesh.

Ann again had to slap her forehead in suprise.

~I never believed you to harbour, such realities, Northern Wise- man.~Aneiu left her gaze to steer in the boy's direction. Aiden was winded, stunned. The stag..had been in disguise as..a living god?!

Amaterasu huffed by how that had been a devil's trick. No youkai of her world had such as the gall to create a space to slumber as this one of western blood. And yet, no doubt. So selfish was this world of unsophisticated hunters. She would stay, she had promised her dear student that much as to not create controversy to-day on this foreign continent.

As with Amelia's allowance for the deity to use her frame, that was not for the ruddy woodsman to know.

They (These deity) were not human. Yet they were also on the same page with possessing hosts as daemon did. Amaterasu still wondered how the deity of the great Ragnarok had survived. Her suspicions plummetted as soon as the wise eyed god had his eyes of a steely grey in her corner of the world.

~The priestess was unable to was to throw off the hunter from it's prey. Rather, the boy had my form granted in thee guise of a stag as soon as he had entered through the portal to our realm. I do not know what the wolf- fiend has done. Yet now I realise what has happened, and since then upon my leave. ~

That made Ann scratch her chin to understand. Leave? When had this guy been alive?

~Sir Wodin.~ Aneius had to ask if this god was on their side. He had even fought the trickster of legend; Sir son Loki. Loki was no more , as was the serpent to bring doom to the Northern plane during the end of the gods of Vallhalla.

~How then did you know to join our circle? What is your purpose , revealing your olden age and form before those of their respected lines? It baffles. Please do explain your reason for hiding within the boy's own being.~

Aiden thought that ' reason ' would become a bit of a steep step - seeing as the world the heroes were currently in, held no sense of reality from within it's walls whatsoever!

Wodin did not back away from the king of the tundra's question. He stood up tall, then knelt instead to a tired, heavy knee in apology of his discourteous actions taken.

Aneiu understood and left Aneius to return to her side. She stepped forth with both massive paws and eyes of a true- blue winter. One everlasting- yet not as Hati intended for his fairytale ending.

~Then you must be searching as well, as are we of thee outer reaches.~ Aneiu had answered the stifling question while Wodin nod in his stance by one knee.

~Hail, yes my high relic . Dear mother of the unknown aurora, you truly see what others of your kin are hard of sight to acknowledge.~ Aneius snort as if he'd been dismissed. The god still had to much human stink upon it to count as one of the universal protectors.

~Then the boy will hold your word as we to- day gain a new ally. Many in fact are facing a far worse winter than the nights have grown fond...The child of Reia- her incarnation is predicted to start the storm we so seek to decimate from existance.~

Aiden's eyes shot up to meet the wild creature's stare.

~Ava?~ He had to gasp, his teeth far from chattering as the cold did not touch the group. Her power prevented the meeting from ending with a plan that could have the party torn apart. The orcs, dwarves, troll , even fae were bareing onto the icy winter home with a new master. The queen was only a tool in this ploy. She would have to fend off the inevitable until the mighty sword of a hero, had been unsheathed.

Mainly by word of Wodin, even Skadi and Tellervo's clan would fight for their relatives- even if Tellervo was no true goddess as she was a master magician and sorceress- elven.

Skadi was the perfect brute to act out against Wodin- lowering his pride to such odds! She had to protest, yet the child of solar magics had her held from speaking.

He had a power she could not understand...it was not only of the light of dawn. It stretched and touched the shadow of one's soul to quiver. He held fear behind those bright eyes. Fear that might prove a danger in this mission.

~If our enemy intends to bring about a new fall towards the kingdom of winter lands, he is not going to have his eay!~ Wodin let his body lower, his back could take the painful pressure if a hundred more sights on his form.

~The Raven Winged lived! The Great Chieftess Reia was not doomed. Her embodiment and power are separate from the child's.~Greg tried to add as he raised an arm to continue.

~That is so!~ Kaien tried to add his own comments as Gregory allowed this with Aneius watching.

~The children are no longer, we have used many means to locate where the demon lurks. None thus far are as the fates allow. If so the snow should bury our chances deep beneath the earth which ye walk, thwn our time shall only stiffen as the shards surrounding THAT fortress! The child is a princess and is need of her knights.~

The totemic beings talked in whisper by the volcanic fox's speech.

Greg tried to stall the daemon self from interrupting a strategy meeting, yet even Veravakumu and Tellervo stood to act.

~The Lady Reia was not born to die a second era. ~ She spoke as if recalling her mother's stories of a brave protector.

The crow spirit; in her hybrid form of a huntress with her shimmering plumage , also had to congradulate the olden wise woman of her day.

~Nay! If you speak of this task as utter nonesense, foolish then be to you all! Reia was a healer and spoke to all living and dying. My brothers of the crow clan were her trusted allies throughout the times. We were respected by both she and Lady Aneiu of the Snowy Front.~

The mouse spirit spoke with uch a tremble that Ann believed it a bit too excited!

~Y- Yes! Re..Reia was the good spirit of the wood we trusted dearly. My clan of the small - footed was in mourning then over her death, as well as to- day...ehem!.. we would never rest...to repeat that tragic day in this hour!~

Amaterasu smiled and left a raiment to grant the allied forces some strength. The power of light had the groups cheering, all for one in saving Reia's successor. Aiden was the only one disappointed. They cared for Ava as a charity case practically...Ava was not Reia! He had heard her , knowing.. and telling him before...before she'd left for this borderline spirit- world to be the winter princess of yester- year!..

/

Not even having to hurry by gripping tightly to their stopwatches, the airport became a past occurence for our heroes still sniffing around for clues.

Tokyo had come into view by the diplomatic twin's spacious jet- it had Gar's jaw dropping by how well Cliff could navigate!

With Kaien still there as Solario, having the way to Takahara's headquarters' laid bare before our heroes' eyes would be a snap.

"Just follow my tail, ereh! Lead and no stoppin' fer the local fare! " The fox was insisting this as Garfield and Wally left the party- hardy*talk for later.

"Sorry, Kaien." Dick tripped as he tried to shove Wally a few inches away from their guide.

"The one we're here to meet is Ayane, right?"

The red- headed walloper stopped in mid step,.then turned to sigh. "Ayane is not herself. Lori took over ta' search for the project Shoji is hidin' ." Starfire blinked back to Rachel, who asked next with a bit of her own thoughts aside.

"Yeah, but what is Shoji tr..what was he trying to warn us about if it wasn't only Aria?" She thought the message by poor connection had been strange. Almost deep voice strange- right from the pages of a screen writer's work! No, it was too dramatic to not mean something. And in this case, Kaien had all the clues lined up into place.

"What are we hoping to locate in the city of Tokyo?" Conner asked while avoiding the street goers of mid day.

"Lunch with the lady will have ta' wait. " Kaien almost ignored the Titan who growled back under his breath. Being dissed had him hold his temper, yet this outsider called the shots..why?

"Ayane knows we are here and says this is now urgent. She says the creation in Shoji's lab is not human. " He checked his device and saw data pour in, with the heroes' eyes all on their late guide.

"Shoji...made a mess. Didn't he.." Gar scratched his chin and kept blending in , even with his green complexion of a meta- human.

"He's in hotter water from takin' in Ro..hem!..Miss, Masquarade's request. That is where we see the difference between you, and the con- alchemist of the modern day n' era."

The witch of Azar felt her breath hitch by what this meant. She stopped and held a hand up for Dick and Kori to stay by her side.

"Kaien, this creation that you say is not up to Shoji to save, why are we involved at all? Where are Kayu and Gregory ? Are they still backing the council ? Why you?"

She felt the words pour out. Questions, endless as a babbling set of rapids in the middle of an untamed wilderness- Raven was furious. And though none knew as she kept her gaze firmly on their guardian ally, this fox saw right past her glaring warning of a saved, half- demon. Only he could see her aura's glow rising to drag him own into repentence.

"Well." Kaien chuckled as if distressed, stopping to watch the time swap to full noon. The day was now easing into the lunch hour as Tokyo continued to bustle with busy passerby. Thankfully, none paid enough mind to care for the foreigner's bout. It was just silence between the unreal and the unbeknowst to human minds alike as the group continued padding towards the designated meeting place.

"How bout' ya lot come and ask the president's stand -in advisor while ya can?" It was an invitation to step into the world that only Takahara could create from thin air. The vast knowledge he hid was up for debate by an unlikely group of visitors from overseas. Kaien was allowing this to happen, even as Shoji held no power by an immortal's wishes. The fire- red deity aspect was of power, of strategy- even when none saw the clown as this sort of keeper to the helm. This spirit were able to swap memories, a life for a life.

Kaien as the dog, held double lives outside of this human existence. He lived as a man among both god and human, as a king to his temple who coud bend laws as he saw fit.

"You...are a Universal..."

Raven gasped as if this were false in her mind...yet..it egged on as the truth. Her head swam with the reason to just..look for a way to contact the cat...yet..

"All will be discussed." Was what the fox replied with a tilt to the side, his head still held on right while walking onwards down the strip.

"Shoji would have killed ta' keep his charges from my daze o' the sun and beyond her. After the kids were outta her' and to their rites...The deity of olden had me step in as a replacement ta' Apollo and their kind. I'm not the real god of the sun, I just work for his law. A task is here, I intend to see fer' myself what Ayane has to say. Not her' for the council. I choose my own ways about earth-walkin.. This, this is for my dear family's sake and the kid chosen we hand- picked without our own knowin'."

Dick had to wet his lips by how Aiden was added to the list of...prophesized. This was..not could not add his concerns either. Under broad daylight, his children were still in danger, lightyears away. He tried his luck and threw a bone. Kaien could have his reply, Dick just had to wait for this fox to spill.

"Then, the dragon really did mess with the fate you expected. Ava, and Aiden were not supposed to wo-

"Got a better plan!" Kaien interrupted with a thought of his own. "See the one I dare ta' hide from those kindred, an' see for the answer, as you let it .Come on now! Takahara is no riddle me this sorta' scoudrel! He has a part ta play, though this was not expected at all on the fat- cat's agenda. Listen and be well about my method. Ayane has the powers of Lori stirrin' her emotions as yer sorcerss be ta my calm. "

Raven acted as if that had not been unkind, thoughtless. Yet he had a point and and she..hated when the obvious was too possible to fold.

"The big ole' tower beats Wayne's by a mile! Whhoah!" Wally looked up and blocked the sun from his eyes with a stare right past it.

The heroes looked up as well to understand why Kaien had tried to shut the team out.

"Here we are." Conner gaped and wanted to see if alien tech held this place in the balance. It was massive and..heavily advanced with tech he'd only seen in underground labs! This was incredible! (young justice quote on quote?)

"Cat, is on the way to building a criminal empire. " Gar shook his head and was near drooling by how this must have weighed down a on of resources ..yet...

Dick had no proof that Shoji had such abilities...yet his old run- ins with bad boys and knowing the criminal underworld by heart...was a shocker to the heroes then- but now...anything seemed likely.

"If Cy saw this, he'd tag the dog for life. " Gar nod by how this was, a bit exccessive an empire to run off the bat. By the UN and gosh golly who else was involved?

"Or Bruce...though Shoji saved his life , and his company after the-

"Go in already! I have got to see what he'd done to the place!" Wally brought up the mood by joking with his swapped voices. He made this seem a day trip to a museum or ome ritsy shindig. Ezmeralda padded behind in her spring wear and whined for Cliff to keep up.

The surprising thing about sea side residents, they did not enjoy fast paced life changes or styles. Esma was already hit on by a few blushing kids at the airport, yet it had Cliff himself more than regretting his decision . Esma..was treated as a child here by her adorable features! So cruel ! She was no cartoon to fondly coddle! Agh! Why did th-

"Big Brother! You are too slow! Wake up and find a hotel for -

"Later. Just have the staff in front hold onto it. I'll send someone to being it to a suite. You forget my name is big where the sun never sets. Summer is beloved to I, as this dog is to the realist nature of his human company. Step inside, don't be shy."

Kaien just ushered the whole crew to walk right through those massive glass doors. Proofed to everything but the latest yet to be known tech, Shoji had an eye in the sky for danger. He had geared heavily towards the future of an impossible cause..

The staff up front were multi lingual and phoned Ayane's department upon their walk and talk up to the front desk.(Mind speak not included ).

"The vice president will see you now. " She had not been very true to the title, though though with the cat awol, Ayane had the seat red- hot enough.

Smiling with a mild dip of her head,the group left through doors as sheer as the glass they'd come- only thin as silk threads.

"Are..we getting the tour? Why the first rate look through?" Wally wanted to chat with the staff as he had fallen for the front desk manager and her modesty.

He slapped himself, thinking that it was rediculous timing to fall in deep, especially with a cool beauty from the far east.

Gar was more a pro with keeping his eyes straight than Richard beside his partner. This was futuristic. Shoji had only mentioned minor desk work..but..never to this extent!

"He's a neo- alchemist. I don't know how or why...but this looks like the space station -

"At-a-ah! Big Brother? We are also on a low profile? Sorry..another time?" Pups held secrets. Sirens had space stations in their names. What was next? Was the White House run by die- hard intellectuals? No..just human as can be..

Esma chuckled by how she's stopped her own thoughts from progressing. New eras sure were tempting to seek into further...though time would only tell if her predictions held.

From the tip - off from Shoji ; to Ayane's absence from the perimeter of his complex laboratory, each had felt disregard follow on as if this had been a set- up by some unknown boogyman's intervention.

"Is she even aware of our presence?" Kori asked Kaien in whisper as the staff guide had the elder watching..her feet*( he's such a dog.. it's terrible!)

"Eh? She's takin' her sweet time as the head o' Takahara's faculty while he's offta' be wrung dry. Nothin' to frett over..." Kaien had a look as intense as when he had touched on the past between he and Isa. That was not convincing of his position as a spying- mongrel.

"Low key." Raven was gritting her jaw, fiercly annoyed by this loli- gagging that made her want to 'hurl' him out the first flight down- the seventh floor, as they'd reached an even higher destination in moments . It was coming up to number eight...she had a chance to work on her bully- routine a little.

"I ..think you should let our 'guide' do her job." She said instead as Kaien had been caught red- handed. Stuck in his old ways no doubt.

"Yer too true ta yer' morals my dear. Sorry , love. Bout that date on Tuesday?' She blushed and the guide had actually been flirting the whole time? Gar and Conner's mouths dropped to the floor. Had a time bubble been surrounding the fox's newest victim?

"I will contact you later after all is accounted for with Miss Sakurano. Thank you, sir.." She was agreeing...being polite...the con-dog LATER was putting up a no- flirt zone in this building! How old-school could you be to run a secret lab anyhow!?

"Save it for your 'date' , Mr. Cassanova." The team looked ahead and saw what looked to be Ayane..yet she did not appear the same way to the fire- hound in memory.

"Leave us then, Mako. " Ayane had the airs of a queen. Not of a secretary holding the floor for her boss!

"Not good, buusted.." Wally snickered while the rest just ignored his joke.

Kaien bowed a slight for this visit to be a success. Miss Mako tapped off in her shoes to leave past Ayane's shoulder .

Sakurano's hair was violet, long and swept round her frame. This was not the however thee Sakurano Richard had recalled during their trials while fighting the dragon. It was someone else...

"How appropriate. You came, though displayed affections right on the spot. " She seemed, peeved. Who wouldn't be with a play boy in the building of her perfect man in power. A cat as equally wily as he was controlled by his subordinates. Upom his return, she would have him up the security around the topic of...souless oafs with big, bad egos.

She had not remembered the will of Kaien in her longest time. Her other soul of a princess had only recalled rumors from the southern isles of this deity aspect's real role.

"Sir Solario of the Daia line's, Southern Factions. Do you know who I am to- day?" She asked this, trying to goad the pup into figuring her out completely.

He looked up and down, making her even closer towards wanting the fox right into the sun's glare- a drop kick was what he deserved as it was only fitting.

"You are royal, no...hmm...Aha! A lady of the other side! Well, my allies here know her too well, malady! Lori Ainsley. Your relative Catalina has not changed by a hair... if you were curious ta guess?"

Gods be scourged...This animal knew her beloved cousin! Was he an elemental protector? Such as Lori's many familiars?

"You are correct. Ayane sleeps a while so that I might refresh your memory. Grayson." She turned cooly towards the young male, he was full grown as she had prayed - Roku was no longer a threat.

"I see you are stronger in bond to your beloved than ever witnessed. I bless you entirely for your commendable -

"I...It was what we had to do..thanks to you...Princess." He thanked her with a nervous reply. Kori cleared her throat roughly to interrupt.

"Yes, Miss Lorelai. Our children are also using their abilities to protect themselves. We have had them learn when that is possible...You...Solario has been a wonderful teacher to my son and daughter. They possess the powers of the fire- bird still. This was all thanks to your courageous actions that my husband and I could be together..he and I are eternally grateful.."

She smiled back as Lori's eyes lit up , very glad they had not forgotten that day in the back of their minds.

"I would never have let another victim fall , if ever it had been thrice as many times as the lives that demon took. Come , come! I wish to explain all I have examined thus far while using Ayane's body as my vessel on your earth." She coaxed the heroes to follow as Esma and Cliff simply saw from their eyes a truly, stunning example of a royal-blooded spirit before them.

Maybe this trip was not a lost cause after all.

/

The below- ground level where Shoji's top alchemists mixed their concoctions, had the team wonder how the security had held more than once in the past decade.

"This is the outer , respectable station. There...is another portion from within these walls unbeknownst to even our best minds , yet."

Only a select few were aware and traumatized by the task of keeping their mouths shut from a raging dog's wrath. She kept that part to a minimum. Lori's eyes and heart spoke the rest as solemnly as she could manage.

"Shoji...would have me executed in my sleep if ever it came to be known of ..his newest discovery."

Raven felt the energy signatures rush by her as flowing waters of a rapid ,winding stream. Magic was here and growing stronger as they walked on dwn the desolate halls.

"Why?" Starfire looked around and felt that the lab was too well confined. No sunlight or even...communication from the outside?

"Why must Mr. Takahara hold these secrets from the other-

"They are...human. And if they were forced to forget this life, they would only remain outsiders. " Richard drawled out his thoughts as that obvious shock stood on his team's faces.

"Yes, and they would leave with no memory of the secret kept . That is why they know only of Shoji being as they, a master scientific soul without any flaws...thus far..."

The boss was a hot head elsewhere on the compound. He was a cry baby, an imbecile when he talked at length. Even..more human than his staff gave the pup credit.

"So if Shoji goes, the spell wears off and everyone wakes up? That ..is pretty ugly a history, considering the years these people have worked for a-

"Mmmhmmbpph!" Conner was shut out with an octopi Gar on the elder teen's face, tentacles and all. Wally helped by pinning down the lug to explain the reason why 'the show had to go on.' This was not socut and dry for generations of so- called ants on the farm.

"This, is technically a crime if these citizens never learned of the dangers in writing. I mean..they are working for a mad scientist who...is still using stolen tech half the time.."

Dick clenched his fists and knew that his side of the world was unable to pin down a corporate scandal without any proof. Shoji was a fake in essence, yet he had more power as did the rest of those guardians of the spirit realm!

"We can't do anything since his cousins are just as looped into that conspiracy as Takahara is. " Raven nod and saw how Gar had a point, while having apprehended Con- El quite nicely with his eight arms.

"So? You are just gonna become accomplices for cons and cheats here an earth? Why isthat not a crime?" Conner still wanted his money's worth of explainations. Lori huffed and had the heroes shortened their chat for later.

"Just...have your hands at your sides and do not stop walking onwards!" She was frustrated and upset as Kori saw in her ex- team member Raven's features.

Kaien grunt and just remained silent until steely door had been their next destination from the previous trek.

"Pretty far down."Wally whispered as the elevator shaft went in moments to reach it's next stop.

"And, this is the lowest sector we own. Here,it hold a carvernous feel, though for good reason-

~Mistress! Oh!~ The one to beam up towards the teens and adults was a girl. A young child with features..resembling Hakuro's own...she was not Alice,nor was she the look alike of the light seer. This child was not even as she appeared by her body alone.

"That..." Raven felt her eyes swim with the energies that touched her senses.

Dick blinked, then let go of Jock's arm to step into the youngster's domain.

/

~You did not arrive here to bring very good news . Or, rather..these guests are yours? Miss Ainsley?~

"The speak...but she's talkin!" Kaien saw it as well. She used her voice as if she could not other with telepathy. She spoke as a spirit, yet held the aura of something much greater..

"Hello, yeah..we are from ...across the water in..the United States? Do you know about us, m-

~Yes. I see a loit more than Princess Ainsley's knows. Forgive me! You do not recognise one turned by your good deed! Have you too forgotten? I was once not very kind to the chosen of the late prince?..~

Richard paused,then felt his heart understand everything.

"Dick? Richard? What has sh-

"Star..." He croaked asif this were his memory doing flips in the present day.

"I...know you!" He gasped while Raven remained in shock herself. That aura was not familiar, it was dead on the mark!

~No...reborn would be the wrong term to use. ~ The girl leapt back to levitate by her esper power and shook her skull softly.

~I was a sham of myself. I was able to reclaim the good buried within..and am Now!-

She let her wrists light up as that magic lit up her domain to become as starry as her sights.

~Lady Prophetess Of Dodona - Agatha Of thee Delphi unit. Lady Hecate once summoned me...yet I could not find your company- there was a being whom hindered our progress to assist the chosen...I do apologise for my delayed introduction.~

She lowered her head meekly and hoped to be forgiven by all of the chosen of yester- day. Even the chosen of to- morrow were counting on the prophetess's predictions.

Richard again was stricken with a series of emotions, lit up by this past recollection of a certain assassin of the dragon's..gone golden?

" You were Roko and, just wanted to get away from that monster, the dragon." He wrasped as if dry mouthed enough to understand the youth's plight.

She had been an enemy, yet she and Alice, Arisu, as well as Hakuro had lives not connected truly to the Noburo Clan and his successors.

Roku had been..he had stolen lives to build upon his army. False projections of soldiers who were to fight his war had to be kept a secret from those who could shut the evil demon down. Lord Destiny, Isa, the guardians closest to Roku and Richard Ainsley's family...they all had rememberded . Yet all wished to forget once the day of judgement had come to a close.

"So then." Rachel Roth crossed her arms and was now staring towards Richard's present form. Robin's adult self they had succeeded in freeing all those lone days was safe- because SHE had also been terminated.

He was not supposed to remember the dragon at all. None of his followers,his energies, his memories. Roku had plagued this Azarathian for the last time..

"Sorry, Agatha." Raven dragged Dick away with a snap of her wrist. He had to ground himself within the present. The girl lived as another, yet she was still the re- made body of an old foe.

~I..do not understand..~ Agatha gazed up into Dick and Lori's eyes. Her's were as snowy and wide as a child's would be by such a rejection. This hero had..not forgiven the daemon named-

~No...no...you are not yet listening! Please! I was told that YOU could save my dear Verra! He is going to be-

"How in the ell' do you know his title, miss?" Kaien leapt out as himself with a bit of anger under that tone. He had never known the cat to walk another way into the darkness. What had Shoji been playing with? Certanly not a match set or two?

~Lier...you promised...you told me that they would listen!~Her power was as her body on earth allowed. A meta- human whom held esp as her weapon of choice. That meant that she and Rachel would be sworn enemies if Kaien did not!-

"Ennnough!" Kori yelled as the fabricated, virtual caverns rocked by her pitch. She rushed over to Richard and slapped his right cheek with her shaking palm. He looked up to her, his live and was stunned. She had heard everything ye..her heart was not trying to recall-

"We have no need to fear her! You do not wish to start a war?" Kori stopped Raven as well with a death glare to end their battle.

"All of you are not only horrible guests! I am most appauled! Roko was in pain and Agtha has clearly done something to ease the self's hurt forever! You believe that this girl is the enemy, yet we are just as guilty for shutting our eyes just as the dragon might have wanted us to do! You all, should be the ones to apologise. Miss Agatha..please do not fear these heroes. They are my very,dear friends..Rachel has seen what the old ..Her ...Roko had been like. Yet she wished to change and came to Verra? Then this person of the past must have never wished for anyone to know what she was capable of losing control over."

Kori paused and turned to a Change-ling in the headlights. "Garfield! You knew that by Tara and still tried to forget what she had taught all of us. As Titans for a very long time, none of us have jumped this far into conclusions we did not fully recognise the answer to.. Agatha..everyone here was afraid of him terribly. We will not blame Roko for being worried as well. Please, must we fight when the stakes of many are at risk of losing themselves, elsewhere? I..just want to see my bumgorfs again...I am truly sorry..please forgive my friends..please.."

She had no such strength to cry when the these heroes were divided . Starfire had to blaze forth, to protect their bonds,and friendships by tugging her comrades to think deeply into the matter.

Agatha looked on and landed,her feet now touching the earth with her temper losing steam. Dick felt equally to blame by how he had not even thought of the Roko who had cried out...wishing to be a normal human..

"Kori...I'm..sorry . I had no idea you would, not think the same-

"I do not dwell in the past as easily as you." She huffed and pretended to act up in annoyance by her husband's half- hearted apology.

He could do so much better, the dragon would have prayed on this animosity without a second chance given...
By an old life taken..

"Starfire is right. "Raven noticed that she could not hold back a frown from her lips. She was disappointed in herself for acting brashly. Agaha..was just a kid, even if she was not a human one. It was wrong..

"Agatha..that...honestly confused me. Hecate did all of this? She sent you, but you never were able to contact ..Robin of the past?" She asked and tried to wait until the younger version had taken a few, deep breaths.

~Y-Yes...~ The youngster nod with her eyes still moist, though not overflowing. That would be too heartbreaking by how her locks were as long as Tara's of that time. Another mistake that coud not be undone. Tara Markov...was dead anyway. She had been wrapped up in a struggle between her country and brother Geostorm. Terra...was no more .

"I too am truly sorry,that my earlier reassurance had you uncertain of our guests. " Lori tried to seem as sincere as her heart would allow. Kaien still refused to understand why the idea of an ally, didn't make him cringe enough. Especially the former puppet which was devoured by Lil in an unseen hell.

(These new years part two, Roko was able to return to Brocton with a condition in mind. She wanted humanity. Yet her curse made the demon child turn on her saviours to return to the dragon Roku's side. She even warned them to tie her down and to be well armed while her fracrured heart had less time to heal, before the king's semi- revival. In the end, Lil overtook Roko to help Aiden escape the dragon's cell walls in his captivity as a catalyst. She nearly failed and the Titans learned everything. Roko had been turned before, though always managed to hold a will of her own- seeing as she was the closest aspect to the king, not his son's aspect entirely. Her power even defeated Rokou as Akane(Red- X's nick name for Roko in order to unbind her from Roku's part two and one of these new years.) She was not able to hold out , so Shoji decided to use the remains of her shell to find out if something else had occured. When the process had finally gone off with a bang, the scientist had found Agatha, yet did not know about her abilities as this is what we shall soon discover. The Delphi Agents is a gag on the Oracle Of Delphi. Dodona is another history quiz piece of the ancient world. Look it up! She is more or less a spy who ran intoa few snags yrying to contact the chosen. Her will power in Roko was partly this and the fact that Clio once held her own body as a daemon in spirit before Lord Roku used her for his plans. Only Rokou was an aspect to the prince, yet the king would only grow to corrupt the selves as he had his own son.)

~Then there was a reason for the goddess sparing me! Thank gods I was not as the turned..was I?~

Agatha wondered if Roko then had been a true fiend, or else she'd been written off to play the role for the yearbooks. Texts did mis interperate ways of death; the gods and guardians had unveiled a hidden story within the forgotten myth, down to the last chapter .

"I wish that could have been the case." Richard tried tosmile, though no ounce of Roko remained..was Kaien right Did this mean that in some way, the evil aspect had never been one to begin with? The idea boggled Raven's mind as well as her former leader's.

~Agatha...as she is , she is not the old foe in which you claim. She is partly a recreation of one of the junior officials to the Panthenon of the ancient seers of Delphi. I do recall your friend's aura...she has the exact energies of an-

"Her name was Ravenna Asterion. " The empath did not bother to hide her reincarnate's past from anyone. All (besides Conner and Wally) knew who the priestess of Asterion was to the spirit worlders .

~I was not wrong then.~ The sweeping bow and curt apology of the young girl's own body language, then swapped places in an instant.

~You should have known of their fate...~ The girl was of a monotonous voice; her eyes left no light to shine as a prediction, was just upon the Titans' horizon.

"Whhaa! You are going all!-

~Chameleon of many shades which desires a human face, you see nothing. Yet I see all.~

She lefted to levitated again. Agatha was predicting an outcome as if possessed by her former nature.

Raven used her art to press past the aura glowing brightly before her team.

"So the dog roped an orcale int'a our business!?" The whipping , sandy tomb of this make- belive underground quaked with tremendous force below the fox's two feet.

~I am here . I chose to locate the chosen, before it was to be to late.~ Her body moved fluidly through the air. Kori shouted and pointed to catch the floating child before she awoke. Richard could not climb, yet stairwell were ug into the original complex from beneath the latter.

~Hear my determined woe from beyond!~ Agatha spoke in a loud, echoing voice . Kaien braced his fur, though knew his spirit self was safe with the tykes by the void's will. He had no power and was as mortal as his compatriots..

~I'm a Titan! Not a reptile! Don't go crazy and-

"Oomph!" Gar bumped into an unsettling Raven as he was also readying her powers to-

~Wait!~ Raven saw it as well, though her form left the shadow aspesct of Ravenna to float above the adult empath's skull.

Agatha responded with a gasp and a bow wile still controlled from high up.

The room grew quiet, so much that everyone's breathes were held by HER reappearance.

"Raven's other..."

Gar was swat by Wally, who had enough speed left to bring his pal a distance from this ...debatable spat about to occur.

Ravenna was overhead Raven, who had her mouth sealed as the two relics spoke. He obligated even as a puppet. Yet so was this Agatha of the present!

~Dearest ally, why are you beside my charges?~

Ravenna, was not happy to see an operative as herself outside of their realm. How had this pint- sized brat become a spy in the first place?

~Madame Lady Asterion.~ It was obvious from Agatha's bow that her companion of the past held more prestige than she herself had.

~Hekate is well? You would not know I fear. And after the demon's tricks upon your very heart..~ Ravenna spoke with the manner of one disturbed by the dragon's tactics. Her fists were clenched in memory of that era.

~Yes, dear Sister to our relative sect. My lad this was not as I had fore-

~When will you learn that lone predictions will not save you from near- death!? I recall all of your carelessness . Sister Agatha of Dodona. Foolish and only in over her head for the time your life was spared and your graces cast! You were bonded by fate to a half- blood! A creature praying to die when it had no chance underneath the dragon's rule!~

Agatha shook her head to rebuke. Her desperation to remain an agent burned into her brain, her very attitude had not reached the arch priestess of Delphi's sister unit.

~I did not do this as any sort of desire for retribution alone!~ She exclaimed as the two had their auras trying to drain the other's.

~I am sworn for the chosen..I wish to aid!-

~You are too late. Return to our realm and lay down your gauntlet, sister.~ Ravenna wisened up and knew, that Agatha was trapped as a human with powers...powers which held no ounce of control. The original Agatha had been just as unwise to participate. Roku had shoved her inside a frame and sealed it tight. The self Roko had been trying to escape, just to understand what she was. It was the same for Arisu and Alicia Daia. Arisu was a spirit of the far east who had been captured to corrupt her host. Her contracted under the dragon's very reign.

~You understand why I must stay. At this rate, you too shall not be able-

~I am aware. I do not wish to return to my state as a daemon to my people. ~Raven shook her head softly and refused to say anything else. She had lived as the Ravenna in which Malchior of Knoll recalled. The previous ; whom was an adult and knew of Isis...the latter, which helped Richard Ainsley to face his father...she had been the child, the maiden, the aging woman whom could not bear the sight of another loss...

She had seen far more than Agatha to- day. That was why connecting to Hecate's universal link was crucial. Agatha had to come to know reason, reason she had not carried into her late vessel's mind. She had almost lost- been absorbed as all spirit were to heed warning from their betters.

~Return as the child before a maiden emerges. ~ The sniffling brat was more useful than a spoiled orcale without any direction. ~I will train that inner side of your new form. It will not be to grow as you see fit. The cat has left you here, emersed in your daily follies. I intend to free you from these chambers. ~ Her wise words hit the oracle youth as she returned to her younger body, not glowing by the light inside.

~We shall not allow darkness to overtake our chosen,nor we to the sacred Delphi Officials.~ Raven nod and saw Agatha agree with a small smile. ~You always did care for your sisters...I wanted to help..I forged my way..tofind you. I wanted to help my friends...everyone was suffering...Lady Goddess Hekate never ame after me!~ The youth bawled as if she were supposed to receive a certain punishment.

Ravenna shook her head and had to make her new pupil see- she had never intended to leave. Fates..they were ever winding, just as frendships could seem. She hugged the youth until her tears were fresh against the empath's chest. Even if Ravenna had her ways like the crone, they were not outside if moral reasoning and for a better purpose to the world. Peace..did that come at so harsh a cost?

~Step down from these in which you decide...you are going to live as this child's light has given..Your powers, will be overseen by my charge and contracted-

"Wait!" Raven felt the seer's energy disappear from her world. Ravenna..that meant that Raven was in charge of training Agatha to use her esp powers!

She blinked up to her friends. This..was a poor excuse to adopt..but..

Agatha was as a young Alicia by her light eyes and features. She was almost a ghostly shade by how she had not seen the sun for about a month...yet how did she survive?

~I was supposed to become a Universal in time, yet I left The Delphi Unit's borders toseek out Ravenna from amongst the battalion's ranks. ~ She tried to cower into a ball with Raven holding her still. The empath did..not want to raise...yet this was a Goddess's wrath..where the Titan, had no say...

"You snuck out of your temple, but why?" She asked the girl in a worried voice, one shaken by the episode all too soon.

~She..was my saint of mercy...I wanted to be by her side!~ The youth smiled withtears still fresh against her hollow face of a pure, snowy white.

"You cared about, Ravenna..but she..she knew it was unsafe. Why ?" Raven did not know the past,she only saw shadows of it's memory. It was admiration. The girl had died trying not to lose her very will to the ...Roku was not only a coward for sending those lost to end his was..he was a demon who had never learned the true meaning of what..love was..even Lori had failed to imprint that into the dragon's memory. Aleiah had bashed fate and protocol to try and wake up the battered king- he chose the path he'd been warned of..possibly as a child or even later..

"I'm..sorry." Raven did not know if this was too soon. Agatha looked up with her eyes still a mess.

She was pushed away as the empath struggled with this current reality. Raven Of Azarath was supposed to help a former oracle...understand her powers. That was something Rachel Roth could not be qualified in! It was...not the same as being a Titan. She had failed with the new chosen. This was not-

~If...~Agatha tried to reword her sentence with a slight pause before continuing. "If...I do not remain as..a spirit...could...I be human? Just as my host wished..yet never...gained. Roko was violent, she did not wish to slow her thoughts to underatand. I am different. She is the darkness of that will to live.I am the hope in which the dragon burried. I am, going to stand here. By your side!" She cried as if a declaration of her desire to see Ravenna of Asterion again. Rachel was unable to back away. The child had her surprised by how it no longer used the speak of it's past. How could she have a protege?...

"I am willing to stay,for however long it takes. I am under your -

"Ok!" Rachel had the heroes gape by her forced utterance . Defeated with that prominant strength of will only this child had used to keep her word, Raven now had decided. She wasn't going to run from helping this spirit...until she knew how to send it far away from earth once it's trials were completed on earth!

"My...student then?" She nervously grinned, trying to remember how a smile seemed in now- time. Agatha smiledf properly. She ha been cheery even before her new face had revealed itself to our heroes.

"Yes ! Miss Ravenna!-

"Uh-oh..." Gar covered his ears and waited for the exact replay of what had happened to Malchior. Rule numero uno; Raven is Rachel Roth, so Ravenna would be hist..

"No. As of now, I am just Raven or ..in my civilian identity...Rachel ! Don't call me Ravenna! Remember what you said, you'd follow me so Ravenna WOULD forgive us both!"

She heaved and had the youngster nod in understanding. "Yes ma'ame!" Agatha exclaimed as if this were her first day to see the sun.

For some reason, she was still just a kid. No matter that odd , glowing prediction ...Agatha was herself in this world. She was only here to learn the rules and find out what was new about the future. After all, the Delphi agents were in the shadows since their cities no longer stood within time's web. It spun a new tale of both master sorcereress of Azar and Student to the Delphi Unit, and of Ravenna's admiration. Though Raven held the baton up high, this was only the beginning of something extraordinary.

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As far as pasts would collide, another tragic reunion took place outside of our heroes' view.

It seemed May of the blue pixies had stolen her way through the gates of the floating palace of the wolf king. Her suspicions had led the fae creature far from her original goal. Her bunchi,kin pie was waiting with plans to elope...now..a princess was in dire need of saving.

~I never thought the last of the chosen would become the enemy's-

A startling sound of slamming doors had May high tail herself back behind one of the throne room's many pillars.

The wolf? Was he here with his captive betrothed! What a horrid scent! This castle was definitely under a spell. The miasma was so thick that the good wood's forests could not dare to compare. This creature cauing the worlds to stir made May's wings itch for a good scolding. Her power was of the earth, yet this was a winter palace! The room made her shiver, while the only way to still her lips was to use her cloak as a cover.

More than a single soul entered through those noisy doors as May watched with a held breath against the intrusion.

Thankfully the travellers she had met had spoken of a dangerous field of mist. She had been very grateful for their advice, though how would her pumpkin - dimples understand the rest of May's tale!?She had been spirited by her opposing element to a far off destination in the air!

~Have the orcs in order, Smolder! ~ A lady's voice had the fae pixie cock her ear to listen. Better hearing than a hound's!

The being called Smolder was a golem. A creature of both Alchemy and dead magics...the others, were soldiers on foot. They had a prisoner! Ava!

~Our king wants the girl under his thumb, so I gave him my very word that she would be broken. Should I fail, you will all pay the price as welk- ten fold! Now go patrol the perimeter! Thechosen are bound to discover our ploy soon enough. Well? Get! Go and make the border a fortress ! I command you!~

She was very rude for a child opposite Ava's distinct manner. Though they..looked as if the ladies could have been related...

~Swarm and remember to leave no survivors! Go into the village and say this was the Ice Queen's doing! Make an enemy or two..~ The grinning miss was not the princess! She was an evil double perhaps in face- though never in grace!

She pointed as the golem and orc armies deployed. Anya had to clap for her success to be had, all while subdued Ava Marie watched her name , her very rite as it was trampled in the mud by an imposter!

"I...-

"I-I You stupid fake!" The dopple dropped it's speak and started to show her true colors towards the princess in shackles.

"Wh-Where is my team!?" Ava shouted, her eyes filled to the brim with tears. She had promised not to cry..that was long overdue as her enemy sneered back in disgust.

"You..are no longer anyone's hope! You left me to be torn APART ! But guess what? The only fool who did wish to spare my pitiful existance...was the one who currently..holds the dead dragon's lost ounce of power!"

"Stop!" Ava tried to defend herself with her wrists protecting her battered brow. "I! Will ! Destroy you!" The dopple was leaving the princess to crawl away,yet Anya was not through. She grabbed the lavender eyed teen's locks and dragged her to face her opponent.

"I, am going to undo what you have done...you will feel the same shame once I take what is mine BACK! I rule this world! No one else! Then..your form will turn to ashes by not I!" She evilly grinned and kneed the wheezing princess in her bruised gut.

"Your poor brother was right! Why did love make you blind? Is this how a princess shouild be!? Falling in love with false princes!? You are a disgrace! I will wear the crown! Bow and neer forget what afailure SHE was to birth YOU!"

Reia..why? Why was Reia the enemy...Ava's skull had a small cut as blood poured to coat her fingers fro the touch. So..cliche Ami..would say...

"I...a...-

"No! You won't answer! You...lost!" The battered princess refused to stop trying as her joints cried out. She forced herself to stand. Each time, Anya kicked harder than the first.

"I...will...fi-

A flop to the ground as her feet were tripped from under her by a flying hit.

"I...cough!...am...-

Anya groled and smashed the girl down with the ferocity oif a true demon. A slam to the floor had Ava's jaw on fire. The demon's grip onto her bleeding scalp hurt even far worse than Ava Marie would have guessed of her condition...She..was a Raven Winged..She could not die...

"Bingo." Anya knocked the princess unconscious as the cursed working of her own healing ability kicked in. "I have the power to hurt you, yet that pretty curse heals you right up- we can never be found out by Hati! He would have my head...or your heart."

Ava shivered by that evil grin. She was afraid...was that ok? Ava..Ava was supposed tofight! She...had lost her will to hold a blade..after all, Chris in his new body had taught her the way of that sport. She could not let his teachings be used...for evil purposes...he...was a false love...

"Hmmm? That dreamy expression has your rival to believe..that you did not listen to a word from your own guilty , conscience! Sad, little brat!"

The hit was enough to have Ava raise her wrist, thoug instead, May had seen quite enough of this violent horse play to know how it would end up.

~Halt ! I..am a spy and will report this act if-

"Lies! I have seen you within the imp village! Pesky Pixie!" Ava watched in horror as May was gusted up and out of a window of the tallest turret. She had tried her hardest..yet not for another-

~Let her be!" ~ The dopple turned to have a glaring, whirlwind of a princess in her midsts. The damn heroine had returned...

"You will never win, princess! You are just a fake royal! Stand down! Ha!""

The two clashed within the miasma coated room. May had regained her balance in mid air to twirl back towards the rebel in action. Ava needed help! May..May had the power to make this place as thin as paper!

She began to flit , flit allaround the tower's outside. The dust from her wings increased to stir the energies of the dark wolf's keep. This was not his kingdom! It was Ava's winter Barrens!

She started to chant in her language. Power emit from her wings to still the dopple before the casting had been-

A roar of a howl sent the fae to fall from her plans, as Ava and Anya switched places. Anya had Ava back in her submissive tate with a wring of the child's wrists. Ava cried out as the dopple did as a good lackey. She made sure that her hide was safe from Hati's wrath.

Hati came through those doors with the form,of Chris as a silver haired villain. Ami's favorite catrtoon bad- guys...Ava stared up with her words in refusal of his empty lies. He heart had no room..he..was not alive . Chris had been eaten whole by this creature. She needed to fight..or to send a-

~You look lost, your highness..~ He bowed as her advisor had done. She lowered her gaze, yet Anya tugged the herb's chin to look . Hati was no different in form, yet that aura had her gasp.

"What...Are you!?" Ava shouted. A disturbing thought crept into her thoughts over if the demon did not love her..but Reia?

The dreature smoothly slid across the room without a sound. He took to seating himself in the ugly throne. Ava's rites were shattered by his presence here. That seat was no one else's! Reia..Reia had been certain..

"I will talk to you,and only you again princess. " He swapped his voice as Anya had. This was cruel! She felt hoiw he had power over her words..but not her actions! This monster was going to pay...

He looked into her frightened and angry eyes from that standing position. She was n more a throrny rose as a poisonous herb for tasting...How lovely..

"You will not take my offer, as I have been kind enough to spare your -

"You sent him to his death! I owe you nothing!" Though Hati had a startled look to give by the reply, he started to laugh. Ava raised a brow the lowered it to frown. "What's so hilarious about a dead!-

"He ..he is alive! The goddess whom stole you away...ha ! Her power saved your so -called charge from a fate far worse! He is alive and...after this castle..." The demon left her stunned, without a way to respond.

"He would have died..I do not oe,we you my rite as a princess! I do not even owe you my life!" Angered by the terrible tyrant on top of her pedestal, Ava reacted as she would have with Anya. The dopple had no power as her rival's now clearly matched..the Wolf Prince's...

"You..you are trying to turn my plane into a waste I've never known...then I will never forgive what!-

~I was not asking if you would." The demon sped up and brought himself closer to her swealtering face. He smirked and held her arms as the girl had alrady been bound from leaving. May was powerless as her wings were stretched thin by the failed spellwork.

~Ooh! Princeeess!~ She called out, though lost her energy to stay awake. Anya saw this pitiful creature and caged it inside an astral sphere.

Hati grabbed the young Ava's chin and had her face his terrifying gaze. She was panting..she had lost her-

~I am a beast to many...yet with this form, you will love me. You will make me your king..and I...will have my -

"No...no.! St-

"I..only stayed to have you." The eyes of her first love resurfaced while the stress bubbled up from inside the Eternal half- child. Her heart clattered as icicles on the palace ceiling. Frozen, delicate and so close to skewering-

~Ice, break and bend. Rip the enemy away!~

Her spell was close to the demon's form , yet he tossed her. He took the blow slighly while she rushed over to May.

May was not strong enough to stay here. She was a woodland creature. Anya was coming in quick with a blade at her hip. She dove to defy this prudent child of the wrong realm. She was a false ruler to the barrens!

"Nay!"

The king wolf Hati emerged from beneath the broken array of shards. His coat was still human as possible as the daemon's power sent the crysa,taline masses to trap Ava into a cluster of icicles.

He used his power to make a perfect rejection of her magic to free herself against his own.

"In order to keep my word, you will become mine! Otherwise...your teammates will suffer by my army!"

She froze up and stopped trying to escape with May in tatters beside her prison. Magic..to save

"May! Fly away! Save the chosen! Disperse!"

The small shock of light had a teleportation spell send May into another space. She..was safe...Ava..had to stall this maniac...he would not have her powers!

"Growing weaker, princess?" Hati laughed as he had her in her prison, still by the wolf's side.

"I...will..not give ...you anything! Or anyone!"

She spat onto his feet . The wolf growled,though not without this challenge to best him. "You are strong...I had not belived my walls enough to hold you...A whole castle will do! I will free you from your box, though you must know this. The moment you run...Anya will not stop to errect the very plan..to send the sun to perish!"

That had Ava grunting and fighting her way with the barrier in place. She had to warn Aiden! He was in danger!

They..knew...they knew about the seal over his manifestation..no...Hati was talking about suns and moons...he knew only that...she calmed her thoughts to only seem claustrophobic - for that was why she struggled against the crystal sphere's confinement.

"I see. You'll need more time, though be quick! I am not going to dilly dally like the brute lizard. I intent to have your crown and your heart, princess...then...there will be no end to this winter! I shall return shortly, make the right decision, maybe Christopher will be involved. He, is certainly restless as well and eager to be saved by his last saviour! "

The laughter of the demon had Ava hang her head. Her skull was healed..yet it still ached terribly.

The door clattered shut with a slam* . Anya had decided to stand guard. Here, she could also be away from the lazy mutt's line of sight.

"You..are working for more monsters." Ava shot towards the dopple who had to think of a come back- not really. She had a bad temper after all.

"Try harder to bring me into the light, fake royal." Anya pruned her claws against her short sword. This was getting old. When would this farce end?

"You have more brains than him! Why decide if you should also-

"Goad me for a lifetime , princess." The dopple chuckled and mocked the titke as if it were worthless. Ava Marie Grimaced and though just that. How though? How had Aiden...

Aiden...he had been spared by Anya in the last battle.

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"My, brother." Ava felt a reaction by how the swipe of Anya's claws had come to a halt.

"He, was not harmed by you? Why?" She pretended to be curious. Demon or god, they loved to monologue with a passion. Demons were harder to coax it did seem..

"He wanted to act that bratty role as...a hero. He's also lying to himself. Man! I could picture it now...your brother and I, toppling the order of spirit a-

"You like him!?" Ava had not really remembered THAT from the last battle! Had Aiden left that part out?

"I..was doing my job! W-Why would I care for a stupid human!-

"You...just said it-

"GAAH!" Can it loser royal! I hate you and your kind! They are all the same!" Yet Ava had not been as good and noble as Anya claimed. Ava had been the one to start a fire where it was not needed.

Nor expected.

"I was not wrong then. So..why are you in love with my brother? His power? You won't get a single drop ! He's too good for someone so rotten!" She decided to play the bully while Anya was fuming for her prisoner to nail it shut!

"Quiet.." The tensing demoness hissed with her eyes staring to the floor. This was a mess! Hati was second on her shit list! This girl beside her was the real demon!

"I'm just going to keep up the pace if you can't say anything the real Ava would -

"I...I don't care about!-

"Lier ! You wanted to use my form to harass my poor brother! " Ava smirked, knowing this was the big finish.

"So then? Why did you just admit to a fantasy with Aiden in it? You still are just as ugly as that heart you cameback here with! You are not even Ava or Anya! Who are you really!?"

The dopple started to laugh. It was low,and something sinister. Ava immediately swept back fromthat shadow behind the dopple.

~No...You were destroyed!" She was not able to breathe by the miasma's effects clouding her vision...lungs...

"I...hate to be the bearer of awful news , my dear..." The demoness...this was a false picture...winged..and possessed!

"Lilith.." Ava growled as her instincts took hold. "Why are you taking over the doppleganger's body? You are not even allowed to leave your cell! Don't bring the council into your mess!" Ava threatened as the evil strix in spirit had a hold over her newest host. Lil grinned a fox's smile while swirling the child Anya's blade in her grip, as Anya in body though not of her mind.

"Anya is a vessel, temporary after I do away with that seal. Hati..was just to have you out of the way. No hard feelings! That is, your brother will make a perfect vessel for my newest-

"Stay away from my family!" Ava cried out and with a snarl, she meant business against this old foe.

"If you even think about harming ANY of them...I will personally exorcise you myself! As Reia's heir I have that rite..."

The daemon girl was not even aware that a second being had freed her. The dopple was a puppet to the damned's queen will.

A fallen one without a throne. Yet now...

"And how much power must you, the new saint of the Barrens have to set me to ruin?Again? And again! And as long as men might love their temptress!"

She was not lying. As long as seductresses such as the strix were real, Lil could never disappear for good. Here or on the teen's other home, earth...

Ava grit her teeth and realised that Hati had not figured out the truth. Some king to be such a trusting ruler! He was not very bright. That had been something Ava had been correct in assuming to compare. The demoness was not insane enough to not think things through. She had a plan all along and had used Anya Wulfsmund to pave the way. Now, Ava must have had some idea as to whether the strix held a weakness or tw...

"Why not have you guard down a while? Oh! And sorry for the beating...I had to make you look , pathetic enough for ole' Hati! He smells fear well enough to see you as a match made in...best not say it aloud. "

Lilith chuckled anxiously by how the world above her reach would burn her ego to add. Had it been real that was.

Ava just tried to piece together an s.o.s...what would that accomplish if she got caught? May was drifting through the portal she had laid out...all her power was not enough to seek the answer.

"If it helps any, I never intended to harm him. I wanted him to relive that energy..but poor Raku was not well enough to defy an Ethereal puppet...sigh...they just keep getting slimmer. These chances to end the world when you humans did that long before we spirit could leave a mark. I do envy that in you...yet, Hati will become my sacrifice as well. Would you rather save you beloved Chris? Or will your family already have forgotten the ice queen and her threats to leave their lives for good? You could have just sent them away anytime! Yet you called out...not so noble of a lady to her knights, princess. "

Lil shook her head and tutted to this act by a royal- blooded line holder.

"I..had to fight him off from the start-

"Why tell your brother all of those lies?" Lil interrupted, leaning over Ava's cage to let her finish.

"He was in danger! Why did I ask ? He was not supposed to...that's not!-

"Princess, your first knight lied and tried to do so many things to your new home. Yet did he have that rite? If you are stronger than he...Why not have my options turned over, to be of use to you? Ye might just gamble a chance, so that your poor brother might be spared...you'll just have to find my replacement of course-

"Why would I trust a demon!? You did this to lure him out! That doesn't make any sense!-

"Hati is bound to the moon, my dear. Be grateful his brother is not here to collect the sun. Sol is...what the Norse call a god of the solar realm. Yet Mani is to the moon. Silly hound thinks you are that deity! Yet I know more than he..that is not the truth. " She pretended to watch over Ava as she drank in this information. What was he after then? What eternal winter could her abilities bring?

"A..replacement , vessel? Or is it a sacrificeYou still would use that power to-

"Suns and moons..did the ancients ever think otherwise of their follies! The deity of said ' sun and moon ' are not of the topic he wishes to grasp, little kit! It is ...the void by those two energies..the power to merge and separate. He intends to blot out the sun by destroying it...and so, I intent to save it by the curse unto HIS heart. Your brother was saved, he still owes to me this much...do you not remember? "

Ava thought back...this was off. She knew that trick had failed Roko had been defeated while Lilith had been possessing the aspect's will. Roku...had defeated...

"How did my brother escape. " She asked this as the deity in the child's way left her stare to soften a bit.

"I lost, yet the curse is still active. In order to prevent that power of the dragon's from becoming your other's own-

"But..." The girl's jaw trembled as she remembered how the Grayson children had been told.. that, Aiden had been cured! By Cecilia Daia...or..was it not true!? Was it only half true by how Ami seemed to hide more as Amaterasu lead them down the rabbit hole! This was...

"He's going to end up a turned one, if none of you hold the strength to save the last chosen. I was able to return , yet what of your magic? I might give you this then..." She held up her finger to add momentarily.

"Young princess, if you give your body to me , should you lose against my power, the boy might not be spared. We as one force.. could extinguish the turned medicine from your brother , as long as you...have the power to not turn before he does, that is..."

Ava understood. Lil was throwing a deal onto the table . If she absorbed Lil after neutralizing Aiden's curse, they would win the bet. If she neutralized the taint in her brother , but did not stop the turning of her own spirit to the witch's will, Ava would lose both her soul and her brother's..as well as Ava's entire family that she had left behind...

Ave gulped and tried to weight her options. Lil was a demon. A powerful one regardless of her loss in the past. She was a cunning strategist from the shadows and took hold of any hearts she so desired.

Today, she was offering a way to win. A way that might make it imposible for the barrens to ever rise again...or for her brother to live in a mortal existance...

"I'll let you decide , though be swift. If Hati is not amongst his dreams,you will lose your chance...think wisely, child of Reia. You should know the answer...if you are of a greater power than the chieftess of lore.."

The demoness Anya returned to her mind and blinked up groggily from a nightmarish dream of her own memory.

"Hati is ...not back? Damned oaf! I will wait here...yet you had better be silent as a soul forgotten, brat princess." The demon huffedcand returned to slipping back off into her slumbering woes. Too soon, to be demoted.

Ava was quiet . She was as small in her world as this request had her in tangles over...

~Would my life save him? Or would it destroy us both? I have to find out..if May..escaped...~ Her eyes dropped as the nightly calm wound round the floating fortress. May had to have found her powers again...she,was all Ava had in the way of a proper s.o.s.

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And chapter is off to a cliff! Lil's been acting as a parasite again? Ava has to save her brother from becoming the next Red lord? What about Odin and Amaterasu? Aneiu is finally able to reveal herself before our heroes. Not to mention that pint- sized surprise for Raven in Tokyo! Will our heroes ever find a way to contaxt the spirit realm ? Is Ami hiding even bigger secrets than before! The stag is found to be a ruse- really it houses Odin's form while the dragonling had only a brief description to give to his contracted!

Roko is no more, yet Agatha knows what will befall the chosen.

The gag on the Oracle of Delphi - Delphi Agents , is used in my wattapad story of the origin of the red lord in detail. Read it under Veil of time - Pageturner09 . Great thriller of the supernatural. Very tragic. Now comes the fun part- will the wolf Hati have Ava's hand in marraige before the chosen are ready to shake the ground? Is Aiden's curse still keeping the dog's lips sealed shut. Why has Ravenna refused to help the Titans with Agatha? Find out in chapter 11! Read on and stay curious for the very end!