The shroud of revenge chapter 9 – the powers of Unknown

As Edward was about to pull the trigger, he was hit in the back by one of Robin's explosive discs. However, not being able to feel pain, Edward quickly recovered and proceeded to shoot the boy wonder; who didn't have time to react. Beast boy watched in horror as Edward shot his team leader and friend once in the chest, twice in the stomach and finally, Robin slumped over when Edward shot a bullet into his head, killing him.

Overcome with rage, Beast boy sprang up from the floor; ignoring the terrible pain from his wound and held Edward against the glass dome. The changeling then punched him once with his right hand, once with his left then again with his right. With Edward momentarily stunned, Beast boy flexed out his hand muscles and then began to choke Edward out to stun him some more. After chocking the schoolboy for a bit, Beast boy grabbed him by his blazer and smashed him twice into the glass dome. Whilst Edward was recovering, Beast boy angrily but guiltily picked up the gun that had dropped from the phantom's hand. When Edward looked at his enemy, he noticed that he was pointing the gun at him. Edward braced himself after a shot was fired but found himself fine. As he tried to push his weight off the glass dome, Edward's face gained a horrified expression when he heard the glass crack. Beast boy watched in almost amusement as he watched the schoolboy plummet through the glass dome. After Edward's screaming had halted, Beast boy looked through the hole he had indirectly made and saw Edward motionless, impaled on the museum's metal model of a roman spear.

Beast boy felt a crooked smile come to his face at the sight. He then began to walk towards his dead leader. When he was near to the boy wonder, Beast boy took his green gloved hands and put them over his chest. "I'm sorry" were the words the changeling could think to say. When he heard a gasp, Beast boy turned around to see his other three friends standing by the glass dome; shock on all of their faces. "BB, what happened?" Cyborg asked. Beast boy felt tears come to his eyes as he simply pointed at the hole in the glass dome. All three of the new arrivals looked in and after seeing Edward's impaled body, gasped again. Slowly but surely, Starfire began to walk towards the body of the boy she fancied. When she got to him, she fell to her knees and began to openly sob. Beast boy, on the other hand, only let a few tears escape; this didn't go unnoticed by Raven and Cyborg. "Come here, man" was all the machine-man said before pulling his friend into an embrace of comfort; Raven soon following. If was shortly after that moment that they heard a booming voice from behind them.

"YOU WILL PAY FOR RUINING MY LIFE, LOGAN!"

"YOU WILL PAAAAY!"

As soon as they heard that, all four living titans turned their heads and stared in horror at the sight before them. Edward Kobra Fitch was standing in front of them; showing no signs of injury. His appearance, however, had changed dramatically in the last minute. His shirt and blazer had somehow disappeared, leaving his in only his vest, shoes and trousers. The vest had a ring of blood near the centre and had a hole in it but the initial wound from the spear had healed. The titans could now clearly see a necklace around him; it appeared to be some type of 'silver lightning bolt'. His eyes were now bloodshot dark red instead of blue, his teeth had become like a great white sharks and his shoulder length brown hair was spiked up.

The thing the titans were worried about wasn't Edward's new appearance; it was the floating figure next to him. Floating in mid air next to the schoolboy was a figure of shadow. He appeared to be made completely of shadow and a trial of it connected him to Edward. The creature had monster like claws attached to skeletal hands, two rows of teeth similar to Edward's within one mouth and it had two sets of dark red glowing eyes.

Beast boy immediately attacked; turning into a rhino and charging Edward. What the changeling DIDN'T count on was Edward grabbing him by the horn and tossing him through the air like a rag doll. As Edward approached his enemy, the creature detached from the schoolboy and trapped the other three titans in vines of darkness before reattaching itself to its new 'friend'.

"My whole LIFE has been turned into a pain – filled ordeal because of YOU!" Edward shouted to the changeling in a new demonic voice. "You may have survived ONCE Logan but not anymore!" With those words, Edward began to shoot red energy blasts at Beast boy like before; the shadow creature moving in sync with him. Beast boy turned into an eagle in response to dodge the rapidly passing blasts of energy. After a while of 'cat and mouse', Edward finally hit Beast boy; turning his human again and knocking him out of the air. Edward then walked toward his enemy and raised his arms; about to deal his final attack. "I'll see you in hell" he said. Suddenly, Beast boy sprang up from his trick and grabbed Edward's necklace before pulling it from the schoolboy.

All four titans watched in amazement as Edward began to scream in utter agony. He gripped his head and the shadow creature did the same. Next, he fell to his knees whilst the creature simply levitated lower to the ground. Finally, a shock wave erupted from Edward and the shadow creature vanished whilst Edward slumped down to the cold ground.

With the shadow creature gone, the vines around the other titans deteriorated into nothing. As soon as she was free, Raven walked up to the changeling; who was badly injured. "Raven, I know what you're gonna..." The changeling never got to finish his sentence as Raven cut him off with her lips. When she pulled away, Beast boy just stared. "What was that for?" he asked. "For not leaving" she responded before pulling her crush into an embrace. Cyborg and Starfire just watched as their friends held each other, both now safe and sound...

(A/N – I know this isn't a proper ending but don't forget; we've still got the epilogue. I just want to reveal something to you guys.

1. the shadow figure and the man who spoke to Yuri in chapter 7: Goodbye, my friend are the same person. The creature on purposely tricked Yuri into betraying Edward so Edward would kill him; causing the titans to get involved and defeat Edward in battle. Now defeated and helpless, Edward would accept any type of aid just to get what he wants, even from a demon. The identity of the creature will not be fully revealed because it doesn't need to be but I WILL reveal that the demon's name is 'Unknown' and he was one of the 'keepers of the afterlife' mentioned earlier in the story.

So yeah, next chapter will be the epilogue. It will be set about 15 years after this chapter so expect anything but because the epilogue is basically an extra, if you wish, you can stop reading now. If you do choose to do this, can you please review and give me a detailed opinion on my story? I would really appreciate it.

So if you aren't going to read the epilogue, I just want to thank ALL of you for reading this and giving me review to push me on; especially...

Numbuh13m, NKcandygirl and Anniecarrots1 for your reviews on nearly EVERY CHAPTER!)