Chapter Nine

It's been a month since journeyed through the nine circles of Hell and rescued Azrael. The Guardians had contacted me and I traveled back to Euphoria.

Harachel: I hope you had a good rest this past month.

Anubis: Yeah, I did.

Harachel: Good. Your mission in retrieving the avatars starts now.

Anubis: I already made arrangements to retrieve Parallax and the blue avatar of hope.

Rashnu: Excellent. I assume you're headed to Odym first.

Anubis: Yes. I told my uncle, Hal, Kyle, and Guy to meet me there. Also told them to be discreet about it.

Gabriel: Good. I last thing we need is to alert Lucifer of our plan.

Anubis: That may happen.

Sofiel: Explain.

Anubis: The avatars of rage and greed will be difficult to persuade.

Sandalphon: That is why we constructed these.

I looked the seven objects. Each one looked at mini cages.

Anubis: The avatars are huge. How am I going to put them in these.

Rashnu: They are light capture cages.

Anubis: I get it now. Since the seven avatars were born from the spectrum which is made from light, the avatars will be pulled in the cages with ease.

Harachel: Exactly. Now go. Time is something that we don't have.

Anubis: Yes sir.

I place the seven cages into my ring via a pocket dimension and left Euphoria. As planned, Uncle John, Hal, Guy, and Kyle were waiting on Odym.

Guy: It about time, kid.

Anubis: Yeah, yeah.

Kyle: How are you going to get Parallax out of our batteries? You don't exactly have a Qwardian power ring.

Anubis: Don't need one.

Guy: Say what?

Anubis: The Celestial Corps, as you may already know, has the power of photo kinesis. Which mean we can bend any form of light to our will.

Guy: Damn! I need me one of those Celestial power rings.

Ganthet: Be careful. Parallax will try to escape.

Anubis: He'll regret it if he does.

The four lanterns presented their batteries and used my photo kinesis to draw out the yellow avatar of fear.

Parallax: I'm free!!!!!

Anubis: Don't get so happy, Parallax. I'm taking you off their hands.

Parallax look at me and laughed.

Parallax: You dare to try to take me prisoner! I would like to see that, human.

Parallax flew up into the air and dive back down to attack me. The fool. I used my photo kinesis to stop him in his tracks and began to make him regret trying to attack me.

Parallax: Stop it, human!!! How can this be?!!!

Anubis: Will you yield now, Parallax?

Parallax: No!

Anubis: Fool.

Parallax cried out. I was stretching him to the point where it look as if I was going to tear him in half.

Guy: Hey Hal, I bet you wish you could do that to Sinestro, right?

Hal: What do you think?

Guy: I take that as a yes.

Kyle: You do know that no one back at Oa will believe that Parallax was just made someone's bitch, right.

John: That's the whole idea. We can't say anything.

I continued to torture Parallax.

Anubis: Parallax, your suffering could end if you just stop resisting.

Parallax: Stop it, human!!! I give up!!!

Anubis: Good.

I drew one of the cages from the pocket dimension and Parallax was pulled into it.

Hal: Kid.

Anubis: Yeah?

Hal: Thank you.

I knew what Hal meant. Parallax was a dark stain in Hal's past. By me handling Parallax the way I did was like Hal being finally liberated.

Ganthet: Shadow Lantern, come with me. The avatar of hope is in the blue central power battery.

I went followed Ganthet to the giant battery and drew out the avatar. I found no resistance from the avatar of hope. Two down. Five to go.

Anubis: Have to go now, Ganthet.

Ganthet: I know. Good luck.

John: Be careful, Anubis.

I left Odym and search for the orange avatar of greed and found him in the Vega System. He reminded me of the movie, Anaconda. He was one huge snake and was resisting just like Parallax. But soon, he too yielded to me and was place in his cage.

My next stop was Zaramon, the home world of the Star Sapphire Corps. I entered the planet undetected and broke the Predator from his prison. The Star Sapphire Corps tried to restrain him. But, unknowing to them, I interfered. As I remained invisible, I placed the Predator in it's cage. To the Zamarons, the Predator had vanished in thin air. I then went to the home world of the Indigo Lantern Tribe and collected the avatar of compassion. She, just like the avatar of hope, gave no resistance.

Next was Ion. I drew him out of the Sun next to Daxam and said a prayer for Sodom Yat. Sodom sacrifice himself by entering the red sun and used Ion's power to change the star to it's current yellow color. The power of the yellow sun had empowered the Daxamites. Few people knew that the Daxamites were the distant cousins of the Kyptonians.

Last but not least was the avatar of rage. He, more than other avatars, gave me the hardest challenge. He made me feel what a gore was like and boy did I feel it. But soon I gained the upper hand and place him into the last cage.

I finally returned to Euphoria and handed the cages to the Guardians.

Harachel: Good job, Shadow Lantern.

Anubis: Thanks. The avatar of rage banged me up pretty good.

Rashnu: You are one tough human.

Anubis: I'm highly trained in the martial arts.

Gabriel: Shadow Lantern, blackest night is quickly approaching, are you ready?

Anubis: Yes.

Harachel: Shadow Lantern, before you go there is one more thing that needs to be done.

Anubis: And that is?

Harachel: You and Lung Wang must now separate.

Anubis: I see.

Harachel: Don't worry you and Lung Wang will soon be reunited again.

I understood what the guardian of knowledge meant. For the time being, they needed the avatar of spiritual balance to be safe as well.

Lung Wang and I separated. Gabriel had given me a regular celestial power ring. The Guardians and Lung Wang left temple and I went back to Earth. For the next couple of months, I continued to go on missions with the Justice League, Justice Society, and Teen Titans. Then something happened that not even the Guardians of Euphoria had anticipated............I died.

End of chapter nine